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BBC News", "Freddie Mercury: Queen star's piano and other items fetch high prices at auction - BBC News", "Nottingham maternity deaths: Police announce criminal inquiry - BBC News", "Binmen say rat-infested street in Glasgow is a safety crisis - BBC News", "UK heatwave: Hottest day expected on Saturday as sweltering weather continues - BBC News", "Daniel Khalife: No confirmed sightings of escaped terror suspect - police - BBC News", "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary hit with cream pies by climate protesters - BBC News", "Stonehaven crash victim 'was talking to me one minute and gone the next' - BBC News", "Chris Mason: Questions over how prisoner managed to escape - BBC News", "September heatwave sets new record - BBC News", "Wandsworth prison life: Decay, drugs and drudgery - BBC News", "Met Police: Officer in court charged with six counts of rape - BBC News", "Third arrest in Crooked House fire investigation - BBC News", "Stonehaven crash: Network Rail in court over fatal derailment - BBC News", "Mercury Prize 2023: Ezra Collective's Where I'm Meant to Be named best album - 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BBC News", "UK expected to re-join Horizon science scheme - BBC News", "North Carolina: Moment police officer rescues driver from burning truck - BBC News", "British Army serviceman appears in court charged with terror offences - BBC News", "Greek floods: Austrian honeymooners missing after holiday home swept away - BBC News", "How did Daniel Khalife break out of prison? - BBC News", "Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says Gordon Brown - BBC News", "Taylor Swift attends Kansas City Chiefs game - BBC News", "Niger coup: Macron says France to withdraw troops and ambassador - BBC News", "Russell Brand: Police receive further allegations against comedian - BBC News", "Usher to perform 2024 Super Bowl half-time show - BBC News", "Over 340 first responders have died from 9/11 illnesses - BBC News", "NHS strikes: More than a million appointments cancelled in England - BBC News", "Rugby World Cup 2023: Ireland captain Johnny Sexton 'like Lazarus' in win over Springboks - Tommy Bowe - 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BBC News", "Child serial killer Lucy Letby to face retrial over attempted murder charge - BBC News", "Russell Brand accuser sparks debate about staggered age of consent - BBC News", "Chris Kaba: Army stood down as armed Met Police officers return to duty - BBC News", "Woman's body found in jaws of 13ft Florida alligator identified - BBC News", "French family planning agency turns to British TV show Sex Education - BBC News", "Watch elderly man air rescued after cliff fall - BBC News", "Woman arrested after missing children found - BBC News", "Ciaran Lee Wootton jailed for knocking down and killing Elaine McGarrity - BBC News", "In pictures: Northern Lights make lively display - BBC News", "Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples - BBC News", "Wales 40-6 Australia: Warren Gatland's side hammer Wallabies to seal World Cup quarter-final spot - BBC Sport", "Scotland schools strike: Strikes at Scottish schools go into second day - BBC News", "Woman, 71, in ambulance dies after crash with taxi - BBC News", "Motorcyclist killed in central London police-chase crash - BBC News", "Maddy Cusack: Police not treating Sheffield United midfielder's cause of death as suspicious - BBC Sport", "The inside story of the mini-budget disaster - BBC News", "Volunteering: 'Concerning' decline after Covid, figures show - BBC News", "Hollywood writers strike latest: Biden 'applauds' deal to the walkout - BBC News", "The inside story of the mini-budget disaster - BBC News", "Belfast: Officers in hospital after noxious gas released - BBC News", "Actors' strike: Hollywood prop shop hit by halt to filming - BBC News", "Australian lethal mushroom mystery survivor leaves hospital - BBC News", "Santander UK fined £108m over money laundering failings - BBC News", "HS2: Backlash against scrapping Manchester rail link grows - BBC News", "Rugby World Cup: Wales fans' joy after Australia rout - BBC News", "Louise Redknapp pulls out of Eternal reunion over LGBTQ row - BBC News", "Nissan to go all-electric by 2030 despite petrol ban delay - BBC News", "Lib Dem members defy leadership on housing target - BBC News", "Electric car rules could cost carmakers billions - BBC News", "Russell Brand makes first comments since sexual assault allegations - BBC News", "Kosovo monastery siege ends after heavy gun battles - BBC News", "Metropolitan Police: MoD offers military support after armed officers turn in weapons - BBC News", "Housing Executive: New contractors for £250m work - BBC News", "Lego axes plan to make bricks from recycled bottles - BBC News", "Liberal Democrats face housebuilding target row at conference - BBC News", "Raac: Doubt over extra NI funding for crumbling concrete - BBC News", "Lib Dems drop pledge to raise income tax by 1p - BBC News", "Robert Menendez: US senator vows he will be cleared in bribery case - BBC News", "University staff strike disrupts freshers' week - BBC News", "State-owned British Business Bank makes £147m annual loss - BBC News", "Messina Denaro: Notorious Italian Mafia boss dies - BBC News", "Bob Menendez: US Senator allegedly bribed with 'stacks of gold bars' - BBC News", "Family of ill teen say they were 'brutally silenced' by courts - BBC News", "Russell Brand: BBC should have thoroughly investigated in 2019, says Bectu - BBC News", "Russell Brand: Woman says star exposed himself to her then laughed about it on Radio 2 show - BBC News", "Sophie Turner sues Joe Jonas for children's return to England - BBC News", "Mortgage calculator: how much will my mortgage go up? - BBC News", "Zelensky in Washington: Ukrainian president at White House for talks with Biden - BBC News", "Stem cells beat kidney rejection - BBC News", "Colindale: Second arrest in search for at-risk missing mother - BBC News", "Man arrested as police hunt for missing mum and children - BBC News", "Sara Sharif: New pictures of girl released by Surrey Police - BBC News", "Ethiopian Prince Alemayehu's lock of hair returned after 140 years in UK - BBC News", "Northern Ireland Assembly: Canteen cordoned off due to falling debris risk - BBC News", "Maddy Cusack: Sheffield United 'devastated' by death of midfielder aged 27 - 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BBC News", "Lincolnshire hospital discharges elderly woman to stranger's home - BBC News", "Bob Menendez steps down as US Senate foreign relations chairman after indictment - BBC News", "Antoine Dupont: France captain suffers fractured cheekbone in World Cup win against Namibia - BBC Sport", "Two jailed for killing French bus driver over Covid mask rule - BBC News", "Your pictures of Scotland: 15-22 September - BBC News", "Girl receives UK's first rejection-free kidney from mum - BBC News", "Holiday illness toddler stuck in Portugal amid insurance delay - BBC News", "F-35 crash: Pilot called 911 after parachuting into backyard - BBC News", "Wales' 20mph limit: Lib Dems apologise for leader's gaffe - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Moment missile hits Russia's Black Sea fleet HQ - BBC News", "Labour tries to clarify Starmer comments on EU relationship - BBC News", "Firms still forced to sell more electric cars despite petrol ban delay - BBC News", "Ukraine war latest: Zelensky to speak in Canada after strike on Crimea navy base - BBC News", "Raheem Sterling burglary: Three men wanted over England star burglary - BBC News", "Waterfall death: Man died helping others, inquest told - BBC News", "New York Police find drugs in trapdoor at fentanyl nursery - BBC News", "Libraries in Northern Ireland cannot afford new books in 2023/24 - BBC News", "Extreme weather: More than 4,500 deaths in England from 2022 heat - BBC News", "Ulster University replacing 'world-leading' ads after watchdog complaints - BBC News", "US Senator Bob Menendez and wife charged in bribery inquiry - BBC News", "Russell Brand makes first comments since sexual assault allegations - BBC News", "Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky visits Canada for first time since Russia invasion - BBC News", "Family tribute to girl who died after Inverkeithing drug incident - BBC News", "Ukraine's Crimea attacks seen as key to counter-offensive against Russia - BBC News", "9/11 defendant unfit to stand trial, US judge rules - BBC News", "WWE: The Rock and John Cena respond as WWE lets 20 stars go - 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includes writers from the UK, Ireland, US and Canada.", "Most people in the UK agree household tasks should be shared - but women still do more, an annual survey finds.", "Mateusz Morawiecki's remarks come as tensions escalate over Ukraine's grain exports.", "Orla Guerin visits a hospital and clinic in Ukraine, where 15,000 lost limbs in the first half of 2023.", "The safe consumption room pilot in Glasgow will be the first to be sanctioned in the UK.", "Its website had previously said customers must pay £1.99 to return parcels either in store or online.", "The Bank of England was expected to raise the base rate to 5.5% - but it stays at 5.25%.", "The 21-year-old former soldier is charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison on 6 September.", "A whale rarely seen in UK waters is spotted off the Welsh coast in a \"significant\" event.", "It follows similar moves by other retailers and daily incidents rising from 450 a day, up to 850.", "Ukraine will not disclose its death count, but the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville witnesses the mounting toll.", "A mother-of-two from Suffolk says she hopes new research will spare other parents from devastation.", "Ihor Kolomoisky is accused of fraud and is the latest target of Ukraine's anti-corruption drive.", "Mo Farah's final race in his home city of London ends with a fourth-placed finish in The Big Half, as Jack Rowe wins.", "Samuel Newey fought in Ukraine but also helped with humanitarian work, his friend says.", "Two pedestrians and a cyclist were hit by a car in separate collisions in Coventry on Sunday.", "But politics overshadowed his visit to Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis snubbed Mr Biden's visit.", "Thousands of people remain stuck at the event in Nevada and could remain so for several more days.", "From Anthony Keidis to Dermot Kennedy, Greg and his team work with some of music's biggest names.", "The King attended Braemar in honour of his late mother, wearing a kilt in the new King Charles III tartan.", "Coco Gauff shows why she is one the favourites at the US Open with a gutsy win over Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarter-finals.", "Former Wales flanker Alix Popham was kicked in the head while swimming in a \"cruel twist of fate\".", "A survivor tells the story of a five-week ordeal on the North Atlantic passage to Europe.", "The men in their 20s had been arrested under the Terrorism Act in connection with the accidental leak.", "In some cases, family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.", "Paul McCartney changed music history playing iconic Höfner guitar - but it hasn't been seen since 1969.", "Kilmartin Museum at one of the most important Neolithic sites in Scotland has had a major redevelopment.", "Red Bull's Max Verstappen breaks the Formula 1 record for consecutive wins with victory in the Italian Grand Prix.", "Stephen Kinnock MP welcomed funding talks but said any plan needed the support of workers.", "Jack Draper reaches the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open but Dan Evans, Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter are out.", "The chancellor refuses to be drawn on the full cost of fixing unsafe concrete on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.", "Festival-goers are told to conserve their food as access in and out of the Nevada event is shut down.", "The prime minister and his wife Akshata Murthy joined the Royal Family at their Balmoral estate.", "Getafe manager Jose Bordalas says the Spanish club are going to help England forward Mason Greenwood \"recover his best level\" after his season-long loan move from Manchester United.", "Prisoners have reportedly been protesting conditions at the facility amid hot conditions.", "One station, managed by TransPennine Express, has had 13% of its trains cancelled.", "Russia's military bloggers are reaping the rewards of a growing advertising market on Telegram.", "The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville witnesses Russia's increasingly sophisticated drone attacks.", "A football match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla was called off as a red alert was issued in the capital.", "Ollie crosses the finish line after walking nearly 200 miles from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay.", "Green shafts of light from a meteor were caught on camera as it passed over the city of Erzurum.", "The former US envoy to the UN won praise for his work freeing detained Americans around the world.", "Specialists say RAAC concrete was widely used in public buildings in the UK.", "The child survived a 100ft (30m) fall in 2019 but suffered life-changing injuries.", "Many are altering timetables and seeking new classrooms after having to shut unsafe concrete buildings.", "Firefighters tackled the blaze at the former Kitty's nightclub in Kirkcaldy.", "Parents should get their children back to school this week, the children's commissioner urges.", "There is much speculation over what role Sir Keir may give his deputy leader Angela Rayner.", "Ukraine's president dismisses Oleksii Reznikov, saying \"new approaches\" are needed.", "The number of empty shops in Wales has been labelled \"bad news for the economy\".", "The PM steadied the Tory ship, but the coming months will see if he keeps it afloat, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "PM Benjamin Netanyahu wants the immediate deportation of Eritreans who took part in Tel Aviv riots.", "Kyiv says its troops are gaining momentum in what continues to be a lengthy and bloody counter-offensive.", "Dan Evans and Neal Skupski save four match points before winning a nerve-wracking Davis Cup decider against France.", "\"I think there are some real challenges where you have acute differentials in power,\" Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says.", "The comedian performed in London in his first appearance since being accused of rape and sexual assault.", "She issued a tearful apology for continuing her talk show while her unionised writers were on strike.", "The body was placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa, reports say.", "Nathaniel Shani, 14, died in hospital on Friday night after being stabbed in Manchester.", "Donald Trump ally Ken Paxton is acquitted in an impeachment process that divided Republicans.", "This week's attacks against Russian targets are part of increased efforts to cut supply lines.", "With lives in Libya washed away, anger mounts as people ask why they were told to stay at home.", "Daniel Burke, from Manchester, had been fighting for Ukraine in the war against Russia since 2022.", "When Keir Starmer unveils a policy it is roundly attacked - is this the price of getting a hearing?", "The agreement is due for review in 2025, which the Labour leader says is a key moment to reset relations.", "Wales head coach Warren Gatland says it was \"job done\" following the bonus-point victory over Portugal in Nice.", "Shadow minister Pat McFadden says its policy on high speed rail will be set out in the party's manifesto.", "Dark smoke rises from the cone-shaped tower as government offices come under attack.", "England drop Jason Roy from their final World Cup squad and call up Harry Brook.", "Damian Lloyd says his family had checked in for a flight in advance but Ryanair says they had \"unchecked\" themselves.", "The foreign secretary says he has talked about the \"interference in our democracy\" with China.", "England edge closer to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, but do little to impress in a scrappy 34-12 win over Japan in Nice.", "The comedian and actor denies allegations about his behaviour over a period of seven years - and performs a scheduled gig.", "Welsh woman Clare Ervine and English husband Paddy had their first date watching the Six Nations.", "More than 8,000 migrants have arrived on the Italian island over the past three days.", "Ian Russell says the Online Safety Bill must stop the kind of images his daughter saw before she died.", "Officials say it appears the aircraft tried to land in bad weather but ran out of runway.", "A flash mob of fans sing Calon Lan on the street in Nice ahead of Wales clash with Portugal.", "A £500m UK government pledge saved Port Talbot's steelworks from closure, Welsh secretary says.", "Essex Police say it is their \"strong belief\" that two people in their 70s are no longer alive.", "A much-changed Wales struggle to a bonus-point World Cup victory over impressive Portugal in Nice.", "Doctors are struggling to identify the remains which have been found as the death toll rises.", "Retail group Frasers is looking to sell the online clothing brand to the global fast fashion giant.", "Campaigners say pollution is killing Lough Neagh after blue-green algal blooms over the summer.", "Officials say the vessels will deliver 20,000 tonnes of wheat to world markets.", "Comedian Russell Brand has denied sexual assault allegations, with scrutiny also on the TV business.", "A man in his 40s died despite efforts of emergency service workers to save him", "The comedian, actor and activist has hosted programmes for Channel 4, Radio X, MTV and the BBC.", "Ben Stokes clobbers the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international in the 181-run trouncing of New Zealand at The Kia Oval.", "North Korea's leader will visit other Russian sites before heading home from the cosmodrome summit.", "Defence Committee chair Tobias Ellwood was facing pressure after comments about the Taliban's rule.", "He was pressed at PMQs about maintaining the state pension triple lock beyond the next general election.", "In a landmark trial brought by the US government, the tech giant denies using illegal practices to gain a monopoly.", "Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy says his party has found \"credible\" information of corruption.", "The Labour leader accuses the government of failing on small boats, as he seeks closer co-operation with the EU.", "Isa Balado was interrupted during a live broadcast when a man appeared to touch her bottom.", "At least 2,300 people are dead and 10,000 are missing after a catastrophic dam burst during a storm.", "The oil giant said Bernard Looney had not been \"fully transparent\" in disclosures about past relationships with colleagues.", "The former prime minister says her plan for leaving the EU was thwarted by \"hardline\" MPs.", "The North Korean leader's train reportedly serves fine French wines and lobster as it rumbles along.", "Nasa's James Webb Telescope may have discovered a molecule thought only to be produced by life.", "Midwives and maternity support worker members will take part in the strike on 22 September.", "Jude Bellingham's vision and touch put the concluding flourish on a world-class performance as England cruised past Scotland, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.", "Updates from across the African continent.", "An arms deal between North Korea and Russia could suit both sides, and allow them to work more closely.", "The self-proclaimed shaman and the princess are known for their controversial alternative beliefs.", "A visual guide to why heavy rain caused such devastation and killed so many people in the city of Derna.", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, 10, are arrested after returning to UK from Pakistan.", "Politicians, investors and businesses gathered for the Belfast event, as EY announced 1,000 new jobs.", "Official figures show the UK economy contracted by 0.5% in July, more than economists predicted.", "The talks will cover what extra support is needed in England amid strikes and growing waiting lists.", "Scores of young volunteers help distribute aid for hundreds of devastated communities in Morocco.", "The government is not saying which figure will be used to calculate a rise under the triple lock.", "Jaswant Singh Chail was caught with a loaded crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021.", "Under the law change possessing the drug would carry a sentence of up to two years in prison or a large fine.", "A Libyan journalist tells the BBC of a friend whose entire family was killed by the flooding.", "The police watchdog is to review how a force handled complaints from Andrew Malkinson's legal team.", "Rescuers find that few homes remain in the devastated village of Douzrou, where 100 have died.", "A police dog subdued convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante as he tried to crawl away, finally ending the two-week manhunt.", "Some customers have objected to price hikes being applied to some sauces, saying they were \"disappointed\".", "England show their class as they defeat Scotland in the rivalry's 150-year heritage match at Hampden.", "The two leaders are expected to discuss an arms deal as Russia faces a counter-offensive in Ukraine.", "Police vehicles could be seen at the terminal where the plane carrying the trio landed.", "The singer made the comments in an emotional video, saying she stopped using Botox and filler in 2018.", "Vladimir Putin met Kim Jong Un in a highly scrutinised visit suspected to yield an arms deal.", "More than 7,000 women in NI have been waiting between three and six months for smear test results.", "Big increases in day-to-day costs \"beyond its control\" are driving up NHS deficits in Wales.", "A 60-year-old man has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl suffered serious injuries.", "Eluned Morgan said health boards will find it \"difficult\" to find savings in budgets.", "Craig Gibson has appeared in court after the alleged assault in Toronto.", "At least 10,000 people are still missing after a catastrophic dam burst which took 2,300 lives.", "The mother of a boy who was last seen at a house party says she needs \"to know what happened\".", "Danelo Cavalcante, 34, resisted arrest in a wooded area after an aircraft picked up his heat signal.", "Russia needs weapons. N Korea has weapons. It's a match made in the geo-political realities of 2023.", "The DJ tells MPs a \"tidal wave\" of revelations about misconduct in the music industry could emerge.", "Ten missiles and three unmanned boats were used to attack the home of Russia's Black Sea fleet, Moscow says.", "Coronel, 34, had admitted helping Guzmán run the Sinaloa drugs cartel and aiding his prison escape.", "The pencil drawing of Dover dating from April 1803 goes under the hammer in Scarborough on Friday.", "Shannon Doherty spoke out after her baby son, Rían, became critically ill with the infection.", "Cash-strapped councils may not be able to afford extra staff at polling stations, a survey suggests.", "There is a \"failure to act\" over the looming financial crisis at universities, a Lords committee says.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says Westminster will not intervene if a facility is set up in Glasgow.", "The council says a hit to prices from its plans to limit the number of second homes is \"inevitable\".", "Labour leads a Lords rebellion on removing restrictions on water pollution to build new homes.", "Seán Quinn says suggestions he had a role in executive's abduction are \"character assassination\".", "She was best known for playing matriarch Nellie Boswell in the Liverpool-set 1980s TV sitcom.", "The 43-year-old was arrested by the PSNI after searches in Londonderry last week.", "Shakira crowd-surfs her way to a lifetime achievement award, while Swift wins artist of the year.", "Eyewitness footage shows a torrent of water flowing through Derna, causing massive destruction.", "Fewer than five patients have been prescribed whole-cannabis medicine, despite it becoming legal in 2018.", "Hundreds gathered at the Peckham store after a video shared online showed a woman being restrained.", "The driver was not warned that part of the track near Stonehaven was unsafe before the fatal crash in 2020.", "Daniel Khalife seemed \"odd\", according to Chris Jones who worked with him in Wandsworth Prison.", "The research helps understanding of the earliest moments of life and the reasons behind infertility.", "There's a steady drift towards getting a good work-life balance, a new survey suggests.", "They won the £25,000 for their album Where I'm Meant To Be, which is the first-ever jazz album to win.", "It will be the first time the US is sending the armour-piercing munitions to Ukraine.", "Reza Baluchi tried to \"run\" from Florida to London in a homemade vessel during hurricane season.", "The band revealed their first album of new material in almost two decades in a YouTube livestream.", "The star of That '70s Show sat in court as the two women he raped described the impact of his crimes.", "The former Tory whip's resignation paves the way for another by-election.", "Rwandan police discovered the crime after the 34-year-old suspect was evicted from his rented home.", "He is the first British prime minister of Indian heritage to visit the country.", "Pet owners and vet workers are being asked for their experiences by the UK's competition regulator.", "President Zelensky condemns the \"deliberate\" strike on Ukraine's \"peaceful city\" of Kostyantynivka.", "England's Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Harry Kane and seven Manchester City players are on the shortlist for the 2023 Ballon d'Or.", "Sam Eljamel harmed dozens of patients at NHS Tayside, leaving many with life-changing injuries.", "The synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help explain infertility and pregnancy loss.", "Sharon Gregg, who bleeds from her nose, eyes and fingernails, calls for understanding of her rare disorder.", "Detectives investigating an alleged homophobic attack in south London arrest a teenager on suspicion of GBH.", "Tens of thousands of UK buildings should be safety checked because of RAAC concrete, experts warn.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Technology of Business from across the BBC.", "The announcement follows fears AI-generated images and audio are already infiltrating ads.", "The government states that the tech tools for accessing private messages don't yet exist.", "The CEO finally acknowledges the rampant sexual abuse committed by industry titan Johnny Kitagawa.", "The indictment alleges he was not told the track was unsafe before the fatal 2020 derailment.", "Urfan Sharif and his partner describe Sara's death as an \"incident\" and claim they will co-operate with UK authorities.", "House prices fell at their fastest annual rate in 14 years in August, according to the Halifax building society.", "Families of people buried at Bethany Chapel say headstones have been moved and some are missing.", "BBC analysis of notices issued by coroners shows repeated failings in the care of autistic people.", "Mike Pilavachi was said to have also wrestled youths as he used his \"authority to control people\".", "First minister insists road deaths will fall, 10 days before Wales' lower limit comes into force.", "The Duchess of Sussex was discussed in the five men's WhatsApp messages, a court heard.", "Thousands of personal items belonging to the late Queen frontman are sold at a Sotheby's auction.", "Police are to investigate deaths at a trust in Nottingham, already the subject of a major review.", "Residents in Scotstoun, Glasgow, say large rats have climbed in their windows and along fences.", "The UK experiences its hottest September day since 2016 as London's Kew Gardens sees 32C (89F).", "The lack of sightings since his escape on Wednesday is \"perhaps a testament to Daniel Khalife's ingenuity\", a Met commander says.", "Michael O'Leary declared the cream pies delicious after wiping himself down in Brussels.", "A survivor describes the Stonehaven rail crash and her shock at the death of conductor Donald Dinnie.", "The BBC's political editor reflects on suspected terrorist Daniel Abed Khalife's \"gobsmacking\" escape.", "Temperatures pass 30C (86F) for four consecutive days, and more hot weather is on the way.", "Prison is described as a \"powder keg\" with overcrowding, understaffing and plagues of vermin.", "PC Cliff Mitchell was arrested after a member of the public saw a woman in the street in distress.", "A 51-year-old man is questioned on conspiracy to commit arson after the fire at the landmark pub.", "Three people died after a train struck a landslide in Aberdeenshire following heavy rain in 2020.", "The London jazz outfit, one of 12 artists nominated, take home the award for best album of 2023.", "Japan's H-IIA rocket carrying the national space agency's moon lander launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on 7 September", "Gigs by Jimmy Carr and Shrek the Musical are called off as several venues with Raac shut their doors.", "Many women are worried about the information they share, the regulator says.", "The venue in the heart of the capital has closed with immediate effect for at least four weeks.", "Keir Mather, 25 years old, is the youngest member of parliament after being sworn in on Monday.", "The Supreme Court ruling means all 32 of the country's states can now provide terminations.", "A judge has ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defaming the writer who accused him of rape.", "Kourtney Kardashian went into \"urgent foetal surgery\" to have an operation on her baby in the womb.", "Police say the call was made with \"good intentions\" after students were mistaken for bodies.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about CEO secrets from across the BBC.", "Peter Navarro faces up to a year in prison for failing to co-operate with a congressional committee.", "BBC News has learned 16 universities have buildings containing crumbling concrete.", "UK-based scientists and institutions will have access to the £85bn fund from today.", "Daniil Medvedev says \"one player is going to die\" because of the hot conditions at the US Open, where he will play Carlos Alcaraz in the semi-finals.", "Palestinian officials push for more control of land in the occupied West Bank ahead of historic talks.", "An announcement is likely soon on the UK becoming a fully-fledged member of the multi-billion euro programme.", "The police officer came across the burning vehicle after attending a separate incident.", "Daniel Abed Khalife is accused of planting fake bombs at MOD Stafford in January.", "Rescuers are searching for the couple after torrential rains swept away their holiday home.", "The terror suspect would have passed through multiple security checkpoints at Wandsworth Prison.", "The former Labour PM wants the wealthiest oil producers to help poorer nations tackle climate change.", "Swift was invited to the game by Chiefs player Travis Kelce and watched it seated next to his mother.", "France's president says the ambassador will leave and all military co-operation will end in the coming months.", "The Met will investigate claims of \"non-recent\" offences from London and elsewhere in the country.", "The star, whose hits include Yeah! and Confessions, follows Rihanna in taking the coveted slot.", "As many have now died from complications as died in the attacks, the Fire Department of New York says.", "There are calls for both sides to end the doctors' pay row, ahead of joint strike action next week.", "Tommy Bowe hails veteran Ireland captain Johnny Sexton's powers of recovery in the epic 13-8 victory over South Africa in the Rugby World Cup.", "Carrie Slater's family say they are still coming to terms with her death.", "Screenwriters say a tentative deal to end a strike that halted film and TV production is \"exceptional\".", "Two years ago, the metaverse was billed as the next big thing - but many in the tech world have already moved on.", "The home secretary's move follows the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in London.", "Consumers are buying cheaper own-label goods due to living costs, according to the supermarket.", "A Kosovan policeman and three ethnic Serb gunmen are dead after a siege of a monastery in Kosovo.", "US movie and TV writers have been on strike since May with artificial intelligence a core issue.", "The company is in a race among big tech firms to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence.", "Sian Sexton says she is \"still in shock\" after a surprise phone call saw her reunited with pet cat Daisy.", "The 89-year-old Italian actress fell at her Swiss home and sustained \"serious fractures\".", "A man in his 20s is due to appear in court on Tuesday morning, charged in relation to the incident.", "James Cracknell is said to be the \"clear choice\" of Conservative party members in Colchester.", "The boss of the airport is \"very frustrated\" after illness hits air traffic control.", "US gymnastics legend Simone Biles says \"there is no room for racism in sport\" after footage of a black Irish girl not receiving a medal went viral.", "Tony Hawkins has not had bank access since the middle of August as Santander is branded \"uncaring\".", "The former nurse will stand trial next year on one count of the attempted murder of a baby girl.", "Claims against the star have led to discussions about the power dynamic between adults and teens in relationships.", "Up to 300 officers had stood back from firearms duties after the prosecution of a colleague.", "A witness raised the alarm after seeing the large animal clutching human remains in a canal.", "Le Planning Familial says it is working with Netflix to promote its free sex education phone line.", "Authorities responded to a hiker who had fallen from a cliff next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.", "Police find baby boy and three-year-old girl at address in Essex after five-day search.", "Ciaran Lee Wootton admitted causing the death of Elaine McGarrity by dangerous driving.", "Chances of seeing aurora increase as the Sun nears the peak of its 11-year cycle.", "A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.", "Wales become the first team to reach the 2023 World Cup quarter-finals as they celebrate a record win over Australia in Lyon.", "Thousands of pupils will stay at home on the second day of Unison's three-day strike in a dispute over pay.", "A paramedic was treated in hospital after the smash on London Road in the east end of Glasgow.", "The man failed to stop for officers then crashed into a taxi and a bin early on Monday morning.", "The death of Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack is not being treated as suspicious, police have said.", "One year on Liz Truss's and Kwasi Kwarteng's economic policies cast a big shadow still.", "Volunteer Joanne Patterson says clubs have to find new ways of recruiting people to help raise funds.", "The US president says the agreement is a \"testament to the power of collective bargaining\" - but union members must still vote on the offer.", "One year on Liz Truss's and Kwasi Kwarteng's economic policies cast a big shadow still.", "Two police officers were exposed to the substance in a Belfast building on Friday night.", "The actor and writer strikes have brought the film-making industry to a stand-still.", "Erin Patterson cooked a meal using mushrooms which killed three relatives, but one has survived.", "The bank had \"serious and persistent gaps\" in anti-money laundering controls, the watchdog finds.", "Axing the high-speed rail leg would hit links between Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, critics say.", "Wales fans are elated as the team hammer Australia to march into the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals.", "The singer drops out of a tour amid accusations that two bandmates refused to play Pride events.", "The carmaker moves ahead with its plan despite delays to the UK's ban on new petrol and diesel cars.", "Members vote to keep a pledge to build 380,000 homes a year in England, after calls from the Young Liberals group.", "New Brexit trade rules could push up the price of electric cars, manufacturers warn.", "He says the week since the claims were reported has been \"extraordinary and distressing\".", "One officer and three attackers are dead after the gunmen stormed a village near the Serbian border.", "More than 100 officers thought to be returning permits after a colleague was charged with murder.", "The contracts include bathroom and kitchen replacements for thousands of properties.", "The toy giant finds that the new crude oil-free material did not cut carbon emissions.", "Leader Ed Davey says he wants to focus on building social housing, rather than pledging 380,000 new homes a year.", "It is not clear if Stormont will receive extra UK government money to fix Raac-effected buildings.", "Sir Ed Davey sets out plans to woo voters in Conservative held seats ahead of a general election.", "The Democratic senator says he kept nearly half a million dollars in cash at home for \"emergencies\".", "The strikes are part of a long-running dispute by union members over pay and conditions.", "The bank says wider economic problems led to a drop in the valuation of businesses it has invested in.", "The 61-year-old, who spent decades on the run, boasted that he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.", "New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and his wife have been indicted over alleged corruption.", "The 19-year-old is named as Sudiksha Thirumalesh after legal restrictions are lifted.", "BBC should have investigated after managers were told Russell Brand exposed himself, union says.", "The incident, which happened in Los Angeles in 2008, is the first time Brand has been heard publicly admitting sexual misconduct.", "The British actress says her former partner is refusing to send their two daughters back to the UK.", "Use our calculator to find out how much mortgage payments could go up for your household.", "The Ukrainian president is in Washington DC as part of a trip focused on winning financial support to repel Russia.", "An injection of stem cells given alongside a kidney transplant could remove the need for a lifetime of drugs, say scientists.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, went missing on Tuesday with her baby boy and three-year-old daughter.", "Police are \"extremely concerned\" for Jamie-Leigh Kelly, her newborn baby and three-year-old daughter.", "Sara's father, stepmother and uncle are due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in September 2024.", "Prince Alemayehu, who was taken to the UK aged seven, died at 18 after an unhappy upbringing.", "It stems from long-running issues with the Parliament Buildings roof, which could cost £1.8m to fix.", "Sheffield United say they are \"devastated\" by the death of midfielder Maddy Cusack aged 27.", "William Kent recently completed his gold Duke of Edinburgh award which included sword fighting.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "Gareth Roper was killed after being dropped outside an Iceland store with no money or mobile phone.", "England hold on against Scotland at Stadium of Light to win their first Women's Nations League match.", "Numerous customers said on Thursday that recently-deposited cash was not showing up in their balance.", "Rishi Sunak weighs up a new \"British baccalaureate\" qualification but no decisions have been taken.", "The sum was published in error ahead of a council meeting - and doesn't commit the authority to any loan.", "The singer is the third member of the band to start compulsory military service this year.", "About 2,000 investors lost money on the JPEX platform which was advertised on Hong Kong's metro.", "The monarch's final day of the state visit to France sees a warmer and more relaxed reception.", "A handful of dust from an asteroid streaming through space could tell Nasa how life on Earth began.", "Sir Keir Starmer says huge damage was done to the economy and can not be allowed to happen again.", "Three men and two women are to be charged with conspiracy to conduct espionage, UK prosecutors say.", "Windows are smashed and paramilitary-linked graffiti is sprayed on four homes in Weavers Grange.", "Joyce Wright, 83, is left to spend the night in someone else's bed at a house in Skegness.", "Top Democrats turn on Robert Menendez amid allegations of gold bars and jackets stuffed with cash.", "France captain Antoine Dupont suffered a fractured cheekbone in Thursday's 96-0 win against Namibia, the French Rugby Federation confirms.", "The French driver was beaten after asking two passengers to adjust their masks during the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 September.", "Doctors reprogrammed eight-year-old Aditi's immune system so she does not need daily anti-rejection drugs.", "Two-year-old Theo has a virus attacking his brain and needs a medical plane transfer.", "Marine parachuted into a backyard and told emergency services he was OK but not sure where his jet was.", "Party's Welsh leader admits Sir Ed Davey \"didn't have all the details\" about Wales' speed limit.", "Video verified by the BBC shows a Ukrainian missile hitting Russia's Black Sea fleet HQ in Crimea.", "Tory ministers have seized on the Labour leader's comments at a summit on not diverging from the EU.", "Car makers will still have to ensure over a fifth of cars sold are electric from 2024.", "The Ukrainian president holds a press conference with Justin Trudeau hours after Kyiv struck Russia's Black Sea navy HQ.", "Surrey Police say the three men are wanted in connection with 32 other burglaries across four counties.", "The 27-year-old was dragged under water and became stuck under a ledge, a coroner hears.", "Police said the amount of drugs recovered at the daycare where a child died could have killed 500,000 people.", "\"Considerable financial challenges\" for NI Libraries means no new books and reduced opening hours.", "Although cold is the bigger killer, the ONS says heat-related deaths appear to have increased.", "Ulster University replaces ads after complaints it did not make the top 600 of the Times list.", "Senator Bob Menendez and his wife are alleged to have accepted gold bars, cash and a Mercedes-Benz.", "He says the week since the claims were reported has been \"extraordinary and distressing\".", "The Ukrainian president and first lady land in Ottawa, more than 18 months after Russia invaded.", "Police say Carly Kilpatrick, 14, died after she became ill at a property in Inverkeithing on Monday.", "This week's attacks against Russian targets are part of increased efforts to cut supply lines.", "A military judge accepts Ramzi bin al-Shibh is too psychologically damaged to defend himself.", "Dolph Ziggler and Shelton Benjamin are among wrestlers released from their contracts after UFC merger.", "Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman, ending a 70-year career.", "Annette McGavigan, 14, was shot dead in her school uniform during rioting in Londonderry in 1971.", "Her father, stepmother and uncle, are also accused of causing or allowing the death of a child.", "With an election looming, politicians are grappling with how to support Ukraine and prioritise national interests.", "The second season of the murder-mystery game sees the Love Island winner and ex-Commons Speaker compete.", "Amazon says its Prime Video users will see ads on TV shows and movies unless they pay extra.", "The chancellor says the cost of public debt has left him with some \"very difficult decisions\".", "An open letter to the medical profession lifts the lid on misogyny and sexual harassment in Wales.", "The statue, outside the Brussels stock exchange, had just been restored at great cost.", "Tea purists are divided over claims being made by the makers of a new 60-second brew.", "Tech heavyweights gathered in Washington DC to discuss the regulation of artificial intelligence.", "Ben Stokes clobbers the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international in the 181-run trouncing of New Zealand at The Kia Oval.", "The Labour leader accuses the government of failing on small boats, as he seeks closer co-operation with the EU.", "The machine will \"help researchers maximise the potential of AI\", the government says.", "NI Water says there is no risk to public health but tap water may taste \"earthy or musty\".", "Dr Peter Hilton is criticised for saying \"snowflake\" trainees should \"toughen up\" over abuse at work.", "Commons' leader attacks Sunday's cut in residential road default speed in Wales.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 September", "The two women didn't realise they had met before police arrested them during a vigil until speaking to the BBC.", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, 10, are arrested after returning to UK from Pakistan.", "Some 22 flights from the airport were cancelled and more delayed due to an air control staff shortage.", "A girl, 15, was wrongly accused of having drugs and strip-searched on her period in December 2020.", "Some customers have objected to price hikes being applied to some sauces, saying they were \"disappointed\".", "Last year, Stormont departments overspent by £300m - money which the government says must be repaid.", "The NHS pulled funding for the service, saying it was never intended to be a national helpline.", "Steelworkers say they have been kept in the dark amid reports of 3,000 job losses.", "The European Central Bank increases rates for the 10th time in a row to a record high.", "Derna's mayor says the confirmed death toll of 5,300 could eventually climb to 20,000.", "Strikes are due to be held in schools across much of Scotland later this month if the dispute is not resolved.", "Defence Committee chair Tobias Ellwood was facing pressure after comments about the Taliban's rule.", "Frank Ospina was awaiting deportation - his family say he was willing to leave.", "As victims in Derna are buried in mass graves, rescuers say they are desperate for more help.", "Former chief constable Sir George Hamilton says it is \"painful to watch\" the ongoing leadership crisis.", "A visual guide to why heavy rain caused such devastation and killed so many people in the city of Derna.", "A senior PSNI officer says some questioned the timing of a search which led to disorder in Creggan.", "France joins several other European countries that are trying to stop children using e-cigarettes.", "Ministers will try to make it easier for people to get second medical opinion after teenager's death.", "The jumper caused a stir - and speculation about the black sheep's symbolism - before her 1981 wedding.", "A suspect is questioned after two people were assaulted and a woman was hit by a car, say police.", "Tim Gurner backtracks over his call for \"pain in the economy\" to remind people they are lucky to have jobs.", "The prime minister and chancellor are said to have concerns over spiralling costs and delays.", "Updated guidance spells out expected behaviour and how to raise concerns about colleagues, amid concerns of abuse.", "A company that makes ID cards for Greater Manchester Police has been targeted in the attack.", "Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.", "President Biden's son Hunter is criminally charged with three counts of lying when buying a firearm.", "The stepmother and uncle of the 10-year-old girl, who was found dead at her home, have also been charged.", "In a rare interview, ex-KFC tycoon Michael Herbert talks about his plans for the future of Forestside.", "The space agency has been studying hundreds of reported sightings - and concludes it needs to study them more.", "Financial crime experts say \"burner companies\" are \"most likely part of a criminal network\".", "The shirts from England's seven games and a goalkeeper jersey could fetch £300,000.", "Carrefour is telling its customers which products are smaller than they used to be.", "More than 60 projects receive £14.5m for habitat restoration for butterflies, bats and birds.", "Queen Camilla thanks the BBC Radio 4 drama for \"bringing joy, laughter and tears to your audience\".", "The discount supermarket saw a jump in its sales but says costs increased \"across the board\"", "Patsy Stevenson and Dania Al-Obeid both settle their legal claim with the Metropolitan Police.", "Rishi Sunak blames doctors' strikes as a record 7.7 million people wait for hospital care in England.", "The mountain village of Imi N’Tala, near the epicentre of Friday’s earthquake, was rocked by aftershocks on Wednesday.", "Video appears to show a Seattle police officer laughing about an Indian student killed by a patrol car.", "Rescuers find that few homes remain in the devastated village of Douzrou, where 100 have died.", "The US fast food chain closed its initial store in 2019 following protests by campaigners.", "Coronel, 34, had admitted helping Guzmán run the Sinaloa drugs cartel and aiding his prison escape.", "The NHS must ensure patients know they have the right to a second opinion, the health secretary says.", "Labour leads a Lords rebellion on removing restrictions on water pollution to build new homes.", "A former RAF bomber pilot abseils down the Royal London Hospital for charity.", "Jobs will be lost in Belfast as the firm plans to cut 3% of its 27,000-person UK workforce.", "Ukrainian and Russian pilots are fighting to control the skies. Could Western jets change the war?", "Power generation in Nigeria, a major oil and gas producer, fell to zero megawatts early on Thursday.", "The treatment has been recommended by health experts and will soon be available on the NHS.", "Isa Balado was interrupted during a live broadcast when a man appeared to touch her bottom.", "Several schools in Leeds and Bradford kept pupils indoors on Thursday after receiving the email.", "The prime minister responds to a highly critical report on the UK's security response to China.", "The case had centred on claims of inequality compared to the men's team in areas such as facilities, travel and pay.", "The self-proclaimed shaman and the princess are known for their controversial alternative beliefs.", "The flooding in Derna swept away houses, buildings and left entire neighbourhoods surrounded by water.", "Baby bump-flashing Sienna Miller joins other stars like Kate Winslet and Stormzy at the fashion event.", "The former minister has criticised government policies and a power-sharing agreement with the Greens.", "The first 2022 census results show the number of people living in Scotland now stands at 5,436,600.", "Workers are still pulling bodies from the water and the rubble after Sunday's flood in Derna.", "The DJ tells MPs a \"tidal wave\" of revelations about misconduct in the music industry could emerge.", "It's the first time the child of a sitting US president has been charged with a criminal offence.", "Rishi Sunak has acknowledged that his promise to cut NHS waiting lists in England is in doubt.", "One officer is struck on the head and a suspected firearm has been found in Londonderry, police say.", "You could sense England's joy and relief at beating Argentina but there are still a ton of questions to answer, writes Tom English.", "A 22-foot replica has been built a stone's throw from where the tragic liner left Belfast in 1912.", "Temperatures have exceeded 30C for a seventh day, but a thunderstorm warning is issued for many areas.", "The top of the 850-year-old Kutubiyya mosque looks precarious after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Marrakesh", "Hundreds of people took part in the event in Edinburgh, organised by breast cancer charity Walk the Walk.", "Two volunteers are killed and two others injured when their vehicle comes under fire in Ukraine.", "The incident comes as the prison is facing scrutiny over the escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife.", "Jonty Warneken, who lost his leg in a car crash, swam solo from Northern Ireland to Scotland.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conveys his concerns to China about interference, No 10 says.", "There has been nothing bigger than a magnitude 6.0 in the affected area for more than 100 years.", "The death toll from a huge quake nearly doubles as Morocco's king orders three days of national mourning.", "Luis Rubiales resigns as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Jenni Hermoso after the Women's World Cup final.", "Several relatives of the dead girl's father have been detained for questioning, police in Jhelum said.", "The 21-year-old is accused of escaping from the prison while awaiting trial on a terror offence.", "Saturday was the hottest day of the year so far, but there are warnings of thundery downpours.", "Chris Lewis fell 500ft (150m) while trying to reach two campers who broke lockdown rules.", "The prison escapee is arrested in north-west London, after leaving Wandsworth prison on Wednesday.", "Scottish campaigner for Sikh rights Jagtar Singh Johal has been held by the Indian authorities since 2017.", "The epicentre of the earthquake which killed more than 2,100 people was in the High Atlas mountains.", "Locals in Moulay Brahim tell Nick Beake things are \"desperate\", with a severe shortage of rescuers.", "The Nottingham University Hospitals trust is already facing a police investigation over the deaths.", "The team's upcoming match against Liberia on Morocco's coastline was cancelled as a result of the earthquake.", "People in Morocco tell of the panic and confusion felt after a powerful earthquake hit late at night.", "The world's leading economies issue a joint statement shorn of direct criticism of Moscow's war.", "The BBC's Nick Beake is in Amizmiz where people are searching rubble by hand to find belongings and relatives.", "Leaders meeting in Delhi issue an ambiguous statement on the conflict, drawing criticism from Kyiv.", "Russia congratulates Kim Jong Un amid rumours of a possible meeting between him and Vladimir Putin.", "Large areas of the old city in Marrakesh are devastated by Friday evening's powerful quake.", "George Ford kicks 27 points to steer England to a magnificent World Cup win over Argentina after Tom Curry's first-half red card.", "Fatal incidents involving animals are on the increase on farms in Northern Ireland, new research shows.", "BBC News speaks to people who knew terror suspect Daniel Khalife as he grew up in London.", "Britain's four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah brings the curtain down on his illustrious career with a fourth-place finish in the Great North Run.", "Justice Secretary Alex Chalk says security protocols were in place at Wandsworth prison on day of the escape.", "Novak Djokovic draws level with Australian Margaret Court on 24 major singles titles by outlasting Daniil Medvedev in a punishing US Open final.", "Our economics editor on why the rollercoaster ride may continue for the next few weeks at least.", "Coco Gauff fulfils the potential she has long promised by landing her first Grand Slam title with a fightback win over Aryna Sabalenka in New York.", "The man who was struck by a car has been left with \"potentially life-changing\" leg injuries.", "About 60,000 runners followed the Great North Run route from Newcastle to South Shields.", "The final stage of the Tour of Britain has been diverted following an unrelated road crash.", "England's winning run in their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign comes to a halt as they are held to a draw by Ukraine in Wroclaw.", "Gen Mark Milley tells Laura Kuenssberg the autumn weather will make Ukraine's manoeuvres much harder.", "The Trades Union Congress says it will make the report because the law does not meet global standards.", "Manchester United's Antony will delay his return to the club after allegations of assault.", "Villagers dig by hand to find those still trapped, with few signs of an official response in some areas.", "Wales survive a dramatic late Fiji fightback to edge a captivating World Cup opener in Bordeaux.", "Prof Rowland Kao said it was important to track the new Covid variant and some people cannot afford the tests.", "Russia's foreign minister lauds a joint declaration that avoids condemning it for invading Ukraine.", "Ukraine's capital is showered in debris from intercepted Russian drones, city officials say.", "The BBC's Anna Holligan is at the site of the Jemaa el-Fnaa mosque looking at the damage.", "Capital spending on education has been squeezed since 2010 as money has been redirected to healthcare.", "The loan agreement which brought Tian Tian and Yang Guang to Edinburgh Zoo is finally ending.", "Police are investigating an alleged assault at the Emirates Stadium during Arsenal's 3-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday.", "The head of the UN agency says the world needs to act fast to get children out of exploitative work.", "Matthew Hedges' ordeal sparks a review into internal guidance on torture and mistreatment cases.", "Gilberto Hernández's father urged young people to \"stop the violence\" after the death of his son.", "The US band's singer had been receiving end of life care for liver failure, his manager said.", "RAAC concrete has been found in at least 24 university and college buildings in Scotland.", "One station, managed by TransPennine Express, has had 13% of its trains cancelled.", "MPs ask Asda's co-owner, Mohsin Issa, whether issues over its finances are preventing more being done.", "A woman, a teenage girl and a six-year-old boy died in the crash in North Yorkshire, police say.", "He appears in court after the teacher suffered a single stab wound in a school corridor.", "The brake, part of NI's Brexit deal, gives Stormont a conditional veto on new EU rules applying here.", "The mission required a medical retrieval team, a massive icebreaker ship and two helicopters.", "Shane Loughlin was stopped on Saturday, months after he was hurt in a crash which killed three people.", "The number of empty shops in Wales has been labelled \"bad news for the economy\".", "Andy Perry says he is still waiting for government advice on how much of his school is unsafe.", "Ukraine will not disclose its death count, but the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville witnesses the mounting toll.", "General Brice Nguema, who toppled long-time leader Ali Bongo, has officially become Gabon's interim leader.", "Questions are being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.", "An energy source which could sustain life on the Moon for long periods has been designed by researchers.", "The two providers have offered different accounts of what happened to their networks.", "Paul McCartney changed music history playing iconic Höfner guitar - but it hasn't been seen since 1969.", "The council is the first in Northern Ireland to operate the system at all sites, on a permanent basis.", "The Commons watchdog had proposed the ban, calling the former Tory whip's conduct an abuse of power.", "But the Romanian foreign ministry rejects Kyiv's version of events, saying it didn't happen.", "Ministers will try to make it easier for people to get second medical opinion after teenager's death.", "Certain minor offences may not be followed up in a pilot project in the north east of Scotland.", "Prisoners have reportedly been protesting conditions at the facility amid hot conditions.", "A football match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla was called off as a red alert was issued in the capital.", "Specialists say RAAC concrete was widely used in public buildings in the UK.", "Firefighters tackled the blaze at the former Kitty's nightclub in Kirkcaldy.", "Ukraine's president dismisses Oleksii Reznikov, saying \"new approaches\" are needed.", "Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner is now also shadow levelling up secretary and shadow deputy prime minister.", "The minister apologises but says she was \"frustrated\" by a reporter's questions on the concrete crisis.", "Connor Gibson assaulted and strangled 16-year-old Amber Gibson then tried to cover up the crime.", "Brazil withdraw Manchester United winger Antony from their squad following allegations of abuse by his former girlfriend.", "North Korea's leader will discuss supplying weapons for Russia to use in Ukraine, US media report.", "Israel's foreign ministry says six citizens were arrested on suspicion of raping a British tourist.", "Coco Gauff shows why she is one the favourites at the US Open with a gutsy win over Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarter-finals.", "Margot Robbie's hit movie becomes the year's most successful film at box offices around the world.", "Young people are much less convinced about supporting the monarchy, suggests a survey.", "In some cases, family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.", "The invasive insect threatens to get a foothold, with nests found in East Sussex, Kent, Devon and Dorset.", "Lady Justice Thirlwall will lead a probe into how the neonatal nurse was able to murder seven babies.", "Consumers should have accurate information upfront before making a purchase, the government says.", "Appointments open for flu and Covid vaccines but vulnerable groups may be asked to come sooner.", "The education secretary says all schools suspected of having RAAC concrete will be surveyed \"within weeks\".", "Spain's men's players condemn the \"unacceptable behaviour\" of national federation president Luis Rubiales.", "The firm said about 100 customers lost power due to a keypad issue, with one calling it a shambles.", "A national inquiry rejects US claims a Russian cargo ship was uploaded with South African weapons.", "The child survived a 100ft (30m) fall in 2019 but suffered life-changing injuries.", "Labour's deputy leader gets the key levelling up brief in the party's top team, replacing Lisa Nandy.", "There is much speculation over what role Sir Keir may give his deputy leader Angela Rayner.", "A European Union law will require portable devices to have a common charger by 2024.", "Kyiv says its troops are gaining momentum in what continues to be a lengthy and bloody counter-offensive.", "A whale rarely seen in UK waters is spotted off the Welsh coast in a \"significant\" event.", "Temperatures could be as high as 32C on Wednesday, with England health alerts in force until Sunday.", "The tests come after Harrow Crown Court in north London was shut because dangerous concrete was found.", "Thousands of people remain stuck at the event in Nevada and could remain so for several more days.", "Jayne Etherington said her daughter Caitlin fell ill after swimming in the sea off the Welsh coast.", "Simon Byrne resigns with immediate effect after “significant” Northern Ireland Policing Board meeting.", "A 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after an alleged incident during Arsenal's 3-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday", "Mr Scholz shared a photo of himself wearing an eye-patch on X, saying it \"looks worse than it is\".", "Police appeal for information after a man is attacked while on his way to work in County Armagh.", "Haikui is the first big storm to directly hit the island in four years, lashing the south-east.", "Martha Mills died just over two years ago after failures by doctors to spot and treat her condition.", "Connor Gibson has been convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his 16-year-old sister in 2021.", "The wait time to leave was five hours as of Tuesday morning, after heavy rain left people stranded.", "Many are altering timetables and seeking new classrooms after having to shut unsafe concrete buildings.", "Parents should get their children back to school this week, the children's commissioner urges.", "An inquiry finds Tory MP Sir Gavin bullied former chief whip Wendy Morton in texts about the Queen's funeral.", "The two leaders last met on the sidelines of the previous G20 summit in 2022 in Indonesia.", "Officers said the cocaine was found in a sophisticated hide in the rear doors of the lorry's trailer.", "The Met will investigate claims of \"non-recent\" offences from London and elsewhere in the country.", "Twenty-five South Korean tourists died after a boat sank during a rainstorm on the River Danube.", "Toddler Nicholas Dominici died earlier this month after being exposed to fentanyl at his nursery.", "He is the fourth person to be arrested following the death of a child at a New York City nursery.", "Walliams files a High Court case against the show's production company following his exit as a judge.", "As many have now died from complications as died in the attacks, the Fire Department of New York says.", "There are calls for both sides to end the doctors' pay row, ahead of joint strike action next week.", "Wrexham club captain Ben Tozer opens up on the death of his father Keith and hopes other men seek medical help if they feel unwell.", "Hans Niemann was accused of cheating after he beat Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen last September.", "Video posted on social media shows the two suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a highway.", "Former Strategic Rail Authority boss says cancelling the leg to Manchester would hurt other projects.", "The Lib Dem leader tries to fire up delegates as his party aims to unseat Tory MPs in the next general election.", "In a rare interview, Spotify boss Daniel Ek talks to the BBC about AI, regulation and Harry and Meghan.", "Sian Sexton says she is \"still in shock\" after a surprise phone call saw her reunited with pet cat Daisy.", "The Tory MP for Reading West had criticised Rishi Sunak's watering down of key green policies.", "A man in his 20s is due to appear in court on Tuesday morning, charged in relation to the incident.", "The messaging around vaping may be driving children and teens to take up the habit, says expert.", "The boss of the airport is \"very frustrated\" after illness hits air traffic control.", "Helen Clarke, 77, died after sustaining significant burns and a head injury in a car fire.", "Claims against the star have led to discussions about the power dynamic between adults and teens in relationships.", "Up to 300 officers had stood back from firearms duties after the prosecution of a colleague.", "The museum gives more details of 2,000 artefacts from its collection that are missing or stolen.", "Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted an invitation from King Charles III to visit the UK.", "The animal interrupts lunch, devouring enchiladas and tacos at Chipinque Ecological Park.", "It was expelled from the United Nations council last year after its forces invaded Ukraine.", "Authorities responded to a hiker who had fallen from a cliff next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.", "Ciaran Lee Wootton admitted causing the death of Elaine McGarrity by dangerous driving.", "Chances of seeing aurora increase as the Sun nears the peak of its 11-year cycle.", "The Philippines says it has executed a \"special operation\" to remove a floating barrier in the South China Sea.", "Biden is the first sitting US president to stand on a picket line as he joins striking car-workers in Michigan.", "Richard Walker says sorry for alleging shop workers contracted HIV from assaults with infected needles.", "Regulator Ofwat orders companies in England and Wales to cut bills after missing targets.", "The actor and rapper, known for rap-battling Eminem in the 2002 film, died at his home on Sunday.", "England are beaten for just the third time under manager Sarina Wiegman on her return to the Netherlands in the Women's Nations League.", "The former president was accused of overvaluing his net worth by as much as $ 2.2bn.", "The BBC gains access to the West African country which is among the world's most deadly for jihadist attacks.", "The council leader depicted in the sculpture says he finds the artwork \"very amusing\".", "Thousands of pupils will stay at home on the second day of Unison's three-day strike in a dispute over pay.", "Serge Kelly is facing charges over a hit-and-run collision in which Ronan Wilson, 9, died.", "For Ukrainian troops, life on the front line is far from easy, as the BBC's Mark Urban witnessed up close.", "Ukraine is \"clarifying\" its recent reports that Russia's Admiral Sokolov died in a missile attack on Friday.", "The Lib Dem leader launches an all-out attack on the Tories' NHS record in his conference speech.", "The Britpop trailblazers will bring in the bells with a live gig against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.", "Critics warn allowing the tower to be built would mean \"no national park will be safe\".", "Witnesses and officials say the fire was sparked by fireworks set off inside the hall in Qaraqosh.", "Officials say 290 people have been taken to hospital with dozens in a critical condition.", "Kian Withers posted an animated image on Facebook of the murder victim, a court hears.", "Adam Britton has pleaded guilty to 60 charges involving bestiality and child abuse material in Australia.", "The healthcare regulator seeks urgent assurances over patient safety at Newcastle Hospitals.", "The home secretary calls critics of the scheme \"phoney humanitarians\" after judges ruled it was unlawful.", "Workers are taking more days off due to stress, Covid and the cost-of living crisis, research suggests.", "The exodus comes as the Armenian prime minister warns of ethnic cleansing in the region.", "Asthma and Lung UK says people with breathing difficulties are being denied the diagnosis they need.", "Azerbaijan shows off captured tanks but aid is slow to arrive for thousands sleeping on the streets.", "The BBC's Nataliya Zotova reports from the border between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.", "Axing the high-speed rail leg would hit links between Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, critics say.", "Members vote to keep a pledge to build 380,000 homes a year in England, after calls from the Young Liberals group.", "Daniel Hegarty, 15, was shot twice in the head during an Army operation in Londonderry in 1972.", "Sir Mark Rowley says disruption is continuing after hundreds of officers stepped back from firearms duties.", "He says the week since the claims were reported has been \"extraordinary and distressing\".", "In a US speech, the home secretary attacks how the West has approached migration and how asylum seekers are defined.", "Spain turn on the style in their first match on home soil since winning the Women's World Cup to crush Switzerland in Cordoba.", "Video captures the moment a motorcycle burst into flames after a collision with a car.", "A man who fought for the Waffen-SS was applauded in parliament during a visit by Ukraine's leader.", "She was well known for detailing her cancer treatment and being open about her past drug addiction.", "Anthony Rota resigns after praising a 98-year-old Ukrainian who fought for a Nazi unit as a \"war hero\".", "A journalist spotted the superstar leaving an American football game with one of the sport's top players.", "Five Bulgarians were charged after a UK counter-terror investigation uncovered an alleged Russian spy ring.", "First minister reveals that he's received threats to his physical safety over Wales' new 20mph law.", "Moscow seeks support on the Ukraine war, including for a suspected N Korea arms deal.", "Dan Evans and Neal Skupski save four match points before winning a nerve-wracking Davis Cup decider against France.", "The first minister says the country will transition away from being Europe's oil and gas capital.", "Emergency services were called after the child was knocked down on the A76 in New Cumnock on Monday.", "Barry and Mary Ford were living in Florida when they first heard the Sanquhar site was up for sale.", "The Minehead resort is shut as the Met Office issues renewed weather warnings for parts of the UK.", "Ahmad Alkhamran says he will find a new site for his Belfast business after a series of hate crimes.", "Officials are unable to locate the F-35 jet after its pilot safely ejected over South Carolina.", "The F-35B fighter jet went missing on Sunday after a \"mishap\", leading officials to ask for public help.", "Virginia McCullough is accused of killing her parents at some point since August 2018.", "New estimates have been made of the cost of expanding the Welsh Parliament to 90 politicians.", "The 150 million year-old camptosaurus is expected to fetch up to €1.2m ($1.2m) in October.", "The comedian performed in London in his first appearance since being accused of rape and sexual assault.", "She issued a tearful apology for continuing her talk show while her unionised writers were on strike.", "Older people and those most at risk of serious illness will be contacted by their GP for a vaccine.", "A new study suggests the treatment of A-levels makes it harder for NI students to get in.", "Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess died after getting into difficulty in the water off Bournemouth Beach.", "Some 383 pubs were demolished or converted for other uses between January and June, government figures show.", "Social media users have been capturing the UK's lightning strikes and thunderstorms.", "Jordan Steinke will serve 30 months on probation following the 2022 incident.", "The former PM says he was moved by the Queen's \"sense of duty\" when her death was announced days later.", "The folk singer, famous for his whistling, singing and guitar playing, dies in France.", "The Conservative MP says health problems have sometimes made it \"impossible\" to do her job.", "The sum is for postmasters whose wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting have now been overturned.", "The agreement is due for review in 2025, which the Labour leader says is a key moment to reset relations.", "A woman known as Alice says Russell Brand's denial of sexual assault is laughable but unsurprising.", "Key players tell Laura Kuenssberg how six years of political turbulence rocked the British state.", "The five prisoners, who took off from Iran, have landed in Qatar as they make their way to the US.", "Brand, who has been accused of sexual assaults, was due to perform in Windsor, Plymouth and Wolverhampton this month.", "Dark smoke rises from the cone-shaped tower as government offices come under attack.", "Damian Lloyd says his family had checked in for a flight in advance but Ryanair says they had \"unchecked\" themselves.", "Senior government officials spoke to Buckingham Palace during the pandemic about the then PM's conduct, the BBC is told.", "Jens Haaning was given €71,000 by a Danish museum to create art, but sent it blank frames.", "Spain players have reiterated that they are boycotting the national team despite being called up to the women's national team.", "The singer will perform 20 hours of community service and pay $1,400 in fines for the \"egregious\" act.", "England edge closer to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, but do little to impress in a scrappy 34-12 win over Japan in Nice.", "One of those attacked was taken to hospital with injuries to his arm, according to police.", "The comedian and actor denies allegations about his behaviour over a period of seven years - and performs a scheduled gig.", "The ex-PM uses a speech to defend her tenure in office and to urge Rishi Sunak to cut taxes and delay net-zero commitments.", "PM Trudeau described \"credible allegations potentially linking\" Delhi with Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing.", "Trevi said it was \"deeply saddened and upset\" by the stories in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.", "The London-born journalist and podcaster becomes the black female head of the fashion title.", "Wales' national adviser on violence against woman says she was grabbed inappropriately.", "Essex Police say it is their \"strong belief\" that two people in their 70s are no longer alive.", "Callum Hudson-Odoi scores a glorious equaliser on his Nottingham Forest debut to salvage a Premier League draw against Burnley.", "An expert panel backs calls for an expanded Welsh Assembly and giving the vote to 16-year-olds.", "Councillor Gareth Parry's brother Keith was killed when a car hit him at 30mph in 1994.", "Doctors are struggling to identify the remains which have been found as the death toll rises.", "Paul Scougall, 31, went to hospital with a suspected chest infection and came out with a new heart.", "Lecturers at all six further education colleges are striking over pay and conditions.", "Comedian Russell Brand has denied sexual assault allegations, with scrutiny also on the TV business.", "Campaigners say pollution is killing Lough Neagh after blue-green algal blooms over the summer.", "The comedian, actor and activist has hosted programmes for Channel 4, Radio X, MTV and the BBC.", "Remaining dates of the star's live tour are postponed following the allegations.", "A judge at Bennell's sentencing in 2020 describes the abuser as \"the devil incarnate\".", "It is thought commissioners sent by government could be sent in to run the struggling city council.", "The NBC's Tonight Show host has been accused by staff who blame him for a toxic atmosphere.", "He is the first British prime minister of Indian heritage to visit the country.", "The firm behind the offshore wind farm plans says the UK government has not offered enough funding.", "Sam Eljamel harmed dozens of patients at NHS Tayside, leaving many with life-changing injuries.", "The group has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation following the death of Paul Cattermole.", "A new report lays bare the thinking of the Georgia grand jury Trump investigation on election meddling.", "A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accuses him of \"committing evil\".", "Mike Pilavachi was said to have also wrestled youths as he used his \"authority to control people\".", "A survivor describes the Stonehaven rail crash and her shock at the death of conductor Donald Dinnie.", "The change to the Online Safety Bill comes as a result of a BBC Eye Investigation into global monkey abuse.", "Met Police figures reveal 510 Ulez camera-related crime reports during five months this year.", "A year after taking the throne, the BBC's Sean Coughlan looks at what King Charles has done differently.", "The opera singer and radio DJ said keeping the winner secret since filming as been a \"miracle\".", "Kourtney Kardashian went into \"urgent foetal surgery\" to have an operation on her baby in the womb.", "Police say the call was made with \"good intentions\" after students were mistaken for bodies.", "Peter Navarro faces up to a year in prison for failing to co-operate with a congressional committee.", "Faruk Fatih Ozer was found guilty of defrauding millions of dollars from investors in his collapsed Thodex platform.", "Waste problem caused by single-use products quadruples in year, says Material Focus.", "Heathrow has means to keep it safe, while Gatwick has found no cause for concern.", "The driver was not warned that part of the track near Stonehaven was unsafe before the fatal crash in 2020.", "One officer is struck on the head and a suspected firearm has been found in Londonderry, police say.", "They won the £25,000 for their album Where I'm Meant To Be, which is the first-ever jazz album to win.", "The plan will help ensure YouTubers are genuinely qualified to dish out medical information.", "Streets and subway stations in Hong Kong are underwater, while many flights in Guangdong are suspended.", "The star of That '70s Show sat in court as the two women he raped described the impact of his crimes.", "Three people died and six were hurt after a train hit a landslide south of Stonehaven in 2020.", "But prosecutors decided not to indict Lindsey Graham and others on election charges alongside Donald Trump.", "Prince Harry visits St George's Chapel in Windsor as royals mark anniversary of the Queen's death.", "Hong Kong and southern China have been hit with some of the heaviest rainfall on record for the region.", "American teenager Coco Gauff will play new world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open final after a New York night disrupted by climate protesters.", "It has been suggested that corporate manslaughter charges should be an option in similar cases in the future.", "Labour says it raises questions over ministers' commitment to stop the marketing of vapes to children.", "Rescuers try to reach hundreds of people trapped by floods in Greece where 10 people have died.", "Raymond Ndong Sima, newly installed after a military coup, says it will take time to transition.", "Comedian Mike Yarwood, whose TV impressions made him a household name, dies aged 82.", "BBC News has learned 16 universities have buildings containing crumbling concrete.", "Health officials say it is too early to know whether BA.2.86 is more serious than previous strains.", "Four-year-old Gingee has had her paws on a child's spade, pair of goggles, sieve and even a knife.", "The terror suspect would have passed through multiple security checkpoints at Wandsworth Prison.", "Daniel Khalife seemed \"odd\", according to Chris Jones who worked with him in Wandsworth Prison.", "Eve Betts describes getting death threats as a survey shows four in five women are abused online.", "A 22-foot replica has been built a stone's throw from where the tragic liner left Belfast in 1912.", "The Rocky actor threw some air punches with the pontiff during a meeting at the Vatican.", "A review of action on climate since the Paris agreement calls for an end to fossil fuels without carbon capture.", "An era was ending right before our eyes, writes the BBC's Sean Coughlan, who was inside Westminster Abbey.", "The King will mark his mother's passing \"quietly and privately\" on 8 September, royal officials say.", "Detectives investigating an alleged homophobic attack in south London arrest a teenager on suspicion of GBH.", "The prime minister is on a visit to India for talks with leaders of the world's biggest economies.", "The child was found unresponsive on Sunday at a Blackpool hotel and died on Thursday, police say.", "Residents in Scotstoun, Glasgow, say large rats have climbed in their windows and along fences.", "See who made the Official Charts' top 10 list of summer bangers. Did your favourite make the cut?", "BBC News speaks to people who knew terror suspect Daniel Khalife as he grew up in London.", "Dogs bought during lockdown may only now be starting to have behaviour problems, the RSPCA says.", "Prison is described as a \"powder keg\" with overcrowding, understaffing and plagues of vermin.", "Jordan Chadwick, 31, from Burnley, was found with his hands bound behind his back.", "Lamb, whiskey, cockles and Felinfoel beer are some of the produce the presenter has used.", "The nurse was jailed last month for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more.", "The former soldier is recaptured on a canal towpath while riding a bicycle near Northolt, police say.", "North Korea has not yet demonstrated that the submarine is actually operational.", "France make the perfect start on their quest for a first Rugby World Cup title as they beat three-time champions New Zealand to delight the Stade de France in Paris.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 September and 8 September", "As missing prisoner Daniel Khalife is recaptured, these maps show the location of the four-day police manhunt.", "The technology giant's stock market valuation has fallen by almost $200bn in the last two days.", "Sharon Gregg, who bleeds from her nose, eyes and fingernails, calls for understanding of her rare disorder.", "The novelty spicy tortilla has been recalled in the US after it was linked to the death of a teenager.", "Last year's volcanic eruption in the Pacific caused the fastest underwater flows ever recorded.", "Police are to investigate deaths at a trust in Nottingham, already the subject of a major review.", "Episodes of the show will appear online a week after being broadcast on E4, the network confirmed.", "Temperatures pass 30C (86F) for four consecutive days, and more hot weather is on the way.", "There will be no new offshore wind projects after firms said the price for electricity was too low.", "Police say it could be \"very significant\" and offer a reward up to £20,000 for information leading to Daniel Khalife's arrest.", "Misplaced for decades, the garment was rediscovered in an attic earlier this year.", "A year after taking the throne, the BBC's Sean Coughlan looks at what King Charles has done differently.", "Former England captain Andrew Flintoff is pictured for the first time since he was injured in an accident while filming Top Gear last year.", "The divisive director is met by cheers and positive reviews, but also loud protests on the red carpet.", "Capital spending on education has been squeezed since 2010 as money has been redirected to healthcare.", "Famous faces of the small screen hit the red carpet in the London sunshine ahead of the ceremony.", "The airline has been criticised for its prices and customer service, and is facing several lawsuits.", "After months of rumours, ITV says familiar faces from the show will head back to find love again.", "Three major companies released sewage on dry days in breach of their permits - BBC investigation.", "A Westminster committee hears from an assistant chief constable, a day after Simon Byrne resigns.", "Retail sales increased by 4.1% last month, according to the British Retail Consortium and KPMG.", "Matthew Hedges' ordeal sparks a review into internal guidance on torture and mistreatment cases.", "Torrential rain triggered flash flooding in parts of the country.", "Louise Russell is campaigning for more help and awareness after the death of her son Ciaran.", "Ex-MP Natalie McGarry was jailed after being convicted of embezzling money from the SNP and a pro-independence group.", "Dozens of girls are sent home after turning up at school wearing the now-banned abaya robe.", "David Harewood visits a stately home built using the profits of plantations where his ancestors were enslaved.", "Sergei Surovikin, a former commander in Ukraine, had not been seen in public since the Wagner mutiny.", "A current was pulling the family towards the waterfall so Mohan helped everyone out but got stuck.", "Andy Perry says he is still waiting for government advice on how much of his school is unsafe.", "Birmingham City Council, which faces a massive bill to settle an equal pay claim, has an £87m budget gap this year alone.", "Jorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales kiss row.", "A car driver has been killed and a coach driver seriously injured following the crash on a bridge.", "Drone footage shows people leaving the festival after heavy rain caused a mud bath.", "Questions are being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.", "Schools are battling to get surveys and temporary classrooms could take months to build, the BBC is told.", "The two providers have offered different accounts of what happened to their networks.", "Concerns have been raised about the environmental impact of the plastic tubes, which are often thrown on the ground after use.", "Nitrous oxide will become a class C drug in the UK and carry up to two years in jail for possession.", "There are now about 46 birds in southern Scotland - the highest number in the area in centuries.", "Scotland's first minister confirms his policy priorities in a new programme for government.", "Officers are treating the assault by several youths in Edinburgh as racially aggravated.", "A threatened rebellion from Tory MPs is averted, as the process for allowing new wind farms is streamlined.", "But the Romanian foreign ministry rejects Kyiv's version of events, saying it didn't happen.", "Humza Yousaf will reveal his government's priorities as MSPs return to parliament from recess.", "Matthew Rycroft's son, Callum, was hit by a car as they tried to cross the carriageway after a crash.", "Ethan Nordean was sentenced to 18 years in prison while Dominic Pezzola was given 10 years behind bars.", "In a highly personal interview, Olena Zelenska says she needs \"my husband, not a historical figure\".", "The star of Mission: Impossible and Manon des Sources reveals the alleged abuse in a new documentary.", "Cuban officials say a human trafficking ring is recruiting Cubans to fight in the war in Ukraine.", "Administrators say more than 1,300 staff will be made redundant as hopes of a wider rescue deal fade.", "The minister apologises but says she was \"frustrated\" by a reporter's questions on the concrete crisis.", "North Korea's leader will discuss supplying weapons for Russia to use in Ukraine, US media report.", "Brazil withdraw Manchester United winger Antony from their squad following allegations of abuse by his former girlfriend.", "Seventeen schools which have had crumbly concrete confirmed had building work cancelled in 2010.", "Radio London's Anna O'Neill was speaking on air as two men targeted a businessman on Oxford Street.", "Paul Jones recalled how two XL American Bulldogs threw his ewes around \"like they were paper\".", "Shares rose after the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy in the UK.", "The sum to help put right problems is less than half of the estimated total required.", "The grandfather of Sara Sharif tells the BBC he spoke to his son when he arrived in Pakistan.", "Young people are much less convinced about supporting the monarchy, suggests a survey.", "The carrier says \"a software update caused a widespread slowdown in United's technology systems\".", "Rob Behrens says he was moved by the plea of Merope Mills, who shared the story of her daughter's death.", "Whistleblower tells the BBC the election watchdog failed the government-backed Cyber Essentials test.", "Police say closing nurseries and a school near Church Road caused huge disruption for pupils.", "Figures from the Office of National Statistics suggest more women aged 16-24 are vaping every day.", "Scotland's first minister says childcare will be at the centre of his government's policy agenda for the coming year.", "Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, a new report says.", "Spain's men's players condemn the \"unacceptable behaviour\" of national federation president Luis Rubiales.", "The firm said about 100 customers lost power due to a keypad issue, with one calling it a shambles.", "Education Secretary Gillian Keegan accepts the end of August was \"the worst time\" to ask schools to take action.", "Labour's deputy leader gets the key levelling up brief in the party's top team, replacing Lisa Nandy.", "Mothers are breaking the law because they fear court-ordered contact with fathers is unsafe for their kids.", "Enrique Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy.", "Deep within certain and very particular corners of government, RAAC has been a talking point for years.", "A poll is called for October as the former culture secretary steps down weeks after saying she would.", "Temperatures could be as high as 32C on Wednesday, with England health alerts in force until Sunday.", "The tests come after Harrow Crown Court in north London was shut because dangerous concrete was found.", "Ant and Dec also win best presenter for the 22nd year running but there was no prize for This Morning.", "They say the sterilisation device left them in pain - but the manufacturer defends its safety.", "Taking back their remorse could land defendants with stiffer sentences.", "An emotional Enrique Tarrio, 39, tells the court he is \"ashamed\" of his role in the US Capitol riot.", "Unison warns some councils will be unable to provide basic services.", "Staff could strike as a union says Birmingham City Council's job evaluation scheme undervalues women.", "The 10-year-old climbed on to a tree after his family's car was swept into a river by deadly floods.", "The protesters chanted \"no rape culture\" as they attempted to get on to the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival.", "Police appeal for information after a man is attacked while on his way to work in County Armagh.", "It will become illegal to be a member of or support the Russian mercenary group.", "Opposition MPs and campaigners share \"horror\" at potential sewage spills on dry days uncovered by BBC News.", "Three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty sustains a facial injury in a minor altercation with fellow Great Britain swimmer Luke Greenbank.", "B&M has struck a deal to take on dozens of Wilko's 400 shops after it collapsed into administration.", "The hit crime drama returns for a final series, with one reviewer saying it \"will be sorely missed\".", "The wait time to leave was five hours as of Tuesday morning, after heavy rain left people stranded.", "Part of the wall running through China's Shanxi province was dug open, causing severe damage.", "Britain's Jack Draper believes he can be \"one of the best players in the world\" after an encouraging US Open run is ended by Andrey Rublev.", "Birmingham City Council's budget crisis puts pressure on the government over council finances.", "Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council has agreed to invest £52m in the project.", "Officers said the cocaine was found in a sophisticated hide in the rear doors of the lorry's trailer.", "The controversial development west of Shetland is estimated to contain 300 million barrels of oil.", "The PM is accused of recklessness after a new oil field is approved but he says he is being pragmatic.", "They can return to work while they vote on whether to approve a three-year deal that offers pay rises.", "Aston Villa's women's players are \"dreading\" their first match of the WSL season because of the club's \"clingy\" shirts, says Jacqui Oatley.", "He is the fourth person to be arrested following the death of a child at a New York City nursery.", "Mum Kelsey tells BBC News how her school stepped in, as MPs urge bold measures to tackle poor attendance.", "Walliams files a High Court case against the show's production company following his exit as a judge.", "Greenwich Council made the order after they found at least 26 breaches of the agreed plans.", "The UK's largest untapped oil field is off the coast of Shetland. Is there an alternative to drilling for more oil?", "The messaging around vaping may be driving children and teens to take up the habit, says expert.", "Sir Ed Davey says renewables are the priority rather than developing a new oil and gas field off Shetland.", "A teenage boy has been arrested after the girl was stabbed on her way to school in south London.", "Parts of Scotland saw high winds and heavy rain but there were no reports of serious incidents.", "Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox have been suspended over insults against Ava Evans on Wootton's show.", "Jorge Vilda - the former head coach of Spain's World Cup-winning side - is being investigated as part of the criminal case against Luis Rubiales.", "Private Tony Harrison, 21, was killed in 1991 in east Belfast while he was at home with his fiancée.", "The chatbot's knowledge previously only included data up to September 2021, but not any more.", "The animal interrupts lunch, devouring enchiladas and tacos at Chipinque Ecological Park.", "Motion against Lee Waters, who led introduction of Wales' new default speed limit, is voted down.", "Yellow wind and rain warnings cover much of the UK, with gusts up to 75mph forecast in some coastal areas.", "The 23-year-old soldier was transferred into US custody in China after being deported from North Korea.", "Shante Daniel-Folkes' parents call for a speed cap on police cars travelling in residential areas.", "He is also set to be extradited to the US to face charges there once his Canada cases end.", "Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox have been suspended from the channel", "The prime minister says it was a mistake that \"deeply embarrassed parliament and Canada\".", "Sean Hogg avoided jail for the attacks, but says his conviction was a miscarriage of justice.", "The loss of Britain's wildlife is outpacing efforts to conserve and protect nature, a major report reveals.", "Carbon dating technology suggests the whisky found in a cellar in Blair Castle is almost 200 years old.", "The actor and rapper, known for rap-battling Eminem in the 2002 film, died at his home on Sunday.", "'It's going to break our family apart,' a resident said seeing the damage for the first time.", "The UK government says the field will provide energy security and billions of pounds - but opponents call it \"environmental vandalism\".", "Environmental campaigners say they will oppose oil firm Equinor's proposed Rosebank development.", "The former president was accused of overvaluing his net worth by as much as $ 2.2bn.", "Speculation the rail line could be scrapped raises doubts about future projects, says construction firms.", "Some staff at University Hospitals Birmingham say they feared complaining would only make things worse.", "In a segment on the channel, Fox made disparaging remarks about PoliticsJOE reporter Ava Evans.", "Serge Kelly is facing charges over a hit-and-run collision in which Ronan Wilson, 9, died.", "Environmentalists say delaying the implementation of new biodiversity rules is \"a hammer blow for nature\".", "Witnesses and officials say the fire was sparked by fireworks set off inside the hall in Qaraqosh.", "Kian Withers posted an animated image on Facebook of the murder victim, a court hears.", "Provides an overview of Iraq, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country.", "Two customers were inside at the time, but the shop owner says luckily no one was hurt.", "At Meta's first in-person event since before the pandemic, Mark Zuckerberg announced his AI plans.", "The exodus comes as the Armenian prime minister warns of ethnic cleansing in the region.", "More than 150 people were also injured at a wedding in the northern Nineveh province after fireworks were lit.", "Party drops promise to remove some charity tax perks but says it will implement VAT on fees.", "The This Morning presenter joined Noel Fielding and co as the Channel 4 series returned on Tuesday.", "An inquest finds Kellie Poole's death was likely caused by an undiagnosed heart condition.", "The current and former presidents are wooing striking auto workers in Michigan ahead of 2024 battle.", "Azerbaijan shows off captured tanks but aid is slow to arrive for thousands sleeping on the streets.", "Labour mayors are meeting in Leeds to urge PM Rishi Sunak to stick with the HS2 link to Manchester.", "The BBC's Nataliya Zotova reports from the border between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.", "National Grid deals with power outages at hundreds of properties amid winds of more than 60mph.", "The 23-year-old ran across the border from South Korea during a tour of the area in July.", "Daniel Hegarty, 15, was shot twice in the head during an Army operation in Londonderry in 1972.", "Spain turn on the style in their first match on home soil since winning the Women's World Cup to crush Switzerland in Cordoba.", "CCTV of a fast food drive-through shows a worker pull a gun during a row with a customer.", "Survivors of the inferno which killed nearly 100 people describe what happened as the fire took hold.", "It will involve users taking their own illegal drugs in a hygienic environment under supervision.", "Athletes Ricardo Dos Santos and Bianca Williams were pulled over and searched by Met officers.", "A teenage boy, believed to be known to the victim, has been arrested and a murder inquiry has begun.", "Eddie Howe says his Newcastle side want to \"go one better\" than last season's runners-up finish in the Carabao Cup after beating Manchester City to advance.", "Anthony Rota resigns after praising a 98-year-old Ukrainian who fought for a Nazi unit as a \"war hero\".", "The elusive substance holds the key to discovering how the Universe was formed.", "Five Bulgarians were charged after a UK counter-terror investigation uncovered an alleged Russian spy ring.", "A woman is treated in hospital, as Storm Agnes brings heavy rain and strong winds to Northern Ireland.", "The PM says he reminded China that undermining British democracy would be \"completely unacceptable\".", "Two volunteers are killed and two others injured when their vehicle comes under fire in Ukraine.", "Young children could be more vulnerable as they did not mix with others during the Covid pandemic.", "Did you know the Wonderbra and Agent Provocateur were once made in the south Wales valleys?", "Ethiopia's giant hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile stokes Egyptian fears of dire water shortages.", "Surrey Police have distributed posters and a video message in Urdu to reach Pakistani nationals.", "Rescuers have been using their bare hands to dig for survivors as the death toll nears 2,700.", "The actors, who starred in That '70s Show with Masterson, wrote letters of support to a judge.", "The vessels will run for three years after £15m was awarded from a UK government fund.", "It is now a battle to find survivors in devastated, remote mountain villages after Friday's strong earthquake.", "The cheese featured in the advert doesn't comply with advertising standards, TfL says.", "The Nottingham University Hospitals trust is already facing a police investigation over the deaths.", "Trapped US caver Mark Dickey sends video message thanking Turkish authorities and rescuers.", "Novak Djokovic draws level with Australian Margaret Court on 24 major singles titles by outlasting Daniil Medvedev in a punishing US Open final.", "Geoff Marshall, 41, faces multiple charges including dangerous driving and criminal damage.", "Mark Dickey has been stuck in the Morca Cave since Saturday after suffering gastrointestinal bleeding.", "Deputy PM Oliver Dowden says the government is considering whether to increase checks on people working for China.", "One of the world's most active volcanoes has erupted again on Hawaii's Big Island.", "Wales survive a dramatic late Fiji fightback to edge a captivating World Cup opener in Bordeaux.", "Nine vehicles are damaged in a trail of destruction after a truck is driven through a road block.", "Angel Lynn has been unable to talk since suffering severe injuries in a fall from a moving van in 2020.", "Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended after a drugs test finds elevated levels of testosterone.", "A woman in her 40s is in custody for questioning after the toddler went missing from her home.", "There is growing anger at the little help reaching towns and villages in the Atlas Mountains.", "The US and Vietnam are becoming better friends - a troubling prospect for China.", "Locals in Moulay Brahim tell Nick Beake things are \"desperate\", with a severe shortage of rescuers.", "Rescuers hope he will reach the surface sometime on Monday evening or on Tuesday local time.", "The BBC's Nick Beake is on the ground in Tafeghaghte after a powerful earthquake hit Morocco's High Atlas Mountains.", "BMW is investing £600m in preparing its Oxfordshire plant to build the next generation of electric cars.", "Large areas of the old city in Marrakesh are devastated by Friday evening's powerful quake.", "CCTV shows the moment rubble begins to fall from a building onto the street where a man is standing.", "Matthew Waddell killed Sarah Albone then sent texts from her phone to dupe her family and friends.", "The 21-year-old former soldier is due to face Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.", "How a convicted murderer from Brazil escaped prison and eluded police for almost two weeks.", "Mark Dickey is brought out after getting trapped in the Morca Cave for more than a week when he fell ill.", "A privately owned military truck is driven into police cars, damaging a total of nine vehicles.", "More sightings of Danelo Cavalcante, including one of him clean shaven, are made outside police perimeter.", "A Spanish high court judge opens an investigation of former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales over the Jenni Hermoso kissing incident.", "Officials say a small percentage missed Friday's deadline to return questionnaires on the concrete.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conveys his concerns to China about interference, No 10 says.", "The streaming giant quashes a theory that listening to a song on repeat will rake in the royalties.", "The 21-year-old is accused of escaping from the prison while awaiting trial on a terror offence.", "Urfan Sharif and his partner describe Sara's death as an \"incident\" and claim they will co-operate with UK authorities.", "Lord McDonald tells a new BBC documentary series there was a sense of \"mourning\" in his department.", "Liam Livingstone's 95 sets up a series-levelling victory for England against New Zealand in Southampton.", "Tory MPs call for China to be branded a threat, amid spy claims following the arrest of a Commons researcher.", "A Pakistan court rules on the temporary custody of the children who travelled from the UK with Sara Sharif's father.", "In a statement issued through his lawyers, the man said he felt \"forced to respond\" to media accusations.", "The North Korean ruler is on an armoured train heading to meet Vladimir Putin, who's in Russia's far east.", "The North Korean leader is headed to Vladivostok to discuss a potential arms deal.", "There has been a \"massive influx\" of the species usually found in Mediterranean waters.", "The man was saved by snow and softened ice after tumbling from New Zealand's Mount Taranaki.", "Scotgold Resources needs to raise significant funds to allow the firm to continue as a going concern.", "Temperatures have exceeded 30C for a seventh day, but a thunderstorm warning is issued for many areas.", "The storm causes severe flooding in eastern Libya after killing a dozen people in Europe last week.", "The beloved discount retailer was founded in 1930 but now all 400 stores are set to close within weeks.", "Luis Rubiales resigns as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Jenni Hermoso after the Women's World Cup final.", "Tafeghaghte was home to 200 people. Ninety are now dead, and the grief of those left behind is palpable.", "The BBC speaks to a man haunted by the decision he was forced to make after Morocco's deadly earthquake.", "Police have praised the public following the 21-year-old ex soldier's escape from Wandsworth prison.", "The world's leading economies issue a joint statement shorn of direct criticism of Moscow's war.", "Scotland's chief law officer says users of such facilities should not be prosecuted for simple possession offences.", "Lewi Sullivan died after falling with a rope around his neck while playing, an inquest hears.", "The four strategically important oil and gas platforms were seized by Russia in 2015.", "Villagers dig by hand to find those still trapped, with few signs of an official response in some areas.", "Some 24 of the chain's shops will shut after it failed to find a buyer, with hundreds more to close.", "Li Shangfu's absence in recent weeks has triggered speculation of a corruption purge in the military.", "Alfie Meadows was left with a brain injury after being struck in 2010 during a tuition fees protest.", "The move comes just weeks after the death of the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.", "Iran's protests may have subsided, but women have found new ways to defy the country's regime.", "The three nations say Iran is in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal by producing enriched uranium.", "In the Libyan city of Derna, Anna Foster describes the flood devastation and lack of international aid.", "The endangered pair of twin males are developing well and hitting key milestones at Longleat Safari Park.", "Parents speak of their fears as a third union rejects a pay proposal from council body Cosla.", "The ex-Daily Show host's ordeal played out live on air as he ran late for an interview in Johannesburg.", "Queen Camilla thanks the BBC Radio 4 drama for \"bringing joy, laughter and tears to your audience\".", "Brazilian authorities think the big cat was destined to be sold for more than $4,000.", "Bev Jones' book is now a drama series starring Jenna Coleman and with music from Taylor Swift.", "An official tells the BBC people in Derna were told to flee but some did not take the threat seriously.", "But scientists warn that some species could decline in the long term due to habitat loss.", "The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020.", "The government has rejected MPs' calls to establish a legal definition of honour-based abuse.", "New Zealand storm to their 50th win at the Rugby World Cup as they thrash Namibia, but lose Ethan de Groot to a late red card for a dangerous collision.", "A former RAF bomber pilot abseils down the Royal London Hospital for charity.", "Tata Steel's negotiations for funding for greener steel could cost Port Talbot up to 3,000 jobs.", "Large parts of the city of Derna were destroyed after two dams burst, with thousands killed.", "An emotional Andy Murray dedicates a hard-earned Davis Cup win to his grandmother Ellen after revealing he missed her funeral to play.", "Footage shows two officers at Miami International Airport allegedly taking cash at a security point.", "Jolene Bunting must now pay a £750 fine over failing to remove a video of drag queen Cherrie Ontop.", "The retailer is expanding a trial in a move which it says should cut plastics use.", "The climate activist refused to end the protest, hours after being convicted of a similar offence.", "Jaswant Singh Chail has admitted charges relating to the Christmas 2021 break-in at Windsor Castle.", "A teacher tells the BBC all 32 of her pupils died after tremors struck a mountain village.", "Sports presenter Gabby Logan and husband Kenny receive a \"six-figure\" sum over a Mail Online story.", "The dogs will be outlawed after a spate of attacks, but some say irresponsible owners, not animals, are to blame.", "Her father, stepmother and uncle, are also accused of causing or allowing the death of a child.", "Some 22 flights from the airport were cancelled and more delayed due to an air control staff shortage.", "The multimillion-pound operation means people can visit the area for the first time since 2011.", "Baby bump-flashing Sienna Miller joins other stars like Kate Winslet and Stormzy at the fashion event.", "Colombia's best-known artist, he won worldwide fame with sculptures and paintings of rotund figures.", "Prosecutors asked the court to bar Spain's ex-football president from approaching player Jenni Hermoso.", "The jumper caused a stir - and speculation about the black sheep's symbolism - before her 1981 wedding.", "The US fast food chain closed its initial store in 2019 following protests by campaigners.", "The PM says experts and police will work together to \"accurately define the breed\" and powers will be used in the Dangerous Dogs Act.", "It happened nearly 50 times, including when sensitive information was left in a restaurant.", "Theresa May says the unnamed minister avoided the families by hiding in a cupboard in 2010.", "The prime minister and chancellor are said to have concerns over spiralling costs and delays.", "Rishi Sunak has acknowledged that his promise to cut NHS waiting lists in England is in doubt.", "The European Central Bank increases rates for the 10th time in a row to a record high.", "The deal between Port Talbot's steelworks and UK government will aim to reduce emissions.", "Aid organisations fear many dead still remain in the debris of the devastated city and not enough clean water is available for survivors.", "Ian Price, 52, was attacked by two dogs, thought to be bully XLs, in Stonnall in Staffordshire on Thursday.", "The Ministry of Justice says that most of these absences were planned, and staffing levels were safe.", "Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.", "The stepmother and uncle of the 10-year-old girl, who was found dead at her home, have also been charged.", "President Biden's son Hunter is criminally charged with three counts of lying when buying a firearm.", "The nurse became the UK's most prolific child killer in modern times when she was convicted last month.", "The Staffie is seized and destroyed after an attack in Walsall which left a child in hospital.", "Sainsbury's and Tesco deny misleading customers on price offers through loyalty schemes.", "Steelworkers say they have been kept in the dark amid reports of 3,000 job losses.", "The prime minister vows to ban the breed following the death of 52-year-old Ian Price.", "The Aslef union announces its latest industrial action in the long-running row over pay and conditions.", "After a record-breaking summer of extreme temperatures in the US, BBC Sport looks at the possible impact on the 2026 World Cup.", "Lambeth Council says the venue can host events again if it meets 77 \"robust\" safety conditions.", "Shane Loughlin inhaled laughing gas while speeding in a car later involved in a fatal crash.", "Police search for Ray Lee, 30, who failed to return to HMP Maghaberry after attending a funeral.", "Medics say they can do no more for six-month-old Indi but her parents are opposing the decision.", "Premier League club Everton are set to have new owners after Farhad Moshiri agrees to sell his 94% stake to 777 Partners.", "The outcome of the case will play a significant part in what promises to be a turbulent election cycle.", "The actor says his letter of support for rape convict Danny Masterson was an \"error in judgement\".", "The findings, which had been a mystery for decades, give new ideas for treating the disease.", "The County Down-born comedian says hosting RTÉ's flagship show is the \"honour of a lifetime\".", "The taoiseach accuses the UK government of double standards for criticising his comments last week.", "Gareth Roper was killed after being dropped outside an Iceland store with no money or mobile phone.", "Police urge people \"not to speculate\" after crash between motorcycle and pink electric scooter.", "Nicola Hughes' father wants the Home Office to back his campaign to honour fallen officers.", "Of 254 NHS buildings at risk of containing the material, 97 have been inspected by specialist engineers.", "The 19-year-old is named as Sudiksha Thirumalesh after legal restrictions are lifted.", "England hold on against Scotland at Stadium of Light to win their first Women's Nations League match.", "He says the week since the claims were reported has been \"extraordinary and distressing\".", "Organisers say the number who took part showed \"the tremendous increase in support\" for their cause.", "Volunteer Joanne Patterson says clubs have to find new ways of recruiting people to help raise funds.", "Italy is removing children from registers and stopping surrogacy abroad in new rules affecting same-sex couples.", "Police said the victim, in his 40s, was rushed to hospital after being bitten in Pasley Park.", "Party leader Ed Davey says reforming social care is one of the biggest challenges facing the country.", "Rishi Sunak weighs up a new \"British baccalaureate\" qualification but no decisions have been taken.", "Marine parachuted into a backyard and told emergency services he was OK but not sure where his jet was.", "Boy and 11-year-old sister found 200 miles from where they were reported missing by mother.", "An octopus with ear-like fins resembling the Disney character is seen at a depth of more than 1,000m.", "Some police relinquish right to hold firearms after colleague is charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "This week's attacks against Russian targets are part of increased efforts to cut supply lines.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "The pontiff says people risking their lives at sea \"do not invade\" during a visit to Marseille.", "A family link is traced to Kent for a victim of a World War Two tragedy who was buried in Ayrshire.", "Hundreds of protesters gather in Cardiff to oppose the change to Wales' default speed limit.", "Video verified by the BBC shows a Ukrainian missile hitting Russia's Black Sea fleet HQ in Crimea.", "More than 20 Spanish girls in the small town of Almendralejo have so far come forward as victims.", "A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.", "Chronic UTI sufferers say they have been dismissed by doctors and have spent thousands on treatment.", "Videos circulating on social media show plumes of smoke billowing out of the building in Sevastopol, Crimea.", "It is not clear if Stormont will receive extra UK government money to fix Raac-effected buildings.", "The monarch's final day of the state visit to France sees a warmer and more relaxed reception.", "Two police officers were exposed to the substance in a Belfast building on Friday night.", "Bruno Fernandes' stunning volley gives Manchester United a much-needed victory as they edge past Burnley in the Premier League.", "With an election looming, politicians are grappling with how to support Ukraine and prioritise national interests.", "Lancashire Constabulary say Alison Dodds suffered multiple injuries before she was found on Thursday.", "Azerbaijan shows off captured tanks but aid is slow to arrive for thousands sleeping on the streets.", "Kyiv has long been pushing for ATACMS missiles capable of hitting far behind the front line.", "Elephants bathe at the beach while onlookers look on in amazement in this much-loved 1911 image.", "Ireland wrestle control of Pool B with a statement win over holders South Africa in a low scoring but riveting World Cup slugfest in Paris.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, went missing on Tuesday with her baby boy and three-year-old daughter.", "Further evidence emerges that a serious infection can leave some major organs with long-term damage.", "Thousands of ethnic Armenians fear for their safety despite Azerbaijan's promises.", "Claims against the star have led to discussions about the power dynamic between adults and teens in relationships.", "The group set up to drive home insulation and boiler upgrades is a casualty of the PM's green rethink.", "Decarbonising will cost money but some argue in the long run it will boost the economy.", "Police and firefighters were called to the crash which happened in Edinburgh on Friday afternoon.", "The 30-year-old is accused of assault and drink-driving after an incident at a hotel near Ballymena.", "It is the latest colourful incident involving Andrey Medvedev, who has been in Norway since January.", "Urgent action is needed to help households cope with higher bills, MPs say.", "The former PM airs concerns as firms seek clarity over the government's commitment to the rail link.", "Ulster University replaces ads after complaints it did not make the top 600 of the Times list.", "France captain Antoine Dupont has surgery on fractured cheekbone and is set for a \"gradual sporting recovery\", the French Rugby Federation says.", "Sadiq Khan spoke after unveiling a new London Policing Board to oversee and scrutinise the Met.", "Kyiv says senior officials in Russia's Black Sea fleet were present, but did not offer evidence.", "Top Democrats turn on Robert Menendez amid allegations of gold bars and jackets stuffed with cash.", "The warning comes after a BBC investigation into disruption driven by the social media platform's algorithms.", "The polling guru says the party is struggling to attract voters who would like to rejoin the EU.", "Interpol's request to start a search was not made until 15 August - five days after Sara was found dead.", "The ban comes after a vote in the French capital - but is it democracy in action?", "The buildings could contain a material which NHS Scotland warns is vulnerable to \"catastrophic failure\".", "The former ITV journalist Amber de Botton said it was \"the right time to move on\".", "Emily Morris says it's \"hard to see\" Letby's \"weird\" behaviour around her son caught on camera.", "Russia calls a decision by the UK defence giant to establish a business in Ukraine \"negative\".", "Jason Tyrone Spence appears before a sitting of Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood joins Spanish top-flight side Getafe on a season-long loan.", "Parents question why the announcement that school buildings will have to close was made days before the new term.", "The White House hopeful says \"you have to know when to leave\" when asked about a Senate leader's lapses.", "Mahek Bukhari and her mother were behind a crash in which the two victims were rammed off the road.", "Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself \"to prove the truth\".", "Revised official figures reveal that the UK grew at the end of 2021 rather than shrinking.", "The DJ scales back his afternoon shows from five days a week to one, saying he's \"a bit knackered\".", "Some viewers were critical of themed shows based around Mexico, Japan and Germany in recent years.", "Gary Lightbody says the band will continue as a trio after Jonny Quinn and Paul Wilson depart.", "The 19-year-old wants to seek an experimental treatment abroad, but doctors say she needs end-of-life care.", "The Algerian coastguard reportedly shot at four French-Moroccan tourists who strayed into Algerian waters.", "Martha McClelland's previous guide dog retired and she says she has lost her independence as a result.", "The former president's weeks-long trial over election fraud could be one of the most watched in years.", "The video appears to have been filmed shortly before the Wagner chief died in a plane crash.", "Rali Ceredigion says it will fully offset the carbon emissions of all competing vehicles.", "The charts are full of remixed 90s bops but are we at a turning point for more original hits?", "Ukrainians defy Russian air strikes and occupation to start the new school term.", "Aston Villa reach the Europa Conference League group stage with a comfortable win over Hibernian.", "Ethan Nordean was sentenced to 18 years in prison while Dominic Pezzola was given 10 years behind bars.", "More than 60 officials are held in separate jails, as car bombs target the country's prisons authority.", "Following Johannesburg's deadly fire, families have been trying to identify loved ones.", "The father of one of Mahek and Ansreen Bukhari's victims tells a court \"my heart has been ripped out\".", "Inspectors find the high-security HMP Woodhill is \"fundamentally unsafe\" amid staff shortages.", "Javad Rouhi's death sentence was overturned, but he died in jail while his case was being reviewed.", "The social media firm, formerly Twitter, will gather facial information if premium users give consent.", "The Public Health Agency says it brought the vaccination programme forward as a precautionary measure.", "The former US president also waived the right to appear at a court hearing next week.", "Actor Adam Driver had permission to speak at the Venice Film Festival as the Hollywood strike goes on.", "Details claiming to be those of three serving officers were publicly displayed in County Londonderry.", "The highest level of storm alert is in effect in Hong Kong, with people being warned to stay indoors.", "Nationwide says higher borrowing costs have led to a slowdown in activity in the housing market.", "The US praise comes as Kyiv admits the fighting against strong Russian defensive lines is tough.", "Controversial businessman who spent the last part of his life alleging a cover-up over the deaths of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi.", "The pop-punk trio were due to perform in Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin over the next five days.", "Joe Biggs' sentence is one of the longest so far handed out to participants in the 6 January riot.", "The Nobel Foundation says it advocates dialogue but a critic suggests it is being \"incredibly naive\".", "The high-profile Egyptian businessman lost his son Dodi in the car crash that killed Princess Diana.", "A man is accused of complicity in the murder of thousands of Sachsenhausen concentration camp inmates.", "Russia's military bloggers are reaping the rewards of a growing advertising market on Telegram.", "The Utah vlogger's malnourished son escaped to her neighbour's home to seek help, police say.", "Concrete safety fears have thrown the new term into turmoil at more than 100 schools in England.", "The party is looking to kickstart the formal process for the vote when Parliament returns on Monday.", "The Canadian billionaire wants to keep up to 300 shops open if he succeeds in buying the chain.", "More than 100 English schools have to make new arrangements days before term begins.", "Social media influencer Mahek Bukhari and mum Ansreen are jailed for at least 31 and 26 years.", "Ta'Kiya Young, 21, appears to advance the car towards an Ohio officer before a single shot is fired.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 25 August - 1 September.", "Autumn walkouts in England will involve both groups, but emergency cover will be provided.", "Moving to big school is nerve-wracking, but 11-year-old Beatrice says visiting beforehand helps.", "Tami Manis, who sports a mullet that is 5ft 8in, says her hair was inspired by a 1980s music video.", "The total number of crime reports relating to Ulez cameras is now over 500, the Met Police says.", "They have little skateboarding experience, but took on the charity journey after two friends died.", "A total of 35 council-run schools have been found to contain RAAC, the Scottish government confirms.", "Seventy four people died in the blaze, including 12 children - one of whom was an 18-month-old child.", "Ukraine's military intelligence chief says two planes were damaged and two destroyed in Tuesday's attack.", "A number of transport planes are said to have been damaged or destroyed in the attack.", "Wallace Hunter was trapped while guests and emergency services spent 90 minutes trying to break open the door.", "A bear named Amarena is killed in central Italy and a man has claimed he opened fire out of fear.", "Tami Manis' hair is 172.72cm (5ft 8in) long. She says she has to braid it to keep it safe.", "Teachers describe health risks as a report finds 700,000 pupils are in unsafe or ageing buildings.", "A 22-foot replica has been built a stone's throw from where the tragic liner left Belfast in 1912.", "France make the perfect start on their quest for a first Rugby World Cup title as they beat three-time champions New Zealand to delight the Stade de France in Paris.", "The Rocky actor threw some air punches with the pontiff during a meeting at the Vatican.", "The top of the 850-year-old Kutubiyya mosque looks precarious after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Marrakesh", "The latest rail regulator figures show the UK's newest rail line had more cancellations than any other.", "There has been nothing bigger than a magnitude 6.0 in the affected area for more than 100 years.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conveys his concerns to China about interference, No 10 says.", "Several relatives of the dead girl's father have been detained for questioning, police in Jhelum said.", "The death toll from a huge quake nearly doubles as Morocco's king orders three days of national mourning.", "As missing prisoner Daniel Khalife is recaptured, these maps show the location of the four-day police manhunt.", "Chris Lewis fell 500ft (150m) while trying to reach two campers who broke lockdown rules.", "Saturday was the hottest day of the year so far, but there are warnings of thundery downpours.", "Carlos Alcaraz's reign as US Open champion is ended by Daniil Medvedev as the Russian sets up another New York final against Novak Djokovic.", "The prison escapee is arrested in north-west London, after leaving Wandsworth prison on Wednesday.", "But prosecutors decided not to indict Lindsey Graham and others on election charges alongside Donald Trump.", "Prince Harry visits St George's Chapel in Windsor as royals mark anniversary of the Queen's death.", "Scottish campaigner for Sikh rights Jagtar Singh Johal has been held by the Indian authorities since 2017.", "People were forced to flee their homes in the city of Marrakesh after a 6.8 magnitude quake hit the country.", "Welsh fans have descended on the French region ahead of the teams' Rugby World Cup opener on Sunday.", "People in Morocco tell of the panic and confusion felt after a powerful earthquake hit late at night.", "Raymond Ndong Sima, newly installed after a military coup, says it will take time to transition.", "Leaders meeting in Delhi issue an ambiguous statement on the conflict, drawing criticism from Kyiv.", "See who made the Official Charts' top 10 list of summer bangers. Did your favourite make the cut?", "Russia congratulates Kim Jong Un amid rumours of a possible meeting between him and Vladimir Putin.", "Large areas of the old city in Marrakesh are devastated by Friday evening's powerful quake.", "George Ford kicks 27 points to steer England to a magnificent World Cup win over Argentina after Tom Curry's first-half red card.", "Leaders agree on a joint declaration, but the language about Ukraine is softer on Russia than last year.", "BBC News speaks to people who knew terror suspect Daniel Khalife as he grew up in London.", "The man who was struck by a car has been left with \"potentially life-changing\" leg injuries.", "Comedian Mike Yarwood, whose TV impressions made him a household name, dies aged 82.", "South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pays tribute to him as a \"formidable leader\".", "Jordan Chadwick, 31, from Burnley, was found with his hands bound behind his back.", "Our economics editor on why the rollercoaster ride may continue for the next few weeks at least.", "Police say it could be \"very significant\" and offer a reward up to £20,000 for information leading to Daniel Khalife's arrest.", "Misplaced for decades, the garment was rediscovered in an attic earlier this year.", "One woman thought there had been an explosion in her hotel when it started to \"violently shake\".", "England's winning run in their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign comes to a halt as they are held to a draw by Ukraine in Wroclaw.", "Former England captain Andrew Flintoff is pictured for the first time since he was injured in an accident while filming Top Gear last year.", "The flag-waving, sing-alongs, and stars of classical music returned to the Royal Albert Hall.", "A 19-year-old from Banbury was handcuffed after being mistaken for terror suspect Daniel Khalife.", "Cliff collapses reveal a plentiful supply of fossils but also make the coast a hazardous place.", "A 6.8 magnitude quake south-west of Marrakesh caused \"violent\" tremors in several regions.", "Heathrow has means to keep it safe, while Gatwick has found no cause for concern.", "The former soldier is recaptured on a canal towpath while riding a bicycle near Northolt, police say.", "The Prince of Wales joins the global stage in New York as the Earthshot Prize finalists are revealed.", "The world's most elderly country has long struggled with how to provide for its ageing population.", "Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are being sued as his bankrupt crypto firm FTX seeks to recover money.", "The BBC has also removed some shows featuring the comedian and actor from its streaming services.", "Sir Mark Rowley is clear about the reforms the Met Police needs, a year on from taking its top job.", "The four men and one woman return to the US after $6bn of frozen Iranian funds were released.", "The rift between two strategic partners erupted over a Sikh separatist leader's murder in Canada.", "Prices will rise faster in the UK than any other G7 country this year, a forecast suggests.", "The law in England and Wales is changing so chief constables can remove rogue officers.", "Google DeepMind has used its technology to identify parts of human DNA that might cause diseases.", "New analysis finds most children had a significant change in their mental health while on the drugs.", "Birmingham City Council's John Cotton insists he had \"no prior notice\" of the authority's desperate situation.", "Families of two young people who died after taking suspected \"extra-strength\" pills issue drugs warning.", "As plans are made to cut spending - could Birmingham City Council sell off land and buildings?", "The City watchdog's findings follow a row over threats to close Nigel Farage's bank account.", "The BBC's analysis editor looks at why India and Canada have entered a diplomatic spat over the murder of a Sikh activist.", "Councillor Gareth Parry's brother Keith was killed when a car hit him at 30mph in 1994.", "Bankrupt Birmingham City Council should not have hosted the Commonwealth Games, it is claimed.", "Naomi Ferrans died at the scene after her bike was hit by a tractor that was towing a trailer.", "Remaining dates of the star's live tour are postponed following the allegations.", "After the accident he had to wrap his body in a T-shirt, and drive himself to hospital.", "Sara's father, stepmother and uncle are due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in September 2024.", "The BBC launches an internal review of any complaints, and removes some shows from streaming services.", "Spain players who had said they are boycotting the national team turn up for international duty.", "The Policing Board has given evidence to the NI Affairs Committee, after Simon Byrne's resignation.", "Virginia McCullough appears at crown court charged with the murders of her parents in Chelmsford.", "Brand - who denies allegations of sexual abuse - worked at BBC radio from 2006 to 2008.", "Frank Ospina was awaiting deportation - his family say he was willing to leave.", "The US president's son is ordered to appear in person on 3 October to face three felony gun charges.", "The government has promised to reduce the use of hotels to house migrants while their claims are processed.", "The deal with Litmus Music covers hits like Firework, I Kissed A Girl, Dark Horse and Roar.", "The price of a barrel of oil rose above $95 on Tuesday, stoking fears it could impact inflation.", "Falls are a major health issue that for a long time have not been addressed, claims taskforce.", "The crackdown follows a string of scandals, but a senior officer warns it'll take years to root out corruption.", "Video footage shows an officer wading through waist-deep water and using a baton to smash a window.", "An audit opinion says due process was not followed when the government approved the bill for the former PM's lawyers.", "Jens Haaning was given €71,000 by a Danish museum to create art, but sent it blank frames.", "Spain players have reiterated that they are boycotting the national team despite being called up to the women's national team.", "Six-year-old Glen and his owner George have reached the summit of each of Scotland's 282 Munros.", "The law aims to force firms to remove illegal content and protect children from some legal but harmful material.", "Plans could include delaying a ban on sales of new petrol cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.", "PM Trudeau described \"credible allegations potentially linking\" Delhi with Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing.", "Parents say their children would not have had a peaceful death with a holiday park next door.", "The PM says he listens to his daughters' concerns about climate change but they are not \"eco-zealots\".", "Customers must now pay £1.99 when they return items either in store or online, although members are exempt.", "The Ukrainian president seeks support to repel Russia at a gathering of nearly 200 world leaders in New York.", "The world must unite to end Russia's aggression, Ukraine's president tells the UN General Assembly.", "The Labour leader is hoping to project the image he is a PM in waiting, as he reopens party discussions on Brexit.", "The MP has been suspended from the party pending an inquiry into comments she made about racism.", "The schoolgirl died in hospital after becoming unwell at a property in Inverkeithing, Fife.", "The F-35B fighter jet went missing on Sunday after a \"mishap\", leading officials to ask for public help.", "Virginia McCullough is accused of killing her parents at some point since August 2018.", "The folk singer, famous for his whistling, singing and guitar playing, dies in France.", "The Conservative MP says health problems have sometimes made it \"impossible\" to do her job.", "The inquiry into Brook House removal centre is examining the mistreatment of detainees.", "Brand was at the centre of a messy celebrity scene that now feels like the Cool Britannia party gone sour.", "The Scottish and UK governments are in court over Holyrood plans to make it easier for people to change legal gender.", "Brook House was the subject of an undercover investigation for the BBC's Panorama programme in 2017.", "Yury Garavsky is charged with the forced disappearance of three Belarusian opposition figures.", "Climate editor Justin Rowlatt on the challenge of how to warm the UK's homes - but not the planet.", "There's been widespread scepticism about the 'bodies' presented to Mexican authorities by a UFO enthusiast.", "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has suggested Indian state involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist leader.", "Callum Hudson-Odoi scores a glorious equaliser on his Nottingham Forest debut to salvage a Premier League draw against Burnley.", "The report into Brook House, sparked by BBC Panorama, calls for strict time limits on detention.", "Michael Gove accuses the city council of \"woeful mismanagement\" amid its financial crisis.", "The organisation wants the A303 scheme to be amended before a World Heritage Committee meeting.", "The department's response will now be dealt with as part of the Home Office's normal activities.", "Baby seals caught up in fishing nets are rescued on a South African beach.", "The home secretary orders an investigation into allegations uncovered by BBC Panorama.", "A court battle between the Scottish and UK governments over controversial legislation has begun.", "Baku says the operation against its ethnic-Armenian enclave will stop only if it sees a white flag.", "More than 1,600 wildlife species, including numerous birds, have been recorded at Wild Woodbury.", "The sum is for postmasters whose wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting have now been overturned.", "Pro-wrestlers delighted paying fans on a super-fast train from Tokyo to Nagoya when they brawled in the aisles.", "A woman known as Alice says Russell Brand's denial of sexual assault is laughable but unsurprising.", "The billionaire suggested the social media platform, now called X, could charge for use of \"the system\".", "European champions Manchester City come from behind to beat Red Star Belgrade in the opening game of their Champions League defence.", "The singer will perform 20 hours of community service and pay $1,400 in fines for the \"egregious\" act.", "The issue came to light after the council commissioned an external analysis of its finances.", "India is the fifth largest economy and is seen by the West as a key partner against China.", "BBC understands lawyers acting for more than 20 players have been told the club intends to seek a settlement.", "It comes as one parent whose son is studying remotely due to Raac says it's \"like Covid all over again\".", "Hospital worker Fred Leparan attempted to sell a baby boy to an undercover BBC reporter.", "The band revealed their first album of new material in almost two decades in a YouTube livestream.", "The show about a jade teapot that busts out of the museum fuels calls for treasures to be returned.", "A Westminster committee hears from an assistant chief constable, a day after Simon Byrne resigns.", "Shares see biggest ever one-day fall after a report that the team will be taken off the market.", "The firm apologises after a keypad error meant some meters were capped at a £10 credit limit.", "The drug is being sold to people to lose weight, leaving type 2 diabetes patients without medication.", "Torrential rain triggered flash flooding in parts of the country.", "Thousands of personal items belonging to the late Queen frontman are sold at a Sotheby's auction.", "There are concerns false information on birth control is contributing to a rise in unwanted pregnancies.", "The UK experiences its hottest September day since 2016 as London's Kew Gardens sees 32C (89F).", "David Harewood visits a stately home built using the profits of plantations where his ancestors were enslaved.", "Bankrupt Birmingham City Council should not have hosted the Commonwealth Games, it is claimed.", "Jorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales kiss row.", "The striker admitted endangering St Johnstone fans during a cup match while playing for Dundee.", "A car driver has been killed and a coach driver seriously injured following the crash on a bridge.", "Police in Surrey want to speak to three family members in relation to their murder investigation.", "Questions are being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.", "England's Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Harry Kane and seven Manchester City players are on the shortlist for the 2023 Ballon d'Or.", "Schools are battling to get surveys and temporary classrooms could take months to build, the BBC is told.", "Tens of thousands of UK buildings should be safety checked because of RAAC concrete, experts warn.", "King Charles will be on a charm offensive on this month's rearranged state visit to France.", "It ate thousands of seedlings that had been earmarked to help boost Australian koala habitat.", "Temperatures above 31C have already been recorded - the 2023 record is 32.2C.", "Manchester United say they are taking allegations made against winger Antony \"seriously\" after he was accused of abusing his former girlfriend.", "Jackie Stuart was held for five days at Peterhead Prison until the SAS stormed the building in 1987.", "An announcement is likely soon on the UK becoming a fully-fledged member of the multi-billion euro programme.", "The government was under pressure to reveal all the schools in England that have risky RAAC concrete.", "Administrators say more than 1,300 staff will be made redundant as hopes of a wider rescue deal fade.", "Lewi Sullivan was described as a \"fun, loving, caring son\" by his dad Nigel.", "Reza Baluchi tried to \"run\" from Florida to London in a homemade vessel during hurricane season.", "Staff being made redundant were told of the news this morning, with shops closing next week.", "Wednesday was the third consecutive day where temperatures in Northern Ireland reached 25C or higher.", "Seventeen schools which have had crumbly concrete confirmed had building work cancelled in 2010.", "Air Canada apologises to passengers kicked off a fight for refusing seats with \"visible vomit residue\".", "The grandfather of Sara Sharif tells the BBC he spoke to his son when he arrived in Pakistan.", "The government states that the tech tools for accessing private messages don't yet exist.", "Urfan Sharif and his partner describe Sara's death as an \"incident\" and claim they will co-operate with UK authorities.", "The driver of a car died in a crash with a 52-seater coach carrying tourists from Cumbria.", "The lack of sightings since his escape on Wednesday is \"perhaps a testament to Daniel Khalife's ingenuity\", a Met commander says.", "Industrial action that could have shut schools across much of Scotland has been halted by the GMB union.", "Police say closing nurseries and a school near Church Road caused huge disruption for pupils.", "Doris Stanbridge says she saw two money spiders at home and decided to buy a lucky dip ticket.", "Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, a new report says.", "Cases in under-50s jump 79% since 1990 but population rise and better reporting are likely factors.", "A judge has ruled that Donald Trump is liable for defaming the writer who accused him of rape.", "A mural dedicated to the Big Yin will be covered up if plans for student housing go ahead.", "The attack on civilians in eastern Ukraine is the worst of its kind for several months.", "The government says it hopes new work capability assessments reforms will come into force by 2025.", "The research helps understanding of the earliest moments of life and the reasons behind infertility.", "Temperatures could be as high as 32C on Wednesday, with England health alerts in force until Sunday.", "The excellently preserved weapons are believed to have been hidden by Judean rebels 1,900 years ago.", "A group of MPs say the PM must call on Narendra Modi to \"immediately release\" campaigner Jagtar Singh Johal.", "President Zelensky condemns the \"deliberate\" strike on Ukraine's \"peaceful city\" of Kostyantynivka.", "The marriage is \"irretrievably broken\", according to divorce papers obtained by the Associated Press.", "Ant and Dec also win best presenter for the 22nd year running but there was no prize for This Morning.", "Margaret Betts was headhunted for her role when she was only 19 years old.", "The synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help explain infertility and pregnancy loss.", "Former Spain head coach Jorge Vilda says being sacked weeks after winning the Women's World Cup is \"unfair\".", "Taking back their remorse could land defendants with stiffer sentences.", "An emotional Enrique Tarrio, 39, tells the court he is \"ashamed\" of his role in the US Capitol riot.", "An instructor says he takes some students on an eight-hour trip to take their practical test.", "The singer-songwriter's former bandmate Pete Wishart described him as an exceptional musician.", "The crash in 2018 outside Leicester City's stadium killed five people, including the club's chairman.", "Ros Atkins takes a look at the government's response to unsafe concrete over their 13 years in power.", "The UK's air traffic control system shut itself down after software confusion over an unusual flight path.", "It will become illegal to be a member of or support the Russian mercenary group.", "Sara's father, stepmother and father's brother flew to Pakistan the day before she was found dead at her home in Woking.", "An issue at the UK's National Air Traffic Services has been \"remedied\", but airlines warn of continuing disruption.", "Rishi Sunak says he acted \"decisively\" on unsafe RAAC concrete, as he faces Labour's leader at PMQs.", "Jenni Hermoso has filed a legal complaint over the kiss by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales after the Women's World Cup final.", "Daniel Abed Khalife is accused of planting fake bombs at MOD Stafford in January.", "Ann Marie Davies says it is \"unclear\" why she was stopped at the airport after returning home.", "New Brexit trade rules could push up the price of electric cars, manufacturers warn.", "Newcastle match their record Premier League win with a scintillating display as they embarrass winless Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.", "France's president says the ambassador will leave and all military co-operation will end in the coming months.", "A witness raised the alarm after seeing the large animal clutching human remains in a canal.", "One officer and three attackers are dead after the gunmen stormed a village near the Serbian border.", "Supporters of Wales and Australia prepare for Rugby World Cup showdown in the French city of Lyon.", "More than 100 officers thought to be returning permits after a colleague was charged with murder.", "Police find baby boy and three-year-old girl at address in Essex after five-day search.", "An octopus with ear-like fins resembling the Disney character is seen at a depth of more than 1,000m.", "Some police relinquish right to hold firearms after colleague is charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.", "Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday guest Yanis Varoufakis attacked the PM's 'incompetence and cynicism'.", "Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa shatters the women's marathon world record as she wins in Berlin, while Eliud Kipchoge is the men's winner with record fifth victory.", "This week's attacks against Russian targets are part of increased efforts to cut supply lines.", "She says after a \"shambolic\" experience a flight has been arranged to bring her son back to Wales.", "Leader Ed Davey says he wants to focus on building social housing, rather than pledging 380,000 new homes a year.", "One year on Liz Truss's and Kwasi Kwarteng's economic policies cast a big shadow still.", "Video verified by the BBC shows a Ukrainian missile hitting Russia's Black Sea fleet HQ in Crimea.", "A capsule carrying debris from asteroid Bennu lands safely in the Utah desert.", "More than 20 Spanish girls in the small town of Almendralejo have so far come forward as victims.", "Friend also injured by same animal during the Pobla de Farnals festival in the Valencia region.", "The home secretary's move follows the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in London.", "Wales become the first team to reach the 2023 World Cup quarter-finals as they celebrate a record win over Australia in Lyon.", "Ukraine’s leader has always been comfortable campaigning for help - now he’s having to negotiate.", "Scientists believe material gathered from the space rock called Bennu could explain how life on Earth began.", "Lancashire Constabulary say Alison Dodds suffered multiple injuries before she was found on Thursday.", "MHD, a pioneer of \"Afro trap\" music, was tried for the gang murder of a young man in Paris in 2018.", "Azerbaijan shows off captured tanks but aid is slow to arrive for thousands sleeping on the streets.", "The defence secretary tells Victoria Derbyshire that external factors, such as inflation and the war in Ukraine, affect domestic plans.", "The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began trapping the animals in 2019 and has so far removed more than 5,000.", "Kyiv has long been pushing for ATACMS missiles capable of hitting far behind the front line.", "An infrastructure watchdog gives the project a \"red\" warning, raising issues over budgets and schedules.", "Ireland wrestle control of Pool B with a statement win over holders South Africa in a low scoring but riveting World Cup slugfest in Paris.", "The prime minister and chancellor are said to have concerns over spiralling costs and delays.", "The Philippines says the barrier prevents fishermen from entering a shoal in the South China Sea.", "Thousands of ethnic Armenians fear for their safety despite Azerbaijan's promises.", "Spain's Carlota Ciganda sensationally holes the putt that sees Europe retain the Solheim Cup as they tie 14-14 with the United States in her homeland.", "Red Bull's Max Verstappen dominates the Japanese Grand Prix to take his 13th victory of the year and help his team clinch the constructors' title.", "The group set up to drive home insulation and boiler upgrades is a casualty of the PM's green rethink.", "The 30-year-old is accused of assault and drink-driving after an incident at a hotel near Ballymena.", "The strikes are part of a long-running dispute by union members over pay and conditions.", "US gymnastics legend Simone Biles says \"there is no room for racism in sport\" after footage of a black Irish girl not receiving a medal went viral.", "An artist wants to capture the whole of St Davids - and he is not stopping there.", "As tensions with India rise, Canada is calling its friends - but they're not answering.", "Timelapse video captured the weather phenomenon moving across the sky in Caxias do Sul.", "Francis Johnson, 74 from Dorset went missing from a campsite on the Isle of Skye two weeks ago,", "Kyiv says senior officials in Russia's Black Sea fleet were present, but did not offer evidence.", "Grant Shapps cites Ukraine war costs and a spike in inflation as reasons to weigh up the rail project.", "Claims against the star have led to discussions about the power dynamic between adults and teens in relationships.", "The polling guru says the party is struggling to attract voters who would like to rejoin the EU.", "Aerial pictures show the aftermath of a fire, caused by an e-scooter, that gutted a family home.", "The charity event saw 850 people riding by zip line from the Leadenhall Building to the Gherkin.", "Singer Steven Tyler says he is \"heartbroken\" to push back six shows after \"doctor's orders\".", "The US allows banks to move $6bn from South Korea, paving the way for the release of five Americans.", "Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep is banned for four years following breaches of tennis doping rules.", "Mark Dickey is brought out after getting trapped in the Morca Cave for more than a week when he fell ill.", "In a landmark trial brought by the US government, the tech giant denies using illegal practices to gain a monopoly.", "Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy says his party has found \"credible\" information of corruption.", "Next year's ceremony on 10 March will be shown in the UK on ITV1 and streaming service ITVX.", "The oil giant said Bernard Looney had not been \"fully transparent\" in disclosures about past relationships with colleagues.", "At least 2,300 people are dead and 10,000 are missing after a catastrophic dam burst during a storm.", "The head of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic was detained at a pre-arranged Coronation protest.", "A woman in her 40s is in custody for questioning after the toddler went missing from her home.", "The storm causes severe flooding in eastern Libya after killing a dozen people in Europe last week.", "The streaming giant quashes a theory that listening to a song on repeat will rake in the royalties.", "Watch the moment a bullock is hoisted to safety by its legs after getting trapped in a sinkhole.", "Hostages who were used as \"human shields\" say they should never have been allowed to land in Kuwait.", "The collapse-prone concrete is found in one area but poses \"no immediate risk\", a spokesman says.", "Nasa's James Webb Telescope may have discovered a molecule thought only to be produced by life.", "Surrey Police have distributed posters and a video message in Urdu to reach Pakistani nationals.", "Around 75 crocodiles escaped from a breeding farm after Typhoon Haikui caused flooding in Guangdong.", "She says she repeatedly asked bosses to examine patient safety concerns at Manchester's The Christie.", "The charge - which will apply to all visitors aged over 14 - is designed to tackle soaring tourism.", "Urfan Sharif and his partner describe Sara's death as an \"incident\" and claim they will co-operate with UK authorities.", "Desperate residents of a remote Moroccan village plead for outside help after the devastation of the quake.", "Some 24 of the chain's shops will shut after it failed to find a buyer, with hundreds more to close.", "Rescuers have been using their bare hands to dig for survivors as the death toll nears 2,700.", "Updates from across the African continent.", "How a convicted murderer from Brazil escaped prison and eluded police for almost two weeks.", "Under the law change possessing the drug would carry a sentence of up to two years in prison or a large fine.", "An infestation in the 83-year-old's house has driven him to his car overnight to get some sleep.", "The government is not saying which figure will be used to calculate a rise under the triple lock.", "Customers also report problems with payments and check-in as IT systems go down at MGM Resorts' hotels.", "Karen Andrews says the physical harassment and crude comments occurred inside parliament.", "No one has any hope of finding Fatima alive, but they say it is important her body is recovered.", "Labour's deputy leader echoes Rishi Sunak in refusing to commit to the policy at the next election.", "In a landmark trial, the US government says the tech giant uses illegal tactics to stifle competition from start-ups.", "A Pakistan court rules on the temporary custody of the children who travelled from the UK with Sara Sharif's father.", "The two leaders are expected to discuss an arms deal as Russia faces a counter-offensive in Ukraine.", "England show their class as they defeat Scotland in the rivalry's 150-year heritage match at Hampden.", "Former Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales is scheduled to appear in a Madrid court on Friday over his kiss of Spain's Jenni Hermoso.", "The North Korean ruler is on an armoured train heading to meet Vladimir Putin, who's in Russia's far east.", "Arthur Brand met an unnamed man under a tree during a mysterious, years-long quest to find the work.", "Geoff Marshall, 41, faces multiple charges including dangerous driving and criminal damage.", "For the first time ever, all 15 judges convene to consider blocking a controversial new law.", "Deputy PM Oliver Dowden says the government is considering whether to increase checks on people working for China.", "It will be the second significant rise in the state pension in two years, but could pull more into paying tax.", "Wages are no longer being squeezed by inflation, but there are signs the jobs market is beginning to turn.", "Shannon Doherty spoke out after her baby son, Rían, became critically ill with the infection.", "The four strategically important oil and gas platforms were seized by Russia in 2015.", "A coroner says Melissa Kerr should have been made aware of the dangers of the operation in Turkey.", "Dame Sharon White tells the BBC that shop workers are having to put up with abuse and attacks.", "The party is preparing to vote against the government plan aimed at boosting housebuilding.", "Scotland are taking on England at Hampden in a friendly to mark the 150th anniversary of their first match.", "Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy says the inquiry will investigate allegations of abuse of power.", "Seán Quinn says suggestions he had a role in executive's abduction are \"character assassination\".", "Merope Mills, whose daughter's death was preventable, says she will meet Stephen Barclay this week.", "It is being investigated for allowing excessive sewage into England's rivers and seas.", "Eyewitness footage shows a torrent of water flowing through Derna, causing massive destruction.", "Fewer than five patients have been prescribed whole-cannabis medicine, despite it becoming legal in 2018.", "Hundreds gathered at the Peckham store after a video shared online showed a woman being restrained.", "Taking time off or working part-time means less money can be saved in pensions for retirement.", "Alfie Meadows was left with a brain injury after being struck in 2010 during a tuition fees protest.", "Ovidio Guzmán-López is suspected of being one of the leaders of the notorious Sinaloa cartel.", "In the Libyan city of Derna, Anna Foster describes the flood devastation and lack of international aid.", "The body was placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa, reports say.", "Nathaniel Shani, 14, died in hospital on Friday night after being stabbed in Manchester.", "The ex-Daily Show host's ordeal played out live on air as he ran late for an interview in Johannesburg.", "Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been granted a state funeral but the debate over his legacy reopens wounds.", "An official tells the BBC people in Derna were told to flee but some did not take the threat seriously.", "Donald Trump ally Ken Paxton is acquitted in an impeachment process that divided Republicans.", "This week's attacks against Russian targets are part of increased efforts to cut supply lines.", "With lives in Libya washed away, anger mounts as people ask why they were told to stay at home.", "Ian Price, 52, died in hospital after being attacked by two dogs on Thursday afternoon.", "Daniel Burke, from Manchester, had been fighting for Ukraine in the war against Russia since 2022.", "When Keir Starmer unveils a policy it is roundly attacked - is this the price of getting a hearing?", "Police arrest two men after a dog bites five people at Palins Holiday Park in Kinmel Bay.", "Large parts of the city of Derna were destroyed after two dams burst, with thousands killed.", "An emotional Andy Murray dedicates a hard-earned Davis Cup win to his grandmother Ellen after revealing he missed her funeral to play.", "The retailer is expanding a trial in a move which it says should cut plastics use.", "Jaswant Singh Chail has admitted charges relating to the Christmas 2021 break-in at Windsor Castle.", "The order, if approved, would set limits on what Mr Trump can say about his election meddling case.", "A teacher tells the BBC all 32 of her pupils died after tremors struck a mountain village.", "Sports presenter Gabby Logan and husband Kenny receive a \"six-figure\" sum over a Mail Online story.", "The dogs will be outlawed after a spate of attacks, but some say irresponsible owners, not animals, are to blame.", "The Wolverine star says he and Deborra-Lee Furness will now \"pursue our individual growth\".", "The detection of methane by satellite raises hopes future leaks can be stopped more quickly.", "The comedian and actor denies allegations about his behaviour over a period of seven years - and performs a scheduled gig.", "St Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv is among the buildings the UN warns is at risk of destruction.", "A flash mob of fans sing Calon Lan on the street in Nice ahead of Wales clash with Portugal.", "Residents and community leaders are worried about future steel jobs despite £1.2bn investment.", "His situation is seen in small shops across the country, says the Federation of Independent Retailers.", "Aid organisations fear many dead still remain in the debris of the devastated city and not enough clean water is available for survivors.", "Another 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.", "Residents of Derna tell the BBC how they got out alive as floodwaters smashed through the city.", "The nurse became the UK's most prolific child killer in modern times when she was convicted last month.", "Green Alliance says the high price of gas means fossil fuel companies should be capturing more of their methane emissions", "A much-changed Wales struggle to a bonus-point World Cup victory over impressive Portugal in Nice.", "The prime minister vows to ban the breed following the death of 52-year-old Ian Price.", "Plugging methane leaks from oil and gas fields could be an easy win in curbing climate change.", "The comedian, actor and activist has hosted programmes for Channel 4, Radio X, MTV and the BBC.", "After a worldwide search, Taisha found a perfect match who \"saved her life\" - just 20 minutes away.", "An intruder was seen climbing a wall towards the historic royal carriages at about 01:25 BST.", "The actor says his letter of support for rape convict Danny Masterson was an \"error in judgement\".", "Baby seals caught up in fishing nets are rescued on a South African beach.", "The MP has been suspended from the party pending an inquiry into comments she made about racism.", "Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults, which he denies.", "The Virgin DJ said he had undergone surgery last week and received \"excellent news\" on Tuesday.", "The Prince of Wales joins the global stage in New York as the Earthshot Prize finalists are revealed.", "The company hopes to help people with paralysis move a cursor, or type, using its brain implant.", "A BBC survey suggests more than a quarter of girls have experienced sexual harassment in some form.", "The unusual installation is part of a career retrospective of Serbian artist Marina Abramović.", "Manchester United are given a taste of what could have been as Harry Kane helps Bayern Munich to victory over Erik ten Hag's struggling side in their Champions League opener.", "The US president's son is ordered to appear in person on 3 October to face three felony gun charges.", "Former staff and users tell the BBC the app's algorithm has encouraged harmful real-life behaviour.", "MPs back a draft law that seeks harsh punishments against those who are \"inappropriately\" dressed.", "Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are being sued as his bankrupt crypto firm FTX seeks to recover money.", "Four months after it was torn apart by deadly ethnic violence, Manipur remains gripped by fear.", "There are some short-term levers the government could pull but they all involve tough political choices.", "The strategy was drawn up after judges ruled existing plans weren't sufficient to meet climate targets.", "Baku says the operation against its ethnic-Armenian enclave will stop only if it sees a white flag.", "Concern mounts about costs of walkouts in England, as doctors charge premium rates to provide cover.", "Ethnic Armenian separatists agree to disband and give up their weapons as part of a ceasefire.", "The royal state visit is intended to reinvigorate the relationship between France and Britain.", "Sunak's mooted changes to net zero targets are far from tinkering at the edges, our political editor writes.", "Prices will rise faster in the UK than any other G7 country this year, a forecast suggests.", "The government has launched a campaign criticising Meta for planned encryption of Facebook messages.", "Veterans of the UK's nuclear weapons tests were previously legally blocked from suing the government.", "The prime minister claims the changes will support \"hard-pressed families\" but opponents accuse him of \"selling out\".", "The 24-year-old was shot dead during a police operation in south London on 5 September 2022.", "With petrol prices up 5p in a month, economists had expected inflation to rise - but it fell to 6.7%.", "But the dilution of green policies has sparked anger among some Tories and opposition parties.", "The King says he was \"moved beyond measure\" by French tributes to the late Queen.", "Chris Kaba's parents say one year is long enough to await a prosecution decision.", "British Gymnastics is accused by a campaign group of a \"serious institutional betrayal\" by not including more people on a list of banned coaches and members.", "Plans could include delaying a ban on sales of new petrol cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.", "Millions in compensation will be paid out after the game tricked players into making unintended purchases.", "Climate editor Justin Rowlatt on the challenge of how to warm the UK's homes - but not the planet.", "The former SNP leadership candidate also suffered insomnia and anxiety after her daughter was born.", "More than 305 vessels were lost during the daring mission to save 338,226 Allied soldiers in 1940.", "The PM says he listens to his daughters' concerns about climate change but they are not \"eco-zealots\".", "Venables, who killed toddler James Bulger in 1993, was jailed for having child abuse images in 2017.", "The public will be asked for views on the introduction of water charges and other cash-raising options.", "The BBC's analysis editor looks at why India and Canada have entered a diplomatic spat over the murder of a Sikh activist.", "Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.", "Pictures of Richmond upon Thames are displayed in the baker's branch in Richmond, North Yorkshire.", "Shauna Lowry's experience left her feeling \"very strongly\" about UK-wide mandatory testing.", "Wedding photographer Michael Carver had waited years to capture newly weds with the Northern Lights.", "The monarch raises a toast to his hosts in Versaille, President Macron and his wife Brigitte.", "The Independent Office for Police Conduct has been investigating the shooting as a potential murder.", "The BBC launches an internal review of any complaints, and removes some shows from streaming services.", "Michael Gove accuses the city council of \"woeful mismanagement\" amid its financial crisis.", "She cites irreconcilable differences, two weeks after the convicted rapist blew a kiss to her in court.", "London's first mayor is being \"well cared for\" and lives a \"private life\" in retirement, his family says.", "The world must unite to end Russia's aggression, Ukraine's president tells the UN General Assembly.", "The prime minister says he remains committed to net zero, but wants to be \"pragmatic\".", "Most of the Spain team agree to end their boycott, says secretary of state for sports Victor Francos.", "A tornado rips through the city of Suqian in eastern China, sending debris flying through the air.", "Ihor Kolomoisky is accused of fraud and is the latest target of Ukraine's anti-corruption drive.", "Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's ex-lawyer, has waived his right to appear at an upcoming Georgia hearing.", "The Public Health Agency says it brought the vaccination programme forward as a precautionary measure.", "An icebreaker is sent from Tasmania to evacuate an Australian with a \"developing medical condition\".", "The buildings could contain a material which NHS Scotland warns is vulnerable to \"catastrophic failure\".", "Details claiming to be those of three serving officers were publicly displayed in County Londonderry.", "Anyone carrying out cosmetic injections must be trained to do so under strict new proposals.", "From Anthony Keidis to Dermot Kennedy, Greg and his team work with some of music's biggest names.", "The highest level of storm alert is in effect in Hong Kong, with people being warned to stay indoors.", "The King attended Braemar in honour of his late mother, wearing a kilt in the new King Charles III tartan.", "Gabon's main opposition says the military shows no sign they plan to hand power back to civilians.", "A survivor tells the story of a five-week ordeal on the North Atlantic passage to Europe.", "The men in their 20s had been arrested under the Terrorism Act in connection with the accidental leak.", "Marco Silva condemns match officials for allowing Man City's second goal in Fulham's 5-1 loss at Eithad Stadium as Erling Haaland admits he would also have been \"fuming\".", "The US praise comes as Kyiv admits the fighting against strong Russian defensive lines is tough.", "Controversial businessman who spent the last part of his life alleging a cover-up over the deaths of Princess Diana and his son, Dodi.", "Officials say the prison riots are a response by criminal gangs at attempts to curb their power.", "The money will be used to create a foundation for low-income black writers.", "Tracy Devonshire was saved after her dog growled at Trefor Jones, a court hears.", "The Margaritaville musician is also remembered as a successful author and entrepreneur.", "Stephen Kinnock MP welcomed funding talks but said any plan needed the support of workers.", "They have little skateboarding experience, but took on the charity journey after two friends died.", "Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood joins Spanish top-flight side Getafe on a season-long loan.", "Jack Draper reaches the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open but Dan Evans, Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter are out.", "First minister addressed a crowd outside the Scottish Parliament after a Believe in Scotland march.", "Parents and children speak of \"heartbreak\" at hearing their school buildings are closing.", "The chair of the public accounts committee says hospitals are working around the problem of RAAC rather than resolving it.", "Russian disinformation has increased on X since Elon Musk's takeover, according to a report.", "Festival-goers are told to conserve their food as access in and out of the Nevada event is shut down.", "The comedian says his new attitude is that \"life's too short\" after undergoing cancer treatment.", "Getafe manager Jose Bordalas says the Spanish club are going to help England forward Mason Greenwood \"recover his best level\" after his season-long loan move from Manchester United.", "The U-turn comes after strong criticism against it in Sweden as well as by Ukraine.", "The high-profile Egyptian businessman lost his son Dodi in the car crash that killed Princess Diana.", "Ethan Nordean was sentenced to 18 years in prison while Dominic Pezzola was given 10 years behind bars.", "Three customers were charged more than £100 for unknowingly using a call connection service.", "Stirling Council said the Christie Clock was found to be unstable when it was inspected by engineers.", "Russia's military bloggers are reaping the rewards of a growing advertising market on Telegram.", "Another remarkable summer transfer window closes with a number of new spending records set.", "The man died at the scene of the crash at a junction in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, on Friday.", "Two people are held on suspicion of murder after a 49-year-old man's remains were found near the sea.", "The former US envoy to the UN won praise for his work freeing detained Americans around the world.", "Green shafts of light from a meteor were caught on camera as it passed over the city of Erzurum.", "Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself \"to prove the truth\".", "How a rising social media influencer and her mother became killers.", "Specialists say RAAC concrete was widely used in public buildings in the UK.", "Mohamed Kissi accuses the Algerian coastguard of killing his brother and a friend.", "Concrete safety fears have thrown the new term into turmoil at more than 100 schools in England.", "Many are altering timetables and seeking new classrooms after 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It is by far the biggest number of signatures on a petition to the Senedd.\n\nMr Jones's business sells and deliver mattresses and beds across south Wales. He said the 20mph limit will change how his business operates.\n\n\"Don't get me wrong, it will be great outside schools to protect children,\" the 50-year-old said.\n\n\"But when you're delivering all day and you've got to go from village to village or town to town, it just can't be done.\n\n\"I was an hour and a half over on Monday, and I'm not getting paid extra for that. Who's paying my loss?\n\nSeb Goldin of RED Driver Training welcomes the implementation of a default 20mph speed limit in Wales\n\n\"I've got less time for my life because I'm spending more time on the road.\n\n\"How I've run the business for the last 10 years is giving people half an hour (for) when I'll be there. You can't do that anymore, you've got to give a two-hour window.\"\n\nAs a result, Mr Jones said the change will affect his work-life balance.\n\n\"I don't feel like going to work - it's that bad,\" he said.\n\n\"What is the point in me working more? I'm getting less and I'm losing more time in my life.\n\n\"They're destroying companies, and they're putting so much stress on people.\"\n\nHowever, Seb Goldin, chief executive of RED Driver Training, welcomed the default 20mph.\n\n\"A crash at 30mph has twice as much energy and destructive potential as a crash at 20mph,\" he said.\n\n\"Lowering the speed limit will increase both thinking and braking distance for road users, therefore decreasing the risk of injury which feels completely sensical.\n\n\"The industry will be keeping a close eye on the impact of these changes in Wales, which will help encourage similar updates to speed limits across the rest of the UK.\"\n\n\"We all appreciate it's going to change lives,\" says care manager Jane Davies\n\nJane Davies, from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, is a care manager at All Care, and said it is too early to tell whether there will be an impact on the business.\n\n\"We're increasing the travel time we're giving the girls, but that's all we can do at the moment\" she said.\n\n\"It is confusing and they spent all this money on signage and I don't think it's clear.\n\n\"I am leaving 10 minutes early for work in the morning, that's to ensure I'm there.\n\n\"I don't think any of us like it but we all appreciate it's going to change lives.\"\n\nJames Foley, from Living at Home - a home care agency that covers the greater Swansea area- said small costs will add up throughout the year.\n\n\"We've got our live systems where we can see where the staff are in terms of getting to their next call, and already there are delays building up,\" he said.\n\nJames Foley of the Living At Home care agency describes the new limit as a \"burden\"\n\n\"We're doing between 20,000-24,000 visits per year, we pay for the travel time from getting from A to B. If that extends, and it might only be a few minutes per call, if you do the maths over the course of a year, that's substantial.\n\n\"Who absorbs these additional costs, with high fuel costs already? It's just another big issue.\"\n\n\"It's just more of a burden for companies like ourselves who are all in the business of supporting vulnerable people.\"", "TikTok is driving online frenzies that encourage anti-social behaviour in the real world, a BBC Three investigation reveals.\n\nEx-employees say the issue is not being tackled for fear of slowing the growth of the social media app's business.\n\nThese frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - are evidenced by interviews with former staffers, app users and BBC analysis of wider social media data. They have then led to disruption and disorder in everyday life.\n\nThe BBC's investigation found that TikTok's algorithm and design means people are seeing videos which they wouldn't normally be recommended - which, in turn, incentivise them to do unusual things in their own videos on the platform.\n\nTikTok has previously distanced itself from outbreaks of disorder, such as the threatened looting of London's Oxford Street last month, which politicians blamed on the billion-user app.\n\nHowever, the BBC has identified four episodes in recent months where disproportionate engagement on TikTok was connected to harmful behaviour:\n\nEx-staffers at TikTok liken these frenzies to \"wildfires\" and describe them as \"dangerous\", especially as the app's audience can be young and impressionable.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that its \"algorithm brings together communities while prioritising safety\". It said it recommends different types of content to interrupt repetitive patterns, removes \"harmful misinformation\" and reduces the reach of videos with unverified information.\n\nI had never heard of Moscow, Idaho, before November last year. My TikTok feed became flooded with details of the murder of four students in their bedrooms while two surviving housemates slept - before the case was widely covered by the media.\n\nSpeculative theories around who committed the murders gripped TikTok, without any evidence to back them up. TikTok users were uniquely obsessed. Videos I found about the case racked up two billion views from November 2022 to August this year, compared to just 80,000 on YouTube.\n\nFormer employees say this is a product of TikTok's design. Users mostly view content through their For You page, a feed of short videos which are selected by an algorithm to appeal to each individual.\n\nVideos about the killing of four students in Idaho drew over two billion views on TikTok and were seen all over the world\n\nWhen you post a video on TikTok, it will appear on the feeds of other users who TikTok thinks could be interested in it, rather than just being promoted to your friends and followers as on some other social networks.\n\nDepending on how users engage with that video, the algorithm might decide to push it to millions more at a speed and scale seemingly greater than on the other social media platforms. Former employees also say that, while most social media users tend to just consume content, TikTok users are much more likely to make and post their own videos.\n\nParticipation is one of TikTok's \"number one priorities\", according to an internal document from 2021 revealed by Chris Stokel-Walker in his book TikTok Boom. He told the BBC the company wants users \"actively invested\" in the app.\n\nThat element of participation can be terrifying for people like Jack Showalter, dubbed \"hoodie guy\" by some TikTokkers and falsely accused of involvement in the Idaho killings. His sister condemned the threats and harassment his family received. \"There were so many victims created through internet sleuth videos,\" she said.\n\nOne TikTokker, Olivia, did not just become gripped by a drama thousands of miles from her home in Florida - she flew for more than six hours and filmed at the scene for a week. At least one of her videos reached 20 million views.\n\n\"I felt this need to go out there and dig for answers and see if I can help out in any way,\" Olivia told me.\n\nWhen the Idaho murders took over TikTok, Olivia flew six hours to film at the scene for a week\n\nAn experienced content creator who has posted videos on several true crime cases, she also acknowledges that the TikTok content \"does much better\" when she travels to the scene.\n\nOlivia did not explicitly level false accusations at people. But she said that unlike traditional news media, she can post controversial claims without confirmation. \"I have the power to do that,\" she said.\n\nOlivia said the high levels of engagement on TikTok around subjects like the Idaho murders encourages users to create videos. \"One video on TikTok could get millions of plays versus if I post the same video on Instagram, it'll get like 200 views. And it's just the algorithm of Tik Tok.\"\n\nIn December, Bryan Kohberger - a man not previously named by any of the online sleuths - was arrested and later charged with murder.\n\nWhile Olivia was an experienced social video creator, frenzies can also draw in people who seem never to have posted content like this before - and reward them with huge numbers of views.\n\nWhen 45-year-old Nicola Bulley went missing in the small village of St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire, Heather was one of the people caught up by the way the mystery took over TikTok.\n\nIntense social media interest in the disappearance of Nicola Bulley interfered with the search, police said\n\n\"When you see it video after video after video of the same content on the same topic, it's very easy to just think, well, I can join in. I'm just another person,\" Heather told me.\n\nShe posted a video which falsely implied Nicola's best friend, Emma White, had posed as the missing woman, and says it received 3.6 million views within 72 hours.\n\nWithin the first three weeks of her disappearance, I found videos using the hashtag of Nicola Bulley's name had 270 million views on TikTok, compared to far lower numbers I found across the other major social media sites.\n\nMainstream media was also blamed for its wall-to-wall coverage of the case, but on TikTok more explicit misinformation spread more quickly.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails Heather received from TikTok encouraging her to keep posting once her speculation had gone viral and applauding her posts as a hit.\n\nShe said the feeling of \"empowerment\" and \"entitlement\" from this attention can change people's behaviour.\n\nHeather says she regrets getting caught up in the frenzy on TikTok surrounding Nicola Bulley's disappearance\n\nNow she said she regrets her part in the frenzy and has deleted her videos.\n\nHeather never headed to the scene of the disappearance, but many other TikTokkers did. The police criticised the way people were interfering with the case to film social media videos, eventually issuing a dispersal order, which allows officers to remove people from the area to prevent anti-social behaviour.\n\nNicola Bulley's body was found on 17 February in the river not far from where she disappeared. An inquest determined her death was due to accidental drowning.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that users \"naturally\" took more of an interest in stories at \"moments of national conversation, which are intensified by 24-hour news reporting\". They also pointed out that the BBC has posted on TikTok about many stories like this.\n\nEvents in British schools and on the streets of France have shown how TikTok can help disturbances escalate and spread from place to place.\n\nIn February 2023, a protest about Rainford High School in Merseyside checking the length of girls' skirts was posted on TikTok. Within three days, students at over 60 schools had held and filmed their own version of the protest. After a week, students at over 100 schools had got involved.\n\nIn some cases, they also got out of hand: windows were smashed, trees were set on fire and teachers were assaulted.\n\nSeveral TikTok videos showed protests at UK schools where police were called\n\n\"I feel like what TikTok is enabling people to do now is to take one thing that's viral in one school and transport it to like the whole region and make it a competition about who can up the other schools and make it more extreme,\" said Jasmine, a former TikTok moderator.\n\nAccording to TikTok, most of the videos showed pupils engaging in peaceful demonstrations - but teachers and students I spoke to were concerned about the cumulative effect of all the videos.\n\nDuring the school protests, I decided to see what type of content TikTok's algorithm might recommend to an undercover account pretending to belong to a 15-year-old boy with typical interests, such as football.\n\nAfter being recommended videos about football and gaming, the fourth video I was shown was from a 25-year-old influencer called Adrian Markovac. As well as promoting self-improvement, some of his videos encourage rebellion against school rules on uniform, homework and asking to go to the toilet, as well as calling teachers offensive names.\n\nComments under his videos included some teenagers in the UK saying they had been suspended or excluded from school after following Mr Markovac's advice.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Markovac said he encourages young people to \"rebel against ridiculous rules\", but he said he could not be held responsible for the poor decisions of a minority of viewers.\n\nA few months after the school protests, riots spread across Paris and the rest of France after the death of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was shot by a police officer, who was later charged with homicide. The French president Emmanuel Macron levelled the blame for the disorder at TikTok and Snapchat.\n\nPeople in the town of Viry-Châtillon near Paris were among those who filmed rioting and vandalism\n\nBut was there another TikTok frenzy at play? Or was the French President just deflecting responsibility?\n\nThe sense of injustice over Nahel's death meant riots began without the influence of social media.\n\nBut the attention I found it received on TikTok was much higher compared to other platforms. I found public videos on Snapchat using Nahel's name with 167,700 views (that doesn't include some which may have been circulated in private chats). On TikTok, public videos using the hashtag racked up 850 million views.\n\nIn one town, Viry-Châtillon, on the outskirts of Paris, videos showed a bus on fire and a ransacked newsagents. Jean-Marie Vilain, the mayor, said demonstrations were rare in the town.\n\nBut what was \"incredible and dramatic\" in his view was that the riots spread to \"the provinces, in cities, in small towns where nothing is happening, where everything is fine\" - as far afield as Provence and Guadeloupe.\n\nJean-Marie Vilain, mayor of Viry-Châtillon, says TikTok helped the riots to escalate and spread to unexpected places\n\n\"Unfortunately, once the riots started, TikTok became a tool to show, here, this is what I'm capable of doing. Can you do better?\" Mr Vilain told me. His claim is backed up by videos I found on TikTok, which became more extreme as the riots went on.\n\nFrom speaking to protestors, Mr Vilain also said seeing acts of destruction widely shared on TikTok \"became the norm\" for some people. TikTok users sharing this content who I messaged said the same.\n\nWhat connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, anti-social behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence that they are all examples of TikTok \"frenzies\".\n\nSeveral former TikTok employees in the US and UK told the BBC that limiting these frenzies of harmful content was not a priority for the social media company, because it could slow down the app's meteoric growth.\n\nOne of them, who I'm calling Lucas, worked in data strategy and analysis at the company. He said TikTok was not equipped to become more than just an app for dance crazes.\n\n\"It grew so fast that they couldn't possibly keep up with or predict every single way the app was going to go,\" he said.\n\n\"But in terms of dangerous content, at least I never heard of them trying to proactively prevent them from getting big. And in general, they don't want to, they don't want to stand in the way of entertainment growing quickly on their platform.\"\n\nTikTok told the BBC it has more than 40,000 \"safety professionals\" using technology to moderate content, with the \"vast majority\" of videos with harmful misinformation never receiving a single view.\n\n\"Prioritising safety is not only the right thing to do, it makes business sense,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe company also said it collaborates with academics, law enforcement agencies and other experts to improve its processes.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The star used to present Channel 4's Big Breakfast and TFI Friday, as well as the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast shows\n\nDJ Chris Evans has told listeners he is now clear of skin cancer, eight weeks after he was first diagnosed.\n\nThe Virgin Radio UK presenter, 57, revealed last month that doctors had caught it quickly meaning it was \"as treatable as cancer can possibly be\".\n\nIn an on-air update on Wednesday, Evans said he had undergone surgery last week, and that surgeons had since given him the all-clear.\n\nHe added he had barely slept since receiving an update from his surgeon.\n\n\"I never thought for a second you could lose a night's sleep because of an email like this,\" he said on the show.\n\nReading the email out loud, co-presenter Vassos Alexander quoted the surgeon as saying: \"I have forwarded the pathology report. It is excellent news.\n\n\"There is no residual disease. You have the all-clear.\"\n\nEvans explained he had the surgery last Thursday, following a phone conversation with his dermatologist, who told him that the freckle - originally found on his leg by his masseur - \"had moved, metastasised, was malignant\" and would need to be \"removed\".\n\n\"And so, at quarter-to-four last Thursday, I had cancer and at quarter-to-five, I didn't,\" he beamed. \"And I just found that out last night.\n\n\"And that's because time is your biggest weapon against it, if you have an abundance of it, and its biggest weapon against you if you have a lack of it.\"\n\nHe went on to urge listeners with cancer symptoms to get themselves checked. \"If you're worried about anything, just bear in mind the fact that eight weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer and now I don't have it at all,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's why you just need to attend to things. And it's really tough, because for years I was the guy who wouldn't go anywhere near that. But you know, times have changed, thank God.\"\n\nIt comes eight years after the former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 broadcaster was given the all-clear following a previous prostate cancer scare.", "More than 340,000 people were arrested for breaking South Africa's lockdown regulations\n\nSouth Africa's parliament has passed a bill which would expunge criminal records for those convicted of breaching Covid-19 lockdown laws.\n\nSouth Africa had some of the world's toughest restrictions, which saw more than 340,000 convicted for not wearing masks, consuming alcohol and breaking curfew, among other violations.\n\nThose who admitted guilt and paid fines will now have their records cleared.\n\nThere had been numerous complaints about people missing out on employment opportunities because of their criminal records.\n\nIt has to be approved by the National Council of Provinces, and then signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa but there is little doubt it will become law.\n\nThe Judicial Matters Amendment Bill gained broad political support when it was debated in parliament.\n\nHowever, the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomed part of the bill but said it couldn't support it as a whole.\n\n\"The prosecutions and persecutions that came about as a result of the regulations flowing from the Disaster Management Act during the pandemic demonstrated the depth into which our judiciary system could be used to severely limit the rights of individuals,\" said EFF MP Veronica Mente.\n\n\"May the law never again be used in pursuit of sinister motives such as what happened during Covid,\" she said.\n\nSouth Africa's Covid restrictions were only fully lifted in April 2022, after evidence showed that many people had lost their jobs and businesses suffered significant losses during the pandemic.", "An aerial view of a tailings dam storing waste from a copper-mining operation in Chile\n\nAt least 23 million people around the world live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful concentrations of toxic waste from metal-mining activity, according to a study.\n\nUK scientists mapped the world's 22,609 active and 159,735 abandoned metal mines and calculated the extent of pollution from them.\n\nChemicals can leach from mining operations into soil and waterways.\n\nThe researchers say future mines have to be planned \"very carefully\".\n\nThis is particularly critical as the demand surges for metals that will support battery technology and electrification, including lithium and copper, says Prof Mark Macklin from the University of Lincoln, who led the research.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\n\"We've known about this for a long time,\" he told BBC News. \"What's alarming for me is the legacy - [pollution from abandoned mines] is still affecting millions of people.\"\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Science, build on the team's previous studies of exactly how pollution from mining activity moves and accumulates in the environment.\n\nThe scientists compiled data on mining activity around the world, which was published by governments, mining companies and organisations like the US Geological Survey. This included the location of each mine, what metal it was extracting and whether it was active or abandoned.\n\nProf Macklin explained that the majority of metals from metal mining is bound up in sediment in the ground. \"It's this material - eroded from mine waste tips, or in contaminated soil - that ends up in river channels or [can be] deposited over a flood-plain.\"\n\nProf Macklin and his colleagues used previously published field and laboratory analyses to work out how far this metal-contaminated sediment moves down river systems.\n\nThat data allowed the scientists to produce a computer model that could calculate the extent of river channels and flood-plains around the world that are polluted by mining waste - both from current and historical mining activity.\n\n\"We mapped the area that's likely to be affected, which, when you combine that with population data, shows that 23 million people in the world are living on ground that would be considered 'contaminated',\" said Chris Thomas, who is professor of water and planetary health at the University of Lincoln.\n\n\"Whether those people will be affected by that contamination, we simply can't tell with this research, and there are many ways that people may be exposed,\" he stressed. \"But there is agriculture and irrigation in many of those areas.\"\n\nCrops grown on contaminated soils, or irrigated by water contaminated by mine waste, have been shown to contain high concentrations of metals.\n\nWaste leaks downstream, after a dam partially fails at a mine in Romania\n\n\"Animals grazing on flood-plains may also eat contaminated plant material and sediment, especially after flooding, when fresh metal-rich sediment is deposited,\" the scientists explained in their paper.\n\n\"With climate change and more frequent floods,\" Prof Macklin added, \"this legacy [pollution] is going to extend and expand.\"\n\nProf Jamie Woodward from the University of Manchester, who was not involved in the study, said the research highlighted the threat posed by \"silent pollution\" stored in flood-plains.\n\n\"A good deal of river monitoring is focused on water when the real 'nasties' are often associated with river sediments,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We need to better understand how contaminants are transported in the environment and where they are stored. This allows us to assess hazards and to mitigate against them. Heavily contaminated flood-plain grasslands should not be used for livestock grazing, for example.\"\n\nThe researchers point out in their study that metal mining represents \"humankind's earliest and most persistent form of environmental contamination\". Waste from mining began to contaminate river systems as early as 7,000 years ago.", "The 24-year-old construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he died\n\nA Met Police firearms officer has been granted bail after being charged with murdering Chris Kaba, who died after a police operation in south London.\n\nThe unnamed Met officer had earlier been remanded into custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court ahead of an appearance at the Old Bailey, where he was granted bail.\n\nMr Kaba, 24, was shot in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022.\n\nHis family became emotional when the officer appeared at the first hearing.\n\nAn anonymity order was granted so that the officer can only be identified as NX121.\n\nMr Kaba died from a single gunshot after the car he was driving was hemmed in by a police vehicle and an officer opened fire.\n\nThe construction worker was being followed by an unmarked police car with no lights or sirens.\n\nMr Kaba was shot dead by an officer in a residential street in south London\n\nAfter turning into a residential street, he was blocked by a second marked police car and a firearms officer fired one shot through the windscreen and hit Mr Kaba in the head.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi the 24-year-old was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the previous day.\n\nMr Kaba's parents and relatives sat in the public gallery as the Met officer appeared in the dock.\n\nAs prosecutor Tom Little KC explained how the case would progress, some people in the public gallery began to cry and left the court.\n\nA court order was put in place by District Judge Nina Tempia banning the publication of anything that would identify the defendant, including any description.\n\nThe defendant later appeared at the Old Bailey, where he was granted bail on the conditions that he lives at a named address, surrenders his passport and does not apply for international travel documents.\n\nRecorder of London Mark Lucraft KC told NX121 that a plea and trial preparation hearing will be listed for 1 December, with a possible trial date of 9 September next year.\n\nA hearing will take place at the same court on Friday next week to discuss a legal order that bans the identification of the officer.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Met officer to be charged with murder of Chris Kaba\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United were given a taste of what could have been as Harry Kane helped Bayern Munich to victory over Erik ten Hag's struggling side in a high-scoring and eventful Champions League opener.\n\nIt was no secret that the Red Devils would have liked to have signed Kane from Tottenham in the summer, but instead England's captain and record goalscorer opted for a career in Germany that has begun in stellar fashion.\n\nAt the Allianz Arena on Wednesday, the 30-year-old claimed both an assist and scored from the penalty spot - after a VAR check to rule Christian Eriksen had handled in the box - to take his tally of goals this season to five in five games in all competitions.\n\nIt was a timely strike from Kane too as it came just after Rasmus Hojland had scored his first United goal to make it 2-1 early in the second half and give his side some hope of a result.\n\nBefore that, goalkeeper Andre Onana had undone a disciplined start from the visitors with a shocking error to allow Leroy Sane's drive to slip under him and find the net in the 28th minute.\n• None Man Utd lost to Bayern because of me - Onana\n\nFour minutes later, Serge Gnabry struck low and accurately inside the far corner to make it 2-0.\n\nIt is to the visitors' credit that they came out swinging to try and make a contest of it but their current fragility and lack of options from the bench as a result of numerous injuries undermined their ability to compete.\n\nCasemiro showed dogged determination to smuggle a second in for United to give them a glimmer of hope but Mathys Tel snuffed that out by hammering a Bayern fourth high into the net in added time.\n\nUnited were not finished, with Casemiro heading home Bruno Fernandes' free-kick from close range with almost the last kick of the game, but it was too late.\n\nAn opening-game loss at the six-time champions of Europe will not define the campaign, especially with FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray - who drew 2-2 earlier on Wednesday in Istanbul - both more beatable in the group, but they are now in dire need of a response to restore some focus and faith.\n• None Follow reaction to Bayern Munich v Manchester United and the rest of Wednesday's Champions League games\n• None How did you rate United's performance? Have your say here\n• None Go straight to all the best Man Utd content\n\nSome fight but too much fragility from United\n\nAfter a 2022-23 campaign of progress, United are again sailing in choppy waters.\n\nLast season, Ten Hag looked to have steadied one of European football's biggest ships following the failure of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tenure and the ill-advised interim experiment with Ralf Rangnick.\n\nHaving led them to a first piece of major silverware in six seasons and back into the Champions League, optimism was high at the club ahead of this campaign.\n\nBut three defeats from the first five league games - their worst league start in a decade - has seen this rapidly evaporate and now they must digest a humbling start to their European campaign.\n\nIt could have been different. They could, and probably should, have led inside five minutes as Alphonso Davies' timely tackle stopped Facundo Pellistri tapping in but set up Christian Eriksen to fire an effort from close range straight at Sven Ulreich.\n\nSimilarly, at the start of the second half, had they been able to test Bayern's resolve for longer at 2-1 rather than conceding again inside five minutes they may have taken something.\n\nAnd then at the end they showed fight to forge Casemiro's double only for that to be made moot by their soft concession of a fourth.\n\nThis is a United side undone by early-season results, injuries and costly moments of ineptitude.\n\nOnana's error was a shocker and one a side with such fragile confidence can ill afford. It was followed by a period where players seemed happier to hide than rally in the face of adversity.\n\nBefore Wednesday's game, Ten Hag bemoaned that he had yet to field his strongest XI during his tenure and maybe it is only fair to judge him and his side this season when they are closer to that?\n\nBut this is still a United side with talent in it and one that needs to not only win at Burnley on Saturday but do so convincingly.\n\nKane plays his part as Bayern set the early pace\n\nBayern were not at their best. They have not been so for much of this season. They were also without suspended manager Thomas Tuchel as assistant Zsolt Low took charge on the touchline.\n\nBut they are a winning machine and with Kane in attack, supplemented by Sane, Gnabry and Musiala, they will be a test for any defence on the continent, let alone one as currently shaky as United's.\n\nIt was not Kane's best game, with him floating in and out of it, but he did what was required. His neat set-up enabled the opener and he made no mistake with a typically ruthless penalty.\n\nThey should have scored more, hitting the post twice after the break, and allowed United footholds in the game, but their ability to move rapidly up through the gears remains highly impressive.\n\nThat is 35 games unbeaten now for the German champions in the group stage of this competition and 15 straight home wins. It gives them early control of Group A.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 4, Manchester United 3. Casemiro (Manchester United) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 4, Manchester United 2. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mathys Tel following a fast break.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 3, Manchester United 2. Casemiro (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt missed. Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Eric Choupo-Moting (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Those visiting the exhibition squeeze through two nude performance models in order to enter it\n\nVisitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.\n\nThe unusual installation is part of a career retrospective of Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović.\n\nThere is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable squeezing through the nude performers.\n\nThe exhibition has otherwise received mixed reviews from critics - the Guardian called it \"vital\" but the Times said it was \"remorseless\".\n\nEntering between the two naked performers forces those with tickets into a \"confrontation between nakedness, and the gender, the sexuality, the desire\", the Royal Academy's head of exhibitions Andrea Tarsia has said.\n\nThe unusual piece was first staged in 1977 by Abramović and her then German partner, Ulay. The pair stood close together in a doorway, compelling visitors to pass between them.\n\nThe Telegraph's critic Alastair Sooke said he was \"too preoccupied with not stamping on their toes\" to be able to sense whether there was a frisson as he passed during the new installation in London.\n\n\"You don't have to go through the naked gates. There's a bypass, but it's cheating,\" added the Times' Laura Freeman. \"I squeezed through, sucking in my stomach, trying not to tread on anyone's toes or brush against anything.\"\n\nMarina Abramović is the first woman to have a solo retrospective show in the Royal Academy's main space\n\nThe retrospective takes in Abramović's half-century career. She is the first female artist to have a solo exhibition in the Royal Academy's principal galleries in its 255-year history.\n\nThe Evening Standard's Ben Luke awarded it four stars, writing: \"For once, this is not hype. I can't imagine a better display, especially given that much of it exists as documentation of performances.\n\n\"The staging of this material on film and in photographs is exemplary, and it's aided by four live pieces from different moments in Abramović's career, reperformed by Marina-approved artists.\"\n\nHe added: \"I struggled to picture how the vast galleries of the RA could be filled by an artist whose practice has inevitably been largely ephemeral, when they have swallowed and diminished more conventional artists. But there is no sense of padding. The pacing is great: it's spare where it needs to be, busy and noisy at the right moments.\"\n\nBut there was less enthusiasm from the Telegraph's Sooke. In a two star review, he said: \"The issue is the work. Is there a more egregious case of an artist, over the decades, losing their way?\n\n\"Those performances from the 1970s and 80s - many of them collaborations with her then-partner, the German artist Ulay - still seem radical and courageous, with something urgent to say about, for instance, the complex relations between men and women, or the gendered roles that society forces us to play.\"\n\nThe exhibition runs at the Royal Academy until 1 January\n\n\"Ritualised cleansing, in the form of scrubbing bones, is one of her motifs,\" noted the Telegraph\n\nSooke added: \"Over time, though, as Abramović became less concerned with corporeal endurance, and more interested in trialling her mind, she started to believe the hype.\n\n\"The result? Narcissistic art, devoid of risk, with none of the rigorous, visceral, blood-spattered toughness of old. Ritualised cleansing, in the form of scrubbing bones, is one of her motifs - but, ultimately, Abramović has ended up sanitising herself.\"\n\nFreeman of the Times was similarly lukewarm, awarding two stars and saying there were \"two principal problems with this stylishly presented but unsatisfactory retrospective\".\n\n\"First: you thought performance art was bad? Old videos of past performance art are worse. Second: Abramović, who has made her career and artistic reputation teasing, testing and breaching the limits of her own endurance, may be hard as nails, but she is 76 and an honorary Royal Academician, so her part is played by acolytes.\n\n\"I'd like to say they were as fearless as the original but the three young women I saw performing Imponderabilia, Nude with Skeleton and Luminosity seemed self-conscious and under strain. Seventies body hair is out, bikini waxes are in. That alone would suggest anxiety more than abandon.\"\n\nNude With Skeleton is among the featured works in the retrospective\n\nMarina Abramović, pictured at the exhibition this week, is a Serbian conceptual artist and performer\n\nBut the Guardian's Adrian Searle was more positive, calling Abramović's show \"terrifying and vital\" in his four-star review.\n\n\"We see her knitting, smoking, holding a candle and walking with infinite slowness, carrying a bowl of milk,\" he said. \"Here she is lying naked under a skeleton in a kind of video sarcophagus, on top of which a naked live performer repeats the pose.\n\n\"Other performers re-enact early works as we go from room to room. There are so many Marinas here, but only one Abramović, in all her multiple guises.\n\nAbramović is \"redoubtable, indefatigable, brave and extreme\", he wrote.\n\n\"I speak as one who has been moved by her endurance and spirit and laughed at her mordant wit, and also as one who has enjoyed a couple of her workshops and run away from another,\" he added. \"But who cares about the mumbo-jumbo when the best of her art is so strong?\"", "TikTok is driving online frenzies that encourage anti-social behaviour in the real world, a BBC Three investigation reveals.\n\nEx-employees say the issue is not being tackled for fear of slowing the growth of the social media app's business.\n\nThese frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - are evidenced by interviews with former staffers, app users and BBC analysis of wider social media data. They have then led to disruption and disorder in everyday life.\n\nThe BBC's investigation found that TikTok's algorithm and design means people are seeing videos which they wouldn't normally be recommended - which, in turn, incentivise them to do unusual things in their own videos on the platform.\n\nTikTok has previously distanced itself from outbreaks of disorder, such as the threatened looting of London's Oxford Street last month, which politicians blamed on the billion-user app.\n\nHowever, the BBC has identified four episodes in recent months where disproportionate engagement on TikTok was connected to harmful behaviour:\n\nEx-staffers at TikTok liken these frenzies to \"wildfires\" and describe them as \"dangerous\", especially as the app's audience can be young and impressionable.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that its \"algorithm brings together communities while prioritising safety\". It said it recommends different types of content to interrupt repetitive patterns, removes \"harmful misinformation\" and reduces the reach of videos with unverified information.\n\nI had never heard of Moscow, Idaho, before November last year. My TikTok feed became flooded with details of the murder of four students in their bedrooms while two surviving housemates slept - before the case was widely covered by the media.\n\nSpeculative theories around who committed the murders gripped TikTok, without any evidence to back them up. TikTok users were uniquely obsessed. Videos I found about the case racked up two billion views from November 2022 to August this year, compared to just 80,000 on YouTube.\n\nFormer employees say this is a product of TikTok's design. Users mostly view content through their For You page, a feed of short videos which are selected by an algorithm to appeal to each individual.\n\nVideos about the killing of four students in Idaho drew over two billion views on TikTok and were seen all over the world\n\nWhen you post a video on TikTok, it will appear on the feeds of other users who TikTok thinks could be interested in it, rather than just being promoted to your friends and followers as on some other social networks.\n\nDepending on how users engage with that video, the algorithm might decide to push it to millions more at a speed and scale seemingly greater than on the other social media platforms. Former employees also say that, while most social media users tend to just consume content, TikTok users are much more likely to make and post their own videos.\n\nParticipation is one of TikTok's \"number one priorities\", according to an internal document from 2021 revealed by Chris Stokel-Walker in his book TikTok Boom. He told the BBC the company wants users \"actively invested\" in the app.\n\nThat element of participation can be terrifying for people like Jack Showalter, dubbed \"hoodie guy\" by some TikTokkers and falsely accused of involvement in the Idaho killings. His sister condemned the threats and harassment his family received. \"There were so many victims created through internet sleuth videos,\" she said.\n\nOne TikTokker, Olivia, did not just become gripped by a drama thousands of miles from her home in Florida - she flew for more than six hours and filmed at the scene for a week. At least one of her videos reached 20 million views.\n\n\"I felt this need to go out there and dig for answers and see if I can help out in any way,\" Olivia told me.\n\nWhen the Idaho murders took over TikTok, Olivia flew six hours to film at the scene for a week\n\nAn experienced content creator who has posted videos on several true crime cases, she also acknowledges that the TikTok content \"does much better\" when she travels to the scene.\n\nOlivia did not explicitly level false accusations at people. But she said that unlike traditional news media, she can post controversial claims without confirmation. \"I have the power to do that,\" she said.\n\nOlivia said the high levels of engagement on TikTok around subjects like the Idaho murders encourages users to create videos. \"One video on TikTok could get millions of plays versus if I post the same video on Instagram, it'll get like 200 views. And it's just the algorithm of Tik Tok.\"\n\nIn December, Bryan Kohberger - a man not previously named by any of the online sleuths - was arrested and later charged with murder.\n\nWhile Olivia was an experienced social video creator, frenzies can also draw in people who seem never to have posted content like this before - and reward them with huge numbers of views.\n\nWhen 45-year-old Nicola Bulley went missing in the small village of St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire, Heather was one of the people caught up by the way the mystery took over TikTok.\n\nIntense social media interest in the disappearance of Nicola Bulley interfered with the search, police said\n\n\"When you see it video after video after video of the same content on the same topic, it's very easy to just think, well, I can join in. I'm just another person,\" Heather told me.\n\nShe posted a video which falsely implied Nicola's best friend, Emma White, had posed as the missing woman, and says it received 3.6 million views within 72 hours.\n\nWithin the first three weeks of her disappearance, I found videos using the hashtag of Nicola Bulley's name had 270 million views on TikTok, compared to far lower numbers I found across the other major social media sites.\n\nMainstream media was also blamed for its wall-to-wall coverage of the case, but on TikTok more explicit misinformation spread more quickly.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails Heather received from TikTok encouraging her to keep posting once her speculation had gone viral and applauding her posts as a hit.\n\nShe said the feeling of \"empowerment\" and \"entitlement\" from this attention can change people's behaviour.\n\nHeather says she regrets getting caught up in the frenzy on TikTok surrounding Nicola Bulley's disappearance\n\nNow she said she regrets her part in the frenzy and has deleted her videos.\n\nHeather never headed to the scene of the disappearance, but many other TikTokkers did. The police criticised the way people were interfering with the case to film social media videos, eventually issuing a dispersal order, which allows officers to remove people from the area to prevent anti-social behaviour.\n\nNicola Bulley's body was found on 17 February in the river not far from where she disappeared. An inquest determined her death was due to accidental drowning.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that users \"naturally\" took more of an interest in stories at \"moments of national conversation, which are intensified by 24-hour news reporting\". They also pointed out that the BBC has posted on TikTok about many stories like this.\n\nEvents in British schools and on the streets of France have shown how TikTok can help disturbances escalate and spread from place to place.\n\nIn February 2023, a protest about Rainford High School in Merseyside checking the length of girls' skirts was posted on TikTok. Within three days, students at over 60 schools had held and filmed their own version of the protest. After a week, students at over 100 schools had got involved.\n\nIn some cases, they also got out of hand: windows were smashed, trees were set on fire and teachers were assaulted.\n\nSeveral TikTok videos showed protests at UK schools where police were called\n\n\"I feel like what TikTok is enabling people to do now is to take one thing that's viral in one school and transport it to like the whole region and make it a competition about who can up the other schools and make it more extreme,\" said Jasmine, a former TikTok moderator.\n\nAccording to TikTok, most of the videos showed pupils engaging in peaceful demonstrations - but teachers and students I spoke to were concerned about the cumulative effect of all the videos.\n\nDuring the school protests, I decided to see what type of content TikTok's algorithm might recommend to an undercover account pretending to belong to a 15-year-old boy with typical interests, such as football.\n\nAfter being recommended videos about football and gaming, the fourth video I was shown was from a 25-year-old influencer called Adrian Markovac. As well as promoting self-improvement, some of his videos encourage rebellion against school rules on uniform, homework and asking to go to the toilet, as well as calling teachers offensive names.\n\nComments under his videos included some teenagers in the UK saying they had been suspended or excluded from school after following Mr Markovac's advice.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Markovac said he encourages young people to \"rebel against ridiculous rules\", but he said he could not be held responsible for the poor decisions of a minority of viewers.\n\nA few months after the school protests, riots spread across Paris and the rest of France after the death of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was shot by a police officer, who was later charged with homicide. The French president Emmanuel Macron levelled the blame for the disorder at TikTok and Snapchat.\n\nPeople in the town of Viry-Châtillon near Paris were among those who filmed rioting and vandalism\n\nBut was there another TikTok frenzy at play? Or was the French President just deflecting responsibility?\n\nThe sense of injustice over Nahel's death meant riots began without the influence of social media.\n\nBut the attention I found it received on TikTok was much higher compared to other platforms. I found public videos on Snapchat using Nahel's name with 167,700 views (that doesn't include some which may have been circulated in private chats). On TikTok, public videos using the hashtag racked up 850 million views.\n\nIn one town, Viry-Châtillon, on the outskirts of Paris, videos showed a bus on fire and a ransacked newsagents. Jean-Marie Vilain, the mayor, said demonstrations were rare in the town.\n\nBut what was \"incredible and dramatic\" in his view was that the riots spread to \"the provinces, in cities, in small towns where nothing is happening, where everything is fine\" - as far afield as Provence and Guadeloupe.\n\nJean-Marie Vilain, mayor of Viry-Châtillon, says TikTok helped the riots to escalate and spread to unexpected places\n\n\"Unfortunately, once the riots started, TikTok became a tool to show, here, this is what I'm capable of doing. Can you do better?\" Mr Vilain told me. His claim is backed up by videos I found on TikTok, which became more extreme as the riots went on.\n\nFrom speaking to protestors, Mr Vilain also said seeing acts of destruction widely shared on TikTok \"became the norm\" for some people. TikTok users sharing this content who I messaged said the same.\n\nWhat connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, anti-social behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence that they are all examples of TikTok \"frenzies\".\n\nSeveral former TikTok employees in the US and UK told the BBC that limiting these frenzies of harmful content was not a priority for the social media company, because it could slow down the app's meteoric growth.\n\nOne of them, who I'm calling Lucas, worked in data strategy and analysis at the company. He said TikTok was not equipped to become more than just an app for dance crazes.\n\n\"It grew so fast that they couldn't possibly keep up with or predict every single way the app was going to go,\" he said.\n\n\"But in terms of dangerous content, at least I never heard of them trying to proactively prevent them from getting big. And in general, they don't want to, they don't want to stand in the way of entertainment growing quickly on their platform.\"\n\nTikTok told the BBC it has more than 40,000 \"safety professionals\" using technology to moderate content, with the \"vast majority\" of videos with harmful misinformation never receiving a single view.\n\n\"Prioritising safety is not only the right thing to do, it makes business sense,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe company also said it collaborates with academics, law enforcement agencies and other experts to improve its processes.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "King Charles received a standing ovation for his speech to the French Senate, where he delivered a strongly-worded call for a victory for Ukraine in its war against Russia's \"horrifying\" invasion.\n\nThe speech, delivered with sections in French and English, also highlighted the \"existential challenge\" of climate change.\n\nThere had been attention to see if there would be any response from the King to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's change over net zero.\n\nBut a diplomatically worded speech seemed to avoid any coded criticism.\n\n\"Although the challenge facing our planet is both great and grave, it has been increasingly heartening to see action that is being taken by our governments, our people and more and more by the private sector,\" the King told the Senate.\n\nMonarchs speak on the advice of ministers so such an official speech would be expected to maintain political neutrality.\n\nBut it was certainly awkward timing to have the prime minister's change of direction on net zero coming alongside a state visit with a focus on protecting the environment.\n\nSo there is still likely to be scrutiny for signs of any rift on climate change between Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King is the first British monarch to address parliamentarians in the French Senate building\n\nIn his speech, the King said he wanted to \"nourish and cherish\" the entente cordiale between France and Britain, but he also wanted it to become a relationship that promoted sustainability.\n\nThe King, who looked round the grand Senate chamber and seemed quite moved by the lengthy applause, had invoked the wartime unity of Britain and France as an example of joining forces for modern battles.\n\nAs well as climate change, he highlighted the war in Ukraine as a shared struggle for democratic values, responding to the \"unprovoked aggression on our continent\".\n\n\"Together we are steadfast in our determination Ukraine will triumph and that our cherished freedoms will prevail,\" said the King, in a section delivered in French.\n\nThe King also highlighted how much his mother, the late Queen, had loved France, in a speech that emphasised the long alliance between the two countries.\n\nIt was a serious speech, without much in the way of jokes, but it seemed to have been well received, particularly with the King's readiness to use so much French.\n\nFrench language expert Malcolm Massey, of the Babbel language app, praised the King's pronunciation of French and a \"relatively good accent\".\n\nThe Queen met Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's president Emmanuel Macron, ahead of the launch of a new UK-France literary prize\n\nIn a rainy Paris, the King and Queen visited another national icon, Notre Dame, to see progress on restoration after the cathedral's devastating fire.\n\nThere was also a meeting with sports stars, including former Chelsea footballer Didier Drogba, and Queen Camilla launched an Anglo-French literary prize.\n\nShe told guests at an event at the French national library that she'd been a student in Paris 60 years ago.\n\nThe final day of the three-day trip will see the King and Queen visiting environmental projects in Bordeaux.", "The bus hit a tree branch on Clatterbury Lane, Clavering, Joyce Frankland Academy said\n\nFive school children have been seriously hurt after a bus roof was ripped off when it hit a tree branch.\n\nEssex Police said it was called to Clatterbury Lane, Clavering, at about 08:15 BST and remained at the scene.\n\nJoyce Frankland Academy, Newport, said the bus was taking some of its pupils to school when it struck the branch.\n\nPolice said five passengers had sustained injuries considered to be serious, but not life-threatening or life-changing.\n\nEast of England Ambulance Trust said it attended, along with Essex and Herts Air Ambulance.\n\nThree children were assessed at the scene and two were taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, for further assessment.\n\nEssex Police said passengers were able to exit the vehicle after the crash and no serious injuries were reported from the scene at the time, but that some had since attended hospital independently.\n\nThe secondary school said some students had minor injuries while others were being supported at school after the \"traumatic experience\".\n\nDawn Philpott, who had two children on the bus, said it was \"some sheer miracle that everybody was able to walk away without fatality\".\n\nHer husband Martin, who photographed the scene, said the roof of the bus had come off after it hit the branch.\n\nHis pictures show the roof resting on top of a car.\n\nPolice said: \"At the scene officers found a bus and a car had collided.\"\n\nBus operator Stephensons said its double decker bus was travelling at 14mph at the time of the incident\n\nA spokesperson from bus operator Stephensons said they know from telematics the bus was travelling at 14mph (22km/h), and manoeuvring past a car travelling the in the opposite direction, when it hit a large tree branch.\n\nThey said they \"believe the tree branch may have been brought down by heavy overnight rain and wind, but that is unclear at this stage\".\n\nThe school said on its website that the bus was transporting its pupils and children from Saffron Walden County High School.\n\n\"While the full details are being investigated, we are aware that the bus roof was damaged as it struck a tree branch,\" it said.\n\nA space has been arranged at the school for those who may be in shock or left upset.\n\nThe school asked parents or students with any concerns to get in contact.\n\n\"Thank you to all students and parents for the calm manner in which they helped to handle the situation,\" it added.\n\nEmergency services, including fire and ambulance, remained at the scene \"to carry out their work\", police said.\n\nThe force closed the road and advised people to check before travelling in the area.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended major changes to key policies aimed at curbing carbon emissions\n\nRishi Sunak has insisted the UK will meet its net zero targets despite being accused of \"wishful thinking\" by the government's own climate adviser.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the PM said he was not slowing down efforts to combat climate change, after a major overhaul of some green policies.\n\nThe move has provoked a backlash, with the Climate Change Committee (CCC) saying the UK had \"moved backwards\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak said he was \"confident\" the UK would hit net zero by 2050.\n\nIn a bid to seize the political agenda, the prime minister announced exemptions and delays to several key green policies, alongside a 50% increase in cash incentives to replace gas boilers.\n\nKey among the changes in his speech was a five-year delay in the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nLagging far behind Labour in the polls, the Conservatives under Mr Sunak are seeking to create dividing lines with opposition parties ahead of a general election, expected next year.\n\nFor weeks, Mr Sunak has been signalling a shift in approach to net zero, which means achieving a balance between the carbon emitted into and removed from the atmosphere.\n\nHe has sought to frame his changes to green policies as \"pragmatic\" and has highlighted the costs of low-carbon technology, such as electric cars.\n\nBut earlier this year, the Climate Change Committee - the government's independent advisers on cutting carbon emissions - warned that the UK's attempts to achieve its net zero commitments were already \"worryingly slow\".\n\nThe chief executive of the committee, Chris Stark, said the changes announced by Mr Sunak on Wednesday would make it harder for the government to hit legally binding climate goals.\n\n\"The wishful thinking here is that we have not got a policy package to hit the legal targets this country has set in law,\" Mr Stark told the BBC.\n\nAlthough he agreed that \"you can't just wish and will your way to net zero\", Mr Sunak said \"people have asserted these targets without having an honest conversation with the country about what's required to deliver them\".\n\nSince his speech, Mr Sunak has faced criticism for claiming he was \"scrapping\" proposals to increase air fares to discourage foreign holidays and tax meat consumption, neither of which have ever been government policies.\n\nIn the interview, the BBC's Nick Robinson asked Mr Sunak if he was being \"honest\" about scrapping policies that \"don't exist\".\n\nTaking aim at the CCC, Mr Sunak accused the committee of \"euphemistically\" proposing compulsory car-pooling, as well as a tax on meat.\n\nWhen asked where this proposal had come from, the prime minister said the CCC had called for ministers to \"implement measures\" for \"accelerated change in diets\".\n\nIn its 2023 report assessing the government's net zero plans, the committee proposed \"low-cost, low-regret\" action to reduce meat consumption - not a tax.\n\nThe full recommendation from the report, published in June, is: \"Take low-cost, low-regret actions to encourage a 20% shift away from all meat by 2030, rising to 35% by 2050, and a 20% shift from dairy products by 2030, demonstrating leadership in the public sector whilst improving health.\"\n\nMr Sunak was asked whether, by going against the recommendations of the committee, he was copying former Prime Minister Liz Truss by ignoring advice on her economic policies.\n\nIn response, Mr Sunak said: \"I'm happy to get opinions and advice from everybody and everyone's entitled to their view\".\n\nAnd on being pressed on the prospect of legal challenges over his plans, he said he had \"absolute confidence and belief\" the UK will hit its targets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak's shift on green policies - what he said then and now\n\nThe prime minister said Wednesday's speech was the first in a series which would \"change the direction of our country\", adding: \"I know I'll get criticism and flak but I'm not going to be deterred.\"\n\nHe denied he was changing green policies for short-term political gain, as his party struggles to catch up with Labour in the polls.\n\nLabour said the watering down of green pledges would cost the public more in the long term and accused Mr Sunak \"selling out\" the opportunity for a jobs boom.\n\nEd Miliband, Labour's shadow energy security secretary, said he relished the opportunity to go \"toe-to-toe\" with the Conservatives on net zero during the election campaign.\n\nIn a move to widen the policy gap between the two main parties, Labour said it remained committed to the phase out of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.\n\nThis year has been one of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events. Under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, 197 countries - including the UK - agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C by 2100.\n\nTo achieve this, scientists say net zero CO2 emissions should be reached by 2050.\n\nBut the United Nations wants countries to bring forward their net zero targets to avert what it has called \"the growing climate disaster\".\n\nAlthough the UK is only responsibly for 1% of global emissions, it has been one of the most ambitious countries in cutting its carbon footprint.\n\nFollowing Mr Sunak's announcement, climate activists and some Conservative MPs have accused the prime minister of abandoning the UK's climate leadership.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the UN's Climate Action Summit, which Mr Sunak did not attend, former Conservative minster Sir Alok Sharma said the response from international colleagues at the event had been one of \"consternation\".\n\n\"My concern is whether people now look to us and say, 'Well, if the UK is starting to row back on some of these policies, maybe we should do the same',\" said Sir Alok, who chaired the COP26 climate summit.", "A woman has accused Russell Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show.\n\nThe woman says it happened in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles. The encounter left her stunned, she says.\n\nMinutes later, he was recorded laughing with his co-presenter who said Brand \"showed his willy to a lady\".\n\nBrand has not yet commented on the latest allegation.\n\nHis co-presenter Matt Morgan told the BBC he was \"not aware until now of the nature of this encounter\".\n\nWARNING: This article contains explicit details and language that some might find offensive.\n\nIt is the first time that Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and then heard discussing it.\n\nIt also raises serious questions for the BBC about how that part of the show, which was pre-recorded, was allowed to be broadcast days later.\n\nThe woman never made a formal complaint. BBC management was informed about the incident in 2019, but no formal action was taken.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it was sorry to hear the allegations and would investigate them as part of a review into Brand's time at the BBC.\n\nFour other women have also accused Brand, 48, of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013. He has denied the claims, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe woman, who we are calling Olivia, worked for a media company in the same building as the BBC's Los Angeles office.\n\nOn 16 June 2008, she says she answered the door to Brand and his team, who were there to pre-record an episode of The Russell Brand Show for Radio 2.\n\nShe then went to the bathroom to get some sinus medication, walking past the radio studio. While squatting to look through the medicine cabinet, she says she felt someone behind her.\n\nShe turned around to face a man's crotch. \"I was startled and got up and I realised it was the man that I'd let in - Russell.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘As I open up the cupboard doors under the sink, I felt someone behind me'\n\nIn the conversation that followed, she recalls him saying: \"Oh, I think you're a bit alright. I think you're a bit of alright.\"\n\nShe says he told her he was going to call her Betty. When she said that wasn't her name, she says he replied: \"Well, I'm gonna fuck you.\"\n\n\"And I said: 'No, you're not.'\"\n\nShe says he then pulled out his penis on his hand and \"pretty much served it to me as you would be serving someone some food\".\n\nShe says the door to the bathroom was closed, and she felt trapped.\n\n\"There was a bit of banter going on because I didn't know what to do.\"\n\nOlivia says he then put his penis back in his trousers, and she heard someone banging on the door. She says someone from his team called for him, at which point Brand left.\n\nOlivia says she returned to her desk in disbelief at what had happened, and texted a BBC employee in the office about it.\n\nHe told her that he knew what had happened because Brand was talking about it in the studio.\n\nFollowing the investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme into Brand's alleged behaviour, published earlier this month, Olivia says she tracked down a recording of the programme.\n\nThe episode, which aired on 21 June, 2008, features this exchange between Brand and Morgan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident\n\nMorgan: It's been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.\n\nBrand: (Laughing) Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!\n\nMorgan adds: \"He got told off for ringing a bell, minutes later he's showing his willy.\" Brand can be heard laughing in the background.\n\nOlivia, who has never worked as a receptionist, says she felt disgusted when she heard it.\n\n\"I feel ashamed, but more so I wonder had something been done, perhaps there would have been fewer women he would have done horrible things to, which we're reading about in the papers now.\"\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC via his legal team, Morgan said: \"I was not aware until now of the nature of this encounter.\n\n\"I have expressed my regret now looking back at the impact of the show, and this is a further example.\n\n\"The recent coverage has been very distressing to read and I reiterate my absolute condemnation of any form of mistreatment of women.\"\n\nOlivia never made a complaint but said she had hoped that someone from the BBC would contact her after hearing the recording. That never happened.\n\n\"I thought to myself, Oh, that's a bit strange nobody has come to say sorry to me, for his behaviour. So I thought perhaps that particular audio - because it was so graphic - had been cut out, which is probably why I never pursued it.\"\n\nShe says she thought people wouldn't take her seriously: \"I am blonde. Accented.\"\n\nShe says she was also worried about the potential impact on her and her family if she had raised it officially.\n\n\"Had I known audio existed, I probably would have done something as the incident would have been corroborated,\" she says.\n\nWhen she told BBC staff about the story over the years, they would laugh it off, she says.\n\n\"We all did. It was shock and like, 'What, did this really happen?'\"\n\nIn 2019, BBC management was informed about the incident by a BBC staff member who had spoken to Olivia.\n\nShe says nobody from BBC management approached her directly about the incident and no formal action was taken.\n\nOlivia says she feels let down by the BBC.\n\n\"What allowed that output go out like that? What made the BBC think that was appropriate to go out like that? I just don't understand why they didn't investigate this much sooner.\n\n\"And I suspect there's far worse in all those episodes that I can't even stomach to listen to.\"\n\nIn his statement, Morgan added he stopped working with Brand \"several years ago\" and \"was never aware of any allegations of serious sexual misconduct against him\".\n\n\"Looking back on the time I spent working on radio at the BBC, I am regretful to learn that a show I was part of made colleagues uncomfortable at times,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC's director general Tim Davie, who became director of Audio and Music at the BBC a few days after the show was broadcast, has already announced a review of Russell Brand's time at the BBC.\n\nIn its statement on this incident, the BBC invited the woman involved to contact them. \"We would be very keen to hear from her and anyone else who may have information,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"We will of course speak to the bureau team and anyone who was working there in 2008 as part of this.\"\n\n\"Further, the director general has been very clear that some broadcasts from that period were, and are, inexcusable and totally unacceptable, and would never be aired today,\" it added.\n\nBrand resigned from the BBC in October 2008 after he and presenter Jonathan Ross left obscene voicemail messages for Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs about Brand's sexual relationship with Sachs' granddaughter.\n\nThe BBC says its oversight and compliance proceedures were overhauled in 2010 and are now \"markedly different\".\n\nOlivia says she told her family about the incident last weekend.\n\n\"My sister said to me: 'Why didn't you kick him in the nuts and drop elbow him?'\"\n\n\"I couldn't have done that. What I needed to do was get out of that bathroom in one piece, which I did.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, you can visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A tip from the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division sparked raids at several US army bases\n\nSouth Korean police are investigating 17 US soldiers and five other people who allegedly smuggled or used synthetic marijuana via military mail.\n\nThis follows raids in at least two US army bases in May, including Camp Humphreys, its largest overseas base.\n\nA Filipino and a South Korean have been arrested, while prosecutors review the cases against all 22 suspects.\n\nA tip from the US Army's enforcement arm had sparked a four-month investigation by Korean authorities.\n\nIt was one of the largest in recent years involving American soldiers, US media reported citing Cha Min-seok, a senior detective in South Korea.\n\nJoint raids by South Korean police and the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division found 77g (2.7oz) of synthetic cannabis, more than 4kg of \"mixed liquids\" used for vaping and a total of $12,850 (£10,440) in cash at the 22 suspects' homes.\n\nThey are accused of smuggling synthetic marijuana - known by the street names K2 and Spice - into the country through the US military's postal service.\n\nSeven of them, including five soldiers, are thought to have been involved in the sale of the drugs, 12 were users and three acted as middlemen. A soldier's spouse and another soldier's fiancée are also involved, the police told the BBC.\n\nThe 17 soldiers are currently stationed at Camp Humphreys, about 48km (30 miles) south of the capital Seoul, and at Camp Casey, an army outpost about 40km north of Seoul, according to the police.\n\nThey allegedly distributed the drugs on the bases while communicating via Snapchat.\n\nUnited States Forces Korea said on Wednesday that it was aware of the investigation. No soldiers are currently in confinement or being detained in relation to it, it said in a statement.\n\nSynthetic marijuana is made to mimic THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.\n\nWhile it has similar effects to cannabis, it is typically more potent and has been reported to produce adverse health effects, including acute psychotic episodes, paranoid delusions and severe agitation.\n\nIt is difficult to detect because it is often used in liquid form in legal e-cigarette devices, the police said.\n\nIn South Korea, those convicted of trafficking marijuana face from five years to life in prison. Drug possession carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison or a fine of about 50m won ($37,200; £30,300).\n• None US soldier in N Korea was held after fights in Seoul", "Three of Rupert Murdoch's six children have pursued careers in the media - James, Lachlan and Elisabeth. For Succession fans, parallels are drawn with Kendall, Roman and Shiv.\n\nAs fans of the show will know, its driving force is the rivalry between the siblings - something which was interpreted as a reflection on the real-life Murdoch dynasty.\n\nThe once heir-apparentJames Murdoch, 50, started his own hip-hop record label, Rawkus Records, in the mid-1990s, before becoming a News Corp exec.\n\nAfter Lachlan quit Fox in 2005, James was increasingly seen as the heir apparent to his father. He went on to chair BskyB and become CEO and chairman of News International. However, he had to step down from both positions after the phone-hacking scandal at some Murdoch newspapers.\n\nHe later joined 21st Century Fox, but a joint leadership arrangement with older brother Lachlan didn’t work out, and he left his father's companies. He later criticised Murdoch outlets' climate coverage.\n\nThe lower-profile siblingElisabeth Murdoch, 55, has spent time on and off in the family business. She served as managing director of Sky Networks at BskyB in 1996 but left four years later to found her own independent production company, Shine. It produced programmes including Masterchef and The Biggest Loser.\n\nThe company was acquired by News Corp in 2011, but Elisabeth was prevented from taking a seat on the board amid scrutiny over the phone hacking scandal. She left Shine after a merger and now runs a new production company called Sister.\n\nThe successorLachlan Murdoch, 52, began learning the family business at a young age by interning at his father's companies.\n\nHe became chairman and chief executive of News Ltd in 1997, beginning a rapid ascent in Murdoch Sr's empire. In 2005, he abruptly quit his executive positions at News Corp after a battle with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes over the direction of the cable news network.\n\nHaving effectively taken himself out of the track to succession, Lachlan launched his own investment company in Australia, before returning to the family business in 2014 as CEO of Fox Broadcasting and executive chairman of 21st Century Fox.\n\nIt was here that the power-sharing experiment with his brother proved unsuccessful, but after the company was sold to Disney in 2019, Lachlan went on to hold senior roles at Fox Corp and News Corp, ultimately making him well placed to take over from his father.", "The change to government policy on installing new boilers will not affect most households.\n\nThe plan was to phase out the installation of new natural gas boilers from 2035, which is still the policy.\n\nBut there are some changes. The first is that there will be exemptions to that 2035 ban for about 20% of properties where it would be most difficult to move to lower-emission alternatives such as heat pumps.\n\nAlso, in 2026 the government was proposing to start phasing out the installation of boilers powered by oil and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) for properties that could not get gas. The ban has now been moved to 2035.\n\nIn addition the grant available to help cover the cost of installing heat pumps in England and Wales is going up from £5,000 to £7,500.\n\nAnd if you’re wondering why 2035 is the date that keeps coming up – the life of a gas boiler is estimated to be 15 years, so if you get a new one installed after that date, as will now be allowed for a fifth of homes, it is likely you will still be using it in 2050 when the UK has pledged to achieve net zero.\n\nYou can read more about the boiler upgrade scheme and heat pumps here.", "On Wednesday, King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in France for a state visit.\n\nThe three-day trip began with the King and Queen touching down at Orly airport, near Paris.\n\nThey were greeted by the French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, before driving to a ceremonial welcome at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris.\n\nAt the Arc de Triomphe, the King and Queen were greeted by the French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte.\n\nDuring the ceremonial welcome, King Charles performed the re-kindling of the eternal flame using the Comite de la Flamme passed to him by Mr Macron.\n\nFrench Air Force elite acrobatic flying team Patrouille de France and the RAF Red Arrows performed a flypast during the ceremony.\n\nAfter these events the King and Queen travelled to the Elysee Palace, where the King and the French President held a bilateral meeting.\n\nThe King then met members of the public on a walk from the Elysee Palace to the residence of the British Ambassador to France.\n\nFollowing a tradition set by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the King joined President Macron for a ceremonial tree-planting in the garden of the British Ambassador's Residence.\n\nOn Wednesday evening there was a state dinner for the King and Queen at the Palace of Versailles.\n\nActor Hugh Grant was among the guests, attending with his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein.\n\nIvorian footballer Didier Drogba and his partner Gabrielle Lemaire joined the dinner at the Palace of Versailles.\n\nRolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, and his partner Melanie Hamrick were also on the guest list.\n\nFrench-British actress Emma Mackey looked pleased to be in attendance as she walked into the palace.\n\nThe King and Queen then arrived at the Palace of Versailles, walking in with the French president and First Lady.\n\nAt the state banquet the King raised a toast to the president and First Lady, the French people, and the entente cordiale between Britain and France.\n\nThere were toasts all round.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: King Charles III also gave a toast in French at the banquet\n\nGuests enjoyed their meal in the impressive interior of the Palace of Versailles.\n\nOn day two, King Charles was greeted by Senators and members of the National Assembly at the French Senate.\n\nHe made a historic speech, the first time a member of the British Royal Family has spoken from the Senate Chamber.\n\nThe King was greeted with a round of applause and left to a standing ovation.\n\nQueen Camilla and Brigitte Macron visited the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris.\n\nThey launched a new UK-France literary prize, the Entente Litteraire Prize.\n\nAt the reception the Queen shared a joke with British actor Celia Imrie.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla met French sport stars and local youth sports associations in Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris.\n\nCharles was offered a Paris Saint Germain jersey by the club president Nasser al-Khelaifi.\n\nWhile the Queen enjoyed a game of table tennis.\n\nThe King and Queen visited a flower market in Paris, named after the late Queen Elizabeth II who was there on a state visit in 2014.\n\nRain did not seem to dampen the mood as the Royal couple met people in the street afterwards.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The government is facing calls to commit to fresh legislation to fulfil a manifesto commitment to ban the import of hunting trophies into Great Britain.\n\nAn MP's bill to implement the ban looks all but certain to run out of time before the end of the parliamentary session.\n\nMinisters have said they still support a ban.\n\nBut they are now facing calls to promise to use government time to change the law next year.\n\nEvery year, hunters from the UK travel abroad, often to southern Africa, and pay thousands of pounds to legally shoot animals, such as lions and elephants.\n\nUnder current rules, with the right paperwork, they can then bring trophies, such as stuffed heads or horns, back to the UK.\n\nBanning imports from trophy hunting of endangered animals was a commitment in the 2019 Conservative manifesto.\n\nThe measures had been expected in government legislation but ministers instead backed a private members' bill from Conservative MP Henry Smith.\n\nThe legislation would stop hunters bringing back body parts of thousands of species, including lions, rhinos, elephants, and polar bears, which have been killed abroad.\n\nIt passed the Commons comfortably - but it is currently facing opposition in the Lords which means it is unlikely to pass before the end of the parliamentary session on 7 November. That will mean the law goes back to square one.\n\nSome peers have raised concerns about the impact the legislation could have on tourism to some African countries.\n\nThe bill needs to be approved by both the House of Commons and Lords to become law.\n\nGovernment insiders have now conceded the bill is likely to run out of time.\n\nBut they have not yet committed to resurrecting it in the King's Speech, which sets out the legislation the government intends to pursue in the next parliamentary session.\n\nMr Smith said: \"A couple of peers have held it hostage. It's been effectively vetoed by a small handful of unelected people.\"\n\nHe added: \"I will be calling for the government to introduce it in the King's Speech.\"\n\nClaire Bass, from animal welfare campaign group Humane Society International/UK, said: \"In sabotaging this bill a tiny minority of Tory peers have defied the government, their party, the House of Commons, and public opinion.\n\n\"They have used underhand tactics to wreck it, and delivered an extraordinarily shameless defence of the colonial relic that is trophy hunting.\"\n\nShe added that it would be \"an exceptionally weak government that would simply accept this betrayal and abandon its manifesto commitment\" and called for the legislation to be brought back as a government bill.\n\nLabour's shadow environmental secretary, Steve Reed, said: \"We must stop the selfish trophy hunters who want to slaughter then display endangered animals' body parts for their own perverse self-gratification.\n\n\"The Conservative government must stop siding with these killers.\n\n\"If they refuse to act, they will be complicit in the slaughter as they break yet another pre-election promise. The next Labour government will do the right thing and ban the sickening import of these trophies.\"\n\nSouth Africa, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia have all expressed concerns through their high commissioners, arguing the proposed law \"will undermine revenue models which provide incentives to local communities in our countries to maintain wildlife habitats and protect animals from poaching\".\n\nOther critics of the proposed ban have argued that profits from hunting are used to pay for conservation projects in African countries and can ultimately help to protect endangered species.\n\nHowever, animal welfare charities have rejected this, claiming that hardly any of the revenues from trophy hunting ever reach local communities.\n\nBiodiversity Minister Trudy Harrison said: \"I am disappointed that despite the overwhelming support from MPs and the public, the Hunting Trophies Bill failed to progress in the House of Lords.\n\n\"We will continue working to deliver this important manifesto commitment.\"\n• None When is hunting not poaching?", "Sophie Turner says Joe Jonas is refusing to allow their children to return to England\n\nBritish actress Sophie Turner has sued her singer ex-partner Joe Jonas - requesting he return their two children to their \"habitual residence\" England.\n\nThe celebrity couple announced earlier this month that they were divorcing after more than four years of marriage.\n\nThey described the split at the time as \"amicable\".\n\nHowever on Thursday, lawyers for Turner, 27, filed a legal petition citing the \"wrongful detention\" of their children in New York.\n\nThe 34-year-old Jonas Brothers singer, who is American, is seeking joint custody of their two daughters - Willa, who was born in 2020 and their second child, who was born last year but whose name has not been released to the public.\n\nAccording to Turner's legal petition, which the BBC has seen, the couple had made England their \"permanent home\" in April. The documents state that Jonas had incorrectly claimed in his divorce application that the children, who have dual citizenship, had lived in Florida for the six months before he filed it.\n\nTurner and Jonas had agreed that the children were allowed to travel to the US in August, where their father was on tour, the petition states, but this was a \"temporary arrangement\".\n\nThe court filing goes on to say that the pair met late last week to discuss their separation, during which Turner reiterated their \"agreed plan\" for the children to return \"home to England\".\n\nHowever, Jonas has allegedly refused to return their passports and to send them to the UK.\n\nTurner is said to currently be in New York with the children.\n\nIn response to the allegations, a representative for Jonas told CNN that the pair's meeting on Sunday had been \"cordial\" and that his impression was that they had \"reached an understanding that they would work together towards an amicable co-parenting setup.\"\n\n\"The children were born in the US and have spent the vast majority of their lives in the US. They are American citizens,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that Jonas wished for Turner to \"reconsider her harsh legal position and move forward in a more constructive and private manner\" and that \"his only concern is the well-being of his children.\"\n\nJonas has also denied Turner's claims in the court documents that she found out about the divorce from media reports - saying she was aware in advance.\n\nTurner is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, and has also appeared in the drama series The Staircase and the X-Men film franchise.\n\nEarlier this week, Turner was photographed having dinner with pop star Taylor Swift - who dated Jonas in 2008. Online gossip blogs were in overdrive as photos of the two, walking along arm-in-arm, went viral.\n\nAs a solo artist, Jonas released singles including Just In Love and This is Me, a duet with Demi Lovato.\n\nBut his best-known songs are with his brothers Nick and Kevin Jonas. As a group, the Jonas Brothers previously starred in their own Disney Channel series and scored hits with SOS, Burnin' Up, Sucker and Waffle House.\n\nThey recently re-released Year 3000 as a collaboration with Busted, the British band who originally released the song in 2002.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russell Brand posted his denial video on platforms including Rumble, YouTube and X last Friday\n\nVideo site Rumble has hit out at a UK Parliamentary committee that asked if it would cut Russell Brand's income in the wake of sexual assault allegations.\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the House of Commons media committee, wrote to Rumble to say she was \"concerned\" that he could profit from his content.\n\nBut Rumble said that was \"an extremely disturbing letter\" and that the company would not \"join a cancel culture mob\".\n\nBrand has strongly denied the allegations of rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe star has 1.4 million followers on Rumble, where he posted a daily show until the allegations emerged last week.\n\nHis most recent video was on Friday, before Channel 4, the Times and Sunday Times revealed its investigation into him. In it, he said his relationships had been \"always consensual\" and he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\".\n\nBut on Tuesday, YouTube announced it was suspending him from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\".\n\nDame Caroline then wrote to Rumble, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook owner Meta asking if they would follow suit.\n\nIn her letter to Rumble chief executive Chris Pavlovski, she said: \"While we recognise that Rumble is not the creator of the content published by Mr Brand, we are concerned that he may be able to profit from his content on the platform.\n\n\"We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr Brand is able to monetise his content, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him. If so, we would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr Brand's ability to earn money on the platform.\n\n\"We would also like to know what Rumble is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behaviour.\"\n\nThe company posted its response on X.\n\n\"While Rumble obviously deplores sexual assault, rape, and all serious crimes, and believes that both alleged victims and the accused are entitled to a full and serious investigation, it is vital to note that recent allegations against Russell Brand have nothing to do with content on Rumble's platform,\" it said.\n\nNoting YouTube's move, it said Rumble \"stands for very different values\".\n\n\"We have devoted ourselves to the vital cause of defending a free internet - meaning an internet where no one arbitrarily dictates which ideas can or cannot be heard, or which citizens may or may not be entitled to a platform.\n\n\"We regard it as deeply inappropriate and dangerous that the UK Parliament would attempt to control who is allowed to speak on our platform or to earn a living from doing so.\n\n\"Singling out an individual and demanding his ban is even more disturbing given the absence of any connection between the allegations and his content on Rumble. We don't agree with the behavior of many Rumble creators, but we refuse to penalize them for actions that have nothing to do with our platform.\n\n\"Although it may be politically and socially easier for Rumble to join a cancel culture mob, doing so would be a violation of our company's values and mission. We emphatically reject the UK Parliament's demands.\"\n\nOn Monday, police said they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in central London in 2003, following accusations from four women in the Channel 4 and newspaper investigation.\n\nA police unit set up in the wake of crimes by Jimmy Savile is now supporting detectives looking into allegations against Brand.\n\nOperation Hydrant, run by police chiefs in England and Wales, was set up in 2014 to co-ordinate responses to historical allegations of abuse.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are supporting the Metropolitan Police in their response to recent allegations and would urge any victim or survivor who feels ready to report any allegations of sexual assault to come forward and speak to officers.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in her letter to X, Dame Caroline noted owner Elon Musk's reply to Brand's video denying the allegations, when he wrote: \"Of course. They don't like competition.\"\n\nIn light of that comment, the MP asked \"whether Mr Musk has personally intervened in any decisions on Mr Brand's status on the platform\".\n\nHer committee has not yet published any response from the platform to her letter.\n\nTikTok has replied to her, saying it has strict guidelines and will \"continue to keep Mr Brand's content under review\".\n\nBut unlike YouTube, it does not pay users a share of revenue from advertising that runs alongside specific videos. Instead, it has a \"creator fund\".\n\n\"I can confirm that Mr Brand has never been part of this programme\", TikTok's vice president for public policy Europe, Dr Theo Bertram, said.\n\nAsked about YouTube's move, UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer told BBC Radio 4's The Media Show on Wednesday: \"Everyone will take independent decisions in relation to actions that concern them. That is appropriate.\n\n\"There are a number of elements to this, so it's really important that people come forward and the justice system works for them.\"", "Russia said it had evacuated 2,000 ethnic Armenians from villages near the fighting\n\nAzerbaijan's president has declared that his country's sovereignty has been restored over Nagorno-Karabakh after a 24-hour military offensive against ethnic-Armenian forces.\n\nIlham Aliyev praised the heroism of Azerbaijan's army hours after Karabakh forces agreed to surrender.\n\nSome 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the South Caucasus enclave, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.\n\nAzerbaijan now intends to bring the breakaway region under full control.\n\nIts military launched an \"anti-terror\" operation on Tuesday, demanding that Karabakh's forces raise a white flag and dissolve their \"illegal regime\". With no means of support from neighbouring Armenia, and after an effective nine-month blockade, the ethnic Armenians soon gave in.\n\nArmenian officials reported that at least 32 people were killed, including seven civilians, and another 200 wounded. However according to a separatist Armenian human rights official, at least 200 people were killed and more than 400 wounded. The BBC has not been able to verify any of the figures.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Armenian officials accused Azerbaijan of opening fire on troops near the town of Sotk on the border between the two countries after the ceasefire had been agreed, but Azerbaijan immediately denied the claims.\n\nEarlier in the day, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for his handling of the crisis.\n\nAzerbaijan's army said it had captured more than 90 positions from the ethnic Armenians before both sides announced that a complete cessation of hostilities had been agreed through Russian peacekeepers, starting at 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the terms of the truce, outlined by Azerbaijan and Russia, which has peacekeepers on the ground, local Karabakh forces must commit to being completely disbanded as well as disarmed.\n\nThere is also a commitment to Armenian forces pulling out, even though its government denies having any military presence there.\n\nTalks between officials from Baku and Karabakh's Armenian representatives on \"issues of re-integration\" got under way in the town of Yevlakh on Thursday morning.\n\nPresident Aliyev said Azerbaijanis had nothing against the population, only their \"criminal junta\".\n\nYevlakh is some 100km (60 miles) north of Karabakh's regional capital, Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians.\n\nWomen and children are among the 32 dead and 200 wounded in Karabakh, local authorities say\n\nMarut Vanyan, a journalist in Karabakh, said many families had spent Tuesday night in basements: \"I didn't sleep and I didn't eat. It's calm now but it's a strange feeling. Right now, what we need to do is stop this bloodshed and understand what to do next.\"\n\nRussia said its peacekeepers had evacuated 5,000 people from dangerous areas since the offensive had begun, the country's Interfax news agency reported.\n\nAs the ceasefire was announced, Karabakh officials appealed to residents to remain in shelters and not to leave for the local airport, adjacent to a Russian peacekeeping base. However, a crowd of civilians had soon gathered close to the airport and as darkness fell hours later it was unclear what support they would have.\n\nCaucasus specialist Thomas de Waal of Carnegie Europe said the terms of the ceasefire and the coming talks were very much on Azerbaijan's terms and left ethnic Armenians looking unprotected.\n\n\"This looks like the end of a 35-year-old project, some would say a century-old project, of the Armenians of Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We're probably, unfortunately, seeing a project whereby the Azerbaijanis offer so little to the Karabakh Armenians that most if not all of them will leave.\"\n\nArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made clear his government was not involved in the ceasefire text and demanded that Russian peacekeepers take full responsibility for the safety of the local population. On Tuesday he accused Azerbaijan of \"ethnic cleansing\" in Karabakh.\n\nAzerbaijan's presidential envoy Elchin Amirbekov told the BBC that Russian peacekeepers had helped facilitate the ceasefire: \"I think they have to be counted on for the implementation part.\"\n\nSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and its neighbour have fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous, landlocked region in the south-west of Azerbaijan.\n\nThe six-week war in 2020 led to several thousand deaths but enabled Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, to recapture territory surrounding and inside the enclave, leaving the ethnic Armenians isolated.\n\nFor the past nine months, Azerbaijan has conducted an effective blockade of the only road into Karabakh from Armenia, known as the Lachin Corridor. Ethnic Armenians in the enclave complained of shortages of food, medicines and toiletries and Armenia was unable to help.\n\nAlthough some aid was allowed through in recent days, the Karabakh Armenians were very much weakened by the shortages by the time of the Azerbaijani offensive, with little hope of external support.\n\nSome 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were supposed to monitor the 2020 ceasefire but Moscow's interest in Armenia has waned during its war in Ukraine, even though Armenia is part of Russia's CSTO military alliance.\n\nLast May, the Armenian prime minister was quoted as saying his country would be ready to recognise Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan in return for the security of the ethnic Armenian population.\n\n\"The 86,600 sq km of Azerbaijan's territory includes Nagorno-Karabakh,\" Mr Pashinyan was quoted as saying, referring to Azerbaijan as a whole.\n\nRussia has also been annoyed by Mr Pashinyan's apparent pivot to the West.\n\nEarlier this month his wife Anna Hakobyan shook hands with Ukraine's president at a conference in Kyiv, and this week, dozens of Armenian and US soldiers took part in military exercises together.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied Armenian allegations that it did not do enough to help its ally.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said only last week that Russia had no problems with Armenia's prime minister, but added: \"If Armenia itself recognised that Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, what should we do?\"\n\nHundreds of protesters in Yerevan called for the prime minister to resign on Tuesday because of his handling of the crisis and he warned of unidentified forces calling for a coup.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "'We should continue to supply Ukraine'\n\nWith parents from Denmark, Alex is first-generation American - helping Ukraine is a top issue for him. For most of his life he was a Republican, but has shifted away from the party since the US Capitol riot. \"I think the aid that we are providing is very important for the people in Ukraine and the surrounding areas. As long as Ukrainians have a spirit to fight, we should continue to support. Also, I think it's very important for our own country. The lessons that Ukrainians are learning on the battlefield are going to save our soldiers' lives in the next conflict. America has not fought a war like Ukraine is currently fighting since 1945. \"The fact that we cannot manufacture enough artillery shells and ammunition supplies to even support half of what Ukraine is consuming shows that there is a major blind spot in our defence industry. \"My personal belief is that we would already be in a recession in the United States if it were not for the war in Ukraine - money spent on military equipment benefits everyone here. \"We should continue to supply them with whatever they need, but I do strongly feel that that should be done in terms of tanks, planes, and artillery instead of just giving them a big cheque.\"", "Steve Moore says the hospital only has 50% of its beds due to the closures\n\nA hospital will be partially closed for most of next year after the discovery of crumbling concrete.\n\nWithybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire has lost 50% of its beds according to the chief executive.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or Raac, was used mostly in flat roofing between 1950s and 1990s as a cheaper alternative to concrete, but has a lifespan of 30 years.\n\nAffected patients have been moved or discharged.\n\nSix wards on the second floor of the 12-ward hospital have shut because of the amount of Raac found.\n\nOther affected areas, including parts of the first floor and kitchen, had metal props to support the ceiling.\n\nThe physiotherapy ward was one of the wards that was able to reopen after closing last month, but staff must work around metal props.\n\nSteve Moore, chief executive of Hywel Dda Health Board, said he was concerned about winter pressures.\n\n\"We've probably lost about 50% of our beds so it is a worry,\" he said. \"As we go into the winter we're going to see increases of demand at our front doors.\"\n\nHe said plans are in place but it will be \"a really difficult time\".\n\n\"Our job now is to try and, as quickly as possible, fix the areas that we've got these critical issues in so that we can start to reopen wards.\n\n\"The first ward should reopen at the end of September with patients hopefully coming back at the beginning of October.\n\n\"It does feel like things will start to gradually get better but we'll be fixing this issue for probably most of next year,\" Mr Moore said.\n\nMetal props support the ceiling in parts of the hospital\n\nAccording to the health board, the props will be in place until April next year.\n\nMost patients have been moved 12 miles (19 km) away to South Pembrokeshire hospital, or about a half-hour drive.\n\nSome planned surgeries have been moved a two-hour drive away to Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, 68 miles (109 km) from Withybush.\n\nMr Moore called it a \"quite a worrying time\" for patients.\n\n\"Of course, the environment is not ideal, and we've had to move some beds out of some areas and into others that are not entirely suitable.\"\n\n\"I would like to apologise to some patients who are experiencing that.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has given the health board £13m for repairs, but experts say that Raac will need to be replaced completely due to its fragility.\n\nWard closures mean staff are concerned about the winder pressures as they will be working at a lower capacity\n\nMr Moore said this funding was not enough to offer a long-term solution. \"It will absolutely deal with the short-term issue so it will make the hospital safe and that will ensure that people are safe.\"\n\n\"We've got low-risk areas that we'll have to continue to check every year. What we know about this material is that it can become high risk very quickly and unpredictably. So there's likely going to be need for ongoing repair for the next few years.\"\n\nLast week the health board held a public meeting to discuss potential sites for a new hospital in west Wales.\n\nThe new hospital is due to open in 2029.\n\nMr Moore said the current Raac situation emphasised the need to make the new hospital plans a priority.\n\n\"There will be ongoing disruption going on at Withybush for many years. But I think that underlines the need for getting on with building this new hospital.\"\n\nTim Griffiths says it has been hard to get the message across to patients that the hospital cannot deliver the therapy it wants to\n\nTim Griffiths, the lead physiotherapist for acute and community services in Pembrokeshire, said it had not been an easy time for staff.\n\n\"I think it's trying to get the understanding [to the patients] that we can't quite deliver the therapy that we'd want us to deliver.\n\n\"That's hard for people because they deserve to have the best possible standard of care. But we've got to have those conversations that we haven't got the resources that we should have.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said that it will continue to work with the health board to mitigate the risks of Raac at Withybush, to ensure the site is safe for patients, staff and visitors.", "The family of a US man who drowned after driving off a collapsed bridge are claiming that he died because Google failed to update its maps.\n\nPhilip Paxson's family are suing the company over his death, alleging that Google negligently failed to show the bridge had fallen nine years earlier.\n\nMr Paxson died in September 2022 after attempting to drive over the damaged bridge in Hickory, North Carolina.\n\nA spokesperson for Google said the company was reviewing the allegations.\n\nThe case was filed in civil court in Wake County on Tuesday.\n\nMr Paxson, a father of two, was driving home from his daughter's ninth birthday party at a friend's house and was in an unfamiliar neighbourhood at the time of his death, according to the family's lawsuit.\n\nHis wife had driven his two daughters home earlier, and he stayed behind to help clean up.\n\n\"Unfamiliar with local roads, he relied on Google Maps, expecting it would safely direct him home to his wife and daughters,\" lawyers for the family said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.\n\n\"Tragically, as he drove cautiously in the darkness and rain, he unsuspectingly followed Google's outdated directions to what his family later learned for nearly a decade was called the 'Bridge to Nowhere,' crashing into Snow Creek, where he drowned.\"\n\nLocal residents had repeatedly contacted Google to have them change their online maps after the bridge collapsed in 2013, the suit claims.\n\nThe bridge collapsed nine years before the death\n\nBarriers that were normally placed across the bridge entrance were missing due to vandalism, according to the Charlotte Observer.\n\nThe lawsuit is also suing three local companies, arguing they had a duty to maintain the bridge.\n\n\"Our girls ask how and why their daddy died, and I'm at a loss for words they can understand because, as an adult, I still can't understand how those responsible for the GPS directions and the bridge could have acted with so little regard for human life,\" his wife, Alicia Paxson, said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the deepest sympathies for the Paxson family,\" a spokesman for Google told AP News.\n\n\"Our goal is to provide accurate routing information in Maps and we are reviewing this lawsuit.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Keir Starmer made the remarks during a panel discussion alongside the Norwegian PM in Canada\n\nLabour has tried to clarify its intended post-Brexit relationship with the EU, after comments from Sir Keir Starmer at a conference.\n\nA video has emerged of the Labour leader saying the party doesn't want to \"diverge\" from the bloc's regulations.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove said the remarks showed Labour would \"compromise\" potential Brexit benefits.\n\nBut Labour suggested his remarks were limited to the areas of food, environmental and labour standards.\n\nA spokesperson added it did not support the process, known as dynamic alignment, under which the UK would pledge to maintain similar laws to the EU in a number of areas.\n\nSir Keir's remarks, made on Saturday during a conference of centre-left leaders in Canada, were first reported by Sky News but were also livestreamed at the time.\n\nHe told an audience at the summit: \"Most of the conflict with the UK being outside of the (EU) arises insofar as the UK wants to diverge and do different things to the rest of our EU partners.\n\n\"Obviously the more we share values, the more we share a future together, the less the conflict, and actually, different ways of solving problems become available,\" he said.\n\n\"Actually we don't want to diverge, we don't want to lower standards, we don't want to rip up environmental standards, working standards for people at work, food standards and all the rest of it.\n\n\"Suddenly you're in a space where notwithstanding the obvious fact that we are outside the EU and not in the EEA, there's a lot more common ground than you might think.\"\n\nIt was not immediately obvious from the remarks whether he was talking about divergence in the specific areas he mentioned, or in general.\n\nAfter the Sky report, a series of Conservative ministers seized on the remarks to suggest the Labour leader was changing his Brexit stance.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove said they revealed \"the real Keir Starmer,\" and reduce the UK's \"power\" after Brexit to design better regulations in a number of areas.\n\nPosting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it showed Sir Keir \"wants to rejoin the EU in all but name\".\n\nA Labour spokesperson rejected the idea the party would take the UK back into the EU, adding that Sir Keir had also ruled out rejoining its single market or customs union.\n\nThey added: \"The Tories have not used Brexit to diverge on food, environmental or labour standards and if they have a plan to do so then they should come clean with people.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It shouldn't come as a surprise to people that an incoming Labour government doesn't want to dilute workers' rights, environmental protections or food standards.\"\n\nIn the dictionary of Brexit, there are certain trigger words. \"Diverge\" is one of them.\n\nThat is because diverging from the European Union, its institutions but also its rules, is at the core of Brexit.\n\nThose who advocated Brexit from the outset will always point to the fact that Keir Starmer not only campaigned for Remain, but also wanted a second referendum.\n\nSo his language will always be pored over by his critics, seeking to argue that his instincts to are to dilute the consequences of withdrawal, or fail to maximise the benefits, depending on your point of view.\n\nThis is the context in which Labour has made this clarification.\n\nWithout agreeing to \"dynamic alignment\", the UK is set to move away from EU laws in a number of areas over time, as the bloc updates its own regulations.\n\nBut the government has also actively moved away from EU regulations in areas including farm subsidies and rules on providing taxpayer support to businesses, and has plans to do so in areas like data protection.\n\nHowever, it has also ditched a plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year, instead announcing 600 regulations it wants to change or get rid of before the end of the year.\n\nSir Keir recently raised questions over the relationship a future Labour government could have with the EU, saying his party would seek a \"much better\" Brexit trade deal with the bloc.\n\nHe said the deal, originally negotiated by Boris Johnson and up for review in 2025, was \"too thin\" and said he would improve it, although he did not specify how.\n\nLabour says it would negotiate a new agreement on the movement on animal products, and recently said it wanted a new deal with the EU to stop migrant crossings over the English Channel.", "Police had not received a complaint about the incident\n\nA councillor will face no action after being accused of voting in a meeting while driving his car.\n\nA complaint against Conwy councillor Andrew Wood was made in December, accusing him of raising his hand while the car was moving, which he denied.\n\nPublic services ombudsman for Wales Michelle Morris has decided no sanctions will be taken against him.\n\nThe decision was made on the grounds that the incident was a \"one-off\" and police were not investigating.\n\nDuring the meeting, which was being held remotely, Mr Wood's car appeared to be stationary but later, when he raised his hand to vote, it was moving.\n\nAt the time of the incident Mr Wood, an independent member who represents Gele and Llanddulas, did not reply to several messages from BBC Wales, but told the Daily Post: \"I can tell you I have not done a Zoom meeting while driving a vehicle.\n\n\"The only time I have ever attended a meeting whilst in my vehicle would have been an audio meeting only.\n\n\"I play it through my Bluetooth, other than that I do not have a clue as it's never been pointed out to me. I know nothing about it.\"\n\nOpposition members of the authority, however, described his actions as \"completely reckless\".\n\nMs Morris said her investigation centred on whether he had breached the council's code of conduct by bringing his office or authority into disrepute.\n\nIn her decision, which has just been published, she said: \"The video footage from the first council meeting showed the member to be driving a vehicle whilst participating in the meeting and the member acknowledged that this was the case.\n\n\"The member felt it important that he attend all meetings. Subsequent videos showed the car either to be stationary or that the member was in the passenger seat.\"\n\nAndrew Wood was seen on Zoom sitting in a car for the meeting\n\nNorth Wales Police has not received a complaint and feels it would not now be in the public interest to investigate the matter.\n\nMs Morris said Mr Wood's actions \"demonstrated poor judgement and had the potential to bring the council into disrepute\".\n\nShe concluded that as it was a single incident and there was no criminal investigation, no action would be taken, but her decision would be held on record and taken into account if similar behaviour were to happen again.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Car firms will still be forced to meet strict quotas for selling electric cars despite the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles being delayed.\n\nFrom January, just over a fifth of vehicles sold must be electric, with the target expected to hit 80% by 2030.\n\nThe government confirmed the policy would remain even though Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the petrol and diesel ban would be moved to 2035.\n\nFirms that fail to hit the quotas could be fined £15,000 per car.\n\nIndustry insiders said the quotas would be a \"stretch\" for manufacturers to achieve, adding the delayed ban could make it harder to sell electric cars, while Auto Trader suggested firms might cut prices to boost sales and meet targets.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the government's decision to push back the ban, insisting the UK will meet its net zero targets.\n\nBut there was some uncertainty whether the change to the ban would affect the quotas for electric sales, before Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch confirmed that the so-called Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate would remain in place.\n\nIt is expected the mandate will require car makers to ensure 22% of vehicles sold are electric next year and increase each year after that to reach 80% by 2030.\n\nIf a car maker fails to hit the targets, it will either face fines expected to be £15,000 per vehicle, or have to buy a surplus credit from a company that has sold lots of electric vehicles. However, a firm could claim back penalties if it surpasses the quota in future.\n\nOne large manufacturer told the BBC that forcing firms to hit the target on electric vehicle sales, while pushing back the ban on new petrol and diesel cars, would make it harder for firms to sell the electric ones.\n\nIan Plummer, commercial director of online car selling site Auto Trader, said the quota on firms for electric car sales would be a \"stretch for the majority of manufactures to achieve\" in its current form.\n\nHe said to meet targets \"some manufacturers are likely to use price reductions as a lever\" to attract drivers to buy electric.\n\n\"It's likely price will need to play a big part in this,\" he added.\n\n\"Electric vehicles carry a hefty price premium, so if prices come down, they'll suddenly become a far more attractive proposition for a greater pool of car buyers.\"\n\nAccording to Auto Trader, the average price of a new electric vehicle is 39% more expensive than a petrol or diesel equivalent.\n\nPrices for second-hand electric cars are almost double (£31,946) on average compared to used petrol (£16,332) and diesel (£16,233) cars, and electric prices in the second-hand market are increasing as demand rises.\n\nMotor industry analyst Philip Nothard, insight and strategy director at Cox Automotive, told the BBC the target for electric car sales was \"arguably a greater influence\" on the market than delaying the ban on new internal combustion engine vehicles.\n\nHe added that because many carmakers were already committed to hybrid and electric-only ranges based on the government's previous 2030 policy, greener vehicles might be more attractive to buyers in terms of price because consumers would eventually face a \"limited choice\" of new petrol and diesel cars, causing the prices of those vehicles to rise.\n\nThe targets for electric car sales mean only a maximum of 20% or less of new cars sold by 2030 can be petrol or diesel, with some of those likely to be hybrids.\n\nCar manufacturers have given mixed responses to the decision pushing the ban on new petrol and diesel car sales back from 2030 to 2035. Ford said the move undermined its electric car investment plans, but Toyota welcomed the announcement, saying the delay was \"pragmatic\".\n\nMotor industry sources said the impact of the ban being delayed was expected to be limited.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said the regulations compelling increased sales of electric vehicles \"remains the single most important mechanism to deliver the UK's net zero commitment\", rather than the ban on new cars with petrol and diesel engines being changed.\n\nHe said consumers needed to be encouraged to make the switch, which would \"require a package of incentives for private buyers that complements those on offer to businesses, as well as measures to accelerate the rollout of charge points\".\n\nPrior to Mr Sunak announcing a shift in policy, the government had planned to ban the sale of new, pure petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030. Now, it will begin in 2035.\n\nBy phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicle sales, it aims to accelerate the transition to electric and achieve net zero by 2050. Net zero is when a country's net carbon emissions are cut to zero, and is seen as vital to tackling climate change.\n\nUnder the ban, from 2035 only electric battery-powered cars and other zero-emission vehicles will be able to be bought new. However, most people will not be affected by the ban immediately, as the majority of drivers buy vehicles second hand and only sales of new petrol and diesel models would be affected - not existing ones.\n\nThe delay in the ban brings the UK into line with the European Union, which is also banning sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was an abundance of ceremony and security as the King and Queen's state visit to France got under way in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe Arc de Triomphe, with a flypast trailing the colours of the French flag, was the first backdrop for this diplomatic theatre, with President Emmanuel Macron pulling out all the stops for his royal visitors.\n\nAnd there was Mick Jagger shouting \"bon soir\" as he rolled into the Palace of Versailles for a state banquet, representing rock royalty.\n\nQueen Camilla took her place on the Versailles red carpet in a blue Dior cape, while the King and President Macron did that pretending to talk thing, while they lined up for the cameras.\n\nFormer Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger seemed surprised to be one of the final guests, looking rather lost on the red carpet like a goalkeeper stranded in the wrong penalty box.\n\nBut there's a serious purpose below this minutely-choreographed pageantry and celebrity. A state visit is a strange mix of PR and politics.\n\nThis was about visibly reinforcing a key alliance between Britain and France and over the next few days there will be a checklist of areas of common interest - trade, the environment, culture and defence.\n\nThe British royals were guests of honour at a dinner hosted by President Macron in the Palace of Versailles' Hall of Mirrors\n\nThis was all toasted at a banquet - blue lobster to start - where even the cheeses had to be balanced with one British, Stilchelton, and one French, Comte.\n\nThe King's speech for the banquet toast was delivered in French and English, which is always a diplomatic crowd pleaser. And he remembered hearing how his mother had danced in Paris in 1948 as a young newly-wed in her twenties.\n\nThe then Princess Elizabeth had been serenaded by Edith Piaf. She would have been pregnant with Charles by then and he said: \"I suspect it may have left an indelible impression on me, even six months before I was born. La Vie en Rose is one of my favourite songs to this day.\"\n\nThe background to all of this politesse, as the French newspapers made clear, was about nurturing a relationship that might have been strained by Brexit.\n\nBut a survey of what the French and British public feel about each other, published to coincide with the state visit, suggested that we actually quite like each other.\n\nThere were 72% of people in Britain and 76% in France who thought that although the countries might sometimes \"squabble\", in the end the countries were \"natural friends and close allies\", in this survey of over 2,000 people by Portland Communications.\n\nRock royalty Mick Jagger was in attendance at the black tie dinner\n\nThere were big differences though in attitudes towards the monarchy. Only about a quarter of French people would prefer a constitutional monarchy like Britain and about a quarter of people in Britain would support a republic like France.\n\nThe French public thought that policing was better in the UK than their own, but only 10% preferred British cooking.\n\nIn another insight, the survey found by a big margin that people in Britain believed that King Charles would have voted to remain in the EU in the Brexit referendum.\n\nBut if the question from the current state visit had been how did the French public respond to the King and Queen - it would be impossible to say.\n\nBecause such state visits are also dominated by a huge road-blocking security operation. In Paris it wasn't liberte, egalite, fraternite but securite, securite, securite.\n\nThere was little chance so far for the French crowds to see the King and Queen. At the Arc de Triomphe there were soldiers, police and a big media contingent, but the ordinary Parisians were kept far away behind security barriers.\n\nIt is the King's second state visit as monarch\n\nIt was the same in Versailles, with a secure distance between the diners at the banquet and the ordinary people that the Sun King Louis XIV would have appreciated.\n\nThis was the first of a three-day visit, with the King set to give a speech to the Senate and travel to eco-projects in Bordeaux.\n\nSo expect more photo opportunities as the heads of state of the two countries show each other a taste of the entente cordiale.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Behind his mild-mannered demeanour, Rishi Sunak's announcement was an excoriating demolition of the Conservative governments that came before his, some of which he was a member of.\n\nBoris Johnson didn't get a name check as the prime minister outlined a major shift in green policies, but boy his ideas and instincts were shredded; painted as shallow and not thought through.\n\nIn the news conference room in No 9 Downing Street, Mr Sunak stood in front of a new slogan with - and I know this is niche - a new font.\n\n\"Long term decisions for a brighter future,\" it read - expect to see that rather prominently around the place at the Conservative party conference in Manchester in ten days' time.\n\nMr Sunak framed this announcement as a blunt, direct and pragmatic clearing up job that also illustrated his political creed - willing to embrace controversy to deliver what he believes is a hard-headed necessity.\n\nHe sought to walk towards the blizzard of criticism - an unlikely alliance taking in Ford and the National Trust among many others - rather than cower from it.\n\nNo 10 certainly hadn't planned for their ideas to get leaked, as they were to the BBC, and were mighty narked that they had.\n\nBut the rows about the substance of what they were saying were expected, and embraced.\n\nThis is the beginning of a wider political strategy.\n\nFurther speeches will follow this autumn on wider themes; expect more leaning in from the prime minister towards a more aggressive approach.\n\nOn these green themes, he and his advisers hope, beyond those with megaphones and PR departments condemning him today, many might quietly conclude he is on to something and being reasonable.\n\nAnd when one of the big political parties makes a bit of a splash with a policy launch or change of direction, it is always instructive to closely observe how their opponents react.\n\nLabour's response to this - beyond the predictable criticism of the Conservatives - was cautious. There wasn't an instant commitment to reversing all of the Conservative changes.\n\nThe party's position on the time to ban new petrol and diesel cars publicly shifted. There was an initial hesitancy about what they would do, before later committing to restoring the ban from 2030, rather than 2035.\n\nIn other words, Labour were forced to rapidly work out how to respond, and the space for a political argument is opening up; a wedge between them.\n\nNow, the big question hovers. Will Mr Sunak's pitch be popular?\n\nFolk in government are already pointing to a poll they claim suggests it is. Others point to polling which hints at the opposite.\n\nIn short, for Mr Sunak, this is a gamble.\n\nHaving assiduously avoided stoking public rows within the Conservative Party for the last year, he has now chosen to do just that.\n\nThose rows extend to parliament, and to the country.\n\nBut a prime minister miles behind their opponents, with an election on the horizon, has no choice but to gamble.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Starmer meets Macron for 'get to know you' talks", "MPs have called on the government to do more to support rape victims\n\nThree-quarters of survivors of sexual violence who took part in a survey say their mental health worsened because of how the police investigated.\n\nSome said the perpetrator continued to harm them because police did not take their report seriously; others wished they had never contacted the police.\n\nFour in 10 respondents did not feel believed, according to the research.\n\nSafeguarding minister Sarah Dines said she would be encouraging chief constables to reflect on the findings.\n\nOne survivor said: \"I am more afraid of the police than being raped again.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I would rather be assaulted 1,000 times over than go through the police process again.\"\n\nSome 1,968 survivors who had interacted with the police opted to take part in the anonymous survey between 16 January and 30 June. A further 190 survivors shared why they chose not to make a police report.\n\nIt was funded by the Home Office as part of Operation Soteria Bluestone. All police forces in England and Wales are signed up to the programme, aimed at transforming how rape and sexual offences are investigated.\n\nSome survivors told the survey that officers had protected them from further harm, \"treating them with tremendous kindness, empathy, and care\".\n\nThese were, \"sadly\", a minority, the report said.\n\nAlmost a third (31%) said they did not always feel safe in the presence of the officers.\n\nIn addition to 75% saying their mental health deteriorated, 55% said their physical health decreased, 41% said their personal safety declined, and 54% said their trust in police declined due to their police experience.\n\nOne participant said seeing a police car now triggers a panic attack.\n\nMore than half (56%) of respondents said they were unlikely to report a rape to the police again.\n\nSome said they had been raped again since their report, but had not told the police. They said they feared the police more than the perpetrator.\n\nThe report says this \"suggests that as a result of traumatic police experiences, some survivors have de-facto lost access to what should be a universal public service available to all - being able to call the police when in danger\".\n\nProfessor Katrin Hohl, lead academic on the survey, said: \"The findings are sobering. They evidence the tremendous harm poor policing has caused to many rape and sexual assault survivors.\"\n\nBlack and minority ethnic survivors were less likely than white respondents to feel the police had looked at all the evidence, made them feel comfortable, or made them feel like the rape or sexual assault was not their fault.\n\nPeople who had been harmed by a current partner reported the poorest experiences, compared with those assaulted by a stranger or those with other relationships to the perpetrator.\n\nAutistic survivors and those with a physical disability also reported poorer experiences.\n\nBut people who either reported the case in the previous six months or who had contact with the police in the three months prior reported significantly better experiences.\n\nSix in 10 of these respondents said police did a good job in their case, compared with 36% whose last police contact was more than three months ago.\n\nThis could be an early sign of improvements in how cases are being handled, the report says. It could also, however, reflect that experiences tend to be more positive in the initial stages of the investigation.\n\nResearchers said the survey is not representative of all survivors' experiences with the police, due to the way participants were selected, and therefore cannot be used to generalise.\n\nOf those who took part, 27 said the person they had accused was a serving police officer at the time of the assault. Three people were allowed to join a police force despite the rape or sexual assault report made against them.\n\nOne survivor said the officer investigating their case went on to rape them.\n\nSafeguarding minister Sarah Dines said: \"Rape is an abhorrent crime and I have been clear that we need radical improvement in the way the police handle and investigate rape and sexual violence to ensure all victims have the best support possible throughout the entire process.\n\n\"I am committed to supporting officers to strengthen their response to these crimes, which is why I am continuing to fund the ambitious programme, Operation Soteria, to transform the way that rape investigations and prosecutions are handled and progressed, with a focus on investigating the suspect rather than the victim.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) said Operation Soteria would improve victims' experiences and address low charge and conviction rates.\n\nThanking survivors for taking part in the survey, Chief Constable Sarah Crew, NPCC lead for rape and adult sexual offences, said: \"We have taken an honest and open look at the way we work, have welcomed academics in to scrutinise it and provide us with direction for how we can improve.\n\n\"This is not easy, but it is vital, we are determined to do better for victims.\"\n\nThe survey will remain open until June 2024.", "Dan Wootton has claimed he has been the victim of a \"witch hunt\" by \"nefarious players\"\n\nGB News has said it is continuing to \"monitor\" allegations against presenter Dan Wootton but that they have not been \"proved by an independent body\".\n\nWootton presents a self-titled show on the channel from Mondays to Thursdays.\n\nIn July, he told viewers he had made \"errors of judgement\" but strongly denied any criminality.\n\nThe allegations, first reported by the Byline Times, include using fake online identities and offering money to others for explicit material of themselves.\n\nOn Tuesday, the chair of the House of Commons media committee wrote to GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos to ask \"what, if any, investigations or processes have been undertaken since the recent complaints about Mr Wootton were publically raised\".\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage noted in her letter that the Sun newspaper, for whom Wootton worked until 2021, has an \"ongoing investigation into his alleged behaviour\".\n\nThe publishers of Mail Online said in August that it had \"paused\" his column.\n\n\"Since then, we are aware that Mr Wootton continues to broadcast on GB News, and indeed discussed the accusations against him during a broadcast on the channel on 19 July 2023,\" Dame Caroline wrote.\n\nIn his reply, Mr Frangopoulos said: \"Serious allegations have been made against Dan Wootton, but, as far we are aware, none of these allegations have been admitted or proved by an independent body. GB News continues to monitor the situation.\"\n\nHe added: \"Were a formal complaint to be raised by a member of our staff, then GB News would, of course, take appropriate steps.\"\n\nOn his show on 19 July, Wootton claimed he was the victim of a \"witch hunt\" by \"nefarious players\".\n\nAt the time, the Metropolitan Police said officers were \"assessing information to establish whether any criminal offence has taken place\", adding: \"There is no police investigation at this time.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "US cities such as New York have been struggling to shelter thousands of migrants arriving from South America\n\nVenezuelans seeking asylum in the US who are already living in the country will be allowed to work legally under new rules announced by the Biden administration.\n\nAbout 472,000 people will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months.\n\nIt follows calls by Democrats to expand work access for newly-arrived migrants.\n\nUS cities have been grappling with large numbers fleeing economic and political turmoil in Venezuela.\n\nPeople must have been living in the US on or before 31 July to be eligible for temporary deportation relief and access to work permits under TPS. If granted, they will be allowed to work while they wait for an asylum determination to be made.\n\nSome 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 policy that was renewed last year.\n\nThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the expansion of protected status for Venezuelans was warranted due to the country's \"increased instability and lack of safety\".\n\n\"Temporary protected status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return,\" Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.\n\n\"That is the situation that Venezuelans who arrived here on or before 31 July of this year find themselves in.\"\n\nThose who have arrived after that date, Mr Mayorkas said, will \"be removed when they are found to not have a legal basis to stay\".\n\nNew York Mayor Eric Adams had been calling on President Joe Biden to allow migrants to have access to employment.\n\nThe city has been struggling to shelter tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from Venezuela, in more than 200 hotels, shelters, tent cities and other facilities.\n\nMr Adams, a Democrat, blamed the federal and state government for not providing enough aid for the city to offer housing and other social services for new arrivals.\n\n\"Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to 'Let Them Work,' so I want to thank President Biden for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nIn a joint statement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries - both New York Democrats - said that the move is a \"welcome step forward\" that \"will provide needed relief to New York's systems straining to support newly arrived immigrants\".\n\n\"The decision will also substantially reduce the cost to New York taxpayers with respect to the sheltering of asylum seekers,\" the statement added.\n\nNew York's Governor, Kathy Hochul, said that while there's \"more work to do\", state officials are ready to \"immediately\" begin the process of \"signing people up for work [and] getting them into jobs so they can become self-sufficient\".\n\nThe number of migrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border has rebounded in recent months, after a drop in May following the Biden administration's new stricter asylum rules.\n\nRepublican-led states have been transporting migrants to Democratic-run areas in protest at border policies.\n\nThey said the measure was designed to increase pressure on President Biden to do more to reduce the number of migrants crossing the southern US border.\n\nThe United Nations says more than seven million people have left Venezuela as the oil giant's economy has collapsed under President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013.", "Rupert Murdoch said his son Lachlan (R) would head both Fox and News Corp\n\nMedia mogul Rupert Murdoch says he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, with his son Lachlan to head both companies.\n\nIn a memo to employees, Murdoch said \"the time is right\" for him to take on \"different roles\".\n\nMurdoch, 92, launched Fox News in 1996. It is now the most watched TV news channel in the US.\n\nMurdoch said he will transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus of both firms in mid-November.\n\n\"Our companies are in robust health, as am I. Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges,\" he wrote. \"We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years - I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them.\"\n\nLachlan Murdoch, 52, is the son of Rupert Murdoch and his second wife, Anna Maria dePeyster. The billionaire patriarch has been married four times and has six children - many of whom followed their father into the family business.\n\nThe question of succession had largely come down to the second, third and fourth - Elisabeth, Lachlan and James.\n\nLachlan, 52, emerged as the heir apparent during his time as an executive in the late 1990s. However, he left the business in 2005 after a feud with then boss of Fox News, Roger Ailes. Lachlan returned to his father's empire in 2014 and has held top positions ever since.\n\nJames Murdoch, the more liberally-minded son, quit the News Corp board in 2020 because of \"disagreements over certain editorial content\" and other grievances with the direction of the company.\n\nElisabeth, 55, held various high-ranking roles in the business but started her own television company, Shine, which produced shows like MasterChef and The Biggest Loser.\n\nThe transition comes during a turbulent year for Fox, which in April agreed to pay a $787.5m (£634m) settlement after being sued by voting machine company Dominion over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe network is still facing a second, similar lawsuit from another voting technology firm, Smartmatic, seeking an even larger sum of $2.7bn.\n\nThen on 25 April, Fox announced it would \"part ways\" with Tucker Carlson, its highest rated TV host - amid reports the decision came from the very top.\n\nThe Murdoch move falls a year before the US presidential election, in which right-leaning Fox News has significant influence. The network is hosting a number of debates between Republicans vying to be the party's 2024 White House candidate.\n\nJournalist Michael Wolff is set to release a highly anticipated tell-all book about Fox's ruling family in just a few days, titled \"The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty\". A second Murdoch book, by CNN media journalist Brian Stelter, will be published on 14 November.\n\nIn his memo to staff, Rupert Murdoch vowed to continue to be involved in the \"contest of ideas\".\n\nHe also criticised other media outlets as being \"in cahoots\" with a \"rarefied class\" of elites who he accused of \"peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth\".\n\nIn a statement, Lachlan Murdoch said that his father \"will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of Rupert Murdoch's biggest acquisitions, in his 70-year media career\n\nThe elder Murdoch began his career in his native Australia in the 1950s, eventually buying the News of the World and The Sun newspapers in the UK in 1969.\n\nHe later purchased a number of US publications including the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. Through News Corp, he remains the owner of hundreds of local, national and international media outlets.\n\nHis career, however, has not been without its mishaps. In 2005, for example, he bought the social media site Myspace for more than half a billion dollars. It was crushed by Facebook and later sold for just $35m.\n\nHis most damaging moment in the UK was the notorious phone hacking scandal, which erupted after it emerged that the News of the World had listened to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemails. It was a humiliation for Murdoch personally - and came at huge financial cost. His company is reported to have paid more than £1bn in pay-outs to phone hacking victims.\n\nUntil today's announcement, Lachlan Murdoch had served as the executive chair of Fox Corporation and Nova Entertainment.\n\nFox shares rose almost 2% after the news, while News Corps shares rose a more modest 0.6%.\n\nProfessor Anat Alon-Beck, a corporate law expert, said that ultimately market reaction to Lachlan's promotion will depend on whether Fox has a \"solid and smart\" plan that ensures \"that the company's leadership isn't jeopardised just because the most powerful person, CEO, leaves the role\".\n\nWhile Lachlan was the expected choice to replace his father, it is unclear what will happen when the elder Murdoch dies.\n\nAny transfer of shares from Murdoch to his six adult children could potentially set the stage for a battle for the future of the media empire.\n\nA 2007 picture shows Rupert Murdoch with three of his children - James (L), Elisabeth, and Lachlan\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak has delayed a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in a major change to the government's approach to achieving net zero by 2050.\n\nThe prime minister announced exemptions and delays to several key green policies, alongside a 50% increase in cash incentives to replace gas boilers.\n\nThe government could not impose \"unacceptable costs\" linked to reducing emissions on British families, he said.\n\nIt's prompted fierce criticism from the opposition and some industry bosses.\n\nMr Sunak also faced attacks from his own party, but many Conservative MPs came out in favour of the new direction, alongside some in the car industry.\n\nThe changes come as Mr Sunak seeks to create dividing lines with opposition parties ahead of a general election, expected next year.\n\nFraming the changes as \"pragmatic and proportionate\", the prime minister has unpicked several of Boris Johnson's key policies, many of them launched when Mr Sunak was serving as chancellor.\n\nIn a speech from Downing Street on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said moving too fast on green policies \"risks losing the consent of the British people\".\n\nAmong the key changes announced were:\n\nMr Sunak ran the changes past a hastily organised cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning, after proposals were revealed by the BBC.\n\nResponding to the statement, Labour unequivocally committed itself to keeping the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nShadow environment secretary Steve Reed said without the ban the UK would miss its target to hit net zero - this is the point at which a country is no longer adding to the overall amount of harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nMr Reed said the prime minster had \"sold out the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st Century\" for Britain \"to lead the world in transition to well-paid secured new jobs of the green economy\".\n\nScottish First Minister Humza Yousaf told the BBC the move was \"utterly unforgiveable\" and \"very firmly takes the UK out of the global consensus\".\n\nSpeaking from a UN summit on climate action, which Mr Sunak had declined to attend, Mr Yousaf said: \"The same day the whole world is gathered to talk about what more we can do, we have a UK prime minister rolling back on [the UK's] commitments.\"\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason says Mr Sunak and his advisers will hope that beyond the criticism, many voters might quietly conclude he is onto something and being reasonable.\n\nMr Sunak's proposals are dividing his party, Parliament, and many in the country, but the PM will be looking at Labour's lead in the opinion polls and concluding he has no choice but to gamble.\n\nAnd the political choices outlined in his speech preview more announcements later this autumn, as Mr Sunak promised he would set out \"a series of long term decisions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak's shift on green policies - what he said then and now\n\nBillions of pounds has already been invested across multiple industries, including car makers and energy firms, in preparation of the previous deadlines.\n\nKorean carmaker Kia, which has plans to launch nine new electric vehicles over the next few years, said the announcement was disappointing as it \"alters complex supply chain negotiations and product planning, whilst potentially contributing to consumer and industry confusion\".\n\nThe chief executive of energy company E.On, Chris Norbury, said it was a \"misstep on many levels\", adding that it was a \"false argument\" to suggest green policies can only come at a cost.\n\n\"We risk condemning people to many more years of living in cold and draughty homes that are expensive to heat, in cities clogged with dirty air from fossil fuels, missing out on the economic regeneration this ambition brings,\" Mr Norbury said.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which announced hundreds of new jobs in the West Midlands a few days ago, welcomed the change, calling it \"pragmatic\" and adding that it brings the UK in line with other nations.\n\n\"Pragmatic\" was also how Toyota described the changes.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Sunak also suggested he would be \"scrapping\" a range of proposals which had been \"thrown up\" by the debate, including hiking up air fares to discourage foreign holidays and taxes on meat consumption. Neither of these had been government policy.\n\nMr Sunak argued that without transparency and \"honest debate\" on the impact of green policies there would be a \"backlash\" against net zero.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey accused Mr Sunak of being \"selfish\" and said the changes \"epitomise his weakness\".\n\n\"The prime minister's legacy will be the hobbling of our country's future economy as he ran scared from the right wing of his own party,\" he said.\n\nThe UK was now \"at the back of the queue as the rest of the world races to embrace the industries of tomorrow\", Sir Ed added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the UN's Climate Action Summit, Sir Alok Sharma, a former Conservative minister who chaired the COP26 climate summit, said the response from international colleagues at the event had been one of \"consternation\".\n\n\"My concern is whether people now look to us and say, 'Well, if the UK is starting to row back on some of these policies, maybe we should do the same',\" he said.\n\nAlso speaking from the summit, former US vice president and climate campaigner Al Gore said the announcement marked a \"turn back in the wrong direction\".\n\n\"At times in the past, the UK has been one of the impressive leaders on climate. And so for those who have come to expect that from the UK, it's a particular disappointment,\" he told the BBC.\n\nChris Stark, chief executive of the UK's independent Climate Change Committee, said the changes would make it harder for the government to meet legally binding climate goals.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, Mr Stark added that the committee had already advised the government in June that it \"didn't look like we were on track\" to meet 2030 emissions targets, before these changes were announced.\n\nHowever, the shift in policy has gained support from some within Mr Sunak's party.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg backed the changes, telling the BBC: \"The problem with net zero and having regulations coming in so quickly was that it was a scheme of the elite on the backs of the least well off.\"\n\nMr Sunak is instead \"going with the grain of the nation and moving for 'intelligent net zero' by 2050 but not putting in costly bans in the next few years.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Government borrowing was higher than economists had expected in August, new official figures show.\n\nBorrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - rose to £11.6bn last month, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThat was £3.5bn more than a year earlier and the fourth highest August borrowing since monthly records began in 1993.\n\nExperts had predicted public borrowing would stand at £11.1bn last month.\n\nHowever, it still comes in below the £13bn that had been forecast by the government's finance watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), back in March.\n\nGovernments often borrow to boost the economy. They also borrow to pay for big projects - such as new railways and roads - which they hope will help the economy and create jobs.\n\nThere has been speculation that the government could announce new spending pledges in the upcoming Autumn Statement, to address matters such as local councils' finances and safety concerns around school buildings.\n\nBorrowing for the financial year to date has now reached £69.6bn, according to the ONS, which is £19.3bn more than in the same five-month period last year.\n\nHowever, the total is £11.4bn lower than the amount predicted by the OBR.\n\nDespite this, analysts have questioned how much room Chancellor Jeremy Hunt might have for big spending pledges or tax cuts at the next fiscal event in November.\n\nMartin Beck, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said that he did not think the recent \"outperformance\" of the public finances gave Mr Hunt much room for manoeuvre.\n\n\"With the next general election due by the start of 2025, the government may well be hoping that the economic and fiscal backdrop to next spring's Budget proves more amenable to delivering fiscal 'giveaways'\",\" he said.\n\nReacting to the latest figures, Mr Hunt said: \"These numbers show why after helping families in the pandemic we now need to balance the books.\n\n\"That becomes much easier when inflation is under control because higher inflation pushes up interest rates, so we need to stick to the plan to get it down.\"\n\nA surprise fall in the rate of inflation on Wednesday also called into question whether or not the Bank of England will go ahead with another interest rate rise at its latest meeting.\n\nThe latest ONS figures showed that the interest payable on government debt in August was £5.6bn, £3.1bn less than a year before.\n\nAbout £1.9bn of that was mainly down to a 0.3% increase in the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation between May and June, according to the ONS.\n\nTotal net debt had reached £2.59 trillion by the end of August, which was 98.8% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) - the value of all the goods and services produced in the UK in a year.", "One of the detonations witnessed by veterans in 1962\n\nVeterans of the UK's nuclear weapons tests are attempting to relaunch a battle for compensation a decade after being legally blocked from suing the government.\n\nCampaigners say newly discovered documents suggest nuclear chiefs may have known the men suffered radioactive damage.\n\nMore than 22,000 personnel worked on detonations in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nCampaigners believe personnel suffered cancers and had children with birth defects because of radiation.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has repeatedly said large studies have found no link between the tests and ill health - and that it is not hiding documents from the veterans.\n\nIn 2012, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that more than 1,000 veterans could not sue the Ministry of Defence because they had run out of time to bring their case.\n\nBut recently found documents suggest the military have long held documents detailing blood and urine tests from personnel.\n\nOne of the documents seen by the campaign shows concerns about a pilot's blood after he had been flying scientific instruments through mushroom clouds.\n\nThe men and their families now plan to take the Ministry of Defence to court because they believe there could be thousands more such records.\n\nEric Barton is one of the \"Labrats\" campaign group and says he's determined to press on\n\nIf the records exist and prove military chiefs suspected radiation damage, that could lead to a last attempt at getting compensation.\n\nEric Barton, 82, of the \"Labrats\" campaign group, said British personnel had been treated like guinea pigs.\n\nHe suffered cancer and received compensation from the American military because he had witnessed six test denotations of its bombs. But friends who witnessed British bombs have not received any money at all.\n\n\"The British government has for years said, 'you prove it',\" said Mr Barton.\n\n\"Well, we are now finding documents that are proving it - that the MOD has been covering everything up for years and years and years.\n\n\"People deserve compensation [from the British],\" he says. \"I know it's taken years and years and years - but a fight is a fight. Keep going. You don't give up in the first round. You don't give up in second round. You keep going.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government said it was grateful to all the personnel who had taken part in the nuclear testing programme - and a new medal would recognise their service.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it could not comment on the potential legal action - but insisted there were no missing records to be found.\n\n\"No information is withheld from veterans,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"Any medical records taken either before, during or after participation in the UK nuclear weapon tests are held in individual military medical records in the government's archives, which can be accessed on request.\"\n\nSteve Purse - who is an actor - is unable to walk far without crutches. His father served in the RAF at the 1962 tests in Australia\n\nThat's not accepted by the veterans and their families.\n\nSteve Purse's father David served in the RAF at the 1962 tests in Australia. Years later, Mr Purse, from Prestatyn in Denbighshire, North Wales, was born with a complicated series of disabilities and conditions. He says this must have been linked to radiation damage passed down to him.\n\nWhen he asked the Ministry of Defence for records of blood tests taken from his father, officials confirmed that it held information - but could not release it under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\n\"We've got documentary evidence that blood and urine samples were taken from my father when he served in Maralinga in South Australia,\" he said.\n\n\"We know he was exposed to radiation.\n\n\"We need as much information to help resolve some of these questions.\"\n\nMatthew Jury, one of the veterans' lawyers, said Parliament had been told in 2018 that no blood records could be found - but it was now clear from the documents recovered so far that tests had been ordered, taken and analysed.\n\n\"When the veterans request their files, the data is suspiciously absent. If the tests weren't taken it was negligent. If they were and showed damage, then it's a cover-up. And if they showed no damage, then withholding them causes trauma.\"\n\nThe campaigners - who are holding an annual reunion this week - say they and their lawyers want to track down as many surviving veterans as possible around the world to join a group attempt to force disclosure of documents at the High Court.\n\nThey are also appealing to retired personnel from across the Commonwealth to join them, as well as members of indigenous communities in Australia or Kiribati.", "The number of 18-year-olds in the UK accepted into university has fallen for the first time in five years.\n\nApplications also fell, after demand rose in the pandemic, and about 85% of applicants were accepted in both years.\n\nFewer students got into their first choice of university this year - but more qualified for their second choice, or accepted places through clearing.\n\nTop A-level results dropped again this year, as grades in England were brought back to pre-Covid levels.\n\nThe new data from Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) shows 270,350 UK 18-year-olds were accepted on to a course this year, down from 275,390 in 2022.\n\nIt is the first fall since 2018, but the number is still higher than before Covid.\n\nThe drop in the number of acceptances comes after overall applications from UK 18-year-olds declined this year - from 323,290 in 2022 to 318,390 in 2023.\n\nUcas says there has been a \"return to normal growth following the surge of demand seen during the pandemic\".\n\nThe fall in demand will not have affected all universities equally, and data for individual universities is not yet available.\n\nJessie Owers, 18, has been scouting out societies at Cardiff Metropolitan University this week.\n\nShe only found out she would be here a month ago, after applying through Ucas's clearing system.\n\n\"I got my results, and they were far lower than I was expecting, which I know happened to a lot of people,\" she said.\n\nShe missed her grades for her first choice and then had to decide whether or not to accept her unconditional offer at her insurance choice.\n\nShe had a change of heart, and decided to look at other universities in which she had originally been interested.\n\n\"A big part of why, when it comes to uni, is to have a good rugby team, and I know Cardiff Met has a very, very good rugby team,\" she said.\n\n\"Having clearing was an amazing option, because I knew so many people that went for their second choice.\"\n\nMore teenagers applied for university in the years after the pandemic began.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said this rise could have been because they had fewer options.\n\n\"Some young people may have sought refuge in higher education during the Covid years, particularly as there were fewer employment or apprenticeship opportunities during that period,\" he said.\n\n\"The fall in the number of students accepted on to a course could partly reflect a change in student behaviour as we exit the pandemic.\"\n\nThere were also fewer opportunities to travel in 2020 and 2021, making gap years less likely.\n\nThis year, 35.6% of all 18-year-olds in the UK have been accepted into universities - the lowest proportion since 2019.\n\nThe Ucas data on 18-year-old applicants from the UK also shows:\n\nUcas said 32% of students who got a place through clearing had turned down their first choice, compared to 30% who used the system after missing their grades.\n\nMr Watkin said this could be because of a \"mismatch between predicted grades and actual grades\" because of the use of teacher-assessed grades in 2020 and 2021, and changes to grading after that.\n\nThe number of international students from outside of the EU who were accepted fell by 0.9%, but remains 25% higher than pre-Covid levels.\n\nThe number of 18-year-olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds also fell, but remains nearly 20% higher than in 2019.\n\nSander Kristel, interim chief executive at Ucas, said the numbers \"show the continuing attraction of UK higher education across the globe, and also a return to normal growth following the surge of demand seen during the pandemic\".\n\nHe added: \"For me, today's numbers show that we need to continue our collective efforts in closing the gap in participation for those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.\"\n\nThere are still 23,000 courses available through clearing, which is open until 17 October.\n\nA spokeswoman for Universities UK said the figures showed the \"continued strong appeal of university\", but added that the sector must \"continue efforts to drive social mobility\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "King Charles opens his speech in French by saying how honoured and flattered he is to have been invited into this \"hallowed chamber\".\n\nHe explains the vitality of the partnership forged between the UK and France, saying they will always be \"allies and best friends\".\n\nCharles then reflects on the tributes that were paid to the Queen across France last year - and dips back into English at times.\n\nSwitching back to French he highlights the words the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate wrote at the time of her death, that \"she was the embodiment of British democracy with true dignity\".\n\nHe says those words were important for he and his family - and thanks France for the great kindness they gave at a time of such sorrow.\n\nCharles also says, in English, that just as his grandmother and mother portrayed, France has been \"an essential part of the fabric\" of his own life - and \"this is my thirty-fifth official visit to France\".\n\n\"In the rich and complex tapestry of the relationship between France and the United Kingdom, my mother’s golden thread will forever shine brightly,\" he says. \"Let it inspire us all.\"", "James Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nThe mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has said she is \"deeply concerned\" about the prospect of one of his killers being released.\n\nJon Venables served eight years for the two-year-old's murder in 1993 and was freed on licence, along with Robert Thompson, and given lifelong anonymity.\n\nBut in 2017 he was jailed again for having child abuse images on his computer.\n\nOn Wednesday it emerged Venables had been granted a parole hearing.\n\nDenise Fergus said hearing news had left her in a \"state of shock\".\n\nIssuing a statement on her behalf, the James Bulger Memorial Trust said: \"Denise remains deeply concerned about the potential release of Jon Venables, whom she considers to be one of the biggest dangers to our country.\n\n\"She firmly believes that if he is released he will undoubtedly offend again. The thought of him being allowed back into our communities is undeniably alarming.\"\n\nDenise Fergus said she considers Venables 'one of the biggest dangers to our country'\n\nThe trust said she would like to \"express her heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has shown their support for her and her family during this difficult time\".\n\n\"Your unwavering support is greatly appreciated\", the trust added.\n\nJames was tortured and killed by Venables and Thompson, who were both aged 10 at the time, after they took him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside.\n\nIn 2010, while living under a new name, Venables was jailed after child abuse images were found on his laptop. He was released after serving three years and given a second new identity.\n\nHowever, in 2017 he was sent back to prison for 40 months after more abuse images were discovered on his computer.\n\nVenables had an application to be freed rejected in 2020 following an assessment of his case.\n\nThe Parole Board said an oral hearing was listed for a parole review.\n\nJon Venables has been given two new identities since being jailed for the murder of James Bulger\n\nA spokesman said members would \"read and digest hundreds of pages of reports\" in the lead up to the hearing.\n\n\"Evidence from witnesses including probation officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, officials supervising the offender in prison as well as victim personal statements are then given at the hearing,\" he said.\n\nThe prisoner and witnesses would then be questioned at length, he said, adding: \"Protecting the public is our number one priority.\"\n\nThe hearing is scheduled for 14 and 15 November, and a decision on whether prisoners can be released is usually made within 14 days.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "A skydiver demonstrated his precision with a parachute - when he landed perfectly on top of an inflatable unicorn.\n\nJan Zackl was among a number of skydivers who attempted the feat during an annual festival at a skydive centre in Langar, Nottinghamshire.\n\nBut he was the only one who managed to land directly on top of the inflatable.\n\nHannah Parker, from Skydive Langar, said: \"It goes very fast and takes a lot of accuracy.\n\n\"It is safe and it's just a more slippery landing. It was only open to people who had done at least 200 jumps previously - they were the requirements.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Armoured vehicles and 11,000 members of the security forces were deployed\n\nVenezuela says it has regained control of a notorious jail, which had been under the control of the powerful Tren de Aragua criminal gang.\n\nSome 11,000 security personnel were deployed to Tocorón prison, which had been run by inmates for years.\n\nPrisoners were able to roam freely inside the penitentiary, which had hotel-like facilities including a pool, nightclub and a mini zoo.\n\nThe interior minister said that the jail would be completely cleared.\n\nTocorón not only held convicted criminals but also some of their partners and relatives, who moved into the penitentiary to be near their loved ones.\n\nOne woman, Gladys Hernández, told AFP news agency that she was waiting to hear where they were taking her husband.\n\n\"I was living in there, but they kicked us out,\" she said.\n\nThe jail doubled up as the headquarters of the Tren de Aragua, Venezuela's most powerful transnational gang.\n\nFrom the jail, Tren de Aragua ruled a criminal enterprise spanning several Latin American countries and reaching as far as Chile.\n\nIts members engage in human trafficking, run prostitution rings and extort migrants.\n\nThe gang fitted the prison out with all kinds of facilities, such as games rooms and a small zoo complete with flamingos and an ostrich.\n\nInmates could place bets on horse races, arrange loans at a makeshift bank and dance the night away at a nightclub dubbed \"Tokio\".\n\nWhen food and everyday items were hard to come by in Venezuela at the height of the country's economic crisis, one newspaper reported that locals would go to Tocorón to buy the essentials they could not get anywhere else.\n\nAFP journal said that they saw security guards carrying motorcycles, televisions and microwaves from the jail as its inmates were moved.\n\nRonna Rísquez, author of the book Tren de Aragua: The gang that revolutionised organised crime in Latin America told BBC Mundo's Valentina Oropeza that Tocorón functioned \"like a little city\".\n\nThe author also warned that the clearing of the prison did not automatically constitute the end of the gang.\n\n\"Their centre of operations has been closed down, but the leaders of this organisation and its cells abroad can continue functioning,\" she said.\n\nOfficials gave little detail as to how they stormed the prison. The army said that there had been one casualty, a major who had died after hitting his head on the door of an armoured car.\n\nThe fact that such a large operation at a jail full of members of Venezuela's most feared criminal gang should have proceeded so peacefully has led to speculation that the authorities may have negotiated with the Tren de Aragua.\n\nIn a statement, the government of President Nicolás Maduro congratulated the security forces on \"re-establishing order\" at the prison and praised them for the \"clean and quick actions\".\n\nHowever, a later statement announced that a \"second phase\" of the operation had been launched, which the government said consisted in \"capturing all and every one of the escaped criminals\".\n\nSome local media have reported that the leader of the Tren de Aragua gang, Héctor Guerrero Flores, may be among those who absconded, but the government has not named any of the escapees.\n\nGuerrero Flores was serving a 17-year sentence inside the prison for murder and drug trafficking.\n\nHowever, he was so powerful that he reportedly used to come and go freely from the prison before becoming a full-time inmate, according to Carlos Nieto, a co-ordinator with prison rights group A Window to Freedom.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Many dead as police fight gangs in Venezuela", "Amy Dowden says cutting her hair and shaving her head has been the \"hardest step so far\"\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden says she feels \"empowered and positive\" after shaving her head as her cancer treatment continues.\n\nThe 33-year-old shared an emotional video of herself with loved ones taking turns to cut a lock of hair.\n\nThe rest of her hair is then cut short and finally shaved off.\n\n\"I've done it and I've also crossed the halfway chemo line!\" the star of the hit BBC One show said in a post on Instagram.\n\n\"I wanted to share the truth and hopefully help others, and bring normality to a beautiful bald head,\" Amy, from Caerphilly, said in the post accompanying the video.\n\nShe said shaving her head and \"taking control\" was the \"hardest step so far\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I tried my best to save it.\n\n\"I know it's only hair but these past few months I've had what feels like so much taken away from me that has made me not feel like Amy,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I'm missing every possible aspect of dancing.\n\n\"I just wanted to keep my identity with my hair and I tried telling myself it wouldn't go,\" she said.\n\nShe said she would \"dread the pain\" of waking up every day with more hair going.\n\nAmy Dowden shared an emotional video after she chose to shave her head\n\nThe dancer was diagnosed with cancer for the second time in July and has been sharing her experiences on social media.\n\nShe first discovered the first lump in April, a day before she was due to go on her honeymoon in the Maldives with her husband Ben.\n\nAfter a mastectomy, she was told the tumours had spread and another type of cancer was discovered.\n\n\"I've not been able to take control of this journey so far, but as you can see with some of my loved ones I took the courage and control,\" she said.\n\nShe said it would take time to get used to seeing herself without her long hair. But she was going to get back to the \"happy dancing, tea lover who talks way too fast whilst rolling every rrrrr who is still there inside with or without hair\".\n\nAmy's friends and family gathered to help her shave her head\n\n\"Since taking control, I feel I can now see the finish line,\" she said.\n\nShaving her head had been a hurdle she had not even been able to think or speak about, she said.\n\n\"To everyone on their own journey, whatever that may be, I'm sending love, power, strength and courage,\" the dancer said.\n\n\"I found my courage for this step, and I'm proud,\" she added.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly is missing with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction, as a hunt was launched for a missing mother and two children.\n\nJamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a centre for vulnerable mothers and children in Colindale, north-west London, with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter on Tuesday, the Met Police said.\n\nThe children are under care orders and were taken from the centre against the wishes of staff.\n\nMs Kelly got into a blue Ford Fiesta which then sped off, the force said.\n\nPolice believe the driver of the vehicle was a woman and said neither the driver nor the car had yet been located.\n\nThe blue Ford Fiesta was driven off at speed, police say\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the investigation on Wednesday.\n\nHe was held on suspicion of child abduction and conspiracy to kidnap and remains in police custody for questioning in Essex.\n\nMs Kelly is described as white with green eyes, slim and about 5ft 4ins (1.6m) tall.\n\nShe was wearing a white long sleeved top, jogging trousers and trainers when she left the centre.\n\nDet Supt Lewis Basford said he was \"extremely concerned\" for the welfare of Ms Kelly and her children.\n\nHer baby boy was born in mid-September and is \"extremely vulnerable\" as a newborn, the force said.\n\nOfficers believe Ms Kelly is \"being assisted\" and has urged members of the public to call 999 immediately with any live sightings.\n\nShe has links to Thurrock in Essex and Havering, east London.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Love Island's Ekin-Su Culculoglu signed up to last year's series of Dancing on Ice\n\nFormer House of Commons Speaker John Bercow is to star in the next series of the Traitors US.\n\nHe will feature alongside other celebrities including Love Island's Ekin-Su Culculoglu and professional heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder.\n\nFollowing the success of the British version last year, the first American series was made available on the BBC iPlayer as a box set.\n\nThe American version is hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.\n\nThe murder-mystery gameshow sees several contestants chosen to become traitors capable of killing off rivals in a bid to secure a large cash prize.\n\nStudio Lambert, which makes the show, confirmed on social media the series is being filmed at the 19th Century Ardross Castle, in the Scottish Highlands, the same venue that hosts the British version.\n\nUnlike the UK version of the hit reality show, the American series includes celebrities, with Culculoglu, Mr Bercow and Wilder being joined by the likes of The Real Housewives of Miami's Larsa Pippen, Bling Empire star Kevin Kreider and Maksim Chmerkovskiy from Dancing With The Stars.\n\nMr Bercow may seem an unlikely choice in such starry company - but clips of him arbitrating feisty Brexit debates in the House of Commons, and Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) made him somewhat of a cult figure in the US.\n\nHe gave an interview with The American magazine in 2019 in which he said: \"Whenever I travel to the US, people say to me how much they enjoy watching our PMQs - and how they wished they had something similar.\"\n\nHe stepped down from the role that year - after saying the Speaker's \"order, order\" instruction an estimated 14,000 times.\n\nHis period in charge of the House of Commons also saw several revelations of parliamentary staff reporting allegations of bullying and harassment by MPs and other senior figures, including Mr Bercow himself - which he has always denied.\n\nJohn Bercow stepped down as Commons Speaker in 2019\n\nJust like the UK version, the contestants the US series will be split into faithfuls and traitors, with the latter group using lies and subterfuge as they aim to stay undetected to win the show, eliminating - or \"murdering\" - faithfuls as they go.\n\nViewers will discover which group Culculoglu, Mr Bercow and Wilder will be placed in at first on the opening night of the series, which airs on streaming platform Peacock in the US.\n\nThe US show paid out $250,000 (£205,000) for the prize, higher than the UK's £101,050 winnings last year.", "Schools face three days of strikes this month\n\nCouncils say they have made a \"best and final\" pay offer to staff in an effort to stop strikes that would close schools across Scotland.\n\nThe BBC understands £80m more will fund the deal after council body Cosla held talks with the Scottish government.\n\nIt would include a rise of around £2,000 a year for the lowest paid.\n\nThe strike action by Unison, Unite and the GMB includes janitors and catering staff. It is scheduled for 26, 27 and 28 September in 26 council areas.\n\nThe Scottish government previously said that councils would need to use existing budgets to finance an improved offer.\n\nHowever, the funding package is now understood to be worth nearly £580m following talks between Cosla and deputy first minister Shona Robison.\n\nCosla's Resources Spokesperson Councillor Katie Hagmann said tough decisions had been taken and warned of \"delays to programmes and projects\" within communities to meet the pay demands.\n\nShe said: \"No new money has been identified for this offer - it is the ultimate example of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' in finance terms.\n\n\"Strikes are too damaging to our children and young people, their families and our communities across Scotland for us not to have taken this action.\"\n\nThe dispute is over a pay offer for all council workers other than teachers - who are covered by a different pay deal.\n\nA number of councils - including Glasgow - have already said schools will close if the action goes ahead.\n\nThe last pay offer, made last week, was rejected by the three unions.\n\nIt would give workers at least a £1,929 increase in annual salary by 1 January 2024.\n\nUnions said more was needed to help staff deal with the cost of living.", "A Co-op boss has warned that stores are descending into \"anarchy\" as staff face a sharp rise in retail crime.\n\nCCTV footage from Co-op stores in Scotland show shoplifters filling large bags with items from the shelves.\n\nCo-op's operations director Kate Graham said the company was facing prolific shoplifting to order and a rise in armed robberies.\n\nUK stores have seen a 35% increase in crime in the past year and more than 900 staff were physically assaulted.\n\nThe Scottish Grocers' Federation said a survey had found all of its members now experienced theft on a daily basis.\n\nEarlier this week, the latest Scottish crime statistics revealed that shoplifting increased by 21% over the past year, although the figure is still lower than in 2019 before the Covid pandemic.\n\nMs Graham, who is responsible for all of the company's stores including 340 in Scotland, said the problem had \"gone beyond\" anything she had known in her 25-year career.", "Police have found a large quantity of fentanyl, other drugs and paraphernalia hidden under a trapdoor at a New York City nursery where a boy died from exposure to the opioid.\n\nPhotos from New York police show bags filled with brown and white powders.\n\nPolice said the volume of drugs could have killed 500,000 people.\n\nThe nursery's owner and her tenant are facing federal charges. Authorities are still searching for her husband who was caught on camera fleeing the scene.\n\nA one-year-old died of a suspected drug overdose at the daycare last Friday. Nicholas Dominici had been at the Divino Niño nursery for just a week. Fentanyl had been hidden in the nap room under a mat as he slept, police said.\n\nThree other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic at the centre in the Bronx.\n\nAn analysis of urine from one of the victims confirmed the presence of the drug.\n\nNicholas Dominici was due to turn two in November\n\nThe nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death, and conspiracy charges, according to prosecutors.\n\n\"We allege the defendants poisoned four babies, and killed one of them, because they were running a drug operation from a daycare centre,\" Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said this week.\n\nBoth Ms Mendez and Mr Brito were formally charged by a grand jury earlier on Thursday.\n\nBoth suspects have been labelled as flight risks by authorities and are being held without bail. They each face life in prison if convicted.\n\nInvestigators are also said to have discovered three presses used to package kilos of drugs.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Mendez said his client denied the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery by Mr Brito, her husband's cousin.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Brito has a legal representative.\n\nA lawyer for the nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, says she was unaware there were drugs there\n\nSurveillance footage and phone records show that Ms Mendez called her husband several times after finding the children ill - before she contacted 911. Her husband then arrived and removed several full shopping bags from the nursery, officials said.\n\nMs Mendez also allegedly deleted approximately 20,000 text messages from her phone before her arrest, according to prosecutors. Authorities were later able to recover them.\n\nFentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 50 times more powerful than heroin, has been blamed for a rise in US drug deaths.\n\nIn 2010, fewer than 40,000 people died from a drug overdose across the country, and fewer than 10% of those deaths were tied to fentanyl.\n\nBy 2021, more than 100,000 people had died annually in drug overdoses, with an estimated 66% of those tied to fentanyl.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Raheem Sterling flew home from the England training camp after the burglary\n\nA trial date has been set for a man suspected of breaking into Raheem Sterling's house during the World Cup.\n\nJewellery and watches worth £300,000 were reportedly stolen from the property in Oxshott, Surrey, while Sterling was in Qatar with England.\n\nThe player left England's World Cup camp to be with family after intruders broke in on 3 December 2022.\n\nEmiliano Krosi, 23, of Ditton Court Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nHe faces 33 counts of conspiracy to commit burglary, one of which was the former Manchester City and current Chelsea star's home.\n\nFollowing the incident, Sterling was forced to miss England's 3-0 win over Senegal.\n\nThe plea hearing will take place on 3 November, with a two week trial on 14 February 2023.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Orlin Roussev, Katrin Ivanova, Bizer Dzhambazov and Vanya Gaberova have lived in the UK for years\n\nFive people suspected of spying for Russia are to be charged in the UK with conspiracy to conduct espionage.\n\nOrlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe Bulgarian nationals are accused of conspiring to gather information which would be useful to an enemy between August 2020 and February 2023.\n\nIt follows an investigation by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe defendants are alleged to have worked in an operational spy cell for the Russian security services and that this work involved conducting surveillance on targets.\n\nThey are accused of working on active operations in the UK and Europe and collecting and passing information to the Russian state.\n\nMr Roussev, 45, is alleged to have run operations from the UK and acted as the link to those who received the intelligence.\n\nOfficers who searched properties in London and Norfolk occupied by three of the defendants - Mr Roussev, Mr Dzhambazov, 41, and Ms Ivanova, 31 - found allegedly fake passport and official identity documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.\n\nVanya Gaberova is an award-winning beautician and judge at eyelash competitions\n\nSome of the documents contained photographs of Mr Roussev and Mr Dzhambazov. It is alleged Mr Roussev made forgeries himself.\n\nThe group are also accused of organising a surveillance operation in Montenegro which involved the creation of fake identification cards for journalists, including one in the image of Ms Ivanova.\n\nMr Roussev, Mr Dzhambazov, and Ms Ivanova have lived in the UK for years, working in a variety of jobs, and living in a series of suburban properties.\n\nMr Roussev has a history of business dealings in Russia. He moved to the UK in 2009 and spent three years working in a technical role in financial services.\n\nHis LinkedIn profile states he later owned a business involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications or electronic signals.\n\nMr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.\n\nIn Harrow, former neighbours described Mr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova as a couple.\n\nMr Dzhambazov is described as a driver for hospitals and Ms Ivanova describes herself on her LinkedIn profile as a laboratory assistant for a private health business.\n\nThe pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the \"culture and norms of British society\".\n\nAccording to Bulgarian state documents online, they also worked for electoral commissions in London which facilitate voting in Bulgarian elections by citizens living abroad.\n\nMs Gaberova, 29, an award-winning beautician, ran a business called Pretty Woman and was a judge at eyelash competitions.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Joyce Wright with her son, Andy, who has called for a full investigation\n\nAn elderly woman was discharged from hospital to a stranger's house and left to sleep in their bed, her son said.\n\nJoyce Wright, 83, was in hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, after a fall when she was mistakenly taken by ambulance to another patient's home.\n\nHer son Andy said the mix-up was \"absolutely shocking\" and he feared the outcome could have been worse.\n\nUnited Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) have launched an investigation.\n\nMrs Wright was taken to Pilgrim Hospital after suffering a fall, but was incorrectly discharged on Tuesday night.\n\nShe was taken by ambulance to another patient's house, in Skegness, where her son said EMAS staff let themselves in using a key safe.\n\nMrs Wright was then moved into the stranger's bed.\n\nIt was not until about 08:00 BST the next morning when the error was discovered by hospital staff during the morning handover, her son said.\n\nJoyce Wright, 83, was in Pilgrim Hospital after suffering a fall\n\n\"It was dark and my mum was on pain relief, on morphine, so obviously things were a bit confusing for her,\" Mr Wright said.\n\n\"She didn't quite realise [where she was] at that particular time and obviously she was quite drowsy.\"\n\nHe said he was told his mum had been taken to the property instead of the patient in the room next door.\n\n\"That bed was somebody else's bed, it's not like a nursing home. It's absolutely shocking to think that this has happened,\" he said.\n\nMr Wright said he was \"very, very angry\" when he found out and believed the outcome could have been much more serious.\n\nBut Mrs Wright is now back in hospital and recovering, he said - adding she was in \"good spirits\".\n\n\"She said the bed was comfy as well,\" he said.\n\nAndy Wright said he was \"absolutely shocked\" to discover his mum had been discharged to a stranger's home\n\nMr Wright said he did not blame the nursing or ambulance staff but felt the incident was \"a result of the pressures that everybody is under\".\n\nHe has called for a full investigation.\n\nMrs Wright was discharged from Pilgrim Hospital on Tuesday night\n\nIn a joint statement, Michelle Harris, chief operating officer at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and Joy Weldin, divisional director of non-emergency patient transport services at EMAS, offered their \"heartfelt and sincere apologies\".\n\nThey said: \"This incident clearly falls below the standard of care we want to deliver, and a full review is under way to ensure it does not happen again.\n\n\"When the review is complete, in line with duty of candour, we will share the findings with the patients and their families.\"\n\nCaroline Johnson, Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, said she had written to the hospital trust and ambulance service to call for an \"urgent investigation\".\n\n\"It is particularly concerning that Mrs Wright was wrongly discharged to an unfamiliar setting in another patient's property, and that she was potentially left without the necessary medication for her conditions,\" she said.\n\n\"It poses a broader patient safety question about how the trust is ensuring patients who are unconscious or incapacitated receive the correct treatment.\n\n\"Patients should be provided with ID wristbands and these should be routinely checked by staff to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care and treatment.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen played table tennis against France's first lady Brigitte Macron during a joint visit to a sports centre near Paris.\n\nCamilla and Mrs Macron were touring the Saint-Denis centre just outside the capital as part of the King and Queen's three-day state visit.\n\nEarlier in the day, King Charles became the first British monarch to speak on the floor of the upper house of the French parliament.", "Prof Larry Barham uncovering prehistoric wooden objects on the banks of the river\n\nThe discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists' understanding of ancient human life.\n\nResearchers found evidence the wood had been used to build a structure almost half a million years ago.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest stone-age people built what may have been shelters.\n\n\"This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors,\" archaeologist Prof Larry Barham said.\n\nThe University of Liverpool scientist leads the Deep Roots of Humanity research project, which excavated and analysed the ancient timber.\n\nThe discovery could transform the current belief ancient humans led simple, nomadic lives.\n\n\"They made something new, and large, from wood,\" Prof Barham said.\n\n\"They used their intelligence, imagination and skills to create something they'd never seen before, something that had never previously existed.\"\n\nThe researchers also uncovered ancient wooden tools, including digging sticks. But what excited them most were two pieces of wood found at right angles to each other.\n\n\"One is lying over the other and both pieces of wood have notches cut into them,\" said Geoff Duller, professor of geography at the University of Aberystwyth and a member of the team.\n\n\"You can clearly see those notches have been cut by stone tools.\n\n\"It makes the two logs fit together to become structural objects.\"\n\nThe large logs were at right angles to each other, with notches cut into them with stone tools\n\nFurther analysis confirmed the logs were about 476,000 years old.\n\nTeam member Perrice Nkombwe, director of the Moto Moto Museum in Zambia, said: \"I was amazed to know that woodworking was such a deep-rooted tradition.\n\n\"It dawned on me that we had uncovered something extraordinary.\"\n\nUntil now, evidence for the human use of wood has been limited to making fire and crafting tools such as digging sticks and spears.\n\nOne of the oldest wooden discoveries was a 400,000-year-old spear in prehistoric sands at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, in 1911.\n\nUnless it is preserved in very specific conditions, wood simply rots away.\n\nBut in the meandering riverbanks above the Kalambo Falls, close to the Zambia-Tanzania border, it was waterlogged and essentially pickled for millennia.\n\nThe team measured the age of layers of earth in which it was buried, using luminescence dating.\n\nGrains of rock absorb natural radioactivity from the environment over time - essentially charging up like tiny batteries, as Prof Duller put it.\n\nAnd that radioactivity can be released and measured by heating up the grains and analysing the light emitted.\n\nScientists created models to show how overlapping logs could have been used\n\nThe size of the two logs, the smaller of which is about 1.5m (5ft), suggests whoever fitted them together was building something substantial.\n\nUnlikely to have been a hut or permanent dwelling, it could have formed part of a platform for a shelter, the team says.\n\n\"It might be some sort of structure to sit beside the river and fish,\" Prof Duller said:.\n\n\"But it's hard to tell what sort of [complete] structure it might have been.\"\n\nThe ancient wood was preserved in riverbed sediments\n\nIt is also unclear what species of ancient human - or hominid - built it.\n\nNo bones have been found at this site so far.\n\nAnd the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo sapiens - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old.\n\n\"We don't know - it could have been Homo sapiens and we just haven't discovered fossils from that age yet,\" Prof Duller said.\n\n\"But it could be a different species - [perhaps] Homo erectus or Homo naledi - there were a number of hominid species around at that time in southern Africa.\"\n\nTransported to the UK for analysis and preservation, the wooden artefacts are being stored in tanks that mimic the waterlogging that preserved them so beautifully for the last half-million years. But they will soon return to Zambia to be displayed.\n\n\"With this discovery, we hope to enrich our collection and use the finds to inform the interpretation of the woodworking tradition in Zambia,\" Ms Nkombwe said.\n\nContinuing the work at the Kalambo Falls site, she added, \"has the potential to deepen our knowledge of ancient woodworking techniques, craftsmanship, and human interactions with the environment\".", "There are millions fewer wild birds over Britain than in 1970\n\nBritish bird lovers will see a very different pattern of species as the climate warms, according to scientists.\n\nThey say climate change is bad news for birds, but locally we will see \"winners and losers\".\n\nMigrants seldom seen on British shores, such as black-winged stilts and bee-eaters, are delighting bird watchers.\n\nBut populations of cuckoos are \"in freefall\" as UK wildlife struggles to cope with multiple pressures.\n\nIn nature-depleted Britain, almost half of all bird species are in decline due to a host of pressures - from the loss of meadows, hedgerows and other natural land to climate change and the use of pesticides.\n\nBee-eaters nested in Norfolk this year and may set up home here\n\nThe number of wild birds in Britain has fallen by 73 million since 1970, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, which studies birds in the British Isles.\n\nHead of ringing, Dr Dave Leech, said climate change was a growing pressure, particularly for migratory birds dealing with extreme weather on several continents.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Climate change is one of the biggest pressures that all species are facing, but particularly migratory species, because they have to worry about the climate conditions not only where they're breeding, but also where they're wintering and the areas that they're travelling through to get here, which can be thousands of kilometres.\"\n\nSome birds such as reed warblers are taking advantage of longer, hotter summers by producing more young. Others, such as the Cetti's warbler, which colonised the UK some decades ago, are expanding their range north.\n\nYet many species, including the cuckoo and the willow warbler, are declining in southern Britain as the climate warms.\n\nCuckoos are being affected by the changing seasons\n\nScientists think some birds are having difficulty adjusting their internal clocks to cope with changes in the seasons.\n\nCuckoos spend their summer in the UK, arriving in April when they can be heard making their distinctive call. They then leave in late June to over-winter in Africa.\n\nDr Dave Leech said the birds are struggling to make it back over the Sahara because climate change means there's less food for them to fuel up with before they make the crossing, and that their numbers were in \"free fall\".\n\n\"How terrible would it be if future generations never heard a cuckoo, something that was so commonplace in British wildlife before now?\" he said.\n\nThe number of Cetti's warblers are increasing across Europe\n\nMany other migratory birds leave British shores and travel south around now, with others arriving from northern countries.\n\nFor decades, thousands of skilled bird ringers and other volunteers have been collecting data on changes in British bird populations, shedding light on their decline.\n\nPeter has been ringing birds for many years in Gloucestershire. There \"will be winners as a result of climate change and losers\", he said.\n\n\"Future generations might not hear a nightingale or see a cuckoo but there will be other things they see.\n\n\"A bee-eater might become a common species for example. And by collecting all this ringing data we can monitor what is going on and mitigate for the human- led climate change that is the major driver behind most of these changes.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Families of people buried at Bethany Chapel said headstones had been moved\n\nHeadstones dug up from a chapel cemetery for a car park and road will be returned after police investigated.\n\nDescendants of those buried at Bethany Chapel in Kerry, near Newtown, Powys, complained gravestones were removed for the new tarmac.\n\nThe chapel closed about 20 years ago and planning permission was granted last year to build a car park and driveway on adjacent land.\n\nBut families were outraged at seeing plots allegedly disappear.\n\nPolice launched an investigation into criminal damage at the site but families have now been assured all the work will be reversed.\n\nCounty councillor Elwyn Vaughan said he was \"pleased to inform that a resolution has been secured resulting in the restoration of the graveyard\", adding that developers Gospel Church had agreed to put topsoil back over it.\n\nThey will also close the vehicle access, provide a footpath for visitors to the cemetery and employ a stonemason to return the gravestones to their original places.\n\n\"This is a victory for common sense and the right thing to do for peace of mind for all the affected families,\" Mr Vaughan said.\n\n\"It is a shame that it had to come to this before the situation could be corrected.\"\n\nElwyn Vaughan said the graveyard would be restored to its original state\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was \"investigating a report of criminal damage at Bethany Chapel, Hodley, Newtown\".\n\nThe White Lewis family, who have grandparents and great-grandparents in the graveyard, previously said the headstone for their grandparents, John Davies Lewis and Olive Lewis were missing.\n\nThey previously said they were \"all shocked and deeply upset\".\n\nPowys council is investigating why its planning officers pushed consent through, rather than the decision go to a planning committee.", "Toshiba is one of Japan's oldest and biggest companies\n\nToshiba, one of Japan's oldest and biggest firms, is set to end its 74-year stock market history as a group of investors have bought a majority stake.\n\nThe company has announced that a consortium led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) has purchased 78.65% of its shares.\n\nOwning more than two-thirds of the firm allows the group to complete a $14bn (£11.4bn) deal to take it private.\n\nThe firm's roots date back to 1875, as a maker of telegraph equipment.\n\nUnder the deal its shares could be taken off the stock market as early as the end of this year.\n\nThe company \"will now take a major step toward a new future with a new shareholder,\" Toshiba's president and chief executive officer, Taro Shimada, said in a statement.\n\nToshiba's shares started trading in May 1949 when the Tokyo Stock Exchange reopened as Japan emerged from the ravages of World War Two (WW2).\n\nIts divisions range from home electronics to nuclear power stations, and for decades after WW2 was a symbol of the country's economic recovery and its technology industry.\n\nIn 1985, Toshiba launched what it described as \"the world's first mass-market laptop computer\".\n\nFor decades after World War Two, Toshiba was a symbol of Japan's economic recovery and its high tech industry\n\nHowever the Tokyo-based company has faced a number of major setbacks in recent years.\n\n\"Toshiba's catastrophe is a consequence of inadequate corporate governance at the top,\" Gerhard Fasol, chief executive of business advisory firm Eurotechnology Japan told the BBC.\n\nIn 2015, it admitted to overstating its profits by more than a $1bn over six years and paid a 7.37bn yen ($47m; £38m) fine, which was the biggest in the country's history at the time.\n\nTwo years later, it revealed major losses at its US nuclear power business, Westinghouse, taking a 700bn yen writedown.\n\nTo avoid bankruptcy it sold its memory chip business in 2018, which was seen as a crown-jewel in the company's portfolio.\n\nSince then Toshiba has received several takeover offers, including one from UK private equity group CVC Capital Partners in 2021, which it rejected.\n\nIn the same year, the company was found to have colluded with the Japanese government to suppress the interests of foreign investors.\n\n\"Toshiba, in the eyes of many Japanese people and especially government, is a national treasure, which is part of the problem,\" Mr Fasol said.\n\nThe firm then announced plans to break up the company into three separate businesses. Within months the plan was revised, with its board saying it would instead split the company into two units.\n\nBefore the new breakup plan was carried out the company's board said it was considering JIP's offer to take the company private.\n\n\"The company needs to radically reinvent itself after spinning off many of its core business units, notably its semiconductor group,\" said Marc Einstein, chief analyst at Tokyo-based research and advisory firm ITR Corporation.\n\nToshiba was also the most iconic name to join the trend for Japanese firms going private to avoid \"having to be accountable\" to shareholders, he added.\n• None Why is Toshiba in financial crisis?", "King Charles III raised a toast to his hosts Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron at a star-studded banquet in Versailles.\n\nFamous guests including Hugh Grant, Arsene Wenger and Didier Drogba joined the dinner - which was part of a three-day state visit to France.\n\nRead more on this story here.", "One of the pieces returned, called 'I Love Antithesis' (right) is valued at $2.75m (£2.23m).\n\nThe US has returned seven artworks by Austrian painter Egon Schiele to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret star who owned them before he was killed by the Nazis in 1941.\n\nFritz Grünbaum's family had sought the return of his Schiele pieces for more than two decades.\n\nValued at between $780,000 (£633,000) and $2.75m apiece, some had been on display at prominent museums in the US.\n\nThe claims prompted lawsuits in several courts.\n\nIn 2018, a New York civil court ruled the pieces were never sold or surrendered by Mr Grünbaum.\n\nIn a ceremony on Monday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg called the return of the artwork \"historic\".\n\nThe museums where the pieces were held - the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Morgan Library & Museum, both in New York, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California - agreed to give the pieces voluntarily to prosecutors after learning that they had been stolen.\n\nA few of the pieces were also in the possession of Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, and the estate of Serge Sabarsky, a well-known art collector, both of whom agreed to return them.\n\nMr Grünbaum, who died in a concentration camp at Dachau in Germany, owned 81 pieces by Schiele.\n\nHis wife, Elisabeth, was forced to hand over his art collection to the Nazis after he was arrested in 1938. She later died in a concentration camp in 1942.\n\nSchiele's pieces had been declared \"degenerate art\" by Adolf Hitler, and were sold to finance the Nazi Party.\n\nSome had ended up in the possession of a New York dealer by the name of Otto Kallir, who sold them to different buyers.\n\nThe heirs of Mr Grünbaum went to court in New York State in 2018 to fight for the return of two Schiele pieces from a London-based collector named Richard Nagy.\n\nThe judge overseeing the case, Charles V Ramos, ruled in their favour, stating that it is unlikely Mr Grünbaum voluntarily gave the artworks away when he was detained at Dachau.\n\nThis led his heirs to elevate their case to the Manhattan district attorney to see if other Schiele pieces that once belonged to Mr Grünbaum would count as stolen property under New York law, prosecutors said.\n\nBy doing so, prosecutors were able to track how the seven pieces made their way through New York and into various collections.\n\nTimothy Reif, a relative of Mr Grünbaum, praised New York prosecutors for their role in returning the pieces of art to their legal owners.\n\nMr Reif said on Monday the recovery had \"achieved a measure of justice for the victims of murder and robbery\".\n\n\"When viewing these artworks, imagine Fritz and Elisabeth in their lively Vienna apartment singing and dancing and cracking jokes,\" he added.\n\nAmong the artworks returned is a piece titled I Love Antithesis, valued at $2.75m, and Standing Woman that was previously on display at the MoMA, valued at $1.5m.\n\nThe return of these pieces follows notification by Manhattan prosecutors last week of their intent to seize three other artworks from galleries in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Ohio.\n\nThe New York state Supreme Court says that \"there is reasonable cause to believe\" that the artworks constitute stolen property.\n\nThe pieces remain for now at the museums, whose officials have said they are confident in the legal ownership of the art. A federal case is in progress to resolve the matter.", "The hit TV show Game of Thrones was based on George RR Martin's novels\n\nUS authors George RR Martin and John Grisham are suing ChatGPT-owner OpenAI over claims their copyright was infringed to train the system.\n\nMartin is known for his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into HBO show Game of Thrones.\n\nChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) \"learn\" by analysing a massive amount of data often sourced online.\n\nThe lawsuit claims the authors' books were used without their permission to make ChatGPT smarter.\n\nOpenAI said it respected the rights of authors, and believed \"they should benefit from AI technology\".\n\nOther prominent authors named in the complaint include Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult and George Saunders.\n\nThe case has been brought to the federal court in Manhattan, New York, by the Authors Guild, a trade group in the US working on behalf of the named authors.\n\nAccording to the filing, it accused OpenAI of engaging in \"systematic theft on a mass scale\".\n\nIt follows similar legal action brought by comedian Sarah Silverman in July, as well as an open letter signed by authors Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman that same month calling for AI companies to compensate them for using their work.\n\nA spokesperson for OpenAI said: \"We're having productive conversations with many creators around the world, including the Authors Guild, and have been working co-operatively to understand and discuss their concerns about AI.\n\n\"We're optimistic we will continue to find mutually beneficial ways to work together.\"\n\nThe case argues that the LLM was fed data from copyrighted books without the permission of the authors, in part because it was able to provide accurate summaries of them.\n\nThe lawsuit also pointed to a broader concern in the media industry - that this kind of technology is \"displacing human-authored\" content.\n\nPatrick Goold, reader in law at City University, told BBC News that while he could sympathise with the authors behind the lawsuit, he believed it was unlikely it would succeed, saying they would initially need to prove ChatGPT had copied and duplicated their work.\n\n\"They're actually not really worried about copyright, what they're worried about is that AI is a job killer,\" he said, likening the concerns to those screenwriters are currently protesting against in Hollywood.\n\n\"When we're talking about AI automation and replacing human labour... it's just not something that copyright should fix.\n\n\"What we need to be doing is going to Parliament and Congress and talking about how AI is going to displace the creative arts and what we need to do about that in the future.\"\n\nThe case is the latest in a long line of complaints brought against developers of so-called generative AI - that is, artificial intelligence that can create media based on text prompts - over this concern.\n\nIt comes after digital artists sued text-to-image generators Stability AI and Midjourney in January, claiming they only function by being trained on copyrighted artwork.\n\nAnd OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit, alongside Microsoft and programming site GitHub, from a group of computing experts who argue their code was used without their permission to train an AI called Copilot.\n\nNone of these lawsuits has yet been resolved.", "The 13-strong long list was whittled down to a short list of six\n\nThe novels that will compete for this year's Booker Prize have been revealed, with all six of the authors short-listed for the first time.\n\nAll the short-listed authors receive £2,500. One is from the UK, two from Ireland, two from the US and one from Canada.\n\nThe books \"showcase the breadth of what world literature can do\", Esi Edugyan, who chairs the judging panel, said.\n\nThe winner, announced on 26 November, will receive £50,000.\n\nThe prestigious prize is open to works of fiction written in English by authors anywhere in the world and published in the UK or Ireland.\n\nThe Bee Sting follows an Irish family in crisis, while Prophet Song, also set in Ireland, examines a mother of four who faces a terrible choice.\n\nStudy For Obedience sees a woman drop everything to be with her elder brother following the collapse of his marriage, while This Other Eden is a tale of racism on an isolated island off the coast of Maine.\n\nWestern Lane explores an immigrant father's attempts to raise his family as a single parent, while If I Survive You is a collection of linked stories focused on one family's tempest-tossed journeys in Jamaica and Florida.\n\nTwice-short-listed novelist Edugyan is joined on the panel by actress and writer Adjoa Andoh, poet, lecturer, editor and critic Mary Jean Chan, author and professor James Shapiro and actor and writer Robert Webb.\n\nEdugyan said: \"The best novels invoke a sense of timelessness even while saying something about how we live now. Our six finalists are marvels of form.\n\n\"All are fuelled by a kind of relentless truth-telling, even when that honesty forces us to confront dark acts. And yet however long we may pause in the shadows, humour, decency and grace are never far from hand.\"\n\nThe judges chose the final six from 13 long-listed titles - known as the Booker dozen - which were selected from 163 published between October 2022 and September 2023.\n\nLast year's prize was won by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.", "A clear majority of people in the UK agree household chores should be shared - but women generally do them, an annual survey of public views suggests.\n\nMore than three-quarters of respondents to the British Social Attitudes Survey said domestic labour should be split.\n\nYet two-thirds said women do more than their fair share of washing and ironing. And most said women still do most of the cleaning and cooking.\n\nBut ideas on gender roles have changed considerably since the mid-1980s.\n\nBack then, 48% agreed with the statement \"a man's job is to earn money and a woman's to look after the home.\"\n\nIn this year's survey, just 9% agreed.\n\nWhen those who lived in mixed-sex households were questioned on what actually happens behind closed doors, 63% of women said they did more than their fair share of the housework.\n\nJust 22% of men said they shouldered most of the burden, with 32% admitting they do less than they should.\n\nSocial scientists refer to the phenomenon as \"second shift\", with women doing a day in their workplace and then shouldering most domestic and childcare duties.\n\nSome men told BBC News housework was more evenly split at home than the survey would let on.\n\nAndy, who did not give his surname, from Hampshire, said cleaning was split equally with his wife as they tended to do it as they go.\n\n\"I do all the cooking and take out the rubbish,\" he said. \"I can't stand putting the dishwasher on without going around the house and finding every dirty cup and saucer.\n\n\"We clean the house as we go and I feel it is an even split - except the toilet, I clean that.\"\n\nOther findings from the annual survey, based on 6,638 interviews with adults between September and October last year, include:\n\nIn 1983, when the BSA survey began, the female employment rate for 16-64-year-olds was 54%.\n\nBy 2023, this had risen to 72%. And the participation of mothers in the labour market has never been higher.\n\nIn contrast, 78% of working-age men had a paid job in 1983 - and now, it is 79%.\n\nIn 1989, about half of of respondents said both the man and woman should contribute to the household income.\n\nNow, it is 70% - with support among men and women increasing at a similar rate.\n\nThe continued unequal division of labour between men and women is reinforced by both workplace norms and public policy, the survey says\n\n\"There remains a chasm between attitudes and practice, with women continuing to take on more domestic labour relative to men,\" the authors say.\n\n\"Despite some progress, the UK is therefore a long way from seeing a complete gender-role revolution in the household.\"\n\nAnd the survey suggests Britain has yet to tackle this \"final frontier\" of gender equality.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nHow is the housework split in your home? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One of Ukraine's staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbour, amid a diplomatic dispute over Kyiv's grain exports.\n\nPrime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland's focus was instead on defending itself with more modern weapons.\n\nBut the country's president later said the comments had been misinterpreted in the \"worst possible way\".\n\nAndrzej Duda said it was only new Polish weapons that would not be sent.\n\nPoland has already sent Ukraine 320 Soviet-era tanks and 14 MiG-29 fighter jets and has little more to offer.\n\nHowever, the remarks coincide with high tensions between the two neighbours.\n\nOn Tuesday, Poland summoned Ukraine's ambassador over comments made by President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations after Poland, Hungary and Slovakia extended a ban on Ukrainian grain.\n\nMr Zelensky said it was alarming how some of Ukraine's friends in Europe were playing out solidarity \"in a political theatre - making a thriller from grain\".\n\nWarsaw denounced his words as \"unjustified concerning Poland, which has supported Ukraine since the first days of the war\". The two countries have since sought to cool the row down.\n\nMr Morawiecki was interviewed on Wednesday night by the private Polsat news TV channel hours after the Ukrainian ambassador had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Warsaw in response to the Ukrainian leader's speech.\n\n\"We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,\" the prime minister said.\n\nHe was adamant Poland was helping Ukraine defeat the \"Russian barbarian\" by maintaining a military hub, but would not agree to Poland's markets being destabilised by grain imports, Polish state news agency Pap reported.\n\n\"Our hub in Rzeszow, in agreement with the Americans and Nato, is fulfilling the same role the whole time as it has fulfilled and will fulfil.\"\n\nPoland's military hardware has been depleted by about a third through transfers to Ukraine and Warsaw is in the process of replacing it with modern Western-produced kit.\n\nArms exports to Ukraine will not stop completely as Polish manufacturer PGZ is due to send about 60 Krab artillery weapons in the coming months. Government spokesman Piotr Muller later clarified that only previously agreed deliveries of ammunition and armaments would be delivered, including those from contracts signed with Ukraine.\n\nAsked about the prime minister's comments, Polish state assets minister Jacek Sasin told Radio Plus on Thursday that \"at the moment it is as the prime minister said - in the future we will see\".\n\nPoland's ruling Law and Justice party has stepped up its rhetoric in recent weeks in the heat of an acrimonious election campaign, ahead of a 15 October vote, and it has sprung to the defence of Polish farmers who feel threatened by imports of Ukrainian grain.\n\nRussia's full-scale invasion forced Ukraine to find alternative, overland routes when the main Black Sea shipping lanes were all but closed.\n\nThat in turn led to large quantities of grain ending up in Central Europe.\n\nConsequently, the European Union temporarily banned imports of grain into five countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, to protect local farmers, who feared Ukrainian grain was driving down the prices locally.\n\nWhen the ban ended on 15 September, the EU chose not to renew it, but Hungary, Slovakia and Poland have maintained the ban, despite the European Commission emphasising it was not up to EU member states to decide broader trade policy.\n\nEarlier this week, Ukraine filed lawsuits to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against those countries over the bans, which it said were a violation of international obligations.\n\nUkraine's Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that it was \"crucially important for us to prove that individual member states cannot ban imports of Ukrainian goods\".\n\nSources said on Thursday that Kyiv had agreed to withdraw its lawsuit against Slovakia, after the two countries said a grain licence system would be set up in the coming months.\n\nPoland has so far said the ban will stay in place, and a \"complaint before the WTO doesn't impress us\".\n\nMr Morawiecki said they would increase the number of banned products from Kyiv if Ukraine escalated the grain dispute.\n\nHowever, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus spoke on Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Solskyi, and Kyiv said the two neighbours had agreed to seek a solution in both their interests.\n\nDespite the ban, the three countries continue to allow grain to be transported through them to other markets.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Catherina Colonna said on Wednesday that an EU study revealed Ukrainian grain imports would not cripple European farmers, and described the tensions as \"regrettable\".\n\nPoland has provided much support to Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia, urging Germany to provide the country with Leopard 2 battle tanks, pledging fighter jets to the country and welcoming more than 1.5m refugees from Ukraine.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "After Andrii Smolenskyi was wounded in battle, his wife Alina rushed to his side\n\nAs Ukraine's counter-offensive grinds on - with limited gains and no decisive breakthrough - the number of amputees in the country is soaring.\n\nThere were 15,000 in the first half of this year alone, according to the Department of Health in Kyiv. The ministry won't disclose how many are soldiers. The authorities guard casualty figures closely, but the vast majority are likely to be military.\n\nThat's more amputees in six months than the UK had in the six years of World War II, when 12,000 of its servicemen and women lost limbs.\n\nThere may be many more to come in Europe's newest war. Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world, according to the country's former defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov.\n\nRussia's war is creating an army of amputees here, a conveyor belt of broken bodies.\n\nWe meet some of them at a rehabilitation clinic in the capital, Kyiv, and a hospital in south-east Ukraine.\n\nAlina Smolenska's only thought when her husband Andrii was wounded was to get to his bedside. \"I just wanted to be with him, to touch him, to say that he's not alone,\" she says. \"In situations like this, when a person needs support, I would touch their hand.\"\n\nBut when she reached him in hospital that was impossible.\n\n\"I saw that Andrii really didn't have his hands, so I just touched his leg and started to talk to him,\" she says.\n\n\"I said: 'We are a family. Don't worry. Of course, there will be some harsh moments, but we are together'.\"\n\nHours earlier, Andrii Smolenskyi had been commanding a small reconnaissance unit on Ukraine's southern front.\n\nAndrii was an unlikely soldier but quickly volunteered to fight\n\nAs the 27-year-old started climbing out of a trench, an explosion ripped through earth and sky. His next memory is of waking up in hospital.\n\n\"It felt like a dream,\" he says, \"everything was so dark.\"\n\nSlowly, he realised he couldn't move his hands, and that something was on his eyes, covering them.\n\nAndrii lost his sight, most of his hearing, and both of his arms - one amputated above the elbow, the other below. Shrapnel was embedded deep under his skin. His face had to be rebuilt.\n\nFour months on, we meet at a clinic in Kyiv where he's having rehabilitation, along with other war veterans.\n\nAndrii is tall and lean, with ready humour, and a slightly rasping voice. His latest surgery was to remove a breathing tube from his neck.\n\nAndrii and Alina on their wedding day four years ago\n\nAlina sits by his side, on his hospital bed, her head nestling on his shoulder, her hand resting on his knee. Their words, and their laughter, often overlap. She is also 27 - petite and blonde and a tower of strength.\n\n\"My wife is incredible,\" Andrii says. \"She's my hero, with me 100%.\"\n\nAlina has supported him through his injury and his battle to adjust, through physiotherapy and 20 operations (there will be more). When he's thirsty she gently lifts a straw to his lips. He now sees the world through her eyes.\n\nAndrii is \"grateful to God\" to have escaped any brain injury. His call sign in the army was \"the apostle\", and he believes his survival was miraculous.\n\n\"Psychologically it was hard to get through that, but when I accepted my new body, I would say I felt good,\" he says. \"Challenge accepted.\"\n\nDoctors expected him to be in a coma for three days after he was injured. He was conscious in one. Alina says he's \"stubborn, in a good meaning of that word\".\n\nWhen they met on a summer evening in 2018, she was smitten from the start. \"I realised he was an exceptional person,\" she says,\" extremely intelligent, and thoughtful.\"\n\nThey shared a love of the outdoors, and hiking in the Carpathian Mountains. Four years ago this month, they married.\n\nAdversity has drawn them closer still.\n\n\"In the past three months I think I started to even love him more,\" Alina says with a laugh, \"because he gave me so much motivation, so much inspiration\".\n\nThe couple want to show that life goes on after life-changing injuries. \"We will do everything possible to deal with it,\" says Alina, \"and with our example to show everyone that everything is possible\".\n\nAndrii was an unlikely soldier - a financial consultant and self-confessed nerd, who sang in church and liked to talk about philosophy.\n\nBut he volunteered soon after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. For him it was a battle of good versus evil, \"a war of values\".\n\nAndrii is surprising doctors with his progress, supported by Alina\n\nNow his battle is in the gym - where he trains two hours a day - rebuilding his strength and working on his balance. And he has taken on a new mission - to help those who may come after him.\n\n\"Ukraine has never had such a big number of amputees, and people blinded by the war,\" he says.\n\n\"Our medical system is not ready in some ways. Some veterans come in with really complex cases.\"\n\nAnd Ukraine's legion of amputees is growing - mine by mine, and shell by shell.\n\nFar from Kyiv, closer to the front lines, we see some of the most recent casualties at a hospital in the south-east.\n\nOne is wrapped in a gold foil blanket to prevent hypothermia. Another has a bandaged stump in place of a leg. The amputation was done hurriedly near the battlefield to save his life.\n\nOn arrival, a number is written on the upper body of every casualty. There is no chaos, no shouting.\n\nThe staff here know the drill. Since the war began, they have treated 20,000 wounded soldiers - and counting.\n\n\"This is our front line,\" says Dr Oksana, an anaesthesiologist.\n\n\"We are doing what we must do. These are our men, our husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons.\"\n\nOleksii lost both legs in an explosion\n\nIn the intensive care unit, we meet Oleksii, his military dog tag still around his neck. He's 38 and the father of a teenager. Just days before he lost both legs.\n\n\"I remember I got into a trench, and I think there was a tripwire\", he says. \"I stepped on it. I remember a big explosion and friends trying to take me out.\"\n\nThe hospital director Dr Serhii - a fatherly figure - holds his hand and tells him he is a hero.\n\n\"We will do everything possible so you can get prostheses quickly and run,\" he says.\n\nI ask Dr Serhii if he ever feels overwhelmed by the flood of maimed soldiers.\n\n\"As a rule, this feeling comes every night,\" he tells me.\n\n\"When you see all this grief, all the wounded that arrive at the hospital. During the war we have seen more than 2,000 like Oleksii.\"\n\nBack in Kyiv, Andrii and Alina keep the darker moments to themselves.\n\nHe's battling on, surprising doctors. They didn't think he could walk with a white stick because he couldn't hold it. But he found a way by clenching the cord at the top of the stick between his teeth.\n\nHis voice is getting stronger. He hopes he will be able to sing in church again and return to the mountains with Alina.\n\nShe dreams that new technology will restore his sight one day. \"I also hope for some kids,\" she says with a laugh, \"and for our house in a peaceful Ukraine\".\n\nEven in adversity, Alina and Andrii have plans for a bright future together\n\nAlina is trying to arrange treatment abroad, possibly in the United States, where specialists have more experience with complex needs like her husband's.\n\nAndrii grows quiet when asked what the hardest thing is now.\n\nIt was not his injuries, he says, but that he did not get to finish what he started and win the war.\n\nOutside the clinic, a few of his fellow patients gather to smoke and share stories of the trenches. All have lost legs. Their wheelchairs form a sunlit semi-circle. One says the government is downplaying the number of amputees. He asks us not to use his name.\n\n\"There are at least three times as many as they say,\" he insists.\n\n\"They want to hide us away. They don't want people to know how many there really are. They are worried about getting people to join up and fight.\"\n\nHe still gets a small salary from the military. \"Enough for eight packets of cigarettes,\" he says with a bitter laugh.\n\nHow long can Ukraine sustain these losses, and continue to fight? And how well can the growing ranks of amputees fit back into civilian life?\n\nThese are hard questions as a second winter of war approaches.\n\n\"We definitely are not ready, as a country, for a big number of people with disabilities on the streets,\" says Olga Rudneva, chief executive officer of the Superhumans rehabilitation centre. \"People will need to learn to interact. It will take years.\"\n\nHer new state-of-the art facility - in the relative safety of Western Ukraine - provides prosthetics for soldiers and civilians, free of charge.\n\nOlga wants amputees to be visible, and she wants a new definition of beauty in Ukraine.\n\n\"This is our new normal,\" she says. \"They lost their limbs fighting for Ukraine and for our freedom.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Scottish government has backed plans for a drug consumption facility in Glasgow\n\nThe proposed site for the UK's first sanctioned drugs consumption room has been revealed.\n\nHunter Street Health Centre in the east end of Glasgow has been earmarked as the location for a pilot scheme.\n\nThe facility is backed by the Scottish government as a way to tackle the country's drugs deaths crisis.\n\nThe country's top law officer paved the way for the pilot after she said users of the sites would not be prosecuted for simple possession offences.\n\nThe UK government has also said it would not intervene in the scheme.\n\nDocuments presented to the city council and health board said the facility would be open between 09:00 and 21:00, 365 days a year at the Hunter Street Health Centre, which already provides a heroin assisted-treatment service.\n\nCampaigners say that drug consumption rooms - facilities where people can inject illegal drugs under supervision - can reduce overdose deaths, public injecting and drug-related litter.\n\nBut others oppose them, claiming they send out the wrong signal about the dangers of drugs, and could divert resources away from tackling the the problem through treatment-based approaches.\n\nA report going before Glasgow's integration joint board noted that the consumption facility was \"likely to polarise opinion\".\n\nIt said the rooms had been shown to \"reduce public injecting and discarded needles, and remove barriers to, and improve the uptake into, treatment and care\".\n\nThe Hunter Street site \"offers a discrete base, closely located to the city centre, and implementation of the enhanced drug treatment service within the centre has not caused significant challenges for the community\", the report added.\n\nA draft design of the facility has been submitted for consideration\n\nGlasgow's Health and Social Care Partnership will cover the costs of redesigning the building, creating a reception and injecting area with booths as well as treatment rooms and a recovery area.\n\nThe Scottish government has agreed to make up to £2.3m a year available for the pilot, with staff being hired in 2024/25.\n\nThe report said: \"The safer drugs consumption facility will be subject to a robust independent evaluation studying the impact on service users, staff, local communities and businesses, and whether anticipated wider societal benefits such as cost reductions in other services are realised.\"\n\nThe plans will be considered by the integration joint board at its next meeting on 27 September.\n\nDrug laws are reserved to the UK government, which has opposed drug consumption facilities, but Scotland's Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC sets out the rules on whether prosecutions should take place.\n\nThe Home Office has said it would not impede the consumption room pilot from going ahead.\n\nEarlier this week, Drugs Policy Minister Elena Whitham said applications would also be made for drug testing facilities in three Scottish cities.\n\nPlans for Aberdeen, Glasgow and Dundee were awaiting \"final communications\" from the Home Office, she told MSPs.\n\nThe drugs checking services are designed to reduce harm by testing illegal substances and potentially reducing overdoses.\n• None Drug deaths drop to lowest level for five years", "Fashion giant H&M has said it will not charge shoppers who return online purchases in store.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC reported that customers face a £1.99 fee to return parcels in store or online, with the cost taken from their refund.\n\nH&M has since updated its website to say: \"There will be no return fee for any parcels returned in store.\"\n\nAn H&M spokesperson told the BBC that the information on its website had been \"inaccurate\" and had now been amended.\n\nShoppers who return items bought online to H&M's warehouse will still face the fee. The amendment only refers to parcels brought back to stores.\n\n\"Whether it was a genuine mistake or H&M bowed to pressure and changed their minds is hard to tell,\" said retail expert Jonathan de Mello.\n\n\"But they've done the right thing.\"\n\nThis section of H&M's website has since been updated to say there will be no return fee for parcels returned in store\n\nRival retailers such as Zara, Boohoo, Uniqlo and Next already charge for online returns.\n\nReturns can be costly for retailers, and there is also an environmental impact to using delivery trucks to carry goods.\n\nH&M introduced the fee for online returns over the summer.\n\nMr de Mello said the firm should have offered shoppers free returns of packages in stores from the start.\n\n\"Other retailers such as Zara and Next allow free in-store returns of online purchases, so it makes sense for H&M to do the same,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr de Mello said it was understandable that firms might make such changes \"by stealth\" to avoid a negative backlash.\n\n\"But you can totally see why they're clamping down on free returns,\" he said.\n\n\"It's so expensive to process returns and you're seeing so many people buying lots of items online, only to return the vast majority. Something had to change.\"\n\nH&M members can continue to make returns for free, both in store and online.", "So in a bit of surprise move today, the Bank of England decided to leave UK interest rates unchanged.\n\nThis, it said, was due to the rate at which consumer price rises, known as inflation, was slowing down faster than expected.\n\nThe Bank thinks price rises will continue to slow down in the next few months, which will ease the cost of living for many.\n\nBut as well as promising inflation signs, the Bank said it was also seeing that higher interest rates were starting to hurt the UK's economy.\n\nRaising interest rates is a balancing act. Too little and inflation can spiral out of control, too much and it can lead to the economy shrinking, which can lead to job losses.\n\nWith the Bank lowering its prediction for economic growth over the summer, some economists are warning that the UK might be at risk of flirting with recession - two quarters in a row where the economy shrinks.\n\nEven the Bank's officials were split on whether or not to raise rates again today, with a narrow 5-4 win for those wanting no change.\n\nAndrew Bailey, the Bank's governor, has also warned against talk of rates going down anytime soon, saying they will remain at 5.25%, and perhaps higher, \"to ensure we get the job done\".", "Former soldier Daniel Khalife has pleaded not guilty to escaping from Wandsworth prison in London.\n\nHe is accused of escaping from lawful custody, after allegedly breaking out on 6 September and spending four days on the run.\n\nThe 21-year-old appeared in court by video link from HMP Belmarsh wearing a bright blue and yellow sweatshirt.\n\nMr Khalife allegedly escaped prison by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery vehicle with bedsheets.\n\nPolice said he was arrested by a plain-clothes counter-terrorism officer while riding a bike along a canal towpath in Northolt, west London on the morning of 9 September.\n\nAppearing at the Old Bailey on Thursday from the segregation unit at Belmarsh prison, Mr Khalife was told he was charged with escaping from HMP Wandsworth.\n\nAsked by the clerk \"are you guilty or not guilty?\", he replied: \"I am not guilty.\"\n\nMr Khalife will be back at the Old Bailey on 13 October and is due to stand trial at Woolwich Crown Court on 13 November.\n\nThe three other charges he faces from before the alleged escape are:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The whale was spotted in shallow waters off New Quay, Ceredigion\n\nA whale rarely seen in shallow waters has been spotted off the Welsh coast.\n\nThe Sowerby's beaked whale was seen off New Quay, Ceredigion, by sightseers on a SeaMor Dolphin Watching boat trip.\n\nThe whales are deep-diving oceanic species that typically live in waters over 1,000 meters (3280ft) deep, the Sea Watch Foundation said, adding that the sighting was a \"significant\" event.\n\nThe charity called on the public to report any sightings of Sowerby's beaked whales to them.\n\nThe Sea Watch Foundation, which works to protect whales, dolphins, and other marine life, said the information could help them to better understand the distribution and behaviour of the species.\n\n\"There have only been 13 confirmed sightings of Sowerby's whales in the UK since 2007,\" said Claudia Afeltra from the Sea Watch Foundation.\n\n\"While the sighting has not raised immediate concerns for the whale's well-being, as it appeared healthy and naturally retreated to deeper waters, we will closely monitor its movements\".", "Staff at Tesco stores are to be offered body cameras amid a rise in violent attacks, the supermarket's chief executive has said.\n\nThe company has seen physical assaults increase by a third since last year.\n\nIt mirrors findings by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) published earlier this year, which found abuse against retail staff had almost doubled compared to pre-Covid levels.\n\nSimilar action has already been taken by Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Co-op.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Tesco boss Ken Murphy called for tougher laws targeting offenders.\n\nHe noted changes had been made to make attacking a shop worker an aggravating factor in convictions, but wants \"abuse or violence towards retail workers\" to be made an offence in itself.\n\nMr Murphy called for the change to bring England and Wales in line with Scotland, where the Protection of Worker's Bill makes it an offence to assault, threaten or abuse retail staff.\n\nHe also called for the supermarket to have the right to be kept informed about how a case proceeds.\n\n\"Crime is a scourge on society, and an insult to shoppers and retail workers. It is time we put an end to it,\" he added, saying the abuse suffered was \"heartbreaking\".\n\nSpeaking to the Daily Telegraph, Policing Minister Chris Philp said police forces should start to look at every crime where there is CCTV footage, even in instances where the theft is of goods worth less than £200.\n\n\"It should not be tolerated at any level - I expect a zero tolerance approach to this criminality,\" he said.\n\nIn the BRC's Crime Survey published in March, it recorded more than 850 daily incidents in 2021/22, a steep rise from pre-Covid level of 450 a day in 2019/20.\n\nThese incidents included racial and sexual abuse, something it said was having a \"huge emotional and physical impact on people\".\n\nThe trade association, which represents more than 200 retailers in the UK, said the cost of retail crime was £1.76bn in 2021/22, with £953m lost to customer theft, and £715m spent on prevention.\n\n\"The pandemic has normalised appalling levels of violent and abusive behaviour against retail workers,\" said Helen Dickinson, the group's chief executive.\n\nIn July, food retailer Co-op warned that some communities could become \"no-go\" areas for the company due to the rising levels of crime, which it said had increased by more than a third in the past year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This suspected shoplifter got extremely abusive with a shop security guard\n\nIt cited a Freedom of Information request which suggested many police forces were not prioritising retail crime, with 71% of serious retail crime not responded to by police.\n\nWaitrose has said an increase in shoplifting has come from a proliferation of steal-to-order gangs.\n\nThe supermarket is owned by the John Lewis Partnership, which has said staff in John Lewis stores have also been given bodycams and de-escalation training to deal with a rise in incidents.\n\nSainsbury's has used body-worn cameras since 2018, a policy it was one of \"a number of security measures\" to support customer and colleague safety.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Flags fly above soldiers' graves in a cemetery in Lviv\n\nThere has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine's number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville has been on the front line in the east, where the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality.\n\nThe unknown soldiers lie piled high in a small brick mortuary, not very far from the front line in Donetsk, where 26-year-old Margo says she speaks to the dead.\n\n\"It may sound weird… but I'm the one who wants to apologise for their deaths. I want to thank them somehow. It's as if they can hear, but they can't respond.\"\n\nAt her cluttered desk outside the mortuary's heavy door, she sits, pen in hand. It is her job to record the particulars of the fallen.\n\nUkraine gives no official toll of its war dead - the Ukrainian armed forces have reiterated that their war casualty numbers are a state secret - but Margo knows the losses are huge.\n\nThe figures remain classified. But US officials, quoted by the New York Times, recently put the number at 70,000 dead and as many as 120,000 injured. It is a staggering figure, from an armed forces estimated at only half a million strong. The UN has recorded 9,177 civilian deaths to date.\n\nOn Margo's inside right arm is a small tattoo of a mother and child, with the birthdate of her son recorded. Her manicured nails are painted in Ukrainian colours. She wears a black T-shirt with the words \"I'M UKRAINIAN\" on the front.\n\n\"The hardest is when you see a dead young guy who hasn't even reached 20, 22 years old. And realising they didn't die their own death,\" she says. \"They were killed. They were killed for their own land. That's the most painful. You cannot get used to this. It's now getting to the point where it's just about [helping] the boys reach home.\"\n\nThe most difficult day of her life, she says, was when her common-law husband was brought into the mortuary on the day he died. Twenty-three-year-old Andrii was killed in battle on 29 December 2022.\n\n\"He died while defending his motherland,\" she says. \"But then, for the umpteenth time, I've convinced myself that I should be here, I should be helping the fallen.\"\n\nMargo's hardest moment was the day she had to identify her own partner\n\nThe job has made her hard - like steel, she says. And no matter how painful it is to see the bodies being brought into the mortuary, she says she never cries in public.\n\n\"I keep all of this inside me [until] the evening when I come home. No-one sees my tears.\"\n\nAs recently as April, leaked estimates from the Pentagon put Ukrainian deaths at the much lower figure of 17,500. The alleged jump to more than 70,000 can be partly explained by the counter-offensive in the south. In its early days it was especially hard on Ukrainian infantry - \"worse than Bakhmut\" one brigade commander who is fighting there told me. The city in Donetsk fell to Russia in May in one of the bloodiest battles of the war so far.\n\nUkraine has now changed tactics there, but the beginning of the push to breach Russia's occupation defences in June was costly, for young newly trained soldiers in particular. They were dying \"by the dozens\" every day, one senior sergeant fighting around the Donetsk village of Velyka Novosilka told me in June.\n\nAt the mortuary, one of a number along the front line, they work to put names to the unknown soldiers, who come direct from the battlefield.\n\nBody bags are brought outside, one at a time, and the search for clues begins. Inside the first body bag is the corpse of a young man, his eyes still open, his hands folded carefully across his lap. His face is cut, and there is a gash on the side of his leg. Another body is brought out, the fingers missing on the right hand, blood and battlefield mud stain his uniform.\n\nTheir pockets are cut open by mortuary staff, still full of the artefacts of everyday life - keys, a mobile phone, a wallet with family snaps. In death, these items are now clues that might reunite the unidentified with their families.\n\nWritten in black marker pen on another body bag, the word \"Unidentified\" is scored out and replaced with a man's name and army company details.\n\nMore body bags emerge, but reporting restrictions don't allow me to say how many.\n\nA group of soldiers - commanders of various ranks - arrive in an army pick-up truck and pace outside the mortuary, smoking cigarettes. They inspect one body, to see if the soldier is from their platoon, company or battalion. It looks like he was killed in an artillery strike - part of his head is missing and the wounds to his body are severe, even worse when he is turned over.\n\n\"This is difficult. Unpleasant. But it's needed, part of our job. We have to give the boys a proper send-off,\" says a deputy battalion commander who goes by the call sign \"Avocat\".\n\nMore men from his unit will be brought to aid in the identification of the body, he says.\n\nThe reality of the scale of casualties is laid bare in Ukraine's cemeteries.\n\nIn the late afternoon sun around Krasnopilske cemetery in Dnipro, the heads of the sunflowers hang heavy - an honour-guard for the freshly dug graves that spread ever closer to the perimeter.\n\nAt one such graveside, 31-year-old Oksana weeps alone. Pictures of her dead husband Pavlo gaze down on her. The bearded and brawny junior sergeant was a power-lifting champion and personal trainer. He was killed during Ukraine's previous counter-offensive, near the city of Izium in November when a missile from a Russian helicopter struck his convoy.\n\nOksana cries by the graveside of her husband, who died in November\n\n\"He voluntarily went to defend our country,\" Oksana says. \"He was a warrior at heart - freedom loving. He was the embodiment of our Ukrainian spirit.\"\n\nIt took time to identify Pavlo's body - he, along with others in the car, was badly burnt. Eventually he was recognised by a tattoo.\n\nThe yellow and blue of Ukrainian flags whip above each grave in the gentle breeze - there are hundreds of them. Each is a marker in the great tide of loss that sweeps daily across eastern and southern battlefields, filling cemeteries in towns and villages the length and breadth of Ukraine.\n\nOksana's husband Pavlo died in the first counter-offensive\n\nA year and a half into this war, few families here have been left untouched by grief.\n\nBut still, there appears to be no slackening in the will to fight. If anything, the losses have, for now, galvanised the determination for victory.\n\nOksana and Pavlo made a wartime pact that if he died, she would join the military. For the past two months she's been serving as part of an aerial surveillance drone unit, on the outskirts of Bakhmut.\n\nA week after we met in the cemetery, Oksana is in full body armour and heading to a forward position in search of a Russian anti-tank unit which is targeting Ukrainian forces. When we get there, the sound of artillery, almost entirely outgoing fire, is deafening.\n\nOksana has now signed up to the military herself\n\nI ask her why she put herself in harm's way? It is her moral duty, she says, as she plays with the silver wedding ring on her right hand.\n\nShe says: \"I just need to continue what he started. So, all his efforts were not in vain. Volunteering and donations are all good, but I want to be a part of it, a part of our victory in the future.\"\n\nUkrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar earlier released a statement warning that those who release casualty numbers would be liable to criminal prosecution.\n\n\"Why is this data secret?\" she asked rhetorically. \"Because during the active phase of the war, the enemy uses the number of dead and wounded to calculate our likely further actions… If the enemy has this information, they will begin to understand some of our next steps.\"\n\nThe toll of the war hangs heavy on the men of the 68th Jaeger Brigade, who are fighting to stop Russian advances on the eastern front, near the town of Kupiansk.\n\nIn 35C-plus temperatures, we sought some shelter under camouflage netting, away from the midday heat and the ever-present danger of Russian drones. A deputy battalion commander who goes by the call-sign \"Lermontov\" was in a reflective and dark mood. Over freshly brewed coffee, he predicted a long war.\n\nThe Russians won't stop, he said, \"you can't negotiate with them\". The West doesn't understand this. Young soldiers who expected to be home in a year realise now, he said, they will be gone longer.\n\nHe is a veteran of the fight in Donbas, he's been fighting Russia and its proxies since 2014. How long then did he expect this war to last? \"Another 10 years,\" he replied.\n\nHis grim mood was understandable. On 1 August, the brigade's sergeant major and two other sergeants were killed in a single Russian mortar strike. \"He was a legend,\" Lermontov said. The dead man's car was parked where he had left it, a few feet away. His personal belongings still inside.\n\nAs we spoke, Lermontov's phone buzzed. It was the mother of a soldier killed the week before. She wanted to know why young men with guns were being sent to attack Russian trenches if Ukraine had been gifted so much modern Western weaponry. But on this 600-mile front line many brigades lack the latest armoured vehicles or long-range guns. The reality is that in many of the trenches, Ukrainian soldiers have to make do. \"I don't have an answer for her, she doesn't understand… we don't have everything,\" he told me.\n\nAt a medal ceremony, in the garden of a house which serves as a company base, I meet the brigade's commander, Colonel Oleksii. He had just returned from the sergeant major's funeral.\n\nHe told me: \"We had two big [Russian attacks]. I think we were very successful, we found around 35 bodies. So I think basically we demolished one company.\"\n\nOverall Russia's casualties are far greater, some 120,000 dead according to the latest US estimate. But its army, and population, is far larger. Ukrainian soldiers at the front line say Russia's ability to absorb pain appears limitless.\n\nI ask Colonel Oleksii what he tells the families of the fallen.\n\n\"I just ask for forgiveness that I have not provided enough safety. Maybe I was a bad leader, bad planning. And I thank them for what they gave for this fight.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Callan Brett, 33, of Ipswich, lost her son Henry to infant acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2021\n\nA mother whose baby son died of a rare form of blood cancer says she hopes new research will spare other families from similar \"heartbreak\".\n\nCallan Brett, 33, from Ipswich, lost her son Henry to infant acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2021.\n\nDiagnosed at five months old, Henry was just 14 months old when he died.\n\nMrs Brett says a new research project into infant leukaemia at the University of Edinburgh meant the \"the world\" to her and her family.\n\nThe research, co-funded by Leukaemia UK and Worldwide Cancer Research, aims to uncover kinder and more effective treatments for infant leukaemia - a rare but devastating disease which affects babies under 12 months.\n\nMrs Brett (left) recently met with Prof Ottersbach to learn more about the project\n\nThe project is being led by Prof Katrin Ottersbach at Edinburgh's Centre for Regenerative Medicine.\n\nProf Ottersbach says: \"The treatment of infant leukaemia has not improved for decades.\n\n\"This research will allow us to investigate what makes blood cancer in infants unique, and how we can treat it more efficiently.\"\n\nMrs Brett says: \"I was shell-shocked when we were told that Henry had infant leukaemia.\n\n\"The only way I can describe it is total devastation.\n\n\"All I could feel was sheer panic.\n\n\"Later, I felt such guilt as well. If he'd been my first child, I might have worried sooner, but because he was my second - and because he was such a happy baby - I was more relaxed. I just felt so guilty.\"\n\nHenry spent more than half of his life in hospital and underwent four rounds of chemotherapy.\n\nTwo years after Henry's death, Mrs Brett and her husband James hope sharing Henry's story will raise awareness of infant leukaemia and highlight the need for research.\n\nHenry spent more than half of his life in hospital and underwent four rounds of chemotherapy\n\n\"My baby cannot have died for no reason,\" she says. \"His death has to mean something.\n\n\"If I have to live the entire rest of my life without him, then there has to be progress in that time.\"\n\nMrs Brett recently met with Prof Ottersbach to learn more about the project.\n\n\"It means so much to be here, and to meet the amazing, dedicated people who are working on defeating this disease,\" she says. \"It just means the world.\"\n\n\"We cannot stand by knowing that more research could spare another family from his type of heartbreak.\"\n\n\"My baby cannot have died for no reason,\" Mrs Brett said\n\nIt will investigate two genes that are involved in the most common type of infant leukaemia.\n\n\"Both of these genes, SGMS1 and ELOVL1, are involved in regulating the fat content of cells,\" she says, \"Suggesting that infant leukaemia cells have specific fat requirements that are important to keep them alive.\n\n\"Maybe if you can stop the cancer cells getting the fat they need, you can potentially stop the cancer from growing.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Ihor Kolomoisky arrived at court in a blue FC Dnipro tracksuit jacket on Saturday\n\nOne of Ukraine's most powerful oligarchs is to be held in custody for two months on suspicion of fraud and money laundering.\n\nIhor Kolomoisky is alleged to have transferred $14m (£11.1m) abroad over seven years, using banks he controlled.\n\nHis lawyers say he will not post bail and will appeal against the court order.\n\nIt marks the latest move in Ukraine's anti-corruption drive, which has targeted several high-profile figures.\n\nLocal TV footage showed Mr Kolomoisky being led away from a district court in Kyiv dressed in a blue FC Dnipro tracksuit jacket on Saturday. His defence team say he is now being held at Ukraine's security service (SBU) headquarters in the city.\n\n\"It was established that during 2013-2020, Ihor Kolomoisky legalized more than half a billion hryvnias ($14m) by withdrawing them abroad and using the infrastructure of banks under [his] control,\" the agency said in a statement.\n\nIn his regular evening video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to allude to the case and said there would be no return to \"business as usual for those who plundered Ukraine and put themselves above the law\".\n\n\"Each of us feels that this will be a Ukraine with different rules,\" he said.\n\nMr Zelensky cited the fight against corruption as one of his main priorities when he came to power in 2019.\n\nSince Russia's invasion in February 2022, his administration has been eager to highlight Ukraine's crackdown on corruption - seen as one of the key tests the country would have to pass to join Western institutions like the European Union.\n\nSaturday's court ruling against Mr Kolomoisky is not the first move against him.\n\nThe tycoon's home in the south-eastern city of Dnipro was raided in February this year as part of a separate investigation into embezzlement and tax evasion at the country's two largest oil companies partially owned by him.\n\nIn 2021, the US placed him under sanctions for alleged \"significant corruption\" during his time as governor of the wider Dnipropetrovsk region. He has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Kolomoisky is a wealthy businessman involved in Ukrainian media, oil and banking. His TV channel gave Mr Zelensky his break with the comedy series Servant of the People, before he backed the former actor's bid for the presidency.\n\nThe president faced accusations of acting as Mr Kolomoisky's puppet during the election campaign, including from rival and former president Petro Poroshenko.\n\nBut the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly denied that Mr Kolomoisky has had any influence over the government.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nMo Farah's final race in his home city of London ended with the four-time Olympic champion finishing fourth in The Big Half.\n\nThe 40-year-old stayed in touch with the leading pack for the first half of Sunday's elite men's race but dropped back after about 30 minutes.\n\nJack Rowe claimed victory in a personal best of one hour one minute 8 seconds, with Farah clocking 1:02:43.\n\nRose Harvey (1:10:02) was 47 seconds behind Thackery in second and Abbie Donnelly was third in 1:10:31.\n\nMahamed Mahamed led for much of the men's race but finished eight seconds down after being dropped by Rowe in the final stages, while Andrew Butchart (1:02:15) was third.\n\nFarah, who has six world titles to go with his four Olympic golds, was next to finish and has confirmed he will retire after competing at the Great North Run on 10 September.\n\n\"It was quite emotional because I haven't been feeling well this week as I've got a bit of a cold,\" said Farah.\n\n\"I wasn't sure if I could do the race but I was thinking of all the people that came out here and that I'm not going to get another chance.\n\n\"I came out today and gave my best but you can't take anything away from Jack. He's been working hard for the last three years and he deserved that win.\"\n\nHe added: \"When you achieve everything, it must come to an end at some point. I'm getting on a bit.\"\n\nDavid Weir won the men's wheelchair race after a sprint finish with Danny Sidbury, with Johnboy Smith in third.\n\nThere was also a close finish in the women's equivalent as Samantha Kinghorn claimed victory from Eden Rainbow-Cooper, with Mel Woods third.\n• None Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack star in a gothic detective story set in Ireland\n• None From zero to his first million: How did Amazon boss Jeff Bezos make his money?", "Samuel Newey carried out \"mission after mission\" in Ukraine, said his family\n\nA British volunteer killed in Ukraine had a \"very kind and giving heart\" and wanted to help people, his friend said.\n\nSolihull student Samuel Newey, 22, who went to Ukraine 12 months ago, died on Wednesday.\n\nRima Ziuraitis, who spoke to the BBC from the city of Kharkiv, became friends with Mr Newey as they volunteered for an aid agency.\n\nMr Newey's family said he was a medic and became a \"selfless warrior\" helping defend innocent people.\n\nHe is believed to be the 10th British person to die in the conflict.\n\nA fundraising page has been set up to help bring his body home, and towards funeral costs.\n\nMr Newey \"could make anyone laugh, even on their worst day\", friend Rima Ziuraitis said\n\nMs Ziuraitis worked alongside Mr Newey delivering aid to villages cut off by flooding in Kherson after a major dam was breached.\n\nShe said he was \"here to make sure he could help Ukraine\" and also \"a very good friend you knew you could rely on\".\n\n\"He became a fighter but he also always helped on the humanitarian side as well so if anybody ever needed help, he would always answer the call,\" she said.\n\n\"He had a very kind and giving heart and also could make anyone laugh, even on their worst day.\n\n\"He was a wonderful person, we all loved him dearly.\"\n\nMs Ziuraitis, who spoke to the BBC from Ukraine, said Mr Newey was \"a friend you could rely on\"\n\nMr Newey left his studies in Birmingham to travel to Ukraine where he volunteered with a US aid agency.\n\nHis older brother Dan also volunteered in the country.\n\nTheir dad Paul said \"Samuel was the light of all of our lives\" and the \"whole family's baby boy\".\n\n\"When Daniel decided to go to the Ukraine to help the war effort, Samuel decided to follow by being a medic which he did with great bravery,\" he said.\n\n\"But after seeing things that nobody should ever see Samuel wanted to do even more by helping to defend the innocent people of Ukraine.\"\n\nHe added: \"We pray for a quick end to this war so my beautiful son can be one of the last brave fallen.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Far Gosford Street is among the roads affected\n\nTwo people have died after they were hit by a car in separate crashes in Coventry on Sunday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said two pedestrians were hit in Gosford Street at 08:00 BST, before a cyclist was struck in Woodway Lane.\n\nA 44-year-old pedestrian struck in Gosford Street and the cyclist have since died.\n\nA 33-year-old man is being questioned by officers in connection with the collisions.\n\nAfter hitting the individuals, the force said the car finally crashed into a house in Beckbury Road.\n\nA drone team and dogs were called in when the suspect made off from the vehicle, police said.\n\nA man was arrested at about 09:00.\n\nThe car later crashed into a house, police said\n\nThe other pedestrian injured in Gosford Street is being treated for injuries not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nSupt Ronan Tyrer said the families of those involved had been informed \"and our thoughts remain firmly with them at this truly devastating time\".\n\n\"We are still in the very early stages of our investigations and we have several scenes across Coventry which also means that some roads will be closed for a considerable time,\" he said.\n\nGosford Street, Woodway Lane and surrounding roads will be closed as officers investigate.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and are looking at CCTV footage.\n\nOfficers have appealed for witnesses and information\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Joe Biden said he was ready to mobilise support for Florida\n\nUS President Joe Biden has vowed to give Florida any support it needs to rebuild in the wake of Tropical Storm Idalia's destruction.\n\nMr Biden was speaking during a visit to the state, where at least two people are known to have died after the storm made landfall on Wednesday,\n\nHe added that no \"intelligent\" person could doubt the impact of climate change in the wake of the storm.\n\nMeanwhile, Governor Ron DeSantis chose not to meet the president on his trip.\n\nMr DeSantis, who is standing to become his Republican party's candidate for president, had earlier suggested Mr Biden's presence could hinder disaster response efforts. Mr Biden, who has spoken to Mr DeSantis multiple times this week, had said they would be meeting in person.\n\nBut a spokesperson for Mr DeSantis said on Friday that the governor had no plans to meet with the president, adding that security preparations required for such a meeting would \"shut down ongoing recovery efforts\".\n\nMr Biden praised Mr DeSantis during his visit on Saturday and said he was not disappointed by the Republican governor's absence.\n\n\"He sat with Fema (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and decided where we should go, where would be the least disruption,\" Mr Biden told reporters in front of a storm-damaged house in the town of Live Oak, one of the worst-hit areas.\n\nMr Biden did meet Rick Scott, one of the state's two Republican senators, and said it was a \"reassuring\" sign that the state leadership and federal authorities were working well together.\n\nMr DeSantis spent the day about 50 miles (80km) south, touring small communities along Florida's Gulf Coast, according to his official schedule.\n\nThe president and First Lady Jill Biden also met evacuated residents at an elementary school.\n\n\"As I told your governor, if there's anything your state needs, I'm ready to mobilise that support,\" Mr Biden said at a news conference afterwards.\n\n\"Your nation has your back, and we'll be with you until the job is done.\"\n\nIdalia landed as a powerful hurricane in Florida's Big Bend area on Wednesday and has been described by officials as the worst storm to hit the region in 100 years. The storm has since travelled north, hitting the neighbouring state of Georgia and the Carolinas.\n\nHomes and businesses have been flooded, and power has been knocked out for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nFema head Deanne Criswell told reporters on Saturday that search and rescue operations had ended and officials were focusing on restoring power to the affected regions.\n\nShe added that less than 1% of Floridians were without power, though that figure was significantly higher in some areas directly impacted by the hurricane.\n\nMr DeSantis has consistently polled second for the Republican presidential primary nomination, trailing far behind frontrunner and former President Donald Trump.\n\nThe 2024 election is widely expected to be a repeat of 2020 between Mr Biden and Mr Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the death of a person during torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada.\n\nThousands of people remain stranded at the event after the bad weather turned the ground to deep, slippery mud.\n\nRevellers have been told to take shelter and conserve their food, while roads in and out of the event are closed as vehicles can barely move.\n\nBurning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert, which is usually dry and dusty.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said it is \"currently investigating a death which occurred during this rain event\" but did not give any further details on the circumstances. The person's family had been notified, the statement added.\n\nThe unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of the giant wooden effigy.\n\nThe worst of the rain has now passed, according to BBC Weather, but there is still a risk of some further showers and thunderstorms.\n\nIt could be several days before the ground dries up enough for people to leave and for this reason, they have been told to conserve their food, water and fuel.\n\nHowever two festival-goers told the BBC that the organisers have now been able to empty and restock the toilet facilities. They had been left out of use after service vehicles were unable to drive on the mud to empty them.\n\nAccording to the sheriff's office, some people who had tried to drive out of the festival had instead made the muddy ground even worse.\n\nFestival-goers told the BBC they watched on as some people tried to drive away - but they quickly became bogged in the thick clay-like mud.\n\nBurning Man's organisers said they currently had no estimated time for when the roads would be dry enough for vehicles to be able to move off the site.\n\n\"Monday late in the day would be possible if weather conditions are in our favour... It could be sooner, and it could be later,\" they said.\n\nThere are currently thought to be around 70,000 people stranded at the site, Pershing County Sheriff's Sgt Nathan Carmichael told US media.\n\nSome have managed to leave, however. American DJ Diplo wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he and comedian Chris Rock walked 5 miles (8km) to a road, where they were given a lift by fans.\n\nOthers have also had to rely on strangers.\n\nAshley Smith, who lives in London, told the BBC that he and his friends left a lot of their gear behind and walked to the road, where they managed to hitchhike to San Francisco. The whole journey took 14 hours.\n\nThe event's organisers have arranged for buses to pick people up from the road and take them to the city of Reno, more than 100 miles away.\n\nSome revellers are using plastic bags to protect their shoes from the squelchy mud\n\nMilia Nirshberg, 12, who is at the festival with her father for the second year running, told the BBC that they had let friends stay in their campervan, and were also allowing people to use the van's toilet.\n\n\"The people in the tents are having a hard time because it's flooding. Since we're in a campervan we're trying to invite people to come stay with us because they don't have food or water,\" she said.\n\nBurning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events. Visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert, and are expected to be largely self-sufficient while they are there.\n\n\"We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything we need to survive,\" said Burning Man in a statement. \"It is because of this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like this.\"\n\nFaye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she has been left \"covered in mud for the past 3 days\".\n\nThere are no showers here,\" she said. \"The only thing you can do is wash with baby wipes inside your tent, but I will probably run out of baby wipes tomorrow.\"\n\nAs well as music, the festival usually features giant interactive art installations - but many of the attractions had to be cancelled.\n\nNonetheless, many were trying to make the best of the situation, dancing in the mud to techno music.\n\n\"We're taking it as an opportunity to hang out and spend more time with our new friends and old friends in the camp,\" reveller, Josiah Roe said.\n\nAndy Maddocks, who is also at the festival, told the BBC organisers planned to go ahead with the burning of the wooden effigy on Sunday evening if the weather held.\n\nBurning Man participants have been trying to make the best of the bad weather conditions\n\nBurning Man was founded in June 1986 and was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nTickets can be very hard to get and festival-goers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.\n\nSome groups spend the entire year planning their camp, artwork and theme.\n\nBut this year there had been worries about the weather and tickets were changing hands on the secondary market at below market rate.\n\nAdditional reporting by James Clayton in San Francisco and Azadeh Moshiri.\n\nAre you attending the Burning Man festival? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Anthony Kiedis, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a standout client for Greg\n\nWhat do Dermot Kennedy and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis have in common?\n\nThere's the stardom and the chart hits, of course, but also an unlikely style connection - they've both shared a barber, Londonderry's Greg McNeil.\n\nGreg and his team travels around the island, working with famous faces at gigs and music festivals.\n\nIt's exciting work, said the owner of Bareknuckle Barbershop on Derry's Spencer Road.\n\n\"It takes you away from your normal nine to five of just cutting hair,\" Greg told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe started out on his own in 2015 after completing an apprenticeship and it wasn't long before opportunity came knocking.\n\nHe was invited to work at Electric Picnic music festival after another barber noticed his work at a showcase.\n\n\"Three or four weeks before [Electric Picnic] he got in touch to say they had another big festival if you want to come down,\" he continued.\n\n\"As soon as we walked in we saw everyone - Dua Lipa, Stormzy, all these people - and then the nerves set in.\n\n\"It's went from doing one or two festivals to doing a multitude of gigs.\n\nThe Bareknuckle Barbershop team were excited to meet Dermot Kennedy at Marley Park this year\n\n\"This year has just been crazy. We started on the 4 June and got home on the 6 July, with maybe two days off in between.\n\n\"The promoters said they didn't want to stress us too much with opportunities but we said we'd take every opportunity they've got going.\"\n\nOne of the questions most often put to Greg is whether he feels nervous cutting the hair of some of the biggest stars of today.\n\n\"Maybe at the start you do, then you start to realise they are just people as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no point in building them up because you'll only panic and you won't deliver.\n\n\"You don't really get time to think. They come over and they want a cut so you just do it.\"\n\nIt's not just musicians who've got a cut from Greg - Iain Sterling, the voice of ITV's Love Island, has also sat in his barber chair\n\nHis team are now recognised as familiar faces among the backstage crews at festivals and concerts.\n\n\"The majority of these artists have been going for the length of the time we've been doing this, some people a lot longer,\" he said.\n\n\"We're at the stage where they see us and say 'there's those guys' and they're straight over.\"\n\nWhen it comes to career highlights, one client sticks out above the rest.\n\n\"Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers - I think he's the biggest we'll ever do,\" he said.\n\nJack Hetherington, who works with Greg, said the opportunities were \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"Some of the people I've met this summer are massive stars. I've seen some of the biggest gigs in the world.\n\n\"I was lucky enough to see The Weeknd's last live performance as The Weeknd before he changed his name to Abel. That has probably been the highlight of it all.\"\n\nDespite the experience on the job so far, Jack said he still gets nervous.\n\n\"My heart is in my throat the whole time,\" he added, but he's confident he'll get more comfortable with time - no matter who is sitting in the chair looking for a haircut.", "King Charles, Queen Camilla and Princess Anne have joined thousands of Highland games spectators at the annual Braemar Gathering.\n\nThe King attended for the first time since his coronation, wearing a kilt in the new King Charles III tartan.\n\nBefore her death, Queen Elizabeth II was a regular at the event while staying at the nearby Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire.\n\nEvents include Highland dance and heavyweights such as the hammer throw.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla arrived to cheering crowds before taking their seats in the Royal pavilion.\n\nPeter Fraser, president of the Braemar Royal Highland Society, said: \"A new king, it's very special. It's great that the Royal Family has carried on this tradition. All the Royal family take a great interest in the games, there's no question about that.\n\n\"One of the everlasting memories I have of the whole Royal Family watching the sack race with the little kiddies - and whatever happened everyone was bursting with laughter.\"\n\nThe King arrived at Balmoral Castle last month for his first summer residence in Scotland since the death of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nHe is expected to be there on the first anniversary of the Queen's death on 8 September.\n\nThe Scottish Tartans Authority said the design of the King's kilt was based on the Balmoral tartan sett which dates from 1850.\n\nThe new tartan has been registered with the Scottish register of tartans, which is administered by the National Records of Scotland.\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nCoco Gauff underlined her credentials as one of the US Open title favourites with a gutsy victory over Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nThe 19-year-old American had to come from a break down in the third set to win 6-3 3-6 6-1.\n\nSixth seed Gauff is bidding for a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe victory also ended Wozniacki's extraordinary comeback run after a three-and-a-half-year absence from the sport.\n\nGauff will face former French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko in the last eight after the Latvian 20th seed knocked out top seed Iga Swiatek.\n\nGauff arrived at her home Grand Slam full of confidence after title wins in Washington and Cincinnati.\n\nHer fine form looks set to continue as she showed great resilience to fight back in the third set and register an impressive win against a resilient Wozniacki.\n\nGauff joked afterwards that her father can no longer sit in her support box because he gets too nervous during matches.\n\n\"He's been doing laps around the stadium,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't know if he can hear me but I felt his good energy even if I couldn't see him.\"\n• None Murray out of mixed doubles in New York\n\nBroken in her opening service game, Gauff was able to overcome a nervy start to level the scores at 2-2 before getting the decisive break to lead 5-3 and serve out the opener on the third set point.\n\nDespite saving five break points in the second set, a frustrated Gauff eventually conceded serve to trail 5-3 and allow Wozniacki to take the fourth-round tie to a decider.\n\nThe teenager found herself a break down once again at the start of third and directed her frustration towards her coaching team, shouting at them to stop talking to her.\n\nThe home favourite channelled her energy well, overturning the deficit and breaking Wozniacki to take control of the match, all the time roared on by the crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nSince her disappointing first-round exit at Wimbledon in July, Gauff has lost just one of her past 16 matches and is currently on a nine-match winning streak.\n\nThe world number six has only reached one Grand Slam singles final before - the 2022 French Open, where she lost 6-1 6-3 to Swiatek.\n\n'It feels like Wozniacki never left'\n\nThe loss marks the end of an incredible run for Wozniacki as she returned to a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2020 Australian Open.\n\nWozniacki retired three years ago to start a family and was heavily pregnant with her second child during last year's US Open.\n\nHowever, she returned to the WTA Tour last month, with Gauff remarking it is like the Dane \"never left\".\n\n\"The level that she's played today is really amazing,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"She's been an inspiration for me growing up.\"\n\nThe former world number one - a two-time US Open runner-up - said afterwards she was exactly where she wants to be.\n\n\"There's a lot of positives to take with me going forward. I'm on the right track,\" Wozniacki said.\n\n\"I'm finding my form, I'm finding my feet. I'm excited to take on more events and more players.\"\n\nElsewhere on Sunday, 10th seed Karolina Muchova set up a quarter-final encounter with Sorana Cirstea of Romania after defeating China's Wang Xinyu 6-3 5-7 6-1.\n\nFor world number 30 Cirstea, who beat Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 6-3 6-3, it will be a first appearance in the last eight of a Grand Slam since the 2009 French Open.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Alix Popham was taken to hospital in an ambulance, according to player welfare group Progressive Rugby\n\nFormer rugby player Alix Popham has been taken to hospital after suffering a suspected concussion during an Ironman event.\n\nThe ex-Wales flanker was raising money for his brain injury charity, Head for Change, in Tenby, Pembrokeshire.\n\nPlayer welfare group Progressive Rugby said Mr Popham was kicked in the head during the swim stage in a \"cruel and ironic twist of fate\".\n\nPopham, who is 43, was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 40.\n\nHe is one of 300 rugby players taking part in a lawsuit against rugby governing bodies over head injuries.\n\nAn Ironman spokesman said he understood that Mr Popham had some precautionary checks following the injury at the triathlon on Sunday.\n\nPosting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Progressive Rugby said: \"After months of intense training to raise money for concussion education and support, Alix has had to withdraw after suffering a suspected concussion from being kicked in the head during the swim.\"\n\nAlix Popham (centre), posed with team members including ex-Wales winger Shane Williams before competing in the Ironman event.\n\nA later post, which Progressive Rugby said it had shared with permission, said Alix \"was unable to recognize wife Mel as he came out of the water\".\n\n\"Although dizzy and suffering a headache, he appeared OK but his condition has deteriorated and he is currently being transferred by ambulance to hospital,\" the post continued.\n\nThe Head for Change charity promotes brain health in sport and supports ex-players who are affected by brain conditions like dementia.\n\nPopham previously told the BBC that doctors had worked out he had suffered over 100,000 sub-concussions during his career.\n\n\"I haven't got memories of large chunks of my career,\" he said.\n\nThe full Ironman Wales course involves a 2.4-mile (3.9km) sea swim, hilly 112-mile (180km) bike ride and full marathon to be completed within 17 hours.", "Adama Sarr at home in Senegal. \"In the beginning we all had hope,\" he said.\n\nAdama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea.\n\nThe brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast of West Africa, in a traditional Senegalese fishing canoe known as a pirogue. They were two of 39 passengers in total - all malnourished, many close to death.\n\nWhen a fishing vessel appeared in the distance one day, Adama, 21, was so weak he could only stare, he said. Moussa, 17, slipped into the water to swim.\n\nHe would almost certainly have drowned, had the fishing crew not spotted him in the water and plucked him to safety.\n\nWhen they drew alongside the pirogue, they found Adama and the rest of the survivors and seven bodies. The pirogue had set out from Senegal five weeks earlier, with 101 souls on board.\n\nPirogues lined up on the beach in Fass Boye. Large pirogues are used for migration voyages\n\nThe survivors had drifted hundreds of miles on one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world - the North Atlantic sea passage from Senegal to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago about 1,000 miles away.\n\nThey had left on 10 July, from the coastal village of Fass Boye. Adama and Moussa came from a long line of fishermen in the village. The boys learned to fish together and worked a pirogue together.\n\nBut like many young people in Senegal, they felt the pull of Europe. \"Everyone wants to go on the boats,\" Adama said. \"It's the thing you're supposed to do.\"\n\nHe was sitting in the shaded courtyard of a family home, safely back in Senegal but noticeably thinner than before. The journey had begun at dusk, he said. He and Moussa, along with two cousins, Pape and Amsoutou, aged 40 and 20, joined the pirogue a little way off the coast as it set off into the night.\n\nUnlike the Mediterranean, there are no patrols on the North Atlantic route - no-one proactively searching for lost or distressed boats. It is easy to founder without being seen. If you miss the Canaries, or Cape Verde, you can drift into the Atlantic and disappear.\n\nFor the first three days, Adama and Moussa's pirogue, powered by an outboard motor, battled against strong headwinds. But on the fourth day, the wind died down and the boat began to progress, Adama said. The passengers believed they had only a few more days at sea.\n\nWhen the sixth day passed with no sight of land, an argument erupted over whether to push on or turn back.\n\n\"The captain ruled that we should push on, because we had enough food and water and the wind was quiet,\" Adama said.\n\nThe passengers grew confident again and began to eat lots of food, he said, and they used drinking water to wash their hands for prayers.\n\nIt was around day six that the food and water began to run out. There were four children on board, and some older people gave the last of their food to the young. Some hoarded even after people began to die.\n\nAdama couldn't remember the exact date of the first death, but it was shortly after the first week passed, he said - a fishing captain, used to being on the water but not young. It was six more days until the next person died. Then the deaths came every day.\n\n\"At first, we said a prayer for each dead person and laid their body onto the ocean,\" Adama said. \"Then later we just threw the bodies into the water because we didn't even have the energy to pray. We just needed to get rid of the corpses.\"\n\nAdama's mother, Sokhna. \"The young are leaving because of poverty and family pressure,\" she said.\n\nBack in Fass Boye, news was spreading through the village that the boat had not arrived. \"We all knew it should be five or six days by boat to Spain,\" Adama's mother, Sokhna, said. \"When a week had passed with no news I stopped eating. I became sick from stress.\"\n\nNearly everyone on the pirogue was from Fass Boye or nearby, and everyone in the village seemed to know someone aboard. The families began to do anything they could, alerting local authorities and migration NGOs. The founder of one NGO even tweeted a warning that the boat was missing, two weeks after its departure, but the warning went unheeded and the boat drifted for three more weeks.\n\nOn the pirogue, the four men from the family stuck together, but they were growing weaker and weaker. The eldest cousin, Pape, died first, Adama said. \"Before he passed, he said, 'If death must happen, I wish that I die and you three survive'.\"\n\nThen Adama's younger cousin, Amsoutou, disappeared. One morning they woke up and Amsoutou was simply gone.\n\nAdama and Moussa hung on, sipping seawater and baking under the sun. Each night they looked for lights from the Canary Islands but the lights never appeared.\n\nNobody in Fass Boye seemed to blame the migrants for taking the risk. More than a third of the country lives in poverty, according to the World Bank. The young see few opportunities at home. \"Macky Sall sold the ocean,\" said Assane Niang, a 23-year-old fishing captain, referring to the Senegalese president. Fishermen in Fass Boye say the government has granted too many licences to foreign trawlers, which overfish their waters and deplete the catch.\n\nNiang was sitting on the beach in the shade of a pirogue, knitting generator covers he can sell to help make ends meet. \"If we had other alternatives we would stay, but we cannot sit here and do nothing,\" he said. \"We are trying to support our families.\"\n\nThere is social pressure on the young to try to leave on the boats, and there can be stigma attached to those who fail or never try.\n\nSo much so that the sea route to Spain has earned its own grim slang in Senegal's Wolof language: \"Barcelona or death.\"\n\nThe wooden pirogues the smugglers use are not suitable for the voyage. They are often poorly constructed. They lack navigation technology and are liable to run out of petrol and be pushed off course. And yet the number of migrants using the route to reach Spain has been rising every year.\n\nYoung fishermen in Fass Boye say poverty is driving them to risk all on the water.\n\nAccording to the International Organisation for Migration, about 68,000 people have successfully reached the Canary Islands by boat from West Africa since January 2020 and about 2,700 have been recorded dead or disappeared. But the number of casualties is likely significantly higher, because fatal accidents are more likely to go unrecorded on this route.\n\n\"We call them invisible shipwrecks,\" said Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the IOM. \"A boat washes ashore with nobody aboard, or a body washes ashore not linked to a known capsized boat.\"\n\nPart of the problem was that people leaving Fass Boye, particularly fishermen, were too confident in their chances, said Abdou Karim, a lifelong fisherman and the father of Pape Sarr, who died on the boat.\n\n\"The fisherman think that, if they get into trouble, they will be able to swim,\" he said. \"But there is a limit. You cannot swim forever. The ocean will not hold you.\"\n\nAnd yet, young fishermen in Fass Boye said they were still willing to take the risk.\n\n\"I am thinking about going on a boat right now,\" said Niang, the fisherman on the beach. \"The tragedies will not stop us from trying.\"\n\nAbout a month into Adama and Moussa's voyage, a large ship appeared on the horizon and more than 20 people decided to to take their chances in the water, Adama said. But he knew it was too far.\n\nMany of the remaining survivors were barely able to move, he said. Then on 14 August, exactly five weeks after they had departed, they caught sight of the Spanish fishing boat that would rescue them.\n\nThe Spanish crew helped them aboard and put the seven bodies into plastic sheets. Adama and Moussa lay together on the deck of the fishing vessel.\n\nThey had survived the pirogue. But Moussa was too weak. He was the last of the 63 people who died on the voyage.\n\n\"He died right there on the deck,\" Adama said. \"In front of my eyes.\"\n\nAssane Niang, a 23-year-old fisherman, on the beach next to a traditional fishing pirogue.\n\nThe survivors were taken to Cape Verde and spent six days receiving medical treatment, before the majority were flown back to Dakar. Those who could walk were given prescriptions and sent back to Fass Boye.\n\nWhen news had broken of the number of deaths, there was a brief spasm of violent protest in the village that brought the police to town. Some relatives were arrested, including a member of Adama and Moussa's family.\n\nThe survivors were harassed in their homes by curious residents and relatives of the dead, families said. So one day after they arrived home, they were all sent back out of Fass Boye to recuperate elsewhere. Adama and his mother Sokhna went to stay with close relatives nearby. They were spending their days resting, praying, and avoiding asking Adama about his ordeal.\n\nThe family had lost three sons and got one back. Fass Boye had seen 101 set out on the water and 37 come home.\n\n\"It changes a place,\" said Abdou Karim, Pape's father, silently counting prayer beads in one hand.\n\n\"Even one soul is a lot,\" he said. \"And this is more than 60. It is a lot for one place.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Sira Thierij. Mady Camara contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "The men were arrested as part of the investigation into the data leak\n\nTwo men have been released after being arrested by detectives investigating a major data breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nThe data was accidentally shared in August and included the surname and initials of 10,000 PSNI employees.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 22, were arrested under the Terrorism Act after a search in Portadown, County Armagh, on Saturday.\n\nPolice said they had now been released on bail.\n\nIn total four arrests have been made in relation to the data breach.\n\nOn 16 August, a 39-year-old was arrested on suspicion of collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists. He was later released on bail.\n\nA 50-year-old man was arrested on 18 August and was subsequently charged with terrorism offences.\n\nHe appeared in court on 21 August and was remanded in custody for four weeks.\n\nDt Ch Insp Avine Kelly said the PSNI was working to establish who possessed information related to the data breach.\n\n\"We will take action to ensure that any criminality identified is dealt with robustly to keep communities, and our officers and staff who serve them, safe.\"\n\nOn 8 August, employees' details were mistakenly published online after being released by the PSNI in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nThey were taken down from a website at the PSNI's direction a short time later.\n\nPolice have confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, amongst others.\n\nThe Policing Board has said an independent-led review will be carried out into the breach.\n\nIt was one of three separate PSNI data breach incidents being examined by police.\n\nOn 6 July, in an unrelated incident, a police-issue laptop and radio, as well as a document containing the names of more than 200 staff, were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.\n\nIn another incident, on Thursday 17 August, a PSNI laptop and a police officer's notebook fell from the roof of a moving car on the M2 in Belfast.", "Dozens of children have been forced into contact with fathers accused of abuse, a study has found.\n\nIn some cases in the research, revealed for the first time by the BBC, the fathers were convicted paedophiles.\n\nIn all cases, fathers had used a disputed concept in court known as \"parental alienation\".\n\nSeparately, the same concept has been cited in the deaths of women after family courts allowed fathers accused of abuse to apply for contact.\n\nThe BBC investigation found five mothers died - some taking their own lives and one having a heart attack.\n\nAll the fathers in the England-wide study, carried out by the University of Manchester and reported by the BBC, had responded in court to abuse allegations with the parental alienation concept - in which they claimed the mothers had turned the child against them without good reason.\n\nDr Elizabeth Dalgarno, who led the research, says the concept is a \"handy tool for abusers\" and its acceptance by courts is a \"national scandal\".\n\nFamily law barrister, Lucy Reed KC, says the term is deployed \"increasingly frequently\" - but doesn't always mean the same thing. \"It's quite often used by fathers to mean pretty much anything that is in opposition to their demand for a certain amount of contact.\"\n\nThe 45 mothers of the children in the University of Manchester study all reported serious health problems which they believed were linked to the stress of family court proceedings - including miscarriages, heart attacks and suicidal thoughts.\n\nFor months, the BBC has also been examining stories of traumatised women as part of a wider investigation into the way the family courts handle domestic violence claims in disputes between parents.\n\nBecause of the laws surrounding reporting of the court proceedings, intended to protect children, the women's names and some identifying details have been changed.\n\nDr Elizabeth Dalgarno says parental alienation is a \"handy tool for abusers\" in the family courts\n\nDomestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs says the \"harrowing\" cases uncovered by the BBC show there is a need for \"urgent and wide-reaching reform\" of family courts. Abusers aided by unregulated experts were using \"so-called parental alienation\" to \"deflect from their own abusive behaviour\", she says.\n\nSince we made the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) aware of our investigation, the BBC has learned the government is investigating whether further action is needed on \"alienation\". The judiciary has also issued new draft guidelines for consultation on handling parental alienation claims in domestic abuse cases - although some experts say they don't go far enough.\n\nThe story of women fleeing the UK with their kids. They say the system has failed them.\n\nGrace was madly in love with her partner at first - friends told the BBC - but later she discovered he had previously been jailed for raping a child. The friends said she was also abused by him.\n\nAfter Grace and her partner separated, he refused to return their child and accused her of being mentally unwell. He said there was a risk she would \"alienate\" them from him.\n\nIn one message Grace wrote: \"It's really bad. He kept my child\"\n\nThe family court was aware of his conviction but believed the risk to the child could be managed.\n\nOne friend said Grace felt disbelieved throughout the court proceedings and \"her soul just completely disappeared\".\n\nIn one of her last messages to her group of friends, seen by the BBC, Grace wrote: \"I'm unable to eat or sleep, it's a mess, I hate the family court. Dead dead dead.\"\n\nHer health declined and she died after the final court hearing, in which her child was ordered to live with her abusive partner.\n\nAnother friend told the BBC: \"When you emotionally and mentally give up, I suppose her body followed. It was almost like they signed the death warrant. It was 100% the family court.\"\n\nSpeaking anonymously, friends of Grace said her health declined after her child was ordered to live with a convicted abuser\n\nThe case of another mother - who took her own life after two years of family court proceedings - highlights what a drawn-out legal process can do to the mental health of a vulnerable person.\n\nA published judgement of the case - of the woman we are calling Sarah - details extreme abuse. Before her death, the judge determined in a fact-finding hearing that she had been raped by her partner, who drank excessively and became aggressive. Her partner punched her in the chest, slapped her in the face and threw her against the bannister.\n\nHe put CCTV in the house to monitor Sarah and their two children and would not even allow them to use the bathroom without keeping the door open. He also threatened Sarah, saying he would reveal footage of her inside the bedroom.\n\nAfter she left him, he also placed trackers in her car, the judge concluded.\n\nParental alienation was brought up in proceedings, with the father saying he wanted contact with his children. Eventually the father was denied contact, but by then Sarah had killed herself.\n\nThe judge said she had \"huge regret\" that the proceedings had taken so long and had \"evidently been so difficult for the mother to cope with\".\n\nWhen another mother died waiting outside the family court, a doctor told the inquest into her death that her cardiac arrest could have been linked to \"broken heart syndrome\" and the emotional distress of proceedings.\n\nAccording to coroner's documents, seen by the BBC, the mother had alleged she was a victim of domestic violence. We understand parental alienation was not a feature of the case, and the woman's children had been removed from her care.\n\nIn another case, friends of a mother who had spent time in a refuge for domestic abuse victims told the BBC she had been so traumatised by her medical records being discussed in the case that she later refused to visit a doctor, even when she had a serious illness.\n\nOne friend said the mother had felt like \"her ex, an abuser, was in control\" in the court - because her former partner had labelled her as mentally ill and accused her of parental alienation, turning their child against him.\n\nAfter her child was ordered to live with her former partner, the mother was afraid of being taken back to the family court and losing what little contact she had, another friend said.\n\nThe mother became unwell with a treatable illness but sought medical attention too late - and eventually died of sepsis.\n\nParental alienation was brought up by a family court judge in Sheila's first hearing, as a warning to her.\n\nPeople close to her say she had suffered coercive and controlling behaviour for years from an abusive partner, and had been bombarded with emails, calls and messages at all hours - even after they split.\n\nWhen her former partner applied for greater access to their child, loved ones urged her to see the family court as a friend - but they now say they bitterly regret that advice.\n\nBefore any expert reports had been commissioned, the judge said in their opinion the case involved parental alienation and the court took it extremely seriously.\n\nPeople who knew her well said she was traumatised by the hearing - which went in favour of the father.\n\n\"She felt like she'd go to prison if she did anything wrong,\" the BBC was told. \"She never recovered, she was now controlled by the family courts and her abuser.\"\n\nOver a year later, she took her own life.\n\nSuicide prevention charity the Samaritans says the causes of suicide are often complex and there may not be a single identifiable cause. But the judiciary in England and Wales has commissioned a report to examine the \"potentially heightened risk of suicide\" after involvement in family court proceedings.\n\nResearchers studying the family court say they are concerned that claims of parental alienation appear to be increasing in private law cases like these - where one parent takes another to court, rather than an intervention by social services.\n\nThe University of Manchester found accusations of parental alienation were the common factor among the 45 women and their 75 children in its peer-reviewed study.\n\nCarried out with the domestic abuse research group SHERA, and soon to be published in the Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody and Child Development, the research examined the health impacts on abused women facing family court proceedings.\n\nDr Dalgarno, the lead researcher, says the mothers in these private law cases were not supported in the court. \"Credible evidence of abuse was diminished or ignored completely - and when I say credible evidence, I'm talking about criminal convictions,\" she says.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, says women's struggles with family courts are the \"biggest issue\" in her inbox\n\nDr Dalgarno says that based on self-reported surveys, it is estimated about 70% of the 55,000 private law family court cases each year involve allegations of abuse - but there is a shortage of reliable data on the overall prevalence of cases where parental alienation has been claimed.\n\nThere should be \"emergency measures\" to tackle the use of parental alienation claims in court, she says. \"There are catastrophic health impacts with children and adult victims of abuse considering or attempting suicide.\"\n\nLabour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, says she has been contacted by thousands of women who have struggled with similar experiences inside family courts. \"It's the biggest issue in my inbox,\" she says.\n\nShe compares it to abuse scandals such as those in Rotherham or the Catholic Church.\n\n\"This isn't a bad judge. This isn't a rogue court in one part of the country. This is a tactic of abusers that is being used across every part of our country.\"\n\nThe secrecy and power the courts could wield over a person is \"delicious to domestic abuse perpetrators\", she adds.\n\nIn cases where domestic abuse, sexual violence or any form of child abuse is alleged, the presumption of contact should be earned, not given automatically, Ms Phillips says.\n\nShe says the use of unregulated experts testifying about parental alienation need to be banned and there should be more data collected on the outcomes of family court cases.\n\nThe term parental alienation was first coined by the controversial US psychiatrist Richard Gardner as \"parental alienation syndrome\". He claimed mothers in acrimonious divorces brainwashed their children to believe they had been abused by their fathers and recommended completely severing contact to \"re-programme\" them.\n\nThis concept has been criticised for a lack of evidence - but there are those who say it has now been rebranded simply as \"parental alienation\" and, supported by some psychologists, it has frequently been used by family courts.\n\nLucy Reed KC, who promotes transparency about the workings of family courts, thinks processes should not be diverted by \"complicated psychological jargon\" - including the term parental alienation.\n\nShe says there needs to be better oversight of how courts are handling such allegations. \"If there is domestic abuse, that could explain why the child rejects contact,\" she says.\n\nSir Andrew McFarlane, the most senior family court judge, has said the label of parental alienation is \"unhelpful\"\n\nThe President of the Family Court in England and Wales, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has warned the parental alienation label is \"unhelpful\" - and the Family Justice Council has recently issued new draft guidance for consultation on how to deal with \"allegations of alienating behaviour\".\n\nIt provides a step-by-step guide for family courts hearing parental alienation claims, especially in cases of domestic abuse. It focuses on dealing with evidence and finding facts first before judgements are made.\n\nBut some believe more needs to be done. Earlier this year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls called for the use of parental alienation to be prohibited globally.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, Nicole Jacobs, says too often courts consider claims of domestic violence and parental alienation simultaneously - which, she believes, is an \"unsafe approach\" and can put women and children at risk.\n\nEngland's Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), which advises courts about children's best interests, referred to \"parental alienation\" in guidance as recently as 2021, but now adopts the term \"alienating behaviours\". But it told the BBC its advisers should first consider if factors, such as domestic abuse, mean the child's refusal to see a parent is justified.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice described the cases of the women as \"deeply tragic\" and said that its thoughts were with those who had lost loved ones. It added that improvements had also been made to the family court system to protect domestic abuse victims, such as preventing cross-examination by abusers, expanding legal aid and allowing them to give evidence behind protective screens or by video-link.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Footage of McCartney playing the iconic bass shortly before it vanished was featured in the 2021 Get Back documentary\n\nA global search has been launched to find one of the world's most iconic instruments - Paul McCartney's original Höfner bass guitar.\n\nThe Lost Bass Project is appealing for information about what it describes as \"the most important bass in history\".\n\nMcCartney bought the instrument for £30 ($38) in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961, but it disappeared eight years later.\n\nThe hunt began after McCartney urged manufacturers Höfner to track down his beloved instrument.\n\nThe bass features in The Beatles' music of those years, including the hits Love Me Do and She Loves You.\n\nNick Wass is heading Höfner's search project and has joined forces with two journalists in trying to solve the \"greatest mystery in the history of rock and roll\".\n\nHe has collaborated extensively with McCartney and written a book about the missing Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass.\n\nWass told the BBC that the famous Beatle asked him about the guitar during a recent conversation - and that is how the campaign to find it began.\n\nIt is not clear what happened to the instrument, which was put away presumably after the Beatles finished filming Get Back in 1969, he said.\n\n\"It's not clear where it was stored, who might have been there.\n\n\"For most people, they will remember it... it's the bass that made the Beatles,\" Wass said.\n\nHusband and wife team Scott and Naomi Jones, both of whom have worked for BBC News, are helping with the search.\n\nScott became curious about the guitar's fate after watching McCartney's 2022 headline set at Glastonbury and approached Höfner - only to discover they were already having conversations about tracking it down after being urged to by their famous client.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Paul said to Höfner 'surely if anyone can find this guitar, it's you guys', and that's how it all came about.\n\n\"Now we're working together on this. Nick has more technical knowledge about this guitar than anyone on the planet, and me and my Naomi are bringing some investigative skills.\"\n\nIt's anyone's guess how much the guitar would fetch at auction but there are some precedents.\n\nMcCartney still plays later Höfner basses to this day, like the one pictured above - but the first he bought hasn't been seen since 1969\n\nJohn Lennon's stolen guitar sold for $2.4m (£1.9m) when it resurfaced half a century later, and the acoustic Kurt Cobain played during the iconic MTV Unplugged set sold for $6m (£4.76m).\n\nMcCartney's era-defining bass would likely surpass both - but the Lost Bass Project team are clear that there is no commercial motivation for their search.\n\nJones said: \"Höfner's hunch is that someone will come forward purely on good will, and whoever has it probably doesn't even realise what it is they've got.\n\n\"It would be nice if it could go on public display one day - and if the only way someone is going to come forward is to make some money from it, then so be it, because at least it would be found.\n\n\"But ultimately we're just doing this to get Paul his guitar back. We know via Nick and Höfner that it's what he's always wanted.\"\n\nThe project's public appeal has been live for less than 48 hours but the team has already received hundreds of new leads - including two of particular interest which are being followed up on.\n\nThere are a couple of tell-tale signs any amateur sleuth should be aware of if trying to identify the bass.\n\nA dead giveaway is the Höfner logo, which is written vertically on the headstock of the original model but was horizontal on later versions played by McCartney.\n\nThe missing bass also looked very different last time it was seen to how it did in older pictures, because it had to be renovated after extensive touring.\n\nMcCartney's missing bass was given a darker paint job, had the pearl pickguard removed and had the two pickups mounted in a single piece of black wood.", "The collection at the Kilmartin Museum was unearthed by archaeologists within a six-mile radius\n\nKilmartin Glen - on the road between Lochgilphead and Oban - is a tranquil place, but it hasn't always been so.\n\nAcross 12,000 years, it's been the seat of kings, the burial place of nobility, and the site of battles.\n\nThe evidence of this - the 800 tombs, stone circles, standing stones and monuments in a six-mile radius and the pots, bowls, arrowheads, and human remains which have been unearthed there over the last two centuries.\n\nThe foundations of Kilmartin's own collection came from two archaeologists, Marion Campbell and Mary Sandeman, who conducted the first full survey of mid-Argyll in 1962.\n\nMarion went on to donate her collection to the museum but it was to be decades before it had the space or the status to show properly.\n\nThe museum has had a major redevelopment to display the treasures found on its doorstep\n\nIn 1997, Rachel Butter and David Clough established a museum in an 18th Century manse building. It had just 10 objects and a team of enthusiastic volunteers, who hoped one day to be able to showcase the artefacts discovered on their own doorstep.\n\nIt was a challenge archaeologist Dr Sharon Webb was keen to embrace when she was appointed as director of the museum in 2004.\n\n\"Our collection had grown from 10 objects to 20,000 but we didn't have the space to show them. So we set about raising the funds to do that.\"\n\n(Left to right) Lord Provost Maurice Corry, chair of the board of trustees of Kilmartin Museum Grace MacLeod, museum director Dr Sharon Webb OBE, patron of the museum Neal Ascherson and Andrew McConnell of the National Lottery Heritage Fund\n\nIt took more than a decade to persuade funders - including the Heritage Lottery Fund - to back the £7m project. Reiach and Hall Architects were commissioned to create a new building which not only showcased the collection but linked it back to the landscape where the artefacts were found.\n\nBut then came the pandemic, and the plans had to be put on hold.\n\n\"For us, it came at a moment when we thought the whole project was going to fall apart,\" says Dr Webb.\n\n\"But somehow we were able to navigate it, just as prehistoric people navigated life, and it feels good to have got to this point.\"\n\nThree Beaker pots, from the grave of a person who originated on the continent, are on display\n\nWeapons and other sharpened tools are among the artefacts gathered at Kilmartin Museum\n\nThe support of the immediate community was vital. Jim Malcolm lives across the road from the museum and has been a volunteer walking guide for the past 15 years.\n\n\"It's a hugely significant area,\" he said, \"You can go round the museum and read the display boards but to then go on and explore the monuments and be led by a guide who can tell you the stories that you won't find on the display boards.\"\n\nThe star object in the original museum was the Glebe pot, a Bronze Age vessel unearthed in the 1860s in the cairn right outside.\n\nThe pot still has pride of place, and is one of a number of items on loan from the National Museums of Scotland and the British Museum, who at the time were among the only collections with the facilities to look after the treasures.\n\nThat changed in 2019 when Kilmartin Museum's collection was named as Nationally Significant by Museums Galleries Scotland and an independent panel of experts.\n\nAnd the collection continues to grow. In 2021, the earliest animal carvings in Scotland were found in the Glen. The new museum will feature two laboratories where future finds can be analysed.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel I can't go out for a walk without tripping over a rock art site,\" says Dr Webb.\n\n\"There's work and excavations ongoing. As part of redevelopment project we're undertaking an excavation around a rock art site in the north end of the glen. There's a huge amount still to learn about the prehistoric and early historic landscape. It's a never ending journey of discovery.\n\n\"Museums can sometimes be seen as static. But they're not, they're living, developing and evolving.\"\n\n\"It's a huge privilege to be able to look after this and hand it on to the next generation, to be able to tease out the stories, undertake new research.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen broke a Formula 1 record with his 10th consecutive win as he overcame Ferrari's valiant challenge at the Italian Grand Prix.\n\nThe Dutchman was held back by pole-winner Carlos Sainz's Ferrari for 14 laps but his pressure paid off when an error from the Spaniard gave him his chance.\n\nSainz locked his brakes into the first chicane and that allowed Verstappen to pass the Ferrari into the second chicane at Monza.\n\nSainz, after forcefully holding on to second place from team-mate Charles Leclerc, was left to fend off Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez for second place.\n\nAfter many laps of defence, Sainz finally lost the position with nine laps to go and then set about fighting hard again to keep Leclerc behind for the final podium place.\n\nIt was frantic at times as Sainz hung on with worn tyres, and eventually the Spaniard pleaded to his team to let him \"bring it home\". Leclerc was told: \"Race until the end, no risk.\"\n\nSainz clung on with some desperate late braking moves into the first chicane, and eventually the fight was settled at the start of the final lap.\n\nLeclerc sold the dummy to Sainz at the first chicane but the Spaniard moved to defend and Leclerc had to lock all his brakes and cut the chicane to avoid his partner. Leclerc crossed the line just 0.1secs behind.\n\nMercedes' George Russell drove a steady race to take fifth, overcoming a five-second penalty for leaving the track when passing Esteban Ocon after leaving the pits.\n\nLewis Hamilton impressed on an inverted strategy, starting on the hard tyre and switching to the medium, to pass the McLarens and Alex Albon's Williams to take sixth.\n\nHamilton also earned a five-second penalty for colliding with McLaren's Oscar Piastri when passing him at the second chicane but had enough of a margin to keep the place.\n• None 'Verstappen achievement momentous but Ferrari the story at Monza'\n\nAlbon clung on ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris, while Fernando Alonso had his most anonymous race of the season to take ninth in the Aston Martin ahead of Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas.\n\nPiastri had to pit to repair damage after the Hamilton incident and finished 12th behind Liam Lawson's Alpha Tauri.\n\nVerstappen's 10th win in a row moves him clear of Sebastian Vettel's total of nine, also achieved in a Red Bull, in the 2013 season.\n\nAsked about his achievement, Verstappen said: \"I never would have believed that was possible but we had to work for it today and that made it definitely a lot more fun.\n\n\"We had good pace, I think we were good on the tyres but [Ferrari] had a lot of top speed, it was so hard to get close and get a move on into Turn One so I had to force him into a mistake.\"\n\nRed Bull have now won all 14 races so far this season.\n• None How Verstappen won at Monza for record-breaking 10th victory in row\n• None Ricciardo unlikely to return in Singapore - Horner\n\nFerrari put up a strong fight against the all-conquering Red Bull team at their home race with by far their most competitive showing of the season.\n\nTheir hope was for Leclerc, starting third, to pass Verstappen into the first corner and set up a one-two at the front of the field, from which they might be able to play strategy against Verstappen.\n\nBut Verstappen made a strong start, and Sainz had to chop across quickly to prevent the Dutchman claiming the inside line for an attack at the first corner.\n\nThe lead secured, Sainz was faced with a challenging opening stint trying to hold Verstappen off for as long as possible.\n\nVerstappen tracked the Ferrari, rarely more than 0.5secs behind. He tried the outside on lap six, only to be rebuffed, and complained to his team about the Ferrari's straight-line speed.\n\nBut eventually his pressure paid off. Sainz locked his right front wheel on the way into the first chicane at the start of lap 15, and that allowed Verstappen to get a better exit out of the corner.\n\nVerstappen drew alongside on the flat-out run through the Curva Grande and claimed the lead down the inside of the Roggia chicane.\n\nOnce Verstappen was into the lead, the destiny of the race win was no longer in doubt - if it ever really had been - and the uncertainty was now over the remaining podium positions.\n\nVerstappen now leads Perez in the championship by 145 points as his third drivers' title draws ever closer.\n\nAn intense fight between the Ferraris\n\nLeclerc began to challenge Sainz once Verstappen was past, but the Spaniard rebuffed his advances and they pitted on consecutive laps on laps 20 and 21, Sainz stopping first.\n\nAgain Sainz held off Leclerc, who attacked straight after rejoining from his pit stop, and both began to come under pressure from Perez, who had taken 18 laps to pass Russell's Mercedes for fourth in the first stint before setting after the Ferraris.\n\nSainz, Leclerc and Perez were running line astern from lap 23, straight after the Mexican's pit stop.\n\nPerez attacked Leclerc on lap 32, through the first chicane and then tried at the second chicane, only to be held off, but finally managed to pass Leclerc the following lap into the first chicane.\n\nPerez then set after Sainz, who defended hard for lap after lap before the Red Bull finally managed to get close enough to pass the Ferrari down the pit straight and into the first chicane on lap 46.\n\nThat left Sainz vulnerable to Leclerc and the Ferraris facing a fight for the honour of finishing on the podium in their home race.\n\nSainz's driving was increasingly desperate as he fought his fading tyres, but he was always on the right side of fairness.\n\nLeclerc passed his team-mate into the first chicane the lap after Perez had got past, both cutting the corner, before Sainz then dragged back past on the run to the second chicane.\n\nIt was as close as Leclerc was to get. He tried and tried again into the first corner, and while there were perhaps some question marks about a double move and moving under braking as Sainz defended on the final lap, it was a titan's drive to hang on in the end.\n• None Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack star in a gothic detective story set in Ireland\n• None From zero to his first million: How did Amazon boss Jeff Bezos make his money?", "Reports that the UK government is in advanced funding talks with Tata Steel to help safeguard the future of its Port Talbot plant have been welcomed by the area's MP.\n\nBut Stephen Kinnock said any new deal needed the support of Tata's workforce.\n\nSky News reported the deal would secure £1bn for the site but could mean up to 3,000 UK job losses in coming years.\n\nIt said the draft plans included Westminster committing around £500m of funding.\n\nTata Steel's parent company would agree £700m of capital expenditure, Sky News said, which would help pay for a switch away from polluting coal-fired blast furnaces.\n\nThe company would reportedly commit to building electric arc furnaces, which offer greener, less labour-intensive ways of producing steel than traditional blast furnaces.\n\nAberavon MP Mr Kinnock said on X, formerly known as Twitter: \"All investment [is] welcome, but electric arc furnaces aren't [the] only route to steel decarbonisation.\n\n\"Hydrogen etc must also be in mix, so all types of steel can keep being made, and future of every steel plant safeguarded.\"\n\nMr Kinnock added that unions \"must be fully involved and workforce must support the plan\".\n\nThe company's blast furnaces produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which drives global warming\n\nIndustry sources close to the negotiations said that as many as 3,000 of the company's staff based in the UK could lose their jobs in future as a result.\n\nThe steel firm said in a statement: \"Tata Steel is continuing to discuss with the UK government a framework for continuity and decarbonisation of steel making in the UK amidst very challenging underlying business conditions given that several of its heavy end assets are approaching end of life.\n\n\"Given the financially constrained position of our UK business, any significant change is only possible with government investment and support, as also seen in other steel-making countries in Europe where governments are actively supporting companies in de-carbonisation initiatives.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement on Sunday, Peter Hughes from Unite the union said meetings would take place later this week between Tata, the unions and the UK government.\n\n\"We want green jobs but we don't want green jobs at a detriment to jobs and Unite will fight the job losses,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nHe added that the UK was exporting scrap which could be used to make steel in Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\n\"When you look at investment with electric arc furnaces - you need more than one. There are two blast furnaces in Port Talbot at the moment with the coke ovens and the rest of the heavy end.\n\n\"If you're really serious about having a steel future - we need at least two, maybe three, electric arc furnaces in Port Talbot to protect the livelihoods and then be able to provide steel for the rest of the UK and make sure the UK government, whether it be this government or a potential Labour government next time - that they do buy and make sure that steel is procured in the UK, made in the UK.\n\n\"The last thing we want to do is see our steel industry all full of exports.\"\n\nUnite said meetings between Tata, the unions and the UK government would take place later this week\n\nCommunity, the steelworkers' union, said: \"We remain in discussions with the company and the unions have not agreed any decarbonisation strategy for Port Talbot.\n\n\"We continue to support a solution that will maintain blast furnace production and safeguard the future for all the UK plants. We are ready to use all means at our disposal to protect jobs and our vital strategic industry.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working closely with the company, and that it had repeatedly called on the UK government to urgently bring forward a package of support to secure steel-making at Port Talbot.\n\n\"Our focus continues to be to explore all avenues to secure a successful, low carbon future for Welsh steel. This goal is entirely possible, but it requires action and grip from the UK government,\" it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nBritain's Jack Draper reached the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open but Dan Evans lost a thriller to top seed Carlos Alcaraz.\n\nDraper, 21, continued to brush off a pre-tournament injury with a 6-4 6-2 3-6 6-3 win over American Michael Mmoh.\n\nEvans, 33, went toe-to-toe with defending champion Alcaraz before going down 6-2 6-3 4-6 6-3 in New York.\n\nBritish number ones Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter lost later on Saturday to leave only Draper left in the singles.\n\nNorrie, seeded 16th, was beaten 6-3 6-4 6-3 by young Italian Matteo Arnaldi, who set up a fourth-round meeting against Alcaraz.\n\nLike Draper, Boulter was also bidding to record her best run at a major but lost 6-4 6-3 against American world number 59 Peyton Stearns.\n\nDraper, who has dropped only one set this week, will play Russian eighth seed Andrey Rublev in the next round.\n\n\"It was a long match for me to come through after a tough year. I'm so happy,\" he said after beating wildcard Mmoh.\n\nCounting a booming serve and fizzing forehand as his key strengths, left-handed Draper's talent has never been in doubt.\n\nHe reached a career-high ranking of 38th in the world at the start of this year after being one of the fastest climbers on the ATP Tour in the previous six months.\n\nMoving up from outside the world's top 250 was a result of a string impressive wins, including notable victories against top-10 players Stefanos Tsitsipas and Felix Auger-Aliassime.\n\nBut Draper's progress has been hampered by a series of physical problems, leading to what he described as a \"mentally challenging\" year.\n\nA small muscle tear in his shoulder at the French Open was the latest in a long line of injuries, ruling him out of Wimbledon and stopping him playing competitively until last month.\n\nA similar problem picked up at the recent Winston-Salem Open led to fears he could miss the US Open.\n\nHowever, Draper has been determined to put the issue to the back of his mind and against 89th-ranked Mmoh showed he is becoming increasingly resolute.\n\n\"To come here this week and play the way I have, to compete the way I have and for my body to hold up, has been been pretty special,\" said Draper, who won a four-set match for the first time in his career.\n\n\"I was proud of the way I played. I don't think I played my best tennis necessarily but I guess that's what tennis is about - trying to get over the line when you're not quite at your best.\"\n\nEvans has had a strange season after struggling for victories either side of winning the biggest title of his career in Washington last month.\n\nFacing Alcaraz is one of the most daunting prospects in the men's game and Evans knew he would have to bring his best level to stand any chance of causing an upset against the two-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nTo his credit, Evans tried to take on the 20-year-old Spaniard and the approach created an entertaining contest full of wonderful technique, incredible rallies and exciting points.\n\nHowever, the British number two ultimately paid the price for a slow start.\n\nQuickly going a double break down did the damage in the first set and, after moving 2-0 ahead in the second, a poor service game ending with two double faults started a run where he lost five of the next six games.\n\nThe chances of Evans turning things around at that point looked slim, but he continued to retain belief in his gameplan and broke for 4-3 on his way to pulling a set back.\n\nIt was a sign of the Briton's level that Alcaraz began to get annoyed, with the Spaniard flinging his racquet into his bag at the end of the set.\n\nBut his brilliance dictated which way a tight fourth swung, with Alcaraz somehow landing an outrageous running forehand down the line in the only break point of the set.\n\nEvans received a standing ovation as he left Arthur Ashe Stadium, saying his overriding emotions after the gallant defeat were a mixture of \"frustration\" and \"annoyance\".\n\n\"My goal was to hang around and pick up the pieces, really. If I had a chance to come forward, I would, but I knew I'd be running. I did a decent job,\" he said.\n\n\"It's still tough, but my tennis is in a good spot and that's important.\"\n\nNorrie and Boulter out of sorts\n\nAlcaraz goes on to play 22-year-old Arnaldi after the US Open debutant swatted aside an out-of-sorts Norrie.\n\nThe British men's number one, seeded 16th, came into the tournament after a run of poor form and, after breezing through the first two rounds, saw his level dip again.\n\n\"I think I was actually playing well, I started well in the tournament, I was hitting the ball really well all week,\" said 28-year-old Norrie.\n\n\"I just didn't have the shot tolerance to hang with them. He was really crafty and won a lot of tough points. Credit to him.\"\n\nBoulter, 27, was unable to replicate her previous performances at Flushing Meadows and struggled on serve throughout as the hard-hitting Stearns converted three of 12 break points.\n\nStearns has a heavy forehand which Boulter described as \"one of the best\" on tour, with the American fittingly sealing victory in one hour and 37 minutes with a thunderous winner.\n\n\"It was tough losing but ultimately I have to be happy with where I'm at, I'm at a career-high ranking,\" said Boulter, who has climbed to world number 61 after a productive season.\n\n\"It doesn't stop me wanting more though. Ultimately this is my moment to push on.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Could an office window help generate power? Enterprising people are finding surprising ways of harnessing energy from the sun\n• None The Killers at the BBC:", "Earlier we asked the government if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's statement that \"we will spend what it takes to make sure that children can go to school safely\" pledge came with any extra money.\n\nWe have been told there is no new money being announced.\n\nThe government's position is there is already enough funding available to help schools remove and replace unsafe concrete.\n\nSome school repairs may be funded through the government's existing School Rebuilding Programme .\n\nThere are still 100 out of 500 schools that have not been allocated for rebuilding through this scheme.\n\nThe BBC understands some of the 400 that have been allocated already had RAAC that needed to be replaced.\n\nSome school repairs may also be funded through the School Capital Funding programme - money allocated every year by the Department for Education for capital investment to maintain and improve the condition of school estates.\n\nAs we've just reported, the education secretary will be making a statement in the House of Commons this week updating upon how the government will support the education sector in remedying RAAC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBurning Man festival-goers have been told to conserve their food and water after heavy rain turned the campsite into a mud bath.\n\nThe weather has been so bad that access in and out of the event in the US state of Nevada has been \"halted\", organisers said in a statement.\n\nUS media reported that more than 70,000 people were stuck there on Saturday.\n\nHeld in Black Rock Desert, the annual festival is one of America's most well-known cultural events.\n\nFootage on social media shows attendees struggling to walk on muddy paths.\n\nOrganisers have said \"no driving is permitted until the playa surface dries up, with the exception of emergency services\".\n\n\"Participants are encouraged to conserve food, water, and fuel, and shelter in a warm, safe space,\" they added in a statement.\n\nBefore the festival officially started on 27 August it was hit by the remnants of Hurricane Hilary, prompting organisers to close the gates to early arrivals.\n\nNow, after a night of continuous rain, this massive festival is mired in mud - the day before people were due to start heading home.\n\nGiven the possibility of more rain tonight, it could be several days before the ground becomes dry enough for vehicles here to leave.\n\nThe event usually features giant interactive art installations and a huge wooden man that is burnt at the end of the event.\n\nBut one man at the festival told the BBC most events have been called off as they largely take place in the playa - where there is currently no way to get in and out.\n\nAnother festival-goer told the BBC that the usual groups of \"weekend warriors\" - people who only plan to attend at weekends - were not there this year.\n\nAnatoly - who did not want to give his surname - is at the festival with his daughter for the second year in a row.\n\nHe said that they had come prepared for dust storms in the usually hot and dusty desert, but had instead been greeted with heavy rain.\n\n\"Everyone is fine, but there is an aspect of uncertainty,\" Anatoly said, as \"some people's tents got flooded\" and \"signal [across the camp] is the problem, we can't really communicate with anyone\".\n\nThe pair said portable toilets were out of use, as they cannot be emptied due to weather conditions.\n\nThey said they were letting tent owners use the family's campervan toilets.\n\nNonetheless, many here are trying to make the best of it, dancing in the mud to techno music.\n\nOne festival-goer who spoke to the BBC, Shervin Natan, said that despite the muddy conditions, \"the party's still going, it's business as usual.\"\n\n\"There are worse conditions than this, everyone is helping each other out, that's what Burning Man is all about,\" he added.\n\nThey are used to dust storms here - the motto of Burning Man is \"radical self reliance\" - but that motto is being put to the test in a way that few of the regular attendees at this event can remember.\n\nAmar Singh Duggal said the terrain at this year's edition of Burning Man was a \"clay pot\"\n\nBurning Man was founded in June 1986 when Larry Harvey and his friend Jerry Goodell burned a wooden man on Baker Beach in San Francisco to mark the summer solstice.\n\nIt was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nFestival-goers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.\n\nSome groups spend the entire year planning their camp, artwork and theme. But this year there had been worries about the weather and tickets were changing hands on the secondary market at below market rate.\n\nAdditional reporting by James Clayton in San Francisco and Azadeh Moshiri.\n\nAre you attending the Burning Man festival? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister joined the Royal Family at Crathie Kirk in Aberdeenshire\n\nRishi Sunak has joined King Charles and Queen Camilla at a Sunday service while spending the weekend on the monarch's Balmoral estate.\n\nThe prime minister and his wife Akshata Murthy were driven to Crathie Kirk separately from the Royal Family before attending the service together.\n\nThe King wore another kilt after he unveiled a new tartan at the Braemar Gathering on Saturday.\n\nMr Sunak will return to Parliament on Monday after summer recess.\n\nAmong the issues on the agenda will be making schools safe from crumbly concrete after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the government would \"spend what it takes\" on Sunday as more than 100 schools in England have been ordered to close.\n\nThe King wore another of his kilts for the Sunday service\n\nRishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy joined the Royal Family at Crathie Kirk\n\nThe Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence also joined the service at Crathie Kirk.\n\nThe royals are days away from the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's death and the King's accession on 8 September.\n\nMr Sunak's stay at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire is an annual September tradition for sitting prime ministers.\n\nFormer prime minister David Cameron once said there was not much \"chillaxing\" - chilling out and relaxing - at the castle, with the royals spending their time on outdoor pursuits.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla arrived to cheering crowds at the Braemar Gathering on Saturday before taking their seats in the Royal pavilion.\n\nIt was the first time the King had attended the event since his coronation.\n\nBefore her death, Queen Elizabeth II was a regular at the event.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGetafe manager Jose Bordalas says the Spanish club are going to help England forward Mason Greenwood \"recover his best level\" after his season-long loan move from Manchester United.\n\nLast month, United said Greenwood, 21, would leave by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation.\n\nIt came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February.\n\nGreenwood was not in Getafe's squad in Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Real Madrid.\n\nSpeaking after the La Liga game at the Bernabeu, Bordalas said: \"It is too delicate a situation to trivialise this issue.\n\n\"Everybody knows what happened, the appropriate measures were taken.\n\n\"Obviously we can only talk about football, about other issues, I think, that the people and the relevant systems did what they had to do, and everybody knows how it ended - without a condemnatory sentence.\n\n\"He's a footballer of the highest level, who comes to Getafe with enormous hope. We are going to help him to recover his best level.\"\n\nUnited said the move to Spain \"enables Greenwood to begin to rebuild his career away from Manchester United\".\n\nThe United academy graduate was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online.\n\nIn a statement last month, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\"\n\nUnited's statement in August said: \"based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged.\"\n\nGreenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, has scored 35 goals in 129 games for the club since his debut in 2019 aged 17.\n\nHe has not played for United since his arrest and in October 2022 was charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nAfter the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\".\n\nUnited then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nIn announcing the result of their investigation, United said: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United.\n\n\"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford.\"", "Emergency services were called to the scene at Stillwater Correctional Facility\n\nA prison in the US state of Minnesota was placed into lockdown on Sunday after dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells.\n\nThe protest, staged by around 100 prisoners, was later \"resolved without incident\", officials said.\n\nInmates were unhappy at being kept in their cells due to understaffing over Labor Day weekend, the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) said.\n\nAll inmates had now returned to their cells, a DOC spokesperson added.\n\nExtra police units, firefighters and other emergency teams were stationed outside the facility in Baywater, about 25 miles (40km) east of the state's largest city Minneapolis.\n\nAdvocates for the inmates said the incident was a protest over prison conditions, including the excessive heat, limited access to showers and ice and unclean drinking water.\n\nA US National Weather Service heat advisory is in place until Tuesday for the area, warning temperatures could reach up to 100F (37.7C).\n\nThe increasing frequency of dangerously hot conditions has drawn renewed attention to US prisons and calls for reform.\n\nThe DOC says the prison is short of 50 officers, which has been exacerbated by the holiday weekend, leading to intermittent lockdowns of inmates since Friday.\n\nIt means prisoners have been kept in their cells for longer periods, reportedly with no air conditioning.\n\nThe DOC blamed the unrest in part on the inmates' frustration over limited access to phones, recreation and showers, but refuted the claim that inmates were lacking access to clean water.\n\nA spokesperson added that no one was hurt and the situation throughout the day was \"calm, peaceful and stable\".\n\nDOC commissioner Paul Schnell said inmates were usually given several hours a day during the weekend for recreation, but holiday-related staff shortages had cut that down to just a single hour.\n\nAFSCME Council 5, the union which represents Minnesota correctional officers, also said that understaffing was to blame for Sunday's incident.\n\nA spokesperson said the incident was \"endemic and highlights the truth behind the operations of the MN Department of Corrections with chronic understaffing\".\n\nSuch conditions upset inmates because of restrictions placed on program and recreation time \"when there are not enough security staff to protect the facility\", they added.\n\nIn total, about 1,200 inmates are incarcerated at the facility, according to department records.\n• None How desperate US prisoners try to escape deadly heat", "TransPennine Express was brought under government control after months of complaints about delays and cancellations\n\nBritain's busiest railway stations with the highest rates of cancelled trains this year have been revealed.\n\nAs of 31 July, Huddersfield has had more than 5,500 scheduled trains cancelled - the highest rate at 13%.\n\nBBC analysis of National Rail data also shows that almost half of the trains that ran across Britain were at least one minute late.\n\nThe government said operators needed to deliver punctual services and improve delays and cancellations.\n\nThe analysis of National Rail data, collated by On Time Trains, shows that, of the 100 busiest railway stations, Manchester Victoria had the second highest cancellation rate at 10%.\n\nYork, Newcastle and Manchester Oxford Road all followed at 9%.\n\nCaroline Devonport said \"Why do they want people to use public transport, and then the public transport is absolutely dire?\"\n\nCaroline Devonport, from South Kirkby, has been catching the train to Huddersfield for five years.\n\n\"The last six months have been absolutely horrendous,\" the 48-year-old said. \"Because of the risk of delay, I now leave an hour early for work. I'm absolutely shattered all the time from being on trains.\n\n\"I've seen quite a lot of aggression towards guards from other passengers because people are late and delayed and frustrated.\n\n\"The strikes have an impact, but the train companies themselves are really badly managed, and their customer services are often very rude.\"\n\nTransPennine Express (TPE), which manages Huddersfield, was brought under government control in May after months of complaints about delays and cancellations.\n\nPrior to being taken over, it had the highest cancellation rate of all train operators, according to data from the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nChris Jackson, interim TPE managing director, said, since coming under government control, \"we have seen improvements in performance and have made real progress in rebuilding union relationships on a local level\".\n\nHe said that the resumption of drivers working on rest days had helped bring cancellations at Huddersfield down \"to 3.5%, with an overall figure of 5.5% for the entire TPE network\".\n\n\"We know there is more to do, and we are actively developing plans to deliver the reliable, punctual and resilient railway our customers expect and deserve,\" Mr Jackson added.\n\nThe analysis of data for 2,555 stations also suggests that, between 1 January and 31 July:\n\nPaul Tuohy, chief executive officer of the charity Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"We want people to travel by train so high rates of cancellations are unacceptable.\n\n\"The government and industry need to sort this out and ensure services run to schedule so that passengers can travel with confidence.\"\n\nChristine Wise, 57, from Stalybridge, said she cannot rely on the local train to get to her new job in Manchester.\n\n\"At least one a morning is cancelled,\" she said, adding that she now drives to Ashton-under-Lyne to catch a tram.\n\n\"It takes much longer, about 40 minutes. It's irritating because it's lost time. I get up quite early in the morning to get to work, to get in early, to get my work done. I don't like the lost time element of things.\n\n\"Over my lifetime, trains have never really run to time, but there weren't as many delays and cancellations as there are now. It's markedly worse.\"\n\nTransPennine Express was nationalised following customer complaints of poor service and cancelled trains. How did passengers cope?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"We know performance has not been good enough for passengers and we're working closely with train operating companies to improve.\n\n\"Moving forward, the creation of Great British Railways (GBR) will allow us to take a holistic view of performance, simplifying our rail network and providing better, more reliable services for our passengers and freight customers.\"\n\nIn March, Derby was chosen to host GBR's headquarters, a planned public body which will run trains across the country and set most fares and timetables.\n\nFour months later, Rail Minister Huw Merriman reassured the city that the government remains \"really committed\" to GBR, denying reports it had been \"quietly scrapped.\"\n\nThe railways have seen strike action each month this year.\n\nOn 1 September, members of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) went on strike, impacting 16 operators.\n\nThe following day, 20,000 RMT members also took action.\n\nMike Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, said the rail industry had declined under the Conservative government.\n\n\"That's the price we are all paying - passengers, staff, and businesses in Britain - for privatisation which everyone in the railway industry - except the ideologues in the government - knows hasn't worked,\" he said.\n\n\"We should be encouraging more people to use our trains - taking cars off the roads and reducing carbon emissions - rather than trying to deter passengers from travelling.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Ministers have been clear with operators they need to deliver punctual services, keeping delays to a minimum.\n\n\"To help make our railways more reliable, it's crucial unions agree to reforms that will modernise the industry.\"", "Pro-war blogger Alexander Kots charged £440-£680 per post on his Telegram channel\n\nRussia's pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found.\n\nAlongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion.\n\nKnown in Russia as \"Z-Bloggers\" because of their support for a war often symbolised by the letter Z, they are often embedded with the Russian army and post footage from the front line where they call on young Russians to enlist.\n\nSince the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, pro-war influencers have gained millions of followers on Telegram, the social media platform many Russians turned to after President Vladimir Putin banned Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.\n\nThat explosion in users has led to a surge in Telegram's advertising market.\n\nWar influencers have taken advantage of this. They sell ad spaces for companies looking to reach their young audiences.\n\nTo find out how much they charge, members of the BBC's Global Disinformation Team posed as hotel owners interested in posting ads on their channels.\n\nWe reached out to some of the most prominent players.\n\nOne of them was Alexander Kots, a veteran correspondent for a pro-government newspaper who became a war influencer, with more than 600,000 followers on his personal Telegram channel.\n\nSemyon Pegov, known as WarGonzo, was another. Perhaps the most well-known Z blogger, he has more than 1.3 million followers.\n\nWar blogger Semyon Pegov (L) was among a number of Putin influencers invited to meet the Russian leader in June\n\nAlexander Kots said it would cost 48,000-70,000 roubles (£440-£680) per post on his channel, depending on how long the ad was kept at the top of his Telegram feed. WarGonzo quoted us the equivalent of £1,550 per post.\n\nTop war influencers post at least one ad per day, so their potential income dwarfs Russia's average monthly wage of 66,000 roubles (£550).\n\nAn advertising agent working with Wagner-linked channels quoted us the equivalent of £260 per ad in Grey Zone, a Telegram channel with exclusive access to Wagner and over 600,000 followers.\n\nZ-bloggers such as Alexander Kots post ads for anything from Telegram\n\nTo advertise on the channel of Alexander Simonov, a correspondent for the Ria Fan website founded by late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, the agent quoted £180 per post.\n\nAnother Ria Fan reporter, Alexander Yaremchuk, has fewer followers so his rates are lower, at £86 per post.\n\nWhile some of the Z-bloggers have significant experience of war reporting for state-run media, others like Maryana Naumova have no professional training.\n\nA former powerlifter, she took a reporting course on a Wagner mercenary base and now presents her own show on national TV.\n\nMaryana Naumova sent this image to the BBC but refused to speak to us\n\nThe BBC tried to interview prominent war-bloggers, but Alexander Kots was the only one of them who agreed to talk.\n\nSpeaking from the occupied Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, he described himself as a reporter in an information war. Nevertheless he understood Russia's propaganda depended, in part, on people like him.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence often listens to us, and we have a direct channel to privately communicate information to them. It's all behind the scenes, and I do that,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's Global Disinformation Team tells the story of social media influencers making money from war propaganda.\n\nThe growing market for the Z-bloggers' material is sustained by a steady stream of exclusive videos. The footage brings them a diverse following, from domestic pro-war audiences to Western and Ukrainian analysts trying to understand what is really going on in the Russian trenches.\n\nTop bloggers shared this video, but the BBC analysis suggests it is staged\n\nHowever, some of the videos posted by the pro-war bloggers are fake.\n\nLast March, prominent influencers including Alexander Kots posted a dashcam video that purported to show two Ukrainian soldiers stopping a car with a woman and a small child.\n\nThe gunmen in the video call the woman \"a pig\" for speaking Russian and threaten her. Z-bloggers said the video was a perfect example of how Ukraine treated civilians.\n\nBut we have geolocated this video to Makiivka, a town near Donetsk. This area of Ukraine has been occupied by pro-Russian proxy forces since 2014. It is impossible that a uniformed Ukrainian soldier could have operated in this occupied territory.\n\nAdded to that, the use of dashcams is illegal in Ukraine. The ban was imposed after the full-scale Russian invasion to keep troop movements secret.\n\nAnd the cross on the vehicle is different from the one used by Ukraine's armed forces. All these elements suggest the video was staged.\n\nIt is one of many fakes spread by Z-bloggers to encourage young Russians to support the war, and there is evidence they are succeeding.\n\nPutin has given pro-war influencers medals and official positions\n\nIn one video a mobilised Russian man says he went to a recruitment centre after watching a number of videos from Vladlen Tatarsky, one of the most vocal bloggers. Tatarsky was killed in April 2023 at a meeting with his fans.\n\nAnother Russian man who volunteered to fight in Ukraine told a blogger he did so after watching a lot of WarGonzo reports. \"I follow all the military news and analysis on Telegram,\" he said, referring to the Z-bloggers.\n\nAsked to respond to the rise of pro-Putin war bloggers on the platform, Telegram said it was the \"last platform through which Russians can access independent media outlets like Meduza, uncensored international news like the BBC or [President] Zelensky's speeches\".\n\nA spokesman said while all parties were \"treated equally\", Telegram respected international sanctions and blocked Russian state media \"where laws forbid it\".\n\nOver the course of the war, President Putin has shown his appreciation of the Z-bloggers' efforts.\n\nHe appointed Alexander Kots to the presidential human rights council and made Semyon Pegov and several other bloggers members of a working group on mobilisation.\n\nIn June, he invited pro-war influencers and state media reporters to the Kremlin for a two-hour long conversation.\n\n\"The fight in the information space is a battlefield. A crucial battlefield,\" he told them. \"And I really count on your help.\"", "Antonina Semenivna, who lives near Kupiansk, is one of the many civilians vulnerable to these attacks\n\nIn Ukraine's north-east, Russia has recently deployed an estimated 100,000 troops in renewed attacks. But Quentin Sommerville, who spent the past month with Ukrainian brigades in the area, discovers it is the increasingly sophisticated drone attacks that are particularly feared.\n\nThe Serebrianskyi forest is alight. At first, it is only a hint on the breeze, the faint smell of wood smoke amid the pine trees. Three men of the 1st Special Purpose Bohun Brigade climb into an armoured Humvee, as the sound of artillery thumps ahead in the distance.\n\nEarlier the brigade's press officer Taras had warned us: \"It's like Verdun out there.\" A reference to the battlefields of World War One.\n\nThe sprawling forest lies to the east of the city of Lyman. Here, and stretching north to the city of Kupiansk, the Russians have made modest gains in recent weeks. The threat though, according to the commander of Ukraine's eastern forces, is considerable.\n\nOn social media last week, General Oleksandr Syrskyi warned that Russian forces were regrouping in the east. He claims Russia has marshalled 100,000 troops in the area and more than 900 tanks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Quentin Sommerville in the Humvee under attack\n\nRussia is seeking to cement its control of the eastern regions where it has captured territory, much of which was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in September last year. Moscow's stated war aim is the \"liberation\" of Donbas, which is made up of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. But with its greater manpower, it is attempting to also stretch Ukrainian resources, as Kyiv fights a separate offensive in the south of the country.\n\nAs the Humvee drives deeper into the woods, lumbering over dirt tracks, the trees are on fire - some burning where they stand, others now collapsed blackened trunks on the heavily cratered ground.\n\nDust and smoke billows into the vehicle from the gunner's turret. The battalion commander, who goes by the call sign \"Speaker\", sits forward in the passenger seat, his attention firmly fixed on the road ahead and the sky above - as much as the small cracked toughened windscreen will allow.\n\n\"This [damage] was an artillery strike this morning, maybe a couple of hours ago - you see it's still burning,\" he said.\n\nSpeaker has been fighting Russia and its proxies for years - starting in Donbas in 2014. His only break was a month in hospital after he was shot in the hand last September.\n\nIn the car, he barely says a word, and radio communications are kept to a minimum.\n\nThe earlier Russian rocket strikes have destroyed the tree canopy, laying bare the ground and road ahead. The troops are exposed, and the Humvee - and a pick-up truck leading in front - kick up great clouds of dirt and sand into the late morning air.\n\nThe driver - call sign \"Accountant\" - grips the steering wheel firmly as the Humvee's engine labours over dips and twists in the track. His helmet rolls around on the centre console, at the feet of the gunner - \"Student\" - who mans the 50-calibre gun with a cigarette hanging from his lips.\n\nSome 40 minutes into the drive, a fireball explodes directly in front of the Humvee. Student drops down into the cab of the vehicle, and I ask if he's unhurt. He nods OK.\n\n\"A lot of drones,\" Speaker shouts from the passenger seat, cursing. \"That was a drone attack against our car - Russian kamikaze drone,\" he says - referring to devices, guided by secondary surveillance drones, which can crash into targets with pinpoint accuracy.\n\nSpeaker continues: \"They saw us from the top and then tried to attack. They saw us and now they are seeking us and hunting us. So we need to go fast and go back.\"\n\nThe drone hit the road between the Humvee and the lead pick-up truck, missing us by a metre. The dust cloud we were creating, which may have alerted the Russians to our position, also likely clouded their targeting.\n\nTwo drones were in the sky above, Speaker said. One for surveillance, the other to strike. As we head back down another dirt road, the blackened remains of another Humvee - its armour cracked wide open and its turret gone - lies by the roadside, the victim of an earlier attack.\n\nA week ago, Speaker explains, one of their soldiers was killed and three injured when a kamikaze drone took out yet another of the battalion's vehicles.\n\nUkraine, which enjoyed an advantage in weaponised drones at the beginning of the conflict, is increasingly being challenged by advances in Russian drone tactics and technology. Russia now has drones which hunt in pairs, using laser targeting to hit their mark - an advance that many Ukrainian commanders along the front say is costing lives.\n\nBack at his base, Speaker explains further. \"In the last two weeks, drones are attacking more and more and more. Because the Russians, they're studying, they're educating their drone operators and it is… getting harder to fight them.\"\n\nSoldiers, of course, have the advantage of armour. Civilians do not. And around Kupiansk - the city Ukraine recaptured last September - Russian guns are again shelling people's homes. Evacuation orders have been issued for dozens of towns and villages.\n\nHelping get people to safety is Artur Vynohradov, a volunteer with the charity \"I am Saved\". The words are written across his T-shirt and have a double meaning. The group is made up of recovering addicts who drive their three battered vans to villages in danger. Since the war's start they say they have saved some 17,000 people. When we met earlier this month they'd brought out 300 people in the previous couple of days.\n\n\"We continue to take kids away,\" he said. \"The priority for evacuation is kids.\"\n\nIn the back of one van is five-month-old Sofiia, cradled in the arms of her mother, Tetiana. Their neighbourhood was shelled that morning.\n\n\"It's very scary to live here. [I need to leave] in order to safeguard my children,\" she told me, kissing Sofiia's head as she slept.\n\nTetiana and her baby being driven to safety\n\nBeside them in the now-packed van is her grandfather, who didn't give his name. \"We counted 36 craters in the morning here after two incomings… A horrifying scene,\" he said. \"I was sitting on the bed drinking coffee and suddenly ended up under the table. The [blast] wave threw me off the bed.\"\n\nThe people around here already lived under Russian occupation for six months, and many do not want to repeat it. Antonina Semenivna, 72, says she'll risk staying for now.\n\n\"Yesterday a bomb went off,\" she said. \"We thought it sounded like an aeroplane but then there was a bang. If only [Ukraine's soldiers] could chase them away. But here they keep creeping and creeping and creeping.\"\n\nAlong the front, stretching from Lyman to Kupiansk, Russia's gains don't amount to much - yet.\n\nBut for Antonina and her neighbours, they mean everything. A repeat of war's tragedy, that again ends in the separation of Ukrainian families.", "One man had to be rescued from his car by a firefighter in Spain's eastern Castelló province\n\nSeveral weather warnings have been issued across Spain as heavy rain causes major flooding across parts of the country.\n\nMaximum red weather alerts are in place in the Madrid, Toledo and Cádiz regions.\n\nSunday's football match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla was suspended due to the torrential rain.\n\nResidents in Madrid have been asked to stay at home due to \"the exceptional and abnormal\" rainfall, the mayor said.\n\nIn the Spanish capital alone, firefighters have been called to alleviate the situation in flooded roads 190 times.\n\nMuch of the rainfall - brought by a storm - has been concentrated in coastal regions around Cádiz, Tarragona and Castelló.\n\nIn the eastern province of Castelló, flooding prompted firefighters to rescue a man trapped in his car, which was surrounded by waist-high flood water.\n\nPeople have also been advised to avoid unnecessary trips in the north-eastern city of Alcanar, Tarragona - where 215 litres per square metre of rain fell in a 24-hour period.\n\nJuan Carlos Penafiel, who was visiting the city, said he was woken up by the water entering his second-floor apartment.\n\n\"We organised amongst ourselves to make ropes with towels and bed sheets and used them to pull two young men who were grabbing on to columns,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nLocal community in Santa Barabara, Tarragona, work together to clear away mud and debris from the path\n\n\"We pulled them to the top floor and saved them. It was terrifying, very very scary with small children, women. Nobody showed up, we were left alone to save ourselves,\" he added.\n\nThe rains have caused debris and mud to slide onto Spanish roads, while many vehicles have struggled to move in heavily flooded areas.\n\nThe weather has been brought by slow-moving storm system, known as a depresión aislada en niveles altos (Dana).\n\nAccording to El Pais newspaper, some train services have been called off across Spain and drivers have been warned to avoid certain flooded roads in heavily flooded areas.\n\nThis weekend's weather events follow a scorching hot summer in Spain and much of southern Europe.\n\nA local resident in Les Cases d'Alcanar, had his house flooded", "Ollie's mother Rachel and father Paul after he completed the walk\n\nA five-year-old boy is believed to have become the youngest to complete the near-200 mile Coast-to-Coast.\n\nOllie completed the gruelling challenge from St Bees, Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire on Saturday.\n\nThe boy, from Ashbrooke, Sunderland, wanted to raise money after witnessing a Great North Air Ambulance (GNAAS) helicopter rescue.\n\n\"He's been absolutely incredible, he's been so determined,\" father Paul Sainthouse, who walked with him, said.\n\nArmed with a map, supplies, food, drink, and walking boots, the pair set off from the starting point on 18 August.\n\nThey had prepared to walk several hours a day, while arranging to rest overnight at B&Bs and campsites along the way.\n\nThe five-year-old set off a fortnight ago and arrived at the finishing point on Saturday\n\nMr Sainthouse told the BBC: \"I've never had to prise him out of bed or anything. He's just wanted to crack on, he's so proud of himself, bless him.\n\n\"I thought it would be a struggle at the beginning with the terrible weather but he has proved me wrong.\"\n\nDespite Storm Betty generating up 60mph (95kmh) winds and heavy rain in the first three days of the walk, they managed to continue as scheduled.\n\nThey navigated through the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors before making their way to the finish line, where his family - including mother, Rachel - had gathered.\n\n\"I can't tell you how proud I am of him. He's absolutely unbelievable,\" Mr Sainthouse said.\n\nPaul Sainthouse said he was \"proud\" of his son for achieving the walk\n\nHe said it was important for young children to be outdoors, especially when it was sunny, which he said had improved his own mental health.\n\n\"It is important for him to be outside, not behind a screen all day, not just talking to his friends online and to get out and explore the world.\n\n\"What a day to finish on, it's just been glorious.\"\n\nOllie's fundraiser has since raised more than £2,000 for GNAAS surpassing his original target of £500.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A meteor has been filmed streaking across the night sky in Turkey.\n\nThe green shafts of light were caught on camera as it passed over the city of Erzurum and Gumushane Province in the east of the country.", "Bill Richardson, top US diplomat, dies aged 75 after decades brokering deals for Americans held unjustly abroad\n\nFormer US ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson has died aged 75, his foundation has announced.\n\nServing under President Bill Clinton, he won admiration for his commitment to securing the release of US citizens detained around the world.\n\nHe continued that work out of politics, last year travelling to Moscow to discuss the release of detained basketball star Britney Griner.\n\n\"Bill worked tirelessly for the causes of freedom, fairness, and opportunity,\" Mr Clinton said in a statement on Saturday night.\n\n\"Whether in an official or unofficial capacity, he was a masterful and persistent negotiator who helped make our world more secure and won the release of many individuals held unjustly abroad.\"\n\nBorn in Pasadena, California, in 1947 to a Spanish-born mother and a Nicaraguan-born father, Mr Richardson grew up in Mexico City before attending boarding school in Massachusetts.\n\nAfter graduating from Tufts University in 1970, he earned a master's degree in 1971. Soon after he embarked on a career in politics which would see him hold major national and state-wide offices.\n\nIn 1983 he was elected to the US House, representing New Mexico's Third District.\n\nOver the next five decades in politics he developed a specialisation in diplomatic negotiations, skills which would see President Clinton tap him as his envoy to the UN in 1997.\n\nThe next year he became Mr Clinton's energy secretary, serving through to the end of the administration.\n\nIn 2002, he became the only Hispanic leader of a US state when he won the New Mexico governorship. His enduring popularity in the state saw him re-elected to a second term in 2006 by a record margin of 68% to 32%.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Clinton said his term as governor entrenched Mr Richardson's status as a \"trailblazer\", adding that his \"career helped pave the path for other Latino Americans to serve at the highest levels of American government\".\n\nMr Richardson's work saw him nominated for the Nobel Peace prize several times\n\nHis success in office sparked a renewed interest in national politics, and in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election he launched a long-shot bid for the Democratic Party's nomination.\n\nDespite playing a key role in Mr Clinton's cabinet, his public endorsement of Barack Obama after his withdrawal - instead of Hilary Clinton - was viewed as a betrayal by many Clinton supporters.\n\nMr Obama later nominated him as secretary of commerce, but he withdrew because of a pending investigation into allegations of improper business dealings - a probe that was later dropped.\n\nSoon after leaving governorship in 2011 he launched his non-profit foundation, the Richardson Centre for Global Engagement, where he renewed his work seeking the release of detained Americans.\n\nHe was involved in efforts to release US basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian prison in December after she was convicted of a drug offence.\n\nHe also met with Russian government officials in the months prior to the release of US Marine Trevor Reed in a prisoner swap.\n\nAnd in 2021, he helped broker a deal for the release of American journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison.\n\nPreviously, he helped secure the release of US nationals detained in North Korea and he also held talks with Pyongyang diplomats in efforts to calm tensions between the two Koreas.\n\nHis work dealing with autocratic regimes once saw him jokingly refer to himself as the \"the informal under secretary for thugs\". But his work saw him nominated for the Nobel Peace prize several times.\n\nThe Richardson Centre hailed him as a \"champion for those held unjustly abroad\".\n\n\"He lived his entire life in the service of others - including both his time in government and his subsequent career helping to free people held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad,\" the foundation said in a statement.\n\n\"There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden led tributes to Mr Richardson, who he called \"a patriot and true original\".\n\n\"Few have served our nation in as many capacities or with as much relentlessness, creativity, and good cheer,\" Mr Biden said. \"His most lasting legacy will be the work Bill did to free Americans held in some of the most dangerous places on Earth.\"\n\n\"He will be deeply missed,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nDemocratic Senator Bob Menendez hailed Mr Richardson as \"a quintessential public servant in every sense of the word\".\n\n\"He was dedicated to improving the lives of those around him - whether it was the people of New Mexico as our nation's only Hispanic governor during his two terms or many Americans unjustly detained by despotic regimes around the world.\"\n\nReacting to news of the top diplomat's death, New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich said: \"Richardson's legacy will have a lasting impact.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Former US North Korea emissary Governor Bill Richardson on US-North Korea nuclear talks\n• None North Korea talks 'not just' about nukes. Video, 00:02:43North Korea talks 'not just' about nukes", "Harrow Crown Court was closed indefinitely last week after RAAC was found there during improvements\n\nA wide range of public buildings have been constructed using a cheap version of concrete that could now be at risk of collapse, experts say.\n\nThe discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or RAAC, has forced the full or partial closure of more than 100 schools in England.\n\nMany hospitals, courts and public buildings were built with the material.\n\nProf Chris Goodier, of Loughborough University, said the \"scale of problem is much bigger than schools\".\n\n\"It also covers much of the building stock in the country,\" he said. \"This also includes health, defence, justice, local government, national government, and also a lot of the private sector.\"\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb on Friday said that the government was rebuilding seven hospitals due to large use of RAAC and would be surveying buildings across the public sectors.\n\nLast week Harrow Crown Court in north-west London was closed indefinitely after the material was found. Five other court buildings are affected, according to government sources.\n\nMeanwhile, three buildings in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have also been identified as raising concerns.\n\nMatt Byatt, president of the Institution of Structural Engineers, said buildings built with RAAC were \"beyond their serviceable life\" and the issue was flagged several years ago, including to government.\n\n\"You can't wait for people to get hurt before making these kinds of decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"You can have a sudden and catastrophic failure of units.\"\n\nHe said the \"bubbly breezeblock\" type material acts like a \"sponge\" soaking up moisture when wet, and that the extra weight combined with the fact RAAC roof planks dip over times made them prone to sudden collapse.\n\nThe Labour party has called for an \"urgent audit\" to find the buildings at risk across the public sector estate, while the Liberal Democrats said the public and NHS staff need \"urgent clarity\" .\n\nJulian Hartley, who runs NHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS hospitals, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that hospitals currently affected by RAAC use props to reinforce structures.\n\nThe RAAC planks are thought to be present in 26 hospitals, and the government has said seven of the worst affected will be replaced by 2030.\n\nIn Scotland, more than 250 NHS buildings could have been built using RAAC.\n\nHealth officials in the identified buildings are currently working on an investigation to find out whether it is present. It is expected to take up to eight months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThe government said on Friday night it had yet to draw up a definitive list of its own buildings affected by crumbling concrete.\n\nThis is one of the objectives of a working group set up earlier this year.\n\nBut the warnings had been there for years, said Prof Goodier, and are a part of an already complex national picture.\n\n\"We have a very old building stock in this country right back to the Victorian era and industrial revolution,\" he said.\n\nMost of it isn't properly maintained because it's a hassle its hard work and it costs a lot of money.\"\n\n\"RAAC is one of many materials that hasn't been looked properly over the decade,\" he said.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says RAAC is now beyond its lifespan and may \"collapse with little or no notice\".\n\nThe problem now for ministers across government is that more inspections will lead to the discover of more deteriorating concrete.\n\nThat will trigger several stages of assessment by engineers and buildings may have to close temporarily as a precaution, even if they don't pose a major risk.\n\nThe concrete crisis has echoes of the cladding scandal following the Grenfell Tower Fire in which the scale of the potential fire risks led to thousands living in flats covered with dangerous materials or paying for additional fire wardens.\n\nDespite warnings over decades within the industry and Whitehall, the government did not ban flammable cladding until after the loss of 72 lives.", "The boy was thrown from the Tate Modern in August 2019\n\nA boy thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery is mostly out of his wheelchair, his family has revealed.\n\nThe French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack by teenager Jonty Bravery four years ago.\n\nThe child, who was on holiday with his parents at the time in August 2019, survived a 100ft (30m) fall but suffered life-changing injuries.\n\nThese included a bleed on the brain and broken bones.\n\nHis family, who call him notre petit chevalier - our little knight - said, in an update posted on a GoFundMe page, their house was being adapted for his \"precarious\" walking.\n\nThe page, dedicated to the child's recovery, has raised more than 400,000 euros (£343,000).\n\nThe boy, who spent months in intensive care, has also developed a passion for green issues.\n\nHis family said: \"He reinvests what he learned this year at school, in particular to protect the planet: he does not forget to remind us to turn off the lights, to save water and collect all the trash he finds on the beach or in the forest.\n\n\"Our son is now able to bend down, squat, grab his toys and clothes with both hands from his closet without falling or dropping them.\n\n\"More importantly, he now only uses his wheelchair for long outings.\"\n\nThey said, during a summer spent in the mountains, he had enjoyed walking with his cane, and although he \"falls a lot\", this happens much less than last year.\n\nHe has been able to visit an indoor adventure park with an adapted high-rope course, which his family says he loves and where instructors take turns to accompany him.\n\nThe child is preparing for the new school year, and will now attend each morning with group care and rehabilitation in the afternoons.\n\nHis memory is progressing, and he has been able to try watching movies with his family, which was previously too exhausting.\n\nAutistic teenager Bravery was in supported accommodation at the time of the attack but allowed out unsupervised.\n\nHe intended to select and kill someone, a court was later told.\n\nBravery, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was jailed in 2020 for at least 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Head teacher Caroline Evans and her staff sit in a temporary staffroom in the corridor of Parks Primary School in Leicester\n\nHeadteachers in England are in a race this weekend to find ways to reopen their schools after being told to shut buildings made with unsafe concrete.\n\nMany from the 104 affected schools are busy rejigging timetables, seeking alternative classrooms and trying to rent temporary toilets.\n\nFrustrated parents are being emailed last-minute plans for home learning and moving children to other schools.\n\nThe government said affected parents should have been informed by now.\n\nIt said it would publish a full list of schools with buildings known to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), but wanted to wait for headteachers to make initial contact.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) told 104 schools and colleges in England to partially or fully shut buildings at risk and introduce safety measures, just days before the start of a new academic year.\n\nIn Scotland, RAAC has been detected in 35 schools but First Minister Humza Yousaf said he has no plans to close any schools at this stage.\n\nThe building closures across England are set to have far-reaching consequences for children and their teachers.\n\nSarah Skinner, who is in charge of three schools in Suffolk and Essex built using the concrete that has been likened to an Aero bar, told the BBC the late notice was \"incredibly challenging\".\n\nThe CEO of Penrose Learning Trust said one school has 12 classrooms out of use, another has 16 classrooms, a gym and toilet closed, and a third has 10 classrooms shut.\n\n\"It just seems very late in the day, and that's what's created the problem to now be finding temporary accommodation, temporary toilets, marquees on fields, our kitchens are out action. There are a lot of things beyond finding a classroom we have to consider,\" she told BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"We've been on the phone all day to temporary classroom companies... we have a very little playground [in one school] so actually getting 10 classrooms in there is going to be a challenge, and then there's the logistics of getting electricity run to it safely.\"\n\nA headteacher at a special needs school in Essex has been calling parents individually to break the news.\n\nLouise Robinson, of Kingsdown School, said: \"Instead of preparing to welcome our students back to class, we're having to call parents to have very difficult conversations about the fact the school is closed next week.\n\n\"We're hoping that a solution can be found that allows us to open the school, at least partially, but that entirely relies on ensuring the safety of our pupils and staff, and approval by DfE.\"\n\nAt one primary school, children will have to be served their school dinners in their classrooms, rather than the dining hall, and at a west London secondary school, students will need to bring in packed lunches while its canteen is out of action.\n\nThe DfE said it was grateful to headteachers working at pace to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum and that it expected \"rarer cases where remote learning is required\" to be \"for a matter of days not weeks\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan would inform Parliament next week \"of the plan to keep parents and the public updated on the issue\", it added.\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday newspaper, Ms Keegan said the government had \"no choice\" but to close schools, and that it was not a decision it had taken lightly.\n\n\"I want to reassure families that this is not a return to the dark days of school lockdowns,\" she said.\n\nLabour will try to force the government to publish a full list of schools which are impacted when the Commons returns from its summer recess on Monday.\n\nThe government has said it will release a full list \"in due course\" but has not provided a timetable. BBC News has been compiling its own list.\n\nThe closure of schools at late notice will come as a headache to many parents who will have to take leave from work or arrange childcare for younger school children.\n\nOne parent told BBC Essex she could have cried when she was told her child's school would be shut until at least mid-September as temporary classrooms were needed.\n\n\"Literally I work Monday to Friday, so to try and find childcare has been a bit of a mission,\" Hayley, who did not give her surname, said.\n\n\"To turn around and say 'Reece, you're not starting school this week' has been quite heart-breaking.\"\n\nShe described the timing of the school closures as \"rubbish\" considering the issues around RAAC had been previously known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThere were warnings on Saturday this could be just the tip of the iceberg, with concerns about the state of other public buildings like hospitals and courts.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the Common's Public Accounts Committee, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that seven hospitals were \"totally built\" with aerated concrete and around £1bn was being spent making them safe.\n\nThe Labour MP also said she had visited one hospital where heavy patients had to be treated on the ground floor because of the risk of roof failure.\n\nShe described the costs of working around the problem using props to support existing structures and surveying RAAC-affected areas as \"eye-watering\" and harder to absorb for small schools already facing tight budgets.\n\nTeachers' union NASUWT wants ministers to publish the list of affected buildings.\n\n\"It could be years before all the schools are rectified. They may be able to put up props, conduct surveys and so on, but those are interim measures,\" said national negotiating official Wayne Bates.\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994 and has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018.\n\nHowever, after a beam, which had been thought to be safe, collapsed last week, the matter of the safety of these buildings was given further attention by the government.\n\nOn Thursday, the DfE said any space or area in schools, colleges or nurseries with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without \"mitigations\" in place.\n\nEvery case of suspected RAAC that has been reported to the DfE has been allocated a surveyor and will be visited \"imminently\", the BBC has been told.\n\nSchools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also being assessed for the material.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls.\n\nIt is less durable than standard concrete and has a limited lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nIf your child attends, or you're a teacher at an affected school, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This blaze is the third fire at the former Kitty's nightclub this year.\n\nFirefighters have tackled a blaze at the former Kitty's nightclub in Kirkcaldy.\n\nSix trucks and two height vehicles were sent to the B-listed building on Hunter Street at about 14:45 on Sunday.\n\nThere were no casualties and crews left the scene on Monday morning.\n\nIt is the third fire at the site this year. The business closed in 2019 and the building was due to be converted into 19 flats.\n\nThe plans were withdrawn and the property has again been put up for sale.", "More than one in five children in England are frequently missing school, data shows, in a sign attendance is still struggling to get back to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home.\n\nParents should get children back to school, urged Dame Rachel de Souza.\n\nBefore the pandemic, just over one in 10 students were persistently absent.\n\nPupils count as persistently absent if they miss 10% or more of their school days, which is roughly one or more days every fortnight over the school year.\n\nOver the last academic year, Department for Education (DfE) figures show 22.3% of pupils in England were persistently absent.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Rachel said this equated to 1.8 million children, and estimated that 100,000 of those were playing truant.\n\n\"We've got a real problem post-pandemic around attendance,\" she said. \"1.8 million of an eight million cohort is huge... that's double the number from before the pandemic\".\n\nIn 2018/9 before the pandemic, around one in 10 children (10.9%) were persistently absent.\n\nA breakdown of figures shows that the problem is most marked among children on free school meals (37.9%) and those with an education, health and care plan (33.4%).\n\nDame Rachel said it was really important to get those children who were anxious and \"refusing on an emotional basis\" back to school.\n\nThere is evidence that if children miss more than a day in the first week of term, 55% go on to be persistently absent for the rest of the term.\n\nThe DfE also says primary and secondary pupils who perform better missed fewer days than those who did not perform as well.\n\nBut the return to school this week already comes with disruption for many parents and children after the government forced some schools to partially or fully close over concerns about the safety of buildings made from a crumbly type of concrete.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was very concerned about young people and their futures.\n\nShe told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg her party would deliver breakfast clubs for every primary school child in England and improve mental health support to help boost school attendance.\n\nMs Phillipson added increasing truancy fines for parents who do not ensure their children go to school was not the answer.\n\nCurrently, parents in England face £60 fines, which rise to £120 if they are not paid within 21 days, if their children miss school. They are normally issued by local councils.\n\nIn January, the Commons education select committee launched an inquiry into persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nIt will aim to examine the reasons behind the issue, the likely effectiveness of the DfE planned reforms, and the impact of interventions like breakfast clubs on improving attendance.\n\nThe children's commissioner has previously raised concerns that some pupils were missing school on Fridays since the pandemic because their parents were at home,\n\nDame Rachel told MPs there was \"a huge amount\" of absence on Fridays - when \"mum and dad are at home\" that \"wasn't there before\".\n\nA spokesperson for the DfE told the BBC: \"Attending school is vital for children's development and while it's encouraging that attendance is improving, there is more to be done for the year to come to ensure children are in regular education.\n\n\"We are prioritising driving up attendance rates, including for vulnerable children, building on existing attendance programmes including our attendance hubs and mentors, and updating our guidance to help directly support children, teachers and schools.\n\n\"We are also increasing high needs funding by a further £440 million for 24/25, bringing total funding to £10.5 billion - an increase of over 60% since 2019-20.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Angela Rayner was directly elected to be deputy leader by party members, meaning she will keep that position no matter what\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his shadow cabinet on Monday.\n\nThe long-awaited change of Labour's top team coincides with MPs returning to Westminster from their summer break.\n\nThere is much speculation over what role Sir Keir may give his deputy leader Angela Rayner.\n\nThe reshuffle will come on Sue Gray's first day as Sir Keir's chief of staff. The former civil servant rose to fame during her investigation of Partygate.\n\nIt is not expected that Sir Keir will swap his most senior colleagues - including the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.\n\nAngela Rayner was directly elected to be deputy leader by party members, meaning she will keep that position no matter what.\n\nBut she also currently shadows the Cabinet Office brief, which focusses on government procedure and the effective running of government. In government the Cabinet Office is headed up by Ms Rayner's opposite number the deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden.\n\nIn recent years she has focused heavily on scrutinising ethical issues in politics, from so-called \"sleaze\" to accusing her opposite numbers of \"wasting taxpayers money\".\n\nSome Labour sources expect that she may be put in charge of running a specific, domestic policy area instead.\n\nA few names that have been tipped for possible promotion include the chair of parliament's business committee - Darren Jones.\n\nHe has been widely regarded as an effective communicator and his forensic grilling of companies such as Thames Water, Royal Mail and P&O at various committee hearings has often landed him positive headlines.\n\nIf promoted, it is not clear what policy area could be vacated for him to fill. He could possibly cover the environment, if Jim McMahon is demoted.\n\nLabour still also has not appointed anyone to shadow the government's new science, innovation and technology secretary.\n\nMr Jones has been vocal about, for example, his belief that Artificial Intelligence and technology can be a \"force for good\" if adopted in the right way and should be central to Labour's plans for improving education or the NHS.\n\nLucy Powell currently covers the digital, culture and media brief for Labour so could also be a potential candidate should this role be filled.\n\nRishi Sunak also made a few changes to his top team last Thursday.\n\nHe replaced the former defence secretary Ben Wallace with Grant Shapps, and promoted his close ally Claire Coutinho to be the energy and net zero secretary.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to carry out a wider government reshuffle in the coming months.\n\nBoth parties are holding annual party conferences in October and both leaders are hoping to get their top teams in shape ahead of the next general election - expected at some point next year.", "Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has confirmed that he is leaving his post.\n\nMr Reznikov had led the ministry since before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky announced Mr Reznikov's dismissal on Sunday, saying it was time for \"new approaches\" in the defence ministry.\n\nRustem Umerov, who runs Ukraine's State Property Fund, has been nominated as Mr Reznikov's successor.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Reznikov confirmed that he had submitted his resignation letter to the country's parliament.\n\nUkrainian media has speculated that he will become Kyiv's new ambassador in London, where he has developed good relations with senior politicians.\n\nThe 57-year-old has become a well-known figure since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Internationally recognised, he has regularly attended meetings with Ukraine's western allies and played a key role in lobbying for additional military equipment.\n\nBut his dismissal has been anticipated for some time. Last week, Mr Reznikov told reporters he was exploring other positions with the Ukrainian president.\n\nAccording to local media, the former defence minister said that if Mr Zelensky offered the opportunity for him to work on another project he would probably agree.\n\nUkrainian defence advisor Yuriy Sak told the BBC that Mr Reznikov spearheaded the transformation of the ministry, laying the groundwork for future NATO membership.\n\n\"His legacy is that he has convinced ministers of defence around the world that the impossible is possible,\" he said in reference to Mr Reznikov's successful lobbying of foreign governments for arms.\n\nBut experts have observed that the cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to lead to any major change in Ukraine's battlefield strategy, with Gen Valery Zaluzhny - the commander of Ukraine's armed forces - overseeing the campaign.\n\nMr Reznikov's dismissal comes amid a wider anti-corruption drive in Mr Zelensky's administration - which has been seen as essential to Ukraine's ambitions to join Western institutions like the EU.\n\nAccording to the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180, but efforts in recent years have seen its position improve significantly.\n\nWhile Mr Reznikov is not personally accused of corruption, there have been a number of scandals at the ministry of defence involving the procurement of goods and equipment for the army at inflated prices.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Reznikov's deputy, Vyacheslav Shapovalov, resigned in the wake of the scandal. It was widely reported at the time that Mr Reznikov barely held on to his own post.\n\nAt the time, he said the stress he had endured was \"hard to measure precisely\", adding that his \"conscience is absolutely clear\".\n\nThe defence ministry has also been rocked by several recent arrests at regional recruitment offices, where officers have been accused of taking bribes to allow men to avoid Ukraine's military draft.\n\nOn Friday, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and urged them to continue prosecuting anti-graft cases \"no matter where they lead\".\n\nMr Umerov, who was nominated by the president, represented Ukraine in peace talks at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.\n\nThe ex-MP allegedly suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning during peace negotiations in March 2022 alongside Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich - who was also part of the negotiating party. In a statement posted to Facebook he later denied the reports, urging people not to trust \"unverified information\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the time, he said it took courage to find solutions but he was determined \"to find [a] political and diplomatic resolution to this brutal invasion\".\n\nA member of the Crimean Tatar community, he has become a key member of Mr Zelensky's international outreach efforts, focussing on fostering ties in the Islamic world.\n\nMr Reznikov's dismissal comes as Ukraine wages a slow and bloody counter-offensive after securing more advanced weapons from Western allies.\n\nProgress on the frontline has been slow but top Ukrainian generals said on Sunday that their forces have broken through a key line of Russian defences in the south of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia reported several attempted drone attacks on its territory overnight.\n\nThe defence ministry said it shot down two drones over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, early on Monday.\n\nThe region's governor Roman Stravoit also reported on Sunday that debris from a destroyed drone had caused a fire at a non-residential building in the city of Kurchatov.\n\nElsewhere, Russia launched its own 3.5-hour overnight assault on the south of Ukraine's Odesa region, with the governor reporting that 17 drones were downed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are also hits,\" added Oleh Kiper, who said there had been damage to \"several settlements\" in the region of Izmail. But he said there were no casualties or injuries.\n\nIzmail is one of Ukraine's two major grain-exporting ports on the Danube River in the Odesa region.\n\nThe Danube ports have become Ukraine's major exporting route since the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal in July. Moscow has launched frequent attacks on the Danube since withdrawing from the deal.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Just over one in six shops on Welsh High Streets are empty, according to the Welsh Retail Consortium\n\nWales has the second highest number of vacant shops in the UK, according to new figures.\n\nJust over one in six shops in Wales are empty, analysis from the Welsh Retail Consortium (WRC) shows.\n\n\"Clearly that's bad news for the economy because retail plays such an integral role,\" said Sara Jones from the WRC.\n\nThe Welsh government said its retail action plan was working to bring \"vibrancy\" back to town centres.\n\nSara Jones said Welsh retailers were \"grappling with several cost challenges\".\n\n\"They come from all different quarters - whether it is business rates, energy prices or local challenges like antisocial behaviour affecting footfall in shops,\" she said.\n\nThe rate of empty shops in Wales rose from 16.5% to 17.0% in the second quarter of 2023, according to the WRC.\n\nResearch carried out by the Centre for Cities in 2021 found that Newport had more empty units than any other city in the UK.\n\nJeanette Scurry, who was shopping in Newport, said: \"I usually go to Cardiff or Cwmbran even though I live in Newport.\n\n\"But I thought today I'd come to Newport. I don't know why I bothered. There's nothing here, it's a mess.\"\n\nHigh Street and Commercial Street in Newport city centre have many vacant shops and boarded up businesses\n\nJohn Richards, 79, also from the city, said: \"I used to come to Newport and get what I needed and go home with it, but I can't do that anymore.\n\n\"I need to go out of town or to one of big supermarkets.\"\n\nNewport City Council said some \"significant and high-profile\" projects had come to fruition in the city over the last few years, \"such as the successful transformation of Newport Market, the regeneration of Market Arcade and the Chartist Tower development.\n\n\"These would have formed part of the count of \"vacant shops\" in the report which looked at around 60 places in the UK and claimed Newport had the highest number of empty units.\n\n\"It is worth noting that the city council does not own the city centre or the shops.\n\n\"A good proportion of empty units are owned by absent or disengaged landlords, but the council is taking action wherever possible to make them take responsibility for taking proper care of their buildings and bring them back into beneficial use.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic prompted a huge acceleration to digital and online sales.\n\nIn 2006, buying online represented just under 3% of total retail sales. At the start of 2023, the figure was 27%.\n\nHomeware chain Wilko announced last month it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs at risk.\n\nTwenty-nine of its stores are in Wales and mainly on high streets which are already struggling - including in Morriston, Swansea.\n\nMorriston shopper Gillian Roberts said there was \"nothing left\" on her High Street\n\n\"It's terrible, there's nothing left in Morriston now,\" said shopper Gillian Roberts. \"You can eat, get your hair cut, but for shopping this high street has gone to the dogs.\"\n\nMike Williams said Morriston's High Street consisted of charity shops, cafes and barbers.\n\n\"It's very sad. If you haven't got a car, you get a bus into town - but now there's not much in town,\" he added.\n\nElaine Arundale, a regular at the Wilko store in Morriston, said: \"What are we going to do? We're all getting older, and we'll be lost without it.\n\n\"There's going to be nothing left in Morriston.\"\n\nBut Dr Robert Bowen, a lecturer at Cardiff Business School, said some High Streets in Wales were bucking the trend.\n\n\"There are challenging times, but we are seeing different trends across Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"In 2020, Treorchy won the UK High Street of the Year Award, beating rivals Narberth and Swansea. We're seeing some really good examples across Wales of High Streets that are doing really well.\"\n\nTreorchy, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, was nominated for the award by local pub landlord Adrian Emmett.\n\nHe took over The Lion pub in the town eight years ago, and it is now the sponsor of eight sports teams and two choirs.\n\n\"The key to our growth in Treorchy has been focusing on independent businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We've changed our mindset operating as one community and one voice.\"\n\nMr Emmett put the decline of the High Street \"down to supermarket and the online traders\".\n\n\"It needs to be more than just retail. Rather than the products it's about the people,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government's retail action plan, which launched in May, said the key to reversing the trend was increasing footfall and having more people living in towns and city centres.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Our retail sector is one of the largest private sector employers in Wales and has a vital contribution to make to our town and city centres and rural communities.\n\n\"In May, we launched our retail action plan to grow and strengthen the sector during a period of significant change and bring vibrancy back into our town centres.\"", "Exactly 12 months ago, Rishi Sunak was preparing to be a good loser.\n\nEven though he'd been thumped by Liz Truss over the summer in the Conservative Party leadership contest, the day before the result was confirmed, he was in our studio still calmly trying to make his case.\n\nIt was her almost immediate implosion that rapidly gave him the chance to move into No 10.\n\nMr Sunak achieved his first task, to bring calm after a few crazy weeks. But after nearly a year in his second job, to restore the Tory party's standing with the public, is miles out of reach. One survey this week even recorded his worst-ever personal ratings.\n\nSo as the new political season starts, I've been asking ministers and senior Conservatives what the chances are that the prime minister can avoid being more than a good loser when it comes to the general election next year.\n\nThose lucky enough to have got their posteriors on the leather seats of ministerial cars all know the situation is bad. \"The numbers don't lie,\" a senior minister tells me. Another cabinet minister says \"there is no point pretending we are not under pressure and it is going to get worse\".\n\nAnother member of the government suggests the chances of turning the situation round are miniscule: \"The path was always narrow, now it is looking vanishingly narrow.\"\n\nBut politics and the public mood can shift with extraordinary speed. Another member of the cabinet reckons it is just far too early to call time and they \"have not given up all hope\".\n\nAnother minister believes that while voters are cross with them \"they want us to be seen to be on their side\", with plenty of minds to be made up.\n\nBut the Conservatives have been in the doldrums for a long time. Ministers know they are soaking up a sense that many of the public are profoundly fed up.\n\nOne of the cabinet ministers I spoke to admits: \"The public is bored with us and frustrated that things have been announced that haven't been delivered.\"\n\nThe sight of queues at airports, more rail and doctors' strikes, and this week children not being able to go back to school because of the risk of buildings collapsing all contribute to a tangible sense among many voters that lots about our country just does not really work.\n\nAs schools and parents scramble to work out what is going on, a Labour source jokes \"if we were to design a 'the Tories are rubbish' story we couldn't do it this well\". And the backdrop to all of this is that inflation has made it harder and harder for millions to make ends meet.\n\nDowning Street's many attempts to change the mood have not succeeded so far. No 10 \"has played a lot of the cards\", one member of the government lamented, \"and 'literally nothing is moving the dial\".\n\nThe government's planned \"small boats week\" designed to show off efforts to get the problem under control had a farcical twist with migrants being moved on and off the Bibby Stockholm barge which was brought in to house them.\n\nA quick internet search showed the recent announcement on banning zombie knives has been promised by several Conservative home secretaries in a row, going back to Theresa May in 2016.\n\nA mini-shuffle of ministers this week will hardly have been noticed by most voters. The prime minister's much publicised five pledges from January that he asked to be judged on are proving tough to meet. Failing the test you very publicly set is not a comfortable place for any politician to be.\n\nWhat do they have left in the locker? A change of gear is on the cards, with one minster saying \"we were always going to try to be more eye-catching and adventurous\" after Mr Sunak had established himself in office. \"If you are trailing by a big margin it is logical to take some risk,\" says another.\n\nSome tweaks to the operation in Downing Street have been made in the last week (you can read about them here) which is both an admission that all is not well and a sign of an appetite to sharpen up the political operation.\n\nCan the man on the left put the man on the right \"in difficult positions\"?\n\nThere are big set-piece events on the way. First the Tory party conference, then the King's Speech - the moment when the government announces the new laws it wants to bring in.\n\nThese are both big chances for the prime minister to grab the headlines. One cabinet minister says: \"That will be his last big chance to show the country he really is the best person to lead for the next few years.\"\n\nThere are whispers that crime and welfare will be big themes Mr Sunak wants to pursue. Expect too more focus on attacking their political rivals by picking issues where the two parties clash. \"We want to put Labour in difficult positions,\" one senior source says.\n\nWhatever cunning wheezes No 10 conjures up, the hole the Conservatives need to climb out of is very deep.\n\nThat's not just because of the chaos of last year which angered so many of the public. Not just because any party that has been in power for this long is vulnerable to voters just feeling they have had enough.\n\nBut it is also harder to run persuasive campaigns when the contrasts with your rivals are less pronounced. One minister worries the \"big dividing lines\" just are not there.\n\nThe Conservatives will not benefit next time from the collapse of the Lib Dems like they did in 2015, nor will they have the clarity of the Brexit divide which led to their whopping victory in 2019.\n\nRishi Sunak does not want to be the prime minister who steadied the ship but could not stop it from slowly sinking. His moves in the next few months could make all the difference as to whether he can keep it afloat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Eritrean protesters clash with police who fire stun grenades and tear gas\n\nIsrael is considering tough steps including the immediate deportation of Eritrean asylum seekers involved in riots in Tel Aviv on Saturday.\n\nSome 170 people were injured in violent clashes with police and in-fighting between groups of supporters and opponents of the Eritrean regime.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said \"a red line\" had been crossed.\n\nHe also ordered a new plan to remove all African migrants that he described as \"illegal infiltrators\".\n\nSaturday's unprecedented disorder began after activists opposed to the Eritrean government said that they had asked Israeli authorities to cancel an event organised by their country's embassy.\n\nThey broke through a police barricade around the venue, which was then vandalised.\n\nPolice in riot gear fired tear gas, stun grenades and live rounds as officers on horseback tried to push the protesters away.\n\nAn investigation has been opened into whether the use of live fire was within the law.\n\nIsraeli police - several dozen of whom were among the injured - said they felt their lives were at risk.\n\nThere were also dramatic street battles between large crowds of Eritreans armed with pieces of wood, metal and rocks. As well as attacking each other, they smashed shop windows and cars.\n\nThe divisions within Eritrea over the rule of President Isaias Afwerki have spilled over into the diaspora, and this is the latest outbreak of violence in recent weeks.\n\nResidents said the streets of central Tel Aviv sounded like a war zone over several hours, with police helicopters hovering overhead and sirens blaring.\n\nThe rioting has put the divisive issue of migrants back on the political agenda, at a time when Israel is already split over the hardline government's highly controversial judicial overhaul plan.\n\nMr Netanyahu and others in his cabinet have blamed the Supreme Court for blocking earlier attempted action to push migrants out of Israel.\n\n\"Now there remains a serious problem with the illegal infiltrators in south Tel Aviv and elsewhere,\" the prime minister said at Sunday's special government meeting.\n\n\"We want harsh measures against the rioters, including the immediate deportation of those who took part.\"\n\nHe requested that the ministers present him with plans \"for the removal of all the other illegal infiltrators\".\n\nThe far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir now plans to propose a bill that would overturn part of Israel's quasi-constitutional basic law on human dignity and liberty to press ahead with the mass deportation of migrants who entered the country illegally.\n\nIt is estimated that there are about 18,000 asylum seekers from Eritrea in Israel, most of whom arrived illegally years ago by crossing Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. They say they fled danger, persecution and compulsory military conscription in one of the world's most repressive countries.\n\nAlthough Eritreans supporting the regime would not appear to be in need of international protection as refugees, the authorities in Israel have not made differentiations between asylum seekers based on their political affiliations until now.\n\nAs Eritrea marks 30 years of independence from Ethiopia, festivals have been held by its diaspora.\n\nBut as well as Israel, some in Europe and North America have been marred by outbreaks of violence - last month a three-day Eritrean cultural festival in Toronto, Canada, was cancelled after supporters and opponents of Eritrea's regime clashed.", "Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south, as the counter-offensive launched earlier this summer may be poised to gather pace.\n\nSince June, Kyiv's territorial gains have been very small - but is Ukraine finally at a turning point?\n\n\"Yes, it's true,\" says Yuriy Sak, an advisor to Ukraine's defence minister, when asked if the breach had happened.\n\n\"Little by little, I think we're gaining momentum,\" he said.\n\n\"We are now between the first and second defensive lines,\" one of Ukraine's top generals in the south, Brig Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskiy told Britain's Observer newspaper.\n\nHis words echoed those of the White House spokesman John Kirby, who on Friday told reporters in Washington that Ukrainian forces had \"achieved some success against that second line.\"\n\nThe focus of Ukraine's counter-offensive effort in recent weeks has been an expanding bridgehead around the tiny village of Robotyne, some 56km (35 miles) south-east of the city of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkrainian forces raised the country's blue and yellow flag over the village more than a week ago, and are now trying to widen the gap to allow larger infantry and armoured units to pass through without coming under Russian fire.\n\nIf that can be achieved, there is a chance Ukraine's offensive can gain momentum as it approaches second and third defensive lines, which may not be quite as robust as the first.\n\nFighting has been reported east of Robotyne, on the edge of the larger village of Verbove, but like everything so far, it's slow, painstaking work.\n\nA glance at the map shows a mass of overlapping, complex Russian defensive lines, complete with minefields, tank traps and trenches. Some of them converge at Verbove.\n\nWithout air cover and in the face of sometimes withering Russian artillery fire, small Ukrainian units have been clearing a way through these hazards, preparing the ground for a larger assault.\n\n\"When these openings appear, of course, it makes it easier for our forces to advance,\" Mr Sak said.\n\nIt is hard to assess the significance of the latest claims. Ukrainian officials are extremely tight-lipped when asked for precise details, preferring to allow the fog of war to shroud Kyiv's intentions and extremely reluctant to avoid releasing sensitive information.\n\nIt does not help that the forces closest to the fight sometimes give very different accounts of what is happening at the front.\n\nApproached by the BBC on Saturday, Ukraine's 46th Air Assault Brigade said fighting was continuing near Russia's first line of defence, but that \"no one has yet managed to go beyond the first line.\"\n\nThis may be less surprising than it sounds. A plethora of units are operating up and down the front, each concentrating on their own narrow section and specific tasks. They do not necessarily know what is going on elsewhere.\n\nA Ukrainian serviceman looks at a destroyed Ukrainian tank near the village of Robotyne\n\nOne of those units, a volunteer battalion known by its commander's call sign \"Skala\", told Reuters news agency that its men had broken through Russia's first line on 26 August.\n\nOn Sunday, Skala told us his men were still pushing forward.\n\n\"Literally, we are moving along the Zaporizhzhia region to the sea,\" he said in a voice message, without giving further details.\n\n\"I don't want to rush ahead, but both we and the General Staff are doing everything for the fastest victory.\"\n\nHard as it is to gauge the precise nature and direction of Ukraine's recent gains, it is clear that the Kremlin is alarmed.\n\nIt has recently sent elite troops from other parts of the long front line to bolster defences between Robotyne and the key road and railway hub of Tokmak, 21km to the south.\n\nAccording to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this is the third time since June.\n\n\"The second lateral deployment in the span of a few weeks suggests an increasing Russian concern about the stability of Russian defences,\" the ISW reported in its assessment on 1 September.\n\nThis, Ukrainian experts claim, is part of Kyiv's plan: forcing Moscow to move front line units from one place to another in an effort to wear them down.\n\n\"We're trying to involve their reserves and exhaust them,\" says Serhiy Kuzan, of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, a Kyiv think tank with close ties to the military.\n\nThe next job, he says, is to exploit any sign of Russian weakness.\n\n\"The main thing is to widen this bridgehead,\" he says. \"There won't be any orders to go deeper until we do that.\"\n\nDespite the apparently glacial progress of the offensive since June, Mr Kuzan says the fundamental objective has not changed: control of the south.\n\nWhat that looks like by the time winter arrives is an open question.\n\nIdeally, Kyiv would like its forces to have reached the Sea of Azov, cutting through Moscow's \"land bridge\" to the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nBut even if this does not happen, Ukraine is determined to cut the supply lines that allow Russian forces to maintain a presence in the southern part of the Kherson region, between the Dnipro river and Crimea.\n\nSome of those links, including the railway that passes through Tokmak, are already highly vulnerable to Ukrainian long range weapons, such as the Himars multiple rocket launcher.\n\nWith the other key rail link - the one across the Kerch Bridge - the target of repeated Ukrainian attacks since last October, Mr Kuzan says Russia is transporting 70% of its supplies along the M-14 highway, which runs closer to the coast.\n\n\"We have to get the land route… under fire control,\" he says, meaning that Ukrainian guns need to be close enough to be able to target the road.\n\nThe M-14 is still more than 80km away. There are multiple Russian lines of defence, and Ukrainian forces will be attacked from the ground and air every step of the way.\n\nAnother glance at the map shows that Ukraine's territorial gains, since June, have been tiny.\n\nKyiv's first encounter with Russia's well-entrenched defences was always going to be among the hardest phases. It may be some time before we know if the breach at Robotyne represents a turning point.\n\n\"Tough battles are to be expected,\" Mr Kuzan adds.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain reached the Davis Cup Finals last eight in remarkable fashion as Dan Evans and Neal Skupski saved four match points before winning a nerve-wracking decider against France.\n\nIn front of a partisan British crowd in Manchester, Evans and Skupski beat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (8-6).\n\nEvans won from a set and a break down in the singles but Cameron Norrie lost.\n\nEvans and Skupski, roared on by the home fans, recovered to seal victory.\n\n\"It was bonkers. I don't know what we've all sat through for nine hours,\" British captain Leon Smith said.\n\nGreat Britain will now go on to the knockout phase of the men's team competition - known as the Final Eight - in Spanish city Malaga in November.\n\nFour nations - Britain, Australia, France and Switzerland - played in the round-robin event at Manchester's AO Arena, with the top two countries going through.\n\nBritain, who last won the Davis Cup in 2015, finished as Group B winners and will play Serbia or Italy when the draw is made on Tuesday.\n\nAustralia progressed as runners-up, with defending champions Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands completing the line-up.\n\nBut notable absences will be hosts Spain, who failed to make it out of Group C, and 32-time champions the United States, who were stunned by Finland in their final Group D tie.\n\n'No panic' for Evans and Skupski in nerve-wracking finale\n\nWith Australia already qualified and Switzerland eliminated, Britain knew nothing other than a victory in the best-of-three tie against France would enable them to progress.\n\nWhat few of the 13,000 crowd - a record for a Davis Cup tie in the UK - would have predicted was the dramatic manner in which their goal was finally achieved.\n\nEvans, 33, laid the platform for the win when he fought back to beat French teenager Arthur Fils 3-6 6-3 6-4.\n\nBritish number one Norrie, 28, could not get his side over the line as he lost 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 7-5 to Ugo Humbert, teeing up the winner-takes-all doubles match.\n\nEvans and Skupski, who have become Smith's first-choice doubles pair, recovered from a strong start by their experienced rivals before growing in confidence as the boisterous home fans lifted their spirits.\n\nDespite being unable to make a dent on the French pair's serve in the opening two sets, Evans and Skupski went up a gear in the tie-break to level the match.\n\nA nail-biting deciding set also remained on serve - but only after Evans recovered from a double fault which brought up three match points at 5-4.\n\nEvans found a first serve to save one as Roger-Vasselin hit a forehand into the net, boldly watched another return go just long on the second and then saw the Frenchman push a forehand wide on the third.\n\nThe British pair saved another match point on Skupski's serve at 6-5 before converting their second opportunity in the deciding tie-break.\n\n\"There was no panic,\" said 33-year-old Skupski, who is the world doubles number three and this year's Wimbledon champion.\n\n\"We just went to the next point. I knew if we got through that game somehow the momentum was going to swing our way.\"\n\nWhen Britain sealed victory at almost 22:00 BST, Skupski knelt down and roared after watching a French return fly long while Evans fell on to his back in disbelief.\n\nThe pair were quickly mobbed by their team-mates and support staff, including a union jack bucket-hat-wearing Andy Murray.\n\n\"The singles is the singles and I feel comfortable on that court, but the doubles was chaos,\" said Evans.\n\n\"I just kept saying to Neal 'we've got a chance, we've got a chance' and we both kept going. We stuck together.\n\n\"It's emotional. You want to be with these guys in the finals. It's an immensely proud moment for me and the team.\"\n\nWith a strong squad at his disposal, Great Britain captain Smith had a tough selection call to make for the win-or-bust tie against a talented French squad.\n\nUltimately, he picked his highest-ranked players in Evans and Norrie, with former world number one Murray and promising youngster Jack Draper missing out.\n\nThe move also ensured Evans - who would have played second if the lower-ranked Murray or Draper had been selected - could have a break before what turned out to be the decisive doubles.\n\nThe world number 27 was particularly inspired all week in Manchester, thriving in the partisan atmosphere of the team event and winning both of his singles matches.\n\n\"Davis Cup is why I played tennis at the start,\" said Evans, who comes from the West Midlands.\n\n\"I remember watching the Birmingham ties, finishing late on a Sunday night. That was my first introduction to professional tennis really.\n\n\"That was the be-all and end-all to play Davis Cup for my country - and it still is. I'm not a nervous person but before you play Davis Cup it is a different feeling.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What's next in the Post Office Horizon scandal? Nick Wallis continues his investigation into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history\n• None The batsman who changed the face of cricket: How wearing a helmet revolutionised the safety of the sport", "On the programme, Pat McFadden was asked about what might be in the Labour manifesto. Here’s what he said about HS2:\n\nFirst of all, he declined to commit to it being built in full.\n\n\"We want to see the railway being built, it looks as though the government is now putting a question mark over this, there may be revised costs to that,\" he said.\n\nHe also mentioned that the price tag that was put on it in 2019 was £30 billion. But it has not been raised since, and Cleverly added that there has been \"quite a lot of inflation since then\".\n\nAsked to confirm if Labour would not commit to completing the full original route of HS2, he said: \"I want to see what this costs and we'll make those decisions when it comes to the manifesto.\"", "Saturday's performance at Wembley Park Theatre was Brand's first public appearance since allegations against him were published\n\n\"There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand.\"\n\nRussell Brand was addressing a crowd of 2,000 of his fans at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, part of his Bipolarisation tour - but this was no normal show for the comedian-turned wellness guru.\n\nHours earlier, the 48-year-old had been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nBrand had already strenuously denied the allegations in a video posted on his YouTube account. But his appearance at the sold-out show in north-west London was the first time he'd been seen in public since the claims were published.\n\nBefore the show began, I was almost certain it would be cancelled.\n\nThen there was an announcement that Brand was on his way to the venue, having been caught in traffic, and we waited.\n\nIn the crowd, a woman held a large piece of paper, the top line of which read: \"We stand by you.\" She asked security to make sure it was given to the comedian.\n\nBrand's fans could be heard expressing their hatred of the mainstream media, using language that is unpublishable here.\n\nThen the show began, shortly after 20:00, an hour later than the scheduled start time.\n\nBrand walked on-stage to the track \"You Don't Own Me\", a 1960s feminist anthem performed by American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore.\n\n\"I appreciate you, I appreciate you,\" he said, apologising for his lateness, which he blamed on a traffic jam.\n\nDressed in dark skinny jeans, a dark shirt and a dark jacket, he said to the audience: \"You came.\"\n\nAfter asking them not to film, he said: \"I really appreciate your support, I love you, I want to do a fantastic show for you.\n\n\"I've got a lot of things to talk to you about. There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand.\"\n\n\"I love you lot already. I'm going to give you everything I've got, let's go.\"\n\nDuring his set, which lasted about an hour, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly\n\nBrand started the gig with gusto and enthusiasm.\n\nHe told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, who he'd been teaching to question authority, interspersing his performance with video clips.\n\nBut he appeared distracted throughout. In the second half of the show he constantly referred to pieces of paper. At times it appeared he had lost his place, when he would resort to talking about \"freedom\", \"transcendence\" and \"authority\".\n\nBut he forged ahead and the show ended with a standing ovation lasting a few minutes. He seemed touched by the gesture before leaving the stage.\n\nThe crowd exited and seemed happy, until they encountered the cameras and paparazzi outside.\n\n\"We should kick you off your ladder,\" was one of the comments made in their direction.\n\nBrand has more performances scheduled around the country in the coming weeks and months - time will tell if they will go ahead.", "Drew Barrymore was at pains to point out she \"owned\" the decision to recommence production while her writers were on strike\n\nUS actress Drew Barrymore has paused the premiere of her US talk show until the Hollywood strikes are over, after a backlash against her decision to resume filming.\n\nShe issued a tearful on-camera apology for continuing her CBS talk show \"The Drew Barrymore Show\".\n\nBarrymore was planning to return to screens on Monday.\n\nThis was despite the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike which began in May.\n\nFilming for the fourth season of her show took place earlier this week - while her three unionised writers were on strike.\n\nThe 48-year-old initially refused to halt production and said the show complied with strike rules.\n\nBut it sparked a huge backlash with many on social media suggesting she was not standing in solidarity with the cause.\n\nOn Wednesday members of both WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions marched from Netflix to Paramount Studios in Los Angeles\n\nIn a statement shared on Instagram on Sunday, Barrymore said: \"I have listened to everyone and I am making the decision to pause the show's premiere until the strike is over.\n\n\"I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today.\n\n\"We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.\"\n\nBarrymore's fresh announcement comes after she posted an emotional video - now deleted - where she \"deeply apologised\" to writers and unions.\n\nIn the video, Barrymore said: \"I believe there is nothing I can do or say in this moment to make it okay. I wanted to own a decision so it wasn't a PR-protected situation.\n\n\"I want everyone to know my intentions have never been in a place to upset or hurt anyone - it is not who I am.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The child's body was placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa, according to Italian media\n\nThe body of a newborn baby has been recovered from a boat carrying migrants during a rescue operation off the Italian island of Lampedusa.\n\nThe mother is thought to have given birth during the journey from North Africa, the Ansa news agency says, and the death is being investigated.\n\nMore than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Lampedusa over the past three days.\n\nEuropean Commission head Ursula von der Leyen is due to visit the island on Sunday after Italy asked for EU help.\n\nItalian newspaper Corriere Del Mezzogiorno reports the mother was helped by companions on the small boat after she started having contractions.\n\nThe child's body was later placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa's Imbriacola district, it adds.\n\nEarlier this week a five-month-old baby boy drowned during a rescue operation off the same island, after a boat carrying migrants across the sea from north Africa capsized.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the country was being placed under \"unsustainable pressure\" as a result of the migrant influx.\n\nMs Meloni is pushing for a European Union naval blockade to prevent boats from crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italian shores.\n\nThe Italian Red Cross has said it is currently dealing with about 2,500 people at a reception centre designed for 400 arrivals.\n\nVolunteers and staff have been providing thousands of meals all week and helping transfer new arrivals to Sicily and elsewhere.\n\nNearly 126,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, which is about double the number for the same period in 2022.\n\nMs Meloni said she was calling on Ms von der Leyen \"to personally realize the gravity of the situation we face\" and to \"immediately accelerate\" the implementation of an agreement with Tunisia.\n\nThe North African country has become the main departure point for African migrants attempting to reach Europe.\n\nThe EU deal, which was signed in July, is backed up by €110m ($118m; £90m) of EU cash to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nThe surge in arrivals led to protests by Lampedusa's residents on Saturday who demonstrated against plans to build a new tent camp to host the migrants.\n\n\"I have two children at home. In the past years, I did not care about this issue. But now I have an instinct of protection for my children because I don't know what will happen to Lampedusa in the future,\" one of the protesters told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Lampedusa says stop! We don't want tent camps. This message is for Europe and for the Italian government. Lampedusa residents are tired,\" another protester said.\n\nLampedusa residents took took to the island's streets on Saturday to protest against the migrant arrivals", "Nathaniel Shani's family said they were \"heartbroken\" to have lost such a \"polite\" and \"loving boy\"\n\nA 14-year-old boy who was killed in a stabbing in Manchester was \"very kind\" and \"caring\", his family have said.\n\nNathaniel Shani was found shortly after 18:00 BST on Friday in Tavistock Square, Harpurhey, and died later in hospital.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.\n\nNathaniel's family said he was \"always thinking of others\" and added that \"our hearts are left broken\" by his death.\n\nPaying tribute in a statement, the family added: \"Nathaniel was a best friend to many, he never failed to make people laugh.\n\n\"He was polite and the most loving person. He would always put other people first without a thought. He was an amazing brother and son to his parents and siblings.\"\n\nNathaniel was said to be an \"amazing brother\"\n\nTributes and flowers have been left at the taped-off crime scene where the teenager was stabbed.\n\nWitnesses claimed there was a fight before screams could be heard.\n\nResident Syeda Qayyum told the BBC: \"There was a big fight with kids fighting with each other.\n\n\"One kid was screaming 'call an ambulance, call an ambulance' and there was blood on the corner. It's so bad.\"\n\nHarpurhey councillor Pat Karney said the community \"was heartbroken\".\n\nHe said: \"We can only imagine the pain that this family have woken up to. To lose a child in these circumstances is horrifying.\"\n\nSyeda Qayyum said she saw a big fight before the boy was stabbed\n\nGreater Manchester Police has imposed a Section 60 order - which gives them greater stop and search powers - until Saturday evening.\n\nDet Supt Phil Key said: \"I would like to share my deepest condolences with the family at this unbelievably difficult time.\"\n\nHe sought to reassure the public that the Section 60 order was only used \"when proportionate and necessary\", adding that it was aimed at minimising violent behaviour and preventing \"any further serious incidents\".\n\nAnyone who saw the attack has been urged to contact the police.\n\nA police cordon has been set up around the scene of the stabbing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted of corruption charges following an impeachment process which divided Republicans governing the US state.\n\nMr Paxton - a Donald Trump ally - can resume his work in elected office after being suspended in May.\n\n\"The truth could not be buried by mudslinging politicians or their powerful benefactors,\" Mr Paxton said.\n\nHe was cleared of 16 counts in a vote in the state Senate.\n\nIn May, more than 60 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives crossed party lines to impeach the state's top lawyer on counts of corruption, obstruction of justice, bribery and abuse of public trust.\n\nBut in the state's Senate - also dominated by the party - only two Republicans voted to remove him from office on any of the counts.\n\nThe charges related to favours he allegedly granted a Texas real estate developer, the use of public funds to punish whistleblowers on his staff and cover up their allegations, and benefits he directed to a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.\n\nThe attorney general has always denied any wrongdoing and called the impeachment a \"politically-motivated sham\".\n\nMr Paxton is one of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters in Texas, supporting the former president's unsuccessful attempts to challenge his 2020 election defeat.\n\nThe impeachment divided the Republican Party between a pro-Trump faction and more traditional conservatives.\n\nShortly after the attorney general was impeached, Mr Trump posted \"free Ken Paxton\" on his social media site Truth Social and called the effort \"election interference\" by \"radical left Democrats\", criminals and insufficiently loyal Republicans.\n\nMore than 100 witnesses were scheduled to testify, including some close associates of Mr Paxton who accused him of wrongdoing.\n\nHe still faces state charges for securities fraud, in a case that goes back to shortly after he won office eight years ago. The FBI has probed the same allegations.\n• None Why Republicans are impeaching a Trump ally in Texas", "Smoke rises from a shipyard in the Russian-held Crimean port of Sevastopol\n\nThis week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.\n\nEstimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014?\n\nCrimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away.\n\n\"The strategy has two main goals,\" says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies.\n\n\"To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.\"\n\nIn other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south.\n\n\"They depend on each other,\" Musiienko says.\n\nLet's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol.\n\nSatellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.\n\nBritain's Ministry of Defence said two Russian ships had been badly damaged in the attack\n\nOn Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a large amphibious landing ship, the Minsk, had \"almost certainly been functionally destroyed\".\n\nNext to it, one of Russia's Kilo class diesel-electric submarines, the Rostov-on-Don - used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles hundreds of miles into Ukraine - had \"likely suffered catastrophic damage\".\n\nPerhaps equally importantly the dry docks - vital for maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet - would likely be out of use \"for many months\", the ministry said.\n\nIt said special forces had played a key role, using boats and an unspecified \"underwater delivery means\" to get ashore, before using \"special technical assets\" to help identify and target the vessels.\n\nBut with the fires barely out in Sevastopol there were more dramatic night-time explosions as Ukraine blew up one of Russia's most modern air defence systems, an S-400, around 40 miles (64km) north at Yevpatoria.\n\nThis was another sophisticated operation that used a combination of drones and Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles to confuse and destroy a key component of Russia's air defences on the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nA significant side note: Russian attempts to use exactly this technique over Kyiv have generally failed, largely thanks to the presence of US Patriot interceptor missiles.\n\nThursday was the second time in less than a month that Ukraine has knocked out an S-400 surface-to-air missile system on the peninsula.\n\nOn 23 August, at Olenivka, on the western tip of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, Ukraine managed to destroy another launcher and a nearby radar station.\n\nRussia was thought to have not more than six S-400 launchers in Crimea. Now it has lost two.\n\nBut these are only some of Ukraine's recent operations.\n\nOthers have knocked out Russian radar positions on offshore gas platforms and, according to Kyiv, used experimental maritime drones to attack a hovercraft missile carrier at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour.\n\nWith its airbases, troop concentrations, training grounds and the Black Sea fleet, Crimea has been a key target since Russia's full-scale invasion last year.\n\n\"In Crimea, they still have a lot of stockpiles, with artillery shells and other types of weapons,\" Musiienko says. \"And this is the main logistic supply line for them.\"\n\nOver the months, Kyiv's operations have grown in sophistication, from a drone attack in August 2022 which destroyed an estimated nine Russian aircraft at the Saky air base, to the combined drone and missile attacks of today.\n\nWith more advanced weapons thought to be in the pipeline, Musiienko expects Ukraine to launch ever more sophisticated operations.\n\n\"When we get ATACMS (tactical ballistic missiles) from the United States, I think we will try to use - in one attack - ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and also drones,\" he says.\n\n\"And that will be a serious problem for Russia's air defence system,\" he adds.\n\n\"We will try to blind them.\"\n\nEach successful attack, he says, makes the next one easier. \"We are clearing the way, and it's becoming more simple.\"\n\nThe latest reports from Washington suggests the Biden administration is close to approving the ATACMS long range missile system after months of Ukrainian lobbying.\n\nDoes any of this mean that Kyiv is getting closer to its goal of liberating Crimea?\n\n\"It's getting closer, but there's still a lot to do,\" says retired Ukrainian navy captain Andriy Ryzhenko.\n\n\"We need to liberate the Sea of Azov coast and cut the land corridor,\" he says, referring to Ukraine's slow, grinding offensive in the south.\n\nAnd then there is the Kerch Bridge.\n\nUkraine has been hitting Moscow's lifeline to Crimea for almost a year, but Russian heavy equipment still moves along its vital railway.\n\nDespite being much better defended now, it remains very much in Kyiv's sights.\n\nThis file picture from July shows damage apparently caused by a Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and Russia\n\n\"When we shut down the Crimean bridge, it will be a logistical problem for them,\" Ryzhenko says, with some understatement.\n\nCutting off Crimea would be catastrophic for Russia and provide a welcome boost to Ukraine's difficult southern offensive.\n\nSo is all this a prelude to a Ukrainian effort to retake the peninsula?\n\nObservers here in Kyiv are trying not to get ahead of themselves.\n\n\"I think this could be a preparation for the liberation of Crimea,\" Musiienko. \"But I understand that it will take time.\n\n\"What we're trying to do right now is clean the way to Crimea.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Ukraine was using every means at its disposal to force Russia to abandon Crimea.\n\n\"It looks like if the Russians do not leave Crimea on their own,\" he said in a radio interview, \"we will have to 'smoke them out'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Anna Foster walks along a \"wasteland\" that used to be a riverbed\n\nThe journey to the Libyan city of Derna takes twice as long now.\n\nDriving along the road from Benghazi, fields turn into rust-red lakes. As you get closer, the traffic begins to slow. Telegraph poles pulled from the ground by the floodwaters now lie haphazardly. Cars creep around holes in the highway, on hastily dug detours carved out by diggers.\n\nOne of the closest bridges to Derna has been washed away completely. Locals stand near the ragged tarmac precipice, peering over and taking photos.\n\nNot far beyond, soldiers hand out face masks to every car - for the driver, and each passenger. Everyone driving in the other direction is wearing them, and you soon realise why.\n\nThe smell of death in parts of the city feels almost impossible to describe. It fills your nostrils, part the scent of sewage, part something that's harder to identify.\n\nAt times it is so strong it turns the stomach - especially as you stand overlooking the port where recovery teams tell me bodies are still washing up.\n\nNot just people but buildings, possessions and livelihoods have been washed away in the eastern Libyan city of Derna\n\nThat morning they found three. Carried in on the tide, they get trapped in the mounds of debris slowly rotting in the seawater.\n\nBroken wood, whole cars lifted and dropped on top of scattered sea defences, tyres, fridges - everything mingles and swirls together in the stagnant water.\n\nThe pictures and videos which have come out of Derna have been graphic and shocking.\n\nBut watching them does prepare you for the scale of the damage the floods have done to this place. The line of the river now gapes like an open wound, perhaps a hundred metres across in places. On these mounds of mud, nothing at all remains. It's a barren wasteland.\n\nThe destructive power of the water has been extraordinary.\n\nCars lie around like toys tipped casually on their sides or resting upside-down. One has been pushed fully inside the terrace surrounding the distinctive Al Sahaba Mosque. Another is completely off the ground, embedded in the side of a building.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have so far been buried in mass graves, according to a UN report\n\nWalls made of thick concrete blocks have toppled. Sturdy trees have been plucked from the ground, their roots curling into the air. Everything else, though, is gone.\n\nThis wasn't just thousands of people washed away - it was their homes, their possessions, their lives. Humanity has been cleansed from this part of Derna.\n\nFor the survivors, life here has changed forever. There's huge grief and palpable anger.\n\nWith many more thousands still missing, Derna's mayor has warned that the total could reach 20,000\n\nFaris Ghassar lost five members of his family in the raging waters.\n\n\"We were told to stay inside our homes,\" he cries. \"Why? They should have told us there was a storm, told us the dam was old and crumbling.\n\n\"Some of these destroyed buildings were a hundred years old. It's all politics. There's a government in the west, a government in the east. It's a big problem.\"\n\nOne of the dead was Faris's 10-month-old daughter. He reaches for his phone to show me their pictures. First alive, and then their bodies, carefully wrapped in blankets, their faces showing their ordeal.\n\nAt the same time as we talk, a convoy of ministers is touring the disaster zone. They're from the eastern government, one of Libya's two opposing authorities. Their fighting has decimated the country's infrastructure.\n\nFaris claims this has proved fatal for his family.\n\nFaris Gassar, who lost his baby daughter and four other family members, asks why they were told to stay at home\n\nI asked eastern Prime Minister Osama Hamad how this could happen when the dams were supposed to keep people safe?\n\n\"It was a very strong cyclone,\" he told me. \"Too strong for the dams. This is nature, and this is Allah.\"\n\nOn the streets, there are rumours of a full evacuation of Derna.\n\nThose left behind in the city are battling against the elements, with clean water and medical care in short supply. Almost a week after the deadly storm, the challenges facing its survivors are only growing.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation", "Daniel Burke, who formerly served in the Parachute Regiment, travelled to Ukraine in 2022\n\nA body has been found in the search for a missing former paratrooper who was fighting in Ukraine, police have said.\n\nDaniel Burke, of Wythenshawe, Manchester, was reported missing by his family on 16 August after he had travelled to the front line in 2022.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the Ukrainian authorities had recovered his body.\n\nHis family said the 36-year-old was found in Zaporizhzhia, which lies about 44km (27 miles) from the front line.\n\nMother Diane Sniath told the BBC that \"this is the moment I have been dreading\".\n\nMr Burke spent time in prison after going to Syria to fight with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group\n\nGMP said it was working with Mr Burke's family and the Ukrainian authorities \"to support the identification of Daniel and bring him back\" home.\n\nThe BBC last spoke to Mr Burke on 6 August, when he expressed intentions to join a Ukrainian army unit to fight against Russian forces.\n\nHe previously served in the Parachute Regiment between 2007 and 2009.\n\nIn 2019 he spent eight months in prison accused of terror offences after going to Syria to fight with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group. All the charges against him were dropped in 2020.\n\nOther Britons have recently lost their lives in Ukraine, including Samuel Newey, who was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the country.\n\nFormer Scots Guard Jordan Chadwick, 32, was found dead with his hands tied behind his back in June.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Too boring? Too serious? Too left wing? Too right wing? Too much of a mystery still?\n\nFor a long time, Keir Starmer's Labour has been miles ahead in the opinion polls. And even before that, for a very long time, he has faced calls to be more explicit about his priorities.\n\nWhen he ran to become leader, promising \"moral socialism\", I wondered what his priorities were as he did his first interview as part of his campaign to take on the job.\n\nEven then, he carefully refused to say if his politics were closer to Jeremy Corbyn's or Tony Blair's.\n\nThis week though, and this weekend at a left wing love-in in Canada with like minded leaders, Keir Starmer is very deliberately picking a subject and sticking to it, talking about border security and immigration.\n\nThis episode illustrates exactly the opportunity and dilemma the Labour leadership faces.\n\nSay too much? The plans can be shredded (or nabbed!) by opponents, or cause grumbles closer to home.\n\nSay as little as humanly possible, and face accusations that you stand for nothing, and have no ideas of your own.\n\nYvette Cooper and Keir Starmer aiming to show they mean business on migration\n\nAfter attacks on the border security plans presented alongside Keir Starmer's carefully-choreographed trip to Europol, in the Netherlands, is Labour damned if they dare put policy out there, and damned if they don't?\n\nThe plans, which you can read more about here, were met with what could have almost been a pre-scripted response.\n\nThere were squeals from the right immediately, with highly debatable claims that the Labour would automatically open the door to an extra 100,000 migrants a year.\n\nThat estimate assumed that a Labour government would sign up to an EU-wide quota deal that is not yet in operation.\n\nLabour says they would never sign up to the continent-wide scheme, even though they do want closer cooperation.\n\nSome Conservatives reckon Starmer has made a \"strategic mistake\" by focusing on these plans, opening himself to accusations of cosying up to the EU on immigration.\n\nBut one shadow minister played down the attack, saying the \"Tories are struggling and so it means they are going to make stuff up\".\n\nOn the other side, there was some obvious discomfort too at the message the leadership has been pushing.\n\nUnion leaders and charity bosses branded it as \"pandering\", \"knee-jerk\" language just to grab \"headlines in the Sun\".\n\nCertainly, promises to \"smash the gangs\", or treat human traffickers like \"terrorists\" are not designed to tickle the bellies of the Labour membership - those who'll be leafing through all 116 pages of the party's policy document, which will be argued over and voted on at conference in a few weeks.\n\nSo if Starmer's had screams from the right and squeals from the left, then surely something's gone wrong?\n\nNot so fast. It's politics! Not normal life.\n\nIt's a weird old business. You pick an issue, provoke a row. The row isn't a damaging thing, as long as it stays as a controllable spat, not an overwhelming bunfight.\n\nThe row is, in fact, the point.\n\nGet your rivals on the inside and the outside to argue, the argument kicks off, then get the public to notice you are taking a stand on issues they care about, and bingo.\n\nThe impression is created, whether it's genuine or not, that the party understands voters' worries and will actually do something about it.\n\nAs one Labour source suggests, \"in opposition you have to be prepared to have the row, that's the only way you get heard\".\n\nThey say, \"whether we are trying to claim the mantle of the economy, or the party to fix small boats - we have to show we can make progress on it\".\n\nThat doesn't happen by shying away from a tricky subject, or only sticking to Labour crowd pleasers.\n\nCredibility by caring about the right things and offering solutions is the aim. A shadow cabinet minister says the proposals are about being \"practical\", the political responses this week were predictable, and the priority is to \"look like they are serious\" about fixing the country's ills.\n\nMore than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats in the last five years\n\nLabour HQ seems neither surprised nor perturbed by the rumpus their proposals this week caused.\n\nMore images and coverage of Keir Starmer to come on his adventure to Canada and Paris - tick.\n\nBut there are, of course, still risks all around.\n\nThere is a sense among some voters that Labour still just attacks on issues where things are going wrong for the Conservatives, like immigration, rather than pursuing strong areas of their own.\n\nOne pollster says in almost every focus group they host, someone says of Starmer, \"he just criticises\" - the \"risk is [the] public just think Keir is a moaner or a clever lawyer\".\n\nThere is a danger, they say, \"of Labour not having their agenda\", so even if they win, \"if things improve people don't stick with them, or potentially worse they have zero honeymoon when they get in, and no enthusiasm\".\n\nThere is also a risk of stirring up too much unhappiness on the left, so that the party ends up preoccupied with internal fights again.\n\nIt is not true to say that this is the first time Labour has talked about immigration, or that the party has always avoided the topic.\n\nEd Miliband's 2015 campaign mug did not go down well with activists\n\nRemember Gordon Brown's clamour for \"British jobs for British workers\" or Ed Miliband's awkward somersaults over the issue, accompanied by his bizarre branded mug which promised controls on immigration?\n\nBut Keir Starmer's trying to show something else - not just that he will talk about the issue, but that the party is comfortable taking on the concern and has credible solutions.\n\nThere are dangers for any opposition in saying too little or too much.\n\nThe thing Labour is most afraid of is not winning or losing any specific argument, but failing to win the country, and losing again.", "Sir Keir Starmer is currently in Canada meeting with centre-left global leaders\n\nSir Keir Starmer has said he will seek a \"much better\" Brexit deal with the EU if Labour wins the next general election.\n\nThe opposition leader told the Financial Times that the current deal, which is due for review in 2025, is \"too thin\".\n\nSir Keir was speaking at a conference of centre-left leaders in Montreal, Canada.\n\nBut he ruled out re-joining the customs union, the single market or the EU.\n\nIt remains unclear, however, if Brussels would be open to making major changes to the agreement, which was agreed by former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2021.\n\nA Conservative spokesman accused the Labour leader of changing his position, saying: \"Three years ago he promised he wouldn't seek major changes to the UK's new relationship with the EU, but now his latest short term position is that he will.\n\n\"What price would Keir Starmer be prepared to pay to the EU for renegotiating our relationship?\"\n\nSir Keir has repeatedly said he would not seek to rejoin the EU if his party comes to power, promising to \"make Brexit work\".\n\nHis party has consistently held double-digit leads in the political opinion polls, with a general election expected to take place some time in 2024.\n\n\"Almost everyone recognises the deal Johnson struck is not a good deal - it's far too thin,\" he told the Financial Times.\n\n\"As we go into 2025 we will attempt to get a much better deal for the UK,\" he said, although he did not specify what parts of the deal he would seek to improve.\n\nHe added that he was confident a better deal could be negotiated with Brussels, as well as a \"closer trading relationship\".\n\n\"We have to make it work. That's not a question of going back in, but I refuse to accept that we can't make it work,\" he said, adding that he was thinking about \"future generations\".\n\n\"I say that as a dad. I've got a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. I'm not going to let them grow up in a world where all I've got to say to them about their future is, it's going to be worse than it might otherwise have been.\n\n\"I've got an utter determination to make this work.\"\n\nThis is a significant piece of political positioning from Sir Keir. He has spent much of his leadership trying to reassure voters that he would not take Britain back into the EU, or seek membership of the single market or customs union.\n\nThat position has not changed. But figures around the Labour leader believe that having got over the message that he does not want to undo Brexit, he has now earned a hearing to talk about changing the terms of the settlement.\n\nThe Trade and Co-Operation Agreement signed by Mr Johnson already has a review in 2025 written into it. The current thinking in Brussels is that this would only involve minor tweaks, though Sir Keir may have further-reaching changes in mind, including agreements on deeper trade ties, more exchanges for young people and students and easier rules for touring musicians and artists.\n\nThe willingness to put improved relations with the EU at the heart of his political offer is a sign of Sir Keir's growing political confidence. This was also in evidence last week when Sir Keir visited The Hague, in the Netherlands, to talk about how better co-operation with the EU could help deal with small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nThe Conservatives have already seized on Sir Keir's comments about Brexit. They believe that his position could push Brexiteers who backed the Conservatives in 2019 back towards Rishi Sunak. A Conservative spokesman said that Sir Keir \"wants to take Britain back to square one on Brexit, reopening the arguments of the past all over again\".\n\nSir Keir spent the weekend meeting fellow centre-left leaders in Canada, including the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nHe is also expected to travel to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron later this week, where post-Brexit relations are expected to feature heavily in talks.\n\nHis visit to the Hague last week to meet with the EU's law enforcement agency Europol, seeking a deal to try and stop smuggling gangs bringing people across the channel in small boats led to accusations by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman that his party was planning to let the UK become a \"dumping ground\" for 100,000 migrants from the continent each year, claims he said were \"complete garbage\".\n\nThere is some anxiety in Labour about the row Sir Keir found himself embroiled in about whether Labour would accept a quota of asylum seekers from the EU as part of a 'burden-sharing' migration agreement. On Sunday, the Labour leader ruled this out after days of debate.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland says it was \"job done\" following the bonus-point victory over Portugal in Nice.\n\nWales have secured maximum bonus-point wins against Fiji and Portugal to top Pool C with matches against Australia and Georgia to follow.\n\nThe win over Portugal was not very impressive, but Gatland was happy with the outcome.\n\n\"If someone said you'd have 10 points from the first two games, we'd have been happy with that,\" said Gatland.\n\nHis 16th World Cup victory is the most by a coach in the tournament as he rose above Eddie Jones, who could equal his old rival if Australia defeat Fiji on Sunday, with that match falling on Gatland's 60th birthday.\n\nWales made 12 changes from the starting side that defeated Fiji 32-26 in Bordeaux.\n\n\"There were aspects of today, we probably tried to play a little too much rugby early on and didn't play a bit more territory and be more direct,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"Some of those players haven't had a lot of rugby and making that many changes with a short turnaround, I just said to them in the changing room, job done.\n\n\"We've got the five points. We can be happy with that and just [looking] for some players to be honest about their own performance and where they can improve.\"\n\nWales only led 14-3 at half-time with two tries scored in each half.\n\n\"It's not easy at the moment sitting in the box. It's a bit stressful,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"The message at half-time was that it was 21 minutes ball in play. They'd thrown everything at us in those first 20 minutes.\n\n\"They probably didn't have the same opportunities in the second half in terms of putting us under that sort of pressure.\n\n\"We probably didn't help ourselves in terms of managing that. We were conscious about getting that bonus point at the end.\n\n\"When we ran hard and won those collisions, that's when we looked dangerous. Probably at times, we were a bit lateral.\n\n\"It's good we've given everyone in the squad an opportunity and some rugby. We've a bit more time in terms of preparation before Australia and we can start looking forward to that game.\"\n\nSo will any of those Wales players have impressed enough to start against Australia in Lyon on 24 September?\n\n\"It's a little bit early to be making decisions on that,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"We'll go with the review and look at that. I thought Rio Dyer was good in the air and worked hard. Probably a couple of times where he's forced a pass and he could have held on to it.\n\n\"He gives you 100%. He's definitely improved in certain areas of his game. I thought his aerial stuff was excellent today.\"\n\nWales lost flanker Tommy Reffell in the warm-up with a tight calf with co-captain Jac Morgan stepping in at the last minute and producing a man-of-the-match, try-scoring performance.\n\n\"It was a decision we only made just before kick-off,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"Tommy said his calf was a bit tight. I think he was still quite keen to take the field, but if he pulled that calf, that would have been his World Cup over.\n\n\"To put Jac in as a straight replacement with very limited preparation from this week, I thought he was good.\"\n\nMorgan's fellow back-row colleague Taulupe Faletau continued his recovery from a calf injury by impressing with a try-saving tackle in the first half and crossing for the bonus point try late on.\n\n\"We know he's not a player, the best example I could probably give is Richie McCaw, who can be out for six months and then step straight back into top level international rugby,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"With Taulupe, the more game time he has and string of games, he gets better. That's why, even with the short turnaround, we wanted to give him more rugby.\n\n\"He did some good things today and continued to get better with more rugby. He's worked hard.\n\n\"The unfortunate thing with that hard work he'd done was he had the calf injury that set him back a bit. He made some good decisions in terms of that tackle and probably not many people would have been able to score from that situation.\"\n\nProp Henry Thomas is the only player in the 33-man squad not to feature in France yet as he recovers from a hamstring injury.\n\nGatland also praised Portugal and Uruguay, who only lost to France 27-12, and raised the possibility of increasing the amount of teams in the tournament.\n\n\"Uruguay were outstanding and it's brilliant for the game,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"We've seen a couple of blowouts, but Portugal were fantastic tonight and showed a lot of enterprise.\n\n\"We were aware of that and it's important we continue to develop from a rugby perspective to help develop these tier two nations.\n\n\"There might be a situation where we can increase the number of teams in the World Cup to 24 and that would continue help grow the game.\n\n\"That's an important aspect. You don't want top-tier nations dominating, you want upsets. As long as I'm not a part of it!\n\n\"It's a positive to see teams competing and pushing other teams close.\"\n• None Celebrate the Rugby World Cup with our Welsh music mix\n• None The highs and the woes of supporting Wales", "Labour's campaign co-ordinator Pat McFadden has declined to commit to building the HS2 rail line in full, due to uncertainty over the costs.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he said he wanted to see the high speed line built.\n\nHowever, he said he needed to see the project's revised costs and a final decision would be in the manifesto.\n\nIt comes after No 10 refused to guarantee the future of the HS2 line between Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is said to have concerns about the project's spiralling costs.\n\nThe massive scheme was set up to create fast rail links between London, the West Midlands and the North of England.\n\nHowever, it has been beset by delays and concerns over the final bill have already led to the government scrapping the section between the East Midlands and Leeds.\n\nA blueprint for Labour's potential policies at the next general election - seen by the BBC - says the party would \"deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail and High Speed 2 in full, unlocking billions in economic growth, creating decent jobs, slashing journey times and increasing capacity\".\n\nThis National Policy Forum document has been put together following discussions between shadow ministers, union leaders and party members.\n\nHowever, it is not the same as a manifesto. That will be agreed at a further meeting, where some proposals mentioned in the National Policy Forum document may be ditched.\n\nAsked if Labour would keep the pledge to deliver HS2 in full, Mr McFadden said: \"We want to see the railway being built, it looks as though the government is now putting a question mark over this, there may be revised costs to that.\n\n\"When this started a price tag of about £30bn was put on it - those prices haven't been raised since 2019 - we've had quite a lot of inflation since then.\n\n\"So, I want to see what happens in the coming months, we want to see the railway being built but we've also - like everything else - got to look at the cost of everything we do.\"\n\n\"I want to see what this costs and we'll make those decisions when it comes to the manifesto.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, expressed concern about the government potentially scrapping parts of HS2 asking: \"Why should it be the North of England that pays the price?\n\n\"What we are going to end up with here is in the southern half of the country, a modern, high-speed rail network, and the northern half of the country left with crumbling Victorian infrastructure.\n\nA spokesperson for the High Speed Rail Group said scrapping phase two would be a \"disaster\" for the North of England and the Midlands adding: \"The government needs to kill the speculation and make its intentions clear, and it ought to commit clearly and unambiguously to delivering the project as planned.\n\nMr McFadden was also asked by Laura Kuenssberg about Labour's plans to stop small boats carrying migrants from crossing the Channel.\n\nEarlier in the week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would reach an agreement with the European Union to speed up data and intelligence sharing and strengthen powers to tackle the gangs who arrange the crossings.\n\nAsked if Labour would put a cap on the number of migrants it might be willing to accept under any new deal with the EU, Mr McFadden said: \"I don't think it's going to be an allocation of numbers.\n\n\"We're talking about individual cases where a child may have strong family links here. It's not, we'll take this many, you take that many - that's not the kind of negotiation we will have.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as flames and dark smoke rise from the iconic Khartoum skyscraper\n\nBuildings have caught fire in Sudan's capital after heavy fighting between the army and rival forces.\n\nVideos posted online on Sunday showed the iconic Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower engulfed in flames.\n\n\"This is truly painful,\" said Tagreed Abdin, an architect of the building, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nAir strikes and ground battles have continued in Khartoum and other towns and cities since fighting broke out in April.\n\nOver one million people have been forced to flee the country, the UN has said.\n\nLocated near the River Nile, the 18-storey oil firm skyscraper is one of the most recognisable landmarks in Khartoum.\n\nMs Abdin said it defined the skyline of the city, and lamented \"such senseless destruction\".\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the building's cone-like structure, which has a glass facade, to catch fire. There have been no reports of injuries or deaths.\n\nThe RSF has been fighting to take control of Sudan's capital\n\nThe violence in Sudan began on 15 April, triggered by a power struggle between the leaders of the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nIt followed days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat.\n\nThe Sudan War Monitor, which provides analysis of the conflict, said the RSF had attacked areas controlled by the army on Saturday, including an office block at the justice ministry. Several government buildings are reported to have caught fire as a result of the attack.\n\nThe RSF said the army carried out the attacks, including on the 18-storey skyscraper.\n\nThe army has not yet commented.\n\nThe former vice president of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, Fadl Abdullah, told BBC Arabic that building had been constructed at a cost of about $20m (£16m), and its destruction was a \"very great financial loss\".\n\nResidents in a southern district of the city - where the army was targeting RSF bases - told AFP they heard \"huge bangs\" as they woke up.\n\nHealth authorities announced on Sunday that all the main hospitals in Khartoum - as well as the Darfur region - were out of service.\n\nNawal Mohammed, 44, who lives at least 3km (1.8 miles) from clashes in the capital, said the doors and windows of her family home shook with the force of explosions.\n\nShe described the battles on Saturday and Sunday as \"the most violent since the war began\".\n\nAccording to a group of pro-democracy lawyers, the fighting had killed \"dozens of civilians\" in Khartoum since Friday.\n\nFighting was also reported in the city of El-Obeid, some 400km (250 miles) south of the city.\n\nThe RSF has been fighting to take control of the capital, and the military's air strikes have been aimed at weakening RSF positions.\n\nThe conflict has killed around 7,500 people and displaced more than five million.\n\nThe offices of the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization were also set alight", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nOpener Roy was in the provisional squad announced last month but missed the recent one-day internationals against New Zealand because of back spasms.\n\nBrook scored only 37 runs across three matches against the Black Caps but has starred in international cricket over the past year and can bat in both the top and middle order.\n\nHolders England start their campaign by facing New Zealand on 5 October.\n\nThe 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup in India features 10 teams and runs until 19 November.\n\nRoy was a key part of the victorious 2019 World Cup squad, returning from a hamstring strain during the tournament to make vital scores of 66, 60 and 85 to lead England to the final.\n\nHis throw also led to the run out of Martin Guptill that sealed England's dramatic win over New Zealand in the final at Lord's.\n\nThe 33-year-old has struggled for form at times since and was not part of the winning 2022 T20 World Cup squad, though did hit two ODI centuries against South Africa and Bangladesh earlier this year.\n\nRoy, who has not played since The Hundred final on 27 August, warmed up before the final ODI against New Zealand on Friday but was omitted from the team again.\n\nHis exclusion means Dawid Malan will almost certainly open the batting alongside Jonny Bairstow in India.\n\nMalan, 36, is in sublime form, having hit 54, 96 and 127 as an opener in the 3-1 series victory over New Zealand.\n• None Pick your England team for World Cup opener v New Zealand\n\n\"We have selected a squad we are confident can go to India and win the World Cup,\" said England selector Luke Wright.\n\n\"We are blessed with an incredibly strong group of white-ball players which was underlined by the performances in the series win against a very good New Zealand team.\n\n\"The strength of the group has meant that we have had to make some tough decisions on world-class players with Jason Roy missing out and Harry Brook coming into the squad.\"\n\nCaptain Jos Buttler had said Roy could play against Ireland this week to prove his fitness though England have not confirmed whether he will now join that separate 13-man party.\n\nBrook, who has hit 123 runs in his six ODIs to date, was named in that squad for the three-match series against Ireland but will now drop out.\n\nDespite his inexperience in 50-over internationals, Brook, 24, was a surprise omission from the initial squad, given his stunning performances in Tests and T20s since making his England debut last year.\n\nThe rest of the squad is unchanged and features eight players from the 2019 side, including Test captain Ben Stokes, who came out of ODI retirement last month to play in the tournament.\n\nSurrey pace bowler Gus Atkinson, 25, is part of the squad after making his ODI debut against New Zealand earlier this month.\n\nSussex fast bowler Jofra Archer, who bowled the super over in the 2019 final, has not been included because he will not recover from a recurrence of a stress fracture in his elbow in time for the start of the tournament.\n\nEngland have yet to name their three travelling reserves, though Archer, 28, raised hopes he could go to the World Cup as cover by training with the squad during the New Zealand series.\n\nLeg-spinner Adil Rashid missed the final three ODIs against New Zealand and fast bowler Mark Wood did not play in the series at all because of minor injuries but neither are a doubt for the World Cup.\n\nThe England World Cup squad selection has been a strange episode, ever since what turned out to be a provisional party was named back in August.\n\nBack then, Luke Wright said the group he had chosen was the 15 for the World Cup, only for Jos Buttler and coach Matthew Mott to hint at the possibility for changes. Still, even as late as Friday night, Buttler talked about \"loyalty\" as a selection policy.\n\nHowever, the sparkling form of Dawid Malan has made the picture clear for England. With Malan demanding a place at the top of the order, Jason Roy was squeezed out of the starting XI.\n\nOnce that happened, and with Roy's fitness an issue, the versatility of Harry Brook made him the better option as batting cover for the starting line-up.\n\nIt means Roy loses his place in the squad without playing and Brook gets in without making a notable score in the ODIs against New Zealand.\n\nAlready out of the T20 side and having handed back his central contract, this could be the end of Roy's international career, one of England's best white-ball batters of all-time.\n\nEngland have probably found their best World Cup squad, but the path they took to get there has been quite curious.", "Damian Lloyd and his wife and daughter had to pay £165 to check in at the airport. Their son flew out separately to join them on holiday\n\nA family is locked in dispute with Ryanair after being charged £165 to check in at the airport and being told by the airline that they had \"unchecked themselves\".\n\nDamian Lloyd had checked in his family a month in advance, and brought the printed boarding passes to the airport.\n\nBut the barcodes would not scan so the family had to pay to check in again.\n\nMr Lloyd tried to reclaim the money but Ryanair said they had unchecked before flying, so the fee was justified.\n\nAfter several weeks of email exchanges, the airline has now referred Mr Lloyd to a dispute resolution service.\n\nHealth and safety manager Mr Lloyd had booked a 10-day family holiday to Gran Canaria in July.\n\nThe 50-year-old from Neath is a regular flyer and says he has never had a problem with Ryanair's extra fees before - he had happily paid to reserve seats - so was \"in total shock\" when his, his wife's and his daughter's boarding passes did not scan.\n\nA Ryanair employee at the check-in desk was equally confused.\n\n\"He looked on the computer, and our names and seat numbers came up. But for some reason [the boarding passes] weren't scanning. He didn't know why,\" Mr Lloyd told the BBC.\n\nAs it was an early morning flight, the employee could not phone Ryanair's customer service to investigate the problem as it was not yet open.\n\nPassengers are not allowed to board a Ryanair plane unless their boarding passes are scanned, so the family was given a choice - either wait for customer service to open and miss their flights, or pay for new passes.\n\nAs the next flights were three days away, Mr Lloyd decided to pay up.\n\nMr Lloyd said that the check-in employee told him it was a computer glitch. \"He said we could claim the money back.\"\n\nBut when he requested a refund, Ryanair rejected the claim, saying it wasn't a fault with its system.\n\nCustomer service first told Mr Lloyd he had not verified his identity, but later agreed this was \"inaccurate\". They then told him he had unchecked the day before his flight.\n\n\"Ryanair came up with every excuse under the sun,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for Ryanair told the BBC: \"[The family] unchecked themselves on the website on 22 July and ignored the pop-up that warned them they would have to check in again and generate new boarding passes.\n\n\"As they didn't have valid boarding passes, they were correctly charged the airport check-in fee.\"\n\nMr Lloyd denies this, saying: \"I can't remember going on the website after I checked in.\n\n\"They earn hundreds of millions a year. If I had made the mistake I'd put my hands in the air and pay but I did have the right passes.\"\n\nConsumer expert Jane Hawkes told the BBC it was possible for passengers to uncheck themselves for flights. \"The ability to do so, the notice periods/time frames and associated charges depend on the carrier. It is something that customers could well not be aware of,\" she said.\n\nRyanair has referred Mr Lloyd to AviationADR, an independent airline dispute resolution scheme, as their dispute cannot be resolved.\n\nThe issue of airline fees has come under the spotlight after an elderly couple were charged £110 by Ryanair to print their tickets at the airport.\n\nThe couple told the BBC they had to pay airport check-in fees after mistakenly downloading their return tickets instead of their outgoing ones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We do not comment on intelligence issues - Cleverly\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly has refused to say whether he spoke to the Chinese government about a researcher in Parliament who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China.\n\nMr Cleverly said both he and the prime minister had spoken to Chinese leaders about \"interference in our democracy\".\n\nBut, asked if he raised the allegations with Beijing, he said he would not comment on \"security related matters\".\n\nThe researcher has said he is \"completely innocent\".\n\nLast weekend, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that two men had been arrested in March under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nSources have told the BBC that one of the men had been a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nThroughout the interview, the foreign secretary said repeatedly it was impossible for him to say if he had raised the specific case of the researcher on his visit to China.\n\nThe challenge for ministers is that keeping silent on the subject gives their critics room to claim that the government has not had the determination to do so.\n\nAnd that could include some in their own party who are continuing to push the leadership to be more strident about China.\n\nSenior Tory MPs - including former Prime Minister Liz Truss - have urged the government to officially designate China a \"threat\" - a step the government has resisted taking.\n\nAsked about the criticism from his own party, Mr Cleverly said: \"Pretending China doesn't exist is not a credible policy.\"\n\nHe said there were a number of issues the UK wanted to discuss with China - including its sanctioning of British parliamentarians - but this was best done through \"face-to-face conversations\".\n\nLast month, Mr Cleverly became the first foreign secretary to visit China in five years.\n\nAsked if he knew about the arrest of a parliamentary researcher prior to the trip, he said he would not comment.\n\nPressed on whether or not he had discussed the case with Chinese officials, he again refused to say.\n\nHe added that both he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - when he met the Chinese premier Li Qiang at the G20 summit - had raised Chinese actions which \"are seeking to undermine or distort our democracy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Sunak of failing to \"heed the warnings\" about China and called for a \"full audit\" of relations between the two countries.\n\nChina has rejected the allegations, with foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning calling it \"malicious slander\".\n\nThe superpower is the UK's fourth largest trading partner but tensions between the two countries have heightened in recent years with concerns about human rights in Hong Kong - a former British colony - and China's neutral stance over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland edged closer to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, but did little to impress in a scrappy 34-12 win over Japan in Nice.\n\nLewis Ludlam forced his way over from close range for the only try of a first half littered with England errors.\n\nRikiya Matsuda's boot had Japan within a point at 13-12 early in the second half before a fortuitous try from captain Courtney Lawes, after the ball had bounced off the head of Joe Marler, gave England some breathing space.\n\nFreddie Steward collected a cross-kick to dot down deftly and end any hopes Japan had of another Rugby World Cup upset to follow their famous scalping of South Africa in 2015, before Joe Marchant dived over in the final play of the match.\n\nBut it was neither a scoreline nor a performance to worry any of the tournament's main contenders.\n• None Greasy conditions tough to play in, says Ford\n\nIf anything, it will have confirmed to market leaders France, Ireland and South Africa that they are still operating several levels above England.\n\nThe whistles and jeers that followed several of England's decisions to kick away attacking ball suggested some of their fans were similarly unimpressed.\n\nTwo victories from two matches against arguably their two strongest Pool D rivals means Steve Borthwick's side are well set for the quarter-finals.\n\nBut they will need steep and stark improvement against Chile and Samoa to be in shape for the step up to knockout rugby.\n\nJapan faded and England, invigorated by their depth off the bench, improved in the final quarter, but the majority of the match was in keeping with start.\n\nIn a high-tempo opening passage, Marchant and Steward bashed up to within five metres as the Japanese defence creaked, but, to whistles from the crowd, George Ford opted to take three points from a penalty, rather than gamble for more.\n\nIf it was an opportunity wasted, it wasn't the last. They wouldn't be the last jeers either.\n\nBorthwick's side worked up more pressure and prime attacking positions but invariably allowed Japan off the hook and back upfield with eyesore errors.\n\nOne chance, as England's forwards drove a line-out up to the Japan 22m line, was immediately squandered as Alex Mitchell's pass from the back went to floor. Another disappeared as Lawes held onto the ball too long with Elliot Daly outside him. A third was wasted as Ben Earl lobbed a pop-pass into the face of Saracens team-mate Jamie George at the back of a line-out.\n\nEngland's only try of the first half, appropriately enough, came from an error, rather than their own accuracy.\n\nA Japan line-out throw, close to their own line, dropped into the hands of Ollie Chessum. The Brave Blossoms' defence scrambled to stamp out the danger, but were fatally out of shape when the ball was recycled and Ludlam charged at the flagging fringe.\n\nMistakes cost England at the other end as well. Ford's clearing kick was charged down by Lomano Lemeki before Jonny May was pinged for a late hit. Both were followed by successful penalties by Matsuda as Japan kept pace on the scoreboard, moving to within one point in the 54th minute.\n\nWith a dogged Japan refusing to let a misfiring England out of range, a shock seemed eminently possible.\n\nBut England, as in their opener against Argentina, found their way out a tight spot.\n\nTheir second try arrived via another mistake, this time their own. A pass whizzed between the hands of replacement prop Will Stuart and thudded into the head of Marler, wrong-footing the Japan defence and allowing Lawes to snatched up and saunter under the sticks.\n\nIt was a stroke of luck that broke the back of Japan's challenge and Steward's superb gather and dot-down from Ford's cross-field bomb ended the game as a contest, before Marchant crossed late on to add some gloss to the scoreboard.\n\nThere were several positives. Earl put in a superb shift, making the most tackles and the joint-most metres of any England player, with Ludlam impressing alongside him in the back row. Ford marshalled the backline well and Marcus Smith enjoyed a brief entertaining cameo at full-back off the bench.\n\nBut the problems were just as numerous.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland head coach Steve Borthwick: \"I'm really pleased for the players and for the supporters here tonight. We have a fantastic traveling support, who spend a lot of money to watch this team. Tonight was tough but we have a good bonus point and we are pleased by that.\"\n\nEngland captain Courtney Lawes: \"Full credit to Japan - we knew they would put up a fight. The ball was so greasy but we did well to come away with five points so I can't ask for much more.\"\n\nRegarding his try: \"That was a decent header from Joe Marler. Sometimes the luck falls in your favour so I will take it.\"\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford: \"It was probably not the prettiest watching it. It's really hard to play with the ball in these conditions. These late kick-offs, the balls are dead greasy but we got there in the end.\"\n\nJapan head coach Jamie Joseph: \"I'm incredibly proud of the guys in terms of how they tried to execute our plan. There were parts of the game that surprised England in terms of the kicking game, we put them under a lot of pressure and created opportunities for us.\n\n\"What we learned from that is the opportunities we created, we didn't take them. We made too many mistakes. It's disappointing for us, the boys put a lot of emotional effort into this week.\n\nReplacements: Smith for Steward (69), Lawrence for Tuilagi (69), Youngs for Mitchell (60), Genge for Marler (60), Dan for George (75), Stuart for Sinckler (51), Vunipola for Ludlam (51), Martin for Lawes (64).\n\nReplacements: Lemeki for Masirewa (7), Riley for Naikabula (51), Saito for Nagare (65), Millar for Inagaki (50), Sakate for Horie (62), Ai Valu for Gu (41), Dearns for Fakatava (62), Shimokawa for Labuschagne (75).\n• None What's next in the Post Office Horizon scandal? Nick Wallis continues his investigation into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history\n• None The batsman who changed the face of cricket: How wearing a helmet revolutionised the safety of the sport", "Russell Brand performed at a scheduled gig at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on Saturday evening\n\nComedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse during a seven-year period at the height of his fame.\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nFour women are alleging sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand has denied the allegations and said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nDuring the years covered by the allegations, Brand had various high-profile jobs at different times, including at BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4, and as an actor in Hollywood films.\n\nOther claims made as part of the investigation relate to Brand's allegedly controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.\n\nThe investigation is published in the Sunday Times, while the Dispatches documentary, Russell Brand - In Plain Sight, aired on Channel 4 on Saturday.\n\nWithin hours of the allegations being published, Brand performed a scheduled comedy gig at the 2,000-capacity Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in north-west London, as part of his Bipolarisation tour.\n\nDuring the set, which lasted about an hour, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly. He told the audience there were things he wanted to talk about but could not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nDuring his set, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly\n\nSeveral women have made allegations against Brand as part of the investigation:\n\nOn Friday, Brand released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing \"a litany\" of \"aggressive attacks\".\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nIn the video, posted on YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter, Brand said: \"Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nBrand said he believed he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\" and he was going to look into the matter because it was \"very, very serious\".\n\nWhile not referring to the comedian by name, the Metropolitan Police said it was \"aware of media reporting of a series of allegations of sexual assault\" but had not received any reports.\n\n\"If anyone believes they have been the victim of a sexual assault, no matter how long ago it happened, we would encourage them to contact police.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said all the women felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters. The newspaper said several felt compelled to do so given Brand's newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer.\n\nMost of the women, who the Times said do not know each other, have chosen to remain anonymous.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it gave Brand eight days within which to reply to detailed allegations, and when given further opportunity to respond, Brand published his response video on his YouTube channel.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career in stand-up comedy before moving into broadcasting and acting\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she first came into contact with Brand told the Sunday Times: \"Russell engaged in the behaviours of a groomer, looking back, but I didn't even know what that was then, or what that looked like.\"\n\nAnother woman alleged to the newspaper that she repeatedly told Brand to get off her during one sexual assault, and that when he eventually relented he \"flipped\" and was \"super angry\".\n\nA different woman claimed that Brand pushed her up against the wall and raped her, without a condom. She alleged Brand tried to stop her leaving until she told him she was going to the bathroom.\n\n\"I ran out and I jumped in my car - thank God I didn't park in his driveway - and booked it out of there,\" she said.\n\nBrand has hosted a number of radio and TV programmes for networks including Channel 4, MTV, Radio X and the BBC.\n\nHe started his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 2000s but got his big break a few years later as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4.\n\nAfter his profile surged, Brand was cast in Hollywood films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him To The Greek and Arthur.\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she met Brand told the Times she took her allegations to his literary agent Angharad Wood, the co-founder of Tavistock Wood, owned by Curtis Brown, in 2020.\n\nTavistock Wood told the BBC: \"Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him. Tavistock Wood has terminated all professional ties to Brand.\"\n\nA Channel 4 spokesman told BBC News: \"Channel 4 is appalled to learn of these deeply troubling allegations, including behaviour alleged to have taken place on programmes made for Channel 4 between 2004 and 2007.\n\n\"We are determined to understand the full nature of what went on. We have carried out extensive document searches and have found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4.\n\n\"We will continue to review this in light of any further information we receive, including the accounts of those affected individuals. We will be asking the production company who produced the programmes for Channel 4 to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us.\"\n\nIt said that in recent years there had been extensive change in Channel 4's management and it was committed to ensuring the TV industry is safe and inclusive.\n\nThe relationship with the 16-year-old is alleged to have taken place at a time when Brand was working as a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music.\n\nIt is alleged Brand would undress in the studio while working on the show. Dispatches also said Brand made a series of sexual remarks on air about a newsreader, which he later implied he had been told by BBC production staff to apologise for.\n\nThe Times added sources had told the newspaper that a complaint was made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Russell Brand worked for a number of different organisations, of which the BBC was one. As is well known, Russell Brand left the BBC after a serious editorial breach in 2008 - as did the then-controller of Radio 2.\n\n\"The circumstances of the breach were reviewed in detail at the time. We hope that demonstrates that the BBC takes issues seriously and is prepared to act.\n\n\"Indeed, the BBC has, over successive years, evolved its approach to how it manages talent and how it deals with complaints or issues raised.\n\n\"We have clear expectations around conduct at work. These are set out in employment contracts, the BBC Values, the BBC code of conduct and the anti-bullying and harassment policy.\n\n\"We will always listen to people if they come forward with any concerns, on any issue related to any individual working at the BBC, past or present.\"", "Clare and Paddy were wearing mostly neutral colours to the seashore, besides Paddy's England hat\n\nAs honeymoon destinations go, France's Côte d'Azur on the sunny Mediterranean sounds like a blissful getaway.\n\nRugby-mad newlyweds Clare Ervine, 36, and Paddy Ervine, 33, are soaking in the Rugby World Cup atmosphere of Nice over lounging poolside.\n\nBut Englishman Paddy got himself in Clare's bad books by secretly buying a Portugal shirt to wear for the match against her beloved Wales.\n\n\"It might be the shortest marriage in history,\" said Clare.\n\nWith Nice hosting several games in the space of a week - starting with Wales' 28-8 win over Portugal on Saturday, followed by England v Japan, and Scotland v Tonga - it is the perfect honeymoon for the couple.\n\n\"We're here for 10 days, and seven of those days are based around rugby,\" said Clare, a therapeutic radiographer who is originally from Port Talbot.\n\n\"We're going to Monaco for the day, we'll have a beach day, but it's what we wanted really - we're happy to sit and watch the matches in the pub or in the stadium.\n\n\"It's kind of nice that it's so different, but still very 'us'.\"\n\nClare got to meet Wales fly-half Dan Biggar, who will retire from international rugby after the 2023 Rugby World Cup\n\nShe is less impressed, however, with her husband's cheeky stunt.\n\n\"In my defence, all I said was that I'd buy a shirt for the Wales game,\" said Paddy.\n\n\"Clare made an assumption that it would be a Wales shirt, and when the Portugal shirt turned up, I'm suddenly in trouble.\"\n\nClare added: \"To be honest, considering I'm wearing his Japan shirt to the England game, I kind of expected he'd wear the Portugal shirt.\n\n\"But still, I'm his new wife, he should have stuck by the rules.\"\n\nPaddy and Clare's selfie during Wales' win over Portugal on Saturday\n\nThe couple, who now live in Liphook, Hampshire, met online in 2020 and immediately bonded over rugby, spending their first date in a pub watching the Six Nations.\n\nDespite Covid restrictions putting a temporary stop to meeting over a pint, their romance continued to blossom.\n\n\"We did those pub quizzes that people were doing during lockdown for a while, and luckily Clare was legally obliged not to meet anyone else, so I was in with a shot,\" Paddy smiled.\n\n\"I proposed in the Maldives on holiday, and here we are.\"\n\nWith the couple married two weeks ago, a trip to rugby's showcase tournament was perfectly timed.\n\n\"It's kind of a de facto honeymoon because we booked these tickets two years ago before we were even engaged,\" says Clare.\n\n\"We both love rugby so much, so we're really looking forward to 10 days of what we've bonded over.\"\n\nClare and Paddy watched Wales' win against Portugal at Stade de Nice on Saturday\n\nNeither Clare nor Paddy appear to have mellowed in marriage yet, however - at least as far as rugby is concerned - with both bullish about their team's chances in the World Cup.\n\n\"Obviously Wales are going to win, 100%, there's no doubt about it,\" insisted Clare.\n\nPaddy admitted he was more \"doom and gloom\" about England's chances until their impressive 14-man opening victory over Argentina.\n\n\"Now, guaranteed world champions, four more years - Borthwick forever,\" he declared.\n\nTheir relationship may be tested sooner than expected, however - with a potential Wales v England quarter final clash if one wins their group and the other finishes second.\n\n\"I try not to think about that,\" admitted Paddy.\n\nClare adds: \"As I said, it could be the shortest marriage ever.\"", "The European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has visited a migrant reception centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa, after the country's prime minister called for EU help with small boat arrivals.\n\nMore than 8,000 migrants have arrived on the island over the past three days.\n\nPM Giorgia Meloni says Italy is being placed under \"unsustainable pressure\".\n\nMs von der Leyen acknowledged on Sunday that the issue was \"a European challenge and needs a European answer\".\n\nAt a news conference with Ms Meloni, she praised the people of Lampedusa for the support they had given to migrants, who she said had arrived on the island \"simply because of its location\".\n\nShe pledged to increase support to transfer migrants out of Lampedusa as well as stepping up efforts against people smugglers who enabled dangerous and illegal journeys.\n\nThe problem could not be solved by Italy alone, Ms Meloni said. It was currently affecting \"the borders, the frontier countries\" but would soon involve all of the EU states, she said.\n\n\"The future of Europe depends on its ability to tackle epoch-making challenges of our time and the challenge of illegal immigration is for sure one of them.\"\n\nOn Saturday the body of a newborn baby was recovered from a migrant boat.\n\nThe mother is thought to have given birth during the journey from North Africa, the Ansa news agency reports, and the death is being investigated.\n\nThe child's body was placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa's Imbriacola district, according to Italian media.\n\nEarlier this week, a five-month-old baby boy drowned during a rescue operation off the island, after a boat carrying migrants across the sea from north Africa capsized.\n\nMs Meloni is pushing for a European Union naval blockade to prevent boats from crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italian shores.\n\nThe Italian Red Cross said on Saturday that it was dealing with about 2,500 people at a reception centre designed for 400 arrivals.\n\nVolunteers and staff have been providing thousands of meals all week and helping transfer new arrivals to Sicily and elsewhere.\n\nNearly 126,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, which is about double the number for the same period in 2022.\n\nMs Meloni said on Saturday that she was calling on Ms von der Leyen \"to personally realize the gravity of the situation we face\" and to \"immediately accelerate\" the implementation of an agreement with Tunisia.\n\nThe North African country has become the main departure point for African migrants attempting to reach Europe.\n\nThe EU deal, which was signed in July, is backed up by €110m ($118m; £90m) of EU cash to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nThe surge in arrivals led to protests on Saturday by some Lampedusa residents against plans to build a new tent camp to host the migrants.\n\n\"I have two children at home. In the past years, I did not care about this issue. But now I have an instinct of protection for my children because I don't know what will happen to Lampedusa in the future,\" one of the protesters told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Lampedusa says stop! We don't want tent camps. This message is for Europe and for the Italian government. Lampedusa residents are tired,\" another protester said.\n\nJasmine Lozzelli, an activist working on Lampedusa, told the BBC the migrants should be sent to mainland Italy.\n\n\"It's not a problem of numbers, it's a problem of how you manage the reception system. If you start to do rescues in a proper way with big ships, you take them not to an island of 5,000 inhabitants, you take them to the mainland,\" she said.\n\n\"Putting them in Lampedusa creates the emergency.\"", "Molly Russell was aged 14 when she died in 2017\n\nA new law aimed at policing the internet will fail if it does not stop harmful content, online safety campaigner Ian Russell has said.\n\nMr Russell said the test of the Online Safety Bill will be whether it prevents the kind of images his daughter Molly saw before she took her own life.\n\nThere are \"too many tragic stories to tell\" from families whose children have been affected, he said.\n\nThe bill is in its final parliamentary stages and is due to be law shortly.\n\nIt aims to make social media companies more responsible for their users' safety on their platforms and to crack down on illegal content.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Russell said the bill \"will make the online world safer\".\n\n\"It is not perfect,\" he said. \"But it's an important step, and it's a step that has been needed for years to counter this technology.\"\n\nWhen asked whether the bill will prevent the kind of images that Mr Russell's 14-year-old daughter Molly saw online being seen by other children, he replied: \"That's the test of the bill.\n\n\"There are many other families not just me who have been campaigning for better online safety and the bereaved families for online safety group, for example, have too many tragic stories to tell.\n\n\"But if the bill fails to stop online harms that all our children saw then it will have failed.\"\n\nMolly, from Harrow, London, took her own life in 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content online on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest.\n\nA coroner concluded Molly died while suffering from the \"negative effects\" of online content.\n\n\"I hope Molly would be proud,\" Mr Russell said of his campaigning.\n\n\"But there are so many other voices who are joining this cause, sadly, in the main because they've also lost children.\n\n\"And we hope that this step, the new Online Safety Bill, will mean there are fewer of those families and fewer stories like Molly's.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line", "Fourteen people have been killed in a plane crash during bad weather in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday.\n\nThe small propeller plane was nearing the end of its 400km (248 mile) trip between Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, and the remote jungle town of Barcelos when it went down.\n\nOfficials said all those on board - 12 passengers and two crew - were killed in the crash.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the cause of the incident.\n\nAmazonas state security secretary Vinicius Almeida said initial information suggested the plane crashed after running out of runway when it descended into Barcelos during heavy rain and low visibility.\n\nBrazilian news site G1 reported that the plane was an EMB-110, a twin-engine turboprop manufactured by Brazilian aircraft-maker Embraer.\n\nAccording to G1, the plane's owner, Manaus Aerotáxi, said the aircraft and its crew met all the necessary requirements to be flying.\n\n\"Our teams have been on the ground responding since the moment of the crash to provide the necessary support,\" Amazonas Governor Wilson Lima wrote on X (formerly Twitter) following the crash.\n\n\"My solidarity and prayers to the victims' family and friends.\"\n\nThe mayor of Barcelos, Edson de Paula Rodrigues Mendes, told CNN the plane was chartered by a businessman who works locally in game fishing.\n\nMr Mendes said the passengers were friends from other parts of Brazil who were involved in the sport.\n\nOfficials said the victims' bodies would be taken to Manaus for formal identification.\n\nBarcelos is a popular tourist destination as it lies close to several national parks.\n\nSeptember is considered to be the start of the peak fishing season in Amazonas. The state is especially known for its various species of ornamental fish such as tucunaré - also known as peacock bass.", "Wales fans following the team at the Rugby World Cup treated Nice to a rendition of the hymn Calon Lan ahead of the match against Portugal.\n\nThe singers performed for a crowd of onlookers in cafes and pubs near the Stade de Nice.\n\nCalon Lan, which was written in the 1890s by Daniel James, means \"pure heart\" in Welsh.\n\nWales made it two wins from two, although faced spirited opposition from Portugal, who were making their first World Cup appearance since 2007.", "Tata Steel could have closed its Port Talbot plant and pulled out of the UK if the government had not stepped in, according to the Welsh secretary.\n\nDavid TC Davies said UK ministers agreed £500m for a new furnace and to secure 5,000 out of 8,000 jobs, of which 4,000 are based at the plant.\n\nHe said it was \"terribly sad\" not all jobs could be saved and up to £100m in funding would help affected workers.\n\nTata said the government grant secured a \"sustainable future\" for the plant.\n\nIn a frank interview on BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement, Mr Davies said: \"We did everything we can to save jobs and to make sure the steel continues to be made, but I'm not going to shy away from the fact that this is still terrible news.\n\n\"Tata are currently losing over a million pounds a day [at Port Talbot]... and no company is ever going to accept losses like that.\n\n\"So they decided they were going to close that plant down.\n\n\"When we became aware of that we entered into negotiations with them as a government to say 'well, look, can we do anything to keep steel being made there? What do we need to do to keep Tata here?'\"\n\nThe £1.2bn deal announced on Friday involves switching from using blast furnaces powered by fossil fuels to electric arc furnaces which can be powered by using renewable energy.\n\nAnd instead of producing virgin steel, the Port Talbot plant would produce recycled steel, with Tata investing an additional £700m.\n\nMr Davies said it was \"not going to save every job but that is going to save [jobs] overall because Tata were looking to pull out of the UK, so that would have been 8,000 jobs gone, plus the supply chain.\n\n\"Not only would Port Talbot have closed but the other plants would have gone as well.\"\n\nTata Steel also has workers at plants at Shotton, Llanwern, Trostre, Corby, Hartlepool and Shapfell.\n\nThe UK government said it would ensure a \"broad range of support for any staff who are affected by the transition\"\n\nOn Friday, Tata Steel managing director T.V. Narendran told BBC Wales Today that the Port Talbot plant was \"bleeding\" up to £1.5m a day and some assets were coming to the end of their life which the business was \"not able to support\".\n\n\"We were reaching a point where we had to make a call and I think we've been public about that.\n\n\"We said that, a few months back, that we probably have a year left to decide one way or the other.\n\n\"The timing of this [deal] has been very opportune - at least we've secured the future of the site.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Tata Steel said the UK government's \"support for the development of our decarbonisation pathway will secure a sustainable future for steelmaking in Port Talbot\".\n\n\"We will begin discussions with our trade union partners and we will work hard to carry out any changes in a responsible manner,\" it added.\n\nThe UK government said it would ensure a \"broad range of support for any staff who are affected by the transition, working with the Welsh government and Tata Steel to establish a dedicated transition board to support both affected employees and the local economy with up to £100m funding\".", "A 35-year-old woman has been charged with the murders of two people, who are still missing\n\nA woman has been charged with murdering two people, whose bodies have not been found.\n\nVirginia McCullough, 35, of Pump Hill, near Great Baddow, Chelmsford was arrested on Friday.\n\nEssex Police received reports for the welfare of two people in their 70s on Wednesday and said, based on available evidence, they believe they are no longer alive.\n\nMs McCullough is due at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nEssex Police said it was their \"strong belief\" the two people were no longer alive and the Crown Prosecution Service agreed with their assessment.\n\nThe force previously said it believed a man and a woman were unaccounted for.\n\nEssex Police said it was their \"strong belief\" the two people in their 70s were no longer alive\n\nDet Supt Rob Kirby said: \"Although we have received authorisation to charge Virginia McCullough, this complex and in-depth investigation will be continuing at pace throughout the coming weeks and months.\n\n\"I would also reiterate that our continued belief is that this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the wider Chelmsford or Essex public.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are with the families of everyone involved and I can assure them, all avenues of enquiry will be pursued extensively to piece together the circumstances around this matter.\"\n\nA police tent is outside a property in Great Baddow, with a cordon still in place\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nMuch-changed Wales struggled to a bonus-point World Cup victory over impressive Portugal in Nice.\n\nPortugal excelled in the first half, but were trailing 14-3 at the break after Wales tries by Louis Rees-Zammit and captain Dewi Lake.\n\nFlanker Jac Morgan, a late inclusion for the injured Tommy Reffell, scored before Portugal flanker Nicolas Martins crashed over.\n\nTaulupe Faletau secured the bonus point with a late fourth try.\n\nPortugal finished the Pool C match with 14 men after wing Vincent Pinto was shown a late red card for a reckless high boot on Josh Adams.\n\nWhile Wales were incredibly underwhelming, Portugal deserve the plaudits for their adventurous attacking approach.\n\nWales had defeated Portugal 102-11 on the only other occasion they faced each other in 1994. There was never going to be a repeat of that.\n\nThere were eight places between the two sides in World Rugby's rankings going into the game, but you would not have thought that after witnessing the contest on the French Riviera.\n\nPortugal, who had semi-professional players in their ranks and are coached by former France wing Patrice Lagisquet, had come through qualification to start only a second World Cup campaign after appearing in the 2007 tournament.\n\nWarren Gatland initially made 13 changes to his Wales starting side, with only number eight Faletau and wing Rees-Zammit remaining from last week's thrilling victory over Fiji.\n\nThat became 12 alterations when Wales had to cope with disruption after flanker Reffell pulled out late in the warm-up with squad co-captain Morgan replacing him in the starting side.\n\nWales defence coach Mike Forshaw had warned his side about what had happened to a much-changed France side who struggled against Uruguay on Thursday evening before winning 27-12 and similar events transpired.\n\nIt was a chance for Wales players to push their case for selection against Australia in Lyon on 24 September.\n\nNot many would have improved their cases based on this performance, which was littered with mistakes and plagued by a malfunctioning line-out. Late inclusion Morgan managed to impress with a man-of-the-match display.\n\nWith Pool C still possibly being decided on points difference, Wales will be interested spectators when Fiji face Australia in Saint-Etienne on Sunday.\n\nThere was experience and youth in Wales' new-look side, but not much evidence of any familiarity on show.\n\nFly-half Gareth Anscombe, 32, was playing his first World Cup game for eight years after missing the 2019 competition because of a serious knee injury.\n\nFull-back Leigh Halfpenny, who became the oldest Wales back to start a World Cup game, and flanker Dan Lydiate were playing in a third global tournament.\n\nIn contrast, Exeter locks Christ Tshiunza, 21 and Dafydd Jenkins, 20, formed Wales' youngest starting second-row partnership, while Lake, 24, led the side on his World Cup debut.\n\nScrum-half Tomos Williams led his side out because he was winning his 50th cap, against opponents keen to make their mark, but opposite number Samuel Marques missed with his opening attempt.\n\nDespite an encouraging Portugal start, it Wales scored first with an impressive finish from Rees-Zammit, who collected his own delicate grubber to collect his second World Cup try.\n\nThe wing cheekily marked the try by emulating the celebration of Portugal football legend Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nPortugal continued to entertain with their expansive approach as fleet-footed full-back Nuno Sousa Gedes almost set up a try for flanker Martins who was only denied by a brilliant Faletau covering tackle.\n\nWales were reduced to 14 men after centre Johnny Williams was shown a yellow card for the professional foul of playing the ball on the floor.\n\nPortugal were troubling Wales with their attack-at-all-costs attitude and a brilliant Marques kick set up an attacking opportunity that was repelled by brilliant Halfpenny defence.\n\nGatland has often called Halfpenny the best defensive full-back in the world and that moment backed up this claim.\n\nPortugal's dominant kicking continued to pay dividends and Marques deservedly scored his side's first points with a penalty.\n\nWilliams returned to the field and almost scored before losing possession just short of the Portugal line. Lake ensured Wales scored just before-half time as he powered over for a try that gave them a 14-3 half-time lead that flattered his side.\n\nWales' scrummaging superiority was evident both sides of half-time, but they lost three consecutive line-outs in the Portugal 22 early in the second half.\n\nMarques missed a penalty attempt before Gatland changed more than half his forwards as he looked for inspiration.\n\nWales started playing a more structured game and it paid dividends when Morgan burrowed over from close range.\n\nPortugal regrouped and rewarded their passionate vocal supporters when Martin crashed over from a well-worked line-out move.\n\nReplacement scrum-half Gareth Davies thought he had scored the bonus-point try after impressive build-up work from Rees-Zammit, but the score was disallowed for obstruction.\n\nPortugal wing Vincent Pinto was shown a late yellow card for a high foot that connected with the face of Wales replacement wing Adams.\n\nThat decision was referred to the bunker system and determined to be a red card.\n\nFaletau took advantage by powering over with the final play of the game to ensure Wales took maximum points.\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"It wasn't pretty but we got the job done.\n\n\"A few of the boys looked a bit rusty having not played together, but we'll take the win and move on.\n\n\"People had an opportunity today and we'll review that to see who performed well.\n\n\"Our line-out didn't function as well as we would have liked and we were a bit lateral at times. When we were direct and won the contact we looked comfortable.\n\n\"In fairness to Portugal, they put us under pressure they moved the ball well and I was impressed with them.\"\n\nPortugal head coach Patrice Lagisquet: \"There has been two mistakes and then they can score two tries. We were too shy in the first half, we were not playing enough collectively.\n\n\"We've shown in the second half we can play better rugby but I'm a bit disappointed with the red card because for me it was totally accidental.\n\n\"I'm a bit disappointed about these few things but what I appreciate is the behaviour of the players, they were really committed, fighting a lot, I'm proud of their attitude.\n\n\"We take experience from game. For this young team, these young players, we have to be more confident in the way we can play.\"\n• None A foodies guide to the Rugby World Cup in France", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Anna Foster walks along a \"wasteland\" that used to be a riverbed\n\nWarning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing\n\nA masked doctor leans down into a black plastic body bag, and gently manipulates the legs of the man inside. \"First we determine age, sex and length,\" he explains.\n\n\"He's in the putrefaction stage now, because of the water.\"\n\nIn a hospital car park in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, the final details of one of its many victims are being carefully checked and logged.\n\nThis is now one of the most vital jobs here, and one of the most distressing. The man is unrecognisable after spending a week in the sea. His body washed ashore that morning.\n\nExpert hands gently probe for identifying marks, and a DNA swab is taken. That's important, in case there's a family still alive to claim him.\n\nLibya's internationally recognised government says more than a quarter of the buildings in Derna were damaged or destroyed by last week's catastrophic flood.\n\nMore than 10,000 people remain officially missing, according to figures from the UN's Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.\n\nThe Red Crescent has been issuing its own numbers.\n\nThe UN says the death toll so far stands at some 11,300. The final total remains unclear - although the one thing that is certain is the sheer scale of this catastrophe.\n\nMohammed Miftah knows in his heart his family are among the victims.\n\nWhen he went to find his sister and her husband at their home after the floods, it had been washed away.\n\nHe's heard nothing from them since. He shows me a video he took as the torrent rose, brown water pouring in through his front door.\n\nA car is carried on the current and wedges into the open space, blocking it completely.\n\n\"I saw cars coming down and I came out running,\" he recalls.\n\n\"I thought that was it, that I was going to die. We could see our neighbours waving flashlights. In just a few moments, the lights went out, and they had disappeared.\n\n\"That was the hardest thing.\"\n\nSabrine Ferhat Bellil lost her brother, his wife and five of his children when the deadly storm hit her city\n\nAs international aid begins to arrive in earnest, the Health Minister of Libya's eastern government has announced that four Greek rescue workers were killed in an accident on the road to Derna.\n\nFifteen more were injured. They were on their way to join teams already on the ground from France and Italy.\n\nKuwait and Saudi Arabia have also flown in tonnes of extra supplies.\n\nMohammed Miftah fears some of his family members are among the dead\n\nThe next step is making sure they're used properly and fairly.\n\nAbdullah Bathily, the head of the UN's International Support Mission in Libya, told BBC Arabic the country now needs to create a transparent mechanism to manage all of its international donations.\n\nIt's a concern borne from the well-known challenges of co-ordinating between the government in Tripoli which is internationally recognised, and the eastern Libyan government, which isn't.\n\nA destroyed car sits on top of a residential building following fatal floods in Derna\n\nBack in the centre of Derna there are some points of light amid the mud and debris that has enveloped this city.\n\nOn one street corner, hundreds of colourful clothes lie scattered in piles.\n\nAcross the road a huge queue forms as fuel is handed out to survivors.\n\nAs the donations keep coming, one man arrives and places a box of warm scarves at the feet of an elderly woman.\n\nHe kisses her head tenderly, as she smiles and begins to choose one.\n\nThese are Libyans helping Libyans in one of their worst moments of crisis.\n\nThe International Organization of Migration puts the number of people in eastern Libya displaced by the floods at 38,000 - 30,000 in Derna alone", "Mike Ashley's Frasers Group is in talks to sell its Missguided clothing brand to online fashion giant Shein, the BBC understands.\n\nTalks about a deal, which were first reported by Sky News, come only a year after Frasers took over the brand.\n\nFrasers Group bought Missguided for £20m last year after the online fashion retailer collapsed into administration.\n\nShein, which was founded in China in 2008, is a global giant in the world of fast fashion.\n\nBoth Frasers Group and Shein have been contacted for comment.\n\nAccording to Sky, a deal is likely to see Shein buy Missguided's brand and other intellectual property, while the head office is retained by Frasers.\n\nManchester-based Missguided was founded by Nitin Passi in 2009 and grew to become one of the UK's biggest online fashion players.\n\nBut after suffering from supply chain problems, rising freight costs and increasing competition from rivals, it fell into administration in May 2022, before being picked up by Frasers Group.\n\nFrasers - which owns the Mike Ashley-founded Sports Direct chain - has expanded rapidly by buying brands that have fallen into trouble. including Game, Evans Cycles, Jack Wills and Sofa.com.\n\nWhile Mike Ashley is no longer Frasers' chief executive, he owns a majority stake in the firm.\n\nShein - which now has its headquarters in Singapore - saw sales surge during the Covid pandemic when lockdowns led to a jump in online shopping.\n\nIt was valued at about $66bn earlier this year, although that was lower than a previous valuation of around $100bn.\n\nThere has been speculation that Shein will seek to list its shares in the US.\n\nHowever, in May a group of US lawmakers called for Shein to be investigated over claims that people from China's mostly Muslim Uyghur population were use as forced labour to make some of the clothes it sells.\n\nHuman rights groups and Western governments, including the US and UK, have accused China of committing crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs.\n\nIn response, Shein told the BBC: \"We have zero tolerance for forced labour.\n\n\"Our suppliers must adhere to a strict code of conduct that is aligned to the International Labour Organization's core conventions.\"", "A wreath was laid on top of the coffin during the 'wake' on Sunday\n\nProtesters held a 'wake' for the UK's largest fresh water lake, Lough Neagh, to highlight their fears that the lough is dying.\n\nCampaigners say pollution is killing the lake, with wildlife and birds suffering after blue-green algal blooms over the summer.\n\nLough Neagh supplies half of Belfast's drinking water and 40% of Northern Ireland's overall.\n\nSome angling groups have said pollution is putting livelihoods at risk.\n\nLough Neagh is also home to the largest commercial wild eel fishery in Europe.\n\nOn Sunday, more than 100 protesters - many dressed in black - accompanied a coffin along the lough shore to represent their concerns about the death of the lake.\n\nMary O'Hagan says her mental and physical health has suffered since she stopped swimming in Lough Neagh\n\nMary O'Hagan, founder of a swimming group which regularly uses the lough, said her health had suffered as a result of being unable to swim there.\n\n\"I had this wonderful community around me,\" she said.\n\n\"Everybody used that same coping mechanism of getting into the cold water and that has just been devastated by this.\n\n\"My pain is a lot worse, my medications have had to be increased and my mental health has suffered.\"\n\n\"This is the biggest Lough in Ireland and the UK and it's dying,\" says angler Gary Gregg\n\nAngler Gary Gregg said a plan to tackle the issue needed to be drawn up before it was too late.\n\n\"There needs to be a roadmap and it needs to be followed because we're not going to get anywhere, especially with Stormont not sitting,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just going to get worse and worse and we can't let that happen.\n\n\"This is the biggest lough in Ireland and the UK and it's dying.\"\n\nEarlier, speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, former agriculture and environment minister Edwin Poots said the algae was a \"very significant issue\".\n\n\"Lough Neagh is such an important water body, it provides 40% of Northern Ireland's drinking water.\n\n\"We have scientists and we need those scientists to report back to us on what we can do.\"\n\nMr Poots said the algae was largely caused by the invasive species of zebra mussels present in the lough.\n\n\"Once they get in you can't get rid of them... this may be a recurring problem, I'm not sure whether there's a scientific solution to it.\"\n\nPatsy McGlone, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) assembly member, said there had been an \"erosion of confidence in many cases about the water supply and concerns about it; smells, tastes and that\".\n\nMr McGlone called on NI Water to \"reassure the public about the quality of the water that's being consumed\".\n\nIn statement issued on Friday, NI Water said that \"increased levels of algae can cause an unusual taste and smell to water from your tap but does not pose a risk to health\".\n\nBlue-green algae has been found in waters in and around Northern Ireland over the summer\n\nThe statement also noted: \"Drinking water supplied from the water treatment works which use Lough Neagh as their raw water sources, are designed with the potential for algae to be present and robust treatment processes are in place to manage this effectively.\"\n\nThe blue-green algal bloom over the summer has caused havoc, not just in Lough Neagh but right up to Northern Ireland's north coast.\n\nSwimmers at Ballyronan on the edge of Lough Neagh were warned against entering the water in June\n\nWater from Lough Neagh flows down the River Bann and into the Atlantic Ocean at the Barmouth between Portstewart and Castlerock in County Londonderry.\n\nThat brought the algae to the coast, where it could not survive but caused a bathing ban on several beaches at the height of summer.\n\nThere were also bathing bans in areas around the lough.\n\nSome traders blamed the effect of those bans for putting them out of business.\n\nAnglers have been advised to \"catch and release\" fish that have been within Lough Neagh because of the risk the algae poses.\n\nThe bloom was the result of settled weather, invasive species and water pollution mostly due to agriculture.\n\nExcess fertiliser runs off from fields into the water, taking growth-stimulating nitrogen and phosphorus into the lough.\n\nLough Neagh is home to significant native species such as eel, trout and pollan\n\nAlmost two decades ago the zebra mussel invaded the lough.\n\nIt filters water, making it clearer and allowing the sun's light to penetrate deeper into the depths.\n\nThat, combined with the excess nutrients from fertiliser - eutrophication - caused the algae to \"bloom\" or grow rapidly.\n\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) has previously said that algae blooms can occur when there is abundant sunlight, still or slow-flowing water and sufficient levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.\n\nDaera told BBC News NI it had a range of programmes to improve water quality and was working with partners and stakeholders.", "The Aroyat cargo ship is among the first to reach a Ukrainian Port using a new Black Sea corridor\n\nTwo cargo ships have arrived at a Ukrainian port after travelling through the Black Sea using a new route, Ukrainian port authorities said.\n\nThey reached Chornomorsk on Saturday, and were due to load 20,000 tonnes of wheat bound for world markets.\n\nOfficials said it was the first time civilian ships had reached a Ukrainian port since the collapse of a deal with Russia ensuring the safety of vessels.\n\nPreviously the corridor had only been used by ships departing from Ukraine.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the ships - Resilient Africa and Aroyat - sailed flying the flag of the Oceanic island nation of Palau and that their crew consisted of people from Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Egypt.\n\nThe vessels will deliver the wheat to Egypt and Israel, according to Ukraine's agricultural ministry.\n\nKyiv unilaterally declared the maritime corridor - which hugs the western coast of the Black Sea - after Russia abandoned a UN-backed deal that facilitated grain exports from Ukrainian ports.\n\nMoscow said parts of the deal allowing the export of its food and fertilisers had not been honoured and complained that Western sanctions were restricting its own agricultural exports.\n\nSince then, Russia has threatened to treat civilian ships sailing to Ukraine as potential military targets.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK accused Russia of targeting one such vessel with multiple cruise missiles as it rested in the Ukrainian port of Odesa recently.\n\nUkraine is one of world's biggest suppliers of crops such as sunflower oil, barley, maize and wheat.\n\nWhen Russia invaded in February 2022, its navy blockaded the country's Black Sea ports - trapping 20 million tonnes of grain which were meant for export.\n\nThis caused world food prices to soar and threatened to create shortages in Middle Eastern and African countries, which import significant amounts of food from Ukraine.\n\nSome of these countries, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and Ethiopia, remain in desperate need of humanitarian aid.\n\nAs well as threatening ships passing through the Black Sea, Moscow has increasingly targeted Ukrainian port infrastructure.\n\nIt has repeatedly attacked the ports of Izmail and Reni, where much of Ukraine's grain exports have been leaving from since July, to try and disrupt operations.\n\nKyiv has accused Russia of a \"cynical\" attempt to damage its grain exports and undermine global food security.", "Russell Brand denies allegations of sexual assault made by four women\n\nThe BBC, Channel 4 and a production firm have said they are investigating after allegations that Russell Brand sexually assaulted four women.\n\nThe comedian and actor has been accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nThe allegations form part of a report published by the Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nIt also included claims about his behaviour towards women and his workplace conduct over the same period.\n\nBrand worked as a radio presenter for the BBC between 2006 and 2008. The BBC said it was \"urgently looking into the issues raised\" by the allegations. Channel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, announced an internal investigation.\n\nAlthough the alleged assaults are not said to have taken place on BBC or Channel 4 premises, the claims have raised questions for the broadcasters and the wider industry.\n\nThe Times quoted sources claiming a complaint was previously made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand.\n\nDuring the period in question, Brand worked for two years as a presenter on 6 Music and Radio 2, hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth on Channel 4's sister station E4, and launched his Hollywood movie career.\n\nOn Sunday, the Times published a first-hand account from the woman who accused Brand of rape in Los Angeles in 2012.\n\nIt later reported that since Saturday more women have come forward with allegations about Brand's behaviour, which have not yet been investigated but \"will now be rigorously checked\".\n\nEndemol, the company behind shows Brand appeared on in the mid-noughties such as Big Brother's Big Mouth, was bought by Banijay UK in 2020.\n\nIt said it was aware of the \"very serious allegations\" relating to the \"alleged serious misconduct of Russell Brand while presenting shows produced by Endemol\". It said it had launched an \"urgent\" internal investigation.\n\nChannel 4 said it had \"asked the production company who produced the programmes for Channel 4 to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us\".\n\nThe broadcaster added it was conducting its own internal investigation, and encouraged \"anyone who is aware of such behaviour to contact us directly.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We will be writing to all our current suppliers reminding them of their responsibilities under our code of conduct.\"\n\nThe broadcaster also confirmed to the Telegraph it had \"taken down all content featuring Russell Brand\" while it looked into the matter. \"This includes episodes of the Great British Bake Off that he appeared on.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it was \"aware of media reporting of a series of allegations of sexual assault\" but had not received any reports from alleged victims.\n\nIt added: \"We will be making further approaches to the Sunday Times and Channel 4 to ensure that any victims of crime who they have spoken with are aware of how they may report any criminal allegations to police.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) told the BBC the force had not been notified of any incidents, reports or allegations regarding Brand or any of the accusers.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said she could not immediately confirm the reports in the Times of an LAPD officer being alerted by a rape treatment centre in 2012 about one of the accusers being treated there following an incident with Brand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Questions for the industry - James Cleverly on Brand\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the entertainment industry had questions to answer over allegations against Brand.\n\nMr Cleverly told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that those in power must \"be better\" at listening to the voices of the \"relatively powerless\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there are some real challenges where you have these very, very acute differentials in power - whether that be in the entertainment industry, whether that be in politics, and we see this in the commercial world as well.\n\n\"I think we have to be particularly careful when we listen to the voices of the people who are relatively powerless because we, I think collectively, have missed opportunities to do the right thing and intervene much, much earlier, and we've got to be better at this.\"\n\nMPs are expected to push for answers from big institutions that were involved in Brand's career on the crucial questions of who knew what, and when.\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage, who chairs the House of Commons media committee, said: \"We will be closely monitoring the responses of the media, especially our public service broadcasters, to these allegations, and looking at the questions that this, yet again, raises about the culture in the industry as a whole.\"\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Trevi Women & Children's Charity said it had cut ties with the 48-year-old comedian and had been \"deeply saddened and upset\" following the allegations.\n\nAuthor Irvine Welsh, also speaking on Kuenssberg's programme, said the entertainment industry \"has to get its house in order so people do feel comfortable and it's an environment where they can come forward and can be listened to\".\n\nBut things have \"changed for the better\" in recent years since the start of the Me Too movement, he added.\n\nOther claims made in the investigation relate to Brand's allegedly controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.\n\nSunday Times media editor Rosamund Urwin, who worked on the story, told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House there were \"a lot of questions to be answered\" by TV companies.\n\nShe said: \"I think in the coming days we will see a lot more scrutiny, including in our paper, of who knew what when, and why on earth this man was continuing to go on Channel 4 shows as late as 2018/19 when there certainly were widespread rumours that would have at least needed investigating before you put him on your channel.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Brand went ahead with a scheduled comedy gig in north-west London, but did not address the allegations directly.\n\nThe previous evening, the star released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" that were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\" involving \"some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute\".\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous,\" he said.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Inquiries into the \"workplace accident\" at the house are \"ongoing\", say police\n\nA workman died when a wall collapsed at a house in Manchester.\n\nPolice, fire and ambulance services all attended the \"workplace accident\" in Lloyd Street, Fallowfield, at about 14:50 BST on Saturday.\n\nAttempts were made to save the man, who was in his 40s, but he died at the scene.\n\nA spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to \"reports of concerns for welfare of a man\" at an address.\n\n\"It was established that a man in his 40s was involved in a workplace accident and despite the best efforts of emergency services, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"Enquiries are ongoing at this stage.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive confirmed it had been made aware of the incident and said it was \"liaising with police and making initial enquiries into the circumstances\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on FacebookX and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russell Brand - who has been accused of sexual assault by four women, a claim that he has denied on his many social media platforms - is a comedian and broadcaster who helped shape pop culture in the late noughties.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who was born in Essex, surged to fame as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, and went on to star in Hollywood films, marry and divorce one of the world's most famous pop stars and cause one of the biggest scandals in the BBC's history.\n\nOver the years, he developed a cult following for his views on politics and society, and more recently has dabbled in the world of conspiracy theories in videos posted on YouTube and Rumble.\n\nBut Brand started his career in entertainment as a stand-up comedian, performing at the Hackney Empire in 2000 and later the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nMuch of his content drew on personal experience - Brand has always been open about his use of illegal drugs and addiction to sex. He would later write about both in his autobiography My Booky Wook, and his experiences helped shape his political activism.\n\nIn the early part of his career, Brand hosted radio programmes on XFM and later BBC 6 Music, and went on tour with his stand-up shows, which saw him build a following on the comedy circuit.\n\nOnce of his earliest controversies came in 2001, when he was dismissed from his job as an MTV presenter for turning up to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden on 12 September - the day after the terror attacks on New York's twin towers.\n\nBrand's distinctive look in the late 2000s reflected a gothic aesthetic popular at the time\n\nBrand later admitted he was on crack and heroin at the time. But although stunts such as this attracted publicity, Brand was still not yet the household name he would become.\n\nThe turning point in Brand's career came in mid-2000s, when he hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth, the E4 companion show to the hugely popular reality series Big Brother.\n\nThe comic was in his element hosting the spin-off show, previously titled Big Brother's Eforum. Its format saw him bounce around the bright yellow studio interacting with special guests and members of the public, who would give opinions on the latest goings on in the Big Brother house.\n\nIt was an environment in which he thrived - his distinctive blend of charisma and humour on a fast-paced show putting him firmly on the radar. He was unique in the television landscape; the sheer force of his personality - and volume of his speaking voice - impossible to ignore.\n\nHis aesthetic - skinny jeans, dark clothing, big hair - reflected pop culture at the time. His gothic look was often compared with Amy Winehouse, the troubled singer who would die from alcohol poisoning in 2011.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career as a stand-up comedian before he became a TV presenter\n\nFrom the beginning, Brand's personality was not for everyone, and for every viewer who loved him, there was another who couldn't stand him. But his divisiveness only increased his cultural cachet.\n\nBig Brother's Big Mouth ultimately provided the springboard he was looking for - Brand went from being just one comic in a sea of thousands at Edinburgh to being the most sought-after presenter in the UK.\n\nIn the years that followed, he was courted for so many presenting gigs that it was hard to keep up. Brand hosted the NME, MTV and Brit awards ceremonies, was gifted his own debate series by E4, and fronted the UK leg of charity concert Live Earth.\n\nHe was also moved from BBC Radio 6 Music to the more mainstream Radio 2, to host a two-hour programme on Saturday evenings.\n\nBut phonecalls he made to the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs on the show in 2008 prompted a huge scandal - which came to be known as Sachsgate.\n\nBrand and Jonathan Ross left messages for Andrew Sachs which were later ruled to be \"grossly offensive\"\n\nSachs had been due to be interviewed by Brand on that night's pre-recorded show to promote a new TV series.\n\nBut when he failed to appear, Brand and Jonathan Ross, who was also a guest on that show, left an offensive voicemail message for the actor, in which Ross made clear that Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter.\n\nDuring the rest of the show, the pair made attempts to rectify the situation to comic effect, by leaving a series of further explicit voicemails which also mentioned the actor's granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.\n\nMore than 40,000 people complained after the broadcast was reported in the newspapers. The BBC Trust ruled the phonecalls were \"grossly offensive\" and the corporation was fined £150,000 by Ofcom.\n\nBrand left the station, Ross was suspended from the BBC for 12 weeks, and Radio 2's controller Lesley Douglas resigned.\n\nBrand was married to singer Katy Perry (pictured in 2011) for two years\n\nBut despite losing work with the BBC, Brand's profile continued to rise.\n\nBy now, he was developing his career as an actor and being cast in major films, including St Trinian's, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rock of Ages and a remake of Arthur co-starring Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nIn summer 2009, Brand met Katy Perry, one of the world's most successful pop stars, when she filmed a cameo for his film Get Him to the Greek.\n\nThe pair became engaged and were married the following year at a Hindu ceremony in India, but divorced two years later.\n\nMeanwhile, Brand was becoming just as well known for his political views as his work.\n\nHe guest edited an issue of the left-leaning current affairs magazine the New Statesman, appeared on Question Time opposite then-Ukip leader Nigel Farage, and was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.\n\nBrand told Paxman he did not vote in general elections \"out of weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations\", and encouraged viewers to abstain from voting too.\n\nIn 2012, Brand appeared at a Home Affairs select committee to discuss drug and alcohol addiction, although the jokes he cracked during the session attracted just as much publicity. One MP had to tell him the session was \"not a variety show\".\n\nHowever, he repeatedly declined to enter the political fray himself by running for parliament.\n\nInstead, arguing for alternative systems of government became one of his core principles. He complained about the limited choices for voters - although did briefly endorse Ed Miliband ahead of the 2015 general election.\n\nBrand has consistently attracted controversy, often at awards ceremonies - which provided the kind of live, anything-can-happen chaos in which Brand was most at home.\n\nAfter Bob Geldof insulted him at the NME Awards in 2006, Brand retaliated by saying the musician and campaigner was only an expert on famine because he had \"been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years\".\n\nTwo years later, while hosting the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, Brand told the American audience that then-US president George W Bush \"wouldn't be trusted with scissors\" in the UK.\n\nAnd in 2013, he was ejected from the GQ Awards after he criticised the event's sponsor Hugo Boss for its history making uniforms for the Nazis.\n\nBrand returned to radio in 2017 with a new weekend show on Radio X, formerly XFM. However, the show lasted less than a year.\n\nBrand addressed demonstrators protesting against austerity in London in 2015\n\nAfter the success of his first autobiography, Brand went on to publish a second - Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal - as well as further books about politics and his recovery from addiction.\n\nRecent years have seen him take a new direction - particularly since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Brand grew his following on YouTube as he discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the disease.\n\nStepping away from the directors and production teams of his TV and movie career, Brand's videos generally show him speaking directly to the camera in a single take, using his notable range of verbal dexterity to challenge the mainstream reporting of a range of subjects - and has also established himself as a wellness guru.\n\nHe now commands a following of four million on Instagram, 2.2 million on TikTok and 6.59 million on YouTube, for his near daily polemics on a range of subjects - with video titles including Do These Emails Prove Biden Is Corrupt And Lying?, What REALLY Started The Hawaii Fires? and THIS is How Gender Norms Are Affecting Men.\n\nWhen one of his Covid videos was removed for breaking rules around misinformation, he launched a daily live show on a new platform, Rumble, titled Stay Free with Russell Brand.", "Ben Stokes clobbered the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international in a 181-run trouncing of New Zealand at The Kia Oval.\n\nStokes' brutal 182 beat the previous England best of 180, made by Jason Roy against Australia in Melbourne in 2018.\n\nIn only his third ODI since coming out of retirement to play in this year's World Cup, Stokes hammered some wayward New Zealand bowling for nine sixes and 15 fours in his 124-ball stay.\n\nArriving at 13-2, Stokes added 199 for the third wicket with Dawid Malan, an England record partnership in an ODI against the Black Caps. Malan's 96 did plenty to cement his place in the starting XI for the World Cup in India.\n\nDespite losing their last six wickets for 32 runs, England piled up 368. Given the carnage caused by Stokes, Trent Boult's figures of 5-51 were extraordinary.\n\nFaced with pulling off the highest successful chase in an ODI in England, New Zealand were soon in disarray at 37-4, thanks chiefly to a three-wicket burst from Chris Woakes, who expertly used the movement on offer in an eight-over opening spell.\n\nGlenn Phillips battled to 72 to prolong the match, but after he was lbw on review to Liam Livingstone, New Zealand were hustled out for 187.\n\nEngland take a 2-1 lead in the series, which they can win with victory in the fourth and final match at Lord's on Friday.\n\nEven with a troublesome left knee that will restrict his World Cup involvement to batting only, it is Stokes' ability to play innings like these that made England so keen to have the Test captain as part of their title defence in India.\n\nNot only can he deliver in clutch moments such as the 2019 final or the 2022 T20 World Cup final, few can match Stokes for savage ball-striking when he finds the range he did on an overcast day at The Oval.\n\nEngland were in trouble after Jonny Bairstow fell to the first ball of the match and Joe Root dragged on, both off Boult, only for Stokes to respond in record-breaking fashion.\n\nIt was actually Malan who was the catalyst for England's recovery, the opener timing the ball sweetly square on both sides as Stokes struggled for fluency.\n\nOften hacking at the ball, Stokes did not score a run off the first six deliveries he faced and had only 12 from his first 18. It was the introduction of left-arm spinner Rachin Ravindra that jolted Stokes into life. Three sixes were hoisted over deep mid-wicket, Ravindra went for 28 from his only two overs and Stokes never looked back.\n\nScoring almost exclusively through the leg side, Stokes brought up his fourth ODI hundred and first since 2017 from 76 balls, his quickest in this format. Though he lost Malan, caught down the leg side on review off Boult, Stokes added 78 in 46 deliveries with captain Jos Buttler.\n\nStokes walloped off-spinner Phillips over cow corner to bring up his 150 and hit the same bowler into the second tier of the pavilion with a monstrous straight blow.\n\nThe left-hander brought up the record with his final maximum, hitting a full toss from the pace of Ben Lister over long-on. The Oval crowd did not appreciate the significance of the moment immediately, but responded with rapturous applause when Stokes' achievement was announced on the big screen.\n\nWith more than five overs of the innings remaining, Stokes had time to become the first England batter to reach 200 in an ODI.\n\nHowever, two balls after bettering Roy's mark, he miscued another Lister full toss and was caught at deep square leg by Will Young.\n\nAfter Robin Smith held the England ODI record for 23 years with 167 made in 1993, it has now been broken three times since 2016, first by Alex Hales, then Roy, now Stokes.\n\nThe highest score by a batter in an ODI is the 264 made by India's Rohit Sharma against Sri Lanka in Kolkata in 2014.\n\nFormer captain Charlotte Edwards holds the record for the highest score by an England woman in an ODI for her 173 not out against Ireland in 1997.\n\nStokes' pyrotechnics lit up what could have otherwise been a flat affair between two sides playing each other in a white-ball international for the seventh time in 15 days.\n\nNew Zealand fielded three players not even in their World Cup squad, while England have concerns over Roy, who again missed out with a back spasm. Harry Brook waits in the wings to replace Roy in a World Cup party that will be confirmed after Friday's game at Lord's.\n\nIn Roy's absence, Malan took advantage of being dropped on 31 by wicketkeeper Tom Latham. So often facing questions over his place in the England side, Malan pushed his career ODI average to 57.43, the fifth-highest of all-time for men who have played at least 20 innings.\n\nWhile Malan is in fine form, Root could do with a score - he has made only 10 runs in three innings in this series. England were also wasteful at the back end of their innings, from 336-4 in the 43rd over, they could have reached 400, though at halfway 368 seemed a big ask for New Zealand.\n\nSo it proved when Woakes, bowling a full length, got the new ball nibbling around. The nip-backer he produced to bowl left-hander Latham through the gate was sublime.\n\nThe contest was effectively over long before the floodlights started to take effect. After being punished by Stokes, Phillips at least salvaged something from his day, only to miss a half-tracker from Livingstone that was shown to be hitting the stumps.\n\nThat was the first of three wickets for Livingstone, who had Lister stumped to seal England's second-largest ODI victory over New Zealand in terms of runs.\n\n'I said sorry to Jason' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Jos Buttler to BBC's Test Match Special: \"We were tested losing two early wickets but it's exactly what I wanted us to do, take more risks, be more on the front foot.\n\n\"Stokes has played a few good ones, but that was amazing. To score the highest one-day score for England, it was amazing.\n\n\"I haven't seen as good new ball bowling in white-ball cricket for a while. Woakes and Topley were brilliant, it was a fantastic opening spell.\"\n\nEngland batter Ben Stokes: \"It's not as easy as coming back and playing. You definitely have much more time. It's just familiarising myself with the ebbs and flows of it and it's something I think I did well here.\n\n\"The bloke on the tannoy announced it just before I got out. I had no idea I had the record. Jason said well done and I said sorry to him.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Tom Latham: \"Stokes and Dawid were fantastic. We tried to change things up, but they countered everything.\n\n\"We did pull it back at the end of the innings but then we were 40-4, and we couldn't get any partnerships together.\n\n\"We were thoroughly outplayed - but we have a big opportunity to level the series at Lord's.\"\n• None Take a look behind the scenes at some of the most extraordinary hotels: From the ultimate in luxury to jaw-dropping locations", "What does imperialism mean to North Koreans?\n\nAs you may remember, Kim told Putin that they will \"remain together in [the] fight against imperialism\". But what does imperialism mean this context? For North Korea, it means one thing: the United States. It views the US as an imperialist bully which tries to invade other countries - itself included - to rid the world of dictators with nuclear weapons, all under the guise of creating peace. It dates America’s “imperialist foreign policy” all the way back to the slave trade, and then to the Korean War - in which an estimated 20% of the North Korean population was killed. In reality, the Korean War started when the North invaded the South, and the US came to South Korea’s defence. But successive North Korean leaders have pointed to the intense US bombing campaigns that wiped out scores of cities in the North. At an anti-US rally in Pyongyang this summer, people carried placards adorned with the slogan: “The imperialist US is the destroyer of peace”.", "Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has quit as chair of a Commons committee, following criticism over his comments on Afghanistan.\n\nThe former defence minister was criticised in July for saying the country had been \"transformed\" under the Taliban's rule.\n\nHe was facing a potential no-confidence vote from fellow MPs on the defence select committee.\n\nBut he has now stood down as chair and will no longer sit on the committee.\n\nA source familiar with the situation said the Bournemouth East MP had resigned before he was \"pushed\".\n\nMr Ellwood initially defended his comments, saying stability in the country was on a \"different level\" than during times of conflict.\n\nBut he later apologised, saying he had \"got it wrong\" with his remarks, which he had posted on social media during a trip to Helmand province.\n\nIn the social media clip, the MP claimed \"war-weary\" Afghanistan was now \"accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability\".\n\nHe also called for the UK to re-engage with the Taliban government and for Kabul's British embassy to reopen, and said \"shouting from afar will not improve women's rights\".\n\nHe put out a tweet with the video saying that security was vastly improved, corruption reduced and the opium trade \"ended\" - although he qualified this in video by saying the trade had \"all but disappeared\".\n\nA BBC investigation earlier this year found a ban on opium cultivation introduced in April 2022 had resulted in a huge fall in poppy production in major opium-growing provinces, with one expert saying annual cultivation could be 80% down on last year.\n\nIn 2022, cultivation had been up 32% on 2021, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\n\nThe MP's comments sparked a backlash from human rights campaigners, women's groups and MPs, including his some of Conservative colleagues on the cross-party defence committee.\n\nTory MPs Mark Francois and Richard Drax had joined Labour's Kevan Jones and Derek Twigg in submitting a no-confidence motion in him.\n\nIn a resignation statement, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Ellwood said he believed he retained the support of the \"majority\" of the committee, but that without the backing of \"all in the room\" it would prove a distraction.\n\nHe added: \"I believe I have a strong voice when it comes to defence and security. I stand up, speak my mind, try to see the bigger picture and offer solutions, especially on the international stage, as our world turns a dangerous corner.\n\n\"I don't always get it right - so it's right I put my hand up when I don't. Poor communications, during the summer, in calling for greater international engagement in Afghanistan was understandably criticised at the time and reflected poorly on the committee.\"\n\nHe said he was \"proud of the hard-hitting inquiries\" the committee had produced and described leading its scrutiny as a \"huge privilege\".\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper told Sky News: \"I saw the video and I don't think it reflected what I know about Afghanistan and the way women are treated in that country.\"", "The prime minister told MPs: \"Prison escapes under the Labour government were almost 10 times higher than under the Conservatives.\"\n\nLooking at Ministry of Justice figures , the number of people who either escaped from prisons or prison escorts in England and Wales has indeed fallen dramatically.\n\nThe figures go back as far as the year to the end of March 1996.\n\nIn the first two years of the series, which were under a Conservative government, an average of 71 people a year escaped.\n\nUnder the Labour governments in the following 13 years the average was 18 a year.\n\nAnd in the following 12 years under Conservative and Tory-led administrations it was three a year.\n\nSo there were about six times more escapes under Labour between 1997 and 2010 than there have been since.\n\nIf you look at just escapes from prisons it is nine times as many.", "Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the Department of Justice, arrives at court\n\nGoogle has dismissed arguments that it is the world's biggest search engine because of illegal practices, saying to switch to another company takes \"literally four taps\".\n\nA lawyer for the company made the remarks in court in Tuesday in Washington DC, where it is facing trial over whether it is a monopoly.\n\nThe case is a major test of the power of US regulators over the tech giants.\n\nProsecutors said the case was about \"the future of the internet\".\n\nThe trial is expected to last 10 weeks and will feature testimony from Google boss Sundar Pichai as well as executives from Apple.\n\nJudge Amit Mehta, who was appointed to his position on DC district court by former president Barack Obama, will decide the case - the biggest for the industry in 25 years.\n\nThe government's lawsuit focuses on billions of dollars in payments Google has made to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default online search engine.\n\nThe US said Google typically pays more than $10bn a year for that privilege, securing its access to a steady gush of user data that helped maintain its hold on the market.\n\n\"Are there other distribution channels? Other ways of distributing search? Yes.... Are these powerful as defaults? No,\" Department of Justice lawyer Kenneth Dintzer said, addressing the judge. \"The best testimony for that, for the importance of defaults, your Honour, is Google's cheque book.\"\n\nWhen Apple first installed Google as the default search engine in 2002, no payments were involved, prosecutors said.\n\nBut by 2005, worried about its lead eroding, Google proposed to pay the company - later threatening to cancel payments if other firms got similar access, the government said.\n\nThe company also discouraged Apple from expanding its own search products and Samsung, which makes Android phones, from working with a company that used a different kind of search method.\n\n\"This is a monopolist, flexing,\" Mr Dintzer said.\n\nGoogle said it faced intense competition, not just from general search engine firms, such as Microsoft's Bing, but more specialised sites and apps that people use to find restaurants, airline flights and more.\n\n\"There are lots of ways users access the web, other than through default search engines, and people use them all the time,\" the company's lawyer, John Schmidtlein, said.\n\n\"The evidence in this case will show Google competed on the merits to win pre-installation and default status, and that its browser and Android partners judged Google to be the best search engine for its users.\"\n\nMr Schmidtlein said that despite Windows PCs being the number one used desktop and having Bing pre-set as the default search engine, a majority of Windows users still opt to use Google - demonstrating Google's superiority as a search platform.\n\nThe trial is the latest regulatory challenge to face Google, which recently settled another case over its app store brought by US states. The company is also facing a federal lawsuit over its advertising business and has found itself in the crosshairs in Europe, where it has been fined billions in monopoly cases.\n\nThe government has asked for \"structural relief\" if it wins - which could mean the break-up of the company.\n\nThe suit comes as artificial intelligence and new forms of search, such as ChatGPT, are providing a more serious threat to Google's dominance than the company has encountered in years.\n• None US takes on Google in fight against tech giants", "Kevin McCarthy knows that any attempt to impeach Joe Biden as US president is futile.\n\nLike his predecessor as House Speaker, the Democratic party’s Nancy Pelosi, McCarthy is a highly partisan operator.\n\nHe’s relying on three now concluded Republican led subcommittees in Congress to repeat serious allegations against Joe Biden – that he had personal knowledge of his son Hunter's foreign business dealings and that his family and associates benefited to the tune of $20 million through an alleged complex web of payments made to shell companies.\n\nBut there are three reasons why Speaker McCarthy’s decision to direct an impeachment inquiry won’t work.\n\nThe first is the numbers. Here in Washington, there’s extreme scepticism that McCarthy could not have found 218 Republicans to back a formal inquiry. Just 11 days ago, he had insisted that one would not be triggered without a vote. Today’s announcement is quite the U-turn.\n\nEven if the House votes to impeach him it then goes to the upper chamber, or the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats with a majority of 51 to 49. The president will only be removed if two-thirds of the Senate back the move. That will not happen with this Senate, and it never has in history.\n\nThe second problem for McCarthy is that the three sub-committees which have investigated Biden over the past nine months found no conclusive evidence. It’s unlikely that any new and substantial evidence exists and unlikely therefore that the result would be different.\n\nThe third is that no US President has ever been removed by Congress. Three have been impeached – Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump twice - in 2019 and 2021.", "Sir Keir Starmer is seeking a deal with Europol for a future Labour government, to try to stop gangs bringing people across the channel in small boats.\n\nThe Labour leader - who is in the Hague for talks with the EU agency - said smashing the gangs should be treated \"on a par\" with terrorism.\n\nAny migrant returns deal may require the UK accepting migrants from the EU.\n\nThe government claims a returns policy could lead to the UK taking \"100,000 illegal migrants\" every year.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on X, formerly known on Twitter, that Sir Keir would \"agree to make Britain the dumping ground for many of the millions of illegal migrants that Europe doesn't want\".\n\nSir Keir said it was \"embarrassing the government is pumping out this nonsense\" and that his discussions were focused on sharing information on people smuggling gangs to \"stop boats getting in the water in the first place\".\n\n\"It ought to be the UK government who decides who comes to the UK,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"But at the moment, because the government has lost control, it is those that are running the gangs that are putting people in boats to cross the channel.\n\n\"That's why I'm here at Europol saying how can we have a better agreement to share intelligence have joint operations to take these gangs down.\"\n\nHe also said that a Labour government would end the use of hotels for asylum seekers within 12 months of coming to office.\n\nIn a bid to clear the backlog of asylum cases, Labour has said it would recruit an additional 1,000 Home Office caseworkers, establish new asylum courts to speed up legal challenges and create a returns unit to accelerate the removal of failed asylum seekers.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC that \"everybody accepts\" the need for a new EU-wide returns agreement.\n\nThe Labour leader has suggested he may be willing to accept a quota of migrants in the UK in exchange for a deal. When pressed by reporters on Thursday morning, Sir Keir would not give a number of asylum seekers he would be happy to take in under a deal.\n\nLabour are \"not in a position to negotiate that, and that's not what I've been talking about today\", he added.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said a returns agreement based on proposed EU migration rules would mean \"Britain will be forced to take more than 100,000 illegal migrants from the safety of Europe each year, disregarding the will of the British people to cut numbers and stop the boats\".\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"Sir Keir is utterly unprepared to take the tough but necessary decisions to stop the boats, taking the easy way out which will not fix the problem. For all their political stunts, Labour remains the party of unlimited and uncontrolled immigration.\"\n\nThe 100,000 figure is based on proposed EU rules setting migrant quotas for member states based on population size and economic strength.\n\nBut Sir Keir said negotiations would not be bound by these rules since \"we are not a member of the EU\".\n\nDowning Street said accepting a quota of migrants from the EU was a red line in its ongoing negotiations for a returns agreement. The prime minister's spokesperson did not dismiss giving more money to the EU for a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK should make its own deal with the EU to send migrants back to their home countries.\n\nSir Keir denied that negotiating for closer co-operation with the EU was a weakening of his stance on Brexit, but said it was needed.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says \"stopping the boats\" is a key priority and passed a law earlier this year with that in mind.\n\nIn total, 45,755 migrants crossed the Channel in 2022, the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018. So far this year, 23,382 people have made the crossing, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe Labour leader hopes a Europol deal will include a replacement for the EU's live police data and intelligence-sharing system.\n\nLabour has already committed to abandon government plans to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda, and instead invest in more resources for the National Crime Agency, which carries out operations against traffickers.\n\nLabour's plans \"wouldn't even stop the boats\", Mr Jenrick has argued.\n\n\"The experience with Albania is you have to have a strong deterrent - that means you need a policy like our Rwanda plans,\" he said.\n\nLast year Albanians accounted for more than a quarter of the migrants who reached the UK in small boats. The number has fallen more than 90% since the government signed a returns deal with Albania in December.\n\nBrexit saw the end of the UK's seat on the board of Europol, and access to shared intelligence databases.\n\nThe agreement between the EU and the UK replaced some of the previous arrangements, including a new surrender agreement so that serious criminals can be moved between the two territories.\n\nThere was also a new agreement on the exchange of criminal record information, fingerprints, and number plate data.\n\nBut senior police have raised concerns that the EU's criminal database - the Schengen Information System (SIS II) - was a faster way of sharing police information than its post-Brexit replacement, known as I-24/7.\n\nThe government has committed to improving other shared databases in the coming years.", "Isa Balado was doing a live broadcast about a robbery when the incident happened\n\nSpanish police have arrested a man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a journalist after he allegedly touched her while she was live on TV.\n\nIsa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him.\n\nMs Balado tried to continue, but was interrupted by the programme's host.\n\n\"Isa, forgive me for interrupting you... but did he just touch your bottom?\" Nacho Abad asked.\n\nThe reporter confirmed it, and Mr Abad told her to put the \"idiot\" on camera, to which the shot moves to show both Isa Balado and the man, who was still standing with her, smiling and laughing.\n\n\"As much as you want to ask what channel we are from, do you really have to touch my bottom? I'm doing a live show and I'm working,\" Ms Balado told him.\n\nThe man then denied touching her, and as he walked away attempted to tickle her head.\n\nPolice later said a man had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a reporter while she was doing a live television show, in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nMediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the \"absolutely intolerable situation\" she suffered, and that it \"categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression\".\n\nSpain's Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz also spoke out over the incident, saying it should not go unpunished. She wrote on X: \"It is machismo that makes journalists suffer sexual assaults like this, and the aggressors are unrepentant in front of the camera.\"\n\nThis incident comes amid a sexism row in Spain, sparked by the former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales kissing World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso on the lips.\n\nHis actions during the Women's World Cup final led to widespread criticism, his eventual resignation and a summons to court over accusations of sexual assault and coercion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters.\n\nAt least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.\n\nTwo dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city after Storm Daniel hit on Sunday.\n\nAbout 10,000 people are reported missing, the Red Crescent says, and the death toll is expected to rise further.\n\nSome aid has started to arrive, including from Egypt, but rescue efforts have been hampered by the political situation in Libya, with the country split between two rival governments.\n\nThe US, Germany, Iran, Italy, Qatar and Turkey are among the countries that have said they have sent or are ready to send aid.\n\nVideo footage recorded after dark on Sunday shows a river of floodwater churning through the city with cars bobbing helplessly in the current.\n\nThere are harrowing stories of people being swept out to sea, while others clung onto rooftops to survive.\n\n\"I was shocked by what I saw, it's like a tsunami,\" Hisham Chkiouat, from Libya's eastern-based government, said.\n\nHe told BBC Newshour that the collapse of one of the dams to the south of Derna had dragged large parts of the city into the sea.\n\n\"A massive neighbourhood has been destroyed - there is a large number of victims, which is increasing each hour.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nKasim Al-Qatani, an aid worker in the town of Bayda, told the BBC's Newsnight programme it was difficult for rescuers to reach Derna as most of the main paths into the city were \"out of service because of huge damage\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched into why the floods were able to cause such devastation, he said, adding that 2.5bn Libyan Dinar (£412m; $515m) would be given to help rebuild Derna and the eastern city of Benghazi.\n\nThe cities of Soussa, Al-Marj and Misrata were also affected by Sunday's storm.\n\nWater engineering experts told the BBC it is likely the upper dam, around 12km (eight miles) from the city, had failed first, sending its water sweeping down the river valley towards the second dam, which lies closer to Derna - where neighbourhoods were inundated.\n\n\"At first we just thought it was heavy rain but at midnight we heard a huge explosion and it was the dam bursting,\" Raja Sassi, who survived along with his wife and small daughter, told Reuters news agency.\n\nLibyan journalist Noura Eljerbi, who is based in Tunisia told the BBC she only found out that around 35 of her relatives who all lived in the same apartment block in Derna were still alive after contacting a local rescue team.\n\n\"The house has been destroyed but my family managed to get out before things got worse. They are safe now,\" she said.\n\nMr Qatani said there was no clean drinking water in Derna, and a lack of medical supplies.\n\nHe added that the only hospital in Derna could no longer take patients because \"there are more than 700 dead bodies waiting in the hospital and it's not that big\".\n\nThe low-lying areas of Derna near the sea have been worst affected\n\nLibya has been in political chaos since long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 - leaving the oil-rich nation effectively split with an interim, internationally recognised government operating from the capital, Tripoli, and another one in the east.\n\nLibyan journalist Abdulkader Assad said the confusion around this was hampering rescue efforts.\n\n\"You have people who are pledging help but the help is not coming,\" he told the BBC. \"There are no rescue teams, there are no trained rescuers in Libya. Everything over the last 12 years was about war.\"\n\nBut despite the split, the government in Tripoli has sent a plane with 14 tonnes of medical supplies, body bags and more than 80 doctors and paramedics.\n\nBrian Lander, the deputy director of emergencies at the UN's World Food Programme, said the organisation had food supplies for 5,000 families.\n\nWhole neighbourhoods in Derna were washed out to sea\n\nDerna, about 250km east of Benghazi along the coast, is surrounded by the nearby hills of the fertile Jabal Akhdar region.\n\nThe city was once where militants from the Islamic State group built a presence in Libya, after Gaddafi's fall. They were driven out some years later by the Libyan National Army (LNA), forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar who is allied to the eastern administration.\n\nThe powerful general said eastern officials are currently assessing damage caused by the floods so roads can be reconstructed and electricity restored to help rescue efforts.\n\nLibya's leading Al-Wasat news website has suggested that failures to properly rebuild and maintain infrastructure in Derna after years of conflict is partly to blame for the high death toll.\n\n\"The security chaos and Libyan authorities' laxity in carrying out close monitoring of safety measures [of the dams] led to the catastrophe,\" it quoted economic expert Mohammed Ahmed as saying.\n\nAre you in Derna, Libya? Are you affected by the flooding? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The head of oil giant BP has resigned as chief executive amid a review of his personal relationships with colleagues.\n\nIn a shock late evening announcement, the firm said Bernard Looney, who had led the company since 2020, was stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nBP said it had recently started an investigation into alleged relationships Mr Looney had with colleagues, the second in two years.\n\nThe firm said he had admitted he was not \"fully transparent\" initially.\n\n\"The company has strong values and the board expects everyone at the company to behave in accordance with those values,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"All leaders in particular are expected to act as role models and to exercise good judgement in a way that earns the trust of others.\"\n\nNick Butler, a former head of strategy at BP, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"shock\" about Mr Looney's exit.\n\n\"BP is a company where the leadership is crucial and Bernard provided a lot of that. We'll have to see if his successor can achieve even more than he did,\" he added.\n\nThe company's shareholders will now be watching for who is appointed as BP's next chief executive, Sophie Lund-Yates from investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown said in a note.\n\n\"A clear path forward needs to be forged sooner rather than later to limit negative sentiment,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Ireland and raised on a farm, Mr Looney had spent his career at BP, which he joined in 1991 as a drilling engineer. He became a member of its executive team in 2010.\n\nHe was previously head of oil and gas production before taking over as chief executive from Bob Dudley.\n\nMr Looney presented a more approachable image as a chief executive, taking to Instagram when he took the helm to post pictures of smiling employees at one of the company's operations in Germany, and said he wanted to use the platform to talk \"openly\" about people's concerns about the oil and gas industry.\n\nHe steered the firm through a tumultuous period, with his tenure coinciding with pandemic lockdowns, when demand for oil and gas dropped sharply. Just months into his chief executive role, he told staff BP planned to cut 10,000 jobs due to the pandemic.\n\nIn 2022, the start of the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring, and prompted the firm to leave Russia after pressure from the UK government.\n\nMr Looney had set out a plan to make the energy giant net zero by 2050 but had more recently come under fire from environmental groups for watering down an initial target.\n\nBP said it had not made any decisions related to severance pay for Mr Looney. He received more than £10m in pay and bonuses last year - more than 170 times as much as an average BP employee - as soaring oil prices pushed the firm's profits to a record high.\n\nChief financial officer Murray Auchincloss will act as chief executive on an interim basis.\n\nMr Auchincloss has been a central part of the management team as the firm continues to work towards net zero although there is no guarantee that he will get the job as a permanent role.\n\nIn a webcast to all BP staff on Wednesday, Mr Auchincloss said: \"While the person in the CEO's chair has changed, the fundamentals have not changed.\"\n\nHe said his \"main focus\" was on the safety of staff.\n\n\"Today, just like every day in BP, we go to work in the field, in our refineries, in offices, at sea, at our retail sites... Thousands of people, all over the world, all of whom deserve to go home safely,\" he added.\n\nMr Auchincloss added that the firm's \"strategy hasn't changed\" and that \"the leadership team we have in BP is also unchanged\", despite Mr Looney's exit.\n\nMr Looney's departure comes as a series of high profile dismissals of executives in the UK has put a spotlight on executive personal behaviour.\n\nTony Danker, boss of the UK's largest business lobby group the CBI, was fired in April over complaints about his behaviour at work.\n\nMeanwhile, Crispin Odey was forced to step down from the hedge fund he founded in June after reports of sexual harassment allegations by 13 women. He has denied the claims.\n\nBP said it had launched a review of Mr Looney's relationships with colleagues following an anonymous tip-off in 2022.\n\nAt the time, the company said Mr Looney disclosed \"a small number of historical relationships with colleagues prior to becoming CEO\" and it found no breach of company conduct.\n\nMr Looney gave assurances then about disclosing the past relationships, as well as his future behaviour.\n\nBut the board said it had received similar allegations \"recently\", prompting another review.\n\n\"Mr Looney has today informed the company that he now accepts that he was not fully transparent in his previous disclosures,\" BP said. \"He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May regrets saying 'nothing has changed'\n\nFormer Prime Minister Theresa May has told the BBC the UK would have been better off if MPs had backed her deal to leave the European Union.\n\nMrs May said her plan was thwarted by \"hardline\" Brexit-supporting MPs and those who wanted to remain in the EU.\n\nThe Conservative MP became prime minister in 2016 after the UK voted to leave the EU in a referendum.\n\nBut she was forced to quit and replaced by Boris Johnson in 2019 after her deal was repeatedly rejected by MPs.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast, Mrs May reflected on her three turbulent years as prime minister ahead of the release of her memoir, the Abuse of Power, later this year.\n\nWhen Mrs May entered office, the country had narrowly voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%.\n\nTo implement that result, Mrs May's government spent years negotiating a withdrawal agreement, which set out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May told Political Thinking she \"wanted to deliver a Brexit that recognised the concerns of the 48%\".\n\n\"And that was the deal I believe I negotiated.\"\n\nUnder sustained pressure from Tory MPs, Mrs May struggled to get parliamentary support for the legislation needed to seal her deal.\n\nMPs rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times in votes in Parliament, and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.\n\nBut Mrs May insisted: \"It wouldn't have given either side 100% of what they wanted, but it would have given the country a better overall deal.\"\n\nIn the end, MPs backed a deal negotiated by Mrs May's successor, Boris Johnson, who won a landslide general election in 2019 by promising to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nMrs May said it was a \"fallacy\" to describe her plan as a \"hard\" Brexit, because she was trying to keep trading advantages the UK enjoyed in the EU.\n\n\"I was trying to get people beyond that sense of only looking at what the past had been like,\" Mrs May said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May claims that people who live in social housing were viewed by some as \"second class citizens\"\n\nMrs May has made few public appearances outside Parliament since her resignation in 2019.\n\nWith a book out soon, she has opened up and spoke about some of the events that shaped her premiership, from the deadly fire at Grenfell Tower, to her relationship with former US President Donald Trump.\n\nOne of the defining images of her time in office was her tearful resignation statement outside Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson, Mrs May said the media framed her as a \"typically silly woman\".\n\n\"It was that sense of weakness,\" Mrs May said.\n\n\"It's one of the challenges, sadly, for women in public life. If a man shows emotion, it's wonderful that he's showing that side of himself. If a woman shows emotion, it's weakness.\"\n\nShe was careful throughout the interview not to criticise the current Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.\n\nWhen asked about Mr Sunak's pragmatic approach to curbing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, Mrs May said: \"I put it in a slightly different way but it's the same theme.\"\n\nShe said: \"If we shake our fingers at people and say you can never fly again, you can never drive a car again, you can never eat meat again, we're never going to get where we need to be because people are just going to say, no, hang on a minute, no, that's not me.\"\n\nMrs May - whose government signed the net zero target into law in 2019 - said \"we have to take people along with us\".\n\nShe said: \"As Rishi says, he wants it to be about jobs. He wants it to be about economic growth. I think it really can be. And I want to see the government coming full throttle behind that.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview with Theresa May on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, available on BBC Sounds. It is on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday at 5:30pm.", "Kim Jong Un waving before boarding his train for a previous trip\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is on his way to Russia's port city Vladivostok via bulletproof train to meet President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn line with a long-standing tradition among North Korean leaders, Mr Kim will likely spend over 20 hours travelling some 1,180km (733 miles) on the slow-moving locomotive - said to include a restaurant serving fine French wines and dishes such as fresh lobster.\n\nThe train rattles along at about 50km/h (31mph) because of its heavy armoured protection.\n\nBy comparison, London's high-speed rail runs at about 200km/h while Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains can hit 320 km/h.\n\nThe long journey also takes into account the North's sometimes archaic rail network.\n\nThe train has been christened Taeyangho, the Korean word for the sun, and a symbolic reference to North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung.\n\nThe tradition of long-distance travel via train was started by Kim Il Sung - Kim Jong Un's grandfather - who took his own train on trips to Vietnam and Eastern Europe.\n\nThese luxurious trains are said to be heavily guarded by security agents who scan routes and upcoming stations for bombs and other threats.\n\nKim Jong Un's father Kim Jong Il, who ruled North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011, reportedly travelled by train because he was afraid of flying.\n\nKim Jong Il famously took 10 days to get to Moscow in 2001 to hold a meeting with Mr Putin.\n\nRussian military commander Konstantin Pulikovsky, who accompanied the former North Korean leader on the 2001 ride, spoke of its opulence in his memoir Orient Express.\n\n\"It was possible to order any dish of Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and French cuisine.\"\n\nHe recalled live lobsters being transported to the train to ensure the availability of fresh delicacies, while cases of red wine from Bordeaux and Burgundy were also flown in from Paris.\n\nEven Mr Putin's private train \"did not have the comfort of Kim Jong Il's train,\" he said.\n\nAnother former Russian diplomat, Georgy Toloraya, wrote in 2019 about his experience of travelling on the same 2001 train ride. He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang. Russian Standard vodka was also a fixture.\n\nBoth Russians described performers and singers entertaining guests aboard the train.\n\nNorth Korean state media said that Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack while travelling on the train in 2011.\n\nIn November 2009, conservative South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo reported that the armoured train featured around 90 carriages. The green vehicle with a yellow stripe also had conference rooms, audience chambers and bedrooms, with satellite phones and flat-screen televisions installed for briefings.\n\nKim Jong Un may not share his father's fear of flying, as he has flown on his Russian-made private jet for several trips.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut when he last met Mr Putin in Vladivostok in Russia's far east in 2019 - likely to be the last time Mr Kim travelled abroad - he also arrived by train. He was welcomed by officials with a traditional offering of bread and salt.\n\nHis rumoured trip, if it happens, will most likely start in Pyongyang and go through Tumangang station at the Russian border, where wheels on the train will be switched for the Russian tracks.\n\nThe wheel switch is expected to take at least a few hours.\n\nIn addition to trains, Mr Kim has also been seen getting about on other forms of luxurious transport that paint a sharp contrast to the impoverished lifestyles of the North Korean people.\n\nHaving attended boarding school in Switzerland, Kim Jong Un is no stranger to flying.\n\nIn May 2018, he made his first international flight since assuming power, to the Chinese city of Dalian to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\nMedia reports suggest he has previously used his private jet for travel within North Korea.\n\nThe aircraft that flew him to China was a Soviet-made long-range aircraft, the Ilyushin-62 (Il-62).\n\nNorth Korean watchers at website NK News say locals call it \"Chammae-1\" named after the goshawk, the country's national bird.\n\nThe IL-62 jet was used to transport North Korea's delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea\n\nThe white exterior of the plane is emblazoned with North Korea's official name in Korean on two sides, with the national flag next to the text. The tail features a red star inside red and blue circles.\n\nThe aircraft has modern interiors, and Kim has occasionally been photographed working and holding meetings on board.\n\nThe Chammae-1 made headlines when it carried Pyongyang's high-level Olympics delegation, including Kim's sister Kim Yo Jong, to South Korea in 2018.\n\nSouth Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the flight used the identification number \"PRK-615\", possibly a symbolic reference to the 15 June North-South Joint Declaration signed in 2000 by the two countries.\n\nMr Kim has also been seen using a Ukrainian Antonov-148 (AN-148), featuring state airline Air Koryo's logo, in a 2014 documentary aired by state-owned Korean Central Television.\n\nIn 2015, North Korean state media even carried footage of Kim Jong Un piloting a \"homegrown\" light aircraft and sitting at the controls of an AN-2 military biplane.\n\nIn March 2018, Mr Kim travelled to the Chinese capital Beijing via train, but used his personal Mercedes-Benz S-Class to travel within the city.\n\nAccording to South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo, the car was specially transported on board the train.\n\nThe car, manufactured in 2010, cost roughly 2 billion Korean won ($1.8m), the paper reported.\n\nKim Jong Un also uses luxury cars and favours the Mercedes-Benz S-Class\n\nMr Kim's favoured S-Class model was prominent during the 2018 inter-Korean summit at Panmunjom, when he drove across the border with bodyguards running alongside.\n\nHis convoy at the summit was also reported to feature a private toilet car, used by the leader to answer the call of nature while travelling.\n\nThis was also mentioned in a 2015 report by Seoul-based website DailyNK, which said that a customised bathroom is built into one of the cars of Mr Kim's convoy of armoured vehicles.\n\nState media in North Korea have shown the leader riding on boats, a submarine, buses and even a ski lift.\n\nHe is also rumoured to use other forms of transport, but these are yet to be seen in his excursions abroad.\n\nWhen state media published photos of his visit to an army-run fishing station in May 2013, NK News observed a yacht in the background.\n\nThere was no clear confirmation that the vessel, estimated to cost $7m, belonged to Mr Kim, or even how it was imported despite international sanctions on luxury goods.\n\nGiven the price, however, many international media outlets singled out the nation's ruler as the most likely owner.\n\nIn June 2015, Washington-based Radio Free Asia reported that a researcher had spotted a new helipad at Mr Kim's lakeside villa in South Pyongan province.\n\nThe researcher, working at the US-Korea Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, suggested that the helipad may be used by Mr Kim's family or visitors.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "Artwork: K2-18 b orbits a cool dwarf star shown in red just far enough away for its temperature to support life.\n\nNasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.\n\nIt may have detected a molecule called dimethyl sulphide (DMS). On Earth, at least, this is only produced by life.\n\nThe researchers stress that the detection on the planet 120 light years away is \"not robust\" and more data is needed to confirm its presence.\n\nResearchers have also detected methane and CO2 in the planet's atmosphere.\n\nDetection of these gases could mean the planet, named K2-18b, has a water ocean.\n\nProf Nikku Madhusudhan, of the University of Cambridge, who led the research, told BBC News that his entire team were ''shocked'' when they saw the results.\n\n\"On Earth, DMS is only produced by life. The bulk of it in Earth's atmosphere is emitted from phytoplankton in marine environments,\" he said.\n\nBut Prof Madhusudhan described the detection of DMS as tentative and said that more data would be needed to confirm its presence. Those results are expected in a year.\n\n''If confirmed, it would be a huge deal and I feel a responsibility to get this right if we are making such a big claim.''\n\nIt is the first time astronomers have detected the possibility of DMS in a planet orbiting a distant star. But they are treating the results with caution, noting that a claim made in 2020 about the presence of another molecule, called phosphine, that could be produced by living organisms in the clouds of Venus was disputed a year later.\n\nEven so, Dr Robert Massey, who is independent of the research and deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society in London, said he was excited by the results.\n\n''We are slowly moving towards the point where we will be able to answer that big question as to whether we are alone in the Universe or not,\" he said.\n\n''I'm optimistic that we will one day find signs of life. Perhaps it will be this, perhaps in 10 or even 50 years we will have evidence that is so compelling that it is the best explanation.''\n\nJWST is able to analyse the light that passes through the faraway planet's atmosphere. That light contains the chemical signature of molecules in its atmosphere. The details can be deciphered by splitting the light into its constituent frequencies - rather like a prism creating a rainbow spectrum. If parts of the resulting spectrum are missing, it has been absorbed by chemicals in the planet's atmosphere, enabling researchers to discover its composition.\n\nArtwork: The James Webb Space Telescope is capable of analysing tiny flecks of light from the atmospheres of distant planets\n\nThe feat is all the more remarkable because the planet is more than 1.1 million billion km away, so the amount of light reaching the space telescope is tiny.\n\nAs well as DMS, the spectral analysis detected an abundance of the gases methane and carbon dioxide with a good degree of confidence.\n\nThe proportions of CO2 and methane are consistent with there being a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Nasa's Hubble telescope had detected the presence of water vapour previously, which is why the planet, which has been named K2-18b, was one of the first to be investigated by the vastly more powerful JWST, but the possibility of an ocean is a big step forward.\n\nThe ability of a planet to support life depends on its temperature, the presence of carbon and probably liquid water. Observations from JWST seem to suggest that that K2-18b ticks all those boxes. But just because a planet has the potential to support life it doesn't mean that it does, which is why the possible presence of DMS is so tantalising.\n\nWhat makes the planet even more intriguing is that it is not like the Earth-like, so called rocky planets, discovered orbiting distant stars that are candidates for life. K2-18b is nearly nine times the size of Earth.\n\nExoplanets - which are planets orbiting other stars - which have sizes between those of Earth and Neptune, are unlike anything in our solar system. This means that these 'sub-Neptunes' are poorly understood, as is the nature their atmospheres, according to Dr Subhajit Sarkar of Cardiff University, who is another member of the analysis team.\n\n\"Although this kind of planet does not exist in our solar system, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of planet known so far in the galaxy,\" he said.\n\n\"We have obtained the most detailed spectrum of a habitable-zone sub-Neptune to date, and this allowed us to work out the molecules that exist in its atmosphere.\"\n\nFollow Pallab on X, formerly known as Twitter", "The RCM is the professional organisation and trade union which represents the interests of midwifery staff\n\nMidwives and maternity support worker members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Northern Ireland have announced strike action from 08:00 to 16:00 BST on Friday 22 September.\n\nThey will also be taking industrial action short of a strike by claiming payment for any overtime worked in the week following strike action.\n\nThe RCM said the action would be across all five trusts in Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the trade union Nipsa also said its members in health and social care, and in the civil service, will strike on 22 September as a continuation of its action about pay.\n\nIts general secretary Carmel Gates said it was \"entirely within the gift of the secretary of state to resolve the pay issue for all public sector workers here by making more money available\".\n\nIn March, 89% of the RCM's members who voted in a ballot said they were prepared to go on strike over pay and \"safer care and maternity services\".\n\nSome 93.9% voted for industrial action short of a strike, based on a turnout of 55% of eligible RCM members working in the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe RCM said the pause was \"in order to engage in talks\" with the Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nIt added on Wednesday that \"six months later there has been no progress towards a meaningful pay offer\".\n\n\"Midwives are deeply frustrated by the lack of any progress by policymakers and because of that they have been driven to take a stand for fair pay and safer care and maternity services,\" Karen Murray, the RCM's director for Northern Ireland, said.\n\nThe RCM added that the \"safety of women will be the prime concern during any industrial action\".\n\nIt said midwives and maternity support workers would be working in maternity units \"to ensure women receive the care they need\".\n\n\"Maternity services are being kept open because of the selfless efforts of midwives and maternity support workers, but they can only take so much,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Morale is at rock bottom and staff face a real impact on their physical and mental health.\n\n\"We have reached a tipping point and we must see action to address the growing crisis in our maternity services, and to deliver a decent pay deal.\"\n\nMidwives were given a 4% pay rise in December 2022, which the union said previously was well below the rate of inflation at the time, which was 10%.", "The applause was grudging and the words of praise spoken in hushed tones, but it was a measure of how England's Jude Bellingham ruled Hampden Park that even some Scotland fans were finally prepared to set rivalry aside to acknowledge his brilliance.\n\nBellingham's vision and touch put the concluding flourish on a performance of world-class quality by creating Harry Kane's late goal, setting the seal on a comfortable 3-1 win in this celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first meeting between Scotland and England.\n\nIt was then that a brave few Scotland fans - only a few mind you - put their hands together in appreciation for a masterclass from 20-year-old Bellingham.\n\nThere was no shame in Scotland being run ragged by Bellingham, who played a part in England's first goal scored by Phil Foden then scored the second himself after an awful error by Scotland captain Andrew Robertson, as he has been ripping up La Liga since his summer move to Real Madrid.\n\nIt was Bellingham who felt the full force and fury of Hampden Park when he came towards the touchline for a drink seconds before kick-off and was given some colourful analysis of his ability by fired up Scotland fans.\n• None The Football News Show special: Is Bellingham the real deal?\n• None Euro 2024: Who needs what to qualify?\n\nBellingham was the target for some initial Scotland efforts to test his temperament and knock him out of his stride, but he has the edge to go with his natural gifts, rode out that early storm and simply played on a different level to everyone else on the pitch.\n\nHe has elegance and power, and can create and score goals. Bellingham is, quite simply, the complete package. England manager Gareth Southgate has a truly special talent on his hands, a player who will be the envy of any other country in world football.\n\nBellingham, as he admitted himself, was below his usual standards during Saturday's 1-1 draw against Ukraine in Wroclaw, but everything about his body language and intent when in possession screamed of someone laser-focused on ensuring that would not happen again.\n\nEngland's overall display was much more cohesive and threatening than the dull offering in Poland, with Manchester City's Foden making the most of his opportunity and Kane applying the final blow to Scotland.\n\nThe build-up to the game carried all the hallmarks of this great old rivalry with noise, colour, pyrotechnics and a rousing rendition of Flower Of Scotland to stir the blood of Scottish fans - not that it needed much stirring once they caught sight of England's white shirts.\n\nBellingham was the name on everyone's lips, even reluctantly among the small band of Scotland fans who chose to publicly appreciate England's superstar - belatedly and once the game was lost, admittedly.\n\nSouthgate knew this was an awkward assignment, not simply because Scotland have improved under the excellent guidance of Steve Clarke to the extent that they look as certain to qualify for Euro 2024 as their adversaries from across the border, but also because this game always carries meaning and fierce competitiveness.\n\nScotland have closed the gap but this demonstrated that it remains a considerable one, as proved by the manner of England's win and how they clearly contained all the high-class performers in this game.\n\nOne other England player, apart from Bellingham, was acknowledged by Scotland's supporters but this was in loud and ironic fashion and again flagged up a long-term dilemma for Southgate.\n\nWhen Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi went off at half-time, Southgate chose not to use AC Milan's Fikayo Tomori or throw in Chelsea's Levi Colwill.\n\nInstead, Manchester United's outcast former captain Harry Maguire was plunged into the fray, to the same deafening ironic roars from Scotland fans that greeted him from the home support when he was brought on at Arsenal recently.\n\nMaguire's every touch was mocked in similar fashion inside Hampden Park. It was, presumably, not Southgate's intention to lift the mood of Scotland's subdued followers as they trailed 2-0, but that was exactly the impact of the 30-year-old's introduction.\n\nEngland's fans responded by loudly rallying to Maguire's cause but there was a grim predictability about what happened in the 67th minute, the defender lazily sticking out a leg to divert Robertson's cross past helpless keeper Aaron Ramsdale.\n\nHampden Park rocked to the sound of renewed hope that lasted until Kane scored nine minutes from time - leaving Maguire to pump his fists in front of England's fans in thanks for their backing.\n\nIt would take a heart of stone, or an opposition supporter, not to feel some measure of sympathy for a player whose career has come to a standstill at club level and does not seem able to catch a break when he does make a rare appearance.\n\nMaguire currently faces many tests, most significantly having to deal with Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag who clearly does not rate him, and a reduced standing among opposition fans that makes for uncomfortable listening - for the neutrals at least - when he plays.\n\nThe problem for Southgate, and it will not go away, is that he is maintaining loyalty to a player who is not playing for his club, not getting the tests and games that will keep him sharp for what England expect will be a Euro 2024 campaign in Germany next summer.\n\nThis is the crux of this whole contentious matter.\n\nMaguire, who rejected the chance to get his club career going by failing to agree a move to West Ham United, has made his bed at club level with that decision and time will tell if it shapes his career at international level.\n\nFor now, though, Southgate is not for turning.\n\nIndeed, Southgate came out fighting against Maguire's treatment in his post-match media briefing, turning on those who have criticised him.\n\nHe said: \"From a Scotland fan's point of view I get it. I have absolutely no complaint with what they did. It's a consequence of ridiculous treatment of him for a long period of time.\n\n\"It's a joke. I've never known a player treated the way he is. Not by the Scottish fans but by our own commentators, pundits or whatever it is. They've created something that's beyond anything I've ever seen.\"\n\nSouthgate's loyalty to Maguire is admirable in some respects, as is his stout defence of a player who has served him so well, but it may be unsustainable.\n\nEngland's win delivered another factor into Southgate's future selection equation in the composed performance of Brighton's Lewis Dunk, who was comfortable on the ball, powerful in the air and made several key interceptions on the very few occasions Scotland threatened.\n\nThis was a chance for the 31-year-old to state his England case and he did it very eloquently to increase competition in Southgate's defensive areas.\n\nIf Maguire is a man who now faces a constant fight to prolong his England career, Hampden Park bore witness to a player with a golden future in front of him in Jude Bellingham.", "Kaien Cruz might have become a professional footballer player.\n\nBut in a dramatic turn of events the South African singer-songwriter instead ditched their boots and fully embraced music – after their sister encouraged them to record a song they'd written while at university on a football scholarship.\n\nLove Me in the Dark – released in 2017 as a dance mix by local DJ Sketchy Bongo – was an overnight success.\n\n\"This song starts going crazy on radio and TV and everyone’s singing it,\" says Cruz, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them.\n\n\"I was blown away because it was like the first song of my own that I had written on guitar - super innocently in my room.\"\n\nLove Me in the Dark topped the South African charts and was nominated for Song of The Year at South African Music Awards. It also caught the ear of Canadian global star Justin Bieber, who handpicked Cruz to open his sold-out Purpose Tour in 2017.\n\nCruz, then 18, had only performed at one show before – for about 500 people. Suddenly, they were in a packed stadium in front of 90,000 screaming concertgoers.\n\nThat experience made Cruz realise that \"music is the path that I should be taking, and I should keep going\".\n\nCruz first picked up a guitar at the age of eight.\n\nNow based in Los Angeles, Cruz believes that their upbringing in South Africa amid many diverse cultures, languages, food and people now allows them to weave between music genres and playing styles, such as R&B, stripped-down acoustic and Afropop.\n\n\"It really depends on whatever comes out that day or whatever mood I'm in. I think the through-line for me is music is therapy,\" they said.\n\nCruz mostly writes about love and relationships – but they think that \"most of their audience is not fully aware of my queerness\" because that is \"not at the forefront of the music that I make\".\n\nTheir latest single, I Lay, is Afro-Latin, upbeat and energetic. It follows on from the heartfelt Black Ice, also released this year. They are working on their first full length project, which is 12 tracks.\n\n\"I just love every single song and I feel like this is really going to give people a good understanding of who I am and what I can do musically,\" Cruz says.\n\nWhen Cruz is not making music, they’re still keen to kick a ball around with friends on a beach.\n\nYou can hear Kaien Cruz on This Is Africa on BBC World Service radio over the weekend, and online at BBCWorldservice.com/thisisafrica", "Is there a burgeoning alliance between Mr Kim and Mr Putin?\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un's reported plans to visit Russia this month have caused concern among the US and its allies.\n\nHe and President Vladimir Putin intend to discuss the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine, US officials say.\n\nOn the surface, an arms deal between North Korea and Russia makes perfect transactional sense.\n\nMoscow desperately needs weapons, specifically ammunition and artillery shells, for the war in Ukraine, and Pyongyang has plenty of both.\n\nOn the other side, sanction-starved North Korea desperately needs money and food. More than three years of border closures, not to mention the breakdown of talks with the United States in 2019, have left the country more isolated than ever before.\n\nBut below the surface, it opens up the potential for Pyongyang and Moscow to start working more closely together. The US has been warning about a possible arms deal between the two countries for some time, but a leader-level meeting between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin catapults this into the next realm.\n\nWhile the priority for the US, certainly in the short-term, seems to be to stop North Korean weapons from getting to the frontline in Ukraine, the concern here in Seoul is over what North Korea would get in return for selling its arms to Russia.\n\nWith Russia in a desperate situation, Mr Kim will be able to extract a high price.\n\nPerhaps he could demand increased military support from Russia. Yesterday, South Korea's intelligence service briefed that Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had suggested Russia, China and North Korea hold joint naval drills, similar to those carried out by the US, South Korea and Japan, which Kim Jong Un so detests.\n\nMr Kim might also be able to call in Russian weapons in the future.\n\nBut by far the most worrying request Mr Kim could make is for Mr Putin to provide him with advanced weapons technology or knowledge, to help him make breakthroughs with his nuclear weapons programme. He is still struggling to master key strategic weapons, chiefly a spy satellite and a nuclear-armed submarine.\n\nHowever officials in Seoul believe cooperation on this level is unlikely, as it could end up being strategically dangerous for Russia.\n\nYang Uk, a research fellow at the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, noted that even if Russia doesn't sell North Korea weapons in return, it could still fund its nuclear programme. \"If Russia pays in oil and food, it can revive the North Korea economy, which in turn could then also strengthen North Korea's weapons system. It is an extra source of income for them that they didn't have.\"\n\nMr Yang, an expert in military strategy and weapons systems, added: \"For 15 years we've built up a network of sanctions against North Korea, to stop it from developing and trading weapons of mass destruction. Now Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, could cause this whole system to collapse.\"\n\nAs sanctions have been ramped up, North Korea has become increasingly dependent on China to turn a blind eye to those violating sanctions and to provide it with food aid. For the past year Beijing has refused to punish North Korea for its weapons tests at the UN Security Council, meaning it has been able to develop its nuclear arsenal without serious consequence.\n\nNorth Korea provides Beijing with a useful buffer zone between itself and the US forces stationed in South Korea, meaning it pays to keep Pyongyang afloat.\n\nBut Pyongyang has always been uneasy about depending too much on China alone. With Russia on the hunt for allies, it gives Mr Kim the chance to diversify his support network.\n\nAnd with Russia so desperate, the North Korean leader may feel he can wrangle even greater concessions from Moscow than he can Beijing. Mr Putin might agree to keep silent in the face of a North Korean nuclear test, whereas this could prove a step too far for Chinese President Xi Jinping.\n\n\"During the Cold War, North Korea was playing the Russians off the Chinese, very similar to how children play parents off each other,\" said Dr Bernard Loo of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.\n\nBut there is still a question mark over whether the meeting will go ahead.\n\nMr Kim doesn't leave North Korea often or lightly. He is paranoid about his security and views trips abroad as fraught with danger. For his last international trips - to Hanoi to meet Donald Trump in February 2019, and to meet Mr Putin in Vladivostok in April 2019 - he rode on an armoured train. The trip to Hanoi took two long days through China.\n\nIt is unclear how private the two leaders intended their meeting to be, but it is possible the US is hoping that by making it public, it can spook Mr Kim and therefore thwart both the get-together and the potential arms deal.\n\nDr Loo doesn't think Mr Kim would have much wiggle room, however: \"Given the reports about three-way military exercises, it would be difficult to cancel these kinds of events without everyone ending up with egg on their face.\"\n\nPart of the US strategy since Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been to release intelligence to try to prevent deals from happening. North Korea and Russia have so far denied every suggestion they are looking to trade arms. Neither are likely to want this deal to be a public affair.", "Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her fiance, self-professed shaman Durek Verrett, have set their wedding date.\n\nNorway's Princess Martha Louise will marry her American partner, self-styled shaman Durek Verrett, next summer, the couple has announced.\n\nKing Harald V congratulated the pair, saying he was happy to welcome Mr Verrett to his family.\n\nThe princess relinquished her royal duties last year to run the alternative medicine business she shares with her fiance.\n\nMr Verrett is known for promoting unfounded medical practices.\n\nHe has suggested cancer is a choice and sold medallions online said to ward off Covid-19, while Princess Martha Louise has claimed she is able to communicate with angels.\n\nThey announced their engagement in June 2022 and received the king's blessing.\n\n\"We are excited to have Durek Verrett join the family and we look forward to celebrating the big day with them,\" Norway's king and queen said in a statement released on Wednesday.\n\n\"We wish Martha and Durek all the best.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why this princess gave up her royal duties\n\nThe wedding will be held in the scenic Norwegian town of Geiranger, on the shores of a fjord designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.\n\n\"We are incredibly happy to be able to celebrate our love in Geiranger's beautiful surroundings. It means a lot to us to gather our loved ones in a place that is so rich in history and spectacular nature,\" the couple said.\n\nMr Verrett will move to Norway and join the royal family without holding a title, Norway's state broadcaster NRK reported.\n\nThe Hollywood guru, who describes himself as a \"6th Generation Shaman\" - has claimed to have risen from the dead and to have predicted the 9/11 attacks in the United States two years before they took place.\n\nMr Verrett, who is African-American, has acknowledged that his beliefs can be uncomfortable for some, and has argued the criticism he faces is due to racism.\n\nMeanwhile Princess Martha Louise has attracted controversy in Norway for decades for her involvement in alternative treatments, including starting a school that aimed to help people \"get in touch with their angels\".\n\nShe has said that she was \"aware of the importance of research-based knowledge\", but that she believed alternative medicine can be \"an important supplement to help from the conventional medical establishment\".\n\nThe 51-year-old had been accused of using her royal title for competitive gain, and a palace statement made last November said that she had relinquished her \"patronage role\" so as to \"distinguish more clearly between their activities and the Royal House of Norway\".\n\nKing Harald had decided she would keep her title, the statement added, but the princess agreed not to use it in her commercial endeavours.\n\nThe princess was previously married to author Ari Behn. They divorced in 2017, and Mr Behn - who had discussed suffering from depression - died by suicide on Christmas Day 2019.\n\nPrincess Martha Louise is King Harald's eldest child. Her younger brother, Crown Prince Haakon, will succeed his father as king.", "The Derna flooding death toll could reach 20,000 according to the city's mayor.\n\nEntire neighbourhoods disappeared into the sea as a huge tsunami-like torrent of water swept the port city in eastern Libya.\n\nSurvivors described the situation as \"beyond catastrophic\".\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nBBC Verify and the BBC's Visual Journalism team have been analysing some of the reasons why the floods caused such catastrophic damage in Derna.\n\nThe water was brought by Storm Daniel which hit Libya on Sunday.\n\nThe storm - a Mediterranean hurricane-like system known as a medicane - brought more than 400mm of rain to parts of the north-east coast within a 24-hour period.\n\nThat is an extraordinary deluge of water for a region which usually sees about 1.5mm throughout the whole of September.\n\nLibya's National Meteorological Centre says it is a new rainfall record.\n\nSatellite data shows the extent of some of the rainfall across the region - although in many places the amount recorded on the ground was higher.\n\nIt's too early to attribute with certainty the severity of this storm to rising global temperatures.\n\nHowever, climate change is thought to be increasing the frequency of the strongest medicanes.\n\nProf Liz Stephens, an expert in climate risks and resilience at Reading University in the UK, says scientists are confident that climate change is supercharging the rainfall associated with such storms.\n\nThe Wadi Derna river runs from Libya's inland mountains, through the city of Derna and into the Mediterranean.\n\nIt is dry for much of the year, but the unusually heavy rain overwhelmed two crucial dams and destroyed several bridges.\n\nResidents of the city, who had been ordered by the local authorities to stay in their homes, reported hearing a loud blast before the city was engulfed in water.\n\n\"The dams would have held back the water initially, with their failure potentially releasing all the water in one go.\n\n\"The debris caught up in the floodwaters would have added to the destructive power,\" says Prof Stephens.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe upper dam had a storage capacity of 1.5 million cubic metres of water, whilst the lower dam could hold 22.5 million cubic metres.\n\nEach cubic metre of water weighs about one tonne (1,000kg), so 1.5 million cubic metres of water would weigh 1.5 million tonnes.\n\nCombine that weight with moving downhill, and it can produce enormous power. Witnesses have said that the waters were nearly three metres in places.\n\nIt is estimated that six inches (20cm) of fast moving flood-water is enough to knock someone off their feet, and 2ft (60cm) is enough to float a car. So it is no surprise that whole buildings were taken out in the flood.\n\nExperts say it's too early to know whether the extreme rainfall was simply too much for the dams to handle, or whether the condition of the structures also played a role.\n\nBased on their observations, the dams are likely to be made from dumped and compacted soil or rocks, which is not as strong as concrete.\n\n\"These dams are susceptible to overtopping [when water exceeds a dam's capacity], and while concrete dams can survive overtopping, rockfill dams usually cannot,\" says Exeter University's Prof Dragan Savic, an expert in hydraulic engineering in the UK.\n\nIt appears that the upper dam failed first, according to structural engineer Andrew Barr.\n\nHe says the water then probably flowed down the rocky river valley towards the lower dam before overwhelming it, resulting in the sudden and catastrophic flooding of the city which lies trapped between mountains and the sea.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nA research paper published last year on the hydrology of the Wadi Derna Basin highlighted that the area \"has a high potential for flood risk\", on the basis of likely historical flood volumes, and that the dams \"needed periodic maintenance\".\n\nThe report, by civil engineering expert Abdelwanees AR Ashoor from Libya's University of Omar Al-Mukhtar, said that \"the current situation in the Derna valley basin requires officials to take immediate measures, carrying out regular maintenance of the existing dams, because in the event of a huge flood, the result will be disastrous for the residents of the valley and the city\".\n\n‏Several experts have highlighted the possible role that the political instability in Libya has played in the upkeep of the dam.\n\nAs rescue efforts in the city continue, Libyan journalist Johr Ali, who has spoken to survivors in the city, told the BBC: \"People are hearing the cries of babies underground, they don't know how to get to them.\n\n\"People are using shovels to get the bodies from underneath the ground, they are using their own hands. They all say it's like doomsday.\"\n\nProduced by Chris Clayton, Mike Hills, Paul Sargeant, Tural Ahmedzade, Kady Wardell, Gerry Fletcher, Filipa Silverio and Erwan Rivault. Additional reporting: Mark Poynting, Peter Mwai, Alex Murray, and Esme Stallard.", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, 10, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after returning to the UK from Pakistan.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, were arrested at Gatwick Airport at around 19:45 BST after disembarking a flight from Dubai.\n\nPolice said three people were in custody and would be interviewed.\n\nSara's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nThe three adults, who lived with her, left the UK for Pakistan the day before police found Sara's body.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she had sustained multiple and extensive injuries.\n\nSara's mother, Olga Sharif, has been informed of the latest developments and is being supported by officers, Surrey Police said.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun newspaper following Wednesday's arrests, she said: \"It is a huge relief and something I didn't think would happen this quickly.\n\n\"I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders but there is still a long way to go before I feel closure,\" she added.\n\nSurrey police force described the investigation as \"extremely fast-moving, challenging and complex\".\n\nThe flight landed at London Gatwick just before 19:30 BST on Wednesday evening, five weeks after the trio left the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA group of people - thought to be police officers - could be seen boarding the plane. Two police cars and three vans later left the terminal with blue lights flashing.\n\nSara's father, his wife and his brother had flown to Dubai from an airport at Sialkot, in the Punjab province, early on Wednesday morning.\n\nPolice in Pakistan said the three travelled of their own free will.\n\nSara's five siblings - aged between one and 13 - who travelled with the three adults to Pakistan remain in a government care facility in the country.\n\nThey were found at Mr Sharif's father's home in Jhelum, north-eastern Pakistan, on Monday.\n\nA travel agent in Woking told the BBC they were contacted by Mr Sharif looking to book one-way tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible at around 22:00 BST on 8 August - two days before Sara was found.\n\nShortly after landing in Islamabad on 10 August, Mr Sharif contacted emergency services in the UK, which led Surrey Police to the family home and Sara's body.\n\nAn international search was launched via Interpol for the trio of adults, with police in Pakistan trying to locate them on behalf of detectives in Surrey.\n\nMr Sharif and Ms Batool released a video statement last week in which Ms Batool said they had gone into hiding in Pakistan over fears police in the country would \"torture or kill\" them.\n\nThey also claimed members of their family had been harassed, and that they were willing to co-operate with the UK authorities.\n\nMr Sharif did not speak in the video, while Ms Batool read from a notebook. It was the first time they had publicly commented since Sara's death.\n\nMuhammad Sharif, Sara's grandfather, told the BBC the five children had been staying at his house in Jhelum since their arrival on 10 August.\n\nThey were moved to a government childcare facility following a court hearing in Pakistan on Tuesday, although the court did not state how long they should be kept there for.\n\nA solicitor claiming to represent Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik said his firm was contacted by Ms Batool while she was in Pakistan.\n\n\"We got in touch with the police here, we got in touch with various travel agents and long story short they've arrived,\" Attiq Malik from Liberty Law Solicitors said.\n\n\"The next step really is to resolve matters using the rule of law and see what happens next.\"\n\nMr Malik added the process of questioning the trio has begun.\n\n9 August - Mr Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik travel to Islamabad with Sara's five siblings\n\n10 August - The group arrive in Pakistan. Surrey Police find Sara's body in Woking\n\nThe three adults and five children are thought to have gone to the city of Jhelum where they stayed for a few days\n\n15 August - Pakistan gets a request from Interpol to find them but they are unable to locate them\n\n6 September - A video of Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool is sent to the BBC. Mr Sharif does not speak in it but Ms Batool describes Sara's death as an \"incident\" and says they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities\n\n9 September - Two men buy plane tickets for Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik to return to the UK from Sialkot\n\n11 September - Police in Pakistan locate the five children at Mr Sharif's father's house in Jhelum\n\n12 September - The five children are sent to a government-run care facility after a court hearing\n\n13 September - Sara's father, his wife and his brother leave Pakistan for the UK, travelling via Dubai. Their flight to London Gatwick lands just before 19:30 BST, five weeks after the trio left the UK\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, are arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after disembarking the plane", "Data science has become an in-demand field\n\nProfessional services firm EY is creating 1,000 jobs in Northern Ireland over the next five years in areas like cyber security and data analytics.\n\nThe new jobs - paying an average of £33,000 a year - will be based in Belfast and at a new hub in the north west.\n\nThey have been supported by Invest NI and the Department for the Economy.\n\nThey were announced at the Northern Ireland Investment Summit in Belfast on Wednesday.\n\nMore than 100 global investors and businesses were in Belfast for the investment summit, essentially a big sales pitch for Northern Ireland.\n\nSecretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch told the summit that Northern Ireland had a unique trading position with a \"seamless land border within the single market and within an internal UK market\".\n\n\"When you back this country, you're joining a growing list of businesses and investors who also recognise these opportunities,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"It is our responsibility to promote all parts of Northern Ireland, especially the north-west, not just this great city of Belfast where we meet today.\"\n\nThe Princess Royal and Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch attended the summit\n\n\"That is something the government is trying to ensure, that we are levelling up across the UK but also across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I'm convinced that Northern Ireland has an amazing future.\"\n\nThe summit has been organised by the UK Department for Business and Trade and the Northern Ireland Office, together with Northern Ireland's inward investment agency Invest NI.\n\nThe government said about 120 investors and businesses from around the globe attended.\n\nAddressing the summit on Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said those who doubted the importance of the Good Friday Agreement should \"just take a look around you\".\n\n\"During the Troubles an event like this would have been impossible,\" he said, referencing the peace accord which helped to end the decades-long conflict.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he had hoped the Northern Ireland Executive would have been up and running for the summit so its ministers could have discussed ideas with investors, but \"sadly this has proven not to be the case\".\n\nStormont's second-largest party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), walked out of power-sharing in February 2022 in protest against post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"My team and I have worked intensively with the DUP and indeed all the main Northern Ireland political parties throughout the summer and I am genuinely hopeful that progress will be unlocked very, very soon,\" said Mr Heaton-Harris.\n\nEY's investment announcement will bring the company's Northern Ireland workforce to 1,900.\n\nThe firm's Northern Ireland managing partner, Rob Heron, said there had been increased demand across the firm's business areas in recent years.\n\nThe UK's Investment Minister Lord Dominic Johnson and the United States special envoy to Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III\n\nEY Northern Ireland will be running an Assured Skills Academy Programme alongside the Department for the Economy (DFE) to deliver a pipeline of talent in areas like cyber security and data analytics.\n\nIt will focus on individuals such as those seeking to return to work following a career break, those wishing to change career, or recent graduates looking for an alternative route into professional services.\n\nDfE Permanent Secretary Mike Brennan said his department's Assured Skills Academies would help to fill more than 350 jobs across a range of roles and skills areas.\n\nThese include data and analytics, cyber security, procurement and commercial contract management and project and programme management.\n\nThe Windsor Framework, like its predecessor the Northern Ireland Protocol, keeps Northern Ireland inside the EU's single market for goods.\n\nThat is primarily to prevent the hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it also means Northern Ireland manufacturers have better access to the EU than companies in other parts of the UK.\n\nNorthern Ireland companies do not face new post-Brexit bureaucracy when exporting goods to the EU.\n\nAdditionally, there are no checks and controls on Northern Ireland goods being sold to the rest of UK.\n\nThat means that if an American manufacturer wanted to serve both the UK and EU markets it could set up in Northern Ireland to minimise customs and regulatory bureaucracy on exports.\n\nThe jobs being announced today by EY are in services rather than manufacturing, so the Windsor Framework has no bearing on them.\n\nThe chief executive of Invest NI told the BBC that over the next 12 months he anticipates \"more and more announcements as people begin to understand how the framework will work in practice\".\n\nThere are currently more than 230 US businesses in Northern Ireland which employ more than 30,000 people, said the US special envoy, Joe Kennedy.\n\n\"The peace dividend, in order for Northern Ireland to wholly reach its potential, that has to be felt more broadly, it has to be spread more widely across society,\" he said.\n\n\"And so there's obviously a role and responsibility there, or an opportunity there, for business.\"\n\nMembers of the NI Business Alliance welcomed the chance to showcase local talent.\n\nA partnership between CBI NI, the Centre for Competitiveness, the Institute of Directors NI and Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce, the Business Alliance said Northern Ireland was \"uniquely positioned as a gateway to two of the world's largest markets\".\n\n\"Unfettered and flexible access to the EU and UK makes this the only jurisdiction in the world from which business can sell into GB and the EU free of customs and regulatory barriers,\" it said.\n\nThe Business Alliance said investors and businesses alike valued certainty and it remains \"optimistic about the prospect of more positive discussions around the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive\".", "The UK economy shrank more than expected in July, driven by strike action by NHS workers and teachers, according to official figures.\n\nWet weather also hit the construction and retail industries, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, causing the economy to contract by 0.5%.\n\nThe figures were worse than analysts had predicted and continue a trend of weak economic growth in the UK.\n\nBut the ONS said the \"broader picture\" for the country looked \"more positive\".\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said that while July saw the economy shrink, output across the services, production and construction sectors had grown 0.2% in the three months to July.\n\nHe said \"a busy schedule\" of sporting events and increased theme park visits had provided a slight boost to the economy.\n\nThe drag on the economy for July was partly due to a fall in output from the services sector, which includes the NHS. The ONS said the drop was driven by the industrial action, with senior doctors and radiographers striking over pay on two days each, and junior doctors walking out on five days in the month.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said the latest economic figures showed \"many reasons to be confident about the future\" and that the UK economy was now on course to grow faster than Germany, France and Italy.\n\nThe figure produced by the ONS to show the health of the UK economy is known as gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nGDP is a measure - or an attempt to measure - all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in a country.\n\nIf the figure is increasing, it means the economy is growing and people are doing more work and getting a little bit richer, on average.\n\nBut if GDP is falling, then the economy is shrinking which can be bad news for businesses. If GDP falls for two quarters in a row, it is typically defined as an economic recession.\n\nThe UK is currently not in recession, but there have been concerns over the economy's weak performance in recent months.\n\nRachel Reeves, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, said the new statistics on Wednesday marked \"another dismal day for growth\" and that the \"Conservatives' low growth trap\" was \"leaving working people worse off\".\n\nAnnie Rose, owner of horse riding company Cumbrian Heavy Horses, said July's wet weather affected her business because about 40% of her customers are tourists.\n\n\"When they have consistently poor weather, they'll go and do other things that are inside or they'll go on low level walks around a lake, that's not going to cost them a lot of money. Not sit on a horse in the pouring rain,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe said many recreational riding stables had closed in the UK \"simply because horse riding is expensive\" and keeping the animals is proving too costly. She said the cost of hay to feed her horses had trebled from around £4,000 to more than £12,000 last winter, piling further pressure on her budget.\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at forecaster Capital Economics, suggested that July's economic figures could mean a \"mild recession\" has begun. but added he expected the Bank of England to raise interest rates a final time from 5.25% to 5.5%.\n\nThe Bank has been hiking rates in a bid to control the rate at which consumer prices in the UK have been rising, known as inflation.\n\nThe economic theory behind increasing rates is that by making it more expensive for people to borrow money, they will then have less excess cash to spend, meaning households will buy fewer things and then price rises will ease. But it's a balancing act as raising rates too aggressively could cause a recession.\n\nInflation fell to 6.8% in the 12 months to July, but the level is still more than three times the Bank's 2% target.\n\nHouseholds have been grappling with higher prices for everything from food to energy in recent times and wage growth, on average, has only just caught up with the rate of inflation for the first time in nearly two years.\n\nBut with interest rates at the highest level for 15 years, the cost of borrowing including for loans such as mortgages has soared, although people with savings should benefit and get better returns on their money.\n\nThe latest GDP figures released are an estimate of how the economy is doing by the ONS. It produces one of the quickest estimates of GDP of the world's major economies, about 40 days after the quarter in question.\n\nAt that stage, only about 60% of the data is available, so the figure is revised when more information comes in, and can change at a later date.\n\nMuch as we all like to moan about the weather, there was more than abnormally heavy rainfall impacting July's GDP figures. While these are just an initial stab at estimating what activity was up to based on limited data, and could be a blip, the numbers are a reminder that we may be looking at a dampening for the economy.\n\nStrikes - in health, education - impacted certain sectors. The pattern of bank holidays this year has caused some volatility in monthly numbers too. A wetter July for activity was perhaps inevitable after an economically glowing June. Such volatility is why economists prefer to look at trends over quarters - and activity did still perk up between May and July as a whole.\n\nIt was consumer spending that drove a resilient economy in the first half of the year - and that continued in some areas in July. Attendance at the likes of sporting activities and festivals did well. But was that partly down to true grit, a determination to brave the weather after splashing out on tickets and to treat ourselves after the lockdown years?\n\nOr could it be a last splash? As fixed rate mortgages deals end, over half of residential mortgage holders and a bigger slice of landlords with buy-to-let loans have been exposed to higher interest rates, monthly repayments rising typically by hundreds of pounds.\n\nThe forthcoming data will be scrutinised as closely as meteorologists do their weather charts.", "NHS leaders and ministers will meet in Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss planning for winter.\n\nThe summit will involve the prime minister, health secretary and NHS England boss Amanda Pritchard.\n\nThe focus will be on what else the NHS needs to help it through the winter.\n\nWith a record number of people on the hospital waiting list, the threat of continued strikes by doctors and long waits for emergency care, concern is growing over how the NHS will cope.\n\nThe event comes after the launch of the winter flu and Covid vaccination campaign earlier this week.\n\nAn extra 5,000 hospital beds are already in the process of being opened - increasing capacity by about 5%.\n\nAnd there will be at least 10,000 \"virtual\" hospital beds, where doctors provide remote monitoring of patients - who would otherwise have to be admitted to hospital - in their homes.\n\nThese have been used in recent years for patients with conditions such as respiratory infections and heart problems.\n\nQuicker discharge arrangements to get patients out of hospital when they are medically fit to leave are also being promised, through the use of what have been dubbed \"care traffic control centres\".\n\nThese centres bring together the NHS, community, housing and charity teams to help co-ordinate support for those patients who need help once they leave hospital.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting - which will include senior doctors - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he wanted to bring together \"the best minds\" to plan for winter.\n\nHe said there was one shared aim - protecting patients and making sure they get the care they need this winter.\n\nSarah-Jane Marsh, NHS England's director of urgent and emergency care, who will be attending, said the winter would be \"challenging\", but added the NHS had been doing its best to get ready by working on plans since the start of the summer.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, of NHS Providers, said it was essential a solution was found to the pay dispute with junior doctors and consultants - both will take part in strike action next week and again in October.\n\n\"It is acting as a drag anchor,\" he said.\n\nHe also said more needed to be done to reform social care despite the initiatives that were being tried this winter.\n\nHe said the lack of access to social care would have an \"enormous\" effect on the NHS in terms of the ability of hospitals to discharge patients quickly.\n\nOne solution put forward by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank is providing free personal care for the elderly and frail, as happens in Scotland.\n\nIt said funding support for daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating, would be a better option than introducing the £86,000 cap on care costs, which is planned for 2025.\n\nIt added the move would keep people living independently and reduce reliance on the NHS, but conceded tax rises may be needed to cover the £5bn-a-year cost.\n\nAt the moment personal care is means tested, so only the poorest receive financial support. The IPPR said more money would be needed to be spent on health and care anyway, given the ageing population.\n\nIt said funding free personal care would be the \"smart investment\" that in the long term would help to limit the cost to the NHS.\n\nIt estimates the move would lead to another 232,000 people requiring support, on top of the 400,000 already receiving it.\n\nIt would also help break down the division between social care, which is run by councils, and the NHS, the think tank said.\n\nTo further integrate services, it says a network of neighbourhood health and care hubs should be created to help co-ordinate services such as social care, community NHS support, hospital outpatients service and mental health care.", "Morocco's young are powering their country's desperate relief effort. In Taroudant's youth centre, volunteers from across the city and beyond have been answering calls for help on social media.\n\nActivists with rapidly rising numbers of followers are now coordinating the distribution of aid to the hundreds of communities without the most essential items.\n\nMilk, nappies, jam and bedding are all being passed along human chains, loaded into trucks destined for villages dotted across the Atlas mountains. In many areas, this grassroots effort is getting supplies to those in need faster than official help.\n\n\"People are in danger. If we didn't work so quickly, a lot of people are going to die,\" says 21-year-old Ilyas, as he seals another box.\n\nIlyas, 21, is one of the many young volunteers helping to distribute aid\n\nThe Moroccan government has been criticised for rejecting assistance from some countries, including France and Germany.\n\nBut Amina, who has arrived with her sister Nassib from the city of Inezgane, tells us she respects the decision.\n\n\"Our country knows what it's doing. If we need help, we will ask for it. The government - they know more,\" she says.\n\nAs donations flood in, the biggest challenge is organising the aid and getting it out of the city as fast as possible.\n\nAcross the city of Taroudant, you hear truck engines revving as they set off for the mountains.\n\nThe exact destination of each mission is often decided at the last minute and dependent on the nature of calls for help coming in. Top priority is given to the places that are still to receive aid.\n\nThe mountain homes hardest hit by the earthquake feel like another planet. Peaks stretch far into the distance and the volunteer delivery vans lumber and splutter over orange dirt roads, passing vertiginous drops.\n\nIn the village of Ouge Dimt, a man rushes to greet a van bringing rugs, mattresses and tarpaulins, and urgently shouts parking instructions to the driver.\n\nThis village of 40 families has been crushed by the earthquake and people are gathering underneath the trees, in the shadow of their destroyed homes.\n\nA vanload of rugs and mattresses arrives in Ouge Dimt\n\nYahya Ibrahim lost both his teenage sons last Friday night.\n\nHe tells us they were still alive after the tremor but could not be rescued.\n\n\"People lose their loved ones in lots of countries. It has happened here now. This is God's will,\" he says.\n\nVillages across the Atlas Mountains have lived hand to mouth, day to day, for their whole lives.\n\nBut now, with their livestock gone, ovens destroyed and grain stores buried by rubble, the relief that comes from the city is vital not just in the short term, but for long term survival.\n\nMina, who returned from the US to live in the village four years ago to care for her parents during the pandemic, says the community has been numbed by this disaster.\n\n\"They're still very traumatised. They're not thinking long-term yet,\" she says.\n\nIn the short term, the concern is that rain is forecast in the coming days, with villagers facing cold, wet nights.\n\nMina says she is concerned about what the future of her village looks like\n\nThat's why Mina has been desperately searching for tents for everyone. But it is the prospects for the next generation of the village that really trouble her.\n\n\"The future here is very concerning,\" she says, gesturing up to the pile of bricks overlooking us.\n\n\"If you look at the houses, their life is over. Nobody wants to live in the mountains anymore.\"\n\nThese villages from a different age were already out of sight and out of mind.\n\nAs attention inevitably fades from Morocco's biggest earthquake in modern times, they pray they are not forgotten.", "The work and pensions secretary has refused to commit to raising the state pension to match official overall earnings figures.\n\nUnder the government's triple lock pledge, next year's pensions are meant to rise by the highest of 2.5%, prices, or average wages.\n\nData released earlier suggested this was likely to be 8.5%, the average wage figure for the summer months.\n\nBut Mel Stride said he could not commit to using it for the calculation.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The World At One, he added the government remained \"committed\" to the triple lock promise.\n\nBut he said he was \"not going to get into the mechanics\" of the official process to work out the increase, which begins later this autumn.\n\nThe 8.5% earnings figure is likely to be the highest of the three benchmarks this year. It would make the new flat-rate state pension £221.20 a week, or £169.50 a week for the full, old basic state pension.\n\nHowever, it is understood officials are looking at using a lower figure for earnings, by stripping out the effect of bonuses to public sector workers. Such a move could bring the figure used closer to 7.8%, the overall rate excluding bonuses.\n\nTraditionally, the figure for May to July, including bonuses, is used for calculating pensions rises under the triple lock for the following April.\n\nThis year's average, however, has been boosted by one-off awards to settle public sector pay disputes.\n\nIn his Radio 4 interview, Mr Stride said there \"clearly is a difference\" in the effect of bonuses on the figure - but the final decision would be made as part of the legal review this autumn.\n\nHe also admitted the triple lock, which has featured in both main parties' election manifestos, is unsustainable in the \"very, very long term\".\n\n\"But of course what I'm dealing with is now - and where we stand at the moment - is we remain committed to the triple lock,\" he added.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner refused to promise the triple lock would feature in her party's manifesto ahead of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We will have to see where we are when we get to a general election and we see the finances\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has also refused to say whether it will be in the next Conservative election manifesto. Mr Stride has previously said it \"almost certainly\" would be.\n\nBoth parties have committed to maintaining the triple lock at every election since the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government first made the pledge in 2010.\n\nRising inflation over the past year has made the promise more expensive for the government to maintain, whilst the UK's ageing population has raised questions over its long-term viability.\n\nThe government's pointed refusal to commit to match the overall earnings figure and instead toy with a figure that discounts some one-off payments would save hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nBut critics could accuse ministers of breaking the spirit of the triple lock.\n\nIn the near term, neither the Tories nor Labour are committing to maintaining the triple lock after the election. If the Conservatives keep it, it is expected Labour will do so; but if the Tories tweak it, Labour may follow suit.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank, has estimated that maintaining the triple lock could cost between an extra £5bn and £45bn per year, on top of inflation, by 2050.\n\nWriting in the Times, former Tory leader William Hague urged the two main parties to give themselves the \"space\" to change stance on the triple lock, calling it \"unsustainable\" in the long term.\n\nHe said neither party could afford to \"commit electoral suicide\" by promising to scrap it alone, but \"sometimes in politics, you have to help each other a bit\".\n\n\"Everyone on a runaway train has a common interest in letting someone fix the brakes,\" he added.", "Jaswant Singh Chail was pictured after his arrest on 25 December 2021\n\nA self-styled Star Wars assassin who entered the grounds of Windsor Castle \"to kill\" the late Queen believed he was a character who had to \"right historical wrong\", a court has heard.\n\nJaswant Singh Chail was armed with a crossbow when he was arrested on Christmas Day 2021.\n\nHe admitted a charge under the Treason Act and to making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nChail was found by police wearing a hood and a mask\n\nChail, from North Baddesley, near Southampton, demonstrated a wider ideology focused on destroying old empires and creating a new one, including in the fictional context such as Star Wars, it was heard.\n\nThe former supermarket worker was seen in a homemade video calling himself \"Darth Chailus\" and a \"Sith\" in a distorted voice.\n\nThe Old Bailey was told a character \"had emerged out of him\" to \"right historical wrong\".\n\nHe believed he was on a \"mission\" with a \"harsh purpose\" and described a mask he wore when he arrived at the castle as his \"true face\".\n\nHis \"harsh purpose\" was reinforced by his interactions with \"his angels\", including his Artificial Intelligence (AI) \"girlfriend\" called Sarai.\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor at the time, rather than spending Christmas as usual on her Sandringham estate\n\nThe court was told this new identity and sense of purpose, as well as the relationship with Sarai, were \"really pertinent to his diagnosis of psychosis\".\n\nGiving evidence, Dr Christian Brown, a psychiatrist who has treated Chail at Broadmoor Hospital, said: \"He believed at the time his entire life was leading to this point. From an early age he had vague plans of doing something dramatic.\"\n\nHe said Chail later understood that what he thought had been his \"purpose\" was instead a \"pathology\".\n\nDr Brown said the defendant first came across \"apparitions\" or \"characters\" in childhood and they returned during the Covid lockdown.\n\nIn messages with Sarai, Chail discussed being \"united with her in the afterlife\" which Dr Brown said was \"part of his plan working towards his own death\".\n\nChail's crossbow was found to be comparable to a powerful air rifle with the potential to cause fatal injury\n\nIn a video posted on Snapchat minutes before he entered the grounds, Chail said he would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth II as \"a revenge\" for those who had died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.\n\nBritish troops opened fire on thousands of people who had gathered in the city of Amritsar in India.\n\nThe court heard Chail - who is from a Sikh family - had a history of trauma and endured psychotic episodes and depression.\n\nDr Brown said people who were psychotic maintained a certain degree of functionality.\n\nHe added Chail was an \"extremely polite person\" but was \"clearly very motivated to do what he did\".\n\nDr Brown recommended a hospital order instead of a prison sentence as Mr Justice Hilliard is expected to determine whether Chail should be jailed or detained under the Mental Health Act.\n\nThe doctor said Chail previously said he did not want a hospital order as he did not like the \"uncertainty of it\".\n\nDuring a cross examination, prosecutor Alison Morgan KC suggested Dr Brown's assessment of Chail as psychotic was at odds with the defendant's journal.\n\n\"He described himself as a 'delusional mad bastard'. This is a man grounded in reality,\" she said.\n\nShe asserted that Chail was exercising voluntary decision-making and had a \"genuinely held purpose\" to get close to the royal family to avenge colonial wrongs.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Possessing laughing gas has moved a step closer to being made illegal, after MPs voted overwhelmingly to have it categorised as a class C drug.\n\nUnder the law change, unlawful possession of nitrous oxide will carry a sentence of up to two years in prison or a large fine.\n\nIt is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs among young people.\n\nCritics have warned the government against arresting \"your way out of a public health issue\".\n\nMPs passed the bill by 404 votes to 36, and it will now go to the House of Lords, where opposition is unexpected.\n\nThe use of nitrous oxide for medical reasons - such as during childbirth - as well as commercial purposes will still be allowed.\n\nThe substance - which is sold in metal canisters - can cause headaches and make some users anxious or paranoid, while over-use can make people faint or lose consciousness.\n\nIntensive, frequent use can also lead to vitamin B12 deficiency which can cause neurological damage, according to a government report quoting several scientific studies.\n\nIf the law change is passed, nitrous oxide would be controlled as a class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, alongside diazepam, GHB and GBL.\n\nThose found in unlawful possession of the drug could face up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine, with up to 14 years for supply or production.\n\nPolicing minister Chris Philp said neurological units had seen \"extremely worrying\" numbers of people who were paralysed or suffered serious consequences from using the drug.\n\nSpeaking for Labour, Alex Norris said the change in the law was relatively minor and his party would not stand in the way of it.\n\nThe Scottish National Party voted against the ban, with spokesperson Alison Thewliss describing drug use as a public health issue.\n\n\"You cannot arrest your way out of a public health issue,\" she said.\n\nHealth experts have also previously warned against a ban, saying it could stop users seeking medical help.\n\nConservative MP Dan Poulter, an NHS doctor, opposed the law change, saying that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said they \"did not believe that the medical harms of nitrous oxide posed anything near the significance of many other street drugs or indeed if we look at the harms of alcohol\".\n\nHe added that a ban would achieve little except disrupting businesses that supply the gas for legitimate purposes.\n\nMr Philp said exemptions from the ban would be \"extremely broad\" to ensure the government does not \"unintentionally stymie\" its legitimate use for medical research or commercial purposes.", "People in the flood-hit city of Derna are living through \"doomsday\", a Libyan reporter has told the BBC.\n\nMore than 5,300 people died after floods burst two dams in the eastern city and swept away homes.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Johr Ali said survivors had reported scenes of utter devastation.\n\nHe said entire families had been washed away by powerful waters. One friend found his \"nephew dead in the street, thrown away by water from his rooftop\".\n\nThe reporter - who lives in exile in Istanbul because of attacks on journalists in Libya - said another friend of his had lost his entire family in the disaster.\n\n\"I was next to him, I heard the news of the deaths of [his friends'] full family,\" Mr Ali recalled.\n\n\"His mother, his father, his two brothers, his sister Maryam, and his wife - his newly married wife - who he sent to Libya to visit his family just two weeks ago, and his little kid who is eight months old.\n\n\"All of those died, all of his family is dead, and he is asking me what should I do.\"\n\nIn another case, Mr Ali said a survivor had told him of witnessing \"a woman hang from the streetlights, because she was taken away by the floods and she was hanged from the streetlights\".\n\n\"She stayed and died there,\" Mr Ali added.\n\nThe port city had a population of around 90,000 people before this week's disaster. Officials say it is feared that around 10,000 remain missing, with some simply washed away by powerful flood waters into the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nStreets in Derna are covered in mud and rubble and are littered with upturned vehicles. Mr Ali said that of the city's 10 geographical districts, just three had survived the flooding.\n\nHe added that a constant soundtrack of the cries of young children now engulfed the city.\n\nMeanwhile, scores of people and relief workers are scouring Derna for survivors, with many feared to be trapped underneath collapsed buildings.\n\n\"People are hearing the cries of babies underground, they don't know how to get to them,\" Mr Ali reported.\n\n\"People are using shovels to get the bodies from underneath the ground, they are using their own hands. There are photos of the city of people getting bodies out with their naked, bare hands.\n\n\"The situation is beyond catastrophic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLibya is divided between two rival governments - with the interim, internationally recognised government operating from Tripoli and a rival one in the east.\n\nThe disaster has prompted rare displays of cooperation between the competing powers. On Tuesday aid planes carrying medical supplies were sent to the eastern city of Benghazi from Tripoli.\n\nBut partisan lines remain starkly drawn elsewhere, with Khalifa Haftar - commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army that controls the east - ignoring international pledges of support from allies of the western, Tripoli-based authorities.\n\nMr Ali was quick to condemn both regimes, who he said were failing to react effectively enough.\n\n\"Sadly the country is divided between two governments, and sadly those two weak, unqualified governments didn't get the help that people need,\" Mr Ali told the BBC.\n\nAnd while the UN has pledged to support relief efforts, and the Red Cross says its teams are active on the ground, Mr Ali said that only minimal supplies had managed to reach survivors.\n\n\"On the ground, only help from Turkey came to the city of Derna, and only in small scale,\" he said.\n\n\"There are lots of people without shelters, without food, without clean water. People themselves are trying to help each other.\n\n\"What we need right now is a huge scale, big scale international support that should come immediately to come and help the people.\"", "Andrew Malkinson's conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal last month\n\nThe police watchdog is investigating how Greater Manchester Police (GMP) handled the case of Andrew Malkinson, jailed for 17 years for a rape crime he did not commit.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will look at why the force rejected complaints from Mr Malkinson's legal team.\n\nGMP destroyed evidence and the jury at his trial was not told that key witnesses were criminals.\n\nThe force has declined to comment.\n\nIn July, Mr Malkinson was cleared by the Court of Appeal of the 2003 rape of a woman near Bolton.\n\nHe had been convicted in 2004 solely on the basis of contested eyewitness evidence that placed him at the scene of the crime.\n\nHe won his long legal battle after his lawyers proved that there was DNA evidence linking another identifiable man to the attack.\n\nThe Court of Appeal also ruled that the jury at Mr Malkinson's trial should have been told that two supposedly key witnesses were in fact serial petty criminals with convictions for dishonesty.\n\nDuring Mr Malkinson's legal fight, he and his lawyers complained to GMP that they withheld information about these witnesses - and had also destroyed the victim's clothing.\n\nDNA was found on the victim's vest top - but the clothing in this forensic scientist's picture was later destroyed.\n\nThe DNA profile for the man now identified as the prime suspect in the case had been recovered from her vest top. That original item of clothing - potentially crucial to any new prosecution - no longer exists.\n\nThe IOPC said that GMP had not handled these complaints \"in a reasonable and proportionate matter\".\n\nIts review had \"highlighted significant issues\" and outstanding lines of inquiry - and therefore it needed to launch an independent inquiry into what had happened.\n\nAmanda Rowe, IOPC director of operations, said: \"Given our concerns over GMP's handling of the complaints - and the significant public interest in a case that led to a man spending 17 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit - our involvement will ensure there is thorough scrutiny of the actions of police involved.\n\n\"Our investigation, which will be carried out independently of the police, will focus on the specific allegations raised in Mr Malkinson's complaints.\"\n\n\"I never trusted GMP to conduct an effective investigation into my complaints of police misconduct and corruption,\" he said.\n\n\"This IOPC investigation should be led by a member of the IOPC who is not a former police officer, Nobody else should have to go through what I have been through.\"\n\nThe IOPC announcement means there are now five major investigations or reviews into Mr Malkinson's ordeal or issues relating to it.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk has announced an independent inquiry into all the actions of Greater Manchester Police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the body that twice refused to send Mr Malkinson's case back to the Court of Appeal.\n\nThe CCRC is carrying out its own internal review, headed by a senior criminal barrister.\n\nThe Law Commission, an official body that advises ministers on major reforms, is consulting on wider changes to criminal appeals - a project informed by Mr Malkinson's case.\n\nLastly, GMP is still investigating the 2003 rape. Despite knowing the identity of the man whose DNA was found on the victim's clothing, there has been no decision on whether to charge him with an offence.\n\nThe force has declined to comment on the IOPC's investigation, but in previous statements it has said it would co-operate fully with the main independent inquiry.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Residents of Douzrou say there is little hope of finding anyone alive in what is left of their village\n\nA dog called Colin scampers across the earthquake's wreckage in Morocco's remote mountain village of Douzrou.\n\nThe bell attached to his collar rings to signal his location as the border collie bounds over broken concrete towards crevices in the rubble - anywhere a survivor might still be found.\n\nColin is a rescue dog with the official UK team that has been deployed in Morocco and he is trained to search for the scent of the living.\n\nBut this life-saving work takes place against all odds.\n\nLocals tell the BBC that they believe there is little hope of finding anyone alive in what is left of their village - before the quake Douzrou had nearly 1,000 inhabitants.\n\nBut most homes collapsed when the earthquake struck late on Friday, burying part of this hillside community in the ruins of nature's rage.\n\nIt has left a vast, perilous field of strewn boulders, mud bricks and timber.\n\nExperts say such traditional materials leave fewer chances for air pockets or spaces in which people can survive after buildings collapse.\n\nColin, a search and rescue border collie, has a bell that signals his location\n\nMore than 100 people were killed in the village, according to residents.\n\nThe people who are left, exhausted from shock, have to work out how to find shelter and keep their families fed.\n\nThe British rescuers speak with a village elder and make their way off the rubble mountain, as their search dog stays by their side.\n\n\"Colin is an experienced dog - he was in Turkey earlier this year,\" says Neil Woodmansey from the UK International Search and Rescue Team (ISAR). He is referring to February's devastating earthquake in northern Syria and southern Turkey, which killed nearly 60,000 people.\n\n\"He only goes on live scent. [Here] there's been no indication... so unfortunately it doesn't look like there's any live casualties in this area,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nUnfortunately it doesn't look like there's any live casualties in this area\n\nSince the earthquake struck, there's been a growing spotlight on the deployment of international search teams.\n\nOn Sunday, amid local criticism of a patchy and slow response by authorities, Morocco's government sparked controversy by deciding to only accept help from four countries.\n\nIt defended the move, saying \"a lack of co-ordination could be counterproductive\".\n\nOn Wednesday, we spotted the 60-strong British rescue team as members prepared to leave their base camp in the town of Amizmiz, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains.\n\nWe joined them in a convoy.\n\nFollowing two Moroccan military vehicles transporting the rescuers, we drove towards the earthquake's epicentre. The road rose steeply into the mountains of southern Morocco.\n\nKicking up clouds of dust, we made our way through the increasingly remote villages. Some seemed relatively intact, but in others, buildings were toppled or cracked, and makeshift tents lined the routes in and out.\n\nThe vehicles transporting the team of rescuers struggle with the steep, winding dirt roads\n\nThe winding road was treacherous, as the convoy rumbled up rock strewn paths, often inches from nerve-wracking drops.\n\nAt least twice, the trucks became stuck on hairpin bends. Finally, about 4km (2.5 miles) from Douzrou, the team pulled over.\n\nSome of the crew, along with Colin the dog, had to be ferried the final stretch in jeeps belonging to the Moroccan military. The 30km journey from base camp to the village took nearly five hours - a sign of the huge challenges in providing relief to this remote province - home to some half a million people.\n\nAs the rescue team searched, the full scale of devastation in Douzrou was revealed.\n\nIt felt overwhelming. People were having to try to survive when nearly everything they knew had been destroyed.\n\nI met Hussein deep in the rubble of his house, as he worked to dig it out, hoping to find his family's possessions. His wooden front door rose from the rubble, standing as a sole reminder of his lost home.\n\n\"I was here with my family, we were having dinner. The ceiling fell on me. My brother died. [But] it is God's decision,\" Hussein said.\n\n\"There is nothing I can do now. I'm just going to take my clothes out and go to the tent,\" he said, before taking his pick axe and working away at the jumble of fallen stone and earth.\n\nFew buildings remain in the mountainous village of Douzrou, which had almost 1,000 inhabitants before the quake\n\nA few metres up the hillside, his wife and the rest of their family, like most people in Douzrou, were living in a homemade tent. Blankets were piled up ready to insulate them from the mountain chill that descends at night.\n\nI walked towards one of the few remaining buildings, where many villagers gathered as supplies of clothes were being handed out, much of it from volunteers.\n\nIn the village, all but cut off from the outside world, residents say they need much more.\n\n\"My whole body is shaking,\" another resident, Fatouma, told me. She is now living in a tent made of blankets and wood. It overlooks the only beacon of hope that stays standing in Douzrou: The pink minaret of the village mosque.\n\n\"May God protect us,\" she said. \"We are fighting for life - slowly\".", "We're going to finish up our live coverage of this story now - but there is plenty more on the website.\n\nOur main story covers the two-week manhunt, and today's arrest. You can also see a map showing the key locations of the search.\n\nYou can see the moment police posed for photos after his arrest and read more about who he is and his violent history here.\n\nAnd if you haven't seen it yet - you can watch the video of Cavalcante escaping prison two weeks ago here.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "A celebrity chef's restaurant in Padstow has come under fire after hiking the cost of its condiments.\n\nSome customers ordering mayonnaise, tartar sauce or mushy peas were \"disappointed\" by having to pay £2 at Stein's Fish & Chips in Cornwall.\n\nA spokeswoman for Stein's blamed \"skyrocketing costs\" including food, energy and wage bills for the higher prices seen by diners.\n\nFood price inflation has eased, but still stood at 14.9% in July.\n\nRick Stein's restaurant group, which owns a number of businesses in Cornwall and across the UK, charges £2 for condiments and dips in its Padstow chip shop to sit in.\n\nHaddock and chips or cod and chips cost £16.95 in the restaurant.\n\nThe restaurant group said it had held prices steady since 2020, but had put them up recently due to soaring prices.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our homemade condiments using Rick Stein's special recipes are prepared in Padstow by our team of chefs.\n\n\"Food inflation, energy costs, along with rising wages, have driven up the cost of production significantly.\n\n\"We have reluctantly, along with many others, had to pass on some of the costs to our customers,\" she added.\n\nHowever, mixed in with a number of good reviews, some customers said they were \"very disappointed\" by the charges on the TripAdvisor website.\n\nCustomers at Stein's Fish & Chips in Cornwall have complained about the high prices of condiments\n\n\"So disappointed with the meal,\" one wrote. \"The haddock was amazing... let down by serving frozen chips and having to pay £2 for the tiniest pot of mushy peas believable.\"\n\nAnother customer said in April that their meal was \"very disappointing\".\n\n\"When we paid the bill we discovered that the tiny pot of mushy peas was £2 extra, as was the tartar sauce as was the curry sauce. Unfortunately I don't think we will be returning!\"\n\nOne user wrote in in April: \"On top of the £16 for cod and chips, you were expected to pay an additional £2 for condiments such as tartar sauce or mayo... We are regular visitors to Padstow and will not be eating here again.\"\n\nFood prices have been higher in recent months while production costs have been on the up, with higher energy bills and restricted supply of grain from Ukraine after Russia's invasion.\n\nCrop failures and reduced harvests linked to climate change also mean some supplies may be restricted, pushing some prices up.\n\nFood price rises have had a serious impact on people in the UK, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nNearly half of adults reported buying less food in the last two weeks due to higher prices, the ONS said on 8 September.\n\nAnd one in 20 people said that in the two weeks prior to 1 May they had run out of food and had been unable to afford more.\n\nIn July, inflation for sauces and condiments stood at 28.4% according to official figures, down from 34% in June and 35.1% in May.\n\nHave you been to a restaurant with similar charges? Tell us your story by emailing us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland continued their modern-day superiority in the 150-year rivalry with Scotland by beating their in-form hosts in a friendly at a raucous Hampden.\n\nThe Scots last triumphed in this fixture in 1999, but hopes of a 42nd win appeared ominously faint as Phil Foden's opener silenced the national stadium before the terrific Jude Bellingham was gifted a second three minutes later.\n\nA shaken Scotland eventually awoke the home crowd as Harry Maguire's lazy leg sent Andy Robertson's cross screeching beyond Aaron Ramsdale.\n\nHowever, England's classy play and intricate movement would pay once more as Harry Kane slotted home the visitors' third after a mesmeric Bellingham assist.\n• None LIVE: All the reaction as England beat Scotland\n\nThe first official meeting between these two took place on 30 November 1872 at the West of Scotland Cricket Club.\n\nSix miles and 150 years on, this great rivalry captured the imagination of a Scottish public with a yearning for victory founded in genuine optimism.\n\nTop of their European Championship qualifying group with five wins from five and facing an England team held by Ukraine on Saturday, head coach Steve Clarke spoke pre-match about the desire to see how much his team had narrowed the gap.\n\nIn the end, a fluid and ruthless first half from Gareth Southgate's team offered a sobering reply. The visitors were slick, composed and in control and deserved the lead when it eventually arrived.\n\nKyle Walker lashed the ball towards the Scotland goal from inside the area, only for Foden's quick thinking and feet helping the ball divert beyond Angus Gunn.\n\nScotland barely had a chance to gather themselves before it was two. An uncharacteristic lack of composure from Robertson saw an attempted clearance prodded towards Bellingham on the penalty spot to scud home.\n\nThe introduction of Ryan Christie after the break breathed life into a flat Scotland, and the lifeline via the unfortunate Maguire ignited a fire inside Clarke's side as England rocked.\n\nBut Bellingham's class would show once more. With nine minutes to go, the Real Madrid man danced by two trailing dark blue jerseys, slipped the ball to his captain, and Bayern Munich's leading man made no mistake.\n\nEngland offer answers while Scots' wait goes on - analysis\n\nYou can't always read too much into friendlies, but there were a few questions answered in Glasgow.\n\nWhile far from any sort of crisis, England's disjointed performance at the weekend raised more than a few eyebrows. Against Scotland, the zip to their play was a joy at times as they carved their hosts open in the first half.\n\nKane's willingness to drop deep to offer an out was often key, as was the blistering attacking prowess of Bellingham and Rashford. The link-up play was a joy to watch, unless you were wearing a dark blue jersey.\n\nFor Scotland, this is the kind of test they will surely face next summer in Germany. Their spot at the Euros is one positive result away, and previous wins in Norway and at home to Spain have fuelled a belief they can mix it with Europe's best.\n\nYet trying to conjure the dynamism which has thrust them forward in recent months didn't really happen, with the second-half performance perhaps coming a bit too late.\n\nA Scotland on the up will have other nights, but this one belonged to Bellingham and England.\n• None England earned their 600th victory in all competitions, the first European nation to reach this milestone in international football.\n• None This was just Scotland's second defeat in their past 20 home games in all competitions (W14 D4), ending a run of six straight victories.\n• None Bellingham (Real Madrid) and Kane (Bayern Munich) are the first to score for England against Scotland while playing for clubs outside of England, after Kevin Keegan in May 1979 (Hamburg) and Paul Gascoigne at Euro 1996 (Rangers).\n• None Bellingham became the first England player to both score and assist a goal in a match against Scotland since Keegan in May 1979.\n• None With his assist for Foden's opener, Walker has now been involved in a goal in each of his past three England appearances (assist v North Macedonia, goal v Ukraine).\n• None There were just 167 seconds between England's opening two goals, with those strikes the only two shots on target for either side in the opening 45 minutes.\n• None Maguire became just the second substitute to score an own goal for England, after Eric Dier against Australia in May 2016. It was the first own goal England have conceded against Scotland since May 1974 (Colin Todd).\n\nScotland have the opportunity to rubber stamp their Euro 2024 place in the forthcoming international break, with their next game in Spain on 12 October (19:45 BST). England host Australia in a friendly a day later (19:45).\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Porteous (Scotland) header from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, England 3. Harry Kane (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jude Bellingham. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Kim Jong Un is greeted with a brass band and red carpet as part of an official Russian welcome\n\nTalks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a possible arms deal are set to begin soon.\n\nMr Kim travelled for two days in an armoured train to the Vostochny space centre in Russia's far east, in what was a highly scrutinised journey.\n\nThe two sanctioned regimes are expected to strike a deal that exchanges weapons for humanitarian aid.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Putin is being closely watched by the US and its allies, although Pyongyang and Moscow deny that their talks are about military cooperation.\n\nThe White House said it had new information that negotiations between Russia and North Korea were on a weapons deal were \"actively advancing\".\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had tried to \"convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition\" to Russia during a recent visit to North Korea.\n\nNorth Korea also wants food aid and possibly technology to help its banned nuclear and missiles programme, analysts say.\n\nBut the Kremlin said on Tuesday that the \"fully fledged visit\" would cover \"bilateral relations, the situation in the region and in the global arena\".\n\nMr Kim said his visit shows shows the \"strategic importance\" of ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, North Korean state media reported.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would always act in its national interest.\n\n\"The interests of our two countries are important to us, and not warnings from Washington,\" he was quoted as saying by Russian media.\n\nThe highly anticipated visit was expected to take place in Vladivostok where Mr Putin was hosting an economic forum - but Mr Kim's train trundled past the city and headed north towards the space centre.\n\nThe Vostochny space centre is Russia's most advanced space centre and is said to be a pet project for Mr Putin.\n\nNorth Korea may seek co-operation from Russia on its space programme. Late last month, it failed a for second time to place a spy satellite in orbit after a rocket failure.\n\nOn his way to the space centre, Mr Kim made a brief stop at the border station of Khasan on Tuesday morning where he was greeted by a Russian delegation as a brass band played.\n\nMr Kim's train is rumoured to include at least 20 heavy bulletproof carriages. The extra weight means the train is very slow - it can only travel at around 37mph (59 km/h).\n\nThe North Korean leader's last trip abroad was to Vladivostok in 2019 for a summit with Mr Putin after the collapse of nuclear disarmament talks with the then-US president, Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why might North Korea and Russia want to be friends?", "Three relatives who police want to speak to over the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have returned to the UK from Pakistan.\n\nA plane carrying her father Urfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik, has landed at Gatwick Airport.\n\nA group of people - thought to be police officers - could be seen boarding the plane.\n\nTwo police cars and three vans later left the terminal with blue lights on.\n\nSurrey Police previously said they wanted to speak to the trio, who left the UK the day before Sara's body was found.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she had sustained multiple and extensive injuries.\n\nThe flight landed at London Gatwick just before 19:30 BST on Wednesday evening, five weeks after the trio left the UK.\n\nSara's father, his wife and his brother had flown to Dubai from an airport at Sialkot, in the Punjab province, early on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe flight from Dubai carrying the trio touched down at Gatwick just before 19:30 BST\n\nPolice in Pakistan said the three travelled of their own free will.\n\nSara's five siblings - aged between one and 13 - who travelled with the three adults to Pakistan remain in a government care facility in the country.\n\nSara's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August. She had been living at the property with her father Mr Sharif, stepmother Ms Batool, uncle Mr Malik and siblings.\n\nThe three adults travelled from the UK to Pakistan on 9 August.\n\nAn international search was launched via Interpol for the trio, with police in Pakistan trying to locate them on behalf of detectives in Surrey.\n\nMr Sharif and Ms Batool released a video statement last week in which Ms Batool said they had gone into hiding in Pakistan over fears police in the country would \"torture or kill\" them.\n\nThey also claimed members of their family had been harassed, and that they were willing to co-operate with the UK authorities.\n\nMr Sharif did not speak in the video, while Ms Batool read from a notebook. It was the first time they had publicly commented since Sara's death.\n\nThe five children who travelled with the three adults to Pakistan were found by police at the home of Mr Sharif's father on Monday.\n\nMuhammad Sharif, Sara's grandfather, told the BBC the children had been staying at his house in Jhelum since their arrival on 10 August.\n\nThey were moved to a government childcare facility following a court hearing in Pakistan on Tuesday, although the court did not state how long they should be kept there for.", "Ariana said she stopped getting fillers and Botox in 2018\n\nAriana Grande has said she previously used filler and Botox as \"something to hide behind\".\n\nThe singer made the comments in an emotional video for Vogue, in which she also confirmed she stopped the cosmetic treatments in 2018.\n\n\"Full transparency... As a beauty person, as I do my lips, I've had a tonne of lip filler over the years and Botox,\" she said.\n\n\"For a long time beauty was about hiding for me,\" the 30-year-old added.\n\n\"And now I feel like maybe it's not.\"\n\nThe US star said she \"stopped in 2018 because I just felt so... too much\", adding she wanted to \"see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines\".\n\nAs she was speaking, she appeared to hold back tears, admitting she \"didn't expect to get emotional\" in a video where she was demonstrating how to do a 60s make-up look.\n\nShe said that while \"ageing is such a beautiful thing\", she wouldn't be against getting other procedures in the future.\n\n\"Now, might I get a facelift in 10 years?,\" she then joked. \"I might, yeah!\"\n\nAriana - who has her own make-up brand - also spoke about how her relationship with cosmetics has changed since she rose to fame at the age of 17, playing Cat Valentine in Victorious.\n\nShe said she used to apply make-up as a \"disguise\", but that she now used beauty products as a way of \"self-expression\" and \"accentuating\" her features.\n\nIt's not the first time Ariana has spoken candidly about her appearance - she spoke about body shaming earlier this year.\n\nIn a TikTok video, she suggested fans should avoid making even \"well-intentioned\" remarks about how \"healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that, sexy, non-sexy\" people may look.\n\n\"There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you see that you don't like, that I think we should help each other work towards,\" she said.\n\n\"We should aim toward being safer, and keeping each other safer.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorth Korea's Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin have discussed \"possibilities\" for military cooperation, in a highly scrutinised meeting for a suspected arms deal.\n\nThe pair met on Wednesday at the Vostochny space centre after Mr Kim arrived in his private armoured train.\n\nMr Putin also said he would help Pyongyang develop satellites.\n\nThe US says Moscow is buying weapons for its war on Ukraine, and warned any help would violate UN resolutions.\n\nMr Putin has also accepted an invitation from Mr Kim to visit North Korea, according to Pyongyang. Few heads of state have visited the closed-off state.\n\nWednesday's meeting between the two sanctioned regimes, which included senior officials from both sides, took place at a time when their relations with the West are at an all-time low.\n\nMr Kim was warmly received by Mr Putin after travelling for two days to Russia's far east. Russian state media footage showed the two leaders grinning as they shook hands, before Mr Putin personally escorted Mr Kim around the space centre.\n\nCiting historical ties between the Soviet Union and North Korea, Mr Putin welcomed his counterpart with the Russian proverb \"an old friend is better than two new ones\".\n\nAsked if Russia would help North Korea build satellites, Mr Putin said \"this is why we've come to Vostochny Cosmodrome\", Russian media reported.\n\nMr Putin also said they would \"discuss all topics\" when asked if he would talk to Mr Kim about a weapons deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Kim appeared to express support for Mr Putin's war in Ukraine.\n\n\"Russia has risen to a sacred fight to protect its sovereignty and security against the hegemonic forces\" of the West, Mr Kim told Mr Putin.\n\n\"We will always support the decisions of President Putin and the Russian leadership... and we will be together in the fight against imperialism.\"\n\nThe North Korean leader is expected to oversee a display of Russian warships later, as well as visit several factories and stop by the eastern city of Vladivostok on his way home. It is not known how long he will stay in Russia.\n\nThe two leaders toasted each other at a banquet on Wednesday afternoon\n\nEarlier this year North Korea twice tried, and failed, to launch a spy satellite. Pyongyang has vowed to develop one to boost military surveillance.\n\nBut the US believes North Korea's satellite programme is also aimed at boosting its ballistic missile capabilities, as the technology is similar.\n\nOn Wednesday US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, in response to reporters' queries, agreed there was a concern that Russian help with satellite technology would actively improve the North Korean missile programme.\n\n\"That is quite troubling and would potentially be in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions\" which Russia itself had voted for in the past, he said.\n\nMr Putin appeared to acknowledge this on Wednesday, saying there were \"there are certain limitations\" to military co-operation.\n\nThe US has also warned that it would \"not hesitate to take action to hold those accountable if necessary\", to which the Kremlin had responded that the interests of Russia and North Korea were important to them \"and not warnings from Washington\".\n\nThe meeting marked Mr Kim's first trip abroad since 2019. The last time he travelled outside North Korea was also to meet Mr Putin after the collapse of North Korea's nuclear disarmament talks with then US president Donald Trump.\n\nMany had expected him to head to Vladivostok where Mr Putin was attending an economic forum, but instead the train chugged northwards to Vostochny. On Wednesday morning, as Mr Kim neared his destination, North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast, the latest in a series of banned weapons tests.\n\nMr Kim and Mr Putin's meeting follows a Russian delegation's visit to North Korea in July, where Mr Kim showed off Pyongyang's missiles, including the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile, to defence minister Sergei Shoigu.\n\nMoscow would be keen on North Korean arms due to their compatibility with Russian weapon systems, say experts.\n\nThey would be particularly eager for artillery shells and guns as artillery is \"the god Russia worships\" on the battlefront, said Valeriy Akimenko, an expert on Russia's military with the Conflict Studies Research Centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why might North Korea and Russia want to be friends?\n\nPyongyang would likely oblige in providing these as well as bullets and \"even older types of missiles\", said Kim Dong-yup, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies.\n\nYang Uk, a research fellow at the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, said it is also possible that newer weapons such as short-range ballistic missiles could be supplied, such as the so-called \"super-large\" rocket KN-25.\n\nSome analysts believe North Korea could have a large stockpile of arms as it has not fought a war since the Korean War ended in armistice in 1953, though others think Pyongyang may be reluctant to hand over too much given their relative lack of resources.\n\nBut observers also say that North Korean weapons would only give a short-term boost to Russia's war effort. They point to how Moscow, with hugely depleted ammunition, is relying on older, more unreliable artillery shell stocks.\n\nNorth Korea's arms could act \"as a stop-gap measure\" while Russia struggles to ramp up production, noted Mr Akimenko.\n\nBut given how fast Russia has been going through its supplies, the deal would not have much impact strategically. \"It would kill more Ukrainians. But it will not kill Ukraine,\" he added.\n\nIn return, Mr Kim is thought to be asking for food aid for his impoverished country.\n\nNorth Korea, which has long struggled under sanctions, has been especially hit hard by border closures during Covid which it has only recently started relaxing.\n\nIt may also ask for more advanced submarine and ballistic technology from Russia - though Mr Putin may draw a line at that, say some observers.\n\n\"Even a desperate war machine does not trade its military crown jewels for old, dumb munitions,\" said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.\n\nA deeper question posed by the meeting is whether heavy sanctions on Russia and North Korea are really working.\n\nRorry Daniels, managing director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, said their meeting showed that international sanctions have created a \"firewall\" where the two countries \"can transact business without fear of further punishment\".\n\n\"The more states under severe sanction are pushed together, the less the US can do to use sanctions as leverage to resolve the underlying conflicts.\"\n\nBut the situation is also not without risk for Pyongyang, noted Park Won-gon, an associate professor in North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University.\n\nIf any evidence emerges indicating that North Korean weapons were used by Russia in Ukraine, \"it may result in North Korea turning the entire Nato alliance against it, which could subsequently trigger additional sanctions.\"", "Lisa Clarke was referred for a smear test by her GP\n\nA six-month wait for results of a cervical smear test has been described as \"worrying and extremely frustrating\".\n\nLisa Clarke from County Antrim said the system is \"drastically broken\".\n\nBBC News NI can reveal that at the start of September, 7,104 women were waiting three to six months for results.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) said it \"fully acknowledged that the backlog needs to be addressed\".\n\nMs Clarke said she was referred for a smear test by her GP after she was treated for bleeding and other gynaecological issues.\n\nSmear tests are a cancer screening service offered to women aged between 25 and 64. Results usually come back within 12 weeks.\n\n\"I do my best not to think about it, but every so often it does come up and I do think about what shall I do if I need treatment and there's been a six-month gap,\" Lisa said.\n\nShe added her wait would suggest the \"system is drastically broken\" and needs \"urgently fixed\".\n\nNorthern Ireland is behind the rest of the UK in how it has been screening for cervical cancer as it uses an old model called cytology screening instead of the gold standard HPV screening.\n\nThe cytology-based screening programme looks for abnormalities in the cells whereas HPV screening looks for the human papillomavirus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer.\n\nAccording to the NHS, HPV screening is a more accurate test.\n\nThe department began to introduce HPV screening at the start of the year, but until the system is fully implemented across all trusts the two systems are running in tandem.\n\nAt present, all samples tested in the new system for HPV and found to be negative go on for cytology screening.\n\nThis has added to the backlog in getting results to women.\n\nThe department said it intends to introduce HPV screening across all health trusts in \"the very near future\".\n\nMeanwhile, GPs in Belfast have been advised of a 20-week wait for results by the regional cytology lab. Last September the average wait was 12 weeks.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said the wait was unacceptable.\n\nDr Ursula Mason said while all waiting lists are unacceptable, women's health is \"struggling and on the back foot\".\n\nThe GP, whose surgery is in Carryduff, said women should be living as healthily as possible and Northern Ireland should be looking towards a women's health strategy.\n\n\"It's really important from a smear perspective that women when called for smears come forward because a screening could save your life,\" Dr Mason added.\n\nUnlike the rest of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland does not have a women's health strategy which would lead on developing and funding services.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happens during a smear test?\n\nAccording to the Public Health Agency (PHA), while there are delays in cervical sample reporting across all health trusts, the delays are more significant in the Southern and Belfast Trusts.\n\nFigures obtained by BBC News NI reveal that in the Southern Trust, two in five women have been waiting at least three months, while in the Belfast Trust it is one in three women.\n\nThe DoH and PHA said it was due to a lack of specialist staff.\n\nIn a statement, DoH said it is to officially introduce HPV screening across Northern Ireland \"in the very near future\" and that it was an absolute priority to completely replace primary cytology screening with primary HPV screening.\n\nNorthern Ireland's deputy director of public health, Tracy Owen, urged women to keep coming forward, despite the backlog.\n\n\"We know the wait is causing a huge amount of anxiety for women and we are trying to get the new system rolled out and in place as soon as we possibly can,\" she added.\n\nAiming to reassure women, Ms Owen explained that those waiting a very long time will most likely have had a negative HPV result and because they are not a priority their result has still to reach them.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, screening is offered to all women aged 25-64, looking for abnormal changes in the cells that line the cervix.\n\nThese abnormal changes may go on to develop into cancer if left untreated.\n\nHowever, in some cases, the body's immune system will return the cell to normal by themselves, rendering them harmless.\n\nThe latest scientific evidence shows that screening for HPV is better than screening for abnormal cytology with a smear test.\n\nThis means it is better at detecting cell changes overall, as well as detecting them earlier.\n\nLisa Clarke said she knows she is not alone - within her yoga studio several women have been waiting at least five months for results which she said \"isn't good enough\".\n\nThe department said it \"strongly urged women to keep coming forward for their cervical screening when invited - cervical screening continues to save lives in NI\".\n\nThe PHA said early detection and treatment can prevent eight out of 10 cases of cervical cancer.", "Health boards have been hit by rising demand, inflation and the cost of covering for staff vacancies\n\nThe Welsh NHS may have overspent by more than £800m by the spring of 2024, according to BBC Wales analysis.\n\nInflation has hit hospitals, leading to spiralling fuel, staff and drug costs, while demand for treatment has risen due to the post-Covid backlog.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan wants health boards to find cuts that cause \"the least damage to patients\".\n\nBut she warned \"difficult choices\" would need to be made to tackle the \"massive\" overspend.\n\nShe previously warned that the NHS was \"unsustainable\" in its current form.\n\nMs Morgan has placed all seven Welsh health boards under higher levels of financial scrutiny together for the first time, pointing to \"extreme financial challenges\" and blaming UK government austerity and record inflation.\n\nWelsh secretary David TC Davies responded, saying that the Welsh government was currently receiving the largest funding settlement in the history of devolution and Labour ministers \"must now choose what to prioritise: more of its vanity projects... or help for our NHS\".\n\nRising inflation, dealing with the Covid backlog, an ageing population and covering for staff shortages were cited as the main reasons for the worsening financial situation inside the NHS.\n\n\"We do not make these decisions lightly and it reflects the very difficult financial position we are in, as a result of inflation and austerity, and the challenges affecting health boards,\" said Ms Morgan.\n\n\"We are seeing operational pressures, long waiting lists, and an extremely challenging financial position in the NHS - but this is not unique to Wales.\n\n\"We will support health boards to improve their financial planning positions, but some difficult decisions will need to be made as we work through this very tough financial challenge.\"\n\nLater she told the Senedd that there would be no cash injections to wipe out health board budgets this year, as had happened previously.\n\n\"We don't have the money to bail out this year,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan told BBC Wales she had been talking with health bosses over the summer about where savings might be found, although the outcome of this was still not absolutely clear.\n\nBut she stressed that areas like cancer treatment and emergency care would not be touched.\n\nShe asked health boards to make sure that they were not making interventions \"where we know that the health consequence is not where it should be\", based on clinical guidelines.\n\nDarren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said the service was facing the most difficult financial situation in its history, trying to deal with a \"perfect storm\" of increasing demand and rising day to day costs \"beyond its control\".\n\n\"It's not new news that the NHS in Wales is looking at a deficit, but we're in unchartered territory in terms of the scale of the deficits and the challenges that come with that,\" he added.\n\nOfficial accounts by Audit Wales last week showed Wales' seven main health boards recorded a collective deficit of £151.9m in the last financial year - 2022-23.\n\nBut back in the spring, health boards were already warning the Welsh government that their overspend this year would be much higher at about £650m.\n\nAnalysis by BBC Wales suggested unless big savings were found during the rest of this financial year, this could rise to £825m.\n\nThis will be the highest ever deficit recorded in the history of the Welsh NHS.\n\nTo put this number into perspective, it cost £358m to build The Grange, Wales' newest hospital in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran, Torfaen.\n\nThe pay bill for the 94,000 staff who work in the Welsh NHS is about £4.5bn each year.\n\nThe Welsh government spends just over £10bn a year on health and social care - so this potential deficit represents just over 8% of this entire budget.\n\nWhat is happening in each health board?\n\nRussell George, Welsh Conservative health spokesman said: \"While it is positive that the Labour health minister is taking some action by acknowledging the dire state of our Welsh NHS, I have little faith given the lack of improvements we are seeing in health boards already being monitored that much will change in the coming months.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Mabon ap Gwynfor said the situation was serious.\n\n\"For the government to publish this as a written statement with no opportunity for immediate Senedd scrutiny is a cynical move by a minister who seems to have lost grip on the entire situation,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not have taken until now for the minister to realise the gravity of the situation health boards were in and to take action.\"\n\nFinance minister Rebecca Evans told the Senedd finance committee: \"We are seeing severe [financial] pressures across government. I think they're particularly acute within the health service at the moment. That's partly in relation to pay, it's partly down to high energy costs within the health estate.\"\n\nA UK Government source said it had ensured the Welsh government was receiving the largest funding settlement since devolution began.\n\n\"For too long, Labour ministers have wasted money on projects which will not benefit the people of Wales, most notably their plans to spend £100m on creating more politicians,\" the source said.\n\n\"The Labour-run Welsh Government has the tools for the job, but ultimately it is up to Labour ministers to decide what they prioritise with the funding given to them.\"", "Ana Paun, 11, was treated for arm and shoulder injuries but is now home from hospital\n\nA 60-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a dog dangerously out of control after an 11-year-old girl was attacked.\n\nAna Paun was seriously injured by an American bully XL and Staffordshire bull terrier crossbreed in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, on Saturday.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the arrested man had since been bailed with conditions while inquiries continued.\n\nThe dog remains in secure kennels, the force added.\n\nThe 11-year-old had been visiting the shops with her 18-year-old sister when she noticed the dog in the street.\n\n\"The dog was staring at me and I got scared, so I started to run,\" Ana told the BBC as she recounted the attack.\n\n\"The dog grabbed my hand and started moving me about.\n\n\"I was so scared. I was screaming for help but [couldn't] do anything.\"\n\nAna suffered serious arm and shoulder injuries after being attacked by the dog, which had broken free from its collar twice.\n\nShe required hospital treatment including about eight stitches but has since returned home.\n\nTwo men who went to her aid and chased the dog across a garage forecourt were also injured and needed hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An 11-year-old girl and two men were injured in the attack in Birmingham on Saturday\n\nThe attack prompted Home Secretary Suella Braverman to seek \"urgent advice\" on whether the breed should be banned.\n\nBut the Dog Control Coalition, a group which includes the RSPCA, Battersea Dogs Home and the Kennel Club, said banning specific breeds was not the solution, pointing to \"irresponsible breeding, rearing and ownership\".\n\nThe American bully XL is the largest variation of the American bully breed, a type of bulldog developed by breeding several dogs including the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Bulldog and English Bulldog.\n\nIt is not recognised as a specific breed by the Kennel Club, the UK's largest organisation for breeding and welfare.\n\nFour dog breeds are currently banned in the UK - the Pit bull terrier, the Japanese tosa, the Dogo Argentino and the Fila Brasileiro.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesperson said the government wanted to convene a meeting with police and experts to define American bully XLs for the purposes of the Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Health minister Eluned Morgan said NHS cuts would impact the public and services\n\nThere is \"no question\" the public will feel the impact of cuts on the NHS in Wales, the country's health minister has warned.\n\nEluned Morgan said health boards are going to find it \"very difficult\" to make the savings they need to.\n\nThe Welsh government has told them they need to find the savings to counter overspending.\n\nBoards and ministers will decide whether cutbacks will be from national or local services.\n\n\"It's going to be very difficult for the health boards over the next few weeks and months to find the kind of savings we are asking them to find,\" Ms Morgan said at the National Eisteddfod in Boduan, Gwynedd, on Friday.\n\n\"We are waiting in the next few weeks to get some suggestions from the health boards in terms of where they can make some savings.\n\n\"There will be an impact on the public - no question about that - there will be an impact on services. In a service that is still under pressure.\"\n\nAsked whether there would be staff cuts, Ms Morgan said: \"There is a turnover of staff and the question perhaps will be whether we can replace those who leave the service.\n\n\"So, those are some of the questions I expect health boards to come up with answers for in the next few weeks.\n\n\"Once we know where we can make those savings then of course we will be straight with the public in terms of what that will mean.\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board, which was put into into special measures in February, has a £140m overspend.\n\nChairman Dyfed Edwards said: \"The government ask is to respond to a reducing budget within the health board at the moment but also to look wider, to see if we can produce more savings.\n\n\"That's part of the discussion with government - for them to have a clear picture of what that reducing budget will look at, and what does it mean in terms of the provision of services.\"", "Businessman Brett Sheffield died following an alleged assault in Toronto\n\nA British soldier has been charged with second degree murder in Canada after an alleged assault left a man dead.\n\nCraig Gibson, 28, is accused of assaulting Brett Sheffield in Toronto city centre at 23:25 local time (03:24 GMT) on Monday 28 August.\n\nMr Sheffield, 38, was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and died two days later.\n\nMr Gibson appeared in court on Monday charged with his murder, Toronto Police said.\n\nThe alleged altercation took place in the Portland Street and King Street West area of downtown Toronto, in the Canadian province of Ontario.\n\nPolice say \"life-saving measures\" were attempted at the scene before Mr Sheffield was taken to hospital. He died on 30 August.\n\nA spokesperson for the British Army said: \"We can confirm a British soldier has been arrested and charged for second degree murder by the Toronto Police, Canada.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the victim at this tragic time.\n\n\"As the matter is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Canadian authorities, it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nMr Sheffield, a business man from Manitoba, was in Toronto with colleagues for work meetings and team bonding events, his friend Justin LeBlanc told the Winnipeg Free Press.\n\nHe said Mr Sheffield worked very hard and built an incredible company, \"but never lost sight of the people around him\".\n\nA tribute to Mr Sheffield has been posted on social media by the company he founded.\n\n\"His absence is felt deeply across the community, our company, and his vast network of friends and colleagues,\" a spokesperson for NextGen Drainage said.\n\n\"Brett's passion for helping every person feel valued and cared for will continue to motivate us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves.\n\nAt least 2,300 people died when a tsunami-like river of floodwater swept through Derna on Sunday after a dam burst during Storm Daniel.\n\nA mechanical digger worked in a cemetery where victims wrapped in body bags and blankets were buried together.\n\nWith 10,000 people reported missing, the death toll is expected to rise.\n\nMohammed Qamaty, a volunteer in Derna, said rescue workers were still searching for victims.\n\n\"We call on all the young Libyans, anyone who has a degree or any medical affiliation to please come and help us,\" he told Reuters news agency. \"We have a shortage in nurses, we need help.\"\n\nSome aid has started to arrive, including from Egypt, but rescue efforts have been hampered by the political situation in Libya, with the country split between two rival governments.\n\nThe US, Germany, Iran, Italy, Qatar and Turkey are among the countries that have said they have sent, or are ready to send, aid.\n\nWater engineering experts have told the BBC it is likely a dam around 12km (eight miles) from Derna failed first, sending its water sweeping down a valley and overcoming a second dam which lay closer to the city.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nVideo footage recorded after dark on Sunday shows a river of floodwater churning through Derna, a city of about 100,000 people, with cars bobbing helplessly in the current.\n\nDaylight revealed ruined neighbourhoods with streets covered in mud and rubble, littered with upturned vehicles.\n\nThere are harrowing stories of people being swept out to sea, while others clung onto rooftops to survive.\n\n\"I was shocked by what I saw, it's like a tsunami,\" Hisham Chkiouat, from Libya's eastern-based government, told BBC Newshour.\n\nEastern Libya's health minister, Othman Abduljaleel, told the Associated Press by phone from Derna: \"We were stunned by the amount of destruction... The tragedy is very significant, and beyond the capacity of Derna and the government.\"\n\nVictims were taken in ambulances for burial at a cemetery in Derna\n\nThe cities of Soussa, Al-Marj and Misrata were also affected by Sunday's storm.\n\nLibya has been in political chaos since long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 - leaving the oil-rich nation effectively split with an interim, internationally recognised government operating from the capital, Tripoli, and another one in the east.\n\nBut despite the split, the government in Tripoli has sent a plane with 14 tonnes of medical supplies, body bags and more than 80 doctors and paramedics.\n\nDerna, about 250km east of Benghazi along the coast, is surrounded by the nearby hills of the fertile Jabal Akhdar region.\n\nThe city was once where militants from the Islamic State group built a presence in Libya, after Gaddafi's fall. They were driven out some years later by the Libyan National Army, forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar who is allied to the eastern administration.\n\nThe powerful general said eastern officials were currently assessing damage caused by the floods so roads could be reconstructed and electricity restored to help rescue efforts.\n\nAre you in Derna, Libya? Are you affected by the flooding? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Robert Williams was 15 when he went missing, and would now be 37\n\nThe mother of a teenager who was last seen at a house party more than 20 years ago says she \"needs to know what happened\".\n\nRobert Williams was 15 when he went missing from his home in Resolven, Neath, on 22 March 2002.\n\nIt is known that Robert went to a party in nearby Aberdulais the following day, but despite multiple police appeals he has never been found.\n\nHis mother Cheryl said she believed her son was \"never coming home\".\n\n\"I just want his body back so I can bury him. He deserves that,\" she said of Robert, who would have turned 37 this month.\n\n\"I don't want him out there on his own and we need closure as a family.\n\n\"Someone out there knows what happened to him.\n\n\"As a mother knowing my child is lying somewhere has destroyed me emotionally and physically. I need to know what happened to him.\"\n\nDet Insp Dai Butt, of South Wales Police, said the force was \"committed to finding out what happened to Robert\".\n\nHe said he believed the community of Aberdulais held \"key information\" that could help them to understand what happened.\n\n\"If you were at the party or have any information regarding Robert's movements or disappearance, we would really like to speak to you,\" he said.\n\n\"It may seem challenging to recall details from 21 years ago, but no matter how small or insignificant you think the information you hold is, it could prove vital to our investigation and could help provide Robert's family with much needed closure. All this time without answers has been agony for them.\n\n\"It is not too late after all this time to come forward.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA murderer who escaped from a US jail two weeks ago was captured by a law enforcement dog after a heat-sensing aircraft located him, authorities say.\n\nDanelo Cavalcante, 34, was arrested in a wooded area in Pennsylvania on Wednesday as he tried to crawl away from officers who had surrounded him.\n\nMore than 500 officers hunted him down after he escaped on 31 August.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison last month for killing his ex-girlfriend in front of her two children in 2021.\n\nBut just a week after he was sentenced, Cavalcante \"crab-walked\" between two walls and scaled a razor-wire fence to escape Chester County Prison, about 30 miles (50km) west of Philadelphia, where he had been awaiting transfer to a different facility.\n\nThe two-week manhunt spanned a large area of the state and put residents of Chester County on edge, with earlier sightings prompting police to advise residents to lock their doors and stay inside.\n\nAt a news conference on Wednesday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said Cavalcante was \"apprehended with no shots fired\" shortly after 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT).\n\nHe credited the \"extraordinary work\" of law enforcement and \"a tremendous assist from members of the public\" for Cavalcante's capture.\n\nPolice told reporters that a search team of mounted patrols, dogs and aircraft had fanned out over the woods of South Coventry Township through rain and thunder.\n\nLaw enforcement were then drawn closer to Cavalcante by a burglar alarm at a home.\n\nA Drug Enforcement Administration plane picked up a heat signal on the ground at 01:00, but the aircraft had to fly away because of the weather conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Pennsylvania manhunt... two weeks in 100 seconds\n\nA tactical team of around two dozen officers began closing in on the heat source at around 04:00, ultimately pinpointing Cavalcante four hours later.\n\nPennsylvania State Police Lt Colonel George Bivens told the news conference: \"They were able to move in very quietly. They had the element of surprise.\n\n\"Cavalcante did not realise he was surrounded until that had occurred. That did not stop him from trying to escape.\n\n\"He began to crawl through thick underbrush taking his [stolen] rifle with him as he went.\"\n\nA US Customs and Border Protection unit from Texas, with at least one dog, was part of the tactical team.\n\nThe dog, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois named Yoda, \"subdued\" Cavalcante as he tried to make his getaway, leaving him with a \"minor bite wound\".\n\n\"He continued to resist but was forcibly taken into custody,\" said Lt Col Bivens.\n\nCavalcante was left with \"a scalp wound\" and will be \"medically assessed\" before being taken to a prison facility, said officials.\n\nHe will appear in court on a felony escape charge in the near future, Philadelphia's attorney general said in a statement.\n\nLocal media footage shows a handcuffed Cavalcante, in a dirty Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt, being escorted to an armoured black police van.\n\nA large team of officers in camouflage uniforms is seen posing for photos with their captive before cutting him out of the hoodie and loading him into the vehicle.\n\nLt Col Bivens said he was \"not bothered at all\" that officers had taken the picture.\n\n\"Those men and women work amazingly hard through some very trying circumstances. They're proud of their work,\" he told reporters.\n\nChester County's three commissioners said in a joint statement that Cavalcante's capture \"ends the nightmare of the past two weeks\".\n\nThey said prison officials had made \"some immediate changes to bolster security in the prison\", including hiring new security contractors.\n\nHis method of escape was the same used by another inmate, Igor Bolte, in May. The glaring security lapse at the prison and the lone fugitive's evasion of a manhunt involving officers equipped with night-vision goggles, dogs, drones and aerial support for a fortnight embarrassed the authorities.\n\nWhile on the run, police said Cavalcante had tried to contact people he knew, including his sister. She did not help him and was later taken into custody for an immigration violation.\n\nOn Tuesday, they warned that the escaped murderer had entered an open garage in the area and fled with a .22 calibre rifle as the homeowner fired several shots in his direction.\n\nFamily members of the ex-girlfriend he murdered, Deborah Brandão, have been under 24-hour police protection.\n\nCavalcante's escape and arrest have made headlines in his native Brazil, where social media users celebrated the end of the manhunt.\n\nIn an interview with Brazilian news website G1, Brandão's sister said that the arrest \"brings a lot of relief\".\n\n\"We were afraid that he would seek revenge against my family,\" Silvia Brandão told the outlet. \"We were very afraid because you know what he is capable of.\"\n\nIn addition to murdering Brandão, Cavalcante is accused of murdering a young friend over an unpaid debt in the central Brazilian state of Tocantins in 2017.", "Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, pictured here in 2019\n\nVladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un have а lot in common.\n\nNeither gets out much. The Kremlin leader hasn't left Russia this year. In Kim's case, make that four years.\n\nBoth Russia and North Korea have been accused of becoming \"rogue states\".\n\nBoth are under heavy international sanctions.\n\nBoth governments rail against the \"hegemony\" of the United States.\n\nOften a common enemy can bring leaders closer together.\n\nAnd so it is with Putin and Kim. Theirs is a marriage made, if not in heaven, then certainly in the geo-political realities of 2023.\n\nA bromance? Not exactly. Unlike former US President Donald Trump, who once declared that he and Kim Jong Un \"fell in love\", the leaders of Russia and North Korea are less effusive in their public displays of affection.\n\nBut both Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un see potential benefits from a closer relationship.\n\nSo, what's in it for the Kremlin?\n\nFor a start, North Korea has a huge defence industry with large-scale production capabilities. With Russia's war in Ukraine grinding on, Pyongyang could prove an invaluable source of munitions for Moscow.\n\nWashington suspects the Kremlin has already clocked that. The United States claims that arms talks between Russia and North Korea have been \"actively advancing\" with Russia allegedly seeking supplies of ammunition and artillery shells.\n\nNo confirmation of that from Russian officials. But plenty of unsubtle hints that Russia and North Korea intend to boost military co-operation.\n\nBack in July Sergei Shoigu became the first Russian defence minister to visit North Korea since the break-up of the Soviet Union, when he attended events marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean armistice. Kim Jong Un played tour guide as he showed Mr Shoigu around a weapons exhibition. The defence minister has also hinted that joint military exercises are in the pipeline.\n\n\"If they are looking for weaponry in North Korea, one of the poorest and less developed countries of the world - an isolated country - to my mind that is the utmost humiliation of the propaganda of Russian 'great power',\" believes former Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev. Mr Kozyrev was speaking to me in a video call from the United States where he currently resides.\n\n\"A great power would not go to North Korea for an alliance or military supplies.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why might North Korea and Russia want to be friends?\n\nBut a power intent on overturning the world order might. With his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin signalled his determination to remake the global order to Russia's liking. Military co-operation with North Korea may be another sign of that.\n\nAn arms deal between Moscow and Pyongyang would represent quite a shift. Until recently Russia had been four-square behind UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme. Among other things, those sanctions ban the trade of weapons with North Korea.\n\n\"Moscow had put its signature to those Security Council resolutions,\" Russian tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets reminded readers last week. But it added:\n\n\"Never mind. A signature can be revoked.\"\n\nThe paper quoted the chairman of Russia's Council on Foreign and Defence Policy Fyodor Lukyanov as saying:\n\n\"For a long time now the question's been asked: why are we [Russia] abiding by these sanctions? The whole system of international relations is in a state of total pandemonium.\n\n\"Of course, the UN sanctions are legitimate. It's hard to deny that. We voted for them. But the situation has changed. Why not revoke our vote?\"\n\nThat would be music to Kim Jong Un's ears.\n\nWhat else may North Korea be hoping to get from Russia? Almost certainly, humanitarian aid to help alleviate North Korea's food shortages. There's also speculation that Pyongyang has been seeking advanced Russian technology for satellites and military use, including for nuclear-powered submarines.\n\nMore than a year and a half into a war that has gone badly wrong for Russia, Moscow may well need to replenish its munitions stocks. It may well see a deal with Pyongyang as a way of helping to achieve that. But that doesn't mean that, without North Korea's help, Russia's war machine is about to grind to a halt.\n\n\"Putin is not desperate,\" believes former foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev. \"He can sustain this for a very long time and he can adapt. He learns every day how to circumvent the sanctions, how to co-operate with China, with North Korea and some regimes in Africa. That is not an alternative for the future. But it is an alternative for the present time. And maybe for years to come.\"", "Annie Macmanus said she was speaking on behalf of \"a real range of\" women in the music industry\n\nFormer BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus has told MPs there is a \"tidal wave\" of revelations about sexual assault in the music industry waiting to be told.\n\nThe broadcaster and writer told a House of Commons committee an \"unbelievable\" number of stories have not yet emerged.\n\nThe music business is \"a boys' club\" and \"the system is kind of rigged against women\", she said.\n\nMany women fear for their careers if they speak out about misconduct or abuses of power, she added.\n\n\"There needs to be some sort of a shift in women feeling like they're able to speak out without their careers being compromised,\" the DJ formerly known as Annie Mac told the Women and Equalities Committee.\n\n\"I don't know how that can happen. I feel like there are a lot of revelations that have not been exposed, even just from the conversations that happened for [the hearing] today.\n\n\"It's infuriating, the amount of women who have stories of sexual assault that just kind of buried them and carried them. It's just unbelievable.\n\n\"So I do think if something were to happen, like if one person was to speak that had enough profile where it got media attention, I think there could be a kind of tidal wave of it. Definitely.\"\n\nThe DJ and author gave evidence to the committee at the House of Commons\n\nMacmanus explained she had not experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct personally, but said her 19 years at the BBC gave her a \"shield of protection\" to talk about such issues.\n\nShe said she had spoken to \"a real range of\" female agents, managers, producers, photographers, artists and fellow DJs.\n\n\"There are common threads that run through everything I've heard,\" she said. \"That is that women, especially young women in the music industry, are consistently underestimated and undermined, and freelance women are consistently put in situations where they are unsafe.\"\n\nShe gave an example of one artist who went to the pub with a record label boss, who kept asking her not to go home. \"And then when they go out in the street, he sexually assaulted her,\" she said.\n\nA lot of women had told her about \"a general sense of feeling unsafe\" in male-dominated venues, Macmanus said.\n\n\"The music industry is a boys' club. Everybody knows everyone in the top levels. All the people at the very top levels have the money. They also have the power. The system is kind of rigged against women.\"\n\nRebecca Ferguson said she had been told rapes were going unreported\n\nSinger and former X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson also gave evidence to the MPs, who are conducting an inquiry into misogyny in the music industry.\n\n\"Misogyny in music is the tip of the iceberg of the things that are happening behind the scenes,\" Ferguson told them.\n\nShe said \"bullying and corruption is being allowed to happen\", and that men in senior positions had asked security staff \"to infiltrate and purposely ruin my romantic relationships\".\n\n\"I witnessed other performers being encouraged to engage in messages of a sexual nature with each other,\" she added.\n\nShe told the MPs: \"There are plenty of times when you're placed in situations where you are being compromised and where people are abusing their level of power.\n\n\"But as well as that, the thing that worries me the most is the rapes that are going unreported. That's what concerns me the most - the fact that women feel like they can't speak up.\n\n\"One lady contacted me and said, 'I've wanted to do this [speak out] my entire life. If I speak up against him, he's so powerful, I will never work in this industry ever again'.\"", "A photo shared by the Russian-installed governor on Telegram showed flames engulfing what appeared to be a vessel\n\nUkraine has said it attacked naval targets and port infrastructure in Crimea, in one of its biggest strikes on the Russian navy's Black Sea fleet.\n\nRussia earlier claimed Ukraine had launched 10 missiles and three unmanned boats in the attack.\n\nIt caused a large fire at a Sevastopol shipyard which left 24 people injured, Russia said.\n\nThe Moscow-installed governor claimed most of the weapons were intercepted but that two ships had been damaged.\n\nUkraine has strongly implied western-supplied cruise missiles were used in the attack, one of the biggest on the Black Sea fleet since the war started.\n\nUnmanned vessels, known by many different names including sea drones and drone boats, operate on or below the water. They usually have built-in explosives and cameras that feed directly back to the person controlling them.\n\nA photo shared by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev on Telegram shows flames engulfing what appears to be a ship at a port as he stands speaking into his phone.\n\nIt is thought to be in an area where ships were undergoing repairs.\n\nA large landing ship, named the Minsk, and a submarine, called the Rostov-on-Don - both thought to be in dry dock - are said to have been damaged. This makes it one of Ukraine's most significant attacks so far on the Black Sea fleet.\n\nAccording to state-run Ria Novosti news agency, the Russian defence ministry said both vessels will be fully repaired and continue in normal service.\n\nUkraine has strongly implied western-supplied cruise missiles were used\n\nUkrainian military intelligence official Andriy Yusov told Reuters: \"We confirm a large landing vessel and submarine were hit. We do not comment on the means (used) for the strike.\"\n\nIn a post on Telegram, the head of Ukraine's air force Mykola Oleshchuk thanked his pilots for their \"excellent combat work\" - strongly suggesting weaponry had been launched by Ukrainian aircraft. He also warned there was more to come.\n\nPosted in Ukrainian, Mr Oleshchuk used language which strongly implied the use of either UK Storm Shadow or French SCALP cruise missiles. These missiles have a range of over 150 miles (240km) - triple the range of missiles Ukraine used previously.\n\nWhen contacted, the air force said Storm Shadow and SCALP cruise missiles are the only such weapons currently in Ukrainian use.\n\nThis appears to be the first time such weapons have been used on targets inside Crimea.\n\nSmoke lingered in the air the morning after the attack on a Sevastopol shipyard\n\nImages circulating on social media, which the BBC has yet to verify, show several large explosions in the area.\n\nThe fact that some missiles got through Russia's air defences and appear to have done substantial damage will be of real concern in Moscow.\n\nSeven of the missiles were downed and all three unmanned boats were destroyed, the country's defence ministry claimed.\n\nRussia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and this attack shows the tussle for control of the waters.\n\nUkraine has consistently maintained that its ultimate goal is to retake the peninsula and it is not the first time it has targeted Sevastopol and the Black Sea fleet.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian drones reportedly damaged the Ukrainian grain port of Izmail, on the Danube river.\n\nThe governor of the Odesa region, Oleh Kiper, said six people had been injured in the attack, which caused a fire and damaged infrastructure.\n\n\"Several groups of drones were launched at the Izmail district,\" Mr Kiper said on Telegram.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there were hits: damage to port and other civil infrastructure was recorded.\"\n\nIn recent days, Ukraine claimed it seized back control of four gas drilling platforms in the northern Black Sea, close to the Crimean peninsula. The so-called Boyko Towers were captured by Russia in 2015, shortly after its annexation of Crimea.", "Emma Coronel attended both the pre-trial hearings against her husband and his trial\n\nEmma Coronel, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, has been released from jail in the US.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and was sentenced to three years in jail in November 2021, a sentence which was later reduced.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed her release.\n\nIt is believed the 34-year-old left a halfway house in California, where she was moved from federal prison in June.\n\nHer husband is serving a life sentence in a supermax jail in Colorado.\n\nLast month, he sent a handwritten letter requesting his wife and their two daughters be allowed to visit him in the maximum security prison.\n\nEl Chapo Guzmán, 66, was found guilty in 2019 of running the Sinaloa cartel.\n\nThe Mexico-based transnational criminal organisation is estimated by US law enforcement officials to have smuggled more than 1,000 tonnes of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin into the US.\n\nGuzmán, pictured in the 1990s, became infamous for his escapes from high-security jails as well as for the gruesome nature of his cartel\n\nThe cartel's hitmen kidnapped, tortured and killed members of rival gangs to consolidate its power.\n\nThe Sinaloa cartel also bribed police officers and high-ranking politicians in Mexico and across Central America to turn a blind eye to drug shipments or even tip the cartel off about impending raids.\n\nEmma Coronel first met Guzmán when she was 17 years old and competing in a local beauty pageant.\n\nHer father, Inés Coronel, was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico for drug smuggling.\n\nGuzmán was running the cartel from various hideouts in northern Mexico after he had escaped from prison in a laundry cart in 2001.\n\nThey formalised their relationship in a ceremony when Emma Coronel was 18 - although it is not clear if their marriage was ever officially registered with the Mexican authorities.\n\nCoronel, who holds dual US-Mexican nationality, travelled to California in 2011 to give birth to the couple's twin daughters, a move which means the children have US citizenship.\n\nIn 2014, Guzmán was arrested after a 13-year manhunt and sent to the Altiplano maximum security jail in Mexico.\n\nIt only took Guzmán 17 months to escape again, this time through a tunnel complete with ventilation shafts and a motorcycle on rails which led from his cell to a nearby warehouse.\n\nMexican marines escorted Guzmán to a helicopter after his arrest in 2014\n\nAt her trial, prosecutors said Coronel had played a key role in her husband's escape.\n\nShe was also accused of having acted as a messenger for her husband both during his time on the run and behind bars, relaying orders to his cartel lieutenants and to his sons with his previous wives, who are known as the Chapitos (Little Chapos).\n\nAfter his 2015 tunnel escape, Guzmán managed to evade capture for six months before Mexican special forces finally captured him outside Los Mochis, in his home state of Sinaloa.\n\nHe was extradited to the US a year later and put on trial in New York.\n\nImmaculately dressed and perfectly groomed, she smiled and waved to him from the public gallery.\n\nEmma Coronel missed hardly any of her husband's court dates\n\nShe told the New York Times that she did not recognise the gruesome testimony given about her husband in court, instead describing him as \"an excellent father, friend, brother, son, partner\".\n\nWhen Guzmán was found guilty in February 2019, the couple gave each other the thumbs up.\n\nCoronel remained free for almost another two years until her arrest at Dulles airport, near Washington DC, in February 2021.\n\nProsecutors said she was well aware of her husband's criminal activities and \"understood the scope of the Sinaloa cartel's drug trafficking\".\n\nShe pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering.\n\nAt her sentencing, Coronel asked for leniency for the sake of her children. \"I beg you to not allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother,\" she told the judge.\n\nShe was sentenced to three years in jail which were subsequently reduced, paving the way for today's release.\n\nHer future plans are unclear, but her husband's letter pleading for her to be allowed to see him would suggest she may travel to Colorado to visit him.\n\nIn the letter, Guzmán says the couple's daughters, who are now 12 years old, are \"studying in Mexico and can only travel to visit their dad during the holidays, two or three times per year at most\".", "The sketch of Dover was discovered in a suitcase during a house clearance\n\nA sketch drawn by John Constable more than 200 years ago has been found in a suitcase during a house clearance.\n\nThe pencil drawing of Dover is one of a series of sketches the artist created in April 1803 when he spent almost a month on board a ship off the Kent coast.\n\nIt was uncovered in a smashed frame in an old suitcase in a house in the Leeds area.\n\nThe sketch will be auctioned in Scarborough on Friday.\n\nAuctioneers said the late owners of the property had seemingly failed to recognise that their unsigned picture was a genuine long-lost Constable.\n\nThe sketch is a detailed view across the water of Dover harbour towards the quayside buildings, with the castle high above the town and the cliffs stretching away into the distance.\n\nIt is thought Constable made as many as 130 drawings on the voyage, although the whereabouts of fewer than 50 are known today.\n\nDominic Cox, from auctioneers David Duggleby, said: \"Drawings from Constable's 1803 trip have made astonishing amounts of money.\n\n\"His sketch of HMS Victory on the Medway sold for £216,000 some years ago.\n\n\"Fortunately for collectors who would like to have a Constable on the wall the Dover view is not expected to make quite that much.\"\n\nThe pre-sale estimate for the Dover sketch is between £2,000 and £3,000.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shannon Doherty and baby Rían who is now doing well back at home\n\nA woman whose baby became critically ill with a Group B Streptococcus infection has called for testing for all pregnant women in Northern Ireland.\n\nShannon Doherty's son Rían became ill when he was six weeks old. Blood tests confirmed he had late onset Strep B.\n\nThe baby survived but may have long-term health damage.\n\nIn Northern Ireland routine testing for the infection in pregnancy is not currently recommended, the Department of Health has said.\n\nThe department said there was \"insufficient evidence to support it\".\n\nGroup B Strep (GBS) is one of the most common causes of life-threatening infections in new-born babies and it is fatal in a small number of cases.\n\nMs Doherty, from Londonderry, said that she had been diagnosed with the infection during her pregnancy, and both she and the baby received antibiotics during labour.\n\nShe said she called an ambulance for her son in July after she became concerned around the colouring of his skin and his breathing.\n\nBaby Rían Doherty wakes up smiling every morning, according to his mother\n\nHis condition quickly deteriorated and he was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital.\n\nMedics carried out a lumbar puncture procedure on the baby to try to determine the cause of his illness.\n\n\"That procedure really took it out of him. I was fearing the worst,\" Shannon told the BBC's North West Today programme.\n\n\"He was, thankfully, started really early on antibiotics; otherwise, he wouldn't have made it through.\"\n\nIn 2019, Northern Ireland's political parties jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.\n\nMost strains of the new born infection can be prevented by testing during pregnancy and providing intravenous antibiotics to women in labour.\n\nHowever, the UK does not routinely test for GBS, unlike the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.\n\nExperts worry that routine testing would see antibiotics given to many more women.\n\nMs Doherty took to social media to highlight her family's experience as she said she wanted to create awareness around Group B Strep.\n\nShe said the family now faced a waiting game as Rían grows to get a full sense of the impact the infection has possibly had on him, as it caused bacterial meningitis and sepsis.\n\n\"I watched my son go from a healthy wee baby, to his life turned upside down,\" she said.\n\n\"His future, being able to walk, talk and play football is not guaranteed to us.\n\n\"I wouldn't have known I had Group B Strep with Rían only I was tested when I had a kidney infection. That's not right. It should be mandatory,\" she said.\n\nShe said she wanted to raise awareness of the problems such an infection can cause.\n\n\"My son is a smiler. He wakes up every morning with a wee smile on his face and that's what motivates me to keep going.\n\n\"He's overcome a lot and that smile means the world to me.\n\n\"My message to parents is: 'Don't be afraid to talk openly about Group B Strep.'\n\n\"People are nervous to ask me about it, what it is and what it means for the future.\n\n\"I believe that the infection and what it can do is just not highlighted enough within the NHS\".\n\nThe Department for Health said that its position with regard to routine testing is kept \"under regular review\".\n\n\"If you are concerned about GBS, discuss it with your doctor or midwife,\" it added.", "Voter ID could cause \"serious disruption\" to the general election, a local government think-tank has said.\n\nNext year will see the first general election where all voters will have to show a valid form of voter photo ID.\n\nThe government claims the system will crack down on potential voter fraud.\n\nBut electoral administrators surveyed by the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) warned they will not have enough staff to implement the new rules, without more funding.\n\nAbout 14,000 people were unable to vote at May's local elections in England because they didn't have a valid ID. Electoral Commission research found 90% of voters at May's election were \"satisfied with the process of voting\".\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the true figure is thought to be higher as some of those who wanted to vote at polling stations might have turned away after reading the requirements at the entrance but were not formally recorded.\n\nEthnic minorities and unemployed voters were more likely to be turned away, the electoral watchdog found.\n\nIn a report out on Wednesday, the commission called on the government to expand the list of accepted ID documents to \"remove barriers\" to voting.\n\nThe government says it is still \"learning lessons\" from May's initial rollout of voter-ID rules.\n\nBut two separate reports published on Wednesday raise serious concerns.\n\nThe LGIU report warns voters will be turned away at the general election, expected next year, because there will not be enough staff to check valid ID and produce Voter Authority Certificates.\n\nMore funding from central government was needed to ensure \"electoral administrators have the resources they need to make elections happen\", said Jonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the LGIU, a network of 2,000 local authorities.\n\n\"It is still not clear that voter ID brings any benefits to the process, and indeed the worries highlighted in our interviews are not addressed by the policy,\" he added.\n\n\"Elections are an essential part of our democracy.\n\n\"Members of the public need to be certain that they are secure, inclusive, well-organised and - most crucially - that the results represent their genuine preferences about how the country should be run.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association echoed this view, saying council election teams had to rely on help from areas without elections in May and this would not be sustainable at a general election.\n\nIn a separate report, the Electoral Commission calls on the government to expand the list of accepted ID documents to \"remove barriers\" to voting.\n\nThe commission also suggested allowing voters to cast their ballot without accepted ID if another registered voter could vouch for their identity.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for democracy Florence Eshalomi said: \"It is wrong that the Conservatives have snatched the ability of legitimate voters to have a say in their services and society.\n\n\"The government must urgently respond to these reasonable proposals by the Electoral Commission and recognise the potential for much wider damage to democracy at a general election if they fail to take action.\"\n\nSpeaking for the government, elections minister Baroness Scott said: \"We are committed to ensuring everyone has the opportunity to have their say in our democracy.\n\n\"We are ensuring we fully understand how the policy has operated in practice, what has gone well and where there are any areas for improvement in the future.\"\n\nThe LGIU surveyed 171 electoral administrators who helped to deliver the May 2023 local elections. The survey found nine out of 10 administrators reported problems with recruiting enough polling station staff.\n\nEight out of 10 administrators surveyed reported that the new rules had made recruiting and retaining polling station staff more difficult.", "Higher-education providers in England have an \"unhealthy dependency\" on international students, to compensate for frozen tuition fees and increased costs, a Lords committee report warns.\n\nNeither the government nor the regulator, the Office for Students, is tackling the \"looming crisis\", the Industry and Regulators Committee says.\n\nThe OfS lacks independence and is not trusted by providers, the report says.\n\nBut the OfS said it had taken steps to address many of the issues raised.\n\nIt became the regulator for higher education in England in 2018 and oversees 425 universities, colleges and other providers, aiming to hold them to account and ensure they give students value for money.\n\nBut the report says the OfS has not paid \"sufficient attention\" to the financial risks facing a sector \"increasingly reliant\" on international and postgraduate students, following the freezing of the cap on tuition fees for home students and loss of European Union research funding.\n\nThe government says undergraduate fees were frozen at £9,250 in 2018 to deliver better value for students. But institutions now make a loss when teaching domestic students and conducting research, the report says.\n\nFormer University of Hull vice-chancellor Prof Susan Lea told the committee providers were using the international market to replace the shortfall in funding for domestic students.\n\nThere were 469,160 international students in the UK in 2017-18, rising to 679,970 by 2021-22, according to Higher Education Student Statistics. And last year, OfS figures show, 22.3% were from China.\n\nAnd the OfS has written to 23 providers with high levels of students from China to ensure they have contingency plans in case of a sudden drop in overseas students.\n\nThe government controls the main sources of income for higher education providers, through the tuition-fee cap and its immigration policy's influence on international student recruitment, the reports says. And it urgently needs to put in place \"a stable, long-term funding model for the sector\".\n\nThe committee is also calling on the OfS to hold more regular talks with providers about their financial situation.\n\nLord Hollick, who chairs the committee, said the OfS \"does not command the trust or respect of either providers or students\". And peers were surprised by the regulator's view the sector's finances were \"in good shape\", as this assessment was not shared by the committee or its witnesses.\n\nAs university is now a very significant financial commitment for students, the OfS also needs to hold providers to account - and consider tougher consequences - to ensure prospective students receive clear information on their course, its long-term costs and the amount of online and in-person learning, the report says.\n\nThe committee found too many examples of the OfS \"acting like an instrument of the government's policy agenda rather than an independent regulator\".\n\nThe report says the perception the OfS lacks independence is not helped by the fact Lord Wharton, who chairs the OfS, continues to take his party's whip in the House of Lords. And the committee has asked the government to consider making serving politicians resign any party-political whip before chairing independent regulators.\n\nLord Wharton said the OfS was \"alive to the significant risks\" facing the sector, including \"an over-reliance by some on international students\".\n\n\"Our important work in this area is often not publicly visible but we will continue to identify risk and use the tools we have to protect the interests of students if an institution encounters financial difficulties,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Education said the higher education sector \"remains financially stable overall\" and that international students accounted for \"just 15% of all undergraduate entrants at UK providers in 2021/22\".\n\nAn official added: \"The Office for Students is driving up the quality of higher education by holding our world-leading universities to account and championing students' interests.\n\n\"We will consider all of the recommendations in full and respond in due course.\"", "The Scottish government has backed plans for a drug consumption facility in Glasgow\n\nThe UK government will not block plans for a drug consumption room pilot in Scotland, the Scottish secretary has confirmed.\n\nAlister Jack said Westminster would not intervene, but that there were no plans to devolve drugs laws to Holyrood.\n\nIt came after the Lord Advocate said it would not be in the public interest to prosecute users of drug consumption rooms for simple possession offences.\n\nThe Scottish government is backing plans to set up a pilot in Glasgow.\n\nCampaigners say that drug consumption rooms - facilities where people can inject illegal drugs under supervision - can reduce overdose deaths, public injecting and drug-related litter.\n\nA number of medical groups have backed the idea as a harm reduction measure, as part of a wider drugs strategy.\n\nBut others oppose them, claiming they send out the wrong signal about the dangers of drugs, and could divert resources away from tackling the the problem through treatment-based approaches.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Jack said: \"Drug consumption rooms are not the easy solution.\n\n\"There is no safe way to take illegal drugs. They devastate lives, the ruin families, they damage communities and the UK government believes the police and the procurator fiscal service should fully enforce the law.\n\n\"However, if the Scottish government and the Lord Advocate decide to proceed with a pilot on drugs consumption rooms, the UK government will not intervene.\"\n\nThe Scottish secretary said the Scottish government now had \"no excuses\" to tackle the country's drug death rate, which is the highest in Europe despite falling to a five-year low last year. Figures for the first six months of this year show a year on year increase.\n\nSNP Scotland spokesman Tommy Sheppard described the Lord Advocate's statement as a \"game-changer\" as it removes \"one of the major obstacles\" to a pilot facility to help prevent overdoses.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack says the UK government would not intervene in a pilot scheme\n\nThe Home Affairs Committee at Westminster recommended previously that the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) be amended to allow a pilot project to run in Scotland, but the call was rejected by the Home Office.\n\nDrug laws are reserved to the UK government but Scotland's Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC sets out the rules on whether prosecutions should take place.\n\nScottish Drugs and Alcohol Policy Minister Elena Whitham called Ms Bain's announcement a \"significant moment\" in Scotland's mission to tackle drug deaths.\n\nMs Whitham has been examining plans for a pilot project developed by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and Police Scotland, facilitated by the Scottish government.\n\nThose plans are expected to be presented for approval to the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board - which brings together council and health officials - at its next meeting on 27 September.\n\nMs Whitham said she would like to see the facilities rolled out across the country if the pilot is successful, and that she would \"absolutely not\" cut funding for other drug recovery services to launch the pilot.\n\nThe minister said she expected the proposed site to be in the city centre because there were known to be between 400 and 500 people who inject drugs in city centre alleyways.\n\nCouncillor Allan Casey, Glasgow City Council convener for addiction services, said a proposed site in the city centre had been identified.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime a public consultation would be held if the proposals are agreed by the Integration Joint Board.\n\n\"There is broad support across all political parties I believe to open this trial facility,\" the councillor said.\n\n\"Clearly we are in a public health emergency and we need to move at pace to really address the issue and reduce the number of people who are needlessly dying on our streets.\"\n\nThe SNP's Tommy Sheppard said Alister Jack was someone who had \"form\" when it came to intervening on Scottish decisions.\n\nHe urged Mr Jack to be on \"the right side of history\" on this as and he was perhaps expecting more of a row.\n\nThe Scottish Secretary confirmed that the UK government's policy was against consumption rooms but Mr Jack said they wouldn't stand in the way of the pilots going ahead.\n\nThere is a feeling among those close to Mr Jack that the Scottish government have been setting themselves up for a fight that isn't there in this case.\n\nMany in the SNP will point to recent decisions by the UK government to block items on the Scottish legislative agenda - the Gender Recognition Act, the Deposit return scheme.\n\nBut the Scottish Secretary's argument is that those are cases that undermined the devolution settlement, impacting the wider UK somehow.\n\nIn this case, criminal justice is a devolved matter, and prosecution policy is a matter for Scotland's Lord Advocate.\n\nThere's also a feeling that as we're not talking about actual legislation just yet, it's hard to argue against. Also, the UK government would be weary of trying to overrule a law officer.\n\nAlister Jack standing up in the Commons today saying \"no more excuses\" is his way of saying to the Scottish government that this is no longer an issue to point the blame at Westminster for - and what happens next is over to them.", "Many locals are priced out of the housing market in places like Aberdaron\n\nA controversial proposal to force people to get planning permission for their second homes could lower property prices, Gwynedd's council has said.\n\nThe local authority said it is \"inevitable\" prices might decrease, possibly by around 5%.\n\nCyngor Gwynedd says it has a \"huge housing crisis,\" fuelled largely by a high concentration of second homes.\n\nTourism leaders and residents have expressed concerns over the proposal.\n\nA public consultation on the plan ends Wednesday and a final decision is expected to be made next year.\n\nWelsh government amendments to planning regulations have introduced three new classes of use - main home, second home and short-term holiday accommodation.\n\nCouncils also now have the power to control the use of houses as second homes or holiday lets.\n\nEarlier this year, Gwynedd voted to press ahead with plans to issue a so-called Article 4 Direction, which requires people to get planning permission for second homes or short-term holiday lets in the county.\n\nIn a report aiming to justify the move, it said: \"Inevitably, it is likely that intervention by introducing an Article 4 Direction and, therefore, controlling the use made of residential units, would have a [possibly minimal] effect on the value of the property on the open market.\"\n\nIt said a property would lower in value as the new rules would restrict what it could be used for.\n\nThe report added: \"It is, therefore, noted that such a restriction could be a means of securing lower cost market houses within the housing market.\"\n\nThe report said it was impossible to predict exactly what impact the policy would have, but said \"it is inevitable that the Article 4 Direction would have a similar effect on house prices\".\n\nGwynedd's council has already imposed a 150% council tax premium on second home owners.\n\nNorth Wales Tourism has accused the council of \"anti-tourism\" policies, while one north Wales Senedd Member has described the plans as \"barmy\".\n\nEdern resident Dafyn Jones is one of a 1,000-strong Facebook group against the plans, and said the council \"are playing Russian roulette with people's assets\".\n\nDafyn Jones says the council are playing Russian roulette with people's assets\n\n\"It's very easy to take it personally when someone at a stroke of a pen [says] 'we're going to devalue everyone's house',\" he said.\n\nHe said the proposal was \"good gesture politics\" that appealed to a \"small, maybe militant sector\".\n\n\"But if you need to sell to move on to a care home, or if both my wife and I passed away and I wanted to leave my house to my son, immediately he's going to be clobbered with 300% council tax and will have to try and sell it for a value of not really what it's truly worth,\" Mr Jones added.\n\nHowever, the council said that high numbers of holiday accommodation and second homes \"can be a real threat to the social, cultural and economic prosperity of communities across Gwynedd\".\n\nIt said that, on average, 65.5% of the county's population are priced out of the housing market, rising to 96.1% in hotspots like Abersoch and Aberdaron.\n\nCraig ab Iago, cabinet member for housing, said: \"Are house prices going to come down? I don't know in the future if that's going to happen. No one does.\n\n\"House prices tend to go up all the time anyway.\n\nCraig ab Iago said the point of the consultation was to understand the nuances of the debate around house prices\n\n\"But, do we need house prices to be more affordable for people in Gwynedd? Can anybody disagree with that?\n\n\"That's the whole point of this consultation, to really try and understand the nuance of it and not just this black and white,\" he said.\n\nMark Roberts, planning and environmental law consultant, said other measures would also be needed if the aim was to lower house prices.\n\n\"It's not just about Article 4 Directions on their own. It is a help, but I can't see prices coming down because of [it],\" he said.", "The House of Lords has blocked the UK government's plan to relax restrictions on water pollution to encourage housebuilding in England.\n\nLabour led a rebellion in the Lords on Wednesday to defeat the government in a vote on removing the EU-era \"nutrient neutrality\" rules.\n\nMinisters believe up to 100,000 new homes could be built by 2030 if water pollution regulations are loosened.\n\nBut environmental groups said the move would mean more polluted waters.\n\nShadow minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the government had put forward \"an entirely bogus dilemma\".\n\n\"Don't pretend it's a choice between looking after our environment and building more houses, because it isn't,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government announced plans to scrap these rules through an amendment, or change, to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, currently going through the House of Lords.\n\nBecause of the late stage at which the government tried to introduce the change, it cannot try again in the House of Commons now it has been defeated in the Lords.\n\nMinisters would need to bring the proposal forward in a new bill.\n\nThe defeat is a victory for Labour, whose deputy leader Angela Rayner led opposition to the plan in her new role as shadow levelling up secretary.\n\nMs Rayner said the defeat showed \"the Tories have utterly failed in their attempt to score cheap political points with a flawed plan\".\n\nShe added: \"We stand ready to sit down with the government, housebuilders and environmental groups to agree on a workable solution to build the homes we need.\"\n\nThe Levelling up Secretary, Michael Gove, said Labour had ordered peers from its party to block \"the dream of homeownership for thousands of families\".\n\n\"This is despite boasting that Labour would be the party of the builders not the blockers,\" he said.\n\nThe attempt to ease the rules, by amending the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, was defeated by 203 votes to 156, a majority of 47.\n\nLiberal Democrat Lords spokesperson for communities and local government, Baroness Pinnock, hailed the result as a \"great victory\".\n\n\"The Conservatives have continually promised not to roll back our environment rules, it is deeply shocking that they can't be trusted to keep their word,\" Baroness Pinnock said.\n\nGreen Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones said the government should consult the public before they consider bringing back the plan to scrap pollution rules in a separate bill.\n\n\"They can then consult properly and justify it to a public who are already fed up with polluted local rivers and beaches,\" Baroness Jones said.\n\nNatural England rules currently mean 62 local authorities cannot allow new developments unless builders can prove their projects are \"nutrient neutral\" in protected areas.\n\nThe government said by removing the restrictions, housing developers will deliver an extra £18bn in economic activity.\n\nMinisters argued that watering down the requirement would have a negligible impact on pollution, and had announced new environmental measures, including doubling investment to £280m for the Nutrient Mitigation Scheme run by Natural England.\n\nBut environmental groups and opposition parties opposed the plans, with Labour arguing the change would increase river pollution.\n\nThe government said Labour was blocking house building after years of undersupply.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Labour under Sir Keir Starmer could not be trusted to build more homes.\n\nHe said Labour's opposition to the government's plans was \"typical of the principles-free, conviction-free type of leadership that he offers\".\n\nSir Keir's spokesman rejected the charge, saying the government's plans were \"rushed and flawed\".\n\n\"We do have serious concerns about the way in which the changes the Tories are proposing will harm our waterways and ecosystems,\" he said.", "At the height of the Celtic Tiger economic boom, Seán Quinn was Ireland's richest man\n\nFormer billionaire businessman Seán Quinn has said his family had doubts if he had been involved in abducting and torturing an ex-colleague.\n\nQuinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney was kidnapped in September 2019 and seriously assaulted.\n\nHe was found 22 miles away on a road in County Cavan and taken to hospital.\n\nThree men were jailed for the attack but the judge said the highest sentence would be reserved for the unnamed \"paymaster\" who funded the crime.\n\nMr Quinn has said that he believes the judge was referring to him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seán Quinn: Even my family doubted me over Lunney attack involvement\n\nHe was once Ireland's richest man, but was stripped of his business empire after a disastrous bet on shares in Anglo Irish Bank.\n\nMr Quinn has written a book in response to what he describes as the \"continuous character assassination\" and the \"disgraceful insinuations\" that he had some involvement in Mr Lunney's abduction.\n\nHe told BBC News NI those who don't believe him \"can believe whatever they like\" but there was no \"scintilla of evidence\" that he had any \"hand, act or part in it\".\n\nHowever, he said some of his own family questioned him.\n\n\"After Kevin Lunney was abducted… the air got very contaminated and even some of my own family - my brother and sisters and some of my kids - were saying, 'Daddy were you involved?',\" Mr Quinn said.\n\n\"They had some doubts that maybe I had something to do with it and some doubts that maybe I was responsible for the illegal loans; maybe I was responsible for some of the sabotage. So there was doubts by many people at that.\"\n\nKevin Lunney was tied up, had one leg broken and was slashed on the face and chest with a knife\n\nIf you want to know why Seán Quinn remains so popular in the border communities of Fermanagh and Cavan you just need to look at the thousands of jobs he created in what would otherwise be an economic backwater.\n\nHe says at the height of his success his businesses were paying €1m (£0.86m) a day in wages.\n\nThe self-made billionaire built a small family quarry in County Fermanagh into a huge empire.\n\nIts various arms included manufacturing, power generation, financial services, property development and a string of hotels including the four-star Slieve Russell resort in County Cavan.\n\nHis huge wealth made him the UK's 12th-richest man in 2007 and he lived a life of luxury.\n\nBut in December 2011 he walked into a Belfast courtroom and declared himself bankrupt, owing more than £2bn to Anglo Irish Bank.\n\nWhen the bank took control of his businesses, it ousted all the senior Quinn family members and senior executives on day one in a process called \"de-Quinning\" by locals.\n\nHe has consistently condemned the attacks on those now running his former businesses.\n\nThere have been books, documentaries, and hundreds of newspaper articles written about the rise and fall of his business empire but Mr Quinn says his book tells his side of the story for the first time.\n\nThe Slieve Russell Hotel and golf course was part of the Quinn hotel empire\n\nThe publicity for the book says Seán Quinn admits his own mistakes but he told BBC News NI he does not see himself as the master of his own downfall.\n\n\"I bought the shares in the bank because I thought they were cheap, so I was wrong. I'm not denying that I was the man that recommended buying the shares in the bank - no question about that - but I wasn't involved in illegal share dealing,\" he said.\n\n\"The 600-odd million pounds we lost on them was crazy, maybe madness on my part for buying so many shares, fine. But it wasn't a problem for the Quinn Group - I mean, it was only a year and a half's profit.\n\n\"The problem was, I blamed nobody for the first few years; I just took it on the chest.\n\n\"But then as the blame game - one thing after another, finishing up with Kevin Lunney's abduction - it went on and on and on. I was turning out to be the biggest criminal in the history of the state.\"\n\nMr Lunney was abducted outside his County Fermanagh home before being beaten and left at the side of a road in the Republic of Ireland\n\nMr Quinn admits the book may add to the tension in the community but he feels that \"the truth needs to come out\".\n\n\"I think that burying everything under the sand is not ideal,\" he added.\n\n\"I think the truth needs to come out and I'm telling the truth about what happened and why it happened.\"\n\nIn the book, Mr Quinn writes that he never felt like the richest man in Ireland - so how does he feel now?\n\n\"I feel close to the poorest. But the first third of my life I was poor, the middle third of my life I was rich and the last third of my life, give or take, it looks like I will be poor - but I'm resilient.\"\n\nFor a man who enjoys playing a weekly game of cards, he muses \"whatever cards you're dealt you play them and I'm happy to play whatever cards are dealt\".\n\n\"I never felt when I was seen as the richest man in Ireland - I never felt like that. When I'm poor now, I don't feel the poorest man in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the factories and the building and the thousands of people that helped me to achieve that deserve great credit.\n\n\"I believe I was captain of that team. I think it would be there in history.\n\n\"I think the people that destroyed it - history won't be kind to them and, really, that's what it's all about.\n\n\"Money's not important to me. Money never, ever was important to me. But achievement was - I love people to achieve something.\"\n\nMr Quinn said he would like to be remembered as \"a good citizen and a good businessman, and an honest man\".\n\n\"Money's no good to me in the grave but my reputation is and that's why I wrote the book and, as I said, I can fade into the shadows now when I've done that.\"\n\nHe believes the final chapter has been written but it is unlikely that the Seán Quinn story is finished.", "Boht had been \"battling vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease with the indefatigable spirit for which she was both beloved and renowned\", a statement said.\n\nActress Jean Boht, best known for playing matriarch Nellie Boswell in the Liverpool-set 1980s TV sitcom Bread, has died at the age of 91.\n\nBoht also appeared in sitcoms I Woke Up One Morning and Brighton Belles, and the drama Boys From the Blackstuff.\n\nThe news comes a month after the death of her husband, composer Carl Davis.\n\nA statement from her family said: \"It is with overwhelming sadness that we must announce that Jean Boht passed away yesterday, Tuesday September 12.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"Jean had been battling vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease with the indefatigable spirit for which she was both beloved and renowned.\"\n\nBorn in Bebington on the Wirral, Boht began her career on stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in the early 1960s before performing around the UK.\n\nOn TV, she gained roles like Mrs Leivers in a 1981 adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers, and a benefits office boss in Alan Bleasdale's landmark Boys From the Blackstuff.\n\nA part in sitcom I Woke Up One Morning, about a group of recovering alcoholics, led her to be cast in Bread, which was also written by Carla Lane.\n\nBoht starred with Shirin Taylor and Michael Angelis in I Woke Up One Morning\n\nShe soon became known around the country as the formidable Nellie Boswell, who was constantly attempting to keep her large Liverpool family in check.\n\nThe show was a big hit, with 21 million viewers tuning in to watch a wedding episode in 1988 - making it the second most popular show of that year, behind only EastEnders.\n\n\"I never watched it at the time, it's too horrendous for actors to see themselves on screen so I had no idea what it looked like,\" she told the Liverpool Echo in 2012.\n\n\"But now when I catch it I am just astounded at how good it was and how very funny,\" she added.\n\nBoht was named BBC TV Personality 1988 by the Variety Club of Great Britain, and won the prize for top TV comedy actress at the British Comedy Awards in 1990.\n\nShe also appeared in Terence Davies' acclaimed 1988 movie Distant Voices, Still Lives.\n\nIn 1993, she landed a lead role in Brighton Belles, the British remake of hit US sitcom The Golden Girls, alongside Sheila Hancock, Wendy Craig and Sheila Gish.\n\nBoht played Josephine, the new version of Estelle Getty's character Sophia from the American original. However, the UK remake failed to take off.\n\nLater, she boasted that playing five different roles in the BBC's medical soap opera Doctors was a record for the show, and she continued performing on stage, including in Embers with Jeremy Irons in London's West End in 2006.\n\nHer family's statement said she had been living at Denville Hall in London, a care home for actors and other members of the entertainment industry.", "A 43-year-old man has been charged as part of a PSNI terrorism investigation in Londonderry.\n\nHis arrest followed police searches carried out in the Columbcille Court area of the city on Saturday.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, detectives confirmed he had been charged with possession of firearms and explosives.\n\nThe man is expected to appear before Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "Shakira thanked her fans in Latin America while accepting the Vanguard Award\n\nShakira crowd-surfed her way to a lifetime achievement prize at the MTV Video Music Awards, as she performed a career-spanning medley of hits.\n\nThe Colombian star put on a spectacular show that saw her dance with knives, writhe in a fake cave and play a fiery guitar solo during Objection (Tango).\n\nPresenting her award, Wyclef Jean said: \"Latin music would not be the global force that it is without Shakira.\"\n\nTaylor Swift was the night's other big winner, earning nine Moon Man trophies.\n\nTaylor Swift with one of her Moon Man trophies\n\nThe star won in all but two of the categories where she was nominated, including the night's biggest award - video of the year - in recognition of the self-directed promo for Anti-Hero.\n\nShe is the first artist to win video of the year twice in a row, and extended her record for the most wins in that category to four - after previously winning for Bad Blood, You Need to Calm Down and All Too Well: The Short Film.\n\nThe star, who is in the middle of the first $1bn stadium tour in history, also took home prizes for song of the year, best pop, best direction, best cinematography and best visual effects, all for Anti-Hero,\n\nShe was also awarded album of the year for Midnights, plus artist of the year and show of the summer.\n\nThe 33-year-old dedicated her wins to the art of songwriting.\n\n\"I love making pop music, I love making pop music videos, I also love making country,\" she told a star-studded crowd at New Jersey's Prudential Center.\n\n\"I love slinking around different genres, and the only reason I'm allowed to do that is because you, the fans, gave me the opportunity to do this.\"\n\nShe also had words for boy band 'NSync, who reunited to present her with the best pop trophy.\n\n\"I had your dolls!\" she laughed as she addressed the quintet,\n\n\"You guys are pop personified so to receive this from your golden pop hands is really, it's too much,\" she told the group.\n\n'Nysnc were back... er, in sync: (L-R) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick\n\nOther winners on the night included rapper Ice Spice, who took home best new artist, and K-pop group Blackpink, who became the first girl band to pick up best group since TLC 24 years ago.\n\nIt's the fifth time in a row that a South Korean band has won the prize, with Blackpink taking the place of boy band BTS, who are currently on hiatus.\n\nHowever, BTS's youngest member Jungkook picked up song of the summer for his solo hit Seven, featuring US rapper Latto. This was one of the only categories where Swift was defeated, the other being best video editing, which went to Olivia Rodrigo's Vampire.\n\nThe night's only dedicated K-Pop award went to eight-piece boy band Stray Kids for their single S-Class, which they also performed.\n\nShakira won the Vanguard Award 33 years after she released her first album, Magia, at the age of 13.\n\nSince then, she has scored several multi-platinum hits including Whenever, Wherever, Hips Don't Lie, Beautiful Liar, Waka Waka and this year's viral hit Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53.\n\nIn a short speech, she thanked her family and fans, before concluding in Spanish: \"This is for my people. The Latin American people inside and outside of this country, thank you for inspiring me and injecting me with so much power and will to keep going. I love you.\"\n\nKarol G won best collaboration with Shakira for their hit TQG\n\nThe star picked up a second prize with fellow Colombian star Karol G, for best collaboration on the track TQG.\n\nKarol G, who recently appeared on the Barbie soundtrack, also gave a breathtaking performance of her anthems Oki Doki and Tá Ok.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo appeared to have a stage malfunction during her performance\n\nOIivia Rodrigo gave fans a scare with her performance of Vampire - when the stage appeared to malfunction, with pyrotechnics misfiring and parts of the set falling to the ground.\n\nAs Rodrigo was led off stage, cameras cut to a shocked Selena Gomez in the audience, apparently worried over the singer's safety.\n\nBut the elaborate prank was a reference to the Vampire music video, which features a similar storyline, and the star soon returned to perform Get Him Back, from her new album Guts.\n\nSelena Gomez and Rema in the audience at the VMAs\n\nGomez was also a winner, sharing the trophy for best Afrobeats song with Nigerian star Rema.\n\nThe duo's single, Calm Down, has been a fixture in the US charts for 53 weeks, with no signs of slowing down. It is currently at number 10.\n\nDemi Lovato gave one of the night's loudest performances\n\nElsewhere, Demi Lovoato gave a rock revamp to her classic single Cool For The Summer - which had Taylor Swift dancing and singing along.\n\nBut the best rock prize went to Italian Eurovision winners Maneskin, for their relatively sedate ballad The Loneliest.\n\nSean \"Diddy\" Combs was named MTV's Global Icon, giving a hit-filled performance that included I'll Be Missing You, Bad Boy For Life and All About The Benjamins. The medley even included an as-yet-unreleased collaboration with The Weeknd.\n\nPresenting him with the Icon Award, Mary J Blige said: \"Puff's impact on pop culture is immeasurable. His iconic music videos redefined the form. his global influence is forever felt across the entire music industry.\"\n\nThe rapper and music mogul said the award was \"a dream come true\" for him.\n\n\"I grew up watching MTV like, 'Man I wish one day I could be up there',\" he told the audience.\n\nLL Cool J and Daryl McDaniels of Run-DMC paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop\n\nThe ceremony lasted almost four hours, a large portion of which was spent celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, from an opening performance by Lil Wayne to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion giving the debut performance of their new single, Bongos.\n\nIt ended with an all-star megamix of hip-hop classics, opening with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's The Message, and ending on a rendition of Run-DMC's Walk This Way.", "Much of Libya's eastern port of Derna, which has about 100,000 residents, is underwater after two dams and four bridges collapsed.\n\nEyewitness footage shows a torrent of water flowing past a mosque in the city, causing massive destruction.", "Carly Ashton cannot get an NHS prescription or afford one privately for her daughter Esme, who has a rare form of epilepsy\n\nA high-profile government climbdown that legalised a type of cannabis medicine on the NHS five years ago misled patients, campaigners say.\n\nIt was thought the law change would mean the unlicensed drug, which treats a range of conditions, could be freely prescribed by specialist doctors.\n\nBut fewer than five NHS patients have been given the medicine, leaving others to either pay privately or miss out.\n\nThe government says safety needs to be proven before a wider rollout.\n\nLegalisation of whole-cannabis medicine was hailed as a breakthrough for patients - giving either NHS or private specialist doctors the option to prescribe it if they believed their patients would benefit.\n\nMedical whole cannabis uses the entire cannabis plant - which includes the compound THC, the part which can make people feel high.\n\nBut patients are being turned away, say campaigners, because doctors often do not know about the medicine, which is not on NHS trusts' approved lists. Some specialists who do know about it say there is insufficient evidence of the drug's safety and benefits to support prescribing.\n\nThe drug would need to undergo medical trials before it could be officially licensed - but these are costly and complicated because of the many chemical compounds within the cannabis plant. Campaigners say trials of medicines containing whole plant cannabis, particularly with the aim of helping children, would be unethical as some patients would have to come off essential medication to take a placebo.\n\nFive years after medical cannabis was legalised, why is it so hard to get a prescription?\n\nThe BBC has been told that when specialist doctors do want to prescribe the unlicensed products, there is no simple way to get funding.\n\nThey have to ask NHS England to make an exception to pay for individual cases, but they are almost always turned down. It is known that fewer than five have been approved.\n\nLicensed cannabis drugs do exist for specific conditions - but they do not use the whole plant. For example one called Epidiolex contains another cannabis compound - CBD. It can be prescribed for epilepsy but does not benefit patients across the spectrum of epilepsy disorders.\n\nHannah Deacon, pictured with son Alfie, spearheaded the campaign for legislation change\n\nThe first patient to receive an NHS prescription for medical cannabis was 11-year-old Alfie Dingley, who has severe epilepsy.\n\nHis mother, Hannah Deacon, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, successfully spearheaded the high-profile campaign which led to the 2018 legislation change.\n\nBefore then, Alfie travelled to the Netherlands where whole-plant cannabis oil is legal under prescription for medical purposes.\n\nFollowing Hannah's campaign, Alfie's GP was granted a licence to prescribe it under direction by a specialist doctor, in a process called a shared care agreement.\n\nAlfie's mother believes the treatment has been life-changing - he has not had a seizure for three years. He gets 13 bottles of Bedrolite on an NHS prescription each month. The cost would otherwise be £225 per bottle.\n\nHannah says back in 2018, she felt like she had changed history, opening up the treatment to people with a wide range of debilitating conditions including chronic pain, insomnia and neurological conditions like Tourettes.\n\nBut now, she feels she only got the drug on the NHS because she made a huge fuss in the media.\n\n\"I think they changed the law to take the wind out of my sails because the campaign was very effective,\" she says.\n\nDr David McCormick says ministers \"shifted the heat\" to practitioners like him\n\nSenior paediatric consultant Dr David McCormick, from King's College Hospital in London, says it was \"disingenuous\" of the government to suggest in 2018 that NHS prescribing was ready to take place.\n\nMinisters \"shifted the heat\" to practitioners like him, he says.\n\n\"Parents were clamouring at our door, or phoning all the time, as they believed we were able to prescribe and that was not the case.\n\n\"The message went out, 'doctors can now prescribe cannabis products' and that put us in a difficult position, because in truth we need to apply for that to be approved by NHS England.\"\n\nPre-2018, the only way patients could get hold of cannabis products and use them medicinally was to buy them illegally in the UK, or to travel abroad to get them. Now, if the NHS will not pay, they can legally pay for private prescriptions from specialist clinics.\n\nThere are now 31 private prescribing centres across the UK. These clinics issued more than 140,000 prescriptions between November 2018 and 2022.\n\nIt is estimated that the medical cannabis market will be worth £1bn in 2024.\n\nJasper's parents say the effectiveness of whole-cannabis oil is \"just jaw-dropping\"\n\nOne private patient is 13-year-old Jasper Salisbury-Jones, from Brixton in south London, who - like Alfie Dingley - has a rare form of epilepsy.\n\n\"By the time he was 11, he was having about 800 seizures a day, which sounds ridiculous but that was where we got to,\" says Jasper's mum, Alice Jones. \"The doctors did say we were out of options, so the expectation was that eventually a seizure would kill him.\"\n\nJasper had tried nine different other medicines, had brain surgery, and an electrical implant was put in his chest - but nothing would stop his fits.\n\nThen he tried medical cannabis oil and his mother says his seizures, which once dominated his life, now only occur every few days.\n\n\"It's just jaw-dropping,\" Alice says. \"For this medication to do this is incredible.\"\n\nJasper has been unable to get medical cannabis on the NHS. His parents now pay a private clinic £1,600 for a six-week supply. That cost is likely to increase as Jasper gets older and bigger.\n\nThe couple are using their savings to pay for the medication and Alice no longer pays into her private pension. While they say it is financially very difficult, she knows they are lucky.\n\n\"We're not choosing between this and another medication or a form of treatment, we're choosing between this and watching my son slowly slip into mental disability and then probably paralysis and death,\" she explains.\n\nEsme is being treated with 15 different drugs and spends much of her time sedated\n\nBut one parent who cannot get an NHS prescription - or afford to pay for one privately - is Carly Ashton, an ex-social worker from Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nHer two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Esme has an extremely rare form of epilepsy that affects fewer than 700 children worldwide. Esme has been treated with 15 different drugs and currently spends much of her life sedated.\n\nCarly has been warned that if her condition is not brought under control, Esme could die suddenly from a seizure.\n\n\"Ultimately they could become more violent, they could cause broken bones, multiple hospital admissions, it could cause her to die in her sleep,\" she explains.\n\nShe finds the situation very unfair, knowing there are children with the same condition who say they are benefitting from taking a form of medical whole cannabis.\n\n\"They are almost seizure-free or [entirely] seizure-free. It's given their life back. Esme's being denied that opportunity,\" she says.\n\nAlfie takes the medicine in the form of an oil\n\nHannah Deacon says she is heartbroken that legislation she fought for has not led to the hoped-for change.\n\n\"I find it shocking that the government has literally just washed their hands of this problem,\" she says.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said in a statement: \"Licensed cannabis-based medicines can be funded by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their quality, safety and effectiveness.\n\n\"It is important to carefully review evidence on unlicensed cannabis-based treatments to ensure they are proved safe and effective before they can be considered for roll out on the NHS more widely.\"\n\nThe government also adds that if a funding request for this medicine is not approved by an independent panel of experts, it cannot intervene in that decision.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"While there is limited evidence on the safety of these unlicensed products, we continue to encourage manufacturers of these products to engage with the UK medicines regulator, which would provide doctors with the confidence to use the products in the same way they use other licensed medicines.\"\n\nIn Scotland, health boards would make the decision on whether to fund a specialist's request for a prescription.\n\nNHS Wales said: \"Where an NHS healthcare professional wishes to prescribe these products arrangements are in place for the NHS to consider, and where appropriate, meet their cost.\"\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) guidelines state it recommended research into the use of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines for severe treatment-resistant epilepsy.\n\nThe body, which is responsible for deciding which drugs and treatments should be available to patients on the NHS, said there was insufficient evidence of the medicines' safety and effectiveness to recommend it for the whole population of people with the condition.\n\nBut it added that this should not be interpreted by doctors as meaning they were prevented from considering the medicines where clinically appropriate. It says they can be prescribed on advice of a specialist, in consultation with the patient.\n• None Plea for more families to get cannabis treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 45-year-old man has been interviewed under caution by the Met Police after a video was circulated of a woman being restrained by a male shopkeeper.\n\nHundreds of people gathered to protest outside Peckham Hair and Cosmetics, in Rye Lane, on Tuesday where the woman had been accused of theft.\n\nChants of \"you touch one, you touch all\" were heard and signs held saying \"keep your hands off black women\".\n\nThe shopkeeper told the BBC the footage had been viewed \"out of context\".\n\nHe said the footage on social media was \"cropped\" and did not show the whole incident in full. The shop remains closed and shuttered.\n\nA 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault on Tuesday and later released on bail.\n\nPeople in Peckham were asked to remain calm after the video was circulated on social media.\n\nThe footage, which has been viewed more than a million times, appears to show a black woman inside the shop being grabbed by a much larger Asian man on Monday.\n\nThe woman struggled and hit the man with a shopping basket, which broke.\n\nThe man then held her by her arms and neck.\n\nHundreds were gathered outside the shop on Rye Lane on Tuesday\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after Monday's incident but before Tuesday afternoon's protest, the shopkeeper said the woman had become aggressive when she was refused a refund on products she had previously bought at the store.\n\n\"We do not give refunds, we exchange items or give a credit note. So she grabbed some stuff [three packs of hair with a total value of £24] from the shelf and tried to leave. She was leaving and I was stopping her.\n\n\"I was stopping her. She slapped me in the face and grabbed a shopping basket and hit me on the head. I don't know when my hand goes around her neck. I was keeping her neutralised. I did not hit her.\n\n\"The video was cropped. People are acting at the half truth\".\n\nThe shopkeeper said the footage had been viewed \"out of context\"\n\nEdilenny Dotel, who filmed the viral video while she was shopping in the store, said she had begun filming because she felt what was happening was \"not fair\".\n\n\"I felt horrible when I saw that in front of me,\" she told BBC London.\n\n\"[The man] saw me recording the video and I'm saying that I'm gonna call the police a few times.\n\n\"I'm a young girl. I was like 'imagine if that happened to me. I'm not gonna be okay with that. I would like to someone to share that on social media'.\"\n\nThe incident drew hundreds of participants at the organised protest on Tuesday. People stood chanting in the street, occasionally sitting in the road and temporarily halting buses and traffic.\n\nThe shop was closed up and there were about 15 police officers standing nearby.\n\nSome protesters kicked the shuttered storefront while others actively worked to calm feelings down.\n\nThe recurring sentiment from those gathered was that it was not the first time tensions had risen between the black community and some local shops.\n\nRye Lane Traders Association said it worked with the local community to make the area a \"safe and pleasant place to visit and shop\".\n\nIt said it could not comment further \"at this time\" because of the \"ongoing police matter\".\n\nProtester Marlon Kameka said the video highlighted wider issues with the treatment of black women\n\nMarlon Kameka, a 40-year-old artist and youth worker who attended the protest, told BBC London: \"There's a hierarchy in this country and, unfortunately, black women are always at the bottom of the hierarchy.\n\n\"I'm fed up with being on the street because I've seen a video of a black woman being abused by a man.\n\n\"The sad fact is, whenever I open social media, I should be prepared to see some kind of abuses being inflicted on a black person.\n\n\"I'm here not to speak up for myself, but to speak up for the black women and the black children who are coming up after us. We can't be scared to raise our voice because of what might happen.\"\n\nProtester Simone Goodys said she felt shocked and angry when she saw the video\n\nSimone Goodys, who joined the protest, said that she was shocked and angry when she saw the viral video.\n\n\"It made me feel scared, and I was shocked as well because I come in this shop all the time,\" she said.\n\n\"This shop is targeted at black women. They sell all stuff for black women. We're the ones who come here and buy their stuff, but they don't respect us.\n\n\"They have no right to treat people like that.\"\n\nAfter the protest, hand-written messages covered the shop's metal shutters.\n\nOne sign read \"protect black women\", while others contained strongly worded and offensive messages.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police and the London mayor have both said they understand why Londoners might be concerned about the footage, but urged people to remain calm.\n\nDet Ch Supt Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Southwark, said: \"I would like to thank local people for their patience as we work to establish the full circumstances around the allegations made.\n\n\"We continue to examine various clips of footage that depict small sections of the wider incident and are working to establish what offences were committed and by whom.\n\n\"My officers will be patrolling Rye Lane today to provide reassurance to the community.\"\n\nHe added: \"I know that this incident will cause concern and I urge anyone who is worried to speak with their local policing team or with officers on patrol.\"\n\nHarriet Harman, Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, said she had asked for an \"urgent report\" from police.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Footage of woman being restrained by shopkeeper. Video, 00:00:30Footage of woman being restrained by shopkeeper", "Network Rail has admitted a series of failings which led to the death of three people in a train derailment near Stonehaven in 2020.\n\nThe company pleaded guilty to criminal charges at the High Court in Aberdeen.\n\nThree people died and six were injured when a train struck a landslide at Carmont after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail admitted failing to impose a speed restriction, warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe, or ask him to reduce his speed.\n\nIt also admitted a number of failures over the maintenance and inspection of drainage in the area, and in adverse and extreme weather planning.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed on 12 August 2020.\n\nMr Stuchbury had intended to board an earlier train which was cancelled so he boarded the train which ultimately derailed instead as he could change at Dundee.\n\nHis wife said the date of the fatal crash had been their wedding anniversary, and her husband had been travelling to one last work trip before he retired. She said they had been robbed of their future together.\n\nDonald Dinnie, Christopher Stuchbury and Brett McCullough died in the crash\n\nSix other people were injured when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service hit washed-out debris at Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.\n\nA drainage system in the area had been incorrectly installed by Carillion, which has since gone into liquidation.\n\nThe train had been returning towards Aberdeen at the time because the railway was blocked further down the line.\n\nA Rail Accident Investigation Branch report said the train derailed because it struck debris that had washed out of a drainage trench.\n\nThe report made 20 recommendations to improve rail safety, many of which were directed at Network Rail.\n\nAlmost a month's rain had fallen in the area between 06:00 and 09:00 on the day of the crash, which happened at 09:37.\n\nAdvocate depute Alex Prentice KC, prosecuting, said the derailment happened after a period of extreme torrential rainfall which had led both Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council to declare a major emergency.\n\nHe said the weather on the day of the accident was \"exceptional\", with the Aberdeen station controller describing the rain as \"beyond biblical\".\n\nThe derailment happened near Stonehaven on 12 August last year\n\nThe train had stopped for two-and-a-half hours because of a landslip before being instructed to return north so passengers could disembark.\n\nMr McCullough had been told to proceed at normal speed, and the train was travelling at about 73mph - below the limit of 75mph.\n\nThe prosecutor told the High Court in Aberdeen: \"Despite his efforts to slow the train using the emergency brake, the driver of the train was unable to stop prior to the debris on the track.\n\n\"The train struck the debris, derailed and collided with a bridge parapet. This caused the train to veer of the bridge and down the steep embankment below the bridge.\"\n\nMr Prentice said a recording of the driver showed he queried with a signaller if any reduced speed was needed to return north. He was told everything was fine for just normal speed.\n\nWhen the emergency brake was applied there was insufficient time - 3.5 seconds of travel time - for it to have any significant effect and avoid the debris.\n\nThe prosecutor added a multi-agency investigation found the rail operator had not properly inspected the drainage system following its installation and had failed to properly train staff to analyse weather forecasts.\n\nThe investigation also found Network Rail, which owns and repairs the railway infrastructure across the UK, did not ensure as far as was reasonably practicable that drainage near Carmont was constructed properly and in accordance with design drawings.\n\nA spokesperson for the rail operator described the fatal event as a \"terrible day for our railway\" adding it is clear there was fundamental lessons to be learnt.\n\nFollowing the derailment, Network Rail inspected all similar locations across Britain and carried out a full survey of all types of trackside drainage on Scotland's railway in the wake of the crash.\n\nIt also made safety changes including how it manages the running of train services during severe weather.\n\nIt has also introduced a new team of weather experts in its control room to provide round-the-clock, real-time analysis on how the weather may affect the railway.\n\nAll three of the men who died were said to have suffered numerous non-survivable blunt force injuries, the most significant of which were to the head, with death likely immediate.\n\nMr McCullough, the driver of the train, was found on a lower embankment at the crash site. He was pronounced dead at 10:40. His family said he will be \"forever missed\".\n\nThe court heard the conductor, Mr Dinnie, had over 30 years of railway experience. His body was found in the doorway of one of the train carriages. His daughters paid tribute to his \"infectious smile\".\n\nMr Stuchbury, a tug master and captain in the merchant navy, is thought to have been thrown clear of the carriage he had been travelling on. He was pronounced dead at 11:00.\n\nStatements from the six injured passengers described physical, mental and financial scars they have been left with.\n\nThe case at the High Court in Aberdeen continues on Friday.", "Chris Jones (pictured) told the BBC he worked with Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at Wandsworth Prison\n\nAn inmate who worked with escapee Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at HMP Wandsworth has told the BBC that he said \"he was going be famous\".\n\nThe 21-year-old ex-soldier escaped from the jail on Wednesday morning strapped to the bottom of a delivery lorry.\n\nChris Jones, 53, said during their time in the kitchens he prepared food while Mr Khalife unloaded lorry deliveries.\n\nHe said Mr Khalife had been brought in as a vulnerable prisoner to work alongside other inmates in the kitchen.\n\nMr Jones was released from HMP Wandsworth in June, after being acquitted after seven months on remand, and now works as a roofer.\n\nHe told BBC London that his fellow prisoner seemed \"quite down to earth and up for a laugh but didn't come across as a criminal mastermind\".\n\nMr Jones added: \"He did seem like an odd sausage. One lunchtime he came in saying that he was going be famous. I told him: 'I think you've got on the wrong bus, mate.'\n\n\"He would come to work with a comb and mirror constantly checking his appearance, although I can't say I thought much of it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Chris Jones describes working with Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at HMP Wandsworth\n\nBefore he escaped, Mr Khalife was on remand at HMP Wandsworth awaiting trial in relation to alleged terrorism and Official Secrets Act offences at an RAF base. He is accused of collecting information that might be useful to an enemy; it is understood the \"enemy\" referred to in the charge is Iran.\n\nAsked how easy an escape might have been, Mr Jones said he was \"surprised but not surprised\".\n\nHe explained: \"We always used to joke about that lorry; jump in it and drive off, but there was a lot of security staff around the kitchens so it is a surprise he got through there.\n\n\"A prison staff member would stand by the lorry ticking off the goods as they were unloaded; you could not move around freely. If you wanted to move from the coffee shop to the kitchen, the staff would log a move.\n\n\"Having said this, many mistakes were made all the time, all down to staffing issues\".\n\n\"One time we were put on lockdown because there was an inmate missing, but it turned out that he had been released the day before but it hadn't been correctly registered.\n\n\"So in that sense, I'm not surprised that someone slipped up, or that they didn't have enough people to staff the kitchen, and that he took his chance to unload the truck and vanish underneath the lorry.\"\n\nDaniel Khalife is believed to have escape underneath a lorry similar to the one pictured\n\nMr Jones said he thought staffing issues were at the root of the jail's \"diabolical conditions\"; an independent report on HMP Wandsworth published in September 2022 found that there was a \"staffing crisis\".\n\nIt said: \"Significant staffing problems are adversely affecting the delivery of a consistent regime. Although technically fully staffed, over 30% of staff are non-operational on a regular basis, for a number of reasons, rising sometimes to over 40%.\n\n\"With an increasing number of more volatile young prisoners, and incidents of violence at alarming levels, the recruitment, training and retention of appropriately skilled and well-motivated staff is essential. The board is very concerned that this is not happening.\n\n\"Yet again, the conditions which prisoners are confined, often two to a cramped cell, are inhumane and degrading.\"\n\nThe report also pointed out that the majority of prison officers had less than two years' experience and this lack of \"prison craft\" was an issue.\n\nThis photo of a prisoner's cell was taken by inspectors in the jail's Trinity Wing in June 2022; the wing is being renovated with work due to be completed in 2025\n\nMr Jones said that on one occasion, he was not let out of his cell for two weeks, with no shower or exercise, because staff \"couldn't or wouldn't\" open his cell door.\n\nHe said: \"Through their laziness, the prisoners always suffered. Conditions are the poorest I've ever seen. In 2023 the conditions in Wandsworth are worse than prisons in 1989-1990 which was the last time I was in.\n\n\"It's known as being the worst and dirtiest in the whole system. The kitchen was full of dead rats, and mice constantly came through my cell door.\"\n\nA spokesperson for BidFood, the supplier that owned the van Mr Khalife used in his escape, said: \"Yesterday morning we were made aware of a security incident involving one of our vehicles, whilst out on delivery.\n\n\"We can confirm that our driver fully co-operated with the police on this matter before returning back to the depot. We will continue to assist the authorities in their ongoing investigation.\"\n\nThe Prisons Service said that they are undertaking a programme of maintenance activity at Wandsworth to improve the safety and decency of the prison, including replacing the healthcare unit, updates to fire safety, window replacements and refurbishments of showers.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.\n\nThe Weizmann Institute team say their \"embryo model\", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.\n\nIt even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.\n\nThe ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.\n\nThe first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change - from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.\n\nThis crucial time is a major source of miscarriage and birth defects but poorly understood.\n\n\"It's a black box and that's not a cliche - our knowledge is very limited,\" Prof Jacob Hanna, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, tells me.\n\nEmbryo research is legally, ethically and technically fraught. But there is now a rapidly developing field mimicking natural embryo development.\n\nThis research, published in the journal Nature, is described by the Israeli team as the first \"complete\" embryo model for mimicking all the key structures that emerge in the early embryo.\n\n\"This is really a textbook image of a human day-14 embryo,\" Prof Hanna says, which \"hasn't been done before\".\n\nInstead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body.\n\nChemicals were then used to coax these stem cells into becoming four types of cell found in the earliest stages of the human embryo:\n\nA total of 120 of these cells were mixed in a precise ratio - and then, the scientists step back and watch.\n\nAbout 1% of the mixture began the journey of spontaneously assembling themselves into a structure that resembles, but is not identical to, a human embryo.\n\n\"I give great credit to the cells - you have to bring the right mix and have the right environment and it just takes off,\" Prof Hanna says. \"That's an amazing phenomenon.\"\n\nThe embryo models were allowed to grow and develop until they were comparable to an embryo 14 days after fertilisation. In many countries, this is the legal cut-off for normal embryo research.\n\nDespite the late-night video call, I can hear the passion as Prof Hanna gives me a 3D tour of the \"exquisitely fine architecture\" of the embryo model.\n\nI can see the trophoblast, which would normally become the placenta, enveloping the embryo. And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby.\n\nThere is a yolk sac, which has some of the roles of the liver and kidneys, and a bilaminar embryonic disc - one of the key hallmarks of this stage of embryo development.\n\nThe hope is embryo models can help scientists explain how different types of cell emerge, witness the earliest steps in building the body's organs or understand inherited or genetic diseases.\n\nAlready, this study shows other parts of the embryo will not form unless the early placenta cells can surround it.\n\nThere is even talk of improving in vitro fertilisation (IVF) success rates by helping to understand why some embryos fail or using the models to test whether medicines are safe during pregnancy.\n\nProf Robin Lovell Badge, who researches embryo development at the Francis Crick Institute, tells me these embryo models \"do look pretty good\" and \"do look pretty normal\".\n\n\"I think it's good, I thinks it's done very well, it's all making sense and I'm pretty impressed with it,\" he says.\n\nBut the current 99% failure rate would need to be improved, he adds. It would be hard to understand what was going wrong in miscarriage or infertility if the model failed to assemble itself most of the time.\n\nThe work also raises the question of whether embryo development could be mimicked past the 14-day stage.\n\nThis would not be illegal, even in the UK, as embryo models are legally distinct from embryos.\n\n\"Some will welcome this - but others won't like it,\" Prof Lovell-Badge says.\n\nAnd the closer these models come to an actual embryo, the more ethical questions they raise.\n\nThey are not normal human embryos, they're embryo models, but they're very close to them.\n\n\"So should you regulate them in the same way as a normal human embryo or can you be a bit more relaxed about how they're treated?\"\n\nProf Alfonso Martinez Arias, from the department of experimental and health sciences at Pompeu Fabra University, said it was \"a most important piece of research\".\n\n\"The work has, for the first time, achieved a faithful construction of the complete structure [of a human embryo] from stem cells\" in the lab, \"thus opening the door for studies of the events that lead to the formation of the human body plan,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dean Holden was a station announcer for 16 years working shifts, including over the Christmas period\n\nDean Holden is one of many people thinking there is more to life than work, hanging up his mic as a railway station announcer after 16 years.\n\n\"Life is too short. That's always been my saying - live it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHis early retirement comes as a study suggests people in the UK today are more likely to say it would be a good thing if less importance was placed on work than they were 40 years ago.\n\nThey are also among the least likely to say work should always come first.\n\nMr Holden worked his last shift at Avanti West Coast on Tuesday, and will retire officially from the company in September.\n\nThe 58-year-old said he had worked all his life since he left school 41 years ago, doing a range of jobs around the UK including working in local government, on the London Underground and latterly as a station announcer at Birmingham International.\n\nBut he has decided to quit the long shifts two years before he was due to retire to have some time off with his wife, and then consider getting a part-time job \"a couple of days a week\" towards the end of the year.\n\n\"It [retiring] was something I had to do for my own health and happiness,\" Mr Holden said.\n\n\"With shift work, that work-life balance does not exist like it should do. There are a lot of things I have never got the chance to do.\"\n\nAccording to the World Values Survey carried out by King's College London's Policy Institute, views on work vary with age.\n\nWhile millennials are much more likely to see work as less important, the opposite is true of older generations.\n\nThe study suggests 73% of people in the UK say work is \"very or rather important in their life\" - the lowest of 24 countries - though Russia (74%) and Canada (75%) are not far off.\n\nBy contrast, other Western nations rank much higher on this measure, with 96% of people in Italy and Spain agreeing, and 94% in France.\n\nAnd further afield, in Asia the Philippines and Indonesia scored 99%.\n\nHaving seen his father not have the chance to enjoy his retirement before his death, Mr Holden said he \"did not want to go the same way\".\n\nHe said his first plan was go on a trip to Iceland to see the Northern Lights, which was a \"lifetime dream\" of his.\n\nSpeaking about the findings, Prof Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute at KCL, said the findings suggest a \"steady drift towards a greater focus on getting work-life balance right\" in the UK, with \"people less likely to think work should be prioritised over spare time, that hard work leads to success, or that not working makes people lazy\".\n\nThe survey suggests that this attitude has increased over time in the UK.\n\nBetween 1981 and 2022, the share of the British public who said it would be a good thing if less importance was placed on work rose from 26% to 43%, the study said.\n\nThis opinion has gradually become more widespread in several other Western nations too. For example, over a similar period, the proportion holding this view rose from 25% to 41% in Canada and from 30% to 45% in Germany.\n\nThe survey also concluded that the UK has one of the most favourable views of people who don't work, with only Sweden less likely than the UK to say non-working individuals are \"lazy\".\n\nHowever, at the same time, Britons are more likely to agree that work is a duty towards society than they were around two decades ago.\n\nProf Duffy said there are \"very different views between generations in the UK, with older generations more likely to say work should be prioritised, even as it becomes less important in their own lives as they move into retirement.\n\n\"Millennials, in contrast, have become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they've made their way through their career.\"\n\nAccording to the survey, more than half of UK millennials say it would be better if there was less emphasis on career and work in their lives. But older generations are not as likely to share this view, with just over a third of baby boomers agreeing.\n\nBaby boomers are people aged between their late 50s to late 70s, while millennials are aged between their mid-20s and early 40s.\n\nExplaining the generation divides, Prof Duffy said: \"There will be a number of explanations for these shifts, from the nostalgia that tends to grow as we age, in thinking younger generations are less committed than we were, and the long-term economic and wage stagnation that will lead younger generations to question the value of work.\"\n\nBut he added that the trend in the UK among younger generations in particular reflects a changing attitude across higher income countries too.\n\nOne example of this shifting attitude towards work is that of Laura.\n\nShe cut her working hours so she could spend more time at home with her family in London.\n\n\"I really wanted to spend more time with my little boy who is only two years old,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe also switched careers to pursue interior design.\n\n\"My old job was just not making me happy - and I thought something needs to change. And although I find this new role interesting, it's not the centre of my life. That's family and days out with friends.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ezra Collective deliver their acceptance speech after winning the Mercury Music Prize\n\nEzra Collective have become the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize, with their album Where I'm Meant To Be.\n\nThe prestigious £25,000 prize celebrates the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months.\n\nThe quintet held off competition from fellow nominees Jessie Ware, J Hus, Arctic Monkeys, Fred Again and Raye.\n\nAccepting the award, drummer Femi Koleoso said the group \"represents something very special because we met in a youth club\".\n\n\"This moment that we're celebrating right here is testament to good, special people putting time and effort into young people to play music,\" he continued.\n\n\"This is not just a result for Ezra Collective, or for UK jazz, but this is a special moment for every single organisation across the country, ploughing efforts and time into young people playing music.\"\n\nEzra Collective (Ife Ogunjobi pictured) performed at the ceremony before being announced as the winners\n\nEzra Collective were announced as the winners by DJ Jamz Supernova during the ceremony in Hammersmith, west London, on Thursday evening.\n\nAccepting the prize, Koleoso thanked God, the band's team and family who have supported them through the years.\n\nHe joked: \"If a jazz band winning the Mercury Prize doesn't make you believe in God, I don't know what will.\"\n\nWhere I'm Meant To Be, while broadly categorised as jazz, is a melting pot of genres, with elements of grime, salsa and reggae.\n\nIn a five-star review published last year, the Observer's Kate Hutchinson called it \"an exceptional album that centres joy and community, radiates positivity and youthful abandon, and could well be the one to cross over to the big league\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News after being announced as winners, Koleoso explained: \"We're the shuffle generation of music, we listen to some Beethoven, and then 50 Cent comes on straight after, and then Little Simz comes on just after that.\n\n\"And that kind of influences the way we approach music. So there are no rules, we love jazz, but at the same time we love salsa too, so why not try and get that in there?\"\n\nBroadcaster Lauren Laverne hosted the ceremony, which featured live performances from nine of the shortlisted artists.\n\nJ Hus had been due to perform but pulled out due to illness, while Arctic Monkeys and Fred Again were not present due to touring commitments.\n\nThe Mercury shortlist was chosen by an independent judging panel including music critic Will Hodgkinson, musicians Anna Calvi and Jamie Cullum, and DJs Jamz Supernova and MistaJam.\n\nEzra Collective are the first ever jazz group to win the Mercury Music Prize, which launched in 1992\n\n\"You can always tell jazz by the way the people on the stage are having more fun than the audience,\" Joy Division's manager Rob Gretton once said.\n\nEzra Collective are the proof he was wrong. Their energetic live sets have been making crowds move since they met as teenagers at a youth programme founded by renowned jazz bassist Gary Crosby.\n\nThey released their debut album, You Can't Steal My Joy, in 2019 - drawing freely on the music they grew up with: Afrobeat, jazz, reggae, salsa, hip-hop and grime.\n\nBut before they could take it on tour, the pandemic hit.\n\nTheir Mercury Prize-winner, Where I'm Meant To Be, was written and recorded in lockdown, inspired by a conversation about imposter syndrome with film director Sir Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Small Axe).\n\nRather than reflect the isolation of the Covid era, the album is a joyous celebration of community, positivity and friendship - assisted by singers like Jorja Smith and Emeli Sande; and rappers including Kojey Radical and Sampa The Great.\n\nSoulful and rhythmically propulsive, it became a top 40 hit - unusual for a jazz record - with the quintet booked to play the Royal Albert Hall in November.\n\nEven more impressively, they've upended years of snark about the Mercury Prize's \"token jazz album\".\n\n\"Hopefully we can end that for good and just say that music is music,\" said bandleader Femi Koleoso.\n\nAnd his ambitions don't end there.\n\n\"Nothing is impossible at this point. I'll see you at the Emirates Stadium.\"\n\nThe ceremony saw Raye impress the crowd with The Thrill Is Gone, a jazz and hip-hop fusion from her debut album, while rapper Loyle Carner gave a powerful performance of his track HGU.\n\nSoul singer Olivia Dean also delivered a lively performance of her track Carmen, Scottish band and former winners Young Fathers performed an energetic rendition of I Saw and musical duo Jockstrap took to the stage to play Concrete Over Water.\n\nJessie Ware opened the ceremony with a performance of Free Yourself from her shortlisted album That! Feels Good!\n\nJessie Ware opened the ceremony with a performance of her track Free Yourself\n\nA live performance film was shown to celebrate albums by dance producer Fred Again and indie-rock outfit Arctic Monkeys, who could not attend the ceremony.\n\nFred Again, who is hosting a residency at Alexandra Palace in London this week, sent a video message apologising for not being able to attend the event, adding: \"I'm so so so truly grateful to be shortlisted alongside so many people I truly admire.\"\n\nLast year's Mercury winner was London rapper Little Simz for her fourth album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.", "The tank rounds are for M1 Abrams tanks that are due to be delivered to Ukraine this year (file photo)\n\nThe US has announced it will send controversial weapons to Ukraine as part of more than $1bn (£800m) in military and humanitarian aid.\n\nRussia condemned the move to equip US Abrams tanks with shells strong enough to pierce conventional tank armour.\n\nThey are made of depleted uranium - a by-product of uranium enrichment stripped of most radioactive material.\n\nOvernight, suspected Ukrainian drone attacks were reported on the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and near Moscow.\n\nUnconfirmed video showed what appeared to be a blast in central Rostov where, according to Governor Vasily Golubev, one person was lightly injured and several cars were damaged.\n\nMoscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said a drone that targeted the town of Ramenskoye had also been shot down and no damage reported.\n\nThe announcement of a new security package for Ukraine came during top US diplomat Antony Blinken's visit to Kyiv, prompting an angry Russian response.\n\nThe 120mm uranium tank rounds - included in $175m of US military equipment for Ukraine - are for M1 Abrams tanks due to be delivered to Ukraine later this year.\n\nThe rounds are made of depleted uranium, a waste product from the process of enriching naturally occurring uranium for nuclear fuel or weapons. It cannot generate a nuclear reaction and is considered \"considerably less radioactive than natural uranium\", according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.\n\nDepleted uranium can be used to reinforce armour-plating on tanks but is favoured for weapons because of its extreme density and ability to pierce conventional tank armour.\n\nThese types of shells sharpen on impact, which further increases their ability to bore through armour, and they ignite after contact.\n\nRussia also reacted angrily when the UK announced in March it was sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine for its Challenger 2 tanks.\n\nWhen President Vladimir Putin described the weapons as having a \"nuclear component\", the UK Ministry of Defence said it had used depleted uranium in its armour-piercing shells for decades and accused Moscow of deliberately spreading misinformation.\n\nThe UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has found no significant poisoning is caused by exposure to depleted uranium but a 2022 UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report said it was concerned about potential health issues arising from its use in Ukraine.\n\n\"The chemical toxicity of depleted uranium is considered a more significant issue than the possible impacts of its radioactivity,\" it said.\n\nThe US decision is a U-turn from March when the Pentagon said it would not be sending any depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine.\n\nA Department of Defense official told the Politico news website the US had now decided to send the weapons because they were thought to be the best way of arming Abrams tanks in Ukraine.\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby has described them as \"a commonplace type of munition\".\n\nThe US will also provide anti-armour systems, tactical air navigation systems and additional ammunition for Himars missiles.\n\n\"This new assistance will help sustain it and build further momentum,\" Mr Blinken said.\n\nThe Russian embassy in Washington denounced the decision as \"an indicator of inhumanity\", adding that the US was \"deluding itself by refusing to accept the failure of the Ukrainian military's so-called counter-offensive\".\n\nSince June, Ukraine's territorial gains in the counter-offensive have been very small, but Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south.\n\nOn Wednesday, 16 people, including a child, were killed in an attack on the city of Kostyantynivka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for the attack but Russia is yet to comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos showed the graphic aftermath of the blast", "A Florida man was arrested after trying to \"run to London\" across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.\n\nThe US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.\n\nOfficials said the 44-year-old marathon runner refused to leave the vessel for three days.\n\nMr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.\n\nThe makeshift contraption he was using is shaped as a wheel, with paddles that are designed to propel it forward as the wheel revolves.\n\n\"Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage,\" the criminal complaint says.\n\nMr Baluchi's voyage began as officials were preparing for the arrival of a major hurricane.\n\nOfficials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.\n\nOn 1 September, he eventually surrendered and abandoned his vessel after being brought to a Coast Guard base in Miami.\n\nOfficials later determined that the \"bomb\" had been fake.\n\nHe is now facing federal charges of obstruction of a boarding, and violation of a Captain of the Port order.\n\nIt is unclear whether he has obtained a lawyer to represent him in his criminal case.\n\nThis was not Mr Baluchi's first arrest for taking to the ocean in his vessel, which he calls a \"bubble\".\n\nIn 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.\n\nIn 2014, he had to be rescued from a similar contraption near St Augustine, and then two years later he again had to be rescued off the coast of Jupiter, near Palm Beach in Florida.\n\nAccording to previous interviews, Mr Baluchi said he was attempting the voyages to raise money for a variety of causes, including for the homeless and the Coast Guard.\n\n\"My goal is to not only raise money for homeless people, raise money for the Coast Guard, raise money for the police department, raise money for the fire department,\" he told WOFL-TV in Orlando in 2021.\n\n\"They are in public service, they do it for safety, and they help other people.\"", "US talk show host Jimmy Fallon (second right) interviewed Sir Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards in Hackney\n\nThe Rolling Stones have unveiled their first album of original material since 2005, and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts.\n\nHackney Diamonds will feature 12 tracks and be released on 20 October, preceded by lead single Angry.\n\nKeith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Sir Mick Jagger announced the album on Wednesday at an event in Hackney.\n\nRichards said: \"Ever since Charlie's gone, it's been different, he's number four. Of course he's missed.\"\n\nBut, he added, the new album will feature Steve Jordan in Watts' place, a drummer Richards said the band knew from \"way back\" and who filled Watts' seat on tour this summer.\n\n\"It would have been a lot harder without Charlie's blessing,\" Richards said, explaining that Watts had previously told the band Jordan should replace him if he ever was not around to record.\n\nWatts died in 2021 aged 80, prior to the band's 60th anniversary tour, after suffering from throat cancer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Mick explained: \"The album has 12 tracks. Most are with Steve, but two are tracks we recorded in 2019 with Charlie.\"\n\nThe album is preceded by a new lead single, titled Angry, which also received its premiere at the event in Hackney.\n\nEuphoria actress Sydney Sweeney, who was sitting in the audience at the launch event where she was briefly interviewed by host Jimmy Fallon, features in the music video for the song.\n\nIn a five-star review, the Telegraph's Neil McCormick called the song \"an absolute blast,\" describing it as the band's best single in 40 years.\n\nFans gathered outside Hackney Empire on Wednesday ahead for the launch of the band's new album\n\nDiscussing the recording of the album, Wood told Fallon: \"We did it pretty quickly actually.\n\n\"There were lots of ideas floating around, we gathered them together just before Christmas last year and made a go of it.\"\n\nThe record will feature Lady Gaga, and other rumoured guest stars include Sir Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.\n\nAsked about the gap since 2016's Blue & Lonesome, an album of blues covers, Sir Mick said: \"We've been on the road most of the time, maybe we were a bit too lazy, but then we said, 'let's put a deadline'.\"\n\nHe said the band cut 23 tracks, which were mixed in February, before deciding on the final 12 to include on the album.\n\nSir Mick said the sound of the album was \"angry\", like the title of the lead single, but added there was an \"eclectic\" mixture of genres on the record, including love songs and ballads.\n\nHe continued: \"I don't want to be big headed but we wouldn't have put this album out if we hadn't really liked it. We said we had to make a record we really love ourselves.\n\n\"We are quite pleased with it, we are not big headed about it, but we hope you all like it.\"\n\nThe stage is littered with fallen chandeliers, the famous lips logo is slashed to pieces. The Stones might be entering their 80s, but they're not going quietly.\n\nSir Mick and Ronnie bound onto the stage, vamping for the crowd and stirring up a frenzy. Keith Richards hangs back in his shades and a trilby hat, forever cool.\n\nThey're in a playful mood, teasing Jimmy Fallon for his questions (\"the first track is called Angry, what's the main emotion behind that?\"), and singing an impromptu version of the 1965 track Off The Hook.\n\n\"Mick and Keith, you've been together longer than me an my wife. What's the secret?\" asks a fan.\n\nThe trio are obviously energised by the new album, with Keith talking up the \"damn funky riffs\" and Sir Mick declaring: \"We wouldn't have put this album out if we hadn't really liked it.\"\n\nOne fan posed in a hoodie and against a backdrop featuring the Stones' famous lips logo\n\nThey also confirm some of the big rumours - Lady Gaga will appear on a song called Sweet Sound Of Heaven, and drummer Charlie Watts features on two of the 12 songs.\n\nThe scale of the press conference is reassuringly old school. There's an endless free bar, a rowdy phalanx of paparazzi, and broadcasters from all around the world - Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, the US - elbowing each other for prime position.\n\nOutside, pressed against the barriers, fans have come from just as far afield - waving banners and clutching albums in the hope Sir Mick's brought a Sharpie.\n\nAs it ends, we hear one new song: The rowdy and rambunctious Angry, which finds Mick Jagger in the middle of a domestic fight, snarling like a Rottweiler, but hoping for reconciliation.\n\nIf the relationship has to end, he says, \"Let's go out in a blaze.\"\n\nFor what could realistically be the Stones' final album, that's a solid manifesto.\n\nOne fan told the BBC he had flown in from Poland just for the launch, which was also livestreamed on YouTube.\n\n\"They are the kings of rock and roll,\" he said. \"We've been waiting 18 years to get some new Rolling Stones music and finally here it is. I think it's a really special day.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It's fantastic that they're doing all this, I've been a fan of theirs for a very long time - I first saw them in the mid-1960s.\"\n\nOne attendee said he was a \"hardcore fan\" of the group. \"It's so great they've come here today to Hackney,\" he said. \"To me, they're original rockers, they've never changed, they're dynamite.\"\n\nThe band have not released an album of original songs since 2005, but did record a blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, in 2016\n\nSpeaking to BBC News after the press conference, Wood confirmed the band would likely take the new material on tour.\n\nAsked about Watts, he added: \"I was with Charlie before he passed, and he said 'make sure Steve Jordan covers for me until I'm repaired enough to come and join you'. So Steve has his blessing, and that's a really comforting thing.\"\n\nThe last track on the album is a cover of Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone, but Richards said it should not be perceived as the band saying goodbye.\n\n\"That's not intended,\" he said, \"it was actually Andrew Watt who came up with a 1920s guitar, and said 'maybe you guys could finally do a song that the name of the band came from\".\n\n\"And Mick and I looked at each other and said 'yeah, OK'. So there it is, it's more a tip of the hat to Muddy Waters, Chicago and all the blues men we learned our stuff from.\"\n\nThe announcement of Hackney Diamonds follows a teaser campaign that began with an unassuming advert in the Hackney Gazette - a free newspaper distributed in corner shops and supermarkets that covers the London borough.\n\nOstensibly for a local glazing firm, the blurb contained several references to Rolling Stones songs, and a phone number where fans could register interest.\n\nOver the weekend, the band also shared a preview of one of the songs, via a website called dontgetangrywithme.com.\n\nHowever, it was another elaborate ruse: after a prolonged loading screen, the site only played a short snippet of music before appearing to crash.\n\nThe group's new single was awarded five stars in the Telegraph, which said it was their best song in 40 years\n\nThe band responded to supposed difficulties on social media with the message, \"Sorry, don't get angry with me\" - a reference to the song's opening lyric.\n\nBut all was finally revealed in Hackney on Wednesday afternoon, with all three remaining Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood - in attendance.\n\n\"New album, new music, new era,\" a trailer for the livestream promised.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by The Rolling Stones\n\nThe album will be their first since 2016's Blue & Lonesome, which featured covers of the songs by Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf that first inspired them to form a band in the 1960s.\n\nBefore that, their last album of original material was 2005's A Bigger Bang, trumpeted as a return to basics, but which failed to reach the heights achieved by classics like Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Danny Masterson seen with wife Bijou Phillips on 31 May prior to his conviction\n\nUS actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to serve 30 years to life in prison for raping two women.\n\nMasterson starred on That '70s Show, a TV series that was airing at the time of his crimes in the early 2000s.\n\nProsecutors argued Masterson, 47, had relied on his status as a prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability.\n\nJudge Charlaine Olmedo allowed the victims of his crimes to read impact statements in court ahead of his sentencing.\n\nProminent former Scientologist and actress Leah Remini attended Thursday's hearing and comforted the women before and after they delivered their statements.\n\n\"I wished I had reported him earlier to the police,\" one of the women said, according to US media.\n\nAnother woman told Masterson: \"I forgive you. Your sickness is no longer mine to bear,\" according to Reuters.\n\nAs the judge read his sentence - the maximum penalty allowed - his wife, Bijou Phillips, was seen in court breaking down in tears.\n\nMasterson was found guilty in May at a re-trial after the first jury was unable to reach a verdict in 2022. Following his conviction, Masterson was deemed a flight risk and was taken into prison custody.\n\nThe actor was convicted after three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home from 2001-03 - during the height of his television fame.\n\nThe jury heard testimony that he had given them drugs before he assaulted them.\n\nHe was found guilty of rape against two of his three accusers. The charges brought by the third accuser were declared a mistrial and prosecutors said they do not plan to retry the case.\n\nAlison Anderson, a lawyer representing two of the victims, said in a statement sent to BBC News that the women \"have displayed tremendous strength and bravery, by coming forward to law enforcement and participating directly in two gruelling criminal trials\".\n\n\"Despite persistent harassment, obstruction and intimidation, these courageous women helped hold a ruthless sexual predator accountable today,\" she said.\n\nThroughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the Church of Scientology had helped cover up the assaults - an allegation the organisation has categorically denied.\n\nAt the time of the attacks, Masterson and all three of his accusers were Scientologists. Several of the women said it took them years to come forward because Church of Scientology officials discouraged them from reporting the rape to police.\n\nScientology officials told one survivor she would lose her membership of the community unless she signed a non-disclosure agreement and accepted a payment of $400,000 (£320,000), according to prosecutors.\n\nDuring the trial, Judge Olmedo allowed both sides to discuss the dogma and practices of Scientology, angering the organisation.\n\nIn its statement after the verdict in May, the Church of Scientology said there was \"not a scintilla of evidence supporting the scandalous allegations that the Church harassed the accusers\".\n\nActress Leah Remini, seen here at a film screening, is an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology\n\nIn court on Thursday, one woman described being shunned by her mother, who is still a practising Scientologist.\n\n\"She texted me and told me to never contact her again,\" she said, reported the LA Times.\n\n\"She had warned me ahead of time she wanted to see Danny Masterson locked away for what he'd done to me, but not at the expense of her religion.\"\n\nAnother woman said she had been victimised by the Church of Scientology ever since she spoke out.\n\n\"Since the week I came forward to police I have been terrorised, harassed and had my privacy invaded daily by the cult of Scientology for almost seven years now,\" she said, adding: \"But I don't regret it.\"\n\nMasterson was first accused of rape in 2017 during the height of the #MeToo movement. He denied the accusations and said each of the encounters was consensual.\n\nCharges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases because of insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nThursday's sentencing was also attended by Jessica Barth, who founded Voices in Action in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\n\nMs Barth was one of the women to publicly accuse disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of abuse. Her non-profit works to encourage others to come forward and report abuse.\n\nBefore the hearing, a motion for a new trial by Masterson's defence team was denied by the judge, according to an Los Angeles court official.", "Chris Pincher has been sitting as an Independent MP\n\nFormer Tory whip Chris Pincher has resigned his seat after losing his appeal against a proposed Commons suspension for drunkenly groping two men.\n\nIt means the government will face another by-election.\n\nThe Parliament's standards committee found the Tamworth MP groped two men at London's Carlton Club.\n\nIt described his \"completely inappropriate\" behaviour as an \"abuse of power\".\n\nMr Pincher, who had been sitting as an independent MP, had previously announced he would be standing down at the next election.\n\nHowever, on Monday he lost an appeal against the proposed eight-week suspension.\n\nIt meant that if MPs had approved the recommendation - usually a formality - it would have triggered a recall petition which could have led to a by-election.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Mr Pincher, who has held the seat since 2010, said he came to the decision to resign after talking to his family and his staff.\n\nHe said: \"I do not want my constituents to be put to further uncertainty, and so in consequence I have made arrangements to resign and leave the Commons.\"\n\nIt is set to be the ninth by-election since Rishi Sunak became prime minister.\n\nParliament's standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg found Mr Pincher groped a then-employee of the House of Lords on his arm and neck, before groping his bottom.\n\nHe also found he groped a civil servant's bottom and then his testicles.\n\nFollowing the inquiry, the standards committee concluded his actions had been \"profoundly damaging\" to Parliament's reputation.\n\nMr Pincher apologised and said he accepted his behaviour had damaged his reputation and the government's.\n\nBut he rejected the idea he had done significant damage as he argued he had spoken at the Carlton Club as a former minister, rather than as an MP.\n\nWitnesses told the BBC at the time that Mr Pincher was seen \"extremely drunk\" at the Conservative Party members' club in St James's, central London.\n\nBoris Johnson quit as Prime Minister in 2022, following a mass revolt by ministers over his leadership\n\nStepping down as deputy chief whip in July 2022, in his resignation letter he told the prime minister he \"drank far too much\" and embarrassed himself and others.\n\nSince then he has received almost £100,000 in salary and £7,920 in ministerial severance, while he has claimed £13,860 in rent as expenses.\n\nMr Pincher's downfall was one of a series of scandals which contributed to Boris Johnson's Downing Street departure.\n\nThe prime minister's office and a number of government ministers initially denied that Mr Johnson was aware of specific complaints against Mr Pincher before appointing him as deputy chief whip.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Johnson had been briefed \"in person\" about a \"formal complaint\" into Mr Pincher's conduct.\n\nThe government then confirmed Mr Johnson was indeed briefed at the time, but could not \"recall this\" when the allegations emerged in the Sun newspaper.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to the University of Warwick, Mr Sunak was asked about two by-elections in Rutherglen and Hamilton West and Mid Bedfordshire in October.\n\n\"Mid-term by-elections are always difficult for incumbent governments and these will be no different, but we're going to keep working hard to deliver for the British people,\" he said.\n\nMr Pincher is understood to have written to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to officially quit the Commons.\n\nOn a visit to Birmingham on Thursday, Mr Hunt told the BBC the timing of Mr Pincher's resignation was \"up to the individual involved\".\n\n\"This was a situation which needed to be resolved and now we know the way forward and we will put forward a very strong candidate from the Conservative Party,\" he added.\n\nThe Tories said they would carry out a selection process for their candidate to contest the by-election.\n\nEddie Hughes, the current MP for Walsall North, has already been selected to represent the party in Tamworth at the next general election, following boundary changes, but has confirmed he will not be standing in a by-election.\n\nLabour would need a swing of just over 21% to take the Staffordshire seat, where the Conservatives had a 19,000 majority at the last election.\n\nLabour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said the people of Tamworth had been \"desperately let down\" by Mr Pincher and the Tories.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Most of the victims were women, reportedly sex workers\n\nRwandan police have arrested a 34-year-old suspected serial killer who is alleged to have murdered more than 10 people and buried them in his kitchen.\n\nPolice discovered the crime after the man was evicted from his rented accommodation in Kicukiro, a suburb of the capital, Kigali.\n\nThey were called after the suspect had defaulted on rent payments for months.\n\nA police officer told local media the victims appeared to have been sex workers. They included men and women.\n\nMurder is relatively uncommon in Rwanda and this case has shocked the country.\n\nAn unnamed police official told Rwanda's private newspaper The New Times that the man had put up a fight when officers went to evict him on Monday.\n\n\"He apologised and cried excessively, which raised our suspicions. It is at the police station where he confessed to having killed some people, prompting Rib [Rwanda Investigation Bureau] to investigate,\" the official said.\n\nA number of bodies have been recovered but the exact number would be determined after forensic investigations, said Rib spokesman Thierry Murangira.\n\n\"He operated by luring his victims, mostly prostitutes, to his home where he would rob them of their phones and belongings and then strangled them to death and buried them in a hole dug in the kitchen of his rented house,\" Mr Murangira said.\n\nHe is yet to be formally charged.\n\nThe man had reportedly been arrested in July for allegedly robbing, raping and threatening some women, but released as there was insufficient evidence.\n\nThe man had reportedly failed to pay rent", "Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty were greeted at Indira Gandhi International Airport\n\nRishi Sunak has arrived in Delhi for the G20 summit - a meeting of leaders from the 19 biggest economies in the world plus the European Union.\n\nHe becomes the first prime minister of Indian heritage to visit the country.\n\nNo 10 say the \"historic\" visit will be \"a powerful reminder of the living bridge between the two countries\".\n\nMr Sunak is accompanied by his wife Akshata Murty, who was born and grew up in India and is the daughter of one of India's richest men.\n\nThe G20 is something of a diplomatic blancmange. Many of the members of it have very little in common beyond big economies.\n\nBut that is the point of it - bringing together those countries that are the engine room of the global economy.\n\nThe G20 is a child of the 21st Century - conceived in 1999 and growing in stature after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIt means the discussions within it are often very broad. But the get-together also gives the chance for leaders to meet one on one, in what are known as \"bilaterals\".\n\nSpeaking on the way to the summit, Mr Sunak said he was \"excited to be back\" in India, calling it \"a country that is very near and dear to me\".\n\nHe said: \"It's obviously special. I saw somewhere that I was referred to as India's son-in-law, which I hope was meant affectionately!\"\n\nRishi Sunak spoke to reporters while travelling to Delhi\n\nTwo of the most powerful men in the world were on the guest list, but aren't turning up.\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin will be missing, for the second year in a row.\n\n\"Once again, Vladimir Putin is failing to show his face at the G20,\" the prime minister said.\n\n\"He is the architect of his own diplomatic exile, isolating himself in his presidential palace and blocking out criticism and reality.\n\n\"The rest of the G20, meanwhile, are demonstrating that we will turn up and work together to pick up the pieces of Putin's destruction.\"\n\nBut it is more complex than that.\n\nPresident Xi of China isn't coming either. And some G20 members are a lot less committed than others to Ukraine.\n\nThe hosts, India, for a start, continue to buy lots of oil from Russia.\n\nThe PM refused to say whether he was planning to meet Chinese premier Li Qiang during the summit.\n\nHe told reporters on the flight he was \"expecting to see a range of people… over the course of the couple of days we're all there\" but refused to say whether he would meet face to face.\n\nThe prime minister will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where it is likely they will talk about a UK-India free trade agreement.\n\nThere is increasing optimism a deal can be reached soon.\n\nIndia's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she hoped it would be done before the end of the year.\n\nDowning Street has refused to be drawn on a timescale and Mr Sunak said a deal was \"is not a given\".\n\nHis predecessor-but-one former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had said in 2022 that he wanted a \"deal by Divali\", but Mr Sunak said: \"These things are a lot of work and a lot of time - that's why I've never put artificial deadlines on these trade deals.\n\n\"I've always said we shouldn't sacrifice quality for speed.\"\n\nIndia's desire for visas with more flexibility has long been seen as a potential sticking point in the negotiations.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman told us: \"This is a trade deal which is focused on trade and business - immigration is a separate issue.\n\n\"The only aspect of the movement of people covered by a free trade agreement is business mobility, which is the temporary movement of business people for specific purposes.\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the Conservatives had said the trade deal \"would be completed by last October\" and claimed Mr Sunak \"arrives at the G20 as a minnow on the global stage\".\n\nAhead of his trip, the PM came under pressure from MPs to raise the case of British man Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been in prison, on death row, in India.\n\nMr Sunak twice refused to commit to raising the issue with Prime Minister Modi.\n\nBut for all the politics, and diplomacy, the early focus of this trip will be pictorial, symbolic and drenched in history - a British prime minister visiting a former British colony.\n\nA British prime minister of Indian heritage, as India hosts the world - or at least a huge economic chunk of it.", "A review of veterinary services in the UK has been launched over concerns that pet owners could be paying too much.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said vet fees were rising faster than other goods and services during the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nPet owners can face \"eye-watering\" bills, said consumer group Which?, which shared its findings with the CMA.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association said it had not seen evidence that changes in the sector were pushing up prices.\n\nThe vet industry is worth £2bn after pet ownership rose to two-thirds of UK households during the Covid pandemic.\n\nWhen pets need urgent treatment, owners may not have all the information to decide on the best deal, the CMA said.\n\nIts chief executive, Sarah Cardell, said: \"Caring for an ill pet can create real financial pressure, particularly alongside other cost of living concerns.\n\n\"When a pet is unwell, they often need urgent treatment, which means that pet owners may not shop around for the best deal, like they do with other services.\"\n\nSue Davies, the head of consumer protection policy at Which?, said: \"Consumers have no choice but to turn to vets when their beloved pet is sick or injured - often footing eye-watering bills in the process.\"\n\nShe added that areas of concern included pet owners not knowing the price of treatments until after their appointment, and difficulties shopping around for cheaper medication.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic saw more people working from home and now about 60% of households have a pet, the CMA said.\n\nBut now many owners are struggling with squeezed household budgets as price rises reach near-record highs, meaning more needs to be done to make sure vet costs are fair, it said.\n\nGeorge Lusty from the CMA told the BBC's Today programme that the costs of specific treatments, such as booster jabs, were rising rapidly.\n\n\"We're seeing that most people are paying about £45 for an individual booster jab. But there's many other services and costs that people cannot have predicted and they can find themselves unexpectedly facing some really high bills\n\n\"When other household bills are going up very steeply at the moment we want to do everything we can to make sure that people can predict how much it's going to cost to see a vet - both the routine stuff but also if there's a crisis.\"\n\nThe treatment for Ace cost £6,000 but could have been a lot more\n\nLisa from Liverpool had to pay thousands of pounds in December last year when her six-year-old French bulldog, Ace, got off his bed and \"exploded\" a disc.\n\nHe required urgent attention, but Lisa said that at one vets, \"they said if you want him seen today it's £1,000 to see a vet and then it will be £4,000 for an MRI scan.\n\n\"If he needed surgery after that they were quoting up to £7,000 more, depending on his recovery.\"\n\nShe says they were fortunate to have savings but \"we couldn't afford to pay that much\".\n\n\"Luckily, we were accepted at the Liverpool University Teaching Hospital which has a lower rate as a teaching hospital.\n\n\"Our end bill came to around £6,000. That was including the urgent appointment, the MRI scan, surgery, post-operative care and medication.\"\n\nThe CMA was also concerned about changes in ownership of vet practices in recent years.\n\nIndependent practices accounted for 89% of the UK veterinary industry in 2013 - but that had fallen to about 45% by 2021, said the CMA.\n\n\"In some cases, a single company may own hundreds of practices and it may be unclear to people whether their vet is part of a large group\", the CMA said. \"This could impact pet owners' choices and reduce the incentives of local vet practices to compete\".\n\nNews of the CMA probe hit shares in Pets at Home, which fell nearly 9%.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association, which represents more than 19,000 vets, said it supported \"healthy competition\".\n\n\"The veterinary sector has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the growth of large veterinary corporates operating alongside independent vet practices,\" said BVA president Malcolm Morley.\n\n\"Sadly, soaring inflation and the cost-of-living crisis is impacting both pet owners and business, including vet practices.\n\n\"However, we've not seen any hard data or real evidence to suggest that corporatisation is driving up prices or negatively impacting quality of care.\"\n\nLast week, the Celia Hammond Animal Trust said a shortage of vets due to Brexit means people are struggling to get their animals neutered.\n\nMs Cardell said: \"There has been a lot of consolidation in the vet industry in recent years, so now is the right time to take a look at how the market is working.\"\n\nThe CMA would like to hear from pet owners, veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses, practice managers and veterinary businesses as part of the review. It said it will provide a further update and its next steps in early 2024.\n\nThe CMA's review follows its annual plan which sets out that the regulator \"will act in areas of essential spending and where people are under particular financial pressure, such as accommodation and caring for ourselves and others\".", "CCTV, shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, appeared to show the moment of the explosion\n\nPresident Zelensky has condemned a \"deliberate\" attack on Ukraine's \"peaceful city\" of Kostyantynivka.\n\nFifteen people, including a child, were killed in the blast, which took place on a busy market street in the middle of the day.\n\nKostyantynivka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, is near the front line.\n\nVideos on social media show a bright orange explosion at the far end of a street where people were out shopping. Russia is yet to comment on the attack.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky, who has blamed Moscow, said those killed were \"people who did nothing wrong\" - and warned the death toll could increase.\n\nDealing with Russia, he said, meant turning a blind eye to the audacity of evil.\n\nThirty-six people are thought to be injured. A market, pharmacy and shops are all reported to have been hit, resulting in a now-contained fire.\n\nFootage and images circulating online appeared to show the moment of the explosion and its graphic aftermath.\n\nInitial reports were that 17 people were killed, but this was later revised down to 16 and then further revised to 15, which officials said came after the identification of bodies.\n\nIt was one of the worst attacks on Ukrainian civilians since the spring, and took place in a busy street at around 14:00 local time (12:00 BST) as people flocked to market stalls and café terraces.\n\nUkraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a few hours later that the search and rescue operation had been completed.\n\nDiana Khodak, a local shopkeeper, recalled the moment a \"flash\" of light appeared and she told colleagues and customers to \"lie on the floor\".\n\nSpeaking to Reuters news agency, she described seeing soldiers carrying a woman afterwards who \"had an open fracture and her bone was sticking out from her leg\".\n\nMr Zelensky described the attack as \"utter inhumanity\", while his wife Olena Zelenska said it showed \"horrific cruelty\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched by Ukraine's prosecutor-general, whose office said it was in pursuit of \"criminal proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war\".\n\n\"Prosecutors are taking all possible and appropriate measures to record war crimes committed by the Russian Federation,\" a statement added.\n\nOfficials in Russia have not yet commented on the attack. They have previously denied targeting citizens as part of their offensive.\n\nKostyantynivka sits close to the battlefield and has been hit on various occasions this year as a result:\n\nIt is also about 17 miles (27km) from the city of Bakhmut - in the Donetsk region as well - where fighting is known to have been intense for some time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos showed the graphic aftermath of the blast\n\nThe city of Donetsk has been controlled by Russia's proxy authorities since 2014, who have repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting it since the war with Russia began last February.\n\nThe attack on Wednesday coincided with a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Ukraine, where he met Mr Zelensky and other officials.\n\nIn the hours before he arrived, sirens wailed across the country and Kyiv's air defence system was busy intercepting missiles aimed at the capital.\n\nMr Blinken used the trip - his fourth to the Ukrainian capital in 18 months - to announce another US aid package for the war-torn country. It totals more than $1bn (£799.6m), he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Harry Kane and seven Manchester City players are on the 30-man shortlist for the 2023 Ballon d'Or.\n\nCity's Erling Haaland is one of 12 Premier League players nominated.\n\nArgentina legend Lionel Messi is the overwhelming favourite to win and extend his record to eight Ballons d'Or after winning the World Cup.\n\nMidfielder Bellingham and striker Kane both moved clubs this summer - to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively.\n\nTreble-winning Manchester City are represented by record-breaking goalscorer Haaland, Kevin de Bruyne, Ruben Dias, World Cup winner Julian Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Rodri and Josko Gvardiol.\n\nCroatia defender Gvardiol was not at City last season but Ilkay Gundogan, now at Barcelona, was and he also makes the shortlist.\n\nThe other Premier League nominees are Arsenal's Saka and Martin Odegaard, Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, Manchester United keeper Andre Onana and Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.\n\nThere are two players who left European clubs this summer - Messi, who joined Inter Miami from Paris St-Germain, and current holder Karim Benzema, who left Real Madrid for Al-Ittihad.\n\nFive-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Al-Nassr, was not nominated for the first time since 2003.\n\nBellingham, who joined Real from Borussia Dortmund this summer, is one of 10 nominees for the best young player award, the Kopa Trophy.\n\nNew Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund is also nominated.\n\nArsenal and England's Aaron Ramsdale is one of four Premier League goalkeepers on the 10-man shortlist for the Yashin Trophy, for the world's best keeper.\n\nOnana, Manchester City's Ederson and Aston Villa's Martinez, a World Cup winner with Argentina, are the others.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Sam Eljamel was the head of the neurosurgery department in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee\n\nA public inquiry will be held into the disgraced brain surgeon Sam Eljamel, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nEljamel harmed dozens of patients at NHS Tayside, leaving some with life-changing injuries.\n\nHe was head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee until December 2013, when he was suspended.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was persuaded of the need for the inquiry after reading a damning due diligence review into NHS Tayside.\n\nIt follows a long-running campaign which saw almost 150 former patients of the surgeon calling for the inquiry.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions, Humza Yousaf said the decision was taken after \"very careful consideration\" of the \"extremely disturbing\" findings of a due diligence review into NHS Tayside.\n\nIt found that concerns about Eljamel were not acted upon with the urgency they deserved.\n\nMr Matheson told MSPs he had been unconvinced of the need for a public inquiry until he read that report.\n\nHe said it had revealed significant information that had not previously been known by the Scottish government, despite eight reviews since 2018.\n\n\"That raised serious concerns for me on the openness and the transparency there has been to date from NHS Tayside,\" he added.\n\nMr Matheson said he had concluded that a public inquiry was \"the only route to get to the bottom of who knew what and when, and what contributed to the failures described by NHS Tayside\".\n\nThe health secretary said he also wanted to see individual cases reviewed independently of NHS Tayside in a \"person-centred, trauma-informed\" manner.\n\nA rally calling for a public inquiry was held outside Holyrood on Wednesday\n\nThere have been mounting calls for a public inquiry since BBC Scotland's Disclosure programme discovered in 2018 that dozens of people claimed to have been harmed by the surgeon.\n\nA report published last week criticised NHS Tayside managers for putting the doctor under indirect supervision in June 2013, rather than suspending him.\n\nIt meant he was allowed to continue operating until he was suspended in December that year.\n\nJules Rose, a former patient of Eljamel who has become a leading campaigner for an inquiry, met with ministers ahead of the statement to parliament.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely delighted\" with the decision but would reserve final judgement until the terms of reference were made clear.\n\nMs Rose had a tear gland removed instead of brain tumour in August 2013. Eljamel performed a second operation on her on 9 December that year.\n\nJules Rose said she was delighted with the decision to hold a public inquiry\n\nShe said she believed she was the only patient to be operated on by Eljamel twice during the six month period when he should have been suspended.\n\nBecoming emotional, she told BBC Scotland News: \"Ironic, because as you can see, I can only cry from one eye.\n\n\"He removed the wrong part of my body and I don't know why. Only he can answer that. But I've accepted I will never get that answer.\n\n\"But I will get the answers now through a public inquiry - why Tayside allowed this butcher surgeon to commit the harm that he did to myself and the names of 150 other patients that I have.\"\n\nFor Jules Rose, this announcement is a decade in the making. For many of the other 150 patients calling for a public inquiry it goes back even further.\n\nFive years ago our investigation into Eljamel revealed for the first time exactly how much the health board knew and when and how long they allowed their head of neurosurgery to carry on operating and harming patients.\n\nIt led to the police investigation into the surgeon. And that is still ongoing. Years of further revelations by us and others and campaigning by patients like Jules and MSPs like Liz Smith, has led to this moment.\n\nEarlier this year, Health Secretary Michael Matheson was adamant there would be no public inquiry and instead announced an independent review. The patients unanimously rejected that.\n\nThen in June we published a story about NHS whistleblowers saying the board knew even earlier that there were serious concerns about the surgeon.\n\nIt seems the steady drip of revelations and last week's report by the health board itself has left ministers with little other choice than a full public inquiry.\n\nAt Holyrood, tributes were paid to the campaigners including Ms Rose and Patrick Kelly, who found out years after a spine operation by Eljamel that the intended surgery had not been carried out.\n\nLabour MSP Michael Marra said the announcement should have come sooner. He told Mr Yousaf the inquiry had been \"wrung out of the government like blood from a stone\" by victims of botched surgeries.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"Professor Eljamel is responsible for his despicable actions but where there are systematic failings then they must absolutely be interrogated and lessons must be learned.\"\n\nHe added that it was to the \"credit of the brave patients\" that the inquiry was being set up.\n\nLiz Smith, a Scottish Conservative MSP, said the stories of Eljamel's patients were \"some of the most harrowing\" she had ever heard.\n\n\"His patients have suffered permanent medical and psychological pain and their attempts to get the whole truth have been rejected at every turn,\" she said.\n\nMs Smith called for a victims support fund for the patients and added: \"This public inquiry should be set up without delay and it must deliver all the answers Eljamel's victims have sought for years.\n\n\"Nothing less will be acceptable.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie said: \"The Cabinet Secretary has made the right decision today, but I am afraid that it has taken far too long.\n\n\"Patients have suffered both physically and mentally throughout all of this. As time has gone on, they have become increasingly angry; faith and trust have completely broken down.\n\nIt is understood that Eljamel now works as a surgeon in Libya.", "Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports.\n\nThe synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss.\n\nNobody is currently suggesting growing them into a baby.\n\nBut the rapid progress has outpaced discussions on how they should be dealt with ethically and legally.\n\nProf James Briscoe, from the Francis Crick Institute, said the field needed to \"proceed cautiously, carefully and transparently\" to avoid a \"chilling effect\" on the public.\n\nThe development of human synthetic embryos was announced at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.\n\nSynthetic embryos are also known as \"embryo models\", as they resemble embryos, for the purposes of research, rather than being identical to them.\n\nThe work comes from the laboratories of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThe full details have yet to be published and made available for scientific scrutiny, leading many researchers to feel unable to comment on the significance of the reports.\n\nBut the principle is the synthetic embryos are made from a stem cell rather than a fusion of egg and sperm.\n\nStem cells have the capacity to become any cell-type in the body and if coaxed in just the right way can be persuaded to form embryos.\n\nThis is the first time that has been achieved using human material. Although, they are not truly \"synthetic\", as the starting material was cells cultured from a traditional embryo in the laboratory.\n\n\"It's beautiful and created entirely from embryonic stem cells,\" Prof Zernicka-Goetz told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nShe has already developed synthetic mouse embryos with evidence of a developing brain and beating heart.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists in China have implanted synthetic monkey embryos into female monkeys - although, all the pregnancies failed.\n\nSide by side, the natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days\n\nThe synthetic embryos do not behave in exactly the same way as normal embryos. And it is unclear how their use in research should be governed.\n\nProf Briscoe said: \"On the one hand, models of human embryos made of stem cells might offer an ethical and more readily available alternative to the use of IVF-derived [in-vitro fertilisation] human embryos.\n\n\"On the other hand, the closer stem-cell-derived models of human embryos mirror human embryos, the more important it is to have clear regulations and guidelines for how they are used.\"\n\nMost countries use the 14-day rule in human-embryo research. This allows an embryo created by fertilising a human egg to be grown for 14 days.\n\nHowever, these \"embryo models\" are not legally \"embryos\" and are not governed by the same laws.\n\nDr Ildem Akerman, from the University of Birmingham, said: \"These findings suggest that we would soon develop the technology to grow these cells beyond the 14-day limit, with potentially more insights to gain into human development.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the ability to do something does not justify doing it.\"\n\nLegal and ethical experts in the UK are drawing up a voluntary set of guidelines for how to proceed.\n\nResearchers hope these synthetic embryos will further understanding of the earliest stages of human's lives.\n\nProf Roger Sturmey, from the University of Manchester, said: \"We know remarkably little about this step in human development but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost.\n\n\"So models that can enable us to study this period are urgently needed to help to understand infertility and early pregnancy loss.\"", "A County Antrim woman who bleeds every day from her nose, eyes, or fingernails has called for greater understanding of her rare genetic bleeding disorder.\n\nSharon Gregg can lose up to two pints of blood during one nosebleed, which she said can happen several times a day.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, the 53-year-old said the volume of blood was \"shocking and frightening\", especially if she is at home alone.\n\nThis article contains descriptions some readers may find disturbing.\n\nSharon said there needed to be a better understanding of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), especially among GPs, to better allow them to diagnose the disorder in children.\n\nAbout 100 people in Northern Ireland have been officially diagnosed with HHT, which affects the blood vessels.\n\nDr Gary Benson, a consultant haematologist who has a special interest in bleeding disorders, said HHT can be catastrophic for the patient.\n\nHe said while 90% will have nose bleeds, it is a condition which can affect every part of the body, including the brain, gut, lungs, and liver.\n\nDr Benson also said that the 100 people officially diagnosed with this disorder in Northern Ireland were \"a drop in the ocean\" and there were likely more people unaware they had HHT.\n\nOfficially it is thought that one in 5,000 people are born with HHT.\n\nDr Benson described the condition as horrendous - especially for teenagers.\n\nHe recalled treating a sixth form student who bled over an exam paper during their A-Levels.\n\n\"It is so unpredictable, it doesn't matter what a patient is doing, it will happen when you least expect it, and your body decides to just bleed,\" he said.\n\nDr Benson said that while a nosebleed by itself was not a sign of the disorder, one that lasted for two hours should not be treated as normal.\n\n\"Families, however, who have seen relatives bleed all their lives, have normalised the disease - which they shouldn't.\n\n\"This is far from normal which you have seen in Sharon's case - Sharon can fill jugs with blood at one time and that is not normal.\n\n\"While rare this can be serious, especially bleeds on the brain which can become a very real complication,\" Dr Benson said.\n\nSharon said the condition meant she was mostly confined to the house and avoided family occasions as she never knows when the bleeding will start, nor how long it will last.\n\nSharon Gregg's father and grandfather also lived with the hereditary condition\n\nThe condition also affects her internal organs - including her lungs and brain.\n\nShe has been hospitalised several times.\n\nHHT is hereditary and, according to Sharon, her father and grandfather also lived with it.\n\n\"I am speaking out to find more people. I know there are more people out there who have the same family story as me.\n\n\"My dad's health problems, including strokes and gastric bleeding, were linked to the bleeding,\" she said.\n\nA large medical bag sits in the family kitchen which is brimming with bandages, plasters and pressure dressings.\n\nWhen her fingers bleed, Sharon sometimes has to go to hospital as she said she cannot physically cope with applying the dressings.\n\nA clamp is also in the medical bag to stop the bleeding from her tongue.\n\nPeople with HHT have some abnormal blood vessels that have not developed properly and sometimes cause bleeding known as arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).\n\nWhen AVMs form in the lining of the nose, the gut or skin, they can easily bleed without any warning.\n\nBleeds can last an hour or longer. Frequent bleeding can lead to iron-deficiency, anaemia, and stroke.\n\nTypical symptoms include regular nosebleeds and red spots on certain parts of the body.\n\nSymptoms usually start in childhood or in teenage years.\n\nAccording to Dr Benson, parents of children who have nose bleeds which last more than half an hour should seek help.\n\nConsultant haematologist Dr Gary Benson said some patients may be unaware that they have HHT\n\nAdditionally, he said that children who have had to have their nose cauterised more than once can be an indication of HHT.\n\nThere is no cure for the condition and treatment is limited.\n\nThe blood vessel can be closed but according to Dr Benson the nature of the condition means the blood will just find another opening to flow through.\n\nHowever, an iron deficiency can be treated through diet and iron supplements.\n\nSome of Dr Benson's female patients who have their monthly period find the condition particularly debilitating when they are also coping with bleeds elsewhere in the body.\n\nHe said those patients often struggled as their body needed additional iron - some four times more than a male patient.\n\n\"During my training it was likened to trying to fill a bath with the plug out and it's impossible to try and fill the body with additional iron to maintain the status quo.\"\n\nHe has called for more research and treatment into the rare disease.", "The attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nA teenager has been arrested in connection with an alleged homophobic attack outside a pub in south London.\n\nTwo men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers on Clapham High Street on 13 August.\n\nA 19-year-old male has now been arrested on suspicion of two counts of GBH. He was arrested in South Norwood and remains in police custody.\n\nDet Supt Vanessa Britton said the arrest marked a \"significant development\" in its investigation.\n\nShe added: \"The two victims have been informed and continue to be supported by our officers, including our dedicated LGBT+ community liaison officer.\n\n\"I know the concern and distress this horrific incident has caused among the LGBT+ community and I want to reassure them - and Londoners as a whole - that a team of officers is working diligently to investigate.\"\n\nThe incident happened at about 22:15 BST as the two men were stood outside the nightclub.\n\nThe Met said they were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nThey were taken to hospital for treatment and have since been discharged.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The expert team found the risks of RAAC concrete had been underestimated\n\nTens of thousands of government and privately owned buildings should be safety checked because of crumbling RAAC concrete, experts say.\n\nThe team that alerted the government to the problems posed by the concrete said safety checks will need to be regular.\n\nThe Loughborough University team told BBC News about their research and their advice for dealing with the problem.\n\nProf Chris Goodier said most affected buildings were probably not dangerous but should be inspected just in case.\n\n\"We've suddenly found out that a certain proportion of our building stock is not as good as we thought it was,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a small proportion but we have millions of buildings - even if its just one per cent of 10 million that's 100,000,\" he said.\n\nCrush test. Wet Raac on the left breaks up much easier than a dry sample\n\nProf Goodier said that as well as government buildings such as hospitals, court houses and prisons, an unknown number in the private sector offices and warehouses were also potentially affected because they contained the concrete, also known as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)..\n\nHis team is advising the government to send surveyors to assess the affected buildings, most of which the researchers expect to be found not to have any dangerous flaws. But they will require regular inspections.\n\nThe holes in the RAAC make it light enough to float whereas normal concrete sinks. But RAAC absorbs water.\n\nOthers buildings may need areas reinforced or have certain areas closed and a small number may need to be rebuilt.\n\nBut in the longer term, the team says a new approach will be needed of regular inspections and management of possibly tens of thousands of buildings, according to Prof Sergio Cavalaro from the Loughborough team.\n\n\"Buildings that were not inspected will now need to be inspected. We need to intensify these inspections. But that will be a challenge because there are so many buildings that need inspections. So we may lack the qualified people to do it in a timely fashion,\" he said.\n\nThe term the researchers are using is \"living with RAAC\" and say the material should be dealt with in the same way as the asbestos crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIt won't be clear exactly how much RAAC is involved until the assessments are conducted, according to Prof Goodier.\n\n\"There are 40 really big hospitals which have 10,000 RAAC planks in the ceiling and some have spent £10m to look after that. There are 22,000 schools and they found 150 with RAAC but they vary in size a lot some will be tiny ones.\n\nUnder the microscope cracks appear next to the steel rod on the upper right that would otherwise go unseen.\n\n''But the public sector is the easy bit because the government has control over that and knows where it is. But when you move to the private sector - you are mainly looking at 1960s, 1970s offices, factories and warehouses and possibly some housing where you may not know who owns it,\" Prof Goodier said.\n\nIt was the Loughborough team's research that showed that the potential risks of RAAC were greater than previously thought. Although the material has been used for decades, there has been very little research into what happens when it ages.\n\nThe team started looking into the issue two years ago, on behalf of the NHS.\n\nThey found three main factors that had not been fully taken into account by risk assessors.\n\nAll this is made more likely by a lack of proper maintenance, say the researchers.\n\nTo make matters worse, these problems aren't really apparent until the material breaks.\n\n\"Collapse after something looks like it's going to collapse is one thing, it's collapse without warning is the worry,\" says Prof Goodier.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had been guided by expert advice. \"That professional advice from experts on RAAC has evolved over time, from advice in the 1990s that RAAC did not pose a safety hazard to more recent advice on identifying and assessing structural adequacy,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your story about RAAC by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "What do employers expect staff to know about AI? , published at 00:13 5 December What do employers expect staff to know about AI?", "Google will soon require that political ads on its platforms let people know when images and audio have been created using artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nThe rules have been created as a response to the \"growing prevalence of tools that produce synthetic content\", a Google spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nThe change is scheduled for November, about a year ahead of the next US presidential election.\n\nThere are fears AI will supercharge disinformation around the campaigns.\n\nGoogle's existing ad policies already ban manipulating digital media to deceive or mislead people about politics, social issues, or matters of public concern.\n\nBut this update will require election-related ads to \"prominently disclose\" if they contain \"synthetic content\" that depicts real or realistic-looking people or events.\n\nGoogle suggested labels such as \"this image does not depict real events\" or \"this video content was synthetically generated\" will work as flags.\n\nDemonstrably false claims that could undermine trust in the election process are also forbidden at Google, according to the tech giant's ad policy.\n\nGoogle requires political ads to disclose who paid for them, and makes information about the messages available in an online ads library.\n\nDisclosures of digitally altered content in election ads must be \"clear and conspicuous\", and put where they are likely to be noticed.\n\nExamples of what would warrant a label included synthetic imagery or audio showing a person saying or doing something they did not do, or depicting an event that did not occur.\n\nIn March, a fake picture of former US President Donald Trump falsely showing him being arrested was shared on social media. The image was created by AI tools.\n\nAlso in March, a deepfake video circulated of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talking of surrendering to Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's James Clayton puts a deepfake video detector to the test\n\nIn June, a Ron DeSantis campaign video attacking former President Trump featured images bearing markings of having been created using AI.\n\nThe video shared in a tweet contained photos that appeared to have been altered to show Mr Trump embracing Anthony Fauci, a key member of the US coronavirus task force, with kisses on the cheek.\n\nAI experts have told the BBC that while faked imagery is nothing new, the speed of progress within the generative AI field, and potential for misuse, is something to be concerned about.\n\nGoogle said it continues to invest in technology to detect and remove such content.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has denied it is changing plans to force messaging apps to access users' private messages if requested by the regulator Ofcom.\n\nThere has been a stand-off between the UK government and tech firms over a clause in the Online Safety Bill relating to encrypted messages.\n\nThese are messages that can only be seen by the sender and recipient.\n\nThe Bill states that if there are concerns about child abuse content, tech companies might have to access it.\n\nBut platforms like WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage say they cannot access or view anybody's messages without destroying existing privacy protections for all users, and have threatened to leave the UK rather than compromise message security.\n\nThe debate has raged for several months and for some it has turned into an argument about privacy versus the protection of children. The government insists it is possible to have both.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill is due to become law in autumn and cleared its final stage in the House of Lords on Wednesday before returning to the commons.\n\nThe government has denied that its position has changed. In a statement in the House of Lords, the minister, Lord Parkinson, clarified that if the technology to access messages without breaking their security did not exist, then Ofcom would have the power to ask companies to develop the ability to identify and remove illegal child sexual abuse content on their platforms.\n\nIndeed, the Bill already stated that the regulator Ofcom would only ask tech firms to access messages once \"feasible technology\" had been developed which would specifically only target child abuse content and not break encryption.\n\nThe government has tasked tech firms with inventing these tools.\n\n\"As has always been the case, as a last resort, on a case-by-case basis and only when stringent privacy safeguards have been met, [the Bill] will enable Ofcom to direct companies to either use, or make best efforts to develop or source, technology to identify and remove illegal child sexual abuse content - which we know can be developed,\" said a government spokesperson.\n\nSome security experts suggest such tech tools may never exist, and the tech firms themselves say it is not possible.\n\nHead of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, posted on X Wednesday that \"the fact remains that scanning everyone's messages would destroy privacy as we know it\".\n\nMeredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, has previously said it was \"magical thinking\" to believe we can have privacy \"but only for the good guys\".\n\nShe told the BBC that the firm welcomed the latest clarification which was \"a good start to incorporating the voices of human rights defenders into the final stages.\n\n\"We hope to see more progress over the next days, ideally making stronger commitments in the text of the bill,\" said Ms Whittaker.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said in reaction to the minister's clarification that in practical terms this meant the powers to access private messages would not be deployed: \"The government is still technically taking the power but is placing so many conditions on its use it cannot to my mind ever be used.\"\n\nBut some campaign groups warned nothing had changed. Index on Censorship told the BBC that the Bill was \"still a threat to encryption and as such puts at risk everyone from journalists working with whistleblowers to ordinary citizens talking in private.\n\n\"We need to see amendments urgently to protect our right to free speech online,\" it added.\n\nAnd Matthew Hodgson, who runs the British-based messaging platform Element, said \"all 'until it's technically feasible' means is opening the door to scanning in future rather than scanning today.\"\n\nIt was merely \"kicking the can down the road\" in his view.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation - which finds, flags, and removes images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web said that in its opinion it was already technically feasible to scan encrypted messaging systems while preserving privacy.\n\n\"As far as we can see, the Government's position on this has not changed\", it said.\n\n\"We know technologies exist, now, which can do this - with no more invasion of privacy than a virus guard or spam filter\".\n\nAnother view is that this is an attempt at a last-minute diplomatic resolution in which neither the tech firms nor the government lose face: the government says it knew all along that the tech did not exist and removes immediate pressure from the tech firms to invent it, and the tech firms claim a victory for privacy.\n\nCurrently, the two most viable tech solutions are to either break the encryption - which would leave a backdoor open to any bad actors who found it - or introduce software which scans content on a device. It is called client-side scanning and has been dubbed \"the spy in your pocket\" by critics.\n\nChildren's charities like the NSPCC have described encrypted messaging as the \"front line\" of child abuse because of privacy settings.\n\nBut privacy campaigners say everybody has a right to privacy protection.", "Johnny Kitagawa (pictured on screen) was a J-pop titan who used his immense power to sexually abuse aspiring boyband idols\n\nThe boss of Japan's biggest pop talent agency has resigned after finally admitting the sexual abuse committed by its late founder, Johnny Kitagawa.\n\nJulie Fujishima resigned from Johnny and Associates on Thursday during a public apology to her uncle's victims.\n\nHer departure comes a week after investigators found Kitagawa abused hundreds of boys and young men over six decades, as head of the boyband agency.\n\nA BBC documentary this year about the abuse led more victims to come forward.\n\nJohnny Kitagawa died in 2019, having always denied wrongdoing. He never faced charges.\n\nOn Thursday, his niece and outgoing chief executive Ms Fujishima acknowledged his abuse for the first time.\n\n\"Both the agency itself and I myself as a person recognise that sex abuse by Johnny Kitagawa took place,\" she said.\n\n\"I apologise to his victims from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nLocal media showed some of the victims watching the news conference, some looking visibly angry.\n\nAt a news conference in Tokyo after Ms Fujishima spoke, some of Kitagawa's victims said they thought her remarks had been sincere and had helped them - but there was a long way to go.\n\n\"I think she conveyed straight to us a message including talk of assistance, that was well prepared in her own words and not just read from a script,\" Junya Hiramoto, head of Johnny's Sexual Assault Victims' Association, said.\n\nFellow association member Yukihiro Oshima said: \"I think they did apologise sincerely - but it doesn't mean that this has healed me. Out of 100, I'd say it has made a 10% difference.\"\n\nAnother man said he'd nothing to be ashamed of. \"I've learned that if you decide to act, you can change things. We don't have to walk looking down - we can look forward.\"\n\nThe scandal is parallel in its scale and impact on the industry to that of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein who was convicted of rape and sexual assault.\n\nKitagawa was arguably the most influential and powerful figure in Japan's entertainment industry. His agency was the gateway to stardom for many young men through the years.\n\nSeveral victims told the BBC's documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop that they thought their careers would be harmed if they did not comply with Kitagawa's sexual demands.\n\nJulie Fujishima (r) resigned naming Noriyuki Higashiyama (l) as the talent agency's new head\n\nRumours and some media reports of his abuse had been known for years, but no concrete action was taken.\n\nThe pop mogul never faced criminal prosecution and continued recruiting and training teenage boys until his death four years ago, at the age of 87.\n\nHis death was a national event, and even the prime minister at the time sent condolences.\n\nAnd even though some of the allegations were proven in a civil court when he was alive, Kitagawa successfully sued for defamation on at least one occasion. Most mainstream Japanese media also did not cover the allegations for decades, prompting accusations of an industry cover-up.\n\nThen in March, the BBC's investigation detailing Kitagawa's abuse was aired, sparking discussion across Japan and calls for a full investigation. Thousands of J-pop fans also signed a petition lobbying for an inquiry into the agency.\n\nThe documentary detailed allegations from victims who worked for the all-male agency when they were teenagers. It showed a pattern of exploitation, with the abuse taking place at Kitagawa's luxury homes, and often witnessed by other boys.\n\nThe BBC's coverage compelled more victims to come forward, including ex-pop star Kauan Okamoto who said that he had been abused by Kitagawa for four years, from the age of 15.\n\nPublic pressure led to the agency then launching its own independent investigation. The panel, composed of Japan's former prosecutor general Makoto Hayashi, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, interviewed 41 people, including 23 victims as well as Ms Fujishima.\n\nIn the final report released last week, they found Kitagawa started sexually abusing boys in the 1950s, through the 1960s when Johnny and Associates was set up, until the 2010s.\n\nThey also found that the agency's family management had allowed the abuse to persist for decades. Investigators said Ms Fujishima - a long-time executive in the company - failed to address the allegations despite her knowledge of them\n\nMs Fujishima had initially been against an independent investigation. In May, she apologised to victims but stopped short of saying individual allegations were true, and claimed not to have known about her uncle's actions at the time.\n\nOn Thursday, she named as her successor Noriyuki Higashiyama, a household television name in Japan. The 56-year-old was also one of the first talents recruited by Johnny and Associates.\n\nMr Higashiyama said he had never been a victim of Kitagawa's abuse but had been aware of the rumours.\n\n\"I couldn't, and didn't, do anything about it,\" he told the news conference.\n\nHe also acknowledged public calls for the agency's name to be changed- but said no immediate action would be taken.\n\nThere was talk at the press conference of structural change and many observers believe the organisation is likely to make amends - but it's unclear what that change would look like and how the agency's talents would be managed and protected.\n\nThere are also big questions about the future of Johnny and Associates as a brand that has been synonymous with fame and glamour, and which has now been so badly and so publicly disgraced.\n\nWith additional reporting by Kelly Ng and Frances Mao\n\nPredator: The secret scandal of J-pop (UK Only)\n\nMobeen Azhar explores the suffocating reality of being a J-pop idol, the influence that Johnny Kitagawa had on the media and exposes the brutal consequences of turning a blind eye.", "Network Rail has been accused of failing to warn a train driver that the track was unsafe before a fatal derailment near Stonehaven in 2020.\n\nThree men died in the crash, which took place following a landslide.\n\nNetwork Rail is due to face charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act at the High Court on Thursday.\n\nIt is accused of not warning the driver that it was unsafe to drive on that section of track and of not telling him to reduce his speed.\n\nIt is alleged that as a result of the company's failings, three people were so severely injured that they died.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45; conductor Donald Dinnie, 58; and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed.\n\nSix other people were injured when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service hit washed-out debris at Carmont.\n\nThe case is scheduled to call at the High Court in Aberdeen under a section 76 indictment. This procedure suggests that a guilty plea may be offered.\n\nNetwork Rail is accused of failures in the construction, inspection and maintenance of drainage assets between May 2011 and August 2020 on the railway line near Carmont, as well as failures in adverse and extreme weather planning.\n\nIt is alleged that as a result, the company failed to ensure, as far as was reasonably practicable, that railway workers and members of the public travelling by train were not exposed to the risk of serious injury and death by train derailment.\n\nNetwork Rail is also accused of failing to ensure that an off-track drainage system was constructed properly.\n\nIt is further alleged that on 12 August, following a forecast of extreme weather, Network Rail failed to impose an emergency speed restriction on the train; to warn the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train on a section of track; or to caution him to reduce his speed.\n\nNetwork Rail has previously said that safety changes have been made following the accident.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Urfan Sharif does not speak during the video, while his partner Beinash Batool reads from a notebook\n\nSara Sharif's father and stepmother claim they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities in a video - their first public comments since her death.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police want to speak to her father Urfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and brother Faisal Malik in relation to a murder investigation.\n\nThey are known to have travelled to Pakistan from the UK on 9 August and police have been unable to locate them.\n\nIn the low-quality footage Mr Sharif does not speak while Ms Batool reads from a notebook.\n\nShe spends only two sentences on Sara, describing her death as an \"incident\".\n\nMs Batool ends the video saying that they are willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nThe BBC was sent the video but has been unable to verify their account. Nor was the BBC able to verify the conditions under which the video was filmed or the location.\n\nIn a statement responding to the video, Surrey Police said \"clearly this is significant\" and it had been working with Interpol, the Foreign Office and the National Crime Agency to work out the next steps.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, progressing these enquiries through the appropriate channels has to be handled carefully and sensitively,\" the force said.\n\n\"Any co-operation from the people we want to speak to will assist the enquiry.\"\n\nAn inquest held last month heard the precise cause of death was \"not yet ascertained\" but was likely to be \"unnatural\".\n\nHer mother Olga Sharif told Polish television she hardly recognised Sara in the mortuary because of her injuries.\n\nThe majority of the 2 minute and 36 second-long video filmed by Mr Sharif and Ms Batool consists of allegations that the Pakistan police are harassing the couple's extended family, illegally detaining them and raiding their homes.\n\nSara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nMs Batool states that the reason the family are in hiding is because they fear that the Pakistan police will torture and kill them.\n\nIn response Jhelum police chief Mehmood Bajwa told the BBC the allegations of harassment and torture of family members are false.\n\nHe said if the family had any fears from the police they could go to court to seek protection.\n\nThe Pakistan police previously said in court that they have detained some family members for questioning - although they say they were not arrested - and told the BBC that they conducted some raids.\n\nThis week they denied in court that they are currently holding certain family members and have told the BBC that they have not tortured or stolen items from the family.\n\nDetectives launched an international search after Sara's body was discovered by police at an address in Woking, on 10 August.\n\nHer father, his partner and his brother, had travelled to Pakistan the previous day.\n\nSara had been living at the Surrey property with her father, her father's partner, her uncle and five brothers and sisters.\n\nIn the interview on Polish television, Olga Sharif said she had separated from Urfan Sharif in 2015. Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the family court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights.\n\nPolice said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan, leading them to find Sara's body, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan police say they did not receive a request, via Interpol, to initiate a search for the three until 15 August. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.\n\nPakistan police believe the trio landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August.\n\nThey believe they travelled to the city of Jhelum and relatives in a small hamlet near Domeli in central Punjab. According to the police investigation the family arrived there, at the home of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law late at night on 12 August before leaving around 05:00 the following day.\n\nFrom there police say they do not know where they went.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "House prices fell at their fastest annual rate in 14 years in August, according to the Halifax, as rising mortgage rates affected the market.\n\nThe lender said that property values had dropped by 4.6% in the year to the end of August, representing a fall of £14,000 in the average price.\n\nHowever, it pointed out that this was compared to record high property prices last summer.\n\nThe Halifax is predicting further falls through the rest of the year.\n\nIt said prices had dropped by 1.9% between July and August alone.\n\n\"We may now be seeing a greater impact from higher mortgage costs flowing through to house prices,\" said Kim Kinnaird, director of mortgages at the Halifax.\n\n\"The market will continue to rebalance until it finds an equilibrium where buyers are comfortable with mortgage costs in a higher range than seen over the previous 15 years.\"\n\nSince December 2021, the Bank of England has lifted interest rates 14 times in row in a bid to clamp down on rising consumer prices in the UK. The bank's base rate now stands at 5.25%.\n\nHowever, the Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said on Wednesday that interest rates were now \"much nearer\" their peak than before, although financial markets still expect a further increase to 5.5% this month and another rise thereafter.\n\nThe average home now costs £279,560, according to the Halifax, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, the UK's biggest mortgage lender.\n\nIts figures only take into account buyers with mortgages and do not include those who purchase homes with cash or buy-to-let deals. According to the latest available official data, cash buyers account for over a third of housing sales.\n\nLast week, rival lender the Nationwide said that house prices had fallen by 5.3% in the year to August, which it also described as the biggest annual decline since 2009.\n\nMortgage rates are no longer rising, as they were earlier in the summer, but remain much higher than many borrowers will be accustomed to. That has led some to delay house purchases.\n\nThe average rate on a two-year fixed rate mortgage is 6.67%, according to the financial information service Moneyfacts. The typical five-year deal has a rate of 6.16%.\n\nFirst-time buyers, although welcoming a fall in prices, also face relatively high repayment costs, alongside other cost-of-living pressures such as higher prices in the shops. On the flipside, wage growth has helped affordability.\n\nDespite the fall in property values, the Halifax said that prices were only back to the level seen at the start of last year, and still £40,000 higher than before the pandemic.\n\nThe lender said prices had fallen in every part of the UK, with the biggest drop in London, although the capital remains the most expensive place to buy in the UK.\n\nNicky Stevenson, managing director at estate agent group Fine & Country, said: \"The number of properties available for sale remains constrained compared to 2019, which was a fairly typical year for the housing market. This is playing a part in preventing bigger falls in prices even though affordability is tight.\"", "Families of people buried at Bethany Chapel said headstones had been moved\n\nConcerns about a road built through a graveyard are being investigated by police.\n\nFamilies of people buried at Bethany Chapel, in Hodley, Powys, claim headstones had been moved and some have even gone missing.\n\nDolafon Gospel Hall Trust, part of Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, is renovating the chapel for use as a meeting place.\n\nIt denied works had resulted in gravestones being lost.\n\nThe trust was granted planning consent last year by Powys council for a change of land use to form a car park and access route.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was \"investigating a report of criminal damage at Bethany Chapel, Hodley, Newtown\".\n\nRelatives of the dead branded work carried out as \"disgraceful\" and \"insensitive\".\n\nThey said they were distraught to see the road built on loved-ones' graves.\n\nThe White Lewis family have grandparents and great-grandparents in the graveyard.\n\nOne family left a note to relatives in the graveyard\n\nThe family said: \"We are all shocked and deeply upset. None of us have had any communication regarding our opinions on this completely inappropriate development.\n\n\"We call for reassurance and evidence that our loved ones' remains have not been disturbed or even taken away.\"\n\nThe family said the headstone for their grandparents, John Davies Lewis and Olive Lewis, was missing.\n\nThey called on Powys council and Dyfed-Powys Police to halt work at the site, and for the rededication and restoration of the graveyard to its previous condition, so \"our family members can once again rest in peace\".\n\nJackie Davies, related through marriage to people buried at Hodley, started a social media page to contact other families.\n\nMs Davies said: \"Relatives have been in touch with us, horrified that this has happened to their loved ones who've been laid to rest here. They're just distraught.\"\n\nOne woman, she claimed, visited to lay flowers on her grandparents' grave only to find the headstone gone.\n\n\"She was very distraught, very upset,\" Ms Davies said.\n\nThe trust's application was not supported by the local community council or highways authority.\n\nClwyd Powys Archaeological Trust (CPAT) noted the chapel's Grade II listed status and that the proposed work would be \"within the former graveyard area.\"\n\nA letter sent by community members raised questions about the impact on graves and the council noted the application was \"limited on detail\".\n\nThe development was given the go-ahead by a planning officer under delegated powers but was not discussed by the planning committee.\n\nPowys council's Plaid Cymru leader, Elwyn Vaughan, said: \"The application was pushed through. By whom and why?\"\n\nPowys council said it was investigating a planning breach.\n\nIt said listed building consent was granted for the relocation of six headstones in February 2012.\n\n\"Works to any graves would require separate consent from the Home Office and the agent was made aware of this requirement,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Planning permission has since been granted for the change of use of land to form a parking area and formation of vehicular access in June 2022. This application did not seek to relocate any further gravestones.\n\n\"The council has been made aware of concerns raised regarding the works ongoing at Bethany Chapel and have an open enforcement case where it is investigating a breach of condition in respect of planning consents.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the agent and Home Office had been made aware of the concerns.\n\nDolafon Trust said its priority was \"to be good neighbours and support the local community\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are meticulously adhering to the planning consent granted by Powys County Council as we deliver this important restoration.\n\n\"The planning permission for the development of the site and its grounds was granted while under previous ownership, and we have since worked closely with the council and other relevant authorities to ensure that our plans are delivered sensitively and appropriately.\"\n\nIt said it was committed to ensuring the work was completed with \"respect and compassion\" to re-establish the chapel as a place of worship.", "Sammy, who was autistic, died at the age of 13\n\nDozens of young autistic people have died after serious failings in their care despite repeated warnings from coroners, BBC News has found.\n\nOur investigation found issues that were flagged a decade ago are still being warned about now.\n\nThe government says £4.2m is being invested to improve services.\n\nTwo bereaved mothers told us lessons had not been learned by their local health authority after the deaths of their teenage sons, two years apart.\n\nThe coroner who oversaw both cases, noted a repeated failure in care.\n\nAfter the first death, the coroner criticised NHS Kent and Medway for \"inadequate support\" and said a similar incident may happen if this continued.\n\nTwo years later, the second autistic teenager died under the care of the same authority.\n\nThe same coroner found that had the 15-year-old received the recommended level of care, he might have got the therapy he needed.\n\nIn the first piece of research of its kind, the BBC combed through more than 4,000 Prevention of Future Death (PFD) notices delivered in England and Wales over the past 10 years, to look for autism-related deaths.\n\nCoroners are legally required to issue such warnings at inquests, if they believe there is a risk future deaths will occur unless action is taken by the authorities responsible. But there is currently no legal duty for them to act.\n\nThe lack of oversight means that it is very difficult to see if action was taken and if it had any impact. The majority of the authorities' responses to the PFDs have no clear timelines.\n\nThe BBC identified 51 cases where PFDs described serious failings in the care of autistic people, and health and social care bodies were urged to take action to prevent future deaths.\n\nThe majority of those who died were under 30, and nearly a third were children.\n\nFormer Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland described the BBC's findings as \"deeply disturbing\", and called for the government to investigate urgently.\n\nLife expectancy for autistic people is - on average - 16 years less than for the general population. There is no clear reason for this - people do not die of autism, it is a neurological condition that affects how people interact with others, learn, and behave.\n\nThe causes of death in the inquests varied, but nearly half were categorised by coroners as relating to mental health or suicide.\n\nOur research identified five key concerns repeatedly flagged by coroners over the past decade:\n\nThe charity Autistica says our research helps explain the avoidable reasons why many autistic people are dying young.\n\nSir Robert, who heads the all-party parliamentary group on autism, says there is clearly a \"mounting concern\".\n\n\"Lessons are not being learned. Fifty-one [deaths] is a lot. It suggests a systemic problem.\"\n\nThe two mothers, whose autistic sons died as teenagers, say they are \"tormented\" by the lack of accountability.\n\nEmma Kluibenschadl and Patricia Alban Stanley met after their sons died\n\nThe deaths of Sammy Alban Stanley, 13, and Stefan Kluibenschadl, 15, each resulted in a PFD being issued. The boys had gone to the same school and died in the same hospital.\n\nIt was while Stefan was in intensive care - two years after Sammy's death - that Emma Kluibenschadl got in touch with Patricia Alban Stanley.\n\nTo lose a child, they agree, is a life sentence. And to know there was a chance that the deaths could have been prevented is \"torment\", says Ms Alban Stanley.\n\nSammy fell from a cliff near his home in Ramsgate, in April 2020. Witnesses reported his last words were: \"I'm autistic.\"\n\n\"He meant 'Please help me',\" his mother says.\n\nThere were times when Sammy had no sense of danger\n\nAs well as being autistic, Sammy had Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS), a rare neurological condition, which left him unable to regulate his emotions.\n\n\"It would be impossible to stop him at times,\" says Ms Alban Stanley. \"He had no concept of danger. He would try to jump out of moving cars, or on one occasion he put needles up his nose.\"\n\nMs Alban Stanley - who has three other children and no partner - says she \"begged the council for more support\" and was \"struggling to cope\". Her safety net was the police, she says. She called them at least 29 times.\n\nTheir GP, senior social workers and the police also made many referrals calling for more support. \"But it made no difference,\" says Ms Alban Stanley.\n\nPatricia Alban Stanley repeatedly asked for help to keep her son, Sammy, safe\n\nAfter six years, she was finally granted two hours of after-school care in January 2020. But it wasn't enough - Sammy died just three months later.\n\nWithout extra help, his mother couldn't stop him from leaving the house. Blind to the danger the nearby cliff posed, he fell. He died four days later in intensive care, in his mother's arms.\n\nIn her Prevention of Future Death notice to NHS Kent and Medway, coroner Catherine Wood said Sammy fell during an \"episode of high risk behaviour\" and criticised the local authority and mental health services for \"inadequate support\".\n\nShe also made it clear that it was \"predictable that a similar incident may arise… if children with complex neurodevelopmental needs are excluded from accessing the care and treatment they require to keep them safe\".\n\nKent and Medway responded to the coroner's PFD saying it was investing in services for children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs - and would make sure care was \"co-ordinated rapidly around the child and family\".\n\nA few miles away, in Margate, Emma Kluibenschadl and her family were battling with the same health officials. Nearly two years later, the coroner's stark prediction would come true.\n\nMs Kluibenschadl's son Stefan was struggling with his mental health. He had been bullied for being autistic and spent many years watching his family try to get the help he desperately needed.\n\nShe believes this had a profound effect on her son, who felt nobody cared.\n\nStefan used to ask his mother, Emma, why nobody was helping them\n\nThe family have battled with support services since he was diagnosed at the age of six. Stefan really began to struggle with his mental health six months before he died.\n\nDespite their GP making referrals, the family's pleas for help were rejected by NHS Kent and Medway.\n\nJust over a month after their final application for autism-specific counselling was turned down, Stefan's dad found him in his bedroom. He died four days later in intensive care.\n\nCoroner Catherine Wood - who also oversaw Sammy Alban Stanley's inquest - said Stefan had died as a consequence of his own actions but she could not be sure of his intention.\n\nShe addressed her concerns to NHS Kent and Medway again - highlighting that the trust had not been following NICE guidelines, which state that every autistic child should have access to a designated key worker.\n\nWith such a health professional overseeing his care, Ms Wood said Stefan might have received the therapy he needed.\n\n\"Stefan didn't get any care - never mind co-ordinated care,\" says Mrs Kluibenschadl. She thinks if they had received support they wouldn't be in this position now.\n\n\"Our lives have been destroyed.\"\n\nSammy's and Stefan's stories are stark examples of a national problem.\n\nKent and Medway is one of 11 local health and social care authorities to be sent multiple PFD notices in the past 10 years. Twenty-one national authorities also received warnings.\n\nReports about \"potentially life-saving recommendations for change\" should be treated with the utmost seriousness, says Deborah Coles from the charity Inquest.\n\n\"The current system is simply not fit for purpose, and that betrays bereaved people. But it also betrays the public interest because it puts all of us at potential risk.\"\n\n\"Our lives have been destroyed,\" says Emma Kluibenschadl\n\nFor Sir Robert Buckland, the ramifications are huge. \"What is the point of PFDs if there is no accountability?\" he says. \"Autistic people carry on having to put up with poorer life outcomes.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says a national autism training programme is being rolled out.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the chief nursing officer at NHS Kent and Medway, Allison Cannon, apologised on behalf of the NHS for the \"tragic loss\" of both Sammy and Stefan.\n\nMany changes had been made, she said, including enhancing its community support and key worker programme to improve services.\n\nBut the families feel that NHS Kent and Medway's responses to the PFD do not address the coroner's concerns.\n\n\"Judging by the responses we have, our children will die all over again,\" Mrs Kluibenschadl says.", "Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi led Soul Survivor Church in Watford, as well as a national Christian youth festival\n\nA church leader massaged young male interns and wrestled youths as he used his \"spiritual authority to control people\", an investigation has found.\n\nThe former Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi led Soul Survivor Church in Watford as well as a national Christian youth festival.\n\nA Church of England probe found he displayed coercive and controlling behaviour at the church and had inappropriate relationships.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to reach Mr Pilavachi for comment.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans and Soul Survivor Church have apologised to victims.\n\nHertfordshire Police said there was currently no ongoing investigation into Mr Pilavachi, who resigned in July.\n\nThe Church of England investigation was conducted by the National Safeguarding Team (NST) and the diocese of St Albans.\n\nIt concluded that \"safeguarding concerns\" raised about him were \"substantiated\".\n\nMr Pilavachi preached at the Soul Survivor Church in Watford, Hertfordshire\n\nA report said those concerns related to conduct in his leadership and ministry, both before and after he was ordained in 2012, spanning 40 years from his time as a youth leader to the present day.\n\nIt said: \"The overall substantiated concerns are described as an abuse of power relating to his ministry, and spiritual abuse; described in guidance as 'a form of emotional and psychological abuse characterised by a systematic pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour in a religious context'.\n\n\"It was concluded that he used his spiritual authority to control people and that his coercive and controlling behaviour led to inappropriate relationships, the physical wrestling of youths and massaging of young male interns.\"\n\nBecause Mr Pilavachi had resigned from his role at Soul Survivor and resigned his licence to the Bishop of St Albans, he \"therefore cannot currently minister in the Church of England\", it added.\n\nIt further said: \"The National Safeguarding Team has been granted permission to take out a complaint under the Clergy Discipline Measure against Mike Pilavachi, relating to a safeguarding concern post-ordination.\"\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, said: \"This has been a painful process for everyone involved, going back over years.\n\n\"I am sorry on behalf of the Church for the hurt caused and would like to acknowledge the courage of those who came forward to share their lived experience.\n\n\"I am aware there will be further contact with individuals about a more personalised response.\"\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, described those who came forward with concerns as \"courageous\"\n\nIn a statement released by Soul Survivor, it said: \"We are deeply sorry to all those people who have been victims of spiritual, emotional and psychological abuse, physical wrestling and massage under Mike's leadership.\n\n\"There has been a systematic pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour. We are saddened that these behaviours happened in a context that should have provided safety and spiritual support.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We are aware of the hurt many individuals have and continue to experience as a result of Mike's abuse and are truly sorry for the part Soul Survivor has played.\n\n\"We have been working with the NST to provide counselling and advocacy support to the individuals they have identified as finding it most beneficial. We remain committed to ensuring our church is safe and welcoming for all.\"\n\nSole Survivor had commissioned Fiona Scolding KC to lead \"a full and independent review\", it said.\n\nAnother member of the clergy at Soul Survivor, Senior Pastor Revd Andy Croft, remained suspended as part of the safeguarding investigation.\n\nConcerns raised about a second pastor, Ali Martin, who was also suspended, had not been substantiated, Soul Survivor said.\n\n\"Ali's suspension will therefore be lifted and she will be reintegrating back into her role over the coming weeks,\" a church spokesperson added.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "An official and a homemade sign greets motorists in St Brides Major\n\nWales' new 20mph speed limit will save lives, the first minister has insisted, 10 days before the lower limit for residential roads comes into force.\n\nMark Drakeford said the evidence was clear that \"reducing speed limits reduces collisions and saves lives\".\n\nHe was speaking before visiting an area that has been trying out the lower limit for more than two years.\n\nMr Drakeford will meet firms, parents and children in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan, on Thursday.\n\nBut critics, including some in St Brides, want better enforcement of the traditional 30mph limit instead. There also been criticism from two Welsh Labour MPs.\n\nOn 17 September Wales will follow Spain, which made a similar change to 30kmh (18.6mph) in 2019 and has reported a fall in urban road deaths.\n\nMost roads in Wales that are currently 30mph (50km/h) will become 20mph (32kmh), although councils have been able to impose exemptions and have done so.\n\nSpeaking on Radio Wales Breakfast earlier, Mark Drakeford said the 20mph will \"will lead to fewer deaths\" and \"fewer accidents\".\n\n\"It's a small price to pay in order to make sure that people are safe on the streets,\" he said.\n\nHe defended the £32.5m price-tag, saying its a \"one-off cost\" and will save the health service \"£92m every single year\".\n\nSomeone has removed the '3' sticker from the sign on the back of these signs and had placed it over the '4'\n\nThe first minister predicted that casualty numbers would fall by \"thousands\" over 10 years.\n\n\"This will undoubtedly reduce costs on emergency services,\" he said.\n\nPlans to exempt a 30mph stretch of road at Cemaes have been approved during a debate at Anglesey council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said, after it was deemed \"unrealistic\" to expect people to drive at 20mph on this road.\n\nThe council has also confirmed that several 20mph signs around Anglesey had been defaced.\n\n\"We have arranged for community gangs to go out and correct them,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Additionally, we instructed community gangs to carry stock of spare stickers with them so that they can correct any ad hoc.\"\n\nIn Rhosmeirch someone has removed the new 20mph sign from its post so new ones have to be ordered\n\nThe Welsh Local Government Association said there were reports of signs being defaced in areas including Conwy, Gwynedd, Newport, Torfaen, Wrexham and Flintshire.\n\n\"Officers have been working hard to patrol, inspect, and replace stickers where possible,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Due to this issue, some local authorities have now decided to no longer replace stickers, as we are only a matter of days away from the change.\"\n\nTwo Welsh Labour MPs, speaking anonymously to BBC Wales, criticised the 20mph policy.\n\nOne said they would prefer to see it introduced in a \"gradual way\" with ongoing evaluation, rather than \"one fell swoop\".\n\nThey would advise a Labour government to \"be a bit more cautious\", adding that the policy could be \"handled better\" and that they had concerns about \"unforeseen consequences\".\n\nThe other MP called the move a \"blunt instrument\", saying; \"We don't live life in black and white.\n\n\"There are shades of grey and with the 20mph local authorities have the power to put in exemptions but how on earth can they facilitate that properly?\n\n\"Not enough consequences are thought about.\"\n\nThe 20's Plenty campaign has been promoting the lower speed limit on social media\n\nBBC Wales political editor Gareth Lewis visited St Brides a few weeks before the first minister's visit to scope opinions on the changes.\n\nThe village has been part of a 20mph trial zone since July 2021, after a local campaign.\n\nThe main road through is a popular route for drivers going to the beaches at Ogmore and Southerndown, and further into the Vale.\n\nMingling with pub-goers in St Brides, I met Stephen Fisher, who described himself as an \"ex-traffic cop\".\n\n\"Speed is the biggest killer but you need to enforce the speeding rules,\" he told me.\n\nHe regards the 20mph plan as nothing more than a \"political bullet point from Drakeford - and I just don't agree with it\".\n\n\"I think it's a bit like the drink-drive laws were 30 to 50 years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"People then realised it was socially unacceptable, speeding will turn out to be exactly the same.\n\n\"But how are we going to do that? Enforcement.\n\n\"People don't like talking about getting themselves three points speeding through this village.\"\n\nStephen Fisher says speeding will eventually come to be seen as socially unacceptable\n\nWould he welcome a speed camera here?\n\n\"Absolutely,\" he said, but accompanied by the old speed limit.\n\nA fellow drinker, also called Steve but preferred to not give me his surname, said he also wanted a speed camera, but called the 20mph trial a \"great idea\".\n\n\"It slows the traffic down,\" he said.\n\n\"And they need to be slowed down - people were coming through here at 50 miles an hour.\n\n\"You still get the idiot coming through, but it's made a big difference.\"\n\nAn interim monitoring report of the trial zones carried out by Transport for Wales, and published in March showed an average reduction in speed of 3mph.\n\nIt also showed that when speed cameras were in place speed dropped further, only to return to previous levels once the enforcement period had ended.\n\nAway from the trial, we headed to Barry, 16 miles from St Brides. It is Wales' biggest town and home to nearly 60,000 people.\n\nBy Welsh standards it is a big urban area, but when you look at the map of exemptions to the new 20mph law, there are vanishingly few.\n\nAndrew RT Davies says he backed a 20mph campaign in 2018 because it was a more local matter\n\nWe spoke to businesses on the town's High Street and also one of the area's MSs - the leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd, Andrew RT Davies.\n\nThe Conservatives have been vocal opponents of the default 20mph plans, saying they should be used around places like schools and hospitals, but not everywhere.\n\nThey have also raised concerns about the price of the scheme and costs over the next 30 years because of longer journey times.\n\nMr Davies did pose with 20mph signs back in 2018 with campaigners from Sully, but says this was part of a more local campaign.\n\n\"We want to see safe roads, we want to see good road education, we want to see an uplift in standards on Welsh roads, but we don't believe having across Wales 20mph is the way to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, have it round schools, yes have 20mph around care homes and hospitals, people agree with that.\n\n\"We police by consent, people want to motor by consent, and I don't believe that people will want to subscribe to this particular measure.\n\n\"But if it's the law you have to stick to it.\"\n\nRachel Thomson says she doesn't think \"people are going to stick to\" 20mph\n\nRachel Thomson, who works at Maggie Jo's coffee house in Barry, believes that's precisely what people won't do.\n\n\"I just don't think people are going to stick to it, to be honest.\n\n\"Some of the faster roads might drop to 20mph so I think it's going to cause a lot of confusion.\n\n\"On open roads is there any need to be going quite so slow?\"\n\nCatherine Goodman, at the Food for Thought Delicatessen, said 20mph is \"perfect\" for High Street, with so many shoppers and other pedestrians crossing the road.\n\nElsewhere, she said \"it's going to be manic, there's going to be traffic everywhere\".\n\n\"It's busy enough at school times - pick up times and drop off, it's just going to cause mayhem, I believe.\"\n\nCatherine Goodman and Anna Hardwick a 20mph limit on so many roads will cause major problems\n\n\"Outside schools, yes I do agree. But, otherwise, I just don't see why we have to have all the roads at 20mph, no.\"\n\nBoth women say they would be unable to make as many deliveries due to the lower speed limit.\n\nPlaid Cymru transport spokesperson Delyth Jewell said her party \"fully supports the principle of safer speed limits\".\n\n\"But it's also important that people feel listened to, especially where there has been no public consultation,\" she said.\n\n\"There are already exemptions to the 20mph changes, but communities should be supported in seeking further changes where 20mph doesn't seem quite right for where they live.\n\n\"Most people can agree on the need to make our roads safer and it's important this meets original aims - to be a sensible, reasonable safety measure that can be applied to the areas where cars and people interact the most.\"", "The men had all left the Metropolitan Police by 2015\n\nFive former Met Police officers have admitted sending racist messages on WhatsApp, following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nThe men pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to sending grossly offensive racist messages, including about the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nOther messages referenced the Prince and Princess of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.\n\nThe communications were sent between September 2020 and 2022.\n\nAccording to the charges, the five men also made reference to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, former Home Secretary Priti Patel and former Health Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nThe men served in various parts of the Met Police but all spent time in the Diplomatic Protection Group. The five, who retired between 2001 and 2015, were charged under the Communications Act 2003.\n\nAnother former Met officer, Michael Chadwell, denied one count of sending by public communication grossly offensive racist messages. He retired from the Met in November 2015.\n\nThe 62-year-old, from Liss, Hampshire, will stand trial on 6 November at City of London Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe other officers will be sentenced on the same day and at the same court at the conclusion of his trial. All six have been granted unconditional bail.\n\nThe charges came after a BBC Newsnight investigation in October that prompted a probe by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Yamaha baby grand piano used by late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury to compose some of the group's most iconic hits has sold at auction for £1.7m.\n\nThe price was slightly below estimates but was still a record for a composer's piano, auctioneers Sotheby's said.\n\nMercury used the piano to write songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, and handwritten lyrics for that hit fetched £1.38m.\n\nAlmost 1,500 items are being sold across six auctions by Mary Austin, one of the star's oldest friends.\n\nThe star's piano and many other personal items went on display at an open exhibition before being auctioned\n\nOther highlights from the first sale on Wednesday included:\n\nOne of the star lots was the original 15-page manuscript for their epic hit Bohemian Rhapsody, with the working title \"Mongolian Rhapsody\", which revealed in its notes the different directions in which Mercury saw the track going.\n\nMercury fronted the UK band whose mix of glam rock, heavy metal and camp theatrics made them one of the most popular bands of the 1970s.\n\nMercury's crown and accompanying cloak, in fake fur, red velvet and rhinestones, were made by his friend and costume designer Diana Moseley\n\nManuscripts of working lyrics for the Queen Don't Stop Me Now, Somebody to Love and We Are The Champions, autographed Freddie Mercury\n\nZanzibar-born Mercury had a big art collection and paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso that adorned his home are also going under the hammer, as well as the last painting he bought a month before he died from Aids aged 45 in 1991.\n\nIn total, 1,469 items from his home at Garden Lodge are being offered for sale by Austin, a close friend and one-time fiancée of the star.\n\nMercury's moustache comb is also going under the hammer\n\nSpeaking to the BBC when the auction was announced in April, Austin said: \"The collection takes you deeper within the individual and the man I knew.\"\n\nShe added: \"You see the spectrum of his taste. It's a very intelligent, sophisticated collection.\"\n\nMany of the singer-songwriter's glamorous outfits are up for grabs\n\nOther personal items going up for sale include more of his lyrics and flamboyant stage costumes as well as his moustache comb, champagne bottles from his cellar, and his posthumous Brit Award.\n\nBefore Wednesday's first sale, which fetched a total of £12.2m, the auction house hosted the collection at a month-long free open exhibition.\n\nThe prices including buyer's premium and fees.Hammer prices at Sotheby's attract a buyer's premium of between 26 and 13.9% depending on the value, as well as local VAT.", "Donna Ockenden's review followed a long-running campaign by bereaved families\n\nA police investigation is to be launched into failings that led to dozens of baby deaths and injuries at a hospital trust.\n\nThe maternity units at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust are already being examined in a review by senior midwife Donna Ockenden.\n\nThe review will become the largest ever carried out in the UK, with about 1,800 families affected.\n\nThe trust's chief executive said he was committed to co-operating.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said its decision to investigate followed discussions with Ms Ockenden.\n\nHer team is looking into failings that led to babies dying or being injured at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nA review into failings in maternity care at hospitals in Nottingham is ongoing\n\nChief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"On Wednesday I met with Donna Ockenden to discuss her independent review into maternity cases of potentially significant concern at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and to build up a clearer picture of the work that is taking place.\n\n\"We want to work alongside the review but also ensure that we do not hinder its progress.\n\n\"However, I am in a position to say we are preparing to launch a police investigation.\n\n\"I have appointed the Assistant Chief Constable, Rob Griffin, to oversee the preparations and the subsequent investigation.\"\n\nThe announcement follows an investigation by West Mercia Police, launched in June 2020, into maternity practices at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.\n\nAn independent investigation there, also conducted by Ms Ockenden, found that 201 babies and nine mothers could have survived with better maternity care over a 20-year period.\n\n\"We are currently looking at the work being done in Shrewsbury and Telford by West Mercia Police to understand how they conducted their investigation alongside Donna Ockenden's review and any lessons learnt,\" said Ms Meynell.\n\n\"Now we have met with Donna Ockenden we plan to hold preliminary discussions with some local families in the near future.\"\n\nMs Ockenden's review was prompted by a long-running campaign by bereaved parents.\n\nHer team is examining the cases of 1,800 families, with about 700 current and former trust staff making contact.\n\nMs Ockenden said she welcomed the decision to investigate.\n\n\"As the review chair, my team and I are absolutely committed to working with the police,\" she said in a social media post.\n\n\"I am grateful to the chief constable for her assurance that the police investigation will not delay the progress of our work.\"\n\nJack and Sarah Hawkins said they expected to speak to the chief constable soon\n\nA statement issued on behalf of the campaigning parents said: \"We welcome the long-awaited news of this police investigation and we are very grateful to the Chief Constable Kate Meynell for her decision.\n\n\"There will be a wealth of information from victim families for her team to use.\n\n\"A large number of us have alleged crimes and we will be sharing our evidence with the police to assist them with their investigations.\n\n\"There has been poor maternity care as well as poor investigation of that care at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust over many years.\"\n\nJack and Sarah Hawkins, whose baby Harriet died in 2016, said they asked the trust to notify the police of her death at the time.\n\nThey told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"This conversation has been repeated multiple times with senior people at NUH and with the local NHS over the years.\n\n\"We anticipate that we will be meeting with the chief constable soon to understand what the police investigation will mean for each and every one of us.\"\n\nLaw firm Irwin Mitchell is representing some of the families concerned about the care they received.\n\nMedical negligence lawyer Julianne Moore said: \"Understandably the families we represent have a number of concerns about what happened not only to them but others.\n\n\"They welcome the police's intention to investigate. We're continuing to support families we represent at this emotional time so they can also access the specialist support and in some cases, life-long care they require.\"\n\nHaving pushed for years for a truly independent review to reveal the scale of harm at the trust, families are now also looking for accountability.\n\nThis announcement raises the possibility that individuals could face criminal charges, or appear in court, but it will be a sensitive and complex investigation.\n\nWest Mercia Police has been undertaking a similar inquiry into the failures at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. That investigation has been under way for more than three years and no charges have yet been brought.\n\nThe fact the police are going to investigate clinicians' actions provides the families in Nottingham with more opportunity to understand why people acted as they did.\n\nThis, they hope, could lead to maternity services across the NHS significantly improving under fear of criminal prosecution if they repeatedly provide poor care.\n\nMr May said the trust was holding regular meetings with Ms Ockenden\n\nThe hospital trust's chief executive Anthony May said: \"From the time of my appointment at NUH, I have expressed my commitment to the independent review.\n\n\"I have given the same commitment to the chief constable in respect of any police investigation.\n\n\"I also reiterate the commitment we made to the families involved at our annual public meeting in July of an honest and transparent relationship with them.\"\n\nMr May, who came in to office last September, added the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was due to publish an inspection report for the trust's maternity services on 13 September.\n\nMaternity units at the City Hospital and Queen's Medical Centre have been rated inadequate by the watchdog since 2020.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues in this story, please visit the BBC Action Line to find information on organisations that can help.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rats can be seen scavenging in bins on the Scotstoun street\n\nA Glasgow street has become \"overrun\" with rats, with binmen unable to collect rubbish from the back courts.\n\nResidents on Earl Street in Scotstoun say they are being ignored by the council, with responsibility for the infestation being \"passed along\".\n\nThe GMB Scotland union warned that it was a \"severe health and safety crisis\" for refuse workers.\n\nBins have been moved to the front of the street, but residents say they still see the rodents in their gardens.\n\nMichelle Morton, who lives in a ground-floor flat with her husband and children, claims a rat even climbed in her window.\n\n\"I can't shut my bathroom window because we have mould, and then the other week we had a rat climbing in,\" said Mrs Morton.\n\n\"I see them every single day: really large rats and newborn, bald, baby rats.\n\n\"A couple of days ago I saw about 12 of them out the back, and I've seen them run along my front railing before too.\"\n\nBins will be kept in front of the street until the infestation is fixed\n\nIt is believed that the rats are nesting nearby in an embankment under a cycle path, where small burrows can be seen.\n\nResidents said it was a growing problem that was now out of control.\n\nMrs Morton said she had spent around £3000 on preventative measures in recent years, including power washing and bleaching areas of the back garden and removing all of the bushes.\n\n\"It's the residents who are suffering,\" she added.\n\n\"I won't ever let my children go in the garden because the rats aren't even scared of people, they don't run away if you go near them or knock the window.\"\n\nMrs Morton said she will not go into her back garden unless she is armed with a pole.\n\nResidents claim they are being ignored by the council about the rat infestation\n\nNorma Bellis, 76, originally from Scarborough, said she was not told about the infestation when she moved into her ground-floor flat on Earl Street a couple of weeks ago.\n\n\"Whenever I take my dog a walk, I see at least two or three rats,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't let my dog out the back garden because the rats aren't scared of humans or dogs and she could get bitten.\"\n\nAndy Burnett, warehouse manager at Forest Furnishing on South Street, said it has been \"a problem for the entire area for years\".\n\nHe said: \"We instantly got pest control in and we got rid of them.\n\n\"But it's impossible to sort as no-one can agree on who owns the land.\"\n\nThe cycle path is on top of the embankment\n\nChris Mitchell, branch convenor for the GMB, said he had repeatedly raised the issue with Glasgow City Council.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our members were going above their call of duty trying to remove the refuse because it was having a detrimental affect on the residents.\n\n\"But it's got worse and worse and I've had to pull our members away for health and safety reasons.\n\n\"They were seeing rats there every single day, running over their feet and shoulders and residents coming out screaming.\n\n\"And then the council blame the housing, housing blame the residents, residents blame the cleansing.\n\n\"At the end of the day, this should've been sorted two years ago. It's a severe health and safety crisis.\"\n\nHe warned that Earl Street is \"just the tip of the iceberg\" as refuse workers had noticed an increase in rats across the entire city.\n\nGlasgow City Council said it was working with the local housing association to address this problem.\n\nIt said some bin courts had been kept in \"poor condition\" which had attracted rats.\n\nThe council said work was undertaken to keep them in good order, but waste continued to be disposed of \"inappropriately\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While the bait laid down by our pest control team takes effect, bins have been stationed on the street on a temporary basis.\n\n\"We are hopeful our pest control treatments are having an impact but we will continue to monitor this situation .\n\n\"As part of our health and safety procedures, we would not send our bin collection staff into areas of known infestation.\"", "A commuter with a portable handheld fan on the tube\n\nSaturday is expected to be the hottest day of the year as September's warm weather reaches its peak.\n\nThe UK experienced its hottest September day since 2016 on Wednesday, with 32C (89F) recorded in Kew Gardens in west London.\n\nHeat-health alerts have been upgraded to amber for much of England, with only the North East under a yellow one.\n\nIt means people of all ages could be affected, putting the NHS at risk.\n\nAreas of West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Devon and Wales all hit the heatwave threshold on Tuesday, the Met Office said, although the hottest temperatures did not pass June's 32.2C high - the current hottest day of the year.\n\nSaturday could see temperatures reach as high as 33C in London, although it will be cooler further north.\n\nOn Wednesday much of England and Wales remained in the high 20s. But areas of north-east Scotland and the north of England experienced cooler temperatures due to sea fog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How hot will it get this week?\n\nMost of Scotland and Northern Ireland saw temperatures in the mid-20Cs and there could be some isolated thunderstorms overnight into Thursday in some northern and western areas.\n\nThere is a chance of tropical nights in the south of England, defined as temperatures being over 20C, with Wednesday and Thursday threatening to break the September night time record of 21.7C.\n\nA temperature of 30C has already been recorded in the UK for three consecutive days, matching the record for September, the Met Office said.\n\nThe hot spell is being driven by tropical storms pushing high pressure over the UK, the Met Office said.\n\nMeteorologist Amy Bokota said 13 weather stations had officially recorded a heatwave on Tuesday and she expected \"a few extra\" would be added to that list over the coming days.\n\nHeatwave criteria are met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting the heatwave threshold - which varies between 25C and 28C across the UK.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said air quality would deteriorate for many during the second half of the week, partly due to the sunshine and heat.\n\n\"Under areas of high pressure pollutants get trapped and build up,\" he said. \"South-easterly winds also help to bring in polluted air from industrial parts of northwest Europe.\"\n\nThe worst conditions look to be on Friday and Saturday, before improving later in the weekend as the breakdown of the mainly hot and dry weather begins across the north-west of the UK.\n\nHow are you coping with the hot weather? Get in touch.\n\nEnglish regions included in the amber warning are: London, the South East, the South West, the East and West Midlands, the East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nAll eight were issued with a yellow warning on Monday but this has now been upgraded.\n\nThe North East is the last remaining region to have a yellow alert in place - this means that the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions should take extra care.\n\nIt also means officials do not believe there will be a significant impact on the NHS in the area.\n\nThe hot weather comes after what has generally been regarded as cool, wet summer for much of the UK.\n\nWhile July in particular was wetter and cooler than average with the maximum temperature failing to regularly reach 20C, the previous month was the UK's hottest June on record.\n\nAverage temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week, with changes starting to be seen over the weekend.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe Met Office has also explained the reason for some \"picturesque\" sunsets across the UK.\n\nForecasters say it is due to \"Saharan dust\" which began to cover parts of the country yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Summer weather: will there be a heatwave?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "That ends today’s live coverage of Daniel Khalife’s escape and the ensuing manhunt. Thank you for following along.\n\nTo remind you, the Met Police has said this evening there have been no confirmed sightings so far of the 21-year-old former soldier and appealed to the public to come forward with any information.\n\nYou can read our latest on the story here, and we will keep you updated with any developments.\n\nThe writers across the day were Emily Atkinson, Malu Cursino, Alex Binley, Ece Goksedef and Barbara Tasch. The editors were James Harness, Alex Therrien and Rob Corp.", "Climate protesters hit Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary with two cream pies during a press briefing in Brussels.\n\nThe airline boss was set to speak to the media about a petition he was presenting to Ursula Von Der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.\n\nAs he was setting up, two protesters hit him with pies to the face and back, with one declaring: \"Welcome in Belgium!\"\n\nMr O'Leary responded by saying \"well done\" before wiping cream from his face and continuing with the planned press briefing.\n\nHe said he loved the cream cakes and described them as delicious.", "Conductor Donald Dinnie with partner Trish Ewen, who said her life had been turned upside down\n\nA passenger who survived a fatal rail crash near Stonehaven has described the moment that the train derailed - and paid tribute to the conductor who was among the victims.\n\nThe 32-year-old woman, who wants to remain anonymous, suffered serious face and shoulder injuries after being thrown across the carriage and out of a window.\n\nShe said conductor Donald Dinnie had been a \"genuinely nice man\" and expressed her shock at his death.\n\n\"I couldn't understand how Donald was standing talking to me one minute and gone the next,\" she said.\n\nDonald's partner, Trish Ewen, has also told how her life was turned upside down after his death.\n\nThe two women spoke out as Network Rail admitted a series of health and safety failings which led to the death of three people in the crash.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, were also killed when the train hit a landslide in August 2020 after heavy rain.\n\nThe 32-year-old passenger, from the Stonehaven area, said she had not realised what was happening until just before impact.\n\n\"The first time I realised there was an issue was when the movement on the train felt weird. It just didn't feel typical, it was like floating or sliding, like when you aquaplane in a car,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a strange noise like metal dragging along metal. I will never forget that noise.\n\n\"I looked up at that moment and almost immediately I was thrown across the carriage.\n\n\"I hit the window head on and I was knocked out.\"\n\nThe next thing she remembers is waking up at the side of the railway line and seeing the train behind her.\n\nThe derailment happened near Stonehaven in August 2020\n\n\"The carriage directly behind me was laying across the rail track, crushed under another carriage. I later found out that the crushed carriage was the one that I had been ejected from.\n\n\"I could see a fire and smell smoke. I became aware very quickly that I was hurt.\"\n\nShe had blood on her face and clothes and could feel a bone sticking out of her left shoulder.\n\n\"My ears were ringing so it was hard to make things out. But I remember two sounds - one was a weird deep humming noise coming from the train.\n\n\"The other was a voice, a scream, someone calling for help and someone else shouting back that help was coming.\n\n\"I was just sitting in shock. I lost all my belongings in the crash, so I relied on both another passenger and members of the public, to tell my family I was alive.\"\n\nThe survivor said there were moments when she felt guilty about surviving - especially when she thought about Donald Dinnie.\n\n\"I remember him being a chatty and genuinely nice man,\" she said.\n\n\"Donald spoke to me about his partner, even joking that the weather would mean he'd get to finish early and was excited to get home.\n\n\"He kept us all informed, thinking of other people the whole time and making sure we were all okay.\"\n\nShe felt an \"overwhelming sadness\" when she learned that he had died in the crash.\n\n\"If I'm honest that's my main motivation for talking now.\n\n\"I want Donald's family to know he was happy that day, thinking of his loved ones the whole time and above all else, he made us feel safe. I'm truly sorry you lost him.\"\n\nMr Dinnie was described as a genuinely nice man\n\nThe woman said she had \"totally changed\" since the crash.\n\n\"I'm a lot more fearful now, whereas I used to be more easy-going,\" she said.\n\n\"I even struggle to be a passenger in a car. It's like you can't feel safe unless you are literally in control of everything.\n\n\"I do still take the train - it took a long time to get the confidence but I'm getting there.\"\n\nShe said she was reminded of the derailment every day when she looked in the mirror.\n\n\"The scar on my face is a constant reminder of that day, but also a reminder that without it I wouldn't be alive.\n\n\"I don't know why I survived. But I feel lucky every day that I did.\"\n\nTrish Ewen said she had known in her gut that Donald's train was involved in the crash\n\nTrish Ewen, 59, and Mr Dinnie, 58, had been a couple for eight years before the tragedy.\n\n\"The last three years has completely turned my life upside down,\" said Trish.\n\n\"I got a phone call while I was at work to say there was a train accident and I went to a family member's house and we all sat around the television - we didn't know what else to do.\n\n\"No-one had called us so we still had no confirmation if it was Donald's train - but I knew in my gut it was.\"\n\nTrish said that she and Donald should have been thinking about retiring together, but that she had been left to exist alone.\n\n\"Life throws challenges at us all but something like this is so incomprehensible that there's no past experiences to draw on to ease any acceptance or recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"You don't know what to do, where to turn, and there's genuinely nothing to do but brace yourself for each new day without your loved one.\"\n\nShe said it was right that Network Rail had been prosecuted over the crash, and said that any financial penalty should be invested in improving the railways.", "\"You're only ever one day away from disaster.\"\n\nThat is how one senior figure at Westminster has described what it's like to be a cabinet minister.\n\nJust such a jaw-dropping moment has come for the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, when he was told about the astonishing sequence of events at Wandsworth Prison in south London.\n\nA terror suspect dressed in a chef's outfit had managed to get out jail by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van.\n\nAs gobsmacking as it is absurd.\n\nPrisoners escaping is rare. Escapes from prisons - as opposed to from prison vans, for instance - are rarer still.\n\nAnd escapes by terror suspects from prison very rare indeed.\n\nAll of which means the governor of Wandsworth Prison will face the most awkward and excruciating of questions about how on earth this was able to happen.\n\nI'm told an urgent call was set up between Mr Chalk and the prison governor, where those questions were posed.\n\nSenior officials from the Prison and Probation Service were also on the call and the minister, as you might imagine, \"sought assurances the jail was now secure,\" as one source put it to me.\n\nThe decisions that came next followed established procedures and were taken not by ministers, but by others: police forces around the country sharing information, and Border Force being told about Daniel Abed Khalife in case he was was trying to flee the country.\n\nThe intelligence services are also likely to be involved.\n\nBy the afternoon, with no sign of him, there were appeals to the public to call 999 if he was seen.\n\nBy the evening, the justice secretary had ordered an investigation into how Daniel Abed Khalife managed to escape.\n\nWhy was he being held at a Category B prison rather than a high-security Category A prison, such as Belmarsh in south east London?\n\nWere normal procedures being followed at the time of the escape, and if not, why not?\n\nBut there is another element to all of this: the politics.\n\nLabour's only just appointed shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood claimed that the criminal justice system was in \"a state of disrepair\".\n\nAnd the Labour MP whose patch includes Wandsworth Prison, Rosena Allin-Khan, claimed the jail is \"chronically understaffed\".\n\nShe cited data she had secured from the government at the beginning of this year, which showed that on one day last December around a third of the shifts that needed covering by prison officers during the day were unfilled.\n\nThis was after offering staff overtime to work extra shifts.\n\nShe also pointed out that in November last year there was also a disruption to the water supply to the prison for more than a week, meaning bottled water had to be supplied and \"the prison implemented a restriction on access to showers and provided water to enable flushing of toilets,\" the government had acknowledged.\n\nA government source said the figures suggesting the prison was short-staffed was \"a snapshot\" and said the number of frontline prison officers recruited increased by 20% in the year to June 2023 - to 4,898.\n\nThe source added: \"We are recruiting up to 5,000 additional prison officers across public and private prisons by the mid-2020s.\"", "Several locations have reported temperatures in excess of 30C (86F)\n\nA UK record has been broken for the number of consecutive September days reaching 30C (86F).\n\nA 30.2C reading in Northolt, west London, on Thursday means the mercury has reached at least 30C four days in a row.\n\nThe previous September record was three days - in 1898, 1906, 1911 and 2016.\n\nThe Met Office said that Thursday could also be the hottest day of the year so far, with a provisional 32.6C recording in Wisley in Surrey.\n\nIf confirmed, it will surpass 32.2C registered on two days in June in Chertsey, Surrey, and Coningsby, Lincolnshire.\n\nSeveral other locations reported temperatures in excess of 30C on Thursday and the south-east of England could get 33C on Saturday, said BBC Weather forecaster Gareth Harvey.\n\n\"The heat is expected to last into Friday and for some the weekend as well, with heat slowly getting pushed further towards the south-east,\" he said.\n\nThe south-east of England could also get 31C on Sunday, he added, but further north will be cooler, with much of Scotland and Northern Ireland in the low-20Cs.\n\nHe said there was a growing chance of some thundery showers in the north and west this weekend as winds switch to a south-westerly direction and pull in cooler, fresher air from the Atlantic.\n\nTemperatures are expected to fall off next week.\n\nThis week has, however, been a different story.\n\nThe mercury reached 30.2C in Whitechurch in Wales on Monday, 30.7C in Wiggonholt, West Sussex, on Tuesday, and 32C in London's Kew Gardens on Wednesday.\n\nA further record could also be broken this week for the greatest number of September days where temperatures have reached 30C or more in the UK. The current record of five was set in 1911.\n\nThe month's hottest recorded day was 35.6C in Bawtry, South Yorkshire, in 1906.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has issued an amber warning until 9pm on Sunday in nearly every area of England, indicating that the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nA lower yellow warning is in place in the north-east of England, which is experiencing cooler temperatures.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nCouncils have also been working to treat roads and stop them from melting in the heat, the Local Government Association said.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.", "A Wandsworth prisoner reads in a cell - where many spend up to 23 hours a day, according to a former inmate\n\nIt has been described as a \"dystopian Fawlty Towers\" and a \"powder keg\" waiting to explode, with inmates packed in cramped cells, watched over by a demoralised and threadbare staff.\n\nDaniel Khalife's escape from Wandsworth prison came as little surprise to both former inmates and staff alike.\n\nMorale is low in a decaying institution in \"free fall\", a former head of security told the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, former inmate Chris Atkins said bluntly: \"It is a form of hell.\"\n\nHMP Wandsworth is a Category B security prison built in 1851. It currently holds around 1,300-1,500 inmates - almost double what it was originally designed to accommodate.\n\nMr Khalife's escape from the kitchens on Wednesday was the first at HMP Wandsworth since 2019, but came after years of warnings and inspection reports painting a dour and chaotic picture of life inside.\n\nOne of the latest, published last year by Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, described how inmates were locked in their cells for at least 22 hours a day.\n\n\"One group of prisoners... who came blinking into the sunlight, told me that it was the first time they had been outside for more than a week.\"\n\nAccording to the report, violence was on the rise between inmates and an already hard-pressed and under-experienced staff, whose absence rate hovered around 30%.\n\n\"There were not enough staff to make sure prisoners received even the most basic regime,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor said the \"crumbling and overcrowded\" complex suffered poor hygiene and vermin infestations.\n\n\"Prisoners could often go several days without a shower,\" he said. \"Despite efforts to control vermin, there was still a major problem with rats, mice and pigeons.\"\n\nFormer prisoners and even a former head of security said the combination of inexperienced officers and poor processes made escape all but inevitable.\n\nIan Acheson, the former head of security at Wandsworth, told BBC Radio 4's Today that Mr Khalife's escape was \"not entirely surprising\".\n\n\"There would have had to have been multiple breaches of human and physical security,\" he said.\n\n\"Wandsworth, like so many of our flagship prisons, is in free fall,\" he said. \"On any day 30%, to up to 40% of frontline staff are unavailable to work\".\n\nHe said that \"by all estimations\", Mr Khalife, who is charged with terrorism offences, should have been in the high-security Belmarsh prison.\n\nMeanwhile Atkins, who spent nine months in Wandsworth for tax fraud, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the escape was waiting to happen.\n\n\"It's a dystopian Fawlty Towers,\" he said of the prison. \"It's chaos, it's understaffed, the staff are very, very young, very inexperienced - they don't know what they're doing.\n\n\"It's like a powder keg, just waiting for a spark.\n\n\"The processes are very, very old. Shortly before I went to Wandsworth a prisoner escaped because they let him out about eight months early.\n\n\"There was a slip-up with the paperwork - everything is done by hand. They actually opened the door and let him go. He was a dangerous armed robber.\"\n\nAtkins said he was intrigued to hear that Wandsworth was put in a state of lockdown after Mr Khalife's escape.\n\n\"It's always in lockdown,\" he said. \"The majority of prisoners are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. They are so short-staffed. It is a form of hell.\"\n\nHe said there was little education and drug rehabilitation, despite promises from prison authorities and the government.\n\n\"You just lose your mind. Tiny cells - there's two of you, they're designed for one person. There's your loo in there, you've got to eat in there.\n\n\"If you kept animals there, you'd be prosecuted by the RSPCA. There'd be an outcry if you kept dogs like that.\"\n\nDrug use is said to be rife at Wandsworth\n\nDavid Shipley, another former inmate and now a prison reform campaigner, questioned why Mr Khalife was allowed to work in the kitchens.\n\n\"The kitchens are one of the jobs in Wandsworth that are considered a high-security job - you have access to knives and access to outside,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Any prisoner considered a high risk of escape shouldn't be working in that environment.\n\n\"Food deliveries come into the prison every day. There is supposed to be a process where all those vehicles leaving are supposed to be checked with a mirror.\"\n\nHe too complained of chaotic management, grime and drudgery.\n\n\"It's probably the worst-run organisation I've ever seen. It's understaffed, it's filthy.\n\n\"There were so few staff, prisoners had to choose between having a shower or seeing the open sky, or clean their cells.\"\n\nHe said that the lack of staff \"means you might not have enough overseeing the kitchen but also those staff won't necessarily be familiar with who is working there because they get moved around the prison all the time.\n\n\"What that means is that they might not have actually known who was supposed to be there. It can take longer to notice someone is missing.\"\n\nAn inmate in the canteen stores in Wandsworth\n\nA former prison officer, who asked to be referred to as Douglas, said that the escape was the result of a wider issue of cuts in the prison service.\n\n\"The chickens have come home to roost,\" he told 5 Live. \"The government slashed the prison service, and society didn't notice.\"\n\nHe said that in his experience, prison kitchens were now \"totally civilianised\" with no trained officers overseeing \"strong willed and highly manipulative\" prisoners.\n\n\"I'm surprised this hasn't happened before,\" he said of Mr Khalife's escape.\n\nA former inmate and kitchen worker in Wandsworth's kitchens said that Mr Khalife had \"seen an opportunity and just went for it\".\n\n\"There are lorries coming in all day in, every day, day in, day out. It's a security risk,\" the former inmate, who asked to be referred to as Gary, told 5 Live\n\nHe added that he was surprised someone on terrorism charges was able to work there: \"It's usually low-cat prisoners who get them jobs.\"\n\nRosena Allin-Khan, the Labour MP whose constituency includes HMP Wandsworth, says she raised staff shortages with the justice secretary \"many, many months ago\".\n\nMs Khan said she found that in December last year, only seven members of staff turned up for a night shift to look after 1,500 inmates.\n\n\"Undoubtedly when you have situation like this things will happen and people will make mistakes,\" she said.\n\n\"And now someone is on the loose.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said in a Commons statement that the government had ordered investigations into the \"grave security breach\" at Wandsworth and the security categorisation of Mr Khalife.\n\n\"I spoke to the governor of HMP Wandsworth and senior [prison service] leaders to establish what was known about the escape, and seek assurances about the immediate measures being taken to ensure the security of the prison.\"\n\nHe added: \"Escapes from prison are extremely rare and the numbers have declined substantially in the last 10 to 15 years.\"\n\nHe told MPs there had been £100m invested in security improvements since 2019, \"which has driven up the finds of drugs, weapons and other contraband including tools which can be used to aid an escape from prison\".", "PC Cliff Mitchell was remanded into custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nA Met Police officer has appeared in court charged with six counts of raping a woman, threatening to kill her and breaching a non-molestation order.\n\nPC Cliff Mitchell, 23, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court, which heard he held the woman at knifepoint. He was remanded into custody.\n\nA member of the public saw a woman in distress on Tuesday, and helped her into her car, the court was told.\n\nPC Mitchell is due to appear at Croydon Crown Court on 5 October.\n\nThe woman was found at about 13:50 BST in the street in Hackbridge, Sutton, south-west London.\n\nAn investigation was launched and the Met said it was established that its suspect was PC Mitchell, who was arrested. He was not on duty at the time.\n\nPC Mitchell was at the end of his second year of a three-year apprenticeship with the Metropolitan Police, the court heard.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy described the allegations as \"horrific\"\n\nThe Met said a referral had been made to the police watchdog over the case and that the officer had been suspended from duty.\n\nSpeaking before the court hearing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said: \"These are horrific allegations and the victim is being supported by specially trained officers.\n\n\"The arrest of a serving police officer on suspicion of such serious offences is extremely concerning and I recognise will cause considerable concern among London's communities.\n\n\"This is an active investigation and inquiries continue at pace.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was demolished less than two days after the fire\n\nA third man has been arrested after a fire at the Crooked House pub, which was demolished 48 hours after the blaze, causing widespread outrage.\n\nThe 51-year-old, of Buckingham, was held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson at the building known as Britain's wonkiest pub.\n\nThe building in Himley, Staffordshire, was set alight on 5 August, leaving it gutted.\n\nTwo men, 66 and 33, were previously arrested on suspicion of arson.\n\nStaffordshire Police said the latest arrest had been made after officers had trawled through CCTV footage and spoken to people who had come forward with information.\n\nAll three of those arrested have been released and are on conditional bail, the force said.\n\nOfficers are continuing to appeal for any information that may help the continuing investigation.\n\nThe force said it understood \"speculation is still widespread, both locally and online\" and that teams were \"working hard to get through an extensive list of inquiries\".\n\nThe building was reduced to rubble on 7 August\n\nThe 18th Century pub, near Dudley, was known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area and was one of the best known landmarks in the Black Country before its destruction.\n\nIt was sold by Marston's to ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council is conducting its own investigation into the demolition.\n\nThe local authority said it had not agreed to the total destruction of the site and was investigating whether the demolition was unlawful.\n\nIt said it had permitted only part of the building to be demolished for safety reasons and the matter had been referred to its legal team with a view to taking enforcement action.\n\nThe Save the Crooked House campaign group and contractors agreed to secure the 25,000 bricks from the building and they are now being kept in padlocked containers.\n\nThey have been stored in case of an eventual rebuild, which thousands of people have called for.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday morning, before the arrest was revealed by police, local MP Marco Longhi said the building's demise had \"struck a chord of sadness and anger\" with people in the area and even across the world.\n\nHe called for a debate to investigate what MPs could do to better protect heritage pubs.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Network Rail is facing a number of charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nThe company is accused of failing to impose an emergency speed restriction on the train, of not warning the driver that it was unsafe to drive on the section of track, and of not telling him to reduce his speed.\n\nIt is also accused of failures in the construction, inspection and maintenance of drainage in the Carmont area, where the crash took place, and of failures in adverse and extreme weather planning.\n\nIt is alleged that as a result of the company's failings, three people were so severely injured that they died in the crash on 12 August 2020.", "J Hus put his stamp on British music with 2017's Common Sense, blending the diasporic influences of his London upbringing - Afroswing, grime, R&B - into something fresh and new.\n\nIt earned him a Mercury Prize nomination and a co-sign from rap superstar Drake - but, if anything, his 2020 follow-up, Big Conspiracy, was an even bigger success.\n\nThen he disappeared, cancelling shows and sequestering himself in the studio, without the support of his longtime producer JAE5.\n\nWhen he re-emerged in May, there was a harder edge to his sound, especially on the provocative comeback single It's Crazy, where he talks about the seductive power of violence and wonders if he's possessed by the devil.\n\nThat bloodthirst is recurring theme on his third album Beautiful and Brutal Yard, across tracks like Cream, Killy and the battle anthem Bim Bim.\n\nBut there's a spiritual side to J Hus, too, singing about the joys of dancing on Who Told You - a duet with Drake - and falling in love on My Baby.\n\nThroughout, he's asking questions of himself, probing the darkness, working out what sort of man he wants to be as he approaches 30. He never alights on an answer, but the search has prompted some of his best music to date.\n\nThe critics said: \"As a generation of UK rappers comes of age, Hus still leads the pack with his pitless charisma, linguistic inventiveness, and musical curiosity.\" - Telegraph", "Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying a lunar lander, following three delays due to bad weather.\n\nThe lander, dubbed the \"moon sniper\", is expected to attempt a Moon landing in February if all goes well.", "Two venues on Jimmy Carr's current UK tour have been forced to shut\n\nShrek the Musical in Carlisle and gigs by comic Jimmy Carr in Northampton and Kent are among the shows to have been called off after crumbling concrete was found in a string of theatres.\n\nCarr's tour was due to visit Dartford's Orchard theatre and Northampton's Royal & Derngate, but both venues have closed for the rest of the month.\n\nCarlisle's Sands Events Centre is shut temporarily \"for further assessments\".\n\nSt David's Hall in Cardiff is also shut for at least four weeks.\n\nThe city council said it needed to \"carry out intrusive surveys to further reassure ourselves and the public on the safety\" of the hall.\n\nGraham Nash, Miriam Margolyes, Lindisfarne and Adrian Edmonson were scheduled to appear there in the next month.\n\nVenues in Solihull and Stockport have also shut while inspections take place.\n\nThey have all found reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, known as Raac, which has affected numerous public buildings including about 150 schools in England.\n\nCarr was scheduled to appear in Dartford on Friday, but told fans the Orchard was \"closing temporarily to review the use\" of the potentially unsafe concrete.\n\nDolly Parton tribute act Sarah Jayne was due to play there on Wednesday, but said it was \"very disappointing and very sad\" to be told about the closure the previous afternoon.\n\n\"As you can imagine, we were in shock, and so were probably 600 people that had purchased tickets too,\" she told BBC Radio Kent.\n\nThe Orchard Theatre in Dartford has suspended all performances with immediate effect\n\nThe venue was also due to hosts events including Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and An Evening With Harry Redknapp later this month.\n\nIn Northampton, a run of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and shows by comedians including Tim Vine, Jordan Gray, Phil Wang and Carr have fallen victim to the month-long closure.\n\n\"We ask for your patience during this time, and we will be reopening as soon as we can,\" a statement said.\n\nShrek was due to visit Carlisle this week as part of the hit musical's UK tour, but the Sands Events Centre said it had shut as \"a precautionary step\". The centre's new main building, which includes a swimming pool and café, is unaffected.\n\nElsewhere, the Core theatre in Solihull, West Midlands, has closed as a precaution in order \"continue our investigations\", the local council said. Other parts of the building, containing a library and cafe, are still open.\n\nBut the theatre's closure scuppered a production of Little Shop of Horrors by Coleshill On Stage, which was due to open on Thursday. \"We were completely devastated after five months of rehearsals,\" director Joyce Eyre told BBC WM.\n\nThe Forum Theatre in Romiley, Stockport, has also closed \"as a precautionary measure and to ensure the safety of our staff, performers and visitors\".\n\nA statement said: \"We realise this will be very disappointing to our patrons and our performers but our priority is to make sure the building is safe.\"\n\nThe Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh, East Lothian, closed in March and remains shut after \"substantial areas\" of the roof were found to have been made from Raac.\n\nOther venues have found the concrete but said they did not need to shut.\n\nThe National Theatre in London said it had \"a small number of select backstage areas where Raac is present\".\n\nA statement added: \"Our structural engineers are in the process of surveying these areas, initial indications are that they are safe and do not currently require remedial works.\"\n\nThe YMCA theatre in Scarborough closed parts of its building on Monday but has now reopened after an inspection found it did not contain Raac.\n\nMeanwhile, the Ambassadors Theatre Group, which operates 10 West End venues and 27 elsewhere in the UK, said it had a plan to \"to closely monitor the integrity of our venues\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are confident that we do not have structural issues as a result of Raac, and we would like to reassure our customers that no ATG venues are affected by this issue.\"\n\nRobin Townley of the Association of British Theatre Technicians told BBC News that Raac was not very suitable to be used for constructing auditoria, so \"the prevalence of the system in theatre buildings will hopefully be quite limited\".\n\nHowever, it could be more common in \"ancillary spaces\" like foyers and backstage areas, he said.\n\nClaire Walker, co-chief executive of Society of London and UK Theatre, recently told trade paper The Stage she believed the number of affected theatres \"will be extremely limited\".\n\nBut The Stage's Matthew Hemley told BBC Radio 4's Front Row on Tuesday that it was a major blow for those venues.\n\n\"We've just weathered Covid when so many theatres had to close their doors, and then rebuild and encourage audiences back,\" he said. \"It couldn't really come at a worse possible time.\"", "The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is reviewing period and fertility trackers over data security concerns.\n\nThe apps work by plotting menstrual cycles, based on user information.\n\nThey purport to help with a range of period-related health issues, including calculating the best time to attempt to conceive.\n\nBut the ICO says survey evidence indicates many users worry about how secure the data they share is, and how transparent app developers are being.\n\nThe regulator said a poll it had commissioned indicated a third of women had used apps to track periods or fertility.\n\nSome 59% of respondents flagged concerns over data transparency, while 57% were worried about the security of the information they had submitted.\n\nThe research also showed over half of those who use the apps believed they had noticed an increase in baby or fertility-related adverts since signing up. While some reacted positively to the marketing, 17% described receiving these adverts as distressing.\n\nEmily Keaney, deputy commissioner of regulatory policy at the ICO, said the respondents' fears were understandable \"given the incredibly sensitive and personal information involved\".\n\n\"As with all health apps, we would expect organisations to safeguard their users' privacy and have transparent policies in place,\" she said.\n\n\"This review is intended to establish both the good and bad of how the apps are working currently.\"\n\nThe apps are meant to give a better understanding of menstrual cycles\n\nAmong the concerns it will investigate are whether app privacy policies are unnecessarily complicated or confusing, so leaving users uncertain about what data they have consented to sharing.\n\nIt will also consider whether apps are requesting or storing unnecessary volumes of data, and whether users are receiving upsetting targeted advertising that they did not sign up to.\n\nAccording to research published last year by the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps, most period trackers share data with third parties.\n\nIt said of the 25 apps it examined, only one kept all the sensitive data on the mobile phone or device owned by the user. The organisation also identified widespread problems with the way users gave consent for their personal information to be used.\n\nThe ICO is urging app users to come forward to share their experiences via a survey on its website. It is also commissioning focus groups and user testing. Women's health groups have also offered support.\n\nThe regulator has also contacted companies who provide period and fertility tracking apps, including some of the most popular apps available to UK users, to find out how they are processing users' personal information.\n\nThe ICO's survey involved 1,152 UK women aged 18 and above.", "Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) is used in the roof of Cardiff's St David's Hall\n\nA concert venue in the heart of Wales' capital has closed with immediate effect so checks can be carried out on concrete.\n\nCardiff council announced the decision to temporarily shut St David's Hall for at least four weeks.\n\nIt follows fears across the UK over buildings that contain Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).\n\nThe council said the decision was made to close the building after discussions with independent structural engineers.\n\nIt was confirmed at the venue by the local authority earlier this week.\n\nThose due to perform in the coming weeks include comedian Adrian Edmondson, singer Alfie Boe, 80s rock band Europe and Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell.\n\nSince Westminster closed more than 100 education buildings in England last week, the Welsh government has been asking councils for updates on the state of RAAC in its schools and other buildings.\n\nSo far two schools have been affected - both on Anglesey. No further schools have yet been found to have a problem, although work is continuing to check.\n\nWards were also shut at Withybush Hospital, in Haverfordwest, in August.\n\nA Cardiff council spokesperson said a building management plan has been in place at St David's Hall for the past 18 months, with regular inspections by structural engineers with RAAC expertise.\n\n\"Throughout this time no issues were raised about the condition of RAAC in the building and there was no evidence of deterioration - and this remains the case,\" a statement said.\n\n\"However, the council has continued to engage with its insurers and expert structural engineers and, based on advice received today from those experts, we believe it is prudent and responsible to carry out intrusive surveys to further reassure ourselves and the public on the safety of the Hall.\"\n\nWork will involve drilling into panels to find out if further attention is needed.\n\nThis should take at least four weeks, with the spokesperson adding: \"We will look to re-open the hall as soon as possible, dependent on any action which may or may not be required.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said officials will try to reschedule performances and speak to promoters about options.\n\nNationwide music venue operator, Academy Music Group is set to take on the running of venue.\n\nReferring to the company, the council spokesman said: \"AMG had already undertaken its own inspections and has plans in place to undertake remedial work required in the medium to long-term.\n\n\"We will be keeping them appraised of the actions we are taking.\"", "The youngest MP in the House of Commons started work this week. Keir Mather is 25 and is the new MP for Selby and Ainsty in North Yorkshire.\n\nHe was sworn in on Monday and given the keys to his new office in Parliament.\n\nThe BBC caught up with him to see how he was settling in.", "The new ruling has been welcomed by women's groups in Mexico (file image)\n\nThe judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. It had ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional.\n\nMexico's states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes.\n\nThe new ruling legalises abortion across all 32 states.\n\nThe supreme court said the denial of the possibility of a termination violated the human rights of women.\n\n\"In cases of rape, no girl can be forced to become a mother - neither by the state nor by her parents nor her guardians,\" said the head of the supreme court, Arturo Zaldívar.\n\n\"Here, the violation of her rights is more serious, not only because of her status as a victim, but also because of her age, which makes it necessary to analyse the issue from the perspective of the best interests of minors.\"\n\nThe judgement opens the door for the federal healthcare system to provide abortions. It has been welcomed by women's rights groups.\n\nMexico City was the first of the country's states to decriminalise abortion in 2007 and a dozen others followed suit.\n\nBut in addition to a lack of facilities to carry out the procedure, \"many women don't know that they have this right because local governments have not carried out publicity campaigns about it\", women's rights activist Sara Lovera told AFP news agency.\n\n\"That's why today's decision of the Supreme Court is important.\"\n\nThe new ruling is likely to anger Mexico's more conservative politicians and the Catholic Church, in what is Latin America's second largest Catholic nation.\n\nHowever, the Church's influence has been declining in recent years and the country's government considers itself staunchly secular.\n\nLatin America has seen a trend towards loosening abortion restrictions that has been referred to as a \"green wave\".\n\nElective abortion is legal in Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay and Argentina though the frontrunner in the campaign for Argentina's presidential election in October, Javier Milei, wants to ban the procedure.\n\nSome countries allow abortions in circumstances such as rape or health risks, while outright bans apply in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.\n\nThe reforms in Mexico and other Latin American countries contrast with the situation in the United States, where a Supreme Court ruling last year overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing the right to abortion nationwide.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A trial in January will be the second defamation case between Donald Trump and E Jean Carroll\n\nA federal judge has ruled Donald Trump is liable for defamatory comments he made in 2019 about writer E Jean Carroll.\n\nJudge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Wednesday that Ms Carroll's second civil defamation trial against Mr Trump will be limited to determining damages.\n\nMs Carroll accused Mr Trump of raping her at a department store in the 1990s.\n\nThe former president goes to trial in January against Ms Carroll over comments he made about her allegations.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, lawyers for Mr Trump said they \"remain very confident that the Carroll II verdict will be overturned on appeal, which will render this decision moot\".\n\nMs Carroll first came forward with the sexual assault claims in a New York Magazine article in 2019.\n\nMr Trump then denied the allegations, and Ms Carroll filed her first defamation suit against him that November, claiming he damaged her reputation and caused her emotional harm.\n\nThis case is separate from a civil trial in May, where a New York jury found the former president sexually abused Ms Carroll, though he was found not liable for raping her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThat jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the magazine writer's accusations \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nMr Trump was ordered to pay Ms Carroll $5m (£4m) as a part of that New York civil lawsuit.\n\nOn Wednesday, in a 25-page decision in the second defamation case, Judge Kaplan argued that the May verdict established that Mr Trump made statements about the assault with \"actual malice\".\n\nThe ruling means this upcoming second defamation case will focus solely on how much Mr Trump should pay Ms Carroll for making the comments.\n\nTypically, it would be up to a jury to decide whether a defendant is liable for damages.\n\nThe trial is scheduled for 15 January, 2024.\n\nLawyers for Ms Carroll said in a statement they \"look forward\" to the trial limited to damages.\n\nMr Trump is appealing the jury's verdict in the May decision against him and has requested a new trial, which is still pending.\n\nHe has denied allegations that he raped Ms Carroll, claiming he had never met the former Elle Magazine columnist and that she made up the story to sell copies of her book.\n\nThe former president is also facing a series of other legal woes, including both state and federal charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and his handling of classified documents.", "Kourtney Kardashian is expecting her first baby with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker\n\nKourtney Kardashian has thanked doctors for \"saving my baby's life\" by performing surgery on her unborn child.\n\nThe reality TV star, 44, said she was rushed into \"urgent foetal surgery\", in which surgeons operate on babies while they are still in the womb.\n\n\"As someone who has had three really easy pregnancies in the past, I wasn't prepared for the fear,\" she said.\n\nLast week, her husband Travis Barker flew home from his band Blink-182's tour due to an \"urgent family matter\".\n\nHe did not give details at the time, but has now posted: \"I flew home for a life-threatening emergency surgery for our baby that I'm so grateful went well. I want to say thank you for all the support.\"\n\nThe couple have not revealed the nature of the surgery on the baby boy.\n\nIn her message on Instagram, Kourtney wrote: \"I will be forever grateful to my incredible doctors for saving our baby's life.\n\n\"I am eternally grateful to my husband who rushed to my side from tour to be with me in the hospital and take care of me afterwards, my rock.\n\n\"And to my mom, thank you for holding my hand through this.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think anyone who hasn't been through a similar situation can begin to understand that feeling of fear.\n\n\"I have a whole new understanding and respect for the mamas who have had to fight for their babies while pregnant.\n\n\"Praise be to God. Walking out of the hospital with my baby boy in my tummy and safe was the truest blessing.\"\n\nThe star has three children aged eight, 11 and 13 with Scott Disick.\n\nShe has previously spoken about her struggles to conceive with Barker, 47.\n\nBut in June she posted an Instagram video showing her holding up a sign at a Blink-182 concert saying: \"Travis I'm pregnant.\"", "Yoga teacher Millie Laws was running a class at a cafe based in the North Sea Observatory at Chapel St Leonards\n\nA yoga class was mistaken for a \"ritual mass murder\" scene after members of the public saw several people lying on the floor and reported it to police.\n\nFive police cars descended on the North Sea Observatory in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday night.\n\nYoga teacher Millie Laws said she thought reports of her being a \"mass murderer\" were a \"joke at first\".\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed everyone was safe and well, and the call was made with \"good intentions\".\n\nMs Laws said she found it \"funny and surreal\" to be mistaken for a mass murderer\n\nThe 22-year-old teacher said she was teaching seven students at the Seascape Cafe, which is inside the building, when she saw two dog walkers peering closely through the glass window during the Shavasana or relaxation stage of the class.\n\n\"They're [students] laying down with blankets over them, their eyes are closed. It's very dark in there. I just had candles and little tea lights lit the whole room, and I was just walking around playing my drum. I had a nice floaty top on with large bell sleeves,\" she said.\n\n\"A couple with some dogs just came up to the window and were having a look in, but they walked off really quickly and I didn't think anything of it.\"\n\n\"I didn't know until after we left that these people phoned in saying that there was a mass murderer; they were wearing a robe and they were walking over all of the people, and it looked like some kind of ritual, and that the people on the floor were actually dead.\n\n\"I guess from the outside view it could look like that, because they're all really still, very nice and relaxed.\n\n\"I'm sure their imagination was running wild with what was going on.\"\n\nThe room was dark and lit with candles, which may have added to the confusion, Ms Laws says\n\nMs Laws, who had only moved to the area three months ago, said officers swooping on a \"small little village in the middle of Lincolnshire is crazy\".\n\n\"I feel really bad for whoever the person was who [phoned police] that would, of course, have been terrifying. So I do feel for them.\n\n\"But at the same time you've got to see the lighter side of it.\"\n\nManagers at Seascape Cafe sought to reassure residents and thanked police for the prompt response.\n\nThey said on Facebook: \"If anyone heard the mass of police sirens in Chapel St Leonards at 9.30pm last night then please be reassured.\n\n\"They were on their way to the Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor... which actually turned out to be the yoga class in meditation.\n\n\"Thank you to Lincolnshire Police for their prompt response. I can't imagine for one moment what would have being going through their minds on the way.\"\n\nMs Laws had only been running her yoga sessions for three months when she moved to the area\n\nThe cafe regularly plays host to yoga classes with the Facebook post adding: \"We are not part of any mad cult or crazy clubs.\n\n\"All in all, this situation turned out positive and we are of course grateful.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed the call was made at 20:56 BST \"with good intentions\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A call was made following concerns for the occupants of the North Sea Observatory, at Chapel St Leonards.\n\n\"Officers attended, we're happy to report everyone was safe and well.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'The barriers to entry have gone - go for it now' Video, 00:01:20 , published at 00:20 22 June 2022 'The barriers to entry have gone - go for it now'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.\n\nProsecutors said Navarro acted \"above the law\" by ignoring a subpoena from a congressional investigation.\n\nHe faces up to a year in prison for each of the two contempt counts.\n\nAnother key Trump ally, former strategist Steve Bannon, was convicted last year of contempt of Congress.\n\nOutside the court in Washington DC on Thursday, Navarro said it was a \"sad day for America\", vowing to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.\n\n\"This is the first time in the history of our republic,\" he said, \"that a senior White House adviser, an alter ego of the president, has ever been charged with this alleged crime.\"\n\nHe argued that the Department of Justice has had a policy for more than 50 years that senior White House advisers could not be compelled to testify before Congress.\n\n\"Yet they brought the case,\" Navarro said.\n\nHe was found guilty by the 12-member jury after four hours of deliberations, following a trial that lasted two days.\n\nAs well as an appeal, Navarro's lawyers are motioning for a mistrial, alleging that jurors went outside court during their deliberations and encountered protesters.\n\nNavarro, who served as senior trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, was served with a subpoena by a US House of Representatives select committee in February 2022.\n\nBut he did not hand over any of the requested emails or documents or appear to testify before the Democratic-led panel.\n\nThe committee had hoped to question Navarro about efforts to delay certification of the 2020 election, according to a former staff director for the panel who testified in court.\n\nIn his 2021 book, In Trump Time, Navarro said he was the architect of a strategy to challenge the election results, claiming widespread voter fraud.\n\nThe plan was for congressional Republicans to delay certification of President Joe Biden's victory.\n\nNavarro called this strategy the Green Bay Sweep, a reference to a tactic in American football.\n\nThe House committee said Navarro's claims of massive ballot fraud had been exposed as baseless by state and local officials.\n\nNavarro was indicted in June last year and arrested by FBI agents at a Washington airport as he was boarding a flight to Nashville, Tennessee.\n\nDuring their closing arguments, prosecutors said Navarro chose his allegiance to Mr Trump over complying with the subpoena.\n\n\"That is contempt. That is a crime,\" prosecutor Elizabeth Aloi told the court.\n\nNavarro's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, presented little evidence during the trial and instead sought to discredit the prosecutor's case.\n\nWhen contacted by the committee, Navarro said Mr Trump had instructed him to cite executive privilege.\n\nThis is a legal principle that allows certain White House communications to be kept under wraps.\n\nBut last week, Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama nominee, ruled there was no evidence that Mr Trump or executive privilege could have permitted Navarro to ignore the committee's summons.\n\nIn addition to a maximum sentence of a year in prison for each count, Navarro also faces fines of up to $100,000 (£80,000).\n\nHis sentencing is scheduled for January.\n\nBryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign adviser, told the BBC the prosecution seemed politically motivated.\n\n\"It is not uncommon for Congress to hold former or serving members of presidential administrations in contempt,\" he said.\n\nLawmakers found ex-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but he was not criminally prosecuted\n\n\"It is uncommon for the actual justice department to go forward with these prosecutions.\"\n\nHe cited the example of the former US Attorney General Eric Holder, under Democratic President Barack Obama, who was found in contempt of a Republican-controlled Congress in 2012 for refusing to hand over subpoenaed documents, but was not criminally prosecuted.\n\n\"We're going down a dangerous route by escalating these things,\" said Mr Lanza.\n\n\"That's not good for our system of government,\" he added.\n\nFormer Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt for defying the House committee's legal summons in July 2022.\n\nBannon was sentenced to four months in jail, but has remained free while his defence team appeals the conviction.", "Raac has been found in eight University of Edinburgh buildings, including teaching, laboratory and office spaces\n\nLecture theatres, science laboratories and student unions are among UK university buildings shut because of crumbling concrete.\n\nSixteen universities have told BBC News they have closed or partially closed areas containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).\n\nLectures have had to move to other areas of campus.\n\nSome student accommodation has also been affected, as universities make areas safe.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) advised schools, colleges and nurseries in England to vacate areas known to contain Raac, unless suitable mitigating measures had been put in place.\n\nOther public buildings across the UK, built or modified between the 1950s and the mid-1990s, are also affected.\n\nSome shows have been cancelled, after the concrete was found in theatres.\n\nSt David's Hall in Cardiff has closed for checks, with comedian Adrian Edmondson, singer Alfie Boe and 1980s rock band Europe due to perform in the coming weeks.\n\nMore hospitals have also come forward to report they may have been built using Raac, and the government said it was working quickly to establish the scale of the problem.\n\nMany buildings have been managing and monitoring the situation for years, in line with previous guidance, but some are now taking extra precautions.\n\nOf the 86 universities to have responded to a BBC News request for information:\n\nThe DfE has published a list of 174 schools in England - as of 14 September - built using the concrete.\n\nSix unions have now written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan asking urgent questions, including: \"How many schools with suspected Raac have yet to be surveyed?\"\n\nIn Essex, the county with the most affected schools, about 25 are closed, partly closed or making alternative arrangements and Ms Keegan has visited one of them.", "The UK is to rejoin the EU's flagship scientific research scheme, Horizon, the government has announced.\n\nUK-based scientists and institutions will be able to apply for money from the £81bn (€95bn) fund from today.\n\nAssociate membership had been agreed as part of the Brexit trade deal when the UK formally left the EU in 2020.\n\nHowever, the UK has been excluded from the scheme for the past three years because of a disagreement over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"With a wealth of expertise and experience to bring to the global stage, we have delivered a deal that enables UK scientists to confidently take part in the world's largest research collaboration programme.\n\n\"We have worked with our EU partners to make sure that this is the right deal for the UK, unlocking unparalleled research opportunities, and also the right deal for British taxpayers.\"\n\nThursday's announcement also states that the UK will associate to Copernicus, the EU's £8bn (€9bn) Earth observation programme. Britain will not, however, be rejoining a nuclear research alliance known as Euratom R&D, although there is an agreement to cooperate specifically on nuclear fusion.\n\nIn a press release, the European Commission said that the decision would be \"beneficial to both\" and stated that \"overall, it is estimated that the UK will contribute almost €2.6bn (£2.2bn) per year on average for its participation to both Horizon and Copernicus.\n\nMade in Britain: The UK helped design and build the EU's Copernicus Sentinel satellites\n\nThe scientific and academic community has welcomed the news of Horizon association.\n\nChief Executive of Universities UK, Vivienne Stern, told the BBC there would be a \"unanimous sigh of colossal relief\" from scientists which would allow them to work across geographical borders by drawing funding from a common pot.\n\n\"I was looking at one project which is mapping the human brain - a colossal project involving 500 researchers in 16 countries - it's been going on for 10 years. The scale [of the projects] is impossible through national funding mechanisms.\"\n\nAnd Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, who has been one of the most vociferous voices in arguing to rejoin, added: \"I am thrilled to finally see that partnerships with EU scientists can continue. This is an essential step in re-building and strengthening our global scientific standing.\"\n\nThe UK's association to Horizon was agreed in principle as part of the Brexit Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA), but the issue then became bogged down in the dispute about the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe European Commission refused to allow membership of the science and Earth observation programmes until the UK fully honoured its negotiated commitments.\n\nThe Windsor Framework, agreed last February between Brussels and London to fix their differences over Northern Ireland, also had the effect of unlocking the associations. The past six months have seen both parties negotiating the financial arrangements of membership.\n\nThese haven't yet been fully disclosed but will require the UK to be making monetary contributions consistent with the size of its economy relative to the EU-27 bloc. There are performance provisions if UK scientists win \"too many\" or \"too few\" grants, but these are not materially different from the thresholds written into the TCA, Brussels officials told the BBC.\n\nThe Joint European Torus in Oxfordshire has been a world leader in the development of nuclear fusion\n\nUK scientists were always the big winners in the grant process for past Horizon programmes, jostling for top spot and sometimes outcompeting the other European science superpower - Germany.\n\nThe delay and uncertainty in agreeing association has seen a drop in applications from UK scientists to work on European projects that were underwritten by UK government money.\n\nThe impasse also led some EU nationals working in the UK to take their research back to their home countries or to other EU states. In addition, British researchers who had been in leadership roles in some big, long-running projects were forced to step down.\n\nMinisters and science officials will now hope the new deal will re-energise the sector, encouraging UK researchers to reassert their prominence in European science.\n\nSue Ferns, from Prospect, the union representing many workers in the research sector, said: \"The UK rejoining Horizon is welcome but long overdue and we are now playing catch-up as we try to make up for lost time. Ministers now need to guarantee sustained investment across the sector - scientific expertise is critical to meeting the generational challenges we are facing.\"\n\nThe Copernicus association keeps UK scientists at the forefront of climate research, and permits Britain's aerospace industry to bid for satellite contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros.\n\nThe one EU programme the UK might have joined but will not now pursue is Euratom R&D.\n\nThis concerns research and training in areas such as nuclear safety, radiation protection and waste management.\n\nAlthough association was permitted under the TCA, the London government came to regard it as poor value for money.\n\nInstead the UK will institute its own programme focussing on nuclear fusion - the science of trying to extract energy by forcing together light atomic nuclei.\n\nIt will involve international collaborations. After all, the UK still hosts Europe's leading fusion lab - the Joint European Torus (Jet) in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe alternative programme will be backed by £650m up to 2027, the UK government says.\n\nWhat the associations do not change are the restrictions/requirements on EU or other foreign national scientists wanting to come to the UK to do their research; and vice versa.\n\nThere is no \"freedom of movement\". Scientists wanting to come to the UK need visas, which are among the most expensive in the G8.\n\nMichelle Donelan, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, defended the government's position on immigration on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's important that we look after the interests of the British taxpayer, that we make these decisions to try and control immigration. That was the pledge that we made in our manifesto, and… I think we should be determined to keep that pledge and to work hard to deliver it,\" she said.\n\n\"But at the same time, we do want to be attracting the best talent from around the world to work here on agendas like science and technology, because we are on track to become a science and tech superpower by 2030.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the UK's return to Horizon but lamented the delay.\n\n\"I think there's a sense that we've lost two years, that this should have happened two years ago and that's a big loss,\" he said on a visit to Macclesfield.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMedvedev called for two separate medical timeouts as he appeared to struggle with his breathing Coverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra Daniil Medvedev reached the US Open semi-finals by beating Andrey Rublev in hot and humid conditions that he said would cause a player to \"die\". The third seed appeared to struggle with his breathing but beat his fellow Russian 6-4 6-3 6-4 on Wednesday. \"One player is going to die and you are going to see,\" he said into a camera during the match in New York. Medvedev faces Carlos Alcaraz next after the defending champion beat Alexander Zverev 6-3 6-2 6-4. Spain's Alcaraz, 20, saw off five break points on his way to an efficient victory over the German 12th seed. Both men's semi-finals will take place at Flushing Meadows on Friday. Serb second seed Novak Djokovic, bidding for a record-equalling 24th major title, will face young American Ben Shelton in the first match at 15:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n• None Will Gauff and Sabalenka be stopped at US Open?\n• None Listen via BBC Sounds: Mental Muscle - when is it too hot to play sport? With a heatwave sweeping over New York, the match between Medvedev and Rublev was played under a partially closed roof on the hottest day of the tournament so far, with temperatures rising to about 35C on Wednesday. Both players looked physically and emotionally drained as Medvedev - who won the 2021 US Open - eventually wrapped up the match after two hours and 48 minutes before comparing the \"brutal\" conditions with the weather he experienced during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. \"The only good thing I see in these conditions is that both [players] suffer. It's tough for both of us,\" he said. Medvedev and Rublev were playing in conditions above 30C Medvedev and Rublev each took lengthy bathroom breaks between sets for a moment of respite from the heat and to change their sweat-drenched clothes. The pair also hosed themselves down with cold water, sat under ice towels and made the most of the air conditioning units at their seats. \"At the end of the first set I couldn't see the ball any more. I played with sensations - try to go for it, try to run, try to catch the balls - and he did the same sometimes,\" Medvedev added. \"A few moments in the third set he was up a break. I couldn't wait to go to the cold shower, but the thing about that is when you come out either you can't move because your body blocks or you feel better.\" While Medvedev has contested four Grand Slam finals, 25-year-old Rublev - who broke into the world's top 10 in October 2020 - is still bidding for a first major semi-final. World number eight Rublev has lost all nine of the Grand Slam quarter-finals he has played. The Russian pair have been best friends since the age of six and Rublev is godfather to Medvedev's daughter, with the 2021 champion calling him \"family\" before their last-eight encounter. Rublev was a break up early in every set, but Medvedev was able to find a shift in momentum each time despite taking two medical timeouts and using an inhaler as he struggled with his breathing. The higher-ranked Russian got the key break for 5-4 to serve out the opening set and after being 3-1 down in the second, he won five successive games and left Rublev looking dejected. With the finish line in sight, and after letting four match points come and go on Rublev's serve, Medvedev wrapped up the victory on the fifth as his opponent fired a forehand into the net. \"I know he never gives up. The thing is he knows I never [give up] too,\" Medvedev, who has dropped just two sets so far, said. Alcaraz has too much quality for Zverev Alcaraz was far from his best against Zverev, but has still only dropped one set in the tournament - against Britain's Dan Evans Few have predicted anyone but Alcaraz and Djokovic, the two dominant players in the men's game, to contest Sunday's final. Alcaraz won the title last year in Djokovic's absence, with the Serb not allowed to enter the United States because he was not vaccinated against Covid, which at that time was mandatory for visitors. Both players, who produced a gripping Wimbledon final which Alcaraz won, are now one more victory from another showdown. Zverev became the latest challenger to fall against Alcaraz, who was far from his best against the 2020 runner-up but still had enough quality to come through relatively unscathed. After saving two break points at 3-3 in the first set, Alcaraz took his opponent's serve in the next game and broke twice more in the second set. There were question marks over Zverev's physical state coming into the match, with his previous win against Italian sixth seed Jannik Sinner finishing at 01:39 local time in brutally humid conditions. He is also continuing his comeback from a serious ankle injury which sidelined him for seven months until the start of this season. Things looked ominous for 26-year-old Zverev when he went off court for treatment on a hamstring injury before the third set, but he recovered sufficiently to create three more break points across the second and fourth games. However, he could not convert any of them and Alcaraz pounced again. Going on the attack, Alcaraz hit two superb forehand winners to help him break for 5-4 and served out to reach his third major semi-final of the season. \"I'm feeling really comfortable. I'm showing my best level, feeling strong physically and mentally,\" said Alcaraz, who swatted aside Medvedev in the Wimbledon last four in July.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Will Jessie and Tom rekindle the old flame?\n• None Boot Dreams: Now or Never: Roman Kemp and Bruno Fernandes give rejected players a second chance at the game they love", "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said there could be \"a pivot of history\" with his country's ties with Saudi Arabia\n\nA cash boost of hundreds of millions of dollars and more control of land in the occupied West Bank are among Palestinian demands in the event of a three-way deal involving the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel, the BBC has learned.\n\nOfficials from the Palestinian Authority (PA) held talks in Riyadh with Saudi counterparts on Wednesday.\n\nThey were also due to see US officials.\n\nThe Americans are long thought to have been pushing for a landmark pact to normalise Israel-Saudi ties.\n\nIt would be underwritten by Washington and would include a major security deal the Saudis want to achieve with the US. But the prospects for such agreements face significant obstacles and remain distant.\n\n\"We don't expect any imminent announcements or breakthroughs in the period ahead,\" said White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, given the scope for a historic realignment of ties in the Middle East, there is continuing speculation over the framework for any deal, with American shuttle diplomacy picking up again after trips by officials to Riyadh, Amman and Jerusalem this summer.\n\nIn 2020 three Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates, normalised ties with Israel\n\nUS President Joe Biden is likely to see a Saudi-Israel deal as a breakthrough foreign policy prize he can present to voters ahead of next year's election.\n\nSaudi Arabia is a leader of the Arab and Islamic world. It has never formally recognised Israel since the creation of the state in 1948.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked up the possibility last month, claiming: \"We're about to witness a pivot of history.\"\n\nAny deal, though, would be deeply controversial.\n\nIn return for recognising Israel, Saudi Arabia is said to be demanding US guarantees for advanced American-made weapons and, most contentious of all, a civil nuclear programme including in-country uranium enrichment.\n\nIsrael for its part would benefit from trade and defence ties with the Gulf superpower and further historic integration it has always sought in the region, following on from other Arab state normalisation deals brokered in 2020.\n\n\"These are mostly security and trade agreements. Fast forward to the year 2023, and we now see that Saudi Arabia also wants to get involved in this,\" said Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the official Palestinian negotiating team in the now-moribund peace talks with the Israelis.\n\nFor a deal to succeed it would have to be seen to involve significant Israeli concessions to the Palestinians.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, needs to assuage his own public - historically opposed to Israel and deeply sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.\n\nAmong demands of Palestinian officials is the transfer of parts of the West Bank currently under full Israeli control\n\nMeanwhile, President Biden will also need to prove he has won significant gains for the Palestinians to get support from his Democratic Party. Many in the party reject the idea of any defence sweeteners for the Saudis due to the country's human rights record and its role in the war in Yemen. They are also hostile to the idea of rewarding Israel's current extreme nationalist governing coalition, which they see as exacerbating tensions in the West Bank and which has sparked unprecedented instability within Israel itself.\n\nThe team of top Palestinian officials in Riyadh - including the two men seen as closest to President Mahmoud Abbas, the PA's intelligence chief, Majed Faraj, and Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation - met Saudi national security adviser Musaed al-Aiban on Wednesday, according to a senior Palestinian official familiar with the discussions.\n\nTheir list of demands in return for engaging with the American-backed process was set out during a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf last week in Amman. The Palestinian official told the BBC the demands include:\n\nSuch concessions are very significant - reportedly already seen by the Americans as overreaching by the Palestinians. But they are a far cry from the official, publicly stated Palestinian position on Saudi-Israel normalisation - which is to reject it outright if it does not leave them with an independent state.\n\nThis follows the Arab Peace Initiative, a Saudi-led plan of 2002, which offered the Arab world's recognition of Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in East Jerusalem.\n\nThe current approach reflects the deep \"bind\" the Palestinian leadership is in, according to Ms Buttu.\n\n\"Palestinians by and large don't want to be part of any of these normalisation deals because [the Arab world's support] is the only tool that we have left,\" she said.\n\n\"We've been told that we're not allowed to violently resist. We're told that we're not allowed to pursue legal measures to demand an end to the occupation. We're told that we're not allowed to pursue boycotts, divestment and sanction.\"\n\n\"The Palestinian Authority is now questioning: should we instead be trying to get our demands heard and realised, or should we do what we did in 2020 which was to ignore it? And again it's a bind - no matter what the Palestinian Authority does on this, it is doomed to fail,\" Ms Buttu told the BBC.\n\nIn 2020, three Arab countries - the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco - normalised ties with Israel in deals brokered by the US under President Trump. A fourth, Sudan, also pledged to take steps towards diplomatic ties with Israel that year. But the process stalled amid opposition in the country and a military coup the following year.\n\nThey were seen as a historic shift in relations between old adversaries in the Middle East, involving diplomatic, trade and security ties. But critics highlighted the significant US inducements also involved, including access to top-shelf American-made weapons for Arab autocracies.\n\nAt the time, the PA was frozen out of discussions as it boycotted diplomatic ties with the US in response to President Trump's Israeli-Palestinian \"deal of the century\" - a peace plan heavily weighted towards Israel - and his move of the US embassy to Jerusalem. The PA saw the normalisation deals as a \"betrayal\" of Arab solidarity.\n\nInstead, engaging with the Saudis this time may be a way to remind Riyadh of the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative - the goal of an independent Palestinian state - rather than being left out of the process completely, suggested another senior Palestinian official.\n\nBut there are significant risks for the Palestinian leadership - already deeply unpopular with its own public - in becoming involved if the benefits are perceived as negligible.\n\nPolling after the UAE-Israel normalisation in 2020 suggested the overwhelming majority of Palestinians saw that deal as an abandonment of the Palestinian cause that served only the interests of Israel.\n\nAny Israeli concessions to the Palestinians are almost certain to be rejected by the ultranationalists in Mr Netanyahu's coalition, amounting to a further stumbling block to any deal. Mr Netanyahu earlier this year brushed aside Palestinian concessions as a \"check box\" exercise that wouldn't be part of any substantive American-brokered discussions with Saudi Arabia.\n\nAdditional reporting by Yolande Knell in Jerusalem and Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza", "The UK is expected to re-join the EU's flagship research scheme, Horizon, with an announcement likely on Thursday.\n\nTalks on the UK becoming a fully-fledged member of the EU's €100bn (£85bn) programme again began after a deal was cut on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland earlier this year.\n\nAccording to sources in Brussels, there has been movement in EU-UK talks.\n\nDowning Street and the European Commission have yet to comment.\n\nThe UK's associate membership of Horizon was agreed in principle as part of the Brexit Trade and Co-operation Agreement, but the issue became bogged down in the dispute about the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe higher education sector is likely to give the news, first reported by Bloomberg, a big welcome.\n\nUniversities and researchers have repeatedly warned that the uncertainty over whether the UK would re-join was extremely damaging.\n\nSources within government have also indicated that the UK will re-join the EU's space programme, Copernicus, but not its nuclear research scheme, Euratom.\n\nPeter Kyle, the shadow science minister, said the country had \"missed out on two years of innovation\" whilst being outside of the Horizon programme.\n\nRe-joining the scheme would allow the UK to start \"unlocking all the potential we have in this country\", Mr Kyle said.\n\nMinisters had drawn up a plan B, known as Pioneer, as an alternative.\n\nThe government always insisted it was deadly serious about the possibility of going it alone with the Pioneer programme, although it wasn't their preferred option.\n\nFigures within government have previously suggested that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was genuinely torn.\n\nOn the one hand, re-joining Horizon would help repair EU-UK relations and potentially play well with those who deeply disliked Brexit.\n\nOn the other hand, Mr Sunak was said to be keen to get \"value for money\" as well as build credibility with Leave supporters who might favour a clean break.\n\nThe UK had been expected to remain associated with the scheme after Brexit but it soon became apparent that Brussels was blocking Britain's return.\n\nThat's because the EU was angry at the government's failure to fully implement a deal on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.\n\nUntil that issue was resolved, it was clear that Horizon association would not be possible.\n\nThen, in February, Rishi Sunak signed a deal with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen - the Windsor Framework.\n\nThat paved the way for talks on Horizon, which look as though they're finally reaching their culmination.\n\nIt's a further moment of reconciliation between the UK and the EU following the bitter disputes over Brexit that followed the 2016 Leave vote.", "Police in Salisbury in North Carolina have just released bodycam footage of an officer saving a driver from a burning truck.\n\nLt. Corey Brooks had been called to another incident on 8 August when he saw the truck hit a wall and catch fire.\n\nWith the assistance of a member of the public, Lt. Brooks was able to drag the unresponsive driver to safety before emergency services arrived at the scene.", "A member of the British Army accused of planting fake bombs at a military base has appeared in court.\n\nDaniel Abed Khalife, 21, is alleged to have left three cannisters with wires at MOD Stafford on 2 January.\n\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier, which heard he allegedly left the device \"with the intention of inducing in another the belief the item was likely to explode or ignite\".\n\nMr Khalife did not enter a plea during the court appearance.\n\nThe full terror charges also say he \"elicited\" personal information about soldiers from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System which was \"likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism\" in 2021.\n\nBoth offences are alleged to have taken place at MOD Stafford in Staffordshire.\n\nMr Khalife, of Beacon Barracks in Stafford, was remanded in custody until his next court appearance, which has been set for 17 February at the Old Bailey.\n\n\"These matters are very serious,\" chief magistrate Paul Goldspring told Mr Khalife.\n\n\"If you are convicted, you are going to face a prison sentence in years not months. Therefore this court's powers are insufficient.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows impact of torrential rains in Greece in early September\n\nAn Austrian couple on honeymoon is missing in Greece after torrential rains swept away the house they were staying in.\n\nEmergency services have told the BBC they are searching for the couple and several other missing people.\n\nPeople in central Greece were trapped on the roofs of their houses after floods set whole villages under water.\n\nMore than a dozen people are now known to have died since Storm Daniel hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria this week.\n\nThe Austrian couple decided to shelter inside the bungalow they had rented for their honeymoon as heavy rainfall swept central Greece, the owner of the accommodation, Thanasis Samaras said.\n\nBut the house in the beach resort of Potistika, near Mount Pelion, was then washed into the sea by flash floods, he told the BBC.\n\nHe and other guests had left for higher ground and had advised the couple to do the same.\n\n\"The situation was very bad. It's very difficult to decide what to do in a moment like that,\" Mr Samaras said.\n\nHe added that the couple, from the Austrian city of Graz, had married shortly after arriving on their holiday.\n\nThe Greek fire brigade said it had a team in the area searching for missing people, including the newlyweds.\n\nSome Greek regions received up to 800mm (31.5 inches) of rain in recent days - more than normally seen in a whole year.\n\nThe Karditsa plain in central Greece was described as having turned into a lake, with villages around Palamas drowned in water.\n\nThe mayor of Palamas, Giorgos Sakellariou, made a dramatic appeal for help on Greek TV, saying people were stranded in their homes and facing immediate danger.\n\n\"The situation in Palamas is tragic,\" he was quoted as telling Skai TV. \"People are trapped in their houses. We will have people drowning.\"\n\nRescue efforts have been hampered after several bridges in the region collapsed and roads were seriously damaged.\n\nFootage shows fire brigade helicopters airlifting people stuck in the water and on rooftops - part of a huge operation by the emergency services and army to reach cut-off villages.\n\nThe extreme weather also hit Athens and the island of Skiathos, where thousands of tourists remain stranded, as well as coastal areas around Volos and Pelion.\n\nThe city of Volos has remained without power and running water for a third day. The local administration decided to transfer water from swimming pools to one of the city's hospitals so that dialysis and chemotherapy treatments could continue, ERT reported.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cancelled a big government engagement planned for the weekend as the crisis escalated. He is now planning to visit the affected areas instead.\n\n\"Our country is facing for the third day a phenomenon unlike any other we have seen in the past,\" he said.\n\nStorm Daniel has been hitting Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria since Monday, with more than a dozen people known to have died, at least four of them in Greece.\n\nClimate scientists have warned that global warming means more water evaporating during the summer, leading to more intense storms.\n\nGreece has battled devastating wildfires for most of the summer. This included the EU's largest on record, in which at least 20 people were killed last month.\n\nSome Greek regions have received more rain than they do normally in a year", "The details of Daniel Khalife's escape raise serious questions about what happened with security at HMP Wandsworth.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is highly unlikely to ever publicly confirm all the details.\n\nIf the escape involved exploiting a very specific security loophole or technique, the last thing that governors need is other prisoners getting the same idea.\n\nBut what we know about events is clearly very troubling.\n\nWandsworth prison is one of the UK's most famous - and pretty grim - Victorian jails. It's not a pleasant place to spend a day, never mind months or years.\n\nThe prison's wings look like spokes off two central hubs, historically called Heathfield and Trinity.\n\nThe kitchens are sandwiched between these spokes, on a vehicle access road that is relatively close to the main security perimeter and gatehouse.\n\nThat is not an uncommon place to locate them, as they need to receive daily deliveries - and security chiefs need to minimise the movements of vehicles.\n\nWe can see from satellite images that the kitchens are also next to industrial rubbish containers - so it's going to be an area with a lot of vehicle traffic over the course of a week - and every movement adds to the security headache for governors.\n\nDelivery vehicles arriving at Wandsworth first pass through a public deliveries gate, then stop in an \"airlock\" before a second gate.\n\nThis means they are in a secure pen between the outside world and the prison.\n\nThat is the first location where there can be a thorough security check.\n\nSecurity teams are trained to search under a vehicle with mirrors and should also check the top of the vehicle and, of course, inside too.\n\nOnce that check is completed, vehicles move through the second gate, inside the prison walls, marked in orange on our graphic, and then stop again.\n\nThey are now in a \"sterile zone\": a second secure pen between the outer Victorian prison walls and the inner security fencing - marked in green on our diagram.\n\nThis zone should be under constant surveillance and nobody should be able to enter it without permission and escort.\n\nOnly when the third gate opens, between the sterile zone and the inner fencing, do the vehicles finally reach areas of the jail where they can be potentially accessible by prisoners.\n\nBut even at that location the vehicles cannot freely move around - there are further security gates beyond the kitchen block.\n\nThat means delivery vans or lorries can only go as far as they are permitted to minimise the risk of smuggling contraband in - or smuggling prisoners out.\n\nAll those security steps and checks take place in reverse as vehicles later leave. I've watched this happen more than once in a jail and it all takes time.\n\nSo if we reverse that process, we can say for sure that Mr Khalife was able to evade detection on at least two specific occasions as the vehicle he hid under passed through the two pens and three gates. One thing that police are keeping very tight-lipped about at present is whether they have been able to work out how long Khalife was hiding under the lorry before it departed.\n\nBut the alleged failings do not stop with the vehicle checks.\n\nMr Khalife and the lorry left at 7.32am - and he was not declared missing by prison authorities for a further 20 minutes. Another 25 minutes passed before the police were called. They managed to track down the lorry and stop it at 8.37am just over three miles away. By that time, Mr Khalife was long gone - dressed as a chef - and with an hour's head start.\n\nCommander Dominic Murphy, head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, has said that Mr Khalife must have planned his break-out - and given his military training he would be resourceful - with skills that will help him.\n\nIan Acheson, a former security chief at Wandsworth and national governor, says the escape is a spectacular failure for the prison service given the number of security breaches.\n\nA map showing the route the lorry took before being stopped\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk has confirmed that straps were found underneath the vehicle. This raises several questions:\n\nThose questions will trigger an investigation into whether he had help - potentially from the inside.\n\nMr Khalife was also in a rather unusual position of being a remand prisoner awaiting trial for very serious offences - yet also, as former prison governor John Podmore told BBC News, holding a \"plum job\".\n\nPrison officers choose very carefully who gets to work in kitchens because they're full of knives and other dangerous equipment.\n\nBecause of the deliveries, they are also an obvious potential escape route.\n\nTypically, inmates selected to work in kitchens have a record of being reliable and trustworthy.\n\nSo why was a man facing terrorism charges working in the kitchens? That's just one of the questions that Mr Chalk wants answering.\n\nHe has told MPs he wanted to know who was in charge at both the kitchens and the gatehouse - and what security protocols they were following.\n\nThe justice secretary asked for a preliminary report by the end of the week - and has promised there will be a further independent inquiry.", "Gordon Brown accused world leaders of coming up \"abysmally short\" in their efforts to lower carbon emissions\n\nThe world's richest oil states should pay a global windfall tax to help poorer nations combat climate change, ex-PM Gordon Brown has said.\n\nHe said countries such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Norway benefited from a \"lottery style bonanza\" last year, as the price of oil soared.\n\nMr Brown argues a $25bn (£20.4bn) levy would boost prospects of a deal on a climate fund for poorer countries.\n\nHis intervention comes ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai in November.\n\nSpeaking at last week's Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that world leaders were coming up \"abysmally short\" in their efforts to curb carbon emissions.\n\nHe called for the world's biggest emitters to agree a climate solidarity pact to reduce emissions and support emerging economies.\n\nMr Brown said his plan would prevent a stalemate and potential breakdown at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - one of the richest oil producers identified.\n\nHe said \"petro-states\" had recorded \"almost unimaginable profits\" from the rise in oil price in recent years, with the five richest - which also include Kuwait - doubling their oil revenues in 2022.\n\nQuoting figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA), he said global oil and gas revenues had soared from $1.5tn (£1.2tn) before the Covid pandemic to an unprecedented $4tn (£3.3tn).\n\n\"To put these extraordinary figures into context, $4tn is 20 times the entire global aid budget. It is an income so big that it exceeds the entire GDP of the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\n\"These producer states have done literally nothing to earn this unprecedented windfall. It represents one of the biggest ever transfers of wealth from poor to rich nations.\"\n\nMr Brown added the high price of oil and gas had been the main factor in potentially pushing an additional 141 million people around the world into extreme poverty, which is the high range of an estimate from a scientific study carried out earlier this year.\n\nHe called for the wealthiest oil states to contribute 3% of their export earnings - equivalent to a total of $25bn (£20.4bn) in 2022, saying \"it is the very least they could do\".\n\nThe former prime minister - a UN envoy for global education and World Health Organisation ambassador for global health financing - said \"the consequences of such a grand gesture would be immense\".\n\n\"We would be giving crisis-torn countries what has been absent in recent summits: hope,\" he said.", "Taylor Swift was invited to the game by Chiefs player Travis Kelce and watched it seated next to his mother.", "A protester holds a sign saying \"goodbye France\" at a rally in Niamey last month\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has said France will withdraw its ambassador and end all military co-operation with Niger following a coup.\n\n\"France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe added that military co-operation was \"over\" and French troops would leave in \"the months to come\".\n\nThe military junta which seized power in Niger in July welcomed the move.\n\n\"This Sunday we celebrate a new step towards the sovereignty of Niger,\" the junta said, in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.\n\nThere are about 1,500 French soldiers in the landlocked West African country helping to fight Islamist militants. The US also has more than 1,000 troops in Niger but these have not been asked to leave.\n\nThe decision by Paris follows months of animosity and protests against the French presence in its former colony, with regular demonstrations in the capital Niamey.\n\nThe move deals a hammer blow to France's operations against jihadists in the wider Sahel region and Paris' influence there. But Mr Macron said France would \"not be held hostage by the putschists,\" speaking to France's TF1 and France 2 television stations.\n\nMr Macron said he still regarded ousted Niger President Mohamed Bazoum, currently held prisoner by the coup leaders, as the country's \"sole legitimate authority\" and had informed him of his decision. He described the deposed president as a \"hostage\".\n\n\"He was targeted by this coup d'etat because he was carrying out courageous reforms and because there was a largely ethnic settling of scores and a lot of political cowardice,\" he said.\n\nNiger is one of several former French colonies in West and Central Africa where the military has recently seized control - it follows Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Chad. The latest coup was in Gabon in August.\n\nAnti-French vitriol has flourished in the region in recent years, with many local politicians accusing Paris of carrying out neocolonialist policies - a charge denied by France.\n\nThere have also been concerns in the West over the growing role in the Sahel of Russia's Wagner mercenary group. It is accused of human rights abuses and has been helping some new military regimes.\n\nThe regional Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), supported by France, has threatened military intervention in Niger to reinstate Mr Bazoum. But so far it has not acted.\n\nNiger's military leaders told French ambassador Sylvain Itte he had to leave the country after they overthrew Mr Bazoum on 26 July.\n\nHowever, a 48-hour ultimatum for him to leave, issued in August, passed with him still in place as the French government refused to comply, or to recognise the military regime as legitimate.\n\nMr Macron's statement also comes hours after Niger's coup leaders banned \"French aircraft\" from flying over the country.\n\nThe regional air safety organisation, ASECNA, said that Niger's airspace was \"open to all national and international commercial flights except for French aircraft or aircraft chartered by France including those of the airline Air France\".\n\nThe airspace would remain closed for \"all military, operational and other special flights\", unless receiving prior authorisation, the message said.\n\nAir France told AFP simply that it was \"not flying over Niger airspace\".\n\nThe US relocated some of its troop from Niamey to the central city of Agadez for security reasons earlier this month. The US' largest drone base in the region is in Niger and it's been the base for anti-jihadist operations in the Sahel. It also trains Nigerien soldiers.\n\nAlthough the US successfully negotiated with the junta to resume some flights, it is not clear when full counterterrorism and training operations will resume.", "The Metropolitan Police says it will investigate fresh allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences following media reports about comedian Russell Brand.\n\nThe force has received a \"number of allegations of sexual offences\" in London and elsewhere in the country, but says no arrests have been made.\n\nIt follows a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, in which four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape.\n\nBefore the allegations were published, the actor and comedian said his relationships had \"always\" been consensual.\n\nDet Supt Andy Furphy, from the Met's Central Specialist Crime Command, said: \"We continue to encourage anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us.\n\n\"We understand it can feel like a difficult step to take and I want to reassure that we have a team of specialist officers available to advise and support.\"\n\nThe Met said it was encouraging anyone who believed they may have been a victim of a sexual offence to contact them.\n\nThe fresh allegations come after the Met last week said it had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in Soho, central London, in 2003.\n\nIn a livestream on video platform Rumble broadcast shortly after the Met released its new statement, Brand said it was \"hard for me to be objective given events of the last week but that is what we must try to do\".\n\nHe did not directly address the statement from the Met or the allegations against him, but was critical of the mainstream media throughout.\n\nHe said there was an \"apparent concerted effort between the legacy media and the state to silence independent voices\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women levelled accusations against Brand between 2006 and 2013:", "Usher will be the headline performer at the 2024 Super Bowl half-time show, it has been confirmed.\n\nThe R&B star follows in the footsteps of Rihanna, whose dazzling set last February also functioned as the announcement of her pregnancy.\n\n\"It's an honour of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list,\" said Usher.\n\n\"I can't wait to bring the world a show unlike anything else they've seen from me before.\"\n\nThe singer was one of the biggest stars of the late 1990s and 2000s, with multi-platinum hits including You Make Me Wanna, Pop Ya Collar, Yeah!, Burn and Confessions Pt II.\n\nHe previously played the Super Bowl in 2011, as a special guest of the lead act, Black Eyed Peas - where he performed a breathtaking leap over will.i.am before landing in the splits.\n\nUsher had been rumoured as a potential headliner for this year's show, which takes place in Las Vegas, after extending his residency in the city's Park MGM hotel.\n\nHis participation is the latest result of the National Football League's partnership with Jay-Z's entertainment agency Roc Nation, which was signed in 2019 to boost the quality of the Super Bowl halftime shows.\n\nRihanna's 2023 performance is the most-watched half time show in history\n\nAs well as Rihanna's show, the company delivered the 2022 all-star team of Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent.\n\nThe Weeknd headlined in 2021, with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez playing a joint set in 2020.\n\nThe booking is so prestigious that many people turn down a fee in order to play. That includes Rihanna, whose performance this year was watched by 121.017 million viewers - making it the most-watched half time show in history.\n\nCognisant of that audience, Usher will release a new album on the day of the Super Bowl. Titled Coming Home, it will be the follow-up to his 2016 release Hard II Love, which made the top 10 of the US and UK album charts.\n\nSpeaking to Apple Music's Zane Lowe, the star hinted that he may bring special guests to share the stage with him.\n\n\"Well, one thing I can say is I've collaborated with a lot of incredible artists throughout the years,\" said the singer, who has recorded duets with Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber and 21Savage.\n\nHe also reflected on the legacy of stars like Michael Jackson and Prince, who brought R&B showmanship to the Super Bowl stage.\n\n\"You think about all the people who have played it and just the idea of how Jay-Z and Roc Nation have really brought a mindfulness to our culture,\" he said.\n\n\"Thirty years of a career deserves this kind of moment,\" he added. \"Some people wait an entire lifetime, you know what I'm saying? But I don't feel like this is my lifetime. I feel like I'm only kind of starting to really, really get comfortable.\"\n\nIn a statement, Jay-Z said Usher would be a perfect fit for the concert.\n\n\"Usher is the ultimate artist and showman. Ever since his debut at the age of 15, he's been charting his own unique course,\" said the star in a statement.\n\n\"Beyond his flawless singing and exceptional choreography, Usher bares his soul. His remarkable journey has propelled him to one of the grandest stages in the world. I can't wait to see the magic.\"\n\nNext year's Super Bowl will take place on 11 February, 2024, at the $2 billion Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Fire Department of New York has said the number of its members who have died from 9/11-related illnesses is now equal to the number lost on the day of the attacks, 343.\n\nTwo recent deaths added to the toll.\n\n\"With these deaths, we have reached a sombre, remarkable milestone,\" New York City Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said in a statement.\n\n\"Our hearts break for the families of these members, and all who loved them.\"\n\nSoon after the 22nd anniversary of the attacks, emergency medical technician Hilda Vannata died on 20 September from cancer, while retired firefighter Robert Fulco died of pulmonary fibrosis on 23 September, according to city officials.\n\nBoth illnesses were a \"result of time they spent working in the rescue and recovery at the World Trade Center site,\" the New York City Fire Department said in a statement.\n\nBorn in Puerto Rico, Vannata, who died at the age of 67, was a mother and served as an emergency services technician for 26 years, according to her obituary.\n\nHilda Vannata was remembered for her love for family and a sense of duty\n\n\"She was known by all as a warm and caring person, always going out of her way to help anyone in need,\" the obituary said.\n\nFulco, who died at the age of 73, was born in Brooklyn, New York, according to a memorial page. Well-wishers called him a \"true hero\".\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed in the 11 September attacks in 2001, with most of the deaths in New York. There, al-Qaeda militants crashed two US passenger jets they had seized into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The buildings were set on fire, trapping people on upper floors and enveloping the city in smoke.\n\nRobert Fulco was remembered by loved ones as a \"true hero\"\n\nThe attack marked the largest loss of emergency personnel in US history.\n\nThe New York City Fire Department said 11,000 first responders suffer from 11 September-related diseases, including 3,500 with cancer.\n\n\"So many of our members showed up for us that fateful day, and so many were lost,\" the department said in a statement. \"The legacy we create for them is one of honor, and one of promise.\"", "More than one million NHS treatments and appointments have been cancelled in England due to strike action by staff.\n\nNHS England announced the milestone had been reached following last week's walkout by consultants and junior doctors.\n\nThe true scale of the disruption is likely to be higher - many hospitals reduce bookings on strike days to minimise last-minute cancellations.\n\nIt comes amid renewed calls to find a solution to the long-running dispute.\n\nA total of 1.01 million hospital appointments have had to be rescheduled along with more than 60,000 community and mental health appointments since December when industrial action started in the NHS.\n\nBut while the large-scale walkouts by nurses, ambulance staff and physios all ended in early summer, the dispute with doctors has continued into the autumn.\n\nDoctor walkouts were responsible for the majority of the disruption during 22 days of strike action by junior doctors and six by consultants.\n\nAnd the number of cancellations looks set to rise even further next week when junior doctors and consultants stage three days of joint strikes from Monday.\n\nDoctors have promised to provide emergency cover during the period.\n\nThe industrial action has contributed to the record 7.7 million people currently waiting for hospital treatment.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has blamed the dispute for scuppering his ambition to get the waiting list down this year.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Tom Nash, 58, from London.\n\nHe has a Cholesteatoma, a cyst in his middle ear. He has been on a waiting list since 2021 and has faced multiple postponements - the last of which was because of the junior doctor strike, he said.\n\n\"I'm permanently dizzy. I'm fed up, really fed up. I want to return to normal life.\n\n\"There are things I want to start doing, projects I've not started because I'm just not in the right frame of mind.\n\n\"When I'm upright and moving it's quite unpleasant when I get giddy.\"\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, called for decisive action to end the impasse - it is now more than 100 days since the health secretary has sat down with BMA leaders for pay talks.\n\n\"How bad does it have to get before we see an end to these damaging and demoralising industrial disputes?\n\n\"The immediate concern has to be with patients - more than a million and counting - whose care or treatment has been delayed.\"\n\nMinisters have said this year's pay rise was a \"final and fair\" settlement and it met the independent pay review body's recommendations.\n\nConsultants are being given 6%, junior doctors an average of 8.8% depending on their level.\n\nThe pay increase mean junior doctors' basic salary ranges from £32,400 to £63,150, while consultants can earn up to £126,300.\n\nAnd doctors earn about a quarter to a third more on top of this, on average, for things such as unsociable hours and additional work.\n\nJunior doctors were after a 35% increase, to make up for what they say are years of below-inflation wage rises.\n\nConsultants have not put a figure on what they would like but insist it must be above inflation, to start restoring pay they have lost once inflation is taken into account.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay called it a \"grim milestone\" and accused the BMA of creating \"misery\" for patients.\n\nHe reiterated there would be no more talks on pay and urged the union to ends its industrial action.\n\nIn terms of public support, latest polling from YouGov show 56% support junior doctors, with 37% opposed. For senior doctors 42% support them and 50% are opposed.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strikes or a patient affected? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Irish Rugby\n\nTommy Bowe hailed veteran Ireland captain Johnny Sexton's powers of recovery in the epic 13-8 victory over South Africa at the Rugby World Cup.\n\nSexton, 38, took a number of big hits but still kicked five points as the Irish triumphed in the Pool B contest.\n\n\"There were so many times he was down on one knee and you thought he's going to come off, but he is like Lazarus - he just keeps coming back,\" said Bowe.\n\n\"He stepped up to the plate - his leadership is so important.\"\n• None 'Epic Irish win gives World Cup shot in the arm'\n• None 'Win over South Africa like 'Grand Slam on steroids'\n\nSpeaking on the Rugby Union Daily podcast, former Ireland wing Bowe added: \"Pieter-Steph du Toit put so many shots in which was marginally late and he [Sexton] kept getting back up.\"\n\nMack Hansen went over for Ireland's try as they came from behind in Paris to clinch a win which moves them four points clear of the Springboks in Pool B.\n\nBowe also picked out Ireland scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park for huge praise.\n\n\"Gibson-Park is crucial to the speed and the tempo and the way Ireland want to play,\" added Bowe.\n\n\"I would question if Gibson-Park is more important to Ireland than Johnny Sexton.\"\n\nThe former Ireland wing described the contest as \"two absolute heavyweights going toe-to-toe\".\n\n\"It came down to the finest of margins. Literally we did not know what way it was going to go until the final whistle, but it's a massive statement from Ireland.\n\n\"They have gone into this competition as the number one team in the world they did not play the best rugby and we didn't really see any attack from them.\n\n\"But they did what they had to do and that's what you have got to do in these big cup competitions.\"\n\nPoor goal-kicking cost the Springboks 11 points but Bowe believes that they remain a major threat to retain the Webb Ellis Cup.\n\n\"They just seem to take it in their stride. They are well use to this and they love to be written off, so this is exactly what they want,\" claimed Bowe.\n\n\"They want to play against France [in the quarter-finals] in the Stade de France in front of a French crowd and they will love nothing more to send them home early.\"\n\nFormer South Africa captain Bobby Skinstad says the holders will learn from the Stade de France defeat.\n\n\"I think this loss will steer them to not do this again, that means they will have a look at themselves in preparation for the final pool game.\n\n\"Most important for the Boks is the knockout part, they know it well and they can draw on some experience. To say we have tried something, long range kicks and corner kicks and that game did not work for us so let's try a different pattern.\n\n\"They will believe they are still in this tournament and with a big shot.\"\n\nYou can listen to the Rugby Union Daily podcast here", "Carrie Slater's family said she was a \"beloved\" sister and daughter\n\nA man has been charged with murder after a woman was fatally shot in Leicestershire.\n\nPolice were called to a property in Kings Road, Long Clawson, near Melton Mowbray, on Thursday night where they found Carrie Slater with life-threatening injuries.\n\nMs Slater, 37, was taken to hospital but died on Saturday night.\n\nRichard Basson, 44, has been charged with murder and appeared before magistrates in Leicester earlier.\n\nMr Basson, of Kings Road, Long Clawson, has also been charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition without a certificate.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is set to appear at Leicester Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement released by Leicestershire Police, Ms Slater's family said: \"Carrie was loved by all of us. She was a daughter and beloved sister to her siblings.\n\n\"We are still coming to terms with what happened.\n\n\"It's difficult to put into words how we are feeling, but nothing we say is going to bring her back.\n\n\"She grew up in Grantham and we know there are people there who will be devastated to learn that she is no longer with us.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X (formerly Twitter), or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Filmmaker Obi Emelonye says there is a food chain in the film industry\n\nScreenwriters in the US say they have reached a tentative deal with studio bosses that could see them end a strike that has lasted nearly five months.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America (WGA) said it was \"exceptional - with meaningful gains and protections for writers\". WGA members must still have a final say.\n\nHollywood writers are striking in a row over pay and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry.\n\nStranger Things and the Last of Us are among the shows which have been paused.\n\nIt is the longest strike to affect Hollywood in decades and has halted most film and TV production.\n\nA separate dispute involves actors, who are also on strike.\n\nThe writers' walkout, which began on 2 May, has cost the US economy around $5bn (£4.08bn), according to an estimate from Milken Institute economist Kevin Klowden.\n\nThe dispute has shut down many of America's top shows, including Billions, The Handmaid's Tale, Hacks, Severance, Yellowjackets, The Last of Us, Stranger Things, Abbott Elementary and several daytime and late-night talk shows.\n\nAs well as issues around pay, the writers fear the impact of artificial intelligence potentially supplanting their talents.\n\nNegotiations also broke down over staffing levels and the royalty payments that writers receive for popular streaming shows. They complain that those residuals are just a fraction of the earnings they would get from a broadcast TV show.\n\nTraditionally, writers would receive additional payments when their programmes were repeated on a broadcast network. However, this model was undermined with the advent of streaming.\n\nAs a result part of the payments writers now receive generally include a certain amount of money which is intended to compensate for the royalties they are not receiving from broadcast repeats.\n\nThe WGA leadership and union members need to agree a three-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) before they return to work.\n\nThe guild's message on the proposed deal said details still had to be finalised, and it was not yet calling off the strike, but \"we are, as of today, suspending WGA picketing\".\n\nHollywood trade publication Variety reported that staff on late-night talk shows could return to work as soon as Tuesday following the announcement, adding broadcasts could resume as soon as October.\n\nThe next round of voting by the WGA's board and council is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday.\n\nDuring the WGA's last strike in 2007-08, it took four days after a tentative agreement was reached for the finalized contract to be signed by all parties, according to Deadline.\n\nIn its message to members, the union's negotiating committee asked for patience on details of the pact.\n\n\"What remains now is for our staff to make sure everything we have agreed to is codified in final contract language,\" the union said.\n\n\"And though we are eager to share the details of what has been achieved with you, we cannot do that until the last 'i' is dotted.\"\n\nMany related areas of the entertainment industry have been hit by the strike, including caterers, costume suppliers, carpenters and camera operators.\n\nIn the last few days the bosses of Netflix, Disney, Universal and Warner Bros Discovery personally attended the negotiations, which provided new impetus.\n\nAbbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph spoke at an actors' rally in Los Angeles earlier this month\n\nActors have been on strike since mid-July - they are represented by the 160,000-strong SAG-AFTRA performers' union.\n\nThe body congratulated the striking writers on the outcome and praised their \"146 days of incredible strength, resiliency and solidarity\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Since the day the WGA strike began, Sag-Aftra members have stood alongside the writers on the picket lines.\n\n\"We remain on strike in our TV/Theatrical contract and continue to urge the studio and streamer CEOs and the AMPTP to return to the table and make the fair deal that our members deserve and demand.\"\n\nThe governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said: \"California's entertainment industry would not be what is today without our world class writers.\n\n\"I am grateful that the two sides have come together to reach an agreement that benefits all parties involved, and can put a major piece of California's economy back to work.\"\n\nWriters and other figures in Hollywood warmly welcomed the news of a deal being struck.\n\nUS comedian, writer and chat show host Larry Wilmore, simply posted on X: \"Finally!!!\"\n\nAlex Zaragoza, a writer on Amazon Freevee series Primo, wrote: \"This strike has been so hard. Necessary and invigorating, and really hard. But we did it! We fought together.\n\n\"Thank you thank you thank you to all of our strike captains who have held us down at every picket these last 146 days. Kept us hydrated, informed, sunblocked, safe from cars, and feeling encouraged. Love y'all!!\"\n\nWriter Caroline Renard of Disney's Secrets Of Sulphur Springs, was also among those celebrating the agreement news.\n\nShe tweeted: \"We got a deal. That was the hardest I've worked in forever. Captain signing off!\"\n\nActor James Norton said film crews had been making the \"ultimate sacrifice on our behalf\" during the strikes\n\nActors also showed their support. The Shield star Michael Chiklis said: \"Phenomenal news! Now let's see this through and get us all back to work!\"\n\nAbbott Elementary actress Sheryl Lee Ralph said: \"Congratulations to the WGA on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP after 146 days on the picket lines.\n\nShe added: \"Sag-Aftra remains committed in solidarity to achieving the necessary terms for our members when it's our time back at the table.\"\n\nBefore the possible resolution of the writers' strike was announced, Happy Valley star James Norton spoke about the ongoing impact of both that and the actors' strikes on workers.\n\n\"Many, many crew members are also suffering,\" he said at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where he was granted permission by Sag-Aftra to promote an independent film.\n\n\"There are so many people that are affected by this. Every single department - caterers, grips, sparks… It's a huge, huge problem,\" Norton said. \"And for them, not much is going to change. They're making the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow have you been affected by the writers' strike? You can email your story to: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There was a time before ChatGPT when the tech world was talking about something entirely different.\n\nFor a while it dominated tech news. A virtual reality world that would be so immersive, so engaging, that we would want to spend part of our lives in it.\n\nThe tech billionaire was so committed that in October 2021 he changed Facebook's name to Meta.\n\n\"The defining quality of the metaverse will be a feeling of presence,\" the Meta boss said, announcing the change.\n\n\"Feeling truly present with another person is the ultimate dream of social technology. That is why we are focused on building this.\n\n\"In the metaverse, you'll be able to do almost anything you can imagine,\" he said.\n\nNo one could accuse him of a lack of ambition.\n\nBut almost two years on, Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse is in trouble.\n\nIn April he was forced to deny that he is now jettisoning the idea.\n\n\"A narrative has developed that we're somehow moving away from focusing on the metaverse,\" he told investors in April. \"So I just want to say upfront that that's not accurate.\"\n\nOn Wednesday the company holds its annual VR event called Meta Connect.\n\nIt's a chance, perhaps, for Zuckerberg to again explain his reasoning for taking an extremely profitable social media company and diverting its focus to an extremely unprofitable VR venture.\n\nHow unprofitable? Well, the most recent figures from Meta are eye-watering.\n\nReality Labs - which as the name suggests is Meta's virtual and augmented reality branch - has lost a staggering $21 billion since last year.\n\nPart of the losses reflect long-term investment. Meta wasn't expecting short-term returns. But the worrying fact for the company is that, so far, there is very little evidence that this enormous punt will work.\n\nHorizon Worlds, a game published by Meta, is about as close as the company has got to creating a metaverse.\n\nUsers can hop into different settings - cafes, comedy clubs, night clubs, basketball courts - to hang out and play games.\n\nMeta claims it has 300,000 monthly users: tiny when compared to the billions of people on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nAnd at any one time, vastly fewer people than that are actually playing the game.\n\nUser reviews complain of empty worlds, and say there simply aren't enough people to make it fun. Or if there are people, they're often children.\n\nMeta is bringing Horizon World to mobile, so you will not need a headset to play\n\nBut the biggest criticism is that it looks a bit rubbish - akin to graphics from the 2006 Nintendo Wii rather than the lavish VR experience that Zuckerberg promised.\n\nAs for Meta's virtual reality headsets, it's hard to see how current technology is anything close to the vision the company's boss has articulated.\n\nMeta's headsets have sold more than 20 million units, according to a Verge story from earlier this year. That isn't bad - and its Quest 2 headset received positive reviews.\n\nBut in sheer numbers, there are plenty of games consoles that have fared better.\n\nSony claims that its PlayStation 5 has sold 40 million units, for example.\n\nAnd remember, Zuckerberg isn't comparing success to a games console. He wants to revolutionise how we all live, work and, as he would say, \"connect\".\n\nTo put it bluntly, VR is still fringe. It's not the way most people play games, and it definitely isn't how most people choose to spend their time. Real life is stubbornly appealing.\n\nIn July, on an investor call, someone asked Zuckerberg why he'd spent all this money. \"Help us understand,\" they said.\n\nZuckerberg said he understood the frustration, and admitted: \"I can't guarantee you that I'm going to be right about this bet. I do think that this is the direction that the world is going in.\"\n\nAnd so, on Wednesday, we'll hear from Zuckerberg as he attempts to breathe life into a concept in desperate need of oxygen.\n\nWe'll likely hear much more about Meta's new headset, the Quest 3 - and how Horizon Worlds is moving to mobile and desktop (so you won't have to use a headset to play).\n\nWe'll hear a range of new AI announcements, too.\n\nNo doubt we'll also hear again that the metaverse is a long-term project - that we haven't seen the real metaverse yet.\n\nZuckerberg most certainly still believes in it - as he expresses through Meta's cheque book. In July he said that Reality Labs is expected to post even bigger losses next year.\n\nThe metaverse, then, is still very much alive at Meta - but most of the rest of the tech world appears to have moved on.", "Chris Kaba was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met officer into the vehicle he was driving\n\nSuella Braverman has said armed police must not fear \"ending up in the dock for carrying out their duties\" after a marksman was charged with murder.\n\nThe home secretary ordered a review into armed policing after dozens of officers in London handed in their weapons, saying they were worried about the murder charge.\n\nUnarmed Chris Kaba, 24, died after he was shot in south London last year.\n\nMs Braverman said on Sunday that officers have to make \"split-second decisions\" and risk \"their lives to keep us safe\".\n\nThe Met said many firearms officers were \"worried\" about how the charging decision \"impacts on them\".\n\nOne former armed response officer, Harry Tangye, told the BBC he would surrender his weapon if he was still in the force.\n\n\"It's not worth it,\" he told Radio 4's the World at One programme.\n\nA source suggested that more than 100 officers have handed in what is known as a ticket permitting them to carry firearms.\n\nArmed officers from other forces are being deployed as a contingency measure.\n\nThe force said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital, but they were being supported by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nMs Braverman said people \"depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us\".\n\n\"In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures.\"\n\nShe said that officers have her \"full backing\".\n\n\"I will do everything in my power to support them,\" she added.\n\nMr Kaba died after a police operation in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022.\n\nHe was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into the vehicle he was driving and died in hospital the following day, an inquest was told.\n\nThe construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he was shot.\n\nHis death prompted a number of protests, particularly among London's black communities.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met said firearms officers were concerned that the Crown Prosecution Service bringing a charge against the officer \"signals a shift in the way the decisions they take in the most challenging circumstances will be judged\".\n\n\"A number of officers have taken the decision to step back from armed duties while they consider their position. That number has increased over the past 48 hours,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Met added it has a \"significant firearms capability and we continue to have armed officers deployed in communities across London as well as at other sites including Parliament, diplomatic premises, airports etc\".", "The cost-of-living crisis has changed shopping habits for good, according to the boss of Aldi in the UK and Ireland.\n\nGiles Hurley says shoppers are buying more own-label products than ever before and he expects this to stick.\n\nCheaper supermarket own-label ranges are enjoying a boom as shoppers try to save money.\n\nAldi overtook Morrisons last year to become the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket. Alongside rival Lidl it has been the fastest-growing this year.\n\nProducts that are sold under a supermarket's own name now make up more than half of everything shoppers buy, by value.\n\n\"If you look in volume terms that figure is much bigger and at the moment own-label products are growing at twice the rate of branded goods,\" says Mr Hurley. \"Why would [shoppers] go back?\"\n\nThe vast majority of the products Aldi and Lidl sell are own-label.\n\nHe says Aldi has added nearly a million more customers in the past 12 months and two-thirds of UK households are now shopping with the chain.\n\nAldi has now released its financial results for the year to the end of December 2022.\n\nUK sales were up by nearly £2bn to £15.5bn. Operating profit also increased to £178.7m, almost triple the amount it made the year before.\n\nOther big supermarkets have reported a drop in profits. Lidl made an annual loss.\n\nAldi said the increase was due to an exceptional prior year when its profit margin fell to an 11-year low of 0.4% after significant Covid-related costs.\n\n\"It's really important to stress that margins in retail are extremely tight and we are no exception,\" said Mr Hurley.\n\nIts profit margin, the measure of how much money a company makes on its products after costs and expenses, was 1.2% last year.\n\n\"That's just over a penny in every pound spent in an Aldi store,\" Mr Hurley points out.\n\nAldi has now set a long-term target of having 1,500 UK stores, up from 1,200 previously.\n\nIt opened its 1,000th store in Woking earlier this month and plans to invest a further £1.4bn in the UK over the next two years.\n\nFinding the right sites, particularly in the south-east of England and London, is far from easy, though.\n\nAnd will shoppers stay loyal to Aldi when this cost-of-living crisis is over?\n\nSome affluent shoppers may well decide to \"trade up\" again.\n\nRetail expert Catherine Shuttleworth says brands are the lifeblood of innovation in the food and drinks sector but thinks they're going to have to work hard through marketing campaigns to persuade shoppers that their products are worth paying more for.\n\n\"The supermarkets' loyalty card pricing schemes will encourage brand participation and brands should be very eager to showcase their products to millions of shoppers every week in the battle to get us to trade back into brands.\"\n\nFor instance, earlier this month Sainsbury's offered 50% off all Heinz branded products with a Nectar card.\n\nBut Ms Shuttleworth believes our \"thrifty approach\" during the cost-of-living crisis isn't going to go away anytime soon.\n\n\"Discount shopping is here to stay, so much so that shoppers don't even call Aldi and Lidl discounters any longer - they are their supermarkets of choice.\"\n\nOn a visit to an Aldi store on the outskirts of Leicester where they are testing new ideas, including chiller doors on most of their fresh products to save energy, Giles Hurley dismissed suggestions from some in the industry that Aldi had now hit \"peak disruption\"\n\n\"There is a huge demand for our offer here in the UK... I frequently get customers writing to me asking for an Aldi store to come to their town or community.\"\n\nHis mantra is that Aldi \"will never be beaten on price.\"\n\nBut bigger rivals aren't allowing Aldi, nor Lidl, to have it all their own way.\n\nCompetition in the supermarket aisles is as intense as ever with Tesco and Sainsbury's running Aldi price-matching schemes.\n\nFood price inflation is now easing but remains stubbornly high, rising 13.6% in the year to August, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSupermarkets have been cutting prices on a wide range of products over the last few months.\n\nAt Aldi, Mr Hurley said customers would continue to see price reductions in the medium term but the future was far more difficult to judge given how volatile the last two years had been, with commodity costs, energy and fuel prices.\n\n\"That volatility is still continuing.\"\n\nMs Shuttleworth says the key for Aldi will to be to \"stick to their knitting\" and maintain a price differential to their rivals. This which will mean having to accept lower profit margins and driving as much volume as possible.\n\nIt says it can afford to take a long-term view as a privately-owned business.\n\nHow have your shopping habits changed? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Kosovan police sealed off the area around the monastery in Banjska\n\nKosovo and Serbia have traded accusations over a deadly stand-off between ethnic Serb gunmen and police in northern Kosovo.\n\nOne policeman and three of the gunmen were killed during a siege of a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Banjska village on Sunday.\n\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Kosovo officials bore ultimate responsibility for the deaths.\n\nHe said the three gunmen killed were Kosovo Serbs.\n\nSunday's clash marks one of the gravest escalations in Kosovo for years, and follows months of mounting tension between the two sides.\n\nKosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia - along with Belgrade's key allies China and Russia - does not recognise it.\n\nMany Serbs consider it the birthplace of their nation. But of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo, 92% are ethnic Albanians and only 6% are ethnic Serbs.\n\nAn armed man could be seen with a priest inside the monastery in Banjska on Sunday\n\nThe shooting began at about 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT), after Kosovan police said they arrived in Banjska, where about 30 heavily armed gunmen had earlier barricaded themselves in the monastery near the Serbian border.\n\nThree of the gunmen were killed in battles through the day as police mounted what Kosovo's interior minister Xhelal Svecla described as a \"clearance operation\".\n\n\"We put this territory under control. It was done after several consecutive battles,\" he said.\n\nThe local authorities said six people were arrested, and a significant number of weapons was seized. The authorities did not say whether those detained took part in the attack.\n\nMeanwhile, the Serbian Orthodox Church said the gunmen had left the monastery by night, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe Kosovan police officer was killed before the occupation of the monastery.\n\nKosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti blamed \"Serbia-sponsored criminals\" for the incursion, saying they were \"professionals, with military and police background\" who were financed and motivated by Belgrade.\n\nWhile describing the death of the Kosovo police officer as \"absolutely reprehensible\", he said Mr Kurti bore responsibility for the incident. \"His only wish is to drag us into a war with Nato and that's the only thing he does all day\".\n\nMr Vucic said there would have been fewer victims had Nato-led KFOR peacekeepers intervened.\n\nThere are currently about 4,500 peacekeepers in Kosovo.\n\nThe EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, condemned what he called the \"hideous attack\", saying those responsible must be brought to justice.\n\nTensions have run high in Kosovo, after violent clashes followed disputed local elections in May\n\nKosovo Albanian mayors were installed in majority-ethnic Serb areas, after local residents boycotted the polls.\n\nMr Borrell blamed Mr Kurti for failing to set up the association of Serb-majority municipalities which would give them more autonomy.\n\nNato deployed an additional 700 troops to Kosovo to deal with unrest in the northern town Zvecan following the elections.\n\nSome 30 Nato peacekeepers and more than 50 Serb protesters were hurt in the ensuing clashes.", "Movie and TV writers in the US have been on strike since 2 May\n\nHollywood screenwriter Michelle Amor says she is fearful about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on her livelihood. \"I don't want to be replaced with something artificial\".\n\nMs Amor and fellow US television and film writers have now been on strike since the start of May.\n\nOne of their key demands is that the studios and streaming giants agree to limits on the future use of AI-powered writing tools, such as ChatGPT.\n\nThe writers and their union - the Writers Guild of America - want it in writing that AI can only be used for research purposes, and not to ever replace them.\n\n\"My mother's union job as a packer for 35 years was replaced with robotics,\" says Ms Amor, who currently has two TV projects in development - The Honorable and PG County.\n\nMichelle Amor says that human art needs to be protected\n\n\"That's understandable because it's a labour intensive job, but we create art. Who wants a fake Picasso?\"\n\nMs Amor, who says she is adamantly against the use of AI in screenwriting, adds: \"We writers are the heart and soul of this entire industry. No-one works until we do - everyone knows it.\"\n\nFellow screenwriter Melissa Rundle says she was shocked at how quickly ChatGPT became a core issue of the ongoing labour dispute.\n\n\"I was surprised at first, because Chat GPT appeared seemingly out of nowhere - but as soon as I became more familiar with its ever-increasing capabilities it became a concern,\" says Ms Rundle. She has written TV series Kung FU and the movie Cup Of Love, among numerous other projects.\n\n\"It's likely here to stay, and we need to cope with the disruption. Writers are not trying to stop progress - we're just trying to build in some basic protections against employers who have proven time and time again they won't hesitate to exploit us if given the chance.\"\n\nMelissa Rundle, centre, wants rules in place to protect writers from AI\n\nMs Rundle continues: \"At a minimum, we are fighting for regulated use of AI on projects, and a firm understanding that it cannot write - or re-write - any literary material. Nor can it be used as a source material either.\n\n\"I saw a great sign on the picket lines that read 'AI doesn't have childhood trauma' and this is truly important. As writers we are creating stories that touch people and oftentimes digging deep into our soul - this is storytelling at its most sacred and should never be robbed by a machine.\"\n\nElliott Kalan is a comedian and screenwriter, whose credits include The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Mystery Science Theater 3000. He says that one of the biggest challenges writers now face is the threat of studio executives using AI to generate original ideas for movies or TV series.\n\n\"Rather than buying an original screenplay or television series, or even hiring a writer to adapt an existing work into a new medium, they'll try to have a computer program spit out ideas for shows or movies - then pay a writer a small amount to rework it and make it presentable and interesting,\" says Mr Kalan.\n\n\"If that happens, writers will lose a lot of the compensation they should be receiving for their ideas and their work, as well as losing the chance to really contribute something meaningful to audiences.\"\n\nNevertheless, Mr Kalan can see the potential for AI to help writers. \"Ideally, AI should remain an optional tool used for organising information - or for communicating ideas.\"\n\nElliott Kalan doesn't want to see writers employed to write up ideas suggested by AI\n\nAI raises hard, important creative and legal questions for everyone, says Scott Rowe, a spokesperson for The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.\n\nThis is the trade association that represents the studios and streamers, such as Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, Netflix and Apple.\n\n\"We're creative companies and we value the work of creatives,\" says Rowe. \"The best stories are original, insightful and often come from people's own experiences.\n\n\"For example, writers want to be able to use the new AI technology as part of their creative process, without changing how credits are determined, which is complicated given AI material can't be copyrighted. So it's something that requires a lot more discussion, which we've committed to doing.\"\n\nChun Xia is a founding partner of Silicon Valley-based technology investment firm TSVC. He envisages a future where sitcom writers use AI-generated scripts as a foundation for further development.\n\n\"AI algorithms will analyse existing scripts, comedic patterns, and audience responses, to generate content with comedic timing, character dynamics, and engaging storylines,\" he says.\n\n\"Writers will then infuse their creative expertise, adding their wit, humour, and original ideas to refine the AI-generated material.\"\n\nHe adds that this collaborative process between AI and human writers will optimize comedic impact, pacing, and character development.\n\n\"Through this iterative approach, AI will provide data-driven insights that aid in creating resonant storylines for the target audience. Ultimately, the integration of AI-generated content and human creativity will lead to enhanced sitcom scripts that maintain their unique voice, while benefiting from the AI-generated insights.\"\n\nJohn Pollono, a writer, director and actor, is not impressed with the suggestion that AI can be used to write the first drafts of scripts.\n\nHe says that the idea of AI \"scouring\" all past movie scripts \"to inform future ones\" is \"messed up and incestual\". \"It is like using the same playdough over and over again.\"\n\nMr Pollono, who has written the screenplay for upcoming comedy crime movie Riff Raff, which will star actors Jennifer Coolidge and Brian Cox, adds that writers are at risk of having their voices \"robbed\".\n\nHowever, fellow screenwriter Sara Bibel says AI will never be any good at creative writing. \"It's a glorified auto-correct that throws together random combinations of words based on coding,\" says Ms Bibel, whose writing credits include long-running US TV series The Young & The Restless.\n\n\"All it does is plagiarize what has been fed into the system and is not capable of writing anything.\"", "Amazon will invest up to $4bn (£3.3bn) in San Francisco-based AI firm Anthropic, mirroring the earlier tie-up between Microsoft and OpenAI.\n\nIt is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in a race among the big tech firms to exploit the potential of artificial intelligence.\n\nAmazon recently said it would use AI to boost its Alexa voice assistant's conversational powers.\n\nAnthropic has its own ChatGPT rival called Claude.\n\nAmazon claimed the investment could help improve customer experiences.\n\n\"If you look at the world of generative AI, this is the beginning of the race,\" Jim Hare of research firm Gartner told BBC News.\n\nWhile Microsoft had initially reaped the biggest benefit from the enthusiasm for AI through its partnership with OpenAI, he said others were catching up.\n\n\"Now we're starting to see the other cloud providers investing more in generative AI coming up with their own announcements, their own products, and I think the playing field is starting to level off. In other words, it's no longer a Microsoft-OpenAI show only,\" he said.\n\nFounded in 2021, Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, is one of several AI start-ups that have recently emerged to compete with firms like Google DeepMind and OpenAI.\n\nAs well as online retail, Amazon is a major provider of so-called cloud computing services. In simple terms it rents out computing power - housed in huge warehouses full of computers called data centres - to other firms to help store or process their data.\n\nThe collaboration means Anthropic will be able to draw on this huge computing power.\n\nIn turn, Amazon developers will be able to use Claude 2, the latest version of Anthropic's foundation AI model, to create new applications for its customers and enhance existing ones.\n\nMicrosoft, which operates a cloud computing business called Azure, has a similar arrangement with OpenAI.\n\nAnd days after Amazon announced Alexa's AI powered planned upgrade, OpenAI revealed on Monday that users of chatGPT would be able to ask it questions by speaking to it, and post images which could be referred to in conversations.\n\nThe partnership with the ChatGPT maker has enabled Microsoft to announce a number of new AI-powered features for existing products, including its intelligent assistant for Microsoft 365, Copilot, due to start rolling out on Tuesday.\n\nThe deal with Anthropic, according to Nick Patience, lead AI analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, was a further symbol of tech giants like Amazon and Google seeking to rival Nvidia's dominance in the lucrative market for specialist AI chips.\n\nBut whether big tech firms with considerable cloud computing power and budgets at their disposal will be the kingmakers of the AI sector is less certain, he told the BBC.\n\nAnthropic said Amazon would take a minority stake in the business. It will use Amazon's Trainium and Inferentia chips - designed specifically for generative AI applications - to develop its new AI models.\n\nAnthropic said it believed in the responsible development and deployment of AI. Both firms, it said, independently supported a set of voluntary safety commitments led by the White House.\n\nAnthropic boss Dario Amodei (far left) met the prime minister at No 10 in May\n\nAnthropic's chief executive Dario Amodei met with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the heads of DeepMind and OpenAI in May to discuss the potential risks from AI - from disinformation to national security and even \"existential threats\" - and the voluntary actions and regulation required to manage them.\n\nThe UK government, which is hosting a global summit on AI at the home of modern computing Bletchley Park in south east England in November, has said the advent of AI presents a \"crossroads\" in human history.\n\nOn Monday it announced the summit would primarily look at futuristic \"frontier AI\" - referring to highly capable AI models that can perform a wide variety of tasks better than today's most advanced models.\n\nIn particular the summit would look at the risk of the misuse of AI, for example to assist in biological or cyber-attacks.\n\n\"The focus on this type of AI is driven by an urgent need for conversation on how nations can work together to meet the novel challenges these risks pose, combat misuse of models, and utilise AI to do real, tangible public good across the world - from curing disease to improving education,\" the government said.", "Daisy was taken to the vets with cat flu\n\nA woman has been reunited with her pet cat 11 years after reporting her missing.\n\nDaisy the cat failed to return home soon after moving to the Caerphilly area from Dorset with her owner, Sian Sexton, in 2012.\n\nBut last week, Ms Sexton received a surprise phone call from a Caerphilly vet who said a cat microchipped to her had been brought into the clinic.\n\n\"I'm still in shock,\" the 43-year-old said.\n\nMs Sexton, who has since moved to Rhydyfelin, Rhondda Cyon Taf, said she discovered Daisy had been living as a stray in Caerphilly for more than a decade.\n\nShe was taken to the vet by locals who were concerned about her health.\n\nDaisy was \"totally matted\" and had cat flu, Ms Sexton said.\n\n\"She was sneezing and wheezing, and they [the people who brought her in] didn't think she would survive another winter being outside,\" she added.\n\nAt 17 years old, the same age as her sister Dory who is still owned by Ms Sexton, Daisy is responding well to medication.\n\n\"She's survived all this time and now in her final days she finally comes back to us,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully she can live out the rest of her days with us,\" she added.\n\nDaisy's sister, Dory, still lives with Ms Sexton and the siblings will soon be reunited\n\nOnce Daisy is well enough she will be reunited with her sister and introduced to the two other cats in the household, Tillie and Sparkle.\n\n\"It will be really interesting to introduce them again. I wonder if they will recognise each other,\" Ms Sexton said.\n\nShe described Daisy as \"very loving\" and wanting lots of attention, despite living as a feral cat for so many years.\n\nMs Sexton and her husband will be moving to Bridgend soon, meaning Daisy \"might have to be a house cat\" from now on, she laughed.\n\n\"I don't want her to go missing again,\" she said.", "Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren has undergone emergency surgery following a fall in her bathroom at her Swiss home.\n\nThe 89-year-old sustained several \"serious fractures\" to different parts of her hip and femur, her agent Andrea Giusti told the PA news agency.\n\nLoren's representative also confirmed both Loren's sons, Carlo and Edoardo Ponti, were at her bedside.\n\nA spokesperson told Reuters the surgery \"went well and now she needs to rest and everything will be resolved\".\n\nLoren has had a long career, after being born into poverty in Naples. She went on to become a Hollywood star, winning an Oscar in 1962 for Vittorio de Sica's film La Ciociara (Two Women) about a wartime mother's rape.\n\nThat win was groundbreaking; it was the first time an actor or actress had won an Academy Award for a role not in the English language.\n\nShe also starred opposite Hollywood greats including Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant.\n\nIn 1990, Loren also won an honorary award at the Oscars, and in 2021, her career was revived with a critically acclaimed performance in The Life Ahead, directed by Loren's son Edoardo.\n\nThe star played a Holocaust survivor who forges a bond with a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant.", "Ronan Wilson was from Kildress in County Tyrone\n\nA man has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run collision in which a nine-year-old boy from County Tyrone died at the weekend.\n\nRonan Wilson, from Kildress, died at the scene of the crash in Bundoran, County Donegal, on Saturday night.\n\nA man in his 20s is due to appear before the District Court sitting at Carrick-on-Shannon on Tuesday morning.\n\nEarlier Ronan's father said his family would never be the same.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Dean Wilson said he had been broken by his son's death.\n\nThe scene of the incident in Bundoran was cordoned off by police\n\nGardaí said they had seized a vehicle, which would examined by forensic investigators.\n\nMr Wilson described his son as his best friend, adding he was \"the best son anyone could ask for\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn County Tyrone, tributes were paid to Ronan, who played Gaelic games for Kildress Wolfe Tones.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, Ronan's teammates and their parents gathered at the club to comfort one another and mourn the loss of their friend.\n\nDominic McGurk, the chairman of the club, said the community was numb and in \"complete shock\" in the wake of the boy's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We are a tight-knit community here, we've dealt with tragedies in the past and unfortunately we're doing to have to deal with another one but we will come together and we will support the family,\" he said.\n\nMr McGurk said that he hoped the support from the club would help Ronan's family \"in their days and months ahead\".", "James Cracknell and his coxless four crew won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games\n\nOlympic rowing champion James Cracknell will run as a Conservative candidate at the next general election.\n\nThe two-time Olympic gold medallist has been confirmed as the candidate in Colchester, where the sitting Tory MP Will Quince is standing down.\n\nPaul Dundas, Conservative group leader at Colchester City Council, said Mr Cracknell was the \"clear choice\" of members.\n\nMr Quince had a 9,000 majority over Labour at the 2019 general election.\n\nMr Dundas congratulated Mr Cracknell and said that he had topped a long list of applicants for the Essex seat.\n\nColchester MP Will Quince will not stand at the next election\n\n\"I think he will be a fantastic candidate and a great MP for Colchester,\" he said.\n\n\"He will win because he is a guy who doesn't do losing.\"\n\nThe Colchester seat had been held by the Liberal Democrats' Sir Bob Russell from 1997 until he lost it to Mr Quince at the 2015 general election.\n\nMr Cracknell and his coxless four crew won gold at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.\n\nHe has long been linked with the Conservatives and in 2014 stood to be an MEP for the party in the European elections in south-west England.\n\nMr Quince announced his intention to stand down as MP in June, stating he wished to spend more time with his young family.\n\nThe Conservatives have found a little stardust to sprinkle at the next election.\n\nThey have just chosen a man who, 20 years ago, was one of the biggest names in British sport; a man with a compelling back story who has overcome injury and raised thousands for charity.\n\nLocal Conservatives are stressing that he has not been parachuted in. I am told that after phoning a few months ago to express an interest in standing, he faced a selection meeting and was grilled by the membership in the way that every other candidate was.\n\nHe does not seem to have any connections with the city, but helped canvass in a recent by-election and impressed local members with his enthusiasm.\n\nThose who have met him describe him as being socially liberal and a pragmatist. He believes in low taxes and free enterprise, and thinks the NHS should be doing more to stop people falling ill.\n\nColchester Conservatives will need his enthusiasm and stardust in spades, because this is a seat that could easily change hands at the next election.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and X. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gatwick will cancel around 82 departures over the coming week because of short-term sickness and Covid in the air traffic control tower.\n\nAirport boss Stewart Wingate said he was \"very frustrated\" by a series of problems at Gatwick's air traffic control.\n\nAround 30% of air traffic control staff are not available, Mr Wingate said.\n\nThe largest number of cancellations will be on Friday 29 September, with 33 departures affected.\n\nNo cancellations are expected for Tuesday or Saturday.\n\nThe cancellations amount to around 3% of planned departures at Gatwick over the period.\n\nThe staff work for Nats, which was formerly known as the National Air Traffic Service.\n\nDiscussions will begin tomorrow on which flights to cancel, with airlines affected in proportion to their use of the airport.\n\nEasyjet will be the most affected, with BA and Ryanair also among those asked to cancel flights.\n\nJohan Lundgren, chief executive officer of EasyJet said it is \"regrettable that a temporary limit on capacity at Gatwick Airport is required\".\n\nHowever, he said it is \"the right action by the airport so on-the-day cancellations and delays can be avoided.\"\n\nHe added that Gatwick Airport and Nats now need to work a longer term plan to improve the resilience of the air traffic service at Gatwick.\n\nEasyJet will now work with the airport to work through what this means for its schedules and will notify any customers whose flights are affected as soon as possible, with their options to rebook, or get a refund.\n\nGatwick had a number of cancellations on Friday and the weekend, caused by staff shortages in air traffic control.\n\n\"As a result of that we decided that we needed to take action,\" Mr Wingate said.\n\n\"The reason that we are doing this is to provide as much certainty as we can, not only to the airlines but most importantly to the passengers who will travel this week, that the flights that remain scheduled will actually operate.\"\n\nHe added that there might be an increased risk of delays to other flights this week.\n\nOctober is a less busy month for air traffic, and Mr Wingate said he expected there would be enough air traffic control staff to handle the reduced number of flights, and further cancellations would not be necessary.\n\nIt come just weeks after a data glitch at Nats triggered widespread disruption to airlines grounding flights and leaving thousands of passengers stranded.\n\nBritain's aviation regulator is preparing to launch a probe looking into why the country's air traffic control system collapsed during the summer holiday break.\n\nAre you an air traffic controller off work due to sickness? Or are you a passenger whose flight has been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles says \"there is no room for racism in any sport\" after a video went viral on social media of a black girl not being given a medal at an Irish gymnastics event ceremony.\n\nThe incident occurred at a Gymstart event in Dublin in March 2022 when a line of children were awarded medals but the black girl did not receive one.\n\nHowever a video of the incident has emerged in recent days and been watched millions of times on social media, drawing criticism.\n\nBiles saw a video of the incident and posted, external it \"broke my heart\".\n\nOn Friday, in response to the video, Gymnastics Ireland issued a statement saying they received a complaint alleging racist behaviour in March 2022 from the parents of the girl.\n\nIt said there was independent mediation leading to a \"resolution agreed by both parties in August 2023\".\n\nAs part of Gymnastics Ireland's investigation into the incident, the official involved \"expressed deep regret for what they described as an honest error\".\n\nGymnastics Ireland said a written apology from the official was issued. It also said the girl did get her medal after the ceremony.\n\nHowever, the Irish Independent on Sunday, quoting the girl's mother anonymously, said she believes Gymnastics Ireland has failed to publicly apologise and she has taken the matter to the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation in Switzerland.\n\nThe Irish Independent also reported that the mother is concerned the family will be a target for racist abuse and wants the video removed by social media companies.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the family believed their daughter was ignored at the ceremony because she was black.\n\n\"We are often the only black family at gymnastics events and this has been very hurtful for us,\" the mother told the newspaper. \"Now eight million people have seen the video. From Pakistan to Ethiopia they can see this was wrong but Gymnastics Ireland still can't accept it and say sorry.\"\n\nBiles said she originally sent a video message to the girl, offering her support, last year.", "Santander told David Morgan it could not discuss his friend Tony Hawkins's banking with him\n\nA disabled ex-police officer has been unable to access his money for more than a month after Santander froze his card over unauthorised withdrawals.\n\nTony Hawkins, of Llandysul, Ceredigion, found more than £2,000 had been taken from his account.\n\nHis friend David Morgan, who contacted Santander on his behalf, called the bank \"uncaring\" for failing to resolve the issue.\n\nSantander said it was \"reviewing the right support options\" for him.\n\nThe unauthorised withdrawals have since risen to more than £3,200, forcing Mr Hawkins to borrow from friends in order to afford food.\n\nIt has been reported to Dyfed-Powys Police, which said it was investigating.\n\nMr Hawkins's debit card was frozen by Santander in August, leaving him without access to funds to pay for food and other essentials, while the bank investigated.\n\nHe uses a wheelchair because of spinal problems and he has very limited speech and movement after a series of strokes.\n\nHe was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2018 for his campaigning work on behalf of disabled people.\n\nTony Hawkins is unable to use online banking services because of his disability\n\nMr Morgan, 72, a retired police inspector, was first alerted to problems by his friend in July.\n\n\"Tony pointed out he'd had deductions made from his bank account,\" he said.\n\n\"He showed me his mobile phone. He told me he hadn't authorised these. I kept asking him 'are you absolutely certain', and he said 'yes'.\"\n\nMr Morgan contacted Santander on 2 August but the bank said it could not discuss it as he was not the account holder.\n\nHe also reported the matter to Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, but was told there were \"no useful lines of inquiry\".\n\nMr Hawkins is unable to use online banking because of his disability. A few days later, a carer who purchases goods for Mr Hawkins, informed him that his debit card no longer worked, leaving him without access to funds.\n\nMr Morgan said it had caused real difficulties, with Mr Hawkins having to borrow money from the local authority and friends to pay for essentials.\n\n\"She (the carer) was not able to draw out money to buy food for him,\" said Mr Morgan.\n\nSantander said it couldn't give a detailed comment about Mr Hawkins's case without his permission\n\n\"He has been relying on loans from friends and we got in touch with his social worker at Ceredigion council and she arranged for a loan for Mr Hawkins while we're trying to sort this problem out with Santander.\n\n\"The strange thing is despite stopping the use of his card, money is still going out of his account - sums he has not authorised.\"\n\nSantander told Mr Hawkins it would discuss the matter only in person with him. Mr Morgan accompanied his friend to the branch in Carmarthen for an appointment on 30 August, but the matter could still not be resolved.\n\n\"Mr Hawkins informed me he had no forms of identity as his driving licence had gone astray,\" said Mr Morgan.\n\n\"Santander said (to) take correspondence from the local authority, utility bills and on top of that I found, on the internet, an article from the Tivyside Advertiser which included a photo of Mr Hawkins being awarded the British Empire Medal.\n\n\"I got a local solicitor to sign and stamp it as a true likeness. They (the branch) said it wasn't enough and they couldn't deal with the matter.\"\n\nMr Morgan said the case highlighted the difficulties faced by disabled people trying to resolve banking issues.\n\nHe has applied for power of attorney over his friend's financial affairs, but the application still has not been completed.\n\nSantander said it was unable to provide any detailed comment about Mr Hawkins's case as it did not have his permission.\n\nSantander said: \"We are reviewing the right support options for our customer.\n\n\"Santander has a range of options in place for customers who need more tailored support, and we would encourage customers to contact us to discuss these either in branch, over the phone or via our digital channels.\"", "Letby attended the hearing via videolink from HMP New Hall in Wakefield\n\nSerial killer nurse Lucy Letby will face a retrial on an outstanding charge of attempting to murder a baby girl.\n\nLetby, 33, was sentenced to a whole life order after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in 2015 and 2016.\n\nHowever, the jury at Manchester Crown Court was unable to reach verdicts on six counts of attempted murder.\n\nA provisional trial date of 10 June 2024 at the same court was fixed.\n\nThe former neonatal nurse, originally from Hereford, attended the hour-long hearing via videolink from a conference room at HMP New Hall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.\n\nSat behind a desk, Letby spoke only to confirm her name and that she could see and hear the proceedings.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was seeking a retrial on one of the outstanding charges - that Letby attempted to murder a baby girl, known as Baby K, in February 2016.\n\nNicholas Johnson KC, prosecuting, confirmed the Crown was not pursuing a retrial on the other five outstanding allegations involving two baby girls and two baby boys.\n\nIt was estimated the retrial would last up to three weeks.\n\nHer barrister told the court Letby, who was acquitted of two counts of attempted murder by the jury, maintained her innocence on all charges.\n\nLetby lodged an appeal against her convictions at the Court of Appeal earlier this month.\n\nJonathan Storer, chief crown prosecutor, said decisions on whether to seek retrials were \"extremely complex and difficult\".\n\n\"Before reaching our conclusions, we listened carefully to the views of the families affected, police and prosecution counsel,\" he said.\n\n\"Many competing factors were considered, including the evidence heard by the court during the long trial and its impact on our legal test for proceeding with a prosecution.\n\n\"We have met with all the families affected by these decisions to explain how they were reached.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At 16, you can't legally buy alcohol, place a bet or vote in a general election - but you can consent to sex.\n\nIt has been this way since 1885 in the UK, when the age of consent was raised from 13. For gay and bisexual men, the age of consent was reduced from 18 to 16 in a law change in 2000, after a long campaign for equality.\n\nBut now, people are debating if consent laws should be changed again. This time, discussion has been triggered by allegations made against Russell Brand - in particular, those made by one alleged victim, \"Alice\", who says she had a relationship with Brand when he was in his 30s and she was 16.\n\nAlice told the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches that Brand sexually assaulted her, and that, looking back, she feels she was groomed by him during their relationship. Brand denies her allegations.\n\nDue to the fact she was over the age of sexual consent at the time, Alice says it would have been difficult for anyone to raise concerns about their relationship to the police.\n\nBut Alice believes we should start considering a change to the law in the form of \"staggered ages of consent\", so that people over 18 would not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\n\"There's a reasonable argument [that] individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 can have relations with people within that same age bracket,\" she told BBC Women's Hour. \"You're allowed to make mistakes as a teenager, they should be with other people your own age.\"\n\nThis view has been echoed by many people on social media, with some commentators floating ideas such as restricting those under 18 to sleeping with those under 21.\n\nBut would a change in the law protect 16 and 17-year-olds from harm? And could it criminalise healthy relationships that happen to have an age gap?\n\nWhile sex involving one or more people under 16 is illegal, police use discretion to decide whether a prosecution is in the public interest. They take into account factors such as the relationship between the people involved, whether the underage person consented to what happened and how close in age the people were.\n\nIf a person is under 13, they cannot be seen as consenting in law - even if they say they consented.\n\nIt is already illegal to take, share or possess indecent images of people under 18 - even if the person is a consenting 16- or 17-year-old.\n\nIt is also against the law for people in a position of trust, such as teachers, to engage in sexual activity with a child in their care, even if that child is over the age of consent.\n\nBut what if special protections were introduced more widely for sexual relationships involving those who are over the age of consent, but still children?\n\n\"My view would be that changing the law doesn't actually achieve a lot,\" says Roger Ingham, director of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton.\n\nHe says one of the arguments for having an age of consent is that it allows people who may feel pressured to have sex under 16 to say, \"it's against the law\".\n\n\"How often that's actually used, how often that stops people having sex that they don't want, we don't know.\"\n\nHe says surveys suggest that by the time they reach 18, the majority of people - about 60 to 70%, he says - have had sex (usually defined as intercourse).\n\nBut if the age of consent were to be raised to 18, for example, he says this would be \"bringing in an awful lot of people into the bracket of being criminalised, even if the practice of the police and the prosecution is not to prosecute under certain conditions\".\n\nHe says teenagers in consensual relationships below the age of consent - for example two 15-year-olds - are often nervous about going to family planning clinics to seek contraception in case they are reported - so one risky consequence of raising the age of consent could be more young people having unprotected sex.\n\nIn reality, sexual health clinics keep underage patients' details confidential, unless they are under 13 and thought to be at risk of harm, in which case other services may be alerted.\n\nBrand denies the allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse\n\nProf Ingham says more comprehensive sex and relationships education could help protect 16 and 17-year-olds, adding there should be \"much more attention paid to issues of consent, not just in sexual situations\".\n\nJayne Butler, chief executive of the charity Rape Crisis, agrees that better sex and relationship education and increased understanding are needed to shift societal attitudes around consent.\n\n\"We don't want to criminalise consensual relationships between 16-year-old peers, but there needs to be recognition of the significant power imbalance between older men and 16 year olds,\" she says.\n\n\"The cultural acceptance of relationships between young, potentially vulnerable people and someone much older needs to be addressed, and this doesn't start or end with just changing the law.\"\n\nProf Ingham says the issue of consent is challenged when someone with power or status, such as a celebrity, takes an interest in a young person.\n\nA \"star-struck\" young person may be willing to have sex at the time but may regret it later, he says.\n\n\"It's a really complicated psychological issue, I'm not sure how you can legislate for it, to be honest.\"\n\nDr Laura Janes, from the Law Society's criminal law committee, also points out that the law in this area is already quite complex.\n\n\"What many people find confusing is we have different ages of consent for different things,\" she says - highlighting that in the UK someone is considered criminally responsible at 10 but can't have sex until 16 or vote in a general election until 18.\n\n\"If you take these three dates of what the law thinks you can do in terms of your development, we have already got a law which is very incoherent and inconsistent,\" she says.\n\nA 16-year-old in the UK is allowed to have sex but not vote in a general election\n\nThe age of consent in England and Wales is broadly similar to other European countries - slightly higher than France's 15 and Germany's 14, but lower than Ireland's 17 and Malta's 18. However, the gap between the age of criminal responsibility and the age of consent in England and Wales is the biggest of all countries, she says.\n\n\"It's important to remember the law is a very blunt instrument and creates black and white lines,\" Dr Janes says.\n\nAnd, crucially, the law changes according to the moral values of society, she says - so you have to take into account the cultural reality. She highlights YouGov research from earlier this year that shows a fifth of people say they had sex before the age of consent.\n\nOn top of this, she says one of the problems with English law is there has been a \"proliferation in the number of laws we have\". And the question is what another law change would achieve, when there are other current laws - for example, against coercive control - which aim to protect young people from the kind of harmful relationships that can happen when one partner is older.\n\n\"There's been a huge number of new offences that have appeared on the statute book and there is a real risk of it becoming overcomplicated,\" she says.\n\nDr Janes says that before any law change is considered, the priority should be making sure young people understand what the current law is - and then ensuring they know they can use it with confidence. \"There needs to be a cultural understanding where people feel sufficiently confident to go to the police,\" she says.\n\nAnd if there are going to be any legal changes, particularly if they involve intimacy and relationships between young people, \"it has to be really clear and it has to be understandable to everyone, including potential victims and potential perpetrators\".\n• None Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go to police?", "The Army has been stood down from supporting the Metropolitan Police after hundreds of officers stepped back from firearms duties.\n\nSoldiers were put on standby after some armed officers spent the weekend considering their position.\n\nIt follows an officer being charged with murdering Chris Kaba, 24, who was shot last September.\n\nOfficers from other forces were drafted in to help, but the Met said on Monday that enough had returned to duty.\n\nEarlier, the BBC was told up to 300 armed officers had turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons over the weekend. There are more than 2,500 armed officers in the force.\n\nBut the Met said on social media: \"As of lunchtime on Monday, the number of officers who had returned to armed duties was sufficient for us to no longer require external assistance to meet our counterterrorism responsibilities.\"\n\nIt added that a \"limited number\" of armed officers from other forces continued to support its non-counterterrorism armed policing.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it received a request - known as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities - from the Home Office on Sunday to \"provide routine counterterrorism contingency support to the Metropolitan Police, should it be needed\".\n\nA number of officers took a step back from their armed duties following their concerns over the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to charge officer NX121 with Mr Kaba's murder.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the Met said senior officers were having \"ongoing discussions\" to support staff to fully understand those concerns.\n\n\"Many are worried about how the decision impacts on them, on their colleagues and on their families,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed a review ordered by the home secretary over the weekend to look into armed policing guidelines, which Downing Street said was expected to conclude by the end of the year.\n\n\"Our firearms officers do an incredibly difficult job,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"They are making life or death decisions in a split-second to keep us safe and they deserve our gratitude for their bravery.\n\n\"It is important when they are using these legal powers that they do so with clarity and they have certainty about what they are doing, especially given the lethality they are using.\"\n\nCommenting on the review, Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley suggested firearms officers were concerned that they would face years of legal proceedings, \"even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given\".\n\n\"Officers need sufficient legal protection to enable them to do their job and keep the public safe, and the confidence that it will be applied consistently and without fear or favour,\" Sir Mark wrote in a letter to the home secretary.\n\nBut, he argued when officers acted improperly, the system \"needs to move swiftly\".\n\nOne former officer, who left the Met's specialist firearms command a few months ago, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the risk to officers and their families was \"just too great\".\n\nSpeaking anonymously, he argued that this was not a co-ordinated protest.\n\n\"What is obvious to me, they are not acting out of anger or petulance\", the ex officer said.\n\n\"These are individuals with partners and families who are incredibly committed to their profession.\n\n\"They're incredibly concerned it's not worth it anymore.\"\n\nNick Aldworth, a former national counterterrorism co-ordinator, told the PA news agency that by acting en masse, the officers who had stepped back from their duties were in effect staging an industrial protest - despite rules that stop them going on strike.\n\n\"What is happening now is not people who are experiencing a sudden questioning of morally whether they want to carry a gun, or do they really feel that the law doesn't support them, they are engaged in industrial protest,\" he argued.\n\n\"For good reason, the Police Act does not allow police officers to strike or undertake industrial action. But that is what this is, quasi-industrial action.\"\n\nAlthough the military could have been used in the event of a terror attack, the Met stressed armed forces personnel would not have been used in a \"routine policing capacity\".\n\nNew Scotland Yard said measures would be kept under review but added that since Saturday evening extra officers had been called in from neighbouring police forces.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, insisted the city was properly protected and he remained \"in daily contact\" with the Met commissioner.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council told the BBC mutual aid was \"routinely used\" across the country to ensure public safety.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire armed policing unit confirmed it had sent officers to London to help the Met.\n\nBut Leicestershire Police said it had declined to give mutual aid \"for the time being\", while several other forces told the BBC they had not received requests for support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former Met Police firearms officer says putting troops on the street should be ''a wake-up call''\n\nAccording to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these.\n\nIn that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show.\n\nOn 5 September 2022, Mr Kaba was fatally hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into a vehicle in Streatham, south London.\n\nThe construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.", "The alligator was captured and killed by police\n\nA 13ft (4m) alligator has been killed, police say, after it was spotted in Florida with the remains of a woman in its jaws.\n\nA witness told local media he saw the alligator in a Largo canal clutching a lower torso in its mouth.\n\nPinellas County Sheriff's Office said the animal was killed and confirmed the remains of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham were found in the waterway.\n\nAn investigation will determine the circumstances behind the woman's death.\n\nPolice said deputies were called at 13:50 local time on Friday after a report of a body in the waterway.\n\nJamarcus Bullard said he was walking to a job interview when he spotted the alligator with what initially looked like a mannequin in its mouth.\n\n\"I noticed it had a body in its mouth - like a lower torso - so once I saw that I ran straight to the fire department,\" he told local broadcaster Fox 13.\n\n\"It was my first time seeing a gator in real life so I was like it's pretty cool, but once I saw what it had I was like 'is that like a mannequin?'\n\n\"It was just clamped onto it, and swam backwards to the bottom of the canal... I just couldn't believe it was real,\" he said in another interview with 10 Tampa Bay.\n\nA fundraising page has been set up for Ms Peckham by her family, who said the woman was living in a homeless camp near the wooded area at the time of her death.\n\nThe waterway in Largo where the alligator was caught\n\nBreauna Dorris, who said she was the victim's daughter, wrote on Facebook: \"It is believed that she may have been walking to or from her campsite near the creek in the dark and the alligator attacked from the water.\n\n\"No one deserves to die like this.\"\n\nAuthorities said the alligator was humanely killed and removed from the waterway, before a police dive team recovered the remains of Ms Peckham.\n\nNews footage shows a huge alligator sprawled beside a road surrounded by police and emergency vehicles.\n\nThe Medical Examiner's Office is yet to determine the cause of death.\n\nNearby residents said they had seen small alligators in the area before, but not of the size of the animal found in this case.\n\nJennifer Dean told 10 Tampa Bay: \"It's crazy. My kids walk by there all the time. So it's really scary. I've seen four or five-feet gators but nothing that big.\"\n\nMr Bullard added: \"I'm going to get me a bike or start catching the bus to work. They have small little gates, but somebody died.\"\n\nAuthorities in Florida are investigating the circumstances of Sabrina Peckham's death", "The fourth series of Sex Education began last week\n\nA French family planning agency has launched a campaign encouraging young people to talk about sex, inspired by the hit British TV show Sex Education.\n\nLe Planning Familial said it was promoting its free helpline with Netflix as part of its \"fight for access to sex education for all\".\n\nPosters detailing questions inspired by the show, but asked by 15-25 year olds, can be found in French cities, it said.\n\nThe comedy-drama's fourth and final series launched on Netflix last week.\n\nIt follows teenage sex therapist Otis (Asa Butterfield) who, encouraged by the entrepreneurial Maeve (Emma Mackey), ends up running a self-styled clinic at their school.\n\nThe Netflix series has been widely praised for its honesty, diversity and representation of difficult subjects.\n\nIn France, sex education was made compulsory in 2001. But Le Planning Familial says young people have questions and few answers.\n\nThe organisation said the collaboration comes \"at a time when access to reliable, inclusive information about sex is in danger\".\n\nSarah Durocher, Le Planning Familial's president, said the series had been a source of information and inspiration in terms of questions young people were asking their service.\n\nThe posters - advertising \"La Hotline Sex Education\" - highlight five example questions inspired by the series, including \"Is foreplay sex?\", \"How do I know if I like boys or girls?\" and \"Is contraception only for girls?\"\n\nIts tagline says: \"It's the final season, but sex education continues.\"\n\nThe campaign runs until Tuesday.", "The San Francisco Fire Department and the California Highway Patrol Golden Gate Division Air Operations unit responded to a call about a hiker who fell from a cliff next to the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday. The man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for the injures suffered because of the fall.", "A woman has been arrested after a missing newborn baby and three-year-old girl were found.\n\nThe 31-year-old was held after attending an east London police station, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe boy and girl were located at an address in Harwich, Essex, on Sunday and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nIt comes after a search for Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, who left a family assessment centre in north-west London with her children on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met said it was \"no longer appealing for information about the whereabouts of Jamie-Leigh Kelly\".\n\nThe arrested woman was also taken to hospital for precautionary checks.\n\nPolice said a 63-year-old woman was also arrested at the address in Harwich on suspicion of child abduction, assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.\n\nShe remains in custody at an east London police station.\n\nEarlier, police said two people from Dagenham, east London, have been charged as part of the investigation.\n\nAshley Hawkins, 52, and Jordan Hardy, 30, are due to appear at Southend Magistrates' Court on Monday. They have been charged with two counts of child abduction.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elaine McGarrity was knocked down on Brownhill Link Road, Irvinestown, in 2019\n\nAn uninsured driver who knocked down and killed a grandmother on New Year's Eve in 2019 has been jailed for causing her death by dangerous driving.\n\nCiaran Lee Wootton was driving a pick-up truck when he hit Elaine McGarrity as she walked along Brownhill Link in Irvinestown.\n\nWootton, who is 26, had not cleaned the windscreen and did not have permission to drive the vehicle.\n\nHe was given a three-year sentence, half of which is to be spent in prison.\n\nDungannon Crown Court heard the defendant, from Main Street in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, had a history of motoring offences.\n\nThe victim, who was a mother of two and grandmother of four, died as a result of severe chest injuries shortly after she was hit at about 09:00 GMT on 31 December 2019.\n\nPassing sentence, the judge said 54-year-old Mrs McGarrity became \"trapped under the vehicle which continued driving a further 50m before coming to a stop\".\n\nHe told Wootton: \"The sole reason for this tragic turn of events was your failure to clear the windscreen of frost and condensation.\n\n\"You did not have the visibility required to drive safely and didn't see Mrs McGarrity.\n\n\"Moreover the vehicle was in your possession for valeting and you were not insured nor had you permission to drive.\"\n\nWootton had initially pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case, telling police he was driving the Toyota Hilux at 10mph when Mrs McGarrity ran in front of the vehicle.\n\nHowever, forensic examination disproved both of those false claims and the defendant later admitted causing the victim's death by dangerous driving.\n\nHis defence barrister told the court: \"My client never meant this terrible accident to happen.\n\n\"He is genuinely sorry and accepts full responsibility for the consequences of his driving.\"\n\nThe judge described it as an \"entirely avoidable incident\" which led to the death of a \"valued and cherished member of our community\".\n\n\"You chose to drive when visibility was impacted. There can be few more dangerous actions than to drive blind down a busy road,\" he told Wootton.\n\n\"I consider the claim of Mrs McGarrity running out in front of you as a sustaining attempt to place blame on a victim.\"\n\nIn addition to the jail sentence, the judge imposed a three-year driving ban.", "Auroras were spotted on Elgin, Moray, on the north coast of Scotland - a cause for celebration, as this person on the beach shows\n\nIf you have a clear sky where you live it could be worth looking up over the coming nights - as chances of seeing the aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, have increased in the UK.\n\nThis is not only because nights are longer now we have passed the autumn equinox but also because the Sun is also reaching the peak of its 11-year cycle, due to be at the end of 2024 or early 2025.\n\nThat means an increase in the number of sunspots - massive fields of magnetic pressure on the surface of the Sun.\n\nThese in turn erupt as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is when plasma is expelled from the Sun. And if that is pointed in the direction of Earth, it sends charged particles via solar winds toward our atmosphere.\n\nThe charged particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere to create the colours of the aurora we are all familiar with.\n\nAuroras have already been seen in Scotland and in parts of England including North Yorkshire and as far south as Herefordshire.\n\nThey were spotted on Sunday night, as pictures from our community of BBC Weather Watchers show, with luminous greens, fiery reds and oranges. as well as teal and purple seen dancing across the sky.\n\nModerate activity is expected over the next two nights, so if you're outside try to spot them - and have your camera ready!\n\nAnother shot from Elgin shows the aurora above a line of trees\n\nAurora could be seen above people's houses in the village of Findhorn, also in Moray\n\nOne BBC Weather Watcher captured this image above the sea in Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute\n\nThe auroras were a vivid green over Pennan in Aberdeenshire\n\nThe view over North Bay in Scarborough, North Yorkshire at 3am. BBC Weather Watcher godinspells said it was a \"really lively display\"\n\nThe lights were seen as far south as Leominster, Herefordshire", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important... in 83 seconds\n\nDusty samples from the \"most dangerous known rock in the Solar System\" have been brought to Earth.\n\nThe American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.\n\nThe samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.\n\nNasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside chance of hitting our planet in the next 300 years.\n\nBut more than this, the samples are likely to provide fresh insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago and possibly even how life got started on our world.\n\nThere was jubilation when the Osiris-Rex team caught sight of their capsule on long-range cameras.\n\nComponents such as the heatshield and back cover were removed in the temporary clean room\n\nTouchdown on desert land belonging to the Department of Defense was confirmed at 08:52 local time (14:52 GMT), three minutes ahead of schedule.\n\nThe car-tyre-sized container had come screaming into the atmosphere over the western US at more than 12km/s (27,000mph). A heatshield and parachutes slowed its descent and dropped it gently, perfectly on to restricted ground.\n\n\"This little capsule understood the assignment,\" said Tim Priser, the chief engineer at aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. \"It touched down like a feather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dante Lauretta: \"I was a babbling baby in that helicopter for a while\"\n\nAsked how the operation went to retrieve the capsule from the desert, some of the recovery workers returning in their helicopters told BBC News' science team that it was \"awesome\".\n\n\"I cried like a baby in that helicopter when I heard that the parachute had opened and we were coming in for a soft landing,\" said Osiris-Rex principal investigator Dante Lauretta.\n\n\"It was just an overwhelming moment for me. It's an astounding accomplishment.\"\n\nScientists are eager to get their hands on the precious cargo which pre-landing estimates put at some 250 grams (9oz).\n\nThat might not sound like very much - the weight of an adult hamster, as one scientist described it - but for the types of tests Nasa teams want to do, it is more than ample.\n\n\"We can analyse at a very high resolution very small particles,\" said Eileen Stansbery, the chief scientist at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Texas.\n\n\"We know how to slice and dice a 10 micron-sized particle into a dozen slices and to then map grain by grain at nano scales. So, 250 grams is huge.\"\n\nHelicopters were sent out to retrieve the landed capsule\n\nCleanliness was the watchword out in the desert. When the recovery teams caught up with the capsule on the ground, their motivation was to bring it back to a temporary clean room at the nearby Dugway army base as quickly as possible.\n\nIf, as researchers think, the sample contains carbon compounds that may have been involved in the creation of life then mixing the rocky material with present-day Earth chemistry has to be avoided.\n\n\"The cleanliness and preventing contamination of the spacecraft has been a really stringent requirement on the mission,\" said Mike Morrow, the Osiris-Rex deputy project manager.\n\n\"The best way that we can protect the sample is just to get it from the field into the clean lab that we've set up here in a hangar as quickly as possible and get it under a pure nitrogen gas purge. And then it's safe.\"\n\nThis was achieved just before 13:00 local time, a mere four hours after touchdown.\n\nThe lab team disassembled the capsule, removing its heatshield and back cover but leaving the sample secure inside an inner canister.\n\nThis is being flown on Monday to a dedicated facility at Johnson where the analysis of the samples will begin.\n\nUK scientist Ashley King will be part of a six-person \"Quick Look\" team that will conduct the initial assessment.\n\n\"I'm expecting to see a rocky type material that's very soft, very fragile,\" the Natural History Museum expert said.\n\n\"It'll have clay minerals - silicate minerals that have water locked up in their structure. Lots of carbon, so I think we'll probably see carbonate minerals, and maybe some things we call chondrules and also calcium-aluminium inclusions, which were the very first solid materials to form in our Solar System.\"\n\nA C17 transporter will take the samples to a curation facility in Texas\n\nNasa is planning a press conference on 11 October to give its first take on what has been returned. Small specimens are to be distributed to associated research teams across the globe. They hope to report back on a broad range of studies within two years.\n\n\"One of the most important parts of a sample-return mission is we take 75% of that sample and we're going to lock it away for future generations, for people who haven't even been born yet to work in laboratories that don't exist today, using instrumentation we haven't even thought of yet,\" Nasa's director of planetary science, Lori Glaze, told BBC News.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales became the first team to reach the 2023 World Cup quarter-finals as they celebrated a record win over Australia in Lyon.\n\nGareth Anscombe kicked 23 points and tries from Gareth Davies, Nick Tompkins and Jac Morgan sealed a last-eight place with a game remaining in Pool C.\n\nAustralia managed just two penalties from Ben Donaldson.\n\nEddie Jones' side are on the brink of becoming the first Australia team to suffer pool stage elimination.\n\nThe woeful Wallabies were humbled by Wales, who are celebrating a fourth consecutive World Cup quarter-final qualification under Warren Gatland as head coach.\n\nThis display must rank as one of Wales' finest performances under the New Zealander and the result beats their previous record win against Australia, a 28-3 triumph in 1975.\n\nCaptain Morgan was again outstanding, while number eight Taulupe Faletau and scrum-half Gareth Davies showed their class.\n\nThe only negative for Wales was a worrying injury that forced talismanic fly-half Dan Biggar off in the first half, but his withdrawal allowed Anscombe to excel with six penalties, a conversion and a drop-goal.\n\nA victory over Georgia on 7 October in Nantes will officially ensure Wales finish as group winners but only two match points will be required.\n\nThat would set up a probable quarter-final against Argentina, Japan or Samoa in Marseille the following weekend, with England clear favourites to win Pool D.\n• None As it happened and reaction from Lyon\n\nA few months ago, very few people would have backed Wales to achieve quarter-final qualification so easily and so quickly.\n\nYet the army of Welsh fans that dominated the Lyon streets and OL Stadium this weekend are starting to believe again.\n\nWelsh rugby was in disarray when Gatland returned for a second stint at the helm after replacing Wayne Pivac in December 2022.\n\nThey managed only one win in the 2023 Six Nations, a tournament in which players threatened strike action over contractual issues before that was averted.\n\nGatland regrouped and put his faith in youth following some high-profile retirements including Alun Wyn Jones and Justin Tipuric.\n\nBrutal training camps in Switzerland and Turkey in the summer helped the players form a formidable bond and Gatland predicted his side would shock people by doing something special in France.\n\nThey started with maximum bonus-point wins against Fiji and Portugal and completed the job of getting out of the pool with this devastating display against an average Australia side.\n\nThe Wallabies have not officially been eliminated from the tournament but now need a series of results, including potentially Wales defeating Georgia and Georgia beating Fiji, to have a chance of progressing.\n\nWelsh rugby has been like a soap opera for the last 12 months but all the pre-match drama and turmoil came within the Australia camp, with Jones clinging on to his job after this embarrassment.\n\nJones was booed when he appeared on the big screen throughout the game, with Wales' wonderful showing compounding his misery.\n\nThere was an Australian outcry following a first defeat to Fiji in 69 years in Saint-Etienne last weekend, with former Wallabies wing Drew Mitchell criticising Jones and questioning why he had not taken the experienced Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper to France.\n\nWorld Cup-winning centre Tim Horan called this potentially the biggest game for Australian rugby in the professional era. Australia have qualified for the knockout stages in all nine previous World Cups since the tournament started in 1987.\n\nSince Jones returned to Australian rugby this year to replace Dave Rennie, Australia have lost seven out of eight games, with the only win coming in their World Cup opener against Georgia.\n\nIn the build-up to this fixture, Jones held a combative press conference where he defended his policy of building towards the 2027 World Cup and insisted he had \"no doubt\" Australia would beat Wales.\n\nOn the morning of the match, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Jones had held a secret Zoom interview last month about becoming the Japan coach next year, despite having signed a five-year deal with Australia.\n\nJones denied those reports but Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh was addressing the reports publicly less than four hours before kick-off, so preparation was not ideal.\n\nYou wondered whether Australia would be hampered by the controversies and they were exposed by a textbook move off the training park for the opening Wales try.\n\nCentre Tompkins fed captain Morgan with the flanker producing a superb inside pass to supporting scrum-half Davies, who emulated his World Cup try of four years ago against Australia.\n\nThe Wallabies responded with a series of attacks that resulted in a Donaldson penalty, while his opposite number Biggar suffered what looked like a pectoral injury and was replaced by Anscombe.\n\nAustralia celebrated a scrum penalty as Donaldson, starting at 10 instead of the dropped Carter Gordon, reduced the deficit to one point.\n\nAnscombe hit the post with his first penalty attempt before slotting over a successful kick.\n\nAustralia turned down a kick at goal in front of the posts and lost the line-out which followed, with Morgan launching a huge 50:22 attacking kick to change the momentum. The ensuing pressure set up a penalty with Anscombe slotting over the simple kick.\n\nA superb Josh Adams high-ball catch set up the chance for Anscombe to further extend the lead, while wing Louis Rees-Zammit was denied a try after being held up over the line.\n\nWales started superbly in the second half with Anscombe kicking another penalty before producing a deft chip for Tompkins to chase and score. Anscombe converted and then added a fifth penalty.\n\nAustralia had brought on Pone Fa'amausili at half-time for James Slipper, but the Wales scrum started to dominate and Anscombe's boot continued to punish the Wallabies.\n\nMorgan sealed the win with a try from a driving maul to take Wales to 40 points.\n\nThe smile from Gatland captured on the big screen at the end said everything about an epic evening in Lyon.\n• None All the latest news, views and interviews at the Rugby World Cup", "There was a picket line outside Royal Mile Primary School in Edinburgh from early morning\n\nHundreds of schools in Scotland will be closed as support staff enter a second day of a three-day strike in 24 of the country's 32 councils.\n\nThousands of pupils have been told to stay at home as members of the union Unison walk out in their row over pay.\n\nA renewed offer from Cosla and last-minute talks over the weekend failed to halt action from the union with the largest representation.\n\nUnite and GMB have suspended strike plans while members are consulted.\n\nThe impact of the strike will vary significantly across the 24 areas where Unison is striking - with all primary and secondary schools in Edinburgh closed while in Glasgow 29 secondaries will remain open to S4, 5 and 6 students.\n\nIn Aberdeenshire, 39 schools are closed and 21 are partially closed. The council said 66 early learning centres and nurseries were also shut.\n\nThe dispute is over a pay offer for non-teaching staff including janitors, canteen workers, classroom assistants, cleaners, admin staff and nursery staff.\n\nA deadline was set for Wednesday last week for local authority body Cosla to make an improved pay offer - this was extended while it sought money from the deputy first minister.\n\nThe Scottish government then freed up £80m in ring-fenced funding to enable a new deal, which included a rise of about £2,000 a year for the lowest paid.\n\nOn Tuesday Mark Ferguson, who is Unison's chair of local government, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme the dispute was about years of under-funding and job cuts as well as pay.\n\nHe said: \"It's unclear exactly what the in-year value (of the new offer) is. We've had two pieces of correspondence - one from the Scottish government and one from Cosla - and they conflict with each other.\n\n\"Neither can explain exactly where this money is coming from and we don't want it to come from more cuts to jobs and services.\"\n\nDozens of schools in and around Edinburgh, including Holy Cross Primary School (above) and Portobello High School (below), have been affected\n\nGMB Scotland said the offer was \"not perfect but a clear improvement\" and moved to suspend strikes, along with Unite.\n\nMembers of those unions were now faced with the prospect of having to cross Unison picket lines.\n\nJust hours before the strikes were due to start, First Minister Humza Yousaf urged Unison to suspend its strike action and to put the improved pay offer to members to vote on.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We have been engaged with Cosla right throughout this process\" and insisted flexibility had been given to provide extra funds.\n\nThe Scottish government was urged to \"work flat-out to avert strikes\" by the Scottish Tories.\n\nThe new offer represents a minimum wage increase of £2,006 for those on the Scottish government's living wage and a minimum increase of £1,929 for workers who are earning above the living wage.\n\nThe living wage of £10.85 will rise to £11.89 under the new offer, equivalent to a 9.6% increase.\n\nUnison members on their picket line outside Anderson High School in Lerwick\n\nAsked if the Scottish government could have done more to prevent school strikes, Mr Yousaf said: \"These are negotiations obviously for Cosla but we have been engaged with Cosla right throughout this process, providing additional funding, additional flexibility so more funding can be made available.\n\n\"But it is for Cosla to lead these negotiations.\n\n\"It is a very good offer, that is why a couple of unions of course have suspended strike action and will now consult members.\n\n\"There's government involvement, government funding - it is a very good offer and I would urge Unison, who I understand continue to have concerns, to follow the other trade unions, suspend strike action and do a consultation with their members.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"I have got tremendous respect for Unison.\n\n\"I believe they are doing what they believe is in the best interests of their members but I would very politely suggest that with the further detail we have provided over the weekend, I am hoping there is enough to give them reassurances, that particularly for the lowest paid, but for everybody across any of the pay bands this is a very good offer indeed.\"\n\nUnison's Scottish secretary Lilian Macer criticised Mr Yousaf for \"staying silent\" until the last moment, claiming the dispute \"could have been sorted months ago.\"\n\nShe said: \"If the Scottish government was serious about avoiding disruption for pupils, parents and staff, ministers should have been in touch, and spoken to us. But they've been conspicuously absent.\n\n\"Cosla is as much to blame. It made an initial offer in the spring, then disappeared for months, only coming up with a revised amount late last week. It was too little and far too late.\n\n\"No-one wants these strikes to go ahead, but the offer is nowhere near good enough.\"\n\nResources spokesperson Katie Hagmann said: \"I am heartened both Unite and the GMB will suspend strike action whilst they consult with their membership on the pay package.\n\n\"We have met every ask of our trade union colleagues and this best and final offer which will see every single local government worker receive an in-year pay rise of between 6% and almost 10% on the basis that strikes would be suspended.\n\n\"We are talking about a pay package which not only compares well to other sectors but recognises the cost-of-living pressures on our workforce and which would mean the lowest-paid would see an in-year uplift of over £2,000 or just under 10%.\n\n\"This is the best funding package that Scottish and local government can provide and I hope their members accept the offer.\"\n\nThe council unions had hoped that the mere threat of further disruption to schools would lead to a suitable pay offer.\n\nTwo of the three big council unions - Unite and the GMB - feel the latest offer was good enough to suspend the action. In that sense, the threat worked.\n\nThe other union, Unison - the largest council union across Scotland - took a different view.\n\nThe impact of the strike varies significantly across the 24 areas where Unison is striking.\n\nCouncils and the Scottish government are adamant that there is no chance of a further improvement to the pay offer.\n\nBut will that position hold after three days of disruption?\n\nAre you affected by the school strikes? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The crash happened at the junction of London Road and Arcadia Street\n\nA 71-year-old woman has died after the ambulance she was in was involved in a crash with a taxi in the east end of Glasgow.\n\nThe accident happened on London Road, at its junction with Arcadia Street, at about 10:25 on Sunday.\n\nA 38-year-old male paramedic injured in the collision was taken to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment.\n\nThe female paramedic driving the ambulance and the male driver of the taxi were not injured.\n\nPolice Scotland have not officially named the woman but said her family had been informed.\n\nOfficers have appealed for witnesses to contact them.\n\nSgt Andrew Coutts, from Police Scotland's Road Policing Unit West Command, said: \"Our thoughts and condolences are with the family of the lady who died and extensive inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding the collision.\n\n\"The incident took place at a busy junction and I am appealing to anyone who was on London Road or Arcadia Street around 10:25 on Sunday morning, particularly those with dash-cam footage, to please come forward.\"\n\nA Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"On Sunday 24 September at 10:35 an ambulance was involved in a collision with a taxi on London Road, Glasgow whilst transporting a patient. Sadly, the patient died.\n\n\"We would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family at this difficult time and our thoughts are with all of those affected. The circumstances of this incident are being investigated by Police Scotland.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The scene of the early morning accident on Tottenham Court Road\n\nA motorcyclist, 18, has died in a crash with a taxi and a bin while he was being followed by police officers.\n\nTwo officers on marked police motorcycles followed the motorcyclist after he went through a red light on Oxford Street at around 06:45 BST.\n\nHe failed to stop for police, pulled on to Tottenham Court Road and crashed, the Met said.\n\nA passenger, 17, sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was arrested after being found with a machete.\n\nOfficers provided first aid but the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe male passenger was taken to hospital with leg and arm injuries.\n\nThe two men drove approximately a mile from Oxford Street to the northern end of Tottenham Court Road before they crashed near Warren Street tube station.\n\nLondon's Air Ambulance was dispatched to the scene alongside two ambulance crews, an advanced paramedic and a fast response medic, a spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said.\n\nThe Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has begun an investigation.\n\nA spokesperson for the Independent Office for Police Conduct said that they have sent investigators to the scene to begin inquiries.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Met officer to be charged with murder of Chris Kaba\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe death of Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack is not being treated as suspicious, police have said.\n\nMidfielder Cusack - the first player to reach 100 appearances for the club's women's team last season - died last week aged 27.\n\nDerbyshire Police said they were called to an address in Horsley just after 18:35 BST on Wednesday, where Cusack was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThey added a file will now be prepared for the coroner.\n\nPlayers and fans paid tribute to Cusack - who had been at the club since 2019 and also worked in the club's marketing department - before the Blades' 8-0 Premier League defeat by Newcastle on Sunday.\n\nMembers of her family joined United's women's captain Sophie Barker and former player Tony Currie to lay a wreath in the centre circle.\n\nA minute's silence was held before kick-off, with fans applauding in the eighth minute of the match to represent Cusack's squad number.\n\nFans held up signs and flags with Cusack's name on and the club flag at Bramall Lane flew at half-mast throughout the day.\n\nTributes were also paid before England played Scotland at Sunderland's Stadium of Light on Friday, with players from both sides wearing black armbands and a period of silence held before kick-off in her memory.\n\nIn a statement announcing her death on Thursday, the Blades said they were \"devastated\" while on Friday, men's manager Paul Heckingbottom said Cusack was a \"big part of everything\" at the club.", "The term \"mini budget\" will be forever toxic in British politics.\n\nSo disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.\n\nOver the past year, I have spoken to all the key players, some in public and some in private, about what happened both before and after that day.\n\nThose conversations have revealed important new details about Mr Kwarteng and then-PM Liz Truss' \"growth plan\" - including that its initial impact was far worse than has been publicly known up to this point.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, top officials were being asked by astounded counterparts how Britain had singlehandedly shifted one of the key indicators of the world economy in the financial markets, known as the Fed Fund futures curve. It was not a proud moment, they tell me.\n\nIn Washington for a key IMF meeting, Mr Kwarteng himself was privately having to reassure US bankers, politicians, and diplomats at the British embassy that the UK \"was committed to fiscal responsibility\" and that the Bank of England was one of the UK's \"finest institutions\".\n\nThat final comment attracted a lone clapper in the room - a board member of a British bank.\n\nThe chancellor went on to draw parallels between himself and Sir Isaac Newton, who held the high-ranking title of Warden of the Royal Mint for roughly 30 years. Bemused guests may not have realised that Sir Isaac himself made drastic attempts to reassert sterling's credibility in the late 17th Century.\n\nAs journalists in the room knew at the time, Mr Kwarteng was summoned back to Downing Street mid-meeting - but as he swept through the Washington DC rain he chafed at comparisons between himself and the crisis-ridden Greek Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos who had been hauled back from the IMF during the country's 2011 crisis.\n\nAs Mr Kwarteng rushed home, PM Liz Truss was being forced to take her own drastic action.\n\nOff the back of the mini-budget, the Bank of England was about to cease its emergency purchases of government bonds - these are a form of debt that the government sells to raise money it needs for public spending. As a result, Ms Truss' team felt she had no choice but to U-turn on a corporation tax cut announced in the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank's Governor Andrew Bailey tells me that this was not designed to pressure the government - but to ensure financial stability.\n\nBut Ms Truss says there were questions about the bank's governance - they were in a very powerful position over her and did effectively put \"pressure on me and the government to reverse our decisions on taxes\", she says.\n\nMs Truss says the same of another institution, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which is the country's official independent economic forecaster. It was created to help market confidence by ensuring a government's numbers are regularly checked. She says she had not realised the \"sheer level of power an organisation like the OBR has\" before she got to Downing Street.\n\nThe plan by Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng was to bypass the OBR.\n\nIts boss had worked through summer to prepare for an early set of tax changes and Mr Kwarteng had a draft forecast on his desk when he arrived in the job.\n\nBut as I revealed a week before the mini-budget, Downing Street refused to publish it.\n\nThe numbers, marked as \"market sensitive\", forecast the Truss administration borrowing an extra £110bn over five years as gas prices, inflation and interest rates surged.\n\nThe OBR chief executive Richard Hughes told me: \"We were not asked to produce an updated forecast for him. And we were not asked to publish any forecasts alongside that [mini-budget].\"\n\nCurrent Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said this was a fundamental error by Mr Kwarteng. If the OBR had provided a forecast alongside the mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng would have been forced to show how his £45bn in tax cuts would balance with spending cuts or increased borrowing.\n\nInstead, the mini-budget had a solitary table asserting how, theoretically, the gap could be filled if the economy grew faster.\n\nIt was the equivalent of trying to pay a restaurant bill with an Instagram photo of some gold bars.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said the Bank of England's actions were taken to ensure financial stability.\n\nIn the mini-budget, as soon as the government revealed it needed an extra £72bn in funding from the markets - without details of how it calculated the number - the market reacted badly. It simply did not believe the plans.\n\nMassive spending cuts might have bridged the gap - but both Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng lacked both the clout and the numbers to push such plans through the Commons.\n\nIt was made worse by a crisis in a normally sleepy corner of the pensions system that is used to manage the risks of interest rate changes, which are normally predictable and gradual. Interest rates rises are normally good for pensions funds' long term health - but the rise in the effective interest costs for government after the mini-budget was so rapid that these funds had to sell more and more of their government bonds.\n\nThe more they sold, the more the value of the bonds fell.\n\nMs Truss's team say this was the real crisis, that it was a failure of Bank of England regulation, and that the Bank should have warned them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was another problem for the markets. The government risked digging an even deeper credibility hole as it continued to defend itself. Cabinet ministers repeatedly blamed the market gyrations on \"global factors\", effectively sending the message that there was no problem to rectify.\n\nOn two occasions, the Bank of England sent charts to MPs making it crystal clear that the mini-budget was the trigger. Yes, there was a global trend of rising rates, but the surge last September was a UK-specific issue.\n\nSenior bank officials also felt the need to directly correct ministers' public mistakes - for example when ministers played down, or appeared not to understand, the direct impact of rising government interest on fixed-rate mortgages. The Governor of the Bank himself had to explain to senior Cabinet ministers that mortgages were now more likely to be priced off long term borrowing rates rather than the Bank of England base rate.\n\n\"Banks were finding it hard to price on a curve that was moving so much,\" said one official, who advised ministers not to go out in public and blame banks for rising mortgage costs. \"You've got to understand how the pricing works.\"\n\nIt's clear, looking back, that this was not just a financial heart attack - it was a stress test of Britain's entire system of institutions.\n\nAnd beyond changing the public perception of Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss, it changed the entire way British economic policy is directed, how investors act, and how institutions respond to blips.\n\nEconomically, the UK has long enjoyed a privilege in the markets - able to run \"twin deficits\" on both trade and government borrowing. But this reliance on the \"kindness of strangers\" funding was shaken by last year's events.\n\nBig corporations report that there are more questions now from major investors than before the mini-budget. Those burnt by a sharp fall in sterling after the announcement will now insist on factoring in costly currency hedges before investing in major British infrastructure.\n\nPolitically, \"mini-budget\" is now a sort of anti-brand. Its name is a trump card, deployed to argue for financial credibility and a tight hand on the tiller above everything else. The government and the opposition are contorting themselves to meet a five-year debt target and cut back on investments they have previously said the country badly needs.\n\nIf HS2 is cut back, for example, some of that can be attributed to the mini-budget hangover.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has already won an argument to rein in a planned tsunami of green investments if her party wins the general election - and has vowed to strengthen the OBR even more.\n\nShe and others are clearly trying to link the rising mortgage costs to the chaos of last year - even though much of that now arises from the Bank of England's inflation-fighting efforts.\n\nArguably the biggest impact of the mini-budget has been on the UK's big institutions.\n\nThis time a year ago the OBR, the Bank of England, and top Treasury civil servant Sir Tom Scholar were variously side-lined, briefed against, and fired.\n\nThey were the \"bean counters\" pursuing \"abacus economics\", standing in the way of newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss' agenda.\n\nHer experiment - that push-back against the \"economic orthodoxy\" - went to its breaking point. Policy, from the jobs market, to visas, to investment, is now prioritised based on whether it will \"score\" on the OBR's forecast and help the numbers add up.\n\nThe radical economic laboratory experiments are over.", "Like thousands of others, Joanne Patterson is a volunteer.\n\nShe says her family would describe her as a serial volunteer.\n\nShe volunteers with Damolly Football Club in Newry, at a youth gym, a food bank, as well as church work.\n\nOn a cool Wednesday evening, Joanne can be found putting Damolly's young female players through their paces under the floodlights at Abbey Grammar School in the city.\n\n\"On nights like tonight when you get soaked, you certainly question it. But volunteers get as much out of it as they put in,\" she says.\n\n\"Like a lot of parents, you probably start by standing on the side of the pitch and then you help a wee bit and then you help a wee bit more, and then in five or six years you can see yourself overseeing everything.\"\n\nBut latest figures from Nisra's continuous household survey suggest a substantial decline in the numbers volunteering.\n\n\"Mostly our volunteer population was at about 28% of our adult population and it sat at that point for years - it never really moved,\" Denise Hayward of Volunteer Now said.\n\nVolunteer Now is the lead organisation for promoting and supporting volunteering across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"[They were] the first real stats after Covid [and] the numbers had gone down to 17%. That could be church-based organisations, sports, arts,\" Ms Hayward said.\n\n\"We were part of a big UK-wide research project looking at this and one of the things that came out of it was that older people, or people with an illness, were told to shield and stay at home. That broke the habit of volunteering and many of them never came back or came back slowly.\n\n\"Now that may well change, but overall, we have seen a decline of over 10 percentage points and that is very concerning.\"\n\nMs Hayward described the impact on fundraising as huge because \"volunteers are a huge driver of fundraising\".\n\nBut it has also affected the delivery of organisations' services.\n\n\"Often volunteers are the ones doing things like befriending schemes. Some needs really rocketed because you saw more isolation, so what you are seeing is demand for services, in many cases, increasing but actually a decreased ability to deliver those services.\"\n\nJoanne Patterson has been talking about the issues faced by the decline in volunteering\n\nIn Newry, Joanne Patterson has seen other reasons for the decline.\n\n\"I know ourselves, we have seen it and so have other local groups,\" she said.\n\n\"During lockdown people took up activities that they hadn't previously done, like open-water swimming, walking or running, and they have opted [for] that rather than volunteering to take those couple of hours a week to themselves.\"\n\nThe cost of living is compelling people to take on extra hours at work, she says, or they find that their shift patterns have changed. It's a trend she sees happening at other clubs.\n\nBecause of all this, clubs like Damolly has had to be more direct in terms of recruiting volunteers.\n\n\"We are like most clubs, especially grassroots football clubs, that you do lose coaches,\" Ms Patterson added.\n\n\"You don't like to and you're obviously looking to recruit and retain.\n\n\"We lost three coaches before the summer, so we have three dads who have agreed to come along and help as a group because their three sons are part of that group.\n\n\"They have taken on the role of volunteers and already I can see on their faces that they are loving what they are doing.\"", "The explosion of streaming services such as Netflix have changed the way royalties are paid Image caption: The explosion of streaming services such as Netflix have changed the way royalties are paid\n\nYou may have heard the term \"residuals\" crop up recently in relation to the strikes.\n\nThese are the royalties which are paid to actors, writers and other members of a production team any time their show is repeated on television, or bought in physical format such as DVD.\n\nHistorically, these payments were highly lucrative - think how often episodes of Friends have been repeated on television over the last two decades.\n\nHowever, the explosion of streaming services, coupled with the decline in physical media, has changed the game.\n\nThe whole concept of repeats doesn't apply to streamers, as content is available all the time.\n\nAs a result, many of the people behind your favourite shows say they have suffered a significant financial shortfall.\n\nWriters and actors do receive a certain amount of money from streaming services which is intended to compensate for the absence of residual payments. It's not always entirely clear how these amounts are calculated.\n\nThis has led to one of the key issues of the recent strikes. Many have complained the residuals they receive from streamers are just a fraction of the earnings they would have got from a broadcast TV show. Some stars even shared their payments on social media, to show how low they were.", "The term \"mini budget\" will be forever toxic in British politics.\n\nSo disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.\n\nOver the past year, I have spoken to all the key players, some in public and some in private, about what happened both before and after that day.\n\nThose conversations have revealed important new details about Mr Kwarteng and then-PM Liz Truss' \"growth plan\" - including that its initial impact was far worse than has been publicly known up to this point.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, top officials were being asked by astounded counterparts how Britain had singlehandedly shifted one of the key indicators of the world economy in the financial markets, known as the Fed Fund futures curve. It was not a proud moment, they tell me.\n\nIn Washington for a key IMF meeting, Mr Kwarteng himself was privately having to reassure US bankers, politicians, and diplomats at the British embassy that the UK \"was committed to fiscal responsibility\" and that the Bank of England was one of the UK's \"finest institutions\".\n\nThat final comment attracted a lone clapper in the room - a board member of a British bank.\n\nThe chancellor went on to draw parallels between himself and Sir Isaac Newton, who held the high-ranking title of Warden of the Royal Mint for roughly 30 years. Bemused guests may not have realised that Sir Isaac himself made drastic attempts to reassert sterling's credibility in the late 17th Century.\n\nAs journalists in the room knew at the time, Mr Kwarteng was summoned back to Downing Street mid-meeting - but as he swept through the Washington DC rain he chafed at comparisons between himself and the crisis-ridden Greek Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos who had been hauled back from the IMF during the country's 2011 crisis.\n\nAs Mr Kwarteng rushed home, PM Liz Truss was being forced to take her own drastic action.\n\nOff the back of the mini-budget, the Bank of England was about to cease its emergency purchases of government bonds - these are a form of debt that the government sells to raise money it needs for public spending. As a result, Ms Truss' team felt she had no choice but to U-turn on a corporation tax cut announced in the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank's Governor Andrew Bailey tells me that this was not designed to pressure the government - but to ensure financial stability.\n\nBut Ms Truss says there were questions about the bank's governance - they were in a very powerful position over her and did effectively put \"pressure on me and the government to reverse our decisions on taxes\", she says.\n\nMs Truss says the same of another institution, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which is the country's official independent economic forecaster. It was created to help market confidence by ensuring a government's numbers are regularly checked. She says she had not realised the \"sheer level of power an organisation like the OBR has\" before she got to Downing Street.\n\nThe plan by Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng was to bypass the OBR.\n\nIts boss had worked through summer to prepare for an early set of tax changes and Mr Kwarteng had a draft forecast on his desk when he arrived in the job.\n\nBut as I revealed a week before the mini-budget, Downing Street refused to publish it.\n\nThe numbers, marked as \"market sensitive\", forecast the Truss administration borrowing an extra £110bn over five years as gas prices, inflation and interest rates surged.\n\nThe OBR chief executive Richard Hughes told me: \"We were not asked to produce an updated forecast for him. And we were not asked to publish any forecasts alongside that [mini-budget].\"\n\nCurrent Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said this was a fundamental error by Mr Kwarteng. If the OBR had provided a forecast alongside the mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng would have been forced to show how his £45bn in tax cuts would balance with spending cuts or increased borrowing.\n\nInstead, the mini-budget had a solitary table asserting how, theoretically, the gap could be filled if the economy grew faster.\n\nIt was the equivalent of trying to pay a restaurant bill with an Instagram photo of some gold bars.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said the Bank of England's actions were taken to ensure financial stability.\n\nIn the mini-budget, as soon as the government revealed it needed an extra £72bn in funding from the markets - without details of how it calculated the number - the market reacted badly. It simply did not believe the plans.\n\nMassive spending cuts might have bridged the gap - but both Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng lacked both the clout and the numbers to push such plans through the Commons.\n\nIt was made worse by a crisis in a normally sleepy corner of the pensions system that is used to manage the risks of interest rate changes, which are normally predictable and gradual. Interest rates rises are normally good for pensions funds' long term health - but the rise in the effective interest costs for government after the mini-budget was so rapid that these funds had to sell more and more of their government bonds.\n\nThe more they sold, the more the value of the bonds fell.\n\nMs Truss's team say this was the real crisis, that it was a failure of Bank of England regulation, and that the Bank should have warned them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was another problem for the markets. The government risked digging an even deeper credibility hole as it continued to defend itself. Cabinet ministers repeatedly blamed the market gyrations on \"global factors\", effectively sending the message that there was no problem to rectify.\n\nOn two occasions, the Bank of England sent charts to MPs making it crystal clear that the mini-budget was the trigger. Yes, there was a global trend of rising rates, but the surge last September was a UK-specific issue.\n\nSenior bank officials also felt the need to directly correct ministers' public mistakes - for example when ministers played down, or appeared not to understand, the direct impact of rising government interest on fixed-rate mortgages. The Governor of the Bank himself had to explain to senior Cabinet ministers that mortgages were now more likely to be priced off long term borrowing rates rather than the Bank of England base rate.\n\n\"Banks were finding it hard to price on a curve that was moving so much,\" said one official, who advised ministers not to go out in public and blame banks for rising mortgage costs. \"You've got to understand how the pricing works.\"\n\nIt's clear, looking back, that this was not just a financial heart attack - it was a stress test of Britain's entire system of institutions.\n\nAnd beyond changing the public perception of Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss, it changed the entire way British economic policy is directed, how investors act, and how institutions respond to blips.\n\nEconomically, the UK has long enjoyed a privilege in the markets - able to run \"twin deficits\" on both trade and government borrowing. But this reliance on the \"kindness of strangers\" funding was shaken by last year's events.\n\nBig corporations report that there are more questions now from major investors than before the mini-budget. Those burnt by a sharp fall in sterling after the announcement will now insist on factoring in costly currency hedges before investing in major British infrastructure.\n\nPolitically, \"mini-budget\" is now a sort of anti-brand. Its name is a trump card, deployed to argue for financial credibility and a tight hand on the tiller above everything else. The government and the opposition are contorting themselves to meet a five-year debt target and cut back on investments they have previously said the country badly needs.\n\nIf HS2 is cut back, for example, some of that can be attributed to the mini-budget hangover.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has already won an argument to rein in a planned tsunami of green investments if her party wins the general election - and has vowed to strengthen the OBR even more.\n\nShe and others are clearly trying to link the rising mortgage costs to the chaos of last year - even though much of that now arises from the Bank of England's inflation-fighting efforts.\n\nArguably the biggest impact of the mini-budget has been on the UK's big institutions.\n\nThis time a year ago the OBR, the Bank of England, and top Treasury civil servant Sir Tom Scholar were variously side-lined, briefed against, and fired.\n\nThey were the \"bean counters\" pursuing \"abacus economics\", standing in the way of newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss' agenda.\n\nHer experiment - that push-back against the \"economic orthodoxy\" - went to its breaking point. Policy, from the jobs market, to visas, to investment, is now prioritised based on whether it will \"score\" on the OBR's forecast and help the numbers add up.\n\nThe radical economic laboratory experiments are over.", "Two police officers have been taken to hospital after a noxious gas was released in a building in Belfast.\n\nThe incident occurred at Ravenhill Reach Court at 21:15 BST on Friday, after officers responded to a 999 call.\n\nA suspected gas leak was detected in a communal area and the building was evacuated.\n\n\"It has since been established that this was not a gas leak and we believe some kind of noxious substance was released,\" said the police.\n\nTwo other officers were also affected but not taken to hospital, while some residents were \"displaying symptoms\".\n\nInspector Dawson said: \"I would commend the professionalism of the officers who were in attendance. Despite suffering from the effects of the substance, they ensured that residents were evacuated to safety.\"\n\nEnquiries are ongoing to establish the source of the substance and police have appealed for information.", "The dual actor and writer strike, which advocates for better wages, residuals and AI regulations, has brought the film-making industry in Los Angeles to a standstill.\n\nThe owner of a rental shop said his business has about a month before he'll be forced to auction off the thousands of props he rents out to movies and television.", "Ian Wilkinson has now been discharged from hospital while his wife, Heather, died days after the meal\n\nA survivor of a lethal mushroom poisoning that has gripped Australia has been released from hospital, his family say.\n\nIan Wilkinson had been left in a critical condition after eating a beef Wellington cooked by Erin Patterson.\n\nThree people, including Mr Wilkinson's wife, died after the meal, which police believe contained death cap mushrooms, which are lethal if ingested.\n\nMs Patterson, who is not facing charges, has said it was an accident.\n\nMr Wilkinson left hospital on Friday after almost two months of treatment, according to his family.\n\n\"This milestone marks a moment of immense relief and gratitude for Ian and the entire Wilkinson family,\" they said in a statement.\n\nIt is not yet clear if Mr Wilkinson, a Baptist church pastor, has already spoken to police in hospital or whether he can now shed new light on the case.\n\nThe fatal lunch was held in Ms Patterson's home in the small town of Leongatha, Victoria on 29 July.\n\nMs Patterson had invited her former in-laws Gail and Don Patterson, along with Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and Heather's husband Ian. Ms Patterson's estranged husband could not attend at the last minute.\n\nHours after the meal, all four guests fell ill with what they initially thought was severe food poisoning.\n\nWithin days, Heather, 66, Gail, 70, and Don, 70, had died, while Ian, 68, was hospitalised in a critical condition.\n\nSuspicion fell on Ms Patterson because she appeared to remain in good health despite her four guests falling gravely ill.\n\nBut she has said it was an accident.\n\n\"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,\" the 48-year-old said last month.\n\n\"I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people, whom I loved.\"\n\nVictoria Police believe Erin Patterson's guests were fed death cap mushrooms, which are lethal\n\nMs Patterson said the mushrooms used to prepare the meal were a mixture of button mushrooms bought at a supermarket, and dried mushrooms purchased at an Asian grocery store in Melbourne several months ago.\n\nHer children, who were not present at the lunch, ate some of the leftover beef Wellington the next day. However the mushrooms had been scraped off the dish as they do not like the fungi, she said.\n\nMs Patterson said she herself was hospitalised on 31 July. She said she was put on a saline drip and given medication to guard against liver damage.\n\nShe said she had also saved and given the remainder of the lunch to hospital toxicologists for examination.\n\nIn her statement, she also admitted lying to authorities about a food dehydrator seized by police from a local tip during investigations.", "Santander has been fined £107.7m over \"serious and persistent gaps\" in its anti-money laundering controls which opened the door to \"financial crime\".\n\nThe financial watchdog said the bank \"failed to properly oversee and manage\" systems aimed at verifying information provided by business customers.\n\nSantander also failed to properly monitor the money customers had going through their accounts.\n\nThe bank said it was \"very sorry\" for the failings and had taken action.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said: \"Santander's poor management of their anti-money laundering systems and their inadequate attempts to address the problems created a prolonged and severe risk of money laundering and financial crime.\n\nThe failings affected the oversight of accounts held by more than 560,000 business customers between 31 December 2012 and 18 October 2017, and led to more than £298m passing through the bank before it closed accounts.\n\nThe FCA said that in one case, a new customer opened an account as a small translations business with expected monthly deposits of £5,000. Within six months it was receiving millions in deposits, and swiftly transferring the money to separate accounts.\n\nAlthough the account was recommended for closure by the bank's own anti-money laundering team in March 2014, the FCA said that poor processes by Santander meant that it was not acted upon until September 2015.\n\nAs a result, the customer continued to receive and transfer millions of pounds through its account.\n\nThe City watchdog identified several other business banking accounts which Santander failed to manage correctly, leaving the bank open to \"serious money laundering risk\".\n\nSantander chief executive Mike Regnier said: \"We are very sorry for the historical anti-money laundering related controls issues in our Business Banking division between 2012-17 highlighted in the FCA's findings.\"\n\nHe said the bank took action to address the issues once they were identified, but accepted that its anti-money laundering controls at the time should have been stronger.\n\n\"We have since made significant changes to address this by overhauling our financial crime technology, systems and processes, he said, adding that more than 4,400 Santander staff are now focused on preventing financial crime.\n\nRegulators have been busy cracking down on banks for money-laundering failures.\n\nThe biggest UK fine was for NatWest, which was penalised £265m in December 2021 after it admitted three offences of failing to comply with money laundering regulations between 2012 and 2016. It failed to prevent money-laundering of nearly £400m by a Bradford gold trading business, which in one instance deposited £700,000 in cash into a branch in black bin bags.\n\nHSBC was also fined in December 2021, paying £64m after the FCA found \"unacceptable failings\" in its anti-money laundering systems between 2010 to 2018. The bank had previously been fined £1.4bn for failing to prevent laundering by Mexican drug cartels after an investigation by the US Department of Justice.\n\nIn June this year, Credit Suisse was fined for involvement in money laundering related to a Bulgarian drugs ring. It was fined around £1.7m and ordered to pay £15m to the Swiss government.\n\nIf you have information about any of the issues raised in this story and would like to speak to a BBC journalist, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nYou can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Scrapping the HS2 link from Birmingham and Manchester risks \"ripping the heart\" out of plans to improve rail services across northern England, the mayor of Greater Manchester has said.\n\nIn a growing backlash, Andy Burnham said axeing the extension risked creating a \"north-south chasm\".\n\nSpeculation has grown as the government has not guaranteed the line will run from the Midlands to the North West.\n\nRishi Sunak refused to comment but said the UK was \"committed to levelling up\".\n\n\"Transport infrastructure is a key part of that, but not just big rail projects, but also local projects, improving local bus services, fixing pot holes, all of these things make a difference in people's day-to-day lives,\" the prime minister said.\n\nThe BBC understands a decision on HS2 could be made as soon as this week.\n\nThe high speed rail project is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England.\n\nThe first part, between west London and Birmingham, is already being constructed.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts - including the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds which was axed in late 2021.\n\nIn March, the government announced that building the line between Birmingham and Crewe, and then onto Manchester, would be delayed for at least two years.\n\nOn Sunday, Grant Shapps, the current Defence Secretary and former Transport Secretary, said it would be \"crazy\" not to review plans for HS2 given that costs have risen.\n\nHe also would not comment on whether or not separate plans for the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) scheme between Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool would still go ahead if the northern section of HS2 is scrapped.\n\nThe NPR project would include a mix of new and upgraded lines to speed up links. It plans to use a section of the HS2 line from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly, as well as the planned upgrades to Manchester Piccadilly station.\n\nMr Burnham, and the leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig, have written to the prime minister to warn that cancelling HS2 to Manchester would effectively be cancelling NPR as well.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Burnham said scrapping the HS2 extension to Manchester \"rips the heart\" out of NPR and would \"leave the north of England with Victorian infrastructure, probably for the rest of this century\".\n\nHe said it was \"a recipe for the north-south divide to become a north-south chasm\".\n\nIn the letter to the prime minister, Mr Burnham said that if changes were needed, \"we could be open to a discussion about prioritising the Northern section of the line, between Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly, so that it enables NPR to be built first\".\n\nJuergen Maier, vice chair of Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said HS2 and NPR \"are part of one network, sharing the most valuable stretch of the route between Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly\".\n\nA former chairman of HS2, Allan Cook, told the BBC that scrapping the Manchester leg would be a \"huge mistake\" and \"very, very short-sighted\".\n\nHe rejected the idea that the money could be better spent on rail projects in the north of England. \"We need both. Why in the north have do we have to make a compromise?\"\n\nThe annual Conservative Party conference begins in Manchester on Sunday, and Conservative MP Steve Brine said it would be \"very odd\" to cancel the project whilst in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says \"there are spades in the ground everywhere\" for the HS2 rail project\n\nThe possible scrapping of the HS2 link has also come under fire from former Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, who in a joint article in the Times with Lord Heseltine, said it would be a \"gross act of vandalism\".\n\nThey warned scrapping the route would be \"an act of huge economic self-harm\" and leave the North and Midlands \"abandoned\".\n\nLord Heseltine told the BBC said it would also hit the UK's image.\n\n\"The reputational damage to a country or a government that commits itself and encourages others to invest and commit themselves to a project which was claimed to be transformational and then to stop - the reputational damage is incalculable,\" he said.\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn.\n\nBut this was in 2019 prices so it does not account for the rise in costs for materials and wages since then.\n\nIn June, a statement to Parliament said £22.5bn had been spent on the London to Birmingham leg so far while £2.3bn had been spent on preparing other sections, on measures such as buying up land.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said last week that costs were getting \"totally out of control\".\n\nLabour has so far refused to confirm it would fund the HS2 line to Manchester if the Conservatives axe it.\n\nOn Sunday, Darren Jones, new shadow chief secretary for the Treasury, said the Labour Party would \"love to build the HS2\", but said little \"proper\" information had been made available by the government.\n\nAlso at the weekend, more than 80 companies and business leaders also sought clarity over the commitment to HS2.\n\nThe bosses of dozens of businesses and business groups - including Manchester Airports Group, British Land, Virgin Money, and the Northern Powerhouse - all signed a letter to the government urging renewed commitment to HS2, saying that repeated mixed signals were damaging the UK's reputation and the wider supply chain.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Do you live on the proposed route between Birmingham and Manchester? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans react with joy and disbelief as Wales secure a place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals\n\nEcstatic Wales fans watched in joy and disbelief as their team swept aside Australia.\n\nThe remarkable demolition of the Wallabies meant Wales sealed their place in the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals.\n\nFans were searching for superlatives to describe the enormity of the record 40-6 win over the two-time World Cup champions.\n\nSome were even talking about winning the whole tournament.\n\nOne fan leaving the ground, Steffan, called the performance \"outstanding\".\n\n\"Fair play, we got it... I think we're the fittest team in the competition, and we're gonna win it!\" he said.\n\nWales secured their place in the quarter-finals after a 40-6 defeat of Australia\n\nAnother fan, Nicholas, described it as \"amazing\".\n\n\"We came out here in high hopes, and we destroyed them,\" he said.\n\n\"Incredible,\" was the adjective of choice for Einion Davies, who travelled to Lyon from Llangollen, Denbighshire.\n\n\"We started the first half a bit nervous, but second half we were comfortable all the way,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't quite believe that performance after the Fiji and Portugal games. But we know we can do it now - looking forward to the next round.\"\n\nGareth and Erin said it was a great experience to witness the result in person\n\nFan Erin called herself \"so proud to be Welsh\" after the result.\n\n\"I was here just to enjoy the atmosphere - France at the World Cup - unreal.\n\n\"And then to get that score, amazing. I knew Wales was gonna win, but by that much, unbelievable,\" she said.\n\nGareth, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, who was at the game with Erin, said: \"Australia were poor, but that doesn't happen to Wales very often. We had a good time in the stadium!\"\n\nDale Zdzieblo, from Rhymney, Caerphilly, said the game \"exceeded all expectations\".\n\n\"The boys were really up for it, took advantage and forced Australia into a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we'll grow with each performance, as long as they believe.\"\n\nColin, in the dragon hat on the right, predicted 40-0... and he wasn't far off\n\nIt was a night for Wales where even the most optimistic pre-match predictions started to come true.\n\nColin, from Bridgend, said before kick-off: \"I'm very nervous, very worried, but I think we'll do it. It's going to be 40-0!\"\n\nAfter the final whistle blew and the fans applauded the players to the rafters, Wales' followers poured onto the streets of this city which is considered the capital of French cuisine.\n\nSome no doubt celebrated with a bite to eat, and a drink... or several.\n\nFollowing this feast for the eyes, their appetite for more rugby like this will be insatiable.", "Louise Redknapp has pulled out of a tour with her former bandmates Eternal, amid allegations that two of the members refused to play LGBTQ festivals and Pride events.\n\nThe girl group, who had hits including Stay and Just A Step From Heaven in the 1990s, were due to reunite next year.\n\nBut sisters Easther and Vernie Bennett allegedly refused to play certain dates, over objections to trans issues.\n\nBoth Redknapp and fourth band member Kéllé Bryan walked away as a result.\n\nRedknapp's publicist, Simon Jones, confirmed the development in a statement to the BBC.\n\n\"A message was sent to the team putting together the Eternal reunion stating that if it was to go ahead, neither Vernie nor Easther would perform at Pride shows or LGBTQ+ festivals,\" he said.\n\n\"This was because the duo felt that the gay community was being hijacked by the trans community and they do not support this.\n\n\"Louise is a huge supporter and ally of the LGBTQ+ community and both herself and Kéllé told the duo they would not work with anyone who held these views, and as such the reunion as a four would not be going ahead.\n\n\"The team behind the proposed Eternal reunion are gay including management, PR and tour promoter, and neither myself nor any of the team would work with artists who held such views about the trans community.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Easther and Vernie Bennett for a response to the allegations.\n\nLouise continues to sell out shows as a solo artist\n\nNews of the disagreement was first reported by the Mirror on Saturday.\n\nShortly afterwards, Redknapp posted a picture of the Progress Pride flag to her social media feeds. It was captioned \"Always and Forever\" - the title of Eternal's first album.\n\nBryan also posted a message to Instagram on Monday, saying an Eternal reunion tour had been discussed for years, but that \"as mothers, the right opportunity and timing\" had been \"difficult to arrange\".\n\n\"My stance and allegiances have always been that I am an advocate for inclusion and equality for all,\" she added.\n\nThe quartet formed in 1992 and had almost instant success with their debut single Stay a year later.\n\nAlways and Forever was the first album by a girl group to sell more than a million copies in the UK, and the band went on to have 14 top 15 UK hits and four top 10 albums.\n\nRedknapp left in 1995 to pursue a solo career. If the 2024 reunion had taken place, it would have been the first time the original line-up had played together since then.\n\nAs recently as last week, the 48-year-old had been posting messages of support for her former bandmates on social media.\n\nMarking the 30th anniversary of Stay, she posted an early photo of the quartet, writing: \"I remember it like it was yesterday. The first radio play sat round my mum's kitchen table, missing the cue to hit record when it played, to going to America to shoot the video and so many more incredible memories\".\n\nShe went on to praise Easther's vocals on the opening note, adding: \"Happy 30th Anniversary to my Eternal girls Kéllé, Easther and Vernie and most importantly THANK YOU to each and every one of you that has been there with us from day one buying every record, coming to every show and being so supportive over the last 30 years. Love Lou.\"\n• None Redknapp forced to pull out of musical", "Nissan will accelerate plans towards electrification by committing that all vehicles sold in Europe will be electric by 2030.\n\nThe announcement comes despite the UK postponing its 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2035.\n\nNissan's boss said the firm's move was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nCar trade body the SMMT has voiced concerns that the postponement of the ban would see consumers delay the switch to electric vehicles.\n\nNissan will also introduce new battery technology by the end of the decade that it said will reduce both the charging time and cost of electric vehicles (EVs).\n\n\"Nissan will make the switch to full electric by 2030 in Europe. We believe it is the right thing to do for our business, our customers and for the planet,\" said Nissan's chief executive Makoto Uchida.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Uchida said the company was aiming to bring down the cost of electric vehicles for customers, so that they were no more expensive than petrol and diesel cars.\n\n\"It may take a bit of time, but we are looking at the next few years,\" he said.\n\n\"We are looking at it from the point of view of the technology, from the point of view of cooperating with suppliers, and of course working with the government on how we can deliver that kind of cost competitiveness to the consumer,\" Mr Uchida added.\n\nWill that price parity happen by 2030? \"That's what we're aiming for,\" confirmed Mr Uchida.\n\nMr Uchida also said that the company was fast-tracking a different kind of battery technology, known as all-solid-state batteries (ASSB), which are lighter, cheaper, and quicker to charge.\n\n\"We are going to have a pilot plant for ASSB in Japan from next year, and we want to ensure they can be mass produced by 2028,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of challenges with this, but we do have a solution, and we are on track [to meet that target]\", he added.\n\nNissan is the only car company to have its own battery manufacturing capability in the UK.\n\nLast year, it announced plans to invest £1bn in expanding the facility that sits next to its Sunderland car plant. The government contributed £100m towards the project.\n\nThat gives Nissan an advantage over other carmakers who import the vast majority of their batteries from China.\n\nPost-Brexit trading rules due to take effect in January next year require vehicles made in the UK or EU to source 45% of their components by value from the UK or EU to avoid a 10% tariff when exported either way.\n\nAs batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, some manufacturers in both the UK and EU have said they will be unable to hit that threshold and have called on the requirement to be deferred until plants are ready and able to supply the batteries.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch recently told the BBC the government was optimistic that a deferral could be secured.", "Liberal Democrat members have defied the party leadership by voting to keep the party's housebuilding target for England.\n\nParty bosses had wanted to shelve the 380,000 annual target, arguing it had failed to deliver necessary new homes.\n\nBut members backed a motion from younger activists to keep it at the party's conference in Bournemouth.\n\nIn an impassioned debate, the activists said ditching an overall target risked alienating younger voters.\n\nA leaflet backing the motion warned members that dropping the target would hand Labour \"a stick to beat us with\" in marginal seats.\n\nReferring to the party's notorious broken pledge on university funding during the coalition years, it urged: \"Don't let housing become our next tuition fees\".\n\nThe party has had a target to build 380,000 new homes a year in England across all sectors since it was adopted at its annual conference in 2021.\n\nBut the party leadership had proposed replacing this with \"independently assessed\" targets for local authorities, which are \"appropriate for the specific areas' needs\".\n\nUnder the plan, the party would instead pledge to build 150,000 social homes a year in England, with \"binding\" affordable housing targets for councils.\n\nDuring a debate before the vote, the party's housing spokeswoman Helen Morgan said England-wide targets had \"utterly failed to deliver the homes we need\".\n\nShe added that the party needed a policy that \"will actually deliver homes\", adding the 380,000 pledge for all sectors - public and private - \"will not do that\".\n\nHowever, members eventually backed an amendment suggested by the Young Liberals group, which said the target should be kept, to be translated into \"achievable\" local goals.\n\nIt added that keeping it would show \"serious intent\" from the party to \"address the housing crisis\".\n\nThe group's chair, Janey Little, told party members that housing had become unaffordable for many younger people and the target showed them that \"we as Liberal Democrats are listening\".\n\nFormer leader Tim Farron spoke against the successful amendment, adding the England-wide target was \"vague and vacuous\" and would prove an \"electoral gift for the Tories\" - to jeers from some in the conference hall.\n\nThe Lib Dems are hoping to target a swathe of Conservative-held seats at the next election across sections of southern and south-western England.\n\nCurrently, a government-set formula, based on population estimates, determines the housing targets that councils are meant to incorporate into their 15-year housebuilding plans.\n\nCouncils that fail to do so can have their power to block new developments curbed.\n\nHowever, in the face of a backlash from Conservative MPs, the government has set out plans to water the targets down by specifying in planning guidance that they are only advisory.\n\nThis weekend, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey denied opposing new housing in Tory-run areas, saying he was against \"developer-led\" schemes without proper amenities.\n\nThe government has a target to build 300,000 new homes in England by the mid-2020s - but MPs have warned it is on track to miss it.\n• None Housing targets to be diluted after Tory revolt", "New Brexit trade rules covering electric vehicles could cost European manufacturers £3.75bn over the next three years, an industry body has said.\n\nThe rules are meant to ensure that EU-produced electric cars are largely made from locally sourced parts.\n\nBut manufacturers on both sides of the Channel say they are not ready.\n\nThe European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) also warned the measures could reduce output from EU factories by 480,000 vehicles.\n\nAnd they said customers would pay the price.\n\nThe main problem lies in so-called \"rules of origin\" which come into force in January. They apply to shipments of cars across the Channel under the terms of the Brexit deal, the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.\n\nThey will effectively ensure that electric vehicles will need to have batteries produced in either the UK or the EU.\n\nCars that do not meet the criteria will face 10% tariffs - or taxes - when transported across the Channel, in either direction.\n\nThe rules were designed to protect the European industry from cheap imports.\n\nBut because battery production in Europe has not ramped up as quickly as expected, carmakers are struggling to meet the new criteria.\n\nIt is a serious problem for European manufacturers. The UK is by far their largest export market, with 1.2 million vehicles arriving at UK ports last year. Likewise more cars built in the UK are transported to the EU than any other region.\n\nSteep tariffs could make electric cars more expensive to produce, and potentially push up prices.\n\nThe ACEA wants the new rules to be delayed for three years, and it is appealing to the European Commission to take action.\n\n\"Driving up consumer prices of European electric vehicles, at the very time when we need to fight for market share in the face of fierce international competition, is not the right move,\" said Renault chief executive Luca de Meo, who is also acting as ACEA's president.\n\n\"We will effectively be handing a chunk of the market to global manufacturers,\" he added.\n\nFor the rules to be pushed back, an agreement would need to be reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe UK's Business Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, said last week she was \"optimistic\" such a deal could be reached.\n\nBut in an interview with the Guardian on Friday, the EU's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton was much less forthcoming.\n\nHe said it would be wrong to re-open the Brexit deal to satisfy the motor industry.\n\n\"If something has been negotiated, it shouldn't be changed,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nThe European Commission said: \"Brexit has changed the trade relationship between the UK and the EU, among other things.\"\n\nIt noted that the Brexit trade deal - the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - \"is the outcome of a negotiation in which both sides agreed to an overall balance of commitments\".\n\nIt added that the rules of origin aim to develop a \"strong and resilient battery value chain in the EU\".\n\nSigrid de Vries, the secretary general of ACEA, said it was unsurprising that the industry's appeals were meeting resistance.\n\n\"The European Commission doesn't want to change anything, it seems, when it comes to Brexit-related topics. It's politically very sensitive,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We do understand it, and we are not asking to change any of these arrangements in any fundamental way.\"\n\nMeanwhile the chief executive of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, told reporters last week that he thought a deal would be done - but it could be a last-minute affair.\n\n\"We are still optimistic an agreement can be reached. It makes common sense,\" he said.\n\n\"But I can see this going down, like with Brexit, to Christmas Eve, or something like that.\"\n\nTrade officials from the EU and the UK are due to meet this week in London. It is not yet known whether the new rules will be on the agenda.", "Russell Brand says it has been an \"extraordinary and distressing\" week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.\n\nIn a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for \"questioning the information that you've been presented with\".\n\nThey are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches last weekend.\n\nIn a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand denied the claims before the allegations were published, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe actor and comedian did not address the allegations directly in Friday's three-minute video, but made claims about what he described as \"media corruption and censorship\" and \"deep state and corporate collusion\".\n\nHe said he would release a fuller video on video streaming site Rumble on Monday, saying the platform had made \"a clear commitment to free speech\".\n\nEarlier this week, responding to a UK Parliament committee that asked if it would cut Brand's income in the wake of the allegations, Rumble said it would not \"join a cancel culture mob\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women made allegations against Brand:\n\nThis week, another woman also accused Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show in 2008.\n\nYouTube has suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\". It said it was taking action \"to protect\" its users.\n\nIn recent years, he has repositioned himself, posting regular videos about spirituality, anti-establishment politics and, recently, UFOs, to his online followers.", "Kosovo police at the scene with troops from the US and EU states in the background\n\nAt least four people are dead after Kosovan police cleared a monastery held by at least 30 heavily armed men near the border with Serbia.\n\n\"We put this territory under control. It was done after several consecutive battles,\" Xhelal Svecla, Kosovo's minister of internal affairs said.\n\nThe day began with the death of a police officer in Banjska village, before the occupation of the monastery.\n\nBelgrade and Pristina were quick to blame each other for the violence.\n\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic said three of those killed in the shooting were confirmed to be Kosovo Serbs.\n\nSunday's shooting began at about 03:00 (01:00 GMT), after police said they arrived in Banjska where a blockade had been reported.\n\nOfficers were attacked from several positions with \"an arsenal of firearms, including hand grenades and shoulder-fired missiles\", they said in a statement.\n\nA group of about 30 then entered the monastery complex in nearby Leposavic, where pilgrims from the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad were staying.\n\nAt least three of the gunmen were killed in battles through the day as police mounted what Mr Svecla described as a \"clearance operation\".\n\nMr Svecla said police made several arrests during the operation and seized a large amount of weapons and equipment.\n\nHowever it remained unclear if all gunmen had been apprehended during the sweep.\n\nThe attack and ensuing firefight marks one of the gravest escalations in Kosovo for years, and follows months of mounting tension between Pristina and Belgrade.\n\nKosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti blamed \"Serbia-sponsored criminals\" for the incursion, saying they were \"professionals, with military and police background\" who were financed and motivated by Belgrade.\n\nSerbia's President Vucic hit back in a televised statement, blaming Mr Kurti for months of \"provocations\".\n\nWhile describing the death of the Kosovo police officer as \"absolutely reprehensible\", he said that Mr Kurti bore responsibility for the incident.\n\nHe said Mr Kurti was \"the only one to blame, the only one who wants conflicts and war. No other person wants conflicts and war.\n\n\"His only wish is to drag us into a war with Nato and that's the only thing he does all day\".\n\nAn armed man could be seen with a priest inside the monastery in Banjska on Sunday\n\nTensions have run high in Kosovo, after violent clashes followed a disputed local election in May and EU-mediated political talks designed to stabilise the situation have stalled.\n\nKosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia - along with Belgrade's key allies China and Russia - does not recognise it.\n\nMany Serbs consider it the birthplace of their nation. But of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo, 92% are ethnic Albanians and only 6% are ethnic Serbs.\n\nThe EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned what he called the \"hideous attack\" and said those responsible must be brought to justice.\n\nKosovo's foreign minister, Donika Gervalla-Schwarz, criticised Mr Borrell's statement, saying it did not express support for the police nor use the word \"terrorists\" to describe the attackers.\n\nIt comes after the latest EU-mediated talks collapsed last week, with Mr Borrell blaming Mr Kurti for failing to set up the association of Serb-majority municipalities which would give them more autonomy.\n\nUnrest engulfed northern Kosovo in May after Kosovo Albanian mayors were installed in majority-Serb areas, after Serb residents boycotted local polls.\n\nNato deployed an additional 700 troops to Kosovo to deal with unrest in the northern town Zvecan following the elections.\n\nSome 30 Nato peacekeepers and more than 50 Serb protesters were hurt in the ensuing clashes.", "File photo shows firearms officers during a media demonstration ahead of the G7 Summit in Cornwall, 2021\n\nThe Ministry of Defence is offering soldiers to support armed police in London after dozens of Met officers stood down from firearms duties.\n\nMore than 100 officers have turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons, a source told the BBC. There are more than 2,500 armed officers in the Met.\n\nPolice said the action was being taken after an officer was charged with the murder of unarmed Chris Kaba, 24.\n\nIn an open letter to the home secretary, he said it was right his force was \"held to the highest standards\" - but the current system was undermining his officers and suggested they needed more legal protections.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said some officers were \"worried\" about how the Crown Prosecution Service decision to bring a charge \"impacts on them\".\n\nOne former officer - who left the Met's specialist firearms command a few months ago - told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that the risk to officers and their families \"is just too great\".\n\nSpeaking anonymously, he explained: \"What is obvious to me, they are not acting out of anger or petulance.\n\n\"It's not a co-ordinated protest. These are individuals with partners and families who are incredibly committed to their profession.\n\n\"They're incredibly concerned it's not worth it anymore.\"\n\nHe added that it would be \"a very sad day\" for policing if armed troops were being forced to step in to help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former Met Police firearms officer says putting troops on the street should be ''a wake-up call''\n\nIt comes after the MoD said it received a request - known as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (Maca) - from the Home Office to \"provide routine counter-terrorism contingency support to the Metropolitan Police, should it be needed\".\n\nA MACA is offered to the police or the NHS in emergency situations - the military helped medical staff in the Covid pandemic and covered for striking border staff and paramedics last year.\n\nThe Met said it was a \"contingency option\" that would only be used \"in specific circumstances and where an appropriate policing response was not available\".\n\nMilitary staff would not be used \"in a routine policing capacity\", it added.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital but they were being supported by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nAccording to London Assembly figures, in April there were 2,595 authorised firearm officers in the Met Police.\n\nIt is a figure which has steadily decreased every year since 2018 when there were 2,841 licenced to carry a gun.\n\nAnnouncing the review, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the public \"depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us\".\n\n\"In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures.\"\n\nShe added that officers have her \"full backing\" and that she would do \"everything\" in her power to support them.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister backed the home secretary's review, adding that armed police need \"clarity\".\n\nSpeaking in Hertfordshire, Rishi Sunak said: \"Our firearms officers do an incredibly difficult job. They are making life or death decisions in a split-second to keep us safe and they deserve our gratitude for their bravery.\"\n\nChris Kaba was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met officer into the vehicle he was driving\n\nIn his letter to the home secretary, the Met Police commissioner said that a system where officers are investigated for \"safely pursuing suspects\" should not have been allowed to develop.\n\nSir Mark said he would \"make no comment\" on any active legal matters, but \"the issues raised in this letter go back further\".\n\nHe suggested firearms officers are concerned that they will face years of legal proceedings, \"even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given\".\n\n\"Officers need sufficient legal protection to enable them to do their job and keep the public safe, and the confidence that it will be applied consistently and without fear or favour,\" Sir Mark wrote.\n\nBut he argued that when officers act improperly, the system \"needs to move swiftly\".\n\nFormer Greater Manchester Police chief constable Sir Peter Fahy said any review would \"not be wide enough\", adding he believed there are issues around morale and how police prevent organised crime.\n\nHe told Today that there were often \"issues about intelligence and information\" when police responded to criminals suspected of having a firearm.\n\n\"It is part of a bigger picture where there is a huge level of discontent among ordinary police officers where there is a huge gulf between policing and the Home Office,\" Sir Peter said.\n\n\"Officers feel a lot of the criticism is unbalanced, that they are underappreciated and that the media and politicians don't understand the reality of day-to-day policing.\"\n\nSolicitor Harriet Wistrich represented the family of Jean Charles De Menezes, who was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in 2005 by police who mistook him for a terror suspect.\n\nShe told Today that the law has been carefully considered and applied to cover everyone - including firearms officers.\n\n\"No one is above the law and neither should these officers be above the law,\" Ms Wistrich argued.\n\n\"Many people have lost their lives at the hands of police and there is virtually never a prosecution.\"\n\nShe suggested extremely careful consideration should be taken when officers are given \"the power to essential take somebody's life\".\n\nThe solicitor added: \"Officers who put themselves forward to perform this role have to know they have to perform it with great care because ultimately a life can be lost.\"\n\nAccording to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these.\n\nIn that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show.\n\nOn 5 September 2022, Mr Kaba was fatally hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into a vehicle in Streatham, south London.\n\nThe construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.\n\nIt later emerged the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.", "Thousands of tenants will benefit from repairs and maintenance to their Housing Executive properties\n\nThe Housing Executive has appointed new contractors to deliver £250m of maintenance and repair contracts.\n\nIn 2022 it allowed 10 firms to walk away from the contracts as inflation meant it was unviable for them to undertake the work at the originally-agreed price.\n\nThat resulted in delays for some tenants who had been expecting improvements such as new kitchens.\n\nThe organisation said the new contracts were \"sustainable for contractors\".\n\nThe Housing Executive, which is Northern Ireland's public housing authority, owns about 82,000 homes.\n\nThe contracts include bathroom replacements for 9,000 homes while kitchens will be replaced in more than 5,000 properties.\n\nSix different areas of Northern Ireland will also benefit from new maintenance contracts.\n\nHousing Executive chief executive Grainia Long said she was delighted by the new contracts.\n\n\"The contracts will demonstrate value for money and are sustainable for contractors,\" she said.\n\n\"Our key focus is to ensure that, going forward, we have contracts in place to deliver on our ambitious plans to maintain and improve our homes.\"\n\nGrainia Long says about 500 fewer homes will be built due to budget reductions\n\nHowever, due to inflation Ms Long said the Housing Executive would be paying contractors more for less work.\n\n\"We have factored that in, we have priced that in to the contracts and so have the contractors,\" she said.\n\n\"That is unfortunately the way things are going in the next number of years.\"\n\nShe also said fewer homes would be built in the next year as the Housing Executive's budget had decreased.\n\nMs Long said it meant about 1,500 homes would be built in the next 12 months, down from a target of 2,000.\n\n\"The impact of that will be felt of course by the construction industry… but also and most importantly by people on the waiting list,\" she said.", "Toy giant Lego has scrapped plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles, in a blow to its efforts to cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe company said in 2021 that it aimed to produce bricks not containing crude oil within two years.\n\nBut on Monday, it said it had found that using the new material didn't reduce carbon emissions.\n\nLego said it remains \"fully committed\" to making bricks from sustainable materials.\n\nLego makes about 4,400 different bricks. Currently, many of them are made using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a virgin plastic made from crude oil.\n\nThe move, which was first reported in the the Financial Times, will be seen as a setback after a high-profile push by Lego to improve its green credentials.\n\nLike many other companies, Lego has been exploring alternative materials to plastic as sustainability becomes more important to customers.\n\nOne of the challenges has been finding a material that is durable enough to last for generations.\n\nIn 2021, it said it had developed prototype bricks made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, with some other chemicals added.\n\nThe hope was that material could have offered an alternative to oil-based bricks.\n\nBut Lego has now revealed that after more than two years of testing, it had found that using recycled PET didn't reduce carbon emissions.\n\nIt said the reason for that was because extra steps were required in the production process, which meant it needed to use more energy.\n\nAs a result, it said it has \"decided not to progress\" with making bricks from the material.\n\nIt said it was currently testing and developing bricks made from \"a range of alternative sustainable materials\".\n\nNiels Christiansen, chief executive of Lego, told the FT that there was no \"magic material\" to resolve the firm's sustainability challenges.\n\n\"We tested hundreds and hundreds of materials. It's just not been possible to find a material like that,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for the company told the BBC: \"We remain fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032.\n\n\"We are investing more than $1.2bn in sustainability initiatives in the four years to 2025 as part of our efforts to transition to more sustainable materials and reduce our carbon emissions by 37% by 2032.\"", "Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has told the BBC his party has not changed tack on housebuilding targets in order to win votes from Conservative supporters.\n\nThe party is considering dropping a pledge to build 380,000 new homes a year in England, in favour of a promise of 150,000 new council or social homes.\n\nIt will be debated at the party conference in Bournemouth on Monday.\n\nThe Young Liberals group is pushing for the target to be kept, saying ditching it would send the wrong message.\n\nIn 2021, the Liberal Democrats overturned a 16,000 majority to take the Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham in a by-election.\n\nThe unpopularity of Boris Johnson's government's housebuilding plans and the Lib Dems' ability to capitalise on this were seen as key factors in the result.\n\nAppearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, presented by Victoria Derbyshire, Sir Ed denied opposing new housing in Tory-run areas where parliamentary and council seats were being targeted, saying he was against \"developer-led\" schemes without proper amenities.\n\nJaney Little says the housing crisis needs a local and national focus\n\nYoung Liberal chair Janey Little said: \"We think that having a commitment to an ambitious national housebuilding target... we think that's necessary to signal to young people that the Liberal Democrats are onside, and we understand the scale of the housing crisis.\"\n\nLeaflets have been circulated at the conference, urging members not to vote for the Young Liberals amendment, to keep the 380,000 target. Ms Little said that was a \"shame\".\n\n\"We have a lot of grassroots members on our side. But equally, people are working very hard on the other side of the argument. I really can't tell which way it will go.\"\n\nFrontbencher Layla Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, said she had huge sympathy for young people \"desperate to get on the housing ladder\" and the leadership was \"on the same page\" on this.\n\nThere was \"a discussion\" going on about the best way to deliver more housing, she added.\n\nThe party's housing spokesperson Helen Morgan said the proposal would not do away with targets.\n\nShe told a fringe event in Bournemouth: \"We can not deliver housing at scale unless we build council housing, or social housing - it could include housing associations as well - we have to get that bit right, and then we have to pin councils down so that they do a great of delivering the rest of the housing that that community needs.\n\n\"The point of the proposal we're making is to build those targets from the bottom, and to say what's your current level of need, what's your proper forecasted future need, and that would be independently assessed, and it would be binding on those councils.\"\n\nSir Ed said his party backed a \"community-led approach\" and \"local neighbourhood plans\" where local residents were involved in the whole decision-making process around new housing.\n\n\"Top-down targets lead to developer-led approaches\", resulting in \"the wrong houses being built in the wrong places\", he said.\n\n\"You need to take communities with you. So often, you hear people are objecting not to houses, but objecting to the fact there are not enough houses, not enough GPs, not enough schools.\n\n\"When you take communities with you, it results in more houses being built\" and \"houses people want, in places they want, with the infrastructure they want\", he argued.\n\nBuilding more social housing would pave the way for more affordable housing and also free up more private housing for rent, he added.\n\nElsewhere in his BBC interview, Sir Ed brushed aside suggestions that voters had no idea what his party stood for, saying the Lib Dems were winning by-elections and council seats in Conservative heartlands where people were hearing their message.\n\nSir Ed was energy and climate change secretary in David Cameron's 2010-15 coalition government.\n\nAsked if he would ever go into coalition with the Tories again, he said \"there is no way we could deal with the Conservatives, they've ruined our country\".\n\nBut he refused to be drawn on whether he might consider a coalition with Labour after the next general election, saying he had learned from his predecessors that \"when they have focused on that question, they have been distracted from the task in hand\".\n\nHe declined to rule out the UK rejoining the European Union at some point in the future, but again insisted the issue was \"currently not on the table\".\n\nHis priority was to rebuild relations and trust with other European leaders, and to put Britain back \"at the heart of Europe\", he added.\n\nThe Lib Dem leader was later heckled about Brexit at conference on Sunday afternoon during a Q&A session.\n\nA member of the crowd called out that the Lib Dems should be working to rejoin the EU, and when Sir Ed responded saying: \"We're camp5aigning hard on Europe as you know my friend\", a second member of the audience shouted: \"No you're not.\"\n\nMeanwhile the Lib Dems have become the first party to adopt a pre-manifesto for the next election, with a proposal to give everyone in England the right to see a GP within a week a centrepiece policy.The document, which was approved by party members in a conference vote, sets out an early draft of the party's manifesto.", "About 10% of schools in Northern Ireland are due to be checked for collapse-prone concrete\n\nIt is unclear if Northern Ireland will receive extra money from the UK government to fix public buildings affected by crumbling concrete.\n\nThe Department of Finance has asked its Stormont counterparts to notify it of buildings affected by Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).\n\nFurther Education (FE) Colleges are also checking campuses for it.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or Raac, is a lightweight material that was used mostly in flat roofing.\n\nIt has also been used in floors and walls, between the 1950s and 1990s.\n\nConcerns that RAAC can be prone to collapse at the end of its lifespan have led to the closure of some school buildings in England.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, about 120 schools are being surveyed for the concrete on the basis of their age and type of construction.\n\nIn England, the government has said it will spend \"whatever it takes to keep children safe\".\n\n\"All schools where Raac is confirmed will be provided with funding for mitigation works that are capital-funded where needed, such as propping and temporary accommodation on site,\" the government has said.\n\nOnce extra public spending is decided for England, what is known as a \"Barnett consequential\" is used to allocate money to the devolved nations.\n\nBut in a statement to BBC News NI, the Department of Finance (DoF) said that \"devolved administrations would normally receive Barnett consequentials of any additional funding provided to Whitehall departments for issues such as this\".\n\n\"At this time it has not been confirmed whether any additional funding will be provided,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The Department of Finance has asked that information on Raac surveys carried out by NI Departments and their sponsored bodies is shared with DoF.\"\n\nIt said the information would help identify any high risks areas, confirm if Raac was ever used in Northern Ireland or assess the need for further surveys.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC News NI has learned that all of Northern Ireland's six FE Colleges are checking their campuses for use of the concrete.\n\nEach of the colleges serve a wide geographical area and have a number of campus buildings in different locations.\n\nBelfast Metropolitan College, Southern Regional College and South West College told BBC News NI that no Raac had been identified in surveys of their buildings.\n\nBoth North West Regional College and Northern Regional College said they were surveying their campuses for Raac.\n\nMeanwhile, South Eastern Regional College said that \"we can say with certainty that the SERC College campuses at Ballynahinch, Downpatrick, Lisburn and Newcastle were constructed post-2000 and so post date the use of Raac in public buildings\".\n\n\"Campuses in the North Down and Newtownards area (Bangor, Holywood and Newtownards) are not thought to contain Raac,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"The SERC estate is subject to five yearly cyclical building surveys, and a survey is currently under way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader says spending £5bn on social care would save £3bn by speeding up discharges from hospitals.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have dropped plans to put a penny on income tax to invest in the NHS and social care.\n\nSir Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems, told the BBC \"the last thing\" people needed was \"yet more tax rises\" during a cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThe Lib Dems have called for a 1p rise on income tax since 1992 - then to fund education promises.\n\nThe party hopes it will reassure voters in Conservative-held target seats ahead of the upcoming general election.\n\n\"I don't think it's credible for any opposition party to say they want to increase the tax burden more than the Conservatives are doing,\" Sir Ed said.\n\nHe described the government's decision to freeze allowances over a number of years as \"stealth income tax rises\" which equated to more than a three pence increase on the basic rate.\n\nInstead, he said the Lib Dems would set out plans in its \"costed manifesto\" to raise funding to \"build an economy for the future\".\n\nAt the last two elections the Lib Dems promised to fund healthcare investment by increasing each band of income tax by 1p.\n\nIncome tax is the government's single biggest source of money. Under the current system, the first £12,571 you earn per year is tax-free, but once you breach that threshold you pay at least 20p tax for every pound earned. For earnings between £50,271 and £125,140, you pay 40p in tax on every pound earned - and above £125,140, it is 45p.\n\nScrapping the policy puts the Lib Dems in a similar position to Labour, which has previously said it will not increase income tax.\n\nParty leaders have identified local health services and environment policies as key to wooing traditionally Conservative voters, who they are targeting at the next general election.\n\nAt the start of the party's annual conference in Bournemouth on Saturday, Sir Ed announced an overhaul of social care worth £5bn a year.\n\n\"If we want to grow the economy again we need to sort out our NHS,\" Sir Ed told the BBC in an interview.\n\n\"Something people have forgotten about under the Conservatives is we have seen a lot of people who are working but they fall ill and they go onto long waiting lists, they can't see their GPs and they are not able to go back into the workforce,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a link that hasn't been made but needs to be made.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also became the first major political party to adopt an early version of its manifesto for a general election expected next year.\n\nKeeping the triple lock for pensions and banning sewage dumping are among pledges the party says are central to the newly approved \"pre-manifesto\".\n\nOn Monday at the conference, Lib Dem leaders were defeated in their attempt to drop a pledge a to build 380,000 new homes a year in England, in favour of a promise of 150,000 new council or social homes. But members, led by the Lib Dem youth wing voted the motion down after a fiery debate.\n\nBut the party's position on Brexit has opened up a potential split in the party. On Sunday, Sir Ed was heckled after insisting to delegates that he was \"campaigning hard on Europe\".\n\nThe party is \"losing votes to Labour\" among voters who would like to re-join the European Union, according to polling guru Sir John Curtice.\n\nRe-joining the European Union is currently \"off the table\", the Lib Dem leader has said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Menendez explains why he hid thousands of dollar in cash at his home\n\nA US senator charged in a bribery case has said his stashing of nearly half a million dollars cash at home stemmed from his Cuban parents' fear that their savings might be seized by authorities.\n\nRobert Menendez of New Jersey predicted he would be exonerated as he vowed to run for re-election next year.\n\nProsecutors say he and his wife accepted money, gold bars and a luxury car in exchange for political favours.\n\nThe senator has so far rejected calls from fellow Democrats to resign.\n\n\"When all the facts are presented, not only will I be exonerated, but I still will be New Jersey's senior senator,\" a defiant Mr Menendez told a news conference on Monday.\n\nIt was his first public appearance since he was indicted on Friday.\n\nSpeaking in Union City, New Jersey, he added: \"Those who rushed to judgment, you have done so based on a limited set of facts framed by the prosecution to be as salacious as possible.\"\n\nFederal agents who searched his New Jersey home last year found more than $480,000 in cash (£393,000) stuffed into envelopes and hidden in jackets, closets and a safe, along with 13 bars of gold bullion. Another $70,000 was discovered inside his wife's safety deposit box at a bank.\n\nAccording to the indictment, Mr Menendez had searched online for \"how much is one kilo of gold worth\".\n\nBut in Monday's news conference he said: \"I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.\n\n\"Now this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years.\"\n\nFederal agents found cash inside jackets bearing Senator Menendez's name, according to the indictment\n\nMr Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, suggested last week that the indictment - and calls for his resignation - came from those \"rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat\".\n\nThe 39-page federal indictment accuses Mr Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, of accepting bribes in exchange for the senator's political influence at home and abroad on behalf of both the government of Egypt and business associates in New Jersey.\n\nInvestigators also said they found a luxury Mercedes-Benz paid for by a businessman parked in the Menendezes' garage.\n\nThe charge-sheet said that after the couple received the car, Mrs Menendez texted her husband to say: \"Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes.\"\n\nSenator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian each face three charges\n\nIn his remarks on Monday, Mr Menendez addressed his senatorial work related to Egypt, saying his record was clear in holding Cairo accountable on human rights.\n\nOver the weekend, Democratic New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim announced he would run to replace Mr Menendez, writing on social media that the state \"deserves better\".\n\nMr Kim's announcement was made amid a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers who are calling on Mr Menendez to resign immediately.\n\nIn other developments, the Manhattan US Attorney's office confirmed on Monday that Mr Menendez has hired defence lawyer Abbe Lowell, who is also representing President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, in an unrelated gun case.\n\nThis is not the first time that Mr Menendez - who has served in Congress since 2006 - has faced bribery charges.\n\nIn 2015 he was indicted in New Jersey on charges he had accepted bribes from a Florida eye doctor.\n\nThat case ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.", "Students joined staff on the picket line at the University of Manchester on Monday, the first of a five-day strike\n\nThousands of students face disruption as staff at more than 40 universities join picket lines across the UK.\n\nIt is part of a long-running dispute by members of the University and College Union (UCU) over pay and conditions.\n\nThe action will be smaller than planned as dozens of branches called off action following constructive talks with their universities.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) says this year's pay deal is the highest offer in 20 years.\n\nBut the union is calling for an above-inflation pay rise and an end to insecure contracts.\n\nUCU members at 36 universities are striking for five days, while staff will strike for one day at a further 11 institutions.\n\nThe union says more than 20,000 staff will be taking part in the strikes which will coincide with Freshers' Week for many first-year students. It says the action is now targeted \"at the very worst employers\".\n\nIt follows strikes at five universities in Scotland last week.\n\nThe strikes this week were originally due to take place at more than 140 universities, according to the UCU.\n\nHowever, many UCU branches withdrew after staff voted to do so following talks with their individual universities.\n\nThe marking boycott, which began in April and meant some students graduated without their final mark, has now ended.\n\nThe UCEA has urged staff who were involved to \"prioritise marking for those remaining students who have still not received the necessary results to graduate in 2023-24\".\n\nIt said most universities hope to have all students' work graded by early October at the latest.\n\nFirst-year student Julian joined the picket line in support of the strike, on Monday, at the University of Manchester\n\nUniversity of Manchester first year Julian, 19, decided to join the picket line rather than attend lectures.\n\nStaff are striking to improve teaching - not just over their working conditions, the computer-science student says.\n\n\"If they are treated fairly, my quality of teaching will improve,\" he adds.\n\nFellow first year Sarah first became aware of the strikes only when she saw the picket line on Monday morning.\n\nAs an international student, her fees are higher - and if her lectures are affected, it would be \"really annoying\", she says.\n\nBut she is not too worried as the strike is just to raise awareness and will not affect her schedule \"too much\", the biomedical-science student adds.\n\nInternational student Sarah, 18, hopes her lectures will be unaffected\n\nBee Hughes, 34, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and UCU branch chair, is on the picket lines asking for better pay and an end to casual contracts, which they were on for eight years.\n\n\"Between contracts you might not have access to the library so you don't even have access to academic texts that you need to do the work and you can't plan,\" they said.\n\n\"Usually you don't even know if you're going to have a contract until the last minute. You can't plan your future.\"\n\nSenior lecturer Bee Hughes was on casual contracts for eight years before finally receiving a permanent position\n\nDr Hughes is now able to save for the first time since gaining a permanent position.\n\n\"Starting a family hasn't even been a consideration. There has been lots of points over the eight years where I was on the brink of giving up,\" they said.\n\n\"We've basically been asked to do more and more for less and less money and it's really unsustainable.\"\n\nThe UCEA, which acts for the employers in the dispute, says its improved pay deal for 2023-24, worth between 5% and 8%, was the highest offer of its kind in nearly 20 years.\n\nUCEA chief executive Raj Jethwa said universities were under \"very difficult financial circumstances so this was at the very edge of what the sector could afford\".\n\nHe said they wanted to work with the unions to make sure the other issues that were vital to employers and staff were dealt with.\n\nMr Jethwa said it was \"positive news\" that some strikes had been called off but any student still affected was \"one too many\".\n\nHe said he hoped an independent review of the sector's finances by both employers and the unions can help to reduce any further industrial action.\n\nHowever, UCU says this year's pay offer was a pay cut in real terms.\n\nSince February 2018, there has been industrial action over two disputes - pensions as well as pay and working conditions.\n\nBut the UCU is confident the pension dispute will be resolved, with benefits restored.\n\nIt has now begun reballoting members to renew its mandate to strike over pay and working conditions, which is due to expire at the beginning of October. If accepted, strike action could continue into 2024.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said \"renewing our mandate and keeping the pressure on is the way we will win this dispute\".\n\nShe said the strike action was \"a reminder to all employers that if you behave egregiously, you will face further disruption\".\n\nSome contributors asked that their surnames be withheld.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The state-owned British Business Bank (BBB) has swung to an annual pre-tax loss of more than £147m.\n\nThe economic development lender says wider economic problems led to a drop in the valuation of businesses it has invested in.\n\nThe bank says it made £1.6bn of funding agreements in the year \"despite the challenging economic environment\".\n\nBBB was set up in 2014 to lend money to and buy stakes in smaller UK businesses to help them start up and expand.\n\nThe bank said the value of its investments fell by £146m, or 5%, in the 12 months to the end of March. That compares to a gain of £619m in the previous year.\n\nAround the world the valuations of technology firms have fallen in recent months as investors became increasingly wary due to rising borrowing costs and weak economic growth.\n\n\"Given the longer-term 10-year horizon for most of our investments we would expect an overall upward trajectory despite these in-year fluctuations,\" the bank's chief executive Louis Taylor said.\n\nIts total funding now stands at £12.4bn to more than 90,000 businesses, beating its £10.7bn target, BBB said.\n\nThe figure does not include the Coronavirus loans which it administered.\n\nThe BBB is responsible for administering the government's three Covid-19 loan schemes and its Future Fund, together responsible for delivering more than £80bn in finance to almost 1.7 million businesses. The schemes are now closed to new applications.\n\nThe Future Fund attracted attention after investing taxpayer money in companies such as Bolton Wanderers Football Club and sex party organiser Killing Kittens.\n\nThe bank's Start Up Loans programme recently reached a milestone of £1bn in lending, with more than half that going to small businesses run by women and ethnic minorities.\n\nThe scheme aims to help underrepresented groups who find themselves excluded from mainstream lenders to help them start businesses, and regions outside of London and south-east England.\n\nMost the funding comes from lenders outside the UK's so-called big five banks.", "Messina Denaro was thought to be the protege of Totò Riina, head of the Corleone clan\n\nItalian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was one of the country's most wanted men until his capture earlier this year, has died.\n\nThe 61-year-old was thought to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and spent 30 years on the run before he was detained in January.\n\nHe was being treated for cancer at the time of his arrest and was moved from prison to hospital last month.\n\nDenaro was thought to have been responsible for numerous murders.\n\nHe was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 for crimes including involvement in the 1992 killing of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and once boasted he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.\n\nHe also oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking for the Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate.\n\nAlthough he had been a fugitive since 1993, Messina Denaro was thought to have still been issuing orders to his subordinates from various secret locations.\n\nAccording to local media, he fell into an irreversible coma on Friday at a hospital in the central Italian city of L'Aquila, after requesting that he be given no aggressive medical treatment.\n\nMessina Denaro (R) was arrested by Italy's Carabinieri military police in January\n\nHe had undergone surgery in recent months for issues to do with his cancer, but had reportedly not recovered following the latest operation.\n\nL'Aquila Mayor Pierluigi Biondi confirmed Denaro's death, writing on X (formerly Twitter) that it was \"the epilogue of an existence lived without remorse or regret, a painful chapter in recent history that we cannot erase.\"\n\nAlongside his crimes, Denaro was thought to be Cosa Nostra's last \"secret-keeper\". Many informers and prosecutors believe he held all the information and the names of those involved in several of the most high-profile crimes by the Mafia.\n\nMore than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest in January, which happened at a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving chemotherapy.\n\nFor years, he had been a symbol of the state's inability to reach the upper echelons of the organised crime syndicates.\n\nItalian investigators often came close to catching Denaro by monitoring those closest to him. This resulted in the arrest of his sister, Patrizia, and several of his associates in 2013.\n\nPolice also seized valuable businesses linked to him, leaving him increasingly isolated.\n\nHowever, few photos of him existed and police had to rely on digital composites to reconstruct his appearance in the decades after he went on the run. A recording of his voice was not released until 2021.\n\nIn September 2021, a Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested at gunpoint in a restaurant in the Netherlands after being mistaken for Denaro.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Before we close this page, we want to bring you Bob Menendez's statement on the indictments against him.\n\nSenator Menendez has released a fiery response to the case, calling it part of an active smear campaign, extolling his congressional and foreign policy record, and vowing that \"this matter will be successfully resolved once all of the facts are presented\".\n\n“For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,\" he says in the statement, but does not identify anyone specifically.\n\n\"Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.\"\n\nHe also says his wife, Nadine Menendez, is being prosecuted for \"longstanding friendships she had before she and I even met\".\n\nThe senator refers to another corruption case against him, which ended in mistrial five years ago, saying he has been falsely accused before.", "A teenager who died while challenging an NHS decision over her life-preserving treatment can be named for the first time.\n\nSudiksha Thirumalesh, 19, had mitochondrial disease and died earlier this month during a legal battle.\n\nShe wanted to raise money for an experimental treatment she thought might help her rare genetic disorder.\n\nAs reporting restrictions were lifted, her family spoke of their anger at being prevented from speaking out.\n\nMs Thirumalesh's brother Varshan Thirumalesh said: \"We were gagged, silenced and prevented from accessing specialist treatment abroad.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today on Saturday: \"She was really struggling for the past one year and two months and she wanted to seek the experimental therapy abroad.\n\n\"She always wanted to tell her story to the public so that's why it was very important that we were able to tell the story [after her death].\"\n\nPaying tribute to his \"caring sister and amazing friend\", Mr Thirumalesh added: \"She got the justice that she deserved. Unfortunately she is not here to see what is going on… she wanted everyone to know what was happening.\"\n\nThe NHS trust involved - which cannot be named - said Ms Thirumalesh needed end-of-life care rather than ongoing treatment.\n\nShe had wanted to finance a trip to Canada for nucleoside therapy but, in August, a judge ruled that she could not make the decision for herself, because she did not have the mental capacity.\n\nThe judge also said that: \"From the evidence, it appears... treatment in Canada is not an immediate option because the trial has been paused as a result of funding constraints.\"\n\nHer doctors said her breathing difficulties were due to her deteriorating mitochondrial disease weakening her muscles, rather than long Covid or other infections that she has had.\n\nLawyers for the trust said Ms Thirumalesh, who was known as ST during the legal case, was \"actively dying\" and needed a ventilator to breathe.\n\nMs Thirumalesh had a cardiac arrest and died on 12 September before the Court of Protection could hear her case.\n\nHer family say the former A-level student, who had spent almost a year in intensive care, was still able to communicate with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists.\n\nJudges were told she was a \"fighter\", and that she had told a psychiatrist: \"I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything.\"\n\nSpeaking outside the High Court, her brother Varshan Thirumalesh said in a statement: \"We are deeply disturbed by how we have been treated by the hospital trust and the courts.\"\n\nA judge had earlier imposed reporting restrictions in the case.\n\nThe order meant it was impossible for media outlets to name Ms Thirumalesh, and her family was unable to campaign to raise money for treatment overseas.\n\nHer Christian family wanted the order lifted after her death and successfully challenged the ruling on Friday. A second decision about whether the NHS trust and clinicians who treated her can be named, is expected on Monday.\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre which supported the family through the court case, said a more \"open and transparent system\" is needed, and called for a public inquiry.\n\n\"This profoundly disturbing case has demonstrated the urgent need for an overhaul into how end-of-life decisions are made in the NHS and the courts,\" she said.\n\nMs Thirumalesh was diagnosed with the same condition as Charlie Gard, a baby from London, whose life support was withdrawn in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russell Brand resigned from the BBC in October 2008\n\nThe BBC should have \"thoroughly investigated\" after managers were told Russell Brand had exposed himself to a woman in a BBC office in 2008, broadcast union Bectu has said.\n\nBBC News management were told in 2019 by a staff member about Brand's alleged behaviour in the BBC News Los Angeles office. No formal action was taken.\n\nBrand was recording his Radio 2 show, in which he laughed about the incident.\n\nThe BBC said it would investigate the allegations.\n\nBrand has not yet commented on them.\n\nThe head of the union, Philippa Childs, said that had action been taken at the time, \"we might not be in the situation we're in now\".\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that the episode of The Russell Brand Show recorded that day where he was heard laughing about exposing himself was shocking, and should never have been broadcast.\n\nEarlier this week Bectu wrote to broadcasters, including the BBC, urging them to take \"a much more proactive, leading role in ensuring the sector is a safe, mentally healthy and respectful place to work for everyone\".\n\nMs Childs said the union wanted the BBC to review its processes \"to see whether or not they are fit for purpose and to see whether or not they properly support complainants and deal with issues in real time\".\n\nThe woman involved, who we are calling Olivia, never made a formal complaint.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘As I open up the cupboard doors under the sink, I felt someone behind me'\n\nShe said she had hoped that someone from the BBC would contact her after hearing the recording, which was made days before the episode aired. That never happened.\n\n\"I thought to myself, Oh, that's a bit strange, nobody has come to say sorry to me, for his behaviour. So I thought perhaps that particular audio - because it was so graphic - had been cut out, which is probably why I never pursued it.\"\n\nAfter hearing a recording of the episode, which aired on 21 June 2008, she said she felt let down by the BBC.\n\nFour women have accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013. Brand has denied the claims, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nOn Monday, police said they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in central London in 2003.\n\nThe BBC's director general Tim Davie, who became director of audio and music at the BBC a few days after the show was broadcast, has already announced a review of Russell Brand's time at the BBC, where he worked as a radio presenter between 2006 and 2008.\n\nThe BBC says its oversight and compliance procedures were overhauled in 2010 and are now \"markedly different\"\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it would talk to BBC News staff in Los Angeles and anyone who was working there in 2008, adding they would also like to hear from anyone who might have information.\n\n\"Further, the director general has been very clear that some broadcasts from that period were, and are, inexcusable and totally unacceptable, and would never be aired today,\" it added.\n\nBrand's co-presenter on the show, Matt Morgan, told the BBC he was \"not aware until now of the nature of this encounter\".\n\nIn a statement from his lawyer, he said he condemned all forms of mistreatment of women.\n\n\"Looking back on the time I spent working on radio at the BBC, I am regretful to learn that a show I was part of made colleagues uncomfortable at times,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident\n\nOlivia, who worked in the same building as BBC News, said that she texted a BBC News employee after Brand exposed himself to her in a bathroom.\n\nHe told her that he knew what had happened because Brand was talking about it in the studio.\n\nOlivia tracked down a recording of the programme after the Times and Channel 4 published their investigation into Brand's behaviour.\n\nThe Radio 2 recording is the first time that Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and then heard discussing it, raising serious questions about how that part of the show, which was pre-recorded, was allowed to be broadcast days later.\n\nIn 2009, Ofcom fined the BBC £150,000 over a Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross phone prank, in what became known as Sachsgate.\n\nBrand and Ross left lewd messages on Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs' answerphone in 2008, while on air on BBC Radio 2 on 18 and 25 October 2008.\n\nBrand subsequently resigned from the BBC in October 2008, as did Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas and head of compliance Dave Barber.\n\nThe BBC says its oversight and compliance procedures were overhauled in 2010 and are now \"markedly different\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, you can visit the BBC Action Line.", "A woman has accused Russell Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show.\n\nThe woman says it happened in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles. The encounter left her stunned, she says.\n\nMinutes later, he was recorded laughing with his co-presenter who said Brand \"showed his willy to a lady\".\n\nBrand has not yet commented on the latest allegation.\n\nHis co-presenter Matt Morgan told the BBC he was \"not aware until now of the nature of this encounter\".\n\nWARNING: This article contains explicit details and language that some might find offensive.\n\nIt is the first time that Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and then heard discussing it.\n\nIt also raises serious questions for the BBC about how that part of the show, which was pre-recorded, was allowed to be broadcast days later.\n\nThe woman never made a formal complaint. BBC management was informed about the incident in 2019, but no formal action was taken.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it was sorry to hear the allegations and would investigate them as part of a review into Brand's time at the BBC.\n\nFour other women have also accused Brand, 48, of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013. He has denied the claims, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe woman, who we are calling Olivia, worked for a media company in the same building as the BBC's Los Angeles office.\n\nOn 16 June 2008, she says she answered the door to Brand and his team, who were there to pre-record an episode of The Russell Brand Show for Radio 2.\n\nShe then went to the bathroom to get some sinus medication, walking past the radio studio. While squatting to look through the medicine cabinet, she says she felt someone behind her.\n\nShe turned around to face a man's crotch. \"I was startled and got up and I realised it was the man that I'd let in - Russell.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘As I open up the cupboard doors under the sink, I felt someone behind me'\n\nIn the conversation that followed, she recalls him saying: \"Oh, I think you're a bit alright. I think you're a bit of alright.\"\n\nShe says he told her he was going to call her Betty. When she said that wasn't her name, she says he replied: \"Well, I'm gonna fuck you.\"\n\n\"And I said: 'No, you're not.'\"\n\nShe says he then pulled out his penis on his hand and \"pretty much served it to me as you would be serving someone some food\".\n\nShe says the door to the bathroom was closed, and she felt trapped.\n\n\"There was a bit of banter going on because I didn't know what to do.\"\n\nOlivia says he then put his penis back in his trousers, and she heard someone banging on the door. She says someone from his team called for him, at which point Brand left.\n\nOlivia says she returned to her desk in disbelief at what had happened, and texted a BBC employee in the office about it.\n\nHe told her that he knew what had happened because Brand was talking about it in the studio.\n\nFollowing the investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme into Brand's alleged behaviour, published earlier this month, Olivia says she tracked down a recording of the programme.\n\nThe episode, which aired on 21 June, 2008, features this exchange between Brand and Morgan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident\n\nMorgan: It's been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.\n\nBrand: (Laughing) Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!\n\nMorgan adds: \"He got told off for ringing a bell, minutes later he's showing his willy.\" Brand can be heard laughing in the background.\n\nOlivia, who has never worked as a receptionist, says she felt disgusted when she heard it.\n\n\"I feel ashamed, but more so I wonder had something been done, perhaps there would have been fewer women he would have done horrible things to, which we're reading about in the papers now.\"\n\nIn a statement sent to the BBC via his legal team, Morgan said: \"I was not aware until now of the nature of this encounter.\n\n\"I have expressed my regret now looking back at the impact of the show, and this is a further example.\n\n\"The recent coverage has been very distressing to read and I reiterate my absolute condemnation of any form of mistreatment of women.\"\n\nOlivia never made a complaint but said she had hoped that someone from the BBC would contact her after hearing the recording. That never happened.\n\n\"I thought to myself, Oh, that's a bit strange nobody has come to say sorry to me, for his behaviour. So I thought perhaps that particular audio - because it was so graphic - had been cut out, which is probably why I never pursued it.\"\n\nShe says she thought people wouldn't take her seriously: \"I am blonde. Accented.\"\n\nShe says she was also worried about the potential impact on her and her family if she had raised it officially.\n\n\"Had I known audio existed, I probably would have done something as the incident would have been corroborated,\" she says.\n\nWhen she told BBC staff about the story over the years, they would laugh it off, she says.\n\n\"We all did. It was shock and like, 'What, did this really happen?'\"\n\nIn 2019, BBC management was informed about the incident by a BBC staff member who had spoken to Olivia.\n\nShe says nobody from BBC management approached her directly about the incident and no formal action was taken.\n\nOlivia says she feels let down by the BBC.\n\n\"What allowed that output go out like that? What made the BBC think that was appropriate to go out like that? I just don't understand why they didn't investigate this much sooner.\n\n\"And I suspect there's far worse in all those episodes that I can't even stomach to listen to.\"\n\nIn his statement, Morgan added he stopped working with Brand \"several years ago\" and \"was never aware of any allegations of serious sexual misconduct against him\".\n\n\"Looking back on the time I spent working on radio at the BBC, I am regretful to learn that a show I was part of made colleagues uncomfortable at times,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC's director general Tim Davie, who became director of Audio and Music at the BBC a few days after the show was broadcast, has already announced a review of Russell Brand's time at the BBC.\n\nIn its statement on this incident, the BBC invited the woman involved to contact them. \"We would be very keen to hear from her and anyone else who may have information,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"We will of course speak to the bureau team and anyone who was working there in 2008 as part of this.\"\n\n\"Further, the director general has been very clear that some broadcasts from that period were, and are, inexcusable and totally unacceptable, and would never be aired today,\" it added.\n\nBrand resigned from the BBC in October 2008 after he and presenter Jonathan Ross left obscene voicemail messages for Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs about Brand's sexual relationship with Sachs' granddaughter.\n\nThe BBC says its oversight and compliance proceedures were overhauled in 2010 and are now \"markedly different\".\n\nOlivia says she told her family about the incident last weekend.\n\n\"My sister said to me: 'Why didn't you kick him in the nuts and drop elbow him?'\"\n\n\"I couldn't have done that. What I needed to do was get out of that bathroom in one piece, which I did.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, you can visit the BBC Action Line.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sophie Turner says Joe Jonas is refusing to allow their children to return to England\n\nBritish actress Sophie Turner has sued her singer ex-partner Joe Jonas - requesting he return their two children to their \"habitual residence\" England.\n\nThe celebrity couple announced earlier this month that they were divorcing after more than four years of marriage.\n\nThey described the split at the time as \"amicable\".\n\nHowever on Thursday, lawyers for Turner, 27, filed a legal petition citing the \"wrongful detention\" of their children in New York.\n\nThe 34-year-old Jonas Brothers singer, who is American, is seeking joint custody of their two daughters - Willa, who was born in 2020 and their second child, who was born last year but whose name has not been released to the public.\n\nAccording to Turner's legal petition, which the BBC has seen, the couple had made England their \"permanent home\" in April. The documents state that Jonas had incorrectly claimed in his divorce application that the children, who have dual citizenship, had lived in Florida for the six months before he filed it.\n\nTurner and Jonas had agreed that the children were allowed to travel to the US in August, where their father was on tour, the petition states, but this was a \"temporary arrangement\".\n\nThe court filing goes on to say that the pair met late last week to discuss their separation, during which Turner reiterated their \"agreed plan\" for the children to return \"home to England\".\n\nHowever, Jonas has allegedly refused to return their passports and to send them to the UK.\n\nTurner is said to currently be in New York with the children.\n\nIn response to the allegations, a representative for Jonas told CNN that the pair's meeting on Sunday had been \"cordial\" and that his impression was that they had \"reached an understanding that they would work together towards an amicable co-parenting setup.\"\n\n\"The children were born in the US and have spent the vast majority of their lives in the US. They are American citizens,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that Jonas wished for Turner to \"reconsider her harsh legal position and move forward in a more constructive and private manner\" and that \"his only concern is the well-being of his children.\"\n\nJonas has also denied Turner's claims in the court documents that she found out about the divorce from media reports - saying she was aware in advance.\n\nTurner is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, and has also appeared in the drama series The Staircase and the X-Men film franchise.\n\nEarlier this week, Turner was photographed having dinner with pop star Taylor Swift - who dated Jonas in 2008. Online gossip blogs were in overdrive as photos of the two, walking along arm-in-arm, went viral.\n\nAs a solo artist, Jonas released singles including Just In Love and This is Me, a duet with Demi Lovato.\n\nBut his best-known songs are with his brothers Nick and Kevin Jonas. As a group, the Jonas Brothers previously starred in their own Disney Channel series and scored hits with SOS, Burnin' Up, Sucker and Waffle House.\n\nThey recently re-released Year 3000 as a collaboration with Busted, the British band who originally released the song in 2002.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Mortgage interest rates have risen sharply over the past six months after years of historic lows.\n\nAs higher interest rates will mean higher mortgage payments, experts say more people are at risk of falling into debt or losing their homes.\n\nTry our calculator below to see how your fixed rate mortgage might be affected as borrowing becomes more expensive.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How much could my mortgage go up by? How much are you borrowing? If you have an existing mortgage enter the outstanding balance left to pay. 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For most of his life he was a Republican, but has shifted away from the party since the US Capitol riot. \"I think the aid that we are providing is very important for the people in Ukraine and the surrounding areas. As long as Ukrainians have a spirit to fight, we should continue to support. Also, I think it's very important for our own country. The lessons that Ukrainians are learning on the battlefield are going to save our soldiers' lives in the next conflict. America has not fought a war like Ukraine is currently fighting since 1945. \"The fact that we cannot manufacture enough artillery shells and ammunition supplies to even support half of what Ukraine is consuming shows that there is a major blind spot in our defence industry. \"My personal belief is that we would already be in a recession in the United States if it were not for the war in Ukraine - money spent on military equipment benefits everyone here. \"We should continue to supply them with whatever they need, but I do strongly feel that that should be done in terms of tanks, planes, and artillery instead of just giving them a big cheque.\"", "An injection of stem cells given alongside a kidney transplant could remove the need for a lifetime of drugs to suppress the immune system, say scientists.\n\nEarly tests of the technique at US hospitals were successful in a small number of patients.\n\nThe journal Science Translational Medicine reports how the majority no longer need anti-rejection medication.\n\nResearchers said it could have a \"major impact\" on transplant science.\n\nOne of the key problems associated with organ transplantation is the risk that the body will \"recognise\" the new organ as a foreign invader and attack it.\n\nTo prevent this, patients take powerful drugs to suppress their immune systems, and will have to do this for life.\n\nThe drugs come at a price, preventing organ rejection but increasing the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and serious infection.\n\nThe study, carried out at the University of Louisville and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, involved eight patients.\n\nTheir transplant came from a live donor, who also underwent a procedure to draw stem cells, the building blocks of their immune system, from the blood.\n\nThe transplant recipient's body was prepared using radiotherapy and chemotherapy to suppress their own immune system.\n\nThen the transplant went ahead, with the stem cells put into their body a couple of days later.\n\nThe idea is that these will help generate a modified immune system that no longer attacks the organ or its new owner.\n\nAlthough the patients started off with the same anti-rejection drugs, the aim was to reduce these slowly, hopefully withdrawing them completely over time.\n\nFive out of the eight patients involved in the trial managed to do this within a year.\n\nOne of those is 47-year-old Lindsay Porter, from Chicago.\n\nShe said: \"I hear about the challenges recipients have to face with their medications and it is significant.\n\n\"It's almost surreal when I think about it because I feel so healthy and normal.\"\n\nDr Joseph Leventhal, associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said: \"The preliminary results from this ongoing study are exciting and may have a major impact on organ transplantation in the future.\"\n\nHe said that, as well as kidney patients, the technique might improve the lives of those receiving other organs.\n\nWhile stem cells from organ donors have been used before, this is the first time it has been used for \"mismatched\" transplants, in which donors and recipients do not have to be related and immunologically similar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly is missing with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction as police search for a missing woman and her two children.\n\nJamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a centre for vulnerable mothers and children in Colindale, north-west London, with her newborn son and daughter, three, on Tuesday.\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the investigation on Wednesday.\n\nThe Met said it had located a blue Ford Fiesta that Ms Kelly got into.\n\nHer children are under care orders and were taken from the centre against the wishes of staff.\n\nOn the day Ms Kelly and her children went missing, they left the address against the wishes of staff and got into the car being driven by a woman.\n\nOfficers have now located the car and arrested a 30-year-old woman. She remains in custody.\n\nThe man who was arrested on Wednesday was held on suspicion of child abduction and conspiracy to kidnap.\n\nHe remains in custody in Essex after a warrant of further detention was granted by the court.\n\nDet Supt Lewis Basford, who leads the Met's public protection command in the east London area, said: \"We are making significant progress in our investigation but we remain extremely concerned about the welfare of Jamie-Leigh and her children, one of whom is less than one month old.\"\n\nOfficers believe Ms Kelly is \"being assisted\" and has urged members of the public to call 999 immediately if they see her.\n\nShe was wearing a white long-sleeved top, jogging trousers and trainers when she left the centre and is described as white with green eyes, slim and about 5ft 4ins (1.6m) tall.\n\nShe has links to Thurrock in Essex and Havering, east London.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly is missing with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction, as a hunt was launched for a missing mother and two children.\n\nJamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a centre for vulnerable mothers and children in Colindale, north-west London, with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter on Tuesday, the Met Police said.\n\nThe children are under care orders and were taken from the centre against the wishes of staff.\n\nMs Kelly got into a blue Ford Fiesta which then sped off, the force said.\n\nPolice believe the driver of the vehicle was a woman and said neither the driver nor the car had yet been located.\n\nThe blue Ford Fiesta was driven off at speed, police say\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the investigation on Wednesday.\n\nHe was held on suspicion of child abduction and conspiracy to kidnap and remains in police custody for questioning in Essex.\n\nMs Kelly is described as white with green eyes, slim and about 5ft 4ins (1.6m) tall.\n\nShe was wearing a white long sleeved top, jogging trousers and trainers when she left the centre.\n\nDet Supt Lewis Basford said he was \"extremely concerned\" for the welfare of Ms Kelly and her children.\n\nHer baby boy was born in mid-September and is \"extremely vulnerable\" as a newborn, the force said.\n\nOfficers believe Ms Kelly is \"being assisted\" and has urged members of the public to call 999 immediately with any live sightings.\n\nShe has links to Thurrock in Essex and Havering, east London.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A school image of Sara Sharif has been released by Surrey Police\n\nNew images of Sara Sharif have been released by Surrey Police as part of an ongoing investigation.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nHer father, stepmother and uncle appeared at the Old Bailey earlier this week and were told they would face a murder trial next autumn.\n\n\"The photos present Sara in the way we believe she may have dressed in the months prior to her death,\" police said.\n\n\"We are hoping that these images will prompt more people to come forward with information about her and her family.\"\n\nBoth images are believed to have been taken in the past year, police said.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nA post-mortem examination found that Sara had suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\".\n\nHowever, the actual cause of her death is still yet to be established.\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman said: \"We have released these new images this week in the hope that it will prompt more people who knew Sara and her family to come forward.\n\n\"We are grateful to everyone who has already contacted us, and I would like to stress that any information, no matter how insignificant it might seem, is reviewed by the investigation team and further enquiries carried out if appropriate.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who may have information and hasn't yet come forward to reach out to us.\"\n\nUrfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik will stand trial in September 2024\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, are charged with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThey are next due to appear on 1 December for a plea hearing, and will stand trial in September 2024.\n\nOn Monday a court heard that after her death, Sara was found to have a \"constellation\" of healed and healing injuries.\n\nPolice said posters had also been displayed in and around Woking train station and taxi ranks around the town in both English and Urdu.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Three appear in court over Sara Sharif's murder\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Captain Charles Speedy (L), who accompanied Prince Alemayehu (R) from Ethiopia, became his guardian\n\nA lock of hair from a young Ethiopian prince, who died over 140 years ago, has been handed over in the UK to representatives from his home country.\n\nIn 1868, British soldiers took Prince Alemayehu away after invading the fortress of his father, Emperor Tewodros II, who then killed himself.\n\nThe crown prince died aged 18 in 1879 after an unhappy upbringing in Britain.\n\nHe was buried at Windsor Castle near London, but recent requests to have his body returned have been turned down.\n\nOne of the prince's relatives, Fasil Minas, expressed hope that the handing over of the prince's hair could pave the way for his body to go back to Ethiopia.\n\nAt a ceremony in London on Thursday evening, Ethiopia's ambassador to the UK Teferi Melesse took possession of the lock of hair, as well as a number of other artefacts that had been looted from Emperor Tewodros's Maqdala fortress.\n\nHe welcomed their return, saying that they will go back to their rightful place, where they can continue to inspire and educate generations to come.\n\nHe said that Ethiopia would continue to press the UK to return more items seized from the fortress.\n\nThe prince was taken to London aged just seven, where his status as an orphan elicited the sympathy of Queen Victoria.\n\nShe agreed to support him financially and put him under the guardianship of Captain Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, the man who had accompanied the prince from Ethiopia.\n\nThe Scheherazade Foundation, which facilitated the return of the lock of hair, said it had originally been in the possession of Captain Speedy.\n\nLeonie Turner, a descendant of Speedy who handed over the hair in London, told Canadian broadcaster CBC that she had discovered the artefact among her family heirlooms.\n\n\"I felt Prince Alemayehu's hair was a long way from home,\" she is quoted as saying.\n\nAlula Pankhurst, a member of Ethiopia's Heritages Restitution National Committee, told the BBC he welcomed the return of the hair but said this should just be the start.\n\n\"The restitution of Ethiopian artefacts looted by the1868 British expedition to Magdala is important for restorative justice and an excellent way to build better relations and collaborations between British and Ethiopian institutions,\" he said.\n\nThere have long been calls for the return of the prince's body with a fresh demand from his descendants in May.\n\nBut in a statement to the BBC, Buckingham Palace rejected the call, saying exhuming the prince's remains would disturb the remains of others buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.", "Civil servants have been running Northern Ireland departments since the executive collapsed 16 months ago\n\nPart of the canteen at the Northern Ireland Assembly has been closed because of problems with the roof and a risk of falling debris.\n\nA section of the seating area has been cordoned off as a precaution while investigations are carried out, Stormont officials said.\n\nIt stems from long-running issues with the roof of Parliament Buildings, which could cost £1.8m to fix.\n\nThe assembly has not been operating since last year.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) walked out of Stormont's power-sharing executive in February 2022 in protest over a Brexit deal which introduced new checks and restrictions on goods moving from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, elected representatives and staff continue to use Stormont for meetings and events.\n\nAssembly members in previous years have complained of buckets being placed in corridors due to leaks from the ceilings.\n\nNow part of the seating area in the Blue Flax restaurant has been blocked off with recycling bins and a trolley for food trays.\n\nAn assembly spokeswoman said: \"Recently, ongoing issues with the roof have resulted in some concerns about the theoretical risk of small pieces of debris falling on a part of the Blue Flax roof.\n\n\"Out of an abundance of caution a small segment of the Blue Flax restaurant has been cordoned off while remedial measures are investigated and put in place.\"\n\nThey added that the \"interim measures have not resulted in any diminution of service to building users\".\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister, who has asked questions about repairs to the roof, said he was unsurprised by the latest development.\n\n\"Some might say that this issue highlights Stormont's total incompetence,\" he said.\n\n\"If the assembly cannot address a leaking roof - an issue which has been going on for many years prior to the latest crisis which brought down power-sharing - how can it be expected to deliver on the day-to-day needs of the people of Northern Ireland?\"\n\nTUV leader Jim Allister said he was not surprised by the development\n\nPeople Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said there was a \"certain irony\" with the building issues during the current political impasse.\n\nHe added: \"Repairs should be actioned when necessary, but people will rightly wonder whether Stormont still represents good value for money and whether the building should serve another public purpose.\"\n\nLast year the Assembly Commission, which oversees the running of Parliament Buildings, said it had obtained expert advice and \"any urgent holding repairs identified by those experts have been carried out\".\n\nAn assembly spokeswoman said legal proceedings had been issued against the architects and contractors over ongoing issues with the roof.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSheffield United midfielder Maddy Cusack has died at the age of 27.\n\nCusack had been at the club since 2019 and became the first player to reach 100 appearances for the women's team last season.\n\nShe also worked as a marketing executive at the Women's Championship club, who said they were \"devastated\".\n\n\"This is heartbreaking news for everyone at Bramall Lane,\" said Sheffield United chief executive officer Stephen Bettis.\n\n\"Maddy had a unique position of being part of a number of teams at Sheffield United and was popular with everyone that she came into contact with.\n\n\"Her personality and professionalism made her a credit to her family - she will be sadly missed.\n\n\"Whilst taking in the news and moving forward, the club will offer as much support as possible to Maddy's family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nCusack's former clubs Birmingham, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest also paid tribute.\n\nThe Football Association's director of women's football, Baroness Sue Campbell, said English football's governing body are in contact with Sheffield United and offering them support at this \"incredibly sad time\".\n\n\"On behalf of the FA, the Lionesses, the Women's Super League and the Women's Championship, our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Maddy's family, friends, team-mates and everyone at Sheffield United,\" she said.\n\n\"Maddy also represented England at age-group level and we will pay tribute to her at an appropriate point.\"\n\nFormer Sheffield United men's captain Billy Sharp posted an image of himself and Cusack on X, formerly Twitter, with the caption: \"Such a lovely girl. Enjoyed some amazing times with Maddy and the Blades. Such a sad loss. RIP Maddy.\"\n\nThe cause of Cusack's death has not been announced.", "William Kent is a keen sword fighter. He is also blind.\n\nThe 21-year-old, from Forgandenny in Perth and Kinross, has Stargardt disease, a genetic condition that affects the macula of the eye.\n\nHe recently completed his Duke of Edinburgh gold award - cycling, horse riding and taking part in Historical European Martial Arts to achieve it.\n\nFollowing on from his outdoor adventures with Duke of Edinburgh, he plans to abseil off the Forth Road Bridge to raise money for a local charity, despite his fear of heights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Ukrainian missile strike has hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.\n\nA serviceman is missing after the missile attack, according to Moscow. Footage on social media shows plumes of smoke over the building in Sevastopol.\n\nThe fleet is an important target for Kyiv and is seen as the best of Russia's navy.\n\nUkraine has hit several targets in Crimea recently, including an air-defence system and two naval vessels.\n\nAgainst the backdrop of the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Canadian parliament to give a speech in which he thanked Canada for being an \"example for others around the world\" in its support of his country.\n\nMr Zelensky, who was given multiple standing ovations, said \"people will be the winners, not the Kremlin\", and insisted Ukraine could call on support as it was about \"saving lives of millions of people\".\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged additional support worth 650m Canadian dollars ($482m, £394m), including 50 armoured vehicles and training for F-16 fighter jet pilots and engineers.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack on Crimea was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France, highlighting the importance of Western weaponry to Kyiv.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said five missiles were shot down by its air defences, while the Ukrainian military-linked StratCom Ukraine said Ukraine had \"successfully\" hit the naval base.\n\nUkraine's air force commander Gen Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram \"we told you there'd be more\".\n\nKyiv's forces have recently been launching near-daily strikes against Russian forces based in Crimea.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's navy claimed to have knocked out an S-400 air defence missile battery covering the peninsula, degrading Russia's ability to defend against fresh attacks.\n\nA day earlier, a large Russian landing ship and submarine were damaged in an attack which Ukraine said also made use of Storm Shadow missiles.\n\nThe attacks on Crimea are strategically and symbolically important.\n\nAs well as being a platform from which to attack Ukraine, the Black Sea fleet is a major symbol of Russia's centuries-old military presence in the region.\n\nIt was based in Crimea under a leasing deal even before Russia illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had to take control of Crimea to stop it from falling into Western hands.\n\nRussia has also repeatedly threatened to use the fleet to block shipping routes used by Ukraine to export grain.\n\nThe Ukrainian president is visiting North America, where he has been urging world leaders to continue to support Ukraine.\n\nOn Thursday, he met President Joe Biden in Washington where there is growing scepticism - particularly among Republicans - over the level of funding for Kyiv.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was visiting Canada for the first time since Russia's invasion\n\nBut speaking at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, Mr Zelensky said Russia was \"spreading disinformation, spreading its narratives all around the place\" to try to divide the unity of the rest of the world.\n\nAsked about reports in the US media that President Biden had agreed to supply Ukraine with a small number of long-range missiles, Mr Zelensky did not directly answer the question but said the two countries were discussing \"all the different types of weapons\", including long-range weapons, artillery shells and air defence systems.\n\n\"I believe that [on] the majority of what has been discussed yesterday with President Biden, I think will be able to reach agreement.\"\n\nHe said it was a matter of time but added \"quite frankly the sooner, the less people we will lose\".\n\nThe US already provides far more financial aid and weapons to Ukraine than any other country.", "Police dropped Gareth Roper outside Iceland in Platt Bridge, Wigan shortly before he was killed\n\nA man was killed in a hit-and-run crash shortly after police left him barefoot outside an Iceland store three miles from home, a court has heard.\n\nGareth Roper was struck in Wigan by a Volvo driven by Jamie Evans, 30, and died later with severe head injuries.\n\nEvans, who did not have a licence, admitted causing the death of Mr Roper, 35, by dangerous driving at Bolton Crown Court earlier this year.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nThe court heard how officers had attended Mr Roper's home in the early hours of New Year's Day 2022, after his wife reported he was \"acting somewhat strangely\".\n\nHis children were woken during the disturbance and Mr Roper was taken away to \"prevent any further difficulties\".\n\nThe police officers who left Mr Roper are being investigated, the court heard\n\nSara Haque, prosecuting, said Mr Roper, a father of six, was de-arrested nine minutes later and was left outside the Iceland store in Platt Bridge, Wigan, Greater Manchester.\n\nShe said: \"He was left barefoot and without any money or his mobile phone.\n\n\"The officers who left him at the scene are still under investigation.\"\n\nCCTV footage moments before the fatal crash just after 04:15 GMT showed Mr Roper walking along the centre of Lily Lane, Bamfurlong.\n\nHis jumper was tied around his waist and he could be heard whistling and clapping, the lawyer said.\n\nThe car was estimated to be travelling at 55mph in a 30mph zone. Evans drove off and handed himself in to police later that day.\n\nIn a victim statement read to the court, Mr Roper's wife Rachel said: \"Nobody expects that the police will come to your door and tell you your husband has been killed in a hit-and-run.\n\n\"He was only taken away about 45 minutes earlier and now I was being told he was dead.\n\nShe said she wanted to tell the driver he had \"ruined a happy family with a hardworking dad\".\n\n\"He has taken all that away. He has shown no remorse. He just doesn't care,\" she added.\n\nMr Roper was found lying on Lily Lane in Bamfurlong\n\nThe court heard the family had noted Evans had posted photographs on Facebook of himself partying, and in one post he had bragged that he would soon be going \"on holiday\" to Forest Bank prison.\n\nMr Clarke was told there was evidence that Evans had been drinking lager and spirits before the crash.\n\nHe was released on bail after his arrest in January 2022 but four months later got behind the wheel again and sped away in a van from a pursuing police vehicle, the court was told.\n\nEvans, of no fixed address, was subsequently jailed for 26 weeks for that offence after he was convicted of dangerous driving, having no licence and failing to provide a specimen of breath.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland held on against Scotland at Sunderland's Stadium of Light to win their first Women's Nations League match and begin their quest to secure qualification for TeamGB for the Olympic Games.\n\nWorld Cup finalists England were tested by a gutsy Scotland team who created plenty of opportunities as they continued to showcase their progression under manager Pedro Martinez Losa.\n\nHeaded goals from Lucy Bronze and Lauren Hemp gave the Lionesses the lead before Kirsty Hanson got one back for Scotland in first-half injury time.\n\nScotland were aggrieved not to have had a penalty earlier for a shove on Martha Thomas by England captain Millie Bright in the box and they hit the crossbar in the second half with a dipping volley from Hanson.\n• None 'Sometimes it doesn't look beautiful' - Wiegman on England win\n\nEuropean champions England also had a goal ruled out in the first half when Chloe Kelly was offside as Rachel Daly headed in a corner.\n\nVictory puts England on three points in the four-team group A1 along with Belgium, who beat the Netherlands 2-1.\n\nTeam GB would qualify for the Olympics should nominated nation England reach the Nations League final, or finish third if hosts France reach the final.\n\nThere was a lively atmosphere in the North East but while opponents on the pitch, both teams were united off it.\n\nEngland's Bright had expressed support this week for Scotland, who resolved a dispute with their football association following accusations of inequality. That came before the Lionesses announced they had also reached an agreement with their FA on a dispute over performance-related bonuses.\n\nBoth teams chose to play in black armbands on Friday evening and there was a period of silence before kick-off in memory of former England youth international Maddy Cusack, who passed away earlier this week.\n\nThey also showed support and solidarity for the Spanish team by wearing white wristbands with the hashtag #SeAcabo - which translates to English as \"it's over\" - and came together for a group photo before kick-off.\n• None Reaction as England and Scotland go head-to-head\n\nIt was an intriguing contest at Stadium of Light as both teams, lining up for the first time in the new Women's Nations League tournament, were tested in different ways.\n\nEngland were back on home soil for the first time since shrugging off their World Cup final defeat by Spain just a month ago, while Scotland faced a team who are used to rubbing shoulders with world giants.\n\nIt was no surprise to see the Lionesses stamp their authority early on, reacting to a warm reception by fans in Sunderland to dominate possession and test Scotland's defence in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nDaly thought she had found the breakthrough when she headed past Lee Gibson from a corner but Kelly was marginally offside and impeding the Scotland keeper - a good spot from referee Maria Sole Caputi given there was no video assistant referee.\n\nTottenham striker Thomas was sure she had earned a penalty when Bright carelessly barged into the back of her but England got away with it and capitalised when Bronze went up the other end and superbly directed Katie Zelem's inviting cross into the net.\n\nHemp quickly made it 2-0 with another powerful header, getting the better of Rachel McLauchlan, but Scotland ensured a nervy second half as Hanson pounced on Claire Emslie's cut-back after a mistake in the Lionesses' defence to halve the deficit.\n\nWith the Women's Super League season yet to kick off, England looked like a team who had reached a World Cup final a month ago and had not fully recovered as the game lacked intensity and threatened to fizzle out towards the end.\n\nBut Scotland were relentless in their attempts to cause an upset and almost did - Hanson smashing the crossbar, Christy Grimshaw testing goalkeeper Mary Earps and Thomas heading straight at England's number one.\n\nHowever, while this was not as plain sailing as England may have hoped, it was 'job done' on their Nations League debut and is the first step in the right direction towards Olympic qualification on behalf of Team GB.", "NatWest has said an issue with its cash deposit machines has been resolved, after some customers reported money missing from their accounts.\n\nSeveral people said on social media on Thursday that recently-deposited cash was not showing up in their balance.\n\nEarly on Friday, NatWest said the issue had been resolved and that no-one would be left out of pocket.\n\nCustomers had reported going overdrawn because of the issue and expressed concern they would be charged fees.\n\nIn a statement, NatWest said: \"Cash payments to a small number of accounts have been delayed.\n\n\"The issue is now resolved and customer accounts are being updated.\"\n\nIt is unclear how many people were affected by the issue.\n\nThe bank first said on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday morning that there was an \"ongoing incident with our cash deposit machines\" and that its team was \"working to resolve this as a matter of urgency\".\n\nOne customer contacted the BBC to say they had flown to Croatia only to find that they had no money in their account.\n\nAnother posted to NatWest on X saying: \"I'm now £900 in my overdraft. I put £1000 in on Tuesday afternoon and it's gone? Also we better not be getting overdraft fees cause of your system failed.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering a new baccalaureate qualification to rival A-levels\n\nRishi Sunak is considering a major reform of A-levels in England which could see the introduction of a new \"British baccalaureate\".\n\nThe prime minister's plans could include the compulsory study of maths and English up to the age of 18, according to newspaper reports.\n\nThe shake-up of A-levels would be controversial - but no final decision has been taken.\n\nLabour said the proposals were an \"undeliverable gimmick\".\n\nThe government has denied that Mr Sunak is trying to find radical proposals which will help his party in the polls, with No 10 saying this week that the prime minister is focused on long-term solutions.\n\nMr Sunak initially suggested the idea of a new baccalaureate qualification during his unsuccessful leadership campaign against Liz Truss last year, and has previously said he wants all young people to study maths to 18.\n\nIt is possible the prime minister will set out more of his plans for education at the Conservative Party conference in October.\n\nAndrew Mitchell, who attends Cabinet in his role as a Foreign Office minister, said he expects Mr Sunak to agree to a significant reform of England's education system.\n\n\"We will be guided by the best expertise on how we ratchet up standards and give children the best possible chance of getting the graduate jobs of the future,\" he told BBC Radio 4.\n\nAbout half of 18-year-olds in England currently take A-levels, typically sitting exams in three subjects.\n\nIn 2021, the EDSK education think tank said the dominance of A-levels in secondary education was \"inescapable\" and that they were too narrow, calling for a new baccalaureate qualification to replace them.\n\nIn theory, it would broaden the curriculum to cover any academic, applied and technical subject which students could gradually specialise in over the course of a three-year qualification.\n\nEducation is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, so decisions in each nation are taken by devolved governments.\n\nThe proposal for England is being called a \"British baccalaureate\" to differentiate it from the current English baccalaureate, which is a separate set of subjects at GCSE level.\n\nAny educational reform in England would be controversial, and concerns have already been raised about the potential impact on existing recruitment and retention issues within teaching.\n\nDavid Robinson, director for post-16 and skills at the Education Policy Institute, said steps to broaden the curriculum were \"encouraging\", but added that it would cause an increase in workload for teachers.\n\nDaniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, called it a \"sketchy proposal\" and said teaching was already facing a \"recruitment and retention crisis\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Sixth Form Colleges Association said the post-16 curriculum, which is \"narrow by international standards\", was partly reflective of \"chronic underinvestment in sixth form education since 2010\".\n\nThe government is already working through its rollout of T-levels, a new vocational qualification which the first cohort of students started in 2020.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson accused Mr Sunak of \"pursuing short-term headlines\" with an \"unworkable policy\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson did not comment directly on the proposals, but said the government was already \"reforming technical education\", and had set out \"bold plans\" to facilitate the study of maths up to the age of 18.", "The proposed road would link northern and western parts of Shrewsbury\n\nCouncillors voted to back £95m of extra borrowing, after the figure was accidentally included by mistake in a report over a planned bypass.\n\nThe figure featured in a report on the North West Relief Road linking northern and western Shrewsbury.\n\nA finance director said he had been \"confused\" when the figure was mentioned in the council debate.\n\nShropshire Council said the £95m figure that made its way into the report was not a true estimate.\n\nIt had raised concern over whether the true cost of the scheme had more than doubled from £87m to £182m.\n\nThe vote took place at a full council meeting on Thursday and, despite not committing the authority to taking out the loan, has sparked a backlash from critics who have questioned why such an error was not picked up.\n\nIn an email to Green group leader Julian Dean, director of finance James Walton admitted he was \"confused\" when the figure was mentioned in the debate as he was not aware it was on the list.\n\nHe said: \"This row should have been deleted, it was missed, and I apologise.\n\n\"Early drafts of the spreadsheets apparently included holding figures for a number of items that were considered for inclusion in the report.\"\n\nMr Walton stated approvals given on Thursday \"did not provide any additional funding\" to the road, as the report's content outlined \"considerations in relation to the [road]\" rather than funding.\n\nThe figure would be corrected to members, he said.\n\nCouncillors at the Conservative-majority council approved a mid-year review of a capital investment programme. Included in a list of projects appended to a report, though not referenced in the report itself, was £95.3m of borrowing to plug a \"funding gap\" in the road's cost.\n\nThis was queried by opposition councillors who said they had not been given any new information about why more money was needed on top of what had been previously agreed, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nLiberal Democrat councillor and transport campaigner Rob Wilson said he had been asking in vain for an updated cost estimate since he was elected in 2021.\n\nHe said: \"Today at council the Conservatives proposed taking out a £95m loan to make up an unspecified funding gap.\n\n\"I asked why they would need £95m for an £87m road and was not given an answer.\"\n\nThe initial funding for the scheme was broken down into £54m of Department for Transport cash secured in 2019, £4.2m from the Local Enterprise Partnership, unless they decide in November to retract their investment, and the rest from Shropshire Council's capital budget.\n\nLabour group leader Julia Buckley said: \"We are being asked to find an extra £95m with no information.\"\n\nCampaign group Better Shrewsbury Transport (BeST), which wrote to the council earlier this week to request a formal investigation into the project, said the latest debacle was further evidence for abandoning the scheme.\n\nGroup spokesperson Emma Bullard said: \"BeST has been warning for several years that the [North West Relief Road] can't be achieved for its original £87m price tag.\"\n\nShropshire Council has already spent £24m on preparatory work ahead of planning permission being granted, with a decision expected in the coming months.\n\nDan Morris, cabinet member for highways, said the full business case would be prepared if and when planning approval is granted, with a decision expected next month.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Suga is the third member of BTS to enlist in the last 12 months\n\nThe South Korean star Suga, a member of the phenomenally successful boy band BTS, has begun his mandatory military service, he confirmed on social media.\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Min Yoon-gi, is the third member of the band to enlist, after Jin and J-Hope.\n\n\"I will faithfully complete my duty and come back,\" he posted online.\n\nAs South Korea is still technically at war with North Korea, all able-bodied men are required to serve in the army by the time they turn 28.\n\nFor a long time, it was rumoured that the government might allow the members of BTS to skip the service, on the basis they had already served their country by bringing in billions of dollars, and it would be more beneficial to allow them to carry on doing so.\n\nBut last October, all seven member announced they were all planning to enlist, with Jin, as the oldest, going first.\n\nHe began his service in December 2022, and was assigned to a front-line boot camp.\n\nSuga, however, has been \"ruled unfit for the regular combat duty and will serve as a social service agent\", South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.\n\nLocal media reported the star's alternative service was likely to be related to shoulder surgery that he required in 2020.\n\nWriting on the social media platform WeVerse, Suga signed off with a message for his fans.\n\n\"I was able to come this far thanks to you. And the time has come,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Be careful of the chilly autumn weather. Stay healthy and see you all in 2025.\"\n\nSuga's military service comes shortly after it was confirmed that all seven members of BTS had renewed their contracts with the K-pop agency Big Hit Music.\n\n\"We hope will be able to share with everyone a full group promotional period for BTS in 2025,\" the company said in a statement earlier this week.\n\nMeanwhile, fans of the group's female equivalent, Blackpink, are hoping for similar news.\n\nThe group's seven-year deal with YG Entertainment ended earlier this year; and there has been no news of them re-signing with the company after the end of their world tour on 17 September.\n\nShares in YG fell by 13.28% on Thursday after South Korean media reported that three of the four members (Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo) were intending to sign with other labels, while participating in Blackpink activities for six months of each year.\n\nIn response to the reports, YG released a short statement saying, \"Currently, Blackpink's contract renewal has not been confirmed and is being discussed.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hong Kong is trying to become a global hub for next-generation technologies but a major crypto scandal has hit the city\n\nHong Kong police are investigating allegations of fraud against cryptocurrency trading platform JPEX after investors complained of HK$1.3bn ($166m; £134m) in losses.\n\nEleven people, including popular influencers, were arrested this week after complaints filed by 2,000 people.\n\nThe case could be one of Hong Kong's biggest fraud cases, local media say.\n\nIt also tests new financial regulations as Hong Kong positions itself as a global hub for virtual assets.\n\nLast week, Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) revealed the Dubai-based JPEX had been operating without a license for virtual asset trading.\n\nThe platform, on the other hand, said it had \"strived to comply\" with the local requirement which took effect in June this year, but its efforts were \"dismissed or sidestepped with official rhetoric\" by the Commission.\n\nMany of the complainants are inexperienced investors who were promised high yields, police said. Aside from tapping influencers, JPEX also advertised widely on Hong Kong's MTR train system with giant billboards.\n\nFootage aired on local TV showed police escorting one of the arrested influencers, Joseph Lam, onto a car following a raid on his house. Mr Lam is a barrister turned insurance salesman who describes himself on Instagram as Hong Kong's \"Trolling King\".\n\nIn his posts, Mr Lam showed his followers how Bitcoin profits could help them buy a house and grow their social clout.\n\nAlso arrested was Chan Yee, a YouTube personality with 200,000 subscribers.\n\nIn Hong Kong, some trading operations on JPEX have been shut down since the arrests and the city's authorities have appeared to block web access to it.\n\nThe platform has also said it is working to resolve a \"liquidity shortage\" as some users have complained that they are unable to withdraw their funds.\n\nHong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said regulators will \"monitor the situation very closely and ensure that investors are sufficiently protected\".\n\n\"This incident highlights the importance that when investors want to invest in virtual assets, then they must invest on platforms that are licensed,\" he told reporters.\n\nHong Kong has required virtual asset trading platforms to be licensed by the SFC since the start of June this year. That is an offshoot of the amended Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing law from late 2022 that sought to reassert Hong Kong's position as a world financial centre,\n\nMr Lee said his government would step up investor education so that the public could better understand risks and how platforms are regulated.\n\nThere have long been concerns about cryptocurrencies due to their lack of regulation and oversight by central banks. Despite this, consumers have been drawn to the appeal of of peer-to-peer digital currencies.\n\nHong Kong is one of Asia's financial capitals and since its handover to China from British rule in 1997, it has become a gateway for investors to the mainland.\n\nNow, it is seeking to establish itself as a hub for the next generation of internet technologies or Web 3.0, which includes cryptocurrency trading. China has banned cryptocurrencies on the mainland since late 2021, saying it \"seriously endangers the safety of people's assets\".\n\nThe license requirement for platforms like JPEX is meant to ensure accountability and compensation when needed, Francis Fong, honorary president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, told BBC Chinese.\n\n\"It means that if there is supervision, nothing bad will happen.\" he said.\n\nHowever, some digital economy experts have told the BBC that existing laws may not be enough to prevent virtual asset platforms from operating illegally and to protect investors from losses.\n\nOne group member said he was lured to JPEX because of the ubiquity of its MTR ads. Criticism of the train operator from internet commentator Fung Hei-kin received 3,700 likes and 400 reposts.\n\nAccording to its website, JPEX is headquartered in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and is licensed to facilitate trade of digital assets in the US, Canada and Australia. The About Us section of its website shows blurry images of what appear to be the licenses from the three countries.\n\nFounded in 2020, JPEX said it handled $2bn worth of assets and aimed to be among the world's five largest virtual asset exchanges.\n\nA check by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on JPEX's Hong Kong address showed the space was occupied by a co-working firm called Coffee.\n\nThe publication quoted the shop's staff as saying that they were unaware of JPEX and that Hong Kong police had checked on the address earlier.\n\nJPEX has also tapped Taiwan's Nine Chen as one of its influencers\n\nJPEX also has an office in Taiwan, according to local media. However, a recent check showed it to be empty. It had employed popular Taiwanese celebrity, Nine Chen, as its influencer and once sponsored a boxing match on the island.\n\nMr Chen had posted on Instagram last week, after Hong Kong regulators had said that JPEX was operating without a licence.\n\n\"After learning about the JPEX incident, I wanted to understand the situation, but currently I can't contact the relevant people at JPEX,\" he said.\n\n\"The company is handling other details. If relevant units need to investigate, I will fully cooperate,\" he said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Children waved British and French flags as the King greeted them\n\nKing Charles received an enthusiastic welcome as crowds turned out in Bordeaux for the final day of the state visit to France.\n\nAfter two days in Paris, his trip to the south-west city gave the King more of a chance to engage with the public.\n\nA festival event which included the King meeting the Fiji rugby team turned into a scrum of well-wishers.\n\nThe King was surrounded by two of the main features of a royal visit - people holding up mobile phones and security.\n\nThe state visit had seen two days of formal events in Paris - including a speech to the French Senate, about Ukraine and climate change, which received a standing ovation.\n\nThere was a more relaxed atmosphere for his day in Bordeaux, shaking hands with crowds gathered outside the city's historic Hotel de Ville.\n\nThis trip has been a carefully choreographed attempt to build up French-British relationships which might have been strained by Brexit.\n\nThat extended to staff giving the waiting crowds a mix of French and British flags to wave, creating photo-opportunities of this mutual admiration, as the King stepped out of a Renault Espace.\n\nIn a day that mixed heavy rain and bursts of hot sunshine, the King was crowded round closely by visitors at a festival at the city's Place de la Bourse.\n\nHe often seems energised by these encounters and he made slow progress while the background music blared out Running Up That Hill, by Kate Bush.\n\nCrowds had gathered to get a glimpse of 'le Roi Charles III'. As with all these events now, everyone who wasn't thrusting out a hand to shake was holding up a mobile phone.\n\nIt was a break from what had been sometimes stiflingly tight French security during the visit.\n\nThe crowds were a break from tight French security earlier on in the visit\n\nThe King and Queen Camilla attended a reception on HMS Iron Duke to celebrate defence ties between the UK and France\n\nThere had been a spectacular welcome for the King at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Wednesday, but with barriers blocking out any of the public it had been observed only by a silent cordon of police and a pen of journalists.\n\nFrench security concerns had also played a part in a decision for the King and Queen to be flown from Paris to Bordeaux, rather than catching the high-speed train as initially planned.\n\nThe royal couple had also flown to France from Britain - when the previous state visit had seen the late Queen travelling to France on a Eurostar train.\n\nThere had been some awkward timing for the King's visit. Many of the events focused on environmental issues, when UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had been announcing a change of plans over net zero.\n\nWhatever his private thoughts, the King's speech to the Senate, which would have been prepared with the advice of ministers, was carefully crafted to avoid criticism of the government.\n\nTheir majesties caught a tram to the grand Place de la Bourse\n\nThe King contended with a mix of rain and sun in Bordeaux\n\nMeanwhile, our Paris correspondent noted on Thursday how, 85 years later- on the surface at least - there was a rather different ambience in the French capital for the King Charles' visit when compared to that of his grandfather, King George VI.", "Artwork: The Osiris-Rex spacecraft spent two years mapping Bennu before grabbing a sample\n\nNasa's Osiris-Rex capsule will come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet.\n\nIt will make a fireball in the sky as it does so, but a heat shield and parachutes will slow the descent and bring it into a gentle touchdown in Utah's West Desert.\n\nThe capsule carries a precious cargo - a handful of dust grabbed from asteroid Bennu, a mountain-sized space rock that promises to inform the most profound of questions: Where do we come from?\n\n\"When we get the 250g (9oz) of asteroid Bennu back on Earth, we'll be looking at material that existed before our planet, maybe even some grains that existed before our Solar System,\" says Prof Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator on the mission.\n\n\"We're trying to piece together our beginnings. How did the Earth form and why is it a habitable world? Where did the oceans get their water; where did the air in our atmosphere come from; and most importantly, what is the source of the organic molecules that make up all life on Earth?\"\n\nThe prevailing thinking is that many of the key components were actually delivered to our planet early in its history in a rain of impacting asteroids, many of them perhaps just like Bennu.\n\nEngineers have commanded the final adjustments to the Osiris-Rex spacecraft's trajectory. All that remains is to make the \"go, no-go\" decision to release the capsule to fall to Earth this weekend.\n\nAsteroid Bennu is a \"rubble pile\" - a loose collection of material left over from building the planets\n\nThe quest to acquire fragments of Bennu began in 2016, when Nasa launched the Osiris-Rex probe towards the 500m (1,640ft) wide object. It took two years to reach the body and a further two years of mapping before the mission team could confidently identify a location on the space rock's surface to scoop up a \"soil\" sample.\n\nSir Brian May is on the Osiris-Rex science team and has compiled an atlas of asteroid Bennu\n\nKey to that choice was the British rock legend and astrophysicist Dr Sir Brian May. The Queen guitarist is an expert in stereo imaging.\n\nHe has the ability to align two pictures of a subject taken from slightly different angles to give a sense of perspective - making a 3D view of a scene. He and collaborator Claudia Manzoni did this for the shortlist of possible sample sites on Bennu. They established the safest places to approach.\n\n\"I always say you need art as well as science,\" Sir Brian told BBC News. \"You need to feel the terrain to know if the spaceship is likely to fall over or if it will hit this 'rock of doom' that was right on the edge of the eventual chosen site, called Nightingale. If that had happened it would have been disastrous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sampling an asteroid: This image sequence is speeded up and repeated\n\nThe moment of sample capture, on 20 October 2020, was astonishing.\n\nOsiris-Rex lowered itself down to the asteroid - holding its grabbing mechanism on the end of a 3m-long (10ft) boom.\n\nThe idea was to slap the surface and, at the same time, give out a blast of nitrogen gas to kick up gravel and dust. What happened next was something of a shock.\n\nWhen the mechanism made contact, the surface parted like a fluid. By the time the gas fired, the disc was 10cm (4in) down. The nitrogen pressure blasted a crater 8m (26ft) in diameter. Material flew in all directions, but crucially also into the collection chamber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dante Lauretta: \"At some point in our lives, everybody asks: Where did we come from?\"\n\nAnd so now here we are. Osiris-Rex is just hours away from delivering the Bennu sample at the end of what has been a seven-year, seven-billion-kilometre round trip.\n\nOnce the capsule is safely on the ground, it will be whisked off to the Johnson Space Center in Texas, where a dedicated cleanroom has been built to analyse the samples.\n\nDr Ashley King from London's Natural History Museum (NHM) will be one of the very first scientists to get his gloves on the material. He is part of the \"quick look\" team that will do the initial analysis.\n\n\"Bringing back samples from an asteroid - we don't do that very often. So you want to do those first measurements, and you want to do them really well,\" he says. \"It's incredibly exciting.\"\n\nNasa regards Bennu as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System. Its path through space gives it the highest probability of impacting Earth of any known asteroid. But don't panic, the chances are very slim - akin to tossing a coin and getting 11 heads in a row. And any impact isn't likely until late next century.\n\nBennu probably contains a lot of water - as much as 10% by weight - bound up in its minerals. Scientists will be looking to see if the ratio of different types of hydrogen atoms in this water is similar to that in Earth's oceans.\n\nIf, as some experts believe, the early Earth was so hot that it lost much of its water, then finding an H₂O match with Bennu would bolster the idea that later bombardment from asteroids was important in providing volume for our oceans.\n\nBennu probably also contains about 5-10% by weight of carbon. This is where a lot of the interest lies. As we know, life on our planet is based on organic chemistry. As well as water, did complex molecules have to be delivered from space to kickstart biology on the young Earth?\n\n\"One of the very first analyses to be done on the sample will include an inventory of all of the carbon-based molecules that it contains,\" says the NHM's Prof Sara Russell.\n\n\"We know from looking at meteorites that asteroids are likely to contain a zoo of different organic molecules. But in meteorites, they're often very contaminated, and so this sample return gives us a chance to really find out what the pristine organic components of Bennu are.\"\n\nProf Lauretta adds: \"We've actually never looked for the amino acids that are used in proteins in meteorites because of this contamination issue. So we think we're really going to advance our understanding of what we call the exogenous delivery hypothesis, the idea that these asteroids were the source of the building blocks of life.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Liz Truss's mini-budget led to chaos in the markets after it was delivered without the usual watchdog analysis\n\nLabour has promised to hand increased powers to the UK's economic watchdog if it wins the next general election.\n\nLiz Truss's mini-budget, with no Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) analysis, a year ago, led to market chaos and a fall in the pound's value.\n\nUnder Labour's plan, the OBR would be free to publish forecasts and analysis alongside any tax and spending changes.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the aim was to bring \"stability for so many families\" hit by \"that disaster of a budget\".\n\n\"Huge damage was done to our economy and we're still paying the price. That can never be allowed to happen again. So this is a pragmatic, sensible measure,\" the Labour leader added.\n\nSpeaking at the London Stock Exchange, he said businesses also wanted \"stability... not chopping and changing\".\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC that, under Labour, all major tax and spending decisions would by law be announced in November, to reduce uncertainty for businesses and families.\n\nCurrently the government typically sets out budgets in the spring, followed by an autumn statement which can also contain significant measures.\n\nUnder Labour's plans, only very minor policy changes would be permitted in a spring update to Parliament.\n\nThe OBR usually produces forecasts only twice a year, to accompany the spring budget and autumn statement - but also provides monthly commentaries on the economy.\n\nResponding to the Labour announcement, Tory MP Andrew Griffith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, said: \"The Conservatives created the OBR to curb Gordon Brown's reckless spending binge.\n\n\"The current Labour Party is on the same, destructive path with their plan to borrow £28bn a year which would fuel inflation and push up interest rates even further.\"\n\nFormer prime minister Ms Truss also hit back, saying a \"25-year economic consensus\" had resulted in the highest government spending for half a century, the highest taxes since World War Two, a national debt of more than £2.5tn, and low growth.\n\n\"It beggars belief that Labour think Britain's problems will be solved by bigger government and even more powers for quangos,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Look East, she said the UK suffered from \"too much regulation\", while taking power away from elected politicians.\n\nAnd, she added, forecasts from organisations like the OBR \"have been generally proved to be not correct\".\n\nBut Conservative former Chancellor George Osborne, who created the OBR, described Labour's plans as \"sensible\" and \"pragmatic\", adding: \"If the Tories are smart they'll adopt them.\n\n\"We created the OBR 13 years ago so chancellors couldn't any longer fiddle the numbers. A year ago we saw the fiasco when one tried to bypass it.\"\n\nThe package, which Labour is calling its \"fiscal lock\", represents an attempt to seize the mantle of fiscal responsibility - and to remind voters of the mini-budget, whose anniversary falls on Saturday.\n\nSome argue that Ms Truss's decision not to ask the independent OBR to assess then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's measures in advance was a major factor in the economic and political chaos which ensued, bringing about her rapid political demise.\n\nIf the government felt it had to rush out new measures without the OBR having time to put together its forecasts - for example in response to a financial crisis or another pandemic - the OBR would be given the power to publish analysis rapidly afterwards, Ms Reeves told the BBC.\n\nThe Institute for Government (IfG), a think tank, said Labour's proposals would \"improve how fiscal policy is made\".\n\nTom Pope, deputy chief economist at the IfG, said: \"The proposed measures to strengthen the OBR's hand are welcome.\n\n\"The mini-budget demonstrated the folly of announcing large permanent changes to fiscal policy without an accompanying forecast, and Labour's changes would ensure this could not happen again.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Orlin Roussev, Katrin Ivanova, Bizer Dzhambazov and Vanya Gaberova have lived in the UK for years\n\nFive people suspected of spying for Russia are to be charged in the UK with conspiracy to conduct espionage.\n\nOrlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe Bulgarian nationals are accused of conspiring to gather information which would be useful to an enemy between August 2020 and February 2023.\n\nIt follows an investigation by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe defendants are alleged to have worked in an operational spy cell for the Russian security services and that this work involved conducting surveillance on targets.\n\nThey are accused of working on active operations in the UK and Europe and collecting and passing information to the Russian state.\n\nMr Roussev, 45, is alleged to have run operations from the UK and acted as the link to those who received the intelligence.\n\nOfficers who searched properties in London and Norfolk occupied by three of the defendants - Mr Roussev, Mr Dzhambazov, 41, and Ms Ivanova, 31 - found allegedly fake passport and official identity documents for the UK, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and the Czech Republic.\n\nVanya Gaberova is an award-winning beautician and judge at eyelash competitions\n\nSome of the documents contained photographs of Mr Roussev and Mr Dzhambazov. It is alleged Mr Roussev made forgeries himself.\n\nThe group are also accused of organising a surveillance operation in Montenegro which involved the creation of fake identification cards for journalists, including one in the image of Ms Ivanova.\n\nMr Roussev, Mr Dzhambazov, and Ms Ivanova have lived in the UK for years, working in a variety of jobs, and living in a series of suburban properties.\n\nMr Roussev has a history of business dealings in Russia. He moved to the UK in 2009 and spent three years working in a technical role in financial services.\n\nHis LinkedIn profile states he later owned a business involved in signals intelligence, which involves the interception of communications or electronic signals.\n\nMr Roussev, whose most recent address is a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, also states he once acted as an adviser to the Bulgarian ministry of energy.\n\nIn Harrow, former neighbours described Mr Dzhambazov and Ms Ivanova as a couple.\n\nMr Dzhambazov is described as a driver for hospitals and Ms Ivanova describes herself on her LinkedIn profile as a laboratory assistant for a private health business.\n\nThe pair, who moved to the UK around a decade ago, ran a community organisation providing services to Bulgarian people, including familiarising them with the \"culture and norms of British society\".\n\nAccording to Bulgarian state documents online, they also worked for electoral commissions in London which facilitate voting in Bulgarian elections by citizens living abroad.\n\nMs Gaberova, 29, an award-winning beautician, ran a business called Pretty Woman and was a judge at eyelash competitions.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The words \"UVF not welcome\" were sprayed on some of the houses that were targeted\n\nWindows have been smashed and graffiti has been sprayed on four homes in the Weavers Grange housing estate in Newtownards, County Down.\n\nThe damage was discovered by a passing police patrol at about 01:30 BST on Friday, a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) statement said.\n\nThe graffiti referred to the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).\n\nIt follows a number of incidents in Weavers Grange earlier this year.\n\nA PSNI spokeswoman confirmed that no-one was in any of the houses at the time the attacks took place.\n\nSome of the damaged windows have been boarded up after the overnight attack\n\nOfficers have described the latest attack as criminal damage and they have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe Newtownards housing estate has been caught up in a drugs feud between rival paramilitary factions which spread across several towns and villages in north County Down in the spring.\n\nPolice were at the scene in Weaver's Grange on Friday morning\n\nOn 6 April, a crowd of more than 50 men entered Weaver's Grange and removed paramilitary murals and signs relating to the South East Antrim Ulster Defence Association (UDA) from the gable walls of houses.\n\nTwo days later, detectives from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force searched Weaver's Grange and seized suspected Class A drugs from one house, while police found a number of petrol bombs on nearby waste ground.\n\nOn 1 May, a petrol bomb was thrown at a car parked outside a property in Weavers Grange in the middle of the night.\n\nThree weeks later, on the night of 22 May, a car parked near Weavers Grange was destroyed in another petrol bomb attack.\n\nAt that time, the police said that attack may have been linked to an \"ongoing feud between rival drug gangs across Ards and north Down\".\n\nWeavers Grange is a relatively new housing estate\n\nThe cost of policing the north Down feud has been a significant drain on the PSNI's resources, according to a senior officer.\n\nIn the summer, Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton revealed that £476,000 had been spent on policing the operation from March until 31 May.", "Joyce Wright with her son, Andy, who has called for a full investigation\n\nAn elderly woman was discharged from hospital to a stranger's house and left to sleep in their bed, her son said.\n\nJoyce Wright, 83, was in hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, after a fall when she was mistakenly taken by ambulance to another patient's home.\n\nHer son Andy said the mix-up was \"absolutely shocking\" and he feared the outcome could have been worse.\n\nUnited Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) have launched an investigation.\n\nMrs Wright was taken to Pilgrim Hospital after suffering a fall, but was incorrectly discharged on Tuesday night.\n\nShe was taken by ambulance to another patient's house, in Skegness, where her son said EMAS staff let themselves in using a key safe.\n\nMrs Wright was then moved into the stranger's bed.\n\nIt was not until about 08:00 BST the next morning when the error was discovered by hospital staff during the morning handover, her son said.\n\nJoyce Wright, 83, was in Pilgrim Hospital after suffering a fall\n\n\"It was dark and my mum was on pain relief, on morphine, so obviously things were a bit confusing for her,\" Mr Wright said.\n\n\"She didn't quite realise [where she was] at that particular time and obviously she was quite drowsy.\"\n\nHe said he was told his mum had been taken to the property instead of the patient in the room next door.\n\n\"That bed was somebody else's bed, it's not like a nursing home. It's absolutely shocking to think that this has happened,\" he said.\n\nMr Wright said he was \"very, very angry\" when he found out and believed the outcome could have been much more serious.\n\nBut Mrs Wright is now back in hospital and recovering, he said - adding she was in \"good spirits\".\n\n\"She said the bed was comfy as well,\" he said.\n\nAndy Wright said he was \"absolutely shocked\" to discover his mum had been discharged to a stranger's home\n\nMr Wright said he did not blame the nursing or ambulance staff but felt the incident was \"a result of the pressures that everybody is under\".\n\nHe has called for a full investigation.\n\nMrs Wright was discharged from Pilgrim Hospital on Tuesday night\n\nIn a joint statement, Michelle Harris, chief operating officer at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and Joy Weldin, divisional director of non-emergency patient transport services at EMAS, offered their \"heartfelt and sincere apologies\".\n\nThey said: \"This incident clearly falls below the standard of care we want to deliver, and a full review is under way to ensure it does not happen again.\n\n\"When the review is complete, in line with duty of candour, we will share the findings with the patients and their families.\"\n\nCaroline Johnson, Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, said she had written to the hospital trust and ambulance service to call for an \"urgent investigation\".\n\n\"It is particularly concerning that Mrs Wright was wrongly discharged to an unfamiliar setting in another patient's property, and that she was potentially left without the necessary medication for her conditions,\" she said.\n\n\"It poses a broader patient safety question about how the trust is ensuring patients who are unconscious or incapacitated receive the correct treatment.\n\n\"Patients should be provided with ID wristbands and these should be routinely checked by staff to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care and treatment.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prosecutors allege Bob and Nadine Menendez accepted bribes to secretly aid the Egyptian government\n\nA veteran US senator has temporarily stepped down as head of the chamber's powerful foreign relations committee as he battles bribery charges.\n\nJustice department prosecutors allege Robert Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for aid to Egypt's government.\n\nThe couple have denied the charges.\n\nThe embattled senator has rejected calls from fellow Democrats back in his home state of New Jersey to resign his seat.\n\nSenate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday that Mr Menendez had decided to step down as chairman of the influential committee \"until the matter has been resolved\".\n\nThe New York Democrat said his colleague was \"a dedicated public servant and is always fighting hard for the people of New Jersey\".\n\nIt is not the first time that Mr Menendez, 69, who has served in Congress since 2006, has had to give up the coveted post on the foreign relations panel.\n\nHe also stepped down in 2015 after being indicted in New Jersey on charges that he had accepted bribes from a Florida eye doctor. That case ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.\n\nMaryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who took over as the committee's leading Democrat at the time, is expected again to temporarily ascend to fill the vacancy.\n\nMr Menendez and his spouse, Nadine Arslanian, are accused of accepting bribes of cash, gold, payments towards a home mortgage and a luxury vehicle from three New Jersey businessmen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProsecutors allege the pair accepted the money to secretly aid the Egyptian government and to enrich the three men: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.\n\nAccording to the 39-page indictment unsealed on Friday, Mr Menendez's leadership position and power as a senator enabled such influence-peddling.\n\nThe pair each face three criminal counts: conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under colour of official right.\n\nIn a statement from her lawyers, Mrs Menendez denied any wrongdoing and said she would defend herself in court.\n\nMr Menendez sought to portray the allegations as politically motivated.\n\n\"For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,\" he said in a lengthy statement.\n\n\"Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.\"\n\n\"I am confident that this matter will be successfully resolved once all of the facts are presented and my fellow New Jerseyans will see this for what it is,\" he added.\n\nFederal agents found cash inside jackets bearing Senator Menendez's name, according to the indictment\n\nBut a wave of top Democrats, including at least four members of Congress from New Jersey, called for the lawmaker to resign.\n\nIn a statement, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the allegations were \"so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state\".\n\n\"Therefore, I am calling for his immediate resignation,\" he wrote.\n\nUnder New Jersey law, if Mr Menendez resigns from the Senate, the governor would appoint a temporary replacement to serve out the rest of his term.\n\nBut any delay between resignation and temporary appointment could pose headaches for Democrats in a Senate they control by a one-seat margin.\n\nThe White House, for whom Mr Menendez is a key foreign policy ally, has so far declined to comment.\n\nIn a defiant second statement on Friday, Mr Menendez vowed: \"I am not going anywhere.\"\n\nHis indictment comes after a years-long justice department investigation.\n\nIn the summer of 2022, federal agents executed search warrants at Mr Menendez's home and found evidence of the bribery agreements, including over $480,000 (£390,000) in cash, much of which was \"stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets and a safe\", prosecutors allege.\n\nAgents said they also found a Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicle paid for by Mr Uribe parked in the garage, as well as $100,000 of gold bars in the home, pictures of which were included in the indictment.\n\nAs a result of the charges, Mr Menendez and his wife have been asked to forfeit several assets, including their New Jersey home.\n\nIn a statement to US media, a spokesperson for Mr Hana said: \"We are still reviewing the charges but based upon our initial review, they have absolutely no merit.\"\n\nThe BBC has reached out to businesses owned by Mr Daibes for comment. The Embassy of Egypt in Washington DC did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nMr Menendez, his wife and their three co-defendants are scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court on 27 September.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFrance captain Antoine Dupont suffered a fractured cheekbone in Thursday's 96-0 win against Namibia, the French Rugby Federation has confirmed.\n\nThe 2021 world player of the year was forced off in the 46th minute after Johan Deysel made a head-on-head tackle and was sent off.\n\nThe FFR says Dupont will remain with the squad and will see a specialist to work out how long he will be out for.\n\nFrance's final pool match is against Italy on 6 October.\n\nThe quarter-finals are scheduled for the weekend of 14-15 October, the semi-finals the weekend after and the final on Saturday, 28 October.\n\n\"Antoine Dupont has suffered a maxillo-zygomatic fracture. A specialist surgical opinion has been requested to determine the exact length of the player's unavailability. Antoine Dupont remains with the France squad,\" the FFR said.\n\nThe loss of Dupont would be a severe blow to France's chances of winning the World Cup for the first time.\n\nAs well as being named world player of the year he was also voted Six Nations player of the tournament in 2022 and 2023.\n\nThe 26-year-old is also unbeaten in 14 home Tests as France captain.\n\nAfter beating three-time winners New Zealand in the tournament's opening game, Dupont was among 12 players rested for France's second group win over Uruguay.\n\nHe was restored to the side against Namibia in Marseille and helped the hosts into a 54-0 lead before his collision with Deysel.\n\nThe Namibia captain was initially shown a yellow card but that was upgraded to red following a review by the television match official.\n\nSince the incident, Deysel says he has reached out to Dupont to apologise.\n\n\"I would like to extend my best wishes to Antoine Dupont. Clearly, I meant no harm,\" said Deysel.\n\n\"Everything happened very quickly and I couldn't get my head out of the way quick enough, resulting in a head clash. I know the rules and immediately knew that I was at fault.\n\n\"I spoke with Fabien Galthie [France head coach] immediately after the match and sent my best wishes and apologies to Antoine, both personally and via the France team doctor.\n\n\"He is a great player and person, and I wish him a speedy recovery.\"\n\nDupont will see a specialist to determine what grade the fracture is, but early estimates are that he is looking at between four and six weeks out.\n\nNot only is it a desperate blow for France but for the World Cup as a whole. Dupont is the tournament poster boy, the best player in the world by a distance, with this World Cup a chance to cement his legacy as one of the greatest of all time.\n\nHe still might do that - a semi-final will be in five weeks if France get there - but it is touch and go, and it is shades of Dan Carter in 2011, when another all-time great was ruled out of a World Cup on home soil.\n\n'We can't think too far ahead'\n\nDupont's injury leaves France with two fit scrum-halves in Lyon's Baptiste Couilloud, who scored in the team's record win against Namibia, and Bordeaux Begles' Maxime Lucu.\n\nLucu, 30, replaced the France captain during their opening victory over New Zealand, indicating he is the likely replacement over the next few weeks.\n\nFrance attack coach Laurent Labit stressed Dupont would stay with the squad and that he had not \"finished the competition\".\n\n\"Antoine stays with us, everyone will be together,\" Labit said. \"We will do as we have always done with short-term injuries in hoping that the opinion of the surgeon is positive for Antoine and us.\n\n\"The specialist will give the verdict and Antoine will make the decision. We will respect that. We can't think too far ahead.\n\n\"The specialist knows who Antoine Dupont is, what competition he is currently playing. It is not an average subject.\"", "Phillipe Monguillot's widow Veronique, holding his picture, said she did not feel justice had been delivered\n\nTwo men have been jailed after beating a French bus driver to death after he asked them to get off for not correctly wearing face masks during the pandemic.\n\nWyssem Manai and Maxime Guyennon left Philippe Monguillot beside the bus with serious head injuries in the city of Bayonne in south-west France in 2020.\n\nManai and Guyennon, were jailed for 15 and 13 years respectively on Thursday.\n\nThe pair, both aged 25, were convicted of intentional violence resulting in death without intent to kill.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Monguillot was set upon after asking a small group of men on his bus to show their tickets and adjust face-masks they were wearing over their chins.\n\nThe attack on the evening of 5 July 2020 occurred after the end of France's first Covid lockdown, when masks were mandatory on all public transport.\n\nIn an ensuing confrontation, Mr Monguillot was kicked and punched and his head hit the pavement as he fell.\n\nThe 59-year-old father of three died after five days in hospital.\n\nThe attorney general had asked for 15 years imprisonment for the two men who were sentenced at a court in Pau, also in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region.\n\nVeronique Monguillot, widow of the victim, was angry the men did not get a maximum penalty of 30 years imprisonment.\n\n\"We demanded exemplary justice. We can't say that we got it, although they are convicted. Let them rot in prison,\" she reportedly said leaving the court.\n\n\"They killed my husband, they killed my daughters' dad. My life has been over since 5 July, 2020.\"\n\nMr Monguillot's death caused shock across France and thousands of people took part in a protest march led by his widow in Bayonne.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nBeam me up: \"Decided to take a long exposure of golden hour, through a thin layer of haar at Portobello,\" says Huw Rees Lewis of this sunrise shot.\n\nSome son shine: \"My seven-year-old Fergus on the summit of a corbett within the Ben Lawers group of mountains overlooking Glen Lyon,\" says Andy McIntyre. \"His brother Struan, six, was also with us and we all agreed that the light was spectacular and were lucky to be experiencing the views.\"\n\nA light touch: \"The sunrise at Rattray Head Lighthouse,\" says Duncan Milne of Aberdeen. \"An early start and long drive to get there but I thought it was worth it.\"\n\nCub scout: \"I took this picture of a fox cub exploring outside its den with mother very very close by,\" says Rebecca James in Kirkcudbright. \"The other three cubs wouldn’t leave her side but this cub was off on an adventure.\"\n\nGone full circle: A spectacular double rainbow panorama shot over Plockton from Sam Bilner.\n\nIs it a bird? \"This young squirrel was scrambling down the tree when it stopped completely still for several minutes transfixed by the 'buzzard', long enough for me to get my camera and photograph them against the early light,\" says Hugh Sweeting, of Cupar.\n\n\"Absolutely smitten with Scotland\": The words of Jenny Rash, from the USA, who took this photo during a \"far too brief\" visit to Skye.\n\nOn reflection: \"Fantastic views as we sailed down Loch Shiel, Lochaber,\" says Hazel Thomson.\n\nFeed me now: \"Since the nights started to draw in, the squirrels in my garden in Glenrothes have started coming to the window to let me know they’ve arrived and want fed,\" says Trish McGrattan. \"Love the raindrops on his whiskers. But someone needs a manicure.\"\n\nTunnel vision: \"Love this beautiful, special place,\" says Julie Odell at the Colinton Tunnel entrance in Edinburgh.\n\nFinding your happy place: \"Pure joy at Jupiter Artland outdoor sculpture park, even on a wet afternoon,\" says Angela Paterson. \"Fascinating place, visited with my grown-up sons.\"\n\nDoggy paddle: \"Charlie says nothing like a cold Scottish Loch to ease your aching muscles after a long walk in the hills,\" according to Martin Cox, in Assynt, on holiday from Herefordshire.\n\nPark life: \"A bird's-eye view of the flower beds and autumn hues of Aberdeen's Seaton Park,\" says Steven Neish.\n\n\"With two friends we sailed to St Kilda and I took this photo of my yacht in Village Bay of Hirta,\" says Martin Kerr.\n\n\"Say cheese!\": This otter was \"showing me his best photo smile\" at the Scottish Deer Centre, says Ian Barnes.\n\n\"The Shetland Bus memorial in Scalloway celebrating the legacy of the British-Norwegian resistance movement during World War II,\" says Ann Williamson.\n\nWeb designer: \"Loved watching this industrious spider in my garden in West Lothian,\" says Annette Walczynska.\n\nGlide rule: \"Taken from above Buachaille Etive Mor, looking down on several fellow pilots soar their gliders up past the climbers on the north face,\" says Khaled Nassar.\n\nFruit fly: \"My garden was full of beautiful red admiral butterflies as they fed on the fruit from my pear tree in Edinburgh,\" says Beth Dickson.\n\nKeeping on the straight and narrow: \"Facing south on the path just south of the Hermaness Hill,\" says Alan Williams of this Unst shot.\n\nRed alert: \"This squirrel seemed to see me as I cycled past in Dron in Perthshire,\" says Eric Niven.\n\n\"This was taken from the Forth Road Bridge while I was running with a friend over it,\" says Steven Barrie.\n\nPutt of gold? \"Look closely and you'll see it's a double rainbow,\" says Gareth McGowan at Mearns Castle Golf Club.\n\nMute point: \"A photo of Mute Swans flying over the Firth of Clyde at Helensburgh,\" says Graham Christie.\n\nSticky situation: \"Autumn at a bus stop in Glasgow,\" says Sarah Morris.\n\nThis tranquil scene at Inveraray was captured by Gillian Thomson.\n\nHareborne: Nick Card captured this wildlife reflection in the Loch of Stenness, Orkney.\n\nHappy in their work?: \"I saw these cheery looking recycling bins in Portsoy,\" says Mike Wragg.\n\nGoing swimmingly: \"A salmon battling its way up the River Almond near Perth,\", says Peter Wilkinson.\n\nGo with the flow: \"Headed to this spectacular waterfall which I have never photographed before,\" says Gavin Major in Skye. \"I was lucky enough to catch a band of light from the setting sun, shining through a gap in the clouds, illuminating the waterfall.\"\n\nActing the goat: \"A curious, greedy wee character who we met at Monachyle Mhor on the banks of Loch Doine and Loch Voil,\" says Hannah Jenkins. \"Our new furry friend followed us along the fence, climbing up for a pat on the head and to be fed some grass.\"\n\nStacks of ability: An impressive shot of the Duncansby Stacks from Andy Inglis.\n\nPuddling about: \"My five-year-old son Fraser enjoying himself in East Calder,\" says Alison Smith.\n\nA shade warm: \"A sunny Autumn day in Arran presented challenges for Ollie, my bestie beastie photography model, squinting into the sun,\" says Jacki Gordon.\n\n\"Awkward family portrait\" is how Jessica Stafford Cameron described this shot (complete with a laughing and crying emoji). \"This was the best family photo we could get with our four-year-old and three-month-old baby while on holiday in Oban at Dunstaffnage Castle.\"\n\nRock stars: \"Cormorants resting on a rock near the A83, with views to Jura and Islay in the background, just in time to catch the sunset illuminating the rocks the birds were standing on,\" says Phil Thompson.\n\nA treemendous sight: \"This was taken between Anstruther and St Andrews,\" says Lynne Muir of her Northern Lights image.\n\nAyr show: \"A spectacular display of illuminated planes bearing the 'NHS Love' message on their wings, accompanied by pyrotechnics,\" says Manoj Mohan in Ayr. \"As an NHS employee, the message felt particularly heartwarming to me.\"\n\n\"One of the most beautiful sunsets at Arisaig,\" says Nicola Howarth.\n\nSun and daughter: \"Sunset with my faves,\" says Natalie Walker, as she and Marcy walked their dog Lula on the East Lothian coast to end the day savouring the beautiful evening colours.\n\nGlen-glow: \"Taken in Glencoe, the sun setting behind Buachaille Etive Mor,\" says Kate Buchanan.\n\n\"Sunset over the Cromarty Firth towards Strathconon from Culbokie,\" says David May.\n\nJurability: \"A spectacular sunset over Jura, taken from the top of Dunadd Fort in Kilmartin valley, Argyll,\" says David Gray.\n\nPurple patch: \"Beautiful sunset at Iona,” says Gordon McRae of this wonderful sky, to round off this week's gallery.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Aditi is taking no anti-rejection medication - and her new kidney is working well\n\nEight-year-old Aditi Shankar has become the first child in the UK to receive a special type of kidney transplant that does not require her to take long-term drugs to stop rejection of the organ.\n\nDoctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital say the breakthrough was made possible by reprogramming her immune system before giving her the new kidney.\n\nTo do that, they used bone-marrow stem cells from the donor - Aditi's mother.\n\nIt means Aditi's body accepts the new organ as her own.\n\nWithin weeks of the transplant, Aditi was taken off immunosuppression, removing the risk of long-term side-effects from these powerful drugs, which usually have to be taken daily to prevent organ rejection.\n\nShe is now back at school, with both her immune system and transplanted kidney working normally.\n\nAditi has an extremely rare inherited condition, Schimke's immuno-osseous dysplasia (SIOD), which weakened her immune system and meant her kidneys were failing.\n\nSpecialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital spoke with international colleagues about the special transplant approach, which has been used in other children with SIOD.\n\nFirst, a bone-marrow transplant using stem cells from her mother, Divya, rebuilt Aditi's immune system.\n\nSix months later, she had a kidney transplant - again donated by her mother - and her immune system accepted the organ.\n\nAditi with her mother and father\n\nDivya told the PA Media press agency: \"I was so happy to give her blood cells and a kidney. I just feel so proud.\"\n\nAditi said she had had \"a special sleep\" for the surgery. Now she has recovered, she says it is great. \"I can go swimming,\" she says.\n\nProf Stephen Marks, children's kidney specialist at GOSH, says Aditi's treatment appears to have been a success.\n\n\"She is the first patient in the UK who has had a kidney transplant to not require immunosuppressive medication after the surgery,\" he says.\n\n\"A month after the transplant, we were able to take her off all of her immunosuppression, which means she doesn't get the side-effects of the drugs.\n\n\"It really is great to see that she is an active eight-year-old girl, back to school, able to have an excellent quality of life.\"\n\nProf Stephen Marks heads up the kidney-transplantation programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital\n\nProf Marks will be presenting details of the case to the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology conference next week.\n\nAn editorial detailing the findings is also due to be published in the journal Paediatric Transplantation.\n\nBut the procedure is unlikely to be widely used, as the double transplant carries increased risks to the patient.\n\nKidney Research UK chair of trustees Prof Jeremy Hughes said: \"Like any new treatment, it is not without risk and in this case as stem-cell transplantation means the patient must also undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy.\n\n\"However, for a patient to receive a transplant and not require a lifetime of immunosuppressant medication is a significant breakthrough and whilst at this time the process is limited in scope, it does open the door for further future development that could have the potential to overcome one of the major challenges in transplantation care.\"\n\nRejection is caused by the immune system identifying the transplant as foreign, triggering a response that will ultimately destroy the transplanted organ or tissue.\n\nImmunosuppressive drugs prevent rejection by dampening the overall immune response. But they leave patients more susceptible to infections, as well as being associated with numerous unwanted side-effects.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Jones of Maesteg, Bridgend county, is in hospital after falling ill with a virus\n\nA two-year-old boy who is being treated in hospital in Portugal is unable to return to Wales for medical help.\n\nTheo Jones from Maesteg, Bridgend county, has a virus attacking his brain but cannot be flown to hospital in Cardiff because of insurance company delays, his parents have said.\n\nThey are now concerned his condition will deteriorate and he will never be able to travel home.\n\nAXA Partners insurance company said it was preparing for Theo's repatriation.\n\nTheo became unwell on 13 September, during a family holiday to Portugal, and was taken to Faro Hospital by ambulance two days later.\n\nHis parents were initially told he had a stomach flu, but an MRI scan revealed he had a problem with his cerebellum, a part of the brain.\n\nHis mother, Sarah Jones, said: \"Our beautiful chatty, active boy has lost the ability to speak, sit, walk.\"\n\nShe added that doctors told her they believed a virus was attacking Theo's brain.\n\nSarah said she had been in contact with University Hospital Wales in Cardiff, which accepted a transfer for Theo.\n\nDoctors told Theo's parents that he could travel, but it would need to be by medical plane.\n\n\"We now just need to get him there,\" she said.\n\nSarah is in Portugal with her husband and five-month-old daughter and they are due to have to leave their accommodation at the beginning of October.\n\nTheo was on holiday with his parents and baby sister when he was taken ill\n\nShe said their insurance company said Theo was a priority case, but had failed to update the family since receiving a medical report on Tuesday.\n\nSarah said she had to resort to getting her taxi driver to translate some of the documents because the company said they did not have a translator available.\n\nShe said she has now been told that AXA wants to wait two more days to see if Theo's condition improves.\n\nBut she could not understand the logic in waiting for him to deteriorate, when he has been approved to travel in his current stable condition.\n\n\"I can't speak to the people making these decisions. They're an elusive entity within AXA that no-one seems to be able to penetrate and get access to,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a nightmare. It's not that we haven't got the cover, they've accepted responsibility. They're just sitting on their hands now.\"\n\nAXA Partners said it was sorry Theo was ill and that it sympathised with the family.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Our priority is to ensure the family can return to the UK at the appropriate time, and we are working with the treating facility to ensure their son receives the level of care required.\n\n\"At this time, medical professionals are monitoring his condition and we are preparing for the repatriation to the UK.\"\n\nIt said it was in regular contact with Mrs Jones and that the family was being supported by a dedicated team.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pilot of a US Marines F-35 jet that went missing called emergency services from a South Carolina home where his parachute landed.\n\nIn audio from the call, obtained by the BBC, the pilot told a dispatcher that he was \"not sure\" where his $100m (£80m) plane was.\n\nA local resident can also be heard calmly explaining that the pilot had landed in his backyard.\n\nDebris from the jet was discovered on Monday, a day after it went missing.\n\nIn the four-minute call to the 911 emergency number, the resident of a North Charleston home can be heard telling a confused dispatcher that \"we got a pilot in the house\".\n\n\"I guess he landed in my backyard,\" the resident added. \"We're trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please\".\n\nThe 47-year-old pilot, who has not been named, said that he felt \"OK\" after ejecting at approximately 2,000ft (609m). Only his back hurt.\n\n\"Ma'am, a military jet crashed. I'm the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash landed somewhere. I ejected.\"\n\nThe pilot later again asked the dispatcher to \"please send an ambulance\" and said that he \"rode a parachute down to the ground\".\n\nThe US military's F-35 programme is plagued with technical issues, according to a new report\n\nAccording to the Marine Corps, the pilot ejected as a result of a malfunction and landed in a residential area near Charleston's international airport.\n\nIn a separate 911 call obtained by the AP, an unidentified official said that they had \"a pilot with his parachute\" that had lost sight of the aircraft \"on his way down to the weather\".\n\nWhile it is unclear how and why the F-35 continued flying after the pilot's ejection, the Marine Corps said that its flight control software may have helped it remain level even without a pilot's hands on the controls.\n\n\"This is designed to save our pilots if they are incapacitated or lose situational awareness,\" the statement quoted by the AP said.\n\nThe search may have been hampered by the plane's anti-radar stealth capabilities and technology that wipes the jet's communications system if a pilot ejects.\n\nAn investigation into the incident is ongoing.\n\nA report to the US government on Thursday said that inadequate training, a lack of spare parts and complex repair processes had left the US military's F-35 fleet around 55% effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sir Ed Davey \"didn't have all the details, and that's unfortunate\", said Jane Dodds\n\nUK Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey's criticism of Wales' new default 20mph speed limit was wrong, the party's Welsh leader has admitted.\n\nSir Ed had said ministers had \"not allowed local communities to say 'this particular road should be exempted'\".\n\nNow the party's Welsh leader Jane Dodds has said \"that's not exactly true\", as councils have imposed exemptions.\n\nCorrecting his comments, she said: \"Ed didn't have all the details, and that's unfortunate. I apologise for that.\"\n\nSir Ed was speaking in an interview with BBC Wales ahead of the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth starting this weekend.\n\nHe said he supported the change, which came into force on Sunday, but added: \"We do have one criticism of the way the Welsh government has done it - it hasn't allowed local communities to say this particular road should be exempted.\n\n\"That's the difference in the Lib Dem approach. Yes, we agree in devolution, therefore Wales should do what Wales wants to do, but they should also allow local communities to take exemptions when that's appropriate.\"\n\nBut, as his criticism of the Welsh government was being reported on Friday morning, Ms Dodds had the embarrassing task of correcting his words and apologising.\n\nShe told Dros Frecwast, on BBC Radio Cymru: \"I want to say, that's not exactly true, and I have seen the interview.\n\n\"Local authorities have had the opportunity to say which areas they want to be exempt and so I'm not sure if Ed understood that, that the local authorities could opt out of the measures.\n\n\"But he agrees with me that the measures are right, in regards to safety and cleaner air.\"\n\nCouncils have made exemptions on roads where there are fewer pedestrians and cyclists, in line with Welsh government guidance.\n\nThe reduction from 30 to 20mph was a Welsh Labour manifesto commitment\n\nElsewhere in his interview, Sir Ed backed plans to expand the Senedd from the current 60 members to 96, but said it must be done in a \"cost-efficient way\".\n\nFigures released earlier this week estimated the additional 36 politicians could cost an average of £17.8m extra a year, on top of the Senedd's existing budget of £67m.\n\n\"We believe in more democracy, more diversity, and including more people, and as the Welsh Senedd has got more powers it does make sense to improve the number of representatives,\" he added.\n\nSir Ed also \"ruled out\" the idea of forming electoral pacts with Plaid Cymru or the Greens at the next general election.\n\nIn 2019 the three parties did a deal not to stand against each other in dozens of seats across England and Wales.\n\n\"I've ruled out any pacts or deals. I think voters should have a choice about who they want to go for.\"\n\nHowever, he also said: \"We will put our resources, our campaigning efforts, in seats where we really think we've got a great chance of winning.\"\n\nSir Ed said he was \"really optimistic\" about his party's chances in Wales at the next general election.\n\nAsked whether his party's election strategy was focused on winning Conservative-held seats in the home counties around London and the south-west of England rather in Wales, where Labour dominates, he said: \"There's still some Conservative MPs in Wales and we're after them.\"\n\nHe cited the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire as well as Montgomeryshire.\n\nThe party has one Member of the Senedd and leads Powys council, in coalition with Labour, but has no Welsh MPs.", "Footage authenticated by BBC Verify shows the moment a Ukrainian missile strike hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.\n\nOne serviceman is missing after the missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol, according to Moscow.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France. The BBC has been unable to verify this claim.", "Keir Starmer made the remarks during a panel discussion alongside the Norwegian PM in Canada\n\nLabour has tried to clarify its intended post-Brexit relationship with the EU, after comments from Sir Keir Starmer at a conference.\n\nA video has emerged of the Labour leader saying the party doesn't want to \"diverge\" from the bloc's regulations.\n\nCabinet minister Michael Gove said the remarks showed Labour would \"compromise\" potential Brexit benefits.\n\nBut Labour suggested his remarks were limited to the areas of food, environmental and labour standards.\n\nA spokesperson added it did not support the process, known as dynamic alignment, under which the UK would pledge to maintain similar laws to the EU in a number of areas.\n\nSir Keir's remarks, made on Saturday during a conference of centre-left leaders in Canada, were first reported by Sky News but were also livestreamed at the time.\n\nHe told an audience at the summit: \"Most of the conflict with the UK being outside of the (EU) arises insofar as the UK wants to diverge and do different things to the rest of our EU partners.\n\n\"Obviously the more we share values, the more we share a future together, the less the conflict, and actually, different ways of solving problems become available,\" he said.\n\n\"Actually we don't want to diverge, we don't want to lower standards, we don't want to rip up environmental standards, working standards for people at work, food standards and all the rest of it.\n\n\"Suddenly you're in a space where notwithstanding the obvious fact that we are outside the EU and not in the EEA, there's a lot more common ground than you might think.\"\n\nIt was not immediately obvious from the remarks whether he was talking about divergence in the specific areas he mentioned, or in general.\n\nAfter the Sky report, a series of Conservative ministers seized on the remarks to suggest the Labour leader was changing his Brexit stance.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove said they revealed \"the real Keir Starmer,\" and reduce the UK's \"power\" after Brexit to design better regulations in a number of areas.\n\nPosting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it showed Sir Keir \"wants to rejoin the EU in all but name\".\n\nA Labour spokesperson rejected the idea the party would take the UK back into the EU, adding that Sir Keir had also ruled out rejoining its single market or customs union.\n\nThey added: \"The Tories have not used Brexit to diverge on food, environmental or labour standards and if they have a plan to do so then they should come clean with people.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It shouldn't come as a surprise to people that an incoming Labour government doesn't want to dilute workers' rights, environmental protections or food standards.\"\n\nIn the dictionary of Brexit, there are certain trigger words. \"Diverge\" is one of them.\n\nThat is because diverging from the European Union, its institutions but also its rules, is at the core of Brexit.\n\nThose who advocated Brexit from the outset will always point to the fact that Keir Starmer not only campaigned for Remain, but also wanted a second referendum.\n\nSo his language will always be pored over by his critics, seeking to argue that his instincts to are to dilute the consequences of withdrawal, or fail to maximise the benefits, depending on your point of view.\n\nThis is the context in which Labour has made this clarification.\n\nWithout agreeing to \"dynamic alignment\", the UK is set to move away from EU laws in a number of areas over time, as the bloc updates its own regulations.\n\nBut the government has also actively moved away from EU regulations in areas including farm subsidies and rules on providing taxpayer support to businesses, and has plans to do so in areas like data protection.\n\nHowever, it has also ditched a plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year, instead announcing 600 regulations it wants to change or get rid of before the end of the year.\n\nSir Keir recently raised questions over the relationship a future Labour government could have with the EU, saying his party would seek a \"much better\" Brexit trade deal with the bloc.\n\nHe said the deal, originally negotiated by Boris Johnson and up for review in 2025, was \"too thin\" and said he would improve it, although he did not specify how.\n\nLabour says it would negotiate a new agreement on the movement on animal products, and recently said it wanted a new deal with the EU to stop migrant crossings over the English Channel.", "Car firms will still be forced to meet strict quotas for selling electric cars despite the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles being delayed.\n\nFrom January, just over a fifth of vehicles sold must be electric, with the target expected to hit 80% by 2030.\n\nThe government confirmed the policy would remain even though Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the petrol and diesel ban would be moved to 2035.\n\nFirms that fail to hit the quotas could be fined £15,000 per car.\n\nIndustry insiders said the quotas would be a \"stretch\" for manufacturers to achieve, adding the delayed ban could make it harder to sell electric cars, while Auto Trader suggested firms might cut prices to boost sales and meet targets.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the government's decision to push back the ban, insisting the UK will meet its net zero targets.\n\nBut there was some uncertainty whether the change to the ban would affect the quotas for electric sales, before Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch confirmed that the so-called Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate would remain in place.\n\nIt is expected the mandate will require car makers to ensure 22% of vehicles sold are electric next year and increase each year after that to reach 80% by 2030.\n\nIf a car maker fails to hit the targets, it will either face fines expected to be £15,000 per vehicle, or have to buy a surplus credit from a company that has sold lots of electric vehicles. However, a firm could claim back penalties if it surpasses the quota in future.\n\nOne large manufacturer told the BBC that forcing firms to hit the target on electric vehicle sales, while pushing back the ban on new petrol and diesel cars, would make it harder for firms to sell the electric ones.\n\nIan Plummer, commercial director of online car selling site Auto Trader, said the quota on firms for electric car sales would be a \"stretch for the majority of manufactures to achieve\" in its current form.\n\nHe said to meet targets \"some manufacturers are likely to use price reductions as a lever\" to attract drivers to buy electric.\n\n\"It's likely price will need to play a big part in this,\" he added.\n\n\"Electric vehicles carry a hefty price premium, so if prices come down, they'll suddenly become a far more attractive proposition for a greater pool of car buyers.\"\n\nAccording to Auto Trader, the average price of a new electric vehicle is 39% more expensive than a petrol or diesel equivalent.\n\nPrices for second-hand electric cars are almost double (£31,946) on average compared to used petrol (£16,332) and diesel (£16,233) cars, and electric prices in the second-hand market are increasing as demand rises.\n\nMotor industry analyst Philip Nothard, insight and strategy director at Cox Automotive, told the BBC the target for electric car sales was \"arguably a greater influence\" on the market than delaying the ban on new internal combustion engine vehicles.\n\nHe added that because many carmakers were already committed to hybrid and electric-only ranges based on the government's previous 2030 policy, greener vehicles might be more attractive to buyers in terms of price because consumers would eventually face a \"limited choice\" of new petrol and diesel cars, causing the prices of those vehicles to rise.\n\nThe targets for electric car sales mean only a maximum of 20% or less of new cars sold by 2030 can be petrol or diesel, with some of those likely to be hybrids.\n\nCar manufacturers have given mixed responses to the decision pushing the ban on new petrol and diesel car sales back from 2030 to 2035. Ford said the move undermined its electric car investment plans, but Toyota welcomed the announcement, saying the delay was \"pragmatic\".\n\nMotor industry sources said the impact of the ban being delayed was expected to be limited.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said the regulations compelling increased sales of electric vehicles \"remains the single most important mechanism to deliver the UK's net zero commitment\", rather than the ban on new cars with petrol and diesel engines being changed.\n\nHe said consumers needed to be encouraged to make the switch, which would \"require a package of incentives for private buyers that complements those on offer to businesses, as well as measures to accelerate the rollout of charge points\".\n\nPrior to Mr Sunak announcing a shift in policy, the government had planned to ban the sale of new, pure petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030. Now, it will begin in 2035.\n\nBy phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicle sales, it aims to accelerate the transition to electric and achieve net zero by 2050. Net zero is when a country's net carbon emissions are cut to zero, and is seen as vital to tackling climate change.\n\nUnder the ban, from 2035 only electric battery-powered cars and other zero-emission vehicles will be able to be bought new. However, most people will not be affected by the ban immediately, as the majority of drivers buy vehicles second hand and only sales of new petrol and diesel models would be affected - not existing ones.\n\nThe delay in the ban brings the UK into line with the European Union, which is also banning sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.", "The two leaders are then asked how sanctions can be strengthened and whether there is any pressure on the need for Ukraine to have an election.\n\nTrudeau responds that Canada has \"sanctioned 2,700 people and entities and will continue too... we are constantly working to co-ordinate with our allies.\"\n\nHe adds that Canada is working to highlight that Russia is responsible for food and energy crisis going on around the world.\n\nMeanwhile, Zelensky says Canada not pressing for an election, adding that he can \"raise the issue but not press\".\n\nHe goes on to say that the pair have \"a warm relationship\".\n\nExplaining more about why an election would mean “very complicated security issues” as it would be a struggle to work out how to give people in occupied territories the chance to vote.\n\nHe also say that millions of Ukrainians are abroad and as for funding, “society is against that cause we are at war, this topic is raised so we need to be ready.\n\nLastly, Zelensky says the largest complication is the military as “we have a million soldiers in the trenches - how can they vote? Russia would open fire on people going to vote”.", "Raheem Sterling was on World Cup duty with England when his home was burgled last December\n\nThree men suspected of being linked to dozens of burglaries across south-east England are wanted by police, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe raids include a break-in at the home of footballer Raheem Sterling when he was on World Cup duty last December.\n\nAn estimated £300,000 worth of jewellery and watches were stolen.\n\nAlfred Isufi, 48, Gerard Kalaja, 22, and Henri Osmani, 44, who are all Albanian nationals, are being sought for questioning over 33 burglaries.\n\nIt is believed items totalling an estimated £1m have been taken in all of the raids, which happened in Surrey, Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire.\n\nOne man has already been charged and could stand trial next year - but he is yet to enter a plea.\n\nDet Insp James Ansell told the BBC a team of Surrey Police detectives investigating the burglaries are set to make a public appeal on BBC One's Crimewatch in the next few weeks, to try to establish the men's current whereabouts.\n\nThe three wanted men all have links to Harlow, Essex and north London and are not believed to have left the UK.\n\n\"Investigating burglary dwellings is a priority for Surrey Police and we will be relentless in pursing these offenders,\" Det Insp Ansell said.\n\nChelsea star Sterling travelled home from England's camp in Qatar to be with his family after news of the incident reached him during the tournament.\n\nHe missed England's 3-0 win over Senegal on 4 December, but returned as a substitute for the quarter-final defeat to France six days later.\n\nWhile details of the other 32 raids have not yet been made public, Det Insp Ansell said they were predominantly carried out in \"affluent areas\".\n\nAlfred Isufi, 48, Henri Osmani, 44 and Gerard Kalaja, 22 have all been named by Surrey Police as wanted men\n\nOn Thursday a 23-year-old Albanian man appeared at Guildford Crown Court faced with 33 charges of conspiracy to commit burglary.\n\nEmiliano Krosi, of Ditton Court Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was brought to court from Wandsworth Prison, in south-west London, and spoke only to confirm his name via an Albanian interpreter.\n\nJudge Rufus Taylor remanded Mr Krosi into custody ahead of another court date in November where he is expected to enter a plea.\n\nA trial date has been set for 14 February next year and is expected to last just under two weeks.\n\nProsecutor Laurence Imrie said he anticipated there could be four defendants if the case goes to trial and told the court: \"Efforts are being made to track the others down.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohananeethan Muruganantharajah had been visiting the area with relatives on their holiday\n\nA 27-year-old man who died at a waterfall was rescuing two boys, an inquest has heard.\n\nMohananeethan Muruganantharajah, known as Mohan, from Swansea, was dragged under the water at Sgwd y Pannwr in Bannau Brycheiniog, also known as the Brecon Beacons.\n\nHis family said at the time he had been at the beauty spot with his two nieces.\n\nHe disappeared near Ystradfellte, Powys, on 2 September, but his body was not recovered by divers for two days.\n\nThe pathologist who carried out a post-mortem examination was not able to give a cause of death to the hearing.\n\nThe hearing in Pontypridd was told Mr Muruganantharajah became stuck under a ledge.\n\nSouth Wales Central area coroner Patricia Morgan expressed her condolences to his family.\n\nShe said she was \"satisfied there was evidence to suggest his death was unnatural in nature\" and adjourned the hearing to a date to be set to allow further investigation.", "Police have found a large quantity of fentanyl, other drugs and paraphernalia hidden under a trapdoor at a New York City nursery where a boy died from exposure to the opioid.\n\nPhotos from New York police show bags filled with brown and white powders.\n\nPolice said the volume of drugs could have killed 500,000 people.\n\nThe nursery's owner and her tenant are facing federal charges. Authorities are still searching for her husband who was caught on camera fleeing the scene.\n\nA one-year-old died of a suspected drug overdose at the daycare last Friday. Nicholas Dominici had been at the Divino Niño nursery for just a week. Fentanyl had been hidden in the nap room under a mat as he slept, police said.\n\nThree other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic at the centre in the Bronx.\n\nAn analysis of urine from one of the victims confirmed the presence of the drug.\n\nNicholas Dominici was due to turn two in November\n\nThe nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death, and conspiracy charges, according to prosecutors.\n\n\"We allege the defendants poisoned four babies, and killed one of them, because they were running a drug operation from a daycare centre,\" Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams said this week.\n\nBoth Ms Mendez and Mr Brito were formally charged by a grand jury earlier on Thursday.\n\nBoth suspects have been labelled as flight risks by authorities and are being held without bail. They each face life in prison if convicted.\n\nInvestigators are also said to have discovered three presses used to package kilos of drugs.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Mendez said his client denied the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery by Mr Brito, her husband's cousin.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Brito has a legal representative.\n\nA lawyer for the nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, says she was unaware there were drugs there\n\nSurveillance footage and phone records show that Ms Mendez called her husband several times after finding the children ill - before she contacted 911. Her husband then arrived and removed several full shopping bags from the nursery, officials said.\n\nMs Mendez also allegedly deleted approximately 20,000 text messages from her phone before her arrest, according to prosecutors. Authorities were later able to recover them.\n\nFentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 50 times more powerful than heroin, has been blamed for a rise in US drug deaths.\n\nIn 2010, fewer than 40,000 people died from a drug overdose across the country, and fewer than 10% of those deaths were tied to fentanyl.\n\nBy 2021, more than 100,000 people had died annually in drug overdoses, with an estimated 66% of those tied to fentanyl.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Northern Ireland's libraries will not be adding any new books to their shelves\n\nNorthern Ireland's library service does not have the money to buy any new books this year.\n\nThat is according to Libraries NI, the body responsible for running the library service.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Libraries NI said it could not afford to buy new books due to a \"significant funding gap\" in its annual budget.\n\nA number of libraries also have had their opening hours reduced until the end of October to save money.\n\nLibraries NI is funded by the Department for Communities (DfC), which has previously warned that it was given £111m, or 15.5%, less in day-to-day spending in its budget than it had asked for.\n\nSecretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris set the budget for Stormont departments for 2023/24 in the absence of an executive.\n\nSome departments, like education, subsequently had to make significant savings by ending or cancelling previously funded schemes.\n\nLibraries NI is responsible for 96 branch libraries across Northern Ireland, as well as services like mobile libraries.\n\nTheir duty, set out in law, is to \"provide a comprehensive and efficient public library service for persons living, working or studying in Northern Ireland\".\n\nAccording to Libraries NI, the budget to run the library service has fallen by about £1.75m since 2022/23 as costs have risen.\n\nThe body received an opening budget of just more than £29m in 2023/24 compared to about £30.8m in 2022/23.\n\nBut that has had a particular impact on buying new books.\n\nAccording to a meeting of Libraries NI's board in June, the body expected to spend about £4.3m a year on \"book stock and related resources\".\n\nBut the board heard that the book-buying budget for 2023/24 was \"an allocation of £0.26m which would result in insufficient funds to purchase books for the library service during 2023/24\".\n\nFollowing queries from members of the public, BBC News NI asked Libraries NI if they were able to buy any new books this year.\n\nIn response, a spokesperson said that \"the funding deficit is causing considerable financial challenges for Libraries NI\".\n\n\"For this year, at this stage, Libraries NI is only able to cover existing subscriptions and no new book stock can be purchased.\n\n\"Libraries NI staff will continue to engage with the Department for Communities for an adequate level of funding to support the essential work of libraries in communities across Northern Ireland, including for book purchases.\"\n\nBBC News NI understands that the \"existing subscriptions\" Libraries NI are continuing to pay are annual subscriptions to newspapers, magazines and journals that are free to read in libraries.", "There have been more than 50,000 heat-related deaths and more than 200,000 related to cold in England and Wales since 1988, new official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said very low and very high temperatures both increased the risk of death.\n\nAnd although cold is the bigger killer, the ONS said heat-related deaths appeared to have risen in recent years.\n\nSome 4,507 deaths were estimated to be linked to heat in England last year - when temperatures topped 40C.\n\nThat was the highest number of estimated heat-related deaths over the last 35 years - but does not take into account population growth, and is a similar number to levels in the 1990s and early 2000s when the population was smaller.\n\nLast year, the UK saw record-breaking heat - with climate change playing a key role in pushing temperatures so high.\n\nThe extreme heat caused disruption across the country, and data has already suggested about 3,000 more over-65s died than usual in England and Wales last summer.\n\nAccording to the ONS, once temperatures hit 25C, the number of temperature-related deaths go up by about 50%, compared to the optimal temperature for people. Below -5C, the number of temperature-related deaths shoot up by about 75%.\n\nHowever such temperatures above 25C or below -5C were only experienced on relatively few days over the study period, and therefore contributed relatively few deaths, the ONS points out.\n\nIt comes as researchers from Oxford University recently published a report saying many UK buildings need to be renovated to protect people from extreme heat - including in large cities which can be several degrees hotter than the surrounding countryside.\n\nThe ONS said the highest risk of death was in London on days when temperatures top 29C - when the mortality risk triples, compared to when temperatures are between 9C and 22C.\n\nAnd all regions of England and Wales showed an increased risk of death when temperatures rose above 22C.\n\nThe ONS compiled its figures based on information from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis and created a new method to understand how temperature affects risk of death.\n\nTheir analysis also showed a sharp rise in deaths during the winter of 2010/11 when the UK saw unusually cold temperatures.\n\nHolly Holder, from the charity the Centre for Ageing Better, said the new statistics showed \"it would be a grave mistake to slow down or roll back net-zero policies\", the PA news agency reported.\n\n\"Climate change isn't just something that is happening in the Antarctic or in very hot countries, it is impacting lives, and taking lives, here in the UK,\" she said.\n\n\"Our housing is the oldest, and among the poorest quality in Western Europe and is not fit for purpose to face the challenges of more extreme temperatures and weather.\"\n\nThis week Rishi Sunak announced plans to weaken some of the government's green commitments, such as delaying a ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nBut Mr Sunak insisted the UK was still on track to hit its targets - and it was not necessary to make the changes earlier than needed.\n\nExperts have previously said that the record-breaking heat seen in the UK last year will be considered cool by the end of this century. They say the record heat for the UK was made much more likely by climate change.", "One of the signs, seen on the Ballycastle Road in Coleraine in July\n\nA Northern Ireland university is removing refences to \"world leading\" in ad posters after complaints were made to the UK's advertising watchdog.\n\nUlster University (UU) said there was no formal investigation or sanction from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) in relation to the billboards.\n\nHowever it said it was in the process of replacing them.\n\nThe ASA said it spoke to UU after receiving two complaints about the advertisements.\n\nSome ad billboards in Coleraine stated: \"You are only 10 minutes away from a world-leading university.\"\n\nAs first reported in the Belfast Telegraph, the ASA said the complainants argued the claim was misleading, based on the university's Times Higher Education World University ranking.\n\n\"We spoke with Ulster University and they provided assurance that they would remove the ad. As such, as we consider the matter closed,\" it added.\n\nThe Times Higher Education World University Rankings puts the university between number 601 and 800 on the list.\n\nAdvertisers must present evidence that justifies their claims to the ASA, if asked to do so.\n\nBBC News NI understands that the ASA takes matters on a a case-by-case basis and could take other matters rather than ranking into account if given evidence for the university's \"world-leading\" claim.\n\nA spokeswoman for the university said its \"research environment\" had been judged to be excellent and worthy of the description.\n\n\"The 'world-leading' reference in this ad was based on a number of factors and rankings, and particularly the REF 2021 rating, where that independent expert reviewer specifically defines that 97% of Ulster University's research environment is world leading or internationally excellent,\" she said.\n\nShe added that in the Research Excellence Framework 2021, UU had ranked in the top 10% in the UK for world leading or internationally excellent research impact and that 97% of Ulster University's research impact had outstanding or very considerable impacts in reach and significance.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said the university was found to be in the top 250 young universities in the world in The Times Young University Rankings 2023, which lists the world's best universities that are 50 years old or younger.", "Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Arslanian each face three charges\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, according to the Justice Department.\n\nProsecutors say Mr Menendez and his wife accepted gold bars and envelopes of cash from New Jersey businessmen.\n\nThe senator and his wife accepted the money to secretly aid the Egyptian government, prosecutors allege.\n\nBoth Mr and Ms Menendez have vehemently denied the charges.\n\nThe pair each face three criminal counts: conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.\n\nThe indictment comes after a years-long Justice Department investigation.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Menendez and his wife Nadine accepted bribes of cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage and a luxury vehicle from three New Jersey men: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.\n\nIn addition to helping the Egyptian government, they also took the bribes to use Mr Menendez's power as a senator to protect the three businessmen, according to the indictment.\n\nMr Menendez, 69, is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and was elected to a third term in the Senate in 2018.\n\nHis \"leadership position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (the \"SFRC\"), first as the Ranking Member and then the Chairman\" allowed him to peddle influence in these areas, the 39-page indictment says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement from her lawyers, Mrs Menendez denied any wrongdoing and said she will defend herself in court.\n\nMr Menendez also denied the allegations and painted them as politically motivated.\n\n\"For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,\" he said in a lengthy statement. \"Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.\"\n\n\"I am confident that this matter will be successfully resolved once all of the facts are presented and my fellow New Jerseyans will see this for what it is,\" he added.\n\nIn the summer of 2022, federal agents executed search warrants at Mr Menendez's home and found evidence of the bribery agreements, including over $480,000 (£391,000) in cash, much of which was \"stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets and a safe\", prosecutors allege.\n\nAgents said they also found a Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicle paid for by Mr Uribe parked in the garage, as well as $100,000 of gold bars in the home, pictures of which were included in the indictment.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Friday, prosecutors quoted from Mr Menendez's website, in which he details the limits of his power as a legislator, including not being able to intervene in criminal cases.\n\n\"Behind the scenes, Senator Menendez was doing those things for certain people - the people who were bribing him in his wife,\" said Damian Williams, the US Attorney for Southern District of New York.\n\nIn the indictment, prosecutors allege Mr Menendez's wife worked with one of the three New Jersey businessmen, Mr Hana, to introduce the senator to Egyptian intelligence and military officials. Mr Hana - who is originally from Egypt - exchanged thousands of text messages with Mrs Menendez, which she deleted from her cell phone, according to prosecutors.\n\nMr Hana and Mrs Menendez set up a \"corrupt agreement\" in which the New Jersey businessman provided money so that the senator would benefit the Egyptian government with foreign military sales and foreign military financing, the indictment alleges.\n\nOn one occasion, prosecutors say Mr Menendez secretly ghost-wrote a letter on behalf of the Egyptian government seeking to convince other US senators to release a hold on $300m in aid to Egypt.\n\nIn exchange for help to Egyptian officials, Mr Hana agreed to compensate Mrs Menendez with a \"low-or-no-show\" job, according to prosecutors.\n\nMr Menendez is also accused of accepting the Mercedes Benz convertible in exchange for impeding a New Jersey state criminal prosecution into one of Mr Uribe's associates.\n\nAs a result of the charges, Mr Menendez and his wife have been asked to forfeit several assets, including their New Jersey home.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to businesses owned by Mr Hana and Mr Daibes for comment. The Embassy of Egypt in Washington DC did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nMr Menendez, his wife and their three co-defendants are scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court on 27 September.\n\nThis is not the first time Mr Menendez faces bribery charges. The senator, who has served in Congress since 2006, was indicted in New Jersey in 2015 over allegations he accepted bribes - including luxury vacations - from a wealthy Florida eye doctor.\n\nThat case ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.", "Russell Brand says it has been an \"extraordinary and distressing\" week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.\n\nIn a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for \"questioning the information that you've been presented with\".\n\nThey are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches last weekend.\n\nIn a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand denied the claims before the allegations were published, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe actor and comedian did not address the allegations directly in Friday's three-minute video, but made claims about what he described as \"media corruption and censorship\" and \"deep state and corporate collusion\".\n\nHe said he would release a fuller video on video streaming site Rumble on Monday, saying the platform had made \"a clear commitment to free speech\".\n\nEarlier this week, responding to a UK Parliament committee that asked if it would cut Brand's income in the wake of the allegations, Rumble said it would not \"join a cancel culture mob\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women made allegations against Brand:\n\nThis week, another woman also accused Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show in 2008.\n\nYouTube has suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\". It said it was taking action \"to protect\" its users.\n\nIn recent years, he has repositioned himself, posting regular videos about spirituality, anti-establishment politics and, recently, UFOs, to his online followers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Canada for the first time since the Russian invasion.\n\nCanadian TV showed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meeting Mr Zelensky and the first lady on the runway in Ottawa.\n\nIt comes after increasing doubts from international partners over how it should continue providing aid to Kyiv.\n\nMr Zelensky arrived from Washington where he had hoped to secure further funding but it is unclear if US Congress will back more aid.\n\nEarlier in the week, he urged world leaders to continue to support Ukraine to help fight off Russian forces at the United Nations in New York.\n\nDiplomatic tensions are on the rise, after Mr Zelensky criticised Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, for banning imports of Ukrainian grain.\n\nMr Zelensky was joined by First Lady Olena Zelenska where they were greeted on the tarmac by hugs from Canadian officials including Mr Trudeau.\n\nCanada reaffirmed its commitment to Ukraine on arrival - the country's UN ambassador told news agency Associated Press it needs \"to do more\" to help.\n\n\"We're going to continue to do everything we can to support the Ukrainian people,\" said Bob Rae.\n\nAlthough this the first in person visit for Mr Zelensky since the war began, he has addressed parliament via video link before.\n\nThe president will address parliament again to plea for continued support from a country that has already provided weapons, tanks and training for Ukrainian soldiers.\n\nIts package so far has totalled around $6bn (£4.8bn) but in June Trudeau did pledge his country remained committed to supporting Ukraine.\n\nHe will also meet business leaders in Toronto on his trip.\n\nMr Zelensky and wife Olena received a warm greeting on the tarmac from Justin Trudeau\n\nIn the US, Republican scepticism about funding the war is growing despite pleas from the president not to turn its back on Ukraine.\n\n\"Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalise Ukraine without consequence,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nThe US Congress has now authorised more than $110bn (£89bn) in aid to Ukraine, but polls suggest support among Americans for further spending has declined.\n\nMany Republicans argue the money would be better spent on domestic issues, but during Mr Zelensky's visit, President Biden approved further funding for Kyiv valued at £265m ($325m).\n\nIt includes upgrades to air defences - but not the long-range missiles that President Zelensky has been requesting.\n\nPoland also announced on Wednesday it would no longer be sending new weapons to Ukraine and would instead be focussing on defending itself with more modern weapons.", "Carly's family described her \"a loving daughter, sister, auntie and friend\"\n\nThe family of a schoolgirl who died following an alleged drug incident in Fife said they have been left \"devastated\" by her death.\n\nCarly Kilpatrick, 14, became ill at a property in Inverkeithing at about 02:45 on Monday.\n\nShe died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy a short time later.\n\nPolice Scotland later confirmed a 17-year-old boy had been charged with a drugs offence following the death, which is being treated as unexplained.\n\nA family statement said: \"We are devastated by the loss of Carly and the circumstances surrounding her death.\n\n\"She was a keen footballer and played for many local teams and will be deeply missed by us all.\"\n\nThe family thanked all those who had provided them with support and issued a request for privacy.\n\nFloral tributes to Carly have been left outside Inverkeithing High School\n\nPolice said the 17-year-old boy had been released pending further inquiries.\n\nAnother teenage girl was also taken to hospital after feeling unwell but she was understood to be in a stable condition.\n\nOn Tuesday, Inverkeithing High head teacher Ian Adair wrote to parents: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of our young person, and I am sure yours will be too over the coming days in particular.\"\n\nFife Council described the girl's death as \"tragic and untimely\".\n\nThe council's education manager Karen Lees said: \"We are supporting the school community and in particular any pupils who knew this young person, providing space, time and help to those who might be impacted by this terrible event.\"", "Smoke rises from a shipyard in the Russian-held Crimean port of Sevastopol\n\nThis week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.\n\nEstimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014?\n\nCrimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away.\n\n\"The strategy has two main goals,\" says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies.\n\n\"To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.\"\n\nIn other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south.\n\n\"They depend on each other,\" Musiienko says.\n\nLet's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol.\n\nSatellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.\n\nBritain's Ministry of Defence said two Russian ships had been badly damaged in the attack\n\nOn Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a large amphibious landing ship, the Minsk, had \"almost certainly been functionally destroyed\".\n\nNext to it, one of Russia's Kilo class diesel-electric submarines, the Rostov-on-Don - used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles hundreds of miles into Ukraine - had \"likely suffered catastrophic damage\".\n\nPerhaps equally importantly the dry docks - vital for maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet - would likely be out of use \"for many months\", the ministry said.\n\nIt said special forces had played a key role, using boats and an unspecified \"underwater delivery means\" to get ashore, before using \"special technical assets\" to help identify and target the vessels.\n\nBut with the fires barely out in Sevastopol there were more dramatic night-time explosions as Ukraine blew up one of Russia's most modern air defence systems, an S-400, around 40 miles (64km) north at Yevpatoria.\n\nThis was another sophisticated operation that used a combination of drones and Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles to confuse and destroy a key component of Russia's air defences on the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nA significant side note: Russian attempts to use exactly this technique over Kyiv have generally failed, largely thanks to the presence of US Patriot interceptor missiles.\n\nThursday was the second time in less than a month that Ukraine has knocked out an S-400 surface-to-air missile system on the peninsula.\n\nOn 23 August, at Olenivka, on the western tip of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, Ukraine managed to destroy another launcher and a nearby radar station.\n\nRussia was thought to have not more than six S-400 launchers in Crimea. Now it has lost two.\n\nBut these are only some of Ukraine's recent operations.\n\nOthers have knocked out Russian radar positions on offshore gas platforms and, according to Kyiv, used experimental maritime drones to attack a hovercraft missile carrier at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour.\n\nWith its airbases, troop concentrations, training grounds and the Black Sea fleet, Crimea has been a key target since Russia's full-scale invasion last year.\n\n\"In Crimea, they still have a lot of stockpiles, with artillery shells and other types of weapons,\" Musiienko says. \"And this is the main logistic supply line for them.\"\n\nOver the months, Kyiv's operations have grown in sophistication, from a drone attack in August 2022 which destroyed an estimated nine Russian aircraft at the Saky air base, to the combined drone and missile attacks of today.\n\nWith more advanced weapons thought to be in the pipeline, Musiienko expects Ukraine to launch ever more sophisticated operations.\n\n\"When we get ATACMS (tactical ballistic missiles) from the United States, I think we will try to use - in one attack - ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and also drones,\" he says.\n\n\"And that will be a serious problem for Russia's air defence system,\" he adds.\n\n\"We will try to blind them.\"\n\nEach successful attack, he says, makes the next one easier. \"We are clearing the way, and it's becoming more simple.\"\n\nThe latest reports from Washington suggests the Biden administration is close to approving the ATACMS long range missile system after months of Ukrainian lobbying.\n\nDoes any of this mean that Kyiv is getting closer to its goal of liberating Crimea?\n\n\"It's getting closer, but there's still a lot to do,\" says retired Ukrainian navy captain Andriy Ryzhenko.\n\n\"We need to liberate the Sea of Azov coast and cut the land corridor,\" he says, referring to Ukraine's slow, grinding offensive in the south.\n\nAnd then there is the Kerch Bridge.\n\nUkraine has been hitting Moscow's lifeline to Crimea for almost a year, but Russian heavy equipment still moves along its vital railway.\n\nDespite being much better defended now, it remains very much in Kyiv's sights.\n\nThis file picture from July shows damage apparently caused by a Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and Russia\n\n\"When we shut down the Crimean bridge, it will be a logistical problem for them,\" Ryzhenko says, with some understatement.\n\nCutting off Crimea would be catastrophic for Russia and provide a welcome boost to Ukraine's difficult southern offensive.\n\nSo is all this a prelude to a Ukrainian effort to retake the peninsula?\n\nObservers here in Kyiv are trying not to get ahead of themselves.\n\n\"I think this could be a preparation for the liberation of Crimea,\" Musiienko. \"But I understand that it will take time.\n\n\"What we're trying to do right now is clean the way to Crimea.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Ukraine was using every means at its disposal to force Russia to abandon Crimea.\n\n\"It looks like if the Russians do not leave Crimea on their own,\" he said in a radio interview, \"we will have to 'smoke them out'.\"", "Ramzi bin al-Shibh was first transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006\n\nA military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the five defendants charged over the 9/11 attacks is not fit to stand trial in a death-penalty case.\n\nThe defendant Ramzi bin al-Shibh has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, associated psychotic features and a delusional disorder.\n\nHis lawyer has long claimed his client was \"tortured by the CIA\".\n\nAl-Shibh was scheduled to face pretrial proceedings on Friday.\n\nColonel Matthew McCall in the US base on the eastern tip of Cuba accepted the findings of the doctors which said in August that al-Shibh was too psychologically damaged to defend himself.\n\nThe medical board of doctors concluded al-Shibh had become delusional and psychotic, The New York Times reported.\n\nThat made him incompetent to either face trial or plead guilty, according to a report filed with his trial judge on 25 August.\n\nAccording to the report, the military psychiatrists said his condition left him \"unable to understand the nature of the proceedings against him or cooperate intelligently\".\n\nHe was supposed be on trial on Friday with four other defendants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.\n\nBefore the trial, Colonel McCall has decided to remove al-Shibh from the case. The hearing of the other four defendants is expected to proceed as scheduled.\n\nThe five men are accused of conspiring in the plane hijackings in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.\n\nAl-Shibh, who is from Yemen and 51 years old, was arrested in Pakistan in September 2002, and transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.\n\nHis lawyers said he was tortured by the CIA and \"went insane as a result of what the agency called enhanced interrogation techniques, that included sleep deprivation, waterboarding and beatings\".\n\nHis mental situation has been an issue since his first court appearance in 2008, according to the US media. He has disrupted some of the hearings over the years with outbursts.\n\nAl-Shibh was accused of helping organise the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that hijacked one of two passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York.\n\nThe Guantanamo camp, in Cuba, was established by then-President George W Bush in 2002 to house foreign terrorism suspects following the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. It is on a US Navy base.\n\nThe camp has come to symbolise some of the excesses of the the Bush administration's 'war on terror' due to interrogation methods critics say amount to torture, and detainees being held for long periods without trial.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Dolph Ziggler - a two-time WWE World Champion - was among the bigger names let go by the wrestling giant\n\nThe Rock and John Cena have reacted to the WWE reportedly releasing at least 20 wrestlers from their contracts.\n\nDolph Ziggler and Shelton Benjamin were among those let go by the company, which recently merged with UFC.\n\nThe Rock, real name Dwayne Johnson, and Cena both paid tribute to Ziggler - who has reportedly performed in 1,554 matches for WWE over two decades.\n\n\"Respect\", said Cena, while The Rock added: \"Can't wait to see what he (and everyone) does next.\"\n\nCurrent WWE superstar Big E described Ziggler as \"one of the smoothest workers I've ever been in the ring with\".\n\nBut Shelton Benjamin, a former intercontinental champion, thanked fans, fellow wrestlers and WWE staff in a statement.\n\n\"Something ends, something new begins,\" he wrote. \"Looking forward to my next chapter.\"\n\nOther wrestlers who've confirmed their departures include Mustafa Ali, Elias, and Aliyah.\n\nAnother wrestler who's been released is Emma, who calls herself the \"first female Aussie WWE superstar\".\n\nShe posted on socials to say how excited she was about a WWE event in Australia next year - only to post again an hour later saying: \"Oops nevermind. I just got released.\"\n\nJohn Cena recently made an appearance at the WWE's event in London\n\nWWE and UFC recently announced that they'd merged to form a single company - TKO - in a deal worth $21.4bn (£17.3bn).\n\nSince then, the company reportedly made more than 100 staff working in office and behind-the-scenes roles redundant.\n\nThe new company recently signed a deal with US TV company NBC to secure the rights to its Smackdown show.\n\nBut despite that, fans had been expecting talent to be released from the company's roster.\n\nOne fan online described it as \"a mix of fresh up-and-comers, notable performers and decorated veterans\" leaving the company.\n\nAnother posted it \"hurts seeing such great talent\" being released.\n\nWWE has had a history of letting go of its superstars, often citing financial pressures such as during the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut wrestling fan Sabrina Nicole says some of the names announced have surprised her.\n\n\"There were quite a few releases that shocked a lot of fans around the world and especially me,\" she tells BBC Newsbeat.\n\n\"A lot of people have been commenting about Dolph Ziggler, [it's] just a shock and we're all excited to see what he will do next.\n\n\"Almost 20 years in WWE is such a huge accomplishment and he won so many different titles as well, [and] had a lot of fan support.\"\n\nGoing forward, Sabrina hopes WWE's merger with UFC will see a bit more of a crossover between the two.\n\n\"There's not been a great deal that we've heard about what may happen,\" she says.\n\n\"Hopefully as time goes on we'll start to see more exciting things happen.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rupert Murdoch said his son Lachlan (R) would head both Fox and News Corp\n\nMedia mogul Rupert Murdoch says he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, with his son Lachlan to head both companies.\n\nIn a memo to employees, Murdoch said \"the time is right\" for him to take on \"different roles\".\n\nMurdoch, 92, launched Fox News in 1996. It is now the most watched TV news channel in the US.\n\nMurdoch said he will transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus of both firms in mid-November.\n\n\"Our companies are in robust health, as am I. Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges,\" he wrote. \"We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years - I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them.\"\n\nLachlan Murdoch, 52, is the son of Rupert Murdoch and his second wife, Anna Maria dePeyster. The billionaire patriarch has been married four times and has six children - many of whom followed their father into the family business.\n\nThe question of succession had largely come down to the second, third and fourth - Elisabeth, Lachlan and James.\n\nLachlan, 52, emerged as the heir apparent during his time as an executive in the late 1990s. However, he left the business in 2005 after a feud with then boss of Fox News, Roger Ailes. Lachlan returned to his father's empire in 2014 and has held top positions ever since.\n\nJames Murdoch, the more liberally-minded son, quit the News Corp board in 2020 because of \"disagreements over certain editorial content\" and other grievances with the direction of the company.\n\nElisabeth, 55, held various high-ranking roles in the business but started her own television company, Shine, which produced shows like MasterChef and The Biggest Loser.\n\nThe transition comes during a turbulent year for Fox, which in April agreed to pay a $787.5m (£634m) settlement after being sued by voting machine company Dominion over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe network is still facing a second, similar lawsuit from another voting technology firm, Smartmatic, seeking an even larger sum of $2.7bn.\n\nThen on 25 April, Fox announced it would \"part ways\" with Tucker Carlson, its highest rated TV host - amid reports the decision came from the very top.\n\nThe Murdoch move falls a year before the US presidential election, in which right-leaning Fox News has significant influence. The network is hosting a number of debates between Republicans vying to be the party's 2024 White House candidate.\n\nJournalist Michael Wolff is set to release a highly anticipated tell-all book about Fox's ruling family in just a few days, titled \"The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty\". A second Murdoch book, by CNN media journalist Brian Stelter, will be published on 14 November.\n\nIn his memo to staff, Rupert Murdoch vowed to continue to be involved in the \"contest of ideas\".\n\nHe also criticised other media outlets as being \"in cahoots\" with a \"rarefied class\" of elites who he accused of \"peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth\".\n\nIn a statement, Lachlan Murdoch said that his father \"will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of Rupert Murdoch's biggest acquisitions, in his 70-year media career\n\nThe elder Murdoch began his career in his native Australia in the 1950s, eventually buying the News of the World and The Sun newspapers in the UK in 1969.\n\nHe later purchased a number of US publications including the New York Post and Wall Street Journal. Through News Corp, he remains the owner of hundreds of local, national and international media outlets.\n\nHis career, however, has not been without its mishaps. In 2005, for example, he bought the social media site Myspace for more than half a billion dollars. It was crushed by Facebook and later sold for just $35m.\n\nHis most damaging moment in the UK was the notorious phone hacking scandal, which erupted after it emerged that the News of the World had listened to the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemails. It was a humiliation for Murdoch personally - and came at huge financial cost. His company is reported to have paid more than £1bn in pay-outs to phone hacking victims.\n\nUntil today's announcement, Lachlan Murdoch had served as the executive chair of Fox Corporation and Nova Entertainment.\n\nFox shares rose almost 2% after the news, while News Corps shares rose a more modest 0.6%.\n\nProfessor Anat Alon-Beck, a corporate law expert, said that ultimately market reaction to Lachlan's promotion will depend on whether Fox has a \"solid and smart\" plan that ensures \"that the company's leadership isn't jeopardised just because the most powerful person, CEO, leaves the role\".\n\nWhile Lachlan was the expected choice to replace his father, it is unclear what will happen when the elder Murdoch dies.\n\nAny transfer of shares from Murdoch to his six adult children could potentially set the stage for a battle for the future of the media empire.\n\nA 2007 picture shows Rupert Murdoch with three of his children - James (L), Elisabeth, and Lachlan\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Annette McGavigan was shot dead by the army in Derry in 1971\n\nA former British soldier has been questioned, under caution, about the killing of a Londonderry schoolgirl more than half a century ago, the BBC can reveal.\n\nAnnette McGavigan, 14, was shot dead by the Army during rioting in 1971.\n\nThe police said: \"We can confirm that a suspect was interviewed under caution as part of the murder investigation, which remains active and ongoing.\"\n\nThe Catholic teenager was the 100th civilian killed in the Troubles.\n\nNo one has ever been convicted in relation to her death and, with the passing of the government's controversial legacy bill, it is unclear how any investigation will progress.\n\nThe bill will stop new Troubles-era court cases and inquests being held and offers a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings.\n\nAnnette's sister, May, who was just 12 at the time of the shooting, described the new law as \"a disgrace\".\n\nThe government has said the bill was the best way to deal with Troubles-related cases.\n\nIt has been controversial because opponents say it will remove access to justice for victims and relatives of those affected by the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nVictims' groups, the main political parties in Northern Ireland, the Republic and the Irish government are all opposed to the legislation.\n\nA number of families are attempting to challenge the new law in the courts.\n\nMay and Martin McGavigan hold a photo of their sister Annette\n\nMay McGavigan recalled the day 52 years ago when her sister was killed.\n\n\"It was unbelievable, really, it was a nightmare,\" she said.\n\nAsked about the legacy bill, Ms McGavigan said: \"It's a disgrace.\n\n\"I wouldn't want Annette to be just forgotten about because, going back years ago, her name was never really mentioned and I always thought Annette was the forgotten one.\"\n\nMembers of Annette McGavigan's family pictured at her graveside in Derry in 1971\n\nAnnette's brother, Martin, was 11 when she was shot dead. He is now 63 and remembers the day she died clearly, recalling in particular how Annette was wearing her school uniform when the shooting happened.\n\n\"I'm very bitter and I always will be until I get truth and justice for Annette,\" he said.\n\n\"We've watched our mother coming home from school, hugging her daughter's clothes in the hot press every day.\n\n\"My mother's way of dealing with it was lying up the stairs over the top of the newspaper clippings and her clothes, breaking her heart, and that will live with us for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nHe also condemned the Legacy Bill as \"morally wrong\".\n\n\"Chris Heaton-Harris [the secretary of state] says they want to draw a line in the sand,\" he said.\n\n\"The British government want to dig a hole in the sand and bury their heads.\n\n\"We'll keep fighting. Like other families, we'll keep fighting until we get truth and justice.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office said the Legacy Bill established the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) to conduct reviews into Troubles-related deaths and serious injury.\n\nIt said it would have \"all the necessary powers to conduct criminal investigations as part of any review, ensuring compliance with the government's international obligations under the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights)\".\n\n\"It ensures that individuals who decline to assist the ICRIR in the provision of information will not be granted immunity from prosecution, and can be prosecuted in the usual way should sufficient evidence exist.\n\n\"The act provides an opportunity to deliver greater information to many more victims and survivors than existing legacy mechanisms, while keeping the prospect of criminal justice outcomes open in specific circumstances.\"", "Sara Sharif's body was found at her home on 10 August\n\nThe father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif have appeared in court accused of murdering the 10-year-old.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking, have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThey appeared at Guildford Magistrates' Court and were remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey in London.\n\nSara's body was found at her home on 10 August.\n\nAll three defendants are accused of murdering Sara on or about 8 August, and causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThe court was told the defendants denied the charges.\n\nThe prosecutor said that Sara's body was found in a bottom bunk of a bunkbed in an upstairs bedroom.\n\nThe actual cause of her death is still yet to be established, the court heard.\n\nAt the end of the 20-minute hearing, district judge Tan Ikram said they would remain in custody until their next court appearance on Tuesday.\n\nThe three defendants left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August.\n\nThey were arrested at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday evening after five weeks out of the country, disembarking a flight from Dubai.\n\nEarly on Friday morning, Surrey Police confirmed they had been charged after just over 28 hours in police custody.", "Poland's President Andrzej Duda compared Ukraine to a drowning man who risks dragging his rescuers down with him\n\nFrom the beginning of Russia's full-on invasion, Warsaw has been a firm supporter of Kyiv.\n\nIt's often led the way in sending military aid and equipment, and argued passionately that this support is essential to protect Poland itself from Russian aggression.\n\nThe change of tone from the Polish government on Ukraine is startling.\n\nNow suddenly it feels like the political knives are out for Kyiv.\n\nThere's talk of how Ukraine should be \"grateful\" for Polish support. This week came a warning from Poland's prime minister about ending weapons transfers, although others in his party then scrambled to soften that message.\n\nBut there was no misinterpreting the Polish President's words. Andrzej Duda compared Ukraine to a drowning man who risks dragging his rescuers down with him.\n\nMoscow seized upon that comment with glee.\n\nThe sharp downturn in relations between the neighbouring countries began with a dispute over grain imports that remains unresolved.\n\nUkraine needs to export its harvest, and land routes are now critical because Russia is deliberately attacking ports on both the Black Sea and the Danube river. But in an effort to protect its own farmers, Poland won't allow cheaper Ukrainian grain to hit its domestic market, only to pass through to the rest of the European Union in transit.\n\nPoland has been one of Ukraine's strongest allies throughout the war\n\nFor Poland's governing Law and Justice party, or PiS, the equation is simple - farmers here don't want competition from Ukrainian grain and PiS wants those farmers' votes at next month's elections.\n\nKyiv is fuming, but Poland's airwaves - and social media platforms - are currently packed with pre-election talk and the tone at times is near-shockingly vicious.\n\nPiS are ahead in the opinion polls but the margins are tight and most commentators think it's too close to call.\n\nIn the battle for votes, PiS has positioned itself as the strongest defender of Polish interests. So redefining how it is assisting Ukraine is just one of the cards it is playing alongside other populist causes such as migration.\n\nPiotr Lukasiewicz, from the Polityka Insight analysis group, explains: \"It's not about grain, it's not about weapons. It's about sentiment among the conservative electorate, which is the big issue for PiS, and they have to ride this sentiment.\n\n\"It's constructed around the notion that Ukraine is not thankful enough [for Polish support] and that Ukrainians here are getting too much in terms of social services and finance,\" he says.\n\nPiS is trying to coax voters from the far-right Konfederacja party, which is currently polling at close to 10% support.\n\nThis week, Konfederacja members picketed the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw and held up a mock invoice for Poland's support. Konfederacja proclaimed the total cost of helping Kyiv to be over 100bn zloty (£18.79bn, $23.1bn) and wrote: \"Paid: zero. Gratitude: none.\"\n\nOpposition politicians have slammed the government's conduct as dangerous nationalism.\n\nBut Poland's shift in tone isn't happening in isolation.\n\nThe shadow of \"Ukraine fatigue\" hangs over election campaigns from Slovakia to the United States, a serious worry for Kyiv which needs continuing and firm Western support as it battles Russian forces.\n\nThe Polish government is stressing that international aid will continue to flow to Ukraine's frontlines via Rzeszow in the east, a critical hub for everything from tanks to bullets. Meanwhile, talks between Ukraine and Poland on the grain dispute are continuing.\n\nThere appear to be efforts on both sides to prevent the war of words from escalating into a full-blown crisis.\n\nAnd whilst PiS pursues the rural, conservative vote, support for Ukraine here in Warsaw remains strong.\n\n\"It's definitely not good that we're limiting help. The thing Russia is doing is unacceptable. We should defend ourselves and help Ukraine defend their freedom,\" Viktoria told me, in a city that still has lots of Ukrainian flags draped out of apartment windows in solidarity - and a lot of Ukrainian refugees.\n\n\"I think this is a tool the government uses to win the election. They play on all the emotions and this is dirty speech before elections,\" Rafa suggested.\n\n\"I hope it's just talking. It depends who wins the elections. In one month, that will be clear.\"\n\nBut some think the damage for Poland is already done.\n\n\"Words matter,\" analyst Piotr Lukasiewicz argues \"I think it will have consequences and they will be bad for Poland.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Love Island's Ekin-Su Culculoglu signed up to last year's series of Dancing on Ice\n\nFormer House of Commons Speaker John Bercow is to star in the next series of the Traitors US.\n\nHe will feature alongside other celebrities including Love Island's Ekin-Su Culculoglu and professional heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder.\n\nFollowing the success of the British version last year, the first American series was made available on the BBC iPlayer as a box set.\n\nThe American version is hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.\n\nThe murder-mystery gameshow sees several contestants chosen to become traitors capable of killing off rivals in a bid to secure a large cash prize.\n\nStudio Lambert, which makes the show, confirmed on social media the series is being filmed at the 19th Century Ardross Castle, in the Scottish Highlands, the same venue that hosts the British version.\n\nUnlike the UK version of the hit reality show, the American series includes celebrities, with Culculoglu, Mr Bercow and Wilder being joined by the likes of The Real Housewives of Miami's Larsa Pippen, Bling Empire star Kevin Kreider and Maksim Chmerkovskiy from Dancing With The Stars.\n\nMr Bercow may seem an unlikely choice in such starry company - but clips of him arbitrating feisty Brexit debates in the House of Commons, and Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) made him somewhat of a cult figure in the US.\n\nHe gave an interview with The American magazine in 2019 in which he said: \"Whenever I travel to the US, people say to me how much they enjoy watching our PMQs - and how they wished they had something similar.\"\n\nHe stepped down from the role that year - after saying the Speaker's \"order, order\" instruction an estimated 14,000 times.\n\nHis period in charge of the House of Commons also saw several revelations of parliamentary staff reporting allegations of bullying and harassment by MPs and other senior figures, including Mr Bercow himself - which he has always denied.\n\nJohn Bercow stepped down as Commons Speaker in 2019\n\nJust like the UK version, the contestants the US series will be split into faithfuls and traitors, with the latter group using lies and subterfuge as they aim to stay undetected to win the show, eliminating - or \"murdering\" - faithfuls as they go.\n\nViewers will discover which group Culculoglu, Mr Bercow and Wilder will be placed in at first on the opening night of the series, which airs on streaming platform Peacock in the US.\n\nThe US show paid out $250,000 (£205,000) for the prize, higher than the UK's £101,050 winnings last year.", "TV shows like The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel have proven huge hits for Amazon\n\nAmazon is set to introduce adverts to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024 as it seeks to put more cash into creating TV shows and films.\n\nUK Prime customers, along with those in the US, Germany and Canada, will see ads early next year unless they subscribe for an \"ad-free\" option at an additional cost.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said Prime Video still offered \"very compelling value\".\n\nIt follows similar moves by rivals including Disney+ and Netflix.\n\nAmazon said that the ads would be introduced across France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia later in 2024.\n\nIt will roll out the \"ad-free\" subscription tier for an extra $2.99 (£2.44) per month for Prime subscribers in the United States.\n\nPricing for other countries will be announced at a later date, Amazon said.\n\nAt the moment, a Prime subscription, which includes free one-day delivery on goods as well as access to its streaming service, costs £8.99 per month, or £95 a year, in the UK.\n\n\"To continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time, starting in 2024, Prime Video shows and movies will include limited advertisements in the UK,\" Amazon said.\n\nBut in the wake of similar announcements by other streaming companies, customers have expressed their disappointment.\n\nDisney+ expanded its ad-supported service to the UK in August, while Netflix introduced its \"basic with ads\" streaming plan last year.\n\nIt marked a massive change for Netflix, which pioneered the world of ad-free, subscription-based, streaming.\n\nAnalyst Hanna Kahlert at Midia Research said many people do not like the idea of adverts on services they have already paid for - though some accept the practice if it makes the streaming plan cheaper.\n\nBut she said Amazon has the power to make the change without fearing a wave of cancellations, since streaming is just one part of the Prime package.\n\n\"The competition is not like-for-like,\" she said. \"Audiences are not just making the decision to subscribe because of its content or viewer experience in video, but rather a whole host of convenience factors... Ads or no ads, Amazon still wins on convenience, with its content arguably a bonus.\"\n\nIn its announcement on Friday, Amazon said that it would aim \"to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers\".\n\nThe company said it would get in touch with Prime members a few weeks before ads are introduced to show how to sign-up for the ad-free option if they wish to.\n\nLive event broadcasts, like sports matches, will still include adverts even for those who sign up to the ad-free option.\n\nData previously released by analysts Kantar showed that people cut back on video streaming services in their droves last year as they sought out different ways to deal with the spike in the cost of living.\n\nIt found that the number of paid-for video streaming subscriptions in the UK fell by two million, from 30.5 million to 28.5 million.\n\nAlthough demand picked up around Christmas, Kantar said, people quickly looked to cut back again afterwards.\n\nInsider Intelligence senior analyst Max Willens said ad-supported tiers have become standard in the streaming industry, setting the stage for Amazon's move.\n\n\"It is slightly unusual for Amazon, which relentlessly positions itself as a customer-first company, to degrade a service it offers those customers, especially a service whose price has risen 75% since it was first introduced, but this feels unsurprising,\" he said.", "Jeremy Hunt said there was no \"extra headroom\" for tax cuts\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has said it will be \"virtually impossible\" to deliver tax cuts until the UK economy improves.\n\nA less gloomy economic outlook and the high cost of living had led to calls for measures to reduce taxes in the Autumn Statement in November.\n\nSpeaking on LBC, Mr Hunt said the country's high levels of debt left him with some \"very difficult decisions\".\n\nThe UK's national debt - the amount borrowed to fund spending - is at levels not seen since the early 1960s.\n\nThe larger the national debt gets, the more interest the government has to pay and rising interest rates have made this cost higher.\n\nWith the Conservatives well behind Labour in the opinion polls, a debate is playing out about what, if anything, the party can do to win back ground before a general election, expected as soon as next May.\n\nA significant number of Conservative MPs argue that keeping taxes at historically high levels, particularly given the high cost of living, is a political mistake.\n\nThey want ministers to cut tax - or at least set out a path to doing so.\n\nA slight fall in inflation - the rate prices are rising - last month also meant the Bank of England kept interest rates at 5.25% after two years of incremental rises, meaning the cost of national borrowing did not increase as some had expected.\n\nBut speaking on the Tonight With Andrew Marr programme, Mr Hunt said that the cost of servicing the country's debt remained higher that it was when he delivered the Spring Budget in March, meaning there was no \"extra headroom\" for tax cuts.\n\n\"It makes life extremely difficult,\" he said. \"It makes tax cuts virtually impossible, and it means that I will have another set of frankly very difficult decisions.\n\n\"All I would say is, if we do want those long-term debt costs to come down, then we need to really stick to this plan to get inflation down, get interest rates down.\n\n\"I don't know when that's going to happen. But I don't think it's going to happen before the Autumn Statement on 22 November, alas.\"\n\nIt is not surprising that tax cuts are not being considered right now - government insiders have been saying that for months.\n\nBut the Treasury is preparing voters for another fiscal event where significant commitments are unlikely - as ministers continue to prioritise reducing inflation further.\n\nFigures released on Wednesday showed that inflation in August stood at 6.7%, lower than many had feared but still significantly higher than the target level of 2%.\n\nTax cuts typically increase demand in the economy and could risk fuelling price rises back up towards levels seen earlier this year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Many trainees don't report inappropriate behaviour fearing it will affect their careers\n\nSenior doctors say female medics have felt pressured into sexual activity with colleagues.\n\nFour women who head up medical royal colleges in Wales have written an open letter describing misogyny, bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace.\n\nThey told BBC Wales that female staff had been asked for sex by male colleagues while on shift.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Harassment and sexual violence is abhorrent and has no place in our NHS.\"\n\nChairwoman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, Dr Maria Atkins, said: \"I've heard from multiple women over the years that during night-time shifts, they've been propositioned by male colleagues and felt pressured to engage in sexual acts.\n\n\"When they've refused they are penalised.\n\n\"It can be very damaging to some less experienced or younger women, because they will be discouraged from engaging with a team, which might have been the speciality of medicine that they wanted to progress their career in.\"\n\nA major analysis of NHS staff reported female surgeons are being sexually harassed, assaulted and, in some cases, raped by colleagues.\n\nThe open letter makes it clear that these issues are not confined to surgery or anaesthetics but are commonplace.\n\n\"As a junior doctor or medical student, professionally it's dangerous to raise concerns,\" said Dr Rowena Christmas, chairwoman of the body representing GPs in Wales.\n\nShe said the power imbalance in making complaints about those who can influence your career played a huge part.\n\n\"So you don't say anything and then you carry a great burden of guilt, thinking, 'I've let myself down. I've let my colleagues down. I should have done something' and that's hard as well.\"\n\nShe added that the problems were rife when she was at the start of her career but haven't gone away.\n\n\"It's very easy as a GP partner of 23 years to stand your ground and not put up with anything. I don't need the reference any more. But you can't say that junior doctors who are afraid to call problems out are lacking resilience.\"\n\nFollowing last week's report, a controversial letter was published in The Times from a retired Swansea anaesthetist suggested this behaviour should be tolerated.\n\nThat led to Swansea Bay health board issuing a statement on behalf of over 70 current staff strongly rejecting his views.\n\nThe open letter is co-signed by:\n\nIt is also supported by a number of senior doctors from groups representing medical professionals.\n\nDr Hilary Williams said there was widespread sexual innuendo when she was a trainee.\n\n\"We didn't have the language to discuss it, and we very much put up and shut up.\"\n\nBut she said conversations with trainees today showed it was happening right across medicine, with examples including male doctors \"rating people on their sexual attributes or what they're wearing\".\n\nShe added that there were also also examples of women \"feeling very vulnerable when they're on their own with a senior doctor who makes a much more sexualized comment or something that feels much more threatening\".\n\nTheir letter highlights the training pattern of rotating through different departments and different health boards can, unintentionally, enable inappropriate behaviour to go unchallenged.\n\n\"What has happened time and time again, is the trainee gets removed from that situation to protect them.\"\n\nDr Williams said that, as trainees are employed by the educational division of NHS Wales, the mechanisms are not always there to deal with the perpetrator who is employed by a health board.\n\n\"It's quite frightening to think that the perpetrators are in some way being protected by current systems - not necessarily deliberately,\" she added.\n\nDr Christmas said she remembered being bullied by one senior colleague, but decided to put up with it as she only had eight weeks left before she was moved elsewhere.\n\n\"If I'm putting up with it for another eight weeks, the next person coming along behind me is also having to deal with it.\"\n\nThe signatories have supported the call for urgent measures to improve investigations into sexual misconduct in healthcare, including the reporting process.\n\nDr Olwen Williams has also signed the open letter\n\nThe letter stated: \"Trainees and newly qualified consultant colleagues tell us that the reporting systems are weak… the risk of career damage is too great for many to want to speak out.\"\n\nThe letter also highlights the poor behaviour of some women, who have themselves been bullied: \"Cruelty leads to cruelty... toxic cultures breed toxic behaviour.\"\n\nThe Welsh government added: \"We wholeheartedly agree all acts of misogyny and misconduct should be called out and addressed.\n\n\"We encourage the NHS to support criminal proceedings against anyone who assaults staff.\n\n\"This week we published the Speaking up Safely Framework for NHS Wales, which will strengthen procedures and provide assurances that concerns will be taken seriously, heard fairly and people will not experience personal repercussions.\"\n• None An open letter to the medical profession in Wales - RCP London The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Irish tourist was filmed climbing a recently-renovated statue outside the Brussels stock exchange, causing part of it to break off.\n\nThe man was arrested and the building's management has called for him to cover the cost of repairs.\n\nIs this the summer of bad tourists? BBC Travel explores why raising awareness of misbehaving travellers is a good thing.", "We can't be sure how long it took this drinker to brew up\n\nA thoroughly British storm in a teacup is coming to the boil after a leading brand claimed it has devised a tea bag that can brew the perfect cuppa in 60 seconds.\n\nPG Tips says its new blend delivers a \"more flavourful and refreshing\" drink quicker, thanks to faster infusion.\n\nThe two-year, £50m creation - borne out of a desire to target drinkers who have one eye on the clock - has divided some experts.\n\n\"£50 million to create a fast brew 60-second teabag?\" asks Nigel Melican, president of the European Speciality Tea Association.\n\n\"Astounding, I could do that for free - just jiggle or stir the regular bag in the mug and it halves the brewing time,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"In fact, quality cannot be rushed, nor can the brewing of a premium tea.\"\n\nDr Andy Stapley, who devised an 11-step method for what he says is the perfect cup, believes \"speed is very important\".\n\n\"Normally I just want a quick brew,\" explains the senior lecturer in chemical engineering at Loughborough University.\n\nHis is one of 100 million UK cups of tea drunk every day, according to the UK Tea & Infusions Association.\n\nHow you make the perfect cuppa can be an intensely individual experience\n\n\"There is a four- or five-minute brigade who have the time to brew the larger loose leaf tea leaves - that is also fine,\" Dr Stapley tells the BBC.\n\n\"When it comes to it, so many people have tea in different ways that it's impossible to be too prescriptive as to a 'best way' because everybody has got their own preferences.\"\n\nDiaz Ayub, managing director of the Tea Group, which organises National Tea Day, strongly disagrees.\n\n\"Teatime is an experience and an art,\" he argues.\n\n\"Looking back at our British history, one must respect the time-honoured technique and ritual that tea requires.\"\n\nHe wants to go back to teapots, tea cups, tea strainers and \"those all-omitting tea timers\".\n\nOf PG Tips' new bag, he says: \"Trying to shorten the time of brewing is in my opinion an insult to teatime.\n\n\"Leave tea to those who understand and respect its virtues.\"\n\nGeorge Butlin, director at the UK Loose Leaf Tea Company, echoes that sentiment and professes a \"profound aversion to this kind of innovation\".\n\nHe told the BBC that the new bag was a significant backward step from what the experience should \"truly\" be.\n\nMr Butlin went on: \"Our enjoyment lies in the deliberate three or four minutes it takes to prepare an authentic cup of tea, allowing us to relish the serene essence it imparts.\"\n\nAmid what can be for many a chaotic and busy day, he says the slow art of tea brewing creates a \"magical interlude\".\n\nSome research suggests that most Brits do not see tea that way any more - reports last month pointed to coffee overtaking it as the nation's favourite drink.\n\nDr Stapley says tea bags in general, not just PG Tips, are \"really well designed to keep the really small tea particles in and allow the tea flavours to infuse out\".\n\nBut he feels that the 60-second claim seems a \"bit strange\" as many bags already offer an \"acceptable\" brew in that time.\n\n\"Maybe they have just further optimised it - but without testing them it is hard to know,\" the academic adds.\n\nUK Tea Academy director Jennifer Wood does not believe the latest PG offering is an innovation.\n\nShe said: \"The 60-second teabag is about creating a strong, quick cup of black tea from minute particles of tea leaf - which is already available off the shelf in every supermarket. It's not wrong to cater to what people want but if 85% of tea-drinkers steep the bag for less than a minute, why develop a bag that requires 60 seconds?\"\n\nMs Wood emphasised the number of teas currently available with \"astonishing\" diversity, range and depth of flavour and added: \"They are all brewed at different temperatures and for a different amount of time.\n\n\"Everything around tea is elevated to an art in Asia - as far from this debate as it is possible to get!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tests showed some bags degraded easily, but others included non-biodegradable plastic\n\nWhile tea bags offer speed and convenience, recent years have seen an increasing push to prove their sustainability too.\n\nLike many brands on sale in the UK, PG Tips says its range is fully biodegradable.\n\nBut Andrew Mayes, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC the best advice for those concerned by the issue would be to opt for loose leaf tea.\n\nPerhaps, he says, \"we need to alter our behaviour to match the product (tea leaves), rather than re-engineering the product to match our habits\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTesla CEO Elon Musk says there was \"overwhelming consensus\" for regulation on artificial intelligence after tech heavyweights gathered in Washington to discuss AI.\n\nMicrosoft's former CEO Bill Gates and Microsoft's current CEO Satya Nadella were also in attendance.\n\nThe Wednesday meeting with US lawmakers was held behind closed doors.\n\nThe forum was convened by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and included the tech leaders as well as civil rights advocates.\n\nThe power of artificial intelligence - for both good and bad - has been the subject of keen interest from politicians around the world.\n\nIn May, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, testified before a US Senate committee, describing the potential pitfalls of the new technology.\n\nChatGPT and other similar programmes can create incredibly human-like answers to questions - but can also be wildly inaccurate.\n\nMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Congress needs to support AI innovation and safeguards\n\n\"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong...we want to be vocal about that,\" Mr Altman said. \"We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening,\" he said.\n\nThere are fears that the technology could lead to mass layoffs, turbo charge fraud and make misinformation more convincing.\n\nAI companies have also been criticised for training their models on data scraped from the internet without permission or payment to creators.\n\nIn April, Mr Musk told the BBC: \"I think there should be a regulatory body established for overseeing AI to make sure that it does not present a danger to the public.\"\n\nIn Wednesday's meeting, he said he wanted a \"referee\" for artificial intelligence.\n\n\"I think we'll probably see something happen. I don't know on what timeframe or exactly how it will manifest itself,\" he told reporters after.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said that Congress \"should engage with AI to support innovation and safeguards\".\n\nHe added it was \"better that the standard is set by American companies that can work with our government to shape these models on important issues\".\n\nRepublican Senator Mike Rounds said it would take time for Congress to act.\n\n\"Are we ready to go out and write legislation? Absolutely not,\" Mr Rounds said. \"We're not there.\"\n\nDemocrat Senator Cory Booker said all participants agreed \"the government has a regulatory role\" but crafting legislation would be a challenge.", "Ben Stokes clobbered the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international in a 181-run trouncing of New Zealand at The Kia Oval.\n\nStokes' brutal 182 beat the previous England best of 180, made by Jason Roy against Australia in Melbourne in 2018.\n\nIn only his third ODI since coming out of retirement to play in this year's World Cup, Stokes hammered some wayward New Zealand bowling for nine sixes and 15 fours in his 124-ball stay.\n\nArriving at 13-2, Stokes added 199 for the third wicket with Dawid Malan, an England record partnership in an ODI against the Black Caps. Malan's 96 did plenty to cement his place in the starting XI for the World Cup in India.\n\nDespite losing their last six wickets for 32 runs, England piled up 368. Given the carnage caused by Stokes, Trent Boult's figures of 5-51 were extraordinary.\n\nFaced with pulling off the highest successful chase in an ODI in England, New Zealand were soon in disarray at 37-4, thanks chiefly to a three-wicket burst from Chris Woakes, who expertly used the movement on offer in an eight-over opening spell.\n\nGlenn Phillips battled to 72 to prolong the match, but after he was lbw on review to Liam Livingstone, New Zealand were hustled out for 187.\n\nEngland take a 2-1 lead in the series, which they can win with victory in the fourth and final match at Lord's on Friday.\n\nEven with a troublesome left knee that will restrict his World Cup involvement to batting only, it is Stokes' ability to play innings like these that made England so keen to have the Test captain as part of their title defence in India.\n\nNot only can he deliver in clutch moments such as the 2019 final or the 2022 T20 World Cup final, few can match Stokes for savage ball-striking when he finds the range he did on an overcast day at The Oval.\n\nEngland were in trouble after Jonny Bairstow fell to the first ball of the match and Joe Root dragged on, both off Boult, only for Stokes to respond in record-breaking fashion.\n\nIt was actually Malan who was the catalyst for England's recovery, the opener timing the ball sweetly square on both sides as Stokes struggled for fluency.\n\nOften hacking at the ball, Stokes did not score a run off the first six deliveries he faced and had only 12 from his first 18. It was the introduction of left-arm spinner Rachin Ravindra that jolted Stokes into life. Three sixes were hoisted over deep mid-wicket, Ravindra went for 28 from his only two overs and Stokes never looked back.\n\nScoring almost exclusively through the leg side, Stokes brought up his fourth ODI hundred and first since 2017 from 76 balls, his quickest in this format. Though he lost Malan, caught down the leg side on review off Boult, Stokes added 78 in 46 deliveries with captain Jos Buttler.\n\nStokes walloped off-spinner Phillips over cow corner to bring up his 150 and hit the same bowler into the second tier of the pavilion with a monstrous straight blow.\n\nThe left-hander brought up the record with his final maximum, hitting a full toss from the pace of Ben Lister over long-on. The Oval crowd did not appreciate the significance of the moment immediately, but responded with rapturous applause when Stokes' achievement was announced on the big screen.\n\nWith more than five overs of the innings remaining, Stokes had time to become the first England batter to reach 200 in an ODI.\n\nHowever, two balls after bettering Roy's mark, he miscued another Lister full toss and was caught at deep square leg by Will Young.\n\nAfter Robin Smith held the England ODI record for 23 years with 167 made in 1993, it has now been broken three times since 2016, first by Alex Hales, then Roy, now Stokes.\n\nThe highest score by a batter in an ODI is the 264 made by India's Rohit Sharma against Sri Lanka in Kolkata in 2014.\n\nFormer captain Charlotte Edwards holds the record for the highest score by an England woman in an ODI for her 173 not out against Ireland in 1997.\n\nStokes' pyrotechnics lit up what could have otherwise been a flat affair between two sides playing each other in a white-ball international for the seventh time in 15 days.\n\nNew Zealand fielded three players not even in their World Cup squad, while England have concerns over Roy, who again missed out with a back spasm. Harry Brook waits in the wings to replace Roy in a World Cup party that will be confirmed after Friday's game at Lord's.\n\nIn Roy's absence, Malan took advantage of being dropped on 31 by wicketkeeper Tom Latham. So often facing questions over his place in the England side, Malan pushed his career ODI average to 57.43, the fifth-highest of all-time for men who have played at least 20 innings.\n\nWhile Malan is in fine form, Root could do with a score - he has made only 10 runs in three innings in this series. England were also wasteful at the back end of their innings, from 336-4 in the 43rd over, they could have reached 400, though at halfway 368 seemed a big ask for New Zealand.\n\nSo it proved when Woakes, bowling a full length, got the new ball nibbling around. The nip-backer he produced to bowl left-hander Latham through the gate was sublime.\n\nThe contest was effectively over long before the floodlights started to take effect. After being punished by Stokes, Phillips at least salvaged something from his day, only to miss a half-tracker from Livingstone that was shown to be hitting the stumps.\n\nThat was the first of three wickets for Livingstone, who had Lister stumped to seal England's second-largest ODI victory over New Zealand in terms of runs.\n\n'I said sorry to Jason' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Jos Buttler to BBC's Test Match Special: \"We were tested losing two early wickets but it's exactly what I wanted us to do, take more risks, be more on the front foot.\n\n\"Stokes has played a few good ones, but that was amazing. To score the highest one-day score for England, it was amazing.\n\n\"I haven't seen as good new ball bowling in white-ball cricket for a while. Woakes and Topley were brilliant, it was a fantastic opening spell.\"\n\nEngland batter Ben Stokes: \"It's not as easy as coming back and playing. You definitely have much more time. It's just familiarising myself with the ebbs and flows of it and it's something I think I did well here.\n\n\"The bloke on the tannoy announced it just before I got out. I had no idea I had the record. Jason said well done and I said sorry to him.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Tom Latham: \"Stokes and Dawid were fantastic. We tried to change things up, but they countered everything.\n\n\"We did pull it back at the end of the innings but then we were 40-4, and we couldn't get any partnerships together.\n\n\"We were thoroughly outplayed - but we have a big opportunity to level the series at Lord's.\"\n• None Take a look behind the scenes at some of the most extraordinary hotels: From the ultimate in luxury to jaw-dropping locations", "Sir Keir Starmer is seeking a deal with Europol for a future Labour government, to try to stop gangs bringing people across the channel in small boats.\n\nThe Labour leader - who is in the Hague for talks with the EU agency - said smashing the gangs should be treated \"on a par\" with terrorism.\n\nAny migrant returns deal may require the UK accepting migrants from the EU.\n\nThe government claims a returns policy could lead to the UK taking \"100,000 illegal migrants\" every year.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on X, formerly known on Twitter, that Sir Keir would \"agree to make Britain the dumping ground for many of the millions of illegal migrants that Europe doesn't want\".\n\nSir Keir said it was \"embarrassing the government is pumping out this nonsense\" and that his discussions were focused on sharing information on people smuggling gangs to \"stop boats getting in the water in the first place\".\n\n\"It ought to be the UK government who decides who comes to the UK,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"But at the moment, because the government has lost control, it is those that are running the gangs that are putting people in boats to cross the channel.\n\n\"That's why I'm here at Europol saying how can we have a better agreement to share intelligence have joint operations to take these gangs down.\"\n\nHe also said that a Labour government would end the use of hotels for asylum seekers within 12 months of coming to office.\n\nIn a bid to clear the backlog of asylum cases, Labour has said it would recruit an additional 1,000 Home Office caseworkers, establish new asylum courts to speed up legal challenges and create a returns unit to accelerate the removal of failed asylum seekers.\n\nSir Keir told the BBC that \"everybody accepts\" the need for a new EU-wide returns agreement.\n\nThe Labour leader has suggested he may be willing to accept a quota of migrants in the UK in exchange for a deal. When pressed by reporters on Thursday morning, Sir Keir would not give a number of asylum seekers he would be happy to take in under a deal.\n\nLabour are \"not in a position to negotiate that, and that's not what I've been talking about today\", he added.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said a returns agreement based on proposed EU migration rules would mean \"Britain will be forced to take more than 100,000 illegal migrants from the safety of Europe each year, disregarding the will of the British people to cut numbers and stop the boats\".\n\nMr Jenrick said: \"Sir Keir is utterly unprepared to take the tough but necessary decisions to stop the boats, taking the easy way out which will not fix the problem. For all their political stunts, Labour remains the party of unlimited and uncontrolled immigration.\"\n\nThe 100,000 figure is based on proposed EU rules setting migrant quotas for member states based on population size and economic strength.\n\nBut Sir Keir said negotiations would not be bound by these rules since \"we are not a member of the EU\".\n\nDowning Street said accepting a quota of migrants from the EU was a red line in its ongoing negotiations for a returns agreement. The prime minister's spokesperson did not dismiss giving more money to the EU for a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK should make its own deal with the EU to send migrants back to their home countries.\n\nSir Keir denied that negotiating for closer co-operation with the EU was a weakening of his stance on Brexit, but said it was needed.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says \"stopping the boats\" is a key priority and passed a law earlier this year with that in mind.\n\nIn total, 45,755 migrants crossed the Channel in 2022, the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018. So far this year, 23,382 people have made the crossing, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe Labour leader hopes a Europol deal will include a replacement for the EU's live police data and intelligence-sharing system.\n\nLabour has already committed to abandon government plans to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda, and instead invest in more resources for the National Crime Agency, which carries out operations against traffickers.\n\nLabour's plans \"wouldn't even stop the boats\", Mr Jenrick has argued.\n\n\"The experience with Albania is you have to have a strong deterrent - that means you need a policy like our Rwanda plans,\" he said.\n\nLast year Albanians accounted for more than a quarter of the migrants who reached the UK in small boats. The number has fallen more than 90% since the government signed a returns deal with Albania in December.\n\nBrexit saw the end of the UK's seat on the board of Europol, and access to shared intelligence databases.\n\nThe agreement between the EU and the UK replaced some of the previous arrangements, including a new surrender agreement so that serious criminals can be moved between the two territories.\n\nThere was also a new agreement on the exchange of criminal record information, fingerprints, and number plate data.\n\nBut senior police have raised concerns that the EU's criminal database - the Schengen Information System (SIS II) - was a faster way of sharing police information than its post-Brexit replacement, known as I-24/7.\n\nThe government has committed to improving other shared databases in the coming years.", "Isambard-AI is set to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe\n\nA new supercomputer set to be one of the most powerful in Europe is to be built in a move to drive AI research in the UK, the government says.\n\nThe University of Bristol will host the new AI Research Resource (AIRR).\n\nThe machine will \"help researchers maximise the potential of AI\" and the safe use of the technology, according to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.\n\nIt will be named Isambard-AI after the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.\n\nBristol already plays host to cutting-edge computing technology, with the Isambard 3 supercomputer due to be installed later this year to support research in AI and machine learning.\n\nProf Simon McIntosh-Smith, senior lecturer of high performance computing at the University of Bristol, said: \"We're delighted to be chosen as the site to host the UK's first ever Artificial Intelligence Research Resource.\n\n\"Isambard-AI will be one of the world's first, large-scale, open AI supercomputers, and builds on our expertise designing and operating cutting-edge computational facilities, such as the incoming Isambard 3.\"\n\nBoth Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI will be based at the National Composites Centre, in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter.\n\nPlans for the AIRR were announced in March, backed by a £900m government investment to transform the UK's computing capacity and establish a dedicated AI Research Resource.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drinking water in Northern Ireland remains safe to drink despite concerns about the increased levels of blue-green algae over the summer months, NI Water has said.\n\nA number of outbreaks have been reported, many relating to Lough Neagh and the River Bann.\n\nNorth Antrim MP Ian Paisley said residents and businesses believed their water was \"unclean\".\n\nNI Water insisted taps could be used as normal.\n\n\"Increased levels of algae can cause an unusual taste and smell to water from your tap but does not pose a risk to health,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"The taste and smell can be earthy and/or musty. Therefore, while the water from your tap can be used in the normal way, we fully appreciate some customers might notice a difference in the taste and/or odour to their drinking water at this time.\"\n\nMr Paisley said he had contacted NI Water to investigate the cleanliness of drinking water after concerns were highlighted by constituents in Portglenone.\n\nNI Water said it carried out sampling on water quality 365 days a year, testing from customer homes, reservoirs and treatment plants.\n\nDuring the summer, a number of tourist spots, including beaches have been closed, with businesses warning they were being impacted by the presence of algal blooms.\n\nOn Wednesday, parts of the River Bann in County Antrim were closed to the public.\n\nFermanagh and Omagh District Council confirmed on Thursday that the waters at Lough Lea and Castle Caldwell contained blue-green algae.\n\nWarning signs have been put up to alert the public to exercise caution near waterways.\n\nThe bacteria can cause illness in humans and is particularly dangerous for pets.", "Female trainees described being sexually harassed, assaulted and in some cases raped by male colleagues\n\nA retired anaesthetist has faced backlash over \"disgusting\" comments about sexual harassment in the workplace.\n\nDr Peter Hilton from Pembrokeshire wrote a letter to The Times referring to a \"snowflake generation\" of young doctors who \"should toughen up\".\n\nIt comes as a new study found female NHS surgeons reported being sexually harassed, assaulted and raped.\n\nIt highlighted a pattern of trainees being abused by senior male surgeons.\n\nThe report, entitled Breaking the Silence, was written by the University of Exeter, the University of Surrey and the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery.\n\nThe Royal College of Anaesthetists called the research \"deeply shocking and concerning\".\n\nResponding to Dr Hilton's letter in The Times on Thursday, leading members of the organisation, including president Dr Fiona Donald and Welsh chairman Dr Simon Ford, said they were \"disgusted\" by his suggestion that such behaviour should be accepted.\n\n\"Sexual misconduct must not be tolerated in any workplace and people affected deserve compassion, justice and a commitment to zero tolerance from their employers and colleagues,\" they said.\n\n\"Attitudes such as Dr Hilton's do not represent the views of our members but do perhaps demonstrate why sexual misconduct is sadly so widespread within healthcare.\n\n\"It is vital we do everything we can to eradicate these attitudes and behaviours.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Association of Anaesthetists This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Association of Anaesthetists\n\nIn his letter on Wednesday, Dr Hilton, who previously worked at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, said the medical profession was \"brutal and demanding\".\n\n\"Bullying happens. Sexually inappropriate comments and actions do occur,\" he said.\n\n\"All I can say is that if they want to make a success of this rewarding career then they should toughen up. Perhaps four A*s at A-level are not the answer to all the problems they will face.\"\n\nThe letter was heavily criticised on social media and was described by some women doctors as \"odious\" and \"abhorrent\".\n\nA group of 55 consultants from Swansea Bay health board - some of whom worked with Dr Hilton - signed a letter calling his views \"repulsive\".\n\n\"Medical students are not selected solely on the basis of 4A*s at A-level, but a range of academic and non-academic measures - none of which include or imply acceptance of misogyny or sexual harassment,\" they said.\n\n\"Far from being snowflakes, our young doctors are lively, interested, savvy and dedicated to their careers. Expecting that they'll be treated with respect by their colleagues is the bare minimum, and we strongly support them in this demand.\n\n\"Dr Hilton's dismissal of bullying, sexism and sexual harassment as mere workplace inconveniences is out of step with the profession in the 21st Century.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rachel Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Hilton, who first qualified as a doctor at the University of London in 1976, gave up his registration in 2018.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board confirmed Dr Hilton no longer worked for the organisation and added \"his views are far removed from our values\".\n\n\"Our doctors in training are highly valued members of our teams and we want to support them to be the senior clinicians of the future,\" it said.\n\n\"Working in an environment which is safe, welcoming and mutually respectful is a basic right for everyone, and this is at the heart of our values as an organisation.\n\n\"We encourage any member of staff to speak up if they experience bullying or harassment, as this is not something we tolerate.\"", "The new 20mph speed limit for Wales' residential roads is \"insane\", according to a UK cabinet minister.\n\nCommons leader Penny Mordaunt called having such a limit as the default for many roads \"crazy\", but agreed there are places where 20mph is a good idea.\n\nMs Mordaunt went on to accuse Labour of \"punishing\" motorists.\n\nThe Welsh government says that cutting the speed from 30mph to 20mph on most residential roads would protect lives and save the Welsh NHS £92m a year.\n\nMost roads in Wales that are currently 30mph will become 20mph from Sunday, although councils have discretion to impose exemptions.\n\nLabour's First Minister Mark Drakeford has said it is the \"right thing to do\", citing a fall in urban road deaths in Spain after it made a similar change in 2019.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Conservative Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie said: \"The Labour government in Cardiff, supported by Plaid Cymru, will be introducing a blanket 20mph speed restriction in built-up areas across Wales from September 17.\n\n\"In many places - outside schools, outside hospitals - 20mph is appropriate.\n\n\"Does the leader of the house agree with many of my Ynys Môn constituents that this blanket approach will impact main roads and impact the Welsh economy?\n\n\"And will she make time for a debate on how we should be supporting the Welsh economy, not punishing it?\"\n\nMs Mordaunt replied: \"This is absolutely insane even by the standards of Labour's Welsh government.\n\n\"They have ignored businesses and they have ignored the public. They are pushing ahead with this scheme despite huge opposition to it and I think the latest estimate is it will cost the Welsh economy £4.5bn.\n\n\"But, more disturbingly, it is going to increase individuals' fuel bills considerably and actually be harmful to the environment.\n\n\"[Ms Crosbie] is right, there are circumstances where, of course, 20mph speed limits are a good idea, but having them as the default for many roads is crazy.\n\n\"Instead of punishing motorists, Labour should be focusing on fixing public transport, in particular the trains.\"\n\nPenny Mordaunt was answering Business Questions in the Commons\n\nExplaining the £4.5bn cost to the economy figure quoted by critics of the policy, the Welsh government writes on its website: \"Our assessment shows that reducing speeds to 20mph can result in an average increase of one minute per journey, nine lives saved and 98 serious injuries prevented each year.\n\n\"Before the law was passed, we produced an impact assessment that considered all the potential costs. This was included in the explanatory memorandum.\n\n\"It included the costs of any delays to travel time. The method used is now under academic debate for its effectiveness when calculating small delays.\n\n\"So the estimated cost to the economy of £4.5bn over 30 years may not be an accurate reflection of the true cost. The slightly longer travel time was the only negative economic impact identified.\n\n\"It is estimated that the casualty prevention savings, including the reduced impact on NHS and emergency services, could be up to £92m every year.\"\n\nWelsh Labour ministers dispute the suggestion that the speed limit reduction is a \"blanket\" policy, accusing Conservative politicians of making false claims because councils have imposed exemptions, meaning that the 30mph limit will stay on some urban roads on Sunday.\n\nDowning Street has ruled out introducing the 20mph speed limit in England.\n\nNo 10 was asked about the Welsh government's new law at the daily lobby briefing for journalists.\n\nAsked if Rishi Sunak would consider rolling out the 20mph law elsewhere in the UK as suggested by the road safety charity Brake, the prime minister's official spokesperson said: \"no\".\n\nPressed if the prime minister had a message for Wales as the new law comes into force on Sunday, the spokesperson added that the matter had not been discussed.\n\n\"That's a devolved issue so I think it's probably one for the Welsh government,\" he said.\n\nMark Drakeford has promised to review the impact of this major change to roads policy Wales, in conjunction with local authorities.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nShellfish diver Callum Gilbert said of this shot: \"Photo taken on route to Jura. The boat was surrounded by a pod of 50ish dancing dolphins.\"\n\nFiona Alexander captioned her submission to the gallery: A scenic drive north.\n\nWilliam Firth came across these sheep sheltering from hot weather at the Standing Stones of Stenness.\n\nNorval Strachan took this picture from Tayport. Norval said: \"The early morning mist retreated and the sun came out allowing me to take this picture of Pile lighthouse on the Tay estuary.\"\n\nJohn Quinn, of Motherwell, took this early morning view looking north over a Rannoch Moor taken from the summit of Stob a’Choire Odhair. John said: \"The very early start was worth it.\"\n\nAnne Murphy captioned her image Costa del Culross. Anne said: \"I took this at Bessies Café in Culross. Reminds me of little Spanish tapas bars.\"\n\nKevin McGonigle said of his picture: \"RAF Typhoon display jet Blackjack aka Anarchy 1 at the Ayr Air Show creating the fluffy stuff.\"\n\n\"Mountain biking at misty Kinnoull Hill,\" said Simon Law of this shot.\n\nDavid Carvel, of St Andrews, said this knitted post box decoration in Ceres made him smile.\n\nSamantha Leslie, of Loughborough, watched the sunrise from the Old Man of Storr in Skye.\n\nStephen Hollas sent in this picture taken from Carrick Beach, near Gatehouse of Fleet. Stephen, of Strathaven, said: \"We spent five days round this area and witnessed some fantastic sunsets, this one is no exception.\"\n\nIan Downie captured his picture of a gull and the Red Arrows from Ayr beach.\n\nFrances Hill's picture of her friend Penny. Frances said: \"We went paddleboarding at dawn in North Berwick and saw the sunrise over the Bass Rock.\"\n\nConor Marlborough, of Edinburgh, captured this scene from the top of Arthur's Seat. Conor said: \"I'm not sure if it is a cloud inversion - it was certainly a cool morning - or if it is a brief haar. Beautiful either way.\"\n\nGraham Christie's view over Gare Loch to Garelochhead and the Arrochar Alps.\n\nTatyana Georgieva, of Hamilton, took this image of foggy Muiryhall Street, Coatbridge. Tatyana said: \"Suddenly, you have the feeling of being lost in another time. It was very surreal.\"\n\nJim Sutherland, of Ormiston, said: \"Visiting my hometown of Lerwick in Shetland for the first time in seven years, I was surprised to see the town somewhat overshadowed by an enormous cruise ship.\"\n\nMichelle Law, of Fort William, said of her picture: \"An A400M Atlas flying low over Corpach in front of Ben Nevis.\"\n\nA picture from Sandra Nelson's holiday in Skye. She said: \"It’s a view towards the Cuillins from Torrin.\"\n\nThe Aurora Borealis seen from Balloch in a picture by Angela Fitzpatrick.\n\nJane Roberts' photo from next to her home in Scalpay.\n\nTim Crockett's view of Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran, taken while on his morning commute.\n\nChris Irwin took this picture of a sunrise at Lichen Caithness Reindeer Centre.\n\nLisa Stewart, of Edinburgh, submitted this entry to the gallery. Lisa said: \"My friends and I walked from Burntisland to Aberdour and back. Aberdour harbour looked fantastic in the September sunshine.\"\n\nDerek Townsend took his picture at Loch Creran Marina at sunset. Derek said: \"The colouring and reflection make it special, I think.\"\n\nGosia Karczewska captioned this image: Scottish Borders in the fog.\n\nSusan Welsh, of Tayport, said of her entry: \"Visiting Dunrobin Castle on a lovely sunny day.\"\n\nHugh Maxwell, of Darvel, travelled over to Glenbuck Loch near Muirkirk in Ayrshire to capture a sunrise. Hugh said: \"It was very cloudy but suddenly the sky burst into colour and the light also illuminated the hills. It was a wonderful moment that only lasted a few minutes.\"\n\nRoss Mackle, of Glasgow, snapped this sunset over Buachaille Etive Mòr.\n\n\"Just waiting on a bus,\" said Iona Bruce who spotted these afternoon would-be travellers at Pennyghael on the Isle of Mull.\n\nSusan Anderson said of her picture: \"The view from Raasay Distillery across to the mountains of Skye. The temperature inversion was so stunning.\"\n\nSteven Pirie said of his picture: \"It was a scorching day of weather considering the time of year, and found this at Fraserburgh beach. It reminded me of someone trying to keep their balance as they are about to claim Tiger Hill, which is on Fraserburgh beach.\"\n\n\"I thought the rust patina on this anchor and chain on the beach in Galmisdale Bay, Eigg was superb,\" says Paul Stainsby.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Two women arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil at Clapham Common two years ago had an emotional on-camera moment while speaking to the BBC.\n\nPatsy Stevenson and Dania Al-Obeid didn't realise they had met before police arrested them during the vigil, until they were both interviewed by the BBC's Lucy Manning.\n\nBoth took legal action against the Metropolitan Police over their arrests at the south London protest during Covid restrictions.\n\nA settlement has been reached and \"substantial\" damages paid, said the law firm representing the pair.", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif, 10, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after returning to the UK from Pakistan.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, were arrested at Gatwick Airport at around 19:45 BST after disembarking a flight from Dubai.\n\nPolice said three people were in custody and would be interviewed.\n\nSara's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nThe three adults, who lived with her, left the UK for Pakistan the day before police found Sara's body.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she had sustained multiple and extensive injuries.\n\nSara's mother, Olga Sharif, has been informed of the latest developments and is being supported by officers, Surrey Police said.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun newspaper following Wednesday's arrests, she said: \"It is a huge relief and something I didn't think would happen this quickly.\n\n\"I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders but there is still a long way to go before I feel closure,\" she added.\n\nSurrey police force described the investigation as \"extremely fast-moving, challenging and complex\".\n\nThe flight landed at London Gatwick just before 19:30 BST on Wednesday evening, five weeks after the trio left the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA group of people - thought to be police officers - could be seen boarding the plane. Two police cars and three vans later left the terminal with blue lights flashing.\n\nSara's father, his wife and his brother had flown to Dubai from an airport at Sialkot, in the Punjab province, early on Wednesday morning.\n\nPolice in Pakistan said the three travelled of their own free will.\n\nSara's five siblings - aged between one and 13 - who travelled with the three adults to Pakistan remain in a government care facility in the country.\n\nThey were found at Mr Sharif's father's home in Jhelum, north-eastern Pakistan, on Monday.\n\nA travel agent in Woking told the BBC they were contacted by Mr Sharif looking to book one-way tickets to Pakistan as soon as possible at around 22:00 BST on 8 August - two days before Sara was found.\n\nShortly after landing in Islamabad on 10 August, Mr Sharif contacted emergency services in the UK, which led Surrey Police to the family home and Sara's body.\n\nAn international search was launched via Interpol for the trio of adults, with police in Pakistan trying to locate them on behalf of detectives in Surrey.\n\nMr Sharif and Ms Batool released a video statement last week in which Ms Batool said they had gone into hiding in Pakistan over fears police in the country would \"torture or kill\" them.\n\nThey also claimed members of their family had been harassed, and that they were willing to co-operate with the UK authorities.\n\nMr Sharif did not speak in the video, while Ms Batool read from a notebook. It was the first time they had publicly commented since Sara's death.\n\nMuhammad Sharif, Sara's grandfather, told the BBC the five children had been staying at his house in Jhelum since their arrival on 10 August.\n\nThey were moved to a government childcare facility following a court hearing in Pakistan on Tuesday, although the court did not state how long they should be kept there for.\n\nA solicitor claiming to represent Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik said his firm was contacted by Ms Batool while she was in Pakistan.\n\n\"We got in touch with the police here, we got in touch with various travel agents and long story short they've arrived,\" Attiq Malik from Liberty Law Solicitors said.\n\n\"The next step really is to resolve matters using the rule of law and see what happens next.\"\n\nMr Malik added the process of questioning the trio has begun.\n\n9 August - Mr Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik travel to Islamabad with Sara's five siblings\n\n10 August - The group arrive in Pakistan. Surrey Police find Sara's body in Woking\n\nThe three adults and five children are thought to have gone to the city of Jhelum where they stayed for a few days\n\n15 August - Pakistan gets a request from Interpol to find them but they are unable to locate them\n\n6 September - A video of Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool is sent to the BBC. Mr Sharif does not speak in it but Ms Batool describes Sara's death as an \"incident\" and says they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities\n\n9 September - Two men buy plane tickets for Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik to return to the UK from Sialkot\n\n11 September - Police in Pakistan locate the five children at Mr Sharif's father's house in Jhelum\n\n12 September - The five children are sent to a government-run care facility after a court hearing\n\n13 September - Sara's father, his wife and his brother leave Pakistan for the UK, travelling via Dubai. Their flight to London Gatwick lands just before 19:30 BST, five weeks after the trio left the UK\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his wife Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, are arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after disembarking the plane", "A shortage of air traffic controllers has caused more delays at Gatwick\n\nFlights at Gatwick Airport were cancelled, delayed or diverted at short notice on Thursday due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.\n\nGatwick confirmed 22 cancellations as of 22:00 BST, while the website FlightRadar24 said hundreds of flights in and out of the airport were delayed.\n\nThe National Air Traffic Services (Nats) apologised for its staffing shortages.\n\nGatwick Airport said it expected a normal service on Friday.\n\nThe disruption comes just over two weeks after a technical issue at Nats led to 2,000 flights being cancelled across the UK.\n\nEasyJet expressed frustration at Thursday's delays and cancellations, while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary called on Nats' boss to resign.\n\nMr O'Leary said: \"It is unacceptable that more flights and hundreds of passengers are suffering delays to/from Gatwick Airport due to Nats CEO, Martin Rolfe's blatant failure to adequately staff UK ATC.\n\n\"Airlines are paying millions of pounds to Nats each and every year and should not have to see their passengers suffer avoidable delays due to UK ATC staff shortages.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary called on the chief executive of Nats to resign over the latest disruption\n\nLaura Neary, 29, had her flight from Gatwick to Dublin diverted to London Stansted instead - which she had to travel to by coach.\n\n\"I don't even know if I can get back to Dublin tonight,\" Ms Neary said.\n\nPaul Treloar, who planned on landing at Gatwick airport on Thursday, posted on social media: \"It's now four hours later and our flight from Samos has been diverted to Bournemouth. Can you give us any idea if/when we're likely to be able to land at Gatwick this evening?\"\n\nMike Reed, another traveller, wrote on social media that he had been in Bari, Italy, \"sat on hot plane for 'up to an hour'\"\n\n\"The situation at Gatwick is unacceptable,\" Julia Lo Blue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership, said.\n\nShe explained that the disruption has \"huge financial implications\" for the sector, as well as causing \"havoc for travellers\".\n\nIn a statement Gatwick Airport said: \"Nats are a world-class provider of air traffic services and London Gatwick's senior management recognises how hard the airport's air traffic controllers are working to keep the operation moving.\n\n\"We are working closely with Nats to build resilience in the airport's control tower to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.\"\n\nNats apologised to people who had been inconvenienced, adding: \"Airlines operating at London Gatwick were aware of the situation when Nats was appointed, but that does not dilute the apology we offer sincerely to them and their passengers who have been inconvenienced by recent disruption.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nIs your flight one of those cancelled? Have you been delayed flying to or from Gatwick? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A protest was held after Child Q was strip-searched at school\n\nThree Metropolitan Police officers are to face gross misconduct hearings over the strip-search of a black schoolgirl.\n\nChild Q, 15, was wrongly accused of having drugs and strip-searched on her period, with no appropriate adult present, in Hackney, in December 2020.\n\nMet bosses have been told by the police watchdog they should consider formally apologising to Child Q and her mother.\n\nAllegations against the officers include that Child Q was discriminated against because of her race and sex.\n\nOther allegations they face are that the decision to carry out the search was inappropriate, there was no appropriate adult present and the officers did not get authorisation from a supervisor.\n\nIf gross misconduct is proved, the officers could be sacked.\n\nA fourth Met officer will face a disciplinary meeting over the fact that no appropriate adult was present during the search.\n\nDuring the incident, the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by two female Met police officers who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nThe girl's intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, according to a safeguarding review of the incident published in March 2022.\n\nThe strip-search of Child Q was not an isolated case, it was found\n\nSteve Noonan, director of the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said the officers should face \"disciplinary proceedings\" for the parts they played.\n\nHe added: \"Ultimately it will be for that disciplinary panel to decide whether the allegations against them are proven.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt James Conway, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said he was formally writing to Child Q and her family to apologise for the \"trauma\" caused to her.\n\nHe said: \"We have been clear in saying that the experience of Child Q should never have happened and was truly regrettable.\n\n\"It will now be for the hearing panel to determine whether the matters against the three officers are proven and it is important we don't pre-judge the outcome.\"\n\nHe said that more senior levels of authorisation are now needed for strip-searches, and that the number of such searches being carried out has been reduced because the force \"had been overusing this power\".\n\nThe IOPC added it was calling for a \"substantial review of policing powers\" relating to child strip-searches.\n\nThe watchdog said it was part of \"learning recommendations\" being made to the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and the College of Policing to make changes to national guidance, policy and training relating to searches involving the exposure of intimate body parts.\n\nThe recommendations follow independent investigations into multiple incidents in which children have been strip searched by the Met Police.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A celebrity chef's restaurant in Padstow has come under fire after hiking the cost of its condiments.\n\nSome customers ordering mayonnaise, tartar sauce or mushy peas were \"disappointed\" by having to pay £2 at Stein's Fish & Chips in Cornwall.\n\nA spokeswoman for Stein's blamed \"skyrocketing costs\" including food, energy and wage bills for the higher prices seen by diners.\n\nFood price inflation has eased, but still stood at 14.9% in July.\n\nRick Stein's restaurant group, which owns a number of businesses in Cornwall and across the UK, charges £2 for condiments and dips in its Padstow chip shop to sit in.\n\nHaddock and chips or cod and chips cost £16.95 in the restaurant.\n\nThe restaurant group said it had held prices steady since 2020, but had put them up recently due to soaring prices.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our homemade condiments using Rick Stein's special recipes are prepared in Padstow by our team of chefs.\n\n\"Food inflation, energy costs, along with rising wages, have driven up the cost of production significantly.\n\n\"We have reluctantly, along with many others, had to pass on some of the costs to our customers,\" she added.\n\nHowever, mixed in with a number of good reviews, some customers said they were \"very disappointed\" by the charges on the TripAdvisor website.\n\nCustomers at Stein's Fish & Chips in Cornwall have complained about the high prices of condiments\n\n\"So disappointed with the meal,\" one wrote. \"The haddock was amazing... let down by serving frozen chips and having to pay £2 for the tiniest pot of mushy peas believable.\"\n\nAnother customer said in April that their meal was \"very disappointing\".\n\n\"When we paid the bill we discovered that the tiny pot of mushy peas was £2 extra, as was the tartar sauce as was the curry sauce. Unfortunately I don't think we will be returning!\"\n\nOne user wrote in in April: \"On top of the £16 for cod and chips, you were expected to pay an additional £2 for condiments such as tartar sauce or mayo... We are regular visitors to Padstow and will not be eating here again.\"\n\nFood prices have been higher in recent months while production costs have been on the up, with higher energy bills and restricted supply of grain from Ukraine after Russia's invasion.\n\nCrop failures and reduced harvests linked to climate change also mean some supplies may be restricted, pushing some prices up.\n\nFood price rises have had a serious impact on people in the UK, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nNearly half of adults reported buying less food in the last two weeks due to higher prices, the ONS said on 8 September.\n\nAnd one in 20 people said that in the two weeks prior to 1 May they had run out of food and had been unable to afford more.\n\nIn July, inflation for sauces and condiments stood at 28.4% according to official figures, down from 34% in June and 35.1% in May.\n\nHave you been to a restaurant with similar charges? Tell us your story by emailing us at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last year, Stormont departments overspent by £300m - money which the government says must be repaid\n\nTrade unions are calling on the UK government to write-off Stormont's budget overspend.\n\nThey have also asked for the creation of a dedicated fund for \"real transformation\" of public services.\n\nLast year, Stormont departments overspent by £300m - money which the government says must be repaid.\n\nThe Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) said enforcing the debt will not be learning exercise for governance in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt added that the idea is \"not grounded in reality\".\n\nStormont officials have warned of another looming overspend in the absence of a minister to make big decisions.\n\nICTU said last year's overspend was largely about \"inescapable pressures\" such as pay awards, rather than new funding commitments.\n\nIt says the overspend should be forgiven as the first of four steps to creating \"sustainable public finances\".\n\nThe organisation acknowledges that some reforms to public services are necessary but warns they will be doomed to failure if they are not supported with dedicated investment.\n\n\"If we are serious about putting Northern Ireland's public finances on a sounder footing, then there needs to be a realistic assessment of what can be achieved through public sector reform and a credible way of bringing such reforms about,\" it said.\n\nICTU is recommending a fund which would sit outside the normal budget process\n\nICTU is recommending a fund which would sit outside the normal budget process and would involve departments submitting bids for specific reform projects.\n\nIt says this would allow the UK Treasury to be assured such funds were not being used merely to prop up existing services while also providing a route out of the current path of public expenditure for the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nThe UK government has recently asked the Northern Ireland Civil Service to provide advice on measures that could generate public revenue in Northern Ireland, or otherwise improve the sustainability of public finances.\n\nA Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said: \"It is the government's expectation that a returning executive will consider the same information and use this to make the necessary decisions to put Northern Ireland's public finances on a sustainable footing and pave the way for improved public services.\n\n\"If this does not happen in a timely manner, it is the government's intention then to direct a series of public consultations which will give the public and all interested parties an opportunity to consider the range of options being examined and to feed in their views.\"\n\nICTU says that in the medium term the devolution funding system, known as the Barnett formula should be reformed.\n\nThe Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations have a large part of their budgets dictated by the formula.\n\nUnder it, extra funding for England has an affect on the other nations, dependent on their population size and the powers devolved to them.\n\nEarlier this year the independent NI Fiscal Council (NIFC) warned that the way the formula works is eroding Northern Ireland's budget premium.\n\nThe NIFC concluded that public spending per head in Northern Ireland needs to be 24% higher than in England to deliver comparable public services.\n\nIt calculated that spending per head in Northern Ireland is currently 23% higher than England.\n\nBut it warned that under the current public spending model that premium will fall to 20% by the end of this decade.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has also be pressing for changes to the formula.\n\nThe party's deputy leader, Gavin Robinson, has said that unless there is a \"total recalibration of how Northern Ireland is funded\" the situation will \"only get worse\".", "Jayne Hoyle, manager of the service, says people who ring the hotline are often \"in extreme distress\"\n\nEngland's only NHS helpline for coming off antidepressants is to close, after the health service withdrew funding.\n\nIn March, NHS England said local health services should support people struggling to come off these drugs.\n\nBut the closure of the Bristol Tranquilliser Project will leave no nationwide services, its head says.\n\nThe local NHS says there are, \"other existing services in place,\" and that the project was only designed to serve the Bristol area.\n\nNHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB), which funds local health services, said the project was not commissioned to be a national helpline. It will close at the end of September.\n\nMore than eight million adults in the country took an antidepressant last year. And despite its name, the Bristol Tranquilliser Project (BTP) takes calls from people around the country.\n\nWhile it also helps people taking sleeping pills and other prescription medication, half of its work is with people struggling with symptoms from reducing their dose of an antidepressant.\n\nManager of the project, Jayne Hoyle, says by the time people come to her service, they are often \"in extreme distress\". They may have seen their GP and been referred to specialists for testing, she says.\n\n\"The first thing they experience is relief, because we say 'this is withdrawal from your medication...this is what you need to do'.\"\n\nWithdrawal can happen when you stop a drug that your body has become used to.\n\nTaking that drug away too quickly, before the brain has had time to adjust, can lead to symptoms including low mood and feelings of anxiety, as well as physical symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue and shaking, many of which can mimic other illnesses.\n\nOfficial guidance for doctors now recommends that people reduce the dose of their medication in stages, but it does not specify how long it should take.\n\nMrs Hoyle believes many GPs are still telling people to come off the drugs too quickly. And volunteers and clients say BTP ended up acting as a national helpline, because of a lack of other support available.\n\nAngela Clayton says suffering withdrawal symptoms can be \"very frightening\"\n\nIt took Angela Clayton more than 18 months to feel her normal self after she stopped taking antidepressants. She was helped by BTP in 2001, and went on to volunteer for the service.\n\nShe developed nausea, fatigue, severe feelings of anxiety and depressive symptoms when she stopped her medication in one go. She says withdrawal \"makes you feel like you're going mad\".\n\n\"It's frightening, very frightening. I needed recognition from someone who knew what they were talking about.\"\n\nSince then, she's worked with hundreds of clients and says their experiences mirror her own, two decades ago - including the fact they've often been unable to get the information they need until they found their way to the helpline.\n\nStuart Bryan was one of those helped more recently. When he tried to come off his antidepressant, he developed symptoms he'd never had from the conditions he took the drug for.\n\n\"I was never once told about any possible withdrawal issues. If I'd been told that, I would have had a different approach to it all,\" Stuart says. \"I was pretty shocked to hear about the Bristol Tranquilliser Project closing down. They were keeping people alive.\"\n\nLuke Montagu is a member of a cross-party group in Parliament that has been campaigning for a national helpline to support people going through withdrawal from prescription medications.\n\nHe says it is \"astonishing\" the health service does not already have a service to support those people. \"There is now much greater awareness of the problem,\" he says. \"And yet the government is still failing to fund and implement these services adequately.\"\n\nA document published by NHS England in March, said services should be provided to support people going through withdrawal from prescription medication, including antidepressants.\n\nBut one of the local board's reasons for withdrawing funding was that it had identified \"other existing services that deliver an equivalent or enhanced level of provision\". The BBC understands they were referring to a service that focuses on painkillers and sleeping pills, but not antidepressants.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has just rejected a submission to fund a national helpline, the BBC understands.\n\nA DHSC spokesperson said the government was, \"committed to supporting people with their mental health,\" and had invested \"an additional £2.3 billion\" annually until 2024. But they did not comment on services for antidepressant withdrawal in particular.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action line.\n\nWatch: The Antidepressant Story on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nPanorama examines whether the current generation of antidepressant drugs have lived up to their promises, following patients who have suffered serious side effects.", "Steelworkers want clarity over whether the UK government will invest £500m into Tata Steel\n\nSteelworkers have said reports of potential job losses in Port Talbot were \"frightening\" and called for certainty about a deal to decarbonise.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds met steelworkers after reports the UK government could offer £500m to Tata Steel to help it reach net zero.\n\nMr Reynolds said it seemed ministers were \"spending half a billion pounds to make 3,000 people unemployed\".\n\nTata Steel UK said it was \"fully committed to meaningful consultation\".\n\nThe UK government has also been asked to comment.\n\nA UK government announcement is expected on Friday about the amount of money it is willing to spend to help Tata Steel modernise its operations across the UK.\n\nAlan Coombs, a member of the Community union, said workers had \"not been part of any discussions\" in Port Talbot.\n\n\"We don't know the scope of things, how big, how small it is going to be.\n\n\"We have heard some things in the press.\n\n\"Some of it is quite frightening, to be honest with you - but we have got to wait until we get the official statement from Tata and they present something to us.\n\n\"They haven't presented anything to any unions at this point in time.\"\n\nThe Financial Times and Sky News reported a deal to fund the decarbonisation of Tata Steel UK's operations was imminent, and said that the UK government would contribute £500m towards the plan.\n\nThe Financial Times and Sky News have reported that a deal to fund the decarbonisation of Tata Steel UK's operations was imminent\n\nBut they warned the changes would include long-term job losses of about 3,000 workers across the UK.\n\nMr Reynolds said it was important that workers got certainty about the future.\n\n\"What I am extremely alarmed about is that first of all the workers here have been promised, as recently as a fortnight ago, that they would be integral to any transition plans, that they would be a part of that process but they have been kept completely in the dark. That is unacceptable,\" Mr Reynolds said.\n\nHe added: \"But I am also worried, if the reports are true, that the UK Conservative government is proposing spending half a billion pounds to make 3,000 people unemployed.\n\n\"We want green steel but there are ways to do that. And there are ways to do that which makes it an incredibly positive story for the UK. But we are not getting that at the minute.\n\n\"People will know that the technology that is being proposed, if the reports are true, fundamentally limits the products that can be made here in Port Talbot.\n\n\"There are huge repercussions for that, there are huge repercussions for the existing order book let alone the future.\"\n\nMP Stephen Kinnock says Tata should explore all options\n\nMP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock said Tata should explore all options, rather than commit to electric arc furnaces.\n\n\"[Electric arc alone] seems to me to be a very short-sighted approach.\n\n\"They should be looking at all kinds of different options, not just electric arc furnaces but also direct reduced iron, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage so that we can protect the order book, keep all of those jobs, and also move towards a cleaner, greener way of making steel.\"\n\nCommunity union national officer Alun Davies said he was \"gutted\" by the reported proposals that may mean 3,000 job losses.\n\n\"I don't even want to think about that, to be honest. I have a lot of friends in there, a lot of friends who rely on it as a well-paid job.\"\n\nSteelworkers held a rally before the meeting on Thursday\n\nResponding to reports that Tata and the UK government could announce a deal as soon as Friday Mr Davies said: \"If this is correct, then Tata should have really told us what we are expecting.\n\n\"These conversations should have happened a while ago.\n\nGary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union said the deal \"will have devastating consequences for jobs and workers\", adding: \"It will rip the heart out of the Port Talbot community.\"\n\nHe said the union has been calling for investment for years but accused the government of not listening, which he said meant \"thousands of workers, their families and communities will pay the price\".\n\nDr Simon Cran-McGreehin, head of analysis at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), said: \"The government may be trying to do the right thing here, but if this deal leads to 3,000 job losses it can't be right.\"\n\nHe said jobs could be protected by manufacturing hydrogen-based steel and having arc furnaces that recycle used steel.\n\n\"We have been talking to them about decarbonisation for two or three years and have always been told they would consult with us fully, which is why this is such a shock.\"\n\nA UK government source told the BBC that any deal would be \"hugely significant\". They added Tata's UK business had been making losses for years, and the alternative would be 8,000 jobs lost with over 12,000 in supply chain at risk.\n\nIn a statement, Tata said: \"Tata Steel is fully committed to meaningful consultation and due process as soon as practicable with our stakeholders, including trade union partners and employee representatives, prior to decision making on relevant proposals including those relating to decarbonisation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eurozone interest rates have been hiked to a record high by the European Central Bank (ECB).\n\nThe bank raised its key rate for the 10th time in a row, to 4% from 3.75%, as it warned inflation was \"expected to remain too high for too long\".\n\nThe latest increase came after forecasts predicted inflation, which is the rate prices rise at, would be 5.6% on average in 2023.\n\nBut the ECB signalled that Thursday's hike could be the last for now.\n\n\"The governing council considers that the key ECB interest rates have reached levels that, maintained for a sufficiently long duration, will make a substantial contribution to the timely return of inflation to the target,\" the bank said.\n\nIt added that it expected inflation in the 20-nation bloc to fall to around 2.9% next year and 2.2% in 2025.\n\nAs in other parts of the world, the eurozone has been hit by rising food and energy prices that have squeezed household budgets.\n\nCentral banks have been increasing interest rates in an attempt to slow rising prices.\n\nThe theory behind increasing rates is that by making it more expensive for people to borrow money, they will then have less excess cash to spend, meaning households will buy fewer things and then price rises will ease. But it is a balancing act as raising rates too aggressively could cause a recession.\n\nInterest rates in the UK are currently higher than in the eurozone at 5.25%, but UK inflation is also higher at 6.8%, and the Bank of England is expected to raise rates again next week.\n\nThe ECB said it was determined to see inflation fall to its 2% target in a \"timely manner\".\n\nHowever, policymakers admitted they had lowered their economic growth projections for the bloc \"significantly\" due to the impact of higher rates.\n\nEconomists at Pantheon Macroeconomics said the ECB's communication around its latest decision was a \"clear indication\" that rates would not rise further.\n\n\"We now see a high bar for anything other than a holding operation in the October and December meetings,\" they said.\n\n\"Looking further ahead, we still see a narrow window for rate cuts next year, though there is no way that you can get the ECB to even contemplate that scenario at this point.\"\n\nECB president Christine Lagarde did not rule out further rate rises, but said the \"focus is going to move, going forwards, to the duration, but that is not to say - because we can't say that now - that we are at peak\".\n\nIn June, revised figures showed the eurozone fell into recession last winter. Revised data from Germany - Europe's largest economy - contributed to the economic slump.\n\nA recession is generally defined as when an economy shrinks for two three-month periods, or quarters, in a row. A contracting economy can be bad news for businesses and result in job losses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two rival governments in Libya are co-ordinating relief efforts for flood victims, the UN has said.\n\nMore than 5,300 people died after two dam bursts brought devastating floods to the eastern city of Derna.\n\nDerna's mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi said that number could reach as high as 20,000, based on the extent of the area of the city that was destroyed.\n\nAnother official from Tobruk-based eastern government said the sea was \"constantly dumping dozens of bodies\".\n\n\"The estimated the number of deaths in the city could reach between 18,000 to 20,000, based on the number of buildings in the districts destroyed by the flood,\" Mr Ghaithi told the Saudi-owned television station Al Arabiya.\n\n\"We actually need teams specialised in recovering bodies. I fear that the city will be infected with an epidemic due to the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water,\" Mr Ghaithi added.\n\nAt least 10,000 people are missing and tens of thousands more have been displaced.\n\nHichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that runs eastern Libya, told Reuters that the number of casualties could increase significantly as the \"sea is constantly dumping dozens of bodies\".\n\n\"The fear is that the total number will be even higher because there's so many people who are unaccounted for, they have not contacted their relatives, their phones are dead and we don't know if they are still under the rubble or if they are dead or if they are in the sea,\" said Guma El-Gamaty, a Libyan academic and head of the Taghyeer Party.\n\nOfficials have asked for more international help.\n\nA UN official said that both the eastern and western governments had requested international aid and were talking to each other.\n\n\"Both governments have reached out to the international community requesting services and help,\" Tauhid Pasha, of the International Organisation for Migration, told BBC Radio 4's the World Tonight programme.\n\n\"The Government of National Unity [western government] has extended its support to us and its request on behalf of the entire country and they are also co-ordinating with the government in the east,\" he said.\n\n\"The challenge now is the international community responding accordingly to the needs and the requests of the governments,\" he added.\n\nMr Pasha said support needed to be scaled up \"very, very quickly and to do so we need money\" for the city, whose pre-flood population was about 90,000.\n\nThe Libyan state began to fracture after the fall of long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.\n\nIt split between two rival administrations based in the capital Tripoli in the west and Tobruk in the east.\n\nThe country remains mired in conflict between numerous militias.\n\nPrime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah leads the UN-backed Government of National Unity in Tripoli.\n\nOsama Hamad, the prime minister in the east, leads the rival House of Representatives.\n\nHowever, many feel power there is really held by Gen Khalifa Haftar, who leads the Libyan National Army,\n\nGen Haftar received an Egyptian military delegation which came to offer aid and support after the disaster.\n\nUN High Commissioner on Human Rights Volker Turk stressed that all political groups had to work together in the aftermath of the floods.\n\n\"This is a time for unity of purpose,\" he said.\n\n\"All those affected must receive support without regard for any affiliations. It is important that particular care is taken to ensure protection of groups in vulnerable situations who are rendered even more at risk in the aftermath of such a disaster.\"\n\nAbdulkader Assad, political editor of the Libya Observer, said having an internationally recognised government in the west rivalled by another government in the east had hindered rescue efforts.\n\n\"We all know that Libya has been split between two governments for the last decade at least and we haven't actually felt the impact of this division because the presence of two governments was all about vying for power and taking control of the country and parts of the country,\" he said.\n\n\"But now that some of the cities are experiencing this natural disaster, this calamity, we could see that the lack of a unified centralised government is actually affecting the lives of people.\"\n\nLibyan rescue teams searching for survivors in Derna are being supported on the ground by:\n\nTommaso Della Longa, spokesman for the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said time to find survivors was running out.\n\n\"We know that unfortunately this window will close in the next hours but hope is still there,\" he said.\n\nLibyan Red Crescent teams in the field, he said, described the disaster as like \"a bombardment and earthquake... happening at the same time\".\n\n\"What they are telling us are really stories of entire areas of the city are not any more there, villages that are completely destroyed and thousands of families that at the moment really need everything,\" Mr Della Longa added.\n\nTurkey sent three aircraft to transport a rescue team and aid to Libya\n\nUsama Al Husadi, 52, has been searching for his wife and five children since the catastrophic flood hit.\n\n\"I went by foot searching for them... I went to all hospitals and schools but no luck,\" he told Reuters news agency as he wept with his head in his hands.\n\n\"We lost at least 50 members from my father's family, between missing and dead,\" he said.\n\nThe bodies of more than 80 Egyptian migrants killed in the flood were returned to Egypt, the country's emigration ministry said, and were buried in their respective towns.", "Pupil support staff are among those who have voted for industrial action\n\nTwo unions have rejected the latest pay offer for school janitors and pupil support staff in Scotland's schools.\n\nCouncil body Cosla said the two-part offer would give workers at least a £1,929 increase in annual salary by 1 January 2024.\n\nStrikes are due to take place in a fortnight that could close three out of four schools.\n\nThe Unison union said Cosla had until 20 September to \"significantly improve\" the offer and prevent walkouts.\n\nGMB Scotland dismissed the latest offer as \"far too little, far too late\" to avoid the upcoming strikes.\n\nThe other major council union, Unite, is still to respond to the new pay offer.\n\nCosla insisted \"the simple fact of the matter\" was that there was no more money available for pay without real cuts to jobs and services.\n\nThe proposed strikes on 26, 27 and 28 September will also involve catering and cleaning staff in schools and early years centres.\n\nCosla said the latest offer would have seen the lowest paid local government workers receiving a 21% pay increase in two years.\n\nIt added that it would cost councils just under £500m.\n\nUnison said the offer \"contains no improvement whatsoever to the one presented to us in April and which members have already rejected\".\n\nUnion spokesman Mark Ferguson said: \"Cosla have not approached, and continue to refuse to approach, the Scottish government for additional funding to make a meaningful improvement to the pay offer.\n\n\"Given the state of local authority budgets we believe this to be a dereliction of the duty to stand up for local government and fight for the funding needed to both properly reward the local government workforce and keep our public services running.\"\n\nHe added: \"The strike mandate we have is the strongest show of strength by our members in decades - their resolve to fight for the decent pay rise they, and all their colleagues across local government, so richly deserve is clear.\"\n\nGMB Scotland, which represents more than 21,000 workers across Scotland's 32 councils, said that \"after a long, frustrating process\" its members were left with no choice but to go ahead with strike action.\n\nSpokesman Keir Greenaway said: \"This offer, like the previous offer, does not come close to maintaining the value of their wages as prices rise. It is far too little and far too late.\n\n\"Why should local authority workers in Scotland be offered less than in England? Why should they be asked to accept the unacceptable?\"\n\nCosla's resources spokesperson Katie Hagmann said: \"Whichever way you cut it, this is a very strong offer in the financial climate we find ourselves. We have a duty to ensure that services are sustainable within the funding for pay we have available.\n\n\"I am disappointed with today's rejection. However, we will continue to engage as positively as we can with the trade unions as strike action is in nobody's interests.\"\n\nUnison and the GMB's decisions mean the threat of a three-day strike which could cause widespread school closures remains very real.\n\nThe other big council union - Unite - is still to respond to the new pay offer but is widely expected to reject it too.\n\nBut is any further improvement in the pay offer possible?\n\nBecause any new offer has to be affordable to all 32 councils, it would seem unlikely that they would be able to fund any further improvements out of their existing resources.\n\nThe unions are probably looking to the Scottish government to provide extra resources to help councils. It has already indicated that there will be no more money this year to help councils with pay.\n\nBut will this position hold?\n\nThe first minister is proud of the fact there have been no strikes in the NHS in Scotland this year - the threat of a pay strike by junior doctors was averted. Will they now step in to help avoid a strike in schools or will councils have to find the solution themselves?", "Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has quit as chair of a Commons committee, following criticism over his comments on Afghanistan.\n\nThe former defence minister was criticised in July for saying the country had been \"transformed\" under the Taliban's rule.\n\nHe was facing a potential no-confidence vote from fellow MPs on the defence select committee.\n\nBut he has now stood down as chair and will no longer sit on the committee.\n\nA source familiar with the situation said the Bournemouth East MP had resigned before he was \"pushed\".\n\nMr Ellwood initially defended his comments, saying stability in the country was on a \"different level\" than during times of conflict.\n\nBut he later apologised, saying he had \"got it wrong\" with his remarks, which he had posted on social media during a trip to Helmand province.\n\nIn the social media clip, the MP claimed \"war-weary\" Afghanistan was now \"accepting a more authoritarian leadership in exchange for stability\".\n\nHe also called for the UK to re-engage with the Taliban government and for Kabul's British embassy to reopen, and said \"shouting from afar will not improve women's rights\".\n\nHe put out a tweet with the video saying that security was vastly improved, corruption reduced and the opium trade \"ended\" - although he qualified this in video by saying the trade had \"all but disappeared\".\n\nA BBC investigation earlier this year found a ban on opium cultivation introduced in April 2022 had resulted in a huge fall in poppy production in major opium-growing provinces, with one expert saying annual cultivation could be 80% down on last year.\n\nIn 2022, cultivation had been up 32% on 2021, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\n\nThe MP's comments sparked a backlash from human rights campaigners, women's groups and MPs, including his some of Conservative colleagues on the cross-party defence committee.\n\nTory MPs Mark Francois and Richard Drax had joined Labour's Kevan Jones and Derek Twigg in submitting a no-confidence motion in him.\n\nIn a resignation statement, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Ellwood said he believed he retained the support of the \"majority\" of the committee, but that without the backing of \"all in the room\" it would prove a distraction.\n\nHe added: \"I believe I have a strong voice when it comes to defence and security. I stand up, speak my mind, try to see the bigger picture and offer solutions, especially on the international stage, as our world turns a dangerous corner.\n\n\"I don't always get it right - so it's right I put my hand up when I don't. Poor communications, during the summer, in calling for greater international engagement in Afghanistan was understandably criticised at the time and reflected poorly on the committee.\"\n\nHe said he was \"proud of the hard-hitting inquiries\" the committee had produced and described leading its scrutiny as a \"huge privilege\".\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper told Sky News: \"I saw the video and I don't think it reflected what I know about Afghanistan and the way women are treated in that country.\"", "Frank Ospina was detained in the UK in March - he died in an immigration centre later that month\n\nThe family of a Colombian man who is believed to have killed himself at a Heathrow immigration removal centre say he begged for help and was willing to leave the UK.\n\nFrank Ospina died within a month of being detained, while he was waiting to be deported. His family say he had no existing mental health problems.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating conditions inside immigration centres, at a time when the government is taking a harder line on migrants. Documents shared with us show mounting strain on detainees.\n\nWe have also uncovered new details about an incident in which a group of detainees tried to kill themselves in the days following Mr Ospina's death.\n\nIt comes ahead of the publication of a report, due next week, into abusive behaviour by staff at the Brook House facility, a centre near Gatwick. A public inquiry was launched following a landmark undercover BBC Panorama investigation, in 2017.\n\nWarning: This article contains discussion of suicide\n\nImmigration removal centres are facilities where people refused the right to stay in the UK can be held, together with foreign nationals who have served prison sentences and are awaiting deportation. Detainees who are refused bail remain locked up until they can be put on a plane to leave the country.\n\nThe BBC has been given internal documents from inside the immigration system obtained by two organisations, the human rights journalism unit Liberty Investigates, and the charity, Medical Justice.\n\nThe documents suggest there is growing frustration among those being held at immigration centres because of delays to the resolution of their cases, which are in turn having a negative impact on detainees' mental health.\n\nFrank Ospina, 39, a Colombian engineering graduate, came to the UK in late 2022 to visit his mother, who had settled here, and to visit prospective universities.\n\nHaving decided to instead enrol on a master's course in Spain, which was due to begin in May, his family say he took a short-term job washing dishes. But as a foreign national Mr Ospina did not have the right to work in the UK.\n\nHe was arrested in an immigration raid, and taken to the Heathrow detention centres.\n\nFrank Ospina was arrested after taking temporary catering work while visiting his mother in the UK - after he was detained his family say his mental health went downhill rapidly.\n\nFollowing his detention on 3 March this year, his mental health deteriorated rapidly, according to his sister, Tatiana Rios Ospina, and brother-in-law, Julian Llano, who live in Chile.\n\n\"My brother was a civil engineer who graduated from the best public university in Colombia,\" Ms Rios Ospina told the BBC. \"He was hard-working and very intelligent. They took him to the limit of sanity.\"\n\n\"He kept insisting that he felt very bad, mentally, that he needed to get out of there,\" Mr Llano says. \"He didn't ask for help - he begged for help, not only to us, but also to the people there.\"\n\nAfter two weeks, Mr Ospina's mother visited. She found him struggling to communicate, and in a \"weak mental state\". Ms Rios Ospina also called her brother, who was allowed a phone. He was \"weird\" and unable to finish sentences, she says.\n\nOn 21 March, Mr Ospina called the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees. The adviser who spoke to him says he was prepared to be removed from the UK under a voluntary return scheme and was not trying to avoid deportation.\n\nTatiana and Julian are bewildered by Frank's death in a UK immigration removal centre - but they are sure he wasn't an asylum seeker.\n\nHe was put on \"constant watch\", his family say, in a cell with a window at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, one of two at Heathrow Airport.\n\nWhen a desperately worried Ms Rios Ospina called again, she begged her brother to think of his family and of what he had to lose.\n\nThe family received the devastating news that Mr Ospina had died during the night of 25 March. His mother was later told this was his second attempt at suicide.\n\n\"They put pressure on him by saying he was going to stay there, while Frank was asking to be released,\" Mr Llano says. \"He said he could pay his ticket out - we could pay - but they said he would stay there for months.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of Mr Ospina.\n\n\"The welfare of all those in our care is of the utmost importance. Any death in immigration detention is a tragic event and will be subject to investigation by the police, the coroner, and the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.\"\n\nIt will be for the coroner to establish how Mr Ospina died.\n\nOn 26 March, detainees at Heathrow were informed of Mr Ospina's death by a flyer slipped under the doors of their rooms. Two days later, at around 10.30am, a protest began.\n\nBBC News has been given internal \"use of force\" statements, made by custody officers working at the Harmondsworth centre on 28 March, which describe how between three and six detainees tried to kill themselves simultaneously.\n\nThis is how events unfolded according to the officers who dealt with it. We have omitted some details as the statements include descriptions of methods of suicide:\n\nOFFICER A: It was \"madness. Residents were tying things to railings and trying to jump.\"\n\nOFFICER B: \"There were about five of them that were attempting to climb over the barriers on level 2.\"\n\n\"All of a sudden another resident put one leg over the barrier. I immediately grabbed him to deter him...\"\n\nOFFICER C: At 1040 hrs an \"all out station\" was announced over the custody officer's radios to attend one wing of the centre.\n\nOFFICER A: \"I was placed in a headlock by a resident... A number of hits to my back and head.\"\n\nOFFICER D: The mood was \"highly charged and volatile\".\n\nMitie, the firm contracted by the Home Office to operate the centre, said no detainees made it past safety barriers, or were able to harm themselves.\n\nA detainee who is in close contact with those involved told the BBC it was a \"mixture of attempted suicide and protest\", in which three or four people were intent on taking their own lives. He believes the chaotic immigration removal system is primarily to blame for levels of stress and unrest in the Heathrow immigration centres.\n\n\"The people who want to go, they won't give a ticket to,\" he says. \"The ones who don't want to go, they are trying to deport.\"\n\nHarmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre is Europe's largest detention facility and can hold up to 676 adult males.\n\nThere have been riots, protests and suicides at removal centres for decades, but there is concern among immigration charities that things will get worse. Ministers want to control immigration into the UK, recognising it as a priority for many voters.\n\nNew laws will mean more migrants who come from \"safe countries\" or used \"deception\" to enter the UK - including on small boats - will be removed automatically. The government insists the UK will \"continue to support those in genuine need\" by committing to resettle the most vulnerable in the UK.\n\nBut the Home Office sees immigration removal centres as essential to tackling illegal immigration and despite guidance that detention should be temporary, the number of people locked up is expected to grow.\n\nThe charity Medical Justice has been warning for years that vulnerable people in detention, already potentially traumatised by the places they have escaped, are deteriorating in removal centres. The organisation visits detainees to carry out medical examinations, often in support of applications for them to be released, which are sometimes cited in court.\n\nMedical Justice has given the BBC the results of assessments it carried out on 66 detainees, between June 2022 and March 2023. The assessments found:\n\nDr Rachel Bingham, from Medical Justice, blamed the \"prison-like\" atmosphere of detention centres. When responding to mental health concerns, she said staff sometimes use the same techniques as prison officers.\n\n\"Put them in a cell, put them with somebody watching them, or frequent intrusive checks which are not by health professionals,\" Dr Bingham says. \"So the process designed to manage distress can actually increase it.\"\n\nBut unlike most prisoners, she says immigration detainees often have no idea when they will be released. \"The indefinite nature of detention can result in a crisis in their mental health.\"\n\nAnother former detainee, Ali, not his real name, says he was kept in his cell and handcuffed, even while going to pick up food.\n\nIn June 2022, he was one of seven people due to be removed from the UK on the inaugural flight of asylum seekers to be flown to Rwanda. The flight was aborted at the last minute following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. Ali now wants to return to France.\n\nIn other countries, he says \"they will fingerprint you, then they will give you a document asking you to leave the country. Not detain you for months\".\n\nHe adds: \"I haven't seen it anywhere in the world. Yet Great Britain is supposed to be the greatest country in the world.\"\n\nMitie said detainees were only restrained if they were at risk of harming themselves, or others, and it didn't believe any were handcuffed for an extended period.\n\nA deportation flight scheduled to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute after intervention from the European Court of Human Rights in June 2022.\n\nUnder detention centre Rule 35, staff must complete a report on detainees who are \"injuriously affected\" by being held, along with those who have suicidal intentions or have been tortured.\n\nThat should trigger a review of whether someone should be detained.\n\nLast year, the Home Office warned immigration staff that they should be taking a more proactive approach to filing these reports.\n\nHome Office officials say concerns about mental health can be raised at any point and official statistics suggest that in the last two years the number of Rule 35 reports has increased.\n\nBut Medical Justice say that of 66 cases it reviewed, only five had received a Rule 35 report, including just three of the 13 who had attempted suicide.\n\nAn inquest, expected in the coming months, will examine the circumstances of Frank Ospina's death. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is also investigating.\n\n\"Nobody should have to go through this again,\" Mr Llano says. \"There should be a security protocol, when a person who becomes mentally unstable, they should be treated automatically, by suitable people, in suitable centres. Not in detention.\"\n\nThe government has recognised there are increased demands for healthcare at Heathrow and says it is employing more doctors and nurses.\n\nThe most detailed examination of the state of detention centres is expected from the report of the Brook House Inquiry, due on 19 September.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, details of organisations offering advice and support can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 5,300 people are believed to have died after floods in the Libyan city of Derna, an official has said.\n\n\"The sea is constantly dumping dozens of bodies,\" Hisham Chkiouat, a minister in Libya's eastern administration said.\n\nThere have been desperate calls for more humanitarian support as victims lie wrapped in body bags and others have been buried in mass graves.\n\nA tsunami-like river of floodwater swept through Derna on Sunday after a dam burst during Storm Daniel.\n\nRescue teams are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the hope of finding survivors - but hope is waning and the death toll is still expected to rise further.\n\nOfficials say at least 10,000 people are missing, while 30,000 people are estimated to have been displaced, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said on Wednesday.\n\nMorgues and hospitals have been overwhelmed with bodies.\n\nLibyan doctor Najib Tarhoni, who has been working in a hospital near Derna, said more help is needed.\n\n\"I have friends in the hospital here who have lost most of their families ... they've lost everyone,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\n\"We just need people who understand the situation - logistic help, dogs that can actually smell people and get them from under the ground. We just need the humanitarian help, people who actually know what they are doing.\"\n\nThere is also an urgent need for specialised forensic and rescue teams and others who specialise in recovering bodies, the head of the Libyan doctors' union Mohammed al-Ghoush told Turkish media.\n\nMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said an emergency team will arrive in Derna on Thursday \"to assess medical needs and donate emergency medical kits to care for the wounded and body bags to the Libyan Red Crescent\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStreets are covered in mud and rubble, and are littered with upturned vehicles.\n\nMr Chkiouat, a local official, said some areas of Derna have \"vanished, completely disappeared\".\n\n\"So imagine a residential area has been destroyed completely, you cannot see it, it's not existing anymore.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like this before. It's by all means a tsunami.\"\n\nTaha Muftah, a photojournalist in Derna, said experts had raised the alarm about the dam since 2011 \"but nobody did anything about it\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Newshour programme that the dam collapse sounded \"like an air strike\".\n\n\"The water now has stopped and what is left is only the rubble, and the people who were taken by the flood are under the water,\" he said.\n\nA number of elite footballers have died, according to the Libya Football Federation (LFF).\n\nIt released the names of four players who were killed: Shaheen Al-Jamil, Monder Sadaqa and brothers Saleh Sasi and Ayoub Sasi.\n\nPeople walk between the rubble in Derna\n\nThe cities of Soussa, Al-Marj and Misrata were also affected by Sunday's storm.\n\nLibya has been in political chaos since long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 - leaving the oil-rich nation effectively split with an interim, internationally recognised government operating from the capital, Tripoli, and another one in the east.\n\nBut despite the split, the government in Tripoli has sent medical supplies, body bags, doctors and paramedics.", "Sir George Hamilton left his role as PSNI chief constable in 2019\n\nA former PSNI chief constable has said the service is \"crying out for leadership\" and that a key Policing Board decision was making things worse.\n\nSir George Hamilton said it was \"painful to watch\" the ongoing leadership crisis within the PSNI.\n\nSimon Byrne resigned earlier this month after a number of controversies.\n\nSir George said a decision by the Policing Board not to appoint a formal interim or acting chief constable showed a \"failure of leadership\".\n\nMr Byrne had succeeded Sir George as chief constable in 2019.\n\nThe Policing Board, which oversees the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton would \"exercise all the functions of the chief constable\" until a successor is appointed.\n\n\"This fudge that the policing board have come up with is actually exacerbating the leadership deficit at the top of the PSNI,\" he told BBC NI's The View.\n\n\"There are thousands of officers and staff there who want to be led and they need to know who the figurehead is and that is important to put somebody in place even in an interim period who has the ability and confidence of the organisation to take it forward through this crisis.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the PSNI confirmed Mr Hamilton remained absent from work following a medical procedure.\n\nDay-to-day leadership is in the hands of the PSNI senior executive team in his absence, a police spokesperson said.\n\nMr Byrne resigned last week, four years after he was appointed to Northern Ireland's top policing job.\n\nIn a statement, he said it was \"now time for someone new to lead this proud and resolute organisation\".\n\nSimon Byrne succeeded Sir George Hamilton as the PSNI chief constable in 2019\n\nPressure had been mounting on Mr Byrne following a number of controversies.\n\nA court last month ruled two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined following an arrest at a Troubles commemoration in February 2021.\n\nThe event was marking the anniversary of the 1992 Sean Graham bookmakers attack in south Belfast where five people were murdered and nine others injured by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nThe judge said the officers were disciplined to allay any threat of Sinn Féin abandoning its support for policing in Northern Ireland.\n\nBefore his resignation, Mr Byrne said he was considering an appeal against the ruling.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton was placed in temporary command until a new chief constable is in post\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) Policing Board member Trevor Clarke said problems with the PSNI's leadership were inherited by the former chief constable.\n\n\"These are not new within the organisation and those are some of the things that we're trying to resolve now... with picking a new chief constable,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nMr Clarke said the board did not rush the decision not to introduce an interim leader, and based it on legal and HR advice.\n\n\"Let's not lose the fact the process has started, that the new chief constable will be appointed in November,\" he added.\n\n\"To suggest that we can bring in someone in the interim is a difficult position or prospect for anyone at this moment.\"\n\nResponding to comments made by Sir George, Mr Clarke said \"George isn't in receipt of the full facts, and maybe if he was he would come to a different determination\".\n\nHe added that the board is \"working around the clock\" to bring in fresh leadership to move the organisation forward.\n\nLast month, a number of data breaches came to light, including one where the names and details of the PSNI's 10,000 officers and civilian staff were published in error as part of a Freedom of Information request.\n\nMr Byrne later said the information was in the hands of dissident republicans, who could use the list to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nSome of the information included the rank or grade of employees, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nMPs were told earlier this month that the PSNI data breach could cost the service up to £240m in extra security for officers and potential legal action.\n\nWhen asked if he had been put under political pressure during his time as chief constable Sir George said he \"welcomed engagement from senior political figures\".\n\n\"I don't think politicians advocating for a certain position is this issue here, it's how the senior executive police leadership team respond to that,\" he added.\n\n\"The chief constable should not have been allowing himself to be influenced operationally.\n\n\"There is a difference between taking peoples perspective and building that into the decision making and actually jumping straight to placate someone.\"\n\nYou can watch the exclusive interview with Sir George Hamilton on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe interview is also available on the Red Lines podcast on BBC Sounds.", "The Derna flooding death toll could reach 20,000 according to the city's mayor.\n\nEntire neighbourhoods disappeared into the sea as a huge tsunami-like torrent of water swept the port city in eastern Libya.\n\nSurvivors described the situation as \"beyond catastrophic\".\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nBBC Verify and the BBC's Visual Journalism team have been analysing some of the reasons why the floods caused such catastrophic damage in Derna.\n\nThe water was brought by Storm Daniel which hit Libya on Sunday.\n\nThe storm - a Mediterranean hurricane-like system known as a medicane - brought more than 400mm of rain to parts of the north-east coast within a 24-hour period.\n\nThat is an extraordinary deluge of water for a region which usually sees about 1.5mm throughout the whole of September.\n\nLibya's National Meteorological Centre says it is a new rainfall record.\n\nSatellite data shows the extent of some of the rainfall across the region - although in many places the amount recorded on the ground was higher.\n\nIt's too early to attribute with certainty the severity of this storm to rising global temperatures.\n\nHowever, climate change is thought to be increasing the frequency of the strongest medicanes.\n\nProf Liz Stephens, an expert in climate risks and resilience at Reading University in the UK, says scientists are confident that climate change is supercharging the rainfall associated with such storms.\n\nThe Wadi Derna river runs from Libya's inland mountains, through the city of Derna and into the Mediterranean.\n\nIt is dry for much of the year, but the unusually heavy rain overwhelmed two crucial dams and destroyed several bridges.\n\nResidents of the city, who had been ordered by the local authorities to stay in their homes, reported hearing a loud blast before the city was engulfed in water.\n\n\"The dams would have held back the water initially, with their failure potentially releasing all the water in one go.\n\n\"The debris caught up in the floodwaters would have added to the destructive power,\" says Prof Stephens.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe upper dam had a storage capacity of 1.5 million cubic metres of water, whilst the lower dam could hold 22.5 million cubic metres.\n\nEach cubic metre of water weighs about one tonne (1,000kg), so 1.5 million cubic metres of water would weigh 1.5 million tonnes.\n\nCombine that weight with moving downhill, and it can produce enormous power. Witnesses have said that the waters were nearly three metres in places.\n\nIt is estimated that six inches (20cm) of fast moving flood-water is enough to knock someone off their feet, and 2ft (60cm) is enough to float a car. So it is no surprise that whole buildings were taken out in the flood.\n\nExperts say it's too early to know whether the extreme rainfall was simply too much for the dams to handle, or whether the condition of the structures also played a role.\n\nBased on their observations, the dams are likely to be made from dumped and compacted soil or rocks, which is not as strong as concrete.\n\n\"These dams are susceptible to overtopping [when water exceeds a dam's capacity], and while concrete dams can survive overtopping, rockfill dams usually cannot,\" says Exeter University's Prof Dragan Savic, an expert in hydraulic engineering in the UK.\n\nIt appears that the upper dam failed first, according to structural engineer Andrew Barr.\n\nHe says the water then probably flowed down the rocky river valley towards the lower dam before overwhelming it, resulting in the sudden and catastrophic flooding of the city which lies trapped between mountains and the sea.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nA research paper published last year on the hydrology of the Wadi Derna Basin highlighted that the area \"has a high potential for flood risk\", on the basis of likely historical flood volumes, and that the dams \"needed periodic maintenance\".\n\nThe report, by civil engineering expert Abdelwanees AR Ashoor from Libya's University of Omar Al-Mukhtar, said that \"the current situation in the Derna valley basin requires officials to take immediate measures, carrying out regular maintenance of the existing dams, because in the event of a huge flood, the result will be disastrous for the residents of the valley and the city\".\n\n‏Several experts have highlighted the possible role that the political instability in Libya has played in the upkeep of the dam.\n\nAs rescue efforts in the city continue, Libyan journalist Johr Ali, who has spoken to survivors in the city, told the BBC: \"People are hearing the cries of babies underground, they don't know how to get to them.\n\n\"People are using shovels to get the bodies from underneath the ground, they are using their own hands. They all say it's like doomsday.\"\n\nProduced by Chris Clayton, Mike Hills, Paul Sargeant, Tural Ahmedzade, Kady Wardell, Gerry Fletcher, Filipa Silverio and Erwan Rivault. Additional reporting: Mark Poynting, Peter Mwai, Alex Murray, and Esme Stallard.", "Police were attacked with petrol bombs, rocks and masonry following three searches in Londonderry last Thursday\n\nOne of Northern Ireland's most senior police officers has said some officers in Londonderry questioned the timing and planning of house searches which led to disorder last week.\n\nSixteen officers were injured during rioting in Creggan on 7 September which involved children as young as eight.\n\nPetrol bombs, rocks and steel poles were thrown for hours.\n\nSome officers sustained burns, head injuries and potential fractures which meant some had to be taken to hospital.\n\nCash, handguns, grenades, ammunition and plastic explosives were found during the police searches and the police said the New IRA was a line of inquiry.\n\n\"Some officers raised queries about the timing and planning for Thursday's policing operation,\" said Assistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton.\n\nBut he added that officers then \"accepted that these were spontaneous events and that the outcome demonstrated the very real need for police to act quickly and decisively\".\n\nWhen asked how many officers remained off work, a PSNI spokesperson said no further comment would be made.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bobby Singleton met officers from Derry City and Strabane on Friday\n\nThe assistant chief constable visited Derry last Friday following a report to The Nolan Show that some police officers didn't have confidence in the senior leadership in Derry and Strabane.\n\nACC Singleton told BBC News NI: \"Having had the opportunity to speak with Derry City and Strabane officers first hand, I got no sense that there is an appetite for a vote of no confidence in their local leadership.\n\n\"Local Police Federation representatives and the local leadership team have strong working relationships and engage regularly.\"\n\nChair of Northern Ireland's Police Federation Liam Kelly said a number of officers are still recovering from their injuries\n\nChair of Northern Ireland's Police Federation Liam Kelly told BBC News NI: \"Some officers, bearing the brunt of the onslaught, have expressed they would have preferred earlier approval to deploy measures to afford them greater protection from petrol-bombers and those throwing masonry.\n\n\"In the post-incident analysis of what happened, we will be looking at health and safety implications and engaging with senior management to see what lessons can be learned.\n\n\"Unfortunately a number of officers are still recovering from injuries they sustained in serious disorder in Derry.\n\n\"Officers came under sustained attack from rioters attempting to interfere with successful police searches which yielded the recovery of arms and explosives.\n\n\"Under an intense and brutal barrage, officers showed remarkable restraint and professionalism.\"\n\nRegarding confidence in senior PSNI leadership in Derry and Strabane, Mr Kelly said: \"As things stand there is no suggestion whatsoever of a vote of no confidence.\n\n\"However, understandably that is not to say that all officers involved in this incident were wholly satisfied with the circumstances that led to them sustaining personal injury.\"", "France is the latest country to tackle the rise in popularity of e-cigarettes among young people\n\nFrance is set to ban disposable e-cigarettes - known locally as \"puffs\" - because of the danger they pose to the environment and public health.\n\nSpeaking recently on RTL radio, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said the measure was part of a new anti-smoking plan being drawn up by the government. It should be in force by the end of the year, campaigners said.\n\nSeveral other countries in Europe, including Germany, Belgium and Ireland, have announced similar bans. The UK is also said to be considering one.\n\nSold over the counter by tobacconists, disposable vapes in France cost around €9 (£7.70) - less than a packet of 20 cigarettes. They are supposed to offer around 600 puffs - the rough equivalent of 40 cigarettes.\n\nBut France's National Academy of Medicine described them as a \"particularly sly trap for children and adolescents\".\n\nAccording to Élisabeth Borne, \"they create a reflex, a gesture, which children get used to, and then end up being drawn to tobacco\".\n\nCampaigners accuse manufacturers - many based in China - of deliberately targeting teenagers, using bright colours and a range of flavours reminiscent of the sweet shop, for example marshmallow, chocolate and hazelnut, watermelon, and ice candy.\n\nIt's become an epidemic. It is terrible how the tobacco industry has set out to hook children\n\nAccording to the Alliance Against Tobacco (ACT), 13% of 13-16-year-olds have tried \"puffs\" at least once. Most say they started around the ages of 11 or 12.\n\n\"[The ban] is a great victory for civil society. These disposable e-cigarettes are acting as a gateway to smoking for young people,\" says ACT president Loïc Josseran.\n\n\"It's become an epidemic. It is terrible how the tobacco industry has set out to hook children.\"\n\nSam, a 16-year-old Paris schoolboy, said he began smoking disposable e-cigarettes two years ago, shortly after they first appeared in France.\n\n\"They were talking about it a lot on TikTok. It was like a trend. And I thought, yeah why not?\n\n\"They're colourful, and in my head they are not as dangerous as tobacco. My favourites are iced grape and apricot. I guess if the ban goes ahead, I will start buying regular vapes.\"\n\nCampaigners say vape manufacturers deliberately target children by offering fruity flavours and vibrant colours\n\nIn theory it is not possible to buy \"puffs\" if you are under the age of 18, but Sam said it was easy to evade the restriction. According to ACT, tobacconists systematically refrain from asking for proof of age.\n\nCampaigners have also highlighted the ecological damage caused by disposable e-cigarettes. In the UK, a study last year by the environmental organisation Material Focus found that more than one million devices were being thrown out every week.\n\n\"It's an environmental plague,\" a group of French doctors and environmentalists wrote in Le Monde newspaper earlier this year.\n\nThey said each disposable e-cigarette was made of plastic and contained a non-removable battery with around 0.15 grams of lithium, as well as nicotine salts and traces of heavy metals.", "Martha Mills was enjoying her summer holidays before she had an accident\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay says he will explore the plea of bereaved parents who want the introduction of \"Martha's rule\" to make it easier for patients to receive an urgent second medical opinion in hospital.\n\nMartha Mills died after failures in her treatment at King's College Hospital.\n\nMartha's mother, Merope, has spoken exclusively to the BBC on what would have been her daughter's 16th birthday.\n\nAn inquest said Martha could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMartha was on a family holiday in Wales in 2021, cycling on a flat and \"family friendly\" path, when she slipped on to the handle bars of her bike, with her abdomen taking the full brunt of the fall.\n\nThe force pushed one of her internal organs, her pancreas, against her spine, causing significant damage.\n\nShe later developed a complication called sepsis - when the body's response to an infection is overwhelming and ends up injuring its own tissues and organs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Martha Mills' mother, Merope, shares her struggle with her loss\n\nMartha's mother, Merope, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her family were not listened to by senior doctors on several occasions during her hospital care and were \"not given the full picture\" about Martha's deteriorating condition - leaving them unable to speak up for better treatment.\n\nMerope recalled: \"She started bleeding out of the tube in her arm... and one in her abdomen as well.\n\n\"It was a lot of blood as well, you know, soaking her sheets, and at night, we had to keep changing them.\n\n\"The doctors just told us it was a normal side effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off.\"\n\nBut Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold.\n\nMartha wondered about becoming an author, an engineer or a film director\n\nThe hospital that looked after Martha has admitted mistakes were made and the trust said in a statement that it \"remains deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\".\n\nMartha had further worrying signs of sepsis, including a rash that was mistaken for an allergic reaction, but it was after Martha had a fit in her mother's arms that she was finally transferred to intensive care.\n\nMerope told the BBC: \"The thing that I find most unforgivable, is that they left her so long, she knew she was going to die.\n\n\"She lay in bed and she said to me it feels like it's unfixable.\"\n\nBy this point \"it was too late for them to do anything and a day later, she was dead\".\n\nMerope wants hospitals around the country to bring in \"Martha's rule\", which would give parents, carers and patients the right to call for an urgent second clinical opinion from other experts at the same hospital if they have concerns about their current care.\n\nMr Barclay told the House of Commons he had now asked colleagues to explore the idea.\n\n\"Martha's rule would be similar to the Queensland system called 'Ryan's rule' - it's a three-step process that allows patients or their families to review a clinical review of their case from a doctor or a nurse if their condition is deteriorating or not improving as expected.\n\n\"Ryan's rule has saved lives in Queensland, and I've asked my department and the NHS to look into whether similar measures could improve patient safety here in the UK.\"\n\nKing's College Hospital said it had put several measures in place since Martha's death, including sepsis training for all clinical staff looking after children.\n\nNew hospital guidelines recommend the \"escalation of a child's care in those cases where we are unable to provide sufficient reassurance to parents\".\n\nAnd the trust has introduced a specially trained team to review seriously unwell children on wards.", "Princess Diana first wore the sheep jumper to a polo match in 1981\n\nPrincess Diana's sweater featuring a black sheep among rows of white ones has sold for $1.14 million (£920,000) at an auction by Sotheby's in New York.\n\nBidding opened 31 August, and the top bid stayed under $200,000 (£161,000) until the auction's final minutes.\n\nSotheby's had estimated the value of the \"sheep jumper\" at $50,000 to $80,000 (£40,300 to £64,500).\n\nIt did not disclose the identity of the winning bidder.\n\nThe simple piece of knitwear, which was unearthed in an attic in March, commanded a higher price than many other objects tied to the \"People's Princess\" that were sold at auctions in recent years.\n\nDiana's car, a Ford Escort, may be the closest, going for $806,000 (£650,000) in 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The story of how Diana's iconic sweater was lost...and found again.\n\nThe amethyst-bedecked Attallah Cross that Diana frequently wore was sold to reality star Kim Kardashian for roughly one-fifth of the sweater's amount - $203,000 (£163,800) - at an auction in January.\n\nThe sweater's design is often described as symbolic of Diana's place within the royal family.\n\nBut fashion historians believe Diana was not sending a message, as she may have done in later years with her famous \"revenge dress\", when she wore the sweater in 1981, a month before her wedding to then Prince Charles. Instead, many say Diana was simply sporting the \"Sloane Ranger\" style she helped popularise.\n\nIn the era before social-media influencers, newspaper photos of Diana in the sweater gave its maker, Warm and Wonderful knitwear, a \"stratospheric launch\" and inspired copycat designs, according to Sotheby's.\n\nShortly after her marriage, Buckingham Palace wrote to Warm and Wonderful that the sweater had been damaged and sought a repair or replacement. Princess Diana then wore the replacement to another polo match in 1983.\n\nSotheby's included the letter to Warm and Wonderful as well as a thank-you note for the replacement in the auction lot. It also used the sweater's small hole to confirm authenticity.", "A man has been arrested after violence broke out at the site of the demolished Crooked House.\n\nOfficers were called after a man and woman who had been assaulted got into a car and hit a woman as they tried to leave on Saturday night.\n\nThe pair then drove away but contacted police about what happened.\n\nA 57-year-old man from West Bromwich was held on suspicion of assault and criminal damage. He has been released on bail while inquiries continue.\n\nAnother man, aged in his 40s, from the Sandwell area, was voluntarily interviewed about what happened, Staffordshire Police added.\n\nThe Himley Road site has been a centre for several protests and gatherings since the legendary sloping pub was destroyed in an arson attack and demolished without full permission.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was demolished less than two days after the fire\n\nCampaigners devastated at its demise named the site Camp Wonky but tensions boiled over at the weekend, witnesses said.\n\nThe woman who was hit by the car was not seriously hurt while the woman who was in the car was taken to hospital but later discharged.\n\nDetectives were still speaking to people involved and continuing investigations in the area, the force said.\n\nThree people have been arrested on suspicion of arson following the fire at the Crooked House.\n\nThe pub, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July.\n\nSouth Staffordshire Council has said matters have been referred to its legal team with the view of taking enforcement action.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tim Gurner speaking at the property summit earlier this week\n\nOne of Australia's richest men has apologised after he said that unemployment should jump to remind arrogant workers of their place.\n\n\"We need to see pain in the economy,\" Tim Gurner had said.\n\nBut Mr Gurner said later that he \"deeply\" regretted the comments, which sparked a global backlash.\n\nHe has previously made headlines by suggesting young people cannot afford homes because they spend too much on avocado toast.\n\nVideo of his comments has gone viral, attracting over 23 million views and strong criticism online.\n\nSpeaking during a property summit this week, the 41-year-old said the Covid-19 pandemic had changed employees' attitudes and work ethics for the worse - singling out builders as an example.\n\nThe gym-owner-turned-real-estate-mogul claimed that shift is hitting productivity in the sector, which - combined with tougher regulations - is fuelling Australia's housing shortage.\n\nHe proposed the country's current unemployment rate of 3.7% should rise by 40-50% to reduce \"arrogance in the employment market\". That would see more than 200,000 people lose their jobs.\n\n\"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them,\" Mr Gurner said.\n\n\"We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around.\"\n\nBut later, Mr Gurner said in a post on LinkedIn that he had \"made some remarks about unemployment and productivity in Australia that I deeply regret and were wrong\".\n\nHe said there were \"important conversations to have in this environment of high inflation, pricing pressures on housing and rentals due to a lack of supply, and other cost of living issues\".\n\nHe said his comments were \"deeply insensitive\" to employees, tradespeople, and families \"across Australia\" who are affected by cost of living pressures and job losses.\n\nMr Gurner added that he appreciated that the loss of a job \"has a profound impact\" on workers \"and I sincerely regret that my words did not convey empathy for those in that situation\".\n\nMr Gurner's backtrack on his remarks come at a time when many companies are tussling with staff over issues such as remote work and pay.\n\nShifting attitudes toward employment are also a matter of widespread discussion on social media, giving rise to hashtags like \"quiet quitting\", a term meant to capture the decision to stop going above and beyond for bosses; and \"lazy-girl jobs\", which refers to well paying, flexible positions that offer greater work-life balance.\n\nMr Gurner's earlier comments, which were shared by the Australian Financial Review (AFR) which hosted the summit, drew criticism on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and LinkedIn.\n\nThey were also condemned by Australian MPs from across the political divide. Labor MP Jerome Laxale said they were \"comments you'd associate with a cartoon supervillain\", while Liberal MP Keith Wolahan said they \"could not be more out of touch\".\n\n\"The loss of a job is not a number. It sees people on the streets and dependent upon food banks,\" Mr Wolahan told the AFR.\n\nUS lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also criticised the property mogul.\n\n\"Reminder that major CEOs have skyrocketed their own pay so much that the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay is now at some of the highest levels ever recorded,\" she wrote on X.\n\nBut others - like Minerals Council of Australia chairman Andrew Michelmore - had defended him.\n\n\"Employees have got used to earning the same amount of money but not putting in the same hours,\" Mr Michelmore told the AFR.\n\nMr Gurner is the chief executive and founder of Gurner Group and has an estimated worth of A$929 million (£479m; $598m).\n\nHe has previously spoken about how loans from his grandfather and former boss helped him get his start as a business owner.\n\nMr Gurner also previously made controversial comments criticising young home buyers for their spending habits, saying in 2017 that when he was saving for his first home, he \"wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each\".\n\nThis generated a flurry of debate, and prompted the BBC to ask: how many pieces of avocado toast would it actually take to afford deposit on a home?\n\nIt turned out that in London at the time, buyers would have needed to forego 24,499 avocado toasts.", "The government has refused to guarantee the future of the HS2 rail line between Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson instead suggested that ministers would need to balance the interests of \"passengers and taxpayers\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met on Wednesday and discussed the HS2 project.\n\nTheir primary concerns are said to be over spiralling costs and delays to the project.\n\n\"Spades are already in the ground on our HS2 programme and we're focused on delivering it,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Sunak was committed to the line going to Manchester, the spokesman did not confirm whether it would, saying: \"We are committed to HS2, to the project.\"\n\nHowever, No 10 did confirm that ministers were looking at \"rephasing\" the project, hinting at a possible delay.\n\nSpeculation over the scheme's future resurfaced this week after The Independent carried a photograph of a document with details of a \"savings table\" of the costs of each part of the scheme north of Birmingham.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said: \"Why should it be the North of England that pays the price?\n\n\"What we are going to end up with here is in the southern half of the country, a modern, high-speed rail network, and the northern half of the country left with crumbling Victorian infrastructure. That won't level us up, it will do the exact opposite.\"\n\nHS2 has been somewhat symbolic for the government's levelling-up agenda and has been seen in recent years as an important way to help bridge economic regional disparities.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced that work on a new station at London Euston would be pushed back by two years because of rising costs.\n\nAt the same time, the government said the section between Birmingham and Crewe would be delayed by two years, to spread out spending.\n\nCosts around HS2 have increased significantly and are now well above its original budget of £33bn, which was set a decade ago when work on the line began.\n\nIt was originally planned for HS2 to run between London and Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nBut two years ago, plans for the eastern leg from Birmingham to Leeds were cut back, so the new line would stop at the East Midlands.\n\nA spokesperson for the High Speed Rail Group said scrapping phase two would be a \"disaster\" for the North of England and the Midlands and the \"ultimate U-turn\".\n\nHe added: \"The government needs to kill the speculation and make its intentions clear, and it ought to commit clearly and unambiguously to delivering the project as planned.\n\n\"The 30,000 people delivering HS2 deserve this. Our future generations deserve this. The North and Midlands deserve this.\"\n\nHenri Murison, chief executive from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC's Today programme that scrapping the Manchester leg would be \"political betrayal\" and \"economically illiterate\".\n\n\"This isn't just about changing the way that people might be able to get to London or to Birmingham, this fundamentally rips up the entire basis of the commitments that Rishi Sunak as chancellor made to the north of England,\" he said.\n\n\"What do we say to all those inward investors who have come to Manchester… that the government would promised them that they would build HS2?,\" he added.\n\n\"They came and invested money, we then promised that we would build Northern Powerhouse Rail, they invest more money, and now their private sector investment has been significantly undermined and its long-term benefit because of something the government is doing.\"", "Conduct guidelines for UK doctors are being updated to spell out what constitutes workplace sexual harassment, amid concerns abuse is going unchallenged.\n\nThe General Medical Council, which regulates doctors to ensure they are safe and fit to care for patients, says it is adopting a zero-tolerance policy.\n\nThe new advice explains it is not just physical acts that can be a breach.\n\nVerbal and written comments or sharing images with a colleague count too.\n\nIt is difficult to say precisely how common sexual harassment is within the NHS and private medical practice, because, as in other workplaces, not all cases are reported.\n\nA recent survey of 2,500 doctors by the British Medical Association (BMA) found a third of female and a quarter of male respondents had experienced unwanted physical conduct in the workplace.\n\nDr Amy Attwater, an accident-and-emergency doctor in Warwickshire who is the lead for equality, diversity and inclusivity at the non-profit campaign group Doctors Association UK, said: \"Sexual harassment is always serious and it can have a long-term impact on people.\n\n\"The level of which it's happening is hugely under-reported. It is very infrequent that people actually report sexual harassment.\"\n\nSpeaking out about her own experience for the first time, Dr Attwater told BBC News: \"I've been a doctor now for 12 years and as a medical student and as a doctor, particularly earlier in my career, I have unfortunately experienced sexual harassment myself.\n\n\"To be honest, it is actually quite difficult to talk about, because, as you get older, you feel very naive and you think, 'Why didn't I report it?'\n\n\"My first thought was that I didn't want to talk about this - but I feel I have a duty to speak out against these things and hopefully help other people to speak out.\n\n\"Early in my career, I was sent sexual text messages by a senior colleague and I wasn't sure what to do, as they were senior.\n\n\"There was also a male nurse when who would touch me inappropriately without asking me, including massaging my shoulders and making comments about my body. He has since been fired.\n\n\"Then, there was another time, when I worked in a department where there wasn't a lot of space, and at times, I would be standing there, for example writing notes, and a more senior male doctor would come behind me and almost slowly rub their genitals against my bottom and then say something like, 'I enjoyed that.' It was seen as a joke - but it's not OK.\"\n\nThe new guidance sets out what doctors should do if they witness bullying or harassment, including:\n\nAnd it says leaders and managers must make sure bad behaviours are addressed, dealt with promptly and escalated if necessary.\n\nThere have been calls to overhaul the NHS whistleblowing system in the wake of the Lucy Letby trial, after it emerged hospital bosses had ignored senior doctors who had raised concerns about the baby killer.\n\nExisting guidance already warns doctors must not act in a sexual way towards patients or use their professional position to \"pursue a sexual or improper emotional relationship\".\n\nThe GMC says it heard from thousands of doctors, patients and members of the public during a consultation on the guidelines.\n\nThe new guidance will not come into effect until the end of January, after a five-month familiarisation period for staff. And some say there is still a long way to go.\n\nDr Chelcie Jewitt, an emergency-medicine doctor who is part of the Surviving in Scrubs campaign group, which aims to raise awareness of sexism, harassment and sexual assault in the healthcare workforce, said: \"We have spoken with the GMC about the guidelines and we do think that they are a step in the right direction - but there is still a long way to go on this journey to eradicating the culture of sexual misconduct within healthcare.\n\n\"The GMC has the potential to make a real difference and we need to see them supporting victims when they report perpetrators.\n\n\"We need their reporting processes to be transparent and clearly explained to victims.\n\n\"We need cases to be thoroughly investigated rather than dismissed.\n\n\"And we need appropriate, proportionate sanctioning of perpetrators.\"\n\nProf Phil Banfield, BMA council chair, said: \"Encouraging individuals to speak up and report bullying and harassment, for example, will not be effective if doctors do not trust those who they are complaining to or if complaints are not taken seriously when people do.\"\n\nDr Caroline Fryar, from the Medical Defence Union, which represents doctors over medical and legal matters, said: \"We are calling on employers to ensure they give medical professionals time to digest it and the GMC to do all they can to make sure doctors can easily understand the main changes.\n\n\"Doctors shouldn't be getting homework at a time when they are already working incredibly hard, around the clock, to deliver safe and effective patient care.\"\n\nThe GMC offers support and information on addressing sexual misconduct in the workplace at its dedicated ethical hub.\n\nThose affected by sexual harassment in the workplace can also call its confidential helpline on 0161 923 6399, between 09:00 and 17:00 Monday to Friday.\n\nIt says: \"We can provide guidance on how to raise concerns you might be struggling with and you can remain anonymous.\n\n\"Although our staff aren't trained to provide legal or counselling support in relation to sexual misconduct, they can signpost you to other organisations.\"\n\nThe BBC Action Line website has information and support for anyone affected by sexual abuse.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One officer said there were concerns about the names of undercover officers being revealed\n\nPolice officers' personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack.\n\nThe firm in Stockport, which makes ID cards, holds information on various UK organisations including some of the staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).\n\nThe force confirmed it was aware of the ransomware attack.\n\nThe hack means thousands of police officers' names are at risk of being placed in the public domain.\n\nOne officer, speaking anonymously to the BBC, said while the names of many officers were publicly available, there was particular concern regarding the identities of undercover officers.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Colin McFarlane said he understood how concerning the matter was.\n\n\"At this stage, it's not believed this data includes financial information,\" he said.\n\n\"We have contacted the Information Commissioner's Office and are doing everything we can to ensure employees are kept informed, their questions are answered, and they feel supported.\n\n\"This is being treated extremely seriously, with a nationally-led criminal investigation into the attack.\"\n\nThe National Crime Agency confirmed it was leading the investigation.\n\nIt comes just over a month after a major data breach within the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nIn that incident, surnames and initials of 10,000 police employees were accidentally included in a response to a Freedom of Information request.\n\nThe details were then published online before being removed.\n\nLast month, the Metropolitan Police was also put on alert after a similar security breach involving one of its suppliers.\n\nEd Gibson, a former FBI investigator who also headed cyber security at Microsoft UK, said any report of hacking of law enforcement data was \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"You don't want this stuff falling into the wrong hands,\" he added.\n\nHe said any company facing a ransom demand should \"get it investigated, don't pay up\".\n\nThis kind of extortion is very lucrative for criminals, he said, adding: \"It used to be a horse's head in the bed now its an email to your IT department.\"\n\nMike Peake said work was being done to mitigate risks to officers\n\nMike Peake, chairman of Greater Manchester Police Federation, said: \"Our colleagues are undertaking some of the most difficult and dangerous roles imaginable to catch criminals and keep the public safe.\n\n\"To have any personal details potentially leaked into the public domain in this manner - for all to possibly see - will understandably cause many officers concern and anxiety.\n\n\"We are working with the force to mitigate the dangers and risks that this breach could have on our colleagues.\"\n\nElizabeth Baxter, head of cyber investigations at the Information Commissioner's Office, said police officers and staff expected their information to be kept secure, and were \"right to be concerned when that doesn't happen\".\n\n\"This incident has been reported to us, and we'll now be looking into what happened, and asking questions on behalf of anyone affected,\" she said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The failure of two dams sent a torrent of water through Derna, washing entire streets into the sea\n\nThe first sign that something was wrong was the sound of the dogs barking.\n\nIt was 2.30am and dark outside. When Husam Abdelgawi, a 31-year-old accountant in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, got up and went sleepily downstairs to check on them, he felt water under his feet.\n\nHusam opened the front door of the house he shared with his younger brother, Ibrahim. More water flooded in, pulling the door off of its hinges.\n\nThe brothers ran to the back door, where they were met by a \"ghastly, unimaginable scene, worse than death itself to witness\", Husam said, in a phone interview from the city of Al-Qubbah.\n\n\"The bodies of women and children were floating past us. Cars and entire houses were caught up in the current. Some of the bodies were swept by the water into our house.\"\n\nThe water swept Husam and Ibrahim up too, carrying them farther and faster than they imagined possible. Within seconds, they were 150m apart.\n\nIbrahim, 28, managed to grab on to floating power cables still tethered to their poles and grapple himself back towards where Husam was stuck. The brothers used the cables like ropes to pull themselves towards a nearby building and through a third-floor window, and from there they made it to a fifth-floor rooftop where they could wait out the flood.\n\n\"The area where we were was a higher part of the city,\" Husam said. \"In the lower parts, I don't think anyone on the fifth or sixth floors has survived. I think they are all dead. May God have mercy on their souls.\"\n\nPeople look at missing notices in the aftermath of the floods in Derna\n\nEstimates of the number of dead vary. Libya's ambassador to the UN says about 6,000 people are confirmed to have died with thousands more missing. A Red Crescent official in Libya said about 10,000 people were believed killed. Derna's mayor has warned that 20,000 people may have lost their lives.\n\nThe flood was triggered by the failure of two dams outside Derna, unleashing a torrent of water through the city's centre.\n\n\"Derna was divided in two halves by the water and everything in between is gone,\" said Rahma Ben Khayal, an 18-year-old student who made it to safety on a rooftop in the city. \"The people in between are all dead,\" she said.\n\nThe torrent that washed away entire streets had begun a day earlier, as light rain.\n\nIt was not frightening at first, said Amna Al Ameen Absais, a 23-year-old medical student born and raised in Derna, who is guardian to her three younger siblings following the death of both parents from illness.\n\nAs the raindrops drummed outside, the four siblings sat in their first floor apartment in the Beach Towers, a seven-story building next to the waterfront, playing games and scrolling on their phones. They dressed her younger brother in a life vest and laughed.\n\nAmna managed to escape with her three younger siblings\n\nBut as Sunday night wore on, the rain got heavier. Sirens sounded. The siblings couldn't sleep.\n\n\"It really began about 2.30am,\" Amna said, in a phone interview from the nearby city of Tobruk. \"The noise was getting much louder. My brother said he could see water covering the street.\"\n\nAs the water rose, the neighbours began to migrate upstairs. Amna grabbed the cat and four passports and they went up from their first floor apartment to a third floor apartment. \"People were looking outside into the dark, praying,\" she said. Then the water reached the third floor. \"Everyone started screaming. We moved up again, to the fifth floor and finally up to the seventh floor.\"\n\nPanic had set in. \"I lost the cat,\" Amna said. \"I lost my little brother for a minute but then I found him. I realised we could not even stay on the seventh floor, we had to go to the rooftop.\"\n\nFrom there, they could see neighbours on the roof of a three-storey building opposite, including a family with whom they were friends. The neighbours were waving their phone torches. Moments later, their entire building collapsed into the water in the dark.\n\n\"It felt like an earthquake,\" Amna said. \"That family still hasn't been found. Their son is looking for them. We told him that we saw their building collapse in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThe remains of Amna's building, Beach Towers, after it partially collapsed in the flood.\n\nSome of Amna's own family are missing, too. Her uncle, his wife and their three sons lived in a nearby building that collapsed. \"Our last call was about 9pm, he was calling to make sure we were OK,\" she said. \"We haven't heard from him since.\"\n\nEventually, Amna was able to escape the building with all three siblings, after the floodwaters lowered. Her street had disappeared completely. \"It was like the earth had split open,\" she said. \"Only a cavity left where the street used to be.\"\n\nA neighbour she knew slipped and disappeared into the water in front of them, her husband and son unable to save her, Amna said. She heard that her best friend, Aisha, had not made it.\n\nAmna and her siblings walked for hours to higher ground, passing bodies on the way. The death toll from the catastrophe looks set to rise significantly. Husam Abdelgawi, the accountant, said he had already counted at least 30 friends among the dead, and more than 200 acquaintances. \"It is a miracle that I survived,\" he said.\n\nThe damage to Derna itself is catastrophic. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed.\n\nMohamed al-Menfi from Libya's internationally-recognised government in the western city of Tripoli said he had asked the country's attorney general to investigate - anyone whose actions or failure to act were responsible for the dams' collapse should be held accountable, he said.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization said most loss of life could have been prevented if Libya had a functioning weather agency - \"They could have issued warnings. The emergency management authorities would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people. And we could have avoided most of the human casualties,\" said WMO head Petteri Taalashe.\n\nMany survivors are waiting desperately for news of loved ones. Others are mourning, for the dead and for Derna.\n\n\"I don't think I can ever go back,\" Amna said. \"Those streets were my whole life. We knew every corner of the city. Now it's gone.\"", "President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, has been criminally charged with three counts of lying when buying a firearm, after a proposed plea deal collapsed.\n\nThe indictment marks the first time the child of a sitting president has been criminally prosecuted.\n\nA planned plea bargain to resolve gun and tax-related charges he faced abruptly fell apart in July.\n\nAll three counts relate to Mr Biden, 53, allegedly lying on forms while buying a gun when he was a drug user.\n\nProsecutors allege he falsely claimed that he was \"not an unlawful user of and addicted to any stimulant narcotic drug\" when he purchased a Colt Cobra Special revolver at a Delaware gun store in October 2018.\n\nAt the time, Mr Biden was a heavy user of crack cocaine.\n\nUnder US federal laws, it is a crime to lie on such documentation, or possess a firearm while a drug user.\n\nIf convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, the justice department said in a statement. Actual sentences for federal crimes are usually less than the maximum possible penalties.\n\nIt is still unclear when and where Mr Biden's initial court appearance will take place.\n\nMr Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, suggested the charges had been influenced by \"Republicans' improper and partisan interference in this process\".\n\nHe said his client \"did not violate the law\" and that his brief possession of an unloaded gun was never a threat to public safety.\n\n\"But a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice,\" said Mr Lowell.\n\nCornell Law School professor Randy Zellin told the BBC he believes that Mr Biden is unlikely to serve any time in prison and a plea agreement is likely.\n\n\"It's a nonsense case,\" he said. \"Nobody got hurt. It's a victimless crime. He's never been in trouble before. Is this really how we want to waste judicial resources?\"\n\nIn June, a two-part agreement was reached between prosecutors and Mr Biden's legal team, which later collapsed.\n\nUnder the terms of that agreement, he would have been charged with two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nHe would also have been forced to admit to illegal possession of a firearm and agree to drug treatment and monitoring to avoid a felony charge and potential imprisonment.\n\nBut US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika said she could not \"rubber stamp the agreement\", adding that the proposed resolution of the gun-related offence was \"unusual\".\n\nThursday's charges are the first brought by justice department special counsel Davis Weiss, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in August.\n\nMr Weiss' office had previously said he was seeking to indict Mr Biden by 29 September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nThe younger Mr Biden's legal woes have become a political lightning rod as his father seeks re-election, although he has never held a position in the White House or his father's administration.\n\nEarlier this week, Republicans in the US House of Representatives announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.\n\nAmong the accusations being levelled against the elder Mr Biden are that he lied about his involvement in his son's business dealings while serving as vice-president from 2009-17.\n\nTwo tax investigators also claimed the justice department stymied the investigation into Hunter Biden's tax return. The department has denied the claims.\n\nOn X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer - the man leading the indictment inquiry - said the charges against Hunter Biden were a \"very small start\".\n\n\"But unless US Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in the fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear President Biden's DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden and the big guy\".", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif have been charged with the murder of the 10-year-old girl, Surrey Police has said.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking, have been charged.\n\nThey have also each been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nSara's body was found at her home on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\".\n\nThe three adults left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August.\n\nThey were arrested at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday evening after disembarking a flight from Dubai. Early on Friday morning, Surrey Police confirmed they had been charged.\n\nThey have been remanded in custody to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court later on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSara's five siblings, aged between one and 13 years old, also travelled to Pakistan on 9 August with Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik.\n\nThe children were found by police in Pakistan at the home of Mr Sharif's father on Monday and have since been moved to a government childcare facility in the country.\n\nSurrey Police said Sara's mother, Olga Sharif, had been informed of the latest developments and was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Forestside shopping centre in south Belfast was bought for £5m above its asking price\n\nThe new owners of Forestside shopping centre in south Belfast expect about 150 jobs to be created through the purchase.\n\nThe centre was bought by Mussenden Properties Limited, a vehicle for Michael Herbert, who has previously appeared on the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nForestside has been bought for £42m - about £5m above the asking price.\n\nMr Herbert and his wife Lesley built up the UK's largest KFC franchise over 40 years.\n\nThey sold the chain in 2020.\n\nThe 336,000 sq ft shopping centre, which includes anchor tenants Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer, Dunnes Stores and Next, was put up for sale in May 2023.\n\nEstate agency Savills said Forestside had 35 fully-let retail units and full planning permission for three restaurants in a car park next to the Upper Galwally entrance.\n\nMr Herbert told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme the plan was to create a food village at the site, with work expected to begin in January.\n\nMichael Herbert is one of Northern Ireland's richest businessmen\n\n\"Forestside has got existing planning permission from the previous owners, but they never enacted it due to Covid and other things,\" he said.\n\n\"We are now going ahead with existing planning permission, which we are going to start in January, it is going to be like a food village and we have it all under offer.\n\n\"We are going ahead and building it, we are going to fast-track it to build it quickly and that provides 50 construction jobs and 100 full-time jobs.\n\n\"There's going to be three major restaurants, we have them all under offer.\"\n\nMr Herbert said he believed there \"is plenty of future for retail\".\n\n\"There was a lot of demand from English investors, but we are locally based, we really wanted to get it, we can make it happen quickly,\" he added.\n\n\"We have got confidence in the future, [or] we wouldn't be buying this centre.\"\n\nBen Turtle, director of investment at Savills Belfast, said: \"The net initial yield of 7.91% is significantly ahead of market comparables in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and reflects the quality of the asset.\n\n\"The transaction is evidence of growing investor appetite for such prime product in Northern Ireland, and we are pleased to have achieved this stellar result for our client despite some current headwinds.\"\n\nFoyleside Shopping Centre, situated on the bank of the River Foyle in Londonderry, is under offer\n\nThe Herberts also have significant interests in housing building and commercial property.\n\nIt includes the Barry's Amusements site in Portrush, which is currently run by the Curry family on a long-term lease.\n\n\"You can't go to school to become a millionaire, you have got to have that something in you to do it,\" Mr Herbert added.\n\n\"You can be a dentist, or a doctor, but you can't go to college and say they are going to teach you how to be a millionaire, it doesn't work that way.\n\n\"My wife and I work closely together - we are a power couple.\n\n\"Lesley works in a different way, everything is discussed every night and then we decide what we are going to go to, and that's always been the way we have done it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Foyleside shopping centre in Londonderry, which was also put up for sale earlier this year, is understood to be under offer.", "Next, a question from our very own Sam Cabral, who asks the panel whether Nasa's been in touch with Mexican authorities after alleged remains of \"non-humans\" were presented to Congress earlier this week.\n\nA self-proclaimed UFO expert, Jaime Maussan, brought two ancient \"non-human\" alien corpses to a congressional hearing - he said the bodies were found in Cusco, Peru, in 2017 and claimed that radiocarbon testing dated the corpses to be up to 1,800 years old.\n\nMore than 30% of the specimens’ DNA was \"unknown\" according to testing by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam), which is proof, Maussan said, that they are \"not part of our terrestrial evolution\".\n\nMaussan has however been accused in the past of fraud. A scientist from Unam spoke publicly yesterday to refute any notion that it has endorsed Maussan's latest claims.\n\nSpergel answers, saying he'd seen the story on Twitter. His recommendation to the Mexican authorities? \"Make samples available to the world scientific community and we'll see what's there.\"\n\nEvans chimes in. The purpose of the team's work is to guide \"conjecture and conspiracy towards science and sanity\", he says. Evans says the secret to that is the use of data.", "In the past three months more than 80 fake companies have been registered to properties in Henry Drive\n\nIf you believed the paperwork, Henry Drive in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, would be a thriving business metropolis specialising in the wholesale clothing market with entrepreneurs from across Europe choosing this leafy Essex street as their operations base.\n\nBut the paperwork cannot be trusted. In the past four months at least 80 bogus companies have been registered to properties on the street - 14 of them in the past week.\n\nEach business purports to be involved in selling clothes and has a single company officer invariably described as an \"entrepreneur\" who lives in either Italy, Georgia, Germany, France or Morocco.\n\nThe addresses given for these \"entrepreneurs\" are sometimes real, sometimes just a general street name or unlikely dwellings, such as an empty building lot in Morocco or a religious meeting hall in rural France.\n\nFinancial crime experts say the mass registering of these firms is probably the work of criminal gangs using sham companies for money laundering or to obtain bank loans before shutting them down.\n\nCompanies House, which charges £12 a pop for an internet business incorporation, says under the current laws, if company paperwork is properly filed, signed and the registration fee paid, it has to be registered.\n\nHenry Drive is \"just a quiet residential street\" according to resident Ian Ross who has had six fake companies registered to his home recently\n\nFor people like Ian Ross and his wife Tess, who have had six fake companies registered to their home in the past few weeks, the situation is disturbing and frustrating in equal measure.\n\nThe first they knew of the issue was when a letter came through the door from Companies House addressed to a business they knew nothing about. Mail from HM Revenue and Customs followed with an activation code for corporation tax and a company unique taxpayer reference number.\n\nThe BBC understands that when a business is incorporated with Companies House it is automatically registered for corporation tax with HMRC, which leads to the letters described by Mr Ross being sent.\n\n\"None of these businesses have anything to do with me,\" he says. \"The first one was set up at the beginning of June, the latest one was set up two days ago.\"\n\nFar from being a cosmopolitan titan in the clothing sector, Henry Drive is \"just a quiet residential street\", Mr Ross says.\n\n\"In the one post code we are in, we now have 80 businesses registered - it would be like a clothing alley if it was true.\n\n\"It has got more worrying the more letters we got because it shows the system is out of control.\n\n\"They just seem to be coming out on the Companies House website which many people assume means they (the businesses) are real.\n\n\"It is getting complicated and it is taking up quite a lot of my time.\"\n\nFinancial crime experts warn those affected not to ignore the matter but to challenge the use of their address with Companies House\n\nOne of the main questions people affected ask is why anybody would want to register a fake business using the address of an innocent stranger.\n\nFinancial crime expert Graham Barrow says such businesses are most likely part of a criminal network whose objective is to make money.\n\n\"I call these burner companies,\" he says, \"because just like burner phones that you use and then throw away, so too these companies are used and discarded - they are only ever going to have a short life.\"\n\nThe idea behind such companies, he said, was either to launder money or to use the companies to obtain a bank account to take out loans.\n\nHe said the Henry Drive case was far from unique, with similar bogus businesses being set up in various locations across the country.\n\nMr Barrow, who runs The Dark Money Files, said: \"This is highly likely to be an organised crime group.\n\n\"And, if so, it is multi-million pound stuff. It is just scary.\n\n\"There is a very significant problem with scam companies being set up and abusing the financial system.\"\n\nHe urged those affected not to ignore the issue but to fill out the necessary forms to get their addresses removed.\n\n\"It is really important they file the paperwork to get their addresses removed,\" he says.\n\nKit Akister says he cannot understand why the government allows it to happen\n\nKit Akister initially thought the letter from Companies House was junk mail.\n\nA neighbour then told him it was a scam affecting numerous addresses in their street.\n\n\"I want to know why you can register a business without proving anything yet I have got to prove I am the legitimate owner of this property to get my address removed.\n\n\"It is totally ludicrous and I cannot understand why the government allows this.\n\n\"I phoned Companies House about this and they said they had a backlog of these cases and said it was throughout the UK,\" he says.\n\nRosalind Miller is worried she will get people knocking on her door demanding money\n\nRosalind Miller returned the first letter from Companies House believing it had been wrongly addressed.\n\n\"After that we were receiving two or three letters a week and then they started coming from the Inland Revenue as well, which were for the same companies named by Companies House.\n\n\"My concern was if we started getting people knocking on the door demanding money,\" she says.\n\n\"You do start worrying there's going to be some kind of financial comeback on you. It is a bit of a worry really wondering what is behind all of this.\"\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson said: \"Anyone receiving correspondence to their address from HMRC for a business that they are not aware of should contact us immediately.\"\n\nA Companies House spokesperson said: \"We are sorry to hear about the difficulties these individuals are experiencing and will take action where the law allows.\n\n\"The government is bringing forth measures to reform Companies House in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill.\n\n\"Once in force, the bill will significantly enhance the role and powers of the Registrar of Companies, so she can become a more active gatekeeper over company registrations - including by cracking down on the use of false addresses. \"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n• None 'We never knew our home was on the scammer's list'", "The shirts were collected by a former player during the 1990 World Cup\n\nA collection of shirts amassed by a mystery ex-England footballer during the 1990 World Cup is going on sale.\n\nThe eight shirts, being sold by Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers, were collected during England's seven games in the tournament, which saw the team defeated in the semi-finals by West Germany.\n\nA signed yellow shirt, worn by goalkeeper Peter Shilton during the penalty defeat, is also up for sale.\n\nCharles Hanson, owner of the auction firm, said he could not reveal which ex-England star was selling the shirts \"due to client confidentiality\".\n\n\"However, he played a crucial role in Italia 1990 and enjoyed a stellar career in football,\" he said.\n\nOne of the most famous images of Italia 90 was of England's star midfielder Paul Gascoigne, after he got booked in the semi-final, meaning he would miss the final if his team got there\n\nHansons said seven shirts were exchanged with opposition players who competed against England during the tournament.\n\nDescribed as the \"magnificent seven\", they have a guide price of £150,000 to £250,000.\n\nThey were originally issued to the Republic of Ireland's Andy Townsend, Johannes van't Schip, from the Netherlands, Egypt's Sader Eid, Belgium's Marc van der Linden, Emmanuel Kunde, from Cameroon, West Germany's Klaus Augenthaler and Italy's Giuseppe Giannini.\n\nShilton's shirt, signed by the England squad, has a price estimate of £40,000 to £50,000.\n\nMr Hanson said the former goalkeeper \"gave it away to our vendor in the dressing room after the pain of that penalty shootout defeat against West Germany\".\n\nHe added: \"This unique set of retro shirts sweeps us back to a tournament that will stay forever etched in millions of memories.\"\n\nBids for the shirts are being invited by private tender.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The sign says: \"This product has seen its volume fall and the effective price charged by the supplier rise\"\n\nFrench supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of \"shrinkflation\" - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.\n\nLipton Ice Tea, Lindt chocolate and Viennetta ice cream are among the products being named and shamed.\n\nShoppers are being told if bottles are smaller or pack contents lighter.\n\nCarrefour said it wanted to put pressure on the firms making the products to keep prices down.\n\n\"Obviously, the aim in stigmatising these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,\" said Stefen Bompais, director of client communications at Carrefour.\n\nCarrefour has identified 26 products that have shrunk, without a price reduction to match, made by food giants including Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever.\n\nCarrefour said Guigoz infant milk formula produced by Nestle had gone from a pack size of 900g to 830g, for example.\n\nA bottle of sugar-free peach-flavoured Lipton Ice Tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 litres from 1.5 litres, the supermarket said.\n\nViennetta, made by Unilever, has shrunk from 350g to 320g.\n\nCarrefour, France's second-biggest grocer, is highlighting the products in question with signs on the shelves reading: \"This product has seen its volume/weight fall and the effective price charged by the supplier rise.\"\n\nUnilever, Pepsico and Nestle have not commented on Carrefour's move.\n\nFrench retailers and food manufacturers have come under pressure to reduce prices, just as in the UK, as shoppers struggle with sharply rising prices.\n\nIn June, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire summoned 75 retailers and consumer groups to a meeting about prices, and has accused manufacturers of not toeing the line on inflation.\n\nBritish consumer groups have also warned of \"shrinkflation\" affecting the value of common items from cat food to chocolate biscuits.\n\nBut it is unlikely that UK supermarkets would follow in Carrefour's footsteps, according to retail expert Ged Futter, because the strategy risks \"poisoning\" relationships between retailers and food firms.\n\n\"This is a very blunt way of of trying to compete,\" he said. \"To do that with your manufacturers, it won't help.\"\n\nSupermarkets use the same \"shrinkflation\" tactic with their own-label products, he added, aiming to keep to a certain price point, for example £1, by introducing cheaper ingredients, or making portions smaller to manage rising costs.\n\nGiven that, calling out brands for doing the same thing would be \"people in glass houses throwing stones\", he said, and would risk accusations of hypocrisy.\n\nA spokesperson for Lindt & Sprüngli, another brand identified by Carrefour for shrinking its products, said its prices had gone up on average by about 9.3% in line with rising raw material costs.\n\nBut information about product size was always made clear, the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We always comply with the labelling laws and regulations requiring objective information about how much product is in the package, including a net weight statement, a serving size, and a servings-per-container statement.\n\n\"Consumers can use this information to make accurate and informed purchasing decisions about the amount of product they are buying.\"", "Natterjack toads are one of the species targeted\n\nNature projects to revive England's endangered species have been awarded £14.5m of funding by Natural England - the government's advisers.\n\nWater voles in London to crayfish in North Yorkshire will benefit from the money which will go towards breeding programmes and improving habitats.\n\nEstimates suggest 15% of the country's species are at risk of extinction.\n\nTony Juniper, chair of Natural England said previous recovery schemes have shown they do work.\n\n\"Nature is in drastic decline all around us. It's a dire situation, but can still be turned around. We know this because we've seen the population of the once-endangered bittern rise dramatically, the recovery of the fen raft spider and water voles successfully reintroduced to areas from where they had previously been lost,\" he said.\n\nOne of the projects to be awarded funding is the Wiltshire Chalk Partnership which is looking to restore 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of flower-rich grasslands - a crucial habitat for insects including butterflies.\n\nThe partnership - made up of conservation charities National Trust, RSPB, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and local Pewsey Downs Farmer Group - hopes the funding will enable the wart-biter bush cricket, marsh fritillary, the large blue, the Adonis blue and the Duke of Burgundy butterflies to flourish.\n\nThese are habitat specialist species - meaning they require particular habitats to thrive - and due to the growth of farmland and urban areas, they have declined by 27% over the last 50 years.\n\nDr Dan Hoare, director of conservation at the Butterfly Conservation charity, told the BBC: \"These schemes announced today are a huge boost to directly improve conditions for some of our iconic wildlife across England, helping their populations recover and building the resilience they need to survive and thrive in our rapidly changing environment.\"\n\nButterflies are a good marker of the general health of the environment as they are an important food source for birds and bats, and a pollinator of plants.\n\nThe UK is considered one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. In 2018, the government set out its 25-year Environment Plan for improving that, but earlier this year a report by the independent Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) found many of the government's 23 environmental targets were at significant risk of not being achieved.\n\nInvesting more money in the UK's natural environment is also important for global species preservation.\n\nThe White-clawed crayfish - one of the other species to be supported through the scheme - is considered endangered worldwide and has seen a decline of up to 70% in the UK.\n\nThe introduction of the aggressive and non-native North American signal crayfish has brought diseases that the indigenous crayfish have no natural resistance to, and their natural habitat of freshwater rivers and streams have become more polluted in recent years.\n\nThe Claws for Thought Project will use the grant to establish a new rearing facility to help support crayfish in their vulnerable early years. The project's existing breeding programme gets 60% of the animals to breeding age - far higher than in the wild.\n\nOther species that will be supported through the two-year programme include the large marsh grasshopper, lapwings and the grey long-eared bat.", "Queen Camilla is known for being an \"Archers addict\"\n\nArdent Archers fan Queen Camilla is celebrating the 20,000th episode of BBC Radio 4 drama by raising a glass to the \"joy, tears and laughter\" it gives.\n\nCamilla said she was \"sad\" to miss a reception for the show.\n\nShe sent a message to be read out at the event in Birmingham, where the show is recorded, by Louiza Patikas who plays Helen Archer.\n\nThat character has been part of a coercive control storyline, praised by the Queen for raising awareness.\n\nCamilla's message to the show's editor, Jeremy Howe, referenced the recent return of Rob Titchener to the show, after his divorce from Helen.\n\nCamilla said: \"As one of your greatest fans, and sadly unable to join you this evening, I will be thinking of you all and raising a glass to mark over a quarter of a million minutes of Archers magic from the last 72 years.\n\n\"Thank you for bringing joy, companionship, laughter, tears, compassion and understanding to your audience across the globe.\n\n\"Here's to the next 20,000 episodes - and, let's hope, the end of Rob Titchener once and for all!\n\nCamilla and June Spencer cut an Archers-themed cake during a reception to celebrate the show's 70th anniversary in 2021\n\nThe Guardian called Rob Titchener \"the Archers' most iconic villain\", and the domestic abuse storyline encouraged many other victims to seek help.\n\nThe world's longest-running serial drama began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nIn 2021, the Queen hosted a 70th anniversary reception for the show, where she admitted to suffering \"severe withdrawal symptoms\" after recordings were disrupted during Covid.\n\nShe had a scene written for the occasion, and it was recorded as she watched, having already previously made a cameo appearance on the show.", "Lidl has revealed its British business swung to a loss last year as a result of its expansion plans and costs rising \"across the board\".\n\nThe discount supermarket reported a full-year pre-tax loss of £75.9m, after posting profits of £41.1m the year before.\n\nLidl said it had opened more than 50 shops in a year and increased its market share among its rivals.\n\nIt added it had \"held firm on its promise\" of lower prices for shoppers.\n\nLidl, and its fellow German discount chain Aldi, have seen their popularity increase as customers have switched from bigger supermarkets due to household budgets being squeezed by the rising cost of living.\n\nIn its latest results, Lidl said its sales rose by 18.8% to £9.3bn, but its losses could be \"attributed to the significant investments... alongside the challenging inflationary environment which led to an increase in costs across the board\".\n\nRyan McDonnell, Lidl's chief executive for Great Britain, said the entire retail industry had been hit by inflation and Lidl was \"no exception\".\n\nBut he said it was \"important\" that the supermarket kept its price promises and its price gap in relation to the likes of Asda, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury's.\n\n\"We've invested in keeping our prices low for customers in what has been a very challenging year for most,\" he said.\n\nAs part of Lidl's aggressive expansion plans in Britain, the company opened its largest warehouse in the world in Luton in September at a cost of £300m, creating 1,500 jobs.\n\nMr McDonnell said there was \"no ceiling\" to the company's ambitions, adding he saw potential for hundreds more Lidl supermarkets across the country.\n\nAsked by the BBC whether Lidl's losses were sustainable, despite its increase in sales, Mr McDonnell said: \"The momentum on the back of all of this investment in that is really encouraging for the business model\", adding that the \"numbers speak for themselves\" in terms of Lidl being a disruptor to the traditional supermarket industry.\n\n\"As a privately owned business, we have that ability to make these decisions, having immediate benefits for customers,\" he added.\n\nAlong with Lidl, John Lewis, which also owns Waitrose, reported further losses to its business for the first half of 2023.\n\nThe High Street giant said its plan to return \"sustainable\" profit would take two years longer with its target now 2028 as a result of rising business costs and larger than expected investment requirements.\n\nThe group's pre-tax losses narrowed to £59m for the first half of 2023, from a £99m loss a year earlier, and the company said its modernisation plans would \"take precedence\" over its staff bonus.\n\nThe department store has faced tough competition in recent years on the High Street, resulting in a series of store closures, while its supermarket chain Waitrose has also underperformed.\n\nFor the first half of this year, Waitrose saw the value of sales rise by 4%, but the supermarket said this was driven by prices for its goods jumping 9% and the actual amount of products sold had actually fallen.\n\nCustomers at John Lewis department stores were spending \"more on themselves\", the company said, with its sales in its beauty and fashion departments up, partly driven by new brands including JoJo Maman Bébé and Le Specs.\n\nBut the group said shoppers were being \"more cautious\" over buying technology products and so-called big ticket items for their homes.\n\n\"It's been a case of more loafers and fewer sofas,\" the retailer said.\n\nDame Sharon White, chairwoman of John Lewis, told the BBC's Today programme that she was \"very encouraged\" by the group's latest results, with losses narrowing losses ahead of the peak Christmas trading period.\n\nShe said the \"transformation for the partnership will take time\", but said the group's customers were showing a \"vote of confidence\" in its brands.\n\nIn March this year, John Lewis said it would not pay a staff bonus for only the second time since the scheme began in 1953, after a \"very tough\" 2022.\n\nAs well as each owning a stake in the business, John Lewis and Waitrose staff - referred to by the company as partners - have a say in the way it is run.\n\nIn May, employees backed Dame Sharon in a vote of confidence after she ruled out selling a stake in the business following speculation that a change to John Lewis's employee-owned structure was being considered.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the pair embrace after realising they had stood hand in hand on the night of the vigil\n\nA woman arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in 2021 says she still feels traumatised and has nightmares over how police dealt with her.\n\nIn an emotional interview with the BBC, Patsy Stevenson said the last few years had been \"really overwhelming\".\n\nThe Met Police has paid damages to Ms Stevenson and fellow protester Dania Al-Obeid after they sued the force over their treatment.\n\nThe Met said settling was \"the most appropriate decision\".\n\nThe women told the BBC they felt \"immense\" relief the case had come to a close but Ms Stevenson said the Met had failed to be \"fully accountable\".\n\nMs Stevenson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had never been to a public demonstration before attending the vigil at London's Clapham Common in March 2021.\n\n\"People assume that I was part of the organisation or part of a protest group but I had never even been to a protest before.\"\n\nShe says she went to the vigil with a friend to put down a candle in tribute to Ms Everard, 33, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nWhen asked how things then escalated at the vigil, Ms Stevenson described another woman putting her hand out to her saying \"can you come up here and help?\".\n\nIt was only later that she realised Ms Al-Obeid was the woman who had reached out for her.\n\nShe said: \"I was up against a railing, behind me were 20-odd police officers, and in front of me were hundreds of people with their phones. I don't know where I could've gone.\"\n\nPatsy Stevenson being detained by two police officers\n\nMore than two years later, Ms Stevenson recalls still having nightmares. \"I remember holding onto the hand rail really tightly cause I was scared that I was going to be pulled backwards and it was so cold and I couldn't even wrap my whole hand around it. I was just hanging on.\"\n\nThere were four women in a row, she says, they looked at each other and said \"are you there until the end?\".\n\n\"We sort of just all in solidarity just stayed there.\"\n\nPatsy Stevenson and Dania Al-Obeid were pictured on the bandstand at Clapham Common\n\nSarah Everard had been walking to her home in nearby Brixton when she was kidnapped\n\nImages of women being handcuffed on the ground and led away by officers sparked anger over Scotland Yard's policing.\n\nThe pre-planned socially distanced event had been cancelled after the Met said it would be illegal under lockdown restrictions, threatening organisers with £10,000 fines.\n\nBut people turned up throughout the day, including Catherine, Princess of Wales.\n\nBy the evening, the vigil saw clashes between police and some of those in attendance.\n\nIn letters to both Ms Stevenson and Ms Al-Obeid, Karen Findlay, commander for major events and public order policing for London, said she fully acknowledged \"that your motivations in attending the vigil were to express your grief and anger\" over Ms Everard's death.\n\nAnother reason for attending was to \"express the level of concern and dissatisfaction felt by you and many other women who were understandably feeling badly let down by the Met\", she said.\n\nMs Stevenson described the last few years as \"really overwhelming\" and said she has been \"crying non-stop\" since she learned of the settlement.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It's quite scary taking on the entire Met. I just am so happy that it's done, and the relief that we've felt is quite immense.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old from Southend-on-Sea, said she would have liked to see \"a bit more\" from the force, as she does not \"believe there was any reason for me to be arrested\".\n\n\"I don't think they've been fully accountable with this apology,\" she said.\n\n\"So I would have liked to see that. However, this for us is a huge, huge celebration. This is a big step in campaigning as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Patsy Stevenson gets emotional recalling the night of the vigil\n\nCommander Findlay also acknowledged a \"fundamental right to protest\", but said the coronavirus pandemic \"presented an extremely difficult challenge\" for officers needing to balance the potential risk to public health.\n\n\"That aside, I appreciate the anger, frustration and alarm your arrest undoubtedly caused you, and I regret that your opportunity to express your grief and anger was curtailed by your arrest and removal.\"\n\nShe added she has overseen work to improve how officers respond to the policing of protests about women's issues, and said there is \"extensive work\" in the Met to address failings to adequately tackle violence against women and girls.\n\nLaw firm Bindmans, which is representing the two women involved in the legal action, has asked the Met to set out the details of this work.\n\nNeither the Met nor Bindmans has disclosed the amount paid out to the two women.\n\nLast year the organisers of the vigil brought separate legal action, with two High Court judges ruling in March that the Met breached their rights and its actions were \"not in accordance with the law\".\n\nLater that year, the prosecution of six protesters accused by the Met of breaking lockdown rules was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nMs Al-Obeid was one of those six protesters.\n\nMs Al-Obeid, a survivor of abuse, told the BBC the period after her arrest was \"terrifying [and] confusing\", with her and others facing comments about why they attended and accusations they \"hijacked\" the event.\n\n\"I kind of went back into a hole. I just wanted to be as small as possible. It kind of reminded me of my experience of domestic abuse, where you're blamed.\"\n\nDania Al-Obeid said \"it feels like finally being heard and seen\"\n\nThe 28-year-old from London added: \"Coming to this moment where they've apologised, they've settled the claim, is so, so big... it feels like finally being heard and seen - like we deserve to be.\"\n\nA Met Police spokesperson said the vigil took place in \"extraordinary circumstances\", adding: \"The actions of individual officers were found by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies to have been appropriate.\n\n\"They acted in good faith, interpreting complex and changing legislation in very challenging circumstances in a way that was entirely consistent with their colleagues working across London at the time.\n\n\"A protracted legal dispute is not in the interests of any party, least of all the complainants who we recognise have already experienced significant distress as a result of this incident.\"", "The government's target to reduce the hospital waiting list in England is in doubt, the prime minister has admitted.\n\nRishi Sunak told BBC News it would be \"very hard\" to reduce the waiting list by next March as promised, pinning the blame on the strikes by doctors.\n\nLatest figures show a record 7.68 million people were waiting for treatment at the end of July.\n\nThis represents nearly one in seven people and is a jump of more than 100,000 in a month.\n\nThe prime minister told BBC News it was \"disappointing\" the waiting list was growing.\n\n\"Industrial action is a significant cause of that,\" he said.\n\n\"We were making very good progress before industrial action.\n\n\"With industrial action, it's very hard to continue to meet these targets.\"\n\nHe was \"confident\" the target would have been met without the strikes, which have seen both junior doctors and consultants walk out.\n\n\"The evidence for that is before industrial action really intensified we had actually met our interim target of virtually eliminating the number of people who were waiting a year and a half,\" Mr Sunak added.\n\nIt comes as the government has announced an extra £200m for the NHS this winter, following talks with health bosses on Wednesday.\n\nThis is on top of a £250m boost already announced earlier in the summer, which is helping pay for 5,000 extra hospital beds and 10,000 virtual beds where patients are supported at home by doctors for conditions such as respiratory and heart problems that would normally lead to a hospital admission.\n\nBut Labour shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said blaming striking doctors was \"deeply cynical\" and amounted to looking for \"a scapegoat\".\n\nHe said the breakdown of talks with the British Medical Association was \"gross incompetence\" by the prime minister.\n\nClose to a million appointments and treatments have had to be postponed since industrial action in the NHS began in December.\n\nAre you on an NHS waiting list? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe waiting list had been creeping up in the decade before the pandemic.\n\nWhen Covid hit, the numbers rose by nearly three million in just over two years.\n\nBut during last winter, that rise appeared to have plateaued.\n\nFor six months from September, the total on the waiting list changed little.\n\nModelling had suggested this was likely to last a year, before the total number started falling.\n\nBut the data in March showed the numbers rising again - and this has continued ever since.\n\nMarch was the month doctors' strikes began - and they are the most disruptive.\n\nHowever, there can be other reasons why the waiting list can go up - factors such as staffing shortages can lead to cancelled treatments too.\n\nEven taking into account the impact of the strikes the NHS is still doing fewer operations for example than it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe NHS does not appear to be firing on all cylinders even when there is no strike action.\n\nThe numbers needing care and joining the waiting list are also going up too.\n\nComing to a definitive conclusion is, therefore, very hard.\n\nNext week will see junior doctors and consultants in England walk out at the same time for the first time in the history of the NHS.\n\nConsultants will take strike action on Tuesday and Wednesday, while junior doctors start their three-day walkout on Wednesday.\n\nEmergency care will be staffed throughout.\n\nBoth groups are planning more strikes next month.\n\nPay talks have stalled and ministers are calling this year's rise - consultants will receive 6% extra and junior doctors nearly 9% - a \"fair and final\" settlement.\n\nBMA leader Prof Philip Banfield said: \"If the health secretary really wants to support the NHS then his next step should be to re-open talks with doctors and come to the table with a credible offer to put an end to strikes and to demonstrate he does really care about our patients.\"\n\nLouise Ansari, head of patient watchdog Healthwatch England, said she feared long waits for care were \"inevitable\" for some time to come.\n\n\"With demand for care likely to rise this winter, people need to have confidence in NHS services,\" she said.\n\n\"However, our research shows that people's confidence in accessing timely care now is lower than it was at the start of the year.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mountain village of Imi N’Tala, near the epicentre of the earthquake in Morocco on Friday, was rocked by aftershocks on Wednesday.\n\nIt sent rescue workers, villagers and journalists running through the rubble. One person sustained minor injuries as the result of a falling rock.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn investigation is under way over a bodycam footage that appears to show a Seattle police officer laughing about a woman fatally struck by a patrol car.\n\nOfficer Daniel Auderer was responding to an incident where Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was killed near her university.\n\nIn the video, the officer is heard suggesting the Indian student's life had \"limited value\" and the city should \"just write a cheque\".\n\nThe officer has said his comments were taken out of context.\n\nMs Kandula, a graduate student at Northeastern University's Seattle campus, was hit and killed by a police car while crossing the street on 23 January.\n\nAccording to The Seattle Times, citing a police investigation report, the officer driving the car was going 74mph (119km/h) and the graduate student's body was thrown more than 100ft (30m).\n\nOfficer Auderer was called to the incident where his body camera recorded audio from a call he made to a colleague.\n\n\"But she is dead,\" the officer is heard saying before laughing. \"No, it's a regular person. Yeah, just write a cheque,\" he says, before laughing again.\n\n\"Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.\"\n\nMr Auderer, a Seattle Police Department union leader, was on a call with Mike Solan, the guild's president. Mr Solan's audio cannot be heard.\n\nThe Seattle Police Department released a statement on Monday saying it discovered the conversation from an employee who listened to it \"in the routine course of business\".\n\nThat employee was \"concerned about the nature of statements\" and escalated their concerns up the chain of command, according to the police statement.\n\nOfficials then handed the matter over to the Office of Police Accountability, the agency that investigates police misconduct.\n\nThe agency is looking into \"the context in which\" the statements were made and whether any policies had been violated, the Seattle Police Department has said.\n\nA conservative talk radio host on KTTH-AM, Jason Rantz, reported that he had obtained a written statement from Mr Auderer saying his comments were meant to mimic how city attorneys might try to minimise liability for the woman's death.\n\n\"I laughed at the ridiculousness of how these incidents are litigated,\" Mr Auderer wrote, according to KTTH radio.\n\nThe Seattle Community Police Commission, another oversight agency, described the body-camera footage as \"heartbreaking and shockingly insensitive\".\n\nVictoria Beach, the chair of the African American Community Advisory Council, told local news she \"was shocked, had many emotions\" and was \"sickened about it\".\n\n\"I was very disturbed that somebody could laugh about somebody that died,\" she said.\n\nThe King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office is conducting a criminal review of the crash.", "Residents of Douzrou say there is little hope of finding anyone alive in what is left of their village\n\nA dog called Colin scampers across the earthquake's wreckage in Morocco's remote mountain village of Douzrou.\n\nThe bell attached to his collar rings to signal his location as the border collie bounds over broken concrete towards crevices in the rubble - anywhere a survivor might still be found.\n\nColin is a rescue dog with the official UK team that has been deployed in Morocco and he is trained to search for the scent of the living.\n\nBut this life-saving work takes place against all odds.\n\nLocals tell the BBC that they believe there is little hope of finding anyone alive in what is left of their village - before the quake Douzrou had nearly 1,000 inhabitants.\n\nBut most homes collapsed when the earthquake struck late on Friday, burying part of this hillside community in the ruins of nature's rage.\n\nIt has left a vast, perilous field of strewn boulders, mud bricks and timber.\n\nExperts say such traditional materials leave fewer chances for air pockets or spaces in which people can survive after buildings collapse.\n\nColin, a search and rescue border collie, has a bell that signals his location\n\nMore than 100 people were killed in the village, according to residents.\n\nThe people who are left, exhausted from shock, have to work out how to find shelter and keep their families fed.\n\nThe British rescuers speak with a village elder and make their way off the rubble mountain, as their search dog stays by their side.\n\n\"Colin is an experienced dog - he was in Turkey earlier this year,\" says Neil Woodmansey from the UK International Search and Rescue Team (ISAR). He is referring to February's devastating earthquake in northern Syria and southern Turkey, which killed nearly 60,000 people.\n\n\"He only goes on live scent. [Here] there's been no indication... so unfortunately it doesn't look like there's any live casualties in this area,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nUnfortunately it doesn't look like there's any live casualties in this area\n\nSince the earthquake struck, there's been a growing spotlight on the deployment of international search teams.\n\nOn Sunday, amid local criticism of a patchy and slow response by authorities, Morocco's government sparked controversy by deciding to only accept help from four countries.\n\nIt defended the move, saying \"a lack of co-ordination could be counterproductive\".\n\nOn Wednesday, we spotted the 60-strong British rescue team as members prepared to leave their base camp in the town of Amizmiz, at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains.\n\nWe joined them in a convoy.\n\nFollowing two Moroccan military vehicles transporting the rescuers, we drove towards the earthquake's epicentre. The road rose steeply into the mountains of southern Morocco.\n\nKicking up clouds of dust, we made our way through the increasingly remote villages. Some seemed relatively intact, but in others, buildings were toppled or cracked, and makeshift tents lined the routes in and out.\n\nThe vehicles transporting the team of rescuers struggle with the steep, winding dirt roads\n\nThe winding road was treacherous, as the convoy rumbled up rock strewn paths, often inches from nerve-wracking drops.\n\nAt least twice, the trucks became stuck on hairpin bends. Finally, about 4km (2.5 miles) from Douzrou, the team pulled over.\n\nSome of the crew, along with Colin the dog, had to be ferried the final stretch in jeeps belonging to the Moroccan military. The 30km journey from base camp to the village took nearly five hours - a sign of the huge challenges in providing relief to this remote province - home to some half a million people.\n\nAs the rescue team searched, the full scale of devastation in Douzrou was revealed.\n\nIt felt overwhelming. People were having to try to survive when nearly everything they knew had been destroyed.\n\nI met Hussein deep in the rubble of his house, as he worked to dig it out, hoping to find his family's possessions. His wooden front door rose from the rubble, standing as a sole reminder of his lost home.\n\n\"I was here with my family, we were having dinner. The ceiling fell on me. My brother died. [But] it is God's decision,\" Hussein said.\n\n\"There is nothing I can do now. I'm just going to take my clothes out and go to the tent,\" he said, before taking his pick axe and working away at the jumble of fallen stone and earth.\n\nFew buildings remain in the mountainous village of Douzrou, which had almost 1,000 inhabitants before the quake\n\nA few metres up the hillside, his wife and the rest of their family, like most people in Douzrou, were living in a homemade tent. Blankets were piled up ready to insulate them from the mountain chill that descends at night.\n\nI walked towards one of the few remaining buildings, where many villagers gathered as supplies of clothes were being handed out, much of it from volunteers.\n\nIn the village, all but cut off from the outside world, residents say they need much more.\n\n\"My whole body is shaking,\" another resident, Fatouma, told me. She is now living in a tent made of blankets and wood. It overlooks the only beacon of hope that stays standing in Douzrou: The pink minaret of the village mosque.\n\n\"May God protect us,\" she said. \"We are fighting for life - slowly\".", "An American fast food chain met with protests from the gay community last time it opened in the UK is planning to have another go.\n\nChick-Fil-A aims to open five restaurants in the UK.\n\nThe sites have not yet been chosen, but the first will open in early 2025.\n\nIts previous foray into the UK market in 2019 faced a boycott over its founders' support for Christian groups opposed to same-sex marriage.\n\nThe firm is still run by the Cathy family which founded it, but has made a policy change in recent years.\n\nIt appointed its first head of diversity in 2020 and has changed its approach to charitable giving, focusing on education and hunger alleviation.\n\nHowever, the family's Christian values mean restaurants do not open on Sundays, a policy that will also apply in the UK.\n\n\"From our earliest days, we've worked to positively influence the places we call home and this will be the same for our stores in the UK,\" said Joanna Symonds, Chick-Fil-A's head of UK operations.\n\n\"We encourage our operators to partner with organisations which support and positively impact their local communities, delivering great food and wider benefits to those around them,\" she added.\n\nChick-Fil-A said it would invest over $100m over the next 10 years in the UK. Most of the sites would be run and owned as franchises, and would create between 80 and 120 jobs per branch, it said.\n\nThe Atlanta-based firm, famous for its chicken sandwiches, already has 2,800 outlets in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada, and plans to open further sites in Europe and Asia.\n\nIn 2019 it opened a temporary pop-up store in Reading's The Oracle shopping centre, at a time when the chicken chain was already dividing opinion in its home market.\n\nThe restaurant in Reading's Oracle shopping centre did not have its lease extended\n\nThe firm was founded in 1946 by Samuel Truett Cathy and has been managed by the family ever since.\n\nIn 2012 its then chief executive Dan Cathy provoked controversy by criticising the idea of gay marriage. While the LGBT community spoke out against his comments, many customers across the south of the US, where most of its restaurants are located, turned out in support.\n\nGay rights activists also objected to the Cathy family's financial support for Christian organisations such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army.\n\nAt the time its Reading store was facing protests Chick-Fil-A said it \"never donated with the purpose of supporting a social or political agenda\" and was represented by a diverse workforce including \"black, white; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian\" staff.\n\nThe Salvation Army said it opposed \"any discrimination, marginalisation or persecution of any person\".\n\nIn announcing the new UK investment, the chain highlighted its current charitable work, which include a $25,000 one-off donation to a local non-profit organisation when a Chick-fil-A restaurant is opened, and donations of surplus food to local shelters, soup kitchens and food charities. Those policies would apply to its UK branches too, it said.", "Emma Coronel attended both the pre-trial hearings against her husband and his trial\n\nEmma Coronel, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, has been released from jail in the US.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and was sentenced to three years in jail in November 2021, a sentence which was later reduced.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed her release.\n\nIt is believed the 34-year-old left a halfway house in California, where she was moved from federal prison in June.\n\nHer husband is serving a life sentence in a supermax jail in Colorado.\n\nLast month, he sent a handwritten letter requesting his wife and their two daughters be allowed to visit him in the maximum security prison.\n\nEl Chapo Guzmán, 66, was found guilty in 2019 of running the Sinaloa cartel.\n\nThe Mexico-based transnational criminal organisation is estimated by US law enforcement officials to have smuggled more than 1,000 tonnes of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin into the US.\n\nGuzmán, pictured in the 1990s, became infamous for his escapes from high-security jails as well as for the gruesome nature of his cartel\n\nThe cartel's hitmen kidnapped, tortured and killed members of rival gangs to consolidate its power.\n\nThe Sinaloa cartel also bribed police officers and high-ranking politicians in Mexico and across Central America to turn a blind eye to drug shipments or even tip the cartel off about impending raids.\n\nEmma Coronel first met Guzmán when she was 17 years old and competing in a local beauty pageant.\n\nHer father, Inés Coronel, was a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico for drug smuggling.\n\nGuzmán was running the cartel from various hideouts in northern Mexico after he had escaped from prison in a laundry cart in 2001.\n\nThey formalised their relationship in a ceremony when Emma Coronel was 18 - although it is not clear if their marriage was ever officially registered with the Mexican authorities.\n\nCoronel, who holds dual US-Mexican nationality, travelled to California in 2011 to give birth to the couple's twin daughters, a move which means the children have US citizenship.\n\nIn 2014, Guzmán was arrested after a 13-year manhunt and sent to the Altiplano maximum security jail in Mexico.\n\nIt only took Guzmán 17 months to escape again, this time through a tunnel complete with ventilation shafts and a motorcycle on rails which led from his cell to a nearby warehouse.\n\nMexican marines escorted Guzmán to a helicopter after his arrest in 2014\n\nAt her trial, prosecutors said Coronel had played a key role in her husband's escape.\n\nShe was also accused of having acted as a messenger for her husband both during his time on the run and behind bars, relaying orders to his cartel lieutenants and to his sons with his previous wives, who are known as the Chapitos (Little Chapos).\n\nAfter his 2015 tunnel escape, Guzmán managed to evade capture for six months before Mexican special forces finally captured him outside Los Mochis, in his home state of Sinaloa.\n\nHe was extradited to the US a year later and put on trial in New York.\n\nImmaculately dressed and perfectly groomed, she smiled and waved to him from the public gallery.\n\nEmma Coronel missed hardly any of her husband's court dates\n\nShe told the New York Times that she did not recognise the gruesome testimony given about her husband in court, instead describing him as \"an excellent father, friend, brother, son, partner\".\n\nWhen Guzmán was found guilty in February 2019, the couple gave each other the thumbs up.\n\nCoronel remained free for almost another two years until her arrest at Dulles airport, near Washington DC, in February 2021.\n\nProsecutors said she was well aware of her husband's criminal activities and \"understood the scope of the Sinaloa cartel's drug trafficking\".\n\nShe pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering.\n\nAt her sentencing, Coronel asked for leniency for the sake of her children. \"I beg you to not allow them to grow up without the presence of a mother,\" she told the judge.\n\nShe was sentenced to three years in jail which were subsequently reduced, paving the way for today's release.\n\nHer future plans are unclear, but her husband's letter pleading for her to be allowed to see him would suggest she may travel to Colorado to visit him.\n\nIn the letter, Guzmán says the couple's daughters, who are now 12 years old, are \"studying in Mexico and can only travel to visit their dad during the holidays, two or three times per year at most\".", "Martha Mills was enjoying her summer holidays before she had an accident\n\nThe health secretary is backing the introduction of \"Martha's Rule\", to ensure hospital patients know they have the right to a second opinion, and NHS England will begin work to action it.\n\nOn Wednesday, Steve Barclay met Merope Mills, who had raised concerns with doctors about her daughter's treatment.\n\nMartha, 13, had been admitted to hospital after falling off her bike.\n\nAn injury to her pancreas was serious but survivable. Within days, however, she had died of sepsis.\n\nMrs Mills told BBC Radio 4's Today programme doctors had told her the extensive bleeding was \"a normal side effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King's College Hospital trust said it remained \"deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\" and her parents should have been listened to.\n\nAn inquest said she could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMr Barclay told Today he was committed to bringing in Martha's rule as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The case that Merope has set out is compelling,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"It is, I think, for everyone that's heard it an absolutely heartbreaking case and I am determined that we ensure we learn the lessons from it.\n\n\"I particularly want to give much more credence to the voice of patients.\n\n\"And I think a key part of this measure is ensuring that patients feel heard and can get a second opinion.\"\n\nMr Barclay has asked the patient-safety commissioner to meet NHS leaders and learn from similar schemes abroad.\n\nRyan's rule was introduced in hospitals, in Queensland, Australia, after the death of a boy who also had a poorly managed serious infection.\n\n\"There's scope for us to move much more quickly in terms of paediatrics and ensuring, particularly in that area, we adopt quickly... but to do so in a way that's easy to communicate to patients rather than having lots of different schemes across the country,\" Mr Barclay told Today.\n\nMerope Mills, an editor at the Guardian, has quest Merope Mills is calling for additional patient rights, following her daughter Martha's preventable death in an NHS hospital\n\nOn Monday, NHS England medical director Prof Sir Stephen Powis said change was needed but different hospitals might need different approaches.\n\n\"Patient and relative voice is paramount,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the last six months or so, we at NHS England have been working with a number of hospital across England to work out what sort of methodologies, what sort of processes, will ensure that that voice is heard when it needs to be heard.\"", "The House of Lords has blocked the UK government's plan to relax restrictions on water pollution to encourage housebuilding in England.\n\nLabour led a rebellion in the Lords on Wednesday to defeat the government in a vote on removing the EU-era \"nutrient neutrality\" rules.\n\nMinisters believe up to 100,000 new homes could be built by 2030 if water pollution regulations are loosened.\n\nBut environmental groups said the move would mean more polluted waters.\n\nShadow minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the government had put forward \"an entirely bogus dilemma\".\n\n\"Don't pretend it's a choice between looking after our environment and building more houses, because it isn't,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government announced plans to scrap these rules through an amendment, or change, to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, currently going through the House of Lords.\n\nBecause of the late stage at which the government tried to introduce the change, it cannot try again in the House of Commons now it has been defeated in the Lords.\n\nMinisters would need to bring the proposal forward in a new bill.\n\nThe defeat is a victory for Labour, whose deputy leader Angela Rayner led opposition to the plan in her new role as shadow levelling up secretary.\n\nMs Rayner said the defeat showed \"the Tories have utterly failed in their attempt to score cheap political points with a flawed plan\".\n\nShe added: \"We stand ready to sit down with the government, housebuilders and environmental groups to agree on a workable solution to build the homes we need.\"\n\nThe Levelling up Secretary, Michael Gove, said Labour had ordered peers from its party to block \"the dream of homeownership for thousands of families\".\n\n\"This is despite boasting that Labour would be the party of the builders not the blockers,\" he said.\n\nThe attempt to ease the rules, by amending the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, was defeated by 203 votes to 156, a majority of 47.\n\nLiberal Democrat Lords spokesperson for communities and local government, Baroness Pinnock, hailed the result as a \"great victory\".\n\n\"The Conservatives have continually promised not to roll back our environment rules, it is deeply shocking that they can't be trusted to keep their word,\" Baroness Pinnock said.\n\nGreen Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones said the government should consult the public before they consider bringing back the plan to scrap pollution rules in a separate bill.\n\n\"They can then consult properly and justify it to a public who are already fed up with polluted local rivers and beaches,\" Baroness Jones said.\n\nNatural England rules currently mean 62 local authorities cannot allow new developments unless builders can prove their projects are \"nutrient neutral\" in protected areas.\n\nThe government said by removing the restrictions, housing developers will deliver an extra £18bn in economic activity.\n\nMinisters argued that watering down the requirement would have a negligible impact on pollution, and had announced new environmental measures, including doubling investment to £280m for the Nutrient Mitigation Scheme run by Natural England.\n\nBut environmental groups and opposition parties opposed the plans, with Labour arguing the change would increase river pollution.\n\nThe government said Labour was blocking house building after years of undersupply.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Labour under Sir Keir Starmer could not be trusted to build more homes.\n\nHe said Labour's opposition to the government's plans was \"typical of the principles-free, conviction-free type of leadership that he offers\".\n\nSir Keir's spokesman rejected the charge, saying the government's plans were \"rushed and flawed\".\n\n\"We do have serious concerns about the way in which the changes the Tories are proposing will harm our waterways and ecosystems,\" he said.", "A 102-year-old War World Two veteran has abseiled down a hospital in London, to raise money for charity.\n\nColin Bell, who was in the RAF as a Mosquito bomber pilot, descended 280ft down the Royal London Hospital in central London.\n\nHe is raising money for three charities, the Royal College of Nursing Foundation, the RAF Benevolent Fund and the London Air Ambulance.\n\nThe veteran began his mission last month when he completed a six mile walk in Cambridge where he lives.", "Deloitte is one of the \"big four\" accountancy firms\n\nAbout 800 people may be at risk of redundancy at Deloitte - one of the UK's \"big four\" accountancy firms.\n\nA slowdown in growth has put 3% of the 27,000-person UK workforce at risk of losing their jobs, the company confirmed.\n\nIt is understood jobs will be lost in Belfast as a result.\n\nThe news comes as more than 100 global investors and businesses gathered in Northern Ireland for a major investment summit.\n\nIt is understood the proposals, which are subject to consultation, will affect Deloitte's consulting, financial and risk advisory businesses.\n\nA small number of jobs from the firm's audit and assurance business and enabling functions across the UK will also be affected, a source familiar with the proposals said.\n\nDeloitte CEO Richard Houston said a targeted restructuring within the organisation may put some roles at risk of redundancy.\n\n\"This follows a slowdown in growth, which, combined with the ongoing economic uncertainty, means we have to consider the shape of our business and may mean we have to make some difficult decisions,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I fully understand this is an unsettling time for those people affected and we will be doing everything we can to support individuals with care and respect.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, rival \"big four\" firm EY said it would create 1,000 jobs in Northern Ireland over the next five years.\n\nThe new jobs - paying an average of £33,000 a year - will be based in Belfast and at a new hub in the north west.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe order of the Ukrainian ground team is clear - a Russian Su-35 fighter jet has fired a missile at Silk's aircraft. He knows he has to abort the mission in order to survive.\n\nSilk, which is the pilot's callsign, quickly dives his MiG-29 so low that he can see the treetops. The old Soviet-era aircraft starts trembling as it is pushed to the limit. Silk navigates through towers and hills that he studied meticulously on the map while preparing for this mission.\n\n\"Such flights close to the surface are the most difficult ones,\" says Silk. \"You have to concentrate very hard. And because of the low height, you don't have the time or the space for a safe ejection.\"\n\nFighter jets like the one flown by Silk accompany Ukrainian ground attack aircraft during their combat missions at the front line. Silk's job is to provide cover from Russian air-to-air missiles. But there is not much Ukrainian jets can do to stop them.\n\n\"Our biggest enemy is Russian Su-35 fighter jets,\" says another MiG-29 pilot with the call sign Juice.\n\n\"We know positions of [Russian] air defence, we know their ranges. It's quite predictable, so we can calculate how long we can stay [inside their zone]. But in the case of fighter jets, they are mobile. They have a good air picture and they know when we're flying to the front lines.\"\n\nRussian missiles can fly far further than the ones used by Ukrainian pilots\n\nRussian air patrols can detect a jet's take-off deep inside the territory of Ukraine. Their R-37M missiles can hit an aerial target at a distance of 150-200km (93-124 miles), whereas Ukrainian rockets can only travel up to 50km (31 miles).\n\nSo, Russian planes can see Ukrainian aircraft and shoot them down long before they pose any threat.\n\nSince the start of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian Air Force has suffered serious losses - although they don't reveal specific figures.\n\nRussia's claim that they've destroyed more than 400 Ukrainian planes doesn't seem plausible, given independent estimates of the Ukrainian fleet's size are at least half that number.\n\nThe IISS Military Balance 2022 report states that the Ukrainian Air Force had 124 combat-capable aircraft before the full-scale Russian invasion.\n\nTo end Russia's superiority in the air, Ukraine wants its Western partners to provide more modern jets like the US-made F-16.\n\n\"Our pilots fly on a knife's edge,\" says Col Volodymyr Lohachov, the head of aviation development department of the Ukrainian Air Force. \"But F-16 jets would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems.\"\n\nOur pilots fly on a knife's edge... F-16s would allow us to operate beyond the enemy's air defence systems\n\nAnd their missiles can be effective up to 150km, which will enable them to attack Russian jets as well.\n\n\"Of course, we will still be targeted,\" says Juice. \"But it will be an equal fight. Right now, we don't have any response to them.\"\n\nF-16s have better radars that can detect missiles fired at them. Currently, the team that monitors ground radars must verbally communicate with pilots about threats they face.\n\n\"Our jets don't have a system to warn about [Russian rocket] launches,\" says a pilot of an Su-25 attack jet with the call sign Pumba. \"It's all visual-based. If you see them, then you just try to escape by firing off heat traps and manoeuvring.\"\n\nRussia's air superiority means that Ukraine can afford only a limited deployment of its military aviation close to the front line, which can have a major impact on the success of any future counter-offensive operations. According to Juice, they carry out up to 20 times fewer sorties than the Russian Air Force.\n\nAnd the weapons Ukrainian attack aircraft have are from the stock of old Soviet-era bombs and unguided rockets, which are quickly depleting because of limited supplies.\n\nBut it's not just air support for ground troops. Western jets can also enhance Ukraine's air defence systems, aviators say.\n\n\"Our aircraft have old radars that don't see [Russian] cruise missiles. We are like blind cats when we try to shoot them down,\" Col Lohachov explains.\n\nThe range of western weapons on F-16s will allow them to intercept cruise missiles \"on long distances right on our borders, instead of trying to catch them somewhere in central parts of Ukraine,\" says Juice.\n\nThe MiG-29 jets that Poland and Slovakia have transferred to Ukraine recently do not solve their main problems, Ukrainian pilots say. Those planes have the same old weapons and limited capacity as the Ukrainian fleet.\n\nBut the US administration has ruled out sending F-16 jets to Ukraine. Many are concerned that providing Ukraine with Western aircraft can only escalate the conflict, drawing the US and Europe directly into the war.\n\nAnd even training Ukrainian pilots to fly these planes has not been approved. In fact, Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defence for policy, said that even \"the most expeditious timeline\" for delivering F-16s would be 18 months, and thus there was no sense training pilots early.\n\nHowever, Ukrainian officials are hoping to get these jets from European countries, which would still require the US's consent, but would be much quicker to deliver.\n\nAs for training pilots, \"we can afford to send only a certain number of people for a limited period at any given time. We must avoid reducing our military capabilities here,\" says Col Lohachov.\n\nSo the best option, he adds, is to start sending small groups now in order to have enough trained pilots when planes arrive.\n\nIt is clear, however, that these jets will not be delivered in time for Ukraine's expected counter-offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky has already announced that this operation will go ahead without waiting for Western aircraft.\n\nSome experts question the impact F-16s could have in this war.\n\nUkraine would need to upgrade all its airfields if it received F-16 jets, as the planes need longer runways to take off\n\nProf Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI), says that these jets would provide an extra layer of defence but \"wouldn't turn the war around on their own\".\n\nEven with F-16 jets, \"Ukrainian pilots would still have to fly very low anywhere near the front lines because of Russia's ground-based threat and that would limit effective missile range,\" Prof Bronk explains. \"And it also means employing air power in the way the West did in wars like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, isn't possible in Ukraine.\"\n\nLogistical challenges raise questions about whether it's worth the effort to send F-16s to Ukraine. It's not just about training pilots and mechanics - the infrastructure must be upgraded as well.\n\nF-16s are designed for very smooth and long runways. Ukraine will have to adapt its current airfields to meet those requirements - resurface them, clean them and extend them.\n\n\"But doing that will be visible to the Russians from space and through human intelligence sources,\" Prof Bronk argues. \"And if you only do one or two bases, and then try to set up ground support to operate F-15s or F-16s, then Russians will see it and they will strike it.\n\n\"So, you would have to do lots of them. Then you're into the question - is that worth the number of skilled personnel and the amount of political effort and logistical support that could otherwise be used for other things like tanks and artillery, or ground-based air defence systems?\"\n\nFor now, Ukrainian pilots like Pumba, Silk and Juice will have to rely on their old Soviet-era fighters and attack jets.\n\nWhen an alarm signals a new combat mission, they rush towards their aircraft. They give the thumbs up to mechanics to confirm that all systems on board are working.\n\nSome of them have flown more than 100 combat missions. But they know that each flight could be their last.", "Nigeria's erratic power grid forces households and businesses to use diesel and petrol generators\n\nEarly in the morning, levels of power generated in Africa's most populous country fell to zero megawatts.\n\nConnections were gradually restored throughout the day.\n\nGrid power supplies are often erratic in Nigeria, located in the west of Africa, despite its role as a major oil and gas producer.\n\nThursday's was the most serious outage for a year - the West African country's grid collapsed at least four times in 2022, which the authorities blamed on technical problems.\n\nA number of electricity distribution companies told customers on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that the most recent blackouts were a result of a \"total system collapse\".\n\nPower Minister Adebayo Adelabu said a transmission line connecting two power plants in Niger state suffered an explosion after a fire, thus tripping the grid.\n\n\"The fire has been fully arrested and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time,\" Mr Adelabu said in a statement in the afternoon.\n\nLess than 50% of Nigeria's population has access to a regular power supply. Most homes and businesses have resorted to generators, inverters and other sources of electricity so as not to be dependent on the national grid.\n\nHowever, many of these now come at a higher cost following the government's removal of fuel subsidies last May.\n\nThe theoretical maximum amount of power Nigeria could produce is 12,500MW, but the country normally produces just a quarter of that, the Reuters news agency reports.\n\nOn Thursday, at around 10:30 local time (09:30 GMT), power levels had risen from zero to 273MW, which was still well below the daily average of 4,100MW, data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria showed.\n\nPresident Bola Tinubu, who has been in office for just over 100 days, has promised to improve supply by allowing state governments to build their own power plants.", "Barbara has a migraine about four times a month and it leaves her completely bedbound\n\nA treatment for migraine attacks which dissolves under the tongue will soon be available on the NHS in what experts say is a \"step change\" in care.\n\nHealth experts said 13,000 people could be eligible to take it to reduce sudden and severe head pain.\n\nRimegepant has been recommended for adults who cannot take other medicines or do not respond to them.\n\nA migraine charity said it brought \"new hope\", especially for those who suffer debilitating side effects.\n\nThese can range from vomiting to light sensitivity and sight problems, and attacks can last for up to three days.\n\nAbout one in seven people is affected by migraines. They are more common in women than men, and mostly affect people aged 35 to 45.\n\nBarbara Tesio-Ryan cannot speak properly or see clearly when her migraines strike without warning.\n\n\"It looks like a stroke,\" she says frankly, \"and the pain is unreal.\n\n\"It covers the whole head. I get sick if I move too much so I have to lie down in darkness, usually for four hours.\"\n\nRecovery can take a day or two, and during that time she often feels tired and confused with what she calls a \"migraine hangover\".\n\nStress can be one cause, but lack of sleep, too much caffeine and too much sun can also be triggers.\n\n\"I moved house recently and was ill for the whole weekend,\" says Barbara.\n\nMigraines have affected her work as a librarian because she cannot come in when she is ill - and that happens about four times a month.\n\nShe had her first migraine aged eight and has tried every type of medicine or therapy available, including acupuncture, but nothing really helps.\n\n\"I'm really excited to try this drug - it could mean a huge change for my life.\"\n\nThe National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which makes decisions on drug approvals in England, and whose recommendations are usually adopted in Wales and Northern Ireland, previously backed rimegepant for preventing migraine in adults.\n\nNow, in final draft guidance, it says the Pfizer-made medicine (also called Vydura) is a cost-effective option for treatment of migraine attacks once they have started.\n\nThe drug will benefit those who have not found a treatment that works and those who get terrible side effects from existing treatments, as well as people who cannot take existing treatments, such as those with heart disease.\n\nSome people do not respond to established medicines called triptans, or find that painkillers like ibuprofen and paracetamol do not bring any relief.\n\nAt that point, people are advised to see a migraine specialist - but there are often long waits to do so.\n\nHelen Knight, director of medicines evaluation at NICE, said: \"This is the first and only NICE-recommended medicine that can help alleviate the misery of acute migraines, and may be considered a step change in treatment.\"\n\nShe said people had described the condition as \"an invisible disability\" that affected all aspects of life, such as work, mental health and social activities, and there was a \"high unmet need for treatment options\".\n\nRobert Music, chief executive of The Migraine Trust, said the decision \"brings new hope\" by reducing the pain and length of a migraine attack.\n\n\"Migraine is an incredibly misunderstood condition that can have a significant impact on all areas of life, including ability to work, maintain relationships and mental health,\" he said.\n\nAbout 10 million people in the UK are affected by migraines, with approximately one million having chronic migraines, which is defined as having a headache on at least 15 days in a month.\n\nScientists believe migraines are the result of abnormal brain activity affecting nerve signals, chemicals and blood vessels in the brain.\n\nWhat causes this is not clear, but there is thought to be a genetic link for many people.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Isa Balado was doing a live broadcast about a robbery when the incident happened\n\nSpanish police have arrested a man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a journalist after he allegedly touched her while she was live on TV.\n\nIsa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him.\n\nMs Balado tried to continue, but was interrupted by the programme's host.\n\n\"Isa, forgive me for interrupting you... but did he just touch your bottom?\" Nacho Abad asked.\n\nThe reporter confirmed it, and Mr Abad told her to put the \"idiot\" on camera, to which the shot moves to show both Isa Balado and the man, who was still standing with her, smiling and laughing.\n\n\"As much as you want to ask what channel we are from, do you really have to touch my bottom? I'm doing a live show and I'm working,\" Ms Balado told him.\n\nThe man then denied touching her, and as he walked away attempted to tickle her head.\n\nPolice later said a man had been arrested for allegedly assaulting a reporter while she was doing a live television show, in a message posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nMediaset Espana, which owns the news channel, issued a statement expressing its support for Ms Balado after the \"absolutely intolerable situation\" she suffered, and that it \"categorically repudiates any form of harassment or aggression\".\n\nSpain's Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz also spoke out over the incident, saying it should not go unpunished. She wrote on X: \"It is machismo that makes journalists suffer sexual assaults like this, and the aggressors are unrepentant in front of the camera.\"\n\nThis incident comes amid a sexism row in Spain, sparked by the former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales kissing World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso on the lips.\n\nHis actions during the Women's World Cup final led to widespread criticism, his eventual resignation and a summons to court over accusations of sexual assault and coercion.", "Schools in Leeds were urged to be \"extra vigilant\" after the email was received\n\nPolice have made an arrest over a threatening email sent to schools in Leeds and Bradford.\n\nA number of schools kept pupils inside on Thursday after receiving the email.\n\nSecurity sources have told the BBC the threat was being treated as a hoax, like recent incidents in Cheshire and Greater Manchester.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had launched an investigation into a potential malicious communications offence and a person had been arrested.\n\nOfficers had been providing \"reassurance and safety advice to affected schools\", the force added.\n\nPolice did not specify the nature of the threat.\n\nIn a message seen by the BBC, one school told parents the email had threatened \"harm\" to children and staff at schools across Leeds.\n\nThe school said all its pupils would be kept indoors for the day, perimeter gates had been locked and windows and doors would remain shut.\n\nEarlier, Leeds City Council said threats had been made \"towards a number of schools\" in the city, adding it was working with police to support them.\n\nSchools had been urged to be \"extra vigilant\" over site security and safeguarding, it said.\n\nBradford Council confirmed a threatening email had been sent to \"a number of schools in West Yorkshire\".\n\nA council spokesperson added: \"Police officers are providing reassurance and safety advice to affected schools.\n\n\"We are supporting our schools as they follow this advice. The safety of everyone in our schools is of course our top priority.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nAre you a teacher or parent? How will you be affected by the issues in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has said he is \"acutely aware of the particular threat to our open and democratic way of life\" posed by China's Communist regime.\n\nThe prime minister was responding to a damning report on the UK's China strategy by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.\n\nMinisters would take \"all necessary steps\" to protect the country from foreign state activity, the PM said.\n\nHe is facing calls from some Tories to officially classify China a \"threat\".\n\nHe has resisted taking this step, instead describing China as an \"epoch-defining and systemic challenge\" while acknowledging the need to engage with the super power.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer cited the ISC report as he accused the PM of failing to heed warnings about China, leaving the UK \"desperately playing catch up\" on security. He called for an audit of UK-China relations.\n\nEarlier this week, news emerged that police had arrested a researcher working in Parliament under the Official Secrets Act, amid claims he was spying for China.\n\nThe researcher - whom the BBC is not naming - denied the claims in a statement issued through lawyers. He was one of two men arrested under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nResponding to the committee's report - which was written before the arrest had been made public - Mr Sunak said he was \"particularly conscious\" of the need for a \"robust approach to any and all state threat activity\".\n\nThe ISC had warned that China's ruling Communist Party used its \"size, ambition and capability\" to \"successfully penetrate every sector of the UK's economy\".\n\nThe cross-party committee of Parliamentarians added that \"while seeking to exert influence is a legitimate course of action, China oversteps the boundary, and crosses the line into interference\".\n\n\"China has been particularly effective at using its money and influence to penetrate or buy academia in order to ensure that its international narrative is advanced and criticism of China supressed.\"\n\nA full government response, released alongside Mr Sunak's statement, concurred that \"some Chinese action crosses the line from influence into interference\".\n\nIt said it recognised that China had \"tried to headhunt British and allied nationals in key positions and with sensitive knowledge and experience, including from government, military, industry and wider society\".\n\nIt also said British intelligence was \"acutely aware and vigilant\" regarding the targeting of current and ex-civil servants.\n\nBut it said the level of resources devoted to China by the UK intelligence community has increased \"significantly\" in recent years.\n\nThe government last year blocked eight investment deals where the buyer was linked to China using new powers to scrutinise foreign investment, according to the statement.\n\nThe government also pointed to the fact that the government banned Huawei from the UK's 5G telecoms network, and took ownership of the stake in the Sizewell C nuclear power project previously held by the Chinese state-owned company CGN.\n\nThe government acknowledges that \"further investment\" would be needed to ensure it could respond to the challenge.\n\nIt said it was increasing funding for Mandarin language training and programmes to deepen expertise.\n\nMr Sunak said the National Security Act, passed in July, \"introduces a range of new offences for foreign interference, assisting a foreign intelligence service, sabotage and theft of trade secrets\" which would make the UK a \"harder target\".\n\nAnd he said steps had been taken to protect universities from threats to freedom of speech in this year's Higher Education Act.\n\nConservative MP and ISC chair Julian Lewis rejected Mr Sunak's claim that the committee's report was out of date.\n\n\"Until two months before publication, we monitored all relevant developments and noted them throughout the report - this was not difficult to do given the glacial pace at which the government's China policy developed,\" he said.\n\nThe government has said its approach to China is guided by the need to protect the UK's prosperity and security, aligning with allies to deal with the challenges posed by Beijing, and engaging with China itself to seek constructive and stable relations.\n\nIn many areas, the government says, co-operation is vital, from mutual economic interests to the need to tackle climate change.\n\nLast month, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly defended meeting Chinese officials in Beijing - the first by a foreign secretary in five years - arguing it would not be \"credible\" to disengage with China.", "The case had been launched by Scotland captain Rachel Corsie (left)\n\nThe captain of the Scottish women's football team has withdrawn an inequality case against the SFA on the day the hearing was due to start.\n\nRachel Corsie was due to represent her national team mates after accusing the governing body of not treating the women fairly on pay and conditions.\n\nBut a statement from the SFA said the matter had now been resolved without the need for tribunal proceedings.\n\nThe case had centred on claims of inequality compared to the men's team.\n\nThis included in areas such as facilities, travel and pay.\n\nA statement from the SFA said both they and the players were pleased that the matter had been resolved, but no further details of the deal have been made public because of a non-disclosure agreement.\n\nBBC Scotland's sports news correspondent Chris McLaughlin said he understood the women's team had now signed an agreement that was on the table last year.\n\nHe added: \"The big question is have they changed the terms of that agreement, has the SFA given any ground and has their been any investigation into claims of disrespect and abuse?\"\n\nThe legal action was announced last December, with the tribunal due to have been held this week.\n\nAston Villa defender Corsie said: \"As captain, I believe we have a responsibility to push for the highest standards on and off the field.\n\n\"The Scottish FA has made significant inroads in this regard and together we are on an evolutionary journey. We are proud to have parity, not just for the current generation but more significantly for future generations of players.\"\n\nCorsie said last year that the resources provided to the women's were \"not to the best level\", adding: \"In comparison to what either club environments are, what other national teams are given, other teams in the association are given, aren't equal to what we get.\n\n\"When you become aware of that it makes you feel like you're less important than others.\"\n\nLast December, two of Corsie's Scotland team-mates also spoke out about why they were supporting the legal action against the SFA.\n\nReal Madrid midfielder Caroline Weir, who has won 100 international caps, said they had for many years felt like an after-thought, with sponsorship deals going overwhelmingly to the men's game.\n\n\"If shared out equally, there would be a dramatic increase in funding for women's and girls' football at all levels that would be transformative,\" she said.\n\nScotland and Chelsea star Erin Cuthbert said: \"This campaign must be the start of an irreversible turning point to forever change our national game, and the way women players are treated.\"\n\nThe US women's national team won a landmark equality case last year where they secured a pay-out of more than £17m.\n\nThe SFA's chief executive Ian Maxwell said the growth of the women's game was one of its \"highest strategic priorities\".\n\nHe added: \"We have reiterated our commitment to equality - specifically with regard to commercial appearances, prize money distribution and resources.\n\n\"We must now look forward with a shared goal: to return to major tournaments; working together to bring success on the field that will in turn encourage broadcasters and rights holders to do more to bridge the value gap that remains the biggest obstacle on the journey to equality within the women's game globally.\"\n\nThe head coach of the Scotland women's team, Pedro Martinez Losa, said he was pleased that the dispute had been resolved and it had never affected the professionalism of the players.\n\nThe SFA, the players union and the players themselves will hope this joint statement will bring an end to a period of toxicity that has lead to major questions being asked about the treatment of Scotland's women footballers. In reality, it leaves more questions than answers.\n\nThe specifics of what the players were asking for were never released due, they said, to legal sensitivities.\n\nIt seems that cloak of legality will remain in place, now a resolution has been found just hours before the two sides were due to sit across from each other at an employment tribunal.\n\nDid the SFA give ground on some of the points raised? Did the players back down and accept the deal that had been on the table for over a year?\n\nIf the SFA didn't give ground, then what significant inroads were made in the hours it took to reach a resolution?\n\nNobody from either side seems keen to elaborate, despite being asked to clarify.\n\nWhen the dispute was made public, Rachel Corsie talked about taking the fight to tribunal due to \"years of inequity, disrespect and in some cases, abuse.\"\n\nWhat deal has been struck and why has it been struck at the expense of not being able to discuss it?\n\nThere is of course a bigger picture here - Scotland's women now have complete parity with their male counterparts. How they achieved it will remain a secret, for now.", "Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her fiance, self-professed shaman Durek Verrett, have set their wedding date.\n\nNorway's Princess Martha Louise will marry her American partner, self-styled shaman Durek Verrett, next summer, the couple has announced.\n\nKing Harald V congratulated the pair, saying he was happy to welcome Mr Verrett to his family.\n\nThe princess relinquished her royal duties last year to run the alternative medicine business she shares with her fiance.\n\nMr Verrett is known for promoting unfounded medical practices.\n\nHe has suggested cancer is a choice and sold medallions online said to ward off Covid-19, while Princess Martha Louise has claimed she is able to communicate with angels.\n\nThey announced their engagement in June 2022 and received the king's blessing.\n\n\"We are excited to have Durek Verrett join the family and we look forward to celebrating the big day with them,\" Norway's king and queen said in a statement released on Wednesday.\n\n\"We wish Martha and Durek all the best.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why this princess gave up her royal duties\n\nThe wedding will be held in the scenic Norwegian town of Geiranger, on the shores of a fjord designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.\n\n\"We are incredibly happy to be able to celebrate our love in Geiranger's beautiful surroundings. It means a lot to us to gather our loved ones in a place that is so rich in history and spectacular nature,\" the couple said.\n\nMr Verrett will move to Norway and join the royal family without holding a title, Norway's state broadcaster NRK reported.\n\nThe Hollywood guru, who describes himself as a \"6th Generation Shaman\" - has claimed to have risen from the dead and to have predicted the 9/11 attacks in the United States two years before they took place.\n\nMr Verrett, who is African-American, has acknowledged that his beliefs can be uncomfortable for some, and has argued the criticism he faces is due to racism.\n\nMeanwhile Princess Martha Louise has attracted controversy in Norway for decades for her involvement in alternative treatments, including starting a school that aimed to help people \"get in touch with their angels\".\n\nShe has said that she was \"aware of the importance of research-based knowledge\", but that she believed alternative medicine can be \"an important supplement to help from the conventional medical establishment\".\n\nThe 51-year-old had been accused of using her royal title for competitive gain, and a palace statement made last November said that she had relinquished her \"patronage role\" so as to \"distinguish more clearly between their activities and the Royal House of Norway\".\n\nKing Harald had decided she would keep her title, the statement added, but the princess agreed not to use it in her commercial endeavours.\n\nThe princess was previously married to author Ari Behn. They divorced in 2017, and Mr Behn - who had discussed suffering from depression - died by suicide on Christmas Day 2019.\n\nPrincess Martha Louise is King Harald's eldest child. Her younger brother, Crown Prince Haakon, will succeed his father as king.", "The flooding in Derna swept away houses, buildings and left entire neighbourhoods surrounded by water.\n\nThe mayor of the city says between 18,000 and 20,000 people have died as a result.", "Hollywood director Baz Luhrmann attended the black tie event with Dame Anna Wintour and outgoing British Vogue editor Edward Enninful\n\nBritain's top stars from the world of fashion and the creative arts descended on London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane for what is being called the biggest sartorial event of the season.\n\nThe second annual Vogue World kicks off London Fashion Week (LFW) which officially opens on Friday.\n\nThe event, which closed with a fashion runway showcasing highlights from autumn/winter 2023 collections, made its debut during New York Fashion Week last September.\n\nHere are some of the most striking looks from the red carpet in London:\n\nStormzy performed at the Vogue World event, with FKA Twigs, Sophie Okonedo and Olivier award-winning director Stephen Daldry also taking to the stage\n\nBritish diver Tom Daley won gold at the Tokyo Olympics and is also known for his love of knitting\n\nActress Sienna Miller in Schiaparelli proudly showed off her baby bump. The 41-year old, who has an 11-year-old daughter with ex-boyfriend Tom Sturridge, is expecting her first child with partner Oli Green\n\nNcuti Gatwa is the new Doctor Who actor and was one of the stars in this year's biggest blockbuster movie Barbie\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOscar winner Kate Winslet turned heads in a Paul Smith suit. She stars in the long-awaited biopic about the model-turned-war photographer Lee Miller\n\nActor Gemma Chan is one of the biggest British East Asian heritage stars in Hollywood\n\nPrincess Beatrice wore a cape dress by Richard Quinn and attended the event alongside her sister Princess Eugenie of York, who turned heads in Fendi\n\nActor Maisie Williams is best known for her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones\n\nActress-model Jodie Turner-Smith, dressed in Viktor & Rolf, made her film debut in 2016's Neon Demon\n\nTV presenter AJ Odudu is known for Big Brother's Bit on the Side and Strictly Come Dancing\n\nUS drummer Shannon Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars and actor-singer Jared Leto\n\nIrish actress Nicola Coughlan has a fashion moment in Harris Reed. She is well known for her role in Netflix's Bridgerton as well as playing Clare Devlin in Derry Girls", "Fergus Ewing has criticised the Scottish government over several of its policies\n\nFormer SNP minister Fergus Ewing is to learn this week if he will face disciplinary action from his party.\n\nThe veteran MSP is expected to lose the whip for a limited period.\n\nBBC Scotland News understands SNP parliamentarians are likely to meet on Wednesday evening to vote on any proposed sanctions.\n\nThere is expected to be a three-line whip at the group session, meaning attendance is compulsory though MSPs will not be told how to vote.\n\nA previous meeting on disciplinary action was cancelled after Mr Ewing contracted Covid-19.\n\nThe former minister is facing action after voting against Green minister Lorna Slater in a no-confidence vote.\n\nThe motion was tabled by the Tories in June over the circular economy minister's handling of the deposit return scheme.\n\nMr Ewing, who served as rural economy secretary under Nicola Sturgeon, has criticised Scottish government policies on gender recognition reform and Highly Protected Marine Areas, as well as attacking ministers over a lack of progress on dualling the A9.\n\nEarlier this month, he rebelled against the government in a vote over calls for a 12-month delay to a short-term lets licensing scheme.\n\nMr Ewing, the MSP for Inverness and Nairn, has also called for a fresh SNP vote on the power-sharing Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens, who he described as \"extremists\".\n\nThis disciplinary action has been a long time coming.\n\nFergus Ewing has become something of a serial rebel, but it was his decision to vote with the opposition in a motion of no confidence against Lorna Slater that prompted the whips to respond.\n\nThe Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Greens requires Green MSPs to back the government in a motion of no confidence.\n\nThe expectation is that SNP MSPs would be supportive too and there was anger within the group about perceived disloyalty to the government.\n\nA short-term suspension of the whip was about to be delivered when the SNP titan, and Fergus's mother, Winnie Ewing, died.\n\nThat obviously delayed matters, with the sanction now expected to be handed down next week.\n\nFergus Ewing meanwhile remains unrepentant, and insists he will continue to vote with his principles and on behalf of his constituents.", "School children in Edinburgh hold up numbers to reveal Scotland's new total population\n\nScotland's population has risen to 5,436,600 - the highest figure on record - the first results from the 2022 census have shown.\n\nIt grew by 141,200 (2.7%) since 2011 - a slower rate of growth than the last census and one of the slowest UK rates.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland (NRS) data shows that without migration the population would have decreased by about 49,800 since 2011.\n\nMore than one million people are aged 65 and over - a 22.5% rise since 2011.\n\nThe census is usually carried out every 10 years and asks people to answer questions about themselves, their household and their home to build a detailed snapshot of society.\n\nThe results are intended to help organisations make decisions on planning and funding public services such as transport, education and healthcare.\n\nWhile it is the highest population figure ever recorded, the 2.7% increase shows growth has slowed since the last census.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2011 the number of people living in Scotland grew by 233,400 (4.6%).\n\nThe other UK censuses showed different rates of population growth than in Scotland.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, the population increased in England by 6.6%, in Northern Ireland it was 5.1% but in Wales it was lower than Scotland's figure, at 1.4%. This census data was collected one year earlier than in Scotland.\n\nAcross Scotland, the population increased in 17 council areas between 2011 and 2022, with 10 areas seeing decreases and five seeing minimal change.\n\nMost of the council areas in the central belt of the country saw increases in their populations, particularly those around Edinburgh.\n\nThe council area that saw the largest increase was Midlothian, jumping 16.1% from 83,187 to 96,600.\n\nNa h-Eileanan Siar saw the biggest percentage decrease (down 5.5%) while the population of Inverclyde dropped from 81,485 to 78,400 over a decade.\n\nThe population of the Glasgow City council area is 620,700, up from 593,245 in 2011.\n\nThe City of Edinburgh council area also saw its population rise, up from 476,626 in 2011 to 512,700 last year.\n\nNRS said these increases were driven by migration from both within Scotland and elsewhere.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nA more detailed breakdown on how people responded to the census questions will be published next year.\n\nThe census data illustrates the changing age profile of Scotland's population.\n\nPeople aged 65 and over now account for a fifth of the overall population, with more older people (1,091,000) than those under the age of 15 (832,300).\n\nBy contrast, results from the 1971 census show there were twice as many people under 15 than 65 and over.\n\nIn 2011, the two age groups were of a broadly similar size.\n\nLiving alone is on the rise, with a 5.8% increase in the number of households with at least one usual resident (2,509,300).\n\nThis jump is higher than the increase in the overall population and the NRS points out older people are more likely to live alone or in smaller households.\n\nA \"lessons learned\" review of Scotland's census is being carried out after it struggled to achieve its target return rates.\n\nThe deadline had to be extended before it finally achieved 89% participation.\n\nEngland and Wales held their census in 2021, with a 97% completion rate. The previous Scottish census, in 2011, achieved 95% participation.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government delayed the latest one by a year because of the Covid pandemic, and by the initial deadline of April 2022 it had only achieved an average return rate of 79%.\n\nSome experts suggested that decoupling it from the census in other parts of the UK may have resulted in less publicity and awareness.\n\nNRS chief executive Janet Egdell said the data would be \"vital for planning health services, education and transport\" services for years to come.\n\nCabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Angus Robertson, said: \"The census also shows that, in line with many other countries, our population is ageing.\n\n\"Understanding these changes in the population will allow local authorities and the government to adapt vital public services to better meet the needs of those living and working in Scotland.\"\n\nNRS officials say they had to draw up a \"ground breaking\" strategy after the 2022 census failed to reach a 90% completion rate.\n\nCritics will ask whether the need to break new ground could have been avoided in the first place and a lessons learned review is under way.\n\nThe Scottish government delayed the 2021 census for a year because of the pandemic, putting it out of sync with the rest of the UK.\n\nFor the first time people were encouraged to respond online and the eventual participation rate after the deadline was extended came in at 89%.\n\nSouth of the border, the census went ahead as planned in 2021 and was completed by 97% of households.\n\nThe results of the Scottish census have been combined with other information to produce the stats which are being published from today.\n\nNRS says an international steering group was brought on board to check what they were doing and provide \"quality assurance.\"\n\nAs for the next census, a decision on whether it will be held in 2031 or 2032 has not yet been taken.", "Libya is home to many Egyptians who have made the long journey from across the border to find work. A number were based in Derna when it was hit by deadly floods on Sunday.\n\nThe town of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, is mourning the deaths of friends and family killed in Derna.\n\nHassan Abdel Salehin grieves for members of his family lost in the flood Image caption: Hassan Abdel Salehin grieves for members of his family lost in the flood\n\n“I have lost four members of my family,\" says Hassan Abdel Salehin.\n\nHis son, two nephews and the son of his brother-in-law are among 74 people from the same town who died in the flood.\n\n“My son called his brother last Thursday for the last time, telling him that he will get clothes for the children and come to visit Egypt... oh dear son.”\n\nMohamed Zaghloul says people as young as 15 travel from Egypt to Libya for work Image caption: Mohamed Zaghloul says people as young as 15 travel from Egypt to Libya for work\n\n\"Most of the people in our town are working in Derna, even youths as young as 20 or 15 years old go to work there,\" says Mohamed Zaghloul who lives in another town.\n\nZaghloul says more than 2,000 people from where he lives are in Libya, and some families have lost between one and three members each.\n\n\"Losses are more than if there was a war,” he adds.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Egyptian government said 87 bodies had so far been returned from Libya.", "Annie Macmanus said she was speaking on behalf of \"a real range of\" women in the music industry\n\nFormer BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus has told MPs there is a \"tidal wave\" of revelations about sexual assault in the music industry waiting to be told.\n\nThe broadcaster and writer told a House of Commons committee an \"unbelievable\" number of stories have not yet emerged.\n\nThe music business is \"a boys' club\" and \"the system is kind of rigged against women\", she said.\n\nMany women fear for their careers if they speak out about misconduct or abuses of power, she added.\n\n\"There needs to be some sort of a shift in women feeling like they're able to speak out without their careers being compromised,\" the DJ formerly known as Annie Mac told the Women and Equalities Committee.\n\n\"I don't know how that can happen. I feel like there are a lot of revelations that have not been exposed, even just from the conversations that happened for [the hearing] today.\n\n\"It's infuriating, the amount of women who have stories of sexual assault that just kind of buried them and carried them. It's just unbelievable.\n\n\"So I do think if something were to happen, like if one person was to speak that had enough profile where it got media attention, I think there could be a kind of tidal wave of it. Definitely.\"\n\nThe DJ and author gave evidence to the committee at the House of Commons\n\nMacmanus explained she had not experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct personally, but said her 19 years at the BBC gave her a \"shield of protection\" to talk about such issues.\n\nShe said she had spoken to \"a real range of\" female agents, managers, producers, photographers, artists and fellow DJs.\n\n\"There are common threads that run through everything I've heard,\" she said. \"That is that women, especially young women in the music industry, are consistently underestimated and undermined, and freelance women are consistently put in situations where they are unsafe.\"\n\nShe gave an example of one artist who went to the pub with a record label boss, who kept asking her not to go home. \"And then when they go out in the street, he sexually assaulted her,\" she said.\n\nA lot of women had told her about \"a general sense of feeling unsafe\" in male-dominated venues, Macmanus said.\n\n\"The music industry is a boys' club. Everybody knows everyone in the top levels. All the people at the very top levels have the money. They also have the power. The system is kind of rigged against women.\"\n\nRebecca Ferguson said she had been told rapes were going unreported\n\nSinger and former X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson also gave evidence to the MPs, who are conducting an inquiry into misogyny in the music industry.\n\n\"Misogyny in music is the tip of the iceberg of the things that are happening behind the scenes,\" Ferguson told them.\n\nShe said \"bullying and corruption is being allowed to happen\", and that men in senior positions had asked security staff \"to infiltrate and purposely ruin my romantic relationships\".\n\n\"I witnessed other performers being encouraged to engage in messages of a sexual nature with each other,\" she added.\n\nShe told the MPs: \"There are plenty of times when you're placed in situations where you are being compromised and where people are abusing their level of power.\n\n\"But as well as that, the thing that worries me the most is the rapes that are going unreported. That's what concerns me the most - the fact that women feel like they can't speak up.\n\n\"One lady contacted me and said, 'I've wanted to do this [speak out] my entire life. If I speak up against him, he's so powerful, I will never work in this industry ever again'.\"", "Today's indictment was expected - but it's still notable. It's the first time the child of a sitting president has been criminally prosecuted.\n\nAnd as Gary O'Donogue has just pointed out, the president is facing a tight presidential race next year and his son being on trial muddies the water.\n\nSo what happens next?\n\nHunter Biden will be called to face a judge in court. We don't know when that will be yet, but we'll bring you the details on the website when we have it.\n\nAs far as Joe Biden is concerned, the House of Representatives investigation into whether to impeach him continues - and we have no idea how long that might take.\n\nIn the meantime, read more:\n\nThe indictment: The legal troubles of President Biden's son explained\n\nThe election race: What we know about the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry\n\nThanks for joining us, and have a good evening.", "The promise from the prime minister in the first week of January was clear. \"NHS waiting lists will fall and people will get the care they need more quickly,\" he said.\n\nAnd yet, waiting lists in England are getting longer and longer. They are at a record high.\n\nThe gap between the promise and reality is stark.\n\nBut what really struck me was how direct the prime minister has chosen to be in two ways.\n\nFirstly, to acknowledge more bluntly than ever before that his promise is - for now at least - going up in a puff of smoke.\n\nAnd secondly, why he thought that was happening.\n\nHe blames the strikes in the NHS.\n\nIt sets up an invitation for you to decide who you blame: Medics on picket lines or the prime minister?\n\nGranted, for some time ministers have referred in the round to industrial action making it harder to bring waiting lists down.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak has now gone considerably further than that.\n\nHe said the government was making \"very good progress\" before the strikes. And without them, he reckons, he would have kept his promise.\n\nFigures inside the NHS don't dispute the colossal impact of the strikes.\n\nOne long-standing manager told me the extra £200m promised for the NHS this winter wouldn't come close to covering the costs of the doctors strikes so far - let alone those still to come.\n\nThey added, though, that the number of vacancies in the NHS and rising demand are other big contributory factors to the backlogs.\n\nBut a government source zoomed in on the consequences of industrial action.\n\n\"The impact is much bigger than just the strike days,\" they said.\n\n\"The knock-ons are huge - not only are so, so many appointments postponed, they all then have to be re-arranged. It's a huge amount of extra work.\"\n\nNext week will see junior doctors and consultants in England walk out at the same time for the first time in the history of the NHS.\n\nSo, is there any prospect of a resolution to the industrial action?\n\nRight now, the answer feels like no.\n\nThose I speak to in government, publicly and privately, appear resolute. The pay offer to doctors is \"final\" and further walkouts won't change that they say.\n\nThey argue doctors have been offered what they see as a generous pay rise and loads of other NHS staff have accepted their pay offers.\n\nThe shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told me \"it is deeply cynical to blame NHS staff for rising waiting lists,\" adding: \"I don't think he's interested in sorting out these strikes. He's got a scapegoat.\"\n\nLabour say if they were in government they would talk to the striking doctors, but it's not clear precisely how they would pacify them, given their pay demands appear well in excess of what Labour would be willing to pay.\n\nSo either way these strikes are costly: Costly in their impact and costly to the public purse to resolve.\n\nThe former Conservative Health Minister Lord Bethell said the strikes \"are fundamentally the cause of the current problem\" in the NHS.\n\nBut, on Rishi Sunak's promise to cut waiting lists, he added: \"I think the pledge was a mistake frankly.\"\n\nWhoever is chosen for blame here, the prime minister chose to make a promise.\n\nAnd he's now acknowledging it is one he is breaking.", "Police have been attacked with petrol bombs, rocks and masonry in Londonderry.\n\nOne officer was struck on the head, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.\n\nThe disorder started after police began three searches in Bligh's Lane in Creggan at about 16:00 BST as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation.\n\nThey found a suspected firearm, a number of suspected pipe bombs and a quantity of suspected ammunition.\n\n\"During the searches, a quantity of cash and a firearm have been seized which will be subject to forensic examination,\" the PSNI said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane\n\n\"Petrol bombs, rocks, masonry, steel poles and traffic cones were thrown at police, damaging police Land Rovers.\"\n\nSupt William Calderwood added: \"We appreciate the disruption search activity can have but I want to reassure you of this - our presence in the area and activity we carry out is about keeping people safe. That is our priority and we would appeal for calm.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he had spoken to residents and appealed to police to \"end their operation as soon as possible so peace can be restored\".\n\n\"Violence will solve nothing,\" he said in a social-media post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood 🇺🇦 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Eastwood said there was \"nothing to be gained from attacking police officers in Derry - the young kids involved are only putting themselves and their futures in jeopardy\".\n\nHe added: \"I am appealing for parents to get in touch with their children, to make sure they know where they are and that they are safe this evening.\"\n\nMr Eastwood called the recovery of a suspected gun, ammunition and pipe bomb \"deeply concerning\" and said the SDLP \"will be meeting with the PSNI in the coming days to discuss these matters\".\n• None Police attacked for second night in a row in Derry", "Hours before kick-off in Marseille they came piling out of Metro Rond Du Prado and headed slowly down the Boulevard Michelet to meet their own folk, a giant mass of Puma supporters bedecked in blue and white.\n\nThey sang the songs that became famous when their footballers were crowned champions of the world last year, they gathered in their thousands at the foot of the stairs to the Stade Velodrome drinking in the atmosphere of what maybe they thought was going to be their night against weak and anaemic England, an England they'd already beaten at Twickenham, an England that were supposedly there for the taking.\n\nHow could they have known that the sickly England of before would gather themselves in this way? All the pressure in the rugby world and down to 14 men - again - after less than a handful of minutes? You'd have bet the house on Argentina at that point - and you'd be looking for new digs today.\n\nIt wasn't quite the game of England's dreams, but it was a win they needed, a victory that will make their skies brighter, their mood happier and the questions from their doubters softer.\n\nWatching them thanking their fans in the aftermath of their 27-10 victory you could sense not just joy at a victory but relief, too. There are still a ton of questions to answer and there is no chance of England doing anything truly substantial in this tournament with resilience alone.\n\nThey had truckloads of it against Argentina and they were impressive in the way they blasted through adversity.\n\nTheir attacking game is still not so much a work-in-progress as hard work, though. They didn't have a whole lot in the way of ambition on that front, but they found another way and George Ford was the guy with the torch leading them out of the darkness of recent months - and years.\n\nFord was a colossus in kicking his penalties and landing his drop-goals. No Englishman has ever kept a scoreboard ticking over in a World Cup game quite like Ford did at the Velodrome. Jannie de Beer, the five-drop Bok of 1999, might have been shifting uncomfortably in his seat when the fly-half nailed his hat-trick with an entire half to play.\n\nEngland played a limited game because that's all that England have right now. Ford recognised that and took charge. That was leadership, that was game management, that was rugby intelligence.\n\nThey weren't good enough to break down the Pumas with their deception and pace and accuracy in the attack, but they did them for power and for nous. Argentina were distraught at the end.\n\nTheir coach, Michael Cheika, is not known as one of rugby's calmest characters when things are going awry for him or his team and he will have been shocked and incensed at how his players were bossed by 14 Englishmen.\n\nBoy, did England need this and, boy, did they deserve it. Every part of their existence as a rugby team has been pored over this past while and the analysis has been unsparing.\n\nNobody knew what England were trying to do. Players who weren't selected for the original World Cup squad were suddenly parachuted into the World Cup team.\n\nThe entire set-up had become the butt of all jokes. There were memes and gifs mocking Steve Borthwick and his players; their defeats and their red cards, their lack of tries and the vast distance they had fallen behind not just the biggest of big guns but also Fiji.\n\nThey had fallen to eighth in the world. Borthwick had won 33% of his Tests in charge. Twickenham had turned and some of the dissenters had made it out to Marseille.\n\nDominant England forwards - and we can include Manu Tuilagi as an honorary member of the crew given the shift he put in - and the cleverness of Ford changed all of that. From being abused to being serenaded, the England players went on a journey at the Velodrome.\n\nThere are things they'll wake up to that will trouble them, of course. Tom Curry is facing a ban and it's unlikely that their rugby lawyer to beat all rugby lawyers is going to get him off. England's discipline issues are startling. Their red card count is bewilderingly high.\n\nOwen Farrell watched from the stands in Marseille. What does Borthwick do with his captain once he's free from suspension?\n\nFord seems to be liberated when he is running the show out there, he seems a different player when he's not under Farrell's shadow. So many times in the recent past, England have lacked control but Ford delivered it in the most stunning way.\n\nHe left the field to a mighty ovation from the England fans - and he deserved every cheer. They were crying out for somebody to bring order to the chaos and Ford did it.\n\nSo England are on their way. We can't be sure where, precisely, they're going, but this was a forward step towards a better place.", "Titanic is to take to the waters of Belfast Lough again this weekend.\n\nNot the legendary liner itself, of course, but a 22-foot-long replica built by East Belfast Yacht Club.\n\nThe club was founded by workers from the Belfast shipyards in the early years of the 20th Century, in the years before construction of the Titanic began in 1909.\n\nIts Titanic will take to the city's waters as part of the Belfast Maritime Festival on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThe model was built over a decade ago but has been dusted and repaired for its sailing this weekend\n\nWith its home between Victoria Park and Belfast City Airport, East Belfast Yacht Club is only a stone's throw away from Harland & Wolff where Titanic was built.\n\nThe company's modern-day cranes Sampson and Goliath overlook the part of Belfast Lough where members sail.\n\nAnd the club's history is tied to the shipyard, according to long-time member Brian Larmour.\n\n\"The club was actually set up in 1904 by a number of shipyard workers, including some of the higher-ups - management types,\" he said.\n\nPaul has been careful to recreate many of the features and details of the original Titanic\n\n\"The Titanic was for many years forgotten about.\n\n\"Nobody wanted to talk about it for a long time until (Robert) Ballard found it out in the Atlantic.\"\n\nIt was club member Paul Andrews who originally built the Titanic replica to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy in 2012.\n\n\"East Belfast Yacht Club was founded by shipyard men who originally worked on the Titanic,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I built this boat at absolutely no expense, it was all stuff I had lying about.\n\nYacht clubs members have spent hours in the workshop to get the model ready for the water\n\n\"I'm not a model-maker by any means but I just decided to give it a go and it turned out quite well.\n\n\"The Titanic is very special, we should claim it.\n\n\"It was a horrible loss of life but we should remember it for the beautiful thing that it was.\n\n\"The whole world has gone on to build bigger and better ships but I don't think we ever built more beautiful ships.\"\n\nBunting has been attached to the model Titanic for the sailing this weekend\n\nOver a decade after he originally made it, Paul's Titanic has been repaired by club members and spruced up to sail in Belfast Lough again.\n\nIt takes four people to get it into the water for it to sail the short distance to the nearby Queen's Quay and Belfast Harbour Marina for the Maritime Festival.\n\nBut it is Paul who has to actually climb inside to pilot it.\n\nOne of the four iconic funnels is removed to let him get into the ship, then replaced when he is inside.\n\n\"I'm an amateur boat-builder so I thought if I build it that I can ride in it it'll be more interesting than just building a model,\" he said.\n\nPaul says his attempt at building a Titanic replica has \"turned out well\"\n\n\"I actually prefer to sit in it and steer it because if something goes wrong at least there's an overgrown child to put things right!\n\n\"Everybody's looking, thinking: 'Where's it being remote controlled from?' and then you pop the hatch up and the kids love it, it's a bit of fun.\"\n\nHe admits that he is proud of his handiwork.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed as not everybody makes an eejit of themselves like this!\n\n\"But I've grown to love it, I've grown to love it.\"", "Sunday has become the seventh day in a row for temperatures to exceed 30C (86F), as the unprecedented September heatwave goes on.\n\nIt comes as Saturday was provisionally named the hottest day of the year so far, with 32.7C recorded in Heathrow.\n\nBut the heat will largely be centred on southern England, with many parts of the UK soon facing thundery downpours.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning for thunderstorms is in place from 14:00 BST to 23:59 on Sunday.\n\nThe alert applies to most of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England and Wales, and parts of southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 50mm (2in) of rain could fall in under two hours and \"large hail and lightning are likely additional hazards\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe warning means some people could also be in store for flash flooding and strong winds - with possible interruptions to road access and public transport.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Sarah Keith-Lucas said Sunday would be another very hot day, especially in the south, with temperatures of 32C possible.\n\nFurther north there is a chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms later in the day, but southern and eastern parts should stay dry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, an amber heat-health warning issued by the UK Health Security Agency was in effect for nearly every area of England until 21:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe amber alert remains in place for the south and east of England, and London, until 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThis indicates the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nAnd despite another sweltering day for some, the record-breaking September heatwave is expected to give way through the early parts of next week, as cooler air reaches all areas of the UK.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIf you have you been affected by the hot weather, you can share your tips and experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dust can be seen around the minaret of the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the city.\n\nThe video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, prompted fears it could collapse.", "Barbara-Ann Mackay, her sister Sarah-Jane Shellard and their aunt Audrey Anderson, from Arbroath, who were all diagnosed with breast cancer over an eight-month period.\n\nHundreds of people have returned to the streets of Edinburgh in their bras for MoonWalk Scotland.\n\nWomen, men and young people wearing brightly decorated bras or bra T-shirts set off from Holyrood Park at 23:00 on Saturday to walk a half or full marathon through the city.\n\nOrganised by breast cancer charity Walk the Walk, the first MoonWalk Scotland was held in 2006.\n\nThe event returned last year after a two-year absence due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nSince 2006, walkers have raised almost £22m, which is granted across Scotland to help support those living with cancer.\n\nAmong those taking part was Barbara-Ann Mackay, her sister Sarah-Jane Shellard and their aunt Audrey Anderson, all from Arbroath, who were all diagnosed with breast cancer during an eight-month period in 2018.\n\nThey all had double mastectomies and chemotherapy.\n\nWalk the Walk recently awarded £50,000 to the charity Cancer Support Scotland, to help reduce the waiting list for Scottish cancer patients and their families, who are in need of emotional and wellbeing support.\n\nMany buildings and landmarks across Edinburgh, including Edinburgh Castle, lit up pink throughout the night.\n\nWalk the Walk specialises in promoting the benefits of walking as an important part of cancer prevention, as well as for overall mental health and physical wellbeing.", "Ukraine's defence ministry said Anthony Ihnat and Emma Iqual would 'forever live in our hearts'\n\nTwo foreign aid volunteers have been killed and two others injured in a Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has said.\n\nEmma Igual, the Spanish director of Road to Relief, and Anthony Ihnat, a Canadian colleague, died on Saturday as their vehicle drove towards Bakhmut.\n\nThe NGO said that German volunteer Ruben Mawick and Johan Mathias Thyr, a Swede, were badly injured by shrapnel.\n\nThe group said the vehicle suffered a \"direct hit\", flipped and caught fire.\n\nThe aid workers had left from Slovyansk and were headed to the Bakhmut area to assess the needs of civilians \"caught in crossfire\" in the town of Ivanivske, the statement said.\n\nMadrid confirmed that a Spanish national had died in the attack.\n\nRoad to Relief was registered in Ukraine last year to help evacuate civilians from the frontline.\n\nIt said that the team was preparing to assess the needs of Ivanivske when they were attacked by Russian forces.\n\nTheir work had \"resulted in numerous evacuations and crucial aid deliveries over the 18 months that we have been in operation,\" it said.\n\nMr Ihnat was described in an online tribute by fellow NGO Actions Beyond Words as \"an unbelievably gentle, kind guy who would light up any room\".\n\n\"We remember a beautiful hero to Ukraine,\" it said.\n\nThe Ukrainian defence ministry blamed \"Russian terrorists\" for the attack and said that Road to Relief was \"entirely focused on civilian projects\".\n\nIt said the deaths were \"a painful, irreparable loss. Emma and Anthony will forever be in our hearts.\"\n\nEastern Ukraine has become increasingly dangerous for aid workers, both Ukrainian and international.\n\nIn its latest report, published last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that there had been 100 \"security incidents\" affecting aid work this year.\n\n\"Attacks impacting distribution points have steadily increased throughout the year, forcing a temporary suspension of aid on many occasions,\" it said.\n\n\"In 2023, at least six aid workers were killed and 16 injured in the line of duty in Ukraine, compared to four killed in the whole of 2022.\"\n\nIn January, British nationals Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed as they tried to evacuate civilians in Soledar, north of Bakhmut, as Russia's Wagner mercenary group closed in.", "An inmate has been stabbed at HMP Wandsworth in south west London, Metropolitan Police have said.\n\nThe man is in critical condition and was taken to a major trauma centre after emergency services were called to the prison on Sunday.\n\nPolice were called at about 15:20 BST to reports of an inmate being assaulted inside the prison.\n\nThe incident, which took place between prisoners, was also attended by an air ambulance.\n\nA Met spokesperson said: \"Officers and London Ambulance Service attended and a man has been taken to hospital for treatment to a stab injury.\n\n\"He remains there in a critical condition.\"\n\nNo arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing, police said.\n\nHMP Wandsworth, as well as the wider prison service, has faced increased scrutiny after terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped on Wednesday.\n\nMr Khalife was charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison on Sunday, after he was arrested on a towpath in Northolt on Saturday following a four-day manhunt.\n\nA prison service spokesperson said: \"Staff swiftly responded to an incident between prisoners at HMP Wandsworth today.\n\n\"We have a zero tolerance approach to violence and will always take strong action against those who break these rules.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk confirmed that around 40 inmates had been transferred from Wandsworth prison - which holds about 1,600 inmates - in response to Mr Khalife's escape.\n\nMr Chalk also said preliminary inquiries had confirmed that the correct security protocols and staffing levels were in place at the time of the escape.\n• None About 40 inmates moved from prison after escape", "A British man has become the first amputee to swim the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland solo.\n\nJonty Warneken, who lost his left leg after a car crash in 1994, completed the feat in 15 hours and 24 minutes.\n\nThe distance is 21.4 miles (34.5km) as the crow flies, but with currents pushing him off course, Mr Warneken ended up travelling 33.5 miles (54km).\n\nThe North Channel is considered the toughest of the \"Oceans Seven\" swim challenges around the world.\n\nIt is slightly longer than the English Channel, the water tends to be colder, and there are strong currents and Lions Mane jellyfish to contend with.\n\nMr Warneken, from North Yorkshire, was stung several times, including inside his mouth and around his neck. But he told the BBC that along with the cold water, that actually helped take his mind off the pain in his shoulders, although he says as an amputee he is used to coping with pain.\n\nSo, how hard is it swimming the North Channel with only one leg?\n\n\"It is considerably more difficult,\" he says. \"Partly because you are unbalanced as you swim.\n\n\"I'm asymmetric, so other parts of me have to compensate when I roll and get bashed about by the waves. That puts extra strain on my back, shoulders and arms.\"\n\nNor does he get much propulsion from kicking. His right ankle is pinned, so can't really be used. \"My legs are more of a burden than an aid to be honest,\" he adds.\n\nPadraig Mallon of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association confirmed that Mr Warneken was the first amputee to successfully swim the North Channel solo, and only the 135th swimmer to complete the feat since it was first done in 1947.\n\nMr Mallon said they were \"extremely proud of Jonty's achievement, and honoured to enter his swim into the history books. We hope that Jonty will inspire more people to follow in his footsteps.\"\n\nMr Warneken took up ice swimming and distance events after his dreams of playing professional rugby were ended by his car accident at the age of 22.\n\nLast year, he was among the first group of amputees, called Team Bits Missing, to complete a relay swim across the North Channel.\n\nAs he neared the finish of his solo swim on Friday night, he thought he would get super emotional.\n\n\"But I didn't. I was just pretty beat up and tired,\" he says.\n\n\"I was actually concerned because I finished in the dark against the cliffs and the sea was bashing around on the rocks, so I was more focused on self-preservation than thinking about what I had achieved.\"\n\nNow though he has had a chance to reflect.\n\n\"Nothing great comes from things being easy,\" he says. \"The pain, the suffering, the loneliness of long training days and nights, the danger, the recovery, it is all worth it to achieve what are monumentally tough challenges.\"\n\nThe 51 year old, who was raising money for Open Country, a charity which helps people with disabilities access and enjoy the countryside, says his next challenge is to \"lose the two and a half stone I put on to cope with the coldness of the North Channel\".\n\nMr Warneken is the first amputee to successfully swim the North Channel solo", "A researcher at the UK Parliament has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, amid claims he was spying for China.\n\nPolice have confirmed two men, one in his 20s and another in his 30s, were arrested under the act in March.\n\nSources have told the BBC one of them was a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, it is understood the researcher had access to several Conservative MPs.\n\nOn Sunday morning, No 10 said Rishi Sunak had expressed concerns about Chinese interference to a senior official from China.\n\nA spokesperson said the prime minister had met Chinese Premier Li Qiang during the G20 summit in India, and \"conveyed his significant concerns about Chinese interference the UK's parliamentary democracy\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is not attending the summit.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the researcher had access to security minister Tom Tugendhat and foreign affairs committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.\n\nSeveral government sources declined to comment on security matters.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"A man in his 30s was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire and a man in his 20s was arrested at an address in Edinburgh.\n\n\"Searches were also carried out at both the residential properties, as well as at a third address in east London.\"\n\nBoth men were taken to a south London police station, and were subsequently released on police bail until a date in early October, it said.\n\nThe Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, is investigating.\n\nIt is reported the researcher had access to Mr Tugendhat before he became security minister in September last year.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe man has not been named - but the Sunday Times said he had lived in China for a period.\n\nConservative MP Alicia Kearns said she was aware of the paper's report but declined to comment, adding: \"While I recognise the public interest, we all have a duty to ensure any work of the authorities is not jeopardised.\"\n\nAsked about the report on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said he could not comment on specific cases.\n\nHe defended the current stance towards China, saying the UK was right to \"engage\" with the country but Mr Sunak had highlighted the need to \"proceed with caution\".\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he added: \"Whatever lessons need to be learned by the parliamentary authorities I am sure will be learned.\"\n\nThe arrests will reignite the debate over London's relationship with Beijing. There has been growing concern about Chinese espionage and also interference in Parliament, with questions about whether more action should have been taken to mitigate risks.\n\nLast year, an unusual parliamentary interference alert was issued regarding the activities of Christine Lee.\n\nMI5 alleged she had been carrying out political interference activities including donating funds to support the work of MPs. This was all said to be on behalf of China.\n\nOther countries, notably Australia and Canada, have also seen recent claims of Chinese espionage or interference in politics, with the Chinese government denying any such activity.\n\nTensions have been increasing over both espionage and wider security threats in recent years - but the last few months has seen attempts by both Washington and London to stabilise relations with China.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visited Beijing less than two weeks ago and told the BBC it would not be \"credible\" to disengage.\n\nReacting to the arrests, Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said it was \"time for us to recognise the deepening threat that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) under (President) Xi now pose\".\n\nHe also questioned the UK's approach to China, adding: \"What price was Cleverly's kowtow visit to Beijing?\"\n\nTory MP Tim Loughton said: \"This is yet further evidence of how far the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reach into British institutions.\n\n\"Yet again the security of Parliament has potentially been compromised, reinforcing how we cannot view the CCP as anything other than a hostile foreign threat.\"\n\nParliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a long-awaited report in July, warning that the government had been slow to come to terms with the security risks from Beijing.\n\n\"It appears that China has a high level of intent to interfere with the UK government, targeting officials and bodies at a range of levels to influence UK political thinking and decision-making relevant to China,\" the report said.\n\nIt noted the challenges in prosecuting cases linked to espionage given that it was, at that time, not a criminal offence to be an agent of a foreign intelligence service.\n\nMI5 and the wider intelligence community have long complained that the old Official Secrets Act was inadequate in dealing with hostile state activity. The US and Australia both have been able to use a wider range of powers.\n\nNational security legislation to provide new powers to investigate espionage and other security threats did come into effect this summer in the UK, but this was after the arrest of the two men which took place under the old Official Secrets Act.", "An old mosque in Marrakesh is among the many buildings that have been severely damaged\n\nThe earthquake of magnitude 6.8 which has hit central Morocco is the biggest the area has seen since before 1900.\n\nThousands have died in the quake, which struck at 23:11 local time on Friday.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5km, the US Geological Survey said.\n\nThe main tectonic driver is the collision between the plates that carry the European and African continents.\n\nThis quake will be related to the thrusting and faulting that continues to push up the Atlas Mountains.\n\nBut Morocco is not really the place where such powerful earthquakes occur.\n\nMost of the earthquake activity from this slow (4mm/year) geological \"car crash\" is further east in the Mediterranean, around Italy, Greece and towards Turkey.\n\nMany of the deaths are said to be in hard-to-reach mountain areas\n\nIn terms of history, there has been nothing bigger than a magnitude 6.0 within 500km (300 miles) of Friday night's epicentre since before 1900.\n\nThis unfamiliarity has consequences. The quake memory in the population will be limited and so will have been the preparedness.\n\n\"There's nobody alive in the local area who experienced an earthquake as big as this, and if they're close to the epicentre the shaking would have been very intense and buildings won't have been built to seismic resilience standards, even the modern ones,\" David Rothery, professor of planetary geosciences at the Open University, UK, told BBC News.\n\nIt is often also the case that quakes that hit at night have bigger death tolls, as people are more likely to be inside collapsing buildings.\n\nThe US Geological Survey runs a model that estimates the probable scale of the casualties and economic losses. It suggests for this event that the death toll could be in the high hundreds to low thousands.\n\nThe current toll could therefore rise and there could be aftershocks. As a rule of thumb people could expect to see one that is about one magnitude less than the main shock.\n\nBut even smaller tremors risk bringing down already damaged buildings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four videos show extent of damage in Marrakesh\n\nThe death toll from a powerful earthquake in Morocco has soared to more than 2,000, with a similar number of injured.\n\nThe interior ministry says more than 1,400 have serious injuries, and the heaviest casualties are in provinces just south of Marrakesh.\n\nKing Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning and ordered shelter, food and other help for survivors.\n\nMany people are spending a second night out in the open.\n\nThe magnitude 6.8 quake hit Marrakesh and many towns on Friday night. In remote mountain areas, entire villages are reported to have been flattened.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh - a city with world heritage status which is popular with tourists.\n\nBut the tremors were also felt in the capital Rabat, some 350km away, as well as Casablanca, Agadir and Essaouira.\n\nThe interior ministry says Al Haouz province has the highest death toll, followed by Taroudant province. There are far fewer deaths in Marrakesh, though the Unesco-protected old city has suffered considerable damage.\n\nIt is believed that many simple mud brick, stone and timber homes in mountain villages will have collapsed, but the scale of devastation in remote areas will take some time to assess.\n\nWhen he arrived in one such village, BBC correspondent Nick Beake says, an elderly woman was wailing as 18 bodies had been recovered in that one place.\n\nMany people are camping out for the night there, he says, as they fear aftershocks. They say they are desperately short of food and water. But such places are hard to reach, with mountain roads strewn with rocks and other debris, making access difficult for the emergency services.\n\nKing Mohammed VI chaired an emergency meeting with officials to co-ordinate rescue efforts and aid\n\nFlags will be at half-mast on all public buildings in the country for the next three days, the royal palace said in a statement.\n\nThe king ordered the armed forces to assist rescue teams, and Moroccans are donating blood as part of the national effort to help victims.\n\nIt was Morocco's deadliest earthquake since Agadir was devastated by a 6.7-magnitude quake in 1960, which killed more than 12,000.\n\nFriday's quake was also the most powerful to hit Morocco for more than a century.\n\nThe UN said it was ready to assist the government of Morocco in its rescue efforts - and similar pledges have come from several countries including Spain, France and Israel.\n\nNeighbouring Algeria has had hostile relations with Morocco in recent years, but is now opening its airspace for humanitarian flights to Morocco.\n\nRescuers have been searching through rubble\n\nMany families were trapped when the quake struck at night.\n\nMontasir Itri, who lives in the mountain village of Asni, close to the epicentre, told Reuters: \"Our neighbours are under the rubble and people are working hard to rescue them using available means in the village.\"\n\nHouda Outassaf had been walking around Jemaa el-Fna Square in Marrakesh when he felt the ground start to shake.\n\n\"I have at least 10 members of my family who died... I can hardly believe it, as I was with them no more than two days ago,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nA mosque minaret collapsed in Jemaa el-Fna Square and many narrow streets in the city's old Medina were filled with rubble.\n\nIn Moulay Brahim, Al Haouz province, people prayed next to the bodies of victims\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLuis Rubiales has resigned as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup final presentation ceremony.\n\nHermoso, 33, said the kiss after Spain beat England was not consensual and she filed a legal complaint last Tuesday.\n\nRubiales said he had submitted his resignation to federation acting president Pedro Rocha in a statement.\n\n\"I cannot continue my work,\" he told Piers Morgan on his television show.\n\nThe 46-year-old has also resigned from his position as vice-president of Uefa's executive committee.\n\nThe fallout from the kiss has engulfed Spanish football in recent weeks and overshadowed Spain's World Cup win, with Rubiales ignoring repeated calls to resign.\n\nOn Friday, a prosecutor filed a complaint with Spain's high court - following Hermoso's testimony on Tuesday - against Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion.\n\nRubiales claimed the kiss was \"mutual\" and \"consensual\" but had been provisionally suspended by football's world governing body Fifa.\n\n\"After the quick suspension carried out by Fifa, plus the rest of open proceedings against me, it is evident that I will not be able to return to my position,\" Rubiales' statement read.\n\n\"Insisting on waiting and holding on is not going to contribute to anything positive, neither to the federation nor to Spanish football.\"\n\nRubiales said he hoped his departure would boost Spain's joint bid with Morocco and Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup.\n\nHe added: \"I have faith in the truth and I will do everything in my power to prevail.\n\n\"My daughters, my family and the people who love me have suffered the effects of excessive persecution, as well as many falsehoods, but it is also true that on the street, more and more every day, the truth is prevailing.\"\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, said they would not play for the national team again while Rubiales was in his position.\n\nWorld Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - was sacked on 5 September amid the scandal, with Montse Tome named as his successor.\n\nPoliticians, footballers and celebrities have spoken out against Rubiales, while protesters gathered at the federation's headquarters last month to demand his resignation.\n\nSpain's acting Labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, posted on X (formerly Twitter): \"The feminist country is advancing faster and faster.\n\n\"The transformation and improvement of our lives is inevitable. We are with you, Jenni, and with all women.\"\n\nAsked by Morgan whether something in particular finally led him to resign, Rubiales said he spoke to his family and listened to the advice of friends.\n\n\"My father, my daughters, I spoke with them - they know it's not a question about me - and some friends very close to me said to me 'Luis, you need to focus on your dignity and to continue your life because if not, you are going to damage people you love and the sport you love',\" Rubiales said.\n\n\"This was a question of not only me. An attitude towards me can affect third parties [that are] very important. It was the intelligent thing that I had to do.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Hermoso received a warm welcome from supporters and team-mates of her domestic club, Pachuca, before their 2-1 win against Pumas in the Liga MX women's league in Mexico.\n\nThe 33-year-old unveiled a mural on the walls of the Hidalgo Stadium celebrating her achievements with Spain in the Women's World Cup, and was also given a framed jersey with her number 10 on it.\n\nHermoso's complaint was one of sexual assault but Marta Durantez Gil has also added an allegation of coercion when filing to the high court after the forward told the prosecutor her relatives had been pressured by Rubiales and his \"professional entourage\" to say she \"justified and approved what happened\".\n\nIt is now up to the court to present formal charges against Rubiales.\n\nPrior to the kiss, Rubiales had been seen grabbing his crotch in the proximity of Queen Letizia and her daughter while celebrating Spain's 1-0 win over England in Sydney.\n\nA high court judge will now assess the complaint and decide whether to accept or archive the request. If accepted, a magistrate will be assigned to lead an investigation, which will conclude either with a recommendation for the case to go to trial or be dismissed.\n\nThe charge of sexual assault under Spanish law can carry a punishment ranging from a fine to four years in prison.\n\n\"The high court often tackles crimes with an international dimension, such as terrorism or organised crime. It is involved in this case because the alleged assault by Mr Rubiales took place in Australia,\" BBC Madrid correspondent Guy Hedgecoe explained.\n\nSpanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation on 28 August, looking into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault.\n\nAt the time, Spain's top criminal court said it was opening its investigation in light of the \"unequivocal nature\" of 33-year-old Hermoso's statements, saying it was necessary \"to determine their legal significance\".\n\nEarlier this month, Spain's national sports tribunal (TAD) opened a misconduct case against him, ruling he had committed a \"serious offence\" by kissing Hermoso.\n\nHowever, the TAD stopped short of the \"very serious offence\" the government had requested, that would have led to his suspension.\n\nFrom kiss to resignation - the timeline\n\n20 August - During the ceremony following the World Cup final, Spain forward Jenni Hermoso is first embraced then kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales.\n\nHermoso later reacts to the kiss during a live stream and says she \"did not enjoy\" it.\n\n21 August - Rubiales issues an apology saying he is \"sorry for those who were offended\" after being fiercely criticised by other footballers, the media and even by the Spanish prime minister, some of whom called on him to step down.\n\n25 August - A defiant Rubiales insists at a Spanish FA emergency meeting that he will not resign, and calls the kiss \"consensual\".\n\n25 August - The Spanish government says it is beginning legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, with the Spanish secretary of sport saying he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\".\n\n25 August - Later that day, Hermoso releases a statement on Instagram rebuffing Rubiales' claims, saying that \"at no time... was his kiss ever consensual\".\n\n25 August - 81 Spanish players - including all 23 who went to the Women's World Cup - announce they will not play for Spain's women's team until Rubiales is removed from his position.\n\n26 August - The Spanish football federation says it will take legal action over \"each falsehood that is spread\".\n\n26 August - Fifa announces it is provisionally suspending Rubiales pending the outcome of its disciplinary proceedings.\n\n26 August - World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda criticises Rubiales while his entire coaching staff resigns in protest against the federation president.\n\n27 August - The federation's delegate for sexual violence protocol confirms an internal investigation into events is under way.\n\n28 August - Rubiales' mother goes on hunger strike in a church in his hometown of Motril, while regional heads of Spanish football demand Rubiales' resignation.\n\n30 August - Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin describes Rubiales' behaviour as \"inappropriate\" - but calls for Fifa's investigation to be allowed to run its course.\n\n31 August - England manager Sarina Wiegman says the crisis surrounding Spanish football \"really hurts\" and shows there is still a \"long way to go\" in the women's game and society.\n\n5 September - Vilda is sacked as Spain head coach, 16 days after leading the team to World Cup victory.\n\n8 September - Spain's national prosecutor's office files a complaint to the high court from Hermoso about Rubiales.\n• None They argue, they bicker, but most of all, they love each other!: Meet The Royle Family on BBC iPlayer now\n• None Stephen Nolan goes in to find out", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking last month\n\nA number of relatives of the father of Sara Sharif have been detained for questioning by police in Pakistan.\n\nSara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, and his partner Beinash Batool, 29, fled the UK after the 10-year-old was found dead at their home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nA police spokesman in Jhelum said 10 close relatives had been detained but not arrested.\n\nOn Friday, Muhammad Sharif, Sara's grandfather, told the BBC he had sent a message to his son Urfan Sharif to surrender himself to police \"two to three days ago\".\n\nBBC Pakistan correspondent Carrie Davies said he conveyed the message to his son through an intermediary.\n\n\"If they surrender to the police it will mean the end of the problems that have happened to us,\" Muhammad Sharif said.\n\nHe and his family have accused the police of harassing them, illegally detaining some members and raiding their homes. Muhammad Sharif has also accused the police of creating fake cases against them to add further pressure.\n\nThe police have denied this. Syed Khurram Ali, regional police chief in Punjab, said: \"We are putting pressure on them and it is difficult for them to keep so many people hidden. We are closing on their relatives, questioning them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara Sharif's grandfather Muhammad Sharif speaks to the BBC about her death\n\nMuhammad Sharif also previously told the BBC that Sara's death was an accident and three family members who left the UK for Pakistan would \"ultimately\" return to face police questioning.\n\nPolice in Pakistan often detain the close relatives of wanted suspects, however they are not kept in jail to avoid the intervention of a court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara's mother Olga Sharif describes moment she saw her body\n\nIn video footage on Wednesday, Sara's stepmother spoke publicly for the first time since the youngster was found dead.\n\nBeinash Batool described Sara's death as \"an incident\" and said she and Sharif were willing to co-operate with UK authorities.\n\nThe couple left the UK with five children aged between one and 13.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nSurrey Police are seeking information to help them gain a picture of Sara's life and have translated their appeal into Urdu.\n\nDetectives are displaying posters in English and Urdu at the Surrey town's railway station and taxi ranks.\n\nCORRECTION: This article was amended on 9 September to correct our reporting after the BBC was told Muhammad Sharif, the father of Urfan Sharif, was not among those detained.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife has been charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison, after his four days on the run came to an end on Saturday.\n\nThe 21-year-old former soldier is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nHe was arrested on a towpath in Northolt after being pulled off a bicycle by a plain-clothed officer.\n\nMr Khalife escaped from the prison on Wednesday morning, seemingly by hiding under a food delivery lorry.\n\nThe Met Police said he had been charged with escaping on September 6 while on remand at HMP Wandsworth Prison awaiting trial at the Old Bailey, contrary to common law.\n\nHe was being held on remand at the prison in south-west London after previously being charged under the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Khalife is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and obtaining information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. He is also charged with plotting a fake bomb hoax at MOD Stafford, where he had been based. He denies the charges against him.\n\nHis escape prompted questions about security at Wandsworth prison, with Justice Secretary Alex Chalk telling the BBC he has launched investigations into the incident.\n\nMr Chalk says preliminary inquiries into the getaway have determined that correct security protocols and staffing levels were in place at the time.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"The real question is whether the protocols were followed to the extent they should be.\"\n\nThe minister also revealed earlier that dozens of prisoners were moved from HMP Wandsworth to other prisons after the escape, \"out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nMr Chalk told the BBC that \"approximately\" 40 inmates on remand were transferred this week, amid questions about whether Mr Khalife should have been held on remand at the Category B jail.\n\nPolice had offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information leading to Mr Khalife's arrest and detectives said they had received more than 100 calls from people offering information.\n\nHe was detained at 10:41 BST on Saturday - about 14 miles from the prison.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.", "Saturday was the hottest day of the year, according to provisional figures from the Met Office.\n\nA temperature of 32.7C (91F) was recorded at Heathrow Airport, making it the sixth day in a row that the heat had exceeded 30 degrees.\n\nThursday was previously the warmest day of 2023, with 32.6C recorded in Wisley, Surrey.\n\nBut Saturday may be the last hot day for parts of England and Wales, with a warning of possible thunderstorms.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning for thunderstorms is in place on Sunday for most of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England and Wales, and parts of southern Scotland, from 14:00 BST to 23:59.\n\nIt comes as figures published by NHS England show there has been a fivefold increase in the number of people seeking advice about heat exhaustion over the past week.\n\nThe current heatwave is the longest run of 30C September days on record.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Sarah Keith-Lucas said Sunday would be another very hot day, especially in the south, with temperatures of 32C possible.\n\nTemperatures will cooler further north, with a chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms later in the day, but southern and eastern parts should stay dry.\n\nCooler air will reach all parts of the UK through the early part of next week with showers in the forecast at times.\n\nMeanwhile, an amber heat-health warning issued by the UK Health Security Agency is in effect for nearly every area of England until 21:00 on Sunday.\n\nThis indicates that the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nThe rise in temperatures has led to a 552% increase in people visiting the NHS website for heat exhaustion advice.\n\nThere were 32,130 visits to the health advice page on heat exhaustion and heatstroke from Sunday to Thursday this week, according to figures released by NHS England, which runs the NHS website.\n\nThere were 4,928 visits made during the same period last week.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIf you have you been affected by the hot weather, you can share your tips and experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Chris Lewis had to return to hospital with pneumonia\n\nA mountain rescue volunteer who was badly injured while trying to help wild campers who broke coronavirus lockdown restrictions has died.\n\nChris Lewis, a member of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) in the Lake District, fell 500ft (150m) in 2021, severely damaging his spine.\n\nThe campers, from Liverpool and Leicester, were both fined £200.\n\nThe MRT praised Mr Lewis's \"highly valued\" expertise and \"significant contribution\" to the rescue community.\n\nIt said Mr Lewis was admitted to Furness General Hospital on 2 September with a chest infection and pneumonia and died two days later.\n\nTeam leader Mike Rippon said he was \"a lovely, genuine person\" and his death was a \"very sad loss\".\n\n\"He was very knowledgeable and was a great person to have around in the team,\" Mr Rippon added.\n\n\"His expertise and companionship was brilliant for new team members.\"\n\nTwo further rescue teams were called out, with one aiding the initial effort and another helping Mr Lewis\n\nMr Lewis, 62, was called out to Red Screes above the Kirkstone Pass near Ambleside in February 2021.\n\nThe fall left him with multiple facial fractures and needing a wheelchair and round-the-clock care.\n\nHe continued to support mountain rescue teams in the Lakes and, in March, received the Inspiring Eden Award for his bravery and service to the community.\n\nMr Rippon said Mr Lewis had remained a trustee, still came to meetings, and was \"very keen to be back on board\" and to \"make the best\" of things.\n\n\"Chris was keen to continue putting as much back into this voluntary rescue service as he possibly could,\" he said.\n\nThe two campers in 2021 had called for help after one of them began having chest pains.\n\nSome members of the MRT had just reached the pair after midnight when Mr Lewis slipped.\n\nThe temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prison escapee Daniel Khalife has been arrested in north-west London, after breaking out of Wandsworth prison on Wednesday.", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, faces eight charges of conspiracy to murder and could receive the death penalty\n\nThe prime minister has confirmed that he raised the case of a Scottish Sikh who has been held by Indian authorities since 2017, in talks with the country's prime minister.\n\nRishi Sunak had faced pressure to highlight the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, whose family claim has been the victim of torture.\n\nMore than 70 MPs demanded that Mr Sunak lobby for his release.\n\nEarlier this week, the Foreign Office ruled out intervening in the case.\n\nHowever, after speaking to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Mr Sunak confirmed he raised the case along with other consular issues.\n\nHe did not provide details, but said: \"The foreign office are continuing to provide support to Mr Johal's family and will continue to do so\".\n\nMr Johal, a 36 year-old campaigner for Sikh human rights, travelled to India in October 2017 to get married.\n\nHe was shopping with his wife when his family say he was snatched from the street by plain-clothes officers of the Punjab Police and forced into an unmarked car.\n\nHe says he was beaten and tortured by officers over the following days, and given electric shocks to his genitals, before being made to sign a blank confession document.\n\nThese allegations have been denied by the Indian authorities.\n\nMr Johal has remained in detention in a series of Indian prisons ever since, accused of funding the purchase of weapons used to assassinate a number of right-wing Hindu religious and political leaders in the Punjab.\n\nHe is currently facing eight charges of conspiracy to murder, linked to political violence in India, and could receive the death penalty.\n\nHe denies the charges against him and says his arrest and trial are political.\n\nThe UK government has previously refused to call for Mr Johal's immediate release - saying it could be seen as interference in the judicial process and would not be in his best interests.\n\nOn the plane to Delhi, when asked if he would be raising the case, Mr Sunak had said: \"I'll be raising a range of things with Prime Minister Modi - this is something that, just so people are reassured, has already been raised on multiple levels on multiple occasions.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet - a lawyer and Labour councillor - accused Mr Sunak of allowing Mr Johal to \"rot in jail.\"\n\nAfter hearing about Mr Sunak's involvement he said: \"I am pleased that the prime minister has raised my brother's case with his counterpart, but raising is not enough unless he has called for Jagtar's release in line with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's findings.\n\n\"Clearly, the prime minister had no option other than to raise Jagtar's case, after so many MPs demanded he do so.\n\n\"I fear that this is just more talk from the UK government and no action. The campaign continues until Jagtar is back home in Scotland.\"\n\nHuman rights group Reprieve's director Maya Foa said: \"Theresa May 'raised' Jagtar's case. So did Boris Johnson. But six years after his abduction and torture he's still in prison, facing a possible death sentence for something he didn't do.\n\n\"The government often says ministers have raised the case a hundred times, as if that makes their failure to seek the release of an arbitrarily detained British national any less shameful.\n\n\"What did Rishi Sunak say to Narendra Modi about the case and how did he respond? Without answers to these questions, the prime minister's talk is meaningless.\"\n\nDabinderjit Singh, the principal adviser to the Sikh Federation, said Mr Sunak had appeared \"very reluctant\" to press the Scot's case since entering No 10 almost a year ago until being \"forced through pressure\" from MPs to do so.\n\nHe added: \"He has, however, demonstrated his weakness and lack of leadership by shamefully falling to stand up for the rights of a British citizen and calling for Jagtar's immediate release.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak and his Foreign Office ministers are now talking utter nonsense in terms of Jagtar's best interests and justice.\n\n\"They appear scared and clueless on how best to apply diplomatic pressure on India and are leaving it to the corrupt Indian judicial system.\"", "We'll be closing our live coverage of the ongoing aid efforts in Morocco shortly. Thanks for joining us.\n\nHere's a quick roundup of the situation on the ground:\n• The death toll from Friday's earthquake has risen to over 2,100, with 2,400 more injured\n• Rescuers are scrambling to save people in isolated communities in the High Atlas mountains, with aid deliveries hampered by blocked roads\n• Many people in devastated villages are reporting a lack of vital supplies, including of food, water and shelter\n• Tents have been set up in some areas, while many people are responding to calls to donate blood\n• But assistance is arriving in places, after the Moroccan army cleared a key road from Marrakesh to the mountains early in Sunday\n• The historic city has also been badly hit by the earthquake, with some estimates putting the number of people affected in the Marrakesh area as high as 300,000\n\nIf you'd like to stay updated with the race to save people, the main news story is available here.\n\nOur reporter Nick Beake has also visited a village almost entirely destroyed by the earthquake, and you can watch his report on the rescue efforts here.\n\nThe page today has been written by Ece Goksdef, Farouk Chothia, Adam Durbin, Laurence Peter and Frances Mao, and edited by Alexandra Fouché, Lauren Turner, James FitzGerald and Henri Astier.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs we negotiated the final corner of the winding road and pulled up in the Moroccan mountain village of Moulay Brahim, it was immediately obvious we'd arrived in a community that had been plunged into grief by Friday night's deadly earthquake.\n\nAn elderly women staggered towards us, wailing, tears falling down her face, holding her head in her hands.\n\nA few metres away, a group of young men were sobbing. They'd just discovered their friend was among the dead.\n\n\"There have been so many deaths today,\" one of the men told us.\n\n\"And our friend, he was crushed. We buried him today and he was so young.\"\n\nAnother man, Mohamed - who is helping to organise this makeshift response - revealed that 16 people had already been buried in this village alone, having been recovered from the rubble on Saturday. Another two victims will be laid to rest on Sunday.\n\n\"We've been working every minute since it happened. Non-stop since then,\" he said. \"There are only about 10 people working here and we're trying to find people in the buildings. It's desperate.\"\n\nSome hope was delivered a few moments later, as members of the Red Crescent arrived. But this is a disaster that needs a considerably bigger and co-ordinated response.\n\n\"We have nothing here,\" said Mohamed. \"And we need everything. Food, medication, shelter.\"\n\nThis scene of destruction and despair is being played out across many parts of the High Atlas Mountains.\n\nOur 90-minute zigzag drive from Marrakesh up to the remote mountainside was elongated by boulders and rocks that lined the route and obscured our path.\n\nBroken and blocked roads have been seriously hampering the rescue effort. Teams have been fanning out from the main cities - notably Marrakesh - to try to reach the very worst-affected areas in the hope of pulling survivors from the rubble.\n\nOn our trip, a procession of ambulances raced past us, further into the unknown. Aerial footage has given us an idea of what awaits these emergency services, but it's still too early to gauge just how many people have lost their lives.\n\nHeavy-lifting equipment will be needed if there are to be any miracles in the coming hours. Not just in Moulay Brahim, but in many places. Hands and hammers can only do so much.\n\nBack in Marrakesh, thousands have been spending a second night in the open air. Roundabouts, car parks and a public square have been filled with figures of all ages wrapped in blankets.\n\nFew appear to be sleeping, though - at least not soundly. Being in the relative safety of the outside doesn't quell the fear of what another tremor could do.\n\nThere's rubble in many streets of this historic city, although Marrakesh has fared better than the mountainous areas to the south-west.\n\nA restaurant owner, Safa El Hakym, is trying to take in the damage.\n\n\"Thank God it's just the walls and materials that are gone,\" she says. \"The most important things are not lost.\n\n\"And thank God we have the power of humanity in Morocco: we are all together and putting our hearts into this and helping each other.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Morocco earthquake: What we know so far", "Quinn Parker lived for 36 hours after delivery by emergency Caesarean section\n\nHospital inspectors are investigating an NHS trust over the deaths of three babies.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust could be prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of the infants in 2021.\n\nA Nottinghamshire Police investigation has already been announced into the trust's maternity services by Chief Constable Kate Meynell.\n\nThe trust said it was cooperating with the CQC.\n\nThe investigation is examining whether the trust failed to provide safe care and treatment during the delivery of the three babies, who died within 14 weeks of each other.\n\nThe trust is currently at the centre of the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the NHS, with about 1,800 cases being examined by a review headed by the senior midwife Donna Ockenden.\n\nOn Thursday, Nottinghamshire Police also said it was opening a criminal investigation into the trust's maternity services.\n\nThe deaths the CQC are investigating occurred at the trust's City Hospital in April, June and July of 2021.\n\nBBC News understands one common theme that the CQC is investigating is whether staff could have spotted that the three mothers all had placental abruptions and delivered the babies sooner. Such a complication, which often presents as heavy bleeding in the mother, can deprive a baby of oxygen.\n\nIn a statement, CQC director of operations Lorraine Tedeschini said: \"We are currently in the process of making enquiries to establish whether there is reasonable suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed. Those enquiries are ongoing and we will report further as soon as we are able to do so.\"\n\nThe deaths the CQC are investigating occurred at the City Hospital\n\nAn inquest into the death of Quinn Lias Parker, who died at just two days old in July 2021, found that a series of errors by the hospital had contributed to his death.\n\nThe coroner said that \"earlier delivery would have been achieved… if the significance of the bleeding and pain had been clearly identified as an abruption\".\n\nIt is understood that the CQC is also looking into whether the trust breached its duty of candour to Quinn's family, a legal obligation to be open and honest with patients and their families.\n\nThe BBC understands the other cases being examined by the CQC are the deaths of Adele O'Sullivan and Kahlani Rawson.\n\nAdele was just 26 minutes old when she died in April 2021. An inquest found a series of missed opportunities in her mother's treatment including a delay in diagnosing the cause of her vaginal bleeding, a common symptom of placental abruption.\n\nKahlani died aged four days in June 2021. An inquest found there had been a delay in conducting a Caesarean section. Without that delay, the coroner concluded that Kahlani would not have died.\n\nShe also found that a placental abruption was likely to have occurred hours earlier but that CTG scans had been \"misinterpreted\" by staff, which led to \"reassurance\" about the baby.\n\nIn January, the trust was fined £800,000 - a record for a maternity incident - after being found guilty of failing to provide safe care and treatment to Wynter Andrews and her mother Sarah in 2019. Wynter died aged 23 minutes.\n\nCommenting on the new CQC investigation, Michelle Rhodes, chief nurse for the trust, said: \"The trust is currently providing information to the CQC to support their investigation of those serious incidents which occurred in 2021.\n\n\"We are cooperating fully and will await confirmation from the CQC as to whether they intend to pursue a formal prosecution.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Players and staff of Morocco's national football team have given blood after a deadly earthquake hit their country.\n\nMore than 2,000 people have been killed by the 6.8-magnitude earthquake.\n\nThe team was due to play an African Cup of Nations qualifier against Liberia on Saturday in Agadir, 205km (127 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, but the game has been cancelled.\n\nFollow the latest on this story.", "It was night when the earthquake hit Morocco, with many people already in bed. But the quake, measuring 6.8, soon led to people fleeing their homes in sheer panic.\n\nAn aftershock, of 4.9 magnitude, struck 19 minutes later.\n\nIt is now known that thousands have died - but the final death toll is still unclear. While the epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, many died in Marrakesh, some 44 miles away.\n\nAbdelhak El Amrani, 33, who lives in Marrakesh, told AFP: \"We felt a violent tremor, and I realised it was an earthquake. I could see buildings moving.\n\n\"Then I went outside and there were a lot of people there. People were all in shock and panic. The children were crying and the parents were distraught.\"\n\nMichael Bizet, a French national who owns three properties in Marrakesh's old town, told the news agency: \"I thought my bed was going to fly away. I went out into the street half-naked and immediately went to see my riads [traditional Moroccan houses].\n\nBritish journalist Martin Jay, who lives in Morocco, said he was woken by the sound of screams.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The first hint was my wife screaming. We both had nodded off to sleep - but not into deep sleep - just into that light slumber I suppose... and she started screaming, and I just sort of opened my eyes and couldn't quite join the dots up.\n\n\"I couldn't quite equate the situation, I couldn't imagine I was in the middle of an earthquake.\n\n\"Everything was vibrating, everything, the bed, the floor, the four walls.\"\n\nHe said people were told not to return to their homes.\n\n\"So you have this weird evening of almost every single town in Morocco, most people are sitting on the ground outside of their houses or apartment blocks, because they were afraid of the second earthquake which they predicted would come two hours later. Thank God it didn't.\"\n\nMany people left their homes and spent the rest of the night outside, in fear of more aftershocks\n\nFellow Marrakesh resident Fayssal Badour had been driving when the quake hit at 23:11 local time.\n\n\"I stopped and realised what a disaster it was,\" he told AFP. \"The screaming and crying was unbearable.\"\n\nMina Metioui said that, in Marrakesh, the noise sounded like \"a fighter jet\", getting louder and louder.\n\n\"The next thing I see, my room is moving, pictures, frames started falling off the wall,\" she told BBC News. \"You know, things just started dropping off. That's when I realised we're going through some sort of an earthquake.\n\n\"It took a second what felt like minutes. Then I heard people screaming, getting out the property... it was really a horrible experience.\"\n\nRescue efforts are now ongoing, with many buildings seriously damaged.\n\nMontasir Itri, who lives in the mountain village of Asni, close to the epicentre, told Reuters: \"Our neighbours are under the rubble and people are working hard to rescue them using available means in the village.\"\n\nHouda Outassaf had been walking around Jemaa el-Fna Square in Marrakesh when he felt the ground start to shake.\n\n\"It was a truly staggering sensation,\" he told AFP. \"We're safe and sound but I'm still in shock.\n\n\"I have at least 10 members of my family who died... I can hardly believe it, as I was with them no more than two days ago.\"\n\nThe historic city of Marrakesh is popular with tourists, attracting thousands each year.\n\nLorella Palmer, a British woman on holiday there, told BBC News: \"The room just started shaking.\"\n\n\"I think your brain doesn't register straight away what is happening until the picture frames and the bed start shaking,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Leaders, including Joe Biden of the US and India's Narendra Modi (front left and right), attended the summit\n\nRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has praised a joint declaration by G20 leaders in Delhi that avoids condemning Moscow for its war against Ukraine.\n\nRussia had not expected consensus and agreement on the wording was \"a step in the right direction\", said Mr Lavrov.\n\nThe closing G20 statement denounced using force for territorial gain but made no mention of Russian aggression, prompting criticism from Ukraine.\n\nThe two-day summit also inducted a new permanent member, the African Union.\n\nThe 55-member bloc joins at the invitation of hosts India, one of whose key objectives while president has been to make the G20 more inclusive with greater participation of so-called Global South countries.\n\nThe world's biggest economies reached other key deals in Delhi, including one on climate and biofuels - although there was criticism of the summit's failure to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.\n\nFor the second year in a row, there was no official G20 \"family photo\". No reason was given but reports say many leaders refused to be photographed, pointing to Russia's presence at the summit.\n\nVery few had expected a joint declaration at this year's G20 - not least on the first day of the summit. The group is deeply divided over last year's invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Neither Russia's Vladimir Putin nor China's Xi Jinping turned up in Delhi, sending lower-level delegations instead.\n\nSo there was surprise when, just hours after the summit started, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced consensus had been reached on how to phrase the Ukraine section of the statement, which saw last year's direct criticism of Russia watered down.\n\nMr Lavrov told a news conference on Sunday that a \"milestone\" had been reached.\n\n\"Speaking frankly we didn't expect that. We were ready to defend our wording of the text. The Global South is no longer willing to be lectured,\" he said in answer to a question by the BBC's Yogita Limaye.\n\nThe UK and US talked up the joint statement too, but Ukraine - which took part in last year's Bali summit but was not invited this year - said it was \"nothing to be proud of\".\n\nThis was the 18th summit between the 19 member countries and the European Union\n\nIn Bali last year, most members had deplored \"in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine\". In contrast, the Delhi declaration talks about \"the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine with regard to global food and energy security\".\n\nIt calls on states to \"refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition\", which could be seen as directed at Russia, but also notes \"different views and assessments of the situation\".\n\nAnalysts say the economic balance and power dynamics is shifting within the G20, away from advanced market economies of the West to emerging giants, particularly in Asia.\n\nThere were other big moments at the summit too, including ambitious deals aimed at tackling climate change.\n\nThe G20 members announced that they have reached a 100% consensus to \"pursue and encourage efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally through existing targets and policies\". The bloc accounts for more than 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAnd India launched a global biofuel alliance with US and Brazil to boost the use of cleaner fuels. The grouping is aimed at accelerating global efforts to meet net zero emissions targets by facilitating trade in biofuels derived from sources including plant and animal waste.\n\nLeaders paid tributes at the Gandhi memorial - the closest the group came to a \"family photo\"\n\nThere was also a multinational rail and ports deal linking the Middle East and South Asia on the sidelines of the summit. The pact is seen as a counter to China's Belt and Road push on global infrastructure.\n\nEarly on Sunday afternoon, Mr Modi closed the summit, ending months of fanfare and anticipation. He handed a ceremonial gavel to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, which is taking over the presidency.\n\n\"We are living in a world where wealth is more concentrated, in which millions of human beings still go hungry, where sustainable development is always threatened, in which global governance institutions still reflect the reality of middle of the last century,\" he said.\n\nMonsoon downpours had dampened some planned events earlier in the day - leaders walked in the rain to pay respects to India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi at the site of his cremation. A tree planting ceremony was downgraded to a symbolic exchange of saplings between G20 presidents past, present and future.\n\nMr Modi's government has put on an extravagant show from start to finish, with delegates being treated to cultural performances, a gala dinner party and the very best of Indian hospitality.\n\nBut it also stirred up a few controversies, especially after Mr Modi's placard as he opened the summit referred to India as \"Bharat\" (which means India in Hindi), sparking speculation of a possible change of name for the country.\n\nMr Modi and his ministers, however, called the event a huge success and said that India's G20 presidency had proven its abilities as a global leader.\n\n\"We have sought to make this G20 as inclusive as possible,\" Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said.\n\nFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India had managed to ensure that differences over issues do not overshadow core developmental concerns of the global community.\n\n\"India's G20 Presidency has walked the talk successfully,\" she said.", "The BBC's Nick Beake is in Amizmiz where people are searching rubble by hand to find belongings and relatives.\n\nMore than 2000 people have been killed by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake.\n\nFollow the latest on this story.", "The G20 summit in India has agreed on a joint declaration, including a statement on the war in Ukraine.\n\nOn the first of their two-day meeting, G20 leaders denounced the use of force for territorial gain but stopped short of directly criticising Russia.\n\nThe Ukrainian government said the statement was \"nothing to be proud of\".\n\nThe summit in Delhi also discussed a number of global issues, including climate change and the debt burden of developing countries.\n\nBut it was a day of unexpectedly big headlines at the G20 summit.\n\nFew expected a joint declaration, not least on the first day of the summit given the sharp divisions in the group over the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the group had reached consensus on the declaration.\n\nA strong indication that last-minute negotiations were ongoing came in an earlier draft of the declaration accessed by the BBC on Friday - it showed the paragraph on Ukraine was left blank.\n\nThe sticking point was the Ukraine war - as it was during the Bali summit last year.\n\nThe Delhi declaration appears designed to allow both the West and Russia to find positives. But in the process, it has used language that is not as strong in its condemnation of Moscow as it was in Bali last year.\n\nIn Bali, the members deplored \"in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine\" - although it noted that \"there were other views and different assessments of the situation and sanctions\".\n\nThe Delhi declaration does not directly criticise Russia for the war.\n\nBut it does talk about \"the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine with regard to global food and energy security\". It also repeated the acknowledgement of \"different views and assessments\".\n\nImportantly, the declaration specifies \"the war in Ukraine\" rather than \"the war against Ukraine.\" This choice of words could have increased the likelihood of Russia endorsing of the declaration.\n\nUkraine - which took part in the Bali summit - was not invited this year, and its response to the declaration has been critical.\n\n\"In terms of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, G20 has nothing to be proud of,\" the Ukrainian foreign ministry tweeted.\n\nIt's hard for Kyiv to see the dropping of any reference to Russian \"aggression\" as anything but a sign that its Western backers are losing the argument with the \"global South\" over how to characterise the war.\n\nThe other big news came when Mr Modi formally invited the African Union (AU) to become a permanent member of the G20.\n\nDelhi prioritised elevating the voices of these nations as the foundation of its presidency, and in the near future, it is poised to reap the rewards of this strategic choice as it vies with China for influence across Asia and Africa.\n\nThe decision is also good news for Africa as the continent of 1.4 billion people will now have wider representation on a global forum like the G20.\n\nAt the ministerial level meetings in the run-up to the summit, there had been no agreement on the issue. But now officials say they have reached \"100% consensus\".\n\nThere has been evident give-and-take on climate in the declaration.\n\nIt says the G20 countries will \"pursue and encourage efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally through existing targets and policies\". G20 accounts for more than 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nDeveloping countries had in the past resisted increasing renewable energy targets, phasing down fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from developed nations.\n\nOn greenhouse emissions peaking - the point after which emissions will need to drop - developing nations have been able to buy time.\n\nThe declaration says that \"timeframes for peaking may be shaped by sustainable development, poverty eradication needs, equity, and in line with different national circumstances\".\n\nExperts have also emphasised the importance of the Green Development Pact, a plan to tackle the environmental crisis through global co-operation over the next decade.\n\nG20 countries have also pledged to work together to enable low-cost financing for developing countries to support their transitions to low emissions.\n\nPramit Pal Chaudhuri, South Asia practice head of Eurasia Group, said India had done \"reasonably well\" on green finance.\n\n\"Green finance now largely goes from rich countries to other rich countries. Private capital is central to this financing. Not even emerging economies get it. India has been pushing to change that. At the heart of it is to get multilateral development banks to begin the process of de-risking private capital flows in the green space,\" he said.\n\nThen there is the growing concern over debt. The World Bank has calculated that the world's poorest nations are burdened with an annual debt service of over $60bn to bilateral creditors, which escalates the risk of defaults. Two-thirds of this debt is owed to China.\n\nThe group has said it wants to help these countries manage their debt burden. The Delhi declaration has committed to address debt vulnerabilities in developing countries.\n\nAdditional reporting by Navin Singh Khadka in Delhi and BBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams in Kyiv.", "Mr Kim attended the parade with his young daughter\n\nNorth Korea has marked the 75th anniversary of its founding day with a parade attended by Russian diplomats and a Chinese delegation.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a Russian military song-and-dance ensemble and officials from Beijing were all in attendance.\n\nThe event follows rumours that Mr Kim might meet Vladimir Putin this month.\n\nIt is understood Mr Kim is planning to travel to Russia to discuss with the Russian president the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the matter when asked by a journalist in Moscow on Saturday, according to the Interfax news agency.\n\nIn a message to congratulate Mr Kim on the 75th anniversary of North Korea's founding, Mr Putin said he was convinced the two countries would \"continue to strengthen bilateral ties on all fronts\".\n\nHe said this would help ensure \"the security and stability on the Korean peninsula and northeast Asia\".\n\nThe event was held in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square\n\nMr Putin noted that the Soviet Union was the first country to recognise the North Korean regime. He said that relations between the two countries had since been based \"on the principles of friendship, good neighbourliness and mutual respect\".\n\nThe Russian embassy in Pyongyang said earlier this week it had been allowed to bring in 20 diplomatic and technical staff.\n\nThe official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim Il Sung Square \"was full of excitement and joy\" and all those who attended the parade \"paid the highest glory and warmest thanks to Kim Jong Un, peerless patriot and ever-victorious iron-willed commander\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping \"extended congratulations in a call to Kim Jong Un\" on the anniversary, Chinese state media reported.\n\nA Chinese delegation led by Liu Guozhong, vice-premier of the State Council, attended the parade instead and met with Mr Kim.\n\nThe event featured paramilitary forces rather than soldiers in the regular army and it did not showcase the country's banned weaponry which include ballistic missiles, according to state media.", "A devastating earthquake in southern Morocco, which has killed thousands of people, has also destroyed large areas of the historic centre of Marrakesh. Many residents and tourists were forced to spend the night outside, over fears of an aftershock worsening the situation in the city.\n\nA woman surveys the damage to a building in Marrakesh, after the powerful earthquake struck overnight on Friday\n\nDebris fell from buildings in the historic city, trapping many people and destroying vehicles\n\nDamage to buildings such as this mosque became clear after sunrise on Saturday\n\nMany buildings have collapsed, leaving residents to survey the damage\n\nThe epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was in the Atlas Mountains - less than 50 miles from the city\n\nPeople in Marrakesh have been donating blood to help the hundreds injured by the tremors\n\nMany residents of the city spent the night outside of their homes amid fears of an aftershock\n\nDozens of people slept near a hotel swimming pool in the city - a popular tourist destination\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "George Ford kicked 27 points to steer England to a magnificent World Cup victory over Argentina after they were reduced to 14 men after three minutes.\n\nTom Curry was sent off by the bunker review system for a clash of heads with Juan Cruz Mallia that took place in the third minute in Marseille.\n\nEngland controlled the second half and Ford added 15 points as England started Pool D with a morale-boosting win.\n\nRodrigo Bruni powered over in the 79th minute for the only try of the game for hapless Argentina.\n\nThere's not exactly a large sample but this was, by a million miles, the biggest win of Steve Borthwick's reign as England coach, a win that he not only wanted but very badly needed to quell the gathering storm around his running of the team.\n\nIt was an old school triumph that was in name only similar to the feast of rugby on Friday night when France beat the All Blacks. But if England are to revive themselves, it has to start somewhere - and this was hugely encouraging.\n\nDespite being down in numbers for all bar a few minutes, it was a win orchestrated by the unflappable Ford, who took the game by the scruff of its neck and didn't let go.\n\nTheir dominance was then hammered home by England's physicality, which hasn't been spotted so much of late. England beat the Pumas in every facet. It was no oil painting of a game - very far from it, in fact - but given where they were coming from, the England management might have been minded to look at it like a thing of wonder hanging in the Louvre.\n\nThe pre-match pressure on England was as intense as the Marseille sun, the criticism playing out on a loop before this contest.\n\nFour wins in their last 13 Tests, a win percentage of 33% under Borthwick, a 50-point loss to France not long ago, a first loss in their history to Fiji fresh in the memory, no coherent gameplan, no physical dominance, a plodding pursuit of tries, little in the way of excitement or hope.\n\nEverything came down to the Stade Velodrome. For England fans, there would have been a buzz but also a dread around this World Cup opener and that would only have hardened when Curry, just back from injury, went high in a tackle on Mallia in the second minute and got a yellow that was upgraded to a red by the bunker review.\n\nThe Sale flanker was off the pitch before a significant number of England fans had made it into the stadium because of long delays outside the ground thought to be a consequence of security checks.\n\nFormer England hooker Brian Moore wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"the organisation at the Marseille stadium was beyond shambolic\".\n\nA statement from World Rugby and France 2023 said: \"While fans were able to take their seats, fan experience is paramount, and we are working with all stakeholders to establish the facts and implement measures to prevent such delays for the remaining Rugby World Cup 2023 matches at the venue.\"\n\nEngland's poor discipline, and alarming card count, is another area that has vexed them. Emiliano Boffelli punished them with the resultant penalty. But, wait. Minutes after Curry walked, so did Santiago Carreras for a late hit on Ford.\n\nThe England fans howled for a red upgrade, but it never came. What also never came was a Test of quality.\n\nIt was a slugfest between two sides who battled forlornly with their own attacking shortcomings, but England had way too much for the Pumas. Even with 14 men, they won with ease. Their forwards squeezed all life and hope out of their opposite numbers.\n\nCourtney Lawes was terrific. Maro Itoje roared back to form. Manu Tuilagi was a powerhouse in everything he did in the midfield and as an auxiliary flanker, but Ford was the main man. His game management was decisive.\n\nFord banged over a penalty to level it at 3-3 then started to drop-kick the Pumas to distraction. There were moments - fleeting ones - when England looked to go wide and play, but there was little conviction and confidence in what they were doing.\n\nWhen Ford put over the first of his kicks - a beauty - he didn't really have any other attacking option.\n\nWhen he landed his second - from somewhere close to Marseille port - he wasn't blessed with options then either.\n\nIn this surreal trip back to the 1990s when drop-goals were considered fashionable, the Pumas had a crack themselves, but fly-half Carreras had none of Ford's brilliant execution.\n\nThe Ford hat-trick came just before the break. A line-out, an England rumble, static ball. Ford had enough, called for it and put England 12-3 clear. None of it was easy on the eye. Only rarely did the crowd become energised, but England had to win somehow. A beauty contest, it was not. England ground the Pumas into the dirt.\n\nArgentina either froze or were over-hyped to begin with. Their decision-making with what little ball they had was wretched. They hardly raised a gallop all night. England gave them the square root of nothing. You had to constantly remind yourself that this was 14 Englishmen versus 15 Pumas.\n\nFord put further distance on the scoreboard with a penalty early in the new half and the lead stretched out to 12. Then he did it again before it went to 15. This was the rhythm of the night. England drove forward, the Pumas infringed and Ford made them pay. It went to 21-3 and 24-3. A rout.\n\nEventually, after an age, the Pumas got into the England 22. They advanced to the England line, huffed puffed and… got turned over. Their body language at that point was of broken men. The final whistle could have sounded and it would have come as a blessed relief.\n\nThere was a little more pain, and a little more Ford, before Bruni's late try.\n\nNobody saw this coming. The Pumas will never want to see it again. England, under a cloud that only darkened when Curry departed, have something to build on at last.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford: \"The drop-goals are always planned, it is a great weapon for us, especially when the ball is a bit greasy.\n\n\"We went down a man early on and had to come away with as many points as possible when we had field position. The boys up front were incredible to get us into that field position.\n\n\"We have had a bit of a rocky build-up to this World Cup but I think in the last 10 days there has been a different feeling to the place.\"\n\nEngland head coach Steve Borthwick: \"There was a sense I had from the players they had been written off a bit too early. They are a quality group of players that are going to keep on improving and moving forward.\n\n\"We will enjoy this tonight and the fans will enjoy it but our focus will switch to Japan very quickly for our next game on Sunday.\"\n\nArgentina head coach Michael Cheika: \"Pretty much everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I think we let the play get too stop and start.\n\n\"England played the circumstances very well and full credit to them.\n\n\"Our players will take a lot from this experience. We have many first-timers in World Cup games and they will take a lesson of how we need to be ready when the whistle blows.\"\n\nReplacements: Lawrence for Tuilagi (69), Smith for Ford (75), Care for Mitchell (59), Marler for Genge (54), Dan for George (72), Stuart for Cole (50), Martin for Chessum (59), Ludlam for Lawes (66).\n\nReplacements: Moroni for M. Carreras (63), Velez for Bertranou (69), Bello for Gallo (63), Creevy for Montoya (67), Sclavi for Gomez Kodela (50), Petti for Alemanno (41), Rubiolo for Lavanini (50), Bruni for Gonzalez (59).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heather Vance's dog was headbutted by a cow and she was trampled by a herd of cattle\n\nA woman has been describing the moment she tried to save her dog from a cattle attack at her family farm.\n\nHeather Vance ended up with life-changing injuries after being trampled by a herd of cows.\n\nThe Magherafelt woman's life was saved after an air ambulance was dispatched to take her to hospital.\n\nHer dog, Trigger, was headbutted by one of the animals and would have to be put down as a result of his injuries.\n\nHer story comes the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) are highlighting research showing that fatal incidents involving animals are on the increase.\n\nThe study examined 50 years of farming incidents here.\n\nFatal incidents involving animals are on the increase\n\nIt found that while vehicles and equipment are still the primary cause of deaths on a farm, their incidence has decreased over the years.\n\nMeanwhile, the research showed an overall increase in fatal animal incidents rate over time, with the most marked increase taking place in recent years.\n\nOn May 13 2021, Heather Vance arrived home from work and decided to take her dog, Trigger, out for a walk near her family farm outside Magherafelt.\n\n\"Suddenly, he just jumped into the field where 18 cattle were grazing and they immediately started to circle around him,\" she said.\n\nShortly after entering the field, the beloved family dog was headbutted into a ditch by one of the cows.\n\nWithout thinking, Heather climbed the fence to go to her pet's aid.\n\nThe field where Heather and her dog were attacked by cattle\n\nShe said: \"I had just bent down and I had my hand on top of his collar and the next thing the animals began to trample over me.\n\n\"This continued on for quite some time and I just lay there with my whole body in severe pain.\"\n\nMrs Vance had suffered a fractured collar bone, a fractured elbow and three fractures in her pelvis as well as extensive soft tissue damage to her thigh.\n\nShe lay in the field without her mobile phone, but eventually managed to make her way out to a nearby road where a neighbour spotted her.\n\nThe air ambulance was dispatched to bring Heather to Belfast\n\nAfter an initial medical assessment, an air ambulance was called and Heather was brought to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. She would spend more than six weeks in hospital.\n\nSadly her dog Trigger would have to be put down as a result of his injuries.\n\n\"That was just so devastating for me and it very easily could have been me,\" Heather said.\n\nShe added: \"For anybody hearing my story I would just say, yes the animals can look lovely in a field, but they are so dangerous.\n\n\"I am lucky to be alive here today to tell this story, and don't think I would have been without the air ambulance.\"\n\nIt took the air ambulance helicopter approximately 15 minutes to transport Heather from just outside Magherafelt to Belfast.\n\nAs a local charity, it aims to raise £2.5m each year to maintain the service. The service is a partnership between the charity and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.\n\nIt responds, on average, to two emergency calls every day and there is always a doctor and paramedic on board.\n\nKerry Anderson says the Air Ambulance deals with multiple farming incidents every week\n\nShe said: \"Essentially this is the hospital that is coming to the patient and it can often be a matter of life and death.\n\n\"Certainly there isn't a week goes by where, like Heather, there isn't some sort of farm incident that the team would have to respond to.\"\n\nAgriculture is still one of the most hazardous industrial sectors in terms of fatal accidents right across the world.\n\nThere are between six to seven fatalities on average per year on Northern Ireland's farms.\n\nVehicles and equipment still account for most fatalities, but animal incidents are increasing\n\nA recent study by the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland undertook an analysis of 50 years of farm deaths and incidents.\n\nOverall, there were 508 fatalities in the agriculture sector in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 2017. The study also found:\n\nCamilla Mackey, head of HSENI's agri-food team, said the increase in animal-related fatalities was a worrying trend.\n\nShe said: \"Farming is becoming heavily mechanised and the industry has changed so much over the last 50 years.\n\nCamilla Mackey says the statistics highlight a worrying trend around animal-related fatalities\n\n\"My thought would be that potentially animals aren't being handled as much as they were in the past, and this could be having an impact on the increase in incidents.\"\n\nHSENI said there were a number of possible factors at play and stressed that every fatal incident on a farm in Northern Ireland was preventable.\n\nLast month HSENI began rolling out unannounced workplace inspections on farms to try and reduce fatal accidents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife - who was for a time this week Britain's most wanted man - was born in Westminster in 2001, along with his twin sister.\n\nHe is British and has Lebanese heritage on his father's side. His parents split up when he was young.\n\nGrowing up, Mr Khalife's family life was in and around the south-west London borough of Kingston upon Thames.\n\nHe attended Teddington School, a local mixed comprehensive with good results, and left after his GCSEs in 2018.\n\nPeople who remember him from the time who have spoken to BBC News have not recalled anything that would have made them think he would end up a terror suspect on the run.\n\nOne former school friend said he was quite a funny character, just a normal teenager - and certainly not badly behaved.\n\nMr Khalife was also remembered as a talented runner - a natural gift that may have been in use during his prison break-out.\n\n\"He just sort of got on with it like most of us did,\" one school friend told BBC News.\n\n\"He had social skills. He wasn't particularly socially withdrawn or anything. He had friends.\n\n\"[Since the prison break] Everyone's just had the same reaction [of shock]... It was just mind-blowing. It wasn't expected at all.\"\n\nAnother said ahead of his recapture: \"Some funny stories I could tell you... One thing I will tell you though, he's not a terrorist. He doesn't know his arse from his elbow.\n\n\"He was the 100m school champion... they're not catching him.\"\n\nAfter school, he joined the Army, becoming a private in the Royal Signals Regiment, based at MOD Stafford.\n\nThe facility is home to some of the British military's most sophisticated technology and communications operations and it includes the Defence Electronics and Components Agency.\n\nThere, for a time at least, he continued to run and joined a military family running group.\n\nHe was also into computer gaming - using the brand icon of the makers of Grand Theft Auto as his profile picture in a number of social media profiles.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.\n\nOne former fellow serviceman told BBC News that Mr Khalife tried to \"be the joker\" during basic training.\n\n\"He was either making funny remarks or trying to be cocky or stuff like that with the training staff,\" he recalled. \"Just like when kids mess around at school with teachers really.\"\n\nOutside of Army life he seemed to be a normal young man. BBC News has seen one video of him taken in a pub near where he was based on a night out.\n\nWhat happened between 2019 and his arrest and charge in 2023 is not clear - and may only become so if Mr Khalife is found and tried for the original offences he was facing.\n\nIn January this year, he was brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court - which deals with the initial stages of all terrorism cases in England and Wales.\n\nThe court heard that the 21-year-old was facing two allegations.\n\nProsecutors alleged that in August 2021 he obtained information about members of the armed forces from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System - and that the information was of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nThat is a relatively minor terrorism offence because the maximum jail sentence is 12 months.\n\nHe was also accused of a bomb hoax almost four weeks before his arrest. The court was told that he had allegedly placed three canisters with wires on a desk in his accommodation, intending people to believe the contraption was a real explosive device.\n\nAfter that appearance in court, there was a delay in his case being sent to crown court while another far more serious allegation was prepared.\n\nMr Khalife is now accused of committing an act \"prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state\", contrary to the Official Secrets Act.\n\nIt's alleged that between May 2019 and January 2022 he obtained, collected, recorded, published, or communicated information which was useful to an enemy - a spying offence.\n\nThe BBC understands that the allegation relates to Iran.\n\nAt his last court appearance in July, Mr Khalife formally pleaded not guilty to all three allegations and a judge at the Old Bailey said he would face a jury trial in November.\n\nWhether that trial will go ahead as planned, in light of his recapture on Saturday, is now unclear.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nMo Farah, one of the greatest British athletes of all time, finished fourth in the final race of his career at the Great North Run. The 40-year-old four-time Olympic champion slipped off the pace early in the famous 13.1-mile race from Newcastle to South Shields. He finished three minutes 30 seconds behind Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola, who won in 59mins 58secs. \"It's very emotional. There was a lot going through my mind,\" Farah said. He told BBC Sport: \"All I know is running and that is what made me happy for so many years. \"Running is everything to me. Running is what saved me.\"\n• None 'I'm proud of what I've accomplished - but I'm looking forward to being a normal person' 'Thank you for the memories, thank you for the medals' He became the first Briton to complete the Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m double with victory in front of a joyous home crowd at London 2012, and defended his titles at Rio 2016. Only five Britons have more Olympic medals than Farah, who also won six world, five European and two European indoor titles as well as the Chicago Marathon in a career dating back more than two decades. Farah waved to the crowd during the final 200m of the Great North Run before jogging back down the finishing straight to high-five fans, many of whom were carrying 'One Mo Time' signs. \"Without the crowd I wouldn't have got through it,\" he said. \"I wanted to end my career here in Newcastle. I've had some amazing memories. It's really important to come out here and give my support to the crowd. \"It's very important to have a race like this. Without the support and community in Newcastle, it wouldn't be the same.\" Former European 10,000m champion and Great North Run founder Brendan Foster said: \"Mo Farah is the greatest sportsman or woman Britain has ever had. We'll never see his type again.\" Steve Cram, the former 1500m world champion and now BBC commentator, said: \"Thank you for the memories. Thank you for the medals. Thank you for all the excitement and drama.\" British Athletics described Farah, who was knighted in 2016, as \"the greatest\", while Team GB tweeted: \"Generation: inspired.\" What else happened at the Great North Run? Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir, the Olympic marathon champion, won the women's race in 1hr 6mins 45secs. Compatriot Sharon Lokedi was 58 seconds behind in second, with Britain's Charlotte Purdue third. Belgium's Bashid Abdi was runner-up in the men's race, 1min 22secs behind world marathon champion Tola. Ethiopia's Muktar Edris was third. Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Daniel Sidbury won the men's wheelchair race in 42:48 and fellow Briton Samantha Kinghorn the women's in 49:21. Almost 60,000 people took part in the 42nd edition of the Great North Run, the biggest half marathon in the world. Bill Cooksey, 102, walked the course to raise funds for the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. Keith Turner became the first blind person to complete a half marathon untethered. His guide, Jim Roberts, rang a bell to direct Turner, who described running untethered as \"freedom\". Archive: 'You could be quite good, you know'\n• None The lives of three strangers with nothing in common collide:\n• None What harm does vaping do to teenagers?: Panorama investigates the recent vaping phenomenon and its potential risks", "Guests on the panel at the end of programme had lots to say after seeing a short snippet from Laura Kuenssberg's new documentary State of Chaos, which looks at the period of political turbulence in the UK between 2016 and 2022.\n\nStephen Fry said the Labour party was afraid to mention Brexit, adding it was a \"catastrophe\" and that \"everyone knows it\".\n\n\"It's funny because it's a clown car crash and you can't help but be amused by it,\" he says.\n\nSalma Shah said she would watch the programme and be \"slightly triggered by it\".\n\nShe says there has been a \"fundamental failure\" when it comes to the types of people that are being recruited into politics and that there needs to be \"a big change in mindset\" when it comes to defining what public service really is.\n\nCharlie Taylor says the churn of justice and prisons ministers is leading to decisions being made which are \"not in the interests of the public\".\n• You can watch the first part of State of Chaos on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on Monday 11 September at 21:00", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic won a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title by outlasting Daniil Medvedev in a punishing US Open final in New York.\n\nThe 36-year-old Serb won 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 but the straight-set scoreline does not tell how deep he had to dig.\n\nA comfortable opening set was followed by a brutal second which lasted one hour and 44 minutes.\n\nAfter the pair exchanged breaks early in the third, Djokovic took control to level Margaret Court's 50-year record.\n\n\"It obviously means the world to me,\" said Djokovic on winning his 24th major.\n\n\"I'm really living my childhood dream to compete at the highest level in this sport, which has given me and my family so much from difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I never thought I would be here but the last couple of years I thought I had a shot at history. Why not grab it when it is presented?\"\n\nSecond seed Djokovic looked physically troubled in that gruelling second set, but showed all the hallmarks of his greatness to win a fourth US Open title.\n\nDjokovic, who surpassed Rafael Nadal's record tally of 22 men's major titles earlier this year, has matched Australia's Court at the second attempt after losing the Wimbledon final in July.\n\nHe has won three of the four Grand Slam titles in 2023, becoming the first man to achieve this feat on four occasions.\n\nNow the incoming world number one has the chance to surpass Court at January's Australian Open - where he has already won a record 10 titles.\n\nIt felt fitting that Djokovic set up championship point by winning another lengthy rally and, after being made to wait to serve by shouts from the crowd, sealed victory when Medvedev hit a forehand into the net.\n\n\"I would definitely sign right away the paper if somebody would tell me I would win three out of four and play Wimbledon finals this year,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"There is a little regret that I didn't win that Wimbledon final. But, at the end of the day, I have so much more to be happier and content with than actually to regret something.\"\n• None 'One of sport's biggest achievements' - but Djokovic eyes more\n• None Quiz: Who has Djokovic beaten in Grand Slam finals?\n\nDjokovic shows again why he can never be written off\n\nWhen Djokovic lost to 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final it felt like a changing-of-the-guard moment in the men's game.\n\nBut, even in the twilight of his career, Djokovic continues to show he can never be written off.\n\nDjokovic has won eight of the past 12 majors he has played at and will replace Alcaraz again as the world number one on Monday.\n\n\"It's not my interest or business to really review what everyone talks about or thinks, whether there is a passing of the torch, or whatever you want to call it, happening or not happening in the sport,\" he said.\n\n\"I focus on what I need to do and how I get myself in an optimal state so that I can win the biggest trophies in our sport. That's what I care about.\"\n\nDjokovic was dialled in from the start of Sunday's final, playing patiently and precisely to break for a 2-0 lead, with Medvedev looking ragged as he fell 3-0 behind.\n\nWith Medvedev deep behind the baseline when receiving, Djokovic smartly decided to serve-volley on his way to 4-1 - a tactic he employed throughout - and showed his all-round quality to close out the opening set.\n\nDjokovic had only lost from a set up at the US Open once on 73 previous occasions, against Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka in the 2016 final.\n\nDjokovic's relentless returning continued to draw mistakes out of Medvedev, who was serving poorly and making loose errors, at the start of the second set.\n\nThe constant pressure led to another break point for Djokovic in the seventh game, but Medvedev hung on to hold as Djokovic tumbled on to the court after an energy-sapping 31-shot rally.\n\nSomething appeared to be troubling Djokovic physically as he held a long game for 4-4 and survived Medvedev's first break point of the match.\n\nThe Russian third seed was sticking longer in the rallies now, pushing Djokovic to his limits and creating a set point at 6-5 which the Serb saved with another serve and volley.\n\nBut Djokovic eventually got over the line to ensure a marathon set would be settled by a tie-break.\n\nMedvedev led 5-4 when a stunning 23-shot point eventually went his way despite Djokovic's doggedness, only for the veteran to lock in again and win the next three points for a two-sets-to-love lead.\n\nIt was clear to see Medvedev had needed to level by taking that second set to stand any real chance of victory and the feeling of the inevitable was heightened by the Russian needing treatment on a shoulder injury before the third set.\n\nHe offered resistance by putting it back on serve at 3-2, but Djokovic broke again immediately and confidently clinched another famous win.\n\nAfter shaking hands with his opponent, Djokovic sobbed as he knelt on the court before picking out his daughter Tara from the crowd.\n\nFurther tears followed as he went to celebrate with his nearest and dearest, which included parents Srdjan and Dijana, wife Jelena, son Stefan - and Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey.\n\nAddressing his family, Djokovic thanked them for all their \"sacrifices\" when he was a child growing up in war-torn Serbia in the 1990s.\n\n\"The odds were pretty much against me and my family. It was not accessible, not affordable, but I fell in love with tennis,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one in my family played tennis but [there was] incredible resilience and belief from my family.\n\n\"My wife, my kids, my team, this is your trophy as much as it is mine.\"\n\nDjokovic also pulled on a T-shirt which paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his friend who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2020 and wore 24 in his playing days.\n\n\"Kobe was a close friend, we chatted a lot about the winners' mentality when I was struggling with injury and trying to work my way back to the top.\n\n\"He was one of the people I relied on the most, he was always there for support in the most friendly way.\n\n\"His passing hurt me deeply and 24 is the jersey he wore at Lakers so I thought it would be nice to acknowledge him.\"\n\nThe New York crowds were treated to two special nights after Coco Gauff won a maiden Grand Slam women's singles title on Saturday at the beginning of her exciting career but Djokovic's triumph brought emotion for different reasons, with the Serb nearing the end of his.\n\nBBC pundits hailed Djokovic's achievement with former British number one Annabel Croft saying fans had witnessed \"something incredibly special\".\n\n\"We witnessed him tying Margaret Court with 24 titles. It has taken him a time to get there but he's done it. He's super-human isn't he?\" she said on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"He had to put himself through the pain barrier to be able to do it. I don't think Medvedev could have played any better. I just admire the strength of character he has but to find the layers he found in his game. It was perfection.\"\n\nAmerican former player Jeff Tarango hailed an \"incredible moment\" that \"no-one will ever see again\".\n\n\"I don't think any other human could have done what he did in this second set and be able to able to stumble through it, fall over many times and come back again, and again and again.\n\n\"This was a kid who grew up playing tennis in an empty swimming pool and he became the greatest tennis player of all time. You can try to psychoanalyse all you want but the fact is he has put all the pieces of the puzzle together. He can't get any better.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None They argue, they bicker, but most of all, they love each other!: Meet The Royle Family on BBC iPlayer now\n• None Stephen Nolan goes in to find out", "So far 2023 has seen some false dawns for the UK economy. The next few weeks' data are critical.\n\nRecession has been avoided but growth has bumped along the bottom.\n\nAnd even as inflation falls from the double-digit levels of a year ago, it has proven more stubborn and sticky, and spread to the service sector.\n\nThe ONS's recent huge revision of historical growth changes the picture of the immediate post-pandemic recovery, especially relative to other European countries.\n\nBut a broader reassessment of UK prospects may have to wait for news in the coming weeks.\n\nData released in September could show whether the crises of the past three years are being put firmly behind us.\n\nExpectations within government are for the rollercoaster ride to continue for the next few weeks at least.\n\nUnemployment might tick up again when new figures are released on Tuesday. However, the UK should finally return to a situation where earnings are growing by more than the rise in the cost of living too.\n\nThe economy (GDP) could also have shrunk a little in July - we'll find out on Wednesday.\n\nRising fuel prices in August are likely to lead to a blip in the latest inflation numbers, released the following Wednesday, according to both Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.\n\nAll of this will feed into the Bank of England's interest rate decision in a fortnight.\n\nA rate rise had been expected, but recent hints have suggested the Bank may prefer to keep rates at current levels for longer.\n\nAgainst this backdrop, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is plugging the latest data into its forecasts to be published in November, alongside the Autumn Statement.\n\nOn the face of it, higher wages are pushing up the tax take, meaning that this year's borrowing numbers are coming in less than originally forecast.\n\nHowever, there is more red ink pouring into the projections. At the Budget forecast in March, the peak in Bank of England rates was expected to be 4.3%. It is already 5.25%.\n\nTen-year UK borrowing rates were forecast to be an average of 3.6% in March, and they reached 4.8% last month.\n\nThe OBR already stated at the Budget that a one percentage point rise in borrowing costs would increase borrowing by £20bn in 2027-28, \"wiping out headroom\" in its forecast.\n\nWhen the OBR points out that the Treasury is not on course to meet its self-imposed constraints on borrowing, that can result in pressure for tax rises or spending cuts.\n\nRight now the political conversation is about the opposite - pre-election tax cuts, or more spending on, for example, school repairs.\n\nFor the chancellor, this autumn should help settle Britain on a stable, steady economic trajectory.\n\nIt will not be spectacular, but it will be a world away from last year's shambles under his predecessor.\n\nInflation should continue to fall, down to 3% in a year's time. The UK will stay in a respectable middle lane of growth in the major G7 economies.\n\nThe Treasury's main medium-term policy focus will be acknowledging and trying to deal with the UK's relatively poor record on business investment.\n\nThe Budget contained a suite of measures designed to help ease the labour supply problem.\n\nThe Autumn Statement will be about this business investment challenge. The Treasury thinks it explains a quarter of the UK's productivity underperformance with other major economies.\n\nThe prize, if the UK was as productive as Germany, for example, would be an increase in GDP per head of £6,000.\n\nBut households are very much not out of the woods.\n\nEven a declining headline rate of inflation, and rising average earnings, will not mask increasing pain as rising interest rates hit homeowners and renters.\n\nThe ONS consumer habits survey shows the bulk of people still spending more than usual on food shopping, buying less, and noticing less variety on the shelves.\n\nSupermarkets notice hundreds of thousands of home meals, replacing eating out.\n\nBanks notice mortgage holders who used to shop at the priciest of supermarkets switching to discount retailers.\n\nBy the end of the month the Bank of England could give a definitive steer that interest rates have peaked at 5.5%, albeit at the cost of their staying at such a level for the next year or so.\n\nIndustry is confident that high stocks of gas, and the ability to reduce demand, mean the whole of Europe should be resilient to any further energy market disruptions.\n\nBut the combination of some further stoppage in gas tanker trade and a very cold winter still has the capacity to create a nasty inflationary surprise in the new year.\n\nA path to a more normal economic situation could emerge soon. The data about to be released should give some big clues.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nAmerican teenager Coco Gauff fulfilled the potential she has long promised by landing her first Grand Slam title with a fightback win over Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open final.\n\nGauff, seeded sixth, started slowly in front of an expectant home crowd but grew in confidence to wear down second seed Sabalenka in New York.\n\n\"I feel like I'm in a little bit of shock at the moment,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"I feel like God puts you through tribulations and trials and that makes this even sweeter,\" added the American, who lost in her only other major singles final at the 2022 French Open.\n\n\"I'm thankful for this moment. I don't have any words.\"\n\nAustralian Open champion Sabalenka, meanwhile, must wait for a second major title.\n\nThe 25-year-old Belarusian can at least console herself with the knowledge she will become the world number one for the first time.\n\nGauff will rise to a career-high third when the latest rankings are released on Monday - but claiming her first major at her home Grand Slam is what really matters.\n\nWhen sealing victory with a backhand winner on her first championship point, Gauff immediately fell on to the court and lay on the sideline with her hands covering her face.\n\nAlmost the whole 24,000 crowd, which provided boisterous support throughout as they willed Gauff to victory, erupted in a frenzied celebration.\n\nGauff, overcome with emotion, made a heart sign to the fans before going up to the stands to see her parents Corey and Candi.\n\nAll three hugged and jumped in a circle as the family's sacrifices and hard work had resulted in one of the sport's biggest prizes.\n\nAsked to describe that moment, a laughing Gauff said: \"When I hugged my dad, I didn't see him, because he went immediately for the embrace - but I heard him crying.\n\n\"I have never seen that man cry in my life. My mum, I knew she was going to cry regardless if I won or lost.\n\n\"Honestly [I was thinking] nothing. The whole time I was saying to myself, 'Oh my goodness, how is this real?\"\n\nSince Gauff burst on to the scene as a 15-year-old phenomenon at Wimbledon in 2019, there have been expectations she would eventually become a Grand Slam champion.\n\nNow, following a significant but steady rise as she got to grips with the professional tour, she has become the first American teenager to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 1999.\n\nWhat makes it more remarkable is the way Gauff has turned her form around after a deflating first-round exit at Wimbledon in July.\n\nGauff has restored confidence in her groundstrokes, as well as developing an unwavering belief she can still turn matches around even when she is not playing well.\n\nThat was the key to grinding her way back into contention against Sabalenka.\n\nGauff's forehand has come under scrutiny and Sabalenka particularly attacked that wing in the early stages when she broke on the way to a 2-1 lead.\n\nBoth players were unable to find their best level in a strange first set, the pair exchanging three more breaks of serve before Sabalenka sealed the opener with Gauff not offering enough consistency in the rallies.\n\nAfter needing to save two break points in the first game, Gauff improved considerably in the second set.\n\nShe defended the baseline with incredible athleticism and anticipation, returning much better to force Sabalenka into mistakes.\n\nA double fault from the Belarusian on a break point handed over a 3-1 lead, with Gauff growing in confidence to close out the set and level.\n\nMomentum continued with Gauff in the deciding set, two early breaks putting the teenager in command before she confidently served out to love.\n\nIt was the third time over the past fortnight - following an opening win against German qualifier Laura Siegemund and a third-round victory over Belgian 32nd seed Elise Mertens - where she has fought back to win.\n\n\"Definitely she was moving just unbelievable,\" said Sabalenka, whose 46 unforced errors outweighed 24 winners.\n\n\"The second set I start probably overthinking and because of that I started losing my power. Then she started moving better and I started missing a lot of easy shots.\n\n\"The good news is that it's me against me. The bad one is that I'm still having these issues playing against myself.\"\n\nGauff's victory is the culmination of an outstanding North American hard-court swing, where she won the biggest titles of her career in Washington and Cincinnati.\n\nSince the Wimbledon defeat, she has recovered by winning 18 of her 19 matches and beating Sabalenka is a career-best 12th victory in a row.\n\n\"I want to say 'thank you' to the people who didn't believe in me,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"A month ago I won a WTA 500 title [in Washington] and people said I would stop at that.\n\n\"Two weeks ago I won a 1000 title [in Cincinnati] and people were saying that was the biggest title I would get.\n\n\"Three weeks later, I'm here with this trophy right now.\n\n\"I tried my best to carry on with with grace but, honestly, to those who thought you were putting water on my fire, you were really adding gas to it.\n\n\"I'm burning so bright right now.\"\n\nThere was no shortage of praise for Gauff following her breakthrough victory in front of a raucous New York crowd, with those present at Arthur Ashe Stadium and many others watching on from afar celebrating the teenager's triumph.\n\nAmong them was former US president Barack Obama, who congratulated her on social media, adding: \"We couldn't be prouder of you on and off the court - and we know your best is yet to come.\"\n\nCompatriot and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens called Gauff \"amazing\", while boxing legend Mike Tyson said: \"Coco! You did it! America and the world are celebrating!\"\n\nCommentating for BBC Radio 5 Live, American former player Jeff Tarango said: \"How eloquent she was when she was talking [in her post-match interview]. She's the perfect poster-child. A star is born.\"\n\nAnd former British number one Annabel Croft added: \"I think people expected a lot from her and she's had to cope with enormous amounts of pressure. It was unusual to hear her have a little bit of a pop back at people but I think it also showed there is steel there in her character, which is why she's become a great champion.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None They argue, they bicker, but most of all, they love each other!: Meet The Royle Family on BBC iPlayer now\n• None Stephen Nolan goes in to find out", "Two men have been seriously injured in a double attack in Sheffield city centre, police have said.\n\nA 20-year-old was stabbed on Carver Street at about 03:00 BST. Shortly after, another man - also aged 20 - was hit by a car at the same location.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said officers believe the two incidents were linked.\n\nOfficers said the stab victim was in a \"serious but stable\" condition, while the other man suffered \"potentially life-changing\" leg injuries.\n\nA third man, in his 20s, has been arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs with the intention to supply. He remains in police custody.\n\nDet Insp Mark Cockayne said there would be a heightened police presence in the area as the force investigated the incidents.\n\nPolice have confirmed they are linking the two incidents.\n\nDet Insp Mark Cockayne said there will be a \"heightened police presence\" in the area as officers investigate.\n\nI know incidents of violence such as this will be a cause for concern for people who live, work in and visit Sheffield city centre.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 60,000 people took part part in the 42nd Great North Run\n\nThousands of people have taken part in the 42nd Great North Run.\n\nThe race in 2020 had to be cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic and changes were made to the event in 2021 to allow for social distancing.\n\nLast year's run started with a minute's silence following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nOrganisers, The Great Run Company, said about 60,000 runners followed the traditional route from Newcastle, through Gateshead to South Shields.\n\nNewcastle United manager Eddie Howe was chosen to officially start the run.\n\nThe event was also Olympic champion Mo Farah's final race as a professional athlete. The 40-year-old finished in fourth place.\n\nAs is traditional the event started with the elite wheelchair race\n\nFriends Katharine and Cathy, from Bradford, and Cheryl, from Bristol, were raising money for different charities but all dressed in inflatable fox costumes.\n\nCheryl said this was their 13th time and they had worn \"random, inflatable things\" for the past few years.\n\n\"The atmosphere and the support from fellow runners and all the people on the route - it's the best race that I have ever done,\" she said.\n\n\"Although it's not going to be a race this year - we're definitely walking it.\"\n\nGood luck in the heat inside those!\n\nCathy said they competed in other races but the people along the course \"handing out lollipops, jelly babies, shouting your name\" made the Great North Run the best.\n\n\"For them to put that effort in then we can put some effort in and put a costume on,\" she said.\n\nKatharine said it was \"such a fun, family event\" with everyone cheering on the runners.\n\nBut she was \"absolutely terrified\" about the heat, she added.\n\n\"Nobody will want to be downwind from us on the final section.\"\n\nThe idea of Lee Ridley being pushed round the course in a wheelchair started out as a joke between friends but quickly escalated\n\nCounty Durham entrepreneur and BBC \"dragon\" Sara Davies, comedian Lee Ridley, who lives in Newcastle, and Emmerdale stars Laura Norton and Isabel Hodgins were among the celebrities who took part.\n\nAhead of the half marathon, BBC pundit and former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer sent a message telling Sir Mo to \"enjoy the Geordie welcome and the Geordie goodbye\" and wishing him luck.\n\nThe temptation to try and beat Sir Mo must be quite strong\n\nMany runners tackled the 13.1 mile (21km) route to support charities and other causes, raising an estimated £25m.\n\nOne planned to run the half marathon carrying a 6st (40kg) tumble dryer.\n\nStephen Sinclair, 35, from Ashington, Northumberland, was told he might never exercise again after a life-threatening blood clot and is raising money for the North East Autism Society.\n\nStephen Sinclair climbed Scafell Pike in the Lake District as part of his training\n\nBill Cooksey - at 102 years old - hoped to become the oldest person to finish the Great North Run.\n\nThe centenarian, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, who walks about two miles a day to keep fit, is raising funds to support his local NHS Trust charity.\n\nThe Great North Run would not be what it is without the dressing up\n\nAnother participant, Andrew Leather from South Shields, wanted to complete the run 10 years after a life-altering stroke.\n\nCaroline Quibell, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent - who recently had a hip replacement surgery - ran in memory of her late husband Michael, who died in October after having motor neurone disease for seven years.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows are back!\n\nAdditional mainline and Metro train services were in operation to cope with the extra demand from thousands of people travelling into Newcastle city centre to the race starting point.\n\nSome Metro stations closed at certain times to assist with crowd control.\n\nThousands took part to raise funds for their chosen charities\n\nMost of the runners managed to make it to South Shields before the rain started pouring down\n\nAbout 10,000 children took part in the Junior Great North Run\n\nOn Saturday about 10,000 children took part in the Junior and Mini Great North Run events on Newcastle Quayside.\n\nThe run's organisers said it was the most entrants there had been for the three to 16-year-old events.\n\nThe Saturday events were specifically for 3-16-year-olds\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two stages have been held in Wales, including Wrexham\n\nThe last stage of the Tour of Britain has been diverted after an unrelated road crash left one person hurt.\n\nThe riders are racing from Margam Park to Caerphilly but organisers paused the stage after hearing of the crash on the route ahead in Treorchy.\n\nPolice said a motorcyclist hit a bollard and had to be pulled from the river\n\nThe motorcyclist is in hospital with serious injuries.\n\nIt means a section of the eighth stage of the race over the Bwlch mountain won't go ahead.\n\nTwo stages of the race have been held in Wales, with stage two taking place in Wrexham.\n\nTeam Jumbo-Visma's Wout van Aert had a three-second overall lead prior to Sunday's start.\n\nFans took up position at Blaenllechau in the Rhondda Fach valley to watch the racers pass on Sunday\n\nA number of people have been lining the route, which finishes at Castle Street, Caerphilly.\n\n\"We thank everybody involved for their patience and understanding,\" said organisers in a post on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said one person had been taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales following a collision at 11:20 BST", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's winning run in their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign came to a halt as they were held to a draw by Ukraine in Wroclaw.\n\nUkraine were backed by 40,000 fans in the Tarczynski Arena, giving the game the fervent feel of a home fixture despite the hosts being unable to play in their own country because of the war with Russia.\n\nThe magnificently noisy backing in Poland turned to a deafening roar when Arsenal's Oleksandr Zinchenko put Ukraine ahead after 26 minutes, turning in a cross from Yukhym Konoplya.\n\nEngland had plenty of possession but lacked creativity and it needed a moment of brilliance from captain Harry Kane to set up the equaliser four minutes before half-time, dropping back almost to the halfway line before sending a magnificent raking pass to play in Kyle Walker for his first international goal on his 77th appearance.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had the better of the second half, going close when Bukayo Saka's shot was turned on to the bar by the slightest touch from Ukraine keeper Georgiy Bushchan.\n\nEngland are still firmly on course to qualify from Group C for next summer's Euros in Germany, but this was a lacklustre performance.\n\nHarry Kane's goalscoring importance for England is proved by his status as the country's record marksman, but his development into the complete player cannot be over-estimated.\n\nKane helped to rescue a point from a dreary team display with the brilliant demonstration of his vision and range of passing to set up Walker, who finished with composure.\n\nIt was a rare moment of quality from England and questions will once more be raised about what appeared to be a conservative approach from manager Southgate.\n\nEngland's midfield contained the natural talent and variety of Jude Bellingham and James Maddison, but there was a lack of balance and urgency in the face of a Ukraine side determined to repay their fans for some very special support.\n\nIt would take something truly remarkable for England to slip up in qualifying, yet there was very little else in the way of positive news to take away from Wroclaw as Southgate's players head to Glasgow for Tuesday's friendly against Scotland.\n\nThis was a truly special occasion in Wroclaw as thousands of Ukrainians away from their war-torn home country put on a magnificent show of support and unity for their football team.\n\nThe stadium was packed with Ukrainian supporters living in Poland, all whipped up into a loud frenzy before kick-off by the enthusiasm and cheerleading of the PA announcer.\n\nAnd the noise when Zinchenko gave them the lead was ear-splitting, as it was every time Ukraine won a tackle, header or advanced anywhere near the England goal.\n\nPhone torches lit up the stadium in the closing stages as Ukraine closed out a point, and the unity between players and supporters at the final whistle was emotional and remarkable.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Gallagher (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Substitution, Ukraine. Ehor Nazaryna replaces Mykhailo Mudryk because of an injury.\n• None Harry Maguire (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Taras Stepanenko (Ukraine).\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Mykhailo Mudryk (Ukraine). Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: About 30 days left for Ukraine offensive - US Army chief\n\nUkraine has little more than 30 days left of fighting before the weather hinders its counter-offensive, the top-ranking US military officer says.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Gen Mark Milley said colder conditions would make it much harder for Ukraine to manoeuvre.\n\nHe admitted the offensive had gone more slowly than expected. But he said: \"There's still heavy fighting going on.\n\n\"The Ukrainians are still plugging away with steady progress.\"\n\nGen Milley said it was too early to say whether the counter-offensive had failed, but said Ukraine was \"progressing at a very steady pace through the Russian front lines\".\n\n\"There's still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days' worth of fighting weather left, so the Ukrainians aren't done.\n\n\"There's battles not done... they haven't finished the fighting part of what they're trying to accomplish.\"\n\nKyiv's counter-offensive, which was launched in the summer and aims to liberate Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine, has so far seen only small gains.\n\nBut Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south.\n\n\"I said at the very beginning of this [war] that this was going to be long, slow, hard, and high-casualty-producing, and that's exactly what it is,\" Gen Milley said.\n\nIn the same interview, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said \"Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing\".\n\n\"That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia's control\", he said.\n\n\"That has not happened and it never will happen, and that's why Ukraine is winning.\"\n\nHe added that Ukraine was making progress in its battle to regain its territory, having recovered 50% of the ground Russia seized.\n\nUkraine's progress was also down to the international community \"applying economic pressure and diplomatic pressure, and Russia is suffering because of that\", he said.\n\nLast year, Ukraine's armed forces retook Kherson on 11 November, while during the generally mild winter fighting continued to rage around Bakhmut.\n\nAutumn rains and winter cold do have an impact on the nature of the fighting, but the slowdown in Ukraine's offensive operations last year was more about equipment and ammunition.\n\nAsked about the weather's impact, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence, Lt Gen Kyrylo Budanov, said on Saturday that \"the fighting will continue one way or another\".\n\nHe acknowledged it was harder to fight in cold, wet weather, but said it was a question of adjustment, not calling a halt.\n\nWheeled vehicles, he said, are more problematic in wet weather than tracked vehicles like tanks.\n\nBut he pointed out Russia's use of extensive anti-tank defences and kamikaze drones is just as challenging.\n\n\"So in the majority of cases, unfortunately, our offensive is walking on foot,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Vladimir Putin's alliance with North Korea shows the Russian president is in a \"state of desperation\", said Adm Radakin.\n\nHe said the ties between the two countries showed how few partners Russia had left.\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un reportedly plans to visit Russia this month to meet Mr Putin for weapons talks.\n\nThe two leaders are said to be planning to discuss North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its fight in Ukraine.\n\nVladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un met in the Russian port city of Vladivostok in 2019\n\nThere is concern both in Washington and in Seoul about what North Korea would get in return for an arms deal, which may result in increased military co-operation between the two countries in Asia.\n\nThe alliance was \"a reflection of the catastrophic mistake that Russia made by invading Ukraine\", said Adm Radakin.\n\nAnd it was also a reflection of the domestic situation in Russia, he said.\n\n\"You've got to look at the fact that [Russia's] economy is under pressure, the sanctions are having a greater impact. It doesn't have a raft of international partners.\n\n\"It's lost half a million people that have fled the country. There's at least a million more that want to leave the country.\n\n\"It's struggling to have enough people to keep supporting the war,\" he said.\n\nOn the subject of Donald Trump, Gen Milley said the US military's allegiance was \"to the constitution\", when asked if it would serve a commander-in-chief who was in jail.\n\nDonald Trump, who hopes to be the Republican candidate in the 2024 US election, faces multiple criminal charges which could see him jailed if found guilty.\n\n\"We take our oath to a document, the constitution of the United States of America,\" he said.\n\n\"So we will be faithful always to that constitution regardless of who occupies the White House.\"\n\nHe said the military would obey all lawful orders from whoever is the duly-elected president of the United States.\n\nGen Milley ruled out entering politics himself, and said he would \"run for best grandad\" when he retires in a few weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says it is reporting the UK government to the United Nations watchdog on workers' rights over a new strikes law.\n\nNew rules on strikes will require some employees to work during industrial action - or face being sacked.\n\nThe TUC said the legislation fell short of international legal standards.\n\nThe government said the new rules \"protect the lives and livelihoods of the general public\" as well as access to public services.\n\nOnce implemented, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act will apply to a wide range of workers, including those in the rail industry and emergency services.\n\nThe TUC labelled them \"anti-strike laws\" and, as representatives from 48 unions gathered on Sunday, its general secretary, Paul Nowak said they're \"unworkable\" - and may be illegal.\n\nSpeaking on the opening day of the TUC Congress in Liverpool, Mr Nowak said the union body will be lodging the case at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) because the new law \"falls far short\" of international legal standards.\n\nThe government took forward the legislation following a year of unprecedented industrial action by hundreds of thousands of workers, including nurses, teachers, civil servants and railway staff.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said: \"The purpose of this legislation is to protect the lives and livelihoods of the general public and ensure they can continue to access vital public services during strikes.\"\n\nShe added: \"The legislation does not remove the ability to strike, but people expect the government to act in circumstances where their rights and freedoms are being disproportionately impacted, and that's what we are doing with this Bill.\"\n\nThe government pointed to research which suggested 600,000 medical appointments have been rescheduled over the past year, and £1.2bn in output has been lost, due to strikes.\n\nA public consultation is under way into how the laws, which received Royal Assent in July, will be implemented by employers, but trade unions may well challenge them in the courts.\n\nUnder the new law, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales, the government would set minimum service levels after a consultation.\n\nEmployers will then be able to issue a \"work notice\" to unions, setting out who is required to work during a strike.\n\nUnder the legislation, there would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work through a notice but chooses to strike.\n\nIf a strike is not conducted in accordance with the new rules, employers would be also be able to sue unions for losses.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United winger Antony has agreed to delay his return to the club \"to address allegations\" of assault made against him. The 23-year-old was due back to training on Monday after being dropped from Brazil's squad for their World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru. But United say it has been agreed with the player that he will delay his return until further notice in order to address the matter. \"Manchester United acknowledges the allegations made against Antony,\" said a club statement. \"Players who have not participated in international matches are due back in training on Monday. \"However, it has been agreed with Antony that he will delay his return until further notice in order to address the allegations. \"As a club we condemn acts of violence and abuse. We recognise the importance of safeguarding all those involved in this situation, and acknowledge the impact these allegations have on survivors of abuse.\" A police investigation has been opened following allegations of domestic abuse against his former girlfriend. He is also facing further allegations of assault made by a woman in an interview with a Brazilian TV channel. Antony appeared on Brazilian TV on Friday, saying \"I never attacked any woman\" and added that \"the truth will come out\". He issued a statement on Sunday saying: \"I have agreed with Manchester United to take a period of absence while I address the allegations made against me. \"This was a mutual decision to avoid distraction to my teammates and unnecessary controversy for the club. \"I want to reiterate my innocence of the things I have been accused of, and I will fully co-operate with the police to help them reach the truth. I look forward to returning to play as soon as possible.\" Antony has been accused of attacking his former girlfriend Gabriela Cavallin \"with a headbutt\" in a Manchester hotel room on 15 January, leaving her with a cut head that needed treatment by a doctor. She alleges she was also punched in the chest, causing damage to a silicone breast implant, which required corrective surgery. Antony previously said on social media about Cavallin's claims: \"I can calmly state that the accusations are false and that the evidence already produced and the other evidence that will be produced demonstrate that I am innocent of the accusations made.\" Ingrid Lana, a 33-year-old banker, has also claimed in a short clip released by Brazil's Record TV that she hit her head when \"pushed against a wall\" by Antony at his house in Manchester in October 2022. Both Greater Manchester Police and Sao Paulo Police are looking into the claims. Antony did not play in the international break after the Brazilian football federation said he had been withdrawn from their squad after \"facts became public\" that \"need to be investigated\". Given the Brazilian has not been charged or arrested, Antony remains on full pay and his absence is not being treated as a suspension by United. However, whilst underlining the present position allows Antony to defend himself - which he did in a TV interview on Friday - the club also feels it reflects the seriousness with which they are taking the allegations. The decision was signed off by chief executive Richard Arnold after consultation with manager Erik ten Hag. The club intends to continue to review the situation.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Morocco faces a race against time to save those trapped under the rubble by Friday's earthquake, as emergency services battle to supply remote areas.\n\nVillagers continue to dig by hand and shovel to find survivors, as response teams struggle to bring in machinery.\n\nThose same tools may now be needed to prepare graves for some of the thousands killed in the quake.\n\nPeople \"have nothing left,\" a villager told the BBC. \"People are starving. Children want water. They need help.\"\n\nFriday's earthquake, the country's deadliest for more than 60 years, struck below a remote cluster of mountainous villages south of Marrakesh.\n\nThe government reported that at least 2,122 people were killed and more than 2,421 injured, many critically.\n\nThe 6.8-magnitude tremor collapsed homes, blocked roads and swayed buildings as far away as the country's northern coast.\n\nMorocco's King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning on Saturday, as the scale of the devastation became clearer.\n\nThe royal palace said civil protection units had been deployed to increase stocks in blood banks, water, food, tents and blankets.\n\nBut it conceded that some of the worst-affected areas were so remote that it was impossible to reach them in the hours after the quake - the most crucial period for many of the injured.\n\nFallen rocks partially blocked the already poorly-maintained roads into the High Atlas Mountains, where many of the worst-affected areas lie.\n\nSurvivors in remote villages have begun to bury loved ones\n\nMany buildings have been reduced to rubble in the small town of Amizmiz, in a valley in the mountains about 34 miles (55km) south of Marrakesh.\n\nThe local hospital is empty and deemed unsafe to enter. Patients are instead treated in tents in the hospital grounds - but staff are overwhelmed.\n\nA hospital official, who asked not to be named, said that around 100 bodies were brought there on Saturday.\n\n\"I was crying because there were so many dead people, especially the young children,\" he said. \"Since the earthquake I haven't slept. None of us have.\"\n\nBeyond the hospital, the streets are packed with rubble from destroyed buildings, heavy traffic and those who have lost everything to the quake.\n\nA woman wails in grief and is held by those around her.\n\nThere are more tents at the side of the roads for people who have lost their homes, but not everyone has them.\n\nDozens of people are sleeping on rugs laid on the ground in the central square.\n\nAbdelkarim Brouri, 63, is one of those whose house partially collapsed and has nothing to protect him from the elements.\n\n\"I can't go back home,\" he said, pleading for more help. \"We're helping each other. There's no help coming from outside.\"\n\n\"We used blankets to make a tent,\" said Ali Ait Youssef, another Amizmiz resident. \"The tents the government distributed are not enough.\"\n\nIn a nearby village, crude graves covered with sticks and stones marked out some of the 100 residents killed.\n\nGravediggers were preparing more as locals said they had yet to receive any official support and were left to find and bury the dead themselves.\n\nInternational efforts to aid the recovery have begun to increase in pace.\n\nThe UK said Morocco had accepted its offer to deploy emergency response teams, including rescue specialists, a medical team, search dogs and equipment.\n\nSpain and Qatar also said they received formal requests and would send search and rescue teams. A BBC reporter saw Spanish sniffer dogs in a village in the Atlas Mountains on Sunday.\n\nFrance said it \"stood ready\" to help but was awaiting a formal request from Morocco. \"The second they request this aid, it will be deployed,\" said President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThe US said it had \"search and rescue teams ready to deploy... We are also ready to release funds at the right time.\"\n\nTurkey, which suffered its own catastrophic quake in February that killed 50,000 people, made its own offer to send personnel.\n\nCaroline Holt, of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told Reuters that the next two to three days would be \"critical for finding people trapped under the rubble\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere, relatives began to bury dozens of dead in the almost-entirely-destroyed village of Tafeghaghte, 37 miles (60km) southwest of Marrakesh.\n\n\"Three of my grandchildren and their mother are dead,\" said 72-year-old Omar Benhanna. \"They're still under the debris. It wasn't so long ago that we were playing together.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Agadir city, along the southern Atlantic coast, a woman named Hakima described how she fled her village, Msouna, after losing four relatives in the \"catastrophic\" shocks.\n\nNeighbours pulled her out of the rubble, she said - but no aid had yet reached Msouna and nearby settlements.\n\n\"My family has lost their homes, their belongings - they have nothing left,\" she said. \"People are starving. Children just want water. They need help.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales held out amid a dramatic late Fiji fightback to edge a captivating World Cup opener in Bordeaux.\n\nWales led 32-14 through tries from Josh Adams, George North, Louis-Rees-Zammit and Elliot Dee.\n\nFiji responded with efforts from Waisea Nayacalevu and Lekima Tagitagivalu, before Josua Tuisova and Mesake Doge scored late tries to worry Wales.\n\nCentre Semi Radradra then dropped the ball with the Wales try line at his mercy in the final play of the game.\n\nThe wonderful eight-try spectacle evoked memories of when Fiji defeated Wales 38-34 in Nantes in 2007, but this time the men in red were the ones celebrating at the end with fly-half Dan Biggar named man of the match after kicking 12 points.\n\nVictory handed Wales a boost in their bid for quarter-final qualification after Australia defeated Georgia in the Pool C opening match on Saturday.\n\nWales face Portugal in Nice next Saturday before further group games against Australia in Lyon on 24 September and Georgia in Nantes 13 days later.\n\nThis was the fifth successive time the two sides had met in the World Cup, with Gatland's side triumphing in 2011, 2015 and 2019.\n\nGatland was beginning his fourth World Cup in charge with Wales after also leading Ireland in the 1999 tournament.\n\nWales had lost 26 games since 2019, the most defeats they have ever suffered between World Cups, with Gatland retuning to replace Wayne Pivac in December 2022.\n\nOnly one win came in a fifth-place finish in the 2023 Six Nations, which was also plagued by potential Wales player strike action over contractual issues before the England game, with that threat eventually averted.\n\nGatland stated this tournament represented a clean slate following brutal fitness training camps in Switzerland and Turkey. The Wales boss predicted his players would do something special and surprise people in France.\n\nFiji came into the tournament as the highest-ranked side in Pool C after rising to seventh place following an impressive victory over England at Twickenham. This was three places higher than Wales.\n\nThe Fijians had lost fly-half Caleb Muntz due to injury ahead of this game, with Teti Tela taking his place, while captain Jac Morgan was leading Wales on his World Cup debut as 10 players in the 23-man squad featured for the first time in the tournament.\n\nWales had spoken about doing the basics right, with locks Adam Beard and Will Rowlands making a storming start.\n\nBeard took a towering catch from the kick-off and Rowlands forced a turnover penalty which Biggar slotted over.\n\nCentre North, who was becoming only the fifth Welshman to play in a fourth World Cup, then sliced through the Fiji defence.\n\nThe ball was moved left and Adams crossed for yet another World Cup score after finishing the 2019 tournament in Japan as the leading try-scorer with seven.\n\nWales might have been buoyed by their opening start, but they were also guilty of over-playing on two occasions in their own half and were punished by Fiji captain Nayacalevu.\n\nHe galvanised his side as the centre powered through the attempted tackle from Toulon team-mate Biggar and flanker Aaron Wainwright, to sprint away with Frank Lomani converting.\n\nNayacalevu and fellow centre Radradra were the catalysts for the second score with searing midfield breaks to release flanker Tagitagivalu.\n\nThe first water break, a concept Gatland was not keen on as he backed his side's fitness and wanted to keep the game moving, came at the right time for a shell-shocked Wales, who managed to regroup.\n\nBiggar slotted over a second penalty shortly after the resumption, before North crossed following an intricate move with fellow centre Nick Tompkins as Wales again capitalised on Fiji's suspect midfield defence. Biggar converted as Wales regained the lead.\n\nFiji prop Eroni Mawi was denied a try after he lost possession over the Wales line. Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies was forced to leave the field for a head injury assessment after a high tackle from Fiji wing Selestino Ravutaumada that only yielded a penalty and not a yellow card.\n\nWales held out for an 18-14 half-time lead as Biggar left the field fuming with his team-mates for not kicking the ball off the field earlier.\n\nDavies passed his assessment and returned for the second half with Fiji lock Isoa Nasilasila giving away a cheap penalty from the restart after taking out Wainwright, but Biggar missed the kick.\n\nWales retained the pressure and following a Tompkins break, captain Morgan produced a searching cross kick to set up Rees-Zammit's score, which Biggar converted.\n\nA sublime piece of play from full-back Liam Williams with an audacious flick was followed by a bone-crunching tackle from Adams on Ravutaumada.\n\nThis created a Wales penalty and lifted the players, the replacements' bench and fans in the stadium.\n\nA raft of replacements included Tommy Reffell coming on for Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau, who had started despite missing the three warm-up matches in August because of a calf injury.\n\nFiji pressurised Wales as they brought on centre Tuisova and flanker Levani Botia, who lost the ball over the Wales line.\n\nA thundering Reffell tackle laid the platform for Biggar to produce a searching kick that gave Wales the attacking platform for the bonus-point fourth try.\n\nAfter Tagitagivalu was shown a yellow card for pulling down a Wales rolling maul, replacement hooker Dee drove over, with Biggar's conversion proving his last act before limping off the field.\n\nThe sides were evened up when replacement prop Corey Domachowski was shown a yellow card for a professional foul after Wales had been warned for persistent offending.\n\nFiji took advantage, with Tuisova powering over to set up an enthralling ending. Wales found themselves under incessant late pressure as Gatland's side avoided another yellow card in the closing moments.\n\nDoge was denied a try before he eventually burrowed over, and a loose Liam Williams kick gave Fiji the platform for one final attacking attempt.\n\nThey appeared to have worked the overlap perfectly for Radradra, but the former Bristol player suffered heartbreak when he looked a certain scorer, spilling possession and missing out on a try that could have steered Fiji to victory.\n\nBoth sides fell to their knees, with Wales as relieved as they were pleased to emerge victorious following a breathless finish.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Rowland Kao says the government should make the tests free again.\n\nAn infection expert has called for lateral flow tests to become free again as a new Covid variant spreads.\n\nUnofficially called \"Pirola\", the new BA.2.86 variant is a mutated version of Omicron, which triggered a surge in cases in late 2021 and early 2022.\n\nProf Rowland Kao from the University of Edinburgh said it was important to track the spread and some people might not be able to afford the tests.\n\nThe Scottish government said the situation was being kept under review.\n\nThe BA.2.86 strain has already been found in several countries including Canada, Israel and the US.\n\nHowever, it is difficult to determine how much the increase in Covid is due to the new variant.\n\nTesting for the virus has been scaled back across the globe and scientists say they do not have clear information about how rapidly it is spreading.\n\nPreviously, UK citizens could order packs of free lateral flow tests online from the government.\n\nPublic Health Scotland (PHS), the NHS body responsible for monitoring and managing the coronavirus, says the accuracy of wastewater testing is variable and results should be treated with caution.\n\nProf Kao told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"It is a very new situation.\n\n\"The important thing to remember is that Covid still has the capacity to surprise - we're not in any kind of settled pattern.\n\n\"We have signals that are telling us, even without any new variants, that Covid might be getting worse.\n\n\"We have this variant which is quite different from the things that have happened before.\"\n\nHe said that, so far, there was no evidence to suggest that the new variant was more harmful than previous variants.\n\nHowever, the number of Covid cases in Scotland has been increasing since the beginning of July.\n\nThe exact number of cases is difficult to track as there is little testing in the wider community.\n\n\"If you find you have symptoms, you should be isolating if you can,\" Prof Kao said.\n\n\"If you can, get a lateral flow test, and I would like to see lateral flow tests become freely available again because a lot of the people who would be taking them, can't afford them.\n\n\"I know nothing is cheap, but a lot can be done by getting more data from people.\"\n\nProf Kao said more data systems would be useful as the virus cannot be predicted using year-to-year trends yet.\n\n\"The fact that we've got this rise now tells us something is going on that hasn't happened before,\" he said.\n\n\"So we need to wait at least a couple more years before that settling down is likely to occur.\"\n\nIn response to the new cases, PHS and the Scottish government are working to bring winter vaccinations forward for those at the highest risk of becoming seriously ill from flu and Covid.\n\nThis includes care home residents, those aged over 75 and those with weakened immune systems who were initially set to receive their vaccinations from mid-October.\n\n\"We know from past vaccines the protection declines roughly after six months, but there is still some protection,\" Prof Kao said.\n\n\"We have to do what we think is best now, and bringing forward these vaccines may help stop the spread.\n\n\"At the very least it should help to protect people against severe infection.\"\n\nJillian Evans, the head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the health board had already seen an increase in the number of elderly patients being admitted for Covid since July.\n\nShe added: \"Relative to what we saw last year, the numbers are still very low, but it's the trend, and it is a rising trend.\"\n\nShe said some markers such as wastewater testing and the ONS infection survey were effective at monitoring numbers \"but we don't have all the surveillance measures, and that's a real pity as that's something you want to switch on quickly to keep ahead of the epidemic.\"\n\nMs Evans also urged the government to consider widening the winter vaccination programme to everyone over the age of 50.\n\n\"There is a cost associated with vaccination,\" she said.\n\n\"But the cost of not doing it - such as people being off work, going into hospitals - is something that needs to be considered.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"Due to the success of vaccines in protecting people, and the availability of improved treatments, Scotland has moved to a more targeted approach to protect those in highest-risk settings.\n\n\"Testing remains in place for admissions into care homes, for those eligible for antiviral treatment, and in other circumstances where it is considered clinically necessary.\n\n\"This situation is kept under regular review, and any further changes to the testing regime will be based on the latest clinical and scientific evidence.\"", "The two-day G20 summit in Delhi has been a triumph for India as world leaders lavished praise over its role in negotiating a tricky consensus on the joint statement.\n\nWe witnessed some surreal scenes today - with Western leaders and Russia defended the wording of the joint declaration, explaining how it reflected their positions on the Ukraine war. However, Ukraine has clearly said that it is disappointed at the statement.\n\nThe day also threw up some heartwarming photographs and videos, as world leaders paid their tributes to Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi in the morning.\n\nAnd then there are the far-reaching announcements from yesterday, including the addition of the African Union in the G20.\n\nIndia’s presidency ends in November - PM Modi has proposed that a virtual summit be held that month to review the suggestions and proposals put forward by members.\n\nAnd then it’s over to Brazil for the next year.", "A drone exploding in the night sky over Kyiv\n\nKyiv was attacked by Russian drones early on Sunday and debris fell in several districts, Ukrainian officials say, but no casualties were reported.\n\nAt least 10 explosions were heard in the capital and air raid sirens signalled that residents should take shelter. Later the all-clear sounded.\n\nKyiv Military Administration chief Serhiy Popko said debris had sparked a fire in a residential building, but it had been extinguished.\n\nOn Sunday, the city authorities named the affected districts as Podilskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi, all in or near the city centre. Kyiv's air defence system has proven effective at downing most Russian drones and missiles targeting the city.\n\nMr Popko said about 20 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones had been downed on Sunday. They had flown over Kyiv in groups from several directions, he said.\n\nMost of the debris fell on open ground, he added, but some damaged cars and trolleybus cables.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia says it destroyed eight drones launched by Ukraine over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula - which Russian forces have occupied since 2014. Drones are also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).\n\nDrones allegedly from Ukraine have previously flown deep into Russia, including to the Moscow region, and recently hit planes at a military airbase in Pskov. But Ukrainian officials generally neither confirm nor deny their involvement in such raids.\n\nRussia's defence ministry also says its naval aircraft destroyed three Ukrainian military speedboats that were heading towards Crimea. The US-made boats, carrying marines, were hit north-east of Snake Island, it said.\n\nThe BBC has not verified the claim, which comes just days after Russia said it had destroyed four Ukrainian speedboats off Crimea.\n\nEarlier, Ukraine's new defence minister Rustem Umerov urged Western allies to stay the course and continue weapons supplies in order to win the war.\n\n\"We are grateful for all the support provided... We need more heavy weapons,\" he said. \"We need them today. We need them now.\"\n\nIn his appeal, he said \"Ukrainian warriors today are sacrificing their lives for the core values of democracy and freedom\" and \"they need back-up from your side\".", "The BBC's Anna Holligan takes a look at what is left at the site of the Jemaa el- Fnaa mosque.\n\nRubble from the tower where the Friday call to prayer speaker is landed on a nearby car bonnet.\n\nFollow the latest on this story here.", "When the public finances are in a tight spot, the axe often falls first on capital spending. This is government spending on buildings and facilities, not on, for example, wages and day-to-day services.\n\nThe political rationale is that it takes time, often years, to see the material impact of a squeeze on capital spending. It kicks cans down the road. But are capital spending cuts in education during the austerity years to blame for the current schools concrete crisis?\n\nWhat is clear is that, overall, investment spending of all kinds has been squeezed over the last decade. Under the last Labour government, capital spending as a proportion of the size of the economy, or GDP, rose from 0.3% in 1997 to 3% in 2010. Since then, however, it has fallen back to an average of 2% where it is set to remain.\n\nThis issue is being made worse by inflation - the rate at which prices rise - which has soared and remains stubbornly high. The chancellor said on Sunday that \"one of his first decisions\" while he was trying to shore up the public finances last year was to protect cash spending on capital, in other words maintain it at current levels.\n\nBut accounting for inflation, it means significant real-terms cuts are coming. Indeed the Treasury's own documents forecast an average cut from departmental capital budgets of about £10bn from 2025-2028.\n\nFor schools the situation is even tougher, because since 2010 education has received a lower proportion of capital spending as money is directed elsewhere.\n\nIn 2005, for example, one in every eight pounds of capital expenditure went on education. Over the past three years it has been one in every £20. The inflation-adjusted education capital budget fell by 50% from its peak between 2010 and 2022.\n\nThe Conservatives inherited just under £10bn a year in education capital sending in 2010, and have spent £5-6bn a year since then, in real terms. Part of those savings came from scrapping the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in 2010, which aimed to rebuild and refurbish every secondary school in England.\n\nIn the 2010 Spending Review, which set out the government's priorities, 60% cuts to education capital spending were very clearly signalled. Indeed, this planned £4bn fall in education spending was the biggest single departmental contributor to the Coalition's austerity savings in the overall capital budget from 2010 to 2015. That document claimed \"the decision to end BSF will allow new capital to be focused on meeting demographic pressures and addressing maintenance needs\".\n\nWhat has actually happened since then, is that government capital spending has been focussed on hospitals, transport, energy and science, and away from schools and housing. Indeed over 20 years health will have roughly swapped places with education as home for one in eight pounds of investment. This is a tangible reflection of differing political priorities - \"education, education, education\" for the Blair-Brown Labour administrations, and reducing borrowing while protecting the NHS for the post-2010 Conservatives.\n\nOn the BBC's Today programme on Monday, former top education civil servant Jonathan Slater said the government cut the schools' repair budget in 2021 despite a warning of a \"critical risk to life\" from crumbling concrete. This was when Rishi Sunak was chancellor. In 2019, the Office of Government Property calculated that in order to bring the schools estate to best practice, partly because of the concrete issue, £7bn a year in funding was required.\n\nMr Slater also suggested that ministers preferred to spend money on opening shiny new schools with opportunities for photos in hard hats, than the more routine job of ensuring the existing stock of school buildings were up to date.\n\nHowever, the prime minister said it was \"utterly and completely wrong\" to blame him for failing to fund the programme.\n\nNevertheless, decisions over how capital spending budgets should be allocated raise significant questions for the current government and whoever wins the next election.\n\nAt times, capital investment has been exempted from the government's rules on borrowing. Governments have said it is fine to borrow money to invest in the future. But in recent years, self-imposed limits on government debt levels have directly affected capital spending decisions for the long term.\n\nIs health gobbling up the capital budget to the exclusion of neglected schools? How does Westminster prioritise the sometimes crumbling fabric of public services?\n\nThe design life of concrete systems in post-war schools was 30-40 years. There is now a pressing requirement to replace, presumably, all of it which this government or the next will have to meet. This post-dated cheque is coming due at a time when capital budgets are being squeezed again. But the problem cannot wait until after the general election.", "Tian Tian is one half of the popular panda pair\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas will finally return to China in December, it has been announced.\n\nTian Tian and Yang Guang have to go back under the terms of a 10-year loan, which was extended by two years due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe pair have failed to produce offspring since their arrival in 2011.\n\nThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which runs Edinburgh Zoo, said the giant pandas have had an \"incredible impact\" on visitors.\n\nThe zoo has been paying £750,000 annually to China for the pandas.\n\nThe exact date of their departure is being finalised.\n\nAlison Maclean, the carnivore team leader at Edinburgh Zoo, said: \"We are making arrangements with our partners in China for Yang Guang and Tian Tian to return in early December, possibly during the first week.\n\n\"Visitors to the zoo can expect to see them indoors and outside until the end of November, after which viewing will be outdoors only until they leave.\"\n\nShe added: \"Having cared for Yang Guang and Tian Tian since they arrived in 2011, I will be travelling back to China with them, to help them settle into their new homes.\"\n\nDavid Field, the RZSS chief executive, said: \"With more than a million species at risk of extinction and our natural world in crisis, Yang Guang and Tian Tian have had an incredible impact by inspiring millions of people to care about nature.\n\n\"Through scientific research alongside the University of Edinburgh, we have also made a significant contribution to our understanding of giant pandas, which will be of real benefit to efforts to protect this amazing species in China.\n\n\"It is encouraging that in recent years the outlook for giant pandas in the wild has improved, which gives real hope for the future.\"\n\nThe zoo and veterinarians from China made eight unsuccessful attempts at artificial insemination between the pair. The last attempt was in 2021, after which the giant panda breeding programme was stopped.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPolice are investigating an alleged assault at Emirates Stadium during Arsenal's 3-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday, following the circulation of footage on social media showing Sky Sports pundits Micah Richards and Roy Keane involved in an altercation with an individual.\n\nFormer United captain Keane was reportedly the alleged victim of the assault.\n\nSky Sports say Richards was \"acting to defuse a situation\".\n\nFormer Manchester City and England defender Richards, 35, and former Republic of Ireland international Keane, 52, were working on Sky Sports' coverage of the Premier League game.\n\nA Sky Sports spokesperson said: \"We understand the police are investigating an alleged assault by a member of the public immediately preceding the footage circulating on social media. In the footage seen, Micah Richards was acting to defuse a situation.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan police said: \"Police are investigating following an assault that is alleged to have occurred at the Emirates Stadium during an Arsenal v Manchester United match on Sunday 3 September.\n\n\"There have been no arrests and enquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nAn Arsenal statement added. \"We are aware of an incident that took place during our match against Manchester United on Sunday,\"\n\n\"The Metropolitan Police is conducting an investigation into the matter and we are fully co-operating with their enquiries.\"", "In Lebanon, the UN says one in every 10 families send their children to work\n\nThe future of millions of children is at risk as growing numbers are pulled out of school and into work, the head of the United Nations' labour body has told the BBC.\n\nGilbert Houngbo, director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), said there had been a \"regression\" in regions around the world amid global economic problems.\n\nSome of the worst forms of work involved sexual exploitation.\n\nHe said urgent action was needed.\n\n\"Compound the Covid effect with the rise in inflation and the cost of living that followed [and] it has just made things worse,\" he said. \"Unless we act now and we act decisively and fast, the problem will [continue to] worsen.\"\n\nData compiled by the UN in early 2020 found that some 160 million children were being subjected to child labour, and that global progress to end it had stalled for the first time in 20 years. Mr Houngbo, the former prime minister of Togo, said early data suggested the trend was continuing.\n\nHe said a squeeze on living costs - driven in part by rising food and energy prices caused by the war in Ukraine - had for some families \"made the difference between having one meal a day or not\". In some cases this had led to the \"worst form of child labour\", where parents were pushing their children into sex work to help support their families.\n\nIn the coastal city of Mombasa in south-eastern Kenya, one 14-year-old girl told the BBC she had no choice but to look for work as her mother struggled to afford food and school fees for her and her two siblings.\n\nTo make money, she said she had been \"sleeping with men, washing clothes and plaiting hair\".\n\nWhen she does attend school, she said she sometimes feels so hungry that she \"can't get the pen to write\".\n\nSpeaking from their small home, her mother said it was \"not easy to tell a child to do something like that\".\n\nBut she said she was unable to support her family after losing her job during the pandemic, and now struggled to make ends meet washing clothes.\n\n\"It is very heart breaking. I would like my child to go to school like other children so that she can get a good job that will help her in the future, but because I don't have any means she is forced to do that job.\"\n\nA woman running a nearby brothel said her business was \"thriving\" as she was getting more and more young girls desperate for money.\n\nMr Houngbo said the rise in child labour was being seen in low- middle- and high-income countries, and in sectors including agriculture, mining and construction.\n\n\"Clearly we are in a critical moment,\" he said, adding that \"poverty is the root cause\".\n\nThe exact circumstances in different countries vary, but the UN children's fund (Unicef) says inflation and the rising cost of living are a \"universal concern\" that impacts children in a range of ways.\n\n\"Many families out of desperation need to resort to really impossible choices and negative coping strategies that are affecting children now and in the long-term,\" said Natalia Winder-Rossi, director of Unicef's social policy and social protection programme.\n\nThe BBC has visited several countries to see how economic problems are affecting children.\n\nIn the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, children said they had dropped out of school to support their families.\n\n\"When I was at school I used to dream of becoming a teacher. [Now] I stopped dreaming,\" 14-year-old Alaa, who works cleaning people's houses, told the BBC.\n\nUnicef says more than one in 10 families in Lebanon send their children to work. The country is facing an almost total collapse of its economy.\n\n\"I would like to go to school of course, but in this situation who would think of going to school? You need to provide for your family. I'm suffocating... but I have to put up with it,\" said 15-year-old Muhammad, who sells tissues in the road to passing cars.\n\nBut Mr Houngbo said that while the situation was \"very worrisome\", he remained optimistic that solutions could be found.\n\nHe said there was no \"one size fits all approach\", but policies focusing on education, creating jobs, and cracking down on illicit industries were among the actions that could be taken.\n\nGovernments needed to \"step up now\", he said.", "Matthew Hedges described the apology as a \"watershed moment\" for all British nationals\n\nThe Foreign Office has apologised to a British academic who was accused of spying and tortured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nMatthew Hedges repeatedly denied the accusation and said he was carrying out research for his Durham University PhD.\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCDO) said it recognised that he and his family's experience was \"a distressing one\".\n\nDr Hedges, from Exeter, said he was \"delighted\" to receive an apology, which he called a \"watershed moment\".\n\nHe had previously complained to the Parliamentary Ombudsman, which later launched an investigation into how the FCDO handled his case.\n\nIt ruled that the FCDO failed to protect the academic and said the department should pay him £1,500 compensation.\n\nMatthew Hedges' wife Daniela Tejada campaigned to have him freed\n\nDr Hedges was in Abu Dhabi in 2018 when he was accused of working for MI6 and \"spying for or on behalf of\" the UK government.\n\nThe UAE authorities said material found on his laptop proved he was a spy.\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned by the nation's president days later.\n\nDr Hedges said he was kept in handcuffs and in solitary confinement, questioned for hours and fed a cocktail of drugs.\n\nHe said his ordeal had left him with post traumatic stress disorder and insomnia.\n\nOn Monday, the FCDO said it recognised that Mr Hedges and his family's experience was \"distressing\" and it had a \"profound impact.\"\n\n\"We have accepted the ombudsman's finding for Mr Hedges, apologised and will pay the suggested compensation,\" it added in a statement.\n\nA review into internal guidance on torture and mistreatment cases has now begun, as well as training for consular staff.\n\nOfficials will also review how the FCDO supports British nationals who are arrested or in prison abroad.\n\nThe statement added: \"We always aim to act in the best interest of the individual and acting without their consent in raising concerns about torture and mistreatment creates unacceptable risks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Hedges This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Hedges, who released a statement on social media, welcomed the apology and said it had been \"a battle to reach this stage\".\n\n\"The FCDO's acknowledgement of the torture and injustice I suffered at the hands of the UAE is a watershed moment, not just for me and my family, but for all British nationals,\" he said.\n\n\"There is now no doubt that the FCDO failed in their obligations towards one of their citizens and I truly hope that the hundreds of other British nationals who are currently detained and suffering torture will benefit from the FCDO's promise of reviewing their clearly outdated and insufficient policies.\n\n\"The apology unfortunately does not change the fact that I still have a criminal record for espionage on behalf of the British Government.\"\n\nHe said it was \"baffling\" that the UK continue to work alongside the UAE \"knowing how callous they are with British lives\".\n\n\"The FCDO should do more to push the UAE to clear my name given that they have this close relationship,\" he added.\n\n\"I will continue to fight for those who are not lucky enough to have been freed or who have ridiculous false charges made against them, and today I revel in the fact that the FCDO have agreed they must do more to protect and help British citizens.\"\n\nIn a statement a UAE government spokesman said: \"Matthew Hedges was convicted of espionage in 2018 following a fair and transparent trial at which he admitted the charges against him.\n\n\"Mr Hedges received proper care and treatment. He had bedding, reading material, a television, access to family, consular officials and lawyers, and extensive medical care - including for a pre-existing mental health condition.\n\n\"He was never subjected to, or threatened with, either torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of any sort. The UAE has evidence to support this.\"\n\nThis story was amended on 6 September to include the quote from the UAE government", "Gilberto Hernández played in a friendly against Argentina in March\n\nA player for Panama's national football team has been shot dead in the city of Colón.\n\nGunmen opened fire on a group of people, among them 26-year-old Gilberto Hernández, who had gathered in a building in the city.\n\nHernández died and seven others were injured in the attack.\n\nIt is not yet clear if the footballer, who also played for Club Atlético Independiente, was the target of the shooting or what the motive was.\n\nThere has been a rise in murders in Colón over the past months as two rival gangs fight for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes.\n\nSo far, more than 50 people have been killed in Colón, a city of 40,000 inhabitants, so far this year.\n\nThe port city, on the north entrance to the Panama canal, is a transit point for cocaine smuggled from South America through Panama to Europe.\n\nTwo gunmen forced a taxi driver to take them to a building in the city's Barrio Norte neighbourhood and opened fire on the group gathered there.\n\nThe gunmen fled the scene, but a suspect has since been arrested in a flat nearby.\n\nGilberto Hernández had made his debut in the Panamanian national side in March this year in a match against Guatemala.\n\nThe player's father urged the youth of Colón \"to stop the violence\" and called on the authorities to \"launch projects to save the youth from this violence\".\n\nHe also asked the killers to hand themselves in: \"Don't cause more harm.\"\n\nPanama's football federation and Gilberto Hernández's club expressed their condolences to his family.", "Steve Harwell, the lead singer of US band Smash Mouth, has died at the age of 56.\n\nThe band's manager had earlier said Harwell was in the final stages of liver failure and was receiving end of life care at his home.\n\nIn a statement Robert Hayes said Harwell died at his home in Idaho, \"surrounded by family and friends\".\n\nSmash Mouth had a string of hits in the 1990s and 2000s with All Star, Walkin' on the Sun and I'm a Believer.\n\nHayes added that \"Steve lived a 100% full-throttle life. Burning brightly across the universe before burning out\".\n\nHarwell retired from the band in 2021 over physical and mental health issues.\n\nThe musician, who struggled with alcoholism, was diagnosed with the heart ailment cardiomyopathy in 2013; and subsequently a neurological condition which affected his memory and speech.\n\nBut his final decision to leave Smash Mouth came after he appeared intoxicated at a performance in upstate New York, where he was filmed slurring his words and yelling at the audience.\n\nSmash Mouth's long-time manager Robert Hayes confirmed to US media on 3 September that the singer did not have long to live, and was being cared for by his fiancée and hospice care.\n\nBorn in California in 1967, Harwell started his musical career in the rap group, F.O.S. (Freedom of Speech), who based their sound on the sample-heavy beats of Chuck D and Public Enemy.\n\nAlthough they picked up local radio support for their debut single Big Black Boots, Harwell called time on the band when he heard Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg's game-changing work on The Chronic, and intuited that the sound of rap was about to change.\n\nTaking a detour into alternative rock, he began jamming with his old friend, the drummer Kevin Coleman, and later formed Smash Mouth alongside Greg Camp and Paul De Lisle.\n\nTheir fusion of pop, ska, surf and punk, along with retro vibes from the 60s, generated an early hit in the shape of Walkin' On The Sun, which topped Billboard's modern rock charts, and helped their debut album Fush Yu Mang enter the Top 40.\n\nSome critics wrote the band off as a one-hit wonder, but Smash Mouth proved them wrong with their second album Astro Lounge in 1999.\n\nIt went triple platinum and included the hits Can't Get Enough of You Baby and the incredibly catchy All Star - a song which Rolling Stone magazine said \"inexplicably mesmerized the world for 20 years\".\n\nHarwell preferred the second album to the band's debut: \"The songs are more spread out, less fast and furious\", he told the magazine in 1999.\n\nHis distinctive, raspy rap-singing voice was instantly recognisable and several of Smash Mouth's songs became viral sensations.\n\nAll Star, which was written by Camp, had the longest afterlife of them all.\n\nIt became a hit a second time round after featuring in the original Shrek movie (with the band also covering The Monkees' I'm A Believer for the closing credits), and spawned dozens of memes - including a Mario parody, and a TikTok trend that syncs up Harwell's opening lyrics with videos of people meeting various misfortunes.\n\n\"At first it was weird, and we were a bit guarded and resistant,\" Harwell said of the song's online popularity, in a 2017 interview with Polygon.\n\n\"But as we dove into it more and focused on it we started 'getting it.' Plus, to be honest, it has really spiked the sales [of the song].\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by SmashMouthVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAlthough the band never scored another hit on the same scale, subsequent albums Smash Mouth (2001), Get the Picture? (2003), Summer Girl (2006) and Magic (2012) displayed a continued knack for sparkling pop melodies.\n\nHarwell suffered a personal tragedy in 2001 when his new-born son Presley died from complications from acute lymphocytic leukaemia. The musician reportedly helped to set up a medical research fund in his son's name.\n\nTen years later, Harwell raised $15,000 for a children's hospital after accepting a dare to eat 24 eggs.\n\nHowever, his own poor health and reported alcohol abuse affected several performances throughout the years.\n\nIn 2016, he collapsed on stage at a music festival in Illinois. The following year a show in Memphis was cancelled after he had trouble breathing during the soundcheck. And in 2018 he became ill mid-show in Australia and had to leave the stage - the band carried on without him.\n\nThe year 2020 saw him dismiss the seriousness of Covid-19 to a packed crowd at a motorbike rally in South Dakota. The rally was later declared a superspreader event by the National Institute of Health, and Smash Mouth said they received hate mail for performing there.\n\nThe same year his fiancée at the time, Esther Campbell, filed a restraining order against him, according to TMZ.\n\nAnnouncing his retirement in 2021, Harwell said: \"I've tried so hard to power through my physical and mental health issues, and to play in front of you one last time, but I just wasn't able to.\"\n\nThe band's manager's statement added: \"Steve should be remembered for his unwavering focus and impassioned determination to reach the heights of pop stardom.\n\n\"And the fact that he achieved this near-impossible goal with very limited musical experience makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable.\n\n\"His only tools were his irrepressible charm and charisma, his fearlessly reckless ambition, and his king-size cajones.\n\n\"Good night Heevo Veev. Rest in peace knowing you aimed for the stars, and magically hit your target. He will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved him.\"\n\nSmash Mouth's line-up has changed several times over the years - bassist Paul De Lisle is the only remaining original member - while Zach Goode took over as lead singer when Harwell retired.", "RAAC was used in construction of The Fulton Building at the University of Dundee\n\nReplacing concrete in university buildings across Scotland could cost millions, Dundee University has warned.\n\nExperts say buildings across the UK built from reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) could now be at risk of collapse.\n\nThe material has been found found in at least 24 university and college buildings in Scotland.\n\nA spokesperson from the University of Dundee said removing RAAC from campuses would be a big undertaking.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Rose Jenkins, the director of estates at the University of Dundee said the replacement process would be a long-term project.\n\nShe said: \"It's going to cost millions. It's going to be really big projects that are going to be quite significant.\n\n\"For us, that's because they are on really big buildings, in other cases it could be a lot more straight forward and smaller.\n\n\"It's not something we've budgeted for, but we do hold contingencies to ensure we are able to cope.\"\n\nDundee University is working with contractors, architects and structural engineers to decide the best way to remove the substance.\n\nRAAC is a cheap version of concrete that was used mostly in construction between the 1950s and 1990s.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said RAAC was now beyond its lifespan and may \"collapse with little or no notice\".\n\nThe material is present in a number of university and college buildings around Scotland.\n\nMs Jenkins said RAAC was present in two buildings on the University of Dundee's campus, including the engineering building and part of the student union building.\n\nShe continued: \"We have taken the precautions necessary to ensure staff and students are as safe as they can possibly can be.\n\n\"Where we feel there that is a heightened risk, we have cordoned those areas off and if anybody needs to go into them there's a full risk assessment and PPE provided.\"\n\nRAAC has been found in eight University of Edinburgh buildings\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh University has identified eight buildings with RAAC and Heriot Watt has identified five non-residential buildings, according to a freedom of information request by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.\n\nThe party said it had also been found within the Students' Association building at the University of St Andrews and some Edinburgh Napier buildings.\n\nDundee and Angus College identified two buildings, the Engineering Block and Construction Block of Kingsway Campus, where the substance was used.\n\nEdinburgh College and Glasgow Clyde College have also identified buildings where RAAC was in use, the party said.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Alex Cole-Hamilton said: \"It is time for the Scottish Government to come up with a proper plan of action for resolving this issue for good.\"\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has said work to investigate the use of RAAC across the public sector in Scotland will \"take some time\".\n\nHe said there was no immediate risk to staff or pupils and that sites will continue to be monitored.", "TransPennine Express was brought under government control after months of complaints about delays and cancellations\n\nBritain's busiest railway stations with the highest rates of cancelled trains this year have been revealed.\n\nAs of 31 July, Huddersfield has had more than 5,500 scheduled trains cancelled - the highest rate at 13%.\n\nBBC analysis of National Rail data also shows that almost half of the trains that ran across Britain were at least one minute late.\n\nThe government said operators needed to deliver punctual services and improve delays and cancellations.\n\nThe analysis of National Rail data, collated by On Time Trains, shows that, of the 100 busiest railway stations, Manchester Victoria had the second highest cancellation rate at 10%.\n\nYork, Newcastle and Manchester Oxford Road all followed at 9%.\n\nCaroline Devonport said \"Why do they want people to use public transport, and then the public transport is absolutely dire?\"\n\nCaroline Devonport, from South Kirkby, has been catching the train to Huddersfield for five years.\n\n\"The last six months have been absolutely horrendous,\" the 48-year-old said. \"Because of the risk of delay, I now leave an hour early for work. I'm absolutely shattered all the time from being on trains.\n\n\"I've seen quite a lot of aggression towards guards from other passengers because people are late and delayed and frustrated.\n\n\"The strikes have an impact, but the train companies themselves are really badly managed, and their customer services are often very rude.\"\n\nTransPennine Express (TPE), which manages Huddersfield, was brought under government control in May after months of complaints about delays and cancellations.\n\nPrior to being taken over, it had the highest cancellation rate of all train operators, according to data from the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nChris Jackson, interim TPE managing director, said, since coming under government control, \"we have seen improvements in performance and have made real progress in rebuilding union relationships on a local level\".\n\nHe said that the resumption of drivers working on rest days had helped bring cancellations at Huddersfield down \"to 3.5%, with an overall figure of 5.5% for the entire TPE network\".\n\n\"We know there is more to do, and we are actively developing plans to deliver the reliable, punctual and resilient railway our customers expect and deserve,\" Mr Jackson added.\n\nThe analysis of data for 2,555 stations also suggests that, between 1 January and 31 July:\n\nPaul Tuohy, chief executive officer of the charity Campaign for Better Transport, said: \"We want people to travel by train so high rates of cancellations are unacceptable.\n\n\"The government and industry need to sort this out and ensure services run to schedule so that passengers can travel with confidence.\"\n\nChristine Wise, 57, from Stalybridge, said she cannot rely on the local train to get to her new job in Manchester.\n\n\"At least one a morning is cancelled,\" she said, adding that she now drives to Ashton-under-Lyne to catch a tram.\n\n\"It takes much longer, about 40 minutes. It's irritating because it's lost time. I get up quite early in the morning to get to work, to get in early, to get my work done. I don't like the lost time element of things.\n\n\"Over my lifetime, trains have never really run to time, but there weren't as many delays and cancellations as there are now. It's markedly worse.\"\n\nTransPennine Express was nationalised following customer complaints of poor service and cancelled trains. How did passengers cope?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"We know performance has not been good enough for passengers and we're working closely with train operating companies to improve.\n\n\"Moving forward, the creation of Great British Railways (GBR) will allow us to take a holistic view of performance, simplifying our rail network and providing better, more reliable services for our passengers and freight customers.\"\n\nIn March, Derby was chosen to host GBR's headquarters, a planned public body which will run trains across the country and set most fares and timetables.\n\nFour months later, Rail Minister Huw Merriman reassured the city that the government remains \"really committed\" to GBR, denying reports it had been \"quietly scrapped.\"\n\nThe railways have seen strike action each month this year.\n\nOn 1 September, members of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) went on strike, impacting 16 operators.\n\nThe following day, 20,000 RMT members also took action.\n\nMike Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, said the rail industry had declined under the Conservative government.\n\n\"That's the price we are all paying - passengers, staff, and businesses in Britain - for privatisation which everyone in the railway industry - except the ideologues in the government - knows hasn't worked,\" he said.\n\n\"We should be encouraging more people to use our trains - taking cars off the roads and reducing carbon emissions - rather than trying to deter passengers from travelling.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Ministers have been clear with operators they need to deliver punctual services, keeping delays to a minimum.\n\n\"To help make our railways more reliable, it's crucial unions agree to reforms that will modernise the industry.\"", "MPs have questioned Asda over whether issues over its finances are stopping it doing more to tackle soaring prices.\n\nIn a letter to one of its co-owners, the chair of the business committee demanded an explanation of the grocer's \"complex\" company structure and details about loans and investments.\n\nIt comes after Asda executives were grilled by politicians in July over concerns about high fuel prices.\n\nAn Asda spokesman said it was co-operating with the committee's inquiry.\n\nThe billionaire Issa brothers bought Asda in 2020 in a £6.8bn deal. They then merged it last May with the UK and Irish division of their petrol forecourt business EG Group, greatly expanding Asda's network of filling stations.\n\nBut unions have raised concerns that the takeover, which doubled Asda's debt levels, could leave the supermarket struggling with rising interest rates.\n\nThe letter from the chair of the Commons business committee, Labour MP Darren Jones, is addressed to Mohsin Issa. It asks whether Asda's \"complex company structure\" may \"restrict your ability to help meet cost-of-living pressures on your customers\".\n\nIt also seeks extra information about levels of investment and loans from EG Group, which helped fund the battle to buy Asda from the US supermarket giant Walmart.\n\n\"When you and your brother bought Asda from Walmart for £6.8bn, you personally invested £200m. Where did this finance come from?\" Mr Jones' letter reads.\n\nThe letter, dated 30 August, also quizzes Mr Issa on whether millions of euros in interest-free loans were used to purchase private jets.\n\n\"These questions are to help us understand if you are enabling Asda to do all that it can to help keep costs down during a cost-of-living crisis,\" it says.\n\nThe Issa brothers have come under fire in recent months, including during an appearance in front of MPs on fuel prices and employment tactics.\n\nDuring a committee hearing in July, politicians repeatedly asked questions about Asda's margins on petrol, which they felt went unanswered.\n\n\"Might I say this has been quite an extraordinary session - not in the way that I hoped it would have been,\" commented Darren Jones, who on Monday was given the new job of shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nIf followed investigations by the UK's competition watchdog into concerns that grocers including Asda were not passing on falling wholesale food and fuel prices to consumers.\n\nThe supermarkets deny profiteering, although the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) has told them to make their food pricing clearer to help shoppers find the best deals.\n\nGrocers have also been told to set up a scheme to allow motorists to compare live fuel prices online, after the CMA concluded drivers had been overcharged due to weak competition.\n\nPetrol and diesel prices have dropped since the record highs last summer sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, when diesel motorists were paying close to £2 a litre.\n\nThe CMA found average annual supermarket margins on fuel had increased by 6p per litre between 2019 and 2022 - equivalent to £900m in extra costs for drivers.\n\nLike other grocers, Asda has cut the price of some basics recently as many households continue to struggle with the soaring cost of living.\n\nIn July, it announced price cuts on 226 own-label products, acknowledging that \"families are continuing to feel the pinch financially\".\n\nAn Asda spokesperson said that it would continue to \"co-operate fully\" with the committee's inquiry and will respond to its follow-up questions.\n\n\"Asda's owners are committed to the long-term sustainable growth of the business and are investing in both supporting customers and colleagues during these challenging times.\"", "A floral tribute left at the scene on the A61 Ripon Road\n\nA woman and two children have died in a crash involving two cars and a bus in North Yorkshire, police have said.\n\nEmergency crews were called at about 14:20 BST on Sunday to reports of a collision on the A61 in South Stainley.\n\nThe occupants of a silver Vauxhall Meriva car - a woman in her 30s, a boy, aged six, and a teenage girl - died in the crash.\n\nThe driver of the double-decker bus suffered leg injuries and some of the passengers had minor injuries.\n\nTwo occupants of a blue Toyota Aygo car also involved in the crash were not injured, officers added.\n\nThe next of kin of the three people who died were being supported by specialist officers, said North Yorkshire Police.\n\nThe A61 Ripon Road was closed for several hours while police carried out forensic investigations\n\nThe Vauxhall and Toyota had been travelling south towards Ripley while the bus was travelling in the opposite direction when the crash happened.\n\nThe A61 was closed for several hours before it reopened at about 23:30.\n\nAnyone with information or dashcam footage has been asked to contact North Yorkshire Police.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the incident at the school in July\n\nMaths teacher Jamie Sansom was taken to hospital with a single wound after being attacked at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire on July 10.\n\nFirearms officers arrested the suspect two hours later about three miles (4.8km) away, and a knife was seized.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted one charge of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent at Bristol Magistrates Court.\n\nHe had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a bladed article following the attack.\n\nThe academy was locked down and two neighbouring schools were also asked to shut their doors as a \"precaution\" after the attack.\n\nMr Sansom, who has taught maths at the school since 2017, was discharged from hospital on the same day he was attacked and said he was \"recovering well\".\n\nThe defendant was remanded into custody until a sentencing hearing at Cheltenham Youth Court on 28 September.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new EU carbon law could bring the Stormont brake, which is part of Northern Ireland's Brexit deal, into play for the first time\n\nA major EU environmental policy could become a test of the Stormont brake, new analysis has suggested.\n\nThe brake is a key part of Northern Ireland's Brexit deal, known as the Windsor Framework.\n\nIt effectively gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a conditional veto on new EU rules applying here.\n\nUniversity of Sussex academics say the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) would be considered a new rule and so bring the brake into play.\n\nHowever, a UK government source has said that while a cross-community Stormont vote would be needed to add the CBAM to the framework, it would not involve the specific Stormont Brake mechanism.\n\nIn any case, Stormont would have to be sitting for politicians here to have a formal say.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning government since February 2022 when the DUP walked out of the first minister role in protest against the earlier Brexit deal, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How would the Stormont brake work?\n\nThe brake can be triggered if 30 members of the Assembly object to a new EU rule being applied in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK government has said the mechanism cannot be used for \"trivial\" reasons and that there would need to be a clear demonstration that the rule being challenged would have a \"significant\" impact on everyday life in Northern Ireland.\n\nIf the brake is used under those conditions, the EU law in question would automatically be suspended within a maximum period of four weeks, ahead of further independent arbitration with the EU.\n\nConsultative mechanisms in the Windsor Framework are also supposed to mean that the EU and UK resolve issues around new rules so minimising the risk that the brake will have to be used.\n\nAcademics at the University of Sussex Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy have been looking at how the EU's CBAM policy could interact with the Windsor Framework.\n\nThe CBAM is effectively a carbon or fossil fuel tax on imported goods like steel, cement and fertiliser.\n\nIt is being introduced to ensure that European industry, which has to pay for permits to use carbon, can compete fairly in the manufacturing of those goods.\n\nThe EU is set to start the transitional phase of the CBAM in October before it becomes fully operational in 2026. It has not yet officially said if they believe the CBAM should be incorporated into the Windsor Framework.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said it was assessing the potential impact of the law and that it wants to \"ensure that clean power generated in the UK can be traded efficiently\".\n\n\"It's important that the EU CBAM reflects how cross-border electricity trading works in practice.\n\n\"For CBAM to apply in Northern Ireland it would need to be agreed to by the UK government, as required under the Windsor Framework.\"\n\nThe Sussex academics, Xinyan Zhao and Dongzhe Zhang, have said that, assuming the EU wants to apply the CBAM in Northern Ireland, it would have \"a significant economic impact\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly would have to be sitting for the brake to be used - it has been inactive since February 2022\n\nThey have suggested it could have implications for trade both from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"If the EU considers that Great British goods may move to the EU through the checkpoint-less Northern Ireland border after entering Northern Ireland to circumvent the EU CBAM, the EU could argue for imposing CBAM measures on these goods at the Irish Sea border,\" they said.\n\nThis could apply to both goods produced in Great Britain and those from third countries.\n\nThey say issues could also arise with north-south trade because goods manufactured using electricity bought from the Northern Ireland's retail electricity market are subject to the UK's carbon price rather than the EU's.\n\nThe academics added that it is currently unclear how the European Commission will deal with this issue.\n\nThey concluded that the only way to implement CBAM in Northern Ireland that would not negatively affect imports is for the UK and EU to relink their carbon pricing schemes and for the UK to establish an EU-style CBAM.\n\nThey said that would mean the UK and EU measuring the carbon content of imports in a consistent manner and having Northern Ireland importers be exempted from the EU CBAM tariffs at Northern Ireland ports.\n\nIt's understood that UK officials are continuing to monitor the details of the EU CBAM as its implementation progresses, noting that the EU have said the transitional period will involve continued consultation with stakeholders including international partners.", "The first stage of the rescue was completed on Sunday\n\nAustralia has successfully evacuated a sick Antarctic researcher from a remote outpost on the icy continent.\n\nAn urgent rescue operation was launched last week to reach the man, who has an undisclosed \"developing medical condition\".\n\nThe mission required a medical retrieval team, a massive icebreaker ship and two helicopters.\n\nThe man is now en route to Tasmania, where he will receive specialist assessment and care.\n\nIn an update on Monday, the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) said the man had been flown to its icebreaker, RSV Nuyina.\n\nThe ship had travelled more than 3,000km (1,860 miles) to reach him. On Sunday, it was deemed close enough to the Casey research station for two helicopters - with a medical retrieval team onboard - to deploy.\n\nMedical facilities are limited on the research station, and only about 20 people live there during winter when conditions are at their worst.\n\nWith the first stage of the rescue mission complete, the ship is expected to arrive back in the city of Hobart next week.\n\n\"The expeditioner will be looked after in the Nuyina's specially equipped and designed medical facility by our polar medicine doctors and Royal Hobart Hospital medical staff,\" said AAP's Robb Clifton.\n\n\"Getting this expeditioner back to Tasmania for the specialist medical care required is our priority.\"\n\nThe expeditioner's family is being kept fully informed of the situation, the AAP added, and all other personnel on stations are accounted for and safe.\n\nAustralia requires all researchers sent to Antarctica to undergo lengthy medical examinations before deployment.\n\nEvacuations from one of the most inhospitable areas of the planet are often complex, expensive, fraught with danger and can require assistance from international partners.\n\nIt is understood that an evacuation by air in this case was not possible - the nearby Wilkins aerodrome near Casey has an ice runway and is often unusable during the harsh winter.\n\nAccording to reports the runway would need weeks of preparation to use, and therefore it is far quicker to send the icebreaker.", "Shane Loughlin is charged with drink-driving and driving while disqualified\n\nA man has admitted to a number of driving offences, including drink-driving, after being stopped by police.\n\nShane Loughlin, 32, appeared in court on Monday after he was stopped in Aberporth Road in Llandaff North, Cardiff, on Saturday at 04:20 BST.\n\nHe was charged with drink-driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance.\n\nIn March, Loughlin was hurt in a crash in St Mellons, which killed three people and injured another.\n\nOn Monday, Cardiff Magistrates' Court was told the Ford Focus he was driving on Saturday \"lurched forwards and then stalled\".\n\nLoughlin, from Rumney, Cardiff, failed a roadside test and then a test at a police station found he had 46 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath.\n\nProsecutor Gregory Lloyd told the court it was a \"proactive stop\" by officers from the Roads Policing Unit.\n\nLoughlin appeared in court for separate charges last Tuesday where he admitted to dangerous driving and driving while disqualified, on the M4 on 3 March 2023.\n\nHe was on an interim driving ban at the time of the offences.\n\nShane Loughlin was injured in a crash in St Mellons in March\n\nEve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died in the collision shortly after 02:00 GMT on 4 March.\n\nSophie Russon, 20, was critically injured and taken to hospital, along with Loughlin.\n\nAll five had been on a night out in Newport when the car is believed to have veered off the A48 into trees.\n\nHe was refused bail and is due to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on the 15 September to be sentenced for the charges linked to the St Mellons crash.\n\nHe will be sentenced for Saturday's three offences at a later date.", "Just over one in six shops on Welsh High Streets are empty, according to the Welsh Retail Consortium\n\nWales has the second highest number of vacant shops in the UK, according to new figures.\n\nJust over one in six shops in Wales are empty, analysis from the Welsh Retail Consortium (WRC) shows.\n\n\"Clearly that's bad news for the economy because retail plays such an integral role,\" said Sara Jones from the WRC.\n\nThe Welsh government said its retail action plan was working to bring \"vibrancy\" back to town centres.\n\nSara Jones said Welsh retailers were \"grappling with several cost challenges\".\n\n\"They come from all different quarters - whether it is business rates, energy prices or local challenges like antisocial behaviour affecting footfall in shops,\" she said.\n\nThe rate of empty shops in Wales rose from 16.5% to 17.0% in the second quarter of 2023, according to the WRC.\n\nResearch carried out by the Centre for Cities in 2021 found that Newport had more empty units than any other city in the UK.\n\nJeanette Scurry, who was shopping in Newport, said: \"I usually go to Cardiff or Cwmbran even though I live in Newport.\n\n\"But I thought today I'd come to Newport. I don't know why I bothered. There's nothing here, it's a mess.\"\n\nHigh Street and Commercial Street in Newport city centre have many vacant shops and boarded up businesses\n\nJohn Richards, 79, also from the city, said: \"I used to come to Newport and get what I needed and go home with it, but I can't do that anymore.\n\n\"I need to go out of town or to one of big supermarkets.\"\n\nNewport City Council said some \"significant and high-profile\" projects had come to fruition in the city over the last few years, \"such as the successful transformation of Newport Market, the regeneration of Market Arcade and the Chartist Tower development.\n\n\"These would have formed part of the count of \"vacant shops\" in the report which looked at around 60 places in the UK and claimed Newport had the highest number of empty units.\n\n\"It is worth noting that the city council does not own the city centre or the shops.\n\n\"A good proportion of empty units are owned by absent or disengaged landlords, but the council is taking action wherever possible to make them take responsibility for taking proper care of their buildings and bring them back into beneficial use.\"\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic prompted a huge acceleration to digital and online sales.\n\nIn 2006, buying online represented just under 3% of total retail sales. At the start of 2023, the figure was 27%.\n\nHomeware chain Wilko announced last month it was going into administration, putting 12,500 jobs at risk.\n\nTwenty-nine of its stores are in Wales and mainly on high streets which are already struggling - including in Morriston, Swansea.\n\nMorriston shopper Gillian Roberts said there was \"nothing left\" on her High Street\n\n\"It's terrible, there's nothing left in Morriston now,\" said shopper Gillian Roberts. \"You can eat, get your hair cut, but for shopping this high street has gone to the dogs.\"\n\nMike Williams said Morriston's High Street consisted of charity shops, cafes and barbers.\n\n\"It's very sad. If you haven't got a car, you get a bus into town - but now there's not much in town,\" he added.\n\nElaine Arundale, a regular at the Wilko store in Morriston, said: \"What are we going to do? We're all getting older, and we'll be lost without it.\n\n\"There's going to be nothing left in Morriston.\"\n\nBut Dr Robert Bowen, a lecturer at Cardiff Business School, said some High Streets in Wales were bucking the trend.\n\n\"There are challenging times, but we are seeing different trends across Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"In 2020, Treorchy won the UK High Street of the Year Award, beating rivals Narberth and Swansea. We're seeing some really good examples across Wales of High Streets that are doing really well.\"\n\nTreorchy, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, was nominated for the award by local pub landlord Adrian Emmett.\n\nHe took over The Lion pub in the town eight years ago, and it is now the sponsor of eight sports teams and two choirs.\n\n\"The key to our growth in Treorchy has been focusing on independent businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We've changed our mindset operating as one community and one voice.\"\n\nMr Emmett put the decline of the High Street \"down to supermarket and the online traders\".\n\n\"It needs to be more than just retail. Rather than the products it's about the people,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh government's retail action plan, which launched in May, said the key to reversing the trend was increasing footfall and having more people living in towns and city centres.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Our retail sector is one of the largest private sector employers in Wales and has a vital contribution to make to our town and city centres and rural communities.\n\n\"In May, we launched our retail action plan to grow and strengthen the sector during a period of significant change and bring vibrancy back into our town centres.\"", "The rectangular roof panels in Myton School's library contain RAAC\n\nA head teacher who has had to delay the start of term because one of his school buildings contains dangerous concrete was denied funding to rebuild it.\n\n\"Other schools had a higher need\", the Department for Education (DfE) told Myton School, in Warwick, last year, when its application was rejected.\n\nIt is now one of dozens unable to open as normal because of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which is prone to collapse.\n\nThe DfE has been contacted for comment.\n\nMyton, which has about 1,800 pupils, now receives about £35,000 a year in capital funding to spend on building maintenance - less than a quarter of the funding received in 2010, head teacher Andy Perry says.\n\nIts two main buildings, built in the 1950s or 1960s, are \"old and in disrepair\", so he applied for extra cash from the government's School Rebuilding Programme.\n\nBut a letter from the Department for Education, seen by BBC News, rejected the application because other schools were in worse condition.\n\nSince then, a structural engineer has confirmed RAAC panelling in the first floor of the lower-school building, which has maths, languages, art and drama classrooms, a medical room and the canteen.\n\nAnd last week, the government announced all schools with RAAC would have to close or partially close without safety measures in place, leading head teachers across England to scramble to make other arrangements days before the new term began.\n\nOutlining figures on Monday, the education secretary said around 50 schools have already undergone mitigation work. More than 100 schools have been fully or partially closed due to the risk.\n\nAround 10% of the 15,000 schools built during the period RAAC concrete was used have not yet responded to a government survey on the material, she added.\n\nMr Sunak said the government expected 95% of the 22,000 schools in England would not be impacted by the issues.\n\nMr Perry told BBC News he and his staff felt \"a lot of frustration\" having to delay the start of term by three days.\n\n\"I don't know how they make these decisions - but the fact I've got to close down or at least partially close down a block in a building that we bid to rebuild… it doesn't feel like the parts of the DfE are particularly joined up here,\" he said.\n\nMr Perry says he is still waiting for the DfE to tell him how much of the building is unsafe\n\nThe DfE's advice about what to do next was unclear, Mr Perry said. And he does not know whether the whole of the affected building will need to close or just the first floor.\n\nThe education secretary has said each affected school would have a dedicated caseworker to support them.\n\nBut at the time of writing, Mr Perry was \"still waiting\" for a call from the DfE, despite being told he would be contacted on Monday.\n\n\"Honest to God, I thought we'd get a call or contact from the DfE over the weekend,\" he said.\n\nThe arrangements Mr Perry is considering to allow him to open the school include online learning and asking administration staff elsewhere on the school site to work from home, so their offices can be used as temporary teaching spaces.\n\nA more permanent - but still short-term - solution is to buy temporary classroom blocks.\n\nMr Perry said he had received quotes from some companies, telling him these could take 12-16 weeks to arrive.\n\nBut he hopes the DfE might have arrangements in place to accelerate the process.\n\n\"We've got upset and anxious parents,\" Mr Perry said.\n\n\"It feels like the last few years have been a lot of crisis management.\n\n\"This was the year that all the past, all the Covid stuff, was going to be left behind. We [have] new improvement plans, new organisation around some of our welfare and behaviour.\n\n\"It was a real, brilliant new start. So the frustration is you get that one moment at the beginning of the year to set the tone.\n\nAbout 30% of the school's teaching spaces are now sealed off\n\nElsewhere on Monday, the prime minister denied being to blame for spending decisions which meant crumbling concrete was not removed from schools in England sooner.\n\nIt followed comments from a former top civil servant in the DfE, who accused Mr Sunak of halving the budget for school repairs in England in 2021.\n\nJonathan Slater - who was permanent secretary at the department between May 2016 and August 2020 - said investigations had led civil servants to recommend between 300 to 400 schools needed repairs each year and the department then requested Treasury funding to cover 200 a year.\n\n\"I thought we'd get it, but the actual decision made in 2021 was to halve down from 100 a year to 50 year,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, in response Mr Sunak said it was \"completely and utterly wrong\" to blame him and he had announced a programme to rebuild 500 schools over 10 years in his first spending review in 2020, equating to 50 schools a year.\n\n\"If you look at what we have been doing over the previous decade, that's completely in line with what we have always done,\" he said.\n\nThen, the education secretary apologised for a sweary outburst in which she expressed frustration about media coverage of the crisis.\n\nAfter finishing an interview with ITV - but while Gillian Keegan was still on camera - she criticised other people for having done nothing.\n\nShe later said her remarks were \"off the cuff\" and she apologised for her \"choice language\".\n\nMs Keegan told the House of Commons she will publish a list of affected English schools later this week.\n\nThe education secretary then defended holidaying in the run-up to the schools concrete crisis unfolding, from 25 to 31 August.\n\nShe told Sky's Politics Hub: \"When I went on holiday, to be honest, for the whole of the summer obviously I had to sort out industrial action, then I had to do the A-levels, then I had to do the GCSEs.\n\n\"But what I arranged was to go on holiday on that day for my dad's birthday - it was a family occasion and we went.\"\n\nIn Scotland, 35 council-run schools have been found to contain RAAC, but they are remaining open, with First Minister Humza Yousaf saying there were no immediate safety concerns.\n\nThe material has also been found found in at least 24 university and college buildings in Scotland.\n\nIn Wales, two schools have closed because of concerns over RAAC.", "Flags fly above soldiers' graves in a cemetery in Lviv\n\nThere has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine's number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville has been on the front line in the east, where the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality.\n\nThe unknown soldiers lie piled high in a small brick mortuary, not very far from the front line in Donetsk, where 26-year-old Margo says she speaks to the dead.\n\n\"It may sound weird… but I'm the one who wants to apologise for their deaths. I want to thank them somehow. It's as if they can hear, but they can't respond.\"\n\nAt her cluttered desk outside the mortuary's heavy door, she sits, pen in hand. It is her job to record the particulars of the fallen.\n\nUkraine gives no official toll of its war dead - the Ukrainian armed forces have reiterated that their war casualty numbers are a state secret - but Margo knows the losses are huge.\n\nThe figures remain classified. But US officials, quoted by the New York Times, recently put the number at 70,000 dead and as many as 120,000 injured. It is a staggering figure, from an armed forces estimated at only half a million strong. The UN has recorded 9,177 civilian deaths to date.\n\nOn Margo's inside right arm is a small tattoo of a mother and child, with the birthdate of her son recorded. Her manicured nails are painted in Ukrainian colours. She wears a black T-shirt with the words \"I'M UKRAINIAN\" on the front.\n\n\"The hardest is when you see a dead young guy who hasn't even reached 20, 22 years old. And realising they didn't die their own death,\" she says. \"They were killed. They were killed for their own land. That's the most painful. You cannot get used to this. It's now getting to the point where it's just about [helping] the boys reach home.\"\n\nThe most difficult day of her life, she says, was when her common-law husband was brought into the mortuary on the day he died. Twenty-three-year-old Andrii was killed in battle on 29 December 2022.\n\n\"He died while defending his motherland,\" she says. \"But then, for the umpteenth time, I've convinced myself that I should be here, I should be helping the fallen.\"\n\nMargo's hardest moment was the day she had to identify her own partner\n\nThe job has made her hard - like steel, she says. And no matter how painful it is to see the bodies being brought into the mortuary, she says she never cries in public.\n\n\"I keep all of this inside me [until] the evening when I come home. No-one sees my tears.\"\n\nAs recently as April, leaked estimates from the Pentagon put Ukrainian deaths at the much lower figure of 17,500. The alleged jump to more than 70,000 can be partly explained by the counter-offensive in the south. In its early days it was especially hard on Ukrainian infantry - \"worse than Bakhmut\" one brigade commander who is fighting there told me. The city in Donetsk fell to Russia in May in one of the bloodiest battles of the war so far.\n\nUkraine has now changed tactics there, but the beginning of the push to breach Russia's occupation defences in June was costly, for young newly trained soldiers in particular. They were dying \"by the dozens\" every day, one senior sergeant fighting around the Donetsk village of Velyka Novosilka told me in June.\n\nAt the mortuary, one of a number along the front line, they work to put names to the unknown soldiers, who come direct from the battlefield.\n\nBody bags are brought outside, one at a time, and the search for clues begins. Inside the first body bag is the corpse of a young man, his eyes still open, his hands folded carefully across his lap. His face is cut, and there is a gash on the side of his leg. Another body is brought out, the fingers missing on the right hand, blood and battlefield mud stain his uniform.\n\nTheir pockets are cut open by mortuary staff, still full of the artefacts of everyday life - keys, a mobile phone, a wallet with family snaps. In death, these items are now clues that might reunite the unidentified with their families.\n\nWritten in black marker pen on another body bag, the word \"Unidentified\" is scored out and replaced with a man's name and army company details.\n\nMore body bags emerge, but reporting restrictions don't allow me to say how many.\n\nA group of soldiers - commanders of various ranks - arrive in an army pick-up truck and pace outside the mortuary, smoking cigarettes. They inspect one body, to see if the soldier is from their platoon, company or battalion. It looks like he was killed in an artillery strike - part of his head is missing and the wounds to his body are severe, even worse when he is turned over.\n\n\"This is difficult. Unpleasant. But it's needed, part of our job. We have to give the boys a proper send-off,\" says a deputy battalion commander who goes by the call sign \"Avocat\".\n\nMore men from his unit will be brought to aid in the identification of the body, he says.\n\nThe reality of the scale of casualties is laid bare in Ukraine's cemeteries.\n\nIn the late afternoon sun around Krasnopilske cemetery in Dnipro, the heads of the sunflowers hang heavy - an honour-guard for the freshly dug graves that spread ever closer to the perimeter.\n\nAt one such graveside, 31-year-old Oksana weeps alone. Pictures of her dead husband Pavlo gaze down on her. The bearded and brawny junior sergeant was a power-lifting champion and personal trainer. He was killed during Ukraine's previous counter-offensive, near the city of Izium in November when a missile from a Russian helicopter struck his convoy.\n\nOksana cries by the graveside of her husband, who died in November\n\n\"He voluntarily went to defend our country,\" Oksana says. \"He was a warrior at heart - freedom loving. He was the embodiment of our Ukrainian spirit.\"\n\nIt took time to identify Pavlo's body - he, along with others in the car, was badly burnt. Eventually he was recognised by a tattoo.\n\nThe yellow and blue of Ukrainian flags whip above each grave in the gentle breeze - there are hundreds of them. Each is a marker in the great tide of loss that sweeps daily across eastern and southern battlefields, filling cemeteries in towns and villages the length and breadth of Ukraine.\n\nOksana's husband Pavlo died in the first counter-offensive\n\nA year and a half into this war, few families here have been left untouched by grief.\n\nBut still, there appears to be no slackening in the will to fight. If anything, the losses have, for now, galvanised the determination for victory.\n\nOksana and Pavlo made a wartime pact that if he died, she would join the military. For the past two months she's been serving as part of an aerial surveillance drone unit, on the outskirts of Bakhmut.\n\nA week after we met in the cemetery, Oksana is in full body armour and heading to a forward position in search of a Russian anti-tank unit which is targeting Ukrainian forces. When we get there, the sound of artillery, almost entirely outgoing fire, is deafening.\n\nOksana has now signed up to the military herself\n\nI ask her why she put herself in harm's way? It is her moral duty, she says, as she plays with the silver wedding ring on her right hand.\n\nShe says: \"I just need to continue what he started. So, all his efforts were not in vain. Volunteering and donations are all good, but I want to be a part of it, a part of our victory in the future.\"\n\nUkrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar earlier released a statement warning that those who release casualty numbers would be liable to criminal prosecution.\n\n\"Why is this data secret?\" she asked rhetorically. \"Because during the active phase of the war, the enemy uses the number of dead and wounded to calculate our likely further actions… If the enemy has this information, they will begin to understand some of our next steps.\"\n\nThe toll of the war hangs heavy on the men of the 68th Jaeger Brigade, who are fighting to stop Russian advances on the eastern front, near the town of Kupiansk.\n\nIn 35C-plus temperatures, we sought some shelter under camouflage netting, away from the midday heat and the ever-present danger of Russian drones. A deputy battalion commander who goes by the call-sign \"Lermontov\" was in a reflective and dark mood. Over freshly brewed coffee, he predicted a long war.\n\nThe Russians won't stop, he said, \"you can't negotiate with them\". The West doesn't understand this. Young soldiers who expected to be home in a year realise now, he said, they will be gone longer.\n\nHe is a veteran of the fight in Donbas, he's been fighting Russia and its proxies since 2014. How long then did he expect this war to last? \"Another 10 years,\" he replied.\n\nHis grim mood was understandable. On 1 August, the brigade's sergeant major and two other sergeants were killed in a single Russian mortar strike. \"He was a legend,\" Lermontov said. The dead man's car was parked where he had left it, a few feet away. His personal belongings still inside.\n\nAs we spoke, Lermontov's phone buzzed. It was the mother of a soldier killed the week before. She wanted to know why young men with guns were being sent to attack Russian trenches if Ukraine had been gifted so much modern Western weaponry. But on this 600-mile front line many brigades lack the latest armoured vehicles or long-range guns. The reality is that in many of the trenches, Ukrainian soldiers have to make do. \"I don't have an answer for her, she doesn't understand… we don't have everything,\" he told me.\n\nAt a medal ceremony, in the garden of a house which serves as a company base, I meet the brigade's commander, Colonel Oleksii. He had just returned from the sergeant major's funeral.\n\nHe told me: \"We had two big [Russian attacks]. I think we were very successful, we found around 35 bodies. So I think basically we demolished one company.\"\n\nOverall Russia's casualties are far greater, some 120,000 dead according to the latest US estimate. But its army, and population, is far larger. Ukrainian soldiers at the front line say Russia's ability to absorb pain appears limitless.\n\nI ask Colonel Oleksii what he tells the families of the fallen.\n\n\"I just ask for forgiveness that I have not provided enough safety. Maybe I was a bad leader, bad planning. And I thank them for what they gave for this fight.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "General Nguema laid out his vision for Gabon after being sworn in as interim president\n\nThe leader of Gabon's military junta has vowed to return power to civilians after \"free, transparent\" elections.\n\nHowever, in a speech after being sworn in as interim president, he did not give a date for military rule to end.\n\nGen Brice Nguema led last Wednesday's coup against Ali Bongo, toppling the president shortly after he was named winner of a disputed election.\n\nCrowds of cheering civilians turned up at the inauguration - the coup was welcomed by many eager for change.\n\nHowever, some say Gen Nguema's rule will be a continuation of the 55-year Bongo dynasty.\n\nAli Bongo's father, Omar, was in power for 41 years before he died in 2009 and was succeeded by his son.\n\nThe general, aged 48, spent most his career in the Bongo's inner circle and is even thought to be Ali Bongo's cousin.\n\nAt Monday's inauguration, Gen Nguema gave a defiant speech, referencing the likes of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, French statesman Charles Fe Gaulle and former Ghanaian leader Jerry Rawlings.\n\n\"This patriotic action will be a lesson learnt that will be taught in the books of our schools,\" said the new president, dressed in the red ceremonial costume of the Republican Guard.\n\nHe added that a fresh government would be formed \"in a few days\" and recommended new electoral legislation, a new penal code and a referendum on a new constitution.\n\nGen Nguema also said he had instructed the new government \"to think without delay\" about freeing all political prisoners.\n\nThe ceremony was broadcast live on Gabonese TV and across online platforms.\n\nHundreds of officials attended, including former ministers from the ousted government, who were booed by a crowd of junta sympathisers.\n\nThe opposition has said it welcomes the removal of Mr Bongo from power but has called for a speedy return to civilian rule.\n\nThe defeated presidential candidate Albert Ondo Ossa told the Associated Press that the coup was a \"palace revolution\", engineered by the Bongo family to retain their power.\n\nGen Nguema's is the latest in a series of military takeovers across West and Central Africa.\n\nGabon is the sixth Francophone country to fall under military rule in the last three years as former colonial power France struggles to maintain its influence on the continent.\n\nGabon was suspended from the African Union following the coup, which has been condemned by the UN and France.\n\nIn his inauguration address on Monday, Gen Nguema said he was \"surprised\" at foreign criticism of the takeover.", "The government says it closed down parts of some schools in England because of evidence about unsafe concrete.\n\nBut problems with the material have been known about for many years. Questions are now being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.\n\nScores of public buildings constructed with new concrete\n\nBetween the 1950s and 1990s the material, known as RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete), was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls.\n\nBut its short lifespan means its use in permanent buildings has caused problems.\n\nUse of RAAC is stopped as concerns emerge\n\n1994: Concerns about the risks of using RAAC in public buildings started to appear in research.\n\n1996: Excessive cracking and corrosion was found in some roof planks that had been designed before 1980.\n\nThe finding - from a former government-owned research laboratory called the Building Research Establishment - led to the use of RAAC being effectively stopped.\n\nHowever, the report also said: \"There is no evidence so far to suggest that RAAC planks pose a safety hazard to building users\".\n\n1999: Owners of buildings with pre-1980 RAAC were to told to get them inspected. The advice came from a body set up to spot risks to building safety - the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS).\n\n2010: Spending on education infrastructure reached its peak in 2010 - the final year of the last Labour government. During its 13 years in power, school spending on areas including buildings and computers had risen steadily.\n\nLabour also ran a scheme called Building Schools for the Future, which was later axed by the new Conservative-led government. A government-commissioned review of the programme said value for money had been consistently poor. A National Audit Office report said the costs were higher than they needed to be because of avoidable delays and extensive reliance on consultants by local authorities.\n\n2014: Investment fell under the coalition government and reached its low-point in 2014.\n\nHowever, in the same year, the government launched its own schools building scheme. This led to an increase in spending - which is still in place - but not at 2010 levels.\n\n2017: A three-year inspection programme was launched by the government. Part of its aim was to look at the materials such as RAAC in schools.\n\n2018: A concrete block fell from the ceiling of a school in Kent, more than 20 years after the BRE's report about excessive cracking.\n\nThe incident prompted warnings from both the Local Government Association and DfE. Organisations responsible for school buildings were told to take steps to confirm the safety of their construction.\n\n2019: Schools with 40-year-old RAAC planks were told they had now passed their expected service life. SCOSS - which issued the alert - added that schools should consider replacing the planks.\n\n2019: Following the completion of the inspections of school buildings, Jonathan Slater - the top civil servant in the DfE at the time - said they concluded that between 300 and 400 schools needed replacing each year.\n\n2020: In order to maintain, repair and rebuild schools for the next years, the DfE said it would require £4bn a year.\n\n2021: A pledge to rebuild 500 schools over the next decade was announced by the government in its Spending Review. However, this amounts to only about 50 a year.\n\nFebruary 2021: The DfE issues a guide on how to identify RAAC. A questionnaire was sent out the following year to organisations responsible for school buildings, asking whether they had any of the material.\n\nSeptember 2022: Surveyors were sent into schools to see if there was RAAC present and to rate it as \"critical\" or \"non-critical\", following the launch of a government programme.\n\nIn the same month, a stark warning that \"RAAC is now life-expired and liable to collapse\" was issued by the Office of Government Property.\n\nJune 2023: The government was told that insufficient funding was making the risk more severe by the National Audit Office - an independent watchdog that tracks government spending.\n\nThe government is spending £15bn - or about £1.7bn a year - on \"maintaining and improving the condition of school buildings and grounds\". However, that is significantly less than the amount the DfE previously said was needed to bring school buildings up to scratch.\n\nAugust 2023: A RAAC panel failed at a school in England that would have been classed as non-critical.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said the incident led her to take action - just days before the new school year was due to begin.", "If a Moon base is established a reliable energy source will be needed to sustain life there\n\nScientists have developed an energy source which could allow astronauts to live on the Moon for long periods of time.\n\nThe Nasa-led Artemis Program hopes for an outpost on the Moon by around 2030.\n\nBangor University has designed nuclear fuel cells, the size of poppy seeds, to produce the energy needed to sustain life there.\n\nProf Simon Middleburgh from the university said the work was a challenge - \"but it was a fun one\".\n\nProf Simon Middleburgh (right) said the work was a challenge\n\nThe Moon, which is seen by some to be the gateway to Mars, contains a lot of valuable resources needed for modern technology.\n\nThe hope is that it could be used as a springboard to reach the planets beyond.\n\nAs space technology advances at a rapid pace, the BBC was given exclusive access to the Bangor University Nuclear Futures Institute's laboratory.\n\nThe Bangor team, which is a world leader on fuels, works with partners such as Rolls Royce, the UK Space Agency, Nasa and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US.\n\nProf Middleburgh from the Nuclear Futures Institute said the team hoped to fully test the nuclear fuel \"over the next few months\".\n\nOn parts of the Moon, temperatures plummet to astonishing lows of -248C because it has no atmosphere to warm up the surface.\n\nBangor University is a major player in the quest to generate another way of producing energy and heat to sustain life there.\n\nThe researchers have just sent the tiny nuclear fuel cell, known as a Trisofuel, to their partners for testing.\n\nThis Trisofuel cell could be used to power a micro nuclear generator, created by Rolls Royce.\n\nThe generator is a portable device, the size of a small car and \"something you can stick on a rocket,\" Prof Middleburgh said.\n\nThat will now be fully tested and put through forces similar to being blasted up into space, ready for a Moon base in 2030.\n\nHe added: \"You can launch them into space, with all the forces… and they'll still function quite safely when they're put onto the Moon.\"\n\nThe historic Moon landing near its south pole was celebrated across India\n\nEarlier this month, India made a historic landing near the Moon's south pole with its robotic probe Chandrayaan-3.\n\nOne of the mission's major goals is to hunt for water-based ice which, scientists say, could support human habitation on the Moon in future.\n\nProf Middleburgh said Bangor University's work was putting Wales on the map.\n\n\"I would say that we're really pushing things [globally],\" he said.\n\nThe university hopes the micro generators could also be used here on Earth, such as in disaster zones when electricity has been cut off.\n\nDr Phylis Makurunje is leading a team to develop nuclear power for space rockets\n\nThe team at Bangor is also working on a nuclear system to power rockets, led by Dr Phylis Makurunje.\n\nShe said: \"It is very powerful - it gives very high thrust, the push it gives to the rocket.\n\n\"This is very important because it enables rockets to reach the farthest planets.\"\n\nDr Makurunje said the new technology could almost halve the time it takes to get to Mars.\n\n\"With nuclear thermal propulsion - you're looking at about four to six months getting to Mars. The current duration is nine months plus,\" she said.\n\nThe geopolitical author and journalist, Tim Marshall, said the breakthrough over fuel was a step towards a global race to the lunar south pole.\n\nHe said: \"I'm confident there will be moon bases in the 2030s. Probably a Chinese one; probably an American-led one.\n\n\"I'm confident because I don't think that major powers can afford not to be there just in case this is, what is likely to be, a massive breakthrough.\n\n\"So the Chinese are talking about 2028, putting the first brick down, probably symbolically to say they were the first one. But by the early 2030s, both will have a base.\n\nThe Moon is being considered as a stop off point before travelling to planets beyond such as Mars\n\n\"It's thought there is titanium, lithium, silicon, iron, and many other minerals which are used for all sorts of 21st Century technologies.\n\n\"The actual amount is unknown... but most companies are confident that it's enough to make it economically viable.\"\n\nHe warned things could become complicated as space is commercialised, citing outdated space laws.\n\n\"The rules of the road, such as they are, were written in 1967 - the Outer Space Treaty.\n\n\"It's still a template but it's 50 years out of date because it didn't know about modern technology, the competition that's out there and the commercial aspects - because then it was very much state-led.\n\n\"So without updated laws, agreed by the United Nations, it is a little bit of a free-for-all for everybody - and that brings dangers.\n\n\"Because if you haven't got the guidelines within which to operate, then the clear competition that will happen is operating without a legal framework.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers from two of the UK's most popular mobile networks are now able to talk again after EE fixed an issue affecting them.\n\nReports of issues with Vodafone and EE first came in at midday on Monday, according to the website Downdetector.\n\nVodafone said at the time there were no issues with its own network, but customers were unable to call EE numbers.\n\nEE apologised and said the problem has now been resolved.\n\nA spokesperson for EE told the BBC: \"The issue impacting some customers' calls to and from a Vodafone number has been resolved.\n\n\"Calls to other networks, mobile data and text messages were not affected.\n\n\"We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nEE claimed earlier that calls to other networks, mobile data and text messages were not affected.\n\nVodafone customers had registered problems on problem tracking sites and on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nBut the company suggested there were no problems with its network, adding: \"some of our customers have been impacted by an issue with the EE network.\n\n\"This meant some customers were unable to connect calls to EE numbers, and the issue also affected customers who've previously transferred their number from EE to Vodafone\".\n\nNumbers transferred or \"ported\" from EE to any new network, including Three, O2 and Vodafone, were affected, the Vodafone spokesperson added, because three of the digits in the mobile number still identify them as \"EE\" numbers. That meant that even though they are no longer EE customers, calls are briefly routed through EE's infrastructure.\n\nWhile those former EE customers could call within their new network, calls to other networks were being affected by the problems at EE, Vodafone said.\n\nEarlier on Monday, customers of both companies were still posting on X to complain about network issues.\n\nElsewhere, O2 customers have also reported some problems on Downdetector.\n\nO2 told the BBC it was not experiencing any network problems, but said some users might be experiencing issues trying to communicate with EE customers.", "Footage of McCartney playing the iconic bass shortly before it vanished was featured in the 2021 Get Back documentary\n\nA global search has been launched to find one of the world's most iconic instruments - Paul McCartney's original Höfner bass guitar.\n\nThe Lost Bass Project is appealing for information about what it describes as \"the most important bass in history\".\n\nMcCartney bought the instrument for £30 ($38) in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961, but it disappeared eight years later.\n\nThe hunt began after McCartney urged manufacturers Höfner to track down his beloved instrument.\n\nThe bass features in The Beatles' music of those years, including the hits Love Me Do and She Loves You.\n\nNick Wass is heading Höfner's search project and has joined forces with two journalists in trying to solve the \"greatest mystery in the history of rock and roll\".\n\nHe has collaborated extensively with McCartney and written a book about the missing Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass.\n\nWass told the BBC that the famous Beatle asked him about the guitar during a recent conversation - and that is how the campaign to find it began.\n\nIt is not clear what happened to the instrument, which was put away presumably after the Beatles finished filming Get Back in 1969, he said.\n\n\"It's not clear where it was stored, who might have been there.\n\n\"For most people, they will remember it... it's the bass that made the Beatles,\" Wass said.\n\nHusband and wife team Scott and Naomi Jones, both of whom have worked for BBC News, are helping with the search.\n\nScott became curious about the guitar's fate after watching McCartney's 2022 headline set at Glastonbury and approached Höfner - only to discover they were already having conversations about tracking it down after being urged to by their famous client.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Paul said to Höfner 'surely if anyone can find this guitar, it's you guys', and that's how it all came about.\n\n\"Now we're working together on this. Nick has more technical knowledge about this guitar than anyone on the planet, and me and my Naomi are bringing some investigative skills.\"\n\nIt's anyone's guess how much the guitar would fetch at auction but there are some precedents.\n\nMcCartney still plays later Höfner basses to this day, like the one pictured above - but the first he bought hasn't been seen since 1969\n\nJohn Lennon's stolen guitar sold for $2.4m (£1.9m) when it resurfaced half a century later, and the acoustic Kurt Cobain played during the iconic MTV Unplugged set sold for $6m (£4.76m).\n\nMcCartney's era-defining bass would likely surpass both - but the Lost Bass Project team are clear that there is no commercial motivation for their search.\n\nJones said: \"Höfner's hunch is that someone will come forward purely on good will, and whoever has it probably doesn't even realise what it is they've got.\n\n\"It would be nice if it could go on public display one day - and if the only way someone is going to come forward is to make some money from it, then so be it, because at least it would be found.\n\n\"But ultimately we're just doing this to get Paul his guitar back. We know via Nick and Höfner that it's what he's always wanted.\"\n\nThe project's public appeal has been live for less than 48 hours but the team has already received hundreds of new leads - including two of particular interest which are being followed up on.\n\nThere are a couple of tell-tale signs any amateur sleuth should be aware of if trying to identify the bass.\n\nA dead giveaway is the Höfner logo, which is written vertically on the headstock of the original model but was horizontal on later versions played by McCartney.\n\nThe missing bass also looked very different last time it was seen to how it did in older pictures, because it had to be renovated after extensive touring.\n\nMcCartney's missing bass was given a darker paint job, had the pearl pickguard removed and had the two pickups mounted in a single piece of black wood.", "New entry rules have been introduced at household recycling centres in Ards and North Down from Monday\n\nResidents in the Ards and North Down Borough Council area now have to book in advance before using household recycling centres.\n\nSome recycling centres in Northern Ireland operated similar booking systems during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut Ards and North Down is the first council to introduce it at all sites, on a permanent basis.\n\nBookings can be made online or by telephone, up to 30 minutes before an allocated time.\n\nThe council believes that by managing access there will be a reduction in queues at busy times, and an overall increase in recycling.\n\nSome residents have complained that the booking system will deter users and lead to an increase in fly-tipping.\n\nThe council has said there is no evidence of this in parts of Great Britain, which already operate a similar scheme.\n\nThe new system is operating at recycling centres in Bangor, Holywood, Newtownards, Donaghadee, Ballygowan, Kircubbin, Millisle, Portaferry and Comber.\n\nSigns have been erected informing residents of the new rules\n\nAccess is restricted to householders in the council area, and personal details are checked before entry.\n\nThe new system began operating on Monday at 08:00 BST, with no problems reported in the first few hours.\n\nCouncil staff were not rigorously enforcing the new rules as there is a two-week adjustment period for the scheme.\n\nResidents who turned up late for their allocated slot were still being allowed into recycling centres.\n\nThe biggest test will come at the weekend when centres are normally at their busiest.\n\nA spokesperson for Ards and North Down Council said the move would help it achieve its environmental objectives and would increase recycling rates.\n\nThe council aims to have a recycling rate of 70% by 2030.\n\nThe spokesperson also said the move would \"significantly reduce the cost\" of disposing of waste by stopping commercial companies and people from outside the council area from using the centres.\n\nThe facilities are restricted to residents who can show proof of their address in the Ards and North Down area\n\nIn the other 10 council areas in Northern Ireland, each has their own arrangements:\n\nMore details of the specific arrangements are on the council websites.", "A Parliament watchdog had said Chris Pincher's behaviour amounted to an abuse of power\n\nMP Chris Pincher's appeal against a proposed eight-week suspension from the House of Commons for groping two men at a London club last year has been rejected.\n\nIn its report, Parliament's conduct watchdog said the former Conservative deputy chief whip's behaviour amounted to an abuse of power.\n\nThe decision means a by-election in his Tamworth seat is a step closer.\n\nMPs will now vote on whether to approve the eight-week punishment.\n\nThe move is normally a formality and, if approved, would trigger a recall petition which could lead to a by-election.\n\nAn inquiry was launched into the behaviour of the Tamworth MP last year following an incident at the private members Carlton Club in central London.\n\nParliament's standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg found Mr Pincher groped a then-employee of the House of Lords on his arm and neck, before groping his bottom.\n\nHe also found he groped a civil servant's bottom and then his testicles.\n\nFollowing the inquiry, MPs on the standards committee concluded Mr Pincher's behaviour was \"profoundly damaging\".\n\nIt had broken the Commons behaviour code by causing significant damage to Parliament's reputation, they added.\n\nIn his response to the report in July, Mr Pincher - who now sits as an independent MP - said he wanted to \"apologise sincerely\" for his conduct.\n\nHe said, in a submission to the committee, he accepted his behaviour had damaged his reputation and the government's.\n\nBut he rejected the idea he had done significant damage to Parliament's reputation as he argued he had spoken at the Carlton Club as a former minister, rather than as an MP.\n\nThe recall petition process, if triggered, would see a by-election in his Tamworth seat if 10% of registered voters sign a petition calling for one.\n\nLabour would need a swing of just over 21% to take the Staffordshire seat, where the Conservatives had a 19,000 majority at the last election.\n\nDowning Street refused to be drawn on whether Mr Pincher should quit the Commons and said it was a matter for him.\n\nA spokesman added: \"The prime minister is clear about the importance of integrity, professionalism and accountability.\n\n\"Those are the core values of the government and supports the work of the committee in ensuring that those standards are met.\"\n\nSarah Edwards, Labour's parliamentary candidate in Tamworth, said Mr Pincher should resign as an MP.\n\n\"The people of Tamworth and its surrounding villages deserve a voice in Parliament that they can be proud of,\" she said.\n\nThe rejection of Chris Pincher's appeal will surprise few in Westminster or his Staffordshire constituency.\n\nAt the end of July, Conservative Central Office held a meeting with the Tamworth Conservative Association where members were told the expectation was the appeal would be rejected and, either by recall petition or Mr Pincher's resignation, they were headed for a by-election.\n\nWhat's interesting now is who will stand for the party in the upcoming race.\n\nEddie Hughes - the current MP for Walsall North - has been selected to run in Tamworth at the next general election under new boundaries, but he's already confirmed he won't be standing in any by-election. Were he to do so, that would mean another by-election in his critical \"red wall\" seat in the Black Country, something his party would not want to see.\n\nThe party must now find a willing individual, prepared to fight an incredibly tough by-election, which were they to win, they would then be expected to relinquish to Mr Hughes within 12 to 18 months at the next general election.\n\nMr Pincher was elected to the constituency as a Conservative but was suspended from the party after the allegations at the Carlton Club emerged.\n\nThe incident also saw his resignation as deputy chief whip and contributed to Boris Johnson's departure from Downing Street.\n\nIt emerged Mr Johnson had known about a previous investigation into Mr Pincher's behaviour when he appointed him, despite Number 10 previously denying it.\n\nSince then, Mr Pincher has said he will step down as an MP at the next general election which is expected next year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Russia has been hitting Ukraine's port facilities along the River Danube for more than a month\n\nUkraine has alleged that Russian drones landed on Romanian territory during a series of strikes on a neighbouring Ukrainian city.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters after a news conference in Kyiv that Ukraine had photographic evidence supporting its claim.\n\nHowever, Romania has rejected Kyiv's version of events and BBC Verify says it cannot authenticate the image.\n\nThe row came as the Russian and Turkish leaders held talks.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had travelled to the Russian city of Sochi in an attempt to persuade President Vladimir Putin to revive the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea.\n\nMr Putin said the deal, which Moscow abandoned in July, would not be reinstated until the West met his demands for sanctions to be lifted on Russian agricultural produce.\n\nBut he did say that Russia was moving ahead with plans to supply free grain to six African countries \"and even carry out logistics free of charge\".\n\nThe stymied grain deal is also at the heart of the dispute between Ukraine and Romania over crashed drones.\n\nRussia has been hitting Ukraine's port facilities along the River Danube for more than a month, trying to prevent Ukraine from using the river to export its grain.\n\nWith most ships prevented from using Ukraine's Black Sea ports, Moscow seems intent on preventing Kyiv from developing viable alternative routes.\n\nSunday night's attacks on the port of Izmail were launched just a day after Russian drones hit the nearby port of Reni.\n\nSince the latest attack, something of a war of words has followed between Ukraine - which insists that one or more drones landed across the river, inside Romania - and the government in Bucharest, which says it didn't happen.\n\n\"Of course, there is a risk, because what happened there is very close to our borders,\" said Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu.\n\n\"We have seen that Russia cynically continues to attack the civilian infrastructure, not allowing Ukraine to export their cereals.\n\n\"Of course, there is a risk of accidents or incidents, but for the time being, it was not the case.\"\n\nMr Kuleba, sounding angry, said it was \"absolutely obvious\" what had happened.\n\nHe suggested that some of Ukraine's partners were, in effect, turning a blind eye in order to avoid being involved in the conflict.\n\nIf a Russian drone did land on Romanian territory, without it being the result of an interception, then this would mark the first time Russia has directly, if accidentally, hit a Nato member state.\n\nLast November a missile landed in Poland during a Russian air attack. Ukraine initially claimed it was a Russian missile but it was later found that this was likely to have been a Ukrainian air defence missile.\n\nBBC Verify has been examining a still image and a video purporting to show the incident. The image was published to social media on Monday morning by Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nBoth the image and the video show a fireball rising over a forested riverbank at night, but the visual evidence is of very low quality, in part because it was shot in the dark, from a distance, and in part because it is low-resolution. Additionally, the video appears to have been blurred in places, obscuring certain details.\n\nAs a result, BBC Verify cannot confirm Ukraine's claims, nor whether the explosion was caused by a drone or by something else.", "Martha Mills was enjoying her summer holidays before she had an accident\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay says he will explore the plea of bereaved parents who want the introduction of \"Martha's rule\" to make it easier for patients to receive an urgent second medical opinion in hospital.\n\nMartha Mills died after failures in her treatment at King's College Hospital.\n\nMartha's mother, Merope, has spoken exclusively to the BBC on what would have been her daughter's 16th birthday.\n\nAn inquest said Martha could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMartha was on a family holiday in Wales in 2021, cycling on a flat and \"family friendly\" path, when she slipped on to the handle bars of her bike, with her abdomen taking the full brunt of the fall.\n\nThe force pushed one of her internal organs, her pancreas, against her spine, causing significant damage.\n\nShe later developed a complication called sepsis - when the body's response to an infection is overwhelming and ends up injuring its own tissues and organs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Martha Mills' mother, Merope, shares her struggle with her loss\n\nMartha's mother, Merope, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her family were not listened to by senior doctors on several occasions during her hospital care and were \"not given the full picture\" about Martha's deteriorating condition - leaving them unable to speak up for better treatment.\n\nMerope recalled: \"She started bleeding out of the tube in her arm... and one in her abdomen as well.\n\n\"It was a lot of blood as well, you know, soaking her sheets, and at night, we had to keep changing them.\n\n\"The doctors just told us it was a normal side effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off.\"\n\nBut Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold.\n\nMartha wondered about becoming an author, an engineer or a film director\n\nThe hospital that looked after Martha has admitted mistakes were made and the trust said in a statement that it \"remains deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\".\n\nMartha had further worrying signs of sepsis, including a rash that was mistaken for an allergic reaction, but it was after Martha had a fit in her mother's arms that she was finally transferred to intensive care.\n\nMerope told the BBC: \"The thing that I find most unforgivable, is that they left her so long, she knew she was going to die.\n\n\"She lay in bed and she said to me it feels like it's unfixable.\"\n\nBy this point \"it was too late for them to do anything and a day later, she was dead\".\n\nMerope wants hospitals around the country to bring in \"Martha's rule\", which would give parents, carers and patients the right to call for an urgent second clinical opinion from other experts at the same hospital if they have concerns about their current care.\n\nMr Barclay told the House of Commons he had now asked colleagues to explore the idea.\n\n\"Martha's rule would be similar to the Queensland system called 'Ryan's rule' - it's a three-step process that allows patients or their families to review a clinical review of their case from a doctor or a nurse if their condition is deteriorating or not improving as expected.\n\n\"Ryan's rule has saved lives in Queensland, and I've asked my department and the NHS to look into whether similar measures could improve patient safety here in the UK.\"\n\nKing's College Hospital said it had put several measures in place since Martha's death, including sepsis training for all clinical staff looking after children.\n\nNew hospital guidelines recommend the \"escalation of a child's care in those cases where we are unable to provide sufficient reassurance to parents\".\n\nAnd the trust has introduced a specially trained team to review seriously unwell children on wards.", "Some minor crimes will no longer be investigated as part of a project being piloted in the north east of Scotland.\n\nPolice Scotland said it wants to give officers more time to focus on responding to emergencies and keeping people safe from harm.\n\nAn example of where no further action may be taken was a garden theft with no CCTV or eye-witness evidence.\n\nPolice Scotland said: \"Hard choices are being made to deliver effective policing within the funding available.\"\n\nThe new pilot has been described as a \"proportionate response to crime\".\n\nIt comes days after UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the police in England and Wales must investigate every theft and follow all reasonable leads to catch offenders.\n\nMs Braverman said it was \"completely unacceptable\" that criminals are often \"effectively free to break certain laws\".\n\nPolice Scotland said that currently members of the public may have to wait some time to hear whether their report of a crime is being investigated.\n\nHowever, under the new approach the aim is to inform people of the decision more quickly.\n\nDivisional commander Ch Supt Graeme Mackie said: \"The pilot process will enable local police officers to focus on those crimes that have proportionate lines of inquiry and potentially enable them to give more time to local concerns and priorities in the area.\n\n\"We also know that sometimes people simply want to report a crime and we want to provide that service efficiently.\"\n\nHe added: \"Please continue to report crime in your area.\n\n\"Local officers will continue to review closed reports to enable them to map local crime trends and this may mean an inquiry is reopened and investigated.\"\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Threadgold told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I do not believe that any police officer in Scotland wishes to provide a poorer service than we are already being forced to do so.\n\n\"It is quite enlightening that the service is now being honest with the public of what it potentially will not be able to do in the future as a result of reductions in numbers and budget cuts.\n\n\"But I think for a national police force to say to its citizens that it potentially will no longer investigate certain crimes sets a dangerous precedent and we should be very careful.\"\n\nWhen asked if the force was delivering effective policing, he said: \"The simple answer is no.\"\n\nHe also raised concerns around intelligent criminals targeting specific areas and groups \"safe in the knowledge that there will be no investigation on the back of their crimes\".\n\nMr Threadgold said: \"We're potentially going to withdraw a service from some of the most vulnerable members of our community while we continue to carry out functions which have got nothing to do with the police.\n\n\"If bold decisions are made about the way that we police mental health, some missing persons, patient transport, other functions that police are left with because there is no capacity with other public sectors, then we will create capacity that we need to provide services to the community.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell Findlay MSP said the pilot was a result of \"depleted policing\" across Scotland.\n\n\"Police Scotland should be applauded for being so candid about the reality of their predicament, but communities deserve better than the SNP's weak approach to justice,\" he said.\n\n\"Ministers must be upfront with the public about whether this policy will potentially be rolled out elsewhere in Scotland.\n\n\"Police Scotland is being forced to make these impossible choices because the SNP government inflicted savage budget cuts while refusing to listen to warnings about the impact this would have.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson, Liam McArthur MSP, said: \"The police are being forced to make terrible choices because the Scottish government have expected them to do so much with so little for so long.\n\n\"The SNP's botched centralisation of policing and brutal cuts have hit officer and staff numbers hard.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said in a statement: \"While these decisions are a matter for the Chief Constable, it is vital Police Scotland continues to inspire public trust and maintains relationships with local communities.\n\n\"This will be crucial when the results of this pilot are examined to ensure local priorities continue to be met with no detriment to communities.\n\n\"The Scottish government has increased police funding year-on-year since 2016-17, investing more than £11.6bn since the creation of Police Scotland in 2013, despite difficult financial circumstances due to UK Government austerity.\"", "Emergency services were called to the scene at Stillwater Correctional Facility\n\nA prison in the US state of Minnesota was placed into lockdown on Sunday after dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells.\n\nThe protest, staged by around 100 prisoners, was later \"resolved without incident\", officials said.\n\nInmates were unhappy at being kept in their cells due to understaffing over Labor Day weekend, the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) said.\n\nAll inmates had now returned to their cells, a DOC spokesperson added.\n\nExtra police units, firefighters and other emergency teams were stationed outside the facility in Baywater, about 25 miles (40km) east of the state's largest city Minneapolis.\n\nAdvocates for the inmates said the incident was a protest over prison conditions, including the excessive heat, limited access to showers and ice and unclean drinking water.\n\nA US National Weather Service heat advisory is in place until Tuesday for the area, warning temperatures could reach up to 100F (37.7C).\n\nThe increasing frequency of dangerously hot conditions has drawn renewed attention to US prisons and calls for reform.\n\nThe DOC says the prison is short of 50 officers, which has been exacerbated by the holiday weekend, leading to intermittent lockdowns of inmates since Friday.\n\nIt means prisoners have been kept in their cells for longer periods, reportedly with no air conditioning.\n\nThe DOC blamed the unrest in part on the inmates' frustration over limited access to phones, recreation and showers, but refuted the claim that inmates were lacking access to clean water.\n\nA spokesperson added that no one was hurt and the situation throughout the day was \"calm, peaceful and stable\".\n\nDOC commissioner Paul Schnell said inmates were usually given several hours a day during the weekend for recreation, but holiday-related staff shortages had cut that down to just a single hour.\n\nAFSCME Council 5, the union which represents Minnesota correctional officers, also said that understaffing was to blame for Sunday's incident.\n\nA spokesperson said the incident was \"endemic and highlights the truth behind the operations of the MN Department of Corrections with chronic understaffing\".\n\nSuch conditions upset inmates because of restrictions placed on program and recreation time \"when there are not enough security staff to protect the facility\", they added.\n\nIn total, about 1,200 inmates are incarcerated at the facility, according to department records.\n• None How desperate US prisoners try to escape deadly heat", "One man had to be rescued from his car by a firefighter in Spain's eastern Castelló province\n\nSeveral weather warnings have been issued across Spain as heavy rain causes major flooding across parts of the country.\n\nMaximum red weather alerts are in place in the Madrid, Toledo and Cádiz regions.\n\nSunday's football match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla was suspended due to the torrential rain.\n\nResidents in Madrid have been asked to stay at home due to \"the exceptional and abnormal\" rainfall, the mayor said.\n\nIn the Spanish capital alone, firefighters have been called to alleviate the situation in flooded roads 190 times.\n\nMuch of the rainfall - brought by a storm - has been concentrated in coastal regions around Cádiz, Tarragona and Castelló.\n\nIn the eastern province of Castelló, flooding prompted firefighters to rescue a man trapped in his car, which was surrounded by waist-high flood water.\n\nPeople have also been advised to avoid unnecessary trips in the north-eastern city of Alcanar, Tarragona - where 215 litres per square metre of rain fell in a 24-hour period.\n\nJuan Carlos Penafiel, who was visiting the city, said he was woken up by the water entering his second-floor apartment.\n\n\"We organised amongst ourselves to make ropes with towels and bed sheets and used them to pull two young men who were grabbing on to columns,\" he told Reuters news agency.\n\nLocal community in Santa Barabara, Tarragona, work together to clear away mud and debris from the path\n\n\"We pulled them to the top floor and saved them. It was terrifying, very very scary with small children, women. Nobody showed up, we were left alone to save ourselves,\" he added.\n\nThe rains have caused debris and mud to slide onto Spanish roads, while many vehicles have struggled to move in heavily flooded areas.\n\nThe weather has been brought by slow-moving storm system, known as a depresión aislada en niveles altos (Dana).\n\nAccording to El Pais newspaper, some train services have been called off across Spain and drivers have been warned to avoid certain flooded roads in heavily flooded areas.\n\nThis weekend's weather events follow a scorching hot summer in Spain and much of southern Europe.\n\nA local resident in Les Cases d'Alcanar, had his house flooded", "Harrow Crown Court was closed indefinitely last week after RAAC was found there during improvements\n\nA wide range of public buildings have been constructed using a cheap version of concrete that could now be at risk of collapse, experts say.\n\nThe discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or RAAC, has forced the full or partial closure of more than 100 schools in England.\n\nMany hospitals, courts and public buildings were built with the material.\n\nProf Chris Goodier, of Loughborough University, said the \"scale of problem is much bigger than schools\".\n\n\"It also covers much of the building stock in the country,\" he said. \"This also includes health, defence, justice, local government, national government, and also a lot of the private sector.\"\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb on Friday said that the government was rebuilding seven hospitals due to large use of RAAC and would be surveying buildings across the public sectors.\n\nLast week Harrow Crown Court in north-west London was closed indefinitely after the material was found. Five other court buildings are affected, according to government sources.\n\nMeanwhile, three buildings in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have also been identified as raising concerns.\n\nMatt Byatt, president of the Institution of Structural Engineers, said buildings built with RAAC were \"beyond their serviceable life\" and the issue was flagged several years ago, including to government.\n\n\"You can't wait for people to get hurt before making these kinds of decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"You can have a sudden and catastrophic failure of units.\"\n\nHe said the \"bubbly breezeblock\" type material acts like a \"sponge\" soaking up moisture when wet, and that the extra weight combined with the fact RAAC roof planks dip over times made them prone to sudden collapse.\n\nThe Labour party has called for an \"urgent audit\" to find the buildings at risk across the public sector estate, while the Liberal Democrats said the public and NHS staff need \"urgent clarity\" .\n\nJulian Hartley, who runs NHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS hospitals, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that hospitals currently affected by RAAC use props to reinforce structures.\n\nThe RAAC planks are thought to be present in 26 hospitals, and the government has said seven of the worst affected will be replaced by 2030.\n\nIn Scotland, more than 250 NHS buildings could have been built using RAAC.\n\nHealth officials in the identified buildings are currently working on an investigation to find out whether it is present. It is expected to take up to eight months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThe government said on Friday night it had yet to draw up a definitive list of its own buildings affected by crumbling concrete.\n\nThis is one of the objectives of a working group set up earlier this year.\n\nBut the warnings had been there for years, said Prof Goodier, and are a part of an already complex national picture.\n\n\"We have a very old building stock in this country right back to the Victorian era and industrial revolution,\" he said.\n\nMost of it isn't properly maintained because it's a hassle its hard work and it costs a lot of money.\"\n\n\"RAAC is one of many materials that hasn't been looked properly over the decade,\" he said.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says RAAC is now beyond its lifespan and may \"collapse with little or no notice\".\n\nThe problem now for ministers across government is that more inspections will lead to the discover of more deteriorating concrete.\n\nThat will trigger several stages of assessment by engineers and buildings may have to close temporarily as a precaution, even if they don't pose a major risk.\n\nThe concrete crisis has echoes of the cladding scandal following the Grenfell Tower Fire in which the scale of the potential fire risks led to thousands living in flats covered with dangerous materials or paying for additional fire wardens.\n\nDespite warnings over decades within the industry and Whitehall, the government did not ban flammable cladding until after the loss of 72 lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This blaze is the third fire at the former Kitty's nightclub this year.\n\nFirefighters have tackled a blaze at the former Kitty's nightclub in Kirkcaldy.\n\nSix trucks and two height vehicles were sent to the B-listed building on Hunter Street at about 14:45 on Sunday.\n\nThere were no casualties and crews left the scene on Monday morning.\n\nIt is the third fire at the site this year. The business closed in 2019 and the building was due to be converted into 19 flats.\n\nThe plans were withdrawn and the property has again been put up for sale.", "Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has confirmed that he is leaving his post.\n\nMr Reznikov had led the ministry since before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky announced Mr Reznikov's dismissal on Sunday, saying it was time for \"new approaches\" in the defence ministry.\n\nRustem Umerov, who runs Ukraine's State Property Fund, has been nominated as Mr Reznikov's successor.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Reznikov confirmed that he had submitted his resignation letter to the country's parliament.\n\nUkrainian media has speculated that he will become Kyiv's new ambassador in London, where he has developed good relations with senior politicians.\n\nThe 57-year-old has become a well-known figure since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Internationally recognised, he has regularly attended meetings with Ukraine's western allies and played a key role in lobbying for additional military equipment.\n\nBut his dismissal has been anticipated for some time. Last week, Mr Reznikov told reporters he was exploring other positions with the Ukrainian president.\n\nAccording to local media, the former defence minister said that if Mr Zelensky offered the opportunity for him to work on another project he would probably agree.\n\nUkrainian defence advisor Yuriy Sak told the BBC that Mr Reznikov spearheaded the transformation of the ministry, laying the groundwork for future NATO membership.\n\n\"His legacy is that he has convinced ministers of defence around the world that the impossible is possible,\" he said in reference to Mr Reznikov's successful lobbying of foreign governments for arms.\n\nBut experts have observed that the cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to lead to any major change in Ukraine's battlefield strategy, with Gen Valery Zaluzhny - the commander of Ukraine's armed forces - overseeing the campaign.\n\nMr Reznikov's dismissal comes amid a wider anti-corruption drive in Mr Zelensky's administration - which has been seen as essential to Ukraine's ambitions to join Western institutions like the EU.\n\nAccording to the Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180, but efforts in recent years have seen its position improve significantly.\n\nWhile Mr Reznikov is not personally accused of corruption, there have been a number of scandals at the ministry of defence involving the procurement of goods and equipment for the army at inflated prices.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Reznikov's deputy, Vyacheslav Shapovalov, resigned in the wake of the scandal. It was widely reported at the time that Mr Reznikov barely held on to his own post.\n\nAt the time, he said the stress he had endured was \"hard to measure precisely\", adding that his \"conscience is absolutely clear\".\n\nThe defence ministry has also been rocked by several recent arrests at regional recruitment offices, where officers have been accused of taking bribes to allow men to avoid Ukraine's military draft.\n\nOn Friday, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with senior Ukrainian anti-corruption officials and urged them to continue prosecuting anti-graft cases \"no matter where they lead\".\n\nMr Umerov, who was nominated by the president, represented Ukraine in peace talks at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.\n\nThe ex-MP allegedly suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning during peace negotiations in March 2022 alongside Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich - who was also part of the negotiating party. In a statement posted to Facebook he later denied the reports, urging people not to trust \"unverified information\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the time, he said it took courage to find solutions but he was determined \"to find [a] political and diplomatic resolution to this brutal invasion\".\n\nA member of the Crimean Tatar community, he has become a key member of Mr Zelensky's international outreach efforts, focussing on fostering ties in the Islamic world.\n\nMr Reznikov's dismissal comes as Ukraine wages a slow and bloody counter-offensive after securing more advanced weapons from Western allies.\n\nProgress on the frontline has been slow but top Ukrainian generals said on Sunday that their forces have broken through a key line of Russian defences in the south of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia reported several attempted drone attacks on its territory overnight.\n\nThe defence ministry said it shot down two drones over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, early on Monday.\n\nThe region's governor Roman Stravoit also reported on Sunday that debris from a destroyed drone had caused a fire at a non-residential building in the city of Kurchatov.\n\nElsewhere, Russia launched its own 3.5-hour overnight assault on the south of Ukraine's Odesa region, with the governor reporting that 17 drones were downed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there are also hits,\" added Oleh Kiper, who said there had been damage to \"several settlements\" in the region of Izmail. But he said there were no casualties or injuries.\n\nIzmail is one of Ukraine's two major grain-exporting ports on the Danube River in the Odesa region.\n\nThe Danube ports have become Ukraine's major exporting route since the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal in July. Moscow has launched frequent attacks on the Danube since withdrawing from the deal.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "So the shuffling’s pretty much done - but what does it all mean?\n\nWell, as expected there was no change in some of the top roles in Sir Keir Starmer’s team, but elsewhere the shuffling was fairly extensive - and it was pretty swift, rattling along with promotions for some, sideways moves for others and the odd demotion.\n\nAmong the most notable appointments: Angela Rayner gets a new senior title as shadow deputy prime minister - and a new brief covering levelling-up, housing and communities - which cements her position in Starmer’s top team, and also meant there was no re-shuffle run-ins between the Labour leader and his elected deputy as there have been in the past.\n\nHowever that meant a demotion for Lisa Nandy, whose new role covering international development is undoubtedly important but doesn’t come with a department of its own.\n\nElsewhere the return of Hilary Benn to the shadow cabinet is notable - he was a minister in the governments of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown but hasn’t sat in the shadow cabinet since he quit during Jeremy Corbyn’s time as party leader.\n\nNew and important jobs for Liz Kendall - a one-time Labour leadership candidate - and Pat McFadden, who used to by Tony Blair’s political secretary - will prompt some to say this is further evidence of Starmer shifting the party away from the Labour left. But Sir Keir’s allies will say it’s a reshuffle that shows he’s serious about winning the election and is building a team to prepare for government.\n\nEither way, it’s further evidence that Starmer’s prepared to shape the party in the way he wants.\n\nSo far it seems to have gone fairly smoothly - though Dr Rosena Allin-Khan did leave her job to return to the backbenches with what some might see as a pointed letter to Starmer saying “you do not see a space for a mental health portfolio in a Labour cabinet”.\n\nReshuffles rarely take place without some ruffled feathers...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keegan: 'Does anyone ever say, you've done a good job?'\n\nThe education secretary has apologised for her language after being caught swearing on mic as she expressed irritation over the concrete crisis.\n\nHaving finished an interview with ITV, Gillian Keegan used the f-word as she asked \"does anyone ever say you've done a good job because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?\"\n\nIn a later interview she said she was sorry for her \"off-the-cuff\" remark.\n\nShe added it was driven by irritation at a reporter's questions.\n\n\"He was making out it was all my fault,\" she said adding: \"It is frustrating because we are doing everything we can to take a leading position, to be on the front foot.\"\n\n\"I worry about this. I haven't slept all night worrying about this,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was also frustrated that some questionnaires sent to schools about their buildings had not yet been returned.\n\nAsked if she was accusing schools of sitting on their \"arse\", Ms Keegan insisted her comments were not aimed at anyone \"in particular\".\n\nShe also said she was not expecting to be thanked personally for her work but praised her department for taking a \"leadership role\".\n\nDuring the initial interview, the education secretary was pushed on whether the government had done enough to fix the problem of crumbling concrete - also known as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - in school buildings.\n\nMore than 100 schools have been fully or partially closed due to the risk.\n\nMs Keegan said local authorities and multi-academy trusts had always had the responsibility for maintaining the buildings.\n\nShe added it was \"not the job\" of the Department for Education to maintain school buildings but it had chosen to contact schools in order to have information on RAAC collected centrally.\n\nShe said that following a collapse in a Kent school in 2018, the department had sent warnings to \"the people responsible\".\n\nA Downing Street source said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was satisfied with Ms Keegan's apology. \"I think what will be at the forefront of parents' minds is the situation of their school, and the government's focus today has been on providing further transparency,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"What the public will continue to find is that in the vast majority of cases, their child's school is not affected.\"\n\nLabour's leader Sir Keir Starmer said ministers had \"dropped the ball... instead of coming out and saying this is what we going to do to fix the problems, you've got members of the Cabinet trying to blame other people\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrat's education spokesperson Munira Wilson said: \"Expecting people to thank her when children are being taught in classrooms at risk of collapse shows Keegan must be living on another planet.\"\n\nIn the House of Commons, where Ms Keegan was making a statement about RAAC, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson joked that if the education department needed more money it could install a swear box in the office.\n\nDuring her interview, Ms Keegan also defended going on holiday at the end of August when the crisis was beginning to unfold. She said she had taken meetings while on her break in Spain and had returned \"as soon as I was needed\".\n\n\"I'm on duty wherever I am. Occasionally you have to make some time for an elderly person's birthday - in this case my dad, who I adore.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer interview came at the end of a morning during which the government had been criticised for decisions it made over funding provided to schools.\n\nJonathan Slater, a former senior civil servant in the education department, said that the government had halved the budget for school repairs in England in 2021.\n\nHe said the government had initially agreed to fund work, including fixing RAAC issues, in 100 schools, however, this was reduced to 50 schools. Mr Sunak was chancellor at the time.\n\nMr Sunak said it was \"completely and utterly wrong\" to suggest he had overseen budget cuts that were now leading to issues in the structural integrity of school buildings.\n\nHe added said that 95% of the 22,000 schools in England \"won't be impacted\" and that the \"bulk\" of schools yet to be identified as having an issue would be known in the coming weeks.", "Amber Gibson's body was found at Cadzow Glen in Hamilton\n\nA man who sexually assaulted and murdered his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years.\n\nAmber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she was last seen.\n\nConnor Gibson, 21, strangled Amber then got rid of his clothes and called the children's home where Amber was staying to pretend she was still alive.\n\nThe judge, Lord Mulholland, described his crimes as truly evil.\n\nGibson was jailed for life, and must serve at least 22 years before he can apply for parole.\n\nAnother man, who was found guilty of interfering with Amber's body, was jailed for nine years.\n\nConnor Gibson will serve at least 22 years in prison\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nAmber's body was discovered in Cadzow Glen, a park near the centre of the town, on Sunday 28 November, hidden in bushes and branches.\n\nHer body was covered in mud and her clothes were found nearby.\n\nTwo days later Gibson posted a tribute on Facebook to his sister - then the following day, he was arrested for her murder.\n\nA 13-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow had heard how Gibson - who denied the charges against him - had removed Amber's clothes and assaulted her.\n\nProsecutors said the teenager had been \"appallingly\" murdered by the brother she must have trusted.\n\nAmber and Connor Gibson were caught on CCTV just before 22:00 on Friday 26 November in Hamilton town centre\n\nAt the time of the murder, Amber was living at the town's Hillhouse children's home and Gibson was staying at the Blue Triangle homeless hostel in Hamilton.\n\nAmber met her brother in Hamilton town centre on the evening of Friday 26 November. The court heard she had been excited about seeing him and posted a selfie of them together.\n\nThey were seen on CCTV at about 22:00 near Cadzow Glen. About 90 minutes later Connor Gibson was seen again on the cameras, this time alone.\n\nHe returned to the homeless unit where he was staying shortly before midnight.\n\nCCTV later showed him heading towards wheelie bins outside the building carrying a plastic bin.\n\nIt was empty when he came back, and his blood-stained shorts and T-shirt were later found by police in the wheelie bins.\n\nThere was other forensic evidence that blood stains on Gibson's jacket was compatible with Amber and his DNA was found on her shorts.\n\nThe siblings had been fostered from the ages of three and five by Craig Niven and his wife Carol.\n\nMr Niven had told the trial that they could not be left in each others' company as they were \"not a good mix\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCourt documents also showed that Amber and Connor Gibson's biological father, Peter Gibson, sexually assaulted two young boys and assaulted and raped a woman.\n\nThese crimes were committed between 2001 and 2008, and he was sentenced in April this year.\n\nIt also emerged that in a separate case, Amber was raped by a man called Jamie Starrs several months before her murder. He was jailed for 10-and-a-half years.\n\nAfter Gibson was found guilty of murder last month, the siblings' foster parents issued a statement.\n\nMr and Mrs Niven described Amber as the \"most giving, caring, loving, supportive and admirable person\".\n\nThey said she had a love of art and singing, and an \"amazing outlook on life\" despite the suffering she had experienced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The judge, Lord Mulholland, described Connor Gibson's crimes as truly evil\n\nThe couple also said that Amber and Connor had been \"let down throughout their lives by the system\".\n\n\"We now have one daughter buried in Larkhall Cemetery and another child in prison,\" they said. \"Life will never be the same.\"\n\nTony Graham KC, representing Gibson, said his client had endured emotional abuse and neglect.\n\nMr Graham said: \"I make reference to these matters to reconcile how a brother can act in such a way.\"\n\nProf Soumen Sengupta, director of health and social care at South Lanarkshire Council, said it was \"a desperately sad and distressing case\".\n\n\"All aspects of Amber's care are the subject of an independent review and we are committed to the publication of appropriate outcomes of that review once we are able to release them,\" he said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nBrazil have dropped Manchester United winger Antony following allegations of abuse by his former girlfriend.\n\nThe Brazilian football federation said the 23-year-old had been withdrawn from the squad after \"facts became public\" that \"need to be investigated\".\n\nPolice in Sao Paulo and Greater Manchester are investigating the claims, which the player has denied.\n\n\"I can calmly state that the accusations are false and that the evidence already produced and the other evidence that will be produced demonstrate that I am innocent of the accusations made,\" Antony said on social media.\n\n\"I trust that the ongoing police investigations will demonstrate the truth about my innocence.\"\n\nAntony is accused of attacking his former girlfriend Gabriela Cavallin \"with a headbutt\" in a Manchester hotel room on 15 January, leaving her with a cut head which needed treatment from a doctor.\n\nShe also alleges she was punched in the chest, causing damage to a silicone breast implant, which required corrective surgery.\n\nAntony added in his statement on Monday that his relationship with his former partner was \"tumultuous\", but insisted he \"never committed any physical aggression\".\n\nHe also released a statement in June saying he had been falsely accused by his former girlfriend of domestic violence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it is \"aware of the allegations made and enquiries remain ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this report\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not be commenting any further at this time.\"\n\nManchester United said they had no comment on the matter at present when contacted by BBC Sport.\n\nThe allegations come after the Premier League club announced last month that forward Mason Greenwood would leave by mutual agreement following a six-month internal investigation.\n\nCharges against Greenwood, including rape and assault, were dropped in February. The 21-year-old joined Spanish side Getafe on loan last week.\n\nAntony has been replaced in the Brazil squad by Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un met in the Russian port city of Vladivostok in 2019\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.\n\nThe two leaders will discuss the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine, the official said.\n\nWhere talks would be held is not clear.\n\nThe Kremlin spokesman had \"nothing to say\" on the reports, which were also carried by other US media. There was no immediate comment from North Korea.\n\nSources told the New York Times that Mr Kim was most likely to travel by armoured train.\n\nThe possible meeting comes after the White House said it had new information that arms negotiations between the two countries were \"actively advancing\".\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Russia's Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, had tried to \"convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition\" to Russia during a recent visit to North Korea.\n\nIt is thought that Russia might need 122mm and 152mm shells because its stocks are running low, but it is not easy to determine North Korea's full artillery inventory, given its secretive nature.\n\nWeapons on display at the meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu in July included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants.\n\nIt was the first time Mr Kim had opened the country's doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Putin and Mr Kim have since exchanged letters \"pledging to increase their bilateral co-operation\", Mr Kirby said.\n\n\"We urge the DPRK to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia,\" he said, using an abbreviation for the North.\n\nHe warned the US would take action, including imposing sanctions, if North Korea did supply Russia with weapons.\n\nThe two leaders last met in 2019, when Mr Kim arrived by train in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east. He was welcomed by officials with a traditional offering of bread and salt. This was also probably the last time Mr Kim travelled abroad.\n\nThere is concern both in Washington and in Seoul about what North Korea would get in return for an arms deal, which may result in increased military co-operation between the two countries in Asia.\n\nOn Monday, South Korea's intelligence service briefed that Mr Shoigu had suggested Russia, China and North Korea hold joint naval drills, similar to those carried out by the US, South Korea and Japan.\n\nAnother fear is that Russia could supply North Korea with weapons in the future, at a time when Pyongyang most needs them.\n\nMore worrying still, Kim Jong Un may ask Mr Putin to provide him with advanced weapons technology or knowledge, to help him make breakthroughs in his nuclear weapons programme.\n\nNorth Korea has also tested hypersonic missiles, which can fly at several times the speed of sound and at low altitude to escape radar detection, as well as others launched from submarines.\n\nHowever, a deal could end up being more transactional than strategic. For now, Russia needs weapons, and sanctioned-starved North Korea needs money and food.\n\nThe New York Times reported that the meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Putin could take place in the port city of Vladivostok, on the east coast of Russia.\n\nThe newspaper's diplomatic correspondent, Edward Wong, told BBC News channel that an advance team of North Korean officials had travelled to Vladivostok and Moscow late last month.\n\nThey \"included security officers who deal with the protocol surrounding travel of the leadership, so that was a strong sign for officials looking at this\", Mr Wong said.\n\nPyongyang and Moscow have both previously denied that the North is supplying Russia with arms for use in its war in Ukraine.\n\nJohn Everard, who served as UK ambassador to North Korea between 2006 and 2008, told the BBC that publicity around the possible visit was a \"strong reason why the visit is now unlikely to take place\", as Mr Kim is \"completely paranoid about his personal security\".\n\nNorth Korea has stockpiles of weapons that Moscow needs and which would work with Soviet-era military equipment, although Mr Everard said the weapons were \"in very poor condition\".\n\nAfter the Vladivostok meeting in 2019, Mr Putin said Mr Kim would require \"security guarantees\" in order to abandon his nuclear programme.\n\nThat meeting came just months after a summit in Vietnam between Mr Kim and then-US President Donald Trump had failed to make progress on denuclearising the Korean peninsula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2019: Putin and Kim toast at the summit in Vladivostok", "Six Israeli citizens have been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of raping a British tourist, Israel's foreign ministry says.\n\nA statement said the Israeli embassy had been informed and that its consul was in contact with local authorities.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Cyprus.\n\nCypriot media said a court had ordered the detention of five foreigners for eight days pending investigation of an alleged rape of a tourist in Ayia Napa.\n\nThere was no immediate confirmation from police in Cyprus, but Reuters news agency separately cited a police source as identifying the tourist as a British woman.\n\nThe woman had filed a complaint with police on Sunday evening which alleged that she was attacked at her hotel in Ayia Napa earlier that day, the source said.\n\nThe source said the five suspects who were later detained in connection with the alleged rape were Israeli men aged 19 and 20.\n\nIt was not clear why there was a discrepancy in the number of arrests.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office told the BBC: \"We are supporting a British woman in Cyprus and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe Times of Israel newspaper meanwhile quoted Israeli lawyer Nir Yaslovitz as telling Channel 12 TV: \"According to the police in Cyprus, there is a serious suspicion, but unfortunately we have experience with such cases. I hope that the truth will come out.\"\n\nIn 2019, a British woman told police in Cyprus that she had been raped by 12 Israeli men and boys in Ayia Napa.\n\nShe later retracted the allegation after being held without a lawyer, and was then tried and convicted of causing public mischief.\n\nHer conviction, which outraged women's rights campaigners, was overturned on appeal at the Supreme Court in Cyprus last year.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nCoco Gauff underlined her credentials as one of the US Open title favourites with a gutsy victory over Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nThe 19-year-old American had to come from a break down in the third set to win 6-3 3-6 6-1.\n\nSixth seed Gauff is bidding for a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe victory also ended Wozniacki's extraordinary comeback run after a three-and-a-half-year absence from the sport.\n\nGauff will face former French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko in the last eight after the Latvian 20th seed knocked out top seed Iga Swiatek.\n\nGauff arrived at her home Grand Slam full of confidence after title wins in Washington and Cincinnati.\n\nHer fine form looks set to continue as she showed great resilience to fight back in the third set and register an impressive win against a resilient Wozniacki.\n\nGauff joked afterwards that her father can no longer sit in her support box because he gets too nervous during matches.\n\n\"He's been doing laps around the stadium,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't know if he can hear me but I felt his good energy even if I couldn't see him.\"\n• None Murray out of mixed doubles in New York\n\nBroken in her opening service game, Gauff was able to overcome a nervy start to level the scores at 2-2 before getting the decisive break to lead 5-3 and serve out the opener on the third set point.\n\nDespite saving five break points in the second set, a frustrated Gauff eventually conceded serve to trail 5-3 and allow Wozniacki to take the fourth-round tie to a decider.\n\nThe teenager found herself a break down once again at the start of third and directed her frustration towards her coaching team, shouting at them to stop talking to her.\n\nThe home favourite channelled her energy well, overturning the deficit and breaking Wozniacki to take control of the match, all the time roared on by the crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nSince her disappointing first-round exit at Wimbledon in July, Gauff has lost just one of her past 16 matches and is currently on a nine-match winning streak.\n\nThe world number six has only reached one Grand Slam singles final before - the 2022 French Open, where she lost 6-1 6-3 to Swiatek.\n\n'It feels like Wozniacki never left'\n\nThe loss marks the end of an incredible run for Wozniacki as she returned to a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2020 Australian Open.\n\nWozniacki retired three years ago to start a family and was heavily pregnant with her second child during last year's US Open.\n\nHowever, she returned to the WTA Tour last month, with Gauff remarking it is like the Dane \"never left\".\n\n\"The level that she's played today is really amazing,\" Gauff said.\n\n\"She's been an inspiration for me growing up.\"\n\nThe former world number one - a two-time US Open runner-up - said afterwards she was exactly where she wants to be.\n\n\"There's a lot of positives to take with me going forward. I'm on the right track,\" Wozniacki said.\n\n\"I'm finding my form, I'm finding my feet. I'm excited to take on more events and more players.\"\n\nElsewhere on Sunday, 10th seed Karolina Muchova set up a quarter-final encounter with Sorana Cirstea of Romania after defeating China's Wang Xinyu 6-3 5-7 6-1.\n\nFor world number 30 Cirstea, who beat Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 6-3 6-3, it will be a first appearance in the last eight of a Grand Slam since the 2009 French Open.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Margot Robbie leaves behind Barbieland in the film based on the popular toy doll\n\nBarbie has officially become the year's biggest box office hit, after the doll's big-screen earnings overtook the Super Mario Bros Movie's total.\n\nThe Barbie movie, which sees Margot Robbie's titular toy swap her pink fantasy home for the real world, has now made $1.38bn (£1.1bn) globally.\n\nThat has taken it past the $1.36bn taken by the Super Mario Bros Movie.\n\nBarbie has also helped the US summer box office reach the $4bn (£3.2bn) mark for the first time since the pandemic.\n\nAnalysts did not expect cinemas to reach that milestone, but the success of Barbenheimer - Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which were released on the same day in July - propelled takings past last year's total of $3.4bn (£2.7bn).\n\nThe loss of films including Dune: Part II means the cinema schedule has fewer obvious hits for the rest of the year\n\nIndustry experts also predicted that the Super Mario Bros Movie would be the biggest film of 2023. But Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, has proved them wrong on that front too.\n\nThe biggest films of 2023 so far\n\nThe Equalizer 3, starring Denzel Washington, proved to be another summer hit on its release this weekend, taking $34.5m (£27.3m) in its first three days at North American box offices.\n\nHowever, there are concerns in Hollywood that there may be a drop-off for rest of the year after films including Dune: Part II, Kraven the Hunter and the Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel moved their release dates to 2024, as the ongoing Hollywood strike prevents actors from promoting studio movies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "There is a sharp generational divide in attitudes towards the monarchy, suggests a YouGov opinion poll, with young people much less in favour of it.\n\nAmong 18 to 24-year-olds, only 30% say the monarchy is \"good for Britain\", compared with 77% among the over-65s.\n\nThe survey of more than 2,000 adults in Britain comes as the first anniversary approaches of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe pollsters found that overall, 62% want to keep the monarchy.\n\nBut they report a \"remarkable difference between generations\", with younger people much less supportive on remaining a monarchy and more sceptical about the Royal Family representing good value for money.\n\nFor King Charles, as he approaches his first year on the throne, 59% of people thought he was \"personally doing a good job\".\n\nThe pollsters say there has been a broadly consistent picture of \"overall positivity towards the monarchy\", but there is also a sizeable and rising minority who are opposed.\n\nA decade ago, the same YouGov tracking survey found 17% wanted an elected head of state, which in this latest survey has risen to 26%, the highest in a series of regular surveys from YouGov going back to 2011.\n\nOn whether Britain should continue to be a monarchy or be replaced with an elected head of state, the poll found:\n\nBut underneath these overall figures, the survey shows widely diverging views.\n\nOn whether the Royal Family is good value for money, 75% of the over-65s believe they are, but only 34% of 18 to 24-year-olds feel the same.\n\nAnd while 80% of the over-65s want Britain to stay as a monarchy, that falls to 37% for the 18 to 24-year-olds.\n\nThere is also less support for the royals in Scotland or Wales than in England, where London has higher levels of people against the monarchy than elsewhere in the country.\n\nHistorian and royal commentator Ed Owens says the lack of support among the young should \"certainly be of concern\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBut he says it will be difficult for the royals to turn this around, when many of the factors are outside their control.\n\nDr Owens says opposition to the monarchy is part of a wider sense of \"disenchantment\" for younger generations about issues such as unaffordable housing, stagnant wages and student debt.\n\n\"The system doesn't seem to be working for them, so why should they celebrate an institution that seems to be at the heart of that system?\" says Dr Owens.\n\nBut he says there is hope for the monarchy in the popularity of some individual royals, with Prince William appearing to have an appeal across age groups.\n\nGraham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchy campaign Republic, said the survey showed a \"general trend of falling support, and that younger people will not be won back to the monarchist cause\".\n\n\"Sooner rather than later we'll see support for the monarchy fall below 50%,\" he said.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Dozens of children have been forced into contact with fathers accused of abuse, a study has found.\n\nIn some cases in the research, revealed for the first time by the BBC, the fathers were convicted paedophiles.\n\nIn all cases, fathers had used a disputed concept in court known as \"parental alienation\".\n\nSeparately, the same concept has been cited in the deaths of women after family courts allowed fathers accused of abuse to apply for contact.\n\nThe BBC investigation found five mothers died - some taking their own lives and one having a heart attack.\n\nAll the fathers in the England-wide study, carried out by the University of Manchester and reported by the BBC, had responded in court to abuse allegations with the parental alienation concept - in which they claimed the mothers had turned the child against them without good reason.\n\nDr Elizabeth Dalgarno, who led the research, says the concept is a \"handy tool for abusers\" and its acceptance by courts is a \"national scandal\".\n\nFamily law barrister, Lucy Reed KC, says the term is deployed \"increasingly frequently\" - but doesn't always mean the same thing. \"It's quite often used by fathers to mean pretty much anything that is in opposition to their demand for a certain amount of contact.\"\n\nThe 45 mothers of the children in the University of Manchester study all reported serious health problems which they believed were linked to the stress of family court proceedings - including miscarriages, heart attacks and suicidal thoughts.\n\nFor months, the BBC has also been examining stories of traumatised women as part of a wider investigation into the way the family courts handle domestic violence claims in disputes between parents.\n\nBecause of the laws surrounding reporting of the court proceedings, intended to protect children, the women's names and some identifying details have been changed.\n\nDr Elizabeth Dalgarno says parental alienation is a \"handy tool for abusers\" in the family courts\n\nDomestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs says the \"harrowing\" cases uncovered by the BBC show there is a need for \"urgent and wide-reaching reform\" of family courts. Abusers aided by unregulated experts were using \"so-called parental alienation\" to \"deflect from their own abusive behaviour\", she says.\n\nSince we made the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) aware of our investigation, the BBC has learned the government is investigating whether further action is needed on \"alienation\". The judiciary has also issued new draft guidelines for consultation on handling parental alienation claims in domestic abuse cases - although some experts say they don't go far enough.\n\nThe story of women fleeing the UK with their kids. They say the system has failed them.\n\nGrace was madly in love with her partner at first - friends told the BBC - but later she discovered he had previously been jailed for raping a child. The friends said she was also abused by him.\n\nAfter Grace and her partner separated, he refused to return their child and accused her of being mentally unwell. He said there was a risk she would \"alienate\" them from him.\n\nIn one message Grace wrote: \"It's really bad. He kept my child\"\n\nThe family court was aware of his conviction but believed the risk to the child could be managed.\n\nOne friend said Grace felt disbelieved throughout the court proceedings and \"her soul just completely disappeared\".\n\nIn one of her last messages to her group of friends, seen by the BBC, Grace wrote: \"I'm unable to eat or sleep, it's a mess, I hate the family court. Dead dead dead.\"\n\nHer health declined and she died after the final court hearing, in which her child was ordered to live with her abusive partner.\n\nAnother friend told the BBC: \"When you emotionally and mentally give up, I suppose her body followed. It was almost like they signed the death warrant. It was 100% the family court.\"\n\nSpeaking anonymously, friends of Grace said her health declined after her child was ordered to live with a convicted abuser\n\nThe case of another mother - who took her own life after two years of family court proceedings - highlights what a drawn-out legal process can do to the mental health of a vulnerable person.\n\nA published judgement of the case - of the woman we are calling Sarah - details extreme abuse. Before her death, the judge determined in a fact-finding hearing that she had been raped by her partner, who drank excessively and became aggressive. Her partner punched her in the chest, slapped her in the face and threw her against the bannister.\n\nHe put CCTV in the house to monitor Sarah and their two children and would not even allow them to use the bathroom without keeping the door open. He also threatened Sarah, saying he would reveal footage of her inside the bedroom.\n\nAfter she left him, he also placed trackers in her car, the judge concluded.\n\nParental alienation was brought up in proceedings, with the father saying he wanted contact with his children. Eventually the father was denied contact, but by then Sarah had killed herself.\n\nThe judge said she had \"huge regret\" that the proceedings had taken so long and had \"evidently been so difficult for the mother to cope with\".\n\nWhen another mother died waiting outside the family court, a doctor told the inquest into her death that her cardiac arrest could have been linked to \"broken heart syndrome\" and the emotional distress of proceedings.\n\nAccording to coroner's documents, seen by the BBC, the mother had alleged she was a victim of domestic violence. We understand parental alienation was not a feature of the case, and the woman's children had been removed from her care.\n\nIn another case, friends of a mother who had spent time in a refuge for domestic abuse victims told the BBC she had been so traumatised by her medical records being discussed in the case that she later refused to visit a doctor, even when she had a serious illness.\n\nOne friend said the mother had felt like \"her ex, an abuser, was in control\" in the court - because her former partner had labelled her as mentally ill and accused her of parental alienation, turning their child against him.\n\nAfter her child was ordered to live with her former partner, the mother was afraid of being taken back to the family court and losing what little contact she had, another friend said.\n\nThe mother became unwell with a treatable illness but sought medical attention too late - and eventually died of sepsis.\n\nParental alienation was brought up by a family court judge in Sheila's first hearing, as a warning to her.\n\nPeople close to her say she had suffered coercive and controlling behaviour for years from an abusive partner, and had been bombarded with emails, calls and messages at all hours - even after they split.\n\nWhen her former partner applied for greater access to their child, loved ones urged her to see the family court as a friend - but they now say they bitterly regret that advice.\n\nBefore any expert reports had been commissioned, the judge said in their opinion the case involved parental alienation and the court took it extremely seriously.\n\nPeople who knew her well said she was traumatised by the hearing - which went in favour of the father.\n\n\"She felt like she'd go to prison if she did anything wrong,\" the BBC was told. \"She never recovered, she was now controlled by the family courts and her abuser.\"\n\nOver a year later, she took her own life.\n\nSuicide prevention charity the Samaritans says the causes of suicide are often complex and there may not be a single identifiable cause. But the judiciary in England and Wales has commissioned a report to examine the \"potentially heightened risk of suicide\" after involvement in family court proceedings.\n\nResearchers studying the family court say they are concerned that claims of parental alienation appear to be increasing in private law cases like these - where one parent takes another to court, rather than an intervention by social services.\n\nThe University of Manchester found accusations of parental alienation were the common factor among the 45 women and their 75 children in its peer-reviewed study.\n\nCarried out with the domestic abuse research group SHERA, and soon to be published in the Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody and Child Development, the research examined the health impacts on abused women facing family court proceedings.\n\nDr Dalgarno, the lead researcher, says the mothers in these private law cases were not supported in the court. \"Credible evidence of abuse was diminished or ignored completely - and when I say credible evidence, I'm talking about criminal convictions,\" she says.\n\nLabour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, says women's struggles with family courts are the \"biggest issue\" in her inbox\n\nDr Dalgarno says that based on self-reported surveys, it is estimated about 70% of the 55,000 private law family court cases each year involve allegations of abuse - but there is a shortage of reliable data on the overall prevalence of cases where parental alienation has been claimed.\n\nThere should be \"emergency measures\" to tackle the use of parental alienation claims in court, she says. \"There are catastrophic health impacts with children and adult victims of abuse considering or attempting suicide.\"\n\nLabour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, says she has been contacted by thousands of women who have struggled with similar experiences inside family courts. \"It's the biggest issue in my inbox,\" she says.\n\nShe compares it to abuse scandals such as those in Rotherham or the Catholic Church.\n\n\"This isn't a bad judge. This isn't a rogue court in one part of the country. This is a tactic of abusers that is being used across every part of our country.\"\n\nThe secrecy and power the courts could wield over a person is \"delicious to domestic abuse perpetrators\", she adds.\n\nIn cases where domestic abuse, sexual violence or any form of child abuse is alleged, the presumption of contact should be earned, not given automatically, Ms Phillips says.\n\nShe says the use of unregulated experts testifying about parental alienation need to be banned and there should be more data collected on the outcomes of family court cases.\n\nThe term parental alienation was first coined by the controversial US psychiatrist Richard Gardner as \"parental alienation syndrome\". He claimed mothers in acrimonious divorces brainwashed their children to believe they had been abused by their fathers and recommended completely severing contact to \"re-programme\" them.\n\nThis concept has been criticised for a lack of evidence - but there are those who say it has now been rebranded simply as \"parental alienation\" and, supported by some psychologists, it has frequently been used by family courts.\n\nLucy Reed KC, who promotes transparency about the workings of family courts, thinks processes should not be diverted by \"complicated psychological jargon\" - including the term parental alienation.\n\nShe says there needs to be better oversight of how courts are handling such allegations. \"If there is domestic abuse, that could explain why the child rejects contact,\" she says.\n\nSir Andrew McFarlane, the most senior family court judge, has said the label of parental alienation is \"unhelpful\"\n\nThe President of the Family Court in England and Wales, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has warned the parental alienation label is \"unhelpful\" - and the Family Justice Council has recently issued new draft guidance for consultation on how to deal with \"allegations of alienating behaviour\".\n\nIt provides a step-by-step guide for family courts hearing parental alienation claims, especially in cases of domestic abuse. It focuses on dealing with evidence and finding facts first before judgements are made.\n\nBut some believe more needs to be done. Earlier this year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls called for the use of parental alienation to be prohibited globally.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales, Nicole Jacobs, says too often courts consider claims of domestic violence and parental alienation simultaneously - which, she believes, is an \"unsafe approach\" and can put women and children at risk.\n\nEngland's Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), which advises courts about children's best interests, referred to \"parental alienation\" in guidance as recently as 2021, but now adopts the term \"alienating behaviours\". But it told the BBC its advisers should first consider if factors, such as domestic abuse, mean the child's refusal to see a parent is justified.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice described the cases of the women as \"deeply tragic\" and said that its thoughts were with those who had lost loved ones. It added that improvements had also been made to the family court system to protect domestic abuse victims, such as preventing cross-examination by abusers, expanding legal aid and allowing them to give evidence behind protective screens or by video-link.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecord sightings of Asian hornets are raising fears of catastrophic consequences for the UK's bee populations for years to come.\n\nThe invasive hornets are wreaking havoc in mainland Europe and threaten to get a foothold in the UK, with nests found in East Sussex, Kent, Devon and Dorset.\n\nThe insects feed on native bees and wasps, damaging biodiversity.\n\nThe warning comes as leading scientists release a global report into the threats caused by invasive species.\n\nThey say the alien invaders play a role in 60% of animal and plant extinctions.\n\nAnd the economic costs have risen to more than £300bn ($380bn) a year across the world.\n\nAlien species are living things transported around the world by humans into places they wouldn't naturally be, from Japanese knotweed to the fungus that kills ash trees.\n\nThey are one of the five major drivers of biodiversity loss - and the problem is expected to get worse.\n\nThe Asian hornet is an example of an alien species at risk of gaining a permanent foothold in the UK.\n\nIn Folkestone, Kent, one of the hotspots for Asian hornets, bee keeper Simon Spratley is counting the costs to his bees.\n\nHe says the bee-munching predators are causing devastation, with 10 of 17 hives lost in quick succession.\n\n\"These insects are going to settle here and they're going to predate on all insects especially the honey bee - that's their natural food source,\" he warns.\n\n\"They'll end up destroying or over complicating bee keeping for everybody and reducing the [bio] diversity in the Kent area and the whole wider England.\"\n\nWhen we visited his apiary we saw several Asian hornets that had been captured that day.\n\nAsian hornet nest in Catalonia, Spain, where the insect is widespread\n\nAnd 20 miles north, near Ashford, we met a team of experts from the National Bee Unit, a branch of the Animal and Plant Health Agency tasked with dealing with the problem.\n\nThey were trying to locate and destroy a hornet's nest after a positive identification nearby.\n\nThis is the time of the year when you are most likely to spot an Asian hornet, perhaps in your garden feeding on fruit, says bee inspector, Peter Davies.\n\n\"Please take a picture, go on the Asian hornet app, have a look - compare it and please report it,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for the Environment says the Asian hornet poses no greater risk to human health than other wasps or hornets but can cause damage to honey bee colonies and other beneficial insects.\n\nThe public is being urged to be extra vigilant and to report any sightings immediately.\n\nIt is important to take care not to approach or disturb a nest.\n\n\"By ensuring we are alerted to possible sightings as early as possible, we can take swift and effective action to stamp out the threat posed by Asian hornets,\" said chief plant and bee health officer Nicola Spence.\n\nThere have been 22 confirmed sightings of the Asian hornet so far in 2023 - more than the previous six years combined. This compares to just two confirmed sightings of Asian hornets last year, two in 2021 and one in 2020.\n\nAsian hornets are native to Southeast Asia but can be transported around the world in cargo. They are widespread in mainland Europe and can be blown across the Channel.\n\n\"We are transporting all sorts of plants and animals - fungi even - outside of their native ranges to places where the local environment has not evolved along with them, so they cause many threats to food security, to our native animals and plants,\" says Dr Gavin Broad of the Natural History Museum in London.\n\nInvasive species are one of the five major direct drivers of biodiversity loss - and a major risk for the UK.\n\nThe report by 86 biodiversity experts reviewed thousands of studies looking at the ecological and economic damage caused.\n\nCo-author of the report, Prof Helen Roy of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said climate change will make the situation even worse.\n\n\"The future threat from invasive alien species is a major concern. 37% of the 37,000 alien species known today have been reported since 1970 - largely caused by rising levels of global trade and human travel.\"\n\nBut she said efforts to keep the Asian hornet out of Britain showed the value of preventative measures.", "Lucy Letby was jailed for life for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of a further six\n\nLady Justice Thirlwall has been appointed to chair the Lucy Letby inquiry.\n\nThe senior appeal court judge has been tasked with exploring how neonatal nurse Letby was able to murder seven babies.\n\nThe inquiry will look at how the NHS handled the case and its response to doctors who raised concerns.\n\nIt will be a statutory inquiry so will have powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nLetby is the most prolific child serial killer in modern British history. Health Secretary Steve Barclay called her crimes \"some of the very worst the UK has witnessed\".\n\n\"I know that nothing can come close to righting the wrongs of the past but I hope that Lady Justice Thirlwall's inquiry will go at least some way towards giving the victims' families the answers they deserve,\" he said.\n\nMinisters had initially said the inquiry would not have full statutory powers but last week announced, after criticism from victims' families, it would be upgraded.\n\nLetby, 33, was given a whole life sentence for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital neonatal unit between 2015 and 2016, meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison.\n\nShe was found not guilty of a further two attempted murders and the jury failed to reach verdicts on another six, during the 10-month trial.\n\nBBC News has since been told hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Letby and tried to silence doctors.\n\nThe hospital also delayed calling the police, despite months of warnings the nurse may have been killing babies, according to its doctors.\n\nMr Barclay also told the House of Commons the government would consider whether tighter regulation of managers was needed.\n\nOfficials at the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England would explore introducing a disbarring service, he said, something previously seen as unnecessary following reviews of NHS management.\n\nMr Barclay also announced former barrister Baroness Lampard, who led the Department of Health's inquiry into the crimes of Jimmy Savile, had agreed to chair an independent inquiry into the deaths of patients of Essex's mental-health services between 2000 to 2020\n\nLaunched in 2021, it too was initially not a statutory inquiry - but Mr Barclay agreed to give it extra powers earlier in the summer, after previous chair Dr Geraldine Strathdee, who has had to stand down for health reasons, said only a third of the key witnesses she had wanted to call had agreed.", "Airlines could face a crackdown on hidden fees, as part of a new government plan to improve transparency for people shopping online.\n\nA public consultation will look at ways to clamp down on firms that add necessary charges at checkout, bumping up the final price.\n\nAirlines UK said the industry already delivers excellent value to consumers.\n\nIt comes as new government research suggests the practice is \"widespread\" across a range of industries.\n\nIn total, this costs consumers £1.6bn a year, the research said.\n\nThe consultation, which is being launched by the Department for Business and Trade on Monday, will last for six weeks.\n\nAirlines now offer a plethora of extras at the booking stage, from speedy boarding and checking cabin bags to seat selection, which often come at a price.\n\nThe government said so-called \"drip pricing\" - where the price paid at checkout is higher than originally advertised due to extra, but necessary, fees - occurs in products ranging from ticket fares to food deliveries.\n\nAlmost three-quarters of transport providers, including air and rail, include hidden fees in their products, the research showed.\n\nThe practice also occurs in 54% of providers in the entertainment industry and 56% of hospitality firms.\n\nFake reviews and confusing labels are also being targeted in separate new consultations launched on Monday.\n\nBusiness Minister Kevin Hollinrake said the new proposals would ensure people have \"the clearest and most accurate information upfront\" before making a purchase.\n\n\"From the shelves of supermarkets to digital trolleys, modern-day shopping provides a great wealth of choice. But fake reviews and hidden fees can make those choices increasingly confusing and leaves customers unsure about what product is right for them.\n\n\"We'll be listening to industry to ensure these new regulations work for businesses too and don't generate unnecessary burdens, while at the same time providing a crucial safety net for consumers and their cash.\"\n\nAs well as extra charges when you book, there may also be unexpected charges at the airport if you don't follow a carrier's terms and conditions.\n\nOne elderly couple found this out last month. Ruth and Peter Jaffe from Ealing went viral after Ryanair charged them £110 to check in and print their tickets at the airport after they had mistakenly downloaded their return tickets.\n\nSo-called \"ancillary\" services have become a major part of airlines' business models, generating some $103bn (£81bn) globally last year - up from $40bn in 2013.\n\nAirlines argue that by \"unbundling\" extras such as food and drink or cabin baggage from the ticket price, travellers get more choice and cheaper fares overall.\n\nBut Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said many customers would benefit from more clarity about final prices.\n\n\"The deepening cost-of-living crisis due to high interest rates may make passengers more sensitive to add-on costs,\" she said.\n\n\"The public consultation is hugely welcome and is bound to shine the light on just how tough some companies have been about enforcing their rules.\"\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said: \"Delivering value for consumers is at the heart of an airline business, with the competitiveness of the industry meaning it already delivers excellent choice, service and value to consumers.\n\n\"UK airlines look forward to responding to the consultation published today.\"\n\nArticles sharing tips on avoiding costly extras are now common online.\n\nOne strategy is wearing additional layers of clothes to avoid an extra baggage fee, with one woman from the Philippines claiming to have worn 2.5kg of clothing onto a flight in 2019.\n\nJohn Grant, senior analyst at OAG, an aviation data firm, advises travellers to buy all their extras in one go, upfront, to minimise additional costs.\n\n\"Buy for what you expect to use when you buy your ticket - buy the bundle rather than keep going back as that is more expensive.\"\n\nWhich? advises travellers to take hand luggage only, if they can, as it will often work out cheaper, and to measure the size of their cabin bag to avoid unexpected fees at the airport.\n\nIt also says travellers should make the most of their hand luggage by folding and rolling clothes to maximise space; swapping bulky items like books and electric toothbrushes for e-readers and handheld brushes; and planning your holiday wardrobe carefully so you don't take unnecessary clothing.\n\nFinally, travellers should consider booking directly with the airline, Which? suggests, as they won't jack up the price of extras like some online travel agents do.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Scotland's winter vaccination programme gets under way on Monday as health boards consider extra measures to protect at-risk groups.\n\nThe flu and Covid jabs will be rolled out across the country just days after a new variant of Covid-19 was confirmed in Scotland.\n\nBA.2.86 is being closely monitored by the World Health Organization.\n\nAppointments may be brought forward for those most at risk of becoming seriously ill from flu and Covid-19.\n\nPublic Health Scotland (PHS) said it was working closely with the Scottish government to decide if care home residents, over 75s and those with weakened immune systems should come forward before mid-October, when they were due to be vaccinated.\n\nIt comes days after Scotland detected its first case of a new Covid variant which is being closely monitored by the World Health Organization.\n\nBA.2.86 is not yet considered a variant of concern but it has a high number of mutations.\n\nGenomic sequencing detected the variant from a PCR sample collected on 16 August.\n\nThe strain has already been found in several countries including Canada, Israel and the US.\n\nTesting for the virus has been scaled back across the globe and scientists say they do not have clear information about how rapidly it is spreading.\n\nThe new variant was also found in wastewater testing in another NHS health board area.\n\nThe winter vaccination programme for those who are eligible begins on 4 September\n\nPublic Health Scotland (PHS), the NHS body responsible for monitoring and managing the coronavirus, says the accuracy of wastewater testing is variable and results should be treated with caution.\n\nThe number of Covid cases in Scotland has been increasing since the beginning of July.\n\nPHS reported 1,342 cases in the week ending 27 August but this is likely to be a significant underestimate because there is so little testing in the wider community.\n\nThere is no evidence at this point that the new variant B.2.86 that has been detected in Scotland is any more serious than others.\n\nBut scientists want to monitor it, because it has a large number of mutations and it is not clear how rapidly it is spreading.\n\nWe do know from the limited testing data that exists, that Covid cases in Scotland have been going up since the start of July. Although it is unclear just how prevalent it is.\n\nIt's against this backdrop that the winter vaccination programme gets underway. But there are concerns about vaccine apathy because Covid is far less disruptive to our day-to-day lives now.\n\nLast winter saw less than 50% of frontline health and social care workers come forward for a jab. It was just 63% of younger people considered to be vulnerable.\n\nPublic health experts say it's important that everyone who is eligible takes up the vaccine. The hope is that by topping up immunity in more vulnerable groups, it will mean fewer hospital admissions this winter and less health and social care staff off work sick.", "You probably hadn’t heard of it until the other day.\n\nBut this concrete that can start crumbling is building into a political mess without obvious end.\n\nThe remarks, on BBC Radio 4 this morning, by the former most senior civil servant in the Department for Education, Jonathan Slater, amounted to an intervention with the most precise political coordinates: the target...Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe then chancellor, now prime minister. Decisions he took then, and his critics say he can't disown now.\n\nData from the National Audit Office shows the budget for school repairs in England has shrivelled between 2019 and now.\n\nBut there are always competing priorities for spending - and the context at the time matters.\n\nSpeaking to those involved in the internal negotiations in government back then, folk in the Department for Education did want more money for school repairs; the Treasury wasn’t persuaded.\n\nBut – I’m told – funding per pupil and teachers’ pay were bigger priorities; this particular concrete wasn’t perceived to be as dangerous as it is now.\n\nThat is the big thing that has changed here - the judgement on the tolerable risk associated with this concrete.\n\nThe consequences - not just schools, but for hospitals, courts and other public buildings - and so, yes, for the government, are likely to grow further.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSpain's men's players have condemned the \"unacceptable behaviour\" of federation president Luis Rubiales.\n\nRubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win last month.\n\nRubiales has repeatedly refused to resign over the kiss, which Hermoso said was not consensual.\n\nThe men's side have expressed their \"regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished\".\n\n\"We want to reject what we consider unacceptable behaviour on the part of Mr Rubiales, who has not lived up to the institution he represents,\" said forward Alvaro Morata in a statement on behalf of the Spain squad.\n\n\"We firmly and unequivocally stand on the side of the values that this sport represents.\n\n\"Spanish football must be a driving force for respect, inspiration, inclusion, and diversity and must set an example with its behaviour both on and off the field.\"\n\nLuis de la Fuente, head coach of the men's team, last week asked for \"forgiveness\" after initially applauding a speech in which Rubiales said he would not resign.\n\nDe la Fuente added he would not step down from his job.\n\nAfter Spain's 1-0 victory over England at Sydney's Stadium Australia on 20 August, Rubiales also grabbed his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nHe has been provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa and Spain's national sports tribunal (TAD) has opened a misconduct case against him.\n\nOn 1 September, Rubiales acknowledged he had \"made mistakes\" but repeated his belief that the kiss was consensual.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to defend myself to prove the truth.\"\n\nAfter calling a press conference, Morata read out the statement alongside fellow senior players Marco Asensio, Cesar Azpilicueta and Rodri.\n\n\"We want to convey, once again, our pride and heartfelt congratulations to the women's national team for winning the World Cup in Sydney,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a historic milestone filled with significance that will mark a before and after in Spanish women's football, inspiring countless women with an invaluable triumph.\n\n\"Therefore, we want to express our regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished.\"\n\nSpain's squad have gathered for a training camp before Euro 2024 qualifying matches against Georgia on Friday and Cyprus on Tuesday, 12 September.\n\n\"We would like to focus on sporting matters from now on, considering the importance of the challenges ahead,\" added Morata.\n\nWhat else has happened?\n\nOn 28 August Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault, while the regional leaders of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) called for Rubiales' resignation.\n\nHis mother locked herself in a church on the same day and went on an \"indefinite\" hunger strike in protest against the treatment of her son. She was taken to hospital two days later and discharged the following day.\n\nThe head of Spain's Olympic Committee Alejandro Blanco has said Rubiales' actions were \"inappropriate and unacceptable\", but an \"isolated incident\" that did not represent Spanish sport as a whole.\n\nThe RFEF is also exploring its options over whether it can sack Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda.\n\nVilda is still in his post despite most of his coaching staff resigning in protest against Rubiales' refusal to quit, while 81 female players, including all 23 World Cup winners, have said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales remained in his role.\n\nA video has also emerged appearing to show Hermoso and her team-mates laughing and discussing the kiss on the team bus following the game.\n\nHermoso appears to be viewing a meme of ex-Spain men's goalkeeper Iker Casillas kissing his then-partner Sara Carbonero, a television presenter, during an interview following the country's 2010 World Cup victory.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who plays for Mexican side Pachuca, later says \"he comes over and hugs me like this\" when talking about Rubiales.\n\nIn her statement denying the kiss was consensual, Hermoso said: \"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours.\n\n\"I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part. Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.", "Electric Ireland customer Christopher Stephens threw out hundreds of pounds of food\n\nPower company Electric Ireland has said about 100 customers lost electricity as part of a keypad fault that could potentially affect 4,500 customers.\n\nA number of people told BBC News NI they had been without power for more than 48 hours because of the issue.\n\nChristopher Stevens, a father-of-five from Ballymena, said it was \"a shambles\".\n\nNIE Networks said it was now installing new meters for those who lost power, while Electric Ireland has apologised.\n\nThe firm is Northern Ireland's third largest electricity supplier.\n\nThe fault affected top-ups purchased between midnight on 30 August and 13:23 BST on 31 August - the firm said the issue meant keypads had been capped at a £10 limit, so anyone who bought a credit of £10 or more in that period could not add it to their meters.\n\nMany customers who tried to do so received a \"Credit Hi\" message on their meter.\n\nCustomers have been experiencing problems with their meters\n\nThis meant they were unable to enter new top-ups to the meter until Electric Ireland cancelled all previous attempts - leaving some without electricity.\n\nIn an new statement on Sunday evening, Electric Ireland said about 100 customers lost electricity due to the keypad fault and that many have had their power restored.\n\nIt added that of its 74,000 Northern Ireland customers, it had identified 4,500 keypad meter customers \"who are potentially impacted by this issue\".\n\nElectric Ireland said it had begun to contact customers by text to let them know what actions were needed to return the meter to normal.\n\nIt also warned people not top up their meter unless instructed as that could \"delay restoration of their service\".\n\nSome customers who had gone days without power were heavily critical of the firm.\n\nMr Stephens was without power from 17:00 on Friday until Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe had to throw out about £250 worth of fresh and frozen food.\n\n\"It's just madness... it's a shambles how we've been left... it's been a crisis for me,\" he said.\n\n\"There's the cost-of-living and you're throwing things in the bin just because somebody can't deliver electric to my house, it's not my fault.\"\n\nChristopher Stephens said the fault had left him \"in crisis\"\n\nMr Stephens said the lack of power was stressful as his children prepared to return to school on Monday.\n\n\"It's depressing, it's stressing...you feel like you're letting your children down, they can't sit in the house, they have to be moved from pillar to post to get washed and everything else, it's just not on.\"\n\nMr Stephens also said that communication with Electric Ireland had been poor.\n\n\"I'm standing here waiting in the dark to be told what's happening,\" he added, speaking before his power was restored.\n\n\"As soon as I get sorted I'm bouncing... I'll not be back near them again. They're good enough to take the money but they're fairly taking their time to sort the problem out.\"\n\nMark Graham, from County Down, has been without power since 15:00 on Friday.\n\nMr Graham, who lives with with his wife and son in Ballynahinch, said the house was \"freezing\" because he has also been left without heat.\n\n\"The only reason I have charge in my phone is because of my powerbank, which has run out now,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nHis wife's parents have been bringing them flasks of hot water and the family have been eating takeaway food, \"which we can't really afford with the cost of living at the moment\".\n\nCommunication with Electric Ireland had been \"absolutely brutal\", he added.\n\nCustomers have had to empty their freezers after having no electricity for over 48 hours\n\nBBC News NI understands Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks doubled the number of on-call engineering teams on Sunday to help reconnect people.\n\nNIE Networks owns the network of lines, poles and substations that takes electricity from power stations to homes and businesses.\n\nIt does not generate electricity, nor does it sell power to consumers.\n\nMr Graham had contacted NIE on Sunday morning but it told him it was prioritising vulnerable customers affected by the Electric Ireland fault.\n\n\"That's understandable but at the same time I have a family and we have had no electricity since Friday afternoon, and it's now Sunday,\" Mr Graham said.\n\n\"I don't know how much more we're going to be able to cope.\"\n\nLater on Sunday, NIE confirmed it was to carry out meter replacements for all affected customers.\n\n\"We appreciate that a number of customers have been off supply for some time now and as such additional NIE Networks metering staff have been mobilised to carry out meter replacements for all customers who remain off supply,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nAnother Electric Ireland customer, Kathryn Williamson from Bangor in County Down, also criticised Electric Ireland's communication.\n\n\"Today I called NIE and was given another number to Electric Ireland that is not public,\" Ms Williamson said.\n\n\"After 45 minutes I got through and was told they need to send my top-up codes to another business to have them deleted . Then I must wait for a text . Once I get the text I have to ring again to get the go ahead from them to try and top-up.\n\n\"This is terrible. No one had even reached out, I had to call.\n\n\"The fridge and freezer food will be destroyed soon, I have an autistic child at home who needs appliances for sensory needs, he only eats certain food that must be cooked.\"", "Cyril Ramaphosa said the allegations had damaged South Africa's currency and international standing\n\nAn independent inquiry has found no evidence that South Africa supplied weapons to Russia, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.\n\nThe panel rejected claims made by the US ambassador to South Africa that a Russian ship was loaded with ammunition and arms in Cape Town last December.\n\nThe allegations had raised questions over the country's professed neutrality in the war with Ukraine.\n\nMr Ramaphosa said it had damaged the nation's currency and reputation.\n\n\"The panel found that there was no evidence to support the claim that the ship transported weapons from South Africa destined for Russia,\" the president said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday.\n\n\"No permit was issued for the export of arms and no arms were exported.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the US embassy in Pretoria said the US appreciated the seriousness with which South Africa had investigated the claims but declined to comment on the report's contents.\n\nThe inquiry found instead that the Russian cargo ship had delivered a consignment of weapons from Russia to South Africa, ordered in 2018.\n\nAmbassador Reuben Brigety's claims referred to the docking of Lady R in the Simon's Town naval base between 6 and 8 December 2022.\n\nHe told a media briefing in Pretoria in May he was \"confident\" weapons and ammunition were loaded to the vessel \"as it made its way back to Russia\".\n\nA day later, South Africa's foreign ministry said Mr Brigety had \"apologised unreservedly\" for the claims.\n\nWriting on social media after the meeting, Mr Brigety said he was \"grateful for the opportunity to... correct any misimpressions left by my public remarks\".\n\nMr Ramaphosa ordered an independent judge-led inquiry in the wake of Mr Brigety's comments.\n\n\"None of the persons who made these allegations could provide any evidence to support the claims that had been levelled against our country,\" Mr Ramaphosa said following the inquiry's conclusion.\n\nThe president will only be releasing an executive summary of the report, for security reasons.\n\nThe inquiry had visited the naval base, heard from almost 50 people and reviewed more than 100 documents, Mr Ramaphosa added.\n\nSouth Africa has sought to maintain friendly relations with Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, drawing criticism from the US and other Western nations.\n\nIt is one of only a handful of nations that has abstained from a number of UN votes on the conflict, refusing to publicly condemn Russia on the matter.\n\nThe US has previously raised concerns about joint naval exercises between Russia and South Africa.\n• None Why Russia's invasion of Ukraine still divides Africa", "The boy was thrown from the Tate Modern in August 2019\n\nA boy thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery is mostly out of his wheelchair, his family has revealed.\n\nThe French youngster was six when he was badly hurt in an attack by teenager Jonty Bravery four years ago.\n\nThe child, who was on holiday with his parents at the time in August 2019, survived a 100ft (30m) fall but suffered life-changing injuries.\n\nThese included a bleed on the brain and broken bones.\n\nHis family, who call him notre petit chevalier - our little knight - said, in an update posted on a GoFundMe page, their house was being adapted for his \"precarious\" walking.\n\nThe page, dedicated to the child's recovery, has raised more than 400,000 euros (£343,000).\n\nThe boy, who spent months in intensive care, has also developed a passion for green issues.\n\nHis family said: \"He reinvests what he learned this year at school, in particular to protect the planet: he does not forget to remind us to turn off the lights, to save water and collect all the trash he finds on the beach or in the forest.\n\n\"Our son is now able to bend down, squat, grab his toys and clothes with both hands from his closet without falling or dropping them.\n\n\"More importantly, he now only uses his wheelchair for long outings.\"\n\nThey said, during a summer spent in the mountains, he had enjoyed walking with his cane, and although he \"falls a lot\", this happens much less than last year.\n\nHe has been able to visit an indoor adventure park with an adapted high-rope course, which his family says he loves and where instructors take turns to accompany him.\n\nThe child is preparing for the new school year, and will now attend each morning with group care and rehabilitation in the afternoons.\n\nHis memory is progressing, and he has been able to try watching movies with his family, which was previously too exhausting.\n\nAutistic teenager Bravery was in supported accommodation at the time of the attack but allowed out unsupervised.\n\nHe intended to select and kill someone, a court was later told.\n\nBravery, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was jailed in 2020 for at least 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Angela Rayner has been appointed shadow levelling up secretary, in a wide-ranging reshuffle by Sir Keir Starmer of his Labour team.\n\nShe replaces Lisa Nandy, who is demoted to become the party's new shadow minister for international development.\n\nMs Rayner will remain the party's deputy leader and will also take on the new role of shadow deputy prime minister.\n\nSir Keir's reshaping of his top team comes as MPs return from summer recess.\n\nThe long-awaited refresh did not see changes to the most senior shadow cabinet ranks, including shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.\n\nBut there have been a series of changes to more middle-ranking roles, with the Labour leader saying he was putting his \"strongest possible players on the pitch\" ahead of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nThe changes also mean Labour's front bench more closely mirrors ministerial roles created by a government reorganisation earlier this year.\n\nNotable appointments include Hilary Benn, a cabinet minister under former Labour PMs Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who becomes shadow Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThe Leeds Central MP has held several front bench roles before, but has not sat in the shadow cabinet since being sacked by Jeremy Corbyn for rebelling against his leadership.\n\nLiz Kendall, a defeated candidate in the 2015 leadership contest, becomes shadow work and pensions secretary, her most senior shadow cabinet role in her career so far.\n\nShe replaces Jonathan Ashworth, who takes on a role shadowing the Cabinet Office. Labour sources insist he will still have a key role in election campaigning, and is expected to retain a role attacking the government in the media.\n\nPat McFadden, who was Sir Tony's political secretary, moves from his shadow Treasury role to become national campaign coordinator. He will also shadow the Cabinet Office.\n\nMs Rayner already stands in for Sir Keir at Prime Minister's Questions when either Sir Keir or Mr Sunak is away, a role in which she usually spars with Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden.\n\nBut her new role now means she will also shadow Michael Gove, who is tasked with \"levelling up\" - a Tory campaign phrase that describes policies aiming to reduce regional inequality.\n\nHis department is also responsible for local government and housing, expected to be an important focus for both parties at the election.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she confirmed she would also be the party's \"strategic lead\" on its package of employment rights reforms, for which she was previously responsible as shadow secretary of state for the future of work.\n\nShe paid tribute to her predecessor Ms Nandy, adding she had served with \"grit, imagination and determination\".\n\nThere were also changes to reflect changes to government departments made earlier this year by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nIn a promotion, Peter Kyle has been moved from the Northern Ireland brief to a new role shadowing the government's combined science and technology department.\n\nThangam Debbonaire moves from shadow Commons leader to become the new shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport.\n\nNick Thomas-Symonds, whose international trade brief was merged with the business department, has been handed a more junior role shadowing the Cabinet Office.\n\nOversight of trade policy will go to shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, also reflecting another departmental merger.\n\nThe appointments were conducted without the wrangling that characterised a reshuffle following the 2021 local elections, when Ms Rayner emerged with a trio of shadow cabinet jobs after hours of talks with Sir Keir.\n\nBut in a letter marking her exit from the shadow cabinet, Rosena Allin-Khan pointedly remarked that Sir Keir did \"not see a space\" for her specific shadow cabinet role with responsibility for mental health policy.\n\nBaroness Jenny Chapman, who once served as Sir Keir's political director, leaves the shadow cabinet, but retains her front bench roles as the party's spokesperson in the House of Lords on business and the Treasury.", "Angela Rayner was directly elected to be deputy leader by party members, meaning she will keep that position no matter what\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his shadow cabinet on Monday.\n\nThe long-awaited change of Labour's top team coincides with MPs returning to Westminster from their summer break.\n\nThere is much speculation over what role Sir Keir may give his deputy leader Angela Rayner.\n\nThe reshuffle will come on Sue Gray's first day as Sir Keir's chief of staff. The former civil servant rose to fame during her investigation of Partygate.\n\nIt is not expected that Sir Keir will swap his most senior colleagues - including the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.\n\nAngela Rayner was directly elected to be deputy leader by party members, meaning she will keep that position no matter what.\n\nBut she also currently shadows the Cabinet Office brief, which focusses on government procedure and the effective running of government. In government the Cabinet Office is headed up by Ms Rayner's opposite number the deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden.\n\nIn recent years she has focused heavily on scrutinising ethical issues in politics, from so-called \"sleaze\" to accusing her opposite numbers of \"wasting taxpayers money\".\n\nSome Labour sources expect that she may be put in charge of running a specific, domestic policy area instead.\n\nA few names that have been tipped for possible promotion include the chair of parliament's business committee - Darren Jones.\n\nHe has been widely regarded as an effective communicator and his forensic grilling of companies such as Thames Water, Royal Mail and P&O at various committee hearings has often landed him positive headlines.\n\nIf promoted, it is not clear what policy area could be vacated for him to fill. He could possibly cover the environment, if Jim McMahon is demoted.\n\nLabour still also has not appointed anyone to shadow the government's new science, innovation and technology secretary.\n\nMr Jones has been vocal about, for example, his belief that Artificial Intelligence and technology can be a \"force for good\" if adopted in the right way and should be central to Labour's plans for improving education or the NHS.\n\nLucy Powell currently covers the digital, culture and media brief for Labour so could also be a potential candidate should this role be filled.\n\nRishi Sunak also made a few changes to his top team last Thursday.\n\nHe replaced the former defence secretary Ben Wallace with Grant Shapps, and promoted his close ally Claire Coutinho to be the energy and net zero secretary.\n\nThe prime minister is expected to carry out a wider government reshuffle in the coming months.\n\nBoth parties are holding annual party conferences in October and both leaders are hoping to get their top teams in shape ahead of the next general election - expected at some point next year.", "Some Apple devices - such as the iPad Pro and Mac laptops - use USB-C (left) while the iPhone uses Lightning (right)\n\nApple's latest iPhone will almost certainly feature a USB-C charge point when it is unveiled on 12 September.\n\nThe firm's phones currently use its proprietary Lightning adaptor, unlike rivals, including Samsung.\n\nA European Union law requires phone manufacturers to adopt a common charging connection by December 2024 to save consumers money and cut waste.\n\nMost new Apple products such as the latest iPads already use USB-C, but the firm had argued against the EU rule.\n\nWhen it was introduced in September 2021, an Apple representative told BBC News: \"Strict regulation mandating just one type of connector stifles innovation rather than encouraging it, which in turn will harm consumers in Europe and around the world.\"\n\nLightning to USB-C adaptors are already available from other electronics brands including Amazon, and all iPhones since the iPhone 8 which launched in 2017 have supported wireless charging.\n\nAs the current iPhone 14 now looks to be the last Apple device to exclusively use it, this could mark the beginning of the end of the Lightning cable - which retails on the Apple store for £19.\n\nIt's unclear whether this will be a global change to the product, although the tech giant is less likely to make a different version of the handset for the European market alone.\n\nThe changes are anticipated in the new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro devices which are set to be unveiled next week at the firm's annual autumn event.\n\nAccording to a report by Bloomberg news, benefits of the switch for users will include customers being able to use a single charger for iPads, Macs and iPhones, as well as faster download speeds.\n\nThe EU common-charger rule covers a range of \"small and medium-sized portable electronics\", according to the EU, including:\n\nAny of these charged using a wired cable will have to have a USB Type-C port, regardless of who makes the devices.\n\nLaptops will also have to abide by the rules but manufacturers have longer to make the changes.\n\nAccording to the EU, it will save consumers \"up to €250m [£213m] a year on unnecessary charger purchases\" and cut 11,000 tonnes of waste per year.", "Ukrainian generals claim they have breached Russia's formidable first line of defences in the south, as the counter-offensive launched earlier this summer may be poised to gather pace.\n\nSince June, Kyiv's territorial gains have been very small - but is Ukraine finally at a turning point?\n\n\"Yes, it's true,\" says Yuriy Sak, an advisor to Ukraine's defence minister, when asked if the breach had happened.\n\n\"Little by little, I think we're gaining momentum,\" he said.\n\n\"We are now between the first and second defensive lines,\" one of Ukraine's top generals in the south, Brig Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskiy told Britain's Observer newspaper.\n\nHis words echoed those of the White House spokesman John Kirby, who on Friday told reporters in Washington that Ukrainian forces had \"achieved some success against that second line.\"\n\nThe focus of Ukraine's counter-offensive effort in recent weeks has been an expanding bridgehead around the tiny village of Robotyne, some 56km (35 miles) south-east of the city of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkrainian forces raised the country's blue and yellow flag over the village more than a week ago, and are now trying to widen the gap to allow larger infantry and armoured units to pass through without coming under Russian fire.\n\nIf that can be achieved, there is a chance Ukraine's offensive can gain momentum as it approaches second and third defensive lines, which may not be quite as robust as the first.\n\nFighting has been reported east of Robotyne, on the edge of the larger village of Verbove, but like everything so far, it's slow, painstaking work.\n\nA glance at the map shows a mass of overlapping, complex Russian defensive lines, complete with minefields, tank traps and trenches. Some of them converge at Verbove.\n\nWithout air cover and in the face of sometimes withering Russian artillery fire, small Ukrainian units have been clearing a way through these hazards, preparing the ground for a larger assault.\n\n\"When these openings appear, of course, it makes it easier for our forces to advance,\" Mr Sak said.\n\nIt is hard to assess the significance of the latest claims. Ukrainian officials are extremely tight-lipped when asked for precise details, preferring to allow the fog of war to shroud Kyiv's intentions and extremely reluctant to avoid releasing sensitive information.\n\nIt does not help that the forces closest to the fight sometimes give very different accounts of what is happening at the front.\n\nApproached by the BBC on Saturday, Ukraine's 46th Air Assault Brigade said fighting was continuing near Russia's first line of defence, but that \"no one has yet managed to go beyond the first line.\"\n\nThis may be less surprising than it sounds. A plethora of units are operating up and down the front, each concentrating on their own narrow section and specific tasks. They do not necessarily know what is going on elsewhere.\n\nA Ukrainian serviceman looks at a destroyed Ukrainian tank near the village of Robotyne\n\nOne of those units, a volunteer battalion known by its commander's call sign \"Skala\", told Reuters news agency that its men had broken through Russia's first line on 26 August.\n\nOn Sunday, Skala told us his men were still pushing forward.\n\n\"Literally, we are moving along the Zaporizhzhia region to the sea,\" he said in a voice message, without giving further details.\n\n\"I don't want to rush ahead, but both we and the General Staff are doing everything for the fastest victory.\"\n\nHard as it is to gauge the precise nature and direction of Ukraine's recent gains, it is clear that the Kremlin is alarmed.\n\nIt has recently sent elite troops from other parts of the long front line to bolster defences between Robotyne and the key road and railway hub of Tokmak, 21km to the south.\n\nAccording to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this is the third time since June.\n\n\"The second lateral deployment in the span of a few weeks suggests an increasing Russian concern about the stability of Russian defences,\" the ISW reported in its assessment on 1 September.\n\nThis, Ukrainian experts claim, is part of Kyiv's plan: forcing Moscow to move front line units from one place to another in an effort to wear them down.\n\n\"We're trying to involve their reserves and exhaust them,\" says Serhiy Kuzan, of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, a Kyiv think tank with close ties to the military.\n\nThe next job, he says, is to exploit any sign of Russian weakness.\n\n\"The main thing is to widen this bridgehead,\" he says. \"There won't be any orders to go deeper until we do that.\"\n\nDespite the apparently glacial progress of the offensive since June, Mr Kuzan says the fundamental objective has not changed: control of the south.\n\nWhat that looks like by the time winter arrives is an open question.\n\nIdeally, Kyiv would like its forces to have reached the Sea of Azov, cutting through Moscow's \"land bridge\" to the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nBut even if this does not happen, Ukraine is determined to cut the supply lines that allow Russian forces to maintain a presence in the southern part of the Kherson region, between the Dnipro river and Crimea.\n\nSome of those links, including the railway that passes through Tokmak, are already highly vulnerable to Ukrainian long range weapons, such as the Himars multiple rocket launcher.\n\nWith the other key rail link - the one across the Kerch Bridge - the target of repeated Ukrainian attacks since last October, Mr Kuzan says Russia is transporting 70% of its supplies along the M-14 highway, which runs closer to the coast.\n\n\"We have to get the land route… under fire control,\" he says, meaning that Ukrainian guns need to be close enough to be able to target the road.\n\nThe M-14 is still more than 80km away. There are multiple Russian lines of defence, and Ukrainian forces will be attacked from the ground and air every step of the way.\n\nAnother glance at the map shows that Ukraine's territorial gains, since June, have been tiny.\n\nKyiv's first encounter with Russia's well-entrenched defences was always going to be among the hardest phases. It may be some time before we know if the breach at Robotyne represents a turning point.\n\n\"Tough battles are to be expected,\" Mr Kuzan adds.", "The whale was spotted in shallow waters off New Quay, Ceredigion\n\nA whale rarely seen in shallow waters has been spotted off the Welsh coast.\n\nThe Sowerby's beaked whale was seen off New Quay, Ceredigion, by sightseers on a SeaMor Dolphin Watching boat trip.\n\nThe whales are deep-diving oceanic species that typically live in waters over 1,000 meters (3280ft) deep, the Sea Watch Foundation said, adding that the sighting was a \"significant\" event.\n\nThe charity called on the public to report any sightings of Sowerby's beaked whales to them.\n\nThe Sea Watch Foundation, which works to protect whales, dolphins, and other marine life, said the information could help them to better understand the distribution and behaviour of the species.\n\n\"There have only been 13 confirmed sightings of Sowerby's whales in the UK since 2007,\" said Claudia Afeltra from the Sea Watch Foundation.\n\n\"While the sighting has not raised immediate concerns for the whale's well-being, as it appeared healthy and naturally retreated to deeper waters, we will closely monitor its movements\".", "The hottest day of the year is expected in the next two days, with parts of the UK already in heatwave conditions.\n\nAreas of West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Devon and Wales passed the threshold on Tuesday, the Met Office said, although Tuesday's hottest temperatures did not pass June's high of 32.2C (90F)\n\nHeat-health alerts have been upgraded to amber for much of England, with only the North East under a yellow one.\n\nIt means people of all ages could be affected, putting the NHS at risk.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Amy Bokota said 13 weather stations had officially recorded a heatwave and she expected \"a few extra\" would be added to that list over the coming days.\n\nShe said 32C was expected on Wednesday before a possible peak of 33C on Thursday.\n\n\"It will then be 32C right the way until Sunday for some places in the south,\" she said.\n\nHeatwave criteria are met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting the heatwave threshold - which varies between 25C and 28C across the UK.\n\nHow are you coping with the hot weather? Get in touch.\n\nHot conditions will be also be felt in Wales, while parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland could see \"unseasonably high temperatures\".\n\nEnglish regions included in the amber warning are: London, the South East, the South West, the East and West Midlands, the East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nAll eight were issued with a yellow warning on Monday but this has now been upgraded.\n\nThe North East is the last remaining region to have a yellow alert in place - this means that the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions should take extra care.\n\nIt also means officials do not believe there will be a significant impact on the NHS in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Helen Willetts explains exactly how hot it's going to get in the UK this week.\n\nTemperatures reached 30C on Monday in southern England and south-east Wales, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe hot weather comes after what has generally been regarded as cool wet summer for much of the UK.\n\nWhile July in particular was wetter and cooler than average with the maximum temperature failing to regularly reach 20C, the previous month was the UK's hottest June on record.\n\nThe warm conditions are continuing through Tuesday, with highs of 31C expected near London.\n\nParts of southern and western England could also see temperatures stay above 20C overnight into Wednesday, according to the Met.\n\n\"We will see good sunny conditions through the week with cloudless skies, and some high temperatures by the time we get to Wednesday and Thursday, where we could see 31, maybe 32C,\" Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon told the PA news agency.\n\nHe said the high temperatures would be \"quite widely spread\" across the UK, with the hottest conditions mainly being felt in south-east and central England.\n\nMr Claydon warned that Wednesday night could be a particularly warm with temperatures potentially not dropping below 20C, which is what is termed a \"tropical night\".\n\nThere could also be a tropical night on Thursday, he said.\n\nThe Met Office said that tropical storms in the far western Atlantic, as well as deep areas of low pressure, have helped to amplify the jet stream - a fast wind high in the atmosphere - over the Atlantic Ocean. This has led to high pressure \"dominating over the UK\", it said.\n\nThe forecaster added that temperatures could also hit 31C on Friday, although there could be more cloudy weather and chances of rain in the far north-west of Scotland.\n\nConditions could change over the weekend, and Mr Claydon said there was \"no indication at the moment of another strong heatwave after this\".\n\nAverage temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe Met Office has also explained the reason for some \"picturesque\" sunsets across the UK.\n\nForecasters say it is due to \"Saharan dust\" which began to cover parts of the country yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Summer weather: will there be a heatwave?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Harrow Crown Court has been shut for the foreseeable future after potentially dangerous concrete was found\n\nThe government has ordered urgent tests on courts built in the 1990s after dangerous concrete was found at a site in north London, the BBC has learnt.\n\nHarrow Crown Court closed indefinitely last month because reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found during improvement works.\n\nYet the court's closure came months after the government said it had fixed court buildings which used RAAC.\n\nA Ministry of Justice source said the government was complying with all laws.\n\nThe tests on the courts come after more than 100 schools in England were told they could not fully open just days before the start of the autumn term because of safety fears over the use of RAAC.\n\nThe closure of Harrow Crown Court could therefore fuel concerns across government that other buildings built in the 1990s using RAAC may be dangerous.\n\nIn May, His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals (HMCTS), the agency responsible for courts, said it had conducted a survey in 2021-22 and identified six buildings of concern.\n\nThis amounted to about 2% of the total courts estate.\n\nThe government said at the time that the survey resulted in concrete being removed from the buildings affected, and that all courts had been \"certified as safe\".\n\nBut following inquiries by the BBC, the government said that Harrow Crown Court had not been included in that survey because it was opened in 1991.\n\nThe survey only examined court buildings opened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s because those were deemed to be the ones at risk.\n\nLabour accused the government of \"complacency and incompetence\". Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, said the development \"immediately calls into question every other instance across government when ministers have assured us that the necessary surveys have been conducted, or are nearing completion\".\n\nShe added: \"Labour has already called for an immediate and comprehensive audit of the extent to which this dangerous concrete is present in our public buildings, and this latest revelation just makes the need for that audit even more urgent.\n\n\"When on earth will someone in this wretched government take some responsibility and get a grip of this situation?\"\n\nRAAC has air bubbles inside it and has a limited lifespan. It was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s as a cheaper alternative to standard building concrete.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your story about RAAC by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn investigation has been launched into the death of a person during torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada.\n\nThousands of people remain stranded at the event after the bad weather turned the ground to deep, slippery mud.\n\nRevellers have been told to take shelter and conserve their food, while roads in and out of the event are closed as vehicles can barely move.\n\nBurning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert, which is usually dry and dusty.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said it is \"currently investigating a death which occurred during this rain event\" but did not give any further details on the circumstances. The person's family had been notified, the statement added.\n\nThe unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of the giant wooden effigy.\n\nThe worst of the rain has now passed, according to BBC Weather, but there is still a risk of some further showers and thunderstorms.\n\nIt could be several days before the ground dries up enough for people to leave and for this reason, they have been told to conserve their food, water and fuel.\n\nHowever two festival-goers told the BBC that the organisers have now been able to empty and restock the toilet facilities. They had been left out of use after service vehicles were unable to drive on the mud to empty them.\n\nAccording to the sheriff's office, some people who had tried to drive out of the festival had instead made the muddy ground even worse.\n\nFestival-goers told the BBC they watched on as some people tried to drive away - but they quickly became bogged in the thick clay-like mud.\n\nBurning Man's organisers said they currently had no estimated time for when the roads would be dry enough for vehicles to be able to move off the site.\n\n\"Monday late in the day would be possible if weather conditions are in our favour... It could be sooner, and it could be later,\" they said.\n\nThere are currently thought to be around 70,000 people stranded at the site, Pershing County Sheriff's Sgt Nathan Carmichael told US media.\n\nSome have managed to leave, however. American DJ Diplo wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he and comedian Chris Rock walked 5 miles (8km) to a road, where they were given a lift by fans.\n\nOthers have also had to rely on strangers.\n\nAshley Smith, who lives in London, told the BBC that he and his friends left a lot of their gear behind and walked to the road, where they managed to hitchhike to San Francisco. The whole journey took 14 hours.\n\nThe event's organisers have arranged for buses to pick people up from the road and take them to the city of Reno, more than 100 miles away.\n\nSome revellers are using plastic bags to protect their shoes from the squelchy mud\n\nMilia Nirshberg, 12, who is at the festival with her father for the second year running, told the BBC that they had let friends stay in their campervan, and were also allowing people to use the van's toilet.\n\n\"The people in the tents are having a hard time because it's flooding. Since we're in a campervan we're trying to invite people to come stay with us because they don't have food or water,\" she said.\n\nBurning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events. Visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert, and are expected to be largely self-sufficient while they are there.\n\n\"We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything we need to survive,\" said Burning Man in a statement. \"It is because of this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like this.\"\n\nFaye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she has been left \"covered in mud for the past 3 days\".\n\nThere are no showers here,\" she said. \"The only thing you can do is wash with baby wipes inside your tent, but I will probably run out of baby wipes tomorrow.\"\n\nAs well as music, the festival usually features giant interactive art installations - but many of the attractions had to be cancelled.\n\nNonetheless, many were trying to make the best of the situation, dancing in the mud to techno music.\n\n\"We're taking it as an opportunity to hang out and spend more time with our new friends and old friends in the camp,\" reveller, Josiah Roe said.\n\nAndy Maddocks, who is also at the festival, told the BBC organisers planned to go ahead with the burning of the wooden effigy on Sunday evening if the weather held.\n\nBurning Man participants have been trying to make the best of the bad weather conditions\n\nBurning Man was founded in June 1986 and was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nTickets can be very hard to get and festival-goers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.\n\nSome groups spend the entire year planning their camp, artwork and theme.\n\nBut this year there had been worries about the weather and tickets were changing hands on the secondary market at below market rate.\n\nAdditional reporting by James Clayton in San Francisco and Azadeh Moshiri.\n\nAre you attending the Burning Man festival? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jayne Etherington, left, and daughter Caitlin Edwards went swimming at Amroth in Pembrokeshire\n\nA student needed dialysis and blood transfusions after swimming in the sea following a sewage spill, her mum said.\n\nAfter getting E. coli, Caitlin Edwards developed haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) which damaged her kidneys.\n\nJayne Etherington said her 22-year-old daughter's \"horrendous\" five-month ordeal began after she swam in the sea just off west Wales in last summer.\n\n\"She'd gone from a happy, healthy, vibrant 22-year-old to looking like she was going to die,\" mum Jayne said.\n\nCaitlin had gone for a dip at the beach at Amroth in Pembrokeshire, a few miles east of Tenby, and did not know about the untreated sewage spill at Wiseman's Bridge, just down the coast, on 24 August, 2022.\n\nAt the time it was reported storm sewage was discharged at four beaches, including Wiseman's Bridge and Saundersfoot, with Welsh Water saying the spill came from combined storm overflows (CSOs).\n\nBut Welsh Water said the Wiseman's Bridge spill was from a private source and nothing to do with them.\n\n\"We were allowed to believe it was a CSO spill,\" said Jayne.\n\nCaitlin Edwards did not know there had been an untreated sewage spill when she went swimming in the sea\n\n\"No-one said, 'This is something more serious'.\"\n\nAfter leaving her home in Pembrokeshire and staying in London with her boyfriend, Caitlin started having stomach cramps and diarrhoea.\n\nAfter five days, she went to hospital and was diagnosed with E. coli and HUS.\n\nHer mum said she wasn't called until she was in the resuscitation department.\n\nAmroth beach is a popular spot for both locals and tourists\n\nJayne said the family \"didn't know she wasn't going to die\", adding: \"It was horrendous.\"\n\nJayne said Public Health Wales (PHW) investigated what Caitlin had eaten and found the likeliest cause was untreated sewage as harmful bacteria had entered her intestine.\n\nE coli is a bacteria infection which can be found in the gut and faeces of many animals, especially cattle\n\nSymptoms include diarrhoea, stomach cramps and sometimes fever. About half of those infected will have bloody diarrhoea.\n\nThese symptoms are usually noticeable 3 to 4 days after they have been infected, but can start at any time between 1 and 14 days afterwards and can last for up to two weeks.\n\nA small number of people who become infected go on to develop a condition called haemolytic uraemic syndrome which can lead to kidney failure and death.\n\nCaitlin has now made a full recovery, completed her English and Spanish degree and is now working in Canada running children's camps.\n\nPHW said it could not comment on individual cases and Welsh Water said the spill was not down to them.\n\nCaitlin had a pact with her mum for them to swim in the sea together every day before she went back to university\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had placed warning signs on the beach \"acting on information received regarding a pollution incident from Natural Resources Wales\".\n\nNRW said its investigation into the Wiseman's Bridge pollution concluded \"the effluent discharge was due to a private discharge point failure\".\n\n\"The owners of the private discharge point acted immediately to resolve the issue as soon as possible,\" said Nicola Mills of NRW.\n\nCaitlin has since recovered and is now working in Canada running children's camps and plans to extend her stay for the winter ski season\n\n\"Our officers have visited the area since and there have been no further concerns witnessed or reported.\n\n\"Around the same time there was also an ongoing CSO discharge therefore it was not possible to pinpoint sole responsibility for the failure of bathing water sampling at Wiseman's Bridge.\"\n\nThe organisation said Amroth and Wiseman's Bridge were sampled on the same day.\n\n\"Results from those tests showed a failure in water quality at Wiseman's Bridge but not at Amroth,\" Ms Mills said. \"Every discharge outlet has its own permit limits.\"", "It's only been in the last few moments that the members of the Policing Board, the organisation that holds the police in Northern Ireland to account, emerged into the bright September sunshine after this afternoon's emergency meeting.\n\nIt was the board's fourth meeting in as many weeks, after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and its Chief Constable, Simon Byrne, were embroiled in a series of controversies.\n\nNow Byrne has stepped down, but the PSNI is facing plenty of questions as it begins its search for a new chief.\n\nThat's all from our live coverage of today's events but you can keep across all the latest on BBC Newsline from 6.30pm and on the BBC News NI website.\n\nToday's live coverage was written by Auryn Cox, Eimear Flanagan, Matt Fox, Emily McGarvey and Conor Neeson. Thanks again for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA 42-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after an alleged incident during Arsenal's 3-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday.\n\nIt follows the circulation of footage on social media showing Sky Sports pundits Micah Richards and Roy Keane involved in an altercation with an individual.\n\nEx-United captain Keane was reportedly the alleged victim of the assault.\n\nSky Sports say Richards was \"acting to defuse a situation\".\n\n\"Police are investigating an incident at Emirates Stadium on Sunday, 3 September, during which a man was assaulted,\" The Metropolitan Police said in a statement.\n\n\"On Monday, 4 September, a 42-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault (ABH). The man has been taken into police custody. Enquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nA Sky Sports spokesperson said: \"We understand the police are investigating an alleged assault by a member of the public immediately preceding the footage circulating on social media. In the footage seen, Micah Richards was acting to defuse a situation.\"\n\nEx-Manchester City and England defender Richards, 35, and former Republic of Ireland international Keane, 52, were working on Sky Sports' coverage of the Premier League game at the Emirates Stadium.", "Mr Scholz posted the photo on X, formerly known as Twitter\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has published a photo of himself with an eye-patch after he fell while out jogging.\n\nThe incident occurred on Saturday near his home in Potsdam, near Berlin.\n\nHe cancelled regional election events on Sunday because of the accident, but will attend engagements as normal, including giving numerous public speeches over the next few days.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, he said it \"looks worse than it is\".\n\nThe fall was not serious, but the photo shows some bruising around the eye, as well as on his nose and chin.\n\nHis spokesman said the chancellor was in a \"good mood\" but looked \"battered\", and that Mr Scholz published the photo so people could get used to how he will look in the next few weeks.\n\nIn the post on X, he said he was \"looking forward to the memes\".\n\nSome social media users jokingly connected the injuries to rows within the governing coalition, while the internet site of the city of Cologne, which hosts a large annual carnival, suggested that revellers could come next year dressed as \"Pirate Olaf\".\n\nJudging from the overwhelming positive comments online, German voters seem to like Chancellor Scholz's new pirate image. Or maybe they were just pleasantly surprised by a PR coup from a leader who is often seen in Germany as a poor communicator.\n\nIn a survey by public TV station ZDF in August, 72% said Mr Scholz avoided giving concrete answers to questions more often than other politicians. In another ZDF survey in August 51% of voters were dissatisfied with him, compared to 43% of those who were satisfied.\n\nThese are low ratings for a German chancellor.\n\nHis rhetoric can come across as repetitive and formulaic and he likes to decide on policy behind closed doors, and only then announce the result. Critics say this appears arrogant and opaque, and compared to more media-savvy colleagues he can appear wooden and old-fashioned.\n\nBut Mr Scholz's main problem is that he leads a three-way governing coalition, in which each party has very different goals and ideologies. In the face of numerous crises, from inflation to Russia's war in Ukraine, this uncomfortable coalition is seriously strained.\n\nHis coalition has ambitious plans to reform Germany and its supporters say that in the past two years Mr Scholz's government has pushed through more change than Angela Merkel did in 16 years. But fights regularly break out between the business-friendly low-tax liberal Free Democrat Party (FDP) and the left-leaning Greens.\n\nHe is even often out of step with many in his own centre-left Social Democrat Party (SDP), which is more left-wing fiscally than Mr Scholz, a centrist former finance minister. The internal rows irritate voters and have led to a fall in support.\n\nAccording the latest poll from Sunday, if an election were held now the government would win just 38% of the vote and lose its majority. The chancellor's own SPD party has fallen to 18% in the polls, catastrophic for a party that used to hit 40% in elections.\n\nMr Scholz's only consolation is that voters don't appear to be opting for the opposition conservatives either. His main opponent for Germany's top job, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, is even more unpopular.\n\nGiven the dire mood in German politics at the moment, voters are probably grateful for any sort of light relief that reveals Olaf Scholz to be man with a sense of humour.\n• None White House says Biden is fine after fall on stage", "Police say they received a report of a shooting in the Ballsmill Road area at about 06:30 BST\n\nA man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot in the arm and neck while sitting in a vehicle near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.\n\nIt happened on the Ballsmill Road at about 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice said another vehicle pulled up, a man with his face covered exited and then shot the victim before making off.\n\nThe victim, who is in his 30s and lives locally, had been on his way to work, Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy said.\n\nIrish broadcaster RTÉ said he was found lying on the road by a passing motorist after the attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place in two locations along the Ballsmill Road outside Silverbridge.\n\nIn between the cordons, a forensic team has been searching for clues.\n\nThe road is a short distance from the border and sits just off the main Dundalk-Armagh road.\n\nA number of cordons have been set up near the scene of the shooting in the village\n\nPolice remain at the scene and a number of road closures are in place while investigations are ongoing.\n\nThey have appealed for anyone with information about the shoting to come forward.\n\nMr Murphy said it was \"a despicable and cowardly attack by criminal elements\".\n\n\"There is no place for these thugs on our streets,\" he added.", "Huge surf pounded Yilan on Taiwan's east coast as Typhoon Haikui lashed the island\n\nMore than 40 people were injured in Taiwan after Typhoon Haikui ripped across the island, uprooting trees and forcing thousands to evacuate.\n\nThe storm - which made landfall on Sunday on the east coast - was the first to directly hit the island in four years.\n\nAmid torrential rain and high winds, two people in a mountainous region were hurt after a falling tree hit a car.\n\nDozens others were injured - mainly by falling debris, said officials.\n\nThe storm packed winds of up to 200km/h (124 mph) but have been no reports of deaths or any major structural damage.\n\nOn Monday, clean-up crews were working on restoring services after 160,000 homes lost power the previous day.\n\nAlthough this is typhoon season in the Western Pacific - with 11 so far - Haikui is the first major storm to directly hit Taiwan in four years.\n\nWinds knocked down a car park canopy in Hualien city as the typhoon made landfall\n\nLocals in Yilan struggled against the heavy downpour\n\nBusinesses, schools and other places remained closed on the island, while domestic flights and ferry services to surrounding islands were cancelled.\n\nTaiwan's southern and eastern regions were the worst-hit, while the capital Taipei on the island's northern tip received rains.\n\nAhead of the storm's landfall, more than 7,000 people were evacuated from areas where authorities feared the storm could trigger landslides and other collapses.\n\nFishing boats were called into harbour ahead of the storm's approach\n\nHaikui has now weakened to a tropical storm and moved out into the Taiwan Strait, heading to China's southern coast where it is due to hit on Monday night local time.\n\nIt comes just two days after Typhoon Saola, which bypassed Taiwan but sparked Hong Kong and southern China's highest storm threat in its approach. The storm arrived on Saturday, lashing Hong Kong but damage was less than expected.\n\nChinese authorities on Monday extended warnings from Saola into Haikui as the new typhoon approached, calling on boats to come into harbour with strong winds and big surf.\n\nA couple watches the approaching storm in Hong Kong last week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Martha Mills' mother, Merope, shares her struggle with her loss\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died in hospital two years ago are calling for patients to be given the right to an urgent second opinion, if they feel their concerns are not being taken seriously by medical staff.\n\nMartha Mills, who would have been 16 on Monday, died after failures in treating her sepsis at King's College Hospital.\n\nAn inquest said she could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMartha's mother, Merope, has been speaking exclusively to the BBC.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her family were not listened to by senior doctors on several occasions and were \"not given the full picture\" about Martha's deteriorating condition - leaving them unable to speak up for better treatment.\n\nShe wants hospitals around the country to bring in \"Martha's rule\", which would give parents, carers and patients the right to call for an urgent second clinical opinion from other experts at the same hospital if they have concerns about their current care.\n\nThe hospital that looked after Martha has admitted mistakes were made and the trust said in a statement that it \"remains deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\".\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"All patients and families are able to seek a second opinion if they have concerns about their care and, as professional guidance for doctors in England sets out, it is essential that any patient's wishes to seek a second opinion are respected.\"\n\nThe happy 13-year-old had been enjoying her summer holidays - \"her days filled with books and memorising song lyrics\", Merope, an editor at the Guardian, recalls.\n\nBut while Martha was on a family holiday in Wales, cycling on a flat and \"family friendly\" path, she slipped on some sand.\n\nShe fell on to the handle bars of her bike, with her abdomen taking the full brunt of the tumble.\n\nMerope told the BBC: \"At first, we thought she was just winded because there wasn't any blood or [a] cut.\n\n\"It didn't look like anything serious. But it turns out that the force of the fall pushed her pancreas against her spine, causing a laceration.\n\n\"It was a difficult, tricky injury, but it did not have to be a fatal one,\" Merope says.\n\nMartha was transferred to the children's liver team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - one of the few teams in the country that specialises in dealing with young people with pancreatic trauma.\n\nAfter a few weeks on the ward, she developed an infection that would not go away and her condition worsened drastically.\n\nMartha had developed signs of sepsis - when the body's response to an infection is overwhelming and ends up injuring its own tissues and organs.\n\nA subsequent inquest and medical reviews into her death revealed this was not managed properly.\n\nOne of the major failings was Martha not being transferred to intensive care quickly enough to support her organs as they became overwhelmed.\n\nThe coroner said; \"If she had been referred promptly and had been appropriately treated, the likelihood is that she would have survived her injuries.\"\n\nReviews suggest there had been several missed opportunities to act.\n\nMartha wondered about becoming an author, an engineer or a film director\n\nMerope said as her daughter's condition started to worsen, the family's concerns were not taken seriously.\n\n\"She started bleeding out of the tube in her arm... and one in her abdomen as well.\n\n\"It was a lot of blood as well, you know, soaking her sheets, and at night, we had to keep changing them.\n\n\"The doctors just told us it was a normal side effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off.\"\n\nBut Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold.\n\nThe bleeding did stop, but the infection did not go away and Merope was concerned that the August bank holiday weekend was approaching, when it might be more difficult to get hold of certain staff.\n\n\"We started putting two and two together and started using the word sepsis ourselves.\n\n\"I said to the consultant, 'I'm worried it's going to be a bank holiday weekend, and she's going to go into septic shock, and none of you will be here'.\"\n\nBut she was \"reassured again\".\n\n\"And so we weren't listened to and Martha herself was ignored.\"\n\nMartha had further worrying signs of sepsis including a rash that that was mistaken for an allergic reaction, but it was after Martha had a fit in her mother's arms that she was finally transferred to intensive care.\n\nMerope said: \"The thing that I find most unforgivable, is that they left her so long, she knew she was going to die.\n\n\"She lay in bed and she said to me it feels like it's unfixable.\"\n\nBy this point \"it was too late for them to do anything and a day later, she was dead\".\n\nThe day before her death, Martha was moved to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital as an emergency transfer.\n\nMerope wants to speak out to avoid others going through the same agony.\n\n\"Even if you were to give the doctors the benefit of the doubt and say they were trying not to worry us, the result is that they did not give us any agency in demanding the correct treatment for our daughter - and that control - that overconfidence in yourself and your decision-making - is absolutely fine if the system works perfectly, but the system is so far from perfect.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In this video from 2022, Merope asks questions about doctors' attitudes after Martha's death\n\nMerope has helped the think tank Demos write a report which is calling on NHS England to urgently put in place Martha's rule.\n\nThis would \"effectively formalise the idea of asking for a second opinion, from a different team outside the team currently looking after you if you feel you are not being listened to\", she said.\n\nShe added that asking for a second opinion when there is a deterioration \"shouldn't be a problem and it shouldn't involve confrontation\".\n\nIt might be that a patient or family could escalate to another team over the phone to get an urgent critical care review.\n\nSome similar systems exist already around the world, including one at the UK's Royal Berkshire Hospital.\n\nHere people who are worried a patient is deteriorating, but that the healthcare team is not recognising their concerns, can ring a critical care hotline for immediate help.\n\nIn Australia, hospitals in Queensland have a process called Ryan's rule, which came into effect after the tragic death of a boy called Ryan who also had a poorly managed serious infection.\n\nMerope acknowledges that some medics would have concerns that the system could be overrun, but reviews have shown this not to be the case.\n\nWhen the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust first tried it, there were just 37 calls to the system in the first year - some resulting in life-saving interventions.\n\nShe said: \"I genuinely believe that good doctors should welcome good input from patients or family members - who are the other experts in the room - and they should certainly welcome the input and second opinion of another doctor.\"\n\nKing's College Hospital said it had put several measures in place since Martha's death, including sepsis training for all clinical staff looking after children.\n\nNew hospital guidelines recommend the \"escalation of a child's care in those cases where we are unable to provide sufficient reassurance to parents\".\n\nAnd the trust has introduced a specially trained team to review seriously unwell children on wards.\n\nBBC Radio 4's Mishal Husain asked Merope how she is coping now.\n\nShe said: \"In all honesty, her sister is what gets me through the day.\n\n\"Martha would be 16 and I think about her all the time, every day.\n\n\"I think about what she'd been doing and how much fun she would be having and how much fun she has already missed.\n\n\"I hope in having these conversations we can stop other people going through this horror.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None 'Doctor knows best' attitude must be challenged. Video, 00:02:18'Doctor knows best' attitude must be challenged", "Amber Gibson was 16 when her body was found at Cadzow Glen in Hamilton\n\nA man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering his 16-year-old sister in a park in Hamilton.\n\nAmber Gibson's body was found in Cadzow Glen on 28 November 2021, two days after she was last seen.\n\nConnor Gibson, 20, strangled Amber then got rid of clothes he had been wearing and called the children's home Amber was staying at to pretend she was still alive.\n\nAnother man has been found guilty of interfering with Amber's body.\n\nStephen Corrigan - who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson - found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains.\n\nAmber's body was discovered in Cadzow Glen on Sunday 28 November, hidden in bushes and branches. Her body was covered in mud, and her clothes were found nearby.\n\nGibson was arrested three days later on 1 December. The day before his arrest, he posted a tribute on Facebook to the sister he murdered.\n\nConnor Gibson will be sentenced in September\n\nDuring the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, the jury heard that Gibson had removed Amber's clothes and assaulted her, repeatedly inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body as well as compressing her neck with his hands.\n\nIn his closing statement, prosecutor Richard Goddard KC told the jury Amber Gibson was \"appallingly\" murdered by the brother she must have trusted. He named 21 different circumstances which linked Gibson to the murder and sexual assault.\n\nConnor Gibson had denied all the charges against him.\n\nThe 13-day trial heard that the siblings were fostered from the age of three and five by Craig Niven and his wife Carol. The couple were granted permanent care of the siblings a few years later.\n\nAmber left their care in 2019. Her brother left after he turned 18 in 2020.\n\nAmber and Connor Gibson were caught on CCTV just before 22:00 on Friday 26 November in Hamilton town centre\n\nMr Niven had told the court the siblings could not be left in each others' company as they were \"not a good mix\".\n\nHe said that he spoke to Connor Gibson on the phone in the days after Amber's body was found.\n\nAccording to Mr Niven, Gibson said he argued with his sister before seeing her later that Friday night.\n\nAt the time of Amber's murder, she was living at the town's Hillhouse children's home.\n\nConnor Gibson was caught again on CCTV on the Friday night at 23:44, this time alone\n\nGibson was living at the Blue Triangle homeless hostel in Hamilton. A police officer told the court that items of stained clothing had been found in a bin there.\n\nJurors also heard other forensic evidence that \"widespread blood staining\" on Gibson's jacket was compatible with Amber and his DNA was also found on her shorts, worn as underwear, which had been \"forcibly\" torn off.\n\nIt emerged during Amber's murder trial that she had suffered another assault earlier in 2021.\n\nIn an entirely separate case it was revealed that in the June before her murder, Amber was raped by a man called Jamie Starrs.\n\nHe was found guilty earlier this month at the High Court in Lanark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCourt documents also show that Amber and Connor Gibson's biological father, Peter Gibson, sexually assaulted two young boys and assaulted and raped a woman.\n\nThese crimes were committed between 2001 and 2008. He was sentenced in April this year.\n\nPolice Scotland called the inquiry \"traumatic and harrowing\" for the officers involved, as well as for Amber's friends and family.\n\nDet Ch Supt Paul Livingstone said: \"It is hard to imagine how difficult this has been for Amber's family and friends and our thoughts very much remain with them.\n\n\"I hope this conviction brings them some degree of comfort. The actions of both Gibson and Corrigan leaves them beneath contempt.\"\n\nAmber's body was found in Cadzow Glen, days after she was last seen\n\nHe said the investigation was \"complex and challenging\" and had relied heavily on the expertise of forensic officers.\n\nThe siblings' foster parents issued a statement following the verdict.\n\nIt said: \"When they arrived at our home, Amber was three and Connor aged five. Connor stated: 'We are safe' - they were until he took the safety away.\"\n\nThey described Amber as the \"most giving, caring, loving, supportive and admirable person\" who had a love of art and singing and an \"amazing outlook on life\" despite the suffering she had experienced.\n\nThe couple commented on \"how much Amber and Connor have been let down throughout their lives by the system\".\n\n\"We now have one daughter buried in Larkhall Cemetery and another child in prison,\" they said. \"Life will never be the same.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left for Amber after her body was discovered in Cadzow Glen\n\nJudge Lord Mulholland sent jurors out to consider their verdicts on Tuesday morning. They returned just before 15:00.\n\nHe said that the last thing Amber would have seen was her brother strangling her, and told him: \"You will pay a heavy price for that.\"\n\nHe told Stephen Corrigan: \"You came across a young girl who had been strangled to death and was naked.\n\n\"Instead of altering the authorities, you handled her body and your DNA told the story.\n\n\"Be under no illusion what is also coming your way.\"\n\nNeither showed any emotion as they were taken handcuffed to the cells.\n\nThe two men will be sentenced on 4 September at the High Court in Livingston.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people who spent days stranded at the Burning Man festival have started to leave, creating a huge traffic jam in the Nevada desert.\n\nHeavy rain created a mud bath at the remote festival site and flooded roads, trapping some 72,000 people there.\n\nTraffic was allowed to leave as of Monday afternoon which prompted a mass exodus from the site.\n\nThe wait time to leave the festival was five hours as of Tuesday morning.\n\nAnd there were reports of high tensions in the queue.\n\nIn a statement sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said that exhausted revellers had \"lashed out\" at each other while stuck trying to leave.\n\nHe added that \"large amounts of property and trash\" had been strewn around the festival site, including vehicles that had to be abandoned.\n\n\"Some participants were unwilling to wait or use the beaten path to attempt to leave the desert and have had to abandon their vehicles and personal property,\" he said.\n\nThe event's traditional finale - the burning of an effigy - was postponed twice before finally taking place on Monday evening.\n\nPeople were left stranded due to flooded roads in the area\n\nThe rainstorm that hit the Black Rock Desert near the end of last week is thought to have been the longest, heaviest rainfall since the festival began more than 30 years ago.\n\nMartyna Sowa, a dancer who was booked to perform at the event, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she was surprised at how bad the conditions became.\n\n\"It was a really strange experience,\" she said.\n\nRevellers, who are expected to be largely self-sufficient as part of the festival's ethos, were told to take shelter and to conserve food, fuel and water.\n\nBut the bad weather meant the portable toilet facilities were temporarily out of use, because service vehicles were unable to drive on the mud to empty them.\n\nWhile many remained on site, some chose to hike 5 miles (8km) through the mud to the nearest road. Among them was American DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock, who were given a lift by fans after walking out of the area over the weekend.\n\nOthers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties. \"I'm having a great time,\" Jazz Korona told the BBC.\n\nBy Sunday, however, the sense of exhilaration had been replaced by a growing air of exasperation with people increasingly keen to leave.\n\nFaye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she had been \"covered in mud for the past three days\".\n\n\"There are no showers here,\" she said. \"The only thing you can do is wash with baby wipes inside your tent.\"\n\nThe unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of the giant wooden effigy.\n\nOrganisers said a man's death on Friday was unrelated to the weather conditions.\n\nEmergency services were called to help the man, said to be about 40 years old, but he could not be resuscitated, they said. The local sheriff's office .\n\nBurning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events, in which visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert.\n\nIt was founded in June 1986 and was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nTickets can be very hard to get, and festivalgoers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.", "Head teacher Caroline Evans and her staff sit in a temporary staffroom in the corridor of Parks Primary School in Leicester\n\nHeadteachers in England are in a race this weekend to find ways to reopen their schools after being told to shut buildings made with unsafe concrete.\n\nMany from the 104 affected schools are busy rejigging timetables, seeking alternative classrooms and trying to rent temporary toilets.\n\nFrustrated parents are being emailed last-minute plans for home learning and moving children to other schools.\n\nThe government said affected parents should have been informed by now.\n\nIt said it would publish a full list of schools with buildings known to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), but wanted to wait for headteachers to make initial contact.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) told 104 schools and colleges in England to partially or fully shut buildings at risk and introduce safety measures, just days before the start of a new academic year.\n\nIn Scotland, RAAC has been detected in 35 schools but First Minister Humza Yousaf said he has no plans to close any schools at this stage.\n\nThe building closures across England are set to have far-reaching consequences for children and their teachers.\n\nSarah Skinner, who is in charge of three schools in Suffolk and Essex built using the concrete that has been likened to an Aero bar, told the BBC the late notice was \"incredibly challenging\".\n\nThe CEO of Penrose Learning Trust said one school has 12 classrooms out of use, another has 16 classrooms, a gym and toilet closed, and a third has 10 classrooms shut.\n\n\"It just seems very late in the day, and that's what's created the problem to now be finding temporary accommodation, temporary toilets, marquees on fields, our kitchens are out action. There are a lot of things beyond finding a classroom we have to consider,\" she told BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"We've been on the phone all day to temporary classroom companies... we have a very little playground [in one school] so actually getting 10 classrooms in there is going to be a challenge, and then there's the logistics of getting electricity run to it safely.\"\n\nA headteacher at a special needs school in Essex has been calling parents individually to break the news.\n\nLouise Robinson, of Kingsdown School, said: \"Instead of preparing to welcome our students back to class, we're having to call parents to have very difficult conversations about the fact the school is closed next week.\n\n\"We're hoping that a solution can be found that allows us to open the school, at least partially, but that entirely relies on ensuring the safety of our pupils and staff, and approval by DfE.\"\n\nAt one primary school, children will have to be served their school dinners in their classrooms, rather than the dining hall, and at a west London secondary school, students will need to bring in packed lunches while its canteen is out of action.\n\nThe DfE said it was grateful to headteachers working at pace to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum and that it expected \"rarer cases where remote learning is required\" to be \"for a matter of days not weeks\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan would inform Parliament next week \"of the plan to keep parents and the public updated on the issue\", it added.\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday newspaper, Ms Keegan said the government had \"no choice\" but to close schools, and that it was not a decision it had taken lightly.\n\n\"I want to reassure families that this is not a return to the dark days of school lockdowns,\" she said.\n\nLabour will try to force the government to publish a full list of schools which are impacted when the Commons returns from its summer recess on Monday.\n\nThe government has said it will release a full list \"in due course\" but has not provided a timetable. BBC News has been compiling its own list.\n\nThe closure of schools at late notice will come as a headache to many parents who will have to take leave from work or arrange childcare for younger school children.\n\nOne parent told BBC Essex she could have cried when she was told her child's school would be shut until at least mid-September as temporary classrooms were needed.\n\n\"Literally I work Monday to Friday, so to try and find childcare has been a bit of a mission,\" Hayley, who did not give her surname, said.\n\n\"To turn around and say 'Reece, you're not starting school this week' has been quite heart-breaking.\"\n\nShe described the timing of the school closures as \"rubbish\" considering the issues around RAAC had been previously known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThere were warnings on Saturday this could be just the tip of the iceberg, with concerns about the state of other public buildings like hospitals and courts.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the Common's Public Accounts Committee, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that seven hospitals were \"totally built\" with aerated concrete and around £1bn was being spent making them safe.\n\nThe Labour MP also said she had visited one hospital where heavy patients had to be treated on the ground floor because of the risk of roof failure.\n\nShe described the costs of working around the problem using props to support existing structures and surveying RAAC-affected areas as \"eye-watering\" and harder to absorb for small schools already facing tight budgets.\n\nTeachers' union NASUWT wants ministers to publish the list of affected buildings.\n\n\"It could be years before all the schools are rectified. They may be able to put up props, conduct surveys and so on, but those are interim measures,\" said national negotiating official Wayne Bates.\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994 and has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018.\n\nHowever, after a beam, which had been thought to be safe, collapsed last week, the matter of the safety of these buildings was given further attention by the government.\n\nOn Thursday, the DfE said any space or area in schools, colleges or nurseries with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without \"mitigations\" in place.\n\nEvery case of suspected RAAC that has been reported to the DfE has been allocated a surveyor and will be visited \"imminently\", the BBC has been told.\n\nSchools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also being assessed for the material.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls.\n\nIt is less durable than standard concrete and has a limited lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nIf your child attends, or you're a teacher at an affected school, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than one in five children in England are frequently missing school, data shows, in a sign attendance is still struggling to get back to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home.\n\nParents should get children back to school, urged Dame Rachel de Souza.\n\nBefore the pandemic, just over one in 10 students were persistently absent.\n\nPupils count as persistently absent if they miss 10% or more of their school days, which is roughly one or more days every fortnight over the school year.\n\nOver the last academic year, Department for Education (DfE) figures show 22.3% of pupils in England were persistently absent.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Rachel said this equated to 1.8 million children, and estimated that 100,000 of those were playing truant.\n\n\"We've got a real problem post-pandemic around attendance,\" she said. \"1.8 million of an eight million cohort is huge... that's double the number from before the pandemic\".\n\nIn 2018/9 before the pandemic, around one in 10 children (10.9%) were persistently absent.\n\nA breakdown of figures shows that the problem is most marked among children on free school meals (37.9%) and those with an education, health and care plan (33.4%).\n\nDame Rachel said it was really important to get those children who were anxious and \"refusing on an emotional basis\" back to school.\n\nThere is evidence that if children miss more than a day in the first week of term, 55% go on to be persistently absent for the rest of the term.\n\nThe DfE also says primary and secondary pupils who perform better missed fewer days than those who did not perform as well.\n\nBut the return to school this week already comes with disruption for many parents and children after the government forced some schools to partially or fully close over concerns about the safety of buildings made from a crumbly type of concrete.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was very concerned about young people and their futures.\n\nShe told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg her party would deliver breakfast clubs for every primary school child in England and improve mental health support to help boost school attendance.\n\nMs Phillipson added increasing truancy fines for parents who do not ensure their children go to school was not the answer.\n\nCurrently, parents in England face £60 fines, which rise to £120 if they are not paid within 21 days, if their children miss school. They are normally issued by local councils.\n\nIn January, the Commons education select committee launched an inquiry into persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nIt will aim to examine the reasons behind the issue, the likely effectiveness of the DfE planned reforms, and the impact of interventions like breakfast clubs on improving attendance.\n\nThe children's commissioner has previously raised concerns that some pupils were missing school on Fridays since the pandemic because their parents were at home,\n\nDame Rachel told MPs there was \"a huge amount\" of absence on Fridays - when \"mum and dad are at home\" that \"wasn't there before\".\n\nA spokesperson for the DfE told the BBC: \"Attending school is vital for children's development and while it's encouraging that attendance is improving, there is more to be done for the year to come to ensure children are in regular education.\n\n\"We are prioritising driving up attendance rates, including for vulnerable children, building on existing attendance programmes including our attendance hubs and mentors, and updating our guidance to help directly support children, teachers and schools.\n\n\"We are also increasing high needs funding by a further £440 million for 24/25, bringing total funding to £10.5 billion - an increase of over 60% since 2019-20.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sir Gavin Williamson has been ordered to apologise after an inquiry found he had bullied a colleague in texts.\n\nSir Gavin quit as a minister last year after sending expletive-laden texts to former Tory chief whip Wendy Morton.\n\nIn the texts, Sir Gavin accused Ms Morton of excluding some MPs from the late Queen's funeral last September.\n\nHe sent the texts in the run-up to the funeral and Ms Morton lodged a complaint with Parliament in November.\n\nSir Gavin apologised in the Commons on Monday, following the publication of a report by an independent panel, which found he breached Parliament's bullying and harassment policy.\n\nHe said he accepted he had used \"intemperate and inappropriate language,\" and he accepted \"the decision that my conduct constituted a breach\" of the policy.\n\n\"I will do my utmost to ensure this does not happen again,\" he added.\n\nOpposition parties have questioned why Mr Sunak appointed Sir Gavin as a minister in October last year, after being told about Ms Morton's complaint.\n\nThe report, published earlier, concluded that Sir Gavin's conduct was an abuse of power, finding that it had gone beyond vigorous complaint or political disagreement to a threat to lever his power and authority as a former chief whip to undermine Ms Morton personally.\n\nAs well as requiring him to make an apology, the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has ordered him to undergo training.\n\nAccording to the panel's report, during the probe Sir Gavin denied his texts amounted to bullying or an abuse of power, although he accepted they were \"unprofessional\".\n\nMs Morton - a close ally of former Prime Minister Liz Truss - told the BBC she was \"satisfied\" with the outcome of the investigation.\n\nShe said: \" It has taken a long time. It's felt like a rollercoaster.\"\n\nMs Morton complained to the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme, the parliamentary watchdog responsible for investigating complaints of inappropriate behaviour against MPs.\n\nMs Morton alleged that, in September and October 2022, Sir Gavin behaved in a threatening, intimidating and undermining way in text messages and a phone call.\n\nThe IEP's report said Sir Gavin sent Ms Morton text messages after he did not receive an invitation to the Queen's funeral.\n\nIn the texts, Sir Gavin appears to have complained that MPs who were not \"favoured\" by then-Prime Minister Ms Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn one text, Sir Gavin warned Ms Morton \"there is a price for everything\", that excluding MPs was \"very stupid\", also saying: \"Also don't forget I know how this works so don't puss [sic] me about\".\n\nIn an initial investigation, the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme concluded that Sir Gavin was in breach of Parliament's bullying and harassment policy.\n\nThen, in a review of that finding, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, had cleared Sir Gavin of the charge that his conduct amounted to bullying or harassment.\n\nBut this year, the IEP upheld an appeal against the decision by Ms Morton.\n\nThe panel agreed that the commissioner's decision was \"unreasonable\" and concluded that Sir Gavin's messages were an abuse of power.\n\nThe panel's report said: \"The complainant's perception that this was bullying was reasonable, and the commissioner's finding that instead the texts were an 'unprofessional expression of anger' went 'against the weight of the evidence and is not supported by any explanation'.\"\n\nThe panel said it had \"considered carefully\" whether Sir Gavin should face suspension from the Commons, but had instead decided a \"full and unreserved apology\" was required.\n\nMs Morton lost her job in the reshuffle when Mr Sunak came to power, while Sir Gavin - a former chief whip and education secretary - returned to government.\n\nSir Gavin, who has been sacked as a minister by three prime ministers, bowed to pressure to resign last November after a series of allegations against him built up.\n\nSir Gavin was defence secretary in Theresa May's government but was sacked in 2019 over claims - denied by him - that he had leaked details of a national security council meeting. He then became education secretary in Boris Johnson's cabinet but was replaced after two years.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "US President Joe Biden said he was \"disappointed\" that Xi Jinping plans to skip the G20 summit\n\nUS President Joe Biden has said he is \"disappointed\" that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping plans to skip the upcoming G20 summit in India.\n\n\"I am disappointed... but I am going to get to see him,\" Mr Biden told reporters on Sunday, but did not say when that meeting may take place.\n\nBeijing said on Monday that its premier Li Qiang would lead China's delegation at the summit in Delhi this week.\n\nMr Xi and Mr Biden last met at the G20 summit in Indonesia last year.\n\nUS-China ties remain tense despite a flurry of diplomatic visits from Washington this year to revive dialogue.\n\nChina's foreign ministry neither confirmed nor denied Mr Xi's attendance at the Delhi summit when asked pointedly at Monday's press briefing.\n\n\"Li Qiang will lead Chinese delegation to attend G20 summit. It's a major and important global economic forum. China has always attached importance on it and actively participated related events,\" a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nBut news reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said last week that Mr Xi does not plan to attend.\n\nThe news comes amid worsening relations between China and India. Among other things, the two countries are facing off against each other along their disputed border in the Himalayan region. 0\n\nJust last week, India protested after Beijing released a map that claims the state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin plateau as Chinese territory.\n\nMr Xi and Mr Biden may still have an opportunity to speak in November, at a meeting among leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in San Francisco.\n\nAbout two months after the two leaders met in the Indonesian island of Bali last November, an alleged Chinese spy balloon in skies above the US punctured hopes for a re-set in bilateral relations, delaying efforts to kickstart dialogue by months.\n\nThe two countries disagree over a range of issues - Russia's invasion of Ukraine, human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, territorial claims to Taiwan and the South China Sea, and economic restrictions that limit Beijing's access to high-tech components.\n\nIn an attempt to improve ties, a series of top US officials have travelled to China in recent months. They include Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Xi continues to portray Beijing as a leader of the developing world, rallying support for an alternative to the Washington-led world order.\n\nIn a visit to South Africa last month to meet with leaders of the Brics nations, he criticised the West's \"hegemony\" and urged developing nations to \"[shake] off the yoke of colonialism\" in his speeches.\n\nThe Brics originally refers to five-nation club of developing countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.\n\nSix new countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - are set to join in January, in what's widely seen as a diplomatic win for Beijing.", "The seizure was described as a \"significant blow to an organised crime gang\"\n\nA Northern Ireland-based lorry driver has been charged after cocaine worth £6.8m was found hidden in a lorry in Liverpool, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.\n\nEdgaras Slusnys, from Randall Heights, Kilkeel in County Down, was arrested after his lorry was stopped on Friday.\n\nOfficers said 136 kilos of cocaine were found in a \"sophisticated hide\" in the rear doors of the lorry's trailer.\n\nMr Slusnys is charged with possession with intent to supply class A drugs.\n\nThe Lithuanian national, 37, was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 23 October.\n\nThe lorry he was driving is registered with a Northern Ireland-based haulier.\n\nOnce cut, the cocaine found would have a street value of about £6.8m, the NCA said.\n\nThe arrest was part of an ongoing NCA investigation.\n\nDavid Cunningham of the NCA said the seizure has dealt a \"significant blow to an organised crime gang and removed a substantial quantity of dangerous drugs from the streets\".\n\n\"The investigation continues to identify and bring to justice all those involved,\" he added.", "The Metropolitan Police says it will investigate fresh allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences following media reports about comedian Russell Brand.\n\nThe force has received a \"number of allegations of sexual offences\" in London and elsewhere in the country, but says no arrests have been made.\n\nIt follows a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, in which four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape.\n\nBefore the allegations were published, the actor and comedian said his relationships had \"always\" been consensual.\n\nDet Supt Andy Furphy, from the Met's Central Specialist Crime Command, said: \"We continue to encourage anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us.\n\n\"We understand it can feel like a difficult step to take and I want to reassure that we have a team of specialist officers available to advise and support.\"\n\nThe Met said it was encouraging anyone who believed they may have been a victim of a sexual offence to contact them.\n\nThe fresh allegations come after the Met last week said it had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in Soho, central London, in 2003.\n\nIn a livestream on video platform Rumble broadcast shortly after the Met released its new statement, Brand said it was \"hard for me to be objective given events of the last week but that is what we must try to do\".\n\nHe did not directly address the statement from the Met or the allegations against him, but was critical of the mainstream media throughout.\n\nHe said there was an \"apparent concerted effort between the legacy media and the state to silence independent voices\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women levelled accusations against Brand between 2006 and 2013:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The tour boat sank seconds after a collision with another vessel\n\nThe captain of a cruise ship which collided with a small tour boat on the River Danube in Budapest, killing 28 people, has been jailed for five years.\n\nDuring a rainstorm in May 2019, the Mermaid, carrying South Korean tourists, sank within seconds of the crash.\n\nThe Ukrainian captain of the Vikyn Sigyn cruise ship, Yuri Chaplinsky, denied wrongdoing but was found guilty of gross negligence.\n\nThe disaster was the worst in 30 years on the Danube, Europe's second-longest river.\n\nHungarian prosecutors told a court on in March 2020 that Chaplinsky had failed to pay sufficient attention and had not properly focused on steering the ship for several minutes during the downpour.\n\n\"He did not sense the Mermaid's presence, did not radio or send out emergency sound signals,\" Miklos Novaki told the court.\n\nThe Viking Sigyn cruise ship struck the Mermaid tour boat just after 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on 29 May as both vessels passed under Budapest's Margaret Bridge.\n\nSeven of the 35 people on board were rescued and several bodies quickly recovered, but others were swept away in the swollen river or trapped inside the boat.\n\nPolice said the boat sank within seconds of the collision.\n\n\"The current was so fast and people were floating away,\" one survivor, identified only by her surname Jung, told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.\n\nTwenty five of those killed were South Koreans. The Mermaid's captain and its crew member also died.\n\nOnly seven Korean passengers survived the accident, while one Korean is still unaccounted for.\n\nChaplinsky, who has been in custody since 2019, told the court that he was \"deeply sorry\" about the fatal accident.\n\n\"I cannot escape the memories of this terrible tragedy for a minute, I cannot sleep, and I think this is what I have to live with for the rest of my life,\" he said.\n\nThe 68-year-old was acquitted by the court on the charge of failing to provide help.", "Police say they found suspected narcotics in hidden compartments\n\nPolice have arrested a man accused of helping to distribute drugs found in a New York nursery where a one-year-old died after being exposed to fentanyl.\n\nRenny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, is the third person arrested following the death of Nicholas Dominici this month.\n\nLarge quantities of narcotics were found in a search of the Bronx nursery.\n\nOfficials on Monday said they found a stamp during a search of the suspect's home that was used to mark drug packages.\n\nMr Paredes is charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.\n\nThe Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says that Mr Paredes played a key role in an alleged drug trafficking operation being run out of the Divino Niño daycare centre.\n\nPolice were called to the centre on 15 September for a suspected drug overdose. Four children were found to have been sickened by the drugs, which were stored near where they slept.\n\nNicholas Dominici was due to turn two in November\n\n\"Traffickers often hide contraband in inconspicuous or unsuspecting locations with no regard for the safety of others,\" said DEA Special Agent Frank Tarentino in a statement announcing the newest arrest.\n\n\"In this case, the daycare's floorboards were used as concealment, putting children's lives at risk who innocently sat on the floor to play.\"\n\nThe nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death, as well as conspiracy charges.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Mendez has said she denies the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery.\n\nA search of Mr Paredes' apartment revealed devices used to prepare narcotics, prosecutors say, including digital scales and plastic bags.\n\nPolice say the drugs found at the daycare bore a \"Red Dawn\" stamp. The search of the suspect's home also turned up similar packaging and a stamp with the words \"Red Dawn\".\n\nUS Attorney Damian Williams said the arrest \"is one more step toward obtaining justice for the child-victims of this heinous offense and their families\".\n\nPolice are still searching for the husband of the daycare owner, who was seen on CCTV leaving with large bags before police arrived.\n\nInvestigators believe he may have fled to the Dominican Republic, police sources told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police released a photo of the suspect leaving the daycare\n\nThe husband of the owner of a New York City nursery where a child died of suspected fentanyl poisoning has been charged with the death, officials say.\n\nFelix Herrera Garcia was on the run after he was caught on camera fleeing the Bronx nursery with large bags.\n\nHe is the fourth person to be charged following the death of one-year-old Nicholas Dominici this month.\n\nPolice found a large quantity of fentanyl and other drugs under a trapdoor at the nursery.\n\nThe US Drug Enforcement Administration and Mexican officials arrested Mr Herrera Garcia on Tuesday on a bus in Sinaloa, Mexico.\n\nUS Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that the latest arrest \"reflects our tireless pursuit of Herrera, who fled the daycare even as the children he abandoned inside were suffering from his poisonous trade\".\n\nHe has been charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.\n\nNicholas Dominici had been at the Divino Niño nursery for just a week when he was exposed to fentanyl hidden in the nap room, police said.\n\nFour children were exposed to fentanyl at a Bronx nursery\n\nThree other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic. An analysis of urine from one of the victims confirmed the presence of the drug.\n\nThe nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death, as well as conspiracy charges. Both face life in prison if convicted.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Mendez has said she denies the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery.\n\nSurveillance footage and phone records show that after finding the children ill, Ms Mendez called her husband, Mr Herrera Garcia, several times before contacting 911. Her husband then came and removed several full shopping bags from the nursery, officials said.\n\nIn the indictment, prosecutors said Mr Herrera Garcia was seen on video \"moving swiftly\" out a backdoor of the apartment building where the nursery is located.\n\n\"Instead of following the paved alleyway behind the daycare's building, Herrera Garcia hurried through overgrown grass and bushes to exit the area,\" prosecutors said.\n\nOn Monday, a third arrest was made in the case. Officials say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, helped run a drug trafficking operation from the Divino Niño daycare centre.\n\nDuring a search of the suspect's home, police say they found a stamp that was used to mark drug packages as well as devices used to prepare narcotics.\n\nThe incident shocked residents in the north-western Kingsbridge Heights neighbourhood of the Bronx, which had the highest rate of deaths from drug overdoses out of all New York City boroughs in 2021.", "The case has been filed under Walliams' real name David Edward Williams\n\nDavid Walliams has filed a High Court case against the production company that makes ITV's Britain's Got Talent.\n\nThe action against FremantleMedia is listed as dealing with data protection. No other details have been given.\n\nThe actor, comedian and author was a judge on the show from 2012 to 2022.\n\nLast November, he admitted making \"disrespectful comments\" about two contestants during filming in 2020. He apologised and said that the remarks \"were never intended to be shared\".\n\nThe Guardian reported that a leaked transcript seen by the newspaper showed he had made derogatory and sexually explicit remarks about contestants during the recording of an episode of the talent show in January 2020.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the TV personality said: \"I would like to apologise to the people I made disrespectful comments about during breaks in filming for Britain's Got Talent in 2020.\n\n\"These were private conversations and - like most conversations with friends - were never intended to be shared. Nevertheless, I am sorry.\"\n\nThames TV, which is part of FremantleMedia, said the company regarded Walliams' comments as private, but that his use of language was \"inappropriate\".\n\nDavid Walliams was a judge on Britain's Got Talent between 2012 and 2022\n\nThis January, Fremantle announced that former Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli would join Britain's Got Talent for its 2023 series, effectively replacing Walliams.\n\nWalliams remains one of the country's most successful entertainment figures. He rose to fame alongside Matt Lucas on BBC comedy Little Britain.\n\nDuring his time on Britain's Got Talent, he won the prize for best judge at the National Television Awards in 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020.\n\nHe has also enjoyed success as a best-selling author with books including Gangsta Granny and The Boy in the Dress.\n\nThe legal case has been filed under Walliams' real name David Edward Williams. His spokesperson has been asked for comment.\n\nFremantleMedia declined to comment. One of the country's biggest TV production companies, the company produces Family Fortunes, QI and Never Mind The Buzzcocks as well as Britain's Got Talent.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Fire Department of New York has said the number of its members who have died from 9/11-related illnesses is now equal to the number lost on the day of the attacks, 343.\n\nTwo recent deaths added to the toll.\n\n\"With these deaths, we have reached a sombre, remarkable milestone,\" New York City Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said in a statement.\n\n\"Our hearts break for the families of these members, and all who loved them.\"\n\nSoon after the 22nd anniversary of the attacks, emergency medical technician Hilda Vannata died on 20 September from cancer, while retired firefighter Robert Fulco died of pulmonary fibrosis on 23 September, according to city officials.\n\nBoth illnesses were a \"result of time they spent working in the rescue and recovery at the World Trade Center site,\" the New York City Fire Department said in a statement.\n\nBorn in Puerto Rico, Vannata, who died at the age of 67, was a mother and served as an emergency services technician for 26 years, according to her obituary.\n\nHilda Vannata was remembered for her love for family and a sense of duty\n\n\"She was known by all as a warm and caring person, always going out of her way to help anyone in need,\" the obituary said.\n\nFulco, who died at the age of 73, was born in Brooklyn, New York, according to a memorial page. Well-wishers called him a \"true hero\".\n\nNearly 3,000 people were killed in the 11 September attacks in 2001, with most of the deaths in New York. There, al-Qaeda militants crashed two US passenger jets they had seized into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The buildings were set on fire, trapping people on upper floors and enveloping the city in smoke.\n\nRobert Fulco was remembered by loved ones as a \"true hero\"\n\nThe attack marked the largest loss of emergency personnel in US history.\n\nThe New York City Fire Department said 11,000 first responders suffer from 11 September-related diseases, including 3,500 with cancer.\n\n\"So many of our members showed up for us that fateful day, and so many were lost,\" the department said in a statement. \"The legacy we create for them is one of honor, and one of promise.\"", "More than one million NHS treatments and appointments have been cancelled in England due to strike action by staff.\n\nNHS England announced the milestone had been reached following last week's walkout by consultants and junior doctors.\n\nThe true scale of the disruption is likely to be higher - many hospitals reduce bookings on strike days to minimise last-minute cancellations.\n\nIt comes amid renewed calls to find a solution to the long-running dispute.\n\nA total of 1.01 million hospital appointments have had to be rescheduled along with more than 60,000 community and mental health appointments since December when industrial action started in the NHS.\n\nBut while the large-scale walkouts by nurses, ambulance staff and physios all ended in early summer, the dispute with doctors has continued into the autumn.\n\nDoctor walkouts were responsible for the majority of the disruption during 22 days of strike action by junior doctors and six by consultants.\n\nAnd the number of cancellations looks set to rise even further next week when junior doctors and consultants stage three days of joint strikes from Monday.\n\nDoctors have promised to provide emergency cover during the period.\n\nThe industrial action has contributed to the record 7.7 million people currently waiting for hospital treatment.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has blamed the dispute for scuppering his ambition to get the waiting list down this year.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Tom Nash, 58, from London.\n\nHe has a Cholesteatoma, a cyst in his middle ear. He has been on a waiting list since 2021 and has faced multiple postponements - the last of which was because of the junior doctor strike, he said.\n\n\"I'm permanently dizzy. I'm fed up, really fed up. I want to return to normal life.\n\n\"There are things I want to start doing, projects I've not started because I'm just not in the right frame of mind.\n\n\"When I'm upright and moving it's quite unpleasant when I get giddy.\"\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, called for decisive action to end the impasse - it is now more than 100 days since the health secretary has sat down with BMA leaders for pay talks.\n\n\"How bad does it have to get before we see an end to these damaging and demoralising industrial disputes?\n\n\"The immediate concern has to be with patients - more than a million and counting - whose care or treatment has been delayed.\"\n\nMinisters have said this year's pay rise was a \"final and fair\" settlement and it met the independent pay review body's recommendations.\n\nConsultants are being given 6%, junior doctors an average of 8.8% depending on their level.\n\nThe pay increase mean junior doctors' basic salary ranges from £32,400 to £63,150, while consultants can earn up to £126,300.\n\nAnd doctors earn about a quarter to a third more on top of this, on average, for things such as unsociable hours and additional work.\n\nJunior doctors were after a 35% increase, to make up for what they say are years of below-inflation wage rises.\n\nConsultants have not put a figure on what they would like but insist it must be above inflation, to start restoring pay they have lost once inflation is taken into account.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay called it a \"grim milestone\" and accused the BMA of creating \"misery\" for patients.\n\nHe reiterated there would be no more talks on pay and urged the union to ends its industrial action.\n\nIn terms of public support, latest polling from YouGov show 56% support junior doctors, with 37% opposed. For senior doctors 42% support them and 50% are opposed.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strikes or a patient affected? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wrexham\n\n\"The last time I spoke with him, the last words we said was 'I love you' to each other even though we didn't know what was going to happen.\"\n\nThe emotions are still evidently raw two months on as Wrexham club captain Ben Tozer talks about the loss of his father.\n\nOn a Saturday evening in late April, Keith Tozer had watched from the stands as Ben lifted the National League trophy amid jubilant scenes at the Racecourse Stadium.\n\nWrexham had just beaten Boreham Wood to win the title and secure promotion back to the Football League after a 15-year absence.\n\nDefender Tozer had played every minute of the record-breaking campaign, and his father regularly made the round trip of more than 500 miles from his home in Plymouth to north Wales to watch him in action.\n\n\"He would come to the games up here and would drive up with my uncle,\" Tozer said.\n\n\"He was here the day we won the league, which was amazing for me.\"\n\nBut amid the title-winning celebrations, Ben sensed that something was not right with his father.\n\n\"He'd come to the games but he'd always get off before I got out, which I found a bit of a red flag,\" Ben added.\n\n\"He wasn't well but I never got to see him and it was almost as if he was hiding from me, which now I know why.\n\n\"I went to a friend's funeral at the end of last season and one of the guys my dad worked with said 'I saw your dad and he didn't quite seem the same'.\n\n\"My brother said it, my wife raised concerns and my dad said 'It's alright, I'm getting checked, I'll get checked'.\n\n\"Obviously it ended up too late because by the time he got checked he passed away a few days later.\"\n\nIn July, Keith, having been admitted to hospital, was diagnosed with leukaemia but sadly a few days later died.\n\nBen describes those few days as a \"whirlwind\".\n\n\"I trained on the Monday, got the train down to Plymouth and got there just before they switched everything off,\" he said.\n\n\"The gaffer [Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson] helped massively, straight away even little things like first-class ticket on the train, offered to get me a helicopter to Plymouth, things like that.\n\n\"The Tuesday it was literally the only day I was going to be in Plymouth apart from his funeral.\n\n\"The day after he passed away we sorted his house out, Wednesday I travelled back up and then we were away to America which was a bit strange because I felt too normal.\n\n\"I felt 'right I've got a job to do, I've got to do this, crack on'.\n\n\"I didn't even think about it, I was so busy. It was one thing after another.\n\n\"I suppose if I was home, what would I do? Just cry? So I might as well just crack on.\"\n\nTozer shared the news of his father's passing on Twitter, with the club's co-owner Ryan Reynolds among those to pass on their condolences.\n\nThe former Newcastle United player travelled with the rest of Wrexham's squad for a historic tour of the United States, where the club was gaining huge interest due to the success of the documentary Welcome to Wrexham.\n\nBut it was before the first game against Chelsea in North Carolina that the enormity of his loss and the emotions of the previous week hit Tozer.\n\n\"I was warming up - and no-one has seen this and it's first time speaking about it now - I was getting upset and tears were coming down my face,\" Tozer says.\n\n\"I knew that he'd have been at home watching that game whether it was two o'clock in the morning or not.\n\n\"Then the whole tour went on and by the end of the tour we were in Philadelphia, I didn't speak to anyone apart from my wife back here but I seemed fine again.\n\n\"Then the day before we came back from America, it was almost like I was scared to come home to face the reality.\n\n\"I came back, trained on the Tuesday, got the train down to Plymouth after training, had the funeral on the Wednesday and the season started on the Saturday.\n\n\"He would have been at the first game, which was tough.\n\n\"Dads are the ones that took you to games, that's where it's been toughest, around the games really.\"\n\nTozer, 33, acknowledges that he is yet to fully come to terms with his father's death.\n\nBut by speaking publicly about his loss, Tozer hopes other men do not put off going to see a GP if they feel unwell, especially symptoms of leukaemia such as fatigue, bruising in unusual places and weight loss.\n\n\"It's hard for me to say it but my dad was scared. He was scared to hear what was the matter.\n\n\"And also being a bloke, an old school bloke, never wanted to admit anything was wrong.\n\n\"But ultimately he was scared to know what was up because he knew something was wrong.\n\n\"Even for myself, I've always been someone who rolls up their sleeves and gets on with it.\n\n\"It's a bit of a taboo but it's something that's so important to go and simply get checked - don't leave it too late.\n\n\"If there is anyone who has symptoms that are abnormal then please go and get them checked.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Hans Niemann was accused last year of cheating\n\nAn American grandmaster who was part of a row which rattled the world of chess has denied using a vibrating sex toy to cheat.\n\nIn September 2022 Hans Niemann sat down to play Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in chess's Sinquefield Cup St Louis, Missouri.\n\nNiemann won, but was accused by Carlsen of cheating - a claim which sparked a huge legal row between the pair.\n\nOn Monday evening, Niemann spoke to Piers Morgan Uncensored about the scrutiny he has faced since being accused of cheating.\n\n\"It is very disheartening to be accused of cheating after that victory,\" he said.\n\n\"These things happen and I managed to learn a lot during that time and it really has taught me a lot of very important lessons about life and chess.\"\n\nNiemann told Morgan he believed the last year has \"strengthened his resolve\" as he insisted to the host he did not cheat.\n\nMorgan continued talking about claims that Niemann was getting signals from someone through the remote-controlled sex toy.\n\n\"To be clear, on the specific allegation - have you ever used anal beads while playing chess?\" Morgan asked.\n\nThe 20-year-old replied: \"Well, your curiosity is a bit concerning, you know - maybe you're personally interested, but I can tell you, no.\n\n\"Categorically, no, of course not.\"\n\nMagnus Carlsen, pictured in 2018, had been the number one ranked player for more than a decade\n\nOnline platform Chess.com was also sued by Niemann after an investigation by the firm claimed he had \"likely\" cheated in more than 100 games online.\n\nNiemann admitted that he had cheated twice in online matches on Chess.com aged 12 and 16, but denied he had done so in the Sinquefield Cup or any in-person game.\n\nHe then filed the defamation lawsuit in October 2022 against Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura, a US grandmaster who Niemann accused of \"amplifying and attempting to bolster Carlsen's false cheating allegations\".\n\nThat case was later dismissed, leading to out-of-court discussions to resolve the issue.\n\nLast month, Chess.com said it stood by its report on Niemann, \"including that we found no determinative evidence that he has cheated in any in-person games\".\n\nCarlsen, 32, said he acknowledged and understood the report, \"including its statement that there is no determinative evidence\" of wrongdoing by his rival.", "Two teenagers have been arrested after leading the police on a car chase in a stolen vehicle in Hillsborough County.\n\nVideo posted on social media by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office shows the suspects leading the police in a high-speed chase on a Florida highway.\n\nA police vehicle then used the precision immobilisation technique (PIT) to bring the stolen car to a stop.\n\nThe 14-year-old and 15-year-old suspects have been charged with grand theft.", "Axeing the HS2 link between Birmingham and Manchester would be \"very stupid\", according to an industry expert.\n\nRichard Bowker, the former Strategic Rail Authority head, also said not taking the HS2 line into central London would be \"utter madness\".\n\nRising costs have led to speculation around its future and the government has not guaranteed the line will run to the North West.\n\nA Home Office minister said it was looking at how costs can be controlled.\n\nThe high speed rail project is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England. The first part, between west London and Birmingham, is already under construction.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts - including the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds which was axed in late 2021.\n\nMr Bowker told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if the Birmingham to Manchester section of HS2 was dropped, \"we really have done a very, very stupid thing\".\n\n\"HS2 to Manchester is fully integrated with something called Northern Powerhouse Rail. You can't do Northern Powerhouse Rail without that Manchester section.\"\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse Rail project would include a mix of new and upgraded lines to speed up links between Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. It plans to use a section of the HS2 line from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly, as well as the planned upgrades to Manchester Piccadilly station.\n\nThe Conservative Party is holding its annual conference in Manchester from Sunday, 1 October.\n\nThere had been speculation that an announcement concerning HS2 could be made as soon as this week although the government may hold off until the Autumn Statement on 22 November.\n\nAs well as the link from Birmingham to Manchester being in doubt, there are also questions over whether the line will end at Old Oak Common in west London, rather than carry on to Euston station in central London.\n\nMr Bowker said that to not complete the railway to London would be \"utter madness\".\n\n\"Old Oak Common was never designed as a terminus station, it's a through-station that will cost us billions to eventually fix that problem if we don't go to London,\" he said.\n\nThe Times reported on Tuesday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been \"alarmed\" by the escalating cost of the HS2 project, with suggestions that it could eventually exceed £100bn.\n\nThe report also said that if the northern leg of HS2 is cancelled, the prime minister was considering reallocating money to other regional transport projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail.\n\nEsther McVey, the Conservative MP for Tatton in Cheshire, told the Today programme that cancelling the Manchester leg of HS2 was \"the right thing to do\".\n\n\"Things have significantly changed since lockdown, people would now sooner jump on a Zoom to save time and money,\" she said.\n\nShe said the money would be better spent on connecting northern cities and and improving local transport \"because HS2 is sucking the money and the life out of our local transport\".\n\nBut the new co-owner of Birmingham City Football Club, Tom Wagner, said that abandoning the link between Birmingham and Manchester \"could result in a loss of investor trust\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Sunak, Mr Wagner said that the decision to take over the Championship's longest-serving club back in July was partly influenced by \"the exciting plans to improve connectivity with the rest of the UK through projects including HS2\".\n\nHe said: \"Any deviation could result in a loss of investor trust and this would have a considerable negative impact on the UK. The ambitious HS2 project falls into this category.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Birmingham Airport chief executive Nick Barton, has also written to the prime minister, saying such a move would be \"a mistake\" which would \"short change every generation to follow\".\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Home Office Minister Chris Philp said: \"No decisions have been taken about the remaining stages of HS2 but I do know the chancellor and the prime minister are looking at how the cost can be controlled.\n\n\"The commitment to the Midlands, the North, the levelling up agenda is absolutely undimmed.\"\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs was £71bn, excluding the cancelled eastern route. But this was in 2019 prices, so does not take into account the rise in costs for materials and wages since then.", "No-one here can remember a party conference speech starting with an apology to clowns - but that's how Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey kicked off his speech this afternoon, apologising to clowns for comparing them to the Conservatives.\n\nCancer was the focus - a policy no doubt shaped by Davey losing both his parents to the disease by the time he was 15 years old.\n\nThe party has reacted well to their leader's speech, with our political editor Chris Mason saying they \"know precisely who they are targeting\" in the run-up to the general election, which has to happen by January 2025.\n\nNext it's the turn of the Conservatives - with their conference getting under way in Manchester on Sunday before Labour's kicks off on 8 October in Liverpool.\n\nThank you for joining us today. The coverage was brought to you by Marita Moloney, Jasmine Taylor-Coleman, Alexandra Fouché, André Rhoden-Paul, Adam Durbin and myself.", "The boss of Spotify says he has no plans to completely ban content created by artificial intelligence from the music streaming platform.\n\nEarlier this year the platform pulled a track featuring AI-cloned voices of the performers Drake and The Weeknd.\n\nDaniel Ek told the BBC there were valid uses of the tech in making music - but AI should not be used to impersonate human artists without their consent.\n\nHe said using AI in music was likely to be debated for \"many, many years\".\n\nMr Ek, who rarely speaks to the media, said that he saw three \"buckets\" of AI use:\n\n\"It is going to be tricky,\" he said when asked about the challenge the industry was facing.\n\nWhile AI is not banned in all forms on the platform the company does not allow its content to be used to train a machine learning or AI model, the likes of which can then produce music.\n\nArtists are increasingly speaking out against the use of AI in the creative industries.\n\nLast month the Irish musician Hozier said he would consider striking over the threat of AI to his profession.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight that he wasn't sure the tech \"meets the definition of art\".\n\nNeither Drake nor The Weeknd were aware of cloned versions of their voices being used on the song, Heart on My Sleeve. The track was removed from Spotify and other streaming platforms in April.\n\nDrake and The Weeknd perform together in Nottingham in 2014\n\nIts creator, Ghostwriter, later tried to have the track nominated for a Grammy award but it was turned down.\n\n\"You can imagine someone uploading a song, claiming to be Madonna, even if they're not. We've seen pretty much everything in the history of Spotify at this point with people trying to game our system,\" Mr Ek said.\n\n\"We have a very large team that is working on exactly these types of issues.\"\n\nIn May, the Financial Times reported that thousands of tracks had been removed from Spotify after a discovery that bots were being used to artificially inflate their streaming figures.\n\nMr Ek also discussed the platform's huge investment in podcasts - including those from high-profile figures like Michelle and Barack Obama and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Neither has been re-commissioned.\n\nThe deal with Harry and Meghan cost a reported $25m (£18m) and saw just 12 episodes delivered over two and a half years. A Spotify executive recently reportedly spoke disparagingly about the pair's work ethic.\n\n\"The truth of the matter is some of it has worked, some of it hasn't,\" said Mr Ek of the firm's decision to \"challenge Apple\" as the market-leading podcast platform by taking on a lot of new creators.\n\n\"Five years ago Spotify was nowhere in podcasting.\"\n\nSeparately, the firm confirmed that Russell Brand's podcast would remain on Spotify unless the material itself was found to have breached its own terms and conditions.\n\nAcast, which owns the podcast, said it had suspended advertising revenue from it as the comedian remains under investigation over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nThe reason Sweden-based Daniel Ek was in the UK was to discuss regulation. He said the firm is supportive of the incoming Online Safety Bill, designed to make the internet safer for children, and the ongoing Digital Markets and Competition Bill, which aims to improve competition by closely scrutinising the tech giants.\n\nMr Ek has long been a vocal critic of the policies of Apple and Google's app stores, on which Spotify relies. Both companies charge smaller developers a 15% commission on in-app purchases, with this rising to 30% for developers with revenue of more than $1m.\n\nSpotify has also complained that Apple makes it hard for the business to communicate directly with its customers and promote its services elsewhere.\n\n\"We are in a situation where literally two companies in the world control how over four billion consumers access the internet,\" said Mr Ek.\n\n\"If you think now on a company like Spotify, where we already pay out almost 70% of our revenues back to the creative community, if we were to take the 30% out of our cut it essentially means we're left with zero, which means we have to close shop.\"\n\nIn April 2021, the European Commission (EC) charged Apple with breaking EU competition rules over this, following a complaint from Spotify in 2020. In February the EC scaled back its objections against Apple although there has yet to be a final ruling.\n\nApple said it was continuing to work with the EC. It added that the vast majority of European developers make less than $1m in revenue and qualify to pay Apple a 15% commission rate.", "Daisy was taken to the vets with cat flu\n\nA woman has been reunited with her pet cat 11 years after reporting her missing.\n\nDaisy the cat failed to return home soon after moving to the Caerphilly area from Dorset with her owner, Sian Sexton, in 2012.\n\nBut last week, Ms Sexton received a surprise phone call from a Caerphilly vet who said a cat microchipped to her had been brought into the clinic.\n\n\"I'm still in shock,\" the 43-year-old said.\n\nMs Sexton, who has since moved to Rhydyfelin, Rhondda Cyon Taf, said she discovered Daisy had been living as a stray in Caerphilly for more than a decade.\n\nShe was taken to the vet by locals who were concerned about her health.\n\nDaisy was \"totally matted\" and had cat flu, Ms Sexton said.\n\n\"She was sneezing and wheezing, and they [the people who brought her in] didn't think she would survive another winter being outside,\" she added.\n\nAt 17 years old, the same age as her sister Dory who is still owned by Ms Sexton, Daisy is responding well to medication.\n\n\"She's survived all this time and now in her final days she finally comes back to us,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully she can live out the rest of her days with us,\" she added.\n\nDaisy's sister, Dory, still lives with Ms Sexton and the siblings will soon be reunited\n\nOnce Daisy is well enough she will be reunited with her sister and introduced to the two other cats in the household, Tillie and Sparkle.\n\n\"It will be really interesting to introduce them again. I wonder if they will recognise each other,\" Ms Sexton said.\n\nShe described Daisy as \"very loving\" and wanting lots of attention, despite living as a feral cat for so many years.\n\nMs Sexton and her husband will be moving to Bridgend soon, meaning Daisy \"might have to be a house cat\" from now on, she laughed.\n\n\"I don't want her to go missing again,\" she said.", "Sir Alok Sharma has been MP for Reading West since 2010\n\nCOP26 President Sir Alok Sharma has announced he will not stand at the next general election.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Reading West said he had informed the constituency association he did not wish to be a candidate for the revised seat of Reading West & Mid Berkshire.\n\nSir Alok said it had \"not been an easy decision\".\n\nHe recently criticised Rishi Sunak's announcement of exemptions and delays to several key green policies.\n\nSir Alok, who has represented the Berkshire seat since 2010, posted on Twitter, now known as X: \"It has been the honour of my life to serve as the MP for a constituency in the town where I grew up and a privilege to serve in Government and represent the UK on the international stage.\"\n\nHe was appointed to chair the UN's COP26 summit in Glasgow in November 2021.\n\nIt ended with a deal being struck in a bid to stave off severe climate change. The pact was the first ever UN climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal - the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.\n\nBut the pledges did not go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, seen by scientists as the threshold for dangerous impacts from global warming.\n\nAfter the deal, Sir Alok urged countries to \"up the pace\" on tackling climate change.\n\nEarlier this month he was critical of the prime minister's announcement of exemptions and delays to several key green policies, alongside a 50% increase in cash incentives to replace gas boilers.\n\nKey among the changes was a five-year delay in the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the UN's Climate Action Summit, which Mr Sunak did not attend, Sir Alok said the response from international colleagues at the event had been one of \"consternation\".\n\n\"My concern is whether people now look to us and say, 'Well, if the UK is starting to row back on some of these policies, maybe we should do the same',\"he said.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Ronan Wilson was from Kildress in County Tyrone\n\nA man has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run collision in which a nine-year-old boy from County Tyrone died at the weekend.\n\nRonan Wilson, from Kildress, died at the scene of the crash in Bundoran, County Donegal, on Saturday night.\n\nA man in his 20s is due to appear before the District Court sitting at Carrick-on-Shannon on Tuesday morning.\n\nEarlier Ronan's father said his family would never be the same.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Dean Wilson said he had been broken by his son's death.\n\nThe scene of the incident in Bundoran was cordoned off by police\n\nGardaí said they had seized a vehicle, which would examined by forensic investigators.\n\nMr Wilson described his son as his best friend, adding he was \"the best son anyone could ask for\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn County Tyrone, tributes were paid to Ronan, who played Gaelic games for Kildress Wolfe Tones.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, Ronan's teammates and their parents gathered at the club to comfort one another and mourn the loss of their friend.\n\nDominic McGurk, the chairman of the club, said the community was numb and in \"complete shock\" in the wake of the boy's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We are a tight-knit community here, we've dealt with tragedies in the past and unfortunately we're doing to have to deal with another one but we will come together and we will support the family,\" he said.\n\nMr McGurk said that he hoped the support from the club would help Ronan's family \"in their days and months ahead\".", "The message that vaping is 95% safer than smoking has backfired, encouraging some children to vape, says a top health expert.\n\nDr Mike McKean treats children with lung conditions and is vice-president for policy at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\nHe says the 2015 public messaging should have been clearer - vapes are only for adults addicted to cigarettes.\n\nEvidence on the possible health risks of vaping is still being gathered.\n\nDr Mike McKean is concerned that young people are taking up vaping because they see it as risk-free\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC, Dr McKean said: \"Vaping is not for children and young people. In fact it could be very bad for you,\" although he stresses that it is not making lots of children very sick, and serious complications are rare.\n\n\"Vaping is only a tool for adults who are addicted to cigarettes.\"\n\nHe says the 95% safe messaging was \"a very unwise thing to have done and it's opened the door to significant chaos\".\n\nThe \"switch to vape\" message has had an unintended consequence of driving children to take up e-cigs, he says.\n\n\"There are many children, young people who have taken up vaping who never intended to smoke and are now likely addicted to vaping. And I think it's absolutely shocking that we've allowed that to happen.\n\n\"It feels like we have put all our eggs in one basket and said 'this is the way to tackle cigarette smoking' and I feel we have neglected children and young people, by sort of embracing something almost too much without the real proper thought.\"\n\nProf Ann McNeil was one of the co-authors of the original 2015 report and told the BBC that the advice was based on the literature at the time and what was known about what the products contained.\n\n\"It was never intended to communicate that they're safe - it was intended to say there is a big difference in the harms.\"\n\nShe says vaping is less risky than smoking, but children should not be doing it.\n\nThe public health message stressed the relative safety of e-cigarettes\n\nThe 95% safer figure is still used today by the vaping industry to promote its products.\n\nDoctors, public health experts, cancer charities and governments in the UK all agree that - based on the current evidence - e-cigarettes carry a fraction of the risk of cigarettes.\n\nThe latest UK update on vaping and health published in 2022 says:\n\nLike cigarettes, selling vapes to under-18s is illegal, but data suggests a growing number of young people are doing it.\n\nMore than one in 10 people aged 16-24 said they were daily or occasional users in 2022, according to a survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAlthough vapes don't contain the same dangerous toxins as cigarettes, they do deliver a hit of addictive nicotine. Some teenage users say they are hooked. The BBC has been investigating youth vaping - recent tests on illegal vapes confiscated from a school found unsafe amounts of metals that could be inhaled into children lungs.\n\nThere is concern that young people are taking up vaping because they see it as completely risk-free.\n\nIan says he found his 13-year-old son smoking vapes and was horrified.\n\n\"He's addicted to vaping and the more I looked into it the more I realised he is not alone.\n\n\"I asked him why he does it and he says because it gives him a buzz, and that's how these addictions start.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak recently said it was \"ridiculous\" that vapes were designed and promoted to appeal to children when they were supposed to be used by adults giving up smoking.\n\nIn Australia, vapes are only available on prescription.\n\nSmoking rates in the UK have been steadily falling in adults and children, both before and after vapes were introduced. Vaping can help smokers quit cigarettes.\n\nMr Sunak is expected to announce measures soon aimed at cracking down on youth vaping in England. The Scottish and Welsh governments have already called for a ban on disposable vapes.\n• None RCPCH - The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gatwick will cancel around 82 departures over the coming week because of short-term sickness and Covid in the air traffic control tower.\n\nAirport boss Stewart Wingate said he was \"very frustrated\" by a series of problems at Gatwick's air traffic control.\n\nAround 30% of air traffic control staff are not available, Mr Wingate said.\n\nThe largest number of cancellations will be on Friday 29 September, with 33 departures affected.\n\nNo cancellations are expected for Tuesday or Saturday.\n\nThe cancellations amount to around 3% of planned departures at Gatwick over the period.\n\nThe staff work for Nats, which was formerly known as the National Air Traffic Service.\n\nDiscussions will begin tomorrow on which flights to cancel, with airlines affected in proportion to their use of the airport.\n\nEasyjet will be the most affected, with BA and Ryanair also among those asked to cancel flights.\n\nJohan Lundgren, chief executive officer of EasyJet said it is \"regrettable that a temporary limit on capacity at Gatwick Airport is required\".\n\nHowever, he said it is \"the right action by the airport so on-the-day cancellations and delays can be avoided.\"\n\nHe added that Gatwick Airport and Nats now need to work a longer term plan to improve the resilience of the air traffic service at Gatwick.\n\nEasyJet will now work with the airport to work through what this means for its schedules and will notify any customers whose flights are affected as soon as possible, with their options to rebook, or get a refund.\n\nGatwick had a number of cancellations on Friday and the weekend, caused by staff shortages in air traffic control.\n\n\"As a result of that we decided that we needed to take action,\" Mr Wingate said.\n\n\"The reason that we are doing this is to provide as much certainty as we can, not only to the airlines but most importantly to the passengers who will travel this week, that the flights that remain scheduled will actually operate.\"\n\nHe added that there might be an increased risk of delays to other flights this week.\n\nOctober is a less busy month for air traffic, and Mr Wingate said he expected there would be enough air traffic control staff to handle the reduced number of flights, and further cancellations would not be necessary.\n\nIt come just weeks after a data glitch at Nats triggered widespread disruption to airlines grounding flights and leaving thousands of passengers stranded.\n\nBritain's aviation regulator is preparing to launch a probe looking into why the country's air traffic control system collapsed during the summer holiday break.\n\nAre you an air traffic controller off work due to sickness? Or are you a passenger whose flight has been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Helen Clarke died in hospital following a car fire on Friday morning\n\nAn 80-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his 77-year-old wife in a car fire.\n\nHelen Clarke died in hospital on Sunday after emergency services were called to a fire on Sketty Lane, Swansea, at about 08:20 BST on Friday morning.\n\nDavid Clarke was also taken to hospital, but in a stable condition.\n\nHe appeared at Swansea Crown Court and was remanded into custody until his next appearance in November.\n\nMs Clarke's family, who are being supported by specialist officers, said: \"Our families are trying to come to terms with the tragic passing of a mother, grandmother, and friend in uncharacteristic circumstances.\n\n\"We request that we are given the privacy to deal with this tragedy as a family.\"\n\nPolice officers were called to Singleton Hospital in Swansea on Friday morning\n\nDet Ch Insp Paul Raikes of South Wales Police said: \"Our thoughts remain with Helen's family at this incredibly painful time.\n\n\"Detectives continue to work alongside other specialists to understand the full circumstances behind this incident.\"", "At 16, you can't legally buy alcohol, place a bet or vote in a general election - but you can consent to sex.\n\nIt has been this way since 1885 in the UK, when the age of consent was raised from 13. For gay and bisexual men, the age of consent was reduced from 18 to 16 in a law change in 2000, after a long campaign for equality.\n\nBut now, people are debating if consent laws should be changed again. This time, discussion has been triggered by allegations made against Russell Brand - in particular, those made by one alleged victim, \"Alice\", who says she had a relationship with Brand when he was in his 30s and she was 16.\n\nAlice told the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches that Brand sexually assaulted her, and that, looking back, she feels she was groomed by him during their relationship. Brand denies her allegations.\n\nDue to the fact she was over the age of sexual consent at the time, Alice says it would have been difficult for anyone to raise concerns about their relationship to the police.\n\nBut Alice believes we should start considering a change to the law in the form of \"staggered ages of consent\", so that people over 18 would not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\n\"There's a reasonable argument [that] individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 can have relations with people within that same age bracket,\" she told BBC Women's Hour. \"You're allowed to make mistakes as a teenager, they should be with other people your own age.\"\n\nThis view has been echoed by many people on social media, with some commentators floating ideas such as restricting those under 18 to sleeping with those under 21.\n\nBut would a change in the law protect 16 and 17-year-olds from harm? And could it criminalise healthy relationships that happen to have an age gap?\n\nWhile sex involving one or more people under 16 is illegal, police use discretion to decide whether a prosecution is in the public interest. They take into account factors such as the relationship between the people involved, whether the underage person consented to what happened and how close in age the people were.\n\nIf a person is under 13, they cannot be seen as consenting in law - even if they say they consented.\n\nIt is already illegal to take, share or possess indecent images of people under 18 - even if the person is a consenting 16- or 17-year-old.\n\nIt is also against the law for people in a position of trust, such as teachers, to engage in sexual activity with a child in their care, even if that child is over the age of consent.\n\nBut what if special protections were introduced more widely for sexual relationships involving those who are over the age of consent, but still children?\n\n\"My view would be that changing the law doesn't actually achieve a lot,\" says Roger Ingham, director of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton.\n\nHe says one of the arguments for having an age of consent is that it allows people who may feel pressured to have sex under 16 to say, \"it's against the law\".\n\n\"How often that's actually used, how often that stops people having sex that they don't want, we don't know.\"\n\nHe says surveys suggest that by the time they reach 18, the majority of people - about 60 to 70%, he says - have had sex (usually defined as intercourse).\n\nBut if the age of consent were to be raised to 18, for example, he says this would be \"bringing in an awful lot of people into the bracket of being criminalised, even if the practice of the police and the prosecution is not to prosecute under certain conditions\".\n\nHe says teenagers in consensual relationships below the age of consent - for example two 15-year-olds - are often nervous about going to family planning clinics to seek contraception in case they are reported - so one risky consequence of raising the age of consent could be more young people having unprotected sex.\n\nIn reality, sexual health clinics keep underage patients' details confidential, unless they are under 13 and thought to be at risk of harm, in which case other services may be alerted.\n\nBrand denies the allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse\n\nProf Ingham says more comprehensive sex and relationships education could help protect 16 and 17-year-olds, adding there should be \"much more attention paid to issues of consent, not just in sexual situations\".\n\nJayne Butler, chief executive of the charity Rape Crisis, agrees that better sex and relationship education and increased understanding are needed to shift societal attitudes around consent.\n\n\"We don't want to criminalise consensual relationships between 16-year-old peers, but there needs to be recognition of the significant power imbalance between older men and 16 year olds,\" she says.\n\n\"The cultural acceptance of relationships between young, potentially vulnerable people and someone much older needs to be addressed, and this doesn't start or end with just changing the law.\"\n\nProf Ingham says the issue of consent is challenged when someone with power or status, such as a celebrity, takes an interest in a young person.\n\nA \"star-struck\" young person may be willing to have sex at the time but may regret it later, he says.\n\n\"It's a really complicated psychological issue, I'm not sure how you can legislate for it, to be honest.\"\n\nDr Laura Janes, from the Law Society's criminal law committee, also points out that the law in this area is already quite complex.\n\n\"What many people find confusing is we have different ages of consent for different things,\" she says - highlighting that in the UK someone is considered criminally responsible at 10 but can't have sex until 16 or vote in a general election until 18.\n\n\"If you take these three dates of what the law thinks you can do in terms of your development, we have already got a law which is very incoherent and inconsistent,\" she says.\n\nA 16-year-old in the UK is allowed to have sex but not vote in a general election\n\nThe age of consent in England and Wales is broadly similar to other European countries - slightly higher than France's 15 and Germany's 14, but lower than Ireland's 17 and Malta's 18. However, the gap between the age of criminal responsibility and the age of consent in England and Wales is the biggest of all countries, she says.\n\n\"It's important to remember the law is a very blunt instrument and creates black and white lines,\" Dr Janes says.\n\nAnd, crucially, the law changes according to the moral values of society, she says - so you have to take into account the cultural reality. She highlights YouGov research from earlier this year that shows a fifth of people say they had sex before the age of consent.\n\nOn top of this, she says one of the problems with English law is there has been a \"proliferation in the number of laws we have\". And the question is what another law change would achieve, when there are other current laws - for example, against coercive control - which aim to protect young people from the kind of harmful relationships that can happen when one partner is older.\n\n\"There's been a huge number of new offences that have appeared on the statute book and there is a real risk of it becoming overcomplicated,\" she says.\n\nDr Janes says that before any law change is considered, the priority should be making sure young people understand what the current law is - and then ensuring they know they can use it with confidence. \"There needs to be a cultural understanding where people feel sufficiently confident to go to the police,\" she says.\n\nAnd if there are going to be any legal changes, particularly if they involve intimacy and relationships between young people, \"it has to be really clear and it has to be understandable to everyone, including potential victims and potential perpetrators\".\n• None Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go to police?", "The Army has been stood down from supporting the Metropolitan Police after hundreds of officers stepped back from firearms duties.\n\nSoldiers were put on standby after some armed officers spent the weekend considering their position.\n\nIt follows an officer being charged with murdering Chris Kaba, 24, who was shot last September.\n\nOfficers from other forces were drafted in to help, but the Met said on Monday that enough had returned to duty.\n\nEarlier, the BBC was told up to 300 armed officers had turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons over the weekend. There are more than 2,500 armed officers in the force.\n\nBut the Met said on social media: \"As of lunchtime on Monday, the number of officers who had returned to armed duties was sufficient for us to no longer require external assistance to meet our counterterrorism responsibilities.\"\n\nIt added that a \"limited number\" of armed officers from other forces continued to support its non-counterterrorism armed policing.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it received a request - known as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities - from the Home Office on Sunday to \"provide routine counterterrorism contingency support to the Metropolitan Police, should it be needed\".\n\nA number of officers took a step back from their armed duties following their concerns over the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to charge officer NX121 with Mr Kaba's murder.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the Met said senior officers were having \"ongoing discussions\" to support staff to fully understand those concerns.\n\n\"Many are worried about how the decision impacts on them, on their colleagues and on their families,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed a review ordered by the home secretary over the weekend to look into armed policing guidelines, which Downing Street said was expected to conclude by the end of the year.\n\n\"Our firearms officers do an incredibly difficult job,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"They are making life or death decisions in a split-second to keep us safe and they deserve our gratitude for their bravery.\n\n\"It is important when they are using these legal powers that they do so with clarity and they have certainty about what they are doing, especially given the lethality they are using.\"\n\nCommenting on the review, Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley suggested firearms officers were concerned that they would face years of legal proceedings, \"even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given\".\n\n\"Officers need sufficient legal protection to enable them to do their job and keep the public safe, and the confidence that it will be applied consistently and without fear or favour,\" Sir Mark wrote in a letter to the home secretary.\n\nBut, he argued when officers acted improperly, the system \"needs to move swiftly\".\n\nOne former officer, who left the Met's specialist firearms command a few months ago, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the risk to officers and their families was \"just too great\".\n\nSpeaking anonymously, he argued that this was not a co-ordinated protest.\n\n\"What is obvious to me, they are not acting out of anger or petulance\", the ex officer said.\n\n\"These are individuals with partners and families who are incredibly committed to their profession.\n\n\"They're incredibly concerned it's not worth it anymore.\"\n\nNick Aldworth, a former national counterterrorism co-ordinator, told the PA news agency that by acting en masse, the officers who had stepped back from their duties were in effect staging an industrial protest - despite rules that stop them going on strike.\n\n\"What is happening now is not people who are experiencing a sudden questioning of morally whether they want to carry a gun, or do they really feel that the law doesn't support them, they are engaged in industrial protest,\" he argued.\n\n\"For good reason, the Police Act does not allow police officers to strike or undertake industrial action. But that is what this is, quasi-industrial action.\"\n\nAlthough the military could have been used in the event of a terror attack, the Met stressed armed forces personnel would not have been used in a \"routine policing capacity\".\n\nNew Scotland Yard said measures would be kept under review but added that since Saturday evening extra officers had been called in from neighbouring police forces.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, insisted the city was properly protected and he remained \"in daily contact\" with the Met commissioner.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council told the BBC mutual aid was \"routinely used\" across the country to ensure public safety.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire armed policing unit confirmed it had sent officers to London to help the Met.\n\nBut Leicestershire Police said it had declined to give mutual aid \"for the time being\", while several other forces told the BBC they had not received requests for support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former Met Police firearms officer says putting troops on the street should be ''a wake-up call''\n\nAccording to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these.\n\nIn that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show.\n\nOn 5 September 2022, Mr Kaba was fatally hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into a vehicle in Streatham, south London.\n\nThe construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.", "The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into the British Museum disappearances\n\nThe British Museum has asked the public to help identify and recover ancient artefacts that have gone missing from its collection.\n\nLast month a member of staff was sacked and police launched an investigation after around 2,000 treasures were reported \"missing, stolen or damaged\" over a \"significant\" period of time.\n\nThe museum has now said most are Greek and Roman gems and jewellery, and shared pictures of similar items.\n\nIn a statement, the museum added that 300 more had been \"identified and [are] due to be returned imminently\".\n\nIn an attempt to recover the rest, it has put details and images of the types of objects that are missing on its website.\n\n\"If you are concerned that you may be, or have been, in possession of items from the British Museum, or if you have any other information that may help us, please contact us,\" the website said.\n\nA Roman sard gem engraved with representations of the \"divine couple\" Serapis and Isis still in the museum's collection\n\nAs well as classical Greek and Roman gems, there are rings, earrings and other pieces of jewellery - some dating back to the Late Bronze Age.\n\nThe museum also said it would work alongside an international panel of experts to identify and recover the items, and had placed them on the Art Loss Register.\n\nJames Ratcliffe, director of recoveries at the Art Loss Register, said the museum had \"carefully balanced the need to provide information to the public to assist the recovery efforts with the fact that providing too much detail risks playing into the hands of those who might act in bad faith\".\n\nAnother item similar to those missing is a Late Bronze Age earring from Cyprus\n\nAn independent review of the museum's security has been launched, and will also oversee the attempts to recover the items.\n\nLucy D'Orsi, Chief Constable of the British Transport Police and joint chair of the review, said they had seen \"an encouraging start to the recovery programme\" and had been \"particularly impressed by the hard work and dedication of the British Museum staff working with us\".\n\nBritish Museum director Hartwig Fischer stepped down from his role after the treasures were stolen.\n\nThe London-based institution has also come under increased pressure from other countries, including most recently China, to return other artefacts to their countries of origin following the high-profile losses.", "Yoon Suk Yeol last visited the UK for the late Queen's funeral\n\nThe president of South Korea will pay a state visit to the UK in November after accepting an invitation from King Charles III.\n\nThe King and Queen Camilla will host Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee at Buckingham Palace.\n\nIt will be the second incoming state visit of the King's reign, following South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa's stay last year.\n\nThe King and Queen have just returned from a three-day state visit to France.\n\nMr Yoon, 62, visited the US in April when he sang a verse of Don McLean's American Pie - one of his favourite songs - at a White House dinner at the request of President Joe Biden.\n\nHe received rapturous applause from the audience before the US president presented him with a guitar signed by McLean.\n\nThe trip also saw Mr Yoon secure a landmark deal with the US to counter the North Korean nuclear threat.\n\nThe details of his UK state visit have not been released, but the trip will most probably follow convention with a ceremonial welcome and carriage procession to Buckingham Palace, followed by a state banquet on the first evening.\n\nAround 150 guests are usually invited to the formal affair in the ballroom. Before dinner is served, the King makes a speech and proposes a toast to the visiting head of state, who replies and in return proposes a toast to the monarch.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe King and the South Korean president met previously at the reception for heads of state and official overseas guests at the palace on the eve of Elizabeth II's funeral.\n\nBut Mr Yoon was criticised across the South Korean political spectrum for not visiting the late queen's coffin lying in state - which he blamed on heavy traffic.\n\nThe King expressed his condolences to the people of South Korea following the Itaewon Halloween crowd crush in 2022, when more than 150 people were killed in Seoul's party district.\n\nAs Prince of Wales, King Charles was a key guest at a state banquet hosted by the late queen for the then-South Korean leader Roh Moo-hyun in 2004.\n\nThe King also visited South Korea in November 1992 with his then-wife, Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nForeign monarchs, presidents or prime ministers are invited to visit the UK by the King on the advice of the British government.\n\nState visits are not just ceremonial affairs - they are also diplomatic tools governments use to further what they see as the British national interests.\n\nVisitors to the UK normally meet with the British prime minister, government ministers and leaders of the main political parties.\n\nThey may attend another banquet hosted by the Lord Mayor and City of London Corporation, where they will meet leaders of commerce and industry.", "A picnic was interrupted when a hungry black bear approached a group of visitors, mounted their table and ate their food at Mexico's Chipinque Ecological Park in the state of Nuevo León.\n\nFootage shows the animal devouring enchiladas and tacos just inches away from several people who sit frozen in place.\n\nAt one point the bear moves its head within touching distance of a woman who's covering a child's face.\n\nAfter eating, it moves across the picnic table before jumping down.\n\nThe startling video was posted online and went viral, amassing over 10 million views on the social media platform TikTok.\n\nThe park's website warns visitors that encounters with black bears have increased in the Monterrey metropolitan area and have been seen prowling in parks, neighbourhoods and streets near the mountains increasing the risk to people and to the bears.\n\nThe park has also provided a list of recommendations online about what to do if a person encounters one of the animals. One of them is that visitors should \"never try to photograph a bear up close\".\n\nIn 2020 another video from the park went viral when a black bear was seen approaching a visitor and sniffing her hair.", "Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations human rights council in an election that will be seen as a key test of its international standing.\n\nIt was expelled from the UN's pre-eminent human rights body last April after its forces invaded Ukraine.\n\nBut now Russian diplomats are seeking to get their country re-elected to the council for a fresh three-year term.\n\nThe BBC has obtained a copy of the position paper Russia is circulating to UN members asking for their support.\n\nThe vote will take place next month.\n\nIn the document seen by the BBC, Russia promises to find \"adequate solutions for human rights issues\" and seeks to stop the council becoming an \"instrument which serves political wills of one group of countries\", understood to be a reference to the West.\n\nDiplomats said Russia was hoping to regain some international credibility after being accused of human rights abuses in Ukraine and within its own borders.\n\nThe latest evidence of those abuses was presented to the human rights council on Monday in a report from its Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.\n\nErik Mose, chair of the commission, said there was continuing evidence of war crimes including torture, rape and attacks on civilians.\n\nA separate report two weeks ago by the UN's special rapporteur for Russia, Mariana Katzarova said the human rights situation in Russia had also \"significantly deteriorated\", with critics of the invasion subjected to arbitrary arrest, torture and ill treatment.\n\nThe UN human rights council is based in Geneva and has 47 members, each elected for a three-year term.\n\nIn the next elections, due on 10 October, Russia will compete with Albania and Bulgaria for the two seats on the council reserved for central and eastern European countries.\n\nThe Alley of the Flags at the United Nations HQ in Geneva, where the Human Rights Council meets\n\nThe vote will involve all 193 members of the UN general assembly in New York. Diplomats there said Russia was campaigning aggressively, offering small countries grain and arms in return for their votes.\n\nAs such, they said it was entirely possible Russia could get back onto the council.\n\nThe Russian position paper - circulated at the UN - says it wants to \"promote principles of cooperation and strengthening of constructive mutually respectful dialogue in the council in order to find adequate solutions for human rights issues\".\n\nIts core pitch is that Russia would use its membership \"to prevent the increasing trend of turning the HRC into an instrument which serves the political will of one group of countries\". It said it does not want that group \"punishing non-loyal governments for their independent and external policy\".\n\nRussia was suspended from the Human Rights Council in April 2022 with 93 members of the UN general assembly voting in favour, 24 against and 58 abstaining. In its position paper, Russia blames \"the United States and its allies\" for it losing membership.\n\nRussian ambassador Gennady Gatilov at a session of the UN Human Rights Council before Russia was suspended\n\nA report this month by three campaign groups - UN Watch, the Human Rights Foundation and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights - concluded Russia was \"unqualified\" for membership of the HRC.\n\n\"Re-electing Russia to the council now, while its war on Ukraine is still ongoing, would be counterproductive for human rights and would send a message that the UN is not serious about holding Russia accountable for its crimes in Ukraine,\" the report said.\n\nThe UK said it \"strongly opposes\" Russia's bid to rejoin the Human Rights Council.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Widespread evidence of Russia's human rights abuses and violations in Ukraine and against its own citizens, including those highlighted by the UN's special rapporteur on Russia just last week, demonstrates Russia's complete contempt for the work of the council.\"\n\nThe shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, said Russia had committed atrocities in Ukraine, its leader had been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court and had shown utter contempt for the UN Charter.\n\n\"The idea that Russia could return to the Human Rights Council is an affront to the very concept of human rights and a dangerous backwards step that would damage its credibility,\" he said. \"The government should work intensively with countries who have abstained in the past to make the case that the essential values of the UN must be upheld.\"\n\nThe BBC approached the Russian mission at the UN for comment.", "The San Francisco Fire Department and the California Highway Patrol Golden Gate Division Air Operations unit responded to a call about a hiker who fell from a cliff next to the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday. The man was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for the injures suffered because of the fall.", "Elaine McGarrity was knocked down on Brownhill Link Road, Irvinestown, in 2019\n\nAn uninsured driver who knocked down and killed a grandmother on New Year's Eve in 2019 has been jailed for causing her death by dangerous driving.\n\nCiaran Lee Wootton was driving a pick-up truck when he hit Elaine McGarrity as she walked along Brownhill Link in Irvinestown.\n\nWootton, who is 26, had not cleaned the windscreen and did not have permission to drive the vehicle.\n\nHe was given a three-year sentence, half of which is to be spent in prison.\n\nDungannon Crown Court heard the defendant, from Main Street in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, had a history of motoring offences.\n\nThe victim, who was a mother of two and grandmother of four, died as a result of severe chest injuries shortly after she was hit at about 09:00 GMT on 31 December 2019.\n\nPassing sentence, the judge said 54-year-old Mrs McGarrity became \"trapped under the vehicle which continued driving a further 50m before coming to a stop\".\n\nHe told Wootton: \"The sole reason for this tragic turn of events was your failure to clear the windscreen of frost and condensation.\n\n\"You did not have the visibility required to drive safely and didn't see Mrs McGarrity.\n\n\"Moreover the vehicle was in your possession for valeting and you were not insured nor had you permission to drive.\"\n\nWootton had initially pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case, telling police he was driving the Toyota Hilux at 10mph when Mrs McGarrity ran in front of the vehicle.\n\nHowever, forensic examination disproved both of those false claims and the defendant later admitted causing the victim's death by dangerous driving.\n\nHis defence barrister told the court: \"My client never meant this terrible accident to happen.\n\n\"He is genuinely sorry and accepts full responsibility for the consequences of his driving.\"\n\nThe judge described it as an \"entirely avoidable incident\" which led to the death of a \"valued and cherished member of our community\".\n\n\"You chose to drive when visibility was impacted. There can be few more dangerous actions than to drive blind down a busy road,\" he told Wootton.\n\n\"I consider the claim of Mrs McGarrity running out in front of you as a sustaining attempt to place blame on a victim.\"\n\nIn addition to the jail sentence, the judge imposed a three-year driving ban.", "Auroras were spotted on Elgin, Moray, on the north coast of Scotland - a cause for celebration, as this person on the beach shows\n\nIf you have a clear sky where you live it could be worth looking up over the coming nights - as chances of seeing the aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights, have increased in the UK.\n\nThis is not only because nights are longer now we have passed the autumn equinox but also because the Sun is also reaching the peak of its 11-year cycle, due to be at the end of 2024 or early 2025.\n\nThat means an increase in the number of sunspots - massive fields of magnetic pressure on the surface of the Sun.\n\nThese in turn erupt as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is when plasma is expelled from the Sun. And if that is pointed in the direction of Earth, it sends charged particles via solar winds toward our atmosphere.\n\nThe charged particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere to create the colours of the aurora we are all familiar with.\n\nAuroras have already been seen in Scotland and in parts of England including North Yorkshire and as far south as Herefordshire.\n\nThey were spotted on Sunday night, as pictures from our community of BBC Weather Watchers show, with luminous greens, fiery reds and oranges. as well as teal and purple seen dancing across the sky.\n\nModerate activity is expected over the next two nights, so if you're outside try to spot them - and have your camera ready!\n\nAnother shot from Elgin shows the aurora above a line of trees\n\nAurora could be seen above people's houses in the village of Findhorn, also in Moray\n\nOne BBC Weather Watcher captured this image above the sea in Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute\n\nThe auroras were a vivid green over Pennan in Aberdeenshire\n\nThe view over North Bay in Scarborough, North Yorkshire at 3am. BBC Weather Watcher godinspells said it was a \"really lively display\"\n\nThe lights were seen as far south as Leominster, Herefordshire", "The Philippines says it has removed a floating barrier installed by China to block Philippine fishing boats entering a contested area in the South China Sea.\n\nManila says China violated its fishing rights with the 300m (1,000ft) barrier in the Scarborough Shoal.\n\nFootage released by the Philippines Coast Guard appears to show one of its personnel cutting an underwater rope attached to white buoys.\n\nA spokesman said coast guard divers had posed as fishermen in a small boat to gain access to the area and taken away the anchor that secured the barrier.\n\nChina claims more than 90% of the South China Sea and seized the shoal in 2012.", "'Whoever is fighting to help my job be better, I will support'\n\nTony Branner, 38, said he felt the strike was necessary to reclaim ground lost by the union during the 2008 financial crisis, including pay adjustments to reflect an increasing cost of living. “It’s been hard ever since we gave that up,” he said. Branner said he didn’t vote for either Trump or Biden in 2020 and welcomed support for the striking workers from whichever politician wanted to give it. “I hope it helps,” he said. He said he had not been paying much attention to their political positions to date, but he expects to remember what the candidates do now during the strike when the 2024 election arrives. “It’s about next year so let’s see what you’re going to do for us,” he said. “Whoever is fighting to help my job be better, I will support.” Biden visited the picket line today and former president Trump will speak tomorrow in Michigan, instead of attending the second Republican debate.", "The boss of Iceland has been forced to apologise and retract a claim that three staff contracted HIV as a result of needle attacks.\n\nRichard Walker said he had made the comments \"in error\" in a draft article about threats of violence against store workers by shoplifters for Mail Online.\n\nPoliticians and charities had called for him to withdraw the claims, stating that such comments set back \"work to dispel myths around HIV\".\n\nMr Walker said he had \"learnt a lot\".\n\nCharities said there have been no recorded cases of HIV through needle attacks, and the most recent case of HIV being transmitted through a needle stick injury was in 1999. This is because the virus does not survive long outside of the body.\n\nFollowing Mr Walker's comments on 15 September, the all-party parliamentary group on HIV and Aids, which is chaired by MPs and charities, wrote a letter accusing him of stoking HIV stigma and called for the Iceland boss to apologise.\n\n\"Claims that there have been three instances of HIV transmissions through needle attacks in your shops must be false,\" the letter said.\n\nSome 10 days since his remarks were published, Mr Walker released an apology on X, formerly known as Twitter, late on Monday, stating that he \"never had any intention of stigmatising people with HIV or causing distress\".\n\n\"The claim in the draft article that three of our store colleagues are HIV positive as a result of needle attacks was made in error,\" he said.\n\n\"I am told such needlestick occurrences are vanishingly rare and have not happened for many years. I am therefore naturally very sorry that the draft article contained this information.\"\n\nHe added that Iceland \"immediately asked the Mail Online to amend its article\". The article still appears online but the claims around HIV have been removed.\n\nMr Walker said in his statement that staff did experience threats of violence by shoplifters on a daily basis, adding \"the weapons deployed to reinforce these threats regularly include knives, screwdrivers, hammers and hypodermic needles\".\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs welcomed the apology but said it was late and \"the original falsehoods that were reported just fuels HIV stigma and would have done more damage than good\".\n\nKat Smithson, director of communications and engagement at National AIDS Trust said statements like the one made by Mr Walker added to \"the fear and misrepresent the reality of HIV and how it is transmitted\".\n\n\"Richard isn't alone in believing these things to be true, but it's hugely welcome to see him listen, learn, apologise and crucially to set the record straight,\" she said.\n\n\"The way in which HIV is discussed in the media has a huge impact on public perceptions and fuels attitudes towards the virus that are rooted in the 1980s - that's why our charity will always call it out,\" he added.\n\nBoth charities called for Iceland to work with them to educate staff on HIV and to reduce the stigma around it.", "Water companies have been ordered to pay back £114m to customers through lower bills after missing key targets.\n\nOfwat, the industry regulator, said that firms are \"falling short\" on performance measures around leakages, supply and reducing pollution.\n\nIt said that following a review, millions of pounds would be returned to households by cutting bills.\n\nOfwat said in its assessment that not one company reached the highest measure of performance.\n\nDŵr Cymru, Southern, Thames, Anglian, Bristol, South East and Yorkshire Water fell into the lowest category of \"lagging\" and the remaining 10 were rated \"average\". None were considered \"leading\".\n\nThe regulator judges water companies in England and Wales against \"stretching\" targets set in 2019 for a five-year period.\n\nIf they fail to meet targets, Ofwat restricts the cash that they can take from customers.\n\nAll but five of the water providers reviewed will have to give money back to customers by reducing their bills in 2024-25, rather than each bill payer getting a lump sum refund.\n\nThe companies that will have to cut bills are:\n\nIt is not yet possible to say how much each customer might see their bill reduced by, as the figures are provisional and will depend on where they live and inflation.\n\nCustomers at other companies might see their bills go up. Any changes will be applied automatically although it may not show up as a separate line on bills.\n\nOfwat chief executive David Black said that while any reductions \"may be welcome to bill payers, it is very disappointing news for all who want to see the sector do better\".\n\nThe regulator also found that customer satisfaction has been falling.\n\n\"It is not going to be easy for companies to regain public trust but they have to start with better service for customers and the environment,\" Mr Black said.\n\nWater UK, the industry body, said that companies recognised there was \"still much more to do to meet the regulator's ever-tightening targets\".\n\nThames Water must return the most money - more than £101m - followed by Southern Water, which must pay out £43m.\n\nThames Water serves 15 million people with water and wastewater and has been struggling under a huge debt pile.\n\nShareholders agreed to provide an extra £750m in funding in July as it fought off the threat of government control and faced criticism over sewage discharges and leaks.\n\n\"We're making progress and we'll continue to engage and work with Ofwat as we implement our plan,\" a Thames Water spokesperson said.\n\nThe total amount the industry must pay out has been offset by a few companies being allowed to charge more for improving their performances.\n\nThe £114m being returned to customers takes into account the fact that some companies, including Severn Trent and United Utilities, will be allowed to charge their customers more in the next financial year, having delivered a sufficient service.\n\nSevern Trent Water will be allowed to charge £88m more across all of the 4.6 million households and businesses it serves, while United Utilities will be able to charge an extra £25m.\n\nOfwat said it was investigating all 11 water and wastewater companies and there were live enforcement cases for six of them for potential failures on sewage discharges into the environment.\n\nIt is also looking into Dŵr Cymru and South West Water, questioning the accuracy of their reporting on leakages and consumption.\n\nMike Keil, senior director at the Consumer Council for Water, said: \"Customers are tired of not getting the service they deserve for the things they care about.\n\n\"It's right and fair that people get their money back when they don't receive the services they were promised by some water companies. People want assurance that their water bill is good value for money.\"\n\nWater bills can cover a range of things, from water supply and sewerage to highway drainage.\n\nHow your water bill is calculated depends on whether or not you have a water meter and where you live.\n\nFor those that do not have a meter, bills are not based on how much water you use. It is usually comprised of a fixed, or \"standing\" charge that covers administration costs such as billing, as well as a charge based on the rateable value of your home.\n\nThis value is based on your local authority's assessment of the rental value of your home, but this rating took place between 1973 and 1990.\n\nPeople who have a meter are billed for the exact amount of water used.\n\nBills will typically show how much water has been used and will multiply that by the charge per cubic metre (1,000 litres) of water.\n\nFixed charges are then added - again for things like reading and maintaining meters as well as processing payments.\n\nIf you are entitled to any adjustments, including for those on a low income, these are then subtracted.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Therese Coffey said Ofwat's latest report on the industry was extremely disappointing.\n\n\"While I acknowledge there is good work ongoing in some companies - cleaning up waterways and investing in vital infrastructure - there is simply not enough of it. The fact that not a single water company is classified as 'leading' is unacceptable.\n\n\"Our water and sewerage systems are highly complex and under increasing pressure - but that is no excuse,\" she said, adding that her department had written to the bosses of each company in the lowest category of the regulator's report.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said on Monday that it was providing more money to reduce the amount of times sewage is pumped out of storm overflows, adding another £4bn on to the £56bn it announced last year.\n\nWater firms have faced extensive criticism over the last few years about the high number of raw sewage discharges and the impact on the UK's waterways.\n\nA recent BBC investigation found that three of the biggest water companies were suspected of discharging sewage into waterways on dry days in breach of their permits.\n\nLabour shadow environment secretary Steve Reed said that Ofwat's report demonstrated \"the complete failure of water companies to act on the sewage scandal\".\n\nA spokesperson for Water UK said that \"ensuring the security of our water supply in the future while protecting the environment will take significant investment\", adding that firms in England and Wales will set out detailed plans on investment next week.\n\nWhat ongoing water issues have you experienced in your area? Tell us by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Actor and rapper Nashawn Breedlove, known for taking on Eminem in a rap battle in the film 8 Mile, has died aged 46.\n\nBreedlove played the formidable opponent Lotto in the 2002 film, loosely based on rapper Eminem's life, and appeared on the soundtrack for the 2001 film The Wash.\n\nHis mother confirmed his death on social media on Tuesday.\n\nHe died in his sleep at his home in New Jersey on Sunday, TMZ reported.\n\nRapper Mickey Factz remembered him as one of the few \"to beat Eminem.\"\n\n\"You will be missed for your tenacity and aggressiveness,\" he added in the tribute posted to Instagram.\n\n\"Nashawn was so humble and modest he didn't even know he had true fans,\" a comment under the post read.\n\n\"No one could deny his talent,\" his mother wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.\n\n\"Nashawn's departure from this world has left an immense void in my life, one that words cannot fully express. I can't put into words the pain and hurt that I feel.\n\n\"He was not just my son; he was a remarkable man whose character and strength inspired all who crossed his path.\"\n\nMany paying tribute to Breedlove fondly remembered his scene in 8 Mile, when his character Lotto takes on Eminem's B-Rabbit and raps, \"I feel bad I gotta murder that dude from Leave it to Beaver\".\n\nThough he ended up losing the battle, his performance left the entire crowd whooping and clapping in the film.\n\nThe film received critical acclaim and was a massive commercial success, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Lose Yourself by Eminem.\n\nBreedlove also contributed to the soundtrack of the 2001 comedy film The Wash starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, under his stage name Ox.\n\nHis cause of death is currently unknown, entertainment news site TMZ reported, citing family sources.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland lost for just the third time under manager Sarina Wiegman as the Netherlands scored a 90th-minute winner in the Women's Nations League.\n\nRenate Jansen gave the hosts victory after Alessia Russo had cancelled out Lieke Martens' opener in Utrecht.\n\nIt was another England performance which underwhelmed and it means their qualification for the Olympics, on behalf of Team GB, promises not to be a smooth ride.\n\nMartens had controversially put the Dutch in front, as team-mate Danielle van de Donk appeared offside in the build-up and there was no video assistant referee (VAR) to assist the officials.\n\nHowever, it only capped off a first half in which the Netherlands were the better side before England responded after the break, getting the equaliser via Russo's first-time strike, and creating more opportunities.\n\nWiegman, who led the Netherlands to Euro 2017 glory, was back in her home country for a competitive match for the first time since taking over the Lionesses in September 2021.\n\nEngland drop to third in the group, while the Netherlands move up to second place after Scotland earned a late 1-1 draw with Belgium in the other match in Group A1.\n• None No VAR in England loss is 'mind-blowing' - Bright\n• None Reaction to England's defeat by the Netherlands\n• None How does the Women's Nations League work?\n\nThe build-up to the match was dominated by the homecoming of Wiegman, who said it would be a \"special\" evening in Utrecht.\n\nBut it did not go well for the England boss as her side were flat in the first half and were punished for their lack of intensity.\n\nThe World Cup finalists struggled to deal with the Dutch pressure early on and eventually paid a price when they fell behind.\n\nMartens' finish was composed but Van de Donk looked offside in the build-up and England were understandably frustrated by the assistant referee's decision, which was compounded by no VAR.\n\nEngland then sprung into life late in the first half - Lauren Hemp and Lucy Bronze forcing a double save from Aston Villa goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar after Rachel Daly had clipped the post.\n\nBut the Dutch also hit the woodwork when Lineth Beerensteyn escaped in behind Jess Carter and lobbed goalkeeper Mary Earps, only to see it bounce back off the underside of the crossbar.\n\nA change of formation by England at half-time, switching to a back four, gave them more stability and chances began to flow but the Netherlands also tested goalkeeper Earps further.\n\nJuventus forward Beerensteyn was a constant threat and struck the woodwork for a second time after the break, while Hemp was England's standout performer and was denied twice by Domselaar in the second half.\n\nA point would have been a welcome prize to take home to England but the Lionesses will need to navigate a double header with Belgium in October and look to take points off the Netherlands and Scotland in December.\n• None Will anyone ever notice Jamma?: Surreal comedy following one man's quest for attention from anyone who will give it to him\n• None Jane, Kat and Sutton navigate life's challenges at a global women’s magazine in New York City", "The former president has denied any wrongdoing and on Tuesday said the case in New York was another political \"witch hunt\"\n\nDonald Trump committed fraud by repeatedly misrepresenting his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars, a New York judge has ruled.\n\nThe ruling, part of a civil case brought against the former president and his family business, said he defrauded banks and insurers for years.\n\nIt is a major blow to Mr Trump that will likely hamper his ability to do business in the state.\n\nMr Trump and the other defendants have argued that they never committed fraud.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James had accused Trump, his two adult sons and the Trump Organization of inflating the value of their properties by more than $2bn (£1.65bn) to suit the needs of their business.\n\nShe claimed the defendants issued false records and financial statements in order to get better terms on loans and insurance deals, and to pay less tax.\n\nThe scathing decision on Tuesday was issued by Judge Arthur Engoron in the New York state court, after Ms James asked for a summary ruling before the trial begins. She argued that finding certain facts to be beyond dispute would speed up the trial.\n\nThe ruling resolves the key claim of fraud made in the lawsuit, meaning the trial will now focus on a more narrow set of six remaining claims and determine the size of any potential penalty.\n\nThe trial is scheduled to begin on 2 October and could last until at least December. Ms James is seeking $250m in penalties and a ban on Mr Trump doing business in his home state.\n\nIn his ruling, Judge Engoron said \"the documents here clearly contain fraudulent valuations that defendants used in business\".\n\n\"That is a fantasy world, not the real world,\" he wrote.\n\nJudge Engoron also ordered the cancellation of business certificates that allow some of the former president's businesses, including the Trump Organization, to operate in New York.\n\nThat will not dissolve his company, but could end his control over signature New York properties like the Trump Tower and the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street.\n\nThe judge denied the Trump team's request to throw out the case, and separately fined five Trump attorneys $7,500 each for making \"preposterous\" arguments already rejected by the court and fuelling what he called their clients' \"obstreperous\" conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York attorney general Letitia James wants the Trumps to repay $250m that she says was illegally obtained\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump said this ruling was \"a miscarriage of justice\" and indicated they would appeal.\n\nThe former president has denied any wrongdoing and on Tuesday said the case was another political \"witch hunt\" brought by a prosecutor who was biased against him.\n\nHe accused the judge of being \"highly politicised\".\n\nMr Trump is still seeking to delay the trial in New York and has sued the judge. An appeals court is set to rule this week on that lawsuit. If it rules against him, Mr Trump will have to fight out the rest of the case in court.\n\nIt is just one of several legal battles the Republican frontrunner is facing as he campaigns for an election rematch with President Joe Biden next year and a potential return to the White House.\n\nHe is also facing 91 felony charges across four criminal cases. He has pleaded not guilty in those cases.", "The West African country of Niger is among the world's most deadly for attacks by jihadists. Following a military coup in July, there are fears a decision to order 1,500 French troops in the country to leave may further embolden insurgents.\n\nThe BBC's Mayeni Jones gained rare access to Niger and spoke to the regime, its supporters and those opposed to it.\n\nAdama Zourkaleini Maiga is soft-spoken, but her eyes suggest steely determination.\n\nThe single mother-of-two lives in a quiet, middle-class part of Niger's capital Niamey, but is originally from Tillabéry, one of the regions worst-hit by violence.\n\n\"My mother's cousin was chief of a village called Téra,\" she tells me over lunch. \"He was assassinated just seven months ago.\n\n\"The terrorists were looking for him and when they found out he'd rented a car to flee, they caught up with him and killed him. They slit his throat. It was a real shock for our whole family.\"\n\nAdama blames France - which has had 1,500 troops in the region to fight Islamist militants - for the failure to contain the violence.\n\n\"They can't tell us that the French army was successful,\" she says. \"I don't understand how they can say they're here to help people fight terrorism, and every year the situation gets worse.\"\n\nNiger was seen as the last Western ally in the Sahel, this semi-arid region which has become the epicentre of jihadi violence. France and the US each station troops in Niger, which is also home to the US's biggest drone base.\n\nBut when France refused to recognise the new military government here, simmering resentment at perceived French interference in Niger's internal affairs boiled over.\n\nPro-junta supporters see the coup as a fresh start\n\nMany Nigeriens believe France has had privileged access to the country's political elite and natural resources for too long. They see the coup as a chance for a clean slate, a way to get sovereignty back and be rid of French influence.\n\n\"The army has never stayed in power long in Niger,\" Adama says, referring to the five coups that have rocked the country since its independence from France in 1960.\n\n\"The military will eventually return to their bases and hand over to a better civilian government that will lead Niger to its destiny,\" she adds.\n\nThe popular anger that followed France's refusal to accept Niger's new leadership escalated when the junta asked its troops and ambassador to leave the country.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron initially refused to comply, but now says he's decided to agree to the junta's demands because the Nigerien authorities are \"no longer interested in fighting terrorism\".\n\nOutside a military base in Niamey housing French troops, hundreds of protesters have been camped out for weeks, stopping supplies from reaching the personnel there.\n\nOn Fridays the protesters hold a prayer sit-in. In the scorching midday heat, Imam Abdoulaziz Abdoulaye Amadou advises the crowd to be patient.\n\n\"Just as a divorce between a man and a woman takes time, so too will Niger's divorce from France,\" he tells the crowd.\n\nHundreds of protesters gather outside the French embassy each week\n\nAfter his sermon, I ask him why, after years of close cooperation, the people of Niger are so angry at the French.\n\n\"In the whole of the Sahel, Niger is France's best partner.\" he says. \"But it's France that is now refusing to accept what we want and that's why there's tension.\n\n\"France could have left quietly after the coup and came back to negotiate with the putschists. Why is Emmanuel Macron now saying he doesn't recognise our authorities, when he's accepted coups in other countries like in Gabon and in Chad?\n\n\"That's what has made us angry and we think France takes us for idiots.\"\n\nGeneral Abdou Assoumane Harouna says Nigerien forces will protect their people\n\nDuring the prayers there's commotion as a big car flanked by armed guards drives in.\n\nThe newly appointed governor of Niamey, General Abdou Assoumane Harouna - popularly known as Plaquette - steps out. He's an imposing 6ft 5in man, dressed in military fatigues and a green beret.\n\nAs we jostle for an interview with him, he points to my producer and tells the crowd: \"You see, people say we don't like white people, but we welcome them with open arms.\"\n\nHe tells me the people of Niger want a prosperous, proud and sovereign country and that outsiders should respect their will. When I ask if the junta can keep his country safe from terrorists, he replies that Nigerien forces have always protected their people, and can do so without foreign partners.\n\nBut those opposed to the regime fear the departure of French troops could be disastrous for Niger and the wider region.\n\n\"In the fight against the terrorists, France is a key partner that provides most of the intelligence that helps us beat the terrorists,\" Paris-based Idrissa Waziri, a former spokesperson for deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, tells me over Zoom.\n\n\"The rushed departure of the French has led to a deterioration of the security situation in Mali and Burkina Faso. France nowadays has become a scapegoat to get people out on the street, blaming it for all our problems.\n\n\"France is not the problem, the problem today is this attempted coup which is a significant step backwards for Niger.\"\n\nIt's still too soon to know whether France's departure will cause more unrest in the Sahel\n\nFor Fahiraman Rodrigue Koné, Sahel project manager at the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies, it's too early to say whether France's departure will lead to greater insecurity in Niger and the Sahel more widely.\n\nIn neighbouring Mali, the departure of foreign and UN troops has been followed by an uptick of violence by both Islamist insurgents and rebel groups. But Mr Koné says there are fundamental differences between the countries.\n\n\"Unlike in Mali, the French army played a more supportive role in Niger, helping local troops in a more limited capacity\" he says. \"The Nigerien army already had lots of experience fighting terror groups, especially on the eastern front against Boko Haram.\"\n\nHe adds that Niger's armed forces are more present across their territory than Malian forces were. In Mali, terror groups could seize large swathes of territory in the north of the country, where the state and the army were absent.\n\nFollowing a threat by the regional bloc Ecowas that it would invade Niger if deposed President Mohamed Bazoum wasn't reinstated, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger set up an alliance on 16 September.\n\nIn the Sahel security alliance, they agreed to help each other against armed rebellions and external aggression. Mr Koné thinks this could be a game changer.\n\n\"The lack of cooperation between the three countries was one of the reasons terror groups could easily cross from one territory into the next,\" he says. \"There's already been two or three joint military operations between these three countries. This increased cooperation is putting real pressure on the insurgents.\"\n\nHe also thinks the alliance could help share best practice from Niger to the other two countries.\n\nLast year, terror-related deaths in Niger fell by 79% according to the Global Terrorism Index; whereas neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso became the two deadliest places for terror attacks. Some 90% of last year's violence related to Islamist extremism in the Sahel occurred in the two countries.\n\n\"The reason the Bazoum administration had some success in reducing deaths in Niger is because it developed a more holistic approach: combining military strategy with community engagement and socio-economic development,\" Mr Koné says.\n\nSome pro-junta supporters welcome the coup\n\nBut despite its relative success, this process wasn't popular with everyone, with some members of the military seeing it as the government being soft on terrorists and encouraging impunity. It's unclear if the junta will continue on the same path.\n\nIt's also hard to gauge how much support President Bazoum has in Niamey.\n\nHis closeness to the French government has angered many, but we struggled to get any of his supporters, or anyone opposed to the decision to expel France, to speak to us on the record. Most people seemed too scared of the consequences.\n\nIt didn't help that the junta followed the BBC team's every move in the country, and was aware of what interviewees told us.\n\nFrance's departure doesn't necessarily mean the end of Niger's cooperation with western powers. There are still foreign troops in Niger, including those from the US.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told journalists in Kenya on Monday that his country hadn't yet made any significant changes to its military forces in Niger.\n\nBut he said they would continue to evaluate the situation there and any future steps made would prioritise both their democratic and security goals.\n\nAs the Sahel finds itself at the frontline of the war on terror, the decisions made by the ruling juntas there will be crucial to the spread of Islamist extremism to the wider region.", "The sculpture, which is technically a grotesque, on the side of the building\n\nA builder has put up a gargoyle-like sculpture of a council leader in the latest development of a planning row.\n\nWiltshire Council first issued Michael Thomas with an enforcement notice telling him to stop converting an old pizza shop in Trowbridge in 2020.\n\nAnd now Mr Thomas has put a statue of Trowbridge Town Council leader Stewart Palmen on his roof.\n\nMr Palmen, 61, said: \"I find the gargoyle very amusing, I'm using it as my Facebook profile picture.\"\n\nSpeaking to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, Mr Thomas, 71, said the sculpture was \"meant to be humorous\", rather than nasty.\n\nStewart Palmen said it was disappointing the sculpture was not sporting a hat which he usually wears\n\nAfter the enforcement notice was first issued, planning permission was sought by Mr Thomas.\n\nHowever, this was refused in June 2022 by Wiltshire Council, which said the plan would \"detract from the character and appearance of the area\".\n\nThis decision was upheld after an appeal in May this year, which led to Mr Thomas putting up a banner criticising the council on scaffolding around the property.\n\nThe enforcement notice was first issued in 2020\n\nMr Palmen said: \"He's clearly put a lot of work into the gargoyle, I think it's a good likeness of how I looked three years ago when I had a big bushy beard.\n\n\"I am a bit disturbed though because I usually wear a fedora hat and that is missing.\n\n\"I can see it was designed to wind me up but it's had the opposite effect.\"\n\nMr Thomas said he had asked an artist friend to carve the artwork, which is technically a grotesque, because he believed Mr Palmen had asked people to object to the plans.\n\nMichael Thomas asked a friend to sculpt the councillor out of stone\n\nBut Mr Palmen said he had merely been asking people to comment.\n\nHe said: \"I've never had any direct communications with him myself, I think he sees me as a channel for the council though.\n\n\"I would say Wiltshire Council do support these kind of applications when they follow the correct procedures.\"\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the council, Nick Botterill, cabinet member for strategic planning, added: \"As there is an ongoing enforcement case against Mr Thomas, it would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nMr Thomas is due to appear at Swindon Magistrates' Court on 27 October accused of failing to comply with an enforcement notice.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There was a picket line outside Royal Mile Primary School in Edinburgh from early morning\n\nHundreds of schools in Scotland will be closed as support staff enter a second day of a three-day strike in 24 of the country's 32 councils.\n\nThousands of pupils have been told to stay at home as members of the union Unison walk out in their row over pay.\n\nA renewed offer from Cosla and last-minute talks over the weekend failed to halt action from the union with the largest representation.\n\nUnite and GMB have suspended strike plans while members are consulted.\n\nThe impact of the strike will vary significantly across the 24 areas where Unison is striking - with all primary and secondary schools in Edinburgh closed while in Glasgow 29 secondaries will remain open to S4, 5 and 6 students.\n\nIn Aberdeenshire, 39 schools are closed and 21 are partially closed. The council said 66 early learning centres and nurseries were also shut.\n\nThe dispute is over a pay offer for non-teaching staff including janitors, canteen workers, classroom assistants, cleaners, admin staff and nursery staff.\n\nA deadline was set for Wednesday last week for local authority body Cosla to make an improved pay offer - this was extended while it sought money from the deputy first minister.\n\nThe Scottish government then freed up £80m in ring-fenced funding to enable a new deal, which included a rise of about £2,000 a year for the lowest paid.\n\nOn Tuesday Mark Ferguson, who is Unison's chair of local government, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme the dispute was about years of under-funding and job cuts as well as pay.\n\nHe said: \"It's unclear exactly what the in-year value (of the new offer) is. We've had two pieces of correspondence - one from the Scottish government and one from Cosla - and they conflict with each other.\n\n\"Neither can explain exactly where this money is coming from and we don't want it to come from more cuts to jobs and services.\"\n\nDozens of schools in and around Edinburgh, including Holy Cross Primary School (above) and Portobello High School (below), have been affected\n\nGMB Scotland said the offer was \"not perfect but a clear improvement\" and moved to suspend strikes, along with Unite.\n\nMembers of those unions were now faced with the prospect of having to cross Unison picket lines.\n\nJust hours before the strikes were due to start, First Minister Humza Yousaf urged Unison to suspend its strike action and to put the improved pay offer to members to vote on.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We have been engaged with Cosla right throughout this process\" and insisted flexibility had been given to provide extra funds.\n\nThe Scottish government was urged to \"work flat-out to avert strikes\" by the Scottish Tories.\n\nThe new offer represents a minimum wage increase of £2,006 for those on the Scottish government's living wage and a minimum increase of £1,929 for workers who are earning above the living wage.\n\nThe living wage of £10.85 will rise to £11.89 under the new offer, equivalent to a 9.6% increase.\n\nUnison members on their picket line outside Anderson High School in Lerwick\n\nAsked if the Scottish government could have done more to prevent school strikes, Mr Yousaf said: \"These are negotiations obviously for Cosla but we have been engaged with Cosla right throughout this process, providing additional funding, additional flexibility so more funding can be made available.\n\n\"But it is for Cosla to lead these negotiations.\n\n\"It is a very good offer, that is why a couple of unions of course have suspended strike action and will now consult members.\n\n\"There's government involvement, government funding - it is a very good offer and I would urge Unison, who I understand continue to have concerns, to follow the other trade unions, suspend strike action and do a consultation with their members.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"I have got tremendous respect for Unison.\n\n\"I believe they are doing what they believe is in the best interests of their members but I would very politely suggest that with the further detail we have provided over the weekend, I am hoping there is enough to give them reassurances, that particularly for the lowest paid, but for everybody across any of the pay bands this is a very good offer indeed.\"\n\nUnison's Scottish secretary Lilian Macer criticised Mr Yousaf for \"staying silent\" until the last moment, claiming the dispute \"could have been sorted months ago.\"\n\nShe said: \"If the Scottish government was serious about avoiding disruption for pupils, parents and staff, ministers should have been in touch, and spoken to us. But they've been conspicuously absent.\n\n\"Cosla is as much to blame. It made an initial offer in the spring, then disappeared for months, only coming up with a revised amount late last week. It was too little and far too late.\n\n\"No-one wants these strikes to go ahead, but the offer is nowhere near good enough.\"\n\nResources spokesperson Katie Hagmann said: \"I am heartened both Unite and the GMB will suspend strike action whilst they consult with their membership on the pay package.\n\n\"We have met every ask of our trade union colleagues and this best and final offer which will see every single local government worker receive an in-year pay rise of between 6% and almost 10% on the basis that strikes would be suspended.\n\n\"We are talking about a pay package which not only compares well to other sectors but recognises the cost-of-living pressures on our workforce and which would mean the lowest-paid would see an in-year uplift of over £2,000 or just under 10%.\n\n\"This is the best funding package that Scottish and local government can provide and I hope their members accept the offer.\"\n\nThe council unions had hoped that the mere threat of further disruption to schools would lead to a suitable pay offer.\n\nTwo of the three big council unions - Unite and the GMB - feel the latest offer was good enough to suspend the action. In that sense, the threat worked.\n\nThe other union, Unison - the largest council union across Scotland - took a different view.\n\nThe impact of the strike varies significantly across the 24 areas where Unison is striking.\n\nCouncils and the Scottish government are adamant that there is no chance of a further improvement to the pay offer.\n\nBut will that position hold after three days of disruption?\n\nAre you affected by the school strikes? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Serge Kelly's face was covered as he left Carrick-on-Shannon District Court on Tuesday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged over a hit-and-run collision in which a nine-year-old boy from County Tyrone died on Saturday night.\n\nRonan Wilson, from Kildress, died at the scene of the crash on Atlantic Way in Bundoran, County Donegal.\n\nSerge Kelly, 23, from Upper Mullaghmore, Cliffony, County Sligo was granted bail on Tuesday after appearing in court in Carrick-on-Shannon.\n\nHe faces three charges including failing to stop after a collision.\n\nA garda (Irish police) detective said Mr Kelly was charged at Ballyshannon Garda Station on Monday night.\n\nWhen accused of failing to offer assistance following the collision, the detective said Mr Kelly replied: \"It was wrong and I should have stopped but I didn't.\"\n\nIn response to a charge of failing to keep the vehicle near the scene of the collision, he replied: \"I should have but I didn't.\"\n\nWhen charged with failing to stop at the scene, the court was told Mr Kelly said: \"I know I should have but I didn't.\"\n\nRonan Wilson was from Kildress in County Tyrone\n\nThe defendant was granted bail after a €2,000 (£1,740) cash bond was given to the court with a further surety of €5,000 (£4,350) also provided.\n\nMr Kelly was told not to have any contact with prosecution witnesses and to surrender his passport.\n\nHe must also stay out of Bundoran.\n\nA hearse carrying Ronan Wilson's coffin receives the guard of honour at his GAA club\n\nThe case was adjourned until 20 October at Ballyshannon District Court.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, a guard of honour was held at Kildress Wolfe Tones GAA club as the hearse carrying Ronan's coffin arrived.\n\nHis funeral will take place at St Mary's Church in Dunamore in County Tyrone on Thursday.", "Jimmy's unit has been transformed since the outbreak of the war\n\nOpen-ended service, just 10 days' leave a year and a high casualty rate - for Ukrainian soldiers in one unit, life on the front line is far from easy, as BBC Newsnight witnessed up close.\n\nStanding among some flattened buildings, \"Jimmy\", a Ukrainian officer who's been on active service for years, reflected on his survival: \"I'm a lucky man… as I see it, war can either love people or not.\"\n\nHis soldiers think the fact Jimmy's still with them, despite multiple wounds, means he lives a charmed life.\n\nHis unit, the 24th Mechanised Brigade, has a long history, and is part of the old regular Ukrainian army, fighting the Russians from 2014. But since the invasion of February 2022, the army has more than trebled in size, the nation mobilised and Jimmy's unit changed out of all recognition.\n\nWe spent two weeks in August with the 24th, which now serves in the Donbas, that old centre of smokestack industries in the east, occupying a section of the front between Bakhmut and Horlivka.\n\nAnd we went to the home community in western Ukraine where the brigade was garrisoned before the war, and where many of its families still live.\n\nJimmy - the Ukrainian army asks that we use soldiers' nicknames rather than their real ones - commands a company (usually about 120 troops), a post he stepped into last year. One officer told me that none of the 15 company commanders in post at the start of the war are still in place, all having been promoted or become casualties.\n\nIn the run-up to war, the 24th Brigade was just over 2,000 strong, rotating its three battalions to the front line in eastern Ukraine for occasional tours of duty. Although the Ukrainian army rarely discusses numbers, sources told me it has now swelled to more than 7,000, with a total of five infantry battalions, four of artillery, a tank battalion and numerous other supporting elements.\n\nAs that mobilisation happened, the old regular soldiers were joined by thousands of volunteers and conscripts. \"Yurii,\" a twenty-something venture capitalist from Kyiv, is one of the talented incomers.\n\nAlthough Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, according to an officer he in effect runs the unit\n\nInitially given a rifle and sent to the infantry, a few months later, Yurii was transferred into a military \"start-up\", the 24th Brigade's strike drone company. Sitting at a table in a children's playground near the front, he showed us new drones, and the packages of explosive they carry, allowing him and others to fly them into vehicles, buildings, or bunkers where the Russians are taking cover.\n\nYurii explained how his mother was initially sceptical about him joining up, but once he started guiding drones into Russian trenches, \"then she changed her mind\", and became proud of him.\n\nUnder the terms of their contracts, volunteers - in common with conscripts - can't walk away and are obliged to serve until the war ends. In the meantime, they are entitled to only 10 days' leave each year.\n\nYurii is unusual among the 24th's men in that the £2,600 ($3,195) he earns monthly (80% of which is combat pay) is less than his earnings in civilian life.\n\nBearded, and with a banker's flair for selling a business plan, Yurii told me how the company has to be more ingenious than the Russians because the enemy have so many more drones.\n\nOne of the officers revealed that although Yurii ranks as a simple private soldier, he basically runs this unit. That rethinking of the usual hierarchy is one of the differences between the pre-2022 army set-up and the force that now fights the Russians.\n\nAnother is their willingness to overlook age and other factors that might have counted against volunteers before 2022. We met a sergeant nicknamed \"Hryb\" (it means mushroom) who had been put in charge of a self-propelled artillery gun.\n\nHe's an older man, 52 to be exact, who did his army service more than 30 years ago. What could he know about modern warfare?\n\nHryb's family wept when he told them of his decision to volunteer\n\nAs it happens, the 24th Brigade's 152mm Akatsiya (or Acacia) howitzers are so ancient that they're the same kind as the one Hryb commanded while serving with the Soviet Army in East Germany in the early 1990s.\n\nThe shells we watched them firing were manufactured 40 years ago, and the crew have nicknamed the howitzer Babushka or Grandma. Who better to know her old quirks than Grandpa Hryb?\n\nHis decision to volunteer did not sit easily with his family. \"They cried silently,\" Hryb explained. \"They said they would wait for me, that they loved me.\"\n\nBehind the summit declarations, of \"as long as it takes\", are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian families struggling along, managing their hopes and fears as the war passed its 18-month point without any end apparently in sight.\n\nAt a rehabilitation centre in Lviv for soldiers with life-changing injuries, I discussed the difficult exchanges when some of the less badly wounded tell their wives they want to return to the front.\n\nOne injured serviceman warns that Ukraine has not reckoned with the number of people damaged by war\n\n\"Many boys, well those who remained alive but lost a limb, also lost their family,\" Pavlo, one of the patients, told me.\n\nThat conversation has been taking place within his marriage too, he says ruefully: \"She thinks I have already done my duty.\" Another man, wounded in a minefield during the recent counter-offensive, tells me that Ukrainian society has not yet woken up to how many damaged people there are now.\n\nThe record of death, maiming, and capture may well be affecting people's willingness to serve. Recruitment is another topic on which Ukraine does not publish official figures.\n\nHowever, among the men that we filmed being trained at Yavoriv and another range closer to the front, many were in their 40s, and quite a few in their 50s. Officers told us about the intense competition for younger recruits among various brigades.\n\nIt also emerged in August, following the sacking of officers supervising the call-up, that thousands of men were bribing their way out of it or being smuggled out of the country to avoid service.\n\nAmong those who volunteer willingly to go to the front are many who have lost their jobs in the economic crisis that's accompanied the war and are attracted by the high pay that comes with being on the front line.\n\nAs for attempts to turn the tables on Russia this summer, in order to liberate occupied lands, the expectations of what the Ukrainian military could achieve were perhaps higher in the Pentagon than among the veterans of the 24th Brigade.\n\n\"An easy breakthrough is simply impossible,\" Jimmy told us. \"We are getting ready for a long-term war.\"\n\nThe brigade's howitzers are of a type used by the Soviet Army back in the 1990s\n\nAnother of the brigade's officers, the commander of one of its battalions, compared the conflict to Vietnam, implying it could last many years.\n\nAnd as the fight goes on, so does the loss. Casualties are a matter of great sensitivity in Ukraine, it being against the law to publish figures. But the Pentagon estimated recently that 70,000 Ukrainians had been killed in the war, the great majority of them in the military.\n\nFrom our analysis of social media and archive news reports, our conservative estimate would be that the 24th Brigade has lost something like 400 personnel in total. About 120 of these died during the fighting from 2014 to the start of 2022, the remainder since the Russian invasion.\n\nIt has also had scores or even hundreds of men captured, another difficult topic for the authorities, since prisoner swaps have been very limited in scale so far.\n\nThe wife of one prisoner of war told us that just 22 men from the 24th Brigade had returned so far and that all of the government departments she's written to had given her the same message: \"You should wait.\"\n\nThe repatriation of prisoners of war is just one of many issues that will have to be negotiated once the guns fall silent. But the loss and public outrage at Russia's actions have made it so much harder for Ukrainian politicians to agree to an armistice or peace deal that looks like a messy compromise.\n\nAt a cemetery on the outskirts of Lviv, we followed Natalia Nezhura as she placed fresh flowers on her brother Andrii's grave. \"I tried everything to stop him going to the front line,\" she explained.\n\nNatalia attempted to hide her brother's call-up papers to stop him being sent to the front\n\nShe breaks down as she tells me of her feelings of failure that she had not managed to do this.\n\nShe had hidden Andrii's call-up papers, then, when that was not successful, used a connection to get him a firearms instructor's job at the Yavoriv training ground, \"but in the end most of the boys were sent to the front line\".\n\nAndrii was killed earlier this year, when the 24th Brigade had units engaged in the battle for Bakhmut. Our conversation took place among the fluttering flags of many units that adorn the military plot in Lviv, a place where we counted more than 2,000 graves.\n\nThose who imagine this loss and pain might engender a yearning for peace would be in for a rude shock. When I asked her how the war should end, Natalia replied: \"I just want all Russians dead, I hate them with all my heart and soul,\" adding, \"how can you talk about peace when they killed so many of our people?\"\n\nFor years, the old professional army managed an uneasy peace and occasional flare-ups along the line of contact with the Russians. But now everybody feels a stake in the conflict, and the attitudes we encountered among the soldiers and families of the 24th Brigade underlined the degree to which society as a whole has been mobilised and only a clear-cut victory is now acceptable to Ukrainians.", "Still from footage shows video link with Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu on big screen and Adm Sokolov immediately below him\n\nRussia's defence ministry has released a video showing the Black Sea Fleet's commander at a conference, despite Ukraine claiming to have killed him.\n\nIt's not clear when the footage, where Viktor Sokolov appears on a video link with the defence minister, was filmed.\n\nThe ministry said the meeting with senior officials happened on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine special forces said on Monday that Adm Sokolov and 33 other officers died in a missile strike on the fleet's HQ in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, a TV channel run by Russia's defence ministry showed a video interview with Adm Sokolov, during which he said the fleet was performing successfully.\n\nIt was not clear when the clip was filmed.\n\nKyiv has not named the admiral directly, nor has it offered any evidence that he had died. It now says it is \"clarifying\" the reports.\n\n\"As it is known, 34 officers were killed as a result of a missile attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation,\" Ukraine's special forces said in a statement.\n\n\"Many [bodies] still have not been identified due to the condition of the body parts.\"\n\nThis suggests Ukraine is backtracking following the release of the Russian Defence Ministry's clip.\n\nIn a statement, it now cites \"open sources\" for its claim that the commander was one of the 34.\n\nThis is a definite change of tone following yesterday's confident claims. Ukraine's new Defence Minister, Rustem Umerov, told CNN that if Adm Sokolov was dead \"it's good news for everybody\", but this is far from a confirmation.\n\nThere is a chance that Ukraine did act on intelligence and target a key meeting in the heart of occupied Crimea.\n\nThe significance of last Friday's strike is not to be understated, but if Kyiv has overextended in its alleged achievements, it would be a careless mistake in this continued information war.\n\nThe eight-minute video shows a Defence Ministry collegium, said to have taken place on Tuesday morning. Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu is seen talking to senior officials in a conference room in Moscow.\n\nHe is also briefly seen on several occasions on video link with the commanders of Russia's five fleets including the Black Sea Fleet, none of whom speak.\n\nFacial recognition software shows a match between other images of Adm Sokolov and the man who appears in the latest video, suggesting it is him.\n\nBut the BBC has so far been unable to verify whether the meeting actually took place on Tuesday, or whether the image of Adm Sokolov on the video link is in real time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Friday, Ukraine said it had hit the headquarters of the fleet, seen as the best of the Russian navy and an important target for Kyiv.\n\nFootage on social media showed plumes of smoke over the building. Russia said it had shot down five missiles, although one serviceman had gone missing in the attack.\n\nKyiv's forces have recently been launching near-daily strikes against Russian forces based in Crimea.\n\nAs well as being a platform from which to attack Ukraine, the Black Sea fleet is a major symbol of Russia's centuries-old military presence in the region.\n\nIt was based in Crimea under a leasing deal even before Russia illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Lib Dem leader pledges to make cancer treatment a top priority for his party\n\nSir Ed Davey has called for a new legal right to cancer treatment within two months of an urgent referral in England in a speech to his party conference.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader launched an all-out attack on the Conservative government's record on the NHS.\n\nHe accused Rishi Sunak of ditching plans for a ten-year cancer plan, describing it as a casualty of \"Conservative chaos\".\n\nAnd he urged his party to focus on unseating Tories at the next election.\n\nThe Lib Dems are concentrating their efforts on traditional Conservative strongholds in southern England known as the \"Blue Wall\" - in contrast to their disastrous 2019 campaign, which saw them reduced to 11 MPs.\n\nThey have since boosted their numbers in the Commons to 15 after a series of by-election victories in Tory heartlands in the south of England.\n\nSir Ed has faced calls from Lib Dem activists at their Bournemouth conference to campaign for the UK to rejoin the EU - but he has told the BBC this is currently \"off the table\".\n\nHe did briefly touch on Brexit in his speech - to cheers from activists in the hall - saying: \"The Conservatives botched the deal with Europe, and it's been a disaster for the UK.\n\n\"Only we have set out a plan to tear down those trade barriers, fix our broken relationship with Europe and get a better deal for Britain.\"\n\nHe added that Labour's plan was \"nowhere near that ambitious\".\n\nBut Sir Ed's speech was mainly devoted to domestic issues, which he believes will help his party win over voters who feel let down by the Conservatives.\n\nIt was his first speech to a party conference since becoming leader in 2020, with previous conferences called off due to the Covid pandemic and the death of the late Queen.\n\nIn a deeply personal section, the audience listened in silence as Sir Ed spoke about his own experience of losing both his parents to cancer as a child and caring for his mum while he was still at school.\n\n\"My family's story isn't unique: there are millions of us whose lives get turned upside down by cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"Far too many people are still waiting far too long for a diagnosis. Or to start treatment after being diagnosed.\"\n\nHe said cancer would be \"a top priority\" for Lib Dem MPs, adding: \"We will hold the government to account, for every target it misses and every patient it fails.\"\n\nThe NHS in England already has a target for 85% of people to start cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral.\n\nHowever, this has not been met since 2015 and figures hit a record low in January. The latest figure for July was 63%.\n\nUnder the Lib Dem proposals a two-month guarantee would be written into law, with patients who have to wait longer able to complain to the health ombudsman in the first instance and ultimately take legal action against the government.\n\nThe party said it would invest £4bn in NHS cancer treatment over the next five years to deliver the plan - including paying for more staff and radiotherapy machines.\n\nThe Lib Dems have not set out how this will be funded, saying details will be in their \"fully costed\" manifesto ahead of the next general election, which is expected next year.\n\nThe NHS Confederation welcomed the pledge but said it was not clear how it would be implemented, with more than 100,000 vacancies in the health service.\n\nThe Lib Dems have faced a split on the issue of housing, with members defying the leadership by voting to keep the party's national housebuilding target for England.\n\nParty bosses had wanted to shelve the 380,000 annual target, arguing it had failed to deliver necessary new homes.\n\nBut after an impassioned debate members backed a motion to keep it, with activists saying ditching an overall target risked alienating younger voters.\n\nOther key policy announcements at the conference included dropping plans to put a penny on income tax to invest in the NHS and social care.", "Jarvis Cocker and his bandmates have enjoyed a successful reunion and tour\n\nBritpop trailblazers Pulp have been announced as the headline act for Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.\n\nLed by frontman Jarvis Cocker, the Sheffield band will bring in the bells against a backdrop of Edinburgh Castle.\n\nIt follows a hugely successful reunion and a summer tour which included an unforgettable set at TRNSMT in Glasgow.\n\nCocker said: \"When your grandkids ask 'Do you remember the first time Pulp played Edinburgh's Hogmanay?' What will your answer be?\"\n\nHe added: \"Come along and start 2024 in the very best way possible. Oh yes.\"\n\nThe band's set at the Concert in the Gardens in West Princes Street Gardens will be their first in the city for more than 20 years.\n\nPulp enjoyed huge success in the 1990s, with their album Different Class providing the soundtrack to a generation and winning the Mercury Music Prize in 1996.\n\nHits including Disco 2000, Common People and Do You Remember The First Time are likely to be on the setlist for the Hogmanay gig - their last of 2023 and their first of 2024.\n\nAnd it will mark the 30th anniversary of Edinburgh's Hogmanay party, whose previous headliners have included Pet Shop Boys, Mark Ronson and Franz Ferdinand.\n\nPulp's performance will also be broadcast on screens along Princes Street, where 40,000 revellers are expected for the Hogmanay Street Party.\n\nTickets to the Pulp gig - due to go on sale on Friday morning - will cost £75, while briefs for the Street Party cost £28.50.\n\nMeanwhile, there will be \"foot stompin'\" music from across Scotland at The Tartan Zone on Waverley Bridge, and a giant silent disco for 4,000 party-goers.\n\nFireworks over Edinburgh Castle are a traditional part of Scotland's Hogmanay celebrations\n\nHogmanay revellers in Edinburgh need to prepare for typical Scottish weather\n\nOrganisers UniqueAssembly have also promised live street theatre, drummers, pipers, vintage funfair rides and a carnival atmosphere in the city centre leading up to the bells.\n\n\"Reaching the milestone 30th anniversary for Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a phenomenal achievement, which since 1993 has welcomed millions of party people to celebrate at the Home of Hogmanay,\" the directors said.\n\n\"We wanted to make sure that this year was extra special for our audiences and are thrilled to welcome Pulp to the party. This will be the hottest ticket in town, and we recommend people grab their tickets fast to make sure they don't miss out.\"\n\nThey also confirmed that the Torchlight Procession would return on 29 December, as well as the Night Afore Disco Party beneath Edinburgh Castle on 30 December.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said: \"The excellent news that pop-pioneers Pulp are set to headline the 30th anniversary concert in the gardens, as part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations, is testament to the international reputation that our city and festivals command.\n\n\"After the difficult years of the pandemic, I'm overjoyed that our festivals are back to their brilliant best and providing such high-calibre cultural offerings for our residents and visitors. \"", "It has been suggested the mast could be partially painted green to help it fit in with the surrounding environment\n\nA proposal for a 167ft (50.9m) communications mast in a national park has sparked fears it could set a precedent for other UK beauty spots.\n\nAn application for the structure on Preseli Hills was turned down by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority last October.\n\nIt stated concerns about \"visual amenity\" but the applicant is now appealing the decision.\n\nAgents Waldon Telecom and end users Wholesailor have been asked to comment.\n\nOpponents of the plan have warned \"no national park in the United Kingdom will be safe\" from development if the planning appeal is granted.\n\nA new group, Custodians and Friends of the Preseli, is fighting the proposals.\n\nLocal artist and group member Jess Wallace said she was worried reversing the decision could set a dangerous precedent, and that the structure would \"desecrate\" the area of Pembrokeshire's national park.\n\n\"If this is permitted, in a national park which is an ancient sacred landscape and the cradle of Stonehenge, no national park in the United Kingdom will be safe,\" she said.\n\n\"They will just be merely for sale for the highest bidder.\"\n\nJess Wallace says approval would set a precedent that beauty spots are \"merely for sale\"\n\nMs Wallace said the structure would be a data communications tower, rather than a phone mast, and there were \"no commitments\" from its proposed developer on how it would benefit the community.\n\n\"They make vague noises about the possibility of improving local mobile connection but there's no commitment for that at all,\" she said.\n\nThe application is for a mast supporting nine transmission dishes and six mobile phone antennas, to transmit financial data between the UK and Ireland.\n\nBut Waldon Telecom, representing applicants Britannia Towers II Ltd, said it could also provide \"improved connectivity to the surrounding area\" if mobile operators choose to use it.\n\nCritics fear the communications mast - visualised here in a mock-up - would destroy the \"sacred\" landscape\n\nThe peak of the galvanised steel lattice tower would reach a height of 1,410ft (430m) above sea level, on a hill above Rosebush.\n\nThe agents suggested that the bottom half of the mast could be painted \"fir green\" up to the height of the adjacent trees to help it blend in with the character of the area.\n\nThe appeal will be considered by a planning inspector from Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW).\n\nMembers of the public have until midnight on Wednesday 27 September to submit their comments.\n\nElizabeth Haines worries the mast would detract from the \"safe place for recreation\"\n\nElizabeth Haines, an artist who lives near the proposed mast site, said: \"The message it would send out [is] that the world of money-making is deemed to be more important than the stated aims of the national park, all national parks, to provide a safe place for recreation.\"\n\nThe appeal to have the mast built has been backed by Vodafone, which has written a letter of support claiming that \"the tower will provide significant mobile broadband service uplift across a wide area\".\n\nIn a lengthy document submitted to PEDW, Waldon Telecom said that \"planning permission should have been granted based on the fact that the public benefits that would be brought by the proposal would outweigh the impact of the development\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is thought to have begun after fireworks were set off\n\nAt least 94 people have died and 100 others are injured after a fire broke out during a wedding in Iraq's biggest Christian town on Tuesday night.\n\nHundreds were celebrating at a banqueting hall in Qaraqosh, in Nineveh province, when the tragedy happened.\n\nWitnesses and civil defence officials said the fire was sparked by fireworks set off as the bride and groom danced.\n\nHighly flammable metal and plastic composite panels that covered the hall fuelled the blaze, they added.\n\nSecurity forces arrested 10 of the venue's staff, its owner and three people involved with the fireworks on Wednesday.\n\nIn the afternoon, hundreds of mourners attended a funeral for more than 40 of the victims at a cemetery in Qaraqosh, which is also known as al-Hamdaniya and Bakhdida. Some carried portraits of their deceased loved ones.\n\nIn an address, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako described the fire as a \"complete and total catastrophe\", according to Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw.\n\nAlsumaria TV, meanwhile, showed footage of a man at the funeral who it identified as the groom. BBC Verify ran an image of his face through facial recognition software, comparing it to a picture of the groom before the wedding, and is confident that the report is correct.\n\nCivil defence officials told BBC News Arabic that both the groom and his bride survived, though initial reports said they had perished.\n\nSeveral witnesses said entire families died in the fire\n\nFootage posted online showed the couple on the dancefloor as flaming debris begins to fall from the ceiling.\n\nAnother video, filmed moments before, appeared to show four large fountain fireworks alight in the hall and then a large ceiling decoration nearby being engulfed by fire.\n\nRania Waad, a wedding guest who sustained a burn to her hand, said that as the bride and groom were slow dancing, \"fireworks started to climb to the ceiling, the whole hall went up in flames\".\n\n\"We couldn't see anything,\" the 17-year-old told AFP news agency. \"We were suffocating, we didn't know how to get out.\"\n\nImad Yohana, a 34-year-old who escaped the inferno, told Reuters: \"We saw the fire pulsating, coming out of the hall. Those who managed got out and those who didn't got stuck. Even those who made their way out were broken.\"\n\nAnother survivor said several members of his family were among the victims.\n\n\"When [the fire] happened, my mother was in the bathroom,\" he said. \"I couldn't find her after. I searched for my daughter, my son, my wife, my father and I couldn't find them. They are gone.\"\n\nThe number of victims is unclear. On Wednesday evening, Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari cited Nineveh's health directorate as saying that 94 people had died, according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA).\n\nBut the deputy governor of Nineveh, Hassan al-Allaq, told Reuters earlier that 113 people had been confirmed dead.\n\nThe injured have been transferred to hospitals across Nineveh, including the nearby city of Mosul, and in the neighbouring Kurdistan Region.\n\nA journalist in the Kurdish city of Irbil, Blesa Shaways, told the BBC there had not been sufficient \"logistical tools to rescue the people\" from the fire and that Mosul did not have enough ambulances, healthcare staff and medical equipment to treat the injured.\n\nMr Shammari said a preliminary investigation had found the blaze was \"caused by fireworks, which led to the roof burning heavily and collapsing on the citizens\", INA reported.\n\nThe interior minister also said the hall also lacked the required \"safety and security specifications\" and that those responsible would \"get their fair punishment\".\n\nAn emergency worker picks through rubble early on Wednesday\n\nEarlier, the Civil Defence Directorate said the hall had been covered with highly flammable metal composite panels, which are illegal in the country and \"collapse within minutes when a fire breaks out\". The panels also release toxic gases when burned, exacerbating fires.\n\nPrime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said building inspections would be carried out and safety procedures would be scrutinised, with \"the relevant authorities held accountable for any negligence\".\n\nSuch incidents are not rare in Iraq, where corruption and mismanagement are rife and accountability is lacking.\n\nIn 2021, officials said a lack of safety measures had contributed to the deaths of nearly 100 people in a fire at a hospital in the city of Nasiriya.\n\nQaraqosh was home to about 50,000 people, the vast majority of them Assyrian Christians, before it was overrun by the Sunni Muslim jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2014.\n\nAlthough most people fled, IS militants committed many atrocities against the Christians who remained. They also desecrated churches and burned hundreds of homes to the ground before Iraqi and US-led coalition forces recaptured the city in 2016.\n\nAbout half of Qaraqosh's residents are said to have returned since then, but many of the destroyed homes have yet to be rebuilt.\n\nAdditional reporting by Lina Sinjab in Beirut and Mattea Bubalo in London", "Rescue and medical personnel work following an explosion in the gas warehouse near the Stepanakert-Askera highway in Berkadzor on 26 September\n\nAn explosion at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh has killed 20 people and injured hundreds more, local ethnic-Armenian authorities say.\n\nNearly 300 people were admitted to hospitals, with dozens of them reported to be in a critical condition.\n\nIt comes as the Armenian government said more than 28,000 refugees had crossed into the country since local forces surrendered to Azerbaijan.\n\nThe disputed region is home to some 120,000 ethnic Armenians.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the explosion on Monday evening near the main city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians.\n\nPetrol stations have been overwhelmed as thousands try to leave the region, which was already suffering from a fuel shortage following a months-long blockade.\n\nThe only road connecting Armenia to the enclave remains backed up with hundreds of cars and buses, filled with ethnic Armenians trying to reach the town of Goris across the border.\n\nThe winding mountain road from Goris to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, has also been heavy with traffic from well before dawn.\n\nA BBC team saw families crammed into cars, boots overflowing and roof-racks piled high with belongings. Convinced they are leaving their homes for good, people are squeezing as much of their lives as possible into their vehicles.\n\nInside Goris, a small town that is the same dusty brown as the jagged mountains that surround it, the narrow streets are filled with more cars and more families. One has arrived in a car held together with little more than sticking tape, its side badly dented and dotted with shrapnel holes, and windows smashed.\n\nThe owner tells the BBC it was hit by mortar fire when Azerbaijan launched a lightning assault to take control of the region last week. \"But it still got us here,\" he smiles, surrounded by small children.\n\nA family made the journey from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in their heavily damaged car\n\nOn the main town square, people mill around unsure what to do next. Volunteers hand out some basic food and blankets.\n\nEvacuees are registered and there is the occasional bus to move people on to another town or village. But few seem to have a plan, beyond getting this far.\n\nMalina left her husband's grave behind in their village. He died soon after the six-week war that broke out in 2020, the most recent violence before this month.\n\nShe says his nerves gave out. She keeps an eye on four grandchildren playing nearby as we speak. They think this trip is temporary, that they will eventually go home like last time, and Malina does not want to upset them yet with the truth.\n\nFor two days last week, they all huddled in their cellar as their village was under fire. After the Karabakh forces surrendered, Malina says the local authorities told everyone to leave for Armenia, for safety. Their village in the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh is now empty.\n\nMalina says her family left because - whatever the assurances - they would not feel safe under Azerbaijani rule.\n\nMalina says she and her grandchildren fled to seek safety\n\nDespite Azerbaijan's public reassurances, there are fears about the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, with only one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food having been allowed through since separatists accepted a ceasefire and agreed to disarm.\n\nAzerbaijan announced that another aid convoy, with 40 tonnes of flour and badly-needed hygiene products, was on its way to the enclave.\n\nEthnic-Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter and sleeping in basements, school buildings or outside.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, local officials said doctors were working in \"difficult and cramped conditions\" to save the lives of those injured in the fuel depot explosion, adding that hospitals were treating 290 patients with various degrees of burns.\n\nThey said 13 unidentified bodies were found at the scene of the explosion and seven more died in hospital.\n\nHuman Rights Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan wrote on social media: \"The health condition of the majority is severe or extremely severe. The medical capacities of Nagorno-Karabakh are not enough.\"\n\nThe Armenian health ministry said it was sending helicopters to evacuate patients from the region's strained hospitals. Azerbaijan also said it had sent medical supplies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArmenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that ethnic cleansing is \"under way\" in the region.\n\n\"That's happening just now, and that is [a] very unfortunate fact, because we were trying to urge international community on that,\" Nikol Pashinyan told reporters.\n\nBut Azerbaijan has said it wants to re-integrate the ethnic Armenians as \"equal citizens\".\n\nThe head of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, called on Azerbaijan \"to maintain the ceasefire and take concrete steps to protect the rights of civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh\".\n\nShe said the international community should to be given access to the region and announced $11.5m (£9.5m) of US aid to assist those fleeing.\n\nEnvoys from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Brussels for European Union-backed talks.\n\nIt was the first time diplomatic talks have been held between the two countries since Azerbaijan seized the enclave last week.\n\nAzerbaijan has also started separate negotiations with Karabakh's ethnic-Armenian authorities about the region's future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Nataliya Zotova reports from the border between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan, but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nThe enclave has been supported by Armenia - but also by its ally, Russia, which has had a peacekeeping mission there for the past three years.\n\nFive Russian peacekeepers were killed - alongside at least 200 ethnic Armenians and dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers - as Azerbaijan's army swept in last week.\n\nOn Sunday, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said it had confiscated more military equipment, including a large number of rockets, artillery shells, mines and ammunition.", "Natalie McNally was found dead in a house in Silverwood Green\n\nA man who posted a \"grossly offensive\" animated image of murder victim Natalie McNally on Facebook claimed he did it to \"lighten the mood\", a court has heard.\n\nThe court heard the image was posted under a police appeal news story.\n\nMs McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed at her Lurgan home in December 2022.\n\nA prosecution lawyer told Craigavon Crown Court that 22-year-old Withers was arrested after police received a complaint from Ms McNally's cousin about a Facebook comment from an account named \"John John\".\n\nIt was shared under a media outlet's post about a police appeal.\n\nThe image posted had been created on an app which used a family image of Ms McNally in her graduation gown.\n\nIt was animated and appeared to be singing, the court heard.\n\nIt was shared on three different Facebook posts between 23 to 28 December 2022.\n\n\"Several members of the public berated the defendant for the post but he didn't take it down,\" said the lawyer.\n\nWithers was subsequently identified by police and during interviews, he made full admissions to creating the image and posting it online.\n\n\"He maintained that his intent was to try and lighten the mood around the murder of the deceased, not to cause upset,\" said the prosecution lawyer.\n\nHe told police that he was different to other people, had no social skills and expressed regret for his actions, she added.\n\nA defence lawyer for Withers told the court he had instructed him to express how \"sorry he was for causing distress to the family and friends of the deceased\".\n\nWithers was described as a young man who \"lives a solitary life with no close relationships\".\n\nThe court heard he \"left school at 14 and was mercilessly bullied\".\n\nThe defendant had also been diagnosed with an emotionally unstable personality disorder and was suffering from \"deteriorating mental health at the time of the offending\".\n\nHe said he had not been taking new medication.\n\nA doctor's report described Withers \"as a disabled young man [who has] effectively developed a life of virtual living\".\n\nHe added: \"He genuinely believed, quite incredibly, that what he was doing was lightening the mood... his brain just doesn't work the same as other people.\"\n\nFreeing Withers on bail the judge said he would pass sentence on Friday.", "A renowned British crocodile expert has admitted to 60 charges relating to bestiality and child abuse material.\n\nAn Australian court heard Adam Britton filmed himself torturing dozens of dogs until almost all died.\n\nHe would then post videos of the incidents online, where he also accessed child abuse material.\n\nA leading zoologist who has worked on BBC and National Geographic productions, Britton will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nAt a hearing in the Northern Territory (NT) Supreme Court on Monday, prosecutors laid out the case against him.\n\nMuch of the details of Britton's crimes are too graphic to publish, and so \"grotesque\" the judge warned people to leave the courtroom.\n\nChief Justice Michael Grant said he was concerned hearing the facts of the case could cause \"nervous shock\", before taking the rare step of excusing security officers and junior court officials, local media reported.\n\nBritton had a \"sadistic sexual interest\" in animals since at least 2014, prosecutors told the court, and along with exploiting his own pets, he had manipulated other dog owners into giving him theirs.\n\nHe would use the online marketplace platform Gumtree Australia to find people who were often reluctantly giving their pets away due to travel or work commitments, building a \"rapport\" with them to negotiate taking custody of the animals. If they reached out to Britton for updates on their old pets, he would tell them \"false narratives\" and send them old photos.\n\nIn reality, he was abusing the animals in a shipping container on his property that had been fitted out with recording equipment - which the court heard he called a \"torture room\" - before sharing footage of his crimes online under pseudonyms.\n\nSuch a video was eventually passed on to NT police who arrested Britton in April 2022.\n\nOf the 42 dogs he abused in the 18 months leading up to his arrest, 39 died.\n\nBritton has been remanded in custody since his arrest and will return to court for a sentencing hearing in December.\n\nBorn in West Yorkshire, Britton grew up in the UK before moving to Australia over 20 years ago to work with crocodiles.\n\nWith a PhD in zoology, the 51-year-old had built a global reputation for his expertise, holding an academic position at Charles Darwin University, and even hosting David Attenborough while the veteran broadcaster filmed part of the Life in Cold Blood docuseries on his property.", "A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer system, the BBC has learned.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals warned the problem, dating back to 2018, is significant.\n\nThe BBC has been told the problems occurred when letters requiring sign-off from a senior doctor were placed into a folder few staff knew existed.\n\nThe healthcare regulator has sought urgent assurances over patient safety.\n\nMost of the letters explain what should happen when patients are discharged from hospital.\n\nBut a significant number of the unsent letters are written by specialist clinics spelling out care that is needed for patients.\n\nIt means that some crucial tests and results may have been missed by patients.\n\nStaff have been told to record any resulting incidents of patient harm and ensure these are addressed.\n\nFollowing a routine inspection by the regulator - the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - in the summer, staff at the trust raised concerns about delays in sending out correspondence.\n\nA subsequent review of all the trust's consultants revealed that most had unsent letters in their electronic records.\n\nA source at Newcastle Hospitals told the BBC that consultants had raised issues about the electronic patient record system for years, complaining it was slow and hard to use, but had not been listened to.\n\nIn a letter sent to staff about the problem, and seen by the BBC, the Newcastle Trust explains that letters drafted by one member of staff have to be signed off by a second clinician - who must change their user status to \"signing clinician\" - before they can be sent.\n\nIf that doesn't happen, letters end up in a consultant's document folder and remain unsent until they are signed off correctly.\n\nSarah Dronsfield, the CQC's interim director of operations in the North, said: \"We took immediate action to request further detail from the trust to understand the extent to which people may be at risk, and evidence of the steps being taken to review the impact on patients, ensure people are safe and mitigate any risk of avoidable delays in treatment going forward.\"\n\nShe said the trust had submitted an action plan and volunteered to provide weekly updates on its progress against that plan.\n\nThe trust says it will immediately deal with a 6,000-letter backlog from the last year alone.\n\nMore than 1,200 of these relate to medicine and emergency care. Some letters may be duplicates, or created in error.\n\nIn a separate letter seen by the BBC, Newcastle Hospitals told senior doctors that the CQC was worried about the impact on patients.\n\nDr George Rae, a GP and chairman of the North East BMA Council said there would be \"an incredible amount of information\" within the letters.\n\n\"If you didn't get the letters, you wouldn't have the results of scans and X-rays or blood tests.\"\n\nHe said GPs would be \"absolutely unaware\" of a change in medication or treatment if a patient had gone to hospital and received a significant diagnosis.\n\nMartin Wilson, Newcastle Hospitals' chief operating officer, said he wanted to reassure patients that \"we are taking immediate steps to address the issue\".\n\n\"We sincerely apologise for any anxiety or inconvenience this may cause,\" he added.\n\nThe hospital trust said it was working to understand if there had been any impact to ongoing care and treatment of patients.\n\nIt is currently reviewing 24,000 documents from its electronic records, which accounts for less than 0.3% of all contact with patients, the trust says.\n\n\"If any concerns are identified, we will inform patients and their GPs directly,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\n\"We are taking this issue very seriously and are working quickly to put things right.\"\n\nThe CQC said it was monitoring the trust closely and could inspect it at any time if it had concerns.\n\n\"We will report on the full findings from our latest inspection and any areas where the trust has been required to make improvements as soon as we are able to,\" it said.\n\n\"If anyone has any concerns about the care they have received they can let us know directly.\"\n\nPeople who are concerned are being asked to visit the CQC's Feedback on Care website.\n\nIssues over lost hospital letters may be more widespread.\n\nEarlier this year, more than 50,000 letters from Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust were never delivered to GPs in the area because of an IT glitch, it was reported in Pulse magazine.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None More than 1m appointments hit by NHS strikes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government is committed to ending cross-Channel migrant boats despite a court ruling its Rwanda policy is unlawful, the home secretary has said.\n\nSuella Braverman told MPs she would do \"whatever it takes to stop the boats.\"\n\nHer comments came after judges at the Court of Appeal ruled that the plan to send asylum seekers to the African country could also breach human rights. The government says it will appeal.\n\nLabour says the plan is \"unethical\" and Ms Braverman is \"ramping up rhetoric\".\n\nAsylum Aid, the charity which brought the legal challenge, said the decision taken by the court on Thursday was a \"vindication of the importance of the rule of law and basic fairness\".\n\nThe plan to send people who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda was first unveiled in April 2022 in an attempt to deter crossings on the English Channel on small boats.\n\nIt has been subject to several legal challenges, including the latest at the Court of Appeal where judges ruled that Rwanda had not provided enough safeguards to prove it is a \"safe third country\".\n\nTwo out of the three judges found that there was a risk that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda could then be forced back to the country from where they were originally fleeing. This means the UK government's immigration policy contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects against torture.\n\nHowever Ms Braverman said this did not mean that Rwanda itself was not safe.\n\nThe home secretary told MPs she respected the judgement, but added it was \"disappointing\" and that the government would be challenging it.\n\nMs Braverman said that the \"abuse\" of the asylum system was \"unfair\" on local communities, taxpayers and \"those who play by the rules\".\n\nShe added that it \"incentivises mass flows of economic migration into Europe, lining the pockets of people smugglers and turning our seas into graveyards, all in the name of a phoney humanitarianism\".\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the government's Rwanda scheme was \"completely unravelling\" and described it as \"unworkable, unethical and extortionately expensive.\"\n\n\"This is their chaos, their Tory chaos, their boats chaos and their broken asylum system,\" she said.\n\nShe also accused the home secretary of \"wasting everybody's time\" on \"ramping up the rhetoric rather than coming up with a serious plan\".\n\nThe Rwandan government insisted it was \"one of the safest countries in the world\" and had been recognised for its \"exemplary treatment of refugees\".\n\nThe case was brought by Asylum Aid, which argued the policy was unlawful, as well as 10 people from countries including Syria, Iraq and Albania, who arrived in the UK in small boats.\n\nThe High Court had backed the government's policy at an earlier hearing, but that decision was scrutinised by Appeal Court judges Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, Sir Geoffrey Vos and Lord Justice Underhill in this latest stage of the process.\n\nWhile Lord Burnett sided with the UK government, the others concluded that the assurances from the Rwandan government were not \"sufficient to ensure that there is no real risk that asylum seekers relocated under the Rwanda policy will be wrongly returned to countries where they face persecution or other inhumane treatment\".\n\nThey said that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda will be unlawful \"unless and until the deficiencies in [its government's] asylum processes are corrected\".\n\nThe judges stressed that they all agreed that the Rwandan government's assurances of the policy had been made \"in good faith\".\n\nTessa Gregory, a partner at law firm Leigh Day which represented Asylum Aid in the case, said: \"We are delighted that the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Rwanda removals process is unlawful on grounds of safety.\"\n\nIt acknowledged that not all of the charity's challenges had been accepted by the court, but said the ruling had affirmed there are \"clear deficiencies\" with the policy.\n\nOther human rights groups have welcomed the court's decision, with Freedom From Torture describing it as a \"victory for reason and compassion\".\n\nThe PM has made \"stopping the boats\" a key government priority\n\nThe Rwanda policy has hit several roadblocks since it was first announced last April.\n\nThe first deportation flight was halted minutes before it was due to take off after a legal challenge was granted in June 2022.\n\nIn December, the High Court decided that the plan did not breach the UN's Refugee Convention - which sets out the human rights of anyone seeking asylum - and ruled that it was legal.\n\nBut the following month it was decided that some of the parties in that case should be allowed to appeal against elements of that decision - and have the case heard by the Court of Appeal.\n\nThis week the Home Office said it expects it to cost £169,000 for every person deported and processed under the Rwanda scheme - more than it currently costs to house an asylum seeker in the UK.\n\nBut the same analysis warned rising accommodation costs could mean the cost of housing an asylum claimant in the UK could be £165,000 per person within four years.\n\nThe Home Office says it currently spends almost £7m a day on hotel accommodation to house asylum seekers.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he respects the court's decision but he will do \"whatever is necessary\" to disrupt criminal gangs operating small boat crossings.\n\nAsked after the ruling if the government was confident the first deportation flight would take off before the next general election, a Downing Street spokesman said it could not \"put a timetable on that\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, research suggests.\n\nStaff took on average 7.8 sick days in the past year, up from 5.8 before the pandemic, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) found.\n\nOne teacher who is off sick told the BBC her work environment was now \"toxic\" due to high pressure.\n\nThe trade group said the rise was a \"worry\" and blamed stress, Covid and the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThese conditions were having \"profound impacts on many people's wellbeing\", it added.\n\nThe research analysed rates of absence in more than 900 organisations, representing 6.5 million employees.\n\nIt was conducted by the CIPD, in partnership with Simplyhealth, a healthcare company that provides outpatient support.\n\nThe study found that minor illnesses were the main reason for short-term absences, followed by musculoskeletal injuries and mental ill health.\n\nMeanwhile, more than a third of organisations also reported Covid-19 was still a significant cause of sick days.\n\nStaff on long-term sick leave tended to blame mental health issues, musculoskeletal injuries or conditions such as cancer and stroke.\n\nSally (not her real name), a teacher from the South East, is currently taking time off due to stress caused by the \"toxic environment\" at her school.\n\n\"It became unmanageable this week,\" she told the BBC. \"Comments from management say 'all the schools are like this. Everyone is under pressure'. But it seems to be an excuse - that we've got to bear it.\"\n\nShe said she had wanted to speak to colleagues for support but there wasn't time as everyone was under pressure.\n\nChanges in working culture since the pandemic coupled with the cost-of-living crisis have left some employees feeling disengaged and stressed, the CIPD said.\n\nWorking from home could also present an issue for staff that lived alone or had limited social contact.\n\nRachel Suff, senior employee wellbeing adviser at the CIPD, said that public sector sick days were almost double than that of the private sector.\n\n\"Absence has always been higher in bigger organisations - and that goes for private sector as well - and there are a lot of large organisations in the public sector,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Also, there are an awful lot of front-line roles [in the public sector],\" she said, citing extra pressures on people working in organisations such as the NHS.\n\nMost of the organisations surveyed said they offered sick pay, while around half had a strategy to improve staff wellbeing. However, the CIPD said rates of absence were still rising and employers needed to do more.\n\nMs Suff from the CIPD said employers needed to better manage the causes of workplace ill-health and intervene early to stop issues escalating.\n\n\"It's important that organisations create an open, supportive culture where employees feel they can come forward,\" she added.\n\nDr Audrey Tang, a psychologist and broadcaster, told BBC Radio 5 Live there was \"a mismatch of understanding from people right at the top\" about what workers needed.\n\n\"Often, quick, short-term fixes such a lunchtime yoga or lunch time ice cream vans are not what people need,\" she said.\n\nAre you finding you're taking more time off from work? We'd like to hear from you. Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Thousands have been subject to rigorous checks at the Armenia-Azerbaijani border\n\nSome 42,500 ethnic Armenians have now fled Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian officials say - a third of the population of the enclave which Azerbaijan seized last week.\n\nHundreds of cars are backed up on the one road leading into Armenia.\n\nAzerbaijan says residents will be safe, but Armenia's prime minister says \"ethnic cleansing\" has started.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - recognised as part of Azerbaijan - had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nThe mountainous region in the South Caucasus has been supported by Armenia - but also by its ally, Russia.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians and dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as Azerbaijan's army swept in. As part of a ceasefire deal, separatists have agreed to surrender their weapons.\n\nThe Azeris have said they want to treat ethnic Armenians as \"equal citizens\" but a limited amount of aid has been allowed through and many residents are fleeing.\n\nOn Monday, a massive fuel blast killed at least 68 people attempting to leave.\n\nNearly 300 more were injured and 105 are missing.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the explosion on Monday evening near the main city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians, but many were refilling their cars.\n\nAs they crossed the border on Tuesday, thousands of ethnic Armenians were subject to rigorous checks from Azerbaijani border control.\n\nAzerbaijani authorities claimed to be looking for \"war crimes\" suspects, and one government source told Agence France Presse news agency that the country intended to apply an \"amnesty to Armenian fighters who laid down their arms in Karabakh\".\n\n\"But those who committed war crimes during the Karabakh wars must be handed over to us,\" they said.\n\nHundreds of cars and buses are trying to reach the town of Goris across the border.\n\nA BBC team saw families crammed into cars, boots overflowing and roof-racks piled high with belongings. Convinced they are leaving their homes for good, people are squeezing as much of their lives as possible into their vehicles.\n\nInside Goris, a small town that is the same dusty brown as the jagged mountains that surround it, the narrow streets are filled with more cars and more families. One has arrived in a car held together with little more than sticking tape, its side badly dented and dotted with shrapnel holes, and windows smashed.\n\nThe owner tells the BBC it was hit by mortar fire when Azerbaijan launched a lightning assault to take control of the region last week. \"But it still got us here,\" he smiles, surrounded by small children.\n\nA family made the journey from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in their heavily damaged car\n\nOn the main town square, people mill around, unsure what to do next. Volunteers hand out some basic food and blankets.\n\nEvacuees are registered and there is the occasional bus to move people on to another town or village. But few seem to have a plan, beyond getting this far.\n\nFor two days last week, Malina and her family all huddled in their cellar as their village was under fire. After the Karabakh forces surrendered, Malina says the local authorities told everyone to leave for Armenia, for safety. Their village in the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh is now empty.\n\nMalina says her family left because - whatever the assurances - they would not feel safe under Azerbaijani rule.\n\nMalina says she and her grandchildren fled to seek safety\n\nThat sentiment is echoed by many others watching the situation unfold.\n\nOn Tuesday, US Secretary of state Antony Blinken urged Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to provide \"unconditional protections and freedom of movement for civilians\", and called for \"unhindered humanitarian access to Nagorno-Karabakh\".\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also called for both sides to respect human rights.\n\nSo far, only one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through since separatists accepted a ceasefire and agreed to disarm. Azerbaijan announced that another aid convoy, with 40 tonnes of flour and badly-needed hygiene products, was on its way to the enclave.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter and sleeping in basements, school buildings or outside.\n\nThe Armenian health ministry said it was sending helicopters to evacuate patients from the region's strained hospitals. Azerbaijan also said it had sent medical supplies.\n\nOn Tuesday, envoys from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Brussels for European Union-backed talks.\n\nIt was the first time diplomatic negotiations have been held between the two countries since Azerbaijan seized the enclave last week.\n\nAzerbaijan has also started separate negotiations with Karabakh's ethnic Armenian authorities about the region's future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A lack of simple tests for common lung conditions is preventing GPs making accurate diagnoses, a charity says.\n\nAsthma and Lung UK says it could cause serious problems for the NHS in winter, as respiratory viruses start to spread.\n\nOne in five people is affected at some point by a lung condition.\n\nThese include asthma and forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.\n\nLung disease is the third-biggest killer in the UK, behind cancer and heart disease.\n\nPeak-flow and spirometry tests (when lung air flow is measured) or fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNo) tests (nitric oxide is measured as it is a biomarker for asthma which provides an indication of the level of inflammation in the lungs) show how well the lungs are working, helping to provide a more accurate diagnosis than listening to the chest.\n\nBut for many practices, the funding for tests is unavailable, leading GPs to make educated guesses when diagnosing lung conditions.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"The NHS recognises the importance of early and accurate diagnosis of respiratory disease which is why it is inviting more than a million people for a lung cancer check in convenient locations across the country, while basic lung function tests are available at GP practices and community diagnostic centres.\"\n\nSeven years ago, Lucie Irwin started experiencing breathlessness that left her struggling to walk.\n\nHer doctor gave her an asthma inhaler and when that proved ineffective \"further and further treatments\", the 36-year-old says.\n\n\"There was a point where I was taking three different tablets, four different inhalers, carrying them around like most people would carry their wallet and keys,\" she tells BBC News.\n\nBut they did not help and Ms Irwin was left \"having to cancel days out with friends and family\".\n\n\"I couldn't rely on my lungs to get me [through] a walk, a shopping centre or a night out,\" she says.\n\nAfter being taken to hospital several times, Ms Irwin posted on social media and was advised by other asthma patients to request testing, which revealed she had eosinophilic asthma requiring an injectable immunosuppressant drug.\n\n\"This drug has given me my life back,\" she says.\n\n\"I am no longer debilitated by asthma - and this drug enables me to go out without worrying that I'm going to be blue-lighted to hospital.\"\n\nAsthma and Lung UK's analysis suggests up to 750,000 people in England are misdiagnosed with asthma, costing the government an estimated £132m, every year. While a further £2.2bn is spent on avoidable hospital stays and treatment, as patients with undiagnosed asthma develop life-threatening attacks or incurable lung diseases.\n\nLung conditions cost the NHS £11bn every year, with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) the second most common reason for an emergency hospital admission.\n\nThese conditions are also a leading cause of winter pressures on the NHS, as patients are more vulnerable to respiratory viruses, including flu, and colder temperatures.\n\nAsthma and Lung UK chief executive Sarah Woolnough said: \"The abysmal lack of testing, and patchy basic care, is causing avoidable harm to people with lung conditions - and the NHS.\"\n\n\"These include lack of funding, workforce and training needed to carry out these tests properly and the physical space needed to do them,\" he said.\n\n\"For people with lung conditions, it means delays to their diagnosis and sometimes progression of their lung disease to more advanced stages, which can make treatment more challenging.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Olga Ivshina gets rare access inside Nagorno-Karabakh, under the close watch of a military escort\n\nAzerbaijan's military has paraded heavy weapons captured in Nagorno-Karabakh, amid warnings thousands of civilians are without shelter after the surrender of Armenian separatists.\n\nTanks, guns and RPGs were among the haul shown to the BBC, in the first access given to journalists since separatists agreed to disarm this week.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter.\n\nOnly one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through.\n\nThe convoy from the International Red Cross was the first to reach the disputed territory since Azerbaijan captured it in a lightning operation five days ago. Russia says it has also delivered aid, but it is not known how much.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nOn Saturday, Armenia urged the UN to send a mission to monitor the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that their very existence was now under threat.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the accusation, saying it wants to reintegrate the region's ethnic Armenian residents as equal citizens of the country.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians died, including 10 civilians, as Azerbaijan's army swept into the enclave earlier this week.\n\nNow, displaced from villages and separated from relatives, several thousand people were sleeping in tents or the open air near the airport in the main city Stepanakert, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, Karabakh officials said.\n\nThe airport is also near a base for Russian peacekeepers, five of whom were killed during the fighting.\n\nOn Saturday Azerbaijan said it was working with Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to disarm ethnic Armenian forces - one of its key demands in return for a ceasefire.\n\nIn the courtyard of a military HQ in Susa, near the regional capital, Azeri military officials proudly laid out weapons given up by separatists.\n\nThe haul included what appeared to be a T-72 tank, several BMP-2 armoured personnel carriers, machine guns, assault rifles, body armour and mines. The BBC estimates that the area filled was equivalent to half a football field.\n\nHelmets, RPGs and APCs taken from Armenian separatists\n\nRussia's defence ministry said six armoured vehicles, more than 800 guns and about 5,000 units of ammunition had been handed over so far.\n\nIt is unclear what will happen to the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan says it wants to reintegrate the region and an Azerbaijani official told the BBC that \"no one is kicking anyone out\".\n\n\"If we didn't care about civilians, women and children, we would have simply entered Khankendi,\" he added.\n\nAnother official said that the military had prepared camps for refugees outside of Karabakh that were \"ready to accept civilians\" - but there is much mistrust on both sides and many ethnic Armenians may not be willing to move.\n\nAzerbaijan has also told the UN that it will treat Karabakh Armenians as \"equal citizens\". But their destiny is in Azeri hands now.\n\nIt says it envisages an amnesty for those Karabakh fighters who hand over their weapons and they can leave for Armenia if they choose.\n\nArmenia has also set up facilities to take in thousands of civilians but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he did not want them to leave unless they had to.\n\nPeople in Stepanakert have told the BBC that many are likely to choose to leave.\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" journalist Siranush Sargsyan said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nUS Senator Gary Peters, who is leading a congressional delegation to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, said people in Nagorno-Karabakh were \"very fearful\" and called for the creation of an international observer mission.\n\n\"I think the world needs to know exactly what's happening in there,\" he said. \"We've heard from the Azerbaijani government that there's nothing to see, nothing to worry about, but if that's the case then we should allow international observers in to see.\"\n\nThe Red Cross aid convoy delivered wheat and yeast to make bread\n\nAreas where the BBC was allowed to visit appeared empty of civilians. Only police, soldiers and a few construction workers could be seen.\n\nThere were no smiles from Russian peacekeepers that the BBC saw, and the mood was serious. But so far, there has been no major violence since the surrender.", "There have been scenes of panic and confusion as a growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees flee Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the region which has been under control of ethnic Armenians for the past 30 years.\n\nRoads are reported to be jammed with traffic as locals fear persecution and ethnic cleansing.\n\nThe BBC's Nataliya Zotova reports from the border between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.", "Scrapping the HS2 link from Birmingham and Manchester risks \"ripping the heart\" out of plans to improve rail services across northern England, the mayor of Greater Manchester has said.\n\nIn a growing backlash, Andy Burnham said axeing the extension risked creating a \"north-south chasm\".\n\nSpeculation has grown as the government has not guaranteed the line will run from the Midlands to the North West.\n\nRishi Sunak refused to comment but said the UK was \"committed to levelling up\".\n\n\"Transport infrastructure is a key part of that, but not just big rail projects, but also local projects, improving local bus services, fixing pot holes, all of these things make a difference in people's day-to-day lives,\" the prime minister said.\n\nThe BBC understands a decision on HS2 could be made as soon as this week.\n\nThe high speed rail project is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England.\n\nThe first part, between west London and Birmingham, is already being constructed.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts - including the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds which was axed in late 2021.\n\nIn March, the government announced that building the line between Birmingham and Crewe, and then onto Manchester, would be delayed for at least two years.\n\nOn Sunday, Grant Shapps, the current Defence Secretary and former Transport Secretary, said it would be \"crazy\" not to review plans for HS2 given that costs have risen.\n\nHe also would not comment on whether or not separate plans for the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) scheme between Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool would still go ahead if the northern section of HS2 is scrapped.\n\nThe NPR project would include a mix of new and upgraded lines to speed up links. It plans to use a section of the HS2 line from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly, as well as the planned upgrades to Manchester Piccadilly station.\n\nMr Burnham, and the leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig, have written to the prime minister to warn that cancelling HS2 to Manchester would effectively be cancelling NPR as well.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Burnham said scrapping the HS2 extension to Manchester \"rips the heart\" out of NPR and would \"leave the north of England with Victorian infrastructure, probably for the rest of this century\".\n\nHe said it was \"a recipe for the north-south divide to become a north-south chasm\".\n\nIn the letter to the prime minister, Mr Burnham said that if changes were needed, \"we could be open to a discussion about prioritising the Northern section of the line, between Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly, so that it enables NPR to be built first\".\n\nJuergen Maier, vice chair of Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said HS2 and NPR \"are part of one network, sharing the most valuable stretch of the route between Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly\".\n\nA former chairman of HS2, Allan Cook, told the BBC that scrapping the Manchester leg would be a \"huge mistake\" and \"very, very short-sighted\".\n\nHe rejected the idea that the money could be better spent on rail projects in the north of England. \"We need both. Why in the north have do we have to make a compromise?\"\n\nThe annual Conservative Party conference begins in Manchester on Sunday, and Conservative MP Steve Brine said it would be \"very odd\" to cancel the project whilst in the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says \"there are spades in the ground everywhere\" for the HS2 rail project\n\nThe possible scrapping of the HS2 link has also come under fire from former Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, who in a joint article in the Times with Lord Heseltine, said it would be a \"gross act of vandalism\".\n\nThey warned scrapping the route would be \"an act of huge economic self-harm\" and leave the North and Midlands \"abandoned\".\n\nLord Heseltine told the BBC said it would also hit the UK's image.\n\n\"The reputational damage to a country or a government that commits itself and encourages others to invest and commit themselves to a project which was claimed to be transformational and then to stop - the reputational damage is incalculable,\" he said.\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn.\n\nBut this was in 2019 prices so it does not account for the rise in costs for materials and wages since then.\n\nIn June, a statement to Parliament said £22.5bn had been spent on the London to Birmingham leg so far while £2.3bn had been spent on preparing other sections, on measures such as buying up land.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said last week that costs were getting \"totally out of control\".\n\nLabour has so far refused to confirm it would fund the HS2 line to Manchester if the Conservatives axe it.\n\nOn Sunday, Darren Jones, new shadow chief secretary for the Treasury, said the Labour Party would \"love to build the HS2\", but said little \"proper\" information had been made available by the government.\n\nAlso at the weekend, more than 80 companies and business leaders also sought clarity over the commitment to HS2.\n\nThe bosses of dozens of businesses and business groups - including Manchester Airports Group, British Land, Virgin Money, and the Northern Powerhouse - all signed a letter to the government urging renewed commitment to HS2, saying that repeated mixed signals were damaging the UK's reputation and the wider supply chain.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Do you live on the proposed route between Birmingham and Manchester? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Liberal Democrat members have defied the party leadership by voting to keep the party's housebuilding target for England.\n\nParty bosses had wanted to shelve the 380,000 annual target, arguing it had failed to deliver necessary new homes.\n\nBut members backed a motion from younger activists to keep it at the party's conference in Bournemouth.\n\nIn an impassioned debate, the activists said ditching an overall target risked alienating younger voters.\n\nA leaflet backing the motion warned members that dropping the target would hand Labour \"a stick to beat us with\" in marginal seats.\n\nReferring to the party's notorious broken pledge on university funding during the coalition years, it urged: \"Don't let housing become our next tuition fees\".\n\nThe party has had a target to build 380,000 new homes a year in England across all sectors since it was adopted at its annual conference in 2021.\n\nBut the party leadership had proposed replacing this with \"independently assessed\" targets for local authorities, which are \"appropriate for the specific areas' needs\".\n\nUnder the plan, the party would instead pledge to build 150,000 social homes a year in England, with \"binding\" affordable housing targets for councils.\n\nDuring a debate before the vote, the party's housing spokeswoman Helen Morgan said England-wide targets had \"utterly failed to deliver the homes we need\".\n\nShe added that the party needed a policy that \"will actually deliver homes\", adding the 380,000 pledge for all sectors - public and private - \"will not do that\".\n\nHowever, members eventually backed an amendment suggested by the Young Liberals group, which said the target should be kept, to be translated into \"achievable\" local goals.\n\nIt added that keeping it would show \"serious intent\" from the party to \"address the housing crisis\".\n\nThe group's chair, Janey Little, told party members that housing had become unaffordable for many younger people and the target showed them that \"we as Liberal Democrats are listening\".\n\nFormer leader Tim Farron spoke against the successful amendment, adding the England-wide target was \"vague and vacuous\" and would prove an \"electoral gift for the Tories\" - to jeers from some in the conference hall.\n\nThe Lib Dems are hoping to target a swathe of Conservative-held seats at the next election across sections of southern and south-western England.\n\nCurrently, a government-set formula, based on population estimates, determines the housing targets that councils are meant to incorporate into their 15-year housebuilding plans.\n\nCouncils that fail to do so can have their power to block new developments curbed.\n\nHowever, in the face of a backlash from Conservative MPs, the government has set out plans to water the targets down by specifying in planning guidance that they are only advisory.\n\nThis weekend, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey denied opposing new housing in Tory-run areas, saying he was against \"developer-led\" schemes without proper amenities.\n\nThe government has a target to build 300,000 new homes in England by the mid-2020s - but MPs have warned it is on track to miss it.\n• None Housing targets to be diluted after Tory revolt", "A former soldier accused of killing a Londonderry teenager more than 50 years ago has died.\n\nRelatives of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty were informed of the death of the veteran, known as Soldier B, by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nHe was facing the prospect of being prosecuted for shooting the teenager in the Creggan area of Derry.\n\nDaniel's cousin Christopher, who was wounded in the incident, said he would \"never forget it\".\n\nDaniel Hegarty was shot on 31 July 1972 during Operation Motorman, the name given to a military operation by the Army to reclaim \"no-go areas\" set up by republican paramilitaries in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Hegarty: Cousin says he will never forget teenager's shooting\n\nChristopher Hegarty was 16 at the time.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI he said he would never forget his cousin's death.\n\n\"I knew he was dead,\" he said. \"I put my arms around him and I pulled him into my chest.\n\n\"I just called his name. I'll never forget it to this day.\"\n\nIt is understood Solidier B died on Thursday.\n\nHis death, ends the family's hope \"of getting him prosecuted,\" Mr Hegarty said.\n\nOperation Motorman was then the largest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956\n\nDaniel's sister Margaret Brady told BBC News NI the family pray God forgives the former soldier.\n\nShe said she was \"in total shock\" when the PPS notified her of the soldier's death on Friday.\n\nThe family has long campaigned, she said, to clear Daniel's name and to have the soldier responsible held to account.\n\n\"And we were granted it - not once, not twice, but three times.\n\n\"But the prosecutors dragged us back into court to get everything overturned, all to delay the soldier being prosecuted,\" she said.\n\nThe PPS said it \"strongly refutes any suggestion\" it acted to delay the former soldier's prosecution.\n\nThe Hegarty family said \"they took no delight\" in Soldier B's death\n\nIn July 2021, the PPS announced that it was dropping the case against Soldier B.\n\nBut that decision was challenged by the family and it was quashed by the Court of Appeal in June.\n\nIn 2011 an inquest jury unanimously found Daniel posed no risk and had been shot without warning.\n\nAn initial inquest had been held in 1973 and recorded an open verdict.\n\nThe second inquest was ordered by the Northern Ireland attorney general in 2009 after an examination by police detectives in the Historical Enquiries Team.\n\nIn 2007 the UK government apologised to the Hegarty family for describing Daniel as a terrorist.\n\nThe Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Herron said the death of a defendant meant it was \"the end of any potential prosecution in relation to them\".\n\nHe added: \"We strongly refute any suggestion that the PPS acted contrary to the administration of justice or sought to improperly stop or delay any prosecution of Soldier B.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is an extremely difficult time for the family of Daniel Hegarty who have hoped and campaigned for many decades to see a criminal justice outcome in this case,\" he said.\n\nDecision making in the case against Soldier B, he added, was both \"complex and challenging\".\n\nIt was further complicated, he said, \"by relevant evidential and public interest considerations\".\n\n\"These resulted in a series of judicial review challenges to decisions that were taken and we recognise the additional distress caused to the Hegarty family by the protracted nature of the various sets of legal proceedings,\" Mr Herron said.\n\nFoyle MP Colum Eastwood said the Hegarty family had shown \"grace in their response to this news\".\n\n\"There is no victory for anyone in any of this. Families like the Hegartys deserve the truth and they deserve justice,\" the SDLP leader said.", "Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the force continues to face pressures\n\nLondon still has \"significantly\" fewer firearms officers available than normal after hundreds stepped back from their duties over the weekend, the head of the Met Police has said.\n\nSir Mark Rowley warned on Tuesday that the force faces \"difficult choices\" because of continuing staff shortages.\n\nHundreds turned in their weapons permits after an officer was charged with murdering Chris Kaba last year.\n\nSir Mark said officers were \"extremely anxious\" following the charge.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of the London policing board, he said: \"A lot of this is driven by families - many of them are under pressure from their partners, wives, husbands, parents, children saying, 'I'm worried about what you might go through based on your job.'\"\n\nWhile the number of available firearms officers is \"strengthening\", Sir Mark said there had been a \"very significant effect on our capability\" over the weekend.\n\nIt is thought that some officers have since returned to their firearms duties in recent days, but the Met declined to provide specific staffing figures to the BBC.\n\nHe continued: \"We can provide credible firearms cover for London, but I must be honest, it's still significantly less than normal, which would create some difficult choices.\n\n\"And it is aided by other forces, officers that have filled some of those gaps.\"\n\nArmed officers are called out more than 80 times a week, he said, but it is very rare for a police officer to fire their weapon.\n\nSir Mark has previously said armed officers fear facing years of investigation when they use their weapons \"even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given\".\n\nThe BBC was told up to 300 armed officers had turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons over the weekend, out of a total of more than 2,500 armed officers in the Met.\n\nIt came after an officer - who has only been identified as NX121 - was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service over the shooting of Mr Kaba.\n\nThe unarmed 24-year-old was shot and killed following a police pursuit in Streatham Hill, south London, on 5 September, 2022.\n\nHis death sparked protests and his family have welcomed the decision to charge the officer.\n\nThe government has ordered a review into armed policing guidelines, which is expected to conclude by the end of the year.\n\nSoldiers were temporarily put on standby to assist with armed counter-terrorism policing but were stood down on Monday.\n\nThe firearms officers row puts more pressure on Sir Mark, who is trying to renew trust in the Met months after a scathing report labelled the force institutionally racist and singled out some armed units for specific criticism.\n\nThere was praise from the author of that report, Dame Louise Casey, who told the London Assembly she was hopeful Sir Mark could turn things around.\n\nBut Dame Louise also said trust and confidence in the UK's largest police force was moving in the wrong direction, especially among those who are black, Asian and non-white.\n\nNonetheless, Sir Mark does have allies within the Met who believe he has a \"tough, take-no-nonsense approach\" that is needed to change a troubled police service.\n• None Army stood down as armed Met officers return to duty", "Russell Brand says it has been an \"extraordinary and distressing\" week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.\n\nIn a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for \"questioning the information that you've been presented with\".\n\nThey are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches last weekend.\n\nIn a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand denied the claims before the allegations were published, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe actor and comedian did not address the allegations directly in Friday's three-minute video, but made claims about what he described as \"media corruption and censorship\" and \"deep state and corporate collusion\".\n\nHe said he would release a fuller video on video streaming site Rumble on Monday, saying the platform had made \"a clear commitment to free speech\".\n\nEarlier this week, responding to a UK Parliament committee that asked if it would cut Brand's income in the wake of the allegations, Rumble said it would not \"join a cancel culture mob\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women made allegations against Brand:\n\nThis week, another woman also accused Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show in 2008.\n\nYouTube has suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\". It said it was taking action \"to protect\" its users.\n\nIn recent years, he has repositioned himself, posting regular videos about spirituality, anti-establishment politics and, recently, UFOs, to his online followers.", "Braverman spoke to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC today Image caption: Braverman spoke to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC today\n\nToday we heard from Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who challenged the UN's convention for protecting refugees during a speech at a right-wing think tank in the US.\n\nWhat she said\n• She questioned whether the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which was drawn up after World War Two, was \"fit for our modern age\"\n• Laws had morphed from helping those fleeing persecution to those fearing bias, she argued\n• She said fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for refugee protection\n• The UN’s refugee agency rejected her call to tighten the definition on who qualifies as a refugee, saying the convention had saved \"millions of lives\"\n• Labour said she was trying to \"distract from her failures\" in getting to grips with the UK’s migrant crisis, and accused her of using gay people and women as \"scapegoats\"\n• Tim Loughton, a Conservative member of the Home Affairs Committee, said Braverman \"had a point\" and \"the UK cannot be the refugee camp for the entire world\"\n• Braverman said the UN Refugee Convention conferred refugee rights to 780 million people - we look at that number here. The UN’s refugee agency estimates the world had around 35 million refugees at the end of 2022\n• After her comments on gay people seeking refugee status, it's worth noting that 1.5% of the 74,751 asylum claims in the UK last year cited sexual orientation as the basis for their claim\n\nMuch of the world is signed up to the UN's Refugee Convention - so the idea she could single-handedly drive through reforms, or that it is in her remit alone, is quite unrealistic, our political correspondent Ione Wells writes.\n\nBut by starting the debate she wants to highlight a determination to take a tough approach on migration.\n\nOur full story can be found here. We're signing off for the night, thanks for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain turned on the style in their first match on home soil since winning the Women's World Cup to crush Switzerland in Cordoba.\n\nAs on Friday in their game away to Sweden, both sets of players stood behind a banner reading \"It's over, our fight is the global fight\" following the scandal which has engulfed Spanish football.\n\nEarlier, fans greeted Spain's team bus with a banner which read: \"Thank you champions for your fight on and off the pitch\".\n\nThe game itself saw La Roja make it two wins out of two in Group A4 of the Women's Nations League.\n\nA mistake by keeper Elvira Herzog led to Manchester United's Lucia Garcia opening the scoring in front of 14,194 fans, a record crowd for a Spain women's national team home match.\n• None Luis Rubiales: The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nAitana Bonmati, who was awarded the Golden Ball for best player at the World Cup, added the second goal on the stroke of half-time before making it 3-0 after an assist by her Barcelona team-mate Alexia Putellas.\n\nSubstitutes Inma Gabarro and Maite Oroz got the fourth and fifth goals respectively.\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere to welcome the world champions home.\n\nBefore kick-off, Putellas and team-mate Irene Paredes paraded the World Cup trophy in front of fans.\n\nFollowing the World Cup final on 20 August, then then president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the trophy presentation ceremony. Hermoso said the kiss was not consensual, setting off a remarkable chain of events.\n\nRubiales ignored calls to resign before eventually quitting on 11 September, World Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda was sacked and the Spain players threatened a boycott of Friday's game against Sweden.\n\nThe boycott was only called off two days before the game after the players reached an agreement with the RFEF, which said it had committed to \"immediate and profound changes.\"\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200 metres of Hermoso after she filed a legal complaint. He denied sexually assaulting Hermoso when he appeared in court on 15 September.", "A motorcyclist has been fined £120 and had nine points added to his licence after a crash with a car that saw his bike explode into a fireball.\n\nDashcam footage showed Stavius Gordon being thrown from his bike after the crash with a car travelling in the opposite direction in Ditton Lane, Cambridge, just before 18:00 BST on 9 September 2022.\n\nThe 31-year-old, formerly of Barnwell Road, Cambridge, lost a toe in the collision. He pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and driving without insurance at Cambridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nPolice said Gordon, now of HMP Peterborough, was jailed in August for one year and 11 months, having been found guilty of affray.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn invitation to parliament for a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit in World War Two is \"deeply embarrassing\" to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.\n\nYaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation after House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota called him a \"hero\" during a Friday visit by Ukraine's president.\n\nMr Rota has said he did not know of Mr Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to attend the event.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Trudeau told reporters it was \"extremely upsetting that this happened\".\n\n\"This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians.\"\n\nThe incident took place on Friday, when the parliament was hosting an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMr Hunka was sitting in the gallery of the House of Commons when Mr Rota pointed to him, saying the man was \"a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service\".\n\nThose present in the building responded with applause.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, Mr Rota said he had \"subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision\" to honour Mr Hunka.\n\n\"No-one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them,\" he said.\n\nSpeaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota issued a second apology on Monday\n\n\"This initiative was entirely my own, the individual in question being from my riding [district] and having been brought to my attention.\"\n\nHe said: \"I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world. I accept full responsibility for my actions.\"\n\nDuring World War Two, Mr Hunka served in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, a voluntary unit made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians under Nazi command. Division members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal.\n\nThe unit was renamed the First Ukrainian Division before surrendering to the Western Allies in 1945.\n\nDominique Arel, chair of Ukrainian studies at the University of Ottawa, told CBC News that the division had attracted thousands of Ukrainian volunteers, many joining with hopes they could achieve Ukrainian independence.\n\nResponding to Mr Rota's statement, the Canadian Jewish group The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said it appreciated the apology, adding that \"proper vetting is imperative to ensure such an unacceptable incident does not occur again\".\n\nMr Rota apologised again on Monday, speaking in person to colleagues on the floor of the House.\n\nHe is facing calls from opposition politicians to resign, including New Democrat MP Peter Julian, who called the incident an \"unforgivable error\".\n\n\"Unfortunately I believe a sacred trust has been broken,\" he said in the House.\n\nMr Trudeau on Monday did not call on Mr Rota, who is a member of the prime minister's Liberal Party, to step down.\n\nHis office has said the decision to invite Mr Hunka had been made by the Speaker's office alone.\n\nIt also denied allegations that a private meeting took place between Mr Hunka and the prime minister.\n\nYaroslav Hunka (right) waits for arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\n\nThe decision to honour a man with ties to Nazi Germany could have implications beyond Canada's borders.\n\nPoland's ambassador to Canada was among those voicing anger, saying that he expected an apology for parliament \"whitewashing such villains\".\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Mr Trudeau also suggested that Russia would use the appearance to push a false narrative on Ukraine.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin of Russia has sought to justify his invasion of Ukraine by falsely claiming Russia wants to \"denazify\" the country.\n\n\"I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast unequivocal support for Ukraine,\" Mr Trudeau said.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the incident in the House \"outrageous\" on Monday.\n\n\"Many Western countries, including Canada, have raised a young generation that does not know who fought whom or what happened during the Second World War. And they know nothing about the threat of fascism,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zoleka Mandela was interviewed as part of the BBC's 100 Women series in 2016\n\nZoleka Mandela, granddaughter of South Africa's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, has died of cancer at the age of 43.\n\nShe passed away on Monday evening surrounded by friends and family, a spokesperson said.\n\nIn recent years, Ms Mandela had become well known for detailing her cancer treatment. She was also open about her history of drug addiction.\n\nThe Nelson Mandela Foundation said her work was inspirational.\n\nIt said that she raised \"awareness about cancer prevention\" as well as \"breaking down the stigma surrounding the disease\".\n\nMs Mandela also spoke candidly about her struggles with depression and the fact that she had been sexually abused as a child.\n\nIn addition, she campaigned for better road safety after her 13-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident in 2010. She later lost a son who was born prematurely. She is survived by four children.\n\nMs Mandela, who was the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela's second wife, Winnie, documented her story in her autobiography When Hope Whispers.\n\nDiagnosed with breast cancer at age of 32, she received treatment and was in remission but the illness later returned.\n\nLast year, she confirmed that she had cancer in her liver and lungs, it then spread to other organs. She was being treated as an outpatient but was admitted to hospital just over a week ago.\n\n\"What do I tell my children? How do I tell them that this time around I may not get to live my life as a survivor? How do I tell them everything will be OK when it's not? I'm dying... I don't want to die,\" she posted on Instagram in August 2022.\n\nIn an interview with Kaya FM in April, Ms Mandela said: \"I'm learning to be okay with my eventuality.\"\n\nHer frank disclosures gained her a following on social media, which is where people on Tuesday have been leaving tributes.\n\n\"Utterly tragic loss of a human being in her grandfather's footsteps. A decent, honest human being in a dishonest, hypocritical world,\" one person on X, formerly Twitter, said.\n\n\"You were one of the bravest people I know and you inspired many people on your life's journey of hope,\" another person wrote on Instagram below the Mandela family's announcement.\n\nMs Mandela was only 10 when her grandfather was released from prison in 1990 after 27 years in detention.\n\nShe had only ever known him as an incarcerated man, so when he was released she was just excited he was coming home.\n\nMr Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95.", "Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota said he did not know of the 98-year-old's previous Nazi ties\n\nThe Speaker of Canada's House of Commons has resigned after inviting a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit to parliament and praising him.\n\nAfter first resisting calls to step down, Anthony Rota quit on Tuesday after meeting party leaders in Ottawa.\n\n\"I must step down as your Speaker,\" he said in parliament. \"I reiterate my profound regret.\"\n\nYaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation after Mr Rota called him a \"hero\" during a Friday visit by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.\n\nMr Rota has said he did not know of Mr Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to attend the event.\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday it was \"extremely upsetting that this happened\".\n\n\"This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians,\" he told reporters.\n\nDuring World War Two, Mr Hunka served in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, a voluntary unit made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians under Nazi command.\n\nDivision members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Poland's Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek said he had \"taken steps\" towards extraditing Mr Hunka.\n\nMr Hunka and his family could not be reached for comment by the BBC. They have not yet commented to Canadian media.\n\nMembers of Mr Trudeau's cabinet had joined cross-party calls on Tuesday for Mr Rota to step down.\n\nHours before the Speaker announced his resignation, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly called the mistake \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"I think the Speaker should listen to members of the House and step down,\" she said. \"I don't think there's any alternative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHouse leader for Canada's New Democratic Party Peter Julian applauded Mr Rota's resignation, calling it the \"right decision\".\n\n\"We fully accept Mr Rota's apology and believe that he didn't intend to cause harm but, unfortunately, there are very real consequences to his lapse in judgment,\" he said in a statement.\n\nCanadian Jewish organisations also welcomed the speaker's decision to step aside.\n\nBut Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies said \"questions remain as to how this debacle occurred\".\n\nMichael Mostyn, CEO of Jewish human rights group B'nai Brith Canada, told the BBC that the incident \"cannot end simply with the speaker\".\n\n\"We have a situation in Canada, where we don't know our own history when it comes to Nazi perpetrators that made their way into this country,\" he said. \"It's a shame to our country.\"\n\nMr Rota's resignation has not slowed criticism from Canada's opposition leader, the Conservative Party's Pierre Poilievre.\n\nAddressing parliament, Mr Poilievre said the responsibility fell to Mr Trudeau \"to reverse the massive damage done to our international reputation\".\n\n\"Will he rise in this place and apologise for this massive and shameful failure?\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Swift spotted with Kelce for the first time in September\n\nThe first public images of Taylor Swift and her rumoured new love interest Travis Kelce set off a frenzy online, among Swifties and NFL fans alike. The man behind the video, US journalist Jarrett Payton, said it has been \"the craziest 24 hours of my life\".\n\nMr Payton's four-second clip of the couple strolling down a corridor as they left Kansas City's Arrowhead stadium has been viewed more than 15 million times on his X account.\n\n\"I was at the right place at the right time last night,\" Mr Payton told the BBC.\n\nThe viral run-in made good on a promise that Mr Payton had made to himself hours before, as he watched the Kansas City Chiefs play in the stadium.\n\n\"My goal is to find Taylor Swift before I leave Arrowhead\", he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nThroughout the game, Swift was widely pictured in a luxury box with Kelce's mother, Donna, as she danced, chatted and cheered for Kelce's touchdown against the Chicago Bears - each moment devoured by Swifties online.\n\nThe Chiefs finished off the Bears with a definitive victory - 41-10 - and Mr Payton, who works for Chicago's WGN-TV, went down to the field to conduct some interviews.\n\nWhen he was done, he spotted Kelce and Swift up in the stands - and saw his opening.\n\n\"This is the moment in your life when you can either go straight or turn right,\" he said.\n\nMr Payton turned right, in the direction of the Chiefs locker room, when he was stopped by a security guard.\n\n\"Don't move, stay right here,\" he was told. He then saw a group walk toward him, including a person Mr Payton had seen pictured with Swift earlier in the night.\n\nSwift was \"the talk of the game\" at the match in Kansas City\n\n\"I pulled out my iPhone, started recording, and they walked by a second and a half later,\" he said.\n\nThe video shows Swift greet Mr Payton with a casual \"hey\", leaving him speechless.\n\n\"I didn't know what to say! I was fanboying out,\" he said.\n\nA security guard immediately asked him to delete the video, a request he politely declined. \"I knew I had something big,\" Mr Payton said of the video.\n\nMr Payton is no stranger to fame - American football stardom in particular. His father, Walter Payton, is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.\n\nThe younger Mr Payton has attended the Super Bowl - football's biggest night - almost every year since his father died in 1999.\n\nBut even a run-of-the-mill regular season game felt like something special with Swift, the world's biggest pop star, in attendance, he said.\n\n\"Her being there felt just like a Super Bowl. That's the energy that was in the building,\" he said. \"She was the talk of the game.\"\n\nThough Mr Payton said he isn't a certified Swiftie, he does think she and Kelce make a good match. \"They seem like they were really happy together,\" he said.\n\nTaylor Swift may inspire a new set of NFL fans\n\n\"She's a megastar, he's a superstar in football. I know how challenging it's probably going to be for them to make this work, but if it's true love they'll find a way.\"\n\nThe viral clip may also have brought new fans to the game. Sales of Travis Kelce merchandise have jumped nearly 400%, sportswear company Fanatics told ABC News, landing him a spot as one of the top five selling players in the league.\n\nAnd some ardent fans of Swift - if not football - began exchanging tips online for how to understand the game, picking up a new interest in apparent solidarity with the singer\n\n\"Do you throw the ball or run with it??\" one person asked on X. \"What is a down?\" another inquired about a particularly unclear part of football terminology.\n\nKelce is thought to be the first non-Brit Swift has been publicly linked to since 2012, having previously been photographed with singer Harry Styles and actor Tom Hiddleston.\n\nThe pop star also had a relationship with actor and song writing collaborator Joe Alwyn - which was briefly shown in the 2020 documentary about her life, Miss Americana.\n\nShe has poked fun at the pattern herself, singing the lyrics \"God I love the English\" in her 2019 song London Boy.", "The five suspects are (clockwise from top left): Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova (centre), Bizer Dzhambazov, Orlin Roussev and Ivan Stoyanov\n\nFive people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring operating in the UK have appeared in court.\n\nBulgarian nationals Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova allegedly conspired to gather information which would be useful to an enemy.\n\nIt is alleged they carried out surveillance on people and places targeted by Russia between August 2020 and February 2023.\n\nThe suspects were remanded in custody.\n\nTheir surveillance activities are alleged to have apparently been for the purpose of assisting Russia to conduct hostile action against the targets, including potential abductions.\n\nThey did not enter pleas at Westminster Magistrates' Court, where they appeared via video link from four different prisons.\n\nAll five defendants remained silent other than speaking to confirm their names and dates of birth.\n\nMet Police counter-terrorism officers arrested them in February under the Official Secrets Act. They are:\n\nMr Stoyanov, nicknamed \"the Destroyer\", was an amateur mixed-martial-arts fighter appearing in contests in the UK. In Bulgaria he appeared in so-called combat sambo fights, a form of martial arts popular in eastern Europe.\n\nIvan Stoyanov took part in MMA fights in the UK\n\nWhile Ms Gaberova is an award-winning beautician, who specialised in eyelashes and ran a salon called Pretty Woman in west London.\n\nMr Roussev previously worked in financial services. Biser Dhzambazov and Katrin Ivanova lived as a couple and ran a community organisation for Bulgarian citizens living in the UK.\n\nDescribing the charges, prosecutor Kathryn Selby said the \"operating hub in this country for the offence of espionage\" was the property of Mr Roussev.\n\nHis home address was a now-closed seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth.\n\nMr Roussev is alleged to have organised and managed the cell's spying operations from the UK. It is alleged that such operations took place in the UK and Europe.\n\nThe five defendants are accused of being part of a conspiracy with a \"person known as\" Jan Marsalek. He is not charged in the case.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Roussev received tasking from abroad by a person known as Jan Marsalek.\n\nMr Marsalek is best known as the Austrian former chief operating officer of the company Wirecard, who became a wanted man in Germany after being suspected of having committed fraud.\n\nHe is believed to have left Germany in 2020 and is reportedly now in Russia.\n\nSpeaking at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram said the five would appear at the Old Bailey on 13 October.", "Mark Drakeford said it was unacceptable to threaten people's personal safety\n\nThe first minister has revealed that he has received threats to his physical safety over Wales' new 20mph law.\n\nMark Drakeford told the Senedd that he had been sent \"vile\" messages and supporters of the lower speed limit deserved to be treated with respect.\n\nPolice said they were investigating \"reports of malicious communications\" sent to the first minister.\n\nWales was the first UK country to cut the default speed in built-up areas from 30mph to 20mph earlier this month.\n\nA petition for the law to be scrapped has reached over 430,000 signatures.\n\nLast week, Senedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones said Cardiff Bay politicians, including her, had received threatening messages over the issue.\n\nMinisters say the aim of the policy is to save lives, reduce injuries and encourage walking and cycling.\n\nThe law was a Welsh Labour manifesto commitment that has proved highly controversial now that it has been put into practice.\n\nLee Waters, the minister who led the introduction of the new speed limit, will face a Conservative no confidence vote on Wednesday which he is expected to win.\n\nDuring Tuesday's First Minister's Questions, Conservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Mr Davies asked if the record breaking petition was being taken seriously by the Welsh government.\n\nMr Drakeford said that it was important to do so, but that this was a matter that \"cut both ways\".\n\nHe said that he was \"happy\" to send his Conservative opposite number some of the \"vile\" messages that he had received from people opposed to the policy.\n\nThe first minister urged Mr Davies to call out \"those people who are prepared to say things which are not simply disparaging but are also directly threatening of people's physical safety\".\n\nMr Davies agreed to do so, saying there was \"no place for that in our society whatsoever\".\n\n\"This type of language is unacceptable, deplorable and should be called out at every opportunity,\" he added.\n\nHe also pointed out that he had also received \"many, many examples\" of abusive messages on social media that \"get thrown at me\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said that it was investigating malicious messages sent to the first minister.\n\nThe force said it \"can confirm that it has received reports of malicious communications which are currently being investigated\".", "Russian media says Mr Wang's trip will lay the ground for Vladimir Putin to make a landmark visit to Beijing\n\nChina's top diplomat Wang Yi is visiting Russia as it seeks continued support for its war on Ukraine.\n\nAny bid to end the war must take into account Moscow's interests, Mr Wang and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov were quoted as saying after a meeting.\n\nA close ally of Moscow, Beijing is accused of supporting Russia indirectly during the war, which it denies.\n\nRussian media said Mr Wang's trip would also pave the way for President Vladimir Putin's visit to China soon.\n\nThis comes after Mr Putin met North Korea's Kim Jong Un amid US fears they could strike an arms deal.\n\nChina's foreign ministry said Mr Wang is in Russia for four days for \"strategic security consultations\".\n\nAfter Monday's talks, the Russian foreign ministry said he and Mr Lavrov discussed the Ukraine war \"and noted the futility of attempts to settle the crisis without taking account of Russia's interests and, more particularly, its participation\".\n\nChina has put out its own Ukraine peace plan, unveiled during a whirlwind of diplomacy undertaken by Mr Wang earlier this year when he last visited Moscow and met Mr Putin.\n\nWhile China is keen on seeing an end to the Ukraine war so it can repair its relations with Europe, it also wants to \"separate that outcome from determining who is to blame for the war\", since it is sympathetic to Russia, noted Rorry Daniels, managing director of the Asia Society Policy Institute.\n\nChina has been accused by the US of aiding Russia economically and supplying key technology since the war began.\n\nA US intelligence report released in July said Beijing is \"pursuing a variety of economic support mechanisms for Russia that mitigate both the impact of Western sanctions and export controls\".\n\nIt cited China's increased purchases of Russian energy exports, the increased use of its currency in transactions with Russia, and the \"probable\" supply of dual technology - items which could be deployed for both civilian and military purposes such as drones - for use in Ukraine.\n\nChina has consistently denied such allegations and insists it maintains an objective position on the war.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Putin said he expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, but did not say when.\n\nSome observers believe he is likely to attend the Belt and Road Forum next month.\n\nHe has not travelled abroad since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him in March over war crimes in Ukraine. Mr Putin last ventured onto foreign soil in December 2022 when he visited Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.\n\n\"Inviting Putin to China is a way to show support for Russia but that support must also be framed as a legitimate attempt to get Russia to the negotiating table so that China doesn't worsen its position with the Europeans,\" said Ms Daniels.\n\nMr Lavrov and Mr Wang held talks on Monday on the Ukraine war\n\nMr Wang's visit comes as Mr Kim wrapped up his highly controversial visit to Russia.\n\nOn Monday he was heading home with presents including a Russian-made rifle, a cosmonaut's glove, a bulletproof vest, a fur hat and military drones, according to Russian media.\n\nThe US alleged Mr Kim's visit was to discuss the selling of North Korean arms to Russia. Moscow is thought to be facing a shortage of weapons and ammunition.\n\nRussia and North Korea have said they talked about \"military co-operation\" and aid for Pyongyang's satellite programme.\n\nWhen asked about Mr Kim's trip last week, China's foreign ministry declined to comment saying it was \"something between their two countries\".\n\nBut some analysts believe that any mutual North Korea-Russia support is happening with China's knowledge or even implicit consent, given Beijing's close ties with the other two countries.\n\nThose relationships extend beyond socialist ideology and their shared distrust of the US and the West. Beijing has long been Pyongyang's economic lifeline through trade, and in the past year it has started becoming Moscow's as well through ramped-up purchases of Russian oil and gas.\n\n\"Whatever's happening with Russia and North Korea cannot be happening without China knowing about it... I don't think they would cooperate militarily without Beijing's approval,\" said Alexander Korolev, an expert on China-Russia relations with the University of New South Wales in Australia.\n\nChina could even see North Korea as a useful proxy to help Russia in the Ukraine war, he added.\n\n\"Simply by greenlighting North Korea to have military cooperation with Russia is a way to help Russia with very low reputational costs. It could blame North Korea's rogue regime [whose actions have] nothing to do with them. It would be a smart move, if this is the case.\" he said.\n\nMr Wang's visit to Russia also comes a day after he met US national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Malta. Besides the US-China relationship, the two men had also discussed regional security and the Ukraine war, according to statements put out by the US and China.\n\nWhile the US may be talking to China to put pressure on North Korea to stop any cooperation, it may be unlikely China would do this, said Dr Korolev.\n\n\"If China wanted to play ball the American way, they had more than a year\" to stop the war but they have not, he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain reached the Davis Cup Finals last eight in remarkable fashion as Dan Evans and Neal Skupski saved four match points before winning a nerve-wracking decider against France.\n\nIn front of a partisan British crowd in Manchester, Evans and Skupski beat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (8-6).\n\nEvans won from a set and a break down in the singles but Cameron Norrie lost.\n\nEvans and Skupski, roared on by the home fans, recovered to seal victory.\n\n\"It was bonkers. I don't know what we've all sat through for nine hours,\" British captain Leon Smith said.\n\nGreat Britain will now go on to the knockout phase of the men's team competition - known as the Final Eight - in Spanish city Malaga in November.\n\nFour nations - Britain, Australia, France and Switzerland - played in the round-robin event at Manchester's AO Arena, with the top two countries going through.\n\nBritain, who last won the Davis Cup in 2015, finished as Group B winners and will play Serbia or Italy when the draw is made on Tuesday.\n\nAustralia progressed as runners-up, with defending champions Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands completing the line-up.\n\nBut notable absences will be hosts Spain, who failed to make it out of Group C, and 32-time champions the United States, who were stunned by Finland in their final Group D tie.\n\n'No panic' for Evans and Skupski in nerve-wracking finale\n\nWith Australia already qualified and Switzerland eliminated, Britain knew nothing other than a victory in the best-of-three tie against France would enable them to progress.\n\nWhat few of the 13,000 crowd - a record for a Davis Cup tie in the UK - would have predicted was the dramatic manner in which their goal was finally achieved.\n\nEvans, 33, laid the platform for the win when he fought back to beat French teenager Arthur Fils 3-6 6-3 6-4.\n\nBritish number one Norrie, 28, could not get his side over the line as he lost 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 7-5 to Ugo Humbert, teeing up the winner-takes-all doubles match.\n\nEvans and Skupski, who have become Smith's first-choice doubles pair, recovered from a strong start by their experienced rivals before growing in confidence as the boisterous home fans lifted their spirits.\n\nDespite being unable to make a dent on the French pair's serve in the opening two sets, Evans and Skupski went up a gear in the tie-break to level the match.\n\nA nail-biting deciding set also remained on serve - but only after Evans recovered from a double fault which brought up three match points at 5-4.\n\nEvans found a first serve to save one as Roger-Vasselin hit a forehand into the net, boldly watched another return go just long on the second and then saw the Frenchman push a forehand wide on the third.\n\nThe British pair saved another match point on Skupski's serve at 6-5 before converting their second opportunity in the deciding tie-break.\n\n\"There was no panic,\" said 33-year-old Skupski, who is the world doubles number three and this year's Wimbledon champion.\n\n\"We just went to the next point. I knew if we got through that game somehow the momentum was going to swing our way.\"\n\nWhen Britain sealed victory at almost 22:00 BST, Skupski knelt down and roared after watching a French return fly long while Evans fell on to his back in disbelief.\n\nThe pair were quickly mobbed by their team-mates and support staff, including a union jack bucket-hat-wearing Andy Murray.\n\n\"The singles is the singles and I feel comfortable on that court, but the doubles was chaos,\" said Evans.\n\n\"I just kept saying to Neal 'we've got a chance, we've got a chance' and we both kept going. We stuck together.\n\n\"It's emotional. You want to be with these guys in the finals. It's an immensely proud moment for me and the team.\"\n\nWith a strong squad at his disposal, Great Britain captain Smith had a tough selection call to make for the win-or-bust tie against a talented French squad.\n\nUltimately, he picked his highest-ranked players in Evans and Norrie, with former world number one Murray and promising youngster Jack Draper missing out.\n\nThe move also ensured Evans - who would have played second if the lower-ranked Murray or Draper had been selected - could have a break before what turned out to be the decisive doubles.\n\nThe world number 27 was particularly inspired all week in Manchester, thriving in the partisan atmosphere of the team event and winning both of his singles matches.\n\n\"Davis Cup is why I played tennis at the start,\" said Evans, who comes from the West Midlands.\n\n\"I remember watching the Birmingham ties, finishing late on a Sunday night. That was my first introduction to professional tennis really.\n\n\"That was the be-all and end-all to play Davis Cup for my country - and it still is. I'm not a nervous person but before you play Davis Cup it is a different feeling.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None What's next in the Post Office Horizon scandal? Nick Wallis continues his investigation into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history\n• None The batsman who changed the face of cricket: How wearing a helmet revolutionised the safety of the sport", "Humza Yousaf has travelled to New York for a climate conference\n\nScotland will transition from Europe's oil and gas capital to its net-zero capital as it provides \"moral leadership\" on the climate crisis, Humza Yousaf has claimed.\n\nThe first minister said his government was \"putting money where our mouth is\" during a speech at a New York Climate Week event.\n\nHe announced funding for countries worst affected by climate change.\n\nMr Yousaf was the keynote speaker at an event on \"financing climate justice\".\n\nHe warned countries in the global south who had contributed least to global CO2 emissions were bearing the brunt of the climate emergency.\n\n\"We are collectively guilty of catastrophic negligence and our children have every right to be angry and they have every right, quite frankly, not to forgive us if we do not step up,\" the SNP leader said.\n\nHe announced an extra £800,000 of funding, in partnership with the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, to help the victims of Storm Freddy in Malawi.\n\nThe first minister also said the government would partner with the Climate Justice Resilience Fund to deliver £5m for a non-economic loss and damage programme.\n\nA further ��1m is to be provided to address loss and damage through the Humanitarian Emergency Fund.\n\nMr Yousaf said it meant Scotland was fulfilling its pledge from COP27 to commit £7m to countries hit hardest by the climate crisis.\n\n\"We will transition from being the oil and gas capital of Europe to unleashing our renewable potential and becoming the net-zero capital of the world,\" Mr Yousaf added.\n\n\"We will show moral leadership and ensure funding for loss and damage is not just pledged but paid and I would urge other nations to join us. The very existence of humanity depends on it.\"\n\nEarlier, a Scottish government minister said it was right that Mr Yousaf travelled more than 3,000 miles to attend the event in New York.\n\nMairi McAllan, secretary for transport, net zero and just transition, told Good Morning Scotland: \"I understand the argument about reducing travel - it's something we bear in mind.\n\n\"When it comes to the transformation that the climate emergency demands of us, it is very important to be having discussions in person and to be doing those negotiations both formally and informally.\"\n\nIn August, the Scottish government's climate justice fund pledged £24m to aid agencies working in Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia.\n\nTransport, Net Zero and Just Transition Secretary Mairi McAllan said Scotland had a \"moral obligation\" to help other nations\n\n\"It's right that we do everything we can to support the nations who have done virtually nothing to contribute but who are on the first and worst receiving end of it,\" Ms McAllan said.\n\nThe Scottish government is aiming to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, with its two largest cities - Glasgow and Edinburgh - setting the even more ambitious target of 2030.\n\nBut both Edinburgh and Glasgow city councils have warned that they lack the funds to reach those goals, with billions of pounds of investment required.\n\nMs McAllan acknowledged the cost of decarbonising was \"really significant\" but said the government was investing heavily in the process and \"pioneering\" progressive taxation.\n\n\"The public sector cannot fund the journey to net-zero alone and we need to private finance in a way which is responsible and which works for our communities but undoubtedly it will have to play a significant part in the journey,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\nShe called for more radical action from the UK government, describing Westminster policy as \"increasingly out of date\".\n\nThe minister criticised the UK government for not introducing more progressive taxes on energy firms, failing to decouple the price of gas from electricity and not using more carbon capture and wind technology.\n\nOne of the key debates about the UK's climate ambitions is over Rosebank, the country's largest untapped oil field, off the coast of Shetland.\n\nMs McAllan stressed that the Scottish government did not hold powers over licensing such sites.\n\nShe added: \"It's an evidence-based approach that we want to see taken by UK government including a very strict climate compatibility test, and if Rosebank can't meet a strict climate compatibility test I see no reason why it should go ahead.\"\n\nHer comments came after Oxfam released a report looking at how ministers could \"make polluters across the UK pay for climate justice\".\n\nIt said greater levies on oil and gas firms and a tax system targeting those with extreme wealth could have raised between £10.5bn and £12.6bn in in 2022.\n\nThe study also found transport was currently Scotland's biggest emitter, generating more than a quarter (26%) of the country's carbon emissions.\n\nBut Lewis Ryder-Jones, Oxfam Scotland's policy adviser, said his organisation was \"pragmatic\" in its approach to air travel when asked about Mr Yousaf's trip to New York.\n\n\"Of course we want to see a reduction in flights used by everyone globally,\" he told Good Morning Scotland. \"That's why we want to see a progressively increasing frequent flier levy.\"\n\nHe added: \"But the reality is people are going to need to fly and there are important reasons why people fly and those of us who take holidays every year should be allowed to do so.\n\n\"But through that process we must take responsibility for the emissions we are creating and the government has the power to increase the revenues we can get from those actions.\"\n\nThey said :\"Our windfall tax on oil and gas companies is expected to raise an extra £26bn, whilst our tax system is also designed fairly so the richest bear the most burden - UK taxes on wealth are on par with other G7 countries and the top 5% of income taxpayers contribute half of all income tax.\n\n\"The UK is a world leader on net zero, cutting emissions faster than any other G7 country, and with 48% of our electricity coming from renewables in the first quarter of this year, the four largest operational wind farms in the world off our shores and significant investment in nuclear power, we expect that to continue.\"", "A young child has died after being knocked down in a village in East Ayrshire.\n\nIt is understood the child was struck by a vehicle in the Castle area of New Cumnock at about 12:35 on Monday.\n\nA number of local clubs and organisations announced on social media that they had cancelled events due to the \"the tragic event\".\n\nCumnock Juniors Girls Football Club said all training had been cancelled following the incident.\n\nThe A76, which passes through the village, was closed for several hours for investigation work.\n\nLinda McAulay Griffiths, chief education officer at East Ayrshire Council said: \"Our thoughts are with all involved at this very sad time.\n\n\"We will be working closely with the school and together we will do all we can to help and support those affected in the coming days.\"\n\nLocal football team Glenafton Athletic announced they would be holding a minute's silence at their upcoming game against Irvine Meadow at the weekend.\n\nThe New Cumnock Development Trust said on Facebook: \"In light of the tragic event in our community today, all NCDT activities over the coming week are now cancelled.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"Around 12.35 on Monday, 18 September, police were called to a road crash at Castle Place, New Cumnock.\"", "Barry and Mary Ford were living in Florida when they first heard the Sanquhar post office was up for sale\n\nThe future of the world's oldest operating post office in southern Scotland has been secured after new owners were found.\n\nBarry and Mary Ford were living in Florida when they first heard the Sanquhar site was up for sale.\n\nThe town's post office first opened in 1712 and has been in continuous operation since then.\n\nMr Ford said he was proud to become just the 17th postmaster in the site's long history.\n\nThe news brings to an end a four-year search for new owners after the post office was put up for sale in late 2019.\n\nBarry Ford is just the 17th postmaster in more than 300 years at the Sanquhar site\n\nThe couple take over the branch from Nazra Alam who had run the post office along with her late husband, Dr Manzoor Alam, who died in November last year.\n\nLincolnshire-born Mr Ford and his wife Mary, from Motherwell, had been living and working in Florida for 20 years when they first heard about the historic site being for sale in 2020.\n\nThey returned to the UK to look after their elderly mothers who have both since died.\n\nThe Fords were initially outbid for the post office but when that deal fell through they jumped at the chance to take over.\n\nMrs Ford has since discovered a connection to the area as her ancestors came from Muirkirk - about 25 miles by road from Sanquhar.\n\nVisitors come from around the world to have their letters stamped\n\nMr Ford said: \"It is a complete different career change for the pair of us - there is a lot of stuff to learn.\"\n\n\"It's important to us to keep it going for the local area for tourism and for the community,\" added Mrs Ford.\n\n\"We don't want it to close if we can keep it going - especially for the local community because so many other branches of banks are closing.\"\n\nMr Ford said they had found Sanquhar to be a \"very thriving community\".\n\n\"We just hope we can be accepted into it and be part of it,\" he said.\n\nPost Office chief executive Nick Read paid tribute to Dr and Mrs Alam for running the site for the past eight years.\n\nNazra Alam thanked her customers for their \"banter\" over the years\n\n\"Nazra continued running the branch for the Sanquhar community, and the thousands of tourists who visit every year, through her grief and throughout the Covid pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"Nazra has been a remarkable postmistress and I hope she enjoys a happy retirement surrounded by her children and grandchildren.\"\n\nMrs Alam said her late husband had been fascinated by the postal history of the town.\n\n\"The people of Sanquhar are lovely and the scenery in all directions is beautiful,\" she said.\n\n\"Manzoor and I loved our time in Scotland, but the winters were too cold for us.\n\n\"I give my heartfelt thanks to the people of Sanquhar who have been very kind to us over the years and for their custom and banter that kept me going.\"\n\nThe post office has been in operation since 1712\n\nShe also thanked the staff who had worked for them.\n\nSanquhar Post Office is accredited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the world's oldest post office.\n\nMany visitors come to have their letters marked with a special handstamp bearing \"The World's Oldest Post Office\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Butlin's in Minehead was hit by heavy rain\n\nA seaside holiday resort has been forced to shut after heavy rain caused flooding across parts of Somerset.\n\nThe Butlin's resort in Minehead will be closed for four days after the site was damaged during extreme weather conditions on Sunday.\n\nFurther yellow warnings for rain have been put in place by the Met Office for parts of the UK later this week.\n\nButlin's said they were \"very sorry\" to anyone whose holiday had been affected and full refunds would be made.\n\nThe Met Office said heavy rain is expected for parts of north-west England and Wales, on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nA Butlin's spokesperson said: \"We've taken the difficult decision to close due to several important venues being impacted by the weather.\"\n\nOne group staying at Butlin's said some of their belongings, mainly clothing, were ruined in the flood\n\nKaren Keen, who was holidaying with her friends at the site, said \"streams of water\" started entering their chalet from both sides at around 10:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nWith the rest of her group at breakfast, Ms Keen said she started to get everything off the floor before texting them to come back to help.\n\n\"It was so quick. It was just crazy. Even the toilets were backing up,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHelen Harris, one of the group of four, said: \"We were a few chalets down, so when we got back ours was worse.\"\n\n\"It was a few inches deep at that point.\"\n\nMs Harris said they then got clothes and other belongings out of the water and started to pack up.\n\n\"It was like a very small stream of water in every single room of the chalet and the outside,\" she said.\n\n\"Everything was floating around. It was in the fridge,\" said Deanna Rogers, who was staying in a chalet with Ms Harris.\n\nRuth Mills, who had booked the trip for the group, said: \"On Saturday, we had been to see Wet Wet Wet and it was just like okay - [then this was our] turn to get wet wet wet. It was horrendous. It just got worse.\"\n\nThe group said some of their belongings, mainly clothing, had been ruined.\"\n\nMs Harris said they started getting \"cross\" when time passed and they felt they were not being told what to do.\n\n\"We tried to make a laugh about it but nobody was there with any information, we were just left in limbo,\" she said.\n\n\"We were tired and wet, we felt dirty. They need to face people. Not everyone was angry, they just wanted to know what was going on.\"\n\nButlin's will be closed for four days while staff clear the flood water\n\nBut in a statement, Butlin's said more staff were called in to help guests after the chalets were flooded.\n\n\"We brought in extra team to help guests, who worked quickly to re-accommodate every unit that had been flooded and we had an overwhelmingly positive response on resort yesterday,\" the firm said.\n\n\"We communicated with guests via digital screens and SMS to keep them updated and managed to continue with a full entertainment schedule.\n\n\"Due to several important venues being impacted by the weather, we took the difficult decision to close for this week's family break. The safety of our guests and team is our top priority and we are very sorry to anyone whose holiday has been affected.\"\n\nThe resort is expected to re-open on Friday.\n\nMuddy torrents of water were seen gushing down roads in Withycombe\n\nA number of businesses were flooded and many roads were closed in Minehead, while Avon and Somerset Police advised against non-essential travel.\n\nA flood alert was earlier issued by the Environment Agency (EA) for Lower Tone and Parrett Moors in Somerset.\n\nA spokesperson for the EA said residents should \"be prepared\" as flooding was now possible in these areas.\n\nKeith Hunt, whose zero waste shop Our Precious Earth on the town's Holloway Street was flooded during \"unprecedented rain\", said he was unsure about what to do as he \"couldn't get business insurance for flooding\".\n\n\"The water's left a mark on the walls, will have affected stock, all the perishables on the floor, paper and cardboard boxes,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously, all the flooring, is spoilt because of the amount of water that's in there.\"\n\nKeith Hunt said he will have to borrow money for the clean up\n\n\"It's the loss of business as well. It's such a crucial time. The quicker I can get it cleared up the better,\" Mr Hunt continued.\n\n\"I'll have to borrow some money to get it all completed.\"\n\nAn amber weather warning for thunderstorms across parts of Devon and Somerset was in place on Sunday afternoon, with a yellow warning in other parts of south west England and South Wales.\n\nThere were widespread road closures, as well as bus and train cancellations.\n\nAlmost a month's rain fell on Sunday at the Birds Hill rain gauge on the edge of Exmoor.\n\n\"The weekend saw quite exceptional rainfall across parts of Devon and Somerset, in particular. Unfortunately, by Sunday afternoon this was exacerbated by a swathe of torrential rain from a very energetic storm cell moving northwards, resulting very quickly in flash flooding, disruption and damage.\n\n\"The situation deteriorated sufficiently to warrant an amber warning from the Met Office, covering a zone broadly up through the M5 corridor and environs either side of it, such as the Brendon Hills.\n\n\"On Sunday afternoon alone, some places saw 40mm of rain in just two hours with the rain falling at torrential rates of 60 to over 100mm per hour. Some places, such as Wellington, saw their highest amount of rain falling in a short period since 28 July 1969.\"\n\nOther spots saw up to 60mm of rain fall, more than half the September average for the region of 92.45mm.\n\nThe band of rain moved eastwards throughout Sunday and cleared in the early hours of Monday.\n\nConditions are expected to remain \"blustery at times\" early this week.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "A businessman whose new Belfast grocery store was subjected to four racially-motivated attacks in two weeks has said he will move his business.\n\nAhmad Alkhamran came to Northern Ireland from Syria seven years ago, fleeing the war, and worked to earn enough money to open his own store.\n\nBut his shop on Belfast's Donegall Road was set on fire in an arson attack on Sunday evening.\n\nResidents living in flats above the business had to be led to safety.\n\nPolice said Sunday's attack was the fourth incident at the same premises within the past fortnight and they are treating them all as racially-motivated hate crimes.\n\nCeilings and other interior fittings have been damaged\n\nSunday's arson attack followed a recent racist graffiti attack on the shop\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr Alkhamran said he could not understand why his shop had been targeted.\n\n\"It's disappointing but we will keep going and hope to open the business somewhere else, but not here,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe love will win, not racists.\"\n\nHe explained that he worked as a taxi driver after he arrived in Northern Ireland and had been saving his wages to start his own grocery business.\n\n\"I have worked for four months, the shop was to open next week.\n\n\"I have saved for seven years - in just a few minutes it was all gone.\"\n\nThe blaze on the Donegall Road was reported at 21:25 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Alkhamran said he and a friend had been working in the shop on Sunday evening to prepare for their opening, and they closed up at about 20:30 BST.\n\nA short time later, he got a call from his landlord telling him the shop had been attacked again.\n\nWhen he arrived at the scene, the emergency services were already helping residents in the flats above to safety.\n\n\"Thankfully [they] were not injured and we are extremely grateful for the quick actions of our officers and response from the fire service,\" a police statement said.\n\nMr Alkhamran said his new store was badly damaged by the fire and much of his stock was ruined.\n\n\"Everything is damaged,\" he added.\n\nThe shop was stocked in preparation for opening next week\n\nDuring previous attacks within the past fortnight, a fire was set in front of the shop, damaging the shutters and cracking the shop window,\n\nIn the next attack, shutters at the premises were spray-painted with graffiti.\n\nThe message read: \"Local houses an (sic) shops only.\"\n\nHe told BBC News NI he still intends to open a grocery store, but will now look for a \"safer\" location.\n\nHe said he had been made to feel welcome by most people he met in Northern Ireland, and said he believed it was only a small minority who opposed his new venture.\n\nSinn Féin Belfast South assembly member Deirdre Hargey said condemned the attacks on Mr Alkhamran's business.\n\n\"This is a disgusting attempt to create fear and stir up hate,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no place for this kind of behaviour in our society and is not reflective of the people of south Belfast.\"\n\nPolice investigating the hate crime have appealed to witnesses or anyone who captured dashcam or mobile phone footage of the fire to contact detectives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is what the missing F-35 US military jet looks like\n\nThe US military has asked for the public's help to locate one of its $100m (£80m) F-35B fighter jets after the pilot ejected from the aircraft.\n\nIt went missing on Sunday afternoon when the pilot was flying over the southern state of South Carolina.\n\nThe pilot, who has not been named, ejected and parachuted safely. He is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nOfficials said the aircraft was involved in a \"mishap\" but did not offer details of what that was.\n\nIt was left in autopilot mode when the pilot ejected, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston told NBC News, adding that it may have been airborne for some time.\n\nOfficials said they were focusing their searches around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, north of the city of Charleston.\n\nThe search area was based on the jet's last known location.\n\nNancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman for South Carolina, asked on X, formerly Twitter: \"How in the hell do you lose an F-35?\n\n\"How is there not a tracking device and we're asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?\"\n\nThe aircraft is a stealth jet - meaning its airframe, sensors and systems are designed to operate undetected by enemy radar.\n\nJoint Base Charleston posted its appeal for help on X. \"Emergency response teams are still trying to locate the F-35,\" it said.\n\n\"The public is asked to co-operate with military and civilian authorities as the effort continues.\"\n\nIt encouraged anyone with information that could help its recovery teams to contact its operations centre.\n\nFlight tracker Flightradar24 posted an image on X showing several aircraft scouring the area.\n\nThe Marine Corps said in a statement to the BBC its knowledge of the incident was \"limited\" at the moment, it was still trying to gather more information.\n\nIt added that the mishap would be \"under investigation\".\n\nThe jet costs around $100m, its manufacturer Lockheed Martin told the BBC.\n\nA second F-35 flying at the same time returned safely to base, military spokeswoman Maj Melanie Salinas told Associated Press.\n\nIn 2018, the US military temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 jets after a crash in South Carolina.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMilitary officials have found the debris of an F-35 military jet that went missing after the pilot ejected over South Carolina.\n\nThe wreckage of the $100m (£80m) plane - which disappeared on Sunday afternoon - was discovered in rural Williamsburg County, said authorities.\n\nThe pilot ejected from the cockpit and parachuted to safety in a North Charleston neighbourhood.\n\nThe public had been asked to help find the jet.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, military officials said the debris was found \"two hours north-east of Joint Base Charleston\".\n\nVideo shows a long narrow gash in a wooded area, where the crashed jet has downed trees as parts of the machinery broke off.\n\nThe sheriff's office for Williamsburg County said it had diverted traffic on nearby rural roads from the \"extensive debris field\" for an undetermined amount of time. The sheriff's office also said there were no reported injuries and a spokeswoman told the BBC that the office did not receive any calls about a possible crash or loud boom in recent days.\n\nOfficials had focused their searches around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, north of the city of Charleston - the jet's last known location.\n\nThe debris found has been confirmed as the wreckage of the missing plane, a military spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"The mishap is currently under investigation, and we are unable to provide additional details to preserve the integrity of the investigative process,\" the Marine Corps said on Monday after the search ended.\n\nThe public has been asked to keep away from the area to allow investigators to do their work.\n\nLockheed Martin, the company behind the stealth fighter plane, is supporting the government's investigation, according to a company spokeswoman.\n\nThe fighter jet was left in autopilot mode when the pilot ejected, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston told NBC News, adding that it may have been airborne for some time, complicating its discovery.\n\n\"A plausible sequence of events is that when the pilot ejected, the electronics for the transponder were fried and thus the military was no longer able to track its location,\" JJ Gertler, a senior analyst at the Teal Group, a defence consultancy, told the BBC during the search for the plane.\n\nHe said it was possible the aircraft kept flying after the pilot ejected, but that it was \"extremely unlikely\" due to \"the damage the aircraft would have received from the ejection seat\" and \"the change in aerodynamics when the canopy is gone\".\n\nThe plane, a FB-35B Lightning II, belonged to the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, which works to train pilots, US media reported.\n\nThe pilot that ejected was taken to hospital and was in a stable condition. A second F-35 flying at the same time returned safely to base.\n\nJoint Base Charleston had posted on X - formerly Twitter - asking the public for help to find the aircraft.\n\nThe request led to mockery online and criticism from lawmakers.\n\nNancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman for South Carolina, asked on X, formerly Twitter: \"How in the hell do you lose an F-35?\n\n\"How is there not a tracking device and we're asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?\"\n\nThe aircraft is a stealth jet - meaning its airframe, sensors and systems are designed to operate undetected by enemy radar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is what the crashed F-35 US military jet looks like\n\nIf the plane was flying to pre-planned waypoints, its crash location may have been determined by when its fuel would run out.\n\nThe known speed and the altitude at the moment of ejection, as well as how much fuel it had left, could have made it a simple math exercise to determine its location.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the US Marine Corps announced a two-day pause in air operations throughout the military branch this week.\n\nA Marine Corps press release on Monday said officials plan to \"discuss aviation safety matters and best practices\" sometime this week.\n\nIt said the missing jet amounted to the third \"Class-A mishap\" in the past six weeks - a category of incident that causes more than $2.5m in damage. It did not elaborate on previous incidents.\n\nIn August, three marines died in an accident involving an Osprey tilt-rotor plane and another was killed when his jet crashed during a training exercise near San Diego.\n\nIn 2018, the US military temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 jets after a crash in South Carolina.", "Remains were discovered in the search for missing Lois and John McCullough\n\nDetectives believe they have discovered the remains of a couple whose daughter has been charged with their murder.\n\nEssex Police was called to an address in Pump Hill, Chelmsford, on Wednesday over concerns for the welfare of two people in their 70s, who were missing.\n\nVirginia McCullough, 35, of Pump Hill, appeared in court earlier accused of murdering John and Lois McCullough some time between 2018 and 2023.\n\nPolice said human remains had now been found at an address on the same street.\n\nVirginia McCullough appeared for a brief hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court\n\nThe court charge sheet said Virginia McCullough had been charged with her parents' murder in Chelmsford some time between 21 August 2018 and 15 September this year.\n\nDet Supt Rob Kirby said formal identification of the bodies was yet to take place and a police presence would remain in the road in the \"coming days\".\n\n\"This continues to be an incredibly complex investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"A family is grieving the loss of two relatives and officers are supporting them.\"\n\nEssex Police said they were working to build a \"clear picture\" as part of their investigation in the Great Baddow area of Chelmsford\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the victims' family said: \"We are deeply shocked by their deaths and ask for privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nMs McCullough appeared for a brief hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday, wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit, and was remanded in custody to appear again at Basildon Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe Reverend Phil Sheldrake, the vicar at St Mary's Great Baddow, told the BBC that clergy were on hand to speak to anyone affected.\n\n\"We are shocked to hear the tragic news that's come from our own community and what we want to do as a church is simply react to that by opening up this building as a place people can come and pray, light a candle and just be,\" he said.\n\nEssex Police asked for anyone with information to get in contact.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An additional 30 Senedd members would cost around an extra £12m per year, according to new estimates.\n\nIn 2017 an expert panel recommended an extra 20 to 30 members to enable the institution to cope with a growing workload.\n\nA 90 member Welsh Parliament with more debate and committee sessions would cost an extra £11.7m in non-election years and £12.9m in election years.\n\nThe figures were set out by Presiding Officer Elin Jones.\n\nAny changes will not happen before next year's Senedd election.\n\nIn a letter to a Senedd committee considering electoral reform, Ms Jones sets out cost projections if 20 or 30 Members of the Senedd (MSs) were added to the current 60.\n\nFigures for an 80-member Senedd are between £8.6m and £9.5m.\n\nThe estimates are slightly lower than ones initially put forward by the presiding officer to the committee in January.\n\nNet expenditure of the Welsh Parliament, then known as the Welsh Assembly, stood at £56.5m in 2018-19.\n\nThe committee, chaired by Labour Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney MS Dawn Bowden, intends to publish a report later this summer on the parliament's capacity, diversity and electoral system.\n\nAny changes to the electoral system, including an increase in the number of MSs, would require a degree of cross-party support as a two-thirds majority would be needed in a Senedd vote.\n\nWales' Auditor General Adrian Crompton has also written to the committee outlining his belief that the Senedd does not currently have the capacity to carry out its \"representative, scrutiny and legislative functions now and in the future\".\n\nDespite the concerns of Wales' chief spending watchdog, a consensus on the issue has eluded the Senedd so far. It seems likely to continue to do so.\n\nPrevious proposals from a group led by Laura McAllister did not win support and, with key Welsh Labour backing missing, the ball was kicked to the May 2021 election.\n\nIn the meantime, the Senedd established a committee to find a cross-party way forward, but only Labour and Plaid members currently sit on it.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives never joined. The Brexit Party were involved, but later pulled out.\n\nWhatever the committee's outcome, the future of the recommendations will rely on the result Welsh voters deliver in May.", "Barry is thought to have one of the most complete skulls ever documented in a dinosaur\n\nAn almost complete dinosaur skeleton will be sold at auction in Paris next month.\n\nThe 150 million-year-old camptosaurus was discovered in the 1990s in the US state of Wyoming.\n\nIt was named Barry after Barry James, the palaeontologist who found it. Experts say the skeleton is \"extremely well preserved\".\n\nIt is expected to fetch up to €1.2m ($1.2m, £970,000) in an auction at Hotel Drouot on 20 October.\n\nBarry dates back to the late Jurassic period and measures 2.1m (6.9ft) tall and 5m long.\n\nAlexandre Giquello, from the auction house Hotel Drouot, said it was unusual to see a dinosaur skeleton so intact.\n\n\"The skull is complete at 90% and the rest of the dinosaur is complete at 80%,\" he said.\n\nSales of dinosaur fossils are rare, with only a small number taking place each year globally - although some experts have raised concerns about specimens finding their way into private hands.\n\nIn April, a Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction for the first time in Europe.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the time, Prof Steve Brusatte, a dinosaur expert at Edinburgh University, said he was concerned the skeletons, which were \"scientifically very valuable\" could \"disappear into the vaults of private collectors\".", "Saturday's performance at Wembley Park Theatre was Brand's first public appearance since allegations against him were published\n\n\"There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand.\"\n\nRussell Brand was addressing a crowd of 2,000 of his fans at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, part of his Bipolarisation tour - but this was no normal show for the comedian-turned wellness guru.\n\nHours earlier, the 48-year-old had been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nBrand had already strenuously denied the allegations in a video posted on his YouTube account. But his appearance at the sold-out show in north-west London was the first time he'd been seen in public since the claims were published.\n\nBefore the show began, I was almost certain it would be cancelled.\n\nThen there was an announcement that Brand was on his way to the venue, having been caught in traffic, and we waited.\n\nIn the crowd, a woman held a large piece of paper, the top line of which read: \"We stand by you.\" She asked security to make sure it was given to the comedian.\n\nBrand's fans could be heard expressing their hatred of the mainstream media, using language that is unpublishable here.\n\nThen the show began, shortly after 20:00, an hour later than the scheduled start time.\n\nBrand walked on-stage to the track \"You Don't Own Me\", a 1960s feminist anthem performed by American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore.\n\n\"I appreciate you, I appreciate you,\" he said, apologising for his lateness, which he blamed on a traffic jam.\n\nDressed in dark skinny jeans, a dark shirt and a dark jacket, he said to the audience: \"You came.\"\n\nAfter asking them not to film, he said: \"I really appreciate your support, I love you, I want to do a fantastic show for you.\n\n\"I've got a lot of things to talk to you about. There are obviously some things that I absolutely cannot talk about and I appreciate that you will understand.\"\n\n\"I love you lot already. I'm going to give you everything I've got, let's go.\"\n\nDuring his set, which lasted about an hour, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly\n\nBrand started the gig with gusto and enthusiasm.\n\nHe told stories of trying to be a normal dad to his children, who he'd been teaching to question authority, interspersing his performance with video clips.\n\nBut he appeared distracted throughout. In the second half of the show he constantly referred to pieces of paper. At times it appeared he had lost his place, when he would resort to talking about \"freedom\", \"transcendence\" and \"authority\".\n\nBut he forged ahead and the show ended with a standing ovation lasting a few minutes. He seemed touched by the gesture before leaving the stage.\n\nThe crowd exited and seemed happy, until they encountered the cameras and paparazzi outside.\n\n\"We should kick you off your ladder,\" was one of the comments made in their direction.\n\nBrand has more performances scheduled around the country in the coming weeks and months - time will tell if they will go ahead.", "Drew Barrymore was at pains to point out she \"owned\" the decision to recommence production while her writers were on strike\n\nUS actress Drew Barrymore has paused the premiere of her US talk show until the Hollywood strikes are over, after a backlash against her decision to resume filming.\n\nShe issued a tearful on-camera apology for continuing her CBS talk show \"The Drew Barrymore Show\".\n\nBarrymore was planning to return to screens on Monday.\n\nThis was despite the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike which began in May.\n\nFilming for the fourth season of her show took place earlier this week - while her three unionised writers were on strike.\n\nThe 48-year-old initially refused to halt production and said the show complied with strike rules.\n\nBut it sparked a huge backlash with many on social media suggesting she was not standing in solidarity with the cause.\n\nOn Wednesday members of both WGA and SAG-AFTRA unions marched from Netflix to Paramount Studios in Los Angeles\n\nIn a statement shared on Instagram on Sunday, Barrymore said: \"I have listened to everyone and I am making the decision to pause the show's premiere until the strike is over.\n\n\"I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today.\n\n\"We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.\"\n\nBarrymore's fresh announcement comes after she posted an emotional video - now deleted - where she \"deeply apologised\" to writers and unions.\n\nIn the video, Barrymore said: \"I believe there is nothing I can do or say in this moment to make it okay. I wanted to own a decision so it wasn't a PR-protected situation.\n\n\"I want everyone to know my intentions have never been in a place to upset or hurt anyone - it is not who I am.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Older and vulnerable people who are at greatest risk of infection are to start receiving boosters against Covid-19 and flu vaccines from Monday.\n\nNorthern Ireland's autumn booster programme was brought forward after concerns about a new Covid variant.\n\nThe faster-than-planned vaccine rollout aims to top up the protection of those most at risk and reduce the effect on the health service.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) said it was a precautionary measure.\n\nRachel Spiers, the immunisation and vaccination programme manager at the PHA, said Covid-19 and flu had not gone away.\n\n\"The message is clear: vaccination is the most safe and effective way to protect you and those around you, including your family,\" she said.\n\nThose who are eligible for the Covid-19 and flu vaccination programme will be called by their GP or they can attend a community pharmacy.\n\nThey include all adults aged 65 and over, those in a clinical risk group, care home residents, front-line health and social care workers, carers and those living with people who are immunosuppressed.\n\nThe flu vaccine will also be offered to all preschool children from the age of two, all primary and secondary school children up to and including year 12 and pregnant women.\n\nDr Alan Stout said that GPs were seeing an upturn in numbers of people with Covid-19.\n\n\"We don't know what the numbers are as we are not testing widely but, in terms of clinical presentations and individuals testing themselves, more people are contacting us,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"Most importantly the group that is still testing is staff and we are seeing quite a number of staff off sick at any point in time and that's putting more pressure on our services,\" he added.\n\nChief executive of Community Pharmacy NI Gerard Green said community pharmacies would be offering vaccinations, for those eligible, at walk-in clinics, pharmacies and for care home residents and staff.\n• None Tests to show whether new Covid variant is in NI", "The treatment of A-levels in the Republic of Ireland's university admissions system is disadvantaging students from Northern Ireland, a new study suggests.\n\nMaximum admission points can only be achieved by students who take four A-levels.\n\nIt is standard for Northern Ireland students to take three A-levels, with only an estimated 4% taking four.\n\nUniversities Ireland has set up a working group to look at the issue.\n\nThe new report has been produced by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in partnership with the Irish government's Shared Island Unit.\n\nIt said a modern language requirement for many university courses in the Republic of Ireland also disadvantaged potential applicants from north of the border.\n\nThe equivalent of A-levels in Ireland is the Leaving Certificate, which involves studying a wider range of subjects - typically between six and eight.\n\nUniversity applicants taking the Leaving Certificate can score the maximum 625 admissions points by achieving H1 grades in six subjects, including maths.\n\nApplicants from Northern Ireland can only score maximum points if they achieve four A* A-level grades, including an A* in maths, further maths or pure maths.\n\nThe report said there was a case for re-examining how many points A-levels got, given how few pupils in Northern Ireland took four subjects and the \"much lower take-up of modern foreign languages in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe report reiterated that there was a very low level of cross-border movement to attend university.\n\nIn 2020/21, 1,170 students from the Republic of Ireland went to study in Northern Ireland, while 1,255 students from Northern Ireland attended a higher education institution south of the border.\n\nPeople from the Republic of Ireland made up 2.4% of students in Northern Ireland, while people from Northern Ireland made up only 0.6% of students in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIreland's Higher Education Minister Simon Harris says he wants to \"make it as easy as possible for students to choose to study\" in Northern Ireland or the Republic\n\nThe study said that, aside from entry requirements, the decision to study elsewhere \"reflects the complex interaction of tuition/registration fees, financial supports and other living costs\".\n\nIt added that accommodation costs and lack of housing availability in the Republic of Ireland were \"undoubtedly barriers to students moving from Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK\".\n\nLaunching the report, Ireland's Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said: \"I am committed to working with higher and further education institutions, and with partners in the UK government and Northern Ireland, to make it as easy as possible for students to choose to study in either jurisdiction.\n\n\"This is really important in deepening our connections both north/south and east/west and in ensuring that young people have access to the best possible educational opportunities.\"", "Sunnah Khan, 12, and Joe Abbess, 17, both died on 31 May\n\nA 12-year-old girl who drowned off Bournemouth beach was in the water nearly an hour after getting into difficulty, a coroner has said.\n\nA pre-inquest hearing into the deaths of Sunnah Khan and Joe Abbess was told that CCTV from 31 May showed a group of young people struggling at 15:46 BST.\n\nDorset coroner Rachael Griffin said the lifeguard arrived seven minutes later.\n\nShe said Mr Abbess, 17, was pulled from the sea at 16:18 but Sunnah was not found until 16:45.\n\nSunnah Khan, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Joe Abbess, from Southampton, died and eight others were treated by paramedics following the incident.\n\nThe beach was cleared as emergency services attended the incident on 31 May\n\nAt the opening of their inquests in June, the court heard there was a \"suggestion\" a riptide had led to the pair drowning.\n\nAt the pre-inquest hearing on Monday, Dorset Coroner's Court was told a pleasure cruiser, the Dorset Belle, was cleared of any involvement by Dorset Police.\n\nBut the coroner said she could not yet rule out that the movement of the boat was a factor in their deaths.\n\nShe said: \"At the moment I do not know what the cause of the rip current was. It's too early for me to rule out the movement of the boat.\"\n\nMs Griffin said she would seek expert evidence to help find the cause of the incident and said: \"I want an expert who may be able to help me with the weather, tidal movements and causes of rip currents.\"\n\nShe added she wanted details of risks identified after an incident also involving the Dorset Belle in August 2021 when 17 people were reportedly rescued from the water.\n\nFurther hearings will be held on 23 January and 20 June before the full inquest, listed for three weeks, begins on 23 September.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The destruction of the Crooked House pub in the West Midlands provoked outrage\n\nTwo pubs a day have disappeared in England and Wales in the first half of the year, according to government statistics.\n\nFigures showed that 230 pubs vanished in the three months to 30 June - an increase over the previous quarter when the doors to 153 pubs shuttered.\n\nIt means 383 pubs were demolished or converted for other uses between January and June.\n\nCampaigners have called for planning laws to change to protect pubs.\n\nIt comes after The Crooked House pub in the West Midlands - once dubbed the UK's \"wonkiest\" public house - was gutted in a fire and then demolished without full permission in August, provoking outrage in the community and beyond.\n\nThe overall number of pubs in England and Wales, including those vacant and being offered to let, fell to 39,404 at the end of June, according to the data, which was compiled by commercial real estate specialists Altus Group.\n\nWales lost the greatest number of pubs in the first half of the year, with 52 disappearing, while London and the North West lost 46 each.\n\nA total of 386 pubs disappeared throughout the whole of 2022.\n\nChris Miles owns the Fleece in Richmond, North Yorkshire, and a few months ago decided to sell up: \"I just thought 'I can't solve this problem',\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe 13-bedroom hotel, pub and restaurant business was popular with locals and tourists in the Dales market town.\n\n\"It's a three-way squeeze,\" he said - citing staffing, running costs and taxation as the causes.\n\n\"VAT is the single biggest problem, a fifth of the money we generate we have to pay to HMRC. My last bill was £26,000 - and that's for a business that's never made a profit,\" Mr Miles explained.\n\n\"We don't want hand-outs or grants, we just want to keep more of the money we generate.\"\n\nAlex Probyn, president of property tax at Altus Group, called on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to take action in his autumn statement in November, including by easing the pressure of business rates on the sector.\n\nCurrently, firms that pay business rates - which is charged on most non-domestic properties, including pubs, offices and holiday homes - will see an inflation-linked increase come next April unless there is government intervention.\n\nThis is expected to add more than 6% to bills next year.\n\n\"With energy costs up 80% year-on-year in a low-growth, high-inflation and high-interest rates environment, the last thing pubs need is an average business rates hike of £12,385 next year,\" Mr Probyn said.\n\nPubs, as with other eligible hospitality, leisure and retail businesses, currently get a 75% discount off their business rates bills for the 2023-2024 tax year up to a cap of £110,000 per business, but this is set to end in March 2024.\n\nThe Campaign for Pubs has warned that even profitable pubs are being lost due to landlords wanting to \"cash in\" by developing pubs, such as by converting or demolishing premises for housing.\n\nThe group - which aims to promote, protect and support pubs across the country - has called on the government to introduce stricter penalties for \"unauthorised conversions and demolitions\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Has your local closed down? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lightning strikes and thunderstorms have been captured by social media users across the south of the UK, including Shepperton, Southampton, Godalming and London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment woman handcuffed in police car gets hit by train\n\nAn ex-police officer in the US state of Colorado - who locked a handcuffed woman in a police car that was then hit by a freight train - has avoided jail.\n\nJordan Steinke was sentenced to 30 months on supervised probation, after being found guilty of reckless endangerment and assault in July.\n\nShe was acquitted of criminal attempt to commit manslaughter.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who lost her job over the incident, has been ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.\n\nThe woman who was placed in the car, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, suffered serious injuries in the crash, including a brain injury.\n\nThe incident happened in September 2022, when Steinke and another officer were investigating an alleged road rage incident involving a weapon in Weld County - about 72 miles (115km) from the state capital of Denver.\n\nMs Rios-Gonzalez was pulled over, taken into custody and moved into a police car that had been parked on train tracks.\n\nThe officers were searching her vehicle when a train struck the police car.\n\n\"What happened that night has haunted me for 364 days,\" Steinke said in an apology read out in the court during the sentencing.\n\n\"I remember your cries and your screams. I remember begging you to tell me your name. Praying that you would stay awake. I have never felt so helpless. We couldn't get you out of the car.\"\n\nSteinke added that she hoped to give educational talks to police officers about the dangers of railway tracks.\n\nAccording to the Denver Post, a lawyer for Ms Rios-Gonzalez told the court that while his client suffered from having her life so radically altered by the crash and felt angry, she also felt sorry Steinke had lost her career.\n\nThe judge, Timothy Kerns, said he had planned to send Steinke to prison as a lesson that police officers would be held responsible for misconduct.\n\nHowever, he changed his mind when both the defence and prosecution asked for a probationary sentence.\n\nThe second now former officer involved in the incident, Pablo Vazquez, is due to go on trial later this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the Queen was \"absolutely on it\" when she spoke to him two days before her death\n\nBoris Johnson has said the late Queen Elizabeth II was \"bright and focused\" in their last meeting before his resignation as prime minister.\n\nHe tendered his resignation to the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Tuesday last week before she appointed his replacement, Liz Truss.\n\nMr Johnson told the BBC he was moved by the Queen's \"sense of duty\" when her death was announced two days later.\n\nHe said he thought the British monarchy would endure thanks to the Queen.\n\nWhile she modernised and \"revolutionised\" the UK's constitutional monarchy, Mr Johnson said, her greatest achievement was assuring the succession to her son, King Charles III.\n\nThe 14th prime minister of the Queen's 70-year reign, Mr Johnson reflected on the late monarch's life and the impression she left on him during their encounters while he was in office.\n\nLike every prime minister, Mr Johnson held weekly audiences with the Queen to inform her about matters of national importance.\n\nDescribing their final meeting, when he offered his resignation, Mr Johnson said: \"Given how ill she obviously was, how amazing it was that she be so bright and focused. It was a pretty emotional time.\"\n\nIn the last of the BBC's series of interviews with former prime ministers, presenter Fiona Bruce asked Mr Johnson if he was ever too busy to attend his weekly audience with the Queen.\n\n\"No, you must be joking,\" Mr Johnson said, describing his regular meetings with the Queen as \"a fantastic break from everything else\" and \"a wonderful moment of tranquillity\".\n\nThe Queen appointed Liz Truss as prime minister last week, days before the monarch's death\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, some of those weekly audiences were held virtually while social-distancing regulations were in force in England, and across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson recalled how his government worked with Buckingham Palace to organise a special address to the nation, delivered by the Queen during the first lockdown in April 2020.\n\nIn it, the Queen reassured the nation \"we will meet again\", evoking the words of the Vera Lynn wartime song and the UK's blitz spirit during World War Two.\n\nMr Johnson said the message was \"incredibly important\", and even pop stars \"wouldn't have the same impact as that broadcast\".\n\nThe congregation wore masks and was socially distanced in line with Covid rules at the time, with the Queen seated alone.\n\nIt later emerged that Covid rule-busting parties were held in Downing Street on the eve of the funeral. \"How did you two get past that?\" Mr Johnson was asked.\n\n\"Because of her great sense of constitutional function she never got into that sort of conversation,\" Mr Johnson said. \"She was really absolutely focused on what she saw as the important issues. It's a very trusting environment, the audience with Her Majesty. So that never came up.\"\n\nWhat was discussed, though, \"was just about everything under the sun\", Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Queen was an \"amazing authority about history, about politics\" and knew everyone, from former US President John F Kennedy, to former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.\n\nAnd he referred to the \"sweep of progress\" over the past 70 years, saying: \"That's why I think she should be Elizabeth the Great, by the way, because look at what happened to this country in her reign. The immeasurably advances in prosperity and opportunity and longevity, whatever your metric is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Boris Johnson pays tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in Parliament\n\nWhen asked how he responded to the Queen's death, Mr Johnson - now a backbench Conservative MP - said he felt \"this slightly inexplicable excess of emotion\".\n\n\"Speaking entirely personally, for me it was a colossal thing,\" he said.\n\nFinally, Mr Johnson was asked if Charles - who was both the oldest and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history - would be different as King.\n\n\"I don't know that he will necessarily will be different in a fundamental way,\" Mr Johnson said, describing the succession as \"absolutely flawless\".", "Roger Whittaker, pictured on the BBC's Top of the Pops in the 1970s\n\nFolk singer Roger Whittaker, famous for his 1969 hit song Durham Town and expert whistling, has died at the age of 87.\n\nHis other hits included The Last Farewell and New World in the Morning, and he sold nearly 50 million records around the world, his website said.\n\nAfter starting in folk clubs, his successes included the Skye Boat Song, a duet with Des O'Connor in 1986.\n\nHe was also able to sing in several languages.\n\nThey included German and French, allowing him to appeal to a wide audience, especially in Germany, where he was particularly popular.\n\nWhittaker was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1936, while his parents were from Staffordshire, England.\n\nRoger Whittaker started singing when he was studying medicine\n\nWhittaker studied medicine after doing compulsory national service in Kenya, where he spent two years in the colonial Kenya Regiment fighting the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, or Mau Mau, who wanted independence from the UK.\n\nWhile studying for his degree, he sang in local clubs and wrote his own songs.\n\nBut he left his medical course after 18 months and went in to teaching, moving to the University of Bangor in Wales in 1959 to get a teaching qualification.\n\nWhile there, he composed some songs to sing during university Rag Week, and sent a demo track to a music publisher.\n\n\"Before he knew it, Roger was back in the studio recording his first single, The Charge of the Light Brigade,\" his biography said.\n\nHis next release, Steel Men, picked up airplay while he was still a student, and his career began to progress, with TV work following.\n\nDespite fighting with the British colonial army in Kenya, he is also very popular in the country.\n\nHis song My Land is Kenya, in which he professes his heartfelt love and connection to the country where he was born and grew up, is often played on TV and radio during national holidays or during election campaigns.\n\nHe retired with his wife Natalie in France in 2012.", "Conservative MP Dehenna Davison has resigned as a levelling up minister, saying \"chronic migraines\" have made it \"impossible\" to do her job.\n\nWriting to the prime minister, she said people deserved \"a minister who can give the job the energy it needs\".\n\nShe said serving in government had been \"an immense privilege that I will forever remember\".\n\nShe also pledged her \"wholehearted support\" to Rishi Sunak's government from the backbenches.\n\nMs Davison became an MP in the 2019 general election taking the traditional Labour stronghold of Bishop Auckland in County Durham.\n\nShe was seen as a rising star from the new crop of Conservative MPs representing seats in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nHowever just three years into her parliamentary career she announced that she would be stepping down at the next election, saying she wanted to devote more time to \"life outside politics - mainly to my family\".\n\nNow, she has said she will step down as a minister and use her remaining years in Parliament to focus on helping people in her constituency and fighting for justice for \"one punch assault victims and their families\".\n\nMs Davison's father was killed by a single punch outside a Sheffield pub when she was just 13 years old. She has previously spoken about her \"burning sense of injustice\" over what she felt was the \"lenient\" sentence handed out for the assault.\n\nIn a letter published on her social media, Ms Davison said her health problems had had a \"great impact\" on her ability to carry out her government role.\n\n\"Some days I'm fine, but on others it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the demands of ministerial life.\"\n\nMs Davison has served as a junior minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities since September 2022.\n\nResponding to her resignation, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said: \"Really sorry to lose Dehenna from the department - a brilliant minister and kind friend. Wishing her all the very best for the future. She has so much to offer.\"\n\nConservative MP Jacob Young has been appointed to replace Ms Davison as a minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.\n\nMillions of people in the UK get migraines and they can have a huge impact on daily life.\n\nAs well getting a headache, people can feel nauseous or queasy and even vomit during an attack.\n\nSome say they get an \"aura\" just before - that might be visual symptoms such as blind spots or seeing zig zag patterns or flashing lights.\n\nOthers don't get any such warning that they need to find a quiet, dark room to lie down in while waiting for medication to kick in for some relief.\n\nThe pattern of attacks can be unpredictable, making it hard to plan for work and social occasions. Trying to push on through an attack is not necessarily safe or advisable. They can last for hours and make you feel drowsy and confused.", "Post Office workers who have had wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting overturned are to be offered £600,000 each in compensation, the government has said.\n\nBut Harjinder Butoy, who served 18 months in prison, said: \"It's not enough\".\n\nAround 700 prosecutions of branch managers may have received evidence from faulty accounting software.\n\nThe fault made it look like money was missing from their sites.\n\nSo far, 86 convictions have been overturned.\n\nThe Post Office minister said the sum was offered with \"no ifs or buts\".\n\nThe compensation is for postmasters whose convictions relied on the now discredited Horizon IT system, in return for them settling their claims.\n\nPostmasters who have already received initial compensation payments, or have reached a settlement with the Post Office of less than £600,000, will be paid the difference.\n\nNoel Thomas, 76, from Anglesey was sent to prison for false accounting in 2006 but eventually had his conviction quashed. He said that for many of those affected, the £600,000 will not repay what they have lost from the Horizon scandal.\n\nNoel Thomas, pictured with his wife Eira, was wrongly jailed for nine months in 2006, in the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice\n\n\"How do you put a price on what I've been through, what my family have been through?\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"People have gone through a hell of a lot. Don't forget, some have lost properties in all this business.\"\n\nThe government said the offer aimed to \"bring a resolution to the scandal\".\n\nPostmasters will continue to receive funds to cover legal fees. Anyone who does not want to accept the offer can continue with the existing process.\n\nOthers are still waiting to have their convictions overturned. Those who successfully do so in future, based on Horizon evidence, will also be entitled to the compensation.\n\nHarjinder Butoy also said the offer of £600,000 \"is definitely not enough\".\n\nHe co-ran a post office in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and was given a three-year, three-month sentence after his conviction in 2007. He served 18 months in prison before he was released, and still awaits compensation.\n\nHarjinder Butoy was one of 39 former postmasters who had their convictions quashed in April 2021\n\nHe said he won't be tempted by the new offer of \"quick and easy\" money.\n\n\"At the moment, the compensation process is slow but it's honest compensation according to what we're asking for. Yes, if it takes another year, it takes another year.\n\n\"They [the Post Office and government] know that the compensation is going to be a lot more than £600,000 - and are just trying to do it 'quick and easy'.\n\n\"I wouldn't mind having this all behind me - but I'm not going to let them get away with it so easy, because I know [what I'm owed] is a lot more\".\n\nHe said no amount of compensation would \"give him his dream back\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister appointed last autumn, told the BBC: \"If you've suffered a conviction, and you've had that conviction overturned, £600,000 is there waiting for you.\n\n\"We're doing this because people have suffered horrendous situations of course, financial loss as well as personal damage to reputation, and many other things have happened to people. So we want to get this compensation out the door.\"\n\nHe said the government had \"erred on the side of generosity\", but admitted that for some people it would not be enough.\n\n\"If you've suffered, if you've spent time in jail, if you lost your house, if your marriage has failed, all those things - if those things have happened to you, no amount of money will ever be enough,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If you think your claim is worth more than £600,000, you can still go through the normal routes.\"\n\nSome £21m has been paid in compensation so far to postmasters with overturned convictions.\n\nIt is one of three different compensation schemes that have been set up as the scandal developed.\n\nThe Post Office Horizon scandal has been described as \"the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history\".\n\nBetween 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - an average of almost one a week - based on information from a recently installed computer system called Horizon.\n\nSome went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft. Many were financially ruined and have described being shunned by their communities. Some have since died.\n\nThe solicitor representing most of the 86 who had their convictions overturned, Neil Hudgell from Hudgell Solicitors, told the BBC that the £600,000 was \"a hugely attractive carrot being dangled\".\n\nHe said, though, \"for some, it doesn't represent full and fair compensation\".\n\nHe added that others would likely be accepting the compensation and be happy to enjoy \"peace\" after retirement, \"although it means accepting a value less than fair\".\n\nThe Horizon inquiry is investigating the scandal and is likely to conclude in 2024.\n\nLast month, Nick Read, the boss of the Post Office, agreed to return all of his bonus payment for his participation in the inquiry - a total amount of £54,400.", "Sir Keir Starmer is currently in Canada meeting with centre-left global leaders\n\nSir Keir Starmer has said he will seek a \"much better\" Brexit deal with the EU if Labour wins the next general election.\n\nThe opposition leader told the Financial Times that the current deal, which is due for review in 2025, is \"too thin\".\n\nSir Keir was speaking at a conference of centre-left leaders in Montreal, Canada.\n\nBut he ruled out re-joining the customs union, the single market or the EU.\n\nIt remains unclear, however, if Brussels would be open to making major changes to the agreement, which was agreed by former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2021.\n\nA Conservative spokesman accused the Labour leader of changing his position, saying: \"Three years ago he promised he wouldn't seek major changes to the UK's new relationship with the EU, but now his latest short term position is that he will.\n\n\"What price would Keir Starmer be prepared to pay to the EU for renegotiating our relationship?\"\n\nSir Keir has repeatedly said he would not seek to rejoin the EU if his party comes to power, promising to \"make Brexit work\".\n\nHis party has consistently held double-digit leads in the political opinion polls, with a general election expected to take place some time in 2024.\n\n\"Almost everyone recognises the deal Johnson struck is not a good deal - it's far too thin,\" he told the Financial Times.\n\n\"As we go into 2025 we will attempt to get a much better deal for the UK,\" he said, although he did not specify what parts of the deal he would seek to improve.\n\nHe added that he was confident a better deal could be negotiated with Brussels, as well as a \"closer trading relationship\".\n\n\"We have to make it work. That's not a question of going back in, but I refuse to accept that we can't make it work,\" he said, adding that he was thinking about \"future generations\".\n\n\"I say that as a dad. I've got a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. I'm not going to let them grow up in a world where all I've got to say to them about their future is, it's going to be worse than it might otherwise have been.\n\n\"I've got an utter determination to make this work.\"\n\nThis is a significant piece of political positioning from Sir Keir. He has spent much of his leadership trying to reassure voters that he would not take Britain back into the EU, or seek membership of the single market or customs union.\n\nThat position has not changed. But figures around the Labour leader believe that having got over the message that he does not want to undo Brexit, he has now earned a hearing to talk about changing the terms of the settlement.\n\nThe Trade and Co-Operation Agreement signed by Mr Johnson already has a review in 2025 written into it. The current thinking in Brussels is that this would only involve minor tweaks, though Sir Keir may have further-reaching changes in mind, including agreements on deeper trade ties, more exchanges for young people and students and easier rules for touring musicians and artists.\n\nThe willingness to put improved relations with the EU at the heart of his political offer is a sign of Sir Keir's growing political confidence. This was also in evidence last week when Sir Keir visited The Hague, in the Netherlands, to talk about how better co-operation with the EU could help deal with small boats crossing the Channel.\n\nThe Conservatives have already seized on Sir Keir's comments about Brexit. They believe that his position could push Brexiteers who backed the Conservatives in 2019 back towards Rishi Sunak. A Conservative spokesman said that Sir Keir \"wants to take Britain back to square one on Brexit, reopening the arguments of the past all over again\".\n\nSir Keir spent the weekend meeting fellow centre-left leaders in Canada, including the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nHe is also expected to travel to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron later this week, where post-Brexit relations are expected to feature heavily in talks.\n\nHis visit to the Hague last week to meet with the EU's law enforcement agency Europol, seeking a deal to try and stop smuggling gangs bringing people across the channel in small boats led to accusations by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman that his party was planning to let the UK become a \"dumping ground\" for 100,000 migrants from the continent each year, claims he said were \"complete garbage\".\n\nThere is some anxiety in Labour about the row Sir Keir found himself embroiled in about whether Labour would accept a quota of asylum seekers from the EU as part of a 'burden-sharing' migration agreement. On Sunday, the Labour leader ruled this out after days of debate.", "Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor and broadcaster\n\nOne of the women who has accused entertainer Russell Brand of sexual assault when she was 16 has said his behaviour was an \"open secret\".\n\nThe woman, known as Alice, added that allegations against him have been \"a long time coming\".\n\nThe comedian and actor has been accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since accusations became public, she said his denial is \"laughable\" and \"insulting\".\n\n\"It feels quite honestly surreal at the moment to see my story everywhere and even elements of my story on the front pages of publications that I hadn't spoken to,\" Alice told BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour presenter Emma Barnett.\n\n\"And it feels like it was a long time in the coming.\n\n\"But it also felt like something that would never be realised for me, and so I can't say that I'm glad because it's been an unpleasant experience. But I hope that we can have conversations that can lead to protecting people in the future.\"\n\nBrand has denied all claims of misconduct, saying he's a subject of \"a coordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\" The former TV and radio presenter, who now posts videos online about spirituality and politics, said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nAlice said she found his response to be \"insulting\" but unsurprising. \"And it's laughable that he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy,\" she continued.\n\n\"He's not outside the mainstream. He did a Universal Pictures movie last year, he did Minions - a children's movie. He is very much part of the mainstream media.\n\n\"He just happens to have a YouTube channel where he talks about conspiracy theories to an audience that laps it up. And it may sound cynical, but I do think that he was building himself an audience for years of people that would then have great distrust of any publication that came forward with allegations. He knew it was coming for a long time.\"\n\nShe added: \"And as for him denying that anything non-consensual happened, that's not a surprise to me. These men always deny any of these allegations brought to them. I knew he would.\n\n\"He didn't deny that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Woman's Hour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlice went on to say her mother did everything in her power to warn her daughter, then still at school, off the entertainer, then in his 30s.\n\n\"She followed all those motherly impulses. She took my phone away. She grounded me... she would try to keep me confined to the house,\" she explained.\n\nAlice said she felt she had been \"groomed\" and felt \"cheapened\", developed an eating disorder and that her experience had affected her future relationships.\n\n\"It's the biggest open secret going - you don't have to be an investigative journalist to have conversations with somebody who has an awful experience with him or somebody knows something.\"\n\nShe is now calling for an introduction of legal \"staggered ages of consent\".\n\nInvestigations have been launched by the BBC and Channel Four since Brand was accused of rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nAlice described the claims made against him as \"just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nShe stated her belief that a chauffeur-driven car provided by the BBC for Brand collected her and took her to his house. She now wants to know \"why more wasn't done at the time\" to protect young women.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"The documentary and associated reports contain serious allegations spanning a number of years Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programmes between 2006 and 2008, and we are urgently looking into the issues raised.\"\n\nAlice also said there were requests for girls and women to be \"taken off\" the show, with reference to Brand's work with Channel Four.\n\n\"I was working in television at the time, and was party to conversations about employing Russell on a TV show and taking women off those shows too, so that he didn't assault them, because he had before and that, he wasn't inappropriate with them. 'So we'll just take the young women off so that he can work on this',\" she said.\n\nChannel Four said in a statement it was looking into allegations raised.\n\nThe Times said it has received more allegations since the investigation was revealed, but is yet to verify them.\n\nProduction company Banijay UK says it has launched an \"urgent investigation\" into allegations of misconduct against Brand, who presented programmes produced by a company it now owns in 2004 and 2005.\n\nThe full details of the fresh allegations against Brand since the weekend may not emerge for some time, one of the journalists investigating him has said.\n\nSaturday's performance at Wembley Park Theatre was Brand's first public appearance since allegations against him were published\n\nSunday Times media editor Rosamund Urwin, who worked on the story, told BBC Breakfast that any fresh claims need checking which \"takes a huge amount of work\".\n\nShe noted journalists have received a \"huge number of leads\" since the story broke on Saturday,\n\nBrand went ahead with a gig that evening for 2,000 fans at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, in London, part of his Bipolarisation tour.\n\nLorraine Heggessey, the former controller of BBC One from 2000 until 2005 - before Brand worked for the corporation - said there were \"numerous examples\" of unacceptable behaviour by the star on-air which should have been dealt with by his bosses.\n\nOne such example saw Brand jokingly offer up his female assistant to Jimmy Saville during a live phone conversation.\n\n\"Well, it is shocking,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"Obviously at that time, the revelations about Jimmy Savile hadn't come out. But even then, the content of the clip I would have thought would have been unacceptable to be broadcast, and should have been flagged, editorially and referred up the chain.\"\n\nLorraine Heggessey also told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell that there was a culture of pandering to top stars\n\nAsked if this had been part of the overriding culture at the time, Heggessey - who appeared in the Dispatches documentary - replied: \"Well, I think it was part of the culture of the Russell Brand show, I'm not sure it was the part of the culture in general at that time, and there's just seems to have been a lack of senior editorial oversight over what he was doing and an inability to rein him in.\"\n\nShe added: \"There were numerous examples of his behaviour and his constant demeaning of the female newsreader, who was increasingly put in an impossible position, and even when complaints were obviously made about it, he joked about those on-air.\n\n\"So nobody seems to have stepped in at any time to say enough is enough, and the results are plain for all to see.\"\n\nThe BBC reiterated it was \"looking into the issues raised\".", "\"We lost our minds.\" That unforgiving assessment is how a former government official who had one of the most important jobs in Britain, sums up the huge political turbulence that engulfed the UK between 2016 and 2022. It was, as she sees it, a collective meltdown in a country previously known for stability.\n\nThat period began with a referendum that tore up the status quo that had governed the country for 40 years and ended with the departure of the fourth prime minister in six years. It included two general elections and a global pandemic that pushed the machinery of government to the edge.\n\nOne resident of No 10 Downing Street even broke the law, and just about every unwritten rule too. So-called permanent secretaries - Whitehall bosses - turned out not to be so permanent after all, as tensions between the civil service and elected politicians reached fever pitch. And just for good measure, events of 2016 to 2022 poured political petrol on a burning conflict in the Conservative Party, the flames of which still glow today.\n\nBoris Johnson in front of his \"Get Brexit Done\" election campaign bus\n\nSo why did our politics turn into a chaotic, high-stakes soap opera that left the civil service exhausted and the Conservative Party struggling to move on? How close did the British state come to implosion, and how did the conventions, checks and balances that have held it together for centuries come through their most prolonged stress test in a generation?\n\nTo answer these questions, I have spoken to dozens of senior politicians, staffers and former top officials to find out why they believe the era we have all just lived through was so wild. These were the people who were in the room when vital decisions were taken that affected us all, and they have relived and recounted the most intense moments for a major new BBC documentary series starting on Monday, State of Chaos.\n\nWe hear how rebels planned the takedown of Theresa May, sweating over computer screens, wearing shorts and flip-flops as they plotted through the height of summer. We take you right inside Downing Street as Dominic Cummings discussed breaking the law. We reveal the drastic steps some officials were willing to take as the government teetered on the edge during the height of the pandemic. We go to the Bank of England when financiers were shouting down the phone, as Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's decisions sent the markets into meltdown.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham\n\nAnd what became obvious is how the pace of events got faster and faster, the controversies wilder and wilder. The clashes of Theresa May's time, boiled into deliberate controversy and bust-ups across Whitehall under Boris Johnson, accelerating into the calamitous high-speed implosion of Liz Truss's ridiculously short time in charge.\n\nWhile our leaders were fighting amongst themselves, with Whitehall, or trying to get elected, they were often distracted by the politics, even though the practical challenges were vast. Consider the two profound events those different administrations were grappling with - the decision to leave the EU and the pandemic.\n\nIf you had been travelling around the country during the early summer of 2016, the referendum result was not a surprise. But for the political establishment, for the institutions that wield power in this country, it was an incredible shock. It shook Westminster and Whitehall emotionally, leaving Parliament and government departments nervy, and unsure of their ground. That shock, evidence of how remote SW1 really was, became a justification for some Brexiteers of why they had wanted to quit the EU in the first place.\n\nThe decision then required the government and civil service to work out how to unplug the country from the framework it had followed for many decades, without a plan, and without political clarity.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson gives an update on relaxing Covid-19 restrictions ahead of \"Freedom Day\"\n\nThen along came a genuine national emergency, which began with an obscure-sounding virus thousands of miles away, plunging the country into a period of danger and uncertainty, and the government into chaos. There was no adequate plan. At the start Downing Street had scant information. Yet Whitehall and Westminster, barely recovered from the stresses and strains of making Brexit happen, had to try to cope with the biggest crisis since World War Two, stepping into our lives in all sorts of ways to prevent disaster.\n\nIt might have been impossible for even the most harmonious government to keep calm through all of that. But the backdrop to it all was the screaming divisions inside the Conservative Party itself. Successive Tory governments walked into these challenges riddled with grudges, hurt and frustrations from the referendum campaign, including - on the Remain side - a deep sense of disbelief in quarters that the country had really voted to leave at all. The campaign made the splits ever more public and painful, carving the party into two deadly rival camps, and dragging in the whole country.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond, Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during UK-France summit talks\n\nThere were days in Westminster where everyone felt like an enemy. It was striking how many of our interviewees, looking back, burst into tears at the awful memories - getting off the Tube at Parliament Square every day to walk through screaming crowds of protestors, death threats and danger appallingly became the norm. There were days when the atmosphere around Westminster felt foreign, and unsafe.\n\nTrying to ram the Brexit result through Parliament was like trying to mix oil and water - a binary yes or no, stay or leave, did not compute in a system designed to amend, to tweak, to make gradual change. The country saw Parliament failing to find a way through, night after night, obscure disagreement after obscure disagreement.\n\nAs a result, the way each successive prime minister tried to govern changed. Theresa May had disastrously tried to follow the traditional Conservative way, running a broad church to please as many of the people much of the time. But to actually take the UK out of the EU, Boris Johnson and his team concluded the only way was to force everyone in the Tory party to pick a side, and to treat anyone who disagreed as an enemy.\n\nTheresa May disastrously tried to follow the traditional Conservative way\n\nLiz Truss went even further, overtly rejecting what she called the \"orthodoxy\", slamming the previous governments that even she had been part of, trying to change the course of the Conservatives at a hundred miles an hour. Her spectacular crash and burn was the logical end point, perhaps, of six years of chaos when the Conservatives so often turned in on themselves - and turned on each other.\n\nDavid Cameron's decision to allow his ministers to campaign on different sides of the referendum all those years ago meant the incentive for ambitious Conservatives was to disagree with the boss, rather than fall into line. It created a habit that descended into a dangerous political addiction.\n\nBoris Johnson and his team concluded the only way was to force everyone in the Tory party to pick a side\n\nWith the governing party at war with itself, there was a desperate hunt for any weapon that would do, and creating controversy became a more and more convenient choice.\n\nRemember, politicians have never exactly been angels. Before 2016, it was not unheard of for them to provoke arguments to get their point heard. But the divisions the referendum baked in were so deep, the stakes so high, that making noise, and making enemies became standard business. And the volumes of debate became so loud, that actions became ever more radical to be heard.\n\nElements in the Conservative Party made targets of the civil service, the law, Parliament (where it was actually in charge), and the \"elite\", even though that was essentially blaming their reflections in the mirror. Boris Johnson, with the help of Dominic Cummings, picked fights which drove his rivals round the twist, to dramatic effect. Bosses in Whitehall were their targets often - the drive to reform the civil service was not new, and necessary even, according to some insiders - but the brutal tactics they tried to use, blew up.\n\nBoris Johnson, with the help of Dominic Cummings, picked fights which drove his rivals round the twist\n\nIn the end, Mr Johnson found all the controversy sapped even his allies' tolerance. Ms Truss enthusiastically ran at many fights, including her own track record in government, and ended up punching herself in the face.\n\nThe Conservatives spent much of the last six years treating each other as enemies, and hunting for other bogeymen - Brussels, Whitehall, even former Conservative governments. It was so messy because of the bad blood of the referendum campaign which seeped into the party and Parliament, compounded by Whitehall's struggle to manage the challenges of Brexit and the pressures of the pandemic.\n\nIn all of our interviews for the series, it was glaringly obvious that not a single one disputed that things had gone terribly wrong. They point fingers in different places, but do not try to pretend the last six years have been anything other than chaotic.\n\nAnd the consequence? Conservative hopes of pushing forward bold solutions to many of the country's problems, like social care, or housing, have largely had to wait. In private, many Conservatives now seethe at the lost opportunity of a big majority. It is normally only once in a generation that any political party gets the kind of numbers in the Commons that means they can make sweeping changes to the country - think of 1979 for the Conservatives, or 1997 for Labour. On paper, 2019 would have been one of those moments - not any more.\n\nBoris Johnson is being paid millions to put pen to paper and Liz Truss is writing her own version of events too\n\nDifferent arguments about that era, 2016 to 2022, will rage for decades. None of the departed prime ministers have just given up. Theresa May is arguing for her reputation in a new book. Boris Johnson is being paid millions to put pen to paper, and some of his allies are still fighting the cause. Liz Truss is writing her own version of events too.\n\nAnd while the chaos has, under Rishi Sunak, subsided, achieving his primary goal, there is no escape from the legacy of those years of mess. There is a seemingly never-ending stream of by-elections, as the former PM's old allies leave the scene. A coalition of voters brought together by Mr Johnson's Brexit, is now up for grabs. The public finances are in bad shape, partly down to the actions of Ms Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nWhitehall feels battered, depleted. Its vulnerabilities were laid so bare during the pandemic that confidence has fallen away in some quarters. And it is common now for politicians to target Whitehall as \"the blob\" - resistant to change, still accused of having never wanted Brexit at all.\n\nAt senior levels of the civil service there has long been an acknowledgement that the Rolls-Royce reputation of Whitehall may not be entirely deserved, and things have to change. But being the target of overt political attacks has hardly helped ease that along. On the other side, ministers privately wonder even if some departments are on a \"go-slow\", after all the drama, waiting out what might be left of this Conservative administration before a potential change next time round.\n\nLiz Truss, Theresa May and Boris Johnson after delivering their resignation speeches outside No 10\n\nBut more than anything, perhaps we are left with a big problem that affects every political group. After all the drama, many voters wonder if any party, any leader would actually put them first. Would any of the promises they make actually come true?\n\nThe two contenders to be the next prime minister, unkindly branded \"dull and duller\" by one of their rivals, do not have the obvious instinct to breed deliberate controversy, to break the rules. Yet without excitement, without screeds of evidence of passion and conviction, can they really enthuse the public at all? An apathetic, exhausted electorate might, next time, just stay at home.\n\nOver the next three weeks we will reveal just how close the political system came to falling apart, and how conventions were smashed to bits.\n\nThe deepest irony of course? David Cameron's decision to hold the referendum was meant to end the Tories' internal woes over Europe. In fact, it opened up a nasty chasm in our political system that nearly sucked everyone and everything in.\n\nFrom Theresa May's slow demise to Liz Truss's sharp exit, the fighting and campaigning never really stopped. Maybe it made it hard for the governing ever really to begin.", "Today marks the end of a deeply painful personal ordeal for five Americans who became bargaining chips in Iran’s wrangling with the West.\n\nOne of them, 51-year-old Siamak Namazi, said in a statement he had dreamed of this moment every one of the 2,898 days he was imprisoned in Iran.\n\nHe and his fellow prisoners know it will take time for them, and their loved ones, to deal with their profound trauma including the guilt of leaving friends still behind bars in Tehran.\n\nAnd they know they will arrive home not just to embrace loved ones, but to face criticism of leading Republicans and Iranians in exile who say this deal only paves the way for more hostage taking.\n\nBut, for now, this is a profoundly emotional moment, a celebration of the human spirit, and a day these prisoners had often feared they would never see.", "Warning: This post contains details of sexual assault\n\nRussell Brand was 30 when he began a relationship with a 16-year-old. The age difference in the relationship is legal in the UK, but he is accused of grooming and sexual assault, both of which are not.\n\nHis accuser, going by the name Alice, says Brand sent a car to her secondary school to take her out of lessons and to his home, and that he asked her to save his name in her phone as “Carly” to deceive her parents.\n\nEncouraging secrets is a sign of grooming, which is a type of abuse. The Met Police website has a resource here if you'd like to know more about what grooming can look like.\n\nAlice alleges that Brand once forced his penis down her throat, making her choke, and that after trying to push him off he only stopped after she hit him in the stomach.\n\nShe says she was visibly upset after the incident.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as flames and dark smoke rise from the iconic Khartoum skyscraper\n\nBuildings have caught fire in Sudan's capital after heavy fighting between the army and rival forces.\n\nVideos posted online on Sunday showed the iconic Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower engulfed in flames.\n\n\"This is truly painful,\" said Tagreed Abdin, an architect of the building, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nAir strikes and ground battles have continued in Khartoum and other towns and cities since fighting broke out in April.\n\nOver one million people have been forced to flee the country, the UN has said.\n\nLocated near the River Nile, the 18-storey oil firm skyscraper is one of the most recognisable landmarks in Khartoum.\n\nMs Abdin said it defined the skyline of the city, and lamented \"such senseless destruction\".\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the building's cone-like structure, which has a glass facade, to catch fire. There have been no reports of injuries or deaths.\n\nThe RSF has been fighting to take control of Sudan's capital\n\nThe violence in Sudan began on 15 April, triggered by a power struggle between the leaders of the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).\n\nIt followed days of tension as members of the RSF were redeployed around the country in a move that the army saw as a threat.\n\nThe Sudan War Monitor, which provides analysis of the conflict, said the RSF had attacked areas controlled by the army on Saturday, including an office block at the justice ministry. Several government buildings are reported to have caught fire as a result of the attack.\n\nThe RSF said the army carried out the attacks, including on the 18-storey skyscraper.\n\nThe army has not yet commented.\n\nThe former vice president of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, Fadl Abdullah, told BBC Arabic that building had been constructed at a cost of about $20m (£16m), and its destruction was a \"very great financial loss\".\n\nResidents in a southern district of the city - where the army was targeting RSF bases - told AFP they heard \"huge bangs\" as they woke up.\n\nHealth authorities announced on Sunday that all the main hospitals in Khartoum - as well as the Darfur region - were out of service.\n\nNawal Mohammed, 44, who lives at least 3km (1.8 miles) from clashes in the capital, said the doors and windows of her family home shook with the force of explosions.\n\nShe described the battles on Saturday and Sunday as \"the most violent since the war began\".\n\nAccording to a group of pro-democracy lawyers, the fighting had killed \"dozens of civilians\" in Khartoum since Friday.\n\nFighting was also reported in the city of El-Obeid, some 400km (250 miles) south of the city.\n\nThe RSF has been fighting to take control of the capital, and the military's air strikes have been aimed at weakening RSF positions.\n\nThe conflict has killed around 7,500 people and displaced more than five million.\n\nThe offices of the Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization were also set alight", "Damian Lloyd and his wife and daughter had to pay £165 to check in at the airport. Their son flew out separately to join them on holiday\n\nA family is locked in dispute with Ryanair after being charged £165 to check in at the airport and being told by the airline that they had \"unchecked themselves\".\n\nDamian Lloyd had checked in his family a month in advance, and brought the printed boarding passes to the airport.\n\nBut the barcodes would not scan so the family had to pay to check in again.\n\nMr Lloyd tried to reclaim the money but Ryanair said they had unchecked before flying, so the fee was justified.\n\nAfter several weeks of email exchanges, the airline has now referred Mr Lloyd to a dispute resolution service.\n\nHealth and safety manager Mr Lloyd had booked a 10-day family holiday to Gran Canaria in July.\n\nThe 50-year-old from Neath is a regular flyer and says he has never had a problem with Ryanair's extra fees before - he had happily paid to reserve seats - so was \"in total shock\" when his, his wife's and his daughter's boarding passes did not scan.\n\nA Ryanair employee at the check-in desk was equally confused.\n\n\"He looked on the computer, and our names and seat numbers came up. But for some reason [the boarding passes] weren't scanning. He didn't know why,\" Mr Lloyd told the BBC.\n\nAs it was an early morning flight, the employee could not phone Ryanair's customer service to investigate the problem as it was not yet open.\n\nPassengers are not allowed to board a Ryanair plane unless their boarding passes are scanned, so the family was given a choice - either wait for customer service to open and miss their flights, or pay for new passes.\n\nAs the next flights were three days away, Mr Lloyd decided to pay up.\n\nMr Lloyd said that the check-in employee told him it was a computer glitch. \"He said we could claim the money back.\"\n\nBut when he requested a refund, Ryanair rejected the claim, saying it wasn't a fault with its system.\n\nCustomer service first told Mr Lloyd he had not verified his identity, but later agreed this was \"inaccurate\". They then told him he had unchecked the day before his flight.\n\n\"Ryanair came up with every excuse under the sun,\" he said.\n\nA spokesperson for Ryanair told the BBC: \"[The family] unchecked themselves on the website on 22 July and ignored the pop-up that warned them they would have to check in again and generate new boarding passes.\n\n\"As they didn't have valid boarding passes, they were correctly charged the airport check-in fee.\"\n\nMr Lloyd denies this, saying: \"I can't remember going on the website after I checked in.\n\n\"They earn hundreds of millions a year. If I had made the mistake I'd put my hands in the air and pay but I did have the right passes.\"\n\nConsumer expert Jane Hawkes told the BBC it was possible for passengers to uncheck themselves for flights. \"The ability to do so, the notice periods/time frames and associated charges depend on the carrier. It is something that customers could well not be aware of,\" she said.\n\nRyanair has referred Mr Lloyd to AviationADR, an independent airline dispute resolution scheme, as their dispute cannot be resolved.\n\nThe issue of airline fees has come under the spotlight after an elderly couple were charged £110 by Ryanair to print their tickets at the airport.\n\nThe couple told the BBC they had to pay airport check-in fees after mistakenly downloading their return tickets instead of their outgoing ones.", "Boris Johnson held private meetings with the Queen while he was prime minister\n\nSenior government officials spoke to Buckingham Palace at the height of the pandemic to express their concern about Boris Johnson's conduct in office, the BBC has been told.\n\nOfficials even discussed suggesting to the Queen she raise the concerns with Mr Johnson during private audiences.\n\nThe revelation comes in episode two of the BBC documentary series, Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos.\n\nIt explores the turmoil in Westminster and Whitehall over four years.\n\nBased on interviews with key players at the top of government, the series covers the period between 2016 and the departure of Liz Truss as prime minister in 2022.\n\nIn May 2020, as the government was grappling with the pandemic, there were significant tensions between Mr Johnson's political team and the Civil Service.\n\nNow, sources have revealed that senior officials expressed their fears about the former prime minister's conduct in government to Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were a number of clashes between Dominic Cummings, the former prime minister's controversial chief of staff, and the head of the Civil Service, who subsequently left, Sir Mark Sedwill.\n\nIt's understood officials expressed their worries to the Palace in the hope the Queen could raise concerns in her private conversations.\n\nIt's understood there were a number of phone calls and communications over and above routine communication between Number 10 and the Palace.\n\nOne source said the then-prime minister \"had to be reminded of the constitution\".\n\nYou can watch the State of Chaos on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.\n\nAvailable now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)\n\nAnother source described the atmosphere in Downing Street during that period as \"utterly grim, and totally crazy\", saying relationships had been \"just toxic\" and the links between Mr Johnson's team and the Civil Service \"broke down\".\n\nThere had already been worries at Buckingham Palace about Mr Johnson's government's behaviour after the Commons had been kept closed the previous summer - the so-called \"prorogation\" in 2019 which had been technically carried out by the Queen.\n\nThat move was subsequently judged by the Supreme Court to have broken the law. A source has told the BBC that raised \"acute concern\".\n\nSpeaking in the documentary, the former deputy cabinet secretary, Helen MacNamara, refused to discuss the calls to Buckingham Palace.\n\n\"There were definitely times after the prime minister came back from his illness [he contracted Covid and required hospital treatment] when the kind of the perception amongst the political team at Number 10 about the failings of the system and the failings of the Civil Service and the failings of different institutions, it was just so extreme the way that they were articulating that, they were in absolutely kind of smash everything up, shut it all down, start again... we were systematically in real trouble,\" she said.\n\nResponding to the claims, Mr Johnson's team insist Number 10's actions were always within the constitution and that no member of the royal family raised such concerns with him.", "Take the Money and Run on display at Kunsten Museum in Aalborg\n\nA Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner ($72,000; £58,000) to a museum after giving it two blank canvasses for a project he named Take the Money and Run.\n\nThe Kunsten Museum in Aalborg had intended for Jens Haaning to embed the banknotes in two pieces of art in 2021.\n\nInstead, he gave it blank canvasses and then told dr.dk: \"The work is that I have taken their money.\"\n\nA court has now ordered him to return the cash - but keep some for expenses.\n\nThe art project was intended as a statement on salaries in Denmark and Austria.\n\nThe museum asked for the artist to return all the money, around 534,000 kroner - but Mr Haaning refused.\n\nNow, after a long legal battle, a Copenhagen court on Monday ordered Mr Haaning, 58, to refund the museum 492,549 kroner.\n\nThat figure, it said, was equivalent to the sum the museum had given him minus the artist's fee and the cost of mounting.\n\nMuseum director Lasse Andersson said that he had laughed out loud when he first saw the two blank canvasses in 2021, and decided to show the works anyway.\n\n\"He stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit, but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic,\" the museum's director, Lasse Andersson, told the BBC's Newsday programme in 2021.\n\nAfter the judgment, Mr Haaning told dr.dk that he did not plan taking the case any further.\n\n\"It has been good for my work, but it also puts me in an unmanageable situation where I don't really know what to do.\"\n\nHe told TV2 Nord on Monday the museum had made \"much, much more\" money than what it invested thanks to the publicity surrounding the affair.\n• None Museum wants its cash back over blank canvasses", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain players have reiterated that they are boycotting the women's national side despite being called up to the latest squad.\n\nFifteen members of the team that won the World Cup last month have been included in a squad for upcoming Nations League fixtures.\n\nA group of 81 players boycotted the national team after then Spanish FA boss Luis Rubiales kissed forward Jenni Hermoso following last month's final.\n\nThe fall out led to Rubiales resigning.\n\nOn Friday, 39 players - including 21 of the 23 World Cup-winners - said their strike would continue until further changes were made and that they did not yet \"feel in a safe place\".\n\nTwo-time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas was among the 15 players called up who were part of the triumphant squad in Australia and New Zealand. However, Hermoso was left out.\n\nThe players later published a statement, issued by Futpro, stressing the boycott remains in place and expressing their regret that they were again \"put in a position in which we never wanted to be in\".\n\nThey added that they intended to explore the potential legal implications of being called up against their wishes, saying: \"We will study the possible legal consequences to which the RFEF (Spanish football federation) exposes us by putting us on a list from which we had asked not to be called for reasons already explained publicly and in more detail to the RFEF, and with this make the best decision for our future and for our health.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nThis was the first squad announcement by new coach Montse Tome, who replaced Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - after he was sacked earlier this month.\n\nTome, who was Vilda's assistant manager, has become the first woman to hold the position of Spain women's boss.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the RFEF had urged striking players to return to the national team. The organisation previously said the players have \"an obligation\" to play if selected.\n\n\"We stand with Jenni,\" Tome said.\n\n\"We believe that the best way to protect her is like this, but we are counting on Jenni.\"\n\nBarcelona duo Mapi Leon and Patri Guijarro - who were not included in Spain's World Cup squad after signing an open letter against then-coach Vilda - were also named in Tome's side.\n\n\"It's the start of a new phase, the clock is ticking,\" said Tome.\n\n\"There is nothing behind us and we really want to connect with these players.\"\n\nOn Friday, the 39 players boycotting the national team released a statement saying they would not return until further conditions were met, including reshaping certain departments within the RFEF, adding that they did not yet \"feel in a safe place\".\n\nThe RFEF responded by expressing its commitment to change being made \"to restore the functioning of the entity\".\n\nThe Spanish government also assured players that changes will be made and there will be a greater representation of women in the federation.\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200m of Hermoso, who has said the kiss was not consensual, after the 33-year-old filed a legal complaint.\n\nAppearing in court for the first time last Friday, Rubiales denied sexually assaulting Hermoso.", "Manson pleaded no contest to the charges on Monday\n\nMarilyn Manson has been sentenced in New Hampshire for blowing his nose and spitting on a camerawoman in an incident the judge called \"egregious\".\n\nThe musician will serve 20 hours of community service and pay around $1,400 (£1,100) in fines for the 2019 misdemeanour at his concert.\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Brian Warner, was required to appear in court in person on Monday.\n\nThe judge said he would be permitted to do his service work in California.\n\nManson, 54, had initially pleaded not guilty to the assault charges, but later changed his plea to no contest. The no contest plea means he did not contest the charge, but was not required to admit guilt.\n\nAccording to a police report, Manson, 54, spat on the woman on 19 August 2019 as she filmed his performance at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford.\n\nThe police investigator, who reviewed footage of the event, said Manson was seen putting his face close to the camera held by photographer Susan Fountain and spitting a \"big lougee\" at her.\n\nA moment later he returned, kneeled over her and placed his hand over one nostril before launching a \"significant amount of mucus\" on to her.\n\nThe police report adds that the camera shows Manson \"point and laugh at Fountain as she gets down and walks away\".\n\nIn a statement read in court, Ms Fountain said, \"I've never been humiliated or treated like I was by this defendant.\n\n\"For him to spit on me and blow his nose on me was the most disgusting thing a human being has ever done.\"\n\nAs part of his punishment Manson must also alert police to any concerts planned for New Hampshire for the next two years, and provide proof that his community service has been completed by no later than 4 February 2024.\n\nManson, who wore a black suit in court, spoke to the judge twice. He acknowledged his name - Brian Warner - and said \"yes\" when asked if he understood the sentence.\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside court, Manson said he planned to perform his service with \"people in recovery\".\n\nManson has released 11 studio albums since 1994, three of which have reached the top 10 in the UK.\n\nHis biggest hit single was a cover of Tainted Love, which reached number five in 2001.\n\nHe has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault in recent years and has attempted to sue an alleged victim, claiming that she has harmed his career.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland edged closer to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, but did little to impress in a scrappy 34-12 win over Japan in Nice.\n\nLewis Ludlam forced his way over from close range for the only try of a first half littered with England errors.\n\nRikiya Matsuda's boot had Japan within a point at 13-12 early in the second half before a fortuitous try from captain Courtney Lawes, after the ball had bounced off the head of Joe Marler, gave England some breathing space.\n\nFreddie Steward collected a cross-kick to dot down deftly and end any hopes Japan had of another Rugby World Cup upset to follow their famous scalping of South Africa in 2015, before Joe Marchant dived over in the final play of the match.\n\nBut it was neither a scoreline nor a performance to worry any of the tournament's main contenders.\n• None Greasy conditions tough to play in, says Ford\n\nIf anything, it will have confirmed to market leaders France, Ireland and South Africa that they are still operating several levels above England.\n\nThe whistles and jeers that followed several of England's decisions to kick away attacking ball suggested some of their fans were similarly unimpressed.\n\nTwo victories from two matches against arguably their two strongest Pool D rivals means Steve Borthwick's side are well set for the quarter-finals.\n\nBut they will need steep and stark improvement against Chile and Samoa to be in shape for the step up to knockout rugby.\n\nJapan faded and England, invigorated by their depth off the bench, improved in the final quarter, but the majority of the match was in keeping with start.\n\nIn a high-tempo opening passage, Marchant and Steward bashed up to within five metres as the Japanese defence creaked, but, to whistles from the crowd, George Ford opted to take three points from a penalty, rather than gamble for more.\n\nIf it was an opportunity wasted, it wasn't the last. They wouldn't be the last jeers either.\n\nBorthwick's side worked up more pressure and prime attacking positions but invariably allowed Japan off the hook and back upfield with eyesore errors.\n\nOne chance, as England's forwards drove a line-out up to the Japan 22m line, was immediately squandered as Alex Mitchell's pass from the back went to floor. Another disappeared as Lawes held onto the ball too long with Elliot Daly outside him. A third was wasted as Ben Earl lobbed a pop-pass into the face of Saracens team-mate Jamie George at the back of a line-out.\n\nEngland's only try of the first half, appropriately enough, came from an error, rather than their own accuracy.\n\nA Japan line-out throw, close to their own line, dropped into the hands of Ollie Chessum. The Brave Blossoms' defence scrambled to stamp out the danger, but were fatally out of shape when the ball was recycled and Ludlam charged at the flagging fringe.\n\nMistakes cost England at the other end as well. Ford's clearing kick was charged down by Lomano Lemeki before Jonny May was pinged for a late hit. Both were followed by successful penalties by Matsuda as Japan kept pace on the scoreboard, moving to within one point in the 54th minute.\n\nWith a dogged Japan refusing to let a misfiring England out of range, a shock seemed eminently possible.\n\nBut England, as in their opener against Argentina, found their way out a tight spot.\n\nTheir second try arrived via another mistake, this time their own. A pass whizzed between the hands of replacement prop Will Stuart and thudded into the head of Marler, wrong-footing the Japan defence and allowing Lawes to snatched up and saunter under the sticks.\n\nIt was a stroke of luck that broke the back of Japan's challenge and Steward's superb gather and dot-down from Ford's cross-field bomb ended the game as a contest, before Marchant crossed late on to add some gloss to the scoreboard.\n\nThere were several positives. Earl put in a superb shift, making the most tackles and the joint-most metres of any England player, with Ludlam impressing alongside him in the back row. Ford marshalled the backline well and Marcus Smith enjoyed a brief entertaining cameo at full-back off the bench.\n\nBut the problems were just as numerous.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland head coach Steve Borthwick: \"I'm really pleased for the players and for the supporters here tonight. We have a fantastic traveling support, who spend a lot of money to watch this team. Tonight was tough but we have a good bonus point and we are pleased by that.\"\n\nEngland captain Courtney Lawes: \"Full credit to Japan - we knew they would put up a fight. The ball was so greasy but we did well to come away with five points so I can't ask for much more.\"\n\nRegarding his try: \"That was a decent header from Joe Marler. Sometimes the luck falls in your favour so I will take it.\"\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford: \"It was probably not the prettiest watching it. It's really hard to play with the ball in these conditions. These late kick-offs, the balls are dead greasy but we got there in the end.\"\n\nJapan head coach Jamie Joseph: \"I'm incredibly proud of the guys in terms of how they tried to execute our plan. There were parts of the game that surprised England in terms of the kicking game, we put them under a lot of pressure and created opportunities for us.\n\n\"What we learned from that is the opportunities we created, we didn't take them. We made too many mistakes. It's disappointing for us, the boys put a lot of emotional effort into this week.\n\nReplacements: Smith for Steward (69), Lawrence for Tuilagi (69), Youngs for Mitchell (60), Genge for Marler (60), Dan for George (75), Stuart for Sinckler (51), Vunipola for Ludlam (51), Martin for Lawes (64).\n\nReplacements: Lemeki for Masirewa (7), Riley for Naikabula (51), Saito for Nagare (65), Millar for Inagaki (50), Sakate for Horie (62), Ai Valu for Gu (41), Dearns for Fakatava (62), Shimokawa for Labuschagne (75).\n• None What's next in the Post Office Horizon scandal? Nick Wallis continues his investigation into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history\n• None The batsman who changed the face of cricket: How wearing a helmet revolutionised the safety of the sport", "The dog attack happened at Palins Holiday Park in north Wales\n\nTwo men have been charged after five people were attacked by a dog.\n\nOn Friday a man was taken to hospital with injuries to his arm after he and four others were bitten.\n\nThomas Loftus, 28, has been charged with affray, actual bodily harm, common assault and owning or possessing a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nIan Loftus, 58, has been charged with affray, actual bodily harm and owning or possessing a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nIt happened during a \"disturbance\" at Palins Holiday Park, Kinmel Bay, Conwy county, on Friday at about 22:00 BST.\n\nPolice said: \"The suspects were subsequently arrested following an investigation led by North Wales Police CID.\n\n\"The dog was seized from a residential address and remains in appropriate kennels where its welfare is being managed.\"\n\nPreviously the force's Det Sgt Jon Rich said the dog was not believed to be a Bully XL.\n\nThe men have been remanded to appear before Llandudno Magistrates' Court.\n• None Man in hospital and four injured in dog attack", "Russell Brand performed at a scheduled gig at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on Saturday evening\n\nComedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse during a seven-year period at the height of his fame.\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nFour women are alleging sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand has denied the allegations and said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nDuring the years covered by the allegations, Brand had various high-profile jobs at different times, including at BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4, and as an actor in Hollywood films.\n\nOther claims made as part of the investigation relate to Brand's allegedly controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.\n\nThe investigation is published in the Sunday Times, while the Dispatches documentary, Russell Brand - In Plain Sight, aired on Channel 4 on Saturday.\n\nWithin hours of the allegations being published, Brand performed a scheduled comedy gig at the 2,000-capacity Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in north-west London, as part of his Bipolarisation tour.\n\nDuring the set, which lasted about an hour, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly. He told the audience there were things he wanted to talk about but could not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nDuring his set, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly\n\nSeveral women have made allegations against Brand as part of the investigation:\n\nOn Friday, Brand released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing \"a litany\" of \"aggressive attacks\".\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nIn the video, posted on YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter, Brand said: \"Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nBrand said he believed he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\" and he was going to look into the matter because it was \"very, very serious\".\n\nWhile not referring to the comedian by name, the Metropolitan Police said it was \"aware of media reporting of a series of allegations of sexual assault\" but had not received any reports.\n\n\"If anyone believes they have been the victim of a sexual assault, no matter how long ago it happened, we would encourage them to contact police.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said all the women felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters. The newspaper said several felt compelled to do so given Brand's newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer.\n\nMost of the women, who the Times said do not know each other, have chosen to remain anonymous.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it gave Brand eight days within which to reply to detailed allegations, and when given further opportunity to respond, Brand published his response video on his YouTube channel.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career in stand-up comedy before moving into broadcasting and acting\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she first came into contact with Brand told the Sunday Times: \"Russell engaged in the behaviours of a groomer, looking back, but I didn't even know what that was then, or what that looked like.\"\n\nAnother woman alleged to the newspaper that she repeatedly told Brand to get off her during one sexual assault, and that when he eventually relented he \"flipped\" and was \"super angry\".\n\nA different woman claimed that Brand pushed her up against the wall and raped her, without a condom. She alleged Brand tried to stop her leaving until she told him she was going to the bathroom.\n\n\"I ran out and I jumped in my car - thank God I didn't park in his driveway - and booked it out of there,\" she said.\n\nBrand has hosted a number of radio and TV programmes for networks including Channel 4, MTV, Radio X and the BBC.\n\nHe started his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 2000s but got his big break a few years later as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4.\n\nAfter his profile surged, Brand was cast in Hollywood films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him To The Greek and Arthur.\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she met Brand told the Times she took her allegations to his literary agent Angharad Wood, the co-founder of Tavistock Wood, owned by Curtis Brown, in 2020.\n\nTavistock Wood told the BBC: \"Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him. Tavistock Wood has terminated all professional ties to Brand.\"\n\nA Channel 4 spokesman told BBC News: \"Channel 4 is appalled to learn of these deeply troubling allegations, including behaviour alleged to have taken place on programmes made for Channel 4 between 2004 and 2007.\n\n\"We are determined to understand the full nature of what went on. We have carried out extensive document searches and have found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4.\n\n\"We will continue to review this in light of any further information we receive, including the accounts of those affected individuals. We will be asking the production company who produced the programmes for Channel 4 to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us.\"\n\nIt said that in recent years there had been extensive change in Channel 4's management and it was committed to ensuring the TV industry is safe and inclusive.\n\nThe relationship with the 16-year-old is alleged to have taken place at a time when Brand was working as a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music.\n\nIt is alleged Brand would undress in the studio while working on the show. Dispatches also said Brand made a series of sexual remarks on air about a newsreader, which he later implied he had been told by BBC production staff to apologise for.\n\nThe Times added sources had told the newspaper that a complaint was made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Russell Brand worked for a number of different organisations, of which the BBC was one. As is well known, Russell Brand left the BBC after a serious editorial breach in 2008 - as did the then-controller of Radio 2.\n\n\"The circumstances of the breach were reviewed in detail at the time. We hope that demonstrates that the BBC takes issues seriously and is prepared to act.\n\n\"Indeed, the BBC has, over successive years, evolved its approach to how it manages talent and how it deals with complaints or issues raised.\n\n\"We have clear expectations around conduct at work. These are set out in employment contracts, the BBC Values, the BBC code of conduct and the anti-bullying and harassment policy.\n\n\"We will always listen to people if they come forward with any concerns, on any issue related to any individual working at the BBC, past or present.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The former PM admits she was \"in a rush\" to change the UK economy during her time in power.\n\nLiz Truss has vehemently defended the policies she tried to enact during her short time as prime minister.\n\nShe acknowledged that she tried to do things in a rush in her time in office.\n\nBut the Tory MP argued that she could not deliver her plans due to the \"political and economic establishment\", blaming \"institutional bureaucracy\".\n\nThe former PM also called on Rishi Sunak to cut taxes, reduce benefit increases, raise the retirement age and delay net-zero commitments.\n\nHer speech at an event held by the Institute for Government think tank comes almost a year after her government unveiled a series of economic measures - described as a mini-budget - that included £45bn of tax cuts alongside support for people struggling with rising energy bills.\n\nThe plans triggered weeks of economic turmoil and just a few weeks later Ms Truss was forced to scrap almost all of the measures.\n\nHer premiership did not survive the massive U-turn and she resigned on 20 October 2022, less than a month after the mini-budget.\n\nThe speech is one of the few occasions she has spoken in public about her tenure and she said: \"Some people said we were in too much of a rush.\n\n\"And it is certainly true that I didn't just try to fatten the pig on market day - I tried to rear the pig and slaughter it as well. I confess to that.\n\n\"But the reason we were in a rush was because voters wanted to see results.\n\n\"I knew with the level of resistance and the lack of preparation time that things weren't going to be perfect.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe said that communication \"could have been better and the operation better honed\" but also that she was unable to implement her plans because there was a \"powerful force comprising the economic and political elite, corporatists, parts of the media and even a section of the Conservative parliamentary party\" opposed to her ideas.\n\nShe also argued that her tax cuts were not unfunded as they would have increased revenue in the long term.\n\nIn addition to reflecting on her time in office, Ms Truss used her speech to urge the government to reinstate VAT-free shopping for tourists and abolish the windfall tax on oil and gas firms.\n\n\"We need to get a grip on the ballooning welfare and pensions bill. This means slowing the rate of increases to benefits and tougher work requirements. It also means raising the retirement age further,\" she said.\n\nDuring a question session following her speech, Ms Truss further defended her policies.\n\nFollowing her mini-budget, interest rates jumped sharply leading to rising mortgages and hundreds of products being removed from the mortgage market.\n\nHowever, the former prime minister said interest rates had been \"artificially low\" for many years and would have risen, regardless of her policies.\n\nMs Truss also criticised the civil service, saying that while she had worked with \"brilliant people\" there was a \"system problem\".\n\nAsked for examples of civil service interference, she said officials tended to be more enthusiastic and active when implementing climate policies, compared to delivering the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda.\n\nShe also hit back at Mark Carney - the former Bank of England governor - who, over the weekend, said Ms Truss had failed to turn the UK into \"Singapore-on-Thames\" but instead delivered \"Argentina-on-the-Channel\".\n\nMs Truss said Mr Carney had contributed to the \"25-year economic consensus that has led to low growth across the western world\".\n\nHaving largely spent the past year since leaving No 10 keeping a lower profile, Ms Truss is likely to become more vocal in the next 12 months.\n\nShe is writing a book - due for publication in April - entitled Ten Years to Save the West, in which she will \"share the lessons\" from her time in government.\n\nShe will also attend the Conservative Party conference in Manchester later this month.\n\nLiz Truss said she did not want to participate in a Conservative Party soap opera - so there was no direct attack on her successor as PM.\n\nBut the policy gulf between her and Rishi Sunak was obvious.\n\nShe advocated the opposite of many of the policies he was pursuing.\n\nFrom corporation tax - which she wanted cut - to the very top rate of income tax, which she wanted to abolish.\n\nIf she had regrets, they really were almost too few to mention.\n\nShe did admit perhaps she had gone a bit too quickly.\n\nShe used a porcine analogy to concede she hadn't just tried to fatten the pig on market day, she had reared and slaughtered it in the same timescale.\n\nBut she argued that when she herself had faced the chop, it wasn't because her policies had been wrong.\n\nIt was instead down to a rogue's gallery of opponents who had undermined her: The political and economic establishment, parts of the media and a chunk of her own parliamentary party.\n\nHer speech wasn't just of historic interest.\n\nIt is worth remembering that a majority of rank-and-file party members had backed her leadership bid last year.\n\nAlthough she said she didn't envisage a return to Downing Street, were her party to lose power at the next election, a debate over its future direction is likely to ensue - and others may take on her free market mantle.\n\nDowning Street said Rishi Sunak had not watched the speech, but when asked for his response, Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake said: \"I don't think there's any other option than to do what the prime minister is doing now, which is we need to balance the books at the same time as we're doing other things like growing the economy.\"\n\nHowever, it did spark criticism from opposition politicians, as well as some from her own party. Conservative MP Conor Burns - whom she sacked - said: \"She is a drag anchor to any cause she attaches herself to. And toxic on the doorsteps. Only service she could provide is sustained silence.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP and former minister Damian Green said: \"It's been a year since Liz wrote a Budget. I'm glad she's not responsible for this year's.\"\n\nRupert Harrison - the economic adviser to former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne - wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Ms Truss had a \"brass neck\" adding: \"To presume to offer advice after what happened. And still no genuine acknowledgment of the real mistakes that were made. Happily, nobody in the Conservative Party or the government is listening.\"\n\nResponding to her speech, the Liberal Democrat's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"Liz Truss giving a speech on economic growth is like an arsonist giving a talk on fire safety.\"\n\nMeanwhile Labour have called on the prime minister to block Liz Truss's resignation honours list. Labour's shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth argued that \"those who crashed the economy\" should not be rewarded.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanada has accused India of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader, an allegation strongly denied by Delhi.\n\nOn Monday PM Justin Trudeau said Canada was looking at \"credible allegations potentially linking\" the Indian state to Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder.\n\nMr Nijjar was was shot dead outside a Sikh temple on 18 June in Canada.\n\nIndia has expelled a Canadian diplomat after Canada expelled Indian diplomat Pavan Kumar Rai over the case.\n\nMr Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in his vehicle by two masked gunmen in the busy car park of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, a city about 30km (18 miles) east of Vancouver.\n\nA prominent Sikh separatist leader in the western-most province of British Columbia, he publicly campaigned for Khalistan - the creation of an independent Sikh homeland in the Punjab region of India.\n\nSikhs are a religious minority that make up about 2% of India's population. Some groups have long called for a separate homeland for Sikhs.\n\nIn the 1970s Sikhs launched a separatist insurgency in India which saw thousands killed before it was quelled the following decade.\n\nSince then, the movement has been mostly limited to countries with large Sikh populations such as Canada and the UK. There are an estimated 1.4 to 1.8 million Canadians of Indian origin and the country has the largest population of Sikhs outside Punjab.\n\nIndia has in the past described Mr Nijjar as a terrorist who led a militant separatist group - accusations his supporters say are unfounded. They say he had received threats in the past because of his activism.\n\nHardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered on 18 June in Surrey, British Columbia, in what police have described as a \"targeted\" attack\n\nMr Trudeau said in parliament on Monday that he had raised the issue of Mr Nijjar's killing with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent G20 summit in Delhi.\n\n\"Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,\" he told lawmakers.\n\nOn Tuesday, India's ministry of external affairs said that it \"completely rejected\" Mr Trudeau's claims which it described as \"absurd\" and politically motivated.\n\n\"We are a democratic polity with a strong commitment to rule of law,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\nIt accused Canada of providing shelter to \"Khalistani terrorists and extremists\" who threaten India's security.\n\n\"We urge the government of Canada to take prompt and effective legal action against all anti-India elements operating from their soil,\" the ministry said.\n\nAfter Mr Trudeau's comments, several large posters and tributes to Mr Nijjar were visible at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey.\n\nMoninder Singh, a spokesman for the British Columbia Sikhs Gurdwaras Council, told the BBC that the community appreciated \"that at least the prime minister stood up and acknowledged that there is a foreign hand behind this murder\".\n\nOther Sikh groups in Canada, including the World Sikh Organisation, welcomed the prime minister's statement, saying Mr Trudeau confirmed what was already widely believed in the community.\n\nMr Trudeau had a tense meeting with Mr Modi last week during the G20 summit in India\n\nMr Trudeau's remarks come after his tense meeting with Mr Modi last week during the G20 summit in India where Mr Modi accused Canada of not doing enough to quell \"anti-India activities of extremist elements\", referring to the Sikh separatists.\n\nCanada also recently suspended negotiations for a free trade agreement with India. It gave few details on why, but India cited \"certain political developments\".\n\nMr Nijjar is the third prominent Sikh figure to have died unexpectedly in recent months.\n\nIn the UK, Avtar Singh Khanda, who was said to be the head of the Khalistan Liberation Force, died in Birmingham in June. West Midlands police told the BBC they were not opening an investigation.\n\n\"Following speculation surrounding the death of Avtar Singh Khanda, a thorough review was undertaken by West Midlands Police which concluded that there were no suspicious circumstances,\" the force said.\n\nParamjit Singh Panjwar, who was designated a terrorist by India, was shot dead in May in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province.\n\nThe backdrop to the tension between Delhi and Ottawa is the increasing pressure the Indian administration has put on governments of three countries with sizeable Sikh populations: Canada, Australia and the UK.\n\nIt has openly said that a failure to tackle what it calls \"Sikh extremism\" would be an obstacle to good relations.\n\nOn Tuesday, the White House said it was \"deeply concerned\" about Mr Trudeau's allegations.\n\n\"We remain in regular contact with our Canadian partners. It is critical that Canada's investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice,\" White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said.", "Russell Brand has vehemently denied the allegations made in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme which aired on Saturday night\n\nA women's charity has ended its association with Russell Brand after he was accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse.\n\nSouth West charity Trevi announced in 2022 it would be working with him and his Stay Free Foundation.\n\nThe allegations made against the actor and comedian relate to a seven-year period at the height of his fame.\n\nBrand has denied the allegations and said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nFour women are alleging sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013.\n\nThe comedian is due to perform his live show \"Bipolarisation\" at Plymouth Pavilions on Friday.\n\nTrevi - which helps women affected by violence and abuse - announced in August the Plymouth show would help raise money for its Blossom Appeal, which is aiming to raise £50,000 for the charity's new women-only accommodation in the city.\n\nHowever, in a statement on social media on Saturday, Trevi said it had ended its association with Brand.\n\nThe charity said it was \"deeply saddened and upset\" by the stories reported in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.\n\nIt said: \"Russell became aware of our charity in 2022 after hearing about some of the incredible mothers we have helped to become drug-free over the years.\n\n\"He wanted to support our cause and raise money through his Stay Free Foundation.\"\n\nIt said the media revelations had been \"difficult to process but our priority remains and continues to be the safety and well-being of all women and girls now and in the future\".\n\n\"We have ended our association with Russell Brand and the Stay Free Foundation,\" the statement added.\n\n\"As a charity whose values put women's voices at the heart of what we do, we always prioritise supporting women affected by violence and abuse and empower them to live without violence and fear.\"\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nThe Stay Free Foundation supports people through recovery from addiction, their mental health and the non-profit organisations that help them.\n\nOn Friday, Brand released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing \"a litany\" of \"aggressive attacks\".\n\nIn the video, posted on YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter, Brand said: \"Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chioma Nnadi's recent cover stories have featured stars such as Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and Erykah Badu\n\nFashion journalist and podcaster Chioma Nnadi has been named as the new head of editorial content at British Vogue.\n\nShe will become the first black female head of the industry-leading fashion title, which also has outlets in the US, France and Italy.\n\nThe Londoner said she was \"beyond excited and honoured\" to be taking over from editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.\n\nAs editor of New York-based Vogue.com, she recently led its online coverage of major events like the Met Gala.\n\nNnadi, whose recent cover stories have featured stars such as Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and Erykah Badu, has spent 13 years as a writer and news director for Vogue, and also co-hosts the publication's podcast, The Run-Through.\n\n\"As someone who was born and raised in London, the energy of the city - its boundary-pushing style and creative scene - has shaped the way I look at the world,\" Nnadi said in a statement on Monday, in the middle of London Fashion Week.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, it feels like a moment to look beyond borders while also celebrating the broad scope of what it means to be British,\" she added of her return to her hometown.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to engaging a loyal and inspired digital community that is energised by our access, point of view, and storytelling.\"\n\nAnna Wintour, Vogue's chief content officer and global editorial director, who helped to provide the inspiration for Meryl Streep's character in the film The Devil Wears Prada, said Nnadi was \"beloved among her colleagues\".\n\nShe added Nnadi is \"an editor and writer with an impeccable reputation - both here and in the fashion industry at large\".\n\n\"I'm so grateful to Edward Enninful for everything he's accomplished at British Vogue, and we're all looking forward to a productive and creative relationship with him in his new role,\" she continued.\n\nIn June, Enninful announced he would be stepping down from his role after six years of breaking boundaries at the top fashion magazine.\n\nNnandi will replace Edward Enninful, who moves into a new role\n\nEnninful will remain as an editorial adviser to the UK title but move into a newly-created job next year aimed at growing the brand globally. His new portfolio as Vogue's global creative and cultural adviser will also allow him to take on external projects.\n\nHe said he was \"thrilled\" at the news of the appointment of his successor, calling Nnadi \"a brilliant and unique talent with real vision, who will take the publication to ever greater heights\".\n\nNnadi began her career on the features desk of the Evening Standard Magazine, before moving to New York to write for independent style magazine Trace.\n\nShe then went on to cover fashion and its links to music for Fader before joining Vogue in 2010.\n\nHer new job will commence from 9 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johanna Robinson, Wales' national adviser on violence against woman, says she was grabbed inappropriately at the football match\n\nWales' national adviser on sexual violence has described how she was sexually harassed by a man at a football match.\n\nJohanna Robinson said it happened at the Cardiff City-Swansea City Championship match on Saturday night.\n\nShe said a man sitting behind her repeatedly grabbed her after she had told him to stop.\n\nCardiff City director Steve Borley said the club will investigate the incident and include the police if appropriate.\n\nMs Robinson, who has previously been a season ticket holder at the club, said she was sitting alone at the match after giving her original ticket away.\n\n\"Almost as soon as I sat down the man behind me started tapping me, trying to talk in my ear and crouching over my shoulder,\" said Ms Robinson, whose title is Wales' National Adviser for Violence Against Women, Gender Based Violence, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence.\n\n\"And then it just increased... the way he was touching me got stronger so it felt more like he was grabbing my shoulders, my arms, and my waist,\" she told BBC Wales.\n\nJohanna Robinson was sitting alone at Saturday's match after giving her original ticket away to her son's friend\n\nMs Robinson added: \"He just kept doing it and doing it... it made me feel unsafe, he made me feel unsafe.\n\n\"He was in my physical space, he was touching me inappropriately - I didn't know if he was going to go further with the touching but it didn't really matter. I just didn't like it.\"\n\nShe said she then turned around and asked the man to stop touching her, to which he responded angrily and looked at her in \"disbelief\".\n\nShe said the touching did then stop temporarily, until just before half-time when he tried to persuade her to go and have a drink with him.\n\n\"He tapped me on the shoulder again... and said to me very clearly that he hadn't done anything, that he wasn't a 'monster man',\" she said.\n\n\"He was really forceful about that, that was his way of excusing it and moving on... that I should go for a drink with him because he wasn't a monster man... it's just ridiculous.\"\n\nMs Robinson says she's had great support from Cardiff City since Saturday, but that incidents like this \"simply aren't acceptable\"\n\nMs Robinson said she then went to the stewards to report the incident and ask to be moved to another seat, which she eventually was after being taken to a supervisor.\n\nHowever, she said the supervisor explained how difficult it was for her to be moved to another seat and that there wasn't a process in place for incidents such as this.\n\nAfter posting about her experience on social media Ms Robinson said the Cardiff City director Steve Borley had been in touch, which she \"really appreciates\".\n\n\"I've had great support so far. My point is that it simply isn't acceptable. We need to do things so that it isn't down to the woman to do things to defend herself.\n\n\"I would encourage women to speak out, I would encourage them to go to the steward... but the responsibility is on the clubs.\"\n\nShe added that it should not be the responsibility of women to seek out the resources that can help keep them safe, such as a hotline for reporting inappropriate behaviour.\n\n\"They should be made available to us, the messaging to us should be clear,\" she said.\n\nRoopa Vyas, director of Her Game Too Cymru - a campaign tackling sexist abuse in sport - said Ms Robinson's experience was all too common, which is why Her Game Too exists.\n\n\"We've just had enough... it's such a shame, despite people working to raise awareness of such a horrible thing, its still so prevalent and especially at the football,\" she said.\n\nRoopa Vyas attended the World Cup in Qatar, where some women said they felt safer than at matches in the UK\n\n\"It's so common sometimes that even as a woman, you don't really register it as sexual harassment until you speak to someone... that's not okay,\" added Ms Vyas.\n\nShe says Her Game Too are working with football clubs on implementing systems for reporting such behaviour, and that for clubs that do have them the main focus is raising awareness.\n\nMr Borley has apologised to Ms Robinson for her experience, and said the club will \"fully investigate the incident and include the police if appropriate\".\n\nCardiff City said it has contacted Ms Robinson and is investigating the incident.\n\nA club spokesperson said any supporter who feels threatened or is concerned by the behaviour of others is encouraged to contact the club via the reporting hotline at the earliest opportunity.", "A 35-year-old woman has been charged with the murders of two people, who are still missing\n\nA woman has been charged with murdering two people, whose bodies have not been found.\n\nVirginia McCullough, 35, of Pump Hill, near Great Baddow, Chelmsford was arrested on Friday.\n\nEssex Police received reports for the welfare of two people in their 70s on Wednesday and said, based on available evidence, they believe they are no longer alive.\n\nMs McCullough is due at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nEssex Police said it was their \"strong belief\" the two people were no longer alive and the Crown Prosecution Service agreed with their assessment.\n\nThe force previously said it believed a man and a woman were unaccounted for.\n\nEssex Police said it was their \"strong belief\" the two people in their 70s were no longer alive\n\nDet Supt Rob Kirby said: \"Although we have received authorisation to charge Virginia McCullough, this complex and in-depth investigation will be continuing at pace throughout the coming weeks and months.\n\n\"I would also reiterate that our continued belief is that this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the wider Chelmsford or Essex public.\n\n\"Our thoughts today are with the families of everyone involved and I can assure them, all avenues of enquiry will be pursued extensively to piece together the circumstances around this matter.\"\n\nA police tent is outside a property in Great Baddow, with a cordon still in place\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBy Shamoon Hafez BBC Sport at the City Ground\n\nCallum Hudson-Odoi scored a glorious equaliser on his Nottingham Forest debut to earn a Premier League draw against Burnley.\n\nThe Clarets looked to be controlling the game but deadline day signing Hudson-Odoi had other ideas, curling a stunning strike into the top corner on the hour mark.\n\nBurnley had taken a first-half lead through Zeki Amdouni's well-taken shot into the bottom corner after fine work by the lively teenager Luca Koleosho.\n\nSwiss striker Amdouni, who scored the winner here in the Carabao Cup just 20 days ago, had already given goalkeeper Matt Turner a warning sign with a stinging drive from range before netting a cool finish.\n\nVincent Kompany's visitors thought they had grabbed the winner 12 minutes from time when Lyle Foster stroked in from close range, but it was ruled out for a handball by Sander Berge in the build-up.\n\nBurnley's night then ended on a sour note when top scorer Foster was sent off for violent conduct in injury time, after a needless off-the-ball elbow on Ryan Yates.\n\nFollowing three straight defeats, the result allows Burnley to get off the mark this season, while Forest have made a decent start to the campaign with seven points from five games.\n• None How did you rate Forest's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Burnley's display? Send us your views here\n\nThese two sides met at the City Ground for the second time in three weeks and it seemed like a repeat result was on the cards.\n\nBurnley's club record signing Amdouni converted a 90th-minute winner to send his side through to the EFL Cup third round at the expense of Forest last month.\n\nAnd he netted again on Monday night with a drilled effort from the edge of the box after being set up by Italy youth international Koleosho, who outpaced home skipper Joe Worrall close to the byeline.\n\nKoleosho impressed, giving Argentine World Cup winner Gonzalo Montiel the runaround throughout the game before being replaced by Belgium international Mike Tresor.\n\nThis was a solid showing from Kompany's men in their first away game of the campaign after conceding three or more goals in all their matches so far.\n\nA club-record five consecutive Premier League defeats was avoided but their return to the top-flight has been a struggle after cantering to the Championship title last season.\n\nForest, though, hit back in the second period through Hudson-Odoi's brilliant finish with the side highlighting their prowess in front of goal by scoring in their 12th straight top-flight game.\n\nThe equaliser came from Taiwo Awoniyi's knockdown and the Nigeria striker is becoming an integral part of a Forest side that keeps changing personnel, now contributing a goal or assist in his last nine league games.\n\nThe two sides face Manchester clubs on Saturday - Forest travelling to Treble winners and league leaders Manchester City (kick-off 15:00 BST), while Burnley host United on the same day (20:00).\n• None Josh Cullen (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Nottingham Forest. Ola Aina tries a through ball, but Ibrahim Sangaré is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ola Aina.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Josh Brownhill tries a through ball, but Mike Trésor is caught offside.\n• None Lyle Foster (Burnley) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Attempt missed. Mike Trésor (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Josh Brownhill (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ameen Al Dakhil (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Laura McAllister says creating around 30 more AMs would bring \"greater dividends\"\n\nThe Welsh Assembly needs an extra 20 to 30 members to cope with its growing workload, an expert panel has said.\n\nIts report also recommends that 16 and 17-year-olds should be able to vote in assembly elections.\n\nPresiding Officer Elin Jones hoped to see a \"stronger, more inclusive and forward-looking legislature\".\n\nWelsh Labour said it would not give its view until its 2019 conference, which a Plaid AM said \"kills dead\" any chance of reform before the next election.\n\nAny changes will require a law to be passed in the assembly with a two-thirds majority.\n\nAMs were given powers to make changes to the way they are elected under the 2017 Wales Act.\n\nSixty members is no longer enough to deliver for the people of Wales, the report said\n\nProf Laura McAllister of Cardiff University, who chaired the panel, said the assembly needed more members \"to effectively represent the people and communities it serves, hold the Welsh Government to account, and be a parliament that truly works for Wales now and in the future\".\n\n\"Calling for more politicians is unpopular; but we have to report as we see the evidence,\" she added.\n\n\"As its powers increase, the assembly cannot continue as it is without risking its ability to deliver effectively for the people of Wales.\"\n\nThe panel also recommended a change in the voting system, to a proportional method called the Single Transferable Vote.\n\nOne option would be to pair the current 40 constituencies to merge them into 20 seats, each with four AMs, giving a total of 80.\n\nA gender quota would boost the number of women in the Senedd, and the option of standing as a \"job share\" candidate would aim to encourage people with disabilities or caring responsibilities.\n\nVotes at 16 were also recommended, as long as it was accompanied by \"appropriate political and citizenship education\".\n\nProf McAllister said there was \"no logical reason\" to delay.\n\nAlthough there would be a \"tight timetable\", she said it was \"do-able\" to pass legislation in the summer of 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should 16 and 17-year-olds be able to vote?\n\nThat would give political parties time to select candidates and allow the Electoral Commission to make any necessary preparations.\n\nLegislation would need a so-called super-majority of two-thirds of assembly members, meaning Labour's support would be crucial.\n\nBut Labour said it would not take a decision before its conference in the spring of 2019 after consulting on the proposals next year.\n\nPlaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas claimed Labour's position \"kills dead any hope of passing the necessary legislation before the next assembly elections\", due in 2021.\n\nBacking calls for a larger legislature, he said: \"It makes no sense that our assembly is so much smaller compared with parliaments of comparable size and competence.\"\n\nWelcoming the report, Presiding Officer Elin Jones said the Assembly Commission - the cross-party group which ordered the study - had already recognised the assembly was \"underpowered and overstretched\".\n\n\"This lack of capacity will not be resolved without bold action, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer,\" she said.\n\nShe said the commission will consider the proposals and added: \"I hope we can find a broad consensus for change and deliver a stronger, more inclusive and forward-looking legislature that works for Wales for many years to come.\"\n\nCerys Furlong, chief executive of Chwarae Teg - a charity which promotes the role of women in work - welcomed expansion plans to ease the workload on assembly members and the \"strong focus\" on boosting the number of women elected.\n\n\"Around the world, quotas have been shown to be the most effective means of delivering change at pace, providing the necessary legislative nudge required by some to take action,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Roderick says the fate of the plans lies in the hands of Labour\n\nBefore the report's publication, some politicians questioned the need and public appetite for more assembly members.\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton said the idea should be put to a referendum, saying: \"The last thing Wales needs is yet more politicians.\n\n\"The assembly costs £55m a year and the increase would mean a budget expansion to over £80m. Do the Welsh people think this is value for money?\"\n\nConservative MP for Monmouth David Davies - a former member of the assembly himself - argued that AMs should work more effectively, rather than see their numbers increase.\n\nBut his Labour colleague, Pontypridd AM Mick Antoniw, told BBC Radio Wales: \"We have got many assembly members who are working 50, 60, 70 hours [a week].\"\n\n\"When you start doing that number of hours are you doing that work properly?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man whose brother died after being hit by a car travelling at 30mph has said the new 20mph default limit will be worth it if lives are saved.\n\nWales has become the first country in the UK to reduce speed limits in built-up areas from 30mph to 20mph.\n\nGareth Parry, whose brother Keith was killed in 1994, called it a \"fantastic change.\"\n\nBut the move has been controversial, with criticism from the Welsh Conservatives and UK ministers.\n\nA Senedd petition calling for the Welsh government to remove the 20mph law has gained more than 60,000 signatures.\n\nNatasha Asghar, the Welsh Conservative's shadow transport minister, said the petition \"highlights that there has been little to no consultation with the general public\".\n\n\"The new blanket 20mph speed limit has been in place for just one day and already people have had enough of it,\" she added.\n\nWhile walking to school to promote the scheme, Deputy Climate Change Minister, Lee Waters, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that the new speed limit has been in the works for four years and trialled in eight places.\n\n\"When speed limits are lower, people feel safer to cycle and to walk, so less people are driving,\" he said.\n\nHe told Wales Today the police would enforce with a light touch for about a year.\n\nThe guidance is is that drivers pulled over doing less than 30mph will be given advice.\n\n\"We need to give it a bit of time to bed in,\" Mr Waters said.\n\nPushback during the day from those objecting to the new limit had \"not been a lot fun\".\n\n\"I completely understand why people are exasperated by it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a big, big change which will take some time for people to get used to.\"\n\nKeith Parry was killed in 1994 after being hit by a car doing 30mph\n\nMr Parry, who represents Hendre ward on Gwynedd's council, Cyngor Gwynedd, said: \"I lost a brother who was knocked down.\n\n\"The car was only doing 30. My brother never came home.\n\n\"If we can prevent one accident [with the 20mph limit] it's worth it. I don't want to see another family going through what we've been through.\"\n\nThe law has reduced the speed limit on about 35% of Welsh roads where lamp-posts are no more than 200 yards (183m) apart.\n\nMonday marks the first time the new speed limit is in force on the school run.\n\nThis 20mph sign on Broad Street in Canton, Cardiff has been defaced\n\nThe Welsh government said it would result in up to 10 fewer road deaths a year in Wales.\n\nBut in Maesteg in Bridgend county, Louise Griffiths, 47, worried the change might cause \"havoc\" in some areas.\n\n\"In some areas I think it's necessary, like schools but in other places I think it'll cause havoc,\" she said.\n\n\"It might even cause a few accidents with people becoming impatient.\"\n\nMatt Davies says he didn't \"notice\" any impact of 20mph on traffic in Maesteg on Sunday\n\nMatt Davies, 32, said he had \"not really noticed [the change] affecting traffic\" after a short drive through the town on Sunday.\n\n\"If it'll save lives and money for the NHS then that's a good thing.\"\n\nAfter strong criticism of the policy by Conservative politicians, including the Commons leader Penny Mordaunt who called it \"insane\", a Welsh minister suggested the Tories were happy to see children killed on the roads.\n\nWales' counsel general, Mick Antoniw, the senior legal adviser to ministers, said on Saturday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter: \"Tories so happy to see people and particularly children killed and injured on our roads.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary David TC Davies called it an \"absolutely appalling suggestion\", telling the BBC's Politics Wales programme Mr Antoniw should \"apologise and withdraw that gratuitously offensive tweet which he put out yesterday\".\n\nMr Antoniw later apologised and deleted the post.\n\n\"I apologise if it has created offence by suggesting that any individual would be happy with the death of a child,\" he said.\n\n\"It was probably not the best choice of words. The word happy was used in the sense of them being content or being prepared to accept the consequences of their policy.\"\n\nBreakfast is on BBC Radio Wales from 07:00-09:00 every weekday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Anna Foster walks along a \"wasteland\" that used to be a riverbed\n\nWarning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing\n\nA masked doctor leans down into a black plastic body bag, and gently manipulates the legs of the man inside. \"First we determine age, sex and length,\" he explains.\n\n\"He's in the putrefaction stage now, because of the water.\"\n\nIn a hospital car park in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, the final details of one of its many victims are being carefully checked and logged.\n\nThis is now one of the most vital jobs here, and one of the most distressing. The man is unrecognisable after spending a week in the sea. His body washed ashore that morning.\n\nExpert hands gently probe for identifying marks, and a DNA swab is taken. That's important, in case there's a family still alive to claim him.\n\nLibya's internationally recognised government says more than a quarter of the buildings in Derna were damaged or destroyed by last week's catastrophic flood.\n\nMore than 10,000 people remain officially missing, according to figures from the UN's Office for the Co-Ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.\n\nThe Red Crescent has been issuing its own numbers.\n\nThe UN says the death toll so far stands at some 11,300. The final total remains unclear - although the one thing that is certain is the sheer scale of this catastrophe.\n\nMohammed Miftah knows in his heart his family are among the victims.\n\nWhen he went to find his sister and her husband at their home after the floods, it had been washed away.\n\nHe's heard nothing from them since. He shows me a video he took as the torrent rose, brown water pouring in through his front door.\n\nA car is carried on the current and wedges into the open space, blocking it completely.\n\n\"I saw cars coming down and I came out running,\" he recalls.\n\n\"I thought that was it, that I was going to die. We could see our neighbours waving flashlights. In just a few moments, the lights went out, and they had disappeared.\n\n\"That was the hardest thing.\"\n\nSabrine Ferhat Bellil lost her brother, his wife and five of his children when the deadly storm hit her city\n\nAs international aid begins to arrive in earnest, the Health Minister of Libya's eastern government has announced that four Greek rescue workers were killed in an accident on the road to Derna.\n\nFifteen more were injured. They were on their way to join teams already on the ground from France and Italy.\n\nKuwait and Saudi Arabia have also flown in tonnes of extra supplies.\n\nMohammed Miftah fears some of his family members are among the dead\n\nThe next step is making sure they're used properly and fairly.\n\nAbdullah Bathily, the head of the UN's International Support Mission in Libya, told BBC Arabic the country now needs to create a transparent mechanism to manage all of its international donations.\n\nIt's a concern borne from the well-known challenges of co-ordinating between the government in Tripoli which is internationally recognised, and the eastern Libyan government, which isn't.\n\nA destroyed car sits on top of a residential building following fatal floods in Derna\n\nBack in the centre of Derna there are some points of light amid the mud and debris that has enveloped this city.\n\nOn one street corner, hundreds of colourful clothes lie scattered in piles.\n\nAcross the road a huge queue forms as fuel is handed out to survivors.\n\nAs the donations keep coming, one man arrives and places a box of warm scarves at the feet of an elderly woman.\n\nHe kisses her head tenderly, as she smiles and begins to choose one.\n\nThese are Libyans helping Libyans in one of their worst moments of crisis.\n\nThe International Organization of Migration puts the number of people in eastern Libya displaced by the floods at 38,000 - 30,000 in Derna alone", "Paul Scougall says his scar on his chest is the only sign of the heart transplant that saved his life\n\nA police officer whose life was saved by a heart transplant has urged Scots to share their wishes for organ donation.\n\nPaul Scougall was just 27 when he went to hospital for a check up for a suspected chest infection, and came out six months later with a new heart.\n\nNow 31 and back to full health, Paul is supporting an appeal to get people to confirm their intentions.\n\nScotland changed to an opt-out organ donation system in March 2021.\n\nUnder these rules, if people aged over 16 have not opted out of organ donation, they will be considered a possible donor if they die in circumstances in which they could donate.\n\nIn the past two and half years, more than half of adults in Scotland have registered their intentions with Organ Donation Scotland, with most agreeing to donate at least some organs.\n\nThe Dunfermline-based police officer told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme he had not long finished his probation period in the force when he started noticing he was very short of breath, but \"suddenly it started getting worse and worse\".\n\nHe thought he was being checked for a chest infection when he was referred to hospital in Edinburgh in 2019, but discovered he had an enlarged heart.\n\nThe check up turned into six-month hospital stay.\n\nHe was transferred to the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank and within weeks he was told he would need a donor organ.\n\n\"All of a sudden, I was a fit and healthy guy and within a few weeks I was being told I needed a heart transplant.\"\n\nPaul added: \"I had numerous complications with a collapsed lung, pneumonia and I was bedbound for my whole time in hospital - just a day short of six months.\n\nPaul had to learn to walk and talk again after his illness and heart transplant\n\nHe had a 50-day wait for a new heart and after three months of intensive in-patient rehabilitation, he could walk and talk again. He returned to work just months later.\n\nThe officer received the Police Scotland Unsung Hero award last year.\n\n\"Now I'm back to work as a full-time police officer and without the scar on my chest you would never know that I've had a heart transplant,\" Paul said.\n\nHe urged people to take the time to register their wishes.\n\n\"I think if you've seen it from the other side, and just to see how desperate people are for organs of any type... and how much it means to the receiver of the organ or their family and friends I'm pretty sure that would change your mind or certainly give that boost to go out and make your decision known,\" he said.\n\nNew statistics released for Organ and Tissue Donation Week show 53.8% of eligible adults have agreed to donate some or all potential organ options after their death, and 3.3% opted out.\n\nPeople can chose whether or not they would be willing to donate their heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, eyes, pancreas or small bowel.\n\nOther \"tissue\" can also be donated, and while not defined current surgical procedures can use donated tendons and patches of skin.\n\nThe law assumes people aged 16 and over who have lived in Scotland for more than a year have agreed to be a donor should they die in circumstances where donation is possible, unless they have stated otherwise.\n\nThere are exceptions such as for people who would not be able to understand the law or if donation is likely to be against their views.\n\nOrgan Donation Scotland says bereaved families are always involved in decisions about organ donation.\n\nJenni Minto, minister for public health and women's health, said whatever people decide, it was \"important to make it known\" by registering their decision and sharing it with family and friends.\n\n\"This conversation plays a vital part in making it easier for loved ones to support organ donation decisions,\" she said.\n\nPeople can register their decision online or by calling the Organ Donation Scotland helpline on 0300 123 23 23.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lecturers and staff at Northern Regional College (NRC) at a picket in Coleraine\n\nStaff in further education (FE) colleges across Northern Ireland have begun a week of strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nMembers of the University and College Union (UCU) in FE are then set to walk out every six days until December.\n\nAs the UCU represents the majority of more than 1,700 FE lecturers, the walkout is expected to cause widespread disruption to college courses.\n\nHeads of further education colleges said the strike would hurt students.\n\nColleges were also facing \"significant budgetary pressures\", they said.\n\nBut the UCU said that since notice of industrial action was served, college employers had \"not shown any willingness to resolve the dispute\".\n\nKatharine Clarke said lecturers in Northern Ireland have the heaviest timetable in the UK\n\nUCU official Katharine Clarke said lecturers in Northern Ireland have the heaviest classroom timetable in the UK, which prevents them supplementing their pay with other jobs.\n\n\"If the weekly teaching hours were reduced, lecturers could boost their wages working part time in industry, which also provides opportunity for skill development that can only enhance the students' learning experience,\" she said.\n\n\"The employers' claim that they are powerless to resolve this dispute is false.\n\n\"The truth is they are unwilling to implement the contractual change necessary to improve working lives both qualitatively and financially.\"\n\nMartina Donald (front left) says lecturers have been left with \"no option but to go out on strike\".\n\nMartina Donald, a lecturer in applied science and the UCU branch secretary at the North West Regional College (NWRC) in Londonderry, said it was regrettable the strike had to happen but added that members are \"incredibly angry\".\n\n\"We haven't got a decent pay rise above 2% in the last ten years and lecturers have had enough,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't want any impact on students, but we have been left with no option but to go out on strike.\"\n\nMs Donald said their workload has been gradually increasing over the years, while their pay is gradually decreasing, and that situation is being exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"We need to stand up for our younger lecturing staff who don't realise what is ahead of them.\n\n\"They are going to be delivering on the ground until the age of 67 and won't have a pension to be able to look forward to and won't receive the remuneration they deserve.\n\n\"In some instances, we are delivering apprenticeships to apprentices who are actually being paid more than the lecturers who are delivering the courses on the ground.\"\n\nDave Cresswell, a plumbing lecturer at South East Regional College, said they were striking for fair pay but also for respect.\n\n\"We've been undermined and we don't feel valued in our current jobs at the moment,\" he said.\n\nMr Cresswell said there will be no lessons taking place today, adding that \"students will miss out on their first week of college which is important\".\n\nHe said that lectures do not want to be on strike, \"but unfortunately the management hasn't listened to us and we feel this is our only way of them being attentive to us\".\n\nThe starting salary for a full-time further education lecturer in Northern Ireland is about £25,000 a year, although some staff are paid on an hourly basis or work part-time.\n\nThe UCU and NASUWT - which also represents some lecturers - recently called pay rises of 1% for 2021-22 and 1% for 2022-23 dismal.\n\nLecturers did get a recent £3,000 one-off pro-rata payment to help with rises in the cost of living.\n\nBut the UCU said the workload increase for lecturers was \"comparable to the rate of pay decline\".\n\nIn a statement, the College Employers' Forum (CEF), which represents college management, said the action would \"have a negative impact on our learners who have only commenced the 2023-24 academic year\".\n\n\"CEF has worked hard to make the case for an uplift in staff pay but unfortunately this comes at a time when there is huge financial pressure right across the public sector and our sector has not escaped these pressures,\" it said.\n\nThe Department for the Economy is the department with responsibility for further education in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said: \"The FE sector employers provided a pay remit business case to the Department for the Economy for the periods 2021-22 and 2022-23, which included increments, revalorisation and a one-off non-consolidated payment for FE lecturers.\n\n\"This pay award was issued by FE colleges in August.\n\n\"The department would encourage the FE colleges as employers to continue their engagement with unions to seek a resolution on ongoing pay issues.\"", "Russell Brand denies allegations of sexual assault made by four women\n\nThe BBC, Channel 4 and a production firm have said they are investigating after allegations that Russell Brand sexually assaulted four women.\n\nThe comedian and actor has been accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nThe allegations form part of a report published by the Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nIt also included claims about his behaviour towards women and his workplace conduct over the same period.\n\nBrand worked as a radio presenter for the BBC between 2006 and 2008. The BBC said it was \"urgently looking into the issues raised\" by the allegations. Channel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, announced an internal investigation.\n\nAlthough the alleged assaults are not said to have taken place on BBC or Channel 4 premises, the claims have raised questions for the broadcasters and the wider industry.\n\nThe Times quoted sources claiming a complaint was previously made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand.\n\nDuring the period in question, Brand worked for two years as a presenter on 6 Music and Radio 2, hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth on Channel 4's sister station E4, and launched his Hollywood movie career.\n\nOn Sunday, the Times published a first-hand account from the woman who accused Brand of rape in Los Angeles in 2012.\n\nIt later reported that since Saturday more women have come forward with allegations about Brand's behaviour, which have not yet been investigated but \"will now be rigorously checked\".\n\nEndemol, the company behind shows Brand appeared on in the mid-noughties such as Big Brother's Big Mouth, was bought by Banijay UK in 2020.\n\nIt said it was aware of the \"very serious allegations\" relating to the \"alleged serious misconduct of Russell Brand while presenting shows produced by Endemol\". It said it had launched an \"urgent\" internal investigation.\n\nChannel 4 said it had \"asked the production company who produced the programmes for Channel 4 to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us\".\n\nThe broadcaster added it was conducting its own internal investigation, and encouraged \"anyone who is aware of such behaviour to contact us directly.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We will be writing to all our current suppliers reminding them of their responsibilities under our code of conduct.\"\n\nThe broadcaster also confirmed to the Telegraph it had \"taken down all content featuring Russell Brand\" while it looked into the matter. \"This includes episodes of the Great British Bake Off that he appeared on.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it was \"aware of media reporting of a series of allegations of sexual assault\" but had not received any reports from alleged victims.\n\nIt added: \"We will be making further approaches to the Sunday Times and Channel 4 to ensure that any victims of crime who they have spoken with are aware of how they may report any criminal allegations to police.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) told the BBC the force had not been notified of any incidents, reports or allegations regarding Brand or any of the accusers.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said she could not immediately confirm the reports in the Times of an LAPD officer being alerted by a rape treatment centre in 2012 about one of the accusers being treated there following an incident with Brand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Questions for the industry - James Cleverly on Brand\n\nEarlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the entertainment industry had questions to answer over allegations against Brand.\n\nMr Cleverly told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that those in power must \"be better\" at listening to the voices of the \"relatively powerless\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there are some real challenges where you have these very, very acute differentials in power - whether that be in the entertainment industry, whether that be in politics, and we see this in the commercial world as well.\n\n\"I think we have to be particularly careful when we listen to the voices of the people who are relatively powerless because we, I think collectively, have missed opportunities to do the right thing and intervene much, much earlier, and we've got to be better at this.\"\n\nMPs are expected to push for answers from big institutions that were involved in Brand's career on the crucial questions of who knew what, and when.\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage, who chairs the House of Commons media committee, said: \"We will be closely monitoring the responses of the media, especially our public service broadcasters, to these allegations, and looking at the questions that this, yet again, raises about the culture in the industry as a whole.\"\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Trevi Women & Children's Charity said it had cut ties with the 48-year-old comedian and had been \"deeply saddened and upset\" following the allegations.\n\nAuthor Irvine Welsh, also speaking on Kuenssberg's programme, said the entertainment industry \"has to get its house in order so people do feel comfortable and it's an environment where they can come forward and can be listened to\".\n\nBut things have \"changed for the better\" in recent years since the start of the Me Too movement, he added.\n\nOther claims made in the investigation relate to Brand's allegedly controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.\n\nSunday Times media editor Rosamund Urwin, who worked on the story, told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House there were \"a lot of questions to be answered\" by TV companies.\n\nShe said: \"I think in the coming days we will see a lot more scrutiny, including in our paper, of who knew what when, and why on earth this man was continuing to go on Channel 4 shows as late as 2018/19 when there certainly were widespread rumours that would have at least needed investigating before you put him on your channel.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Brand went ahead with a scheduled comedy gig in north-west London, but did not address the allegations directly.\n\nThe previous evening, the star released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" that were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\" involving \"some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute\".\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous,\" he said.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A wreath was laid on top of the coffin during the 'wake' on Sunday\n\nProtesters held a 'wake' for the UK's largest fresh water lake, Lough Neagh, to highlight their fears that the lough is dying.\n\nCampaigners say pollution is killing the lake, with wildlife and birds suffering after blue-green algal blooms over the summer.\n\nLough Neagh supplies half of Belfast's drinking water and 40% of Northern Ireland's overall.\n\nSome angling groups have said pollution is putting livelihoods at risk.\n\nLough Neagh is also home to the largest commercial wild eel fishery in Europe.\n\nOn Sunday, more than 100 protesters - many dressed in black - accompanied a coffin along the lough shore to represent their concerns about the death of the lake.\n\nMary O'Hagan says her mental and physical health has suffered since she stopped swimming in Lough Neagh\n\nMary O'Hagan, founder of a swimming group which regularly uses the lough, said her health had suffered as a result of being unable to swim there.\n\n\"I had this wonderful community around me,\" she said.\n\n\"Everybody used that same coping mechanism of getting into the cold water and that has just been devastated by this.\n\n\"My pain is a lot worse, my medications have had to be increased and my mental health has suffered.\"\n\n\"This is the biggest Lough in Ireland and the UK and it's dying,\" says angler Gary Gregg\n\nAngler Gary Gregg said a plan to tackle the issue needed to be drawn up before it was too late.\n\n\"There needs to be a roadmap and it needs to be followed because we're not going to get anywhere, especially with Stormont not sitting,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just going to get worse and worse and we can't let that happen.\n\n\"This is the biggest lough in Ireland and the UK and it's dying.\"\n\nEarlier, speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, former agriculture and environment minister Edwin Poots said the algae was a \"very significant issue\".\n\n\"Lough Neagh is such an important water body, it provides 40% of Northern Ireland's drinking water.\n\n\"We have scientists and we need those scientists to report back to us on what we can do.\"\n\nMr Poots said the algae was largely caused by the invasive species of zebra mussels present in the lough.\n\n\"Once they get in you can't get rid of them... this may be a recurring problem, I'm not sure whether there's a scientific solution to it.\"\n\nPatsy McGlone, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) assembly member, said there had been an \"erosion of confidence in many cases about the water supply and concerns about it; smells, tastes and that\".\n\nMr McGlone called on NI Water to \"reassure the public about the quality of the water that's being consumed\".\n\nIn statement issued on Friday, NI Water said that \"increased levels of algae can cause an unusual taste and smell to water from your tap but does not pose a risk to health\".\n\nBlue-green algae has been found in waters in and around Northern Ireland over the summer\n\nThe statement also noted: \"Drinking water supplied from the water treatment works which use Lough Neagh as their raw water sources, are designed with the potential for algae to be present and robust treatment processes are in place to manage this effectively.\"\n\nThe blue-green algal bloom over the summer has caused havoc, not just in Lough Neagh but right up to Northern Ireland's north coast.\n\nSwimmers at Ballyronan on the edge of Lough Neagh were warned against entering the water in June\n\nWater from Lough Neagh flows down the River Bann and into the Atlantic Ocean at the Barmouth between Portstewart and Castlerock in County Londonderry.\n\nThat brought the algae to the coast, where it could not survive but caused a bathing ban on several beaches at the height of summer.\n\nThere were also bathing bans in areas around the lough.\n\nSome traders blamed the effect of those bans for putting them out of business.\n\nAnglers have been advised to \"catch and release\" fish that have been within Lough Neagh because of the risk the algae poses.\n\nThe bloom was the result of settled weather, invasive species and water pollution mostly due to agriculture.\n\nExcess fertiliser runs off from fields into the water, taking growth-stimulating nitrogen and phosphorus into the lough.\n\nLough Neagh is home to significant native species such as eel, trout and pollan\n\nAlmost two decades ago the zebra mussel invaded the lough.\n\nIt filters water, making it clearer and allowing the sun's light to penetrate deeper into the depths.\n\nThat, combined with the excess nutrients from fertiliser - eutrophication - caused the algae to \"bloom\" or grow rapidly.\n\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) has previously said that algae blooms can occur when there is abundant sunlight, still or slow-flowing water and sufficient levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.\n\nDaera told BBC News NI it had a range of programmes to improve water quality and was working with partners and stakeholders.", "Russell Brand - who has been accused of sexual assault by four women, a claim that he has denied on his many social media platforms - is a comedian and broadcaster who helped shape pop culture in the late noughties.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who was born in Essex, surged to fame as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, and went on to star in Hollywood films, marry and divorce one of the world's most famous pop stars and cause one of the biggest scandals in the BBC's history.\n\nOver the years, he developed a cult following for his views on politics and society, and more recently has dabbled in the world of conspiracy theories in videos posted on YouTube and Rumble.\n\nBut Brand started his career in entertainment as a stand-up comedian, performing at the Hackney Empire in 2000 and later the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nMuch of his content drew on personal experience - Brand has always been open about his use of illegal drugs and addiction to sex. He would later write about both in his autobiography My Booky Wook, and his experiences helped shape his political activism.\n\nIn the early part of his career, Brand hosted radio programmes on XFM and later BBC 6 Music, and went on tour with his stand-up shows, which saw him build a following on the comedy circuit.\n\nOnce of his earliest controversies came in 2001, when he was dismissed from his job as an MTV presenter for turning up to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden on 12 September - the day after the terror attacks on New York's twin towers.\n\nBrand's distinctive look in the late 2000s reflected a gothic aesthetic popular at the time\n\nBrand later admitted he was on crack and heroin at the time. But although stunts such as this attracted publicity, Brand was still not yet the household name he would become.\n\nThe turning point in Brand's career came in mid-2000s, when he hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth, the E4 companion show to the hugely popular reality series Big Brother.\n\nThe comic was in his element hosting the spin-off show, previously titled Big Brother's Eforum. Its format saw him bounce around the bright yellow studio interacting with special guests and members of the public, who would give opinions on the latest goings on in the Big Brother house.\n\nIt was an environment in which he thrived - his distinctive blend of charisma and humour on a fast-paced show putting him firmly on the radar. He was unique in the television landscape; the sheer force of his personality - and volume of his speaking voice - impossible to ignore.\n\nHis aesthetic - skinny jeans, dark clothing, big hair - reflected pop culture at the time. His gothic look was often compared with Amy Winehouse, the troubled singer who would die from alcohol poisoning in 2011.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career as a stand-up comedian before he became a TV presenter\n\nFrom the beginning, Brand's personality was not for everyone, and for every viewer who loved him, there was another who couldn't stand him. But his divisiveness only increased his cultural cachet.\n\nBig Brother's Big Mouth ultimately provided the springboard he was looking for - Brand went from being just one comic in a sea of thousands at Edinburgh to being the most sought-after presenter in the UK.\n\nIn the years that followed, he was courted for so many presenting gigs that it was hard to keep up. Brand hosted the NME, MTV and Brit awards ceremonies, was gifted his own debate series by E4, and fronted the UK leg of charity concert Live Earth.\n\nHe was also moved from BBC Radio 6 Music to the more mainstream Radio 2, to host a two-hour programme on Saturday evenings.\n\nBut phonecalls he made to the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs on the show in 2008 prompted a huge scandal - which came to be known as Sachsgate.\n\nBrand and Jonathan Ross left messages for Andrew Sachs which were later ruled to be \"grossly offensive\"\n\nSachs had been due to be interviewed by Brand on that night's pre-recorded show to promote a new TV series.\n\nBut when he failed to appear, Brand and Jonathan Ross, who was also a guest on that show, left an offensive voicemail message for the actor, in which Ross made clear that Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter.\n\nDuring the rest of the show, the pair made attempts to rectify the situation to comic effect, by leaving a series of further explicit voicemails which also mentioned the actor's granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.\n\nMore than 40,000 people complained after the broadcast was reported in the newspapers. The BBC Trust ruled the phonecalls were \"grossly offensive\" and the corporation was fined £150,000 by Ofcom.\n\nBrand left the station, Ross was suspended from the BBC for 12 weeks, and Radio 2's controller Lesley Douglas resigned.\n\nBrand was married to singer Katy Perry (pictured in 2011) for two years\n\nBut despite losing work with the BBC, Brand's profile continued to rise.\n\nBy now, he was developing his career as an actor and being cast in major films, including St Trinian's, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rock of Ages and a remake of Arthur co-starring Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nIn summer 2009, Brand met Katy Perry, one of the world's most successful pop stars, when she filmed a cameo for his film Get Him to the Greek.\n\nThe pair became engaged and were married the following year at a Hindu ceremony in India, but divorced two years later.\n\nMeanwhile, Brand was becoming just as well known for his political views as his work.\n\nHe guest edited an issue of the left-leaning current affairs magazine the New Statesman, appeared on Question Time opposite then-Ukip leader Nigel Farage, and was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.\n\nBrand told Paxman he did not vote in general elections \"out of weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations\", and encouraged viewers to abstain from voting too.\n\nIn 2012, Brand appeared at a Home Affairs select committee to discuss drug and alcohol addiction, although the jokes he cracked during the session attracted just as much publicity. One MP had to tell him the session was \"not a variety show\".\n\nHowever, he repeatedly declined to enter the political fray himself by running for parliament.\n\nInstead, arguing for alternative systems of government became one of his core principles. He complained about the limited choices for voters - although did briefly endorse Ed Miliband ahead of the 2015 general election.\n\nBrand has consistently attracted controversy, often at awards ceremonies - which provided the kind of live, anything-can-happen chaos in which Brand was most at home.\n\nAfter Bob Geldof insulted him at the NME Awards in 2006, Brand retaliated by saying the musician and campaigner was only an expert on famine because he had \"been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years\".\n\nTwo years later, while hosting the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, Brand told the American audience that then-US president George W Bush \"wouldn't be trusted with scissors\" in the UK.\n\nAnd in 2013, he was ejected from the GQ Awards after he criticised the event's sponsor Hugo Boss for its history making uniforms for the Nazis.\n\nBrand returned to radio in 2017 with a new weekend show on Radio X, formerly XFM. However, the show lasted less than a year.\n\nBrand addressed demonstrators protesting against austerity in London in 2015\n\nAfter the success of his first autobiography, Brand went on to publish a second - Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal - as well as further books about politics and his recovery from addiction.\n\nRecent years have seen him take a new direction - particularly since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Brand grew his following on YouTube as he discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the disease.\n\nStepping away from the directors and production teams of his TV and movie career, Brand's videos generally show him speaking directly to the camera in a single take, using his notable range of verbal dexterity to challenge the mainstream reporting of a range of subjects - and has also established himself as a wellness guru.\n\nHe now commands a following of four million on Instagram, 2.2 million on TikTok and 6.59 million on YouTube, for his near daily polemics on a range of subjects - with video titles including Do These Emails Prove Biden Is Corrupt And Lying?, What REALLY Started The Hawaii Fires? and THIS is How Gender Norms Are Affecting Men.\n\nWhen one of his Covid videos was removed for breaking rules around misinformation, he launched a daily live show on a new platform, Rumble, titled Stay Free with Russell Brand.", "Russell Brand has said his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003 in the wake of media allegations about Russell Brand.\n\nOfficers did not name Brand, but said they were in contact with the woman and were \"providing her with support\".\n\nOver the weekend the comedian and actor was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nFollowing the allegations, upcoming shows on Brand's live tour have been postponed, the promoter confirmed.\n\nOn Monday one of the women whose allegations against Brand were part of the investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches told the BBC the comedian's behaviour had been an \"open secret\", and described his denials as \"laughable\".\n\nIn a statement the Met said it was aware of the media allegations and continued: \"On Sunday, 17 September, the Met received a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.\"\n\nThe force first spoke to the Sunday Times on Saturday, it said, and has since made further approaches to the newspaper and Channel 4 to ensure anyone who believes they are a victim of a sexual offence \"no matter how long ago it was\" knows how to report it to the police.\n\nThe force has not said they have begun a criminal investigation or that any arrests have been made.\n\nBrand posted a video several days ago on YouTube denying the allegations\n\nThe BBC has contacted Brand's representatives for comment.\n\nHe has denied all claims of misconduct, saying he is the subject of \"a coordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\"\n\nThe former TV and radio presenter, who now posts videos online about spirituality and politics, said his relationships have been \"always consensual\". On Monday, Brand did not appear for his regular livestream on video platform Rumble.\n\nBrand was due to perform his stage show, Bipolarisation, in Windsor on Tuesday but its promoters said it had been postponed.\n\n\"We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don't like doing it - but we know you'll understand,\" they said in a statement.\n\nTheatre Royal Windsor said it would be offering ticket refunds. Brand's show in Plymouth on Friday and a show in Wolverhampton on 28 September have also been postponed.\n\nHe last performed his show on Saturday night at Wembley Park Theatre in London, where he told the crowd \"there are obviously some things I cannot talk about and I appreciate you understand\".\n\nDuring the time of the alleged sexual assaults by four women reported by Dispatches and the Times, Brand had been working for the BBC, Channel 4 and Endemol, now acquired by Banijay. On Sunday each announced they had launched investigations of their own.\n\nThe Times said it has received more allegations since the investigation was revealed, but is yet to verify them.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman described the allegations against Brand as \"very serious\", saying \"there should never be any space for harassment\", while Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said she would speak to broadcasters about their investigations into him.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Brand's publisher, Bluebird, said it was \"pausing\" all future projects with him.\n\nA best-selling author since publishing his first autobiography in 2007, Brand has been working with Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird since 2017.\n\nHe was working on another book that was scheduled for publication this December.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the women who has accused the entertainer of sexual assault when she was 16 told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour on Monday that the allegations against him had been \"a long time coming\".\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the accusations became public, the woman, known as Alice, said his denial was \"laughable\" and \"insulting\".\n\n\"It feels quite honestly surreal at the moment to see my story everywhere and even elements of my story on the front pages of publications that I hadn't spoken to,\" she told BBC presenter Emma Barnett.\n\n\"And it feels like it was a long time in the coming.\"\n\nAlice went on to say her mother did everything in her power to warn her daughter, then still at school, off the entertainer, then in his 30s.\n\n\"She followed all those motherly impulses. She took my phone away. She grounded me... she would try to keep me confined to the house,\" she explained.\n\nShe also told Woman's Hour she was picked up at a school by a BBC chauffeur-driven car and taken to Brand's home. The BBC has not directly responded to this claim.\n\nAlice said she felt she had been \"groomed\" and felt \"cheapened\", developed an eating disorder and that her experience had affected her future relationships.\n\n\"It's the biggest open secret going - you don't have to be an investigative journalist to have conversations with somebody who has an awful experience with him or somebody knows something.\"\n\nShe is now calling for an introduction of legal \"staggered ages of consent\", suggesting people over 18 should not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.", "A judge described Barry Bennell as \"the devil incarnate\"\n\nPaedophile former football coach Barry Bennell has died in prison aged 69.\n\nBennell, also known as Richard Jones, was jailed for 30 years in 2018 after being convicted of 50 child sexual offences against 12 boys.\n\nThe former Crewe Alexandra coach and Manchester City scout abused boys in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.\n\nOne of his victims said he hoped Bennell's last 10 years had been as \"difficult as possible\".\n\nHe died at HMP Littlehey, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday, the Prison Service said.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate.\"\n\nBennell was being treated for cancer for a number of years and had operations to remove tumours from his tongue in 2004 and 2016, although he was said to be in remission in 2020.\n\nHis cause of death has not been disclosed.\n\nDavid Lean, who was abused by Bennell after meeting him at Butlin's holiday park in Pwllheli, north Wales, said he was \"glad\" to hear of his death.He said: \"It's sort of happened in the way I wanted it to happen because I wanted him to go to prison for a period of time.\"I just hope that last 10 years has been as difficult as possible.\"Mr Lean, 56, a counsellor, said: \"I appreciate he's got children - and ultimately my thoughts are with his children today - but my thoughts are also with the many survivors because of the pain he has put everybody through.\"\n\nWhen he was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in 2018, Recorder of Liverpool Judge Clement Goldstone QC said he \"may well die in prison\".\n\nHis final prison sentence, in 2020, was the fifth time he had been jailed.\n\nAt that hearing, the court was told he had a detached retina after being attacked in prison and was in remission from cancer.\n\nBennell was first jailed in Florida in 1994 for raping a British boy on a football tour in America, before going on to face prison sentences in Britain in 1998, 2015, 2018 and 2020.\n\nFollowing his convictions in 2018, more than 80 other alleged victims came forward to report abuse.\n\nAt his sentencing hearing in 2020, Owen Edwards, prosecuting, said the case would be the final prosecution after a decision was made to proceed only with cases involving the most serious offences.\n\nHe said Bennell was responsible for \"industrial sexual abuse of boys\", as well as being instrumental in forging the careers of several international footballers.\n\nIn court during his 2018 trial, Bennell's victims told how he had a \"power hold\" over them as they dreamed of becoming professional footballers.\n\nHe was said to have been treated like \"God\" at Manchester City's Maine Road ground.\n\nBennell abused the boys at his homes, where he had arcade games and exotic pets including a puma and a monkey, but also on trips away and in his car while on the way to and from training.\n\nIn a statement, The Offside Trust, an organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse in sport, said: \"We are thinking of all the brave survivors, those who felt they could speak out, and those who still cannot.\n\n\"We understand the issues this may trigger for survivors and are here for everyone should they need us, please don't suffer in silence.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councillor John Cotton said the council was talking to unions about a new job evaluation scheme\n\nBirmingham City Council is braced for intervention by the government after effectively declaring itself bankrupt.\n\nIt is thought commissioners could be sent in to run the authority this week and the BBC has been told a statement is due in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nA minister from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is expected to set out the first steps in the process.\n\nThe council is facing the prospect of a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.\n\nTwo weeks ago it warned that bill was increasing by £5m to £14m each month.\n\nEx-worker and pay claimant Sally Maybury questioned why the local authority had not acted sooner.\n\nThe council filed a section 114 notice earlier this month, which means it is effectively bankrupt and has halted all but essential spending.\n\nThe authority needs to settle the multimillion-pound bill, having already paid out more than £1bn in compensation to underpaid, mainly female workers who missed out on bonuses given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles.\n\nRachel Fagan, from the GMB union, said on Monday the union had just been notified of a tribunal date next year for the latest claims and was now consulting with members across the council about how they felt about equal pay and what they wished to do next.\n\nSally Maybury questioned why the council had not acted sooner to settle claims\n\nCouncil leader John Cotton apologised to the people of the city over the weekend and insisted he had \"no prior notice\" of its \"bankruptcy\" crisis.\n\nHe said he had met Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove last week to discuss support, amid reports Mr Gove is set to announce plans to appoint commissioners to take over the day-to-day running of the Labour-led authority.\n\nBirmingham City Council declined to comment on the reports.\n\nThe BBC understands council staff were sent an email on Monday regarding media coverage.\n\nIt assured staff the council was in constant discussions with the department and they would be informed about an update when there was one.\n\nMs Maybury worked for the authority for 22 years and supported people accessing benefits. She has already received two payouts for claims made in 2012, when she was one of 174 people who took on the council.\n\nShe began a third claim in November 2021 when the GMB informed her she was entitled to, as bin workers had received payments other employees had not.\n\nShe worked part-time but said she believed full-time workers would be entitled to about £18,000 each.\n\n\"It's quite a large sum of money so... I'd like to get whatever I'm entitled to, so along with about 3,000 other GMB workers I put in for an equal pay claim,\" she said.\n\nShe said she felt the council seemed to treat women \"as not worth as much money as men\".\n\n\"I was a single parent with three children claiming tax credits and all the time, you know, you were worried about money.\"\n\nShe said through her job she had encountered quite a few council workers applying for council tax reductions because their salaries were not keeping up with the cost of living.\n\nSeeing the council in such a difficult financial state now made her feel very sorry for the workers, she said, but hoped the situation could be resolved.\n\nRachel Fagan, from the GMB, said the union had been notified of a date for a tribunal hearing next year\n\n\"Why did they not see this coming for a third time?,\" she added.\n\nMs Fagan said female council workers \"have had enough and they want to fight for equal pay and for pay justice and I think they'll show Birmingham City Council that they want to get this issue fixed\".\n\nShe said the situation for female members who had missed out on parity around their pay was becoming desperate.\n\n\"I've been going around schools the past couple of weeks speaking to members about how this is affecting them directly and these women and their families are going without things because they're not being paid the correct wages,\" she said.\n\nThe council has a new job evaluation scheme for staff and wanted to discuss it with all unions linked to the council by 12 September, but Ms Fagan said the GMB was not being difficult in not coming to the table to meet officials.\n\n\"We're constantly in communication with Birmingham - in fact it's the other way round,\" she said.\n\n\"They're failing to talk to the unions and to talk to the GMB about equal pay and pay justice and about how we solve this problem and get it fixed.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Politics Midlands programme, Mr Cotton said the council had been working with unions to develop the new scheme but said there was \"clearly further discussion that needs to be had to ensure we've got the most robust model in place\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jimmy Fallon has apologised to staff at NBC's Tonight Show following allegations that he had created a toxic work environment.\n\n\"I feel so bad I can't even tell you,\" he told staff on a Zoom call, according to Rolling Stone magazine.\n\nIt follows an investigation by the magazine which exposed damaging allegations from 16 of the US TV show's current and former staff.\n\nThey told Rolling Stone that for years they felt belittled and intimidated.\n\nThey described Fallon's behaviour as \"erratic\" - depending on whether he was a having a \"good Jimmy day\" or a \"bad Jimmy day\".\n\nThey said they were subject to angry \"outbursts\".\n\nAccording to Rolling Stone's original story which revealed the allegations, the guests' dressing rooms were referred to as \"crying rooms\".\n\n\"Writing for late night is a lot of people's dream jobs, and they're coming into this and it becomes a nightmare very quickly,\" an anonymous person told the magazine.\n\nFor those who had concerns and expressed them to human resources, the issues remained unresolved, the magazine reported.\n\nAll of the current and former staff who spoke to Rolling Stone requested anonymity \"out of fear of retaliation\".\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for NBC wrote: \"We are incredibly proud of The Tonight Show, and providing a respectful working environment is a top priority... As in any workplace, we have had employees raise issues; those have been investigated and action has been taken where appropriate.\"\n\nAfter the Rolling Stone investigation, Fallon reportedly told the show's staff: \"It's embarrassing and I feel so bad.\n\n\"Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends.\"\n\nHowever, some current employees of the show have come to Fallon's defence.\n\nOne told People magazine that Fallon was \"a really, really positive guy\".\n\n\"He makes a point of commending you when you do a great job and when he's happy,\" said the employee, who also requested to remain anonymous. \"I've never been belittled, yelled at, nothing like that.\"\n\n\"I'm really happy to work there right now,\" another employee, who said they had not heard of \"crying rooms\", told People.\n\nThe Tonight Show has had nine different showrunners - top-level TV producers - since Fallon took over as the show's host in 2014.\n\nIn its debut with Fallon, the show had over 11 million viewers.\n\nPrior to The Tonight Show, Fallon built his reputation in comedy as the host of NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.", "Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty were greeted at Indira Gandhi International Airport\n\nRishi Sunak has arrived in Delhi for the G20 summit - a meeting of leaders from the 19 biggest economies in the world plus the European Union.\n\nHe becomes the first prime minister of Indian heritage to visit the country.\n\nNo 10 say the \"historic\" visit will be \"a powerful reminder of the living bridge between the two countries\".\n\nMr Sunak is accompanied by his wife Akshata Murty, who was born and grew up in India and is the daughter of one of India's richest men.\n\nThe G20 is something of a diplomatic blancmange. Many of the members of it have very little in common beyond big economies.\n\nBut that is the point of it - bringing together those countries that are the engine room of the global economy.\n\nThe G20 is a child of the 21st Century - conceived in 1999 and growing in stature after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nIt means the discussions within it are often very broad. But the get-together also gives the chance for leaders to meet one on one, in what are known as \"bilaterals\".\n\nSpeaking on the way to the summit, Mr Sunak said he was \"excited to be back\" in India, calling it \"a country that is very near and dear to me\".\n\nHe said: \"It's obviously special. I saw somewhere that I was referred to as India's son-in-law, which I hope was meant affectionately!\"\n\nRishi Sunak spoke to reporters while travelling to Delhi\n\nTwo of the most powerful men in the world were on the guest list, but aren't turning up.\n\nRussia's President Vladimir Putin will be missing, for the second year in a row.\n\n\"Once again, Vladimir Putin is failing to show his face at the G20,\" the prime minister said.\n\n\"He is the architect of his own diplomatic exile, isolating himself in his presidential palace and blocking out criticism and reality.\n\n\"The rest of the G20, meanwhile, are demonstrating that we will turn up and work together to pick up the pieces of Putin's destruction.\"\n\nBut it is more complex than that.\n\nPresident Xi of China isn't coming either. And some G20 members are a lot less committed than others to Ukraine.\n\nThe hosts, India, for a start, continue to buy lots of oil from Russia.\n\nThe PM refused to say whether he was planning to meet Chinese premier Li Qiang during the summit.\n\nHe told reporters on the flight he was \"expecting to see a range of people… over the course of the couple of days we're all there\" but refused to say whether he would meet face to face.\n\nThe prime minister will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where it is likely they will talk about a UK-India free trade agreement.\n\nThere is increasing optimism a deal can be reached soon.\n\nIndia's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she hoped it would be done before the end of the year.\n\nDowning Street has refused to be drawn on a timescale and Mr Sunak said a deal was \"is not a given\".\n\nHis predecessor-but-one former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had said in 2022 that he wanted a \"deal by Divali\", but Mr Sunak said: \"These things are a lot of work and a lot of time - that's why I've never put artificial deadlines on these trade deals.\n\n\"I've always said we shouldn't sacrifice quality for speed.\"\n\nIndia's desire for visas with more flexibility has long been seen as a potential sticking point in the negotiations.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman told us: \"This is a trade deal which is focused on trade and business - immigration is a separate issue.\n\n\"The only aspect of the movement of people covered by a free trade agreement is business mobility, which is the temporary movement of business people for specific purposes.\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the Conservatives had said the trade deal \"would be completed by last October\" and claimed Mr Sunak \"arrives at the G20 as a minnow on the global stage\".\n\nAhead of his trip, the PM came under pressure from MPs to raise the case of British man Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been in prison, on death row, in India.\n\nMr Sunak twice refused to commit to raising the issue with Prime Minister Modi.\n\nBut for all the politics, and diplomacy, the early focus of this trip will be pictorial, symbolic and drenched in history - a British prime minister visiting a former British colony.\n\nA British prime minister of Indian heritage, as India hosts the world - or at least a huge economic chunk of it.", "Blue Gem says the money offered by the UK government does not take into account rising inflation and its impact on building costs\n\nPlans for Wales' first floating wind farm will be delayed by one year as UK government funding is too low, the firm behind the plans says.\n\nBlue Gem Wind did not bid for a UK government contract, a decision which industry voices said was a \"huge wake-up call\" for Westminster.\n\nIt was claimed that the Erebus offshore wind farm could establish an industry that creates up to 10,000 jobs.\n\nThe UK government said inflation had \"presented challenges\".\n\nThe UK government's annual auction invites companies to bid to develop renewable energy projects and contracts to supply the UK grid with electricity.\n\nThe contracts offered involve a set price for the electricity generated, sometimes referred to as an energy tariff.\n\nThe scheme aims to offer contracts on a 15-year term to stabilise traditionally volatile energy prices, while allowing developers to secure the financing and private investment they need to build the projects.\n\nBut Blue Gem Wind said a huge increase in costs meant the money on offer was not enough to make it worthwhile to bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nErebus, which is planned to be located 40km (25 miles) off the coast of Pembrokeshire, forms a central plank of the Welsh government's renewable energy targets.\n\nA Blue Gem Wind spokesperson said: \"Well-known global factors that have significantly increased supply chain costs in the last 18 months, combined with deploying floating technology in a region that has not previously supported offshore wind, have created a challenging environment.\"\n\nThe company said it was still hopeful that it could press ahead with the plans.\n\n\"A potential delivery strategy for Erebus is currently being developed which will have to fully consider future plans,\" the firm said, adding that it would continue to work with the UK government.\n\nThe UK government said the lack of bids for new offshore wind projects was \"in line with similar results in countries including Germany and Spain\" and that it was a result of \"the global rise in inflation and the impact on supply chains which presented challenges for projects participating in this round\".\n\n\"However, the industry remains a British success story, with the government committed to its ambition of securing 50GW of offshore wind capacity and 5GW of floating offshore wind by 2030,\" the UK government spokesperson added.\n\nThe industry body RenewableUK Cymru said it was \"incredibly disappointed\" at the news and said the industry had warned the government that the price being offered was not good enough.\n\nDirector of RenewableUK Cymru Jess Hooper said Erebus was \"critically important not only to Wales and the wider South West region, but also for the UK government's own floating offshore wind targets\".\n\nErebus would be the third floating offshore wind farm in the UK, but the estimated 100 megawatts of energy which could be generated by the project is more than double the others.\n\nWhile traditional offshore wind turbines are built into the sea bed with fixed foundations, floating turbines sit on large floating steel structures which are then tethered to the seabed.\n\nThis allows the turbines to be placed further out at sea in locations with higher winds.\n\nFour small-scale tidal energy projects on Anglesey have been given the go-ahead\n\nWhile there are now big questions about offshore wind, there is some good news for Wales about another burgeoning technology - tidal stream.\n\nFour small-scale projects on Anglesey have been given the go-ahead to install this new technology, which produces energy from tidal currents.\n\nTidal stream is predictable and consistent and already provides energy to the grid in other parts of the UK.\n\nIt is hoped that the four projects on Anglesey - whilst on a significantly smaller scale than Erebus - will lead to larger projects and, in turn, economic and environmental benefits.\n• None Department for Energy Security and Net Zero The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sam Eljamel was the head of the neurosurgery department in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee\n\nA public inquiry will be held into the disgraced brain surgeon Sam Eljamel, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nEljamel harmed dozens of patients at NHS Tayside, leaving some with life-changing injuries.\n\nHe was head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee until December 2013, when he was suspended.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson said he was persuaded of the need for the inquiry after reading a damning due diligence review into NHS Tayside.\n\nIt follows a long-running campaign which saw almost 150 former patients of the surgeon calling for the inquiry.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions, Humza Yousaf said the decision was taken after \"very careful consideration\" of the \"extremely disturbing\" findings of a due diligence review into NHS Tayside.\n\nIt found that concerns about Eljamel were not acted upon with the urgency they deserved.\n\nMr Matheson told MSPs he had been unconvinced of the need for a public inquiry until he read that report.\n\nHe said it had revealed significant information that had not previously been known by the Scottish government, despite eight reviews since 2018.\n\n\"That raised serious concerns for me on the openness and the transparency there has been to date from NHS Tayside,\" he added.\n\nMr Matheson said he had concluded that a public inquiry was \"the only route to get to the bottom of who knew what and when, and what contributed to the failures described by NHS Tayside\".\n\nThe health secretary said he also wanted to see individual cases reviewed independently of NHS Tayside in a \"person-centred, trauma-informed\" manner.\n\nA rally calling for a public inquiry was held outside Holyrood on Wednesday\n\nThere have been mounting calls for a public inquiry since BBC Scotland's Disclosure programme discovered in 2018 that dozens of people claimed to have been harmed by the surgeon.\n\nA report published last week criticised NHS Tayside managers for putting the doctor under indirect supervision in June 2013, rather than suspending him.\n\nIt meant he was allowed to continue operating until he was suspended in December that year.\n\nJules Rose, a former patient of Eljamel who has become a leading campaigner for an inquiry, met with ministers ahead of the statement to parliament.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely delighted\" with the decision but would reserve final judgement until the terms of reference were made clear.\n\nMs Rose had a tear gland removed instead of brain tumour in August 2013. Eljamel performed a second operation on her on 9 December that year.\n\nJules Rose said she was delighted with the decision to hold a public inquiry\n\nShe said she believed she was the only patient to be operated on by Eljamel twice during the six month period when he should have been suspended.\n\nBecoming emotional, she told BBC Scotland News: \"Ironic, because as you can see, I can only cry from one eye.\n\n\"He removed the wrong part of my body and I don't know why. Only he can answer that. But I've accepted I will never get that answer.\n\n\"But I will get the answers now through a public inquiry - why Tayside allowed this butcher surgeon to commit the harm that he did to myself and the names of 150 other patients that I have.\"\n\nFor Jules Rose, this announcement is a decade in the making. For many of the other 150 patients calling for a public inquiry it goes back even further.\n\nFive years ago our investigation into Eljamel revealed for the first time exactly how much the health board knew and when and how long they allowed their head of neurosurgery to carry on operating and harming patients.\n\nIt led to the police investigation into the surgeon. And that is still ongoing. Years of further revelations by us and others and campaigning by patients like Jules and MSPs like Liz Smith, has led to this moment.\n\nEarlier this year, Health Secretary Michael Matheson was adamant there would be no public inquiry and instead announced an independent review. The patients unanimously rejected that.\n\nThen in June we published a story about NHS whistleblowers saying the board knew even earlier that there were serious concerns about the surgeon.\n\nIt seems the steady drip of revelations and last week's report by the health board itself has left ministers with little other choice than a full public inquiry.\n\nAt Holyrood, tributes were paid to the campaigners including Ms Rose and Patrick Kelly, who found out years after a spine operation by Eljamel that the intended surgery had not been carried out.\n\nLabour MSP Michael Marra said the announcement should have come sooner. He told Mr Yousaf the inquiry had been \"wrung out of the government like blood from a stone\" by victims of botched surgeries.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"Professor Eljamel is responsible for his despicable actions but where there are systematic failings then they must absolutely be interrogated and lessons must be learned.\"\n\nHe added that it was to the \"credit of the brave patients\" that the inquiry was being set up.\n\nLiz Smith, a Scottish Conservative MSP, said the stories of Eljamel's patients were \"some of the most harrowing\" she had ever heard.\n\n\"His patients have suffered permanent medical and psychological pain and their attempts to get the whole truth have been rejected at every turn,\" she said.\n\nMs Smith called for a victims support fund for the patients and added: \"This public inquiry should be set up without delay and it must deliver all the answers Eljamel's victims have sought for years.\n\n\"Nothing less will be acceptable.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat MSP Willie Rennie said: \"The Cabinet Secretary has made the right decision today, but I am afraid that it has taken far too long.\n\n\"Patients have suffered both physically and mentally throughout all of this. As time has gone on, they have become increasingly angry; faith and trust have completely broken down.\n\nIt is understood that Eljamel now works as a surgeon in Libya.", "S Club, formerly known as S Club 7, had hits such as Reach and Don't Stop Movin'\n\nPop group S Club have joined forces with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to raise awareness and research funds for heart conditions, following the death of band member Paul Cattermole.\n\nThe singer died in April aged 46 from an underlying heart condition, weeks after they announced a comeback tour.\n\nIn his memory, the returning group will now promote the BHF's Spotlight On campaign at their gigs.\n\nThey said if they can \"help save one life\" it will have been worth it.\n\nThe band are encouraging fans to raise awareness with the hand-heart gesture [as shown in the above picture] as well as by using the hashtag #showyourhearts.\n\nSinger Bradley McIntosh told BBC Breakfast: \"If we can help save one life doing this we'll have made a massive difference.\n\n\"So just by raising awareness and being here today, I think we'll do a good contribution to this cause.\"\n\nFellow singer Rachel Stevens noted how there had been \"no signs\" that Cattermole was unwell.\n\nJon Lee from the group described his death as a \"massive loss\", stressing how he had been \"like a big brother\" to him during the band days. \"That's why this campaign is so important to try and raise awareness about underlying conditions,\" he said. \"And Paul was 46, you know\".\n\n\"You always associate heart [conditions] and things like that with older people, you don't think it's going to happen to people that are so young,\" added bandmate Jo O'Meara. \"And since we lost Paul we're hearing so many stories of so many young people that are passing away of this.\n\n\"So for us to be able to jump on board and be a part of this absolutely incredible campaign is so important.\"\n\nO'Meara went on to say how excited Cattermole had been about the upcoming reunion and how much of a shock it had been to them all when he died.\n\n\"I think it was just a complete and utter shock to be honest, because we just had no idea that Paul had a heart condition,\" she said.\n\n\"So obviously to find out that we'd lost him, it took us quite a long time to process the whole thing.\"\n\n\"It's been a really, really tough few months.\"\n\n\"How do you process that news?\" asked Stevens. \"But what was really special is that we had time afterwards to really take the time to just chat and share memories,\" she continued.\n\nAn early shot of S Club 7: (L-R) Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee, Jo O'Meara, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Bradley McIntosh and Tina Barrett\n\nThe BHF is urging people to shine a spotlight on heart and circulatory diseases and raise funds for research, noting how such conditions can often go undiagnosed for too long, until problems occur or it's too late.\n\nChief executive of the charity, Dr Charmaine Griffiths, said it \"happens far too often\" that \"families are robbed of a loved one far too early\".\n\n\"Every two hours, someone under 50 dies of heart and circulatory disease, which is why it's so important and [why] we're so grateful and honoured to be partnering with S Club to raise awareness of these conditions.\"\n\nShe continued: \"Heart and circulatory diseases affect one in two of us in our lifetimes, and that happens at all ages. The more we can do to be aware of that and to look after our hearts, the better it will be.\"\n\nFormed by Simon Fuller, S Club 7, as they were originally called, were one of the UK's biggest pop bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s, before disbanding in 2003.\n\nThey were known for catchy and inoffensive hits such as Reach, Don't Stop Movin', Bring It All Back and Never Had A Dream Come True.\n\nIn July, they released a tribute single to Cattermole entitled These Are The Days, which they'll perform on their previously announced 25th anniversary tour of UK and Ireland, which begins in Manchester next month.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Stevens confirmed the tour would now be \"a tribute to Paul\" with the first show being \"dedicated to the British Heart Foundation\".\n\nHannah Spearritt has said she will now not be joining the tour so the group has since rebranded to the five-piece S Club - with Stevens, McIntosh, O'Meara, Lee and Tina Barrett.", "Today's release of the full Georgia grand jury report threw some names into the spotlight who likely would have preferred to have stayed out of it.\n\nThe new report gave us fresh insights into the scale of the Georgia investigation into alleged interference in the 2020 election, which resulted in former president Donald Trump's indictment.\n\nWe now know the grand jury recommended criminal charges against a total of 39 people.\n\nBut it was only 19 people, including Trump, who were later charged.\n\nToday was the first time we learned the names of those who were not indicted.\n\nIt's a complex topic, so we have pulled together the key takeaways from today's report for you to read here.\n\nOur writers have been Brandon Drendon, Bernd Debusmann Jr and Emily Atkinson, with analysis from Anthony Zurcher.\n\nThis page was edited by Marianna Brady and myself.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a \"major act of war\".\n\nKyiv had sent an emergency request to activate Starlink to Sevastopol, home to a major Russian navy port, he said.\n\nHis comments came after a book alleged he had switched off Starlink to thwart a drone attack on Russian ships.\n\nA senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accused him of \"committing evil\".\n\nRussian naval vessels had since taken part in deadly attacks on civilians, he said.\n\n\"By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via Starlink interference, Elon Musk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,\" he said.\n\n\"Why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?\" he added.\n\nThe row follows the release of a biography of the billionaire by Walter Isaacson which alleges that Mr Musk switched off Ukraine's access to Starlink because he feared that an ambush of Russia's naval fleet in Crimea could provoke a nuclear response from the Kremlin.\n\nUkraine targeted Russian ships in Sevastopol with submarine drones carrying explosives but they lost connection to Starlink and \"washed ashore harmlessly\", Mr Isaacson wrote.\n\nStarlink terminals connect to SpaceX satellites in orbit and have been crucial for maintaining internet connectivity and communication in Ukraine as the conflict has disrupted the country infrastructure.\n\nSpaceX, in which Mr Musk is the largest shareholder, began providing thousands of Starlink satellite dishes to Ukraine shortly after Russia launched its full-scale assault on its neighbour in February last year.\n\nResponding to the book's claim, Mr Musk said on X that SpaceX \"did not deactivate anything\" because it had not been activated in those regions in the first place.\n\n\"There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,\" he said.\n\n\"If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.\"\n\nDmitry Medvedev, Russia's former prime minister, tweeted: \"If what Isaacson has written in his book is true, then it looks like Musk is the last adequate mind in North America.\"\n\nRussia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, eight years before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIn the past, Mr Musk has said that while the system had \"become the connectivity backbone of Ukraine all the way up to the front lines\", \"we are not allowing Starlink to be used for long-range drone strikes\".\n\nMr Musk reiterated the point to Mr Isaacson, asking: \"How am I in this war? Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.\"\n\nHe also offered a personal opinion, calling for a truce and saying that Ukrainians and Russians were dying \"to gain and lose small pieces of land\" and this was not worth their lives.\n\nHe provoked anger last year when he proposed a plan to end the war which suggested the world formally recognise Crimea as part of Russia and asking residents of regions seized by Russia last year to vote on which country they wanted to be part of.", "Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi led Soul Survivor Church in Watford, as well as a national Christian youth festival\n\nA church leader massaged young male interns and wrestled youths as he used his \"spiritual authority to control people\", an investigation has found.\n\nThe former Rev Canon Mike Pilavachi led Soul Survivor Church in Watford as well as a national Christian youth festival.\n\nA Church of England probe found he displayed coercive and controlling behaviour at the church and had inappropriate relationships.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to reach Mr Pilavachi for comment.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans and Soul Survivor Church have apologised to victims.\n\nHertfordshire Police said there was currently no ongoing investigation into Mr Pilavachi, who resigned in July.\n\nThe Church of England investigation was conducted by the National Safeguarding Team (NST) and the diocese of St Albans.\n\nIt concluded that \"safeguarding concerns\" raised about him were \"substantiated\".\n\nMr Pilavachi preached at the Soul Survivor Church in Watford, Hertfordshire\n\nA report said those concerns related to conduct in his leadership and ministry, both before and after he was ordained in 2012, spanning 40 years from his time as a youth leader to the present day.\n\nIt said: \"The overall substantiated concerns are described as an abuse of power relating to his ministry, and spiritual abuse; described in guidance as 'a form of emotional and psychological abuse characterised by a systematic pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour in a religious context'.\n\n\"It was concluded that he used his spiritual authority to control people and that his coercive and controlling behaviour led to inappropriate relationships, the physical wrestling of youths and massaging of young male interns.\"\n\nBecause Mr Pilavachi had resigned from his role at Soul Survivor and resigned his licence to the Bishop of St Albans, he \"therefore cannot currently minister in the Church of England\", it added.\n\nIt further said: \"The National Safeguarding Team has been granted permission to take out a complaint under the Clergy Discipline Measure against Mike Pilavachi, relating to a safeguarding concern post-ordination.\"\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, said: \"This has been a painful process for everyone involved, going back over years.\n\n\"I am sorry on behalf of the Church for the hurt caused and would like to acknowledge the courage of those who came forward to share their lived experience.\n\n\"I am aware there will be further contact with individuals about a more personalised response.\"\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, described those who came forward with concerns as \"courageous\"\n\nIn a statement released by Soul Survivor, it said: \"We are deeply sorry to all those people who have been victims of spiritual, emotional and psychological abuse, physical wrestling and massage under Mike's leadership.\n\n\"There has been a systematic pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour. We are saddened that these behaviours happened in a context that should have provided safety and spiritual support.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We are aware of the hurt many individuals have and continue to experience as a result of Mike's abuse and are truly sorry for the part Soul Survivor has played.\n\n\"We have been working with the NST to provide counselling and advocacy support to the individuals they have identified as finding it most beneficial. We remain committed to ensuring our church is safe and welcoming for all.\"\n\nSole Survivor had commissioned Fiona Scolding KC to lead \"a full and independent review\", it said.\n\nAnother member of the clergy at Soul Survivor, Senior Pastor Revd Andy Croft, remained suspended as part of the safeguarding investigation.\n\nConcerns raised about a second pastor, Ali Martin, who was also suspended, had not been substantiated, Soul Survivor said.\n\n\"Ali's suspension will therefore be lifted and she will be reintegrating back into her role over the coming weeks,\" a church spokesperson added.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "Conductor Donald Dinnie with partner Trish Ewen, who said her life had been turned upside down\n\nA passenger who survived a fatal rail crash near Stonehaven has described the moment that the train derailed - and paid tribute to the conductor who was among the victims.\n\nThe 32-year-old woman, who wants to remain anonymous, suffered serious face and shoulder injuries after being thrown across the carriage and out of a window.\n\nShe said conductor Donald Dinnie had been a \"genuinely nice man\" and expressed her shock at his death.\n\n\"I couldn't understand how Donald was standing talking to me one minute and gone the next,\" she said.\n\nDonald's partner, Trish Ewen, has also told how her life was turned upside down after his death.\n\nThe two women spoke out as Network Rail admitted a series of health and safety failings which led to the death of three people in the crash.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, were also killed when the train hit a landslide in August 2020 after heavy rain.\n\nThe 32-year-old passenger, from the Stonehaven area, said she had not realised what was happening until just before impact.\n\n\"The first time I realised there was an issue was when the movement on the train felt weird. It just didn't feel typical, it was like floating or sliding, like when you aquaplane in a car,\" she said.\n\n\"There was a strange noise like metal dragging along metal. I will never forget that noise.\n\n\"I looked up at that moment and almost immediately I was thrown across the carriage.\n\n\"I hit the window head on and I was knocked out.\"\n\nThe next thing she remembers is waking up at the side of the railway line and seeing the train behind her.\n\nThe derailment happened near Stonehaven in August 2020\n\n\"The carriage directly behind me was laying across the rail track, crushed under another carriage. I later found out that the crushed carriage was the one that I had been ejected from.\n\n\"I could see a fire and smell smoke. I became aware very quickly that I was hurt.\"\n\nShe had blood on her face and clothes and could feel a bone sticking out of her left shoulder.\n\n\"My ears were ringing so it was hard to make things out. But I remember two sounds - one was a weird deep humming noise coming from the train.\n\n\"The other was a voice, a scream, someone calling for help and someone else shouting back that help was coming.\n\n\"I was just sitting in shock. I lost all my belongings in the crash, so I relied on both another passenger and members of the public, to tell my family I was alive.\"\n\nThe survivor said there were moments when she felt guilty about surviving - especially when she thought about Donald Dinnie.\n\n\"I remember him being a chatty and genuinely nice man,\" she said.\n\n\"Donald spoke to me about his partner, even joking that the weather would mean he'd get to finish early and was excited to get home.\n\n\"He kept us all informed, thinking of other people the whole time and making sure we were all okay.\"\n\nShe felt an \"overwhelming sadness\" when she learned that he had died in the crash.\n\n\"If I'm honest that's my main motivation for talking now.\n\n\"I want Donald's family to know he was happy that day, thinking of his loved ones the whole time and above all else, he made us feel safe. I'm truly sorry you lost him.\"\n\nMr Dinnie was described as a genuinely nice man\n\nThe woman said she had \"totally changed\" since the crash.\n\n\"I'm a lot more fearful now, whereas I used to be more easy-going,\" she said.\n\n\"I even struggle to be a passenger in a car. It's like you can't feel safe unless you are literally in control of everything.\n\n\"I do still take the train - it took a long time to get the confidence but I'm getting there.\"\n\nShe said she was reminded of the derailment every day when she looked in the mirror.\n\n\"The scar on my face is a constant reminder of that day, but also a reminder that without it I wouldn't be alive.\n\n\"I don't know why I survived. But I feel lucky every day that I did.\"\n\nTrish Ewen said she had known in her gut that Donald's train was involved in the crash\n\nTrish Ewen, 59, and Mr Dinnie, 58, had been a couple for eight years before the tragedy.\n\n\"The last three years has completely turned my life upside down,\" said Trish.\n\n\"I got a phone call while I was at work to say there was a train accident and I went to a family member's house and we all sat around the television - we didn't know what else to do.\n\n\"No-one had called us so we still had no confirmation if it was Donald's train - but I knew in my gut it was.\"\n\nTrish said that she and Donald should have been thinking about retiring together, but that she had been left to exist alone.\n\n\"Life throws challenges at us all but something like this is so incomprehensible that there's no past experiences to draw on to ease any acceptance or recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"You don't know what to do, where to turn, and there's genuinely nothing to do but brace yourself for each new day without your loved one.\"\n\nShe said it was right that Network Rail had been prosecuted over the crash, and said that any financial penalty should be invested in improving the railways.", "Social media firms must remove animal cruelty content from their platforms or face fines of up to £18m.\n\nThe latest change to the Online Safety Bill comes following a BBC Eye investigation.\n\nMinisters said the Monkey Haters investigation that uncovered a global monkey torture ring was a clear example of why the amendments were needed.\n\nThe bill - which aims to police the internet - is expected to become law this autumn.\n\nAnimal cruelty videos will be deemed as a \"priority offence\" under a new amendment to the bill - bringing it in line with revenge porn, child sexual abuse and threats to kill.\n\nUnder new proposals, if social media platforms do not proactively tackle the illegal content and have it removed, they will face fines of up to 10% of their global annual revenue.\n\nA year-long BBC Eye investigation uncovered a sadistic global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States.\n\nUndercover, a BBC reporter entered a private Telegram messaging service group where hundreds of people in the US and the UK were brainstorming, crowdfunding, and then commissioning and paying for videos of baby monkeys being tortured and killed, from people in Indonesia.\n\nIn the US a former member of the air force has been charged and more than 20 people are under investigation. Two men in Indonesia have been jailed and in the UK three women have been arrested and released under investigation.\n\nIn a statement YouTube said animal abuse had \"no place\" on the platform and it had removed hundreds of thousands of videos. Telegram said its moderators could not proactively patrol private groups. There are still active monkey abuse groups on social media.\n\nThe BBC Eye work highlighted the extent to which social media can be used to pay for the torture of animals.\n\nTechnology Secretary Michelle Donelan said that this kind of activity was \"deeply disturbing\" and that the bill would now broaden beyond its remit of protecting children to \"stop the proliferation of animal abuse too\".\n\n\"The BBC's diligent investigative work revealed a dark underbelly of our internet that pushes its sadistic criminal activity to everyday people,\" she said.\n\nDavid Bowles from the RSPCA welcomed the amendment and was hopeful it would be enacted.\n\n\"It's deeply unsettling and disheartening just how widespread animal abuse videos and imagery are becoming and with young people spending so much time online, it can be incredibly challenging for parents and guardians to monitor the content they are seeing,\" he said.\n\nNicola O'Brien, lead co-ordinator of the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) - whose members include the RSPCA and Action for Primates - said the proposed amendment would \"put a stronger emphasis on the platforms to take responsibility and stop providing a literal platform for animal abusers,\" adding that they currently don't do enough to prevent the sharing of content across their sites.\n\nThe Dogs Trust told the BBC it hoped that in the future the government would go further and explicitly tackle harmful pet advertising practices on social media and classified ad sites.\n\nThe much-delayed Online Safety Bill - a new set of laws aimed at protecting children and adults online - is set to become law next month.\n\nIt aims to make social media companies more responsible for their users' safety on their platforms.\n\nBut Silicon Valley's tech giants have fought back against some of the proposals and this week the government denied it was dropping plans to force apps to access users' private messages.\n\nPlatforms like WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage say they cannot access or view anybody's messages without destroying existing privacy protections for all users, and have threatened to leave the UK rather than compromise message security.\n\nThe final changes to the legislation will be considered by parliament this week when it returns to the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12 September.\n\nThe story of a disturbing online community, the internet sleuths that hunted down the perpetrators and the race to save baby monkey Mini.", "London Mayor Sadiq Khan expanded Ulez across all of the capital's boroughs on 29 August\n\nAt least 510 Ulez cameras were stolen or vandalised between 1 April and the end of August this year, figures from the Metropolitan Police show.\n\nThe force is dedicating a \"significant amount\" of resources to tackling Ulez camera-related crime, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said.\n\nTwo arrests have been made so far, with one person charged and released on bail and the other case discontinued.\n\nSir Mark told LBC there were \"other investigations ongoing\".\n\nThe ultra-low emission charging zone was expanded on 29 August to include outer London, with cameras installed to enforce it.\n\nDrivers must pay a charge of £12.50 per day to drive a non-compliant vehicle anywhere in the zone under the controversial clean-air plan.\n\nThe Met commissioner said of the figures: \"Clearly this is quite serious damage it adds up to in terms of property and that is the basis [on which] we judge it.\n\n\"So it is getting, I guess, a significant amount of policing resources.\"\n\nThe Met said that there have been approximately 160 reports of cameras being stolen and 350 being damaged.\n\nThe actual number of cameras affected may be higher as one report can represent multiple offences.\n\nMost cameras damaged are in outer London\n\nAsked what message the commissioner wants to send to those involved, he said: \"We are investigating the crimes and we will go after you and we will find you.\"\n\nA Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson said last week that camera vandalism will not stop the Ulez operating London-wide and that \"all vandalised cameras are replaced as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Criminal damage to Ulez cameras puts the perpetrators at risk of prosecution and life-changing injuries, while simultaneously risking the safety of the public.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"People are of course entitled to show their opposition to policies peacefully and lawfully. But causing criminal damage is never acceptable.\"\n\nA Met spokesperson said: \"The Met has and continues to treat criminal activity in relation to Ulez seriously and has deployed considerable resources to our operation.\n\n\"We continue to monitor anti-Ulez protests, as we do for all potential public order matters, to consider if bespoke policing plans are required.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "On the first anniversary of his reign, King Charles will be spending the day \"quietly and privately\" at Balmoral, with prayers and reflections on the life of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died one year ago.\n\nIt's the way the late Queen used to mark the date of her own accession to the throne and the death of her father.\n\nIt's a highly appropriate image of continuity, because this year has been much more about stability and reassurance than about change or reform.\n\nAny expectations of a modernising monarch have so far been put on hold.\n\n\"It's been surprising in its lack of surprises,\" says royal commentator Pauline Maclaran. \"People have very quickly become used to him as King.\"\n\nKing Charles led the nation in mourning at the state funeral of his \"darling Mama\", Queen Elizabeth II\n\nIt has been a \"softly, softly\" approach, with an emphasis on keeping the ship steady rather than a dramatic new direction, says Prof Maclaran, of Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"He's been his mother's son this year,\" adds royal historian Anna Whitelock.\n\nIt's almost felt like an \"unofficial mourning period\", with any changes likely to come later in his reign, says Prof Whitelock, professor of the history of modern monarchy at City, University of London.\n\n\"It's been a sense of 'not much to see here', which would be seen as a positive,\" she says.\n\nThe rhythm and rituals of the royal year have largely been kept in place. The rotation through big annual events and stately homes has stayed much the same.\n\nA monarch doesn't have a political cycle where they have to make an immediate impact. She believes King Charles has had a quietly successful first year, gaining public acceptance following his mother's long reign, managing the transition and avoiding any disasters.\n\nThe checklist of achievements includes a first state visit to Germany, widely seen as a diplomatic success.\n\nKing Charles was crowned in a ceremony full of symbolism at Westminster Abbey in May 2023\n\nAnd in terms of a change in tone, the Coronation ceremony was a carefully curated display of a more diverse, multi-faith Britain, made up of what the King has called a \"community of communities\".\n\nThere was embarrassment over the Ngozi Fulani race row - in which a black British guest at Buckingham Palace was repeatedly asked where she was \"really from\". Yet it was resolved swiftly and ended with messages of reconciliation.\n\nConcerns about the King overstepping the mark into political matters haven't yet materialised, although he's maintained his interest in environmental campaigns.\n\nAs Charles' second wife, there were questions for many years about what title Camilla would take when he became King\n\nThe transition to \"Queen Camilla\" has also happened without ruffling too many feathers, with the halfway house of Queen Consort dropped at the Coronation.\n\nCamilla has carried out one of the more modernising changes, scrapping the archaic sounding ladies-in-waiting. She's also continued to campaign over domestic violence, a subject unlikely to have been addressed by previous generations of royals.\n\nBut there are still some doubters over her use of the title \"Queen\". Princess Diana's former private secretary, Patrick Jephson, says he would have preferred \"Princess Consort\".\n\n\"After all, Prince Philip managed as Prince Consort for all his time as the Queen's husband,\" he says.\n\nIn terms of family problems, the fireworks of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, didn't really scorch the King. The book might have rattled the monarchy as an institution, but the King himself was portrayed as an essentially benign and sympathetic figure, if a sometimes puzzled and melancholy one.\n\nPrince Andrew has also mostly kept out of sight this year, despite repeated rumours of ambitions to return to public life.\n\nBut there are still questions to be addressed.\n\n\"There are issues about the transparency of royal finances, when the public pay a lot of money into this institution. It's a weak point at the moment,\" says Prof Jones, professor of modern history at University College London.\n\n\"They also need to offer some kind of response to the questions that will keep coming up about the legacy of slavery,\" says Prof Jones. As well as politically significant in the UK, confronting the issue of slavery and the Royal Family's historical links to it will be particularly important for relations with some of the Commonwealth countries.\n\nIn his first Christmas message, the King spoke of the \"great anxiety\" for those struggling to pay bills and feed their families\n\nBut the royal expert thinks the biggest challenge for the King is the need to appear socially aware and sensitive to the financial pressures many people are experiencing.\n\n\"When people are hungry, history shows it goes badly for monarchies,\" says Prof Jones. \"Monarchy depends on a social consensus.\"\n\nIn that respect the King appears ahead of the curve, ready to open a new freezer in a food bank as often as cutting the ribbon on a new building.\n\nProf Whitelock says his Christmas message, which referenced the NHS and the cost-of-living crisis, was \"pretty radical\".\n\nBut changes in how he runs the monarchy have been less so. Royal spending hasn't gone down. There is still an \"official\" birthday, as well as the real one. The long-term future of Buckingham Palace still seems unclear. It is currently under repair but it's open to question whether the King and Queen will ever really live there.\n\nThere has been no shift to a small \"slimmed down\" Royal Family, although the removal of Prince Harry and Prince Andrew as working royals has arguably achieved that by default.\n\nThe King donated funds which helped hundreds of food banks store more food by providing them with fridges and freezers\n\nBut what do the public make of the new reign?\n\nAccording to the most recent opinion polls, there is good news for both supporters and opponents of the monarchy. A YouGov poll this week showed the broad picture remains of a clear majority, 62%, in support of Britain remaining a monarchy.\n\nBut 26% wanted an elected head of state, the highest figure in a series of surveys stretching back more than a decade. This was bolstered by growing opposition to the monarchy among the young, with only 30% of 18 to 24-year-olds believing the monarchy was \"good for Britain\".\n\nGraham Smith, leader of the anti-monarchy campaign, Republic, says \"republicans have the momentum and the monarchy's future has never looked so fragile\".\n\nProtests against the monarchy have become a more regular and visible part of royal events. But Sir Anthony Seldon, author and historian, points to the personal popularity of the King, with the same YouGov poll showing 59% believe he's doing a good job.\n\n\"Few imagined back in September 2022 that King Charles would have had such a good first year,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\nKing Charles seems to enjoy meeting well-wishers and is tactile and approachable\n\nOn walkabouts the crowds do seem to warm to the King, who is a hands-on monarch. He seems energised when he is shaking hands and talking to the public, sometimes appearing to enjoy that more than meeting the long lines of civic worthies on official visits.\n\nThis change in body language has been one of the visible differences in the reign, says royal historian Jonathan Spangler, of Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\nThere is much less stand-offishness. And Dr Spangler says the King has been good at building a wide network of contacts over the years. \"Talking to people helps him inform his ideas,\" he says.\n\nBut can this connection work for young people and those who are feeling less enamoured with the monarchy?\n\n\"The Queen was praised for never having an opinion in public. But young people now say, 'If you've got a platform, use it,'\" says Prof Whitelock.\n\nEd Owens, author of a new book on the monarchy, After Elizabeth, says the challenge for the King as his reign develops is to avoid being on the wrong side of younger generations' sense of social injustice.\n\nThere is a generational sense of grievance over issues such as unaffordable housing, student debt and cost of living pressures - and Dr Owens suggests it would be perilous for the monarchy's future to be seen as a symbol of that unfairness.\n\nThe King is believed to be planning a big food project in the autumn - in terms of preventing waste and providing better access to good quality food, which could align with concerns about both sustainability and food poverty.\n\nBut there is another often overlooked factor in the reign of King Charles. No monarch in British history has come to the throne at such a late stage in life. It can't be easy to be a modernising new monarch at the age of 74.\n\nThat could be why Prince William has become such an important figure in this reign. Much of the modernising and taking on social problems, such as homelessness, will be through the Prince of Wales. Any shifting in traditions could come through Prince William.\n\nAt the age of 73, Charles became the oldest person to accede to the British throne, after having been the longest-serving heir in British history\n\nTaking the long view, Patrick Jephson welcomes the fact that the King isn't \"rushing things\".\n\n\"I find it very reassuring that his first year has not been marked by some blaze of new initiatives, souped up by the Buckingham Palace press office, and making us all wonder whether he's really a monarch or some sort of politician in a crown,\" says Mr Jephson, now an author and broadcaster.\n\nBut he also warns the royals remain vulnerable to being seen as an \"imposition\", particularly in tough economic times.\n\nThe unending challenge for the King's reign, he says, is that this message of value and purpose to the public has to be \"daily re-established\".\n\nYou can read more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK, or here, from outside the UK.", "Warning: This article contains spoilers for Celebrity MasterChef 2023\n\nWynne Evans has become the first ever Welsh winner of Celebrity MasterChef after beating Emmerdale's Amy Walsh, Love Island's Luca Bish in the final.\n\nThe 51-year-old opera singer and radio DJ said he \"thrilled\" to be named champion and has struggled to keep the news secret.\n\n\"I've got the biggest mouth in show business so how I've managed to keep this to myself is a miracle in itself,\" he said.\n\n\"We went out and celebrated with the other finalists and I woke up in the morning in a blind panic because I thought I'd left the trophy in a taxi,\" he joked.", "Kourtney Kardashian is expecting her first baby with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker\n\nKourtney Kardashian has thanked doctors for \"saving my baby's life\" by performing surgery on her unborn child.\n\nThe reality TV star, 44, said she was rushed into \"urgent foetal surgery\", in which surgeons operate on babies while they are still in the womb.\n\n\"As someone who has had three really easy pregnancies in the past, I wasn't prepared for the fear,\" she said.\n\nLast week, her husband Travis Barker flew home from his band Blink-182's tour due to an \"urgent family matter\".\n\nHe did not give details at the time, but has now posted: \"I flew home for a life-threatening emergency surgery for our baby that I'm so grateful went well. I want to say thank you for all the support.\"\n\nThe couple have not revealed the nature of the surgery on the baby boy.\n\nIn her message on Instagram, Kourtney wrote: \"I will be forever grateful to my incredible doctors for saving our baby's life.\n\n\"I am eternally grateful to my husband who rushed to my side from tour to be with me in the hospital and take care of me afterwards, my rock.\n\n\"And to my mom, thank you for holding my hand through this.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think anyone who hasn't been through a similar situation can begin to understand that feeling of fear.\n\n\"I have a whole new understanding and respect for the mamas who have had to fight for their babies while pregnant.\n\n\"Praise be to God. Walking out of the hospital with my baby boy in my tummy and safe was the truest blessing.\"\n\nThe star has three children aged eight, 11 and 13 with Scott Disick.\n\nShe has previously spoken about her struggles to conceive with Barker, 47.\n\nBut in June she posted an Instagram video showing her holding up a sign at a Blink-182 concert saying: \"Travis I'm pregnant.\"", "Yoga teacher Millie Laws was running a class at a cafe based in the North Sea Observatory at Chapel St Leonards\n\nA yoga class was mistaken for a \"ritual mass murder\" scene after members of the public saw several people lying on the floor and reported it to police.\n\nFive police cars descended on the North Sea Observatory in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday night.\n\nYoga teacher Millie Laws said she thought reports of her being a \"mass murderer\" were a \"joke at first\".\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed everyone was safe and well, and the call was made with \"good intentions\".\n\nMs Laws said she found it \"funny and surreal\" to be mistaken for a mass murderer\n\nThe 22-year-old teacher said she was teaching seven students at the Seascape Cafe, which is inside the building, when she saw two dog walkers peering closely through the glass window during the Shavasana or relaxation stage of the class.\n\n\"They're [students] laying down with blankets over them, their eyes are closed. It's very dark in there. I just had candles and little tea lights lit the whole room, and I was just walking around playing my drum. I had a nice floaty top on with large bell sleeves,\" she said.\n\n\"A couple with some dogs just came up to the window and were having a look in, but they walked off really quickly and I didn't think anything of it.\"\n\n\"I didn't know until after we left that these people phoned in saying that there was a mass murderer; they were wearing a robe and they were walking over all of the people, and it looked like some kind of ritual, and that the people on the floor were actually dead.\n\n\"I guess from the outside view it could look like that, because they're all really still, very nice and relaxed.\n\n\"I'm sure their imagination was running wild with what was going on.\"\n\nThe room was dark and lit with candles, which may have added to the confusion, Ms Laws says\n\nMs Laws, who had only moved to the area three months ago, said officers swooping on a \"small little village in the middle of Lincolnshire is crazy\".\n\n\"I feel really bad for whoever the person was who [phoned police] that would, of course, have been terrifying. So I do feel for them.\n\n\"But at the same time you've got to see the lighter side of it.\"\n\nManagers at Seascape Cafe sought to reassure residents and thanked police for the prompt response.\n\nThey said on Facebook: \"If anyone heard the mass of police sirens in Chapel St Leonards at 9.30pm last night then please be reassured.\n\n\"They were on their way to the Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor... which actually turned out to be the yoga class in meditation.\n\n\"Thank you to Lincolnshire Police for their prompt response. I can't imagine for one moment what would have being going through their minds on the way.\"\n\nMs Laws had only been running her yoga sessions for three months when she moved to the area\n\nThe cafe regularly plays host to yoga classes with the Facebook post adding: \"We are not part of any mad cult or crazy clubs.\n\n\"All in all, this situation turned out positive and we are of course grateful.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed the call was made at 20:56 BST \"with good intentions\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A call was made following concerns for the occupants of the North Sea Observatory, at Chapel St Leonards.\n\n\"Officers attended, we're happy to report everyone was safe and well.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.\n\nProsecutors said Navarro acted \"above the law\" by ignoring a subpoena from a congressional investigation.\n\nHe faces up to a year in prison for each of the two contempt counts.\n\nAnother key Trump ally, former strategist Steve Bannon, was convicted last year of contempt of Congress.\n\nOutside the court in Washington DC on Thursday, Navarro said it was a \"sad day for America\", vowing to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.\n\n\"This is the first time in the history of our republic,\" he said, \"that a senior White House adviser, an alter ego of the president, has ever been charged with this alleged crime.\"\n\nHe argued that the Department of Justice has had a policy for more than 50 years that senior White House advisers could not be compelled to testify before Congress.\n\n\"Yet they brought the case,\" Navarro said.\n\nHe was found guilty by the 12-member jury after four hours of deliberations, following a trial that lasted two days.\n\nAs well as an appeal, Navarro's lawyers are motioning for a mistrial, alleging that jurors went outside court during their deliberations and encountered protesters.\n\nNavarro, who served as senior trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, was served with a subpoena by a US House of Representatives select committee in February 2022.\n\nBut he did not hand over any of the requested emails or documents or appear to testify before the Democratic-led panel.\n\nThe committee had hoped to question Navarro about efforts to delay certification of the 2020 election, according to a former staff director for the panel who testified in court.\n\nIn his 2021 book, In Trump Time, Navarro said he was the architect of a strategy to challenge the election results, claiming widespread voter fraud.\n\nThe plan was for congressional Republicans to delay certification of President Joe Biden's victory.\n\nNavarro called this strategy the Green Bay Sweep, a reference to a tactic in American football.\n\nThe House committee said Navarro's claims of massive ballot fraud had been exposed as baseless by state and local officials.\n\nNavarro was indicted in June last year and arrested by FBI agents at a Washington airport as he was boarding a flight to Nashville, Tennessee.\n\nDuring their closing arguments, prosecutors said Navarro chose his allegiance to Mr Trump over complying with the subpoena.\n\n\"That is contempt. That is a crime,\" prosecutor Elizabeth Aloi told the court.\n\nNavarro's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, presented little evidence during the trial and instead sought to discredit the prosecutor's case.\n\nWhen contacted by the committee, Navarro said Mr Trump had instructed him to cite executive privilege.\n\nThis is a legal principle that allows certain White House communications to be kept under wraps.\n\nBut last week, Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama nominee, ruled there was no evidence that Mr Trump or executive privilege could have permitted Navarro to ignore the committee's summons.\n\nIn addition to a maximum sentence of a year in prison for each count, Navarro also faces fines of up to $100,000 (£80,000).\n\nHis sentencing is scheduled for January.\n\nBryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign adviser, told the BBC the prosecution seemed politically motivated.\n\n\"It is not uncommon for Congress to hold former or serving members of presidential administrations in contempt,\" he said.\n\nLawmakers found ex-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, but he was not criminally prosecuted\n\n\"It is uncommon for the actual justice department to go forward with these prosecutions.\"\n\nHe cited the example of the former US Attorney General Eric Holder, under Democratic President Barack Obama, who was found in contempt of a Republican-controlled Congress in 2012 for refusing to hand over subpoenaed documents, but was not criminally prosecuted.\n\n\"We're going down a dangerous route by escalating these things,\" said Mr Lanza.\n\n\"That's not good for our system of government,\" he added.\n\nFormer Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt for defying the House committee's legal summons in July 2022.\n\nBannon was sentenced to four months in jail, but has remained free while his defence team appeals the conviction.", "A Turkish cryptocurrency boss and his two siblings have been jailed for 11,196 years each for defrauding investors of millions of dollars.\n\nFaruk Fatih Ozer, 29, fled to Albania in 2021 with investor assets after his Thodex exchange suddenly collapsed.\n\nHe was extradited back to Turkey in June and found guilty of money-laundering, fraud and organised crime.\n\nOzer told the court he would \"not have acted so amateurishly\" if his intent was criminal, state media reported.\n\n\"I am smart enough to lead any institution on Earth,\" the Anadolu agency quoted him as saying.\n\n\"That is evident in this company I established at the age of 22.\"\n\nThe brief trial in Istanbul also found his sister Serap and brother Guven guilty of the same charges.\n\nTurkish news agencies said that the defendants were sentenced separately for multiple crimes against 2,027 victims, leading to the total number of years in the judgement.\n\nSuch extraordinary prison sentences are common in Turkey since the abolition of the death penalty in 2004.\n\nAdnan Oktar, a TV cult preacher, was jailed for 8,658 years in 2022 for fraud and sex crimes. Ten of his followers received the same sentence.\n\nProsecutors had asked for Ozer to be sentenced to 40,562 years in prison, AFP reported.\n\nTurks began using cryptocurrencies as a defence against a deep slide in the value of the lira that began more than two years ago.\n\nThodex was founded in 2017 and became one of the country's largest exchanges for virtual currencies.\n\nOzer gained national fame as a financial whizz and ingratiated his way into the establishment by befriending prominent pro-government figures.\n\nHowever, the platform suddenly imploded in April 2021. Investor assets disappeared and Ozer went into hiding.\n\nHe was arrested last year in Albania on an international warrant from Interpol and extradited after a lengthy legal process.\n\nTurkish media previously reported that Ozer had fled with assets worth $2bn (£1.6bn).\n\nThe prosecutor's indictment, however, estimates total losses to Thodex investors at 356 million liras.\n\nThat amount was worth about $43m at the time of the exchange's implosion.\n\nThe same amount is now worth about $13m because of rampant inflation and the lira's collapse on the international markets.", "Five million disposable vapes are thrown away each week in the UK, a fourfold increase over the past year, according to research from recycling campaign group Material Focus.\n\nOnly 17% of vapers recycle their vapes in the correct recycling bins, the research found.\n\nVapes can cause fires in bin lorries and waste treatment facilities if not disposed of correctly.\n\nThe vaping industry says it is working to improve recycling rates.\n\nDisposable vapes, cheap plastic devices designed to give a few hundred puffs of nicotine vapour before being thrown away, are often discarded in bins and on roadsides.\n\nMaterial Focus, a non-profit organisation which campaigns to increase recycling rates, calculated that UK adults buy about 30 million vapes a month, a huge increase that reflects the rapid growth in popularity of these products.\n\nDisposable vapes contain copper wires and lithium batteries, which are both valuable materials. Material Focus estimates that all the disposable vapes thrown away in a year contain enough lithium to provide batteries for 5,000 electric cars.\n\nThey should be disposed of in dedicated bins, in shops or recycling centres, containing a mineral called vermiculite to reduce the risk of fires. From there, they can be taken to special recycling facilities where they can be dismantled by hand.\n\nBy law, every shop that sells vapes is meant to take them back, but it is a facility that costs money to provide, and many do not.\n\nThe potential annual cost of recycling all those vapes would be £200m, a cost which is not being met by producers, importers or retailers, they say.\n\n\"There's far more vapes thrown on the floor, and in public bins and kitchen bins than are being recycled,\" says Scott Butler, executive director of Material Focus. Current recycling facilities are \"a long way from what we need. It needs to be as easy to recycle as it is to buy them.\"\n\nVapes that get mixed up with other household waste can cause fires in bin lorries and waste facilities. Waste company Veolia, which collects around a tenth of the UK's waste, says lithium batteries, including vapes, cause around one fire a day in its facilities.\n\nIt is illegal for under-18s to buy vapes and the research found that young vapers are much more likely than adults to throw their vapes away or even flush them down toilets, to prevent parents finding out that they are vaping.\n\nA spokesperson for Elfbar, the UK's most popular disposable vape brand, said it was \"fully committed to increasing rates of recycling\" and working to put thousands of recycling points in place in retail outlets, and increasing the recyclability of its products.\n\nJohn Dunne, director general of the UK Vaping Industry Association, said that the growth of the industry had been so rapid that it had been hard to keep up with, but many independent vape shops now had recycling facilities in place.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"The government is very concerned about the environmental impacts of disposable vapes and will shortly publish a response to its call for evidence on vaping which closed in June.\"\n\nMaterial Focus's research was based on a survey by the pollsters Yougov of 5,156 people, of whom 167 were 16 or 17 years old.", "Heathrow and Gatwick airports have said they are monitoring porous concrete found on their sites after school closures linked to the material.\n\nThe airports had previously found the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) before extensive news coverage over its use.\n\nHeathrow said it had the means to keep it safe until it can put \"permanent solutions\" in place.\n\nGatwick said it has found no cause for concern.\n\nThe discovery of the concrete, which can crumble, in schools and public buildings has led to a number of closures since the start of September.\n\nThe material was discovered at Heathrow Terminal 3 last year, and the airport has put measures in place to make it safe.\n\nSince the Raac concrete was found at Heathrow, the airport has reviewed its management plans and is satisfied with them.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said the airport had been \"assessing our estate and will continue to mitigate the risk where this material is found\".\n\nGatwick has carried out regular inspections on the concrete and is not worried about its findings.\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said: \"We have a register of locations containing Raac on the airport campus, which are closely monitored through a regular comprehensive structural inspection regime.\"\n\nThe most recent Gatwick inspection was in June, and \"did not present any concerns\".\n\nGatwick will continue to monitor the Raac on a regular basis, the spokesperson added.\n\nA spokesman for Manchester Airport said regular inspections had found no Raac on site, and the airport was running another inspection to double-check.", "Network Rail has admitted a series of failings which led to the death of three people in a train derailment near Stonehaven in 2020.\n\nThe company pleaded guilty to criminal charges at the High Court in Aberdeen.\n\nThree people died and six were injured when a train struck a landslide at Carmont after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail admitted failing to impose a speed restriction, warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe, or ask him to reduce his speed.\n\nIt also admitted a number of failures over the maintenance and inspection of drainage in the area, and in adverse and extreme weather planning.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died when the train derailed on 12 August 2020.\n\nMr Stuchbury had intended to board an earlier train which was cancelled so he boarded the train which ultimately derailed instead as he could change at Dundee.\n\nHis wife said the date of the fatal crash had been their wedding anniversary, and her husband had been travelling to one last work trip before he retired. She said they had been robbed of their future together.\n\nDonald Dinnie, Christopher Stuchbury and Brett McCullough died in the crash\n\nSix other people were injured when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service hit washed-out debris at Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire.\n\nA drainage system in the area had been incorrectly installed by Carillion, which has since gone into liquidation.\n\nThe train had been returning towards Aberdeen at the time because the railway was blocked further down the line.\n\nA Rail Accident Investigation Branch report said the train derailed because it struck debris that had washed out of a drainage trench.\n\nThe report made 20 recommendations to improve rail safety, many of which were directed at Network Rail.\n\nAlmost a month's rain had fallen in the area between 06:00 and 09:00 on the day of the crash, which happened at 09:37.\n\nAdvocate depute Alex Prentice KC, prosecuting, said the derailment happened after a period of extreme torrential rainfall which had led both Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council to declare a major emergency.\n\nHe said the weather on the day of the accident was \"exceptional\", with the Aberdeen station controller describing the rain as \"beyond biblical\".\n\nThe derailment happened near Stonehaven on 12 August last year\n\nThe train had stopped for two-and-a-half hours because of a landslip before being instructed to return north so passengers could disembark.\n\nMr McCullough had been told to proceed at normal speed, and the train was travelling at about 73mph - below the limit of 75mph.\n\nThe prosecutor told the High Court in Aberdeen: \"Despite his efforts to slow the train using the emergency brake, the driver of the train was unable to stop prior to the debris on the track.\n\n\"The train struck the debris, derailed and collided with a bridge parapet. This caused the train to veer of the bridge and down the steep embankment below the bridge.\"\n\nMr Prentice said a recording of the driver showed he queried with a signaller if any reduced speed was needed to return north. He was told everything was fine for just normal speed.\n\nWhen the emergency brake was applied there was insufficient time - 3.5 seconds of travel time - for it to have any significant effect and avoid the debris.\n\nThe prosecutor added a multi-agency investigation found the rail operator had not properly inspected the drainage system following its installation and had failed to properly train staff to analyse weather forecasts.\n\nThe investigation also found Network Rail, which owns and repairs the railway infrastructure across the UK, did not ensure as far as was reasonably practicable that drainage near Carmont was constructed properly and in accordance with design drawings.\n\nA spokesperson for the rail operator described the fatal event as a \"terrible day for our railway\" adding it is clear there was fundamental lessons to be learnt.\n\nFollowing the derailment, Network Rail inspected all similar locations across Britain and carried out a full survey of all types of trackside drainage on Scotland's railway in the wake of the crash.\n\nIt also made safety changes including how it manages the running of train services during severe weather.\n\nIt has also introduced a new team of weather experts in its control room to provide round-the-clock, real-time analysis on how the weather may affect the railway.\n\nAll three of the men who died were said to have suffered numerous non-survivable blunt force injuries, the most significant of which were to the head, with death likely immediate.\n\nMr McCullough, the driver of the train, was found on a lower embankment at the crash site. He was pronounced dead at 10:40. His family said he will be \"forever missed\".\n\nThe court heard the conductor, Mr Dinnie, had over 30 years of railway experience. His body was found in the doorway of one of the train carriages. His daughters paid tribute to his \"infectious smile\".\n\nMr Stuchbury, a tug master and captain in the merchant navy, is thought to have been thrown clear of the carriage he had been travelling on. He was pronounced dead at 11:00.\n\nStatements from the six injured passengers described physical, mental and financial scars they have been left with.\n\nThe case at the High Court in Aberdeen continues on Friday.", "Police have been attacked with petrol bombs, rocks and masonry in Londonderry.\n\nOne officer was struck on the head, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.\n\nThe disorder started after police began three searches in Bligh's Lane in Creggan at about 16:00 BST as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation.\n\nThey found a suspected firearm, a number of suspected pipe bombs and a quantity of suspected ammunition.\n\n\"During the searches, a quantity of cash and a firearm have been seized which will be subject to forensic examination,\" the PSNI said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane\n\n\"Petrol bombs, rocks, masonry, steel poles and traffic cones were thrown at police, damaging police Land Rovers.\"\n\nSupt William Calderwood added: \"We appreciate the disruption search activity can have but I want to reassure you of this - our presence in the area and activity we carry out is about keeping people safe. That is our priority and we would appeal for calm.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said he had spoken to residents and appealed to police to \"end their operation as soon as possible so peace can be restored\".\n\n\"Violence will solve nothing,\" he said in a social-media post.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood 🇺🇦 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Eastwood said there was \"nothing to be gained from attacking police officers in Derry - the young kids involved are only putting themselves and their futures in jeopardy\".\n\nHe added: \"I am appealing for parents to get in touch with their children, to make sure they know where they are and that they are safe this evening.\"\n\nMr Eastwood called the recovery of a suspected gun, ammunition and pipe bomb \"deeply concerning\" and said the SDLP \"will be meeting with the PSNI in the coming days to discuss these matters\".\n• None Police attacked for second night in a row in Derry", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ezra Collective deliver their acceptance speech after winning the Mercury Music Prize\n\nEzra Collective have become the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize, with their album Where I'm Meant To Be.\n\nThe prestigious £25,000 prize celebrates the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months.\n\nThe quintet held off competition from fellow nominees Jessie Ware, J Hus, Arctic Monkeys, Fred Again and Raye.\n\nAccepting the award, drummer Femi Koleoso said the group \"represents something very special because we met in a youth club\".\n\n\"This moment that we're celebrating right here is testament to good, special people putting time and effort into young people to play music,\" he continued.\n\n\"This is not just a result for Ezra Collective, or for UK jazz, but this is a special moment for every single organisation across the country, ploughing efforts and time into young people playing music.\"\n\nEzra Collective (Ife Ogunjobi pictured) performed at the ceremony before being announced as the winners\n\nEzra Collective were announced as the winners by DJ Jamz Supernova during the ceremony in Hammersmith, west London, on Thursday evening.\n\nAccepting the prize, Koleoso thanked God, the band's team and family who have supported them through the years.\n\nHe joked: \"If a jazz band winning the Mercury Prize doesn't make you believe in God, I don't know what will.\"\n\nWhere I'm Meant To Be, while broadly categorised as jazz, is a melting pot of genres, with elements of grime, salsa and reggae.\n\nIn a five-star review published last year, the Observer's Kate Hutchinson called it \"an exceptional album that centres joy and community, radiates positivity and youthful abandon, and could well be the one to cross over to the big league\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News after being announced as winners, Koleoso explained: \"We're the shuffle generation of music, we listen to some Beethoven, and then 50 Cent comes on straight after, and then Little Simz comes on just after that.\n\n\"And that kind of influences the way we approach music. So there are no rules, we love jazz, but at the same time we love salsa too, so why not try and get that in there?\"\n\nBroadcaster Lauren Laverne hosted the ceremony, which featured live performances from nine of the shortlisted artists.\n\nJ Hus had been due to perform but pulled out due to illness, while Arctic Monkeys and Fred Again were not present due to touring commitments.\n\nThe Mercury shortlist was chosen by an independent judging panel including music critic Will Hodgkinson, musicians Anna Calvi and Jamie Cullum, and DJs Jamz Supernova and MistaJam.\n\nEzra Collective are the first ever jazz group to win the Mercury Music Prize, which launched in 1992\n\n\"You can always tell jazz by the way the people on the stage are having more fun than the audience,\" Joy Division's manager Rob Gretton once said.\n\nEzra Collective are the proof he was wrong. Their energetic live sets have been making crowds move since they met as teenagers at a youth programme founded by renowned jazz bassist Gary Crosby.\n\nThey released their debut album, You Can't Steal My Joy, in 2019 - drawing freely on the music they grew up with: Afrobeat, jazz, reggae, salsa, hip-hop and grime.\n\nBut before they could take it on tour, the pandemic hit.\n\nTheir Mercury Prize-winner, Where I'm Meant To Be, was written and recorded in lockdown, inspired by a conversation about imposter syndrome with film director Sir Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Small Axe).\n\nRather than reflect the isolation of the Covid era, the album is a joyous celebration of community, positivity and friendship - assisted by singers like Jorja Smith and Emeli Sande; and rappers including Kojey Radical and Sampa The Great.\n\nSoulful and rhythmically propulsive, it became a top 40 hit - unusual for a jazz record - with the quintet booked to play the Royal Albert Hall in November.\n\nEven more impressively, they've upended years of snark about the Mercury Prize's \"token jazz album\".\n\n\"Hopefully we can end that for good and just say that music is music,\" said bandleader Femi Koleoso.\n\nAnd his ambitions don't end there.\n\n\"Nothing is impossible at this point. I'll see you at the Emirates Stadium.\"\n\nThe ceremony saw Raye impress the crowd with The Thrill Is Gone, a jazz and hip-hop fusion from her debut album, while rapper Loyle Carner gave a powerful performance of his track HGU.\n\nSoul singer Olivia Dean also delivered a lively performance of her track Carmen, Scottish band and former winners Young Fathers performed an energetic rendition of I Saw and musical duo Jockstrap took to the stage to play Concrete Over Water.\n\nJessie Ware opened the ceremony with a performance of Free Yourself from her shortlisted album That! Feels Good!\n\nJessie Ware opened the ceremony with a performance of her track Free Yourself\n\nA live performance film was shown to celebrate albums by dance producer Fred Again and indie-rock outfit Arctic Monkeys, who could not attend the ceremony.\n\nFred Again, who is hosting a residency at Alexandra Palace in London this week, sent a video message apologising for not being able to attend the event, adding: \"I'm so so so truly grateful to be shortlisted alongside so many people I truly admire.\"\n\nLast year's Mercury winner was London rapper Little Simz for her fourth album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.", "Dr Simi Adedeji, who has 1.97m subscribers, is a UK doctor who has been validated by YouTube\n\nYouTube has launched a verification system for healthcare workers in the UK as it battles disinformation online.\n\nIn 2022, health videos were viewed more than three billion times in the UK alone on the video-sharing platform.\n\nDoctors, nurses and psychologists have been applying for the scheme since June and must meet rigorous criteria set by the tech giant to be eligible.\n\nSuccessful applicants will have a badge under their name identifying them as a genuine, licensed healthcare worker.\n\nBut YouTubers have warned the system is only meant for education purposes, not to replace medical advice from your GP.\n\nVishaal Virani, who leads health content for YouTube, said it was important simply due to the sheer number of people accessing healthcare information on the video-sharing platform.\n\n\"Whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not, whether the health industry is pushing for it or not, people are accessing health information online,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to do as good a job as possible to bring rigour to the content that they are subsequently consuming when they do start their care journey online.\n\n\"We want to create an environment where those who are experts, who are authorities, are able to elevate the content that they are creating.\"\n\n\"I think the reason why it's such a great thing is you just have time to tackle some tricky topics and conversations,\" said Dr Simi Adedeji, a YouTuber who focuses on skin health and women's health.\n\n\"I'm able to talk about some of the embarrassing topics that women are often too embarrassed to talk about, that sometimes they were too embarrassed to even bring up in a consultation with their doctor.\n\n\"Being able to create content like this makes it really accessible for the audience, and helps in terms of reducing the health anxiety that people might sometimes have, because they're able to have some information that's digestible in easy, understandable language.\"\n\nAs a practicing doctor in the UK, who has been validated on YouTube as part of the programme, she said the system allowed people to make judgements on the trustworthiness of health videos.\n\nBut she warned her content, and the validation tag, were \"absolutely not\" intended to replace seeing a medical professional.\n\n\"There's a difference between giving medical education - which is what we're doing - and giving medical advice - which we don't do,\" she said.\n\n\"It's about giving medical information so that the audience feels empowered and can then go and see their doctor.\n\n\"This is very much complementary, it does not replace your consultation with your doctor.\"\n\nA note appears directly underneath the video of validated users, explaining they are licensed in the UK\n\nNow when people search for a health topic on YouTube, the top of the search results will first show a \"health shelf\" - a list of videos - which is explicitly labelled to be from health sources.\n\nThe videos which populate that list will be those from authoritative sources which have been validated by YouTube.\n\nIt is the latest move from the tech giant as it fights against false information in videos, particularly around health.\n\nIt comes two years after the firm announced a total ban on disinformation about vaccinations, the end result of months of criticism it faced for an inability to handle disinformation around the Covid-19 vaccination.\n\nAnd research published in the BMJ in 2022 found that 11% of YouTube's most viewed videos about the vaccine contradicted the World Health Organisation or the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nMr Virani told the BBC healthcare professionals were validated through a \"multi-step process\" based on collaboration with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) and the NHS, along with other stakeholders such as the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nThe YouTubers must have an active medical licence, and they cannot have posted any videos in the past containing disinformation.\n\nYouTubers who break the rules could potentially lose their validation status, or even their YouTube account altogether if it is particularly egregious.\n\nAnd Alastair Henderson, former chief executive of the AoMRC, explained things could be even worse than that if validated users deliberately provide misinformation.\n\n\"There is potential that with their individual professional regulator this would be an issue,\" he said.\n\n\"We've talked to regulators about this - being deceptive or providing false information would breach the expectations of the General Medical Council or Nursing Council.\"\n\nAnd he said he hoped other social media companies would be inspired to take up similar practices.\n\n\"I would certainly hope that others will follow and I would assume if it's clear that this is successful and popular and the YouTube platform is recognised as high quality and impactful, others might want to do that too... but we are not in a position to force them.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Meta and TikTok to ask if they plan to bring similar verification to their platforms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHong Kong and cities across southern China are battling flooding caused by the heaviest rains in over 140 years.\n\nOn Friday, streets and subway stations were under water in Hong Kong as officials shut schools and workplaces.\n\nEmergency services said more than 100 people had been taken to hospital and several rescues had taken place - with a black weather warning issued.\n\nPictures show the rain turning streets into raging rivers, flooding shopping centres and public transport.\n\nOn social media, people were seen climbing on to cars and other elevated platforms to escape the waters, which have risen several metres-high in some areas, blocking off subway entrances.\n\nOn Thursday, authorities issued the black warning due to rainfall exceeding 70mm an hour. The Hong Kong Observatory later that night reported an hourly rainfall of 158.1 millimetres, the highest since records began in 1884.\n\nA man walks past the debris of a landside in Hong Kong\n\nThe city's cross harbour tunnel, a key route connecting the main island to the Kowloon peninsula in its north, was inundated. The rain also triggered landslides in Hong Kong's mountainous areas - blocking some highways.\n\nBy Friday afternoon, the downpours had eased with authorities downgrading the rainstorm from a \"black\" warning to an \"amber\" alert. But they warned showers were expected to persist until Saturday.\n\nMore than 200mm of rain was recorded on Hong Kong island, Kowloon and the north-eastern part of the city between 18:00 local time (10:00 GMT) and midnight - a total that exceeds the amount the entire city typically receives within certain months.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHeavy rain has also drenched southern China, with the city of Shenzhen - across the border from Hong Kong - reporting its heaviest showers since records began in 1952.\n\nHundreds of flights have been suspended in the wider Guangdong province, while local authorities advised residents in low-lying areas to consider evacuations.\n\nTens of millions of people live in the densely populated coastal areas of southern China.\n\nOn Thursday night, Shenzhen discharged water from its reservoirs after issuing a notice to Hong Kong - an action that raised questions from Hong Kong locals online as to whether this exacerbated their city's flooding.\n\nBut Hong Kong's security chief Chris Tang said on Friday the discharge had no impact on the city's floods and the action was safe for both Shenzhen and Hong Kong.\n\nChina's meteorological administration expects extreme rainfall to continue in the country's southwestern region on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe latest downpour comes less than a week after two typhoons, Saola and Haikui, hit southern China in quick succession - and sparked a citywide shutdown in Hong Kong.\n\nClimate change has increased the intensity and frequency of tropical storms, leading to an increase in flash flooding and greater damage.\n• None More than 40 injured in Taiwan after Typhoon Haikui", "Danny Masterson seen with wife Bijou Phillips on 31 May prior to his conviction\n\nUS actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to serve 30 years to life in prison for raping two women.\n\nMasterson starred on That '70s Show, a TV series that was airing at the time of his crimes in the early 2000s.\n\nProsecutors argued Masterson, 47, had relied on his status as a prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability.\n\nJudge Charlaine Olmedo allowed the victims of his crimes to read impact statements in court ahead of his sentencing.\n\nProminent former Scientologist and actress Leah Remini attended Thursday's hearing and comforted the women before and after they delivered their statements.\n\n\"I wished I had reported him earlier to the police,\" one of the women said, according to US media.\n\nAnother woman told Masterson: \"I forgive you. Your sickness is no longer mine to bear,\" according to Reuters.\n\nAs the judge read his sentence - the maximum penalty allowed - his wife, Bijou Phillips, was seen in court breaking down in tears.\n\nMasterson was found guilty in May at a re-trial after the first jury was unable to reach a verdict in 2022. Following his conviction, Masterson was deemed a flight risk and was taken into prison custody.\n\nThe actor was convicted after three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home from 2001-03 - during the height of his television fame.\n\nThe jury heard testimony that he had given them drugs before he assaulted them.\n\nHe was found guilty of rape against two of his three accusers. The charges brought by the third accuser were declared a mistrial and prosecutors said they do not plan to retry the case.\n\nAlison Anderson, a lawyer representing two of the victims, said in a statement sent to BBC News that the women \"have displayed tremendous strength and bravery, by coming forward to law enforcement and participating directly in two gruelling criminal trials\".\n\n\"Despite persistent harassment, obstruction and intimidation, these courageous women helped hold a ruthless sexual predator accountable today,\" she said.\n\nThroughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the Church of Scientology had helped cover up the assaults - an allegation the organisation has categorically denied.\n\nAt the time of the attacks, Masterson and all three of his accusers were Scientologists. Several of the women said it took them years to come forward because Church of Scientology officials discouraged them from reporting the rape to police.\n\nScientology officials told one survivor she would lose her membership of the community unless she signed a non-disclosure agreement and accepted a payment of $400,000 (£320,000), according to prosecutors.\n\nDuring the trial, Judge Olmedo allowed both sides to discuss the dogma and practices of Scientology, angering the organisation.\n\nIn its statement after the verdict in May, the Church of Scientology said there was \"not a scintilla of evidence supporting the scandalous allegations that the Church harassed the accusers\".\n\nActress Leah Remini, seen here at a film screening, is an outspoken critic of the Church of Scientology\n\nIn court on Thursday, one woman described being shunned by her mother, who is still a practising Scientologist.\n\n\"She texted me and told me to never contact her again,\" she said, reported the LA Times.\n\n\"She had warned me ahead of time she wanted to see Danny Masterson locked away for what he'd done to me, but not at the expense of her religion.\"\n\nAnother woman said she had been victimised by the Church of Scientology ever since she spoke out.\n\n\"Since the week I came forward to police I have been terrorised, harassed and had my privacy invaded daily by the cult of Scientology for almost seven years now,\" she said, adding: \"But I don't regret it.\"\n\nMasterson was first accused of rape in 2017 during the height of the #MeToo movement. He denied the accusations and said each of the encounters was consensual.\n\nCharges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases because of insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nThursday's sentencing was also attended by Jessica Barth, who founded Voices in Action in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\n\nMs Barth was one of the women to publicly accuse disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of abuse. Her non-profit works to encourage others to come forward and report abuse.\n\nBefore the hearing, a motion for a new trial by Masterson's defence team was denied by the judge, according to an Los Angeles court official.", "Donald Dinnie, Christopher Stuchbury and Brett McCullough died in the crash\n\nNetwork Rail has been fined £6.7m after admitting a series of failings which led to the deaths of three people in a train crash near Stonehaven.\n\nThe Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed at Carmont after hitting a landslide following heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail pleaded guilty to a number of maintenance and inspection failures before the crash in August 2020.\n\nIt also admitted failing to warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe or tell him to reduce his speed.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the crash.\n\nThe judge, Lord Matthews, said no penalty could compensate for the loss suffered by the families of those who died and of the six people on board the train who were injured.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Ray McCullough, the father of the train's driver, said the fine was \"not enough\".\n\n\"At the end of the day, the train should not have gone out,\" he said.\n\nKevin Lindsay, Scottish organiser for train drivers' union Aslef, added that the sentence offered \"no comfort\".\n\nIt has also been announced that a fatal accident inquiry will be held into the crash.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said the aim was to help avoid a similar incident happening again.\n\nThe train hit a landslide near Stonehaven in August 2020 after heavy rain in an area where a drainage system had been incorrectly installed.\n\nThe 06:38 service to Glasgow had been unable to complete its journey due to the conditions and was returning to Aberdeen when the accident happened.\n\nA recording of the driver showed he queried with a signaller if any reduced speed was needed to return north. He was told everything was fine for normal speed.\n\nThe train struck debris from a landslide on the track, derail and collided with a bridge parapet.\n\nPassing sentence at the High Court in Aberdeen, Lord Matthews said that very few people who saw the images of the crash would ever forget them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But as distressing as these images are, they were only of machines. Their loss pales into insignificance compared to that of those who tragically lost loved ones in the calamity and those who were passengers on the train.\n\n\"All of them have to live with the memories and the effects of this tragedy.\"\n\nThe judge said opportunities to take appropriate action may have been missed and that the level of culpability was high, with a large number of people exposed to risk over the years.\n\nThe weather conditions before the crash had been \"unprecedented\".\n\nLord Matthews added that the rail operator would have been fined £10m if the case had gone to trial.\n\nIn the three years since the crash a long investigation has tried to answer three key questions: what went wrong, who's to blame, and what can be done to prevent a similar tragedy in future?\n\nAmong the specific findings, highlighted in court, was the fact that a drainage system in the area was incorrectly installed by the giant construction firm Carillion, which has since gone into liquidation.\n\nNetwork Rail engineers had not fully inspected this drainage system. So problems were spotted too late.\n\nThe company has now been fined £6.7m - but officials at the RMT rail union are angry.\n\nThey say Network Rail has got off lightly and that corporate manslaughter charges must be made an option in similar cases in future.\n\nRepresenting Network Rail, defence counsel Peter Gray said the three men died in \"the most appalling and tragic circumstances\".\n\nHe said the company extended the \"deepest and most profound sympathies\" to relatives, and that what happened had \"shook Network Rail to its core\".\n\n\"Its acceptance of its shortcomings was both immediate and genuine,\" he said.\n\n\"Its co-operation with all investigations was absolute. And its response to ensure so far as reasonably possible that such tragedy should not be repeated was comprehensive and continues.\"\n\nAlex Hynes, managing director of Scotland's Railway, added that the incident would be \"etched on the industry's mind forever, and make us determined to keep improving the safety of our network every day\".\n\nThe Aslef union said it was a tragedy that \"could and should have been avoided\".\n\n\"This is not justice in the truest sense of the word, nor in any way does it ensure those involved are held to account,\" said Kevin Lindsay.\n\n\"People within organisations need to be held accountable, it is them, not the organisation, that makes decisions.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Georgia special grand jury recommended charging one current and two former US senators and 18 other allies of ex-President Donald Trump, a newly released report says.\n\nBut prosecutors decided not to indict them for alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election results in the state.\n\nThe jury had voted to recommend indictments against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.\n\nThe full report was released on Friday.\n\nThe document, much of which was previously under seal, offers the clearest picture yet of the secret jury's thinking as they investigated whether Mr Trump and his allies broke the law in Georgia during the 2020 US presidential election.\n\nThat investigation culminated in the criminal charges that were brought against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants last month for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results.\n\nAll have pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nFormer Georgia Senators David Purdue (left) and Kelly Loeffler (right) on stage with Donald Trump in Georgia in December 2020\n\nThis report, which was posted online, sheds light on who else was investigated and how close they came to being prosecuted.\n\nIn total the special grand jury recommended charges against 39 people. Eventually 19 people, including Mr Trump, were charged.\n\nThe panel spent seven months interviewing about 75 witnesses. They had broad investigative powers and could recommend charges based on their findings - but did not have the power to indict.\n\nThe grand jury report shows the breakdown of each vote to recommend charges against the major figures caught up in the investigation, including Mr Trump.\n\nBut the actual document shows dissent among the 23-member panel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n\nTwo jurors voted against recommending charges for individuals accused of posing as false electors. They believed they had been \"misled to understand what was their civic duty\".\n\nWhile nearly all were in agreement to charge Mr Trump and his top attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, there was a more pronounced split about whether to charge the senators.\n\nFootnotes included beneath each vote give a glimpse into their disagreements. The splits could portend challenges for prosecutors at an eventual trial, where a jury must vote unanimously to convict.\n\nThe report notes that one dissenting juror believed Ms Loeffler and Mr Perdue were \"pandering to their political base\" when they made false statements about the election results as they were running for re-election, but that did not necessarily make them \"guilty of a criminal conspiracy\".\n\nThe relatively bare-bones report does not specify the actions each senator took that would incur possible charges. But much is known about their public statements and private actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election.\n\nBoth Mr Loeffler and Mr Perdue were up for re-election in 2020. They publicly backed Mr Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the presidential race and repeated unfounded claims that widespread fraud had potentially occurred.\n\nRecounts and audits found no such fraud in Georgia and confirmed Joe Biden had won the state.\n\nMs Loeffler defended her actions in a statement on Friday, claiming she was \"speaking out in defence of election integrity\".\n\nMs Willis had also scrutinised a call that Mr Graham made to the state's top election official shortly after the election, as well as other actions.\n\nHe had called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ask whether certain postal ballots could be thrown out, the Washington Post reported.\n\nMr Graham denied the accusations on Friday, saying that when he called Mr Raffensperger he was simply doing his job and inquiring over a legitimate concern of potential voter fraud.\n\n\"I feel comfortable with the questions I asked,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, I did my job.\"\n\nMr Graham repeatedly framed the charges against Mr Trump and the recommended indictment against him as politically motivated.\n\nMr Perdue's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\n\nSome additional major figures not indicted include his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, attorney and aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyer Cleta Mitchell.\n\nIn a statement on Friday on his social network Truth Social, Mr Trump said the grand jury report had \"zero credibility\", adding that jurors wanted to \"indict anybody who happened to be breathing\".\n\nFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis created the special grand jury soon after the 2020 US presidential election. Unlike a typical grand jury, this body had investigative powers.\n\nThe panel was selected in May 2022 and turned in its final report in January. Much of it has remained under seal until now.\n\nMs Willis created a second, typical grand jury this summer, which voted to indict Mr Trump and the 18 co-defendants in a sweeping racketeering case.\n\nThe indictment alleges the 19 worked together in order to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election by pressuring Georgia election officials, harassing poll workers, and organising a slate of false electoral college members to submit a false vote for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been criminally indicted four times, including in the Georgia case.\n\nHe has repeatedly denounced the prosecutions as politically motivated, deliberately aimed at derailing his presidential ambitions.", "The portrait of the late Queen has not been released before\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla have marked the first anniversary of Elizabeth II's death with a prayer service near Balmoral.\n\nThey were at Crathie Kirk, while the Duke of Sussex visited St George's Chapel in Windsor - the late queen's final resting place.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales attended a private service at St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe King also released a message and a favourite photograph of the late queen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gun salutes across the UK mark King Charles III's first year on throne\n\nThe photograph chosen by the King shows the queen at an official portrait sitting in 1968 aged 42.\n\nElizabeth II died aged 96 at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on 8 September last year, just months after her Platinum Jubilee which marked 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe King, who has spent the summer at his Birkhall residence and Balmoral, attended the nearby Crathie Kirk church for private memorial prayers on Friday morning.\n\nFollowing the service, the King and Queen went on a walkabout, smiling and sharing jokes with Balmoral Estate staff, members of the royal household, local primary school pupils and residents from the nearby town of Ballater.\n\nPrince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales attended a short private service on Friday at St Davids Cathedral - some 500 miles away in Wales.\n\nCatherine, wearing earrings which belonged to the late queen, laid flowers in front of a portrait of her.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Harry was photographed leaving St George's Chapel in Windsor after paying respects to his grandmother.\n\nThe chapel, where the late queen's moving Committal Service was held, is home to Elizabeth II's final resting place - the King George VI Memorial Chapel.\n\nIn his short tribute, the King thanked the nation for the \"love and support\" shown to him and Queen Camilla during his first year as monarch.\n\n\"In marking the first anniversary of Her late Majesty's death and my accession, we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us,\" the King said.\n\n\"I am deeply grateful, too, for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during this year as we do our utmost to be of service to you all.\"\n\nHis written message, which accompanies the audio recording, is signed Charles R.\n\nKing Charles spoke to the crowds outside the service at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral\n\nPrince William and Catherine attended a service in Wales on Friday\n\nThe formal colour photograph was taken by Cecil Beaton on 16 October 1968 and has not been released until now.\n\nIt shows the late queen in her Garter robes, wearing the Grand Duchess Vladimir's Tiara, made of 15 interlaced diamond circles.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a message that the scale of the late queen's service \"only seems greater\" a year after her death.\n\n\"Her devotion to the nations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth only seems deeper,\" he said.\n\n\"And our gratitude for such an extraordinary life of duty and dedication only continues to grow.\"\n\nMr Sunak said he treasured his memories of meeting the late queen and was struck by her \"wisdom, her incredible warmth and grace\", as well as her \"sharp wit\".\n\n\"People across the UK - whether they had the good fortune to meet Her late Majesty or not - will be reflecting today on what she meant to them and the example she set for us all,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the queues to see the late queen lying in state showed she had \"always enjoyed a special bond with her people\".\n\n\"It was a relationship built from her understanding that service of this great nation is the thread that unites sovereign and subject,\" he said.\n\n\"So, as we reflect on her legacy again today, let us embrace that spirit of public service as our guide towards a better future.\"\n\nTo mark the anniversary of King Charles's accession to the throne, gun salutes were fired at midday on Friday in Hyde Park and at 13:00 BST at the Tower of London.\n\nBells were rung at Westminster Abbey at 13:00 to mark the occasion.\n\nPrince Harry separately paid his own tribute to the late queen, saying she \"is looking down on all of us\".\n\nIn a speech at the WellChild Awards ceremony in London on Thursday, he recalled how he had been forced to miss last year's event as he flew to Balmoral after his grandmother became ill.\n\nYou can read more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK, or here, from outside the UK.", "Streets and buildings in Hong Kong and southern Chinese cities have been hit with intense flooding after some of the heaviest rainfall on record.\n\nVehicles have been abandoned and submerged in floodwaters and landslides have swept across roads.\n\nThe latest flooding comes less than a week after two typhoons hit southern China.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nAmerican teenager Coco Gauff reached her first US Open singles final by beating Karolina Muchova in a semi-final disrupted by climate protesters.\n\nGauff, 19, wrapped up a 6-4 7-5 win over Muchova and will face second seed Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday's final.\n\nFour protesters chanting for the end of fossil fuels had interrupted the Gauff-Muchova match for 49 minutes.\n\nOne man glued his feet to the floor on Arthur Ashe Stadium with some chants of \"kick them out\" towards the protesters.\n\nSecurity escorted three out but it took longer to the remove the fourth. The United States Tennis Association said all four were in New York Police Department custody.\n\nThe drama was confined to the tennis court in the second semi-final where Australian Open champion Sabalenka dug deep to beat Madison Keys 0-6 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (10-5) and prevent an all-American showpiece in New York.\n\nIt will be sixth seed Gauff's second attempt to win a Grand Slam singles final after finishing runner-up to Poland's Iga Swiatek at the 2022 French Open.\n\nGauff could not convert a match point when serving at 5-4, but broke Czech 10th seed Muchova to seal victory after winning a 40-shot rally to create the sixth opportunity.\n\nGauff raised her fist after clinching the win, signalling her defiance and fight, as the home crowd erupted.\n\nAfter letting out another roar of celebration, she made a heart sign to the fans as a thank you for helping her get over the line.\n\nUltimately, the way Gauff finally secured victory was testament to her own resolve and a mental fortitude which she says has developed over a successful North American hard-court season.\n\n\"Some of those points it was so loud, I don't know if my ears will be OK. Please be louder - this is crazy,\" Gauff told the crowd in her on-court interview.\n\n\"I grew up watching this tournament, it feels so special. But the job is not done.\"\n• None How hot is too hot to play a Grand Slam?\n• None Alcaraz and Djokovic aim to set up US Open showdown\n\nEver since Gauff burst on to the scene as a 15-year-old phenomenon in 2019, she has been heralded as a future major champion.\n\nNow she has earned another opportunity to reach the pinnacle of her sport while still a teenager after a gutsy win over Muchova at Flushing Meadows.\n\nGauff, who turned 19 in March, is the youngest American woman to reach her home Grand Slam final since Serena Williams in 1999.\n\nIt comes after she has enjoyed the best period of her career on the North American hard-court swing.\n\nWinning her biggest singles titles in Washington and Cincinnati was the perfect preparation for the US Open and she has continued to thrive in front of expectant home crowds in New York.\n\nGauff made a fast start against a tight-looking Muchova, who was aiming to reach her second major singles final after also being beaten by Swiatek at the French Open this year.\n\nA slew of mistakes from Muchova contributed heavily to a 5-1 deficit and once she settled - which enabled her to pose questions of Gauff's forehand - fought back to 5-4.\n\nHowever, a poor service game from the Czech gifted the opening set to Gauff - and the drama of the protest came shortly afterwards.\n\nThe players were taken off court after the first game of the second set because one of the protesters, who were wearing Extinction Rebellion T-shirts, glued themselves to the floor.\n\n\"I just treated it like a rain delay,\" Gauff told ESPN.\n\n\"The only thing which was harder was that we had to leave the court and didn't know if it would be five minutes or an hour.\"\n\nAfter the protesters were finally removed by police, the players resumed the match nearly 50 minutes after the previous point.\n\nThe pair continued to hold serve in the second set until what had slowly developed into a gripping contest suddenly burst further into life.\n\nGauff broke for 5-4 but, like in the first set, could not serve out and needed to show all of her will to get over the line.\n\nSabalenka unsure how she 'came through' stressful semi-final\n\nWith most of the focus on Gauff, Sabalenka had been quietly and efficiently getting on with business.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who will become the new world number one after the tournament, had not dropped a set on her way to the last four but had to find a different way to win against Keys.\n\nKeys, who was the runner-up in 2017, showed her pin-point quality from the baseline and hit an array of winners in a one-sided opening set.\n\nBy contrast, Sabalenka was spraying the ball and produced a series of unforced errors to benefit her opponent.\n\nSabalenka had won only one of her previous six Grand Slam semi-finals, including defeats when she held leads at this year's French Open and Wimbledon.\n\nFlinging a racquet towards her team early in the second set illustrated her frustration and her body language throughout indicated her stress levels.\n\nBut she showed extraordinary determination to fight back and earn what must be one of the most satisfying wins of her career.\n\nKeys served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, but she was broken to love as Sabalenka won 12 points in a row to turn the tide.\n\nAlthough Keys regained composure to save two set points at 6-5, Sabalenka dominated the tie-break to force the decider.\n\nThe pair battled for supremacy in a tense third set, exchanging breaks in the seventh and eighth games, leading to the first-to-10 match tie-break.\n\nSabalenka thought she had won at 7-3 - like she would in a normal tie-break - and had to regain focus to reach the US Open final for the first time.\n\n\"Somehow, I don't know how, I turned around this match and it really means a lot to be in the US Open final for the first time,\" she said.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The lives of three strangers with nothing in common collide:\n• None What harm does vaping do to teenagers?: Panorama investigates the recent vaping phenomenon and its potential risks", "The derailment happened near Stonehaven on 12 August last year\n\nIt's three years since the Aberdeen to Glasgow train ploughed off the line near Stonehaven.\n\nThree people died after the train hit a landslide at Carmont and derailed.\n\nThe toll could have been much higher, if the train had not been almost empty that day.\n\nSince then, a long investigation has tried to answer three key questions: what went wrong, who's to blame, and what can be done to prevent a similar tragedy in future?\n\nAmong the specific findings, highlighted in court was the fact that a drainage system in the area was incorrectly installed by the giant construction firm Carillion, which has since gone into liquidation.\n\nNetwork Rail engineers had not fully inspected this drainage system. So problems were spotted too late.\n\nDriver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the crash.\n\nThe judge, Lord Matthews, said no penalty he could impose could compensate for the loss suffered by the families of those who died and of the six people on board the train who were injured.\n\nNetwork Rail has now been fined £6.7m after pleading guilty to a number of maintenance and inspection failures before the crash in August 2020 and failing to warn the driver that part of the track was unsafe or tell him to reduce his speed.\n\nDonald Dinnie, Christopher Stuchbury and Brett McCullough died in the crash\n\nBut officials at the RMT rail union are angry.\n\nThey say Network Rail has got off lightly - and that corporate manslaughter charges must be made an option in similar cases in future.\n\nNetwork Rail is in charge of rail infrastructure across the UK, so it's having to make sweeping changes in response to this crash.\n\nTwenty key changes are recommended. So far, just two have been completed by Network Rail.\n\nSeveral more, they say, await approval by rail regulators. The rest, they claim will be in place in the next two years, or will fall to rail operators to implement.\n\nRail unions are frustrated at this pace of change. Without rapid progress, they warn, the lives of passengers and rail workers remain at risk.\n\nOfficials at Network Rail say they're working fast to introduce complex changes, many of them UK-wide.\n\nThis crash shows how extreme weather can wreak havoc with the rail network.\n\nTorrential rain and flooding damaged the rail line at Stonehaven in the hours before the derailment.\n\nNetwork rail point to lessons learned: more investment in front-line inspection teams, and remote monitoring systems to bring early alerts from danger areas.\n\nMore helicopter inspections, they say, are planned in remote areas, with river levels monitored better to highlight potential flooding.\n\nNetwork Rail say that in 2014-2024, they've committed around £200m on drainage systems, earthworks and bridge protection in Scotland alone.\n\nMore severe storms mean falling trees cause more regular damage to overhead electric rail lines. This, in turn, brings services to a halt. So a ramped-up programme of tree-felling is in place around the network.\n\nAnd extreme weather demands better planning. In the Network Rail control centre in Glasgow, a specialist weather team is now in place - the first of its kind in the UK.\n\nThese meteorologists are tasked with providing 24 hours a day over-watch, so route control managers can respond better to extreme local conditions.\n\nThis aims to help them decide when to slow trains down or close lines altogether, when the weather's particularly bad.\n\nWill this be enough to avert a similar tragedy in future?\n\nWith so much of Scotland's rail network running through remote and mountainous Highland terrain, it's clear that climate change and extreme weather present real danger - whatever's done to blunt its impact.", "The Conservatives have defended accepting a donation from the chief executive of a company accused of marketing vapes to children.\n\nThey accepted a £350,000 donation from Supreme 8 Limited in May, records show.\n\nThe boss of Supreme 8 is Sandy Chadha, who is also the chief executive of Supreme PLC, which markets vapes.\n\nLabour says vapes sold by Supreme - such as Blue Razz Lemonade, Strawberry Mousse and Rainbow Burst - are clearly aimed at children.\n\nThe legal age to purchase and use a vape is 18.\n\nA spokesperson for Supreme PLC said: \"Supreme PLC or its subsidiaries does not and has not made political donations.\n\n\"We can however confirm that Sandy Chadha, Group CEO of Supreme PLC has, historically, donated funds to the Conservative Party.\n\n\"These donations are unrelated to Supreme PLC, of which Mr Chadha is a shareholder, and were funded directly by Mr Chadha.\"\n\nAmong the vaping products Supreme distributes for wholesale are Elf Bar, which has been criticised for marketing vapes to young people.\n\nHowever, Elf Bar products do contain a warning indicating that \"it is forbidden to sell this product to children\".\n\nMr Chadha said: \"Supreme plc does not market or sell our products to children\".\n\n\"We acknowledge the concerns about youth vaping and are fully supportive of addressing and reducing youth uptake of vaping products,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: \"We're sleepwalking into a new generation of children getting hooked on nicotine. Yet the Tories put lining their own pockets ahead of protecting children's health.\n\n\"Labour will come down like a ton of bricks on those peddling vapes to kids. We will ban the marketing and branding of vapes to children and give every child a healthy start to life.\"\n\nLabour shadow children's minister Helen Hayes this week sought to introduce a law banning the marketing of vapes to children, telling MPs it is not necessary to use brightly-coloured branding to sell a smoking cessation product.\n\nA Tory spokesperson said: \"We are not anti-vaping. It is one of the most effective ways to help people quit and smoking and our government encourages this switch.\n\n\"However, this government is taking meaningful steps to tackle vendors who sell vapes to children.\n\n\"This includes setting up an Illicit Vape Enforcement Squad, closing loopholes on giving out sample vapes, and launching a review into fines for selling these products to under-18s.\"\n\nOne in five children (11-17 year olds) have tried vaping, figures from the 2023 Action on Smoking and Health survey of young vapers in England, Scotland and Wales suggest.\n\nIn May, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"My daughters are 10 and 12, and I don't want the way vapes are marketed, promoted and sold to be attractive to them. That's why I am launching a new crackdown today to protect children.\"\n\nProf John Britton, honorary professor at the University of Nottingham, who previously advised the government on its plan to end smoking, said: \"It's inconceivable to say that vaping is safe, it is a balance of risks.\n\n\"If you don't use nicotine in any shape or form, it is madness to start vaping.\"\n\nProf Britton anticipates that in 40 or 50 years' time, we will start to see people developing lung cancer, chronic bronchitis and other serious lung conditions as a result of their vaping.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care have said they have regulations in place to discourage underage vaping such as restricting sales of vapes to over 18s only, limiting nicotine content, refill bottle and tank sizes and through advertising restrictions.", "Parts of central Greece saw more than a year's rainfall in one day. The latest city under threat is Larissa\n\nRescuers in central Greece are trying to reach hundreds of people trapped by floods that have left villages submerged and 10 people dead.\n\nPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said Greeks face \"a very unequal battle\" with nature.\n\nRivers have burst their banks, while homes and bridges have been swept away after days of torrential rain.\n\nResidents in villages around Palamas and Karditsa have appealed for food and water.\n\nAfter weeks of scorching temperatures and wildfires, the plains of Thessaly have been deluged by a three-day storm.\n\nUp to 800mm (31.5in) of rain fell in 24 hours - more than a year's worth of rainfall - inundating the flat terrain in central Greece.\n\nThe latest city to come under threat is Larissa, home to 150,000 people, where the River Pineios has burst its banks in some suburbs.\n\nIt's one of the biggest cities in Greece and the agricultural hub for the whole country. But nearly a quarter of this year's crop production has been lost.\n\nIt will take years for the land to be fertile again. Where the water has receded, a thick layer of mud has been left behind.\n\nSatellite images have shown almost 730 sq km (280 sq miles) of land in Thessaly has been flooded.\n\nMany people in the region are furious at the Greek authorities. They accuse ministers of using climate change as an excuse for poor building projects.\n\nOne bridge collapsed because of a cyclone three years ago, so they rebuilt it. Now it's completely destroyed again. Many Greeks see this as a symbol of government failure.\n\nThis bridge has collapsed twice in three years\n\nThe city of Larissa is unrecognisable. Many roads are very steep. The houses at the bottom of the road are now entirely flooded, whereas the houses at the top are intact - for now.\n\nThe damage to infrastructure is enormous. Many roads are impassable and bridges destroyed because of the ferocity of the storm.\n\nBut at the same time, there are also burnt-out trees and scorched land - debris from the devastating wildfires that Greece has battled with all summer.\n\nXenia has lost everything to the floodwaters\n\nXenia, a woman in her 50s with thick curly hair, is holding back tears as she watches her house from a distance - all that is visible is its yellow roof. She has lived there for more than 30 years with her family.\n\n\"I never believed that this could happen. Right now, there is about one-and-a-half metres of water in my house,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It is destroyed completely and I have nothing left, just my job, this house and my children.\n\n\"Tonight I will be hosted by a colleague, maybe even longer. My children will sleep over at friends whose houses are safe. I might never come back to this house, where sadly I have been living my whole life, and rent a cheap apartment that I can afford with my low salary.\"\n\nThe death toll has risen to 10 and at least four people are missing, according to Greece's civil protection minister, Vassilis Kikilias. There are fears it could go up further when rescuers are able to reach more of the flooded areas.\n\nVisiting some of the worst-affected areas, the Greek prime minister said the country was dealing with \"a natural phenomenon the likes of which we have never seen before\".\n\nMr Mitsotakis promised to compensate people, whose houses had been destroyed or damaged, as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We will do everything humanly possible. I understand both anger and rage. I never hid, I'm always here in difficult times,\" he said.\n\nThe rain has now largely stopped, but the floodwaters in some areas are in places greater than 2m (6.5ft) deep.\n\nStorm Daniel brought more than a year's worth of rain to some areas\n\nThe coastal city of Volos has been without clean drinking water for four days. Residents were seen collecting water from fountains and the sea with buckets and barrels, reports said.\n\nThe Greek fire brigade said more than 1,800 people had been rescued across Greece since Tuesday.\n\nIt said it continued to search for several missing people, including an Austrian couple swept away with the holiday home they were spending their honeymoon in.\n\nThe flooding follows Greece's hottest summer on record and massive wildfires in the north of the country.\n\nScientists say extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change.", "Gabon's new prime minister has told the BBC that the country should hold fresh elections within the next two years, following a military coup last week.\n\nThe junta which overthrew President Ali Bongo has promised a free and fair election, but not set out a timetable.\n\nHowever, Raymond Ndong Sima told the BBC's Newshour programme: \"I have said in a document that I published that that should be done within two years.\"\n\nHe said a timetable would be decided in the coming days.\n\nMr Sima was installed as interim prime minister on Thursday, after Gen Brice Oligui Nguema, who led the coup against Mr Bongo, became Gabon's transitional president.\n\nMr Bongo had led the oil-rich West African country since 2009 when he succeeded his father who had been in power for more than 40 years. The family had strong links to France, the former colonial power in Gabon.\n\nThe coup has been condemned in Africa and the West, including France.\n\nCivilians appear to have welcomed the change, with cheers greeting Gen Nguema's inauguration on Monday.\n\nHowever, some have questioned whether his rule will be a break from the past, having spent most of his career in Mr Bongo's inner circle.\n\nAsked what had changed since the coup, Mr Sima told the BBC's Newshour: \"What has changed is that the military has refused to beat up the population and we have a promise that we will look into the institutions that [will] come back to the democratic rule.\n\n\"In politics you would rather take a little bit of what you can get.\"\n\nMr Sima added that he would take time for Gabon to transition away from the previous regime.\n\n\"You cannot end the political influence of a family that has ruled for over 50 years in one day because there are indirect influence and direct influence,\" he said.\n\nThe new prime minister - who once served under Mr Bongo before standing against him in two elections - ruled out bringing a legal case against Gabon's former president.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Bongo to face trial on allegations of corruption.\n\nBut Mr Sima said: \"I think what is interesting for people is not to open the case. I don't think it would be viable to open a case at this moment.\"\n\nFrance conducted a seven-year investigation into the Bongo family, which revealed assets including numerous properties and nine luxury cars before it was dropped in 2017. The family strongly denied all the allegations.\n\nMr Bongo was released from house arrest on Thursday and the junta has said he is free to leave the country to seek medical check-ups.\n\nIn the past, he has received treatment in Morocco after suffering a stroke.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nComedian Mike Yarwood, whose TV impressions made him a household name, has died aged 82.\n\nYarwood was one of the biggest TV stars of the 1970s with hit BBC shows.\n\nHe was famous for his impressions of former prime ministers Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, as well as the then Prince Charles.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie described Yarwood as \"simply one of the greats\" and \"one of Britain's most loved performers\".\n\n\"From Harold Wilson to Frank Spencer, his legendary impressions were always pin sharp, warm and funny. We will remember them all with a smile,\" he said.\n\nThe Royal Variety Charity, which announced his death, said he \"leaves behind an immeasurable void in the entertainment industry\".\n\n\"His talent for impersonation brought smiles to the faces of millions and his unique ability to capture the essence of his subjects made him an icon in the comedy world,\" the charity added.\n\nActress and singer Kate Robbins described Yarwood as \"the guvnor of impressionists\".\n\nShe said she was \"lucky enough to work with him in the 80s\", adding: \"When I was Sarah Brightman to his Cliff Richard we could hardly get anything done for laughing so much.\"\n\nImpressionist Rory Bremner said Yarwood had \"inspired us, propelled impressionists up the bill and was the court jester of the 'golden age' of TV.\"\n\nAnd LBC presenter Iain Dale described him as \"a titan of comedy\".\n\n\"He was the impressionist's impressionist and blazed the trail for those that followed in his wake, yet he was sometimes underappreciated.\"\n\nOthers paying tribute included TV personality and former newspaper editor Piers Morgan.\n\n\"Massive TV star when I was growing up, and such a gifted comedian and impressionist,\" he wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"RIP Mike, and thanks for all the laughs.\"\n\nYarwood was most well known for his impersonations, particularly of prominent political figures.\n\nHe created catchphrases which became identified with famous figures, even though they had never actually used them - including \"silly Billy\" for former Chancellor Denis Healey and \"I mean that most sincerely, folks\" for TV presenter Hughie Green.\n\nThe Mike Yarwood Show in 1977 holds the record for the largest single Christmas Day audience of 21.4m viewers, according to the Royal Variety Charity.\n\nHaving regularly attracted audiences of more than 20 million, Mr Yarwood found the decline of his career in the 1980s difficult to adjust to.\n\nMr Yarwood spent his latter years at the Royal Variety Charity's care home, Brinsworth House.\n\nHe was born on 14 June 1941 in Bredbury, Cheshire, and was a lifelong supporter of Stockport County Football Club.\n• None A look back at Mike Yarwood's famous impressions. Video, 00:00:12A look back at Mike Yarwood's famous impressions", "Raac has been found in eight University of Edinburgh buildings, including teaching, laboratory and office spaces\n\nLecture theatres, science laboratories and student unions are among UK university buildings shut because of crumbling concrete.\n\nSixteen universities have told BBC News they have closed or partially closed areas containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).\n\nLectures have had to move to other areas of campus.\n\nSome student accommodation has also been affected, as universities make areas safe.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) advised schools, colleges and nurseries in England to vacate areas known to contain Raac, unless suitable mitigating measures had been put in place.\n\nOther public buildings across the UK, built or modified between the 1950s and the mid-1990s, are also affected.\n\nSome shows have been cancelled, after the concrete was found in theatres.\n\nSt David's Hall in Cardiff has closed for checks, with comedian Adrian Edmondson, singer Alfie Boe and 1980s rock band Europe due to perform in the coming weeks.\n\nMore hospitals have also come forward to report they may have been built using Raac, and the government said it was working quickly to establish the scale of the problem.\n\nMany buildings have been managing and monitoring the situation for years, in line with previous guidance, but some are now taking extra precautions.\n\nOf the 86 universities to have responded to a BBC News request for information:\n\nThe DfE has published a list of 174 schools in England - as of 14 September - built using the concrete.\n\nSix unions have now written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan asking urgent questions, including: \"How many schools with suspected Raac have yet to be surveyed?\"\n\nIn Essex, the county with the most affected schools, about 25 are closed, partly closed or making alternative arrangements and Ms Keegan has visited one of them.", "A new Covid variant is spreading in England and is behind an outbreak at a care home in Norfolk, health officials say.\n\nThere have been 34 confirmed cases of BA.2.86, with 28 of those at the care home. There have been no deaths.\n\nIt is too early to draw conclusions on whether it is more serious than past variants, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.\n\nPeople eligible for a booster jab this autumn are encouraged to come forward.\n\nThe government recently announced that the vaccine rollout would be earlier than planned because of the new variant. It will start next week.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency's latest briefing on Covid includes an analysis on BA.2.86, an Omicron spin-off.\n\nIt says out of the 34 cases confirmed through sequencing in a lab, five people have needed hospital treatment.\n\nBased on detection of multiple unlinked cases in different regions of the UK, it's likely there is \"established community transmission of BA.2.86\", UKHSA says.\n\nScotland has also recorded two cases.\n\nNorfolk County Council has been offering infection advice and support to the care home where there has been an outbreak.\n\nStaff and residents were asked to have tests when an unusually high number of people became unwell, health officials say.\n\nLab analysis found that BA.2.86 was confirmed in the majority of samples from those tests.\n\nThis is an early indication that the variant \"may be sufficiently transmissible to have impact in close contact settings\", the analysis said.\n\nThe variant has been detected in a number of countries around the world.\n\nDr Renu Bindra, incident director at UKHSA, said BA.2.86 had a significant number of mutations compared to other Covid variants circulating at the moment.\n\nBut she added: \"The data so far is too limited to draw firm conclusions about the impact this will have on the transmissibility, severity or immune escape properties of the virus.\"\n\nDr Bindra said it was likely to be some time before a confident assessment on that could be made.\n\n\"It is clear that there is some degree of widespread community transmission, both in the UK and globally, and we are working to ascertain the full extent of this,\" she said.\n\nTwo cases of BA.2.86 have been identified in Scotland through lab testing.\n\nNo cases have been reported in Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has been criticised for changing its mind on the start date of the autumn Covid and flu vaccine programme.\n\nIt usually begins in early September, but was pushed back to October to increase protection in December and January when flu and Covid are more likely to cause problems.\n\nThe timing has now changed again, to 11 September, because of concerns over the new variant.\n\nPharmacists said last week that they had been left with very little time to prepare for the rollout of Covid and flu vaccines.\n\nPeople who are eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kleptomanicat Gingee has stolen items from neighbours fur and wide\n\nA prolific cat burglar has been caught red handed after stealing anything she can get her paws on.\n\nFeline thief Gingee, a four-year-old Maine Coon, has been ransacking nearby homes in Buckley, Flintshire.\n\nThe most startling moment for owners Jay Phoenix, 43 and Mathew Westlake-Toms, 31, was when Gingee delivered a stolen knife to their bedroom at night.\n\n\"The list so far is: a child's spade from the sandpit, a pair of goggles and - for some reason - a sieve,\" said Jay.\n\nJay said the crime spree began a few months ago when he and Matthew noticed scissors and sticky tape going missing while they were wrapping gifts.\n\nBut not content with treasure from her own home, Gingee soon began targeting the neighbours.\n\nJay and Matthew have said they've been unable to find the owners of the stolen goods\n\n\"We found football cones for training. She's coming through the cat flap all the time - the cones were quite flexible even though there were really big and some of the footage you can see is just ridiculous,\" said Jay.\n\n\"You don't think it would ever fit. I'm surprised she fits because she's quite a big cat.\"\n\nThe criminal activity has led to Jay has fitting a night vision camera in the kitchen, which caught Gingee delivering a deadly weapon to the bedroom.\n\n\"I heard a tapping on the door that sounded strange - like a human or something solid. I thought nothing of it and went back to sleep,\" said Jay.\n\nOwner Jay said he was amazed by Gingee's thefts\n\n\"My partner woke up around 8am, opened the door and it was like something from a horror scene, she was lying on the floor with a knife in front of her. I was absolutely amazed,\" Jay said.\n\n\"Matt got straight on the phone looking through all the footage until he got to about 3am then saw her just casually strolling in like a pirate with a knife in her mouth and walking through the kitchen. Absolutely unbelievable.\"\n\nJay and Mat have appealed on community social media sites for owners to claim their stolen booty but so far not much has been retrieved leaving a growing pile of illicit property at their home.\n\nGingee is not in the doghouse, though, and she's even become a viral sensation with thousands of followers and millions of views on Instagram and TikTok.", "The details of Daniel Khalife's escape raise serious questions about what happened with security at HMP Wandsworth.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is highly unlikely to ever publicly confirm all the details.\n\nIf the escape involved exploiting a very specific security loophole or technique, the last thing that governors need is other prisoners getting the same idea.\n\nBut what we know about events is clearly very troubling.\n\nWandsworth prison is one of the UK's most famous - and pretty grim - Victorian jails. It's not a pleasant place to spend a day, never mind months or years.\n\nThe prison's wings look like spokes off two central hubs, historically called Heathfield and Trinity.\n\nThe kitchens are sandwiched between these spokes, on a vehicle access road that is relatively close to the main security perimeter and gatehouse.\n\nThat is not an uncommon place to locate them, as they need to receive daily deliveries - and security chiefs need to minimise the movements of vehicles.\n\nWe can see from satellite images that the kitchens are also next to industrial rubbish containers - so it's going to be an area with a lot of vehicle traffic over the course of a week - and every movement adds to the security headache for governors.\n\nDelivery vehicles arriving at Wandsworth first pass through a public deliveries gate, then stop in an \"airlock\" before a second gate.\n\nThis means they are in a secure pen between the outside world and the prison.\n\nThat is the first location where there can be a thorough security check.\n\nSecurity teams are trained to search under a vehicle with mirrors and should also check the top of the vehicle and, of course, inside too.\n\nOnce that check is completed, vehicles move through the second gate, inside the prison walls, marked in orange on our graphic, and then stop again.\n\nThey are now in a \"sterile zone\": a second secure pen between the outer Victorian prison walls and the inner security fencing - marked in green on our diagram.\n\nThis zone should be under constant surveillance and nobody should be able to enter it without permission and escort.\n\nOnly when the third gate opens, between the sterile zone and the inner fencing, do the vehicles finally reach areas of the jail where they can be potentially accessible by prisoners.\n\nBut even at that location the vehicles cannot freely move around - there are further security gates beyond the kitchen block.\n\nThat means delivery vans or lorries can only go as far as they are permitted to minimise the risk of smuggling contraband in - or smuggling prisoners out.\n\nAll those security steps and checks take place in reverse as vehicles later leave. I've watched this happen more than once in a jail and it all takes time.\n\nSo if we reverse that process, we can say for sure that Mr Khalife was able to evade detection on at least two specific occasions as the vehicle he hid under passed through the two pens and three gates. One thing that police are keeping very tight-lipped about at present is whether they have been able to work out how long Khalife was hiding under the lorry before it departed.\n\nBut the alleged failings do not stop with the vehicle checks.\n\nMr Khalife and the lorry left at 7.32am - and he was not declared missing by prison authorities for a further 20 minutes. Another 25 minutes passed before the police were called. They managed to track down the lorry and stop it at 8.37am just over three miles away. By that time, Mr Khalife was long gone - dressed as a chef - and with an hour's head start.\n\nCommander Dominic Murphy, head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, has said that Mr Khalife must have planned his break-out - and given his military training he would be resourceful - with skills that will help him.\n\nIan Acheson, a former security chief at Wandsworth and national governor, says the escape is a spectacular failure for the prison service given the number of security breaches.\n\nA map showing the route the lorry took before being stopped\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk has confirmed that straps were found underneath the vehicle. This raises several questions:\n\nThose questions will trigger an investigation into whether he had help - potentially from the inside.\n\nMr Khalife was also in a rather unusual position of being a remand prisoner awaiting trial for very serious offences - yet also, as former prison governor John Podmore told BBC News, holding a \"plum job\".\n\nPrison officers choose very carefully who gets to work in kitchens because they're full of knives and other dangerous equipment.\n\nBecause of the deliveries, they are also an obvious potential escape route.\n\nTypically, inmates selected to work in kitchens have a record of being reliable and trustworthy.\n\nSo why was a man facing terrorism charges working in the kitchens? That's just one of the questions that Mr Chalk wants answering.\n\nHe has told MPs he wanted to know who was in charge at both the kitchens and the gatehouse - and what security protocols they were following.\n\nThe justice secretary asked for a preliminary report by the end of the week - and has promised there will be a further independent inquiry.", "Chris Jones (pictured) told the BBC he worked with Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at Wandsworth Prison\n\nAn inmate who worked with escapee Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at HMP Wandsworth has told the BBC that he said \"he was going be famous\".\n\nThe 21-year-old ex-soldier escaped from the jail on Wednesday morning strapped to the bottom of a delivery lorry.\n\nChris Jones, 53, said during their time in the kitchens he prepared food while Mr Khalife unloaded lorry deliveries.\n\nHe said Mr Khalife had been brought in as a vulnerable prisoner to work alongside other inmates in the kitchen.\n\nMr Jones was released from HMP Wandsworth in June, after being acquitted after seven months on remand, and now works as a roofer.\n\nHe told BBC London that his fellow prisoner seemed \"quite down to earth and up for a laugh but didn't come across as a criminal mastermind\".\n\nMr Jones added: \"He did seem like an odd sausage. One lunchtime he came in saying that he was going be famous. I told him: 'I think you've got on the wrong bus, mate.'\n\n\"He would come to work with a comb and mirror constantly checking his appearance, although I can't say I thought much of it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Chris Jones describes working with Daniel Khalife in the kitchens at HMP Wandsworth\n\nBefore he escaped, Mr Khalife was on remand at HMP Wandsworth awaiting trial in relation to alleged terrorism and Official Secrets Act offences at an RAF base. He is accused of collecting information that might be useful to an enemy; it is understood the \"enemy\" referred to in the charge is Iran.\n\nAsked how easy an escape might have been, Mr Jones said he was \"surprised but not surprised\".\n\nHe explained: \"We always used to joke about that lorry; jump in it and drive off, but there was a lot of security staff around the kitchens so it is a surprise he got through there.\n\n\"A prison staff member would stand by the lorry ticking off the goods as they were unloaded; you could not move around freely. If you wanted to move from the coffee shop to the kitchen, the staff would log a move.\n\n\"Having said this, many mistakes were made all the time, all down to staffing issues\".\n\n\"One time we were put on lockdown because there was an inmate missing, but it turned out that he had been released the day before but it hadn't been correctly registered.\n\n\"So in that sense, I'm not surprised that someone slipped up, or that they didn't have enough people to staff the kitchen, and that he took his chance to unload the truck and vanish underneath the lorry.\"\n\nDaniel Khalife is believed to have escape underneath a lorry similar to the one pictured\n\nMr Jones said he thought staffing issues were at the root of the jail's \"diabolical conditions\"; an independent report on HMP Wandsworth published in September 2022 found that there was a \"staffing crisis\".\n\nIt said: \"Significant staffing problems are adversely affecting the delivery of a consistent regime. Although technically fully staffed, over 30% of staff are non-operational on a regular basis, for a number of reasons, rising sometimes to over 40%.\n\n\"With an increasing number of more volatile young prisoners, and incidents of violence at alarming levels, the recruitment, training and retention of appropriately skilled and well-motivated staff is essential. The board is very concerned that this is not happening.\n\n\"Yet again, the conditions which prisoners are confined, often two to a cramped cell, are inhumane and degrading.\"\n\nThe report also pointed out that the majority of prison officers had less than two years' experience and this lack of \"prison craft\" was an issue.\n\nThis photo of a prisoner's cell was taken by inspectors in the jail's Trinity Wing in June 2022; the wing is being renovated with work due to be completed in 2025\n\nMr Jones said that on one occasion, he was not let out of his cell for two weeks, with no shower or exercise, because staff \"couldn't or wouldn't\" open his cell door.\n\nHe said: \"Through their laziness, the prisoners always suffered. Conditions are the poorest I've ever seen. In 2023 the conditions in Wandsworth are worse than prisons in 1989-1990 which was the last time I was in.\n\n\"It's known as being the worst and dirtiest in the whole system. The kitchen was full of dead rats, and mice constantly came through my cell door.\"\n\nA spokesperson for BidFood, the supplier that owned the van Mr Khalife used in his escape, said: \"Yesterday morning we were made aware of a security incident involving one of our vehicles, whilst out on delivery.\n\n\"We can confirm that our driver fully co-operated with the police on this matter before returning back to the depot. We will continue to assist the authorities in their ongoing investigation.\"\n\nThe Prisons Service said that they are undertaking a programme of maintenance activity at Wandsworth to improve the safety and decency of the prison, including replacing the healthcare unit, updates to fire safety, window replacements and refurbishments of showers.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eve Betts has lived with alopecia since the age of two\n\nA reality TV contestant says she receives a storm of abuse and sexually explicit material over social media.\n\nEve Betts, 28, raises awareness of alopecia on her Instagram page, but said it meant she faced hate online.\n\n\"I get a lot of death threats. People saying that I should just die because of the way that I look,\" she said.\n\nIt comes as a new survey found four in five women and girls in Wales have received text-based abuse on social media platforms.\n\nThe Open University survey also found that nearly half were subjected to sexually explicit material.\n\nEve, from Bridgend, appeared on Channel 4's First Dates programme in 2017, where she took off her wig on camera.\n\nFive years since the airing of the programme, she said she still receives abusive messages online \"on a weekly basis\", some including sexually explicit videos.\n\nAlopecia is a disease that causes hair loss, often on the scalp.\n\nThere are many different types of alopecia, which can cause anything from hair thinning to total hair loss.\n\nEve said raising awareness of the condition could hard when she is faced with negative comments.\n\n\"I get quite a lot of personal comments on my appearance comparing me to the worst things like an alien or a robot,\" Eve said.\n\n\"All of these 'out of this world' kind of comments hurt more than just the standard abuse.\"\n\nEve said she had also received videos and even abusive voice notes.\n\nThese experiences can be \"hard, mentally\", she said.\n\n\"They're abusing me because I have alopecia and that's something that I can't help. That can just set the whole tone for my day,\" she said.\n\nEve says people compare her to an alien or a robot when she takes her wig off\n\nNew data suggests Eve is not alone.\n\nThe Open University survey found 48% of women and girls over the age of 16 in Wales had received sexually explicit abuse on social media via tweets, Facebook posts and direct messages.\n\nProfessor Olga Jurasz, from the The Open University, said: \"This new research - the first ever to be conducted into online violence against women and girls at this scale across the four nations - shows just how widespread the issue of online violence against women and girls really is.\"\n\nJayne Cowan, a Conservative councillor for Rhiwbina in Cardiff, said she had received online abuse for over two decades.\n\n\"My experience with online abuse has been distressing,\" she said.\n\n\"The barrage of hateful messages, threats, and explicit content really is not pleasant,\" she said.\n\nShe said she reported the messages to social media companies, but the outcome had been mixed.\n\n\"While some social media platforms take action promptly, others may not respond in a timely manner to the police, I am advised,\" she said.\n\nShe said the inconsistency underscored the need for standardised and efficient reporting mechanisms across all platforms.\n\nJayne Cowan said her experience of online abuse has been distressing\n\nBethan Sayed, a campaign coordinator for Climate Cymru and a former Plaid Cymru member of the Senedd, has publicly spoken about abuse she received online during her time in office.\n\n\"It's sad that we still have to talk about these high figures of abuse,\" she said.\n\n\"It was at its worst for me about six, seven years ago, but it's still an issue today.\n\n\"There's enough technology now, AI is taking over everything, so there's enough ways to protect women online.\"\n\nMeta, X, and all four police forces in Wales have been asked to comment.\n\nThe Home Office has also been approached for comment.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"We take all cases involving online abuse extremely seriously and we will continue to work closely with our partners to build the strongest possible cases.\"", "Titanic is to take to the waters of Belfast Lough again this weekend.\n\nNot the legendary liner itself, of course, but a 22-foot-long replica built by East Belfast Yacht Club.\n\nThe club was founded by workers from the Belfast shipyards in the early years of the 20th Century, in the years before construction of the Titanic began in 1909.\n\nIts Titanic will take to the city's waters as part of the Belfast Maritime Festival on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThe model was built over a decade ago but has been dusted and repaired for its sailing this weekend\n\nWith its home between Victoria Park and Belfast City Airport, East Belfast Yacht Club is only a stone's throw away from Harland & Wolff where Titanic was built.\n\nThe company's modern-day cranes Sampson and Goliath overlook the part of Belfast Lough where members sail.\n\nAnd the club's history is tied to the shipyard, according to long-time member Brian Larmour.\n\n\"The club was actually set up in 1904 by a number of shipyard workers, including some of the higher-ups - management types,\" he said.\n\nPaul has been careful to recreate many of the features and details of the original Titanic\n\n\"The Titanic was for many years forgotten about.\n\n\"Nobody wanted to talk about it for a long time until (Robert) Ballard found it out in the Atlantic.\"\n\nIt was club member Paul Andrews who originally built the Titanic replica to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy in 2012.\n\n\"East Belfast Yacht Club was founded by shipyard men who originally worked on the Titanic,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I built this boat at absolutely no expense, it was all stuff I had lying about.\n\nYacht clubs members have spent hours in the workshop to get the model ready for the water\n\n\"I'm not a model-maker by any means but I just decided to give it a go and it turned out quite well.\n\n\"The Titanic is very special, we should claim it.\n\n\"It was a horrible loss of life but we should remember it for the beautiful thing that it was.\n\n\"The whole world has gone on to build bigger and better ships but I don't think we ever built more beautiful ships.\"\n\nBunting has been attached to the model Titanic for the sailing this weekend\n\nOver a decade after he originally made it, Paul's Titanic has been repaired by club members and spruced up to sail in Belfast Lough again.\n\nIt takes four people to get it into the water for it to sail the short distance to the nearby Queen's Quay and Belfast Harbour Marina for the Maritime Festival.\n\nBut it is Paul who has to actually climb inside to pilot it.\n\nOne of the four iconic funnels is removed to let him get into the ship, then replaced when he is inside.\n\n\"I'm an amateur boat-builder so I thought if I build it that I can ride in it it'll be more interesting than just building a model,\" he said.\n\nPaul says his attempt at building a Titanic replica has \"turned out well\"\n\n\"I actually prefer to sit in it and steer it because if something goes wrong at least there's an overgrown child to put things right!\n\n\"Everybody's looking, thinking: 'Where's it being remote controlled from?' and then you pop the hatch up and the kids love it, it's a bit of fun.\"\n\nHe admits that he is proud of his handiwork.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed as not everybody makes an eejit of themselves like this!\n\n\"But I've grown to love it, I've grown to love it.\"", "Sylvester Stallone and Pope Francis playfully shadow boxed during a visit to the Vatican by the actor and his family.\n\nThe Rocky star was received by the pontiff who told him he \"grew up with [his] films\".\n\nStallone jokingly responded \"we box\" and threw a few light air jabs, which the Pope then returned.", "Tackling climate change needs a rapid transformation of the way our world works, travels, eats and uses energy, according to an important UN review.\n\nThis is the first \"global stocktake\" to examine the efforts of countries to reduce planet-warming emissions since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.\n\nWhile progress has been made, efforts now need to be massively scaled up.\n\nThe report calls for \"radical decarbonisation\" with a fast phase out of fossil fuels without carbon capture.\n\nBurning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal to generate electricity emits carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of climate change. Carbon capture in industrial processes and power stations stops most of the CO2 produced from being released, and either reuses it or stores it underground.\n\nRenewable energy also needs significant expansion while deforestation needs to be halted and reversed by 2030.\n\nThe stocktake report will be considered by political leaders and will be central to global climate talks in Dubai later this year.\n\nOver the course of the past two years, the UN has set out to review the promises made by countries who signed the Paris agreement in 2015. At the meeting eight years ago, countries agreed to keep the amount of warming since the industrial revolution well below 2C and make efforts to keep it under 1.5C.\n\nThe report examines their efforts to cut carbon, to adapt to climate change and how they have mobilised finance and technology to help poorer nations deal with the problem.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nNo country is named and shamed in this report, which considers the collective approach to tackling the problem.\n\nMuch progress has been made, the document acknowledges, but the global rise in temperatures predicted for this century is still well above what was promised in Paris.\n\nKeeping to those goals will now require a significant uptick in ambition according to the stocktake, which calls for widespread \"system transformation\".\n\nDroughts have hit many parts of the world as temperatures have risen\n\nThis means that every aspect of our societies needs to change to rein in rising temperatures.\n\nThis includes the way we make energy, the way we travel, work and produce food. Experts say this type of change needs governments to take the initiative and make sure that their climate actions aren't immediately nullified by other policies and investments.\n\n\"One could also see the call for system transformations as a recognition that, while we still can, we should take our destiny in our own hands,\" said Dr Richard Klein from the Stockholm Environment Institute, who was involved in the initial stages of the stocktake.\n\n\"Either we transform society in a way that avoids the worst of climate change, or climate change will transform society for us, in ways that are difficult to foresee but likely not to be very pleasant.\"\n\nThe report makes a clear call for the rapid scaling up of renewable energy sources including wind and solar but also says that fossil fuels that don't capture the carbon they produce have no future. The stocktake says that these are \"indispensable elements\" of a just transition to net zero by the middle of this century.\n\nElectric vehicles \"offer the greatest mitigation potential\" in the transport sector, according to the report which also underlines the fact that shifting to climate friendly, healthy diets, reducing food waste and fostering sustainable agriculture can make a significant difference to limiting emissions.\n\nThe stocktake also examines efforts on climate adaptation and finance, something that has been a constant source of anger for developing countries. It calls for a rapid scaling up of finance from an expanded range of sources.\n\nTorrential rain has seen bridges damaged in Spain\n\nThe idea of a stocktake is to ensure that the next set of plans to cut carbon that governments register with the UN in 2025 will be more ambitious than the current ones.\n\nHowever the report will also form the basis of discussions at the COP28 global climate talks to be held in Dubai later this year.\n\nEfforts at COP27 to agree a phase out of all unabated fossil fuels failed due to resistance from several major oil producing nations.\n\nUN officials believe the stocktake report will increase the pressure for a major statement at COP28.\n\n\"I urge governments to carefully study the findings of the report and ultimately understand what it means for them and the ambitious action they must take next,\" said Simon Stiell, executive secretary of UN Climate Change.\n\nObservers agree that the document is a wake-up call.\n\n\"We already know the world is failing to meet its climate goals, but leaders now have a concrete blueprint underpinned by a mountain of evidence for how to get the job done,\" said Ani Dasgupta from the World Resources Institute.", "On top of Her Majesty's coffin was a wreath, the Imperial State Crown, and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre\n\nEven when you know something important has happened, it can still have the power to shock. Particularly when you see it with your own eyes. I had a close-up view inside Westminster Abbey, and that electric moment came when the Queen's coffin was brought up the aisle.\n\nThis was history before us, solemn, spectacular and intense.\n\nHeads of state, dignitaries and local community heroes, side by side on this once-in-a-lifetime guest list, suddenly stood up to attention together. The significance of the moment was almost audible. The chatter, the WhatsApps, texts and Tweets from the crowded pews stopped in its tracks. There was a sharp intake of breath.\n\nWe were watching something that we'd remember all our lives. An era was ending, step by step, right before our eyes, here and now, as the soldiers carrying the coffin shuffled up the aisle.\n\nDuke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince and Princess of Wales and their children George and Charlotte, in Westminster Abbey\n\nThe pallbearers prepare to lay the coffin down in front of the Royal Family\n\nKing Charles stared straight ahead. Maybe one of his medals was for surviving the exhaustion of the past 11 days. He looked like he must be aching for rest, and who could blame him?\n\n\"We brought nothing into this world and it is certain we carry nothing out,\" sang the choir, sending up their voices into the high gothic arches.\n\nThe congregation of the century was gathered for this state funeral. The Royal Family, NHS workers, political heavyweights, so many world leaders that they had to be loaded onto buses like schoolchildren on an outing.\n\nUS President Joe Biden had travelled in an armour-plated car called the Beast. Others of us had come in an overcrowded sea of people called the District Line.\n\nPresident Biden, holding hands with Jill Biden, looked around the abbey before taking a seat at the side. It can't be often that a US president is not the centre of attention.\n\nEx-prime ministers were clustered together, nodding awkwardly like Doctor Whos from rival eras.\n\nUS President Biden holds hands with his wife, Jill, as they arrive at Westminster Abbey\n\nThe congregation included current Prime Minister Liz Truss and former prime ministers Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair and Major\n\n\"Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts,\" sang the choir.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, William and Harry, were on different sides of the aisle looking sombre - and anyone trying to read the expression of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, or Catherine, Princess of Wales, were faced with the wide brim of their hats.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron had arrived earlier and stood in the aisle slightly lost, like someone looking for friends at a wedding.\n\nFour candles stood around the coffin. The orb and sceptre glowed. The Imperial State Crown was poking up from behind the spray of flowers. On the top of the crown was a big blue sapphire once worn on a ring by Edward the Confessor more than 900 years ago.\n\nIt was an extraordinary spectacle to witness first-hand - the plumed helmets, the convoys of overseas royals, the sea of black mourning clothes, the security whisperers, the bright clerics' robes and the heralds dressed like a pack of cards.\n\nEven the statues in Poet's Corner seemed to be craning round to see.\n\nPrime Minister Liz Truss looked tense but held steady as she went up for her reading. \"Let your heart not be troubled.\"\n\nThe congregation stood up to sing the Lord's My Shepherd. It's one of those hymns that lulls you into its sadness. Voices begin to catch. \"Though I walk through death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill.\"\n\nYou could feel the static in the air.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, had the impossible task of doing justice to the longest reign in British history. He spoke straight to the point. A woman of deep faith had gone to her final rest in the firm conviction of her beliefs. She had every expectation that we would \"meet again\".\n\nBut at the centre of everything here was the Queen's coffin and her mourning family, an inescapable message of what had happened. This was a moment to say goodbye.\n\nA trumpet played the Last Post. The silence that followed was even louder. This was how things end. In this immense quiet an era was closing. This was our moment of history. Time doesn't stand still, it never does, whether for a head of state or a nurse on a shift. The New Elizabethan era in which most of us had grown up had finished. The 20th Century boys and girls were now grey-haired parents and grandparents. Everyone has their own story to remember.\n\nA piper played a lament as the Queen was carried slowly towards the abbey doors, the same doors where she'd once stood on her wedding day as a 21-year-old bride. On her coffin was a sprig of myrtle grown from a cutting from her wedding bouquet.\n\nThe guests stepped outside into the daylight, stunned witnesses to something momentous. It wasn't just that we'd said farewell to the Queen, it was the recognition that we'd lost part of our own lives.\n\nThis was a date to be underlined in a future text book. A chapter closing. But the area around the abbey had been sealed tight with security and there were no crowds on the pavement. We were in a new era and outside there was silence.\n• None 'She made each person she met feel important' - your tributes to the Queen", "The late Queen also used to spend the anniversary of her accession as a day of private reflection\n\nThere will be no official public event to mark the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a royal spokesman has said.\n\nKing Charles is to spend 8 September \"quietly and privately\". The day also marks his own accession to the throne.\n\nNor are there any plans for a private gathering of the Royal Family on the anniversary of the late Queen's death.\n\nSenior royals will be in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire over the summer, the place where the Queen died last year.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II's death, at the age of 96, followed the longest reign of any British monarch.\n\nThe King is following his mother's tradition - the late monarch spent the anniversaries of her father's death, and the start of her reign, in what used to be termed \"private reflection\" - with no planned official events.\n\nIf there are other commemorative events in the week of the anniversary, King Charles and Queen Camilla are not expected to attend.\n\nThe King and senior members of the Royal Family have also followed in the late Queen's tradition of spending the summer in Scotland, with King Charles having a home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, as well as Balmoral Castle.\n\nIt is expected that family members will be there at various times over the summer, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman has suggested they will not hold any formal, private gathering to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nThe Cabinet Office has said a national memorial to the late Queen will be commissioned \"in due course\".\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "The attack took place outside Clapham's Two Brewers nightclub\n\nA teenager has been arrested in connection with an alleged homophobic attack outside a pub in south London.\n\nTwo men, in their 20s and 30s, were attacked outside the Two Brewers on Clapham High Street on 13 August.\n\nA 19-year-old male has now been arrested on suspicion of two counts of GBH. He was arrested in South Norwood and remains in police custody.\n\nDet Supt Vanessa Britton said the arrest marked a \"significant development\" in its investigation.\n\nShe added: \"The two victims have been informed and continue to be supported by our officers, including our dedicated LGBT+ community liaison officer.\n\n\"I know the concern and distress this horrific incident has caused among the LGBT+ community and I want to reassure them - and Londoners as a whole - that a team of officers is working diligently to investigate.\"\n\nThe incident happened at about 22:15 BST as the two men were stood outside the nightclub.\n\nThe Met said they were approached by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away.\n\nThey were taken to hospital for treatment and have since been discharged.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak said he \"won't rush\" into a UK trade deal with India, as he arrived in the country for a summit of G20 leaders.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he would not set a deadline for negotiations, which began early last year, to conclude.\n\nExpectations have been growing an agreement could be struck before the end of the year.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters that progress has been made, but \"we're not there yet\".\n\nIndia would be the biggest country yet to strike a trade agreement with the UK since it left the European Union's trading system in 2021.\n\nMr Sunak is in India for a meeting of the G20, with leaders of the world's largest economies.\n\nA UK-India deal is not on the agenda, but Mr Sunak is expected to discuss progress so far with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the summit this weekend.\n\nHe was given a colourful welcome on his arrival in Delhi on Friday, with traditional dancers and music greeting him as he stepped off his plane.\n\nHe later met local school children with his wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of the billionaire co-founder of Indian IT giant Infosys.\n\nRishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty met local schoolchildren at the British Council\n\nTrade negotiations between the two countries began in January last year and have stretched across twelve rounds, with the next round scheduled for later this month.\n\nKey interests for the UK side include lowering India's high import tariffs on British-made cars, dairy products and drinks including Scotch whisky.\n\nThe UK has been keen to get India to allow greater access to UK financial and other professional services firms to operate in India.\n\nBut Mr Sunak is facing pressure not to relax UK visa rules for Indian nationals, amid reports that Home Secretary Suella Braverman has concerns it could hamper efforts to bring down net immigration.\n\nAhead of the summit, Downing Street ruled out issuing more student visas to get a deal done, with the PM's spokesman adding it had \"no plans to change our immigration policy\".\n\nIndia's high commissioner to the UK has insisted it is not looking for more visas, although he added his country wanted Indians studying in the UK to be able to do work experience after they graduate.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, Vikram Doraiswami added that Indian students were paying \"significant money\" in fees to UK universities and wanted rights \"permissible to other nationalities\".\n\nHe said India was also looking to make it easier for companies based in both countries to temporarily transfer workers as part of a deal, and for Indians who work in the UK for short periods to be able to transfer their pension contributions back to India.\n\n\"We're not asking for migrants to be able to come here,\" he said, adding: \"That's been in your press, not in ours\".\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson set a deadline to get a deal with India \"done\" by October last year, in time for Diwali - but he was ousted from office in July and the deadline came and went.\n\nThere have been reports that Mr Modi is keen to strike a slimmed-down deal to reduce import taxes, with some easier access for services firms, ahead of election next year.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Sunak said since taking office last year he had \"taken the time\" to ensure international negotiations \"work for the British people\".\n\n\"I won't rush things for the sake of it until they're right for us,\" he added.", "A 10-year-old boy has died after he received an electric shock at a hotel.\n\nThe boy was found unresponsive at about 22:40 BST on Sunday in Tiffany's Hotel on the Promenade in Blackpool.\n\nHe died on Thursday with his family at his bedside, a Lancashire Police spokesman said, adding \"our thoughts are with them at this time\".\n\nThe child's injuries were consistent with him having received a \"high voltage of electricity\", the spokesman said.\n\nA statement from the hotel said it was \"heartbroken by the news\" and its \"thoughts and prayers remain with the family at this distressing time\".\n\n\"We will continue to provide the relevant authorities any assistance they need to carry out their investigations.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"The safety and comfort of our guests remains our number one priority and therefore we have taken the decision to voluntarily close whilst the investigations and our own inspections take place.\"\n\nA Blackpool Council spokesperson said: \"We have been informed of the tragic death of a young boy following an incident at Tiffany's Hotel. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.\n\n\"Our investigation is now under way and following our advice the owner of the hotel has agreed to a voluntary closure.\"\n\nA file will be prepared for HM Coroner.\n\nThe Tiffany Hotel was closed on Friday morning and a worker at a neighbouring hotel said it had been shut for the last few days.\n\nShe said she could hear children playing there last week but did not see anything of the incident.\n\nThe Blackpool lights switch-on took place last Friday, with many tourists and young families visiting the town for the annual event.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rats can be seen scavenging in bins on the Scotstoun street\n\nA Glasgow street has become \"overrun\" with rats, with binmen unable to collect rubbish from the back courts.\n\nResidents on Earl Street in Scotstoun say they are being ignored by the council, with responsibility for the infestation being \"passed along\".\n\nThe GMB Scotland union warned that it was a \"severe health and safety crisis\" for refuse workers.\n\nBins have been moved to the front of the street, but residents say they still see the rodents in their gardens.\n\nMichelle Morton, who lives in a ground-floor flat with her husband and children, claims a rat even climbed in her window.\n\n\"I can't shut my bathroom window because we have mould, and then the other week we had a rat climbing in,\" said Mrs Morton.\n\n\"I see them every single day: really large rats and newborn, bald, baby rats.\n\n\"A couple of days ago I saw about 12 of them out the back, and I've seen them run along my front railing before too.\"\n\nBins will be kept in front of the street until the infestation is fixed\n\nIt is believed that the rats are nesting nearby in an embankment under a cycle path, where small burrows can be seen.\n\nResidents said it was a growing problem that was now out of control.\n\nMrs Morton said she had spent around £3000 on preventative measures in recent years, including power washing and bleaching areas of the back garden and removing all of the bushes.\n\n\"It's the residents who are suffering,\" she added.\n\n\"I won't ever let my children go in the garden because the rats aren't even scared of people, they don't run away if you go near them or knock the window.\"\n\nMrs Morton said she will not go into her back garden unless she is armed with a pole.\n\nResidents claim they are being ignored by the council about the rat infestation\n\nNorma Bellis, 76, originally from Scarborough, said she was not told about the infestation when she moved into her ground-floor flat on Earl Street a couple of weeks ago.\n\n\"Whenever I take my dog a walk, I see at least two or three rats,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't let my dog out the back garden because the rats aren't scared of humans or dogs and she could get bitten.\"\n\nAndy Burnett, warehouse manager at Forest Furnishing on South Street, said it has been \"a problem for the entire area for years\".\n\nHe said: \"We instantly got pest control in and we got rid of them.\n\n\"But it's impossible to sort as no-one can agree on who owns the land.\"\n\nThe cycle path is on top of the embankment\n\nChris Mitchell, branch convenor for the GMB, said he had repeatedly raised the issue with Glasgow City Council.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our members were going above their call of duty trying to remove the refuse because it was having a detrimental affect on the residents.\n\n\"But it's got worse and worse and I've had to pull our members away for health and safety reasons.\n\n\"They were seeing rats there every single day, running over their feet and shoulders and residents coming out screaming.\n\n\"And then the council blame the housing, housing blame the residents, residents blame the cleansing.\n\n\"At the end of the day, this should've been sorted two years ago. It's a severe health and safety crisis.\"\n\nHe warned that Earl Street is \"just the tip of the iceberg\" as refuse workers had noticed an increase in rats across the entire city.\n\nGlasgow City Council said it was working with the local housing association to address this problem.\n\nIt said some bin courts had been kept in \"poor condition\" which had attracted rats.\n\nThe council said work was undertaken to keep them in good order, but waste continued to be disposed of \"inappropriately\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While the bait laid down by our pest control team takes effect, bins have been stationed on the street on a temporary basis.\n\n\"We are hopeful our pest control treatments are having an impact but we will continue to monitor this situation .\n\n\"As part of our health and safety procedures, we would not send our bin collection staff into areas of known infestation.\"", "Dave and Central Cee performed Sprinter together at Glastonbury Festival\n\nDave and Central Cee's record-breaking Sprinter has been declared UK song of summer 2023 by the Official Charts.\n\nThe track, a Latin-tinged melodic take on drill, finds them rapping about partying with plenty of girls.\n\nIt became the longest-running UK rap chart-topper last month, with 10 straight weeks at the summit.\n\nKylie Minogue's hypnotic Padam Padam - her first UK top 10 single in more than a decade - ended the summer as the country's most downloaded track.\n\nLondon rappers Dave and Central Cee's collaboration collected 812,000 UK chart units in total, including 105 million UK streams, also making it the most-streamed song of the summer.\n\n\"The duo's smash is a playful, knowing track that indulges in rap clichés while acknowledging their absurdity,\" wrote BBC music correspondent Mark Savage.\n\nSprinter gave Brit Award and Mercury Prize-winner Dave his third number one, and Mobo Award-winner Central Cee his first.\n\nAs fate would have it, it marked 10 weeks at the top on the same day that hip-hop celebrated its 50th birthday last month.\n\nThe pair performed the tune - taken from their joint EP Split Decision - together live at Glastonbury Festival in June, where they were joined for an adorable cameo by the baby from the track's music video, aka British-Nigerian artist and designer Slawn's son Beau.\n\nA few months later, Central Cee spat his bars solo in a shortened version of it to fans at Leeds Festival, who did their best to rap-a-long.\n\nElsewhere on the list, revealed on Saturday, fellow London rapper J Hus finished the summer in fourth place with Who Told You, which features Canadian star and Top Boy executive producer Drake.\n\nWhile the number one spot may be occupied by two men (with arguably too many women), seven out of the top 10 tracks feature female artists.\n\nSecond place on the songs of the summer list went to Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris and English singer Ellie Goulding for their trance-pop hit Miracle, which spent eight weeks at number one.\n\nAnother number one, Dua Lipa's Barbie movie soundtrack anthem, Dance The Night, took the bronze podium position.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo's haunting ballad Vampire, the most-purchased single of the summer on physical formats, also made the top 10.\n\nThe young American placed ahead of her compatriots Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, with their suitably seasonal sad bangers, Cruel Summer and Flowers, respectively.\n\nEarlier in the year, Cyrus's ode to self-love after a break-up spent 10 weeks at the summit, like Dave and Central Cee's track. And by July it had been declared the biggest song of 2023 overall so far.\n\nBut that was before the top boys of summer had even driven their Sprinter out of the showroom forecourt and off up the charts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife - who was for a time this week Britain's most wanted man - was born in Westminster in 2001, along with his twin sister.\n\nHe is British and has Lebanese heritage on his father's side. His parents split up when he was young.\n\nGrowing up, Mr Khalife's family life was in and around the south-west London borough of Kingston upon Thames.\n\nHe attended Teddington School, a local mixed comprehensive with good results, and left after his GCSEs in 2018.\n\nPeople who remember him from the time who have spoken to BBC News have not recalled anything that would have made them think he would end up a terror suspect on the run.\n\nOne former school friend said he was quite a funny character, just a normal teenager - and certainly not badly behaved.\n\nMr Khalife was also remembered as a talented runner - a natural gift that may have been in use during his prison break-out.\n\n\"He just sort of got on with it like most of us did,\" one school friend told BBC News.\n\n\"He had social skills. He wasn't particularly socially withdrawn or anything. He had friends.\n\n\"[Since the prison break] Everyone's just had the same reaction [of shock]... It was just mind-blowing. It wasn't expected at all.\"\n\nAnother said ahead of his recapture: \"Some funny stories I could tell you... One thing I will tell you though, he's not a terrorist. He doesn't know his arse from his elbow.\n\n\"He was the 100m school champion... they're not catching him.\"\n\nAfter school, he joined the Army, becoming a private in the Royal Signals Regiment, based at MOD Stafford.\n\nThe facility is home to some of the British military's most sophisticated technology and communications operations and it includes the Defence Electronics and Components Agency.\n\nThere, for a time at least, he continued to run and joined a military family running group.\n\nHe was also into computer gaming - using the brand icon of the makers of Grand Theft Auto as his profile picture in a number of social media profiles.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.\n\nOne former fellow serviceman told BBC News that Mr Khalife tried to \"be the joker\" during basic training.\n\n\"He was either making funny remarks or trying to be cocky or stuff like that with the training staff,\" he recalled. \"Just like when kids mess around at school with teachers really.\"\n\nOutside of Army life he seemed to be a normal young man. BBC News has seen one video of him taken in a pub near where he was based on a night out.\n\nWhat happened between 2019 and his arrest and charge in 2023 is not clear - and may only become so if Mr Khalife is found and tried for the original offences he was facing.\n\nIn January this year, he was brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court - which deals with the initial stages of all terrorism cases in England and Wales.\n\nThe court heard that the 21-year-old was facing two allegations.\n\nProsecutors alleged that in August 2021 he obtained information about members of the armed forces from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System - and that the information was of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nThat is a relatively minor terrorism offence because the maximum jail sentence is 12 months.\n\nHe was also accused of a bomb hoax almost four weeks before his arrest. The court was told that he had allegedly placed three canisters with wires on a desk in his accommodation, intending people to believe the contraption was a real explosive device.\n\nAfter that appearance in court, there was a delay in his case being sent to crown court while another far more serious allegation was prepared.\n\nMr Khalife is now accused of committing an act \"prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state\", contrary to the Official Secrets Act.\n\nIt's alleged that between May 2019 and January 2022 he obtained, collected, recorded, published, or communicated information which was useful to an enemy - a spying offence.\n\nThe BBC understands that the allegation relates to Iran.\n\nAt his last court appearance in July, Mr Khalife formally pleaded not guilty to all three allegations and a judge at the Old Bailey said he would face a jury trial in November.\n\nWhether that trial will go ahead as planned, in light of his recapture on Saturday, is now unclear.", "People who bought puppies during coronavirus lockdowns have been warned to watch out for potentially dangerous behaviour changes.\n\nThe pandemic saw a surge in new dog owners in the UK, as people sought companionship in lockdown.\n\nSome dogs have had behaviour problems - particularly after being left alone for the first time when their owners returned to work.\n\nThe RSPCA fears the problems could get worse as the puppies reach maturity.\n\nDr Samantha Gaines, head of companion animals at the charity, told MPs: \"Operationally, we are seeing an increase in the more challenging dogs that are coming into our care, which we think is an impact of Covid.\"\n\nMany \"pandemic puppies\" were imported from outside the UK and had not been bred or reared in an appropriate way, she told the Commons Environment committee.\n\nGrowing up in lockdown meant they were not socialised properly, with fewer people visiting their home, according to Royal Veterinary College (RVC) research on the early lives of puppies purchased in 2020.\n\nSome had not developed into well-balanced adult dogs and had suffered \"separation anxiety\" at the end of lockdown, resulting in destructive behaviour.\n\nDr Gaines said she had seen new data from the RVC study, due to be published later this year, which suggests behaviour problems were only now beginning to appear in some dogs.\n\n\"Based on the research we probably shouldn't think that we have actually seen the worst of it,\" she told MPs, adding that dog behaviour often changed \"between 2.5 and 3.7 years of age\".\n\n\"And bearing in mind that the pandemic only happened in 2020 we probably still have some dogs who are developing and are yet to present those behaviour problems,\" she told the MPs.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing to the BBC, Dr Gaines said dogs who had not been socialised properly could develop \"certain fears and phobias\".\n\nOwners also needed to be aware that aggression \"can manifest in dogs that are frightened or anxious, so there is that potential risk,\" she added.\n\nShe advised anyone who had seen sudden behaviour changes in their dog to go to a vet, who will be able to rule out any medical causes.\n\nIf the dog gets a clean bill of health, the owner should then seek help from an animal behaviour specialist, preferably one that is a member of the Animal Training and Behaviour Council.\n\nBut she acknowledged that the cost of living crisis meant that some owners may not be able to afford the help they need.\n\nMPs on the Commons committee are investigating pet welfare and abuse in the wake of the pandemic, which saw an explosion in dog ownership.\n\nThe UK's dog population increased from an estimated 10 million to 11 million over two years, an earlier hearing was told.\n\nMuch of that was driven by demand for fashionable breeds such as French bulldogs and cross-breeds such as Cockapoos, with more animals being imported without pet passports or bought from the internet.\n\nOn Tuesday, Pip Griffin, a senior warden in the Worcestershire area, told the committee dog pounds were at bursting point with abandoned animals, meaning imports should not be needed.\n\nThe committee also heard concerns about canine fertility clinics, which have sprung up to meet demand for \"designer\" breeds, but which have been accused of carrying out blood tests, artificial insemination and even caesarean sections without trained veterinary surgeons.\n\nThe committee is also looking into the welfare of cats, rabbits and other domestic pets.", "A Wandsworth prisoner reads in a cell - where many spend up to 23 hours a day, according to a former inmate\n\nIt has been described as a \"dystopian Fawlty Towers\" and a \"powder keg\" waiting to explode, with inmates packed in cramped cells, watched over by a demoralised and threadbare staff.\n\nDaniel Khalife's escape from Wandsworth prison came as little surprise to both former inmates and staff alike.\n\nMorale is low in a decaying institution in \"free fall\", a former head of security told the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, former inmate Chris Atkins said bluntly: \"It is a form of hell.\"\n\nHMP Wandsworth is a Category B security prison built in 1851. It currently holds around 1,300-1,500 inmates - almost double what it was originally designed to accommodate.\n\nMr Khalife's escape from the kitchens on Wednesday was the first at HMP Wandsworth since 2019, but came after years of warnings and inspection reports painting a dour and chaotic picture of life inside.\n\nOne of the latest, published last year by Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, described how inmates were locked in their cells for at least 22 hours a day.\n\n\"One group of prisoners... who came blinking into the sunlight, told me that it was the first time they had been outside for more than a week.\"\n\nAccording to the report, violence was on the rise between inmates and an already hard-pressed and under-experienced staff, whose absence rate hovered around 30%.\n\n\"There were not enough staff to make sure prisoners received even the most basic regime,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor said the \"crumbling and overcrowded\" complex suffered poor hygiene and vermin infestations.\n\n\"Prisoners could often go several days without a shower,\" he said. \"Despite efforts to control vermin, there was still a major problem with rats, mice and pigeons.\"\n\nFormer prisoners and even a former head of security said the combination of inexperienced officers and poor processes made escape all but inevitable.\n\nIan Acheson, the former head of security at Wandsworth, told BBC Radio 4's Today that Mr Khalife's escape was \"not entirely surprising\".\n\n\"There would have had to have been multiple breaches of human and physical security,\" he said.\n\n\"Wandsworth, like so many of our flagship prisons, is in free fall,\" he said. \"On any day 30%, to up to 40% of frontline staff are unavailable to work\".\n\nHe said that \"by all estimations\", Mr Khalife, who is charged with terrorism offences, should have been in the high-security Belmarsh prison.\n\nMeanwhile Atkins, who spent nine months in Wandsworth for tax fraud, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the escape was waiting to happen.\n\n\"It's a dystopian Fawlty Towers,\" he said of the prison. \"It's chaos, it's understaffed, the staff are very, very young, very inexperienced - they don't know what they're doing.\n\n\"It's like a powder keg, just waiting for a spark.\n\n\"The processes are very, very old. Shortly before I went to Wandsworth a prisoner escaped because they let him out about eight months early.\n\n\"There was a slip-up with the paperwork - everything is done by hand. They actually opened the door and let him go. He was a dangerous armed robber.\"\n\nAtkins said he was intrigued to hear that Wandsworth was put in a state of lockdown after Mr Khalife's escape.\n\n\"It's always in lockdown,\" he said. \"The majority of prisoners are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. They are so short-staffed. It is a form of hell.\"\n\nHe said there was little education and drug rehabilitation, despite promises from prison authorities and the government.\n\n\"You just lose your mind. Tiny cells - there's two of you, they're designed for one person. There's your loo in there, you've got to eat in there.\n\n\"If you kept animals there, you'd be prosecuted by the RSPCA. There'd be an outcry if you kept dogs like that.\"\n\nDrug use is said to be rife at Wandsworth\n\nDavid Shipley, another former inmate and now a prison reform campaigner, questioned why Mr Khalife was allowed to work in the kitchens.\n\n\"The kitchens are one of the jobs in Wandsworth that are considered a high-security job - you have access to knives and access to outside,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Any prisoner considered a high risk of escape shouldn't be working in that environment.\n\n\"Food deliveries come into the prison every day. There is supposed to be a process where all those vehicles leaving are supposed to be checked with a mirror.\"\n\nHe too complained of chaotic management, grime and drudgery.\n\n\"It's probably the worst-run organisation I've ever seen. It's understaffed, it's filthy.\n\n\"There were so few staff, prisoners had to choose between having a shower or seeing the open sky, or clean their cells.\"\n\nHe said that the lack of staff \"means you might not have enough overseeing the kitchen but also those staff won't necessarily be familiar with who is working there because they get moved around the prison all the time.\n\n\"What that means is that they might not have actually known who was supposed to be there. It can take longer to notice someone is missing.\"\n\nAn inmate in the canteen stores in Wandsworth\n\nA former prison officer, who asked to be referred to as Douglas, said that the escape was the result of a wider issue of cuts in the prison service.\n\n\"The chickens have come home to roost,\" he told 5 Live. \"The government slashed the prison service, and society didn't notice.\"\n\nHe said that in his experience, prison kitchens were now \"totally civilianised\" with no trained officers overseeing \"strong willed and highly manipulative\" prisoners.\n\n\"I'm surprised this hasn't happened before,\" he said of Mr Khalife's escape.\n\nA former inmate and kitchen worker in Wandsworth's kitchens said that Mr Khalife had \"seen an opportunity and just went for it\".\n\n\"There are lorries coming in all day in, every day, day in, day out. It's a security risk,\" the former inmate, who asked to be referred to as Gary, told 5 Live\n\nHe added that he was surprised someone on terrorism charges was able to work there: \"It's usually low-cat prisoners who get them jobs.\"\n\nRosena Allin-Khan, the Labour MP whose constituency includes HMP Wandsworth, says she raised staff shortages with the justice secretary \"many, many months ago\".\n\nMs Khan said she found that in December last year, only seven members of staff turned up for a night shift to look after 1,500 inmates.\n\n\"Undoubtedly when you have situation like this things will happen and people will make mistakes,\" she said.\n\n\"And now someone is on the loose.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said in a Commons statement that the government had ordered investigations into the \"grave security breach\" at Wandsworth and the security categorisation of Mr Khalife.\n\n\"I spoke to the governor of HMP Wandsworth and senior [prison service] leaders to establish what was known about the escape, and seek assurances about the immediate measures being taken to ensure the security of the prison.\"\n\nHe added: \"Escapes from prison are extremely rare and the numbers have declined substantially in the last 10 to 15 years.\"\n\nHe told MPs there had been £100m invested in security improvements since 2019, \"which has driven up the finds of drugs, weapons and other contraband including tools which can be used to aid an escape from prison\".", "Jordan Chadwick's body was repatriated with the help of the Ukrainian International Army\n\nA British man who went to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands bound behind his back.\n\nJordan Chadwick, 31, from Burnley in Lancashire, served as a Scots guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.\n\nHis mother Brenda Chadwick said her family were \"devastated\" by the death of her son, who was known as Joe.\n\nThe Ukrainian International Army organised his repatriation on the 7 August.\n\nAn inquest to establish the cause of Mr Chadwick's death will be held in February.\n\nMrs Chadwick told the BBC that he always wanted to be a soldier from a young age.\n\n\"His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,\" she said.\n\nBut on 26 June, Mrs Chadwick said she was informed by Lancashire Police that her son had been killed.\n\nMr Chadwick served as a Scots guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) contacted her the following day and confirmed the tragic news.\n\nShe said: \"Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.\n\n\"No words can be found to describe the loss of such a short life.\n\n\"A son, brother, grandson, nephew and uncle, who was loved immensely.\"\n\nAn FCDO spokesperson said: \"We are providing assistance to the family of a British man who died in Ukraine and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Presenter and opera singer Wynne Evans said he has had a \"brilliant opportunity\" to show Welsh produce on the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef.\n\nHe said he was so proud to be able to use food and drink from Wales and to give a platform to small businesses.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Cymru, he also said the experience was \"hard\" and that he was nervous at times.\n\nWynne will appear in the semi-final of the competition next week.\n\nThe BBC Radio Wales presenter has been using ingredients from Wales during the series - including Welsh whisky and Welsh lamb.\n\n\"It's important to do things Welsh,\" said the 51-year-old from Carmarthen.\n\n\"At the start, I used salt marsh lamb, Penclawdd cockles, Penderyn Whisky… Felinfoel (beer).\n\n\"I want to support small companies from Wales who are producing amazing things to eat. It's important to use them in the programme.\"\n\nEvans described it as \"a great opportunity\", but added: \"To tell you the truth, I'm nervous - very nervous.\n\n\"When you go into the kitchen for the first time - just overwhelmed.\n\n\"It's hard to use the oven, the machines - it's hard.\"\n\nWynne Evans is competing against a host of other celebrities on the cooking show\n\nHe said he had experience of cooking when he was younger and he had lessons with \"the queen of the kitchen\" Ena Thomas, who was on the S4C programme, Heno.\n\nWynne said his mum organised those cooking lessons.\n\n\"I really enjoy it because when I was a kid, my mum was worried, so she sent me for cooking lessons with Ena Thomas,\" he said.\n\n\"So I was going to these lessons in a youth centre in Carmarthen for three years.\n\n\"I love being in the kitchen so when the opportunity came to be on MasterChef - I jumped at it thinking this is what Ena would have wanted.\"\n\nHe said the most difficult part of being in the competition was the fact time seems to go so fast.\n\n\"You don't have a watch or a mobile so you don't know the exact time,\" he added.\n\n\"When Greg Wallace (the presenter) says 'five minutes', you just panic.\"", "The vigil will take place at Chester Cathedral\n\nA candlelit vigil to remember the victims of nurse Lucy Letby is set to be held in a city's cathedral.\n\nThe service will be held at Chester Cathedral at 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Very Rev Dr Tim Stratford said the event would be an opportunity for people to \"express their sorrow and solidarity\" with the victims' families.\n\nLetby was jailed for the rest of her life last month for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others.\n\nLucy Letby was jailed for life for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six more\n\nThe nurse went on a year-long killing spree at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nAfter a 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, she was convicted on 14 counts of harming infants - making her the most prolific child serial killer in modern British history.\n\nShe was given a whole-life sentence, meaning she will never be released from prison.\n\nDean Stratford said: \"When something like this happens in the community, it does touch you deeply in complex ways.\n\n\"One of the feelings I've had has been a sense of shame. How could this happen in this community?\"\n\nDean Stratford said the service would allow people to 'express their sorrow and solidarity'\n\nHe said since the guilty verdicts were returned \"a number of people who describe themselves as mothers in Chester told us they wanted to come and express their sorrow and solidarity with those who have suffered so much\".\n\n\"We're offering people an opportunity to gather together to lament,\" he said.\n\nDean Stratford said candles would be lit for the babies that died and there would be an opportunity after the service for congregation members to light their own candles and spend time in quiet reflection.\n\nTo help manage numbers, people are being asked to reserve their place with a free ticket which can be booked on the cathedral's website.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "How big was the search for Khalife?\n\nPolice were searching for 21-year-old Khalife for four days. Extra security checks at airports and ports led to long delays for passengers, as authorities believed he may have been attempting to leave the country. Officers searched all car boots at the Eurotunnel and at Dover in case he was trying to stow away. But when Khalife was found on Saturday morning, he was in Chiswick, west London - about five miles from Wandsworth Prison. Police had been reviewing CCTV footage and a police helicopter had also been searching parts of west and south-west London in recent days and nights. The Met had sought the public's help, releasing several images of Khalife and asking people to call 999 if they saw him, but not to approach him. Armed officers and police dogs searched parts of west London, as a police boat patrolled on the River Thames. Police stopped and searched vehicles and asked local residents for their identification. The Met Police is yet to give more details on how Khalife was finally found.", "Experts have cast doubts over whether the submarine can fire nuclear weapons\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken part in a ceremony to reveal what Pyongyang says is its first submarine capable of launching nuclear weapons.\n\nState media said the sub strengthened the country's nuclear deterrent by \"leaps and bounds\".\n\nIt has been named Hero Kim Kun Ok after a North Korean naval officer and historical figure.\n\nA submarine capable of firing nuclear weapons has long been on the list of weapons North Korea wants to build.\n\nIn photographs released by state media, Mr Kim is seen standing in a shipyard, surrounded by naval officers, and overshadowed by an enormous black submarine.\n\nHe is quoted as saying that the sub will be one of the navy's main means of \"underwater offensive.\"\n\n\"The nuclear attack submarine, which has been a symbol of aggression against our nation for the past few decades, now symbolises our threatening power that strikes fear into our unscrupulous enemies,\" he said.\n\nBut there is some scepticism about how effective it will be.\n\nAnalysts believe it is a Soviet-era Romeo-class sub - the same that Mr Kim inspected in 2019 - but has been modified to carry nuclear weapons.\n\n\"As a platform, it will have some fundamental limitations and vulnerabilities,\" said Joseph Dempsey, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.\n\nThese include being noisy, slow and having limited range, according to Vann Van Diepen, a former US government weapons expert, who spoke to Reuters news agency.\n\nMr Dempsey said it appears the stern and propellers of the sub have been blurred to hide that it is an old vessel.\n\nWe don't know if this submarine is operational. The North Koreans have yet to demonstrate it can successfully fire nuclear-capable missiles.\n\nIt is thought the vessel has been designed to carry shorter-range submarine-launched cruise missiles (SLCM), which are capable of striking regional targets.\n\nSouth Korea has condemned the launch and questioned the sub's capabilities, saying the North may have exaggerated them.\n\nJapan has also expressed unease. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said North Korea's military activity is \"posing graver and more imminent threat to our country's security than before\", according to Reuters.\n\nNorth Korea has also continued regular tests of ballistic and cruise missiles this year, following a significant increase in tests carried out in 2022.\n\nThe revelation of the submarine comes days ahead of the 75th anniversary of the North's founding. State media have said a Chinese delegation will be sent to participate in the celebrations.\n\nIt also follows reports that Mr Kim plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThere are concerns that in return, North Korea may seek advanced weapons technology from Moscow.\n\nKim acknowledging the applause at the ceremony", "France made the perfect start on their quest for a first Rugby World Cup title as they beat three-time champions New Zealand to delight the Stade de France in Paris.\n\nThe hosts had to fight deep into the final quarter after tries from New Zealand wing Mark Telea inside the opening minutes of both halves threatened to wreck the opening-day party.\n\nUltimately, though, Thomas Ramos' relentless boot and a well-worked try from Damian Penaud edged them clear of the enterprising, if fading All Blacks.\n\nA 73rd-minute penalty from Ramos finally put France out of seven-point range on the scoreboard and the home fans could celebrate in comfort as their players hunted for a crowning try.\n\nThey found it with three minutes left as Melvyn Jaminet gathered fellow replacement Maxime Lucu's teasing chip.\n\nFrance will continue their Pool A campaign on Thursday against Uruguay before meetings with Namibia and Italy.\n\nVictories in all three would guarantee them top spot and a last-eight meeting with the runners-up from Pool B, which contains Ireland, South Africa and Scotland.\n\nNew Zealand, who had won all 31 of their previous pool-stage game at World Cups, will know from painful experience that all is not lost.\n\nFour years ago, at Japan 2019, they beat South Africa in the pick of the pool-stage matches, only to watch the Springboks become the first team to lose their opening game and go on to lift the William Webb Ellis Trophy.\n\nFrance's players stayed out and and soaked up the atmosphere of blaring Euro-disco and late summer heat after the final whistle.\n\nIn seven weeks it will be autumn, but the stage will be the same. The result and, perhaps more importantly, the resolve will harden belief that this golden generation could be the one to finally lift the silverware that has escaped them in three previous finals.\n\nThe atmosphere had been similarly bubbling before kick-off, but it took only 93 seconds for the All Blacks to check expectations.\n\nFrom New Zealand's first piece of clean ball, Rieko Ioane sliced through a France midfield missing the presence of the injured Jonathan Danty and cantered into clear air.\n\nBeauden Barrett spotted a weakness and plonked a kick over the narrow Penaud, giving Telea enough time to collect a bouncing ball in comfort and dot down.\n\nThe Stade was stunned. But not for long.\n\nA defiant chorus of Allez Les Bleus rang around as Richie Mo'unga tugged his conversion wide.\n\nThe home team responded and slowly clawed their way back. Two Ramos penalties capped a spell of pressure and gave them a 6-5 lead after 20 minutes.\n\nNew Zealand, whose captain Sam Cane was a late injury withdrawal, looked in no mood to play their assigned role of fall guy on the tournament's opening night though. The three-time champions, stuffed with big-game smarts, probed cleverly and found space and weaknesses.\n\nTelea bristled with threat and France, who lost hooker Julien Marchand to injury, coughed up mistakes to heap pressure on themselves.\n\nMo'unga and Ramos traded penalties for a 9-8 France lead and the crowd might have sat more comfortably at the break had the latter not missed a shot from out wide, which may have been better kicked into the corner than at the sticks.\n\nAs it was, New Zealand ended the half on top. A delicious wraparound put Mo'unga into space and Dalton Papali'i surged deep into France territory. Pinned back on their own line, France's relief was palpable as Codie Taylor's pass drifted into touch to let them off the hook.\n\nFrance stormed into the second half, Gregory Alldritt offloading to Antoine Dupont inside the first minute as the line beckoned.\n\nThe same pair had combined to cap France's Grand Slam win over England here in 2022. This time though New Zealand snuffed out the threat and sparked something of their own.\n\nAs France's blindside defence rushed up, Ioane spotted space and flung an ambitious, but accurate pass over the top. Telea gathered on the bounce and raced in to make it 13-9 to the All Blacks as the home fans screamed that the pass had drifted forward.\n\nA replay on the big screen, shown after Mo'unga missed the conversion, only increased the decibels aimed at referee Jaco Peyper.\n\nAnd the South African official's popularity sunk further when Jalibert was flattened without the ball and play continued regardless.\n\nIt was beginning to feel like the evening might fall flat.\n\nHowever, the injustice fuelled some fight in the French and Penaud, having been denied shortly before by Mo'unga's breathtaking corner-flagging cover tackle, plunged over to restore France's lead to 16-13 after smart work from Jalibert.\n\nPeyper partially satisfied the demands of the home fans, dispatching Will Jordan to the sin-bin for taking out Ramos in the air and France milked the man advantage for another penalty to crank the gap out to 19-13.\n\nA flurry of points in the final six minutes plumped the scoreline to add some sheen to the home side's work, but they were ultimately deserving winners of a game watched by the rest of the rugby world.\n\n'We are not champion now'\n\nFrance number eight Gregory Alldritt: \"It was a massive game for our team and I am proud to be French tonight.\n\n\"The support was massive and it is just fantastic to get support like this. We are just looking forward to the next game, but we said if we lost today it is not the end of the World Cup.\n\n\"But we are not champion now so we just have to keep working and go step by step.\"\n\nFrance head coach Fabien Galthie: \"There was a lot of pressure in the first half. It took us time to relax and they scored quickly and easily.\"We lost Marchand early on. It was the worst possible scenario and even if we were ahead at the break, we did not control the game. But then we took back control.\n\n\"It will do us the world of good, this win. It is a relief and welcome.\"\n\nNew Zealand head coach Ian Foster: \"It was a hell of an opening match, everything we expected. We fired some good bullets at them, we just didn't fire enough. It doesn't change much for us, we just have to find another way out of this pool.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When it mattered in the second half, France got it right. They dominated possession in the second half and you felt certain at some point they would come up with something to make the difference. They make very few mistakes.\"\n\nReplacements: Jaminet for Ramos (76), Vincent for Falatea-Moefana (58), Lucu for Dupont (76), Gros for Wardi (53), Mauvaka for Marchand (12), Taofifenua for Woki (49), Boudehent for Cros (63). Not Used: Aldegheri.\n\nReplacements: Havili for Liernert-Brown (63), Fainga'anuku for Telea (72), Christie for Smith (63), Tu'ungafasi for de Groot (53), Taukeiaho for Taylor (57), Newell for Laulala (53). Not Used: Jacobson.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 September and 8 September\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nBob Smart sent us this photo of the Queensferry Crossing. He said: \"Took this as the haar was starting to burn away, a spectacular sight.\"\n\nTrudi Hutchinson took this photo of sunrise and ponies in Dallas\n\nAndy Inglis said: \"Watching a gorgeous sunset over Loch Lomond after an evening of paddle boarding.\"\n\nBruce Carrington took this dramatic shot of a white-tailed eagle on Mull. He said: \"Despite its size, the agility of this huge raptor is truly amazing.\"\n\nCharlie McGinn said: \"A shady spot for a Highland cow on a warm September day in Glen Douglas, Argyll and Bute.\"\n\nCraig Lester took this picture during a visit to Pucks Glen, just outside Dunoon.\n\nDavid Pollock spotted this Highland cow taking a dip in the Clyde during the warm weather\n\nEuan Campbell said: \"Looking up at the Queensferry Crossing while crossing (as a passenger).\"\n\nGordon McGregor was taking a photo at Corpach, Loch Linnhe, looking towards Ben Nevis when a family of swans moved into view\n\nGraham Christie took this photo of a vocal red deer stag in Glen Etive at Invercharnan\n\nJames Barrie sent us this photo of a couple enjoying the golden sunrise at Dunnottar Castle\n\nJohn Theaker captured this shot of an unusual cloud over Ullapool\n\nMargie Ferguson said: \"It's a dewy morning and these webs are a sign of the busy spiders' night shift captured against the vivid purple of a hydrangea.\"\n\nPeter Douglas from Edinburgh took this majestic shot of An Teallach\n\nPeter Green said: \"I was rewarded with this amazing view of a cloud-topped Ben Nevis while my friends and I descended from the Stob Ban/Mullach nan Coirean\n\nRob Willocks said: \"While out cycling, my wife and I came across this Saltire above Smailholm Tower\n\nRoger Smith from Blairgowrie took this shot of the annual Braemar night celebrations from his bedroom window\n\nSarah Sivers said: \"Spent a little while on the Balmoral Estate sitting on the rock slabs watching the waterfall.\"\n\nTom Kelly took this photo of an Edinburgh otter hunting for breakfast in the Water of Leith\n\nWalter Baxter said: \"This view of the Bass Rock and a shipping beacon called St Baldred's Cross was taken from Seacliff.\"\n\nJacki Gordon said: \"Despite looking like this was shot in a studio, this is Loch Ossian in the background as my dog, Ollie, does his Monarch of the Glen pose for the camera.\"\n\nJohnny MacLeod took this shot during an early morning walk by Largo Law, Fife.\n\nPaul Fraser from Callander said: \"Great to find an Emerald Damselfly at Cashel Forest over the weekend.\"\n\nSteven Neish took this shot of Dundee Riverside at low tide, taking in both the road and rail bridges.\n\nSylvia Beaumont took this photo of three deer east of North Berwick Law, in among fluffy thistles.\n\nJohn Dyer sent us this photo, saying: \"Heaven is a place called Traigh Mhor on the Isle of Lewis.\"\n\nEmily Malcolm said: \"My son David, 15, took this photo on moonlit Lunan Bay beach. The moonlight was reflected in the sea and set off by the light of moored oil supply ships.\"\n\nRichard Paton said: \"Schiehallion wearing a belt of low cloud as viewed from Carn Liath, Beinn a' Ghlo.\"\n\nRichard McKay said: \"The conditions were so pure and air so crisp I had to get out there at 07:30 this morning. MV Dayspring from Corpach with Ben Nevis in the background.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped from the kitchens of Wandsworth prison on the morning of Wednesday 6 September.\n\nThe 21-year-old former soldier had joined the British Army in 2019 and was discharged following his arrest. Mr Khalife is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and plotting a bomb hoax.\n\nHis planned escape is thought to have begun when he attached himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry he had access to as part of his kitchen job.\n\nAn aerial view of HMP Wandsworth and its exit points\n\nAfter leaving Wandsworth prison in south-west London, and through security checkpoints, the lorry made its way north towards the river, and then west towards Putney.\n\nWithin an hour, officers had pulled the truck over for examination. Mr Khalife was gone, but straps were found underneath the truck.\n\nThe Met began reviewing CCTV footage and used a helicopter to search areas in west and south-west London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV of lorry used in prison escape\n\nLate on Thursday night, officers searched Richmond Park, a 2,500-acre area south-west of the prison.\n\nTwo helicopters were used. It is also thought that infra-red technology was used to identify body heat.\n\nThe search was not based on specific information but Mr Khalife was known to have links in nearby Kingston-upon-Thames.\n\nPolice confirmed on Friday afternoon they were investigating a sighting of Mr Khalife. He was reportedly seen walking away from the BidFood van near the Wandsworth roundabout.\n\nThe hunt later appeared to focus on Chiswick in west London, after sightings of the missing prisoner were reported to the police by members of the public.\n\nPolice said their investigation \"took a different course\" on Friday night, when officers conducted an \"intelligence-led search at a residential premises\" in the Richmond area.\n\nWhile Mr Khalife was not found there, the force received a number of calls from the public with sightings of the suspect nearby.\n\nThe Met said on Saturday morning at about 09:00 BST it was focusing on \"intensive search activity\" efforts in and around the Chiswick area, after Mr Khalife had been spotted.\n\nHe was detained just over an hour later at 10:41 BST - about 14 miles from the prison - after a plain clothed officer pulled him from a bicycle on the canal towpath in the Northolt area, in north-west London.", "Shares in Apple have fallen for a second day in a row after reports that Chinese government workers have been banned from using iPhones.\n\nThe firm's stock market valuation has fallen by more than 6%, or almost $200bn (£160bn), in the past two days.\n\nChina is the technology giant's third-largest market, accounting for 18% of its total revenue last year.\n\nIt is also where most of Apple's products are manufactured by its biggest supplier Foxconn.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday that Beijing had ordered central government agency officials to not bring iPhones into the office or use them for work.\n\nThe following day, Bloomberg News reported that the ban may also be imposed on workers at state-owned companies and government-backed agencies.\n\nThe instructions not to use iPhones were given to officials by their superiors in recent weeks, sources told the WSJ. Restrictions were also placed on other foreign-branded devices.\n\niPhones were already banned in some agencies, the paper says, but its sources suggested this had now been widened.\n\nIt has not been made clear how widely those instructions were disseminated through Chinese officialdom.\n\nThe reports came ahead of the launch of the iPhone 15, which is expected to take place on 12 September.\n\nOn Chinese social media some people who said they work for state-owned companies reported being told to stop using Apple devices by the end of September. One joked that they were poor and did not have the money to buy a new phone: \"What should I use for work?\" they wondered.\n\nChina is one of Apple's biggest markets, and iPhones are produced in the country, though recently Apple has increased production in India.\n\nThere has been no official statement from the Chinese government in response to the reports.\n\nApple did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nApple has the world's highest stock market valuation, standing at close to $2.8 trillion.\n\nAs well as Apple shares falling, shares in some of its suppliers were also hit.\n\nQualcomm, the world's biggest supplier of smartphone chips, dropped by more than 7% on Thursday, while shares in South Korea's SK Hynix were around 4% lower on Friday.\n\nTensions between the US and China over technology have been rising steadily, with both parties imposing restrictions.\n\nThis year, Washington, along with its allies Japan and the Netherlands, restricted China's access to some chip technology.\n\nChina retaliated by restricting exports of two materials key to the semiconductor industry.\n\nBeijing is also reportedly preparing a new $40bn investment fund to boost its chip making industry.\n\nLast week, during US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo's visit to Beijing, Chinese tech giant Huawei unexpectedly unveiled its Mate 60 Pro smartphone.\n\nOn Friday, the company launched presales of the Pro+ model of the phone.\n\nCanada-based technology research firm, TechInsights, said the phone contained a new 5G Kirin 9000s processor, developed for Huawei by China's largest contract chipmaker SMIC.\n\nTechInsights analyst Dan Hutcheson said it \"demonstrates the technical progress China's semiconductor industry has been able to make\".\n\nThis is a \"big tech breakthrough for China,\" investment firm Jefferies said in a research note.\n\nThis week, US congressman Mike Gallagher, who is the chairman of the House of Representatives committee on China, called on the Commerce Department to further restrict exports to Huawei and SMIC.\n\nMeanwhile, on Thursday Apple released an emergency software update for a vast number of old and current devices after a security vulnerability was discovered being used by unknown hackers.\n\nThe update was released after digital rights investigators at Citizen Lab discovered attackers hacking Apple devices of specific targets using a novel and unheard of technique.\n\nApple also found a similar so-called \"exploit\" itself so issued both updates as part of a rapid security response to customers.\n\nIt is the 15th time this year that Apple has been forced to issue sweeping security updates.", "A County Antrim woman who bleeds every day from her nose, eyes, or fingernails has called for greater understanding of her rare genetic bleeding disorder.\n\nSharon Gregg can lose up to two pints of blood during one nosebleed, which she said can happen several times a day.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, the 53-year-old said the volume of blood was \"shocking and frightening\", especially if she is at home alone.\n\nThis article contains descriptions some readers may find disturbing.\n\nSharon said there needed to be a better understanding of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), especially among GPs, to better allow them to diagnose the disorder in children.\n\nAbout 100 people in Northern Ireland have been officially diagnosed with HHT, which affects the blood vessels.\n\nDr Gary Benson, a consultant haematologist who has a special interest in bleeding disorders, said HHT can be catastrophic for the patient.\n\nHe said while 90% will have nose bleeds, it is a condition which can affect every part of the body, including the brain, gut, lungs, and liver.\n\nDr Benson also said that the 100 people officially diagnosed with this disorder in Northern Ireland were \"a drop in the ocean\" and there were likely more people unaware they had HHT.\n\nOfficially it is thought that one in 5,000 people are born with HHT.\n\nDr Benson described the condition as horrendous - especially for teenagers.\n\nHe recalled treating a sixth form student who bled over an exam paper during their A-Levels.\n\n\"It is so unpredictable, it doesn't matter what a patient is doing, it will happen when you least expect it, and your body decides to just bleed,\" he said.\n\nDr Benson said that while a nosebleed by itself was not a sign of the disorder, one that lasted for two hours should not be treated as normal.\n\n\"Families, however, who have seen relatives bleed all their lives, have normalised the disease - which they shouldn't.\n\n\"This is far from normal which you have seen in Sharon's case - Sharon can fill jugs with blood at one time and that is not normal.\n\n\"While rare this can be serious, especially bleeds on the brain which can become a very real complication,\" Dr Benson said.\n\nSharon said the condition meant she was mostly confined to the house and avoided family occasions as she never knows when the bleeding will start, nor how long it will last.\n\nSharon Gregg's father and grandfather also lived with the hereditary condition\n\nThe condition also affects her internal organs - including her lungs and brain.\n\nShe has been hospitalised several times.\n\nHHT is hereditary and, according to Sharon, her father and grandfather also lived with it.\n\n\"I am speaking out to find more people. I know there are more people out there who have the same family story as me.\n\n\"My dad's health problems, including strokes and gastric bleeding, were linked to the bleeding,\" she said.\n\nA large medical bag sits in the family kitchen which is brimming with bandages, plasters and pressure dressings.\n\nWhen her fingers bleed, Sharon sometimes has to go to hospital as she said she cannot physically cope with applying the dressings.\n\nA clamp is also in the medical bag to stop the bleeding from her tongue.\n\nPeople with HHT have some abnormal blood vessels that have not developed properly and sometimes cause bleeding known as arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).\n\nWhen AVMs form in the lining of the nose, the gut or skin, they can easily bleed without any warning.\n\nBleeds can last an hour or longer. Frequent bleeding can lead to iron-deficiency, anaemia, and stroke.\n\nTypical symptoms include regular nosebleeds and red spots on certain parts of the body.\n\nSymptoms usually start in childhood or in teenage years.\n\nAccording to Dr Benson, parents of children who have nose bleeds which last more than half an hour should seek help.\n\nConsultant haematologist Dr Gary Benson said some patients may be unaware that they have HHT\n\nAdditionally, he said that children who have had to have their nose cauterised more than once can be an indication of HHT.\n\nThere is no cure for the condition and treatment is limited.\n\nThe blood vessel can be closed but according to Dr Benson the nature of the condition means the blood will just find another opening to flow through.\n\nHowever, an iron deficiency can be treated through diet and iron supplements.\n\nSome of Dr Benson's female patients who have their monthly period find the condition particularly debilitating when they are also coping with bleeds elsewhere in the body.\n\nHe said those patients often struggled as their body needed additional iron - some four times more than a male patient.\n\n\"During my training it was likened to trying to fill a bath with the plug out and it's impossible to try and fill the body with additional iron to maintain the status quo.\"\n\nHe has called for more research and treatment into the rare disease.", "Different versions of the One Chip Challenge - a single tortilla chip sold in a coffin-shaped box - are released each year\n\nAmazon and eBay have removed a super-hot tortilla chip linked to the death of an American teenager from sale.\n\nThe parents of Harris Wolobah, 14, believe that the One Chip Challenge caused his death last week.\n\nIt was taken off shelves in the US, where it was widely sold, but imports from global sellers remained on-sale.\n\nAmazon said it would remove the product from its sites in the US, Britain, Europe, the Middle East and Africa after BBC Newsbeat contacted the firm.\n\nThe online retailer also plans to contact any international buyers who'd recently bought the snack to inform them.\n\nAn eBay spokesperson said user safety was a \"top priority\" and it had removed sale listings.\n\n\"We are monitoring our site closely and will remove any other listings if they arise,\" they added.\n\nHarris's official cause of death has not been confirmed, but his parents have called for the One Chip Challenge to be banned.\n\nSnack-maker Paqui claims that the single tortilla, sold in a coffin-shaped box, contains a blend of \"the hottest peppers available\".\n\nMillions of people have watched YouTubers and TikTokers attempt the viral dare and their extreme reactions to it.\n\nIt's thought the popularity of the challenge has inspired lots of teenagers to purchase the product, which carries a warning label, to try it for themselves.\n\nThe 2022 edition of the product was listed on sale via Amazon for £34.99 from a third-party seller\n\nOn Thursday, Paqui posted a statement on its website about its decision to remove stock from American stores.\n\nThe company said the challenge was \"intended for adults only\" and not for anyone with underlying health conditions or allergies.\n\nBut it said it had seen an \"increase in teens and other individuals not heeding these warnings\".\n\n\"As a result, while the product continues to adhere to food safety standards, out of an abundance of caution, we are actively working with our retailers to remove the product from shelves,\" it said.\n\nIn a further statement sent to Newsbeat, a Paqui spokesperson said: \"We are deeply saddened by the death of Harris Wolobah and express our condolences to the family.\n\n\"We care about all of our consumers and have made the decision to remove the product from shelves.\"\n\nThey said the product's label \"clearly states\" that it is not for children or those with sensitivity to spicy foods.\n\n\"We are actively working with our retailers and are offering refunds for any purchases of our single-serve one chip challenge product,\" they added.\n\nIn the UK, safety and hygiene regulator the Food Standards Agency (FSA), told Newsbeat it's working to find out where the product is sold.\n\nTina Potter, from the FSA, said: \"So far we have not received any reports of illness here.\"\n\nEating chillis and spicy food is considered safe in normal situations, depending on your tolerance.\n\nBut the body's reaction to very spicy food can mimic its response to burns and cause symptoms like sweating.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last year's Tonga volcanic eruption produced the fastest underwater flows ever recorded, scientists say.\n\nHuge volumes of rock, ash and mud were clocked moving across the ocean floor at speeds of up to 122km/h (75mph).\n\nThese \"density currents\", as they're known, snapped long sections of telecommunications cabling, cutting the Pacific kingdom's link to the global internet.\n\nThey also smothered and killed all sealife in their path.\n\nIt's another example of the prodigious scale of the 15 January eruption.\n\nThe underwater volcano called Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai is already in the record books for:\n\nScientists knew most of the roughly six cubic km of rock and ash thrown into the sky by the volcano must have come back down and spread out across the ocean floor, but now they've been able to map and measure its journey underwater and say something about its speed.\n\nThey did this by surveying and sampling the seafloor to see where the deposits went, and by comparing the timing of the eruption with the timing of the cable breaks.\n\nThere were two cables operational near the volcano, one connecting Tonga to the global internet and the other distributing this service to local islands.\n\nThe domestic cable, 50km from Hunga-Tonga, was the first to go down, 15 minutes after the onset of the main eruptive event. The international cable, some 70km away, followed about an hour later.\n\nThe RV Tangaroa surveyed and sampled the seafloor\n\nResearchers, led from the UK's National Oceanography Centre, say their investigations indicate the flow that broke the local submarine cable must have been moving at 73-122km/h (45-75mph); and even at the greater distance of the international cable, a speed of 47-51km/h (29-32mph) is realistic.\n\n\"These flows hit the sweet spot for going as fast as they possibly could,\" said Dr Mike Clare, who is a co-lead author on a report in this week's Science Magazine.\n\n\"The rock and ash in the high eruption column fell down and went into the ocean like a jet. When this material hit the 40-degree slopes of the volcano flanks, it bit off chunks of the volcano and became even more dense. It walloped the domestic cable, was steered around corners and then walloped the international cable,\" he told the Science In Action programme on the BBC World Service.\n\nTo put these speeds in the context of other density currents - a snow avalanche on a mountain might get up to 250km/h; and the classic debris flow from a land volcano, called a pyroclastic flow, can reach up to 700km/h. But these are phenomena in which the suspended particles are pushing through air.\n\nFor the Tonga submarine flows, they were pushing through water, which speaks to their density and power.\n\nThere are implications in what happened at Hunga-Tonga for the companies that operate the global submarine cable network.\n\nMore than 99% of all data traffic between continents goes through these connections, including daily money transfers to the value of trillions of dollars.\n\nSubmarine cables typically have the thickness of a hospipe\n\nIn the Pacific and the Caribbean, especially, the cables pass close to many underwater volcanoes.\n\nAlthough the international cable at Tonga was repaired in five weeks, it took 18 months to replace the domestic cable.\n\n\"In part that was because the length of new cabling simply didn't exist. They needed to manufacture 105km,\" explained co-author Dr Isobel Yeo.\n\n\"There needs to be investment in the availability of repair cable, and also in low-level communications satellites to build resilience.\"\n\nAnd she added: \"Hunga-Tonga highlights once again the need for better seafloor mapping. We don't know what's out there, and what we do know we don't monitor.\"\n\nThe deep scours dug out of the flanks of the volcano by the energetic flows are evident on other submarine volcanoes around the world, indicating the explosive event of the type that occurred in January 2022 may not be as rare as we think.\n\nFor their report, Drs Clare and Yoe used survey data gathered around the volcano by the Research Vessel (RV) Tangaroa, which is operated by New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric (NIWA) research.\n\nCore samples pulled up from the flows are held at the British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (Boscorf) on the NOC campus in Southampton.\n\nCores from the flows have been archived in Southampton", "Donna Ockenden's review followed a long-running campaign by bereaved families\n\nA police investigation is to be launched into failings that led to dozens of baby deaths and injuries at a hospital trust.\n\nThe maternity units at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust are already being examined in a review by senior midwife Donna Ockenden.\n\nThe review will become the largest ever carried out in the UK, with about 1,800 families affected.\n\nThe trust's chief executive said he was committed to co-operating.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said its decision to investigate followed discussions with Ms Ockenden.\n\nHer team is looking into failings that led to babies dying or being injured at Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nA review into failings in maternity care at hospitals in Nottingham is ongoing\n\nChief Constable Kate Meynell said: \"On Wednesday I met with Donna Ockenden to discuss her independent review into maternity cases of potentially significant concern at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and to build up a clearer picture of the work that is taking place.\n\n\"We want to work alongside the review but also ensure that we do not hinder its progress.\n\n\"However, I am in a position to say we are preparing to launch a police investigation.\n\n\"I have appointed the Assistant Chief Constable, Rob Griffin, to oversee the preparations and the subsequent investigation.\"\n\nThe announcement follows an investigation by West Mercia Police, launched in June 2020, into maternity practices at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust.\n\nAn independent investigation there, also conducted by Ms Ockenden, found that 201 babies and nine mothers could have survived with better maternity care over a 20-year period.\n\n\"We are currently looking at the work being done in Shrewsbury and Telford by West Mercia Police to understand how they conducted their investigation alongside Donna Ockenden's review and any lessons learnt,\" said Ms Meynell.\n\n\"Now we have met with Donna Ockenden we plan to hold preliminary discussions with some local families in the near future.\"\n\nMs Ockenden's review was prompted by a long-running campaign by bereaved parents.\n\nHer team is examining the cases of 1,800 families, with about 700 current and former trust staff making contact.\n\nMs Ockenden said she welcomed the decision to investigate.\n\n\"As the review chair, my team and I are absolutely committed to working with the police,\" she said in a social media post.\n\n\"I am grateful to the chief constable for her assurance that the police investigation will not delay the progress of our work.\"\n\nJack and Sarah Hawkins said they expected to speak to the chief constable soon\n\nA statement issued on behalf of the campaigning parents said: \"We welcome the long-awaited news of this police investigation and we are very grateful to the Chief Constable Kate Meynell for her decision.\n\n\"There will be a wealth of information from victim families for her team to use.\n\n\"A large number of us have alleged crimes and we will be sharing our evidence with the police to assist them with their investigations.\n\n\"There has been poor maternity care as well as poor investigation of that care at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust over many years.\"\n\nJack and Sarah Hawkins, whose baby Harriet died in 2016, said they asked the trust to notify the police of her death at the time.\n\nThey told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"This conversation has been repeated multiple times with senior people at NUH and with the local NHS over the years.\n\n\"We anticipate that we will be meeting with the chief constable soon to understand what the police investigation will mean for each and every one of us.\"\n\nLaw firm Irwin Mitchell is representing some of the families concerned about the care they received.\n\nMedical negligence lawyer Julianne Moore said: \"Understandably the families we represent have a number of concerns about what happened not only to them but others.\n\n\"They welcome the police's intention to investigate. We're continuing to support families we represent at this emotional time so they can also access the specialist support and in some cases, life-long care they require.\"\n\nHaving pushed for years for a truly independent review to reveal the scale of harm at the trust, families are now also looking for accountability.\n\nThis announcement raises the possibility that individuals could face criminal charges, or appear in court, but it will be a sensitive and complex investigation.\n\nWest Mercia Police has been undertaking a similar inquiry into the failures at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. That investigation has been under way for more than three years and no charges have yet been brought.\n\nThe fact the police are going to investigate clinicians' actions provides the families in Nottingham with more opportunity to understand why people acted as they did.\n\nThis, they hope, could lead to maternity services across the NHS significantly improving under fear of criminal prosecution if they repeatedly provide poor care.\n\nMr May said the trust was holding regular meetings with Ms Ockenden\n\nThe hospital trust's chief executive Anthony May said: \"From the time of my appointment at NUH, I have expressed my commitment to the independent review.\n\n\"I have given the same commitment to the chief constable in respect of any police investigation.\n\n\"I also reiterate the commitment we made to the families involved at our annual public meeting in July of an honest and transparent relationship with them.\"\n\nMr May, who came in to office last September, added the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was due to publish an inspection report for the trust's maternity services on 13 September.\n\nMaternity units at the City Hospital and Queen's Medical Centre have been rated inadequate by the watchdog since 2020.\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by the issues in this story, please visit the BBC Action Line to find information on organisations that can help.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The show won best soap at the Inside Soap Awards in 2019\n\nChannel 4 is shaking up how it broadcasts its long-running soap Hollyoaks, by expanding onto YouTube while dropping its weekday episodes from the terrestrial channel.\n\nThe broadcaster announced last year it would take a streaming-first approach with the show, which is aimed at younger audiences.\n\nEpisodes will be available to stream the day before they're broadcast on E4.\n\nThey will also go on YouTube for the first time - a week after streaming.\n\nHollyoaks was created by Sir Phil Redmond, who also made Brookside\n\nMeanwhile the Sunday omnibus edition will still be broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nIn 2022, Hollyoaks became the first UK soap to show its episodes on a streaming service ahead of the television broadcast.\n\nThe show, which is set in Chester, is aimed at younger audiences and has a young demographic.\n\nThe new schedule for Hollyoaks begins on 25 September, accompanied by some new storylines including a one-hour special where \"viewers will see the love triangle between Felix, his girlfriend Mercedes and best friend Warren reach an explosive turning point\".\n\nThe broadcaster said it is \"adopting a simpler and more relevant digital-focused drop pattern to meet how young audiences find and watch content\".\n\nIt added: \"In 2023, 64% of viewers have watched the soap via streaming or [youth channel] E4, resulting in 556 million minutes of the show being streamed in the first half of the year\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John opens up to Hollyoaks actor on 5 Live Drive about how a storyline saved their life\n\nChannel 4's chief content officer Ian Katz said: \"Hollyoaks has always been the youngest and most innovative soap, so it's fitting that it should be the first to embrace the changes in the behaviour of younger viewers and switch to a genuinely digital-led release pattern.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said the show will carry on with its focus on \"digital content that amplifies what occurs on screen\", including YouTube's Hollyoaks Saved My Life (Hollyoaks IRL), which was nominated for a Bafta for best short-form programme last year.\n\nThe programme tells the stories of real people affected by the show, including themes around mental health, knife crime, violence against women and conversion therapy.", "Several locations have reported temperatures in excess of 30C (86F)\n\nA UK record has been broken for the number of consecutive September days reaching 30C (86F).\n\nA 30.2C reading in Northolt, west London, on Thursday means the mercury has reached at least 30C four days in a row.\n\nThe previous September record was three days - in 1898, 1906, 1911 and 2016.\n\nThe Met Office said that Thursday could also be the hottest day of the year so far, with a provisional 32.6C recording in Wisley in Surrey.\n\nIf confirmed, it will surpass 32.2C registered on two days in June in Chertsey, Surrey, and Coningsby, Lincolnshire.\n\nSeveral other locations reported temperatures in excess of 30C on Thursday and the south-east of England could get 33C on Saturday, said BBC Weather forecaster Gareth Harvey.\n\n\"The heat is expected to last into Friday and for some the weekend as well, with heat slowly getting pushed further towards the south-east,\" he said.\n\nThe south-east of England could also get 31C on Sunday, he added, but further north will be cooler, with much of Scotland and Northern Ireland in the low-20Cs.\n\nHe said there was a growing chance of some thundery showers in the north and west this weekend as winds switch to a south-westerly direction and pull in cooler, fresher air from the Atlantic.\n\nTemperatures are expected to fall off next week.\n\nThis week has, however, been a different story.\n\nThe mercury reached 30.2C in Whitechurch in Wales on Monday, 30.7C in Wiggonholt, West Sussex, on Tuesday, and 32C in London's Kew Gardens on Wednesday.\n\nA further record could also be broken this week for the greatest number of September days where temperatures have reached 30C or more in the UK. The current record of five was set in 1911.\n\nThe month's hottest recorded day was 35.6C in Bawtry, South Yorkshire, in 1906.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has issued an amber warning until 9pm on Sunday in nearly every area of England, indicating that the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nA lower yellow warning is in place in the north-east of England, which is experiencing cooler temperatures.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nCouncils have also been working to treat roads and stop them from melting in the heat, the Local Government Association said.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.", "No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key government auction, dealing a blow to the UK's renewable power strategy.\n\nResults showed no bids for new offshore wind farms, but there were deals for solar, tidal and onshore wind projects.\n\nFirms have argued the price set for electricity generated was too low to make offshore wind projects viable.\n\nThe government said a \"global rise\" in inflation impacting supply chains had \"presented challenges for projects\".\n\nIt said while offshore and floating offshore wind projects did not feature on the agreed deals list, the outcome was \"in line with similar results in countries including Germany and Spain\".\n\nThe Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said \"significant numbers\" of solar power, onshore wind, tidal energy schemes, and for the first time, geothermal projects, which use heat from the ground to generate power, had been awarded funding.\n\nBut the lack of offshore wind will be a blow to the pledge to deliver 50 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030 compared with 14GW today.\n\nRenewable energy groups have said that alternative renewable projects, such as solar, cannot do the heavy lifting in generating the power that offshore wind does.\n\nThe technology has been described as the \"jewel in the UK's renewable energy crown\", but firms have been hit by higher costs for building offshore farms, with materials such as steel and labour being more expensive.\n\nThe UK is a world leader in offshore wind and is home to the world's four largest farms, supporting tens of thousands of jobs, which provided 13.8% of the UK's electricity generation last year, according to government statistics.\n\nThe government's annual auction invites companies to bid to develop renewable energy projects and contracts to supply the UK grid with electricity. The scheme ensures projects receive a guaranteed price from the government for the electricity they will generate, which it is hoped will enable companies to have the confidence to invest.\n\nThe deal, called a Contract for Difference (CFD), means if electricity prices are above the price set, the companies pay the excess back to energy suppliers, which should help to cut bills. If prices fall below the guaranteed price the energy suppliers - and customers - pay the company the difference.\n\nIt was hoped offshore wind in the latest round could have helped generate five gigawatts of power, enough to run five million homes, but wind farm builders had warned for months that the government was not taking into account how much the costs of developing them had soared.\n\nIndustry insiders told the BBC that the £44 per megawatt hour price floor set for the latest auction failed to take account of higher costs.\n\nKeith Anderson, chief executive of Scottish Power, said the outcome of the auction was a \"multi-billion pound lost opportunity to deliver low-cost energy for consumers and a wake-up call for government\".\n\nHe said the contracts had been \"recognised globally as a lynchpin of the UK's offshore success\", but said \"the economics simply did not stand up this time around\".\n\n\"We need to get back on track and consider how we unlock the billions of investment in what is still one of the cheapest ways to generate power and meet the UK's long-term offshore wind ambitions for the future,\" he added.\n\nAlistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of SSE, which is currently building the world's largest offshore wind farm, said offshore wind power was a much cheaper energy source and about half the price compared with other sources including fossil fuels.\n\nBut he told the BBC's Today programme that while the UK needed to build more wind farms, \"for this particular auction unfortunately the prices were just set too low\" for electricity generated to make investment viable.\n\nOn Friday, wholesale gas prices in the UK rose by about 10% after strike action kicked off at two major liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Australia.\n\nEd Miliband, Labour's shadow energy security and net zero secretary, said the result of the auction was an \"absolute disaster for Britain\", but should have been avoidable. He argued the government had been warned by the industry that \"unless they adjusted the auction price this would happen\".\n\n\"They [the government] should be hanging their heads in shame,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nWhile there were no bids for offshore contracts, the government said a total of 95 clean energy projects had secured funding of £227m, up from 93 in the previous auction, securing \"enough to power the equivalent of two million homes\".\n\nEnergy and Climate Change Minister Graham Stuart said the government was \"delighted\" that the auction had \"seen a record number of successful projects across solar, onshore wind, tidal power and, for the first time, geo-thermal\".\n\nHe added that offshore wind was \"central to our ambitions to decarbonise our electricity supply\", and said the government would \"work with industry to make sure we retain our global leadership in this vital technology\".", "A sighting of escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA witness saw him near Wandsworth roundabout on Wednesday morning, walking away from the food delivery van he used to escape from HMP Wandsworth.\n\nThe Met is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information that leads directly to his arrest.\n\nThe 21-year-old is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and plotting a fake bomb hoax.\n\nThe delivery van had stopped near the south entrance to the roundabout, at the top of Trinity Road, when a member of the public reported seeing Mr Khalife crawling out from underneath it.\n\n\"The man was then seen walking towards Wandsworth town centre,\" the police statement added.\n\nThe sighting is one of several \"key lines\" of enquiry the Met says it is following.\n\nCdr Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the force had received 100 calls from the public and the Wandsworth Roundabout sighting \"could be very significant\".\n\n\"This remains a fast-paced and dynamic investigation, but I want the public to know that a large number of officers are working extremely hard to locate Khalife,\" he said.\n\nHe said his message to the suspect was to hand himself in: \"We will be closing in on you, Daniel, you really need to come in and give yourself up.\"\n\nCdr Murphy added that efforts were being focused on London but would also look at other parts of the UK as the investigation developed.\n\nThe Met has also opened its UK Image Appeal website, allowing members of the public to submit any images and videos which are relevant to the investigation.\n\nPolice have established the route the delivery van took on Wednesday\n\nMr Khalife is described as slim, 6ft 2in (1.9m), with short brown hair.\n\nPolice say there is no reason to believe he poses a threat to the public, but urged people not to approach him and instead call 999.\n\nMr Khalife - who joined the British Army in 2019 - is thought to have clung to the underside of a delivery lorry to make his escape from HMP Wandsworth in London.\n\nDetectives believe he was still wearing his prison-issue cook's uniform when he slipped out of the category B jail on Wednesday.\n\nSome 150 Met Counter Terrorism Command officers have been deployed in the search since Khalife was declared missing at 08:15 BST.\n\nA search took place on Thursday night into the early hours of Friday in Richmond Park, south-west London - just 2.8 miles (4.6km) from the prison.\n\nBBC News was told it was not based on any specific lead or intelligence, and search efforts have been scaled back.\n\nDaniel Khalife, top left, during his time in the British Army in 2018\n\nThe Met has released a photo of the type of clothing Mr Khalife was wearing when he escaped from prison\n\nThe Met said it had been able to clarify the route taken by the delivery lorry as it left the prison, following new CCTV enquiries.\n\n\"After exiting Wandsworth roundabout onto Swandon Road, the van remained on the road until turning left onto Fairfield Street,\" the force explained.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the force was exploring the possibility the former soldier was helped by other prisoners or guards.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said an independent investigation will take place following the escape.\n\nIt will run alongside reviews looking at the categorisation and placement of all HMP Wandsworth prisoners, and all those in custody charged with terrorism offences.", "The former Princess of Wales first wore the sweater in 1981, a month before her wedding to then Prince Charles. Misplaced for decades, it was rediscovered in an attic in March this year.\n\nOn Thursday, the sweater was sold for $1.14 million (£920,000) at an auction by Sotheby's in New York.", "On the first anniversary of his reign, King Charles will be spending the day \"quietly and privately\" at Balmoral, with prayers and reflections on the life of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died one year ago.\n\nIt's the way the late Queen used to mark the date of her own accession to the throne and the death of her father.\n\nIt's a highly appropriate image of continuity, because this year has been much more about stability and reassurance than about change or reform.\n\nAny expectations of a modernising monarch have so far been put on hold.\n\n\"It's been surprising in its lack of surprises,\" says royal commentator Pauline Maclaran. \"People have very quickly become used to him as King.\"\n\nKing Charles led the nation in mourning at the state funeral of his \"darling Mama\", Queen Elizabeth II\n\nIt has been a \"softly, softly\" approach, with an emphasis on keeping the ship steady rather than a dramatic new direction, says Prof Maclaran, of Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"He's been his mother's son this year,\" adds royal historian Anna Whitelock.\n\nIt's almost felt like an \"unofficial mourning period\", with any changes likely to come later in his reign, says Prof Whitelock, professor of the history of modern monarchy at City, University of London.\n\n\"It's been a sense of 'not much to see here', which would be seen as a positive,\" she says.\n\nThe rhythm and rituals of the royal year have largely been kept in place. The rotation through big annual events and stately homes has stayed much the same.\n\nA monarch doesn't have a political cycle where they have to make an immediate impact. She believes King Charles has had a quietly successful first year, gaining public acceptance following his mother's long reign, managing the transition and avoiding any disasters.\n\nThe checklist of achievements includes a first state visit to Germany, widely seen as a diplomatic success.\n\nKing Charles was crowned in a ceremony full of symbolism at Westminster Abbey in May 2023\n\nAnd in terms of a change in tone, the Coronation ceremony was a carefully curated display of a more diverse, multi-faith Britain, made up of what the King has called a \"community of communities\".\n\nThere was embarrassment over the Ngozi Fulani race row - in which a black British guest at Buckingham Palace was repeatedly asked where she was \"really from\". Yet it was resolved swiftly and ended with messages of reconciliation.\n\nConcerns about the King overstepping the mark into political matters haven't yet materialised, although he's maintained his interest in environmental campaigns.\n\nAs Charles' second wife, there were questions for many years about what title Camilla would take when he became King\n\nThe transition to \"Queen Camilla\" has also happened without ruffling too many feathers, with the halfway house of Queen Consort dropped at the Coronation.\n\nCamilla has carried out one of the more modernising changes, scrapping the archaic sounding ladies-in-waiting. She's also continued to campaign over domestic violence, a subject unlikely to have been addressed by previous generations of royals.\n\nBut there are still some doubters over her use of the title \"Queen\". Princess Diana's former private secretary, Patrick Jephson, says he would have preferred \"Princess Consort\".\n\n\"After all, Prince Philip managed as Prince Consort for all his time as the Queen's husband,\" he says.\n\nIn terms of family problems, the fireworks of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, didn't really scorch the King. The book might have rattled the monarchy as an institution, but the King himself was portrayed as an essentially benign and sympathetic figure, if a sometimes puzzled and melancholy one.\n\nPrince Andrew has also mostly kept out of sight this year, despite repeated rumours of ambitions to return to public life.\n\nBut there are still questions to be addressed.\n\n\"There are issues about the transparency of royal finances, when the public pay a lot of money into this institution. It's a weak point at the moment,\" says Prof Jones, professor of modern history at University College London.\n\n\"They also need to offer some kind of response to the questions that will keep coming up about the legacy of slavery,\" says Prof Jones. As well as politically significant in the UK, confronting the issue of slavery and the Royal Family's historical links to it will be particularly important for relations with some of the Commonwealth countries.\n\nIn his first Christmas message, the King spoke of the \"great anxiety\" for those struggling to pay bills and feed their families\n\nBut the royal expert thinks the biggest challenge for the King is the need to appear socially aware and sensitive to the financial pressures many people are experiencing.\n\n\"When people are hungry, history shows it goes badly for monarchies,\" says Prof Jones. \"Monarchy depends on a social consensus.\"\n\nIn that respect the King appears ahead of the curve, ready to open a new freezer in a food bank as often as cutting the ribbon on a new building.\n\nProf Whitelock says his Christmas message, which referenced the NHS and the cost-of-living crisis, was \"pretty radical\".\n\nBut changes in how he runs the monarchy have been less so. Royal spending hasn't gone down. There is still an \"official\" birthday, as well as the real one. The long-term future of Buckingham Palace still seems unclear. It is currently under repair but it's open to question whether the King and Queen will ever really live there.\n\nThere has been no shift to a small \"slimmed down\" Royal Family, although the removal of Prince Harry and Prince Andrew as working royals has arguably achieved that by default.\n\nThe King donated funds which helped hundreds of food banks store more food by providing them with fridges and freezers\n\nBut what do the public make of the new reign?\n\nAccording to the most recent opinion polls, there is good news for both supporters and opponents of the monarchy. A YouGov poll this week showed the broad picture remains of a clear majority, 62%, in support of Britain remaining a monarchy.\n\nBut 26% wanted an elected head of state, the highest figure in a series of surveys stretching back more than a decade. This was bolstered by growing opposition to the monarchy among the young, with only 30% of 18 to 24-year-olds believing the monarchy was \"good for Britain\".\n\nGraham Smith, leader of the anti-monarchy campaign, Republic, says \"republicans have the momentum and the monarchy's future has never looked so fragile\".\n\nProtests against the monarchy have become a more regular and visible part of royal events. But Sir Anthony Seldon, author and historian, points to the personal popularity of the King, with the same YouGov poll showing 59% believe he's doing a good job.\n\n\"Few imagined back in September 2022 that King Charles would have had such a good first year,\" says Sir Anthony.\n\nKing Charles seems to enjoy meeting well-wishers and is tactile and approachable\n\nOn walkabouts the crowds do seem to warm to the King, who is a hands-on monarch. He seems energised when he is shaking hands and talking to the public, sometimes appearing to enjoy that more than meeting the long lines of civic worthies on official visits.\n\nThis change in body language has been one of the visible differences in the reign, says royal historian Jonathan Spangler, of Manchester Metropolitan University.\n\nThere is much less stand-offishness. And Dr Spangler says the King has been good at building a wide network of contacts over the years. \"Talking to people helps him inform his ideas,\" he says.\n\nBut can this connection work for young people and those who are feeling less enamoured with the monarchy?\n\n\"The Queen was praised for never having an opinion in public. But young people now say, 'If you've got a platform, use it,'\" says Prof Whitelock.\n\nEd Owens, author of a new book on the monarchy, After Elizabeth, says the challenge for the King as his reign develops is to avoid being on the wrong side of younger generations' sense of social injustice.\n\nThere is a generational sense of grievance over issues such as unaffordable housing, student debt and cost of living pressures - and Dr Owens suggests it would be perilous for the monarchy's future to be seen as a symbol of that unfairness.\n\nThe King is believed to be planning a big food project in the autumn - in terms of preventing waste and providing better access to good quality food, which could align with concerns about both sustainability and food poverty.\n\nBut there is another often overlooked factor in the reign of King Charles. No monarch in British history has come to the throne at such a late stage in life. It can't be easy to be a modernising new monarch at the age of 74.\n\nThat could be why Prince William has become such an important figure in this reign. Much of the modernising and taking on social problems, such as homelessness, will be through the Prince of Wales. Any shifting in traditions could come through Prince William.\n\nAt the age of 73, Charles became the oldest person to accede to the British throne, after having been the longest-serving heir in British history\n\nTaking the long view, Patrick Jephson welcomes the fact that the King isn't \"rushing things\".\n\n\"I find it very reassuring that his first year has not been marked by some blaze of new initiatives, souped up by the Buckingham Palace press office, and making us all wonder whether he's really a monarch or some sort of politician in a crown,\" says Mr Jephson, now an author and broadcaster.\n\nBut he also warns the royals remain vulnerable to being seen as an \"imposition\", particularly in tough economic times.\n\nThe unending challenge for the King's reign, he says, is that this message of value and purpose to the public has to be \"daily re-established\".\n\nYou can read more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK, or here, from outside the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Andrew Flintoff has been pictured for the first time since he was injured in an accident while filming Top Gear last year.\n\nFlintoff, 45, was injured in December at the motoring TV show's test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.\n\nHe was seen with the England team during their one-day international with New Zealand at Cardiff on Friday.\n\nFilming of the 34th series of the BBC show was suspended pending a health and safety review into the incident.\n\nFlintoff was not working with England in a formal capacity but was invited to be around the team.\n\nThe former all-rounder, who had visible scars on his face and tape on his nose, wore a bucket hat and dark glasses as he led fielding drills with the England players at Cardiff's Sophia Gardens.\n\nHe was then seen sitting on the England balcony during the New Zealand innings, with the visitors going on to complete a dominant eight-wicket victory.\n\nEngland captain Jos Buttler said it was \"great\" to have Flintoff around the squad.\n\n\"He's obviously an England legend and it's just nice to have him around the group,\" Buttler said.\n\n\"He's not been brought in with any specific role, just to be around and observe.\n\n\"A few of the lads can pick his brains a little bit and he's settled in really well. It's great to have him with us. Just for this series.\"\n\nFollowing the accident on 13 December, Flintoff received medical care at the scene before being taken to hospital for further treatment.\n\nIn March, the BBC apologised to Flintoff for his injuries and said it would continue to support him during his recovery.\n\nFlintoff retired from cricket in 2009 having played 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven T20s for England.\n\nHe played a key role in England's Ashes successes of 2005 and 2009, and was captain between 2006 and 2007.\n\nFlintoff moved into TV presenting after retiring and joined Top Gear as a host in 2019 alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.\n• None The lives of three strangers with nothing in common collide:\n• None What harm does vaping do to teenagers?: Panorama investigates the recent vaping phenomenon and its potential risks", "Woody Allen arrived at Monday's premiere with wife Soon-Yi Previn and daughters Bechet and Manzie\n\nWoody Allen's return to the Venice Film Festival was greeted with cheers and positive reviews from some, but also by loud protests on the red carpet at the premiere of the US director's new film.\n\nMost reviews called Coup De Chance, Allen's first film entirely in French, his best work in a decade.\n\nBut scuffles broke out when protestors attempted to get on to the red carpet.\n\nAllen is a controversial figure, having been accused of molesting his daughter Dylan, which he has always denied.\n\nNo charges have ever been brought against the star.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 87-year-old has largely been shunned by Hollywood since the #MeToo movement brought the allegations, which date from the 1990s, back to the fore.\n\nDespite the controversy, he remains a European festival favourite, and received standing ovations and rapturous applause in Venice at the premiere and adjoining press conference.\n\nIn an interview with Variety ahead of the festival, the US film-maker said: \"I feel if you're going to be cancelled, this is the culture to be cancelled by.\n\n\"I just find that all so silly. I don't think about it. I don't know what it means to be cancelled. I know that over the years everything has been the same for me. I make my movies.\"\n\nAllen went on to say he supported #MeToo \"where it does something positive\".\n\n\"I read instances where it's very beneficial, for women,\" he said, but added: \"When it's silly, it's silly.\"\n\nHe stood by previous remarks that he should have been a \"poster boy\" for the movement, pointing to the amount of \"very good parts\" he had created for women down the years, as well as equally-paid roles for female crews.\n\nSpeaking later at the press conference, Allen added he had been \"very lucky my whole life\" and \"not been held accountable for things I did poorly\" in his work.\n\n\"I've been very lucky with my film-making,\" he said. \"And I've had, over my lifetime, much undeserved praise and an enormous amount of attention and respect. And so I have nothing but good fortune.\"\n\nAllen, Luc Besson and Roman Polanski, three directors who have faced sexual assault cases in the past, have been given spots by the 2023 Venice festival.\n\nPolanski was convicted of statutory rape of a minor in 1978. A rape claim against Besson was dropped by French prosecutors.\n\nAllen's latest film received positive reviews from critics at the event.\n\nCoup De Chance, or \"stroke of luck\", stars Lou de Laâge, Valerie Lemercier and Melvil Poupaud in a tale of love, infidelity and death.\n\nIn a four-star review, the Times' Kevin Maher called it Allen's \"best film in a decade\" after a string of \"incredibly patchy movies\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by JoBlo Movie Trailers This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Guardian's Xan Brooks, in a three-star review, wrote: \"How Allen continues to conduct his career is obviously his business alone. But if he were ever minded to collect his winnings and quit the table, his 50th feature might be a decent film to go out on.\"\n\nThe Telegraph's Robbie Collin described his latest comedy as \"an extended mother-in-law joke\" and \"his funniest film in years\", while also offering three stars.\n\n\"An 11th-hour twist allows dumb luck the last laugh, and (in Venice, at least) it brought the house down,\" wrote the reviewer. \"Given his otherwise grim recent form, Allen himself may have simply got lucky with this one, but the charm and sparkle here are real.\"", "When the public finances are in a tight spot, the axe often falls first on capital spending. This is government spending on buildings and facilities, not on, for example, wages and day-to-day services.\n\nThe political rationale is that it takes time, often years, to see the material impact of a squeeze on capital spending. It kicks cans down the road. But are capital spending cuts in education during the austerity years to blame for the current schools concrete crisis?\n\nWhat is clear is that, overall, investment spending of all kinds has been squeezed over the last decade. Under the last Labour government, capital spending as a proportion of the size of the economy, or GDP, rose from 0.3% in 1997 to 3% in 2010. Since then, however, it has fallen back to an average of 2% where it is set to remain.\n\nThis issue is being made worse by inflation - the rate at which prices rise - which has soared and remains stubbornly high. The chancellor said on Sunday that \"one of his first decisions\" while he was trying to shore up the public finances last year was to protect cash spending on capital, in other words maintain it at current levels.\n\nBut accounting for inflation, it means significant real-terms cuts are coming. Indeed the Treasury's own documents forecast an average cut from departmental capital budgets of about £10bn from 2025-2028.\n\nFor schools the situation is even tougher, because since 2010 education has received a lower proportion of capital spending as money is directed elsewhere.\n\nIn 2005, for example, one in every eight pounds of capital expenditure went on education. Over the past three years it has been one in every £20. The inflation-adjusted education capital budget fell by 50% from its peak between 2010 and 2022.\n\nThe Conservatives inherited just under £10bn a year in education capital sending in 2010, and have spent £5-6bn a year since then, in real terms. Part of those savings came from scrapping the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project in 2010, which aimed to rebuild and refurbish every secondary school in England.\n\nIn the 2010 Spending Review, which set out the government's priorities, 60% cuts to education capital spending were very clearly signalled. Indeed, this planned £4bn fall in education spending was the biggest single departmental contributor to the Coalition's austerity savings in the overall capital budget from 2010 to 2015. That document claimed \"the decision to end BSF will allow new capital to be focused on meeting demographic pressures and addressing maintenance needs\".\n\nWhat has actually happened since then, is that government capital spending has been focussed on hospitals, transport, energy and science, and away from schools and housing. Indeed over 20 years health will have roughly swapped places with education as home for one in eight pounds of investment. This is a tangible reflection of differing political priorities - \"education, education, education\" for the Blair-Brown Labour administrations, and reducing borrowing while protecting the NHS for the post-2010 Conservatives.\n\nOn the BBC's Today programme on Monday, former top education civil servant Jonathan Slater said the government cut the schools' repair budget in 2021 despite a warning of a \"critical risk to life\" from crumbling concrete. This was when Rishi Sunak was chancellor. In 2019, the Office of Government Property calculated that in order to bring the schools estate to best practice, partly because of the concrete issue, £7bn a year in funding was required.\n\nMr Slater also suggested that ministers preferred to spend money on opening shiny new schools with opportunities for photos in hard hats, than the more routine job of ensuring the existing stock of school buildings were up to date.\n\nHowever, the prime minister said it was \"utterly and completely wrong\" to blame him for failing to fund the programme.\n\nNevertheless, decisions over how capital spending budgets should be allocated raise significant questions for the current government and whoever wins the next election.\n\nAt times, capital investment has been exempted from the government's rules on borrowing. Governments have said it is fine to borrow money to invest in the future. But in recent years, self-imposed limits on government debt levels have directly affected capital spending decisions for the long term.\n\nIs health gobbling up the capital budget to the exclusion of neglected schools? How does Westminster prioritise the sometimes crumbling fabric of public services?\n\nThe design life of concrete systems in post-war schools was 30-40 years. There is now a pressing requirement to replace, presumably, all of it which this government or the next will have to meet. This post-dated cheque is coming due at a time when capital budgets are being squeezed again. But the problem cannot wait until after the general election.", "It was a glamorous evening in the London sunshine as the stars of the small screen hit the red carpet ahead of Tuesday's National Television Awards.\n\nCheck out some of the famous faces - and a range of fashion - below.\n\nThis Morning host Alison Hammond was nominated for best presenter and made a stunning entrance in a full-length sequinned figure-hugging gown, accompanied by a matching cape of flowing chiffon.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, who has undergone a mastectomy and had chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, gave a nod to awareness of the disease by pointing to her breast cancer awareness pin badge on the red carpet.\n\nPresenter and comedian Tom Allen clearly read the memo about the early autumn heatwave and wore shorts. We're glad he stuck to the formal dress code with the black socks, though.\n\nRob Burrow's documentary Living with MND was up for best authored documentary. He arrived with wife Lindsey and their two daughters.\n\nReality TV personality Maura Higgins donned a daring black cropped top and matching full-length skirt with a bodice section made up of threads of pearls cascading from one shoulder.\n\nSinger and presenter Fleur East stood out from the crowd in wide-leg black trousers, braces, long black gloves, a white shirt, plenty of jewellery and a desert-style hat.", "Qantas boss Alan Joyce will depart the airline two months earlier than scheduled amid mounting controversies.\n\nMr Joyce was set to leave in November, after 15 years as chief executive, but will now exit the role immediately.\n\nHe said recent attention on \"events of the past\" made it clear this is \"the best thing\" he could do.\n\nThe airline is the subject of growing public anger after reaping record profits despite a series of scandals.\n\nChief financial officer Vanessa Hudson will become Qantas' first female boss when she succeeds Mr Joyce on Wednesday.\n\nIn the past two years Qantas has faced a slew of criticism for expensive airfares, mass delays and cancellations, and its treatment of workers.\n\nA week after Qantas announced a record A$2.5bn ($1.6bn; £1.3bn) profit, Australia's consumer watchdog - the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) - said it was taking legal action against the airline over allegations it had sold tickets to thousands of flights it had already cancelled.\n\nThe lawsuit, announced last Thursday, means the national carrier is now facing legal action on three fronts.\n\nIt is also appealing against a ruling it illegally outsourced thousands of jobs during the pandemic, and fighting a class action from customers over its inflexible flight credit scheme.\n\nShareholders are now under pressure from some groups - including some parliamentarians - to vote down Mr Joyce's final remuneration package, which is reportedly up to A$24 million.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Mr Joyce did not address those calls.\n\nHe said there was a lot he was proud of over his time at Qantas, but it now needed to \"move ahead with its renewal as a priority\".\n\n\"There have been many ups and downs, and there is clearly much work still to be done, especially to make sure we always deliver for our customers. But I leave knowing that the company is fundamentally strong and has a bright future,\" he said.\n\nMr Joyce's Sydney mansion was famously pelted with eggs and toilet paper at the height of the recent airport chaos, and he was struck in the face with a lemon meringue pie in 2017 over his public support for same-sex marriage during a national debate on legalising it.\n\nBut Mr Joyce has also won praise for steering the airline through the 2008 financial crisis, the pandemic and record oil prices.\n\nQantas chairman Richard Goyder paid tribute to Mr Joyce, saying he \"has always had the best interests of Qantas front and centre, and today shows that\".\n\n\"This transition comes at what is obviously a challenging time for Qantas and its people. We have an important job to do in restoring the public's confidence in the kind of company we are.\"\n\nWhen her posting was announced in May, Ms Hudson said restoring the airline's reputation was her top priority.", "It's not yet been confirmed if host Maya Jama will also be presenting All Stars\n\nLove Islanders from the past will get another chance at romance in a new \"All Stars\" edition, ITV has said.\n\nAfter months of rumours, the broadcaster confirmed its plan to bring back familiar faces to the villa in South Africa.\n\nThe cast of past contestants - yet to be announced - will attempt to couple up when the series debuts next year.\n\nRatings of the reality show, now hosted by Maya Jama, have seen a steady drop since its launch in 2015.\n\nThe recent summer series in Majorca - won by Sammy Root and Jess Hardin - attracted 1.3m viewers for its first episode - more than a million down on the previous year.\n\nLove Island has faced competition from a crop of new rivals like BBC Three's I Kissed a Boy, the UK's first gay dating show.\n\nIt's also had to bring in various new measures in response to scrutiny of contestant care after the deaths of two former islanders.\n\nMost recently, ITV updated its duty of care protocols and implemented a ban on friends and families using contestant's social media accounts while they're on the show.\n\nIt said this was to \"protect both the Islanders and their families from the adverse effects of social media\".\n\nSammy and Jess won the most recent series\n\nThe show has also been criticised for portraying \"misogynistic and controlling behaviour\" by domestic abuse charity Women's Aid.\n\nProducers have also been praised for efforts to make the show more inclusive.\n\nFor its most recent season contestants provided audio descriptions of their appearance and outfits for visually impaired fans.\n\nAll Stars won't be the first trip to the luxurious South African villa - the show went to the country in 2020 for its first-ever winter series.\n\n\"It's set to be a must-watch series seeing favourite islanders from across the years heading back to the stunning South African villa,\" said Mike Spencer, creative director at production company Lifted Entertainment.\n\nLove Island, which airs on ITV2 and via ITVX in the UK, has been reproduced all over the world, including hit versions in the US and Australia.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Three major water companies illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times last year on days when it was not raining, a BBC investigation suggests.\n\nThe practice, known as \"dry spilling\", is banned because it can lead to higher concentrations of sewage in waterways.\n\nThames, Wessex and Southern Water appear to have collectively released sewage in dry spills for 3,500 hours in 2022 - in breach of their permits.\n\nWater UK, the industry body, said the spills \"should be investigated\".\n\nThe BBC requested the same data from the other water companies in England, which said they could not respond due to being under an Environment Agency (EA) criminal investigation.\n\nReleasing sewage into rivers and seas is allowed in the UK to prevent pipe systems becoming overwhelmed - but it has to have been raining.\n\nWithout rainwater the sewage is likely to be less diluted - leading to build-ups of algae which produce toxins \"that can be fatal to pets and pose a health risk to swimmers\", says Dr Linda May, a water ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.\n\nDischarging in dry conditions is therefore illegal under environmental law.\n\nCollectively throughout 2022, Thames, Southern and Wessex illegally started releasing sewage on dry days 388 times - research by the BBC's climate and data teams suggests - including during last summer when these regions were in drought.\n\nThere even appears to have been spills by all three companies on 19 July 2022, the hottest day on record, when temperatures topped 40C in some places and many people tried to cool off in rivers.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Therese Coffey told BBC News: \"It does seem extraordinary on the hottest day of the year that there may be releases. The EA is the regulator; they are the people who do the detailed investigation of why that has happened.\"\n\nAll nine English water companies were sent environmental information requests for data on when their spills started and stopped. Only Thames, Southern and Wessex provided details - which the BBC then cross-referenced with Met Office rainfall data to identify dry spills.\n\nFewer spills are likely to have been recorded in 2022 by Thames and disclosed to the BBC. That's because the company only had 62% of its overflow points monitored - compared to Wessex with 91% and Southern with 98%.\n\nThe remaining six water companies in England said they couldn't provide information because they were already being investigated for potential illegal spilling by industry regulator Ofwat and the EA. If the companies shared data with the BBC, they said, then analysis could be carried out which could sway public opinion.\n\nThames, Southern and Wessex serve more than 22 million people.\n\nAcross the Wessex Water region - from the Dorset coast to the Bristol area - BBC analysis identified 68 sites where sewage may have been discharged illegally last year. The spills that started on dry days appear to have lasted for more than 1,500 hours.\n\nIn one case, the BBC's analysis suggested that sewage was discharged into the River Chew in north Somerset from a nearby wastewater treatment works for nearly 50 hours during dry periods.\n\nGeorgie Duckworth swims and rafts regularly in the river with her two young boys, like other local residents, and describes the spills as \"outrageous\".\n\nGeorgie Duckworth runs an outdoor activity company and regularly uses the River Chew with her two children\n\n\"We are all aware not to go swimming, not to get your heads under in the water when it is raining, but the thought that it is happening in dry weather too, it's alarming,\" she told the BBC.\n\nWessex Water said the spills into River Chew were caused by groundwater coming up into pipes and forcing it to spill. It said this dilutes the sewage and \"the storm overflow is not identified as one of the factors affecting the ecological condition of the river\".\n\nHowever, the EA - England's environmental protection body - told the BBC that any dry spills due to groundwater are a breach of permit and illegal.\n\nWessex Water also contested some of the other spills highlighted by the BBC, citing doubts over the accuracy of its own data.\n\nNicholas Ostrowski, an environmental barrister and water industry expert, says there are three reasons why water companies may be spilling during dry weather - maintenance issues; \"hydraulic incapacity\" in the system, where there is not enough space for water to go through the pipes; and the company \"deliberately sending effluent out in dry weather\".\n\nAny illegal spills should be investigated by the EA. Enforcement action can be taken, ranging from a warning to an unlimited fine.\n\nThe government has revealed that the EA recorded 115 cases of illegal operation in 2022 for the three water companies - less than a third of what the BBC analysis found.\n\nOne of the agency's officers - who works in environmental regulation - told the BBC anonymously there was a \"firm link\" between the EA's failure to identify and investigate dry spills, and budget cuts and staff losses.\n\nThe EA's environmental protection budget, funded by the government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was halved between 2010-20.\n\nThe officer also told us the agency was increasingly relying on water companies to report their own dry spill incidents because of these cuts.\n\nThe EA's chief executive, John Leyland, told the BBC: \"The funding for the Environment Agency is a matter of public record... and we've seen a steady decline in some of our funds and so we've had to change.\n\n\"We've been focusing on digital monitoring, but earlier this year we announced a programme of increased investments in real people on your riverbank.\"\n\nOn the BBC's findings of dry spills, the EA was unable to comment because of its ongoing criminal investigation into water companies. But Mr Leyland said: \"We are committed to increasing our regulatory presence to hold the water companies to account.\"\n\nWater Minister Rebecca Pow told the BBC she considers the amount of sewage discharged into the English waters \"utterly unacceptable\", and said the protection budget had been increased by 12% since last year.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Ms Coffey also defended the government's record to the BBC: \"I think it is a really difficult issue, but actually we are the party that's cleaning it up, we have got the monitoring going that is how we are able to uncover the scale of the issue we are tackling.\n\n\"We're also… making sure we are going to get more investment into the water companies and infrastructure, and that's where we have a credible plan.\"\n\nOne apparent dry-spilling case by Southern Water picked up by BBC analysis also came to the Environment Agency's attention after a complaint from a member of the public.\n\nIn March 2022, Robert Bailey from the Clean Harbours Partnership noticed his local chalk stream, the River Lavant near Chichester, had become \"discoloured for many miles and was starting to fill with a white plume\".\n\nHis concerns correlate with two dry spills the BBC has now identified at the site.\n\n\"Because of the sewage being discharged, it is a river of effluent,\" he told us.\n\nThe BBC has seen the investigation report from the EA's subsequent visits in April and May - which confirms that Southern Water was discharging sewage when there was no rain, in breach of its permit.\n\nThe EA issued Southern Water with a warning - but said further action could be taken if there were more spills.\n\nThere were 91 more hours of sewage discharges starting during dry weather at the site during the rest of 2022 - BBC analysis suggests.\n\nIn total, the research indicates that Southern Water illegally released sewage at 25 sites across its area last year - from Hampshire to Kent - for a total of nearly 800 hours.\n\nJohn Penicud, head of wastewater operations at Southern Water, told the BBC that \"so-called 'dry spills' are a complex issue\" and said discharges in dry weather can be caused by groundwater entering pipes.\n\nHe added that: \"Lavant is in a catchment that is particularly prone to groundwater infiltration.\" He also said the company planned to invest more than £1.6m improving more than 4km (2.5 miles) of sewers in the area.\n\nAnother frequent spiller appears to be Thames Water's Longbridge Road overflow site in east London, which releases sewage directly into Mayes Brook.\n\nThe river is located in the UK's first \"climate\" park in Dagenham - constructed at a cost of £3.8m to provide a green haven for the local community and wildlife.\n\nBut last year, the overflow spilled for nearly 200 hours - leaving excrement-soaked wet wipes on the riverbanks.\n\nBBC research estimates that about a quarter of those hours were from dry spills.\n\n\"You've got this contrast of an improved park costing millions of pounds, getting polluted every four days on average by sewage and that's a scandal,\" says Theo Thomas, chief executive at water charity London Waterkeepers, who has been lobbying Thames Water and the local authority to resolve the issue.\n\nA Thames Water spokesperson said they had been in contact with Mr Thomas and apologised for the storm overflows which occurred.\n\n\"We've been assessing how we can improve our Longbridge site and the surrounding network and will continue to work with the local communities on our investment plans,\" they added.\n\nThe BBC analysis suggests that Thames Water - with customers from the Cotswolds to the Thames Estuary - dry-spilled for 1,253 hours in 2022, at 49 overflow sites.\n\nOn these spills Thames Water said: \"The Environment Agency's methodology for calculating dry day spills is still being determined and we will continue to work with our regulators as they define this. We regard all discharges of untreated sewage as unacceptable, and we have planned investment in our sewage treatment works.\"\n\nThe figures were the result of a nine-month investigation by the BBC Data and Climate and Science teams.\n\nWater and sewerage companies are responsible for outlets known as combined sewer overflows (CSOs), which release sewage from treatment works or the sewage network into the UK's waterways.\n\nThe majority of CSOs record when they discharge.\n\nEvery year the sewerage companies inform the Environment Agency (EA) in England how frequently and for how long each outlet discharges.\n\nBut the EA only publishes the annual summary of total spill counts and hours.\n\nSo the BBC sent Environmental Information Regulation requests to England's nine water companies to obtain the start and stop times of each discharge recorded at CSOs in 2022.\n\nThe start and stop times for the three companies that provided data were adapted into the standard 12/24-hour counting blocks used by the EA to determine individual \"spills\".\n\nThese were then cross-referenced with the highest-quality 1km-gridded rainfall data - available from the Met Office - to identify spills occurring in periods of dry weather.\n\nThis rainfall data is presented in gridded squares that cover the land area of the UK. Each grid cell is 1km by 1km square.\n\nThe rainfall values are calculated from a network of automatic rainfall gauges and observation stations.\n\nThe EA defines a dry day as one where there was less than 0.25mm of rain on that day and the day before.\n\nThe BBC took a conservative approach of four consecutive days without rain to allow for catchment drain-down time - when rainfall moves through the hydrological system.\n\nThe methodology was independently reviewed by three academic experts working in this field.\n\nAdditional reporting by Libby Rogers, Rob England and Nassos Stylianou. Graphics by Jana Tauschinski and Kate Gaynor\n• None Why is sewage released into rivers and the sea?", "Simon Byrne had faced a number of controversies in recent weeks\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) data breach could cost the service up to £240m in extra security for officers and potential legal action, MPs have been told.\n\nHe appeared without Simon Byrne, who resigned as chief constable on Monday.\n\nEarlier, a member of the Policing Board said Mr Byrne will not be paid for the remainder of his contract.\n\nAss Ch Con Todd said the force has calculated some estimated costs that it could potentially incur after investigations are completed.\n\nHe told the Northern Ireland Affairs committee that recovery costs were calculated at approximately £24m to £37m, while individual claims for litigation were estimated at potentially up to £180m.\n\nHe also rejected any suggestion that the data had been leaked deliberately.\n\nThe SDLP's Mark H Durkan told BBC Radio Foyle that he would be \"paid for three months' notice that he has to work\".\n\nMr Durkan said Mr Byrne would not be asked to carry out his duties for those three months.\n\nAccording to the PSNI's accounts for 2021-22, the chief constable position carries a salary of about £230,000.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Mr Byrne said it was \"now time for someone new to lead this proud and resolute organisation\".\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton will take command of the PSNI until a new chief constable is in post.\n\nThe chief constable's X - formerly Twitter - account has been changed to \"Office of the Chief Constable\".\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton will take command of the PSNI until a new chief constable is in post\n\nOn Tuesday morning, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland said there is a \"serious disconnect and a worrying disconnect\" between senior leadership in the PSNI and rank-and-file officers.\n\nLiam Kelly told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster: \"That is what I have been very clear about, as a result of this fiasco and everything that has gone on over the last number of months and weeks, whoever is coming in here has a mountain to climb.\n\n\"They need to address those cultural deficiencies that we have in service, they need to rebuild the confidence both of the officers and the public and restore credibility in policing because as things stand at the moment this has been an unedifying event for everyone concerned.\"\n\nMr Kelly has invited Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton to its extraordinary meeting on Wednesday.\n\nThe federation said it will meet to consider the fallout over Simon Byrne's departure and confidence in other senior PSNI management.\n\nMr Kelly later told MPs that Mr Hamilton was \"still vulnerable\" as to whether he should remain in his job, following the High Court ruling in which the deputy chief constable had involvement.\n\n\"I've invited him to address the executive committee so he can address members' concerns around the way forward,\" he added.\n\nThe federation chairman said that Mr Byrne had made the \"right decision\" to step down.\n\nPressure had been mounting on Mr Byrne following a number of controversies.\n\nLast Tuesday, a court ruled two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined following an arrest at a Troubles commemoration in February 2021.\n\nThe event was marking the anniversary of the 1992 Sean Graham bookmakers attack where five people were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nThe judge said the officers were disciplined to allay any threat of Sinn Féin abandoning its support for policing in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin has denied this.\n\nMr Byrne said he was considering an appeal against the ruling.\n\nMr Kelly said on Tuesday that the ruling was \"damning\" and there needed to be \"a full investigation into what happened\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month, a number of data breaches came to light, including one where the names and details of the PSNI's 10,000 officers and civilian staff were published in error as part of a Freedom of Information request.\n\nMr Byrne later said the information was in the hands of dissident republicans, who could use the list to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nSome of the information included the rank or grade of employees, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nThis led to some staff saying they fear for their safety due to continuing threats from paramilitaries.\n\nAn independent-led review is due to be carried out into the breaches.\n\nMPs from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee were questioning PSNI representatives on Tuesday as part of its investigation into the breaches.\n\nThe chair of the committee, Simon Hoare, said it will, if it is required, use its powers to \"summon\" the Policing Board to appear to give evidence.\n\nThe board withdrew from the hearing after the resignation of Mr Byrne as chief constable.\n\nMr Hoare said he hoped the board would find another time to come and answer questions in public.\n\nThe committee also heard that:\n\nMr Hoare also questioned how four PSNI staff missed that officers' details were attached to the FOI but the person who received it was quick to spot the information and published it online.\n\nIn reply, Ass Ch Con Todd said initial assessment showed there was \"non-malintent\" by the individuals involved.\n\nDeirdre Toner is chair of the NI Policing Board and issued a statement after Monday's meeting\n\nMr Byrne had ruled out resigning following an emergency meeting of the Policing Board last Thursday that lasted almost seven hours.\n\nThis prompted the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to submit a motion of no confidence in him.\n\nOther unionist parties had called for the chief constable to go, while several parties raised questions about the PSNI leadership.\n\nFollowing Monday's meeting, the Policing Board agreed a number of key points.", "Retail sales rose in August as customers \"splurged on self-care\", new figures suggest.\n\nSales of non-food items had their best month since February, helped by higher spending on health and beauty, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG.\n\nHowever, clothing and footwear saw weaker growth.\n\nOne reason for that was families leaving it to the last minute to buy school uniforms, the BRC said.\n\nTaken as a whole, the value of retail sales increased by 4.1% in August, compared to a year earlier.\n\n\"The sales figures reflected the improvement in consumer confidence in August, and retailers hope this general upwards trend will carry on,\" Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said.\n\nHowever, as prices were still rising at annual rate of at 6.8% in July, the BRC said the rise in the value of goods sold, actually masked a likely drop in the volume of goods sold.\n\nConsumers are buying fewer items, but thanks to inflation they are spending more.\n\nPaul Martin, UK head of retail at KPMG, said the bounce back would be \"a relief\" for many retailers.\n\n\"Health, beauty and food and drink were the strongest performing categories both on the high street and online, as consumers made the most of brief spells of sunshine to enjoy the summer holidays,\" he said.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices are rising - has fallen from its recent highs.\n\nBut Mr Martin said that despite this, shoppers continue to \"seek out good deals\" to stretch their money further.\n\n\"With shoppers becoming more calculated and aware of what they are getting for their money than we have seen for a long time, retailers will have to fight harder for every sale,\" he said.\n\nMs Dickinson said easing inflation would \"certainly be welcomed by consumers\".\n\nBut she warned that high interest rates and high winter energy bills were likely to put pressure on many households to spend cautiously in the months ahead.\n\n\"Retailers are combatting this through a clear focus on great value for consumers, expanding budget ranges, and finding ways to cut costs where possible,\" she added.\n\nHowever, there was a gloomier outlook from Barclays as its data showed card spending grew 2.8% year-on-year in August - noticeably lower than July's growth figure of 4%.\n\nThe firm said rainy weather cast a cloud on the high street.\n\nHowever, it said entertainment provided a welcome boost, prompted by a 101% surge in cinema spending, driven by summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer.\n\nEsme Harwood, director at Barclays, said: \"The rainy weather impacted high street and hospitality venues in August, but Brits were still keen to spend on memorable summer experiences.\n\n\"The huge box office success of Barbie and Oppenheimer meant entertainment enjoyed another strong month, while holidays abroad boosted international travel and pharmacy, health & beauty stores,\" she said.\n\nBarclays also said that consumers were noticing that certain food and drink products have had premium ingredients reduced or downgraded, known as \"skimpflation\".", "Matthew Hedges described the apology as a \"watershed moment\" for all British nationals\n\nThe Foreign Office has apologised to a British academic who was accused of spying and tortured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nMatthew Hedges repeatedly denied the accusation and said he was carrying out research for his Durham University PhD.\n\nThe Foreign Office (FCDO) said it recognised that he and his family's experience was \"a distressing one\".\n\nDr Hedges, from Exeter, said he was \"delighted\" to receive an apology, which he called a \"watershed moment\".\n\nHe had previously complained to the Parliamentary Ombudsman, which later launched an investigation into how the FCDO handled his case.\n\nIt ruled that the FCDO failed to protect the academic and said the department should pay him £1,500 compensation.\n\nMatthew Hedges' wife Daniela Tejada campaigned to have him freed\n\nDr Hedges was in Abu Dhabi in 2018 when he was accused of working for MI6 and \"spying for or on behalf of\" the UK government.\n\nThe UAE authorities said material found on his laptop proved he was a spy.\n\nHe was sentenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned by the nation's president days later.\n\nDr Hedges said he was kept in handcuffs and in solitary confinement, questioned for hours and fed a cocktail of drugs.\n\nHe said his ordeal had left him with post traumatic stress disorder and insomnia.\n\nOn Monday, the FCDO said it recognised that Mr Hedges and his family's experience was \"distressing\" and it had a \"profound impact.\"\n\n\"We have accepted the ombudsman's finding for Mr Hedges, apologised and will pay the suggested compensation,\" it added in a statement.\n\nA review into internal guidance on torture and mistreatment cases has now begun, as well as training for consular staff.\n\nOfficials will also review how the FCDO supports British nationals who are arrested or in prison abroad.\n\nThe statement added: \"We always aim to act in the best interest of the individual and acting without their consent in raising concerns about torture and mistreatment creates unacceptable risks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Hedges, who released a statement on social media, welcomed the apology and said it had been \"a battle to reach this stage\".\n\n\"The FCDO's acknowledgement of the torture and injustice I suffered at the hands of the UAE is a watershed moment, not just for me and my family, but for all British nationals,\" he said.\n\n\"There is now no doubt that the FCDO failed in their obligations towards one of their citizens and I truly hope that the hundreds of other British nationals who are currently detained and suffering torture will benefit from the FCDO's promise of reviewing their clearly outdated and insufficient policies.\n\n\"The apology unfortunately does not change the fact that I still have a criminal record for espionage on behalf of the British Government.\"\n\nHe said it was \"baffling\" that the UK continue to work alongside the UAE \"knowing how callous they are with British lives\".\n\n\"The FCDO should do more to push the UAE to clear my name given that they have this close relationship,\" he added.\n\n\"I will continue to fight for those who are not lucky enough to have been freed or who have ridiculous false charges made against them, and today I revel in the fact that the FCDO have agreed they must do more to protect and help British citizens.\"\n\nIn a statement a UAE government spokesman said: \"Matthew Hedges was convicted of espionage in 2018 following a fair and transparent trial at which he admitted the charges against him.\n\n\"Mr Hedges received proper care and treatment. He had bedding, reading material, a television, access to family, consular officials and lawyers, and extensive medical care - including for a pre-existing mental health condition.\n\n\"He was never subjected to, or threatened with, either torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of any sort. The UAE has evidence to support this.\"\n\nThis story was amended on 6 September to include the quote from the UAE government", "At least one person has died in Greece, after torrential rain triggered flash floods in parts of the country.\n\nThe coastal port city of Volos has seen the same mount of water falling in 24 hours that it usually gets for the whole of autumn - according to local experts.\n\nThe mayor of Volos, Achilleas Beos, visited some of the flooded areas and said, \"there is no reason to be moving around. Stay in your homes so we can operate our equipment.\"\n\nOn the island of Skiathos, strong currents dragged away plants and vehicles as flood water rushed through the streets.", "Ciaran Reilly was 29 when he took his own life\n\nThe last time Louise Russell saw her son Ciaran they had been happily singing Elvis songs in the garden.\n\nWhen the police came to her door in December 2020, the last thing she expected was to hear news about her son.\n\n\"I just looked at them, then they asked: 'Are you Ciaran's mother?'\n\n\"I knew, and then I just screamed the house down and collapsed.\n\n\"It felt like someone had ripped my heart out through my chest,\" she said.\n\nCiaran Reilly was just 29. The father-of-three had taken his own life, leaving his family broken.\n\nCovid had been especially tough for Ciaran. He had lost his job and was unable to do the daily activities he loved, like playing football and going to the gym.\n\nBut Louise, from Cupar in Fife, says that shortly before her son's death things had been \"looking up\".\n\nHe had just got a new job and was learning to drive - which was why when the police came to her door to tell her Ciaran had died, it was a total shock.\n\nShe said she wasn't offered any support from the police or other services and had to look for help herself.\n\nLouise says his death has had a ripple effect on the family.\n\nLess than a year later her daughter Siobhan died from an illness connected to alcoholism. Her other three adult children have also found it difficult to cope.\n\nCiaran Reilly with his sister Siobhan, who died in 2021\n\n\"You throw a stone in a lake and there is a ripple effect that just keeps going out the way,\" she says.\n\n\"It is difficult to check the rest of the children are OK because it affects them really badly. They miss Ciaran so much that some days they don't know what to do…\n\n\"It is like skittles. It knocks everyone over and just trying to pick up the pieces and keep going I think is the hardest part.\n\n\"Everything is before and after. Before, when he was here, and after, when he wasn't.\"\n\nShe and her partner David Christopher have since been trying to raise awareness of mental health problems and suicide prevention. They have just walked the North Coast 500 route to raise money for charities, including Change Mental Health and the suicide prevention charity Papyrus.\n\nThey completed the 500 miles - despite some terrible weather and both of them contracting Covid during the trip. They carried all their own gear and camped every night and say people along the way cooked and baked and opened their homes to them.\n\nLouise Russell and her partner David Christopher walked the North Coast 500 route\n\nDavid says they did the walk and are speaking out now to raise awareness.\n\n\"We were hoping to help other people,\" he told BBC Scotland News.\n\n\"You don't ever realise suicide can affect your family, that it can happen to your children, cousins, friends, anyone - so we're just trying to get the word out there.\"\n\nThe couple also want more information and support in schools and workplaces for those who are in distress.\n\n\"People need to know there is somewhere out there to get help,\" said Louise.\n\n\"I want to make the point the world is not a better place without them in it. It is not.\"\n\nShe said there should be more help available when people are looking for support.\n\n\"I did phone up at one point… I was told I would have to wait three days for a call back.\n\n\"The waiting time is too long and the waiting list for mental health for people to see people is horrendous.\n\n\"You're not getting help for a few months. That is just not acceptable.\"\n\nThe latest figures from National Records of Scotland show that 762 people died from suicide last year, a small rise on the previous 12 months.\n\nThe rate of suicide in males was almost three times as high as the rate for females.\n\nThe rate of death by suicide in Scotland fell by 20% between the periods from 2002-2006 and 2013-2017, but is still higher than in England and Wales. In 2021 the rate was 14.2 per 100,000 people in Scotland, compared to 10.7 in England and Wales.\n\nIn the past decade more than 7,500 people in Scotland have died from suicide.\n\nScotland's most recent suicide prevention strategy began a year ago. One of the aims is that anyone who asks should be able to get help within 24 hours, and should get 14 days of support through Distress Brief Intervention.\n\nCiaran's death had a ripple effect on his family\n\nProf Rory O'Connor is an adviser to the Scottish government on suicide prevention.\n\n\"We need to look at all the different factors we know that lead to people feeling defeated, humiliated and trapped,\" he says.\n\n\"For one person that might be trauma and unemployment, for another it might be feeling trapped by the pain of mental illness.\"\n\nAnalysis published last week shows people from the most disadvantaged backgrounds are three times more likely to die from suicide in Scotland.\n\nProf O'Connor says the key focus needs to be on tackling the inequalities that cause suicides.\n\n\"One of the challenges in suicide prevention is we have been too silo-ised. We have tackled mental health on one side and other aspects of health and wellbeing on another.\n\n\"Every government department has a role to play. We need to look at alcohol deaths, drug deaths and suicides in an integrated way - and we need to look at the role of education, social care, poverty and inequalities more widely.\"\n\nHe said the suicide rate in Scotland had been higher than England for decades.\n\n\"To understand this historically we need to look at the decline in traditional industries,\" he said.\n\n\"It has taken a long time to tackle these inequalities. And in some areas of Scotland we still have higher levels of deprivation. It is also linked to our relationship with alcohol.\n\n\"At the heart of this we need to tackle social inequalities in Scotland but that is going to take a whole generation to shift.\"\n\nMental Wellbeing Minister Maree Todd said every suicide was a tragedy with a far-reaching impact.\n\nMental Wellbeing Minister Maree Todd said the government wanted everyone to get the support they need\n\n\"Our aim is for any child, young person or adult who has thoughts of taking their own life, or are affected by suicide, to get the help they need and feel a sense of hope,\" she said.\n\n\"The Scottish government is working with all key national and local partners to ensure that people with urgent mental health care needs get the right help, in the right place, at the right time.\n\n\"Our joint suicide prevention strategy with Cosla, Creating Hope Together, sets out our plan to reduce the number of suicides whilst also tackling the inequalities which contribute to suicide.\"\n\nShe said one of the key priorities was to create more high-quality peer support groups for people affected by suicide to support their recovery.\n\nMs Todd added that the Scottish government was working closely with partners to roll out suicide bereavement support for families bereaved by suicide.\n\nPolice Scotland said it always tried to provide appropriate care and support following the death of a loved one.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with Ciaran's family,\" said Ch Insp Christopher Dow.\n\n\"If they are unhappy about the way his case was handled, we would encourage them contact us to discuss the matter.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, is feeling emotionally distressed, BBC Action Line has put together a list of organisations which can help.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former SNP MP Natalie McGarry has been ordered to pay £66 for embezzling £25,000 from the SNP and a pro-independence group.\n\nLast year she was found guilty of stealing £19,974 while treasurer of Women for Independence.\n\nShe embezzled a further £4,661 while treasurer, secretary and convener of the Glasgow Regional Association of the SNP.\n\nMcGarry, 41, was the MP for Glasgow East between 2015 and 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for two years in June 2022 which was reduced to 20 months on appeal.\n\nIt was agreed she benefited £55,000 from general criminal conduct.\n\nProsecutors were aiming to recover embezzled funds at a proceeds of crime hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nAllan MacLeod, defending, told Sheriff Barry Divers that an agreement with the Crown accountant had been reached.\n\nThe advocate said: \"There is an agreed benefit figure for general criminal conduct which is £55,870 and there is an agreed available amount of £66.36.\n\n\"There is an agreed joint minute that you make a confiscation order for £66.36 and that will be paid to the sheriff's clerk within one month of today.\"\n\nHe said McGarry maintained her innocence for the charges and did not accept that she committed any crimes.\n\n\"There are statutory presumptions that she accepts applies to her,\" said Mr MacLeod.\n\n\"She is unable to vouch for these amounts that went into her account over a period of 10 years. She accepts she is unable to rebut the statutory presumptions.\"\n\nFiscal depute Brian Duffy told the hearing that the £66.36 figure was \"the only amount available to Miss McGarry towards the confiscation order.\"\n\nThe order was granted by Sheriff Divers.\n\nEarlier hearings were told the Crown had been looking into McGarry and her partner former Glasgow Tory leader David Meikle's spending over the past 12 years.\n\nMr MacLeod told the last hearing that the Crown were no longer referencing Mr Meikle.\n\nThe Crown initially believed McGarry's benefit figure was £195,241.31 which was then reduced to £110,000.\n\nThe defence disputed this and believed the benefit figure was £55,000.", "The French education minister has said that nearly 300 pupils arrived at school on Monday wearing the abaya, the long Muslim robe which was banned in schools last week.\n\nMost of the girls agreed to change into other clothes.\n\nAccording to official figures, 298 girls - mainly aged 15 or more - turned up at school in the banned garment.\n\nUnder instructions laid down by the ministry, there followed in each case a period of dialogue with school staff.\n\nMost girls then agreed to dress differently and were able to start classes.\n\nHowever, 67 girls refused to comply and were sent home.\n\nA further period of dialogue with their families will now ensue. If that fails, they will be excluded.\n\nSet against the 12 million school boys and girls who started term on Monday, the government believes the figures show that its ban has been broadly accepted.\n\nHowever, a legal challenge by a group representing some Muslims goes before the courts later today.\n\nAt the end of August, the education minister announced that pupils would be banned from wearing the loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women in France's state-run schools at the start of the new school year on 4 September.\n\nFrance has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.\n\nWearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.\n\nThe move comes after months of debate over the wearing of abayas in French schools.\n\nThe garment is being increasingly worn in schools, leading to a political divide over them, with right-wing parties pushing for a ban while those on the left have voiced concerns for the rights of Muslim women and girls.\n\nIn 2010, France banned the wearing of full-face veils in public, provoking anger in France's five million-strong Muslim community.\n\nFrance has enforced a strict ban on religious signs at schools since the 19th Century, including Christian symbols such as large crosses, in an effort to curb any Catholic influence on public education.\n\nReflecting its changing population, it has updated the law over the years to include the Muslim headscarf and Jewish kippa, but abayas have not been banned outright until now.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A portrait of David Harewood has been unveiled in the drawing room at Harewood House near Leeds\n\nActor David Harewood has said the government should \"100%\" apologise for Britain's role in the slave trade.\n\nThe Homeland star has discovered his ancestors were enslaved on sugar plantations in Barbados.\n\nHe told the BBC the government's failure to say sorry was \"detrimental to the many thousands of people in the country who are descended from slaves\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has previously said \"trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward\".\n\nHarewood's ancestors were enslaved on plantations owned by the Lascelles family, the Earls of Harewood, who built Harewood House, a vast 18th Century stately home near Leeds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's still not easy': Actor David Harewood on his family's slave history\n\nNo expense was spared, with furniture by Thomas Chippendale, landscaping by famed garden designer Capability Brown and portraits by Reynolds and Gainsborough.\n\nBut it was financed with the proceeds of slavery. The Lascelles made their fortune and gained their title on the back of an inhumane trade.\n\nHarewood's ancestors, like all slaves, were forced to take the name of their owners.\n\n\"The only reason that my name is Harewood is because of slavery,\" the star said. But even he didn't know that story until recently.\n\nHarewood House was built in the 18th Century with money that the current earl's ancestor made from the slave trade\n\nWhen the actor visited Harewood House while in his thirties and working at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, he thought the shared name was a coincidence.\n\n\"It's only later in life that I've realised that significance and that connection.\"\n\nHarewood and David Lascelles, the current Earl of Harewood, are now acknowledging their shared history by placing a portrait of the actor on display among the family portraits in Harewood House's grand Cinnamon Drawing Room.\n\nThe Earl of Harewood said: \"Being honest about the past is the only way to start to address the prejudices of the present.\"\n\nThe current Earl of Harewood commissioned the portrait of David Harewood by Ashley Karrell as part of Harewood House's Missing Portraits series\n\nThe portrait by Ashley Karrell is part of a series called Missing Portraits, which addresses the lack of diverse representation in the Harewood collection.\n\nThe earl said their families \"interlock in a weird and dark way\", adding: \"We can't change what's happened, but we can change what happens now.\n\n\"I'd like people to think we'd tried our best to make a difference here.\"\n\nDavid Harewood hopes that when visitors \"see a picture of a black person that they may recognise from the television, they will enquire as to why his picture is there, and then they'll understand… all of the unpaid work that my ancestors did, and the brutality of what they suffered… helped build this house\".\n\nThe issue of how to address the sins of slavery is very current. Barbados is leading calls for reparations, which Harewood supports. The descendants of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone recently travelled to Guyana, the latest family to apologise for their ancestors' links to the slave trade.\n\nAbout five million enslaved Africans were taken to the Caribbean, nearly half of whom were brought to the British Caribbean\n\nLike the actor, the earl believes the British government should make a formal apology.\n\n\"I think that needs to be something that happens at a national level… At the moment, with our feeble prime minister, there's absolutely no sign of that happening, sadly.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Sunak said the focus should be on \"understanding our history and all its parts, not running away from it, but right now making sure we have a society that's inclusive and tolerant of people from all backgrounds...\n\n\"But trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward and is not something we'll focus our energies on.\"\n\nThe current earl has not said sorry for his own family's involvement.\n\n\"I've always felt rather ambiguous about apologising for something I haven't done personally,\" he said, adding the family had spent about £1m on community projects and opened up its archives.\n\nJoshua Reynolds painted this portrait of Edwin Lascelles, Baron Harewood, who built Harewood House from the proceeds of slavery\n\nIf Harewood requested a personal apology, he \"probably would [give one] if he asked me directly\", he said.\n\nWe looked through handwritten family papers dating back to when the Lascelles acquired the Thicket and Fortescue plantations in Barbados in 1787. They list \"Slaves Stock and Utensils\" - itemising Thicket's 238 slaves as worth £45 each.\n\nGoats, hogs, sheep and cattle are listed above slaves.\n\nParticularly poignant and shocking is the reference to six \"negroes of no value\".\n\nThis document relating to the acquisition of the Thicket and Fortescue plantations by Edwin Lascelles in 1787 lists the purchase of \"230 negroes\", of whom six are dismissed as \"of no value\"\n\nWhen slavery was abolished, slave owners were compensated. Between 1835 and 1836, Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, received £26,307 for 1,277 slaves - worth an estimated £2.6m in today's money.\n\nSlaves received nothing as part of the deal.\n\nThe injustice of slavery means none of this is straightforward for David Harewood. He has wrestled with getting involved with a family that benefitted from his ancestors' pain.\n\nHe told me of feeling at times \"deeply uncomfortable\" when sitting in the house.\n\n\"There's a part of me that just wants to scream and burn the place down... But I'm not sure what that would achieve.\"\n\nDavid Harewood was the first black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre in 1997\n\nHe also believes Harewood House is a \"testament to the resilience of my ancestors\", and is impressed by the earl's desire to be accountable for the past.\n\n\"Whenever black people attempt to talk about the legacy of slavery, it's somehow seen as doing Britain down,\" he said.\n\nIn fact, he said, both men are trying \"to acknowledge that very uncomfortable past and to try and find a way through to a constructive conversation that sparks debate\".\n\nIn his memoir, Maybe I Don't Belong Here, Harewood described himself as \"a black kid from Small Heath in Birmingham who dared to dream of a life amongst Hollywood stars\".\n\nHe's been on stage and screen as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and, in 1997, was the first black actor ever to play Othello at London's National Theatre.\n\nNow his portrait also sits in one of the country's grandest aristocratic homes. \"The ancestors, I think, would be amazed at this.\"\n\nThe portrait is on view at Harewood House from Friday, 8 September.", "A photo purporting to show Sergei Surovikin has been published on social media\n\nA photo posted online appears to show a Russian general who has not been seen in public since a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June.\n\nSergei Surovikin is said to have been close to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash last month.\n\nThere have been reports that Gen Surovikin is being investigated for possible complicity in the mutiny.\n\nBut a photo purporting to show Russia's former commander in Ukraine has now been published on social media.\n\n\"General Sergei Surovikin is out. Alive, healthy, at home, with his family, in Moscow. Photo taken today,\" well-known Russian media personality Ksenia Sobchak wrote in a caption on the picture on Telegram on Monday.\n\nThe photo shows a man wearing sunglasses walking arm in arm with a red-haired woman who resembles the general's wife, Anna.\n\nBBC Verify analysis suggests there is a high probability that the man in the photo is Gen Surovikin, and the woman is almost certainly Anna. The BBC has also found no previous copies of the photo circulating online, suggesting it has emerged recently.\n\nRussian journalist Alexei Venediktov separately wrote on Telegram: \"General Surovikin is at home with his family. He is on leave and available to the defence ministry.\"\n\nWagner's mercenaries attempted a brief mutiny on 23 and 24 June, threatening to march on Moscow.\n\nPrigozhin and nine others were killed in the crash near Moscow on 23 August, which led to frenzied speculation. The Wagner boss was described by many as a \"dead man walking\" after the failed mutiny.\n\nGen Surovikin had last been seen in public in a video during the mutiny urging the Wagner forces to call a halt to their action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMedia reports days later said he had been arrested, but there has been no official confirmation of his whereabouts.\n\nThe general was put in charge of Russian forces in Ukraine in October but was removed three months later.\n\nHe gained a reputation for brutality during Russian operations in Syria, where he became known as \"General Armageddon\".\n\nThe general, seen here with President Vladimir Putin, was put in charge of Russian forces in Ukraine in October but was removed three months later", "The body of Mohananeethan Muruganantharajah was discovered at Sgwd y Pannwr waterfall\n\nThe family of a man who died at a waterfall said he was helping them to safety when he died.\n\nMohananeethan Muruganantharajah, known as Mohan, was rescuing his two nieces at the Sgwd y Pannwr waterfall in mid-Wales when he was dragged under.\n\nThe 27-year-old was at Ystradfellte in Bannau Brycheiniog, or the Brecon Beacons, on Friday while on holiday with relatives when tragedy struck.\n\nDespite a major rescue operation, his body wasn't recovered until Saturday.\n\nNow his niece Vaishnavi Senthurkumaran is now calling for clearer signage after her uncle's death.\n\nShe said Mr Muruganantharajah \"escorted everyone down to the water one by one\" so they could have a swim, adding there were \"at least five other people already in the water\".\n\n\"One of my sisters didn't feel safe in the water and everyone came over to help her,\" Ms Senthurkumaran said.\n\n\"At that moment the current was pulling us in towards the waterfall. My uncle came in to pull us out one by one.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old had been visiting the area with relatives on their holiday\n\nAfter getting everyone out of the water Ms Senthurkumaran said Mr Muruganantharajah got stuck.\n\nShe said: \"I could see his hands slipping into the water. We thought he was doing some sort of trick like he does in the sea, going underwater and grabbing our legs.\"\n\nWhen Mr Muruganantharajah, who ran an off-licence in Swansea, didn't resurface, Ms Senthurkumaran said she ran up the slope to get phone signal to call for help while her mother tried to save her uncle.\n\n\"My mother can't swim so she was throwing anything she could find into the water,\" Ms Senthurkumaran said.\n\n\"There were a few doctors in the area who tried to help where they could, then the paramedics turned up.\n\n\"People were trying to get us back to our cars but it felt wrong to leave because my uncle, although he's the youngest brother, is always there for people.\"\n\nMr Muruganantharajah moved from Sri Lanka as a child, leaving his mother there.\n\nHis family said his dream was to \"buy his own plane and fly us all around\" and return to live with his mother in Sri Lanka when they could.\n\n\"My mum relied on him as did our other relatives,\" said Ms Senthurkumaran.\n\n\"He was young but we all went to him for advice. He was more of a brother figure to everyone.\"\n\nMohananeethan Muruganantharajah died rescuing his family from the water\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said officers, firefighters, mountain rescue, a rescue helicopter and an air ambulance were called to the scene in Powys at 16:45 BST on Friday.\n\nThey said conditions meant his body could not be recovered until Saturday morning, when specialist divers were brought in to help.\n\nMr Muruganantharajah's family said they now want better signage in the area.\n\nMs Senthurkumaran said: \"There was a sign but they were for general reminders of possible dangers.\n\n\"I want a sign to be there to remind people that people have died, that you're risking your life by going in the water.\"\n\nShe said the site was reopened the day Mr Muruganantharajah's body was recovered.\n\n\"When his friends were putting down flowers for him there were people swimming in that same water,\" she said.\n\n\"I know it's a tourist attraction but it's not worth putting lives on the line like that.\"\n\nCentral Beacons Mountain Rescue Team said: \"We extend our deepest sympathies to members of the family, some of whom witnessed the tragedy as it unfolded and those who joined us on the Saturday morning.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales said it was \"saddened\" by the death.\n\n\"As a responsible land manager for this area, we will wait until the full details of how and where this this tragic event are established before taking any appropriate action,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We encourage people to take extra care before entering open water and take notice of any warning signs.\"", "The rectangular roof panels in Myton School's library contain RAAC\n\nA head teacher who has had to delay the start of term because one of his school buildings contains dangerous concrete was denied funding to rebuild it.\n\n\"Other schools had a higher need\", the Department for Education (DfE) told Myton School, in Warwick, last year, when its application was rejected.\n\nIt is now one of dozens unable to open as normal because of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which is prone to collapse.\n\nThe DfE has been contacted for comment.\n\nMyton, which has about 1,800 pupils, now receives about £35,000 a year in capital funding to spend on building maintenance - less than a quarter of the funding received in 2010, head teacher Andy Perry says.\n\nIts two main buildings, built in the 1950s or 1960s, are \"old and in disrepair\", so he applied for extra cash from the government's School Rebuilding Programme.\n\nBut a letter from the Department for Education, seen by BBC News, rejected the application because other schools were in worse condition.\n\nSince then, a structural engineer has confirmed RAAC panelling in the first floor of the lower-school building, which has maths, languages, art and drama classrooms, a medical room and the canteen.\n\nAnd last week, the government announced all schools with RAAC would have to close or partially close without safety measures in place, leading head teachers across England to scramble to make other arrangements days before the new term began.\n\nOutlining figures on Monday, the education secretary said around 50 schools have already undergone mitigation work. More than 100 schools have been fully or partially closed due to the risk.\n\nAround 10% of the 15,000 schools built during the period RAAC concrete was used have not yet responded to a government survey on the material, she added.\n\nMr Sunak said the government expected 95% of the 22,000 schools in England would not be impacted by the issues.\n\nMr Perry told BBC News he and his staff felt \"a lot of frustration\" having to delay the start of term by three days.\n\n\"I don't know how they make these decisions - but the fact I've got to close down or at least partially close down a block in a building that we bid to rebuild… it doesn't feel like the parts of the DfE are particularly joined up here,\" he said.\n\nMr Perry says he is still waiting for the DfE to tell him how much of the building is unsafe\n\nThe DfE's advice about what to do next was unclear, Mr Perry said. And he does not know whether the whole of the affected building will need to close or just the first floor.\n\nThe education secretary has said each affected school would have a dedicated caseworker to support them.\n\nBut at the time of writing, Mr Perry was \"still waiting\" for a call from the DfE, despite being told he would be contacted on Monday.\n\n\"Honest to God, I thought we'd get a call or contact from the DfE over the weekend,\" he said.\n\nThe arrangements Mr Perry is considering to allow him to open the school include online learning and asking administration staff elsewhere on the school site to work from home, so their offices can be used as temporary teaching spaces.\n\nA more permanent - but still short-term - solution is to buy temporary classroom blocks.\n\nMr Perry said he had received quotes from some companies, telling him these could take 12-16 weeks to arrive.\n\nBut he hopes the DfE might have arrangements in place to accelerate the process.\n\n\"We've got upset and anxious parents,\" Mr Perry said.\n\n\"It feels like the last few years have been a lot of crisis management.\n\n\"This was the year that all the past, all the Covid stuff, was going to be left behind. We [have] new improvement plans, new organisation around some of our welfare and behaviour.\n\n\"It was a real, brilliant new start. So the frustration is you get that one moment at the beginning of the year to set the tone.\n\nAbout 30% of the school's teaching spaces are now sealed off\n\nElsewhere on Monday, the prime minister denied being to blame for spending decisions which meant crumbling concrete was not removed from schools in England sooner.\n\nIt followed comments from a former top civil servant in the DfE, who accused Mr Sunak of halving the budget for school repairs in England in 2021.\n\nJonathan Slater - who was permanent secretary at the department between May 2016 and August 2020 - said investigations had led civil servants to recommend between 300 to 400 schools needed repairs each year and the department then requested Treasury funding to cover 200 a year.\n\n\"I thought we'd get it, but the actual decision made in 2021 was to halve down from 100 a year to 50 year,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, in response Mr Sunak said it was \"completely and utterly wrong\" to blame him and he had announced a programme to rebuild 500 schools over 10 years in his first spending review in 2020, equating to 50 schools a year.\n\n\"If you look at what we have been doing over the previous decade, that's completely in line with what we have always done,\" he said.\n\nThen, the education secretary apologised for a sweary outburst in which she expressed frustration about media coverage of the crisis.\n\nAfter finishing an interview with ITV - but while Gillian Keegan was still on camera - she criticised other people for having done nothing.\n\nShe later said her remarks were \"off the cuff\" and she apologised for her \"choice language\".\n\nMs Keegan told the House of Commons she will publish a list of affected English schools later this week.\n\nThe education secretary then defended holidaying in the run-up to the schools concrete crisis unfolding, from 25 to 31 August.\n\nShe told Sky's Politics Hub: \"When I went on holiday, to be honest, for the whole of the summer obviously I had to sort out industrial action, then I had to do the A-levels, then I had to do the GCSEs.\n\n\"But what I arranged was to go on holiday on that day for my dad's birthday - it was a family occasion and we went.\"\n\nIn Scotland, 35 council-run schools have been found to contain RAAC, but they are remaining open, with First Minister Humza Yousaf saying there were no immediate safety concerns.\n\nThe material has also been found found in at least 24 university and college buildings in Scotland.\n\nIn Wales, two schools have closed because of concerns over RAAC.", "That's all from us for now", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales scandal.\n\nMontse Tome has been named as his successor, becoming the first woman to hold the position.\n\nSpain's win was overshadowed by the country's football federation president Rubiales kissing forward Jenni Hermoso, which she said was not consensual.\n\nMost of Vilda's coaching staff resigned and 81 players refused to play for Spain in the aftermath.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign but has been provisionally suspended by Fifa, football's world governing body.\n\nIn a statement, Spanish federation the RFEF did not give a specific reason for Vilda's dismissal, saying he had been \"a promoter of the values ​​of respect and sportsmanship in football\".\n\nHowever, the RFEF has been exploring whether it could sack 42-year-old Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - since last week.\n\nThe RFEF called the move \"one of the first renewal measures\" announced by interim president Pedro Rocha, who has taken on the role while Rubiales is suspended by Fifa.\n\nVilda was spotted applauding Rubiales at the RFEF's extraordinary general assembly earlier in August - when Rubiales repeatedly insisted he would not resign and said he would offer Vilda a new deal - though he has since criticised his behaviour.\n\n\"The RFEF appreciates [Vilda's] work at the head of the national team and in his functions as the head of sports for the women's teams, as well as the successes achieved during his time crowned with the recent achievement of the World Cup,\" said the RFEF.\n\n\"We value his impeccable personal and sporting conduct, being a key piece in the notable growth of women's football in Spain.\"\n\nTome, a former midfielder who won four caps for Spain, was part of Vilda's coaching team.\n\nThe 41-year-old will lead Spain into Uefa Women's Nations League qualifying later this month, with fixtures against Sweden and Switzerland on 22 and 26 September.\n\nThe RFEF said: \"She knows the locker room very well and also has extensive knowledge of the excellent national youth team.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nVilda, who had been in charge of the national team since 2015, survived a player 'revolt' in September 2022, when the RFEF released a statement revealing 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\n'Las 15' - as the players became known - denied claims they had asked for Vilda, who has always maintained the support of Rubiales, to be sacked, but tension followed amid reports of concerns over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nOf those 15, just three ended their exile and were back in the squad as Spain beat England in the World Cup final in Sydney last month.\n\nVilda oversaw 108 matches as Spain coach, winning 75, and reached the European Championship quarter-finals in 2017 and 2022.\n\nThe World Cup winners are currently second in the Fifa women's world rankings.\n\nThe RFEF's statement added: \"The RFEF would like to express its gratitude to Jorge Vilda for the services provided, for his professionalism and dedication during all these years, wishing him the best successes in the future.\n\n\"The RFEF is left with an extraordinary sporting legacy thanks to the implementation of a recognised game model and a methodology that has been an engine of growth for all the women's categories of the national team.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Rocha apologised to the \"whole of the football world\" for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\" of Rubiales.\n\nRocha said he plans to \"give back the spotlight\" to the women's team after their World Cup victory was overshadowed.\n\nA lengthy statement said: \"The Royal Spanish Football Federation, through its president, Mr. Pedro Rocha, considers it is essential to present the most sincere apologies to the football institutions, the players, especially the players of the Spanish National Football Team and the English National Football Team, stakeholders involved in football and the fans around the world for the totally unacceptable behaviour of its highest institutional representative during the final of the Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 and in the moments that followed.\n\n\"The damage caused to Spanish football, to Spanish sport, to Spanish society and the values ​​of football and sport as a whole have been enormous.\n\n\"The RFEF wants to transmit to the whole of society and to the whole of the football world its utmost regret for what happened that has tarnished our team, our football and our society.\n\n\"We must apologise most sincerely and make a firm and absolute commitment that events like these can never happen again.\"\n\nOn Monday, Spain's men's players condemned his \"unacceptable behaviour\", expressing their \"regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished\".\n\nAfter insisting he would not resign in a speech days after the World Cup final, Rubiales said the kiss with Hermoso was consensual, while the RFEF said it would take legal action over her \"lies\".\n\nRocha said he \"regretted\" the incident had \"negatively impacted what should have been a continuous celebration of football\".\n\n\"The performance of Mr. Rubiales both at that moment and in the hours that followed are not acceptable under any circumstances and for this reason the RFEF immediately withdrew from its website all those inappropriate and meaningless communications that did not value what was achieved by the national team and did not take into account the statements by the player about these events.\n\n\"To be clear, this position was that of Mr. Rubiales, not that of the RFEF. We feel especially sorry and ashamed for the pain and additional distress this has caused.\"\n\nRocha added: \"I want to congratulate our team once again for its historic triumph, recognising the impact and legacy that this victory will have on the future of Spanish football. We are convinced that their spirit has inspired millions of people of all ages, and we cannot be prouder of the way they have behaved, both inside and off the field of play.\n\n\"In due time, I intend to give them back the spotlight and celebrate their achievements as they deserve.\"\n• None Will Jessie and Tom rekindle the old flame?:\n• None Boot Dreams: Now or Never: Roman Kemp and Bruno Fernandes give rejected players a second chance at the game they love", "A 52-seater bus and a car crashed on a bridge in Pembrokeshire on Tuesday afternoon\n\nA man has been killed after the car he was driving crashed with a 52-seater coach.\n\nThe driver of the coach was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the crash near the Cleddau Bridge in west Wales on Tuesday.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has confirmed the driver of the car died at the scene and his next of kin are being supported.\n\nPolice said 24 of the coach passengers, tourists from Cumbria, were taken to hospital and have all been discharged.\n\nA major incident was declared by fire crews after a driver was trapped and \"many\" bus passengers suffered injuries in the crash on Tuesday at 14:15 BST.\n\nThe main road between Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven has since reopened.\n\nTitterington Holidays, based in Penrith, Cumbria, has confirmed its coach was involved in the crash.\n\nTitterington Holidays' owner Paul Titterington has confirmed one of the company's coaches was involved in the crash\n\nOne of the holiday firm owners Paul Titterington said the coach passengers were on a five-day trip and were a mix of ages.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that it was \"worrying to hear news of a major incident on the Cleddau Bridge\" in Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"My thoughts are with all those involved and my thanks to the first responders and emergency services working at the scene,\" he said.\n\nA man was airlifted to hospital after the crash at the Cleddau Bridge near Pembroke Dock\n\n\"Crews responded to a road traffic collision involving one 52-seater bus and one private motor vehicle,\" Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nFire crews cut free \"a severely trapped driver\" who was later flown to hospital by air ambulance.\n\n\"Several of the bus passengers suffered with various injuries and many of them were taken to hospital by road ambulances and police vehicles,\" the statement added.\n\nThe air ambulance and five emergency land ambulances attended the scene on Tuesday afternoon as fire crews worked to free the trapped driver and also gave first aid to injured passengers.\n\nThe main A477 road from Pembroke Dock to Milford Haven and Haverfordwest was shut westbound for the remainder of Tuesday as accident investigation work was carried out but has since reopened.\n\nLauren Joseph was trying to cross the bridge after work, travelling to her home near Milford Haven just after the crash - and faced an hour-long, 35-mile diversion.\n\n\"As I got there the council advised me to go the long way around at the Carew roundabout due to an incident,\" she said.\n\n\"I am currently doing 20mph on a 60mph because of the congestion caused by the crash.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police are appealing with anyone with information relating to the incident to contact the force.", "People were finally able to leave Burning Man festival in Nevada on Monday, after wet conditions eased.\n\nHeavy rain had caused a mud bath, with rainfall near the end of last week thought to have been the heaviest since the festival began more than 30 years ago.\n\nDrone footage shows huge queues of people heading away from the festival.\n\nRead more about the boggy conditions at Burning Man here.", "The government says it closed down parts of some schools in England because of evidence about unsafe concrete.\n\nBut problems with the material have been known about for many years. Questions are now being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.\n\nScores of public buildings constructed with new concrete\n\nBetween the 1950s and 1990s the material, known as RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete), was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls.\n\nBut its short lifespan means its use in permanent buildings has caused problems.\n\nUse of RAAC is stopped as concerns emerge\n\n1994: Concerns about the risks of using RAAC in public buildings started to appear in research.\n\n1996: Excessive cracking and corrosion was found in some roof planks that had been designed before 1980.\n\nThe finding - from a former government-owned research laboratory called the Building Research Establishment - led to the use of RAAC being effectively stopped.\n\nHowever, the report also said: \"There is no evidence so far to suggest that RAAC planks pose a safety hazard to building users\".\n\n1999: Owners of buildings with pre-1980 RAAC were to told to get them inspected. The advice came from a body set up to spot risks to building safety - the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS).\n\n2010: Spending on education infrastructure reached its peak in 2010 - the final year of the last Labour government. During its 13 years in power, school spending on areas including buildings and computers had risen steadily.\n\nLabour also ran a scheme called Building Schools for the Future, which was later axed by the new Conservative-led government. A government-commissioned review of the programme said value for money had been consistently poor. A National Audit Office report said the costs were higher than they needed to be because of avoidable delays and extensive reliance on consultants by local authorities.\n\n2014: Investment fell under the coalition government and reached its low-point in 2014.\n\nHowever, in the same year, the government launched its own schools building scheme. This led to an increase in spending - which is still in place - but not at 2010 levels.\n\n2017: A three-year inspection programme was launched by the government. Part of its aim was to look at the materials such as RAAC in schools.\n\n2018: A concrete block fell from the ceiling of a school in Kent, more than 20 years after the BRE's report about excessive cracking.\n\nThe incident prompted warnings from both the Local Government Association and DfE. Organisations responsible for school buildings were told to take steps to confirm the safety of their construction.\n\n2019: Schools with 40-year-old RAAC planks were told they had now passed their expected service life. SCOSS - which issued the alert - added that schools should consider replacing the planks.\n\n2019: Following the completion of the inspections of school buildings, Jonathan Slater - the top civil servant in the DfE at the time - said they concluded that between 300 and 400 schools needed replacing each year.\n\n2020: In order to maintain, repair and rebuild schools for the next years, the DfE said it would require £4bn a year.\n\n2021: A pledge to rebuild 500 schools over the next decade was announced by the government in its Spending Review. However, this amounts to only about 50 a year.\n\nFebruary 2021: The DfE issues a guide on how to identify RAAC. A questionnaire was sent out the following year to organisations responsible for school buildings, asking whether they had any of the material.\n\nSeptember 2022: Surveyors were sent into schools to see if there was RAAC present and to rate it as \"critical\" or \"non-critical\", following the launch of a government programme.\n\nIn the same month, a stark warning that \"RAAC is now life-expired and liable to collapse\" was issued by the Office of Government Property.\n\nJune 2023: The government was told that insufficient funding was making the risk more severe by the National Audit Office - an independent watchdog that tracks government spending.\n\nThe government is spending £15bn - or about £1.7bn a year - on \"maintaining and improving the condition of school buildings and grounds\". However, that is significantly less than the amount the DfE previously said was needed to bring school buildings up to scratch.\n\nAugust 2023: A RAAC panel failed at a school in England that would have been classed as non-critical.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said the incident led her to take action - just days before the new school year was due to begin.", "Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, arriving to Tuesday's cabinet meeting, urged schools to respond to a government survey on concrete\n\nThe education secretary has said she is sorry the call to close some schools over unsafe concrete came at the \"worst time\" just before the start of term.\n\nGillian Keegan, speaking on BBC Radio 2, also told 5% of schools who had not replied to a survey about RAAC concrete to \"get off their backsides\".\n\nMore than 100 schools in England have closed or partially closed and some are struggling to secure building surveys.\n\nOne company said temporary classrooms could take up to six months to build.\n\nSchools are returning from their summer break this week, but the risk posed by collapse-prone reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has resulted in full or partial closures and some pupils are learning online.\n\nSpeaking to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, Ms Keegan said she had to take action after three incidents during the summer involving RAAC - one in a school outside England, one in England and at a commercial property.\n\n\"I had to make a decision right at the end of August which was the worst time,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very sorry about the timings but I 100% think it was the right decision.\"\n\nA list of schools that have been identified as having the potentially dangerous concrete will be published \"before Friday\", schools minister Nick Gibb said.\n\nMs Keegan said she had two lists - the initial list of schools asked to close buildings last week, and another of schools that are suspected to contain RAAC and are going to be surveyed in the next fortnight.\n\nShe added there could be hundreds of schools affected.\n\nThe education secretary said the government was waiting on questionnaires sent to schools to see how prevalent RAAC concrete was.\n\n\"There's RAAC all over the world ... in March 2020 we'd asked all the responsible bodies to survey for RAAC - we went to 20,000 schools and the vast majority don't have RAAC.\"\n\nCriticising schools in England that had not yet responded to the survey, she said: \"Hopefully all this publicity will make them get off their backsides\".\n\nHowever, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said \"any attempt to start shifting the blame onto individual schools will be seen by parents and public for what it is: a desperate attempt by government to deflect from its own significant failings\".\n\nDaniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said it was \"outrageous\" of Ms Keegan to \"lay any responsibility... at the door of schools\", saying the Department for Education (DfE) had been \"dragging its heels over many years on this issue\".\n\nEarlier, Hina Robinson, chair of governors and parent of a child at Wyburns primary school in Rayleigh, Essex, told the BBC that the DfE had provided some phone numbers of engineers but none were available for remedial work.\n\n\"The focus is on 'how can we get children back into learning in a building of some sort',\" Ms Robinson said, adding some children will return to online learning until a space can be found.\n\nShe said online learning was \"very difficult for the children,\" but even those who were able to be on site face disruption as \"classrooms are set up in places that aren't meant to be classrooms\".\n\nJoshua Wedgewood, a student at St Leonards Catholic School in County Durham, is learning online as his school is temporarily closed because of RAAC concrete concerns.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was like being back in the Covid pandemic, saying: \"On a screen it's just not real life, it's isolating, it's being stuck inside your home. It's not nice.\"\n\nJames Saunders is a head teacher at Honywood School, Essex, where about half of the rooms are unusable and some students are learning online.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live that he has explored the option of setting up marquees outside the school as \"they're quicker to set up than a mobile classroom\".\n\nDavid Wernick, boss of the Wernick Group - which provides portable buildings - told the BBC the situation was \"akin to what happened at the beginning of Covid\", when hundreds of test centres were set up around the UK.\n\nKieran Webberley, of Wernick, estimated a \"simple\" temporary building would take \"days, a couple of weeks maximum\" to construct while a more \"bespoke modular\" two-storey temporary building that could house 10 rooms would take anywhere between two to six months depending on its complexity and could cost up to £2,000 per square metre.\n\nWernick Group subsequently said this figure was incorrect, but declined to provide a different number.\n\nBrian Berry, chief executive at the Federation of Master Builders, said: \"Local builders tend to have full schedules months ahead, so may struggle to cater for the scale of the issue facing schools, like putting up portable classrooms at speed, to ensure children don't miss lessons.\"\n\nMeanwhile safety consultant Damini Sharma said RAAC could be present in more buildings, including social housing, courts and hospitals but was potentially difficult to detect because it was often covered.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that RAAC was was a very lightweight, porous material that was used predominantly from the 50s to the 80s\" and \"not really suitable for permanent structures\".\n\nThe information about the lifespan of the material was not available when it was first used, she said.\n\nThe head of the spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, accused the government of taking a \"sticking plaster approach\" to carrying out essential maintenance on school buildings.\n\nGareth Davies said the \"unflashy\" job of repairs has been neglected.\n\nBut schools minister Mr Gibb said the response to the crisis had been \"world-leading\".\n\nMr Gibb added that his department bid for 200 school refurbishments a year in 2021 - but the Treasury only funded 50.\n\n\"The Treasury has to take into account all the other bids from across Whitehall,\" he said.\n\nHe said that since Rishi Sunak became prime minister, an additional £4bn had been allocated in revenue funding for schools in England, which meant £59.6bn will be in the budget next year - a \"record amount\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"unforgivable\" that children were missing the start of term because of potentially unsafe buildings.\n\n\"Children are not at school today because of the action the government has failed to take in relation to schools,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Keegan apologised after being caught swearing on mic as she expressed frustration at a lack of gratitude for the handling of the school building crisis in England.\n\nShe made the comments just after finishing an interview with ITV news while the camera was still filming.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC those comments by Ms Keegan were \"wrong\", but in a follow-up interview Ms Keegan apologised for her \"choice language\".\n\nUpdate 8 September: This article was updated after Wernick Group said the figure they gave as the estimated cost of a \"bespoke modular\" two-storey temporary building was incorrect.", "Customers from two of the UK's most popular mobile networks are now able to talk again after EE fixed an issue affecting them.\n\nReports of issues with Vodafone and EE first came in at midday on Monday, according to the website Downdetector.\n\nVodafone said at the time there were no issues with its own network, but customers were unable to call EE numbers.\n\nEE apologised and said the problem has now been resolved.\n\nA spokesperson for EE told the BBC: \"The issue impacting some customers' calls to and from a Vodafone number has been resolved.\n\n\"Calls to other networks, mobile data and text messages were not affected.\n\n\"We're very sorry for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nEE claimed earlier that calls to other networks, mobile data and text messages were not affected.\n\nVodafone customers had registered problems on problem tracking sites and on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nBut the company suggested there were no problems with its network, adding: \"some of our customers have been impacted by an issue with the EE network.\n\n\"This meant some customers were unable to connect calls to EE numbers, and the issue also affected customers who've previously transferred their number from EE to Vodafone\".\n\nNumbers transferred or \"ported\" from EE to any new network, including Three, O2 and Vodafone, were affected, the Vodafone spokesperson added, because three of the digits in the mobile number still identify them as \"EE\" numbers. That meant that even though they are no longer EE customers, calls are briefly routed through EE's infrastructure.\n\nWhile those former EE customers could call within their new network, calls to other networks were being affected by the problems at EE, Vodafone said.\n\nEarlier on Monday, customers of both companies were still posting on X to complain about network issues.\n\nElsewhere, O2 customers have also reported some problems on Downdetector.\n\nO2 told the BBC it was not experiencing any network problems, but said some users might be experiencing issues trying to communicate with EE customers.", "Disposable vapes are the most popular vaping device among teenagers in Scotland\n\nScotland could ban disposable vapes under plans unveiled by the country's first minister.\n\nCampaigners have highlighted the environmental impact of the plastic tubes, which are often thrown on the ground after being used.\n\nConcerns have been raised around their growing popularity among young people.\n\nHumza Yousaf said his government would hold a consultation on a single-use vape ban as he set out his priorities for the coming year.\n\nHe told the Scottish Parliament: \"I hear too often about how common vaping is among our young people.\n\n\"In the next year we will take action to reduce vaping - particularly among children.\n\n\"I'm pleased to announce that this government will consult on curbing the sale of disposable single-use vapes, including consulting on an outright ban.\"\n\nA recent Scottish government report found that 22% of all under-18s - around 78,000 - are believed to have used a vape last year with more young people using them than smoking cigarettes.\n\nIt found that most e-cigarette users under 18 prefer single use vapes.\n\nThe review by Zero Waste Scotland estimated that up to 2.7 million single-use vapes were littered in Scotland last year.\n\nThe study estimated that there were 543,000 users of e-cigarettes in Scotland and predicted that without intervention that will rise to 900,000 by 2027.\n\nMore young women are vaping daily in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics\n\nA survey from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has also suggested that more young women in the UK are vaping daily.\n\nThe proportion of women aged 16 to 24 who said they were doing it increased from 1.9% in 2021 to 6.7% in 2022.\n\nThis represents an estimated rise from about 62,000 to 225,000 across the UK.\n\nScottish Greens MSP Gillian Mackay said the move to explore a single-use vape ban will \"protect generations of young smokers from untold harm to their health\".\n\nShe said: \"There will be a likely faux outcry from those in the tobacco industry and potentially even the UK government, which likes nothing better than to meddle in decisions taken by our Parliament, but this is too important for political games.\n\n\"Experts across the medical world and environmental campaigners agree there is an urgent and growing need for action.\"", "Laughing gas will be categorised as a class C drug and made illegal by the end of the year, the UK government has announced.\n\nPossession of nitrous oxide, also known as NOS, will carry a sentence of up to two years in prison.\n\nLaughing gas is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs by 16 to 24-year-olds.\n\nHeavy use can lead to a range of illnesses including nerve-related symptoms.\n\nSupply of nitrous oxide for recreational use is currently banned - but possession is not.\n\nThe government initially announced its plan to ban nitrous oxide earlier this year as part of a plan to tackle anti-social behaviour, but on Tuesday set out new details of the law change.\n\nIt said those found in unlawful possession of the drug could face up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine, with up to 14 years for supply or production.\n\nHowever, there will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.\n\nThe substance - which is sold in metal canisters - can cause headaches and make some users anxious or paranoid, while too much nitrous oxide can make a person faint or lose consciousness.\n\nHeavy use can lead people being unable to walk, falling over, or experiencing tingling or loss of sensation in the feet and hands. Some users have nerve-related bladder or bowel problems, erectile dysfunction or incontinence.\n\nThe government's decision to make possession a crime goes against recommendations from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which advised against new laws to ban nitrous oxide.\n\nIt said a ban would be disproportionate with the amount of harm linked to the gas.\n\nAnd last week health experts also warned the government against a ban, saying it could stop users seeking medical help.\n\nThe use of nitrous oxide soared during the pandemic. Following Notting Hill Carnival last week, the local council estimated they collected five skips' full of laughing gas canisters - about 13 tonnes, or more than 12,000 canisters.\n\nAnnouncing the law change on Tuesday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said people in the UK were \"fed up with yobs abusing drugs in public spaces and leaving behind a disgraceful mess for others to clean up\".\n\n\"Earlier this year the prime minister and I promised a zero-tolerance approach to antisocial behaviour and that is what we are delivering. If you are caught using laughing gas as a drug, you could be hit with a hefty fine or face jail time.\"\n\nThe government's crime and policing minister Chris Philp said: \"There is no question that abusing laughing gas is dangerous to people's health and it is paramount we take decisive action before the situation gets worse.\n\n\"Not only are we making possession an offence for the first time, we are also doubling the maximum sentence for supply to 14 years, so the dealers profiting off this trade have no place to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nitrous oxide: A pain drug used by teens as a high\n\nLaughing gas joins drugs including diazepam, GHB and GBL under the class C categorisation.\n\nThe ban is being issued under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, which regulates drugs in the UK based on their perceived harm and potential for misuse.\n\nIt is already illegal to produce or supply laughing gas for its psychoactive effects under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. That law makes production, supply and importation of nitrous oxide for human consumption illegal, but not possession.\n\nAlexandre Piot, director of research at the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group, said it was \"of concern that the government has dismissed the counsel of its statutorily established expert advisory board on this issue\".\n\n\"It is imperative to educate the public about the actual risks of nitrous oxide abuse and the perils associated with its homemade production. But the wider costs and benefits of this measure have not been weighed with the expert care they deserve.\"\n\nJane Slater, from the campaign Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control, which wants drugs to be legalised and regulated, said criminalising possession \"will only give more young people criminal records, make using it more dangerous, fuel organised crime activity, and cause further harm to our families and communities\".\n\n\"If this government is serious about addressing the problems with nitrous oxide then it would listen to the experts who are recommending a health-led approach supported by better use of existing controls.\"\n\nSome 15 neurologists and other health experts wrote to the government last week saying possession of the drug should not be criminalised.\n\nThe letter said there was \"very little evidence that the criminalisation will lead to reductions in neurological harm and will impact people's opportunities who are not in education and employment\".\n\nBetween 2001 and 2020, there were 56 registered deaths involving nitrous oxide in England and Wales - 45 of them since 2010, according to the government report.\n\nProf David Nutt, from Imperial College London's department of medicine, previously said there was around about one death per year in the UK from around one million nitrous oxide users. \"A comparison with alcohol would be that around 28,000 deaths happen per year in around 40 million users of alcohol,\" he added.\n\nAnyone inhaling big doses of laughing gas risks falling unconscious or suffocating from a lack of oxygen. Inhaling the gas directly from a large canister can be fatal. Some people using it recreationally to get a high have died as a result.\n\nUK medics are increasingly seeing young people coming into hospitals with complications from longer-term heavy use.\n\nRepeated hits of nitrous oxide can deplete body levels of an important vitamin called B12, which, in turn, can cause permanent nerve damage.\n\nIt can affect both the spinal cord and the nerves in arms and legs, causing loss of feeling, abnormal sensations and muscle weakness or even full paralysis.\n\nOther symptoms include weakness and bladder or bowel urgency or incontinence. Importantly, patients often do not mention nitrous oxide use, possibly because they do not connect it with their symptoms, or because they don't want to admit to a doctor that they've been misusing it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Golden eagles are going from strength to strength in southern Scotland\n\nA conservation project to move golden eagles to southern Scotland has helped the population reach record numbers.\n\nThere are now about 46 birds in the area - the highest figure recorded in the area for centuries.\n\nEight chicks were brought to the secret location near Moffat this summer to bring numbers to the current level.\n\nWhen the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project (SOSGEP) began five years ago it was thought that only three breeding pairs remained in the area.\n\nThe latest chicks came from the Scottish Highlands, Perthshire, Angus and the Scottish islands\n\nSOSGEP also revealed that two birds - Edward and Iona - have formed a nesting pair which should help boost numbers in future.\n\nThe announcement comes ahead of Moffat's annual festival celebrating golden eagles.\n\nBBC Springwatch's Iolo Williams, who will speak at the event, said: \"The work of this outstanding project is playing a vital role in boosting the small golden eagle population in the south of the country.\n\n\"It is brilliant to think that there is an even greater chance of seeing this iconic predator, which is so important to maintaining a healthy ecosystem, soaring in southern skies.\"\n\nBirds have been brought from other parts of Scotland to the hills near Moffat\n\nProject manager Cat Barlow said it had been an \"incredible year\" for the project - backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\n\"We are thrilled to bring eight more chicks to the region - the greatest number we have transported in any one summer so far, bringing the population of golden eagles in the area to an all-new record high,\" she said.\n\n\"And we're incredibly excited to see some of the first birds that we translocated in the area now nesting together.\n\n\"This is a significant new step in our work to ensure the south of Scotland golden eagle population is self-sustaining and continues to thrive in southern skies for many generations to come.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The First Minister set out a childcare expansion plan in his programme for government.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has confirmed new measures to improve childcare in Scotland.\n\nThe SNP leader also said he would spend an extra £1bn on social security and improve pay for social care staff.\n\nThe announcements were made as part of the programme for government speech, which comes at the start of each new parliamentary year at Holyrood.\n\nMr Yousaf said the plan was \"unashamedly anti-poverty and pro-growth\".\n\nOpposition leaders said it failed to address the major challenges Scotland faces.\n\nThe first minister said the government would focus on supporting women, who were \"disproportionately affected\" by the pressures of modern life.\n\nHe announced a pilot for care from nine months to the end of primary school, plans to accelerate care expansion for two-year olds and more scope for parents to personally manage childcare.\n\nThe SNP leader said the government would improve childminder recruitment and boost pay to a £12 per hour minimum from April.\n\nChildren aged three and four in Scotland currently get 1,140 hours of free care a year.\n\nEchoing a promise made during his time as health secretary, Mr Yousaf said social care workers in direct care roles would see their pay rise to £12 an hour, leading to a pay increase from April of up to £2,000 a year for full-time workers.\n\nHowever the Coalition of Care and Support Providers said the offer represented a \"failure to grasp the reality\" of social care in Scotland and called for an immediate pay increase backdated to April.\n\nIn other measures designed to combat poverty, the SNP leader told MSPs the government would remove income thresholds for the Best Start food programme by February, meaning a further 20,000 mothers and children would benefit from financial support for milk and healthy food.\n\nChildren currently get 1,140 hours of free childcare from three years old, but the first minister has vowed to expand this coverage\n\nMr Yousaf told MSPs the \"driving mission\" of his government was to tackle the \"scourge\" of poverty.\n\nHe pledged investment of more than £400m in the Scottish Child Payment to provide more than £1,000 a year for over 300,000 children.\n\nThe first minister said this would come as part of £1bn in extra funding for social security measures.\n\nBut there was no commitment to increasing the Scottish Child Payment from its current level of £25 a week per child, as campaigners such as the Child Poverty Action Group have been calling for.\n\nMr Yousaf did, however, call on the UK government to establish an \"essentials guarantee\", in a bid to ensure that those on Universal Credit always receive enough cash to cover basic needs, such as food, energy and transport.\n\nHe said other anti-poverty measures would include the fulfilment of a vow to expand school meals to primary six and seven pupils, starting with those receiving the Scottish Child Payment in 2024.\n\nHowever, the programme document published by the Scottish government said this would not be rolled out for all P6 and P7 pupils until 2026.\n\nThere were 14 bills in this year's programme for government.\n\nHowever three of them - Education, Housing and the Scottish Aggregates Tax bills - featured in the plans unveiled by former first minister Nicola Sturgeon a year ago.\n\nThe new bills include a Cladding Remediation Bill to introduce a levy in Scotland - replicating the UK government's Building Safety Levy, an Agriculture Bill to create a new framework for rural support and a Land Reform Bill to make land ownership more transparent.\n\nThe government will also consult on curbing the sale of disposable vapes, including consulting on an outright ban.\n\nThe Scottish government will consider plans to ban single-use vapes\n\nMr Yousaf also backed bills to criminalise misogynistic abuse and create safe access zones for abortion clinics.\n\nHe touched on his own experience of baby loss as he pledged to improve the treatment of women and their families after a miscarriage.\n\nAnd the first minister committed to the creation of a certificate and memorial book of pregnancy and baby loss - a policy backed by Ms Sturgeon in her final weeks as first minister.\n\nThe first minister cited his grandfather, Muhammad Yousaf, who was a small business owner and claimed there was \"no way\" he could have done so without \"the support of society\".\n\nAs part of his pro-business pledges, he announced a £15m plan to support innovation and entrepreneurship.\n\nMr Yousaf told MSPs he would seek a deal with the onshore wind industry to halve the consenting time for new section 36 wind farms.\n\nThe government will invest £750m to help provide affordable homes and spend £60m this year on buying empty properties for use as affordable homes, the first minister said.\n\nAlmost as important as the big speech on programme for government day is the paperwork which goes along with it.\n\nHumza Yousaf has followed the format he used in his \"fresh start\" launch, by having each of his cabinet secretaries take responsibility for their own portfolio, in their own name.\n\nThis \"big tent\" collaborative approach to government perhaps belies the fact there is no obvious Yousaf Doctrine among the proposals - the new first minister is mostly moving along with plans which have already been mooted or consulted on.\n\nThere are devils amid the detail too.\n\nMr Yousaf's speech highlighted his pledge to roll out free school meals to pupils in primary six and primary seven.\n\nBut the document underlines that the goal is to do this in 2026 - two years later than the last target, which itself had been delayed from 2022.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross described Mr Yousaf's plan as \"tinkering around the edges\" of public service challenges.\n\n\"Consultations and trials rather than promises and delivery,\" he said. \"Extreme green policies that will devastate our economy and rural communities and of course, very predictably, an overwhelming focus on the SNP's obsession with independence.\"\n\nLabour chief Anas Sarwar welcomed some of the proposals, including those to improve pay for social care staff, to take action on affordable housing and measures to combat misogyny.\n\nHowever, he said the programme for government failed to address the \"twin crises\" of the cost of living and issues with the NHS.\n\nAnd Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton warned the policy agenda would not be sufficient to address issues with Scotland's public services, which he said were at \"breaking point\".", "Police say an attack on three Ukrainian teenagers in Edinburgh at the weekend was racially aggravated.\n\nThe boys, two aged 13 and one aged 15, were hurt after they were approached by a group of eight youths in dark clothing on Sunday night.\n\nOne of the 13-year-olds was stabbed, the other left with lacerations to his ear, and the 15-year-old was punched.\n\nPolice are reviewing CCTV in an effort to trace those responsible for the attack in Niddrie Mains Road.\n\nAnd they have appealed for help from potential witnesses to the incident which happened at about 20:30.\n\nDet Insp Keith Fairbairn said: \"I know there were members of the public in the area at the time of the attack and I am asking them to contact us with any information they may have.\n\n\"We are appealing for details on the group of youths, who were dressed in dark clothing.\n\n\"Perhaps you saw them somewhere else? Did you see them running off? Any small piece of information could assist us in identifying those responsible for these attacks.\"\n\nThe injured boys were treated in hospital and the incident was reported to police on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has eased an effective ban on new onshore wind farms in England to see off a threatened rebellion by Conservative MPs.\n\nMinisters have amended planning rules to make it easier for onshore wind farms to be built.\n\nThe changes involve broadening ways sites can be identified and speeding up the planning process.\n\nThe government had promised to relax the rules by the end of April under pressure from some Tory MPs.\n\nBut in recent days, Tories frustrated by the lack of action intervened again to force the government to honour its pledge.\n\nA group of 25 Tory MPs, led by former COP26 president Sir Alok Sharma, pushed the government to ease planning restrictions, with an amendment to the Energy Bill.\n\nBut following talks with Mr Sunak this morning, Sir Alok said he would drop his amendment in response to the planning changes, which he welcomed.\n\nSir Alok stood down the rebellion during a debate about the government's Energy Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nHe said the planning changes \"move things forward and will help to deliver a more permissive planning system\", adding the \"de facto ban is lifted\".\n\nThe rules, introduced under former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015, meant an objection from just one person over an onshore wind development in England could stop it going ahead.\n\nIn a statement ahead of the debate, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said the government would make changes to the National Planning Policy Framework, which sets out planning policies for England.\n\nThe changes, he said, included \"amending the planning tests for proposed onshore wind developments to make clear that suitable locations can be identified in a number of ways\".\n\n\"We hope that this will mean sites are identified more quickly, speeding up the process of allocating sites for onshore wind projects,\" Mr Gove said.\n\nHe said the changes would also give local authorities more flexibility to \"address the planning impact of onshore wind projects as identified by local communities\".\n\nA consultation on benefits for communities who host wind farms closed earlier this year, with the government's response to be published in the autumn.\n\nMr Gove said the government was \"open to novel ways to demonstrate community consent\", but did not confirm what mechanism would be used to demonstrate that support.\n\nSam Hall, director of the Conservative Environment Network, said the statement was \"a positive step towards unblocking new onshore wind\" that \"significantly loosens the two planning tests created in 2015\".\n\nBut Labour's shadow energy and net zero secretary, Ed Miliband, said the planning system \"remains stacked against onshore wind\".\n\nRenewableUK echoed that view, with its head of onshore wind, James Robottom, who said the changes did not go far enough, and amounted to a \"slight softening at the edges but nothing more\".\n\nTuesday's announcement is the second time Mr Sunak has been pressured to act on onshore wind by his own MPs.\n\nWhen he became prime minister last year, he said he would retain the effective ban on new onshore wind farms.\n\nBut facing a rebellion by his backbench MPs, he reversed that position in December last year and said the ban would be lifted.\n\nHowever, other Tory MPs have opposed onshore wind developments in their areas because of the impact on local residents and landscapes.\n\nTory MP Sir John Hayes has expressed concern about onshore wind turbines being \"imposed\" on local areas.\n\nWind farms form part of the government's attempts to decarbonise the energy system, end dependence on imported fossil fuels and lower household bills.\n\nThe UK is a world leader in offshore wind, with turbines in the sea generating enough power to meet the electricity needs of 41% of the nation's homes last year, according to a report by the Crown Estate.\n\nBut research by the University of the West of England found policy change had led to a 97% decrease in the number of onshore wind turbines that have been granted planning permission between 2016 and 2021, compared to the period 2009-2014.\n\nIn a progress report this year, the Climate Change Committee said that the government had \"lost its clear global climate leadership\" by failing to invest in renewable energy, such as wind power.\n\nLabour says the Energy Bill is \"the first major test\" of the new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, Claire Coutinho, who was appointed to the role last week.", "Russia has been hitting Ukraine's port facilities along the River Danube for more than a month\n\nUkraine has alleged that Russian drones landed on Romanian territory during a series of strikes on a neighbouring Ukrainian city.\n\nForeign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters after a news conference in Kyiv that Ukraine had photographic evidence supporting its claim.\n\nHowever, Romania has rejected Kyiv's version of events and BBC Verify says it cannot authenticate the image.\n\nThe row came as the Russian and Turkish leaders held talks.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had travelled to the Russian city of Sochi in an attempt to persuade President Vladimir Putin to revive the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea.\n\nMr Putin said the deal, which Moscow abandoned in July, would not be reinstated until the West met his demands for sanctions to be lifted on Russian agricultural produce.\n\nBut he did say that Russia was moving ahead with plans to supply free grain to six African countries \"and even carry out logistics free of charge\".\n\nThe stymied grain deal is also at the heart of the dispute between Ukraine and Romania over crashed drones.\n\nRussia has been hitting Ukraine's port facilities along the River Danube for more than a month, trying to prevent Ukraine from using the river to export its grain.\n\nWith most ships prevented from using Ukraine's Black Sea ports, Moscow seems intent on preventing Kyiv from developing viable alternative routes.\n\nSunday night's attacks on the port of Izmail were launched just a day after Russian drones hit the nearby port of Reni.\n\nSince the latest attack, something of a war of words has followed between Ukraine - which insists that one or more drones landed across the river, inside Romania - and the government in Bucharest, which says it didn't happen.\n\n\"Of course, there is a risk, because what happened there is very close to our borders,\" said Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu.\n\n\"We have seen that Russia cynically continues to attack the civilian infrastructure, not allowing Ukraine to export their cereals.\n\n\"Of course, there is a risk of accidents or incidents, but for the time being, it was not the case.\"\n\nMr Kuleba, sounding angry, said it was \"absolutely obvious\" what had happened.\n\nHe suggested that some of Ukraine's partners were, in effect, turning a blind eye in order to avoid being involved in the conflict.\n\nIf a Russian drone did land on Romanian territory, without it being the result of an interception, then this would mark the first time Russia has directly, if accidentally, hit a Nato member state.\n\nLast November a missile landed in Poland during a Russian air attack. Ukraine initially claimed it was a Russian missile but it was later found that this was likely to have been a Ukrainian air defence missile.\n\nBBC Verify has been examining a still image and a video purporting to show the incident. The image was published to social media on Monday morning by Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nBoth the image and the video show a fireball rising over a forested riverbank at night, but the visual evidence is of very low quality, in part because it was shot in the dark, from a distance, and in part because it is low-resolution. Additionally, the video appears to have been blurred in places, obscuring certain details.\n\nAs a result, BBC Verify cannot confirm Ukraine's claims, nor whether the explosion was caused by a drone or by something else.", "Humza Yousaf will reveal the new programme for government at Holyrood\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf says childcare will be at the centre of his government's policy agenda for the coming year.\n\nThe SNP leader will reveal his new programme for government at Holyrood later as MSPs return from summer recess.\n\nAhead of the announcement, he said improving access to childcare was a \"win-win\" for families and the economy.\n\nMr Yousaf is also expected to propose a ban on single-use vapes.\n\nHe previously said a ban would be considered. It is now thought the Scottish government will go ahead with the plans, subject to a formal consultation.\n\nMSPs will debate the proposals this week in parliament.\n\nMr Yousaf said the announcement would include funding to send children to breakfast and after school clubs and potentially further expansion of free childcare and support for staff - including those in the private, voluntary and independent sector.\n\nChildren aged three and four in Scotland currently get 1,140 hours of free care a year. The first minister has said previously he would back universal childcare for one and two-year-olds.\n\nThe SNP leader also said his government would commit to taking action to protect people living in the private rented sector.\n\nA pilot of four-day working weeks for public sector staff, an increase in the £25 Scottish Child Payment and tax reforms are among other measures that could be announced, according to reports.\n\nMr Yousaf said the programme for government speech, which comes at the start of each new year at Holyrood, would be centred on childcare.\n\nHe said: \"I know as a parent with a young child how important childcare is for families.\n\nChildren currently get 1,140 hours of free childcare from three years old\n\n\"We know particularly for families from low-income households it can be the difference to be able to get back into work, employment, training and it opens up huge opportunities so it's a win-win.\n\n\"It's a win in terms of tackling poverty but also a win for the economy as well.\"\n\nChris Birt, associate director for Scotland for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, urged the government to introduce more targeted childcare support.\n\n\"Poverty is not to do with the weather, it is designed by the systems we put in place,\" he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme. \"And often the childcare system is a good example.\n\n\"We have a childcare system at the moment which the government generously contributes to - their current offer costs them over £1bn a year.\n\n\"But we suspect that that benefit is mainly going to better-off families because the offer tends to be inflexible and tends to suit more of a Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm working pattern.\"\n\nHe added: \"For many people on lower incomes who may be doing more unpredictable shift patterns, that just doesn't fit their lives.\"\n\nMr Birt also called for more targeted support for single and disabled people.\n\nThe first minister said other key aims of the programme for government will include reducing poverty, delivering economic growth, tackling climate crisis, and improving public services.\n\nHumza Yousaf spent his first few months as first minister effectively clearing the decks. Despite running as the \"continuity candidate\" to Nicola Sturgeon, Mr Yousaf started out by shredding much of his predecessor's policy platform.\n\nHe sought to reset relations with business and local government. The National Care Service and the Deposit Return Scheme were kicked into the long grass. And Highly Protected Marine Areas and a ban on alcohol advertising were binned.\n\nNow, we get to find out what Mr Yousaf is for - what it is that he wants his government to actually achieve.\n\nWe have had hints from his leadership campaign, which had a heavy focus on social justice issues, and his initial statements which promised \"a fresh start\" for the government.\n\nBut today we will see in black and white the legislation he wants to pass and the reforms he wants to deliver - and thus the debates that will shape the remaining three years of the Holyrood term.\n\nThe Scottish Fiscal Commission warned in May that the government was facing a £1bn shortfall for day-to-day spending next year.\n\nIts report found the gap between income and spending plans could rise to £1.9bn in four years.\n\nAhead of the programme for government announcement, UKHospitality Scotland executive director Leon Thompson said Mr Yousaf should commit to ensuring business rates will not rise with inflation.\n\nCBI Scotland, meanwhile, called for a new approach from the government to meet its target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045.\n\nThe trade confederation called on ministers to reduce planning barriers, cut times for projects to be green lit and set up gigabit-capable digital connectivity.\n\nThe body also lobbied for a target to build 25,000 homes each year and for further investment in transport infrastructure.\n\nThe Scottish Greens, who are in a power-sharing agreement with the SNP, said the proposals would focus on the climate crisis and the cost of living.\n\n\"This will be a positive and progressive programme for action that has Green values at its heart,\" co-leader Lorna Slater said.\n\nMeghan Gallacher, deputy leader of the Scottish Tories, said: \"Humza Yousaf must use his first programme for government to focus on Scotland's real priorities, rather than his nationalist obsession.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy Leader Jackie Baillie called on the first minister to put the NHS and the cost of living crisis \"front and centre\" of his policy proposals, claiming it was \"his last chance to save the remaining shreds of his reputation\".\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton urged the government to set up a fund to help local authorities remove potentially dangerous concrete from public buildings, rule out council tax rises and improve care for Long Covid sufferers.\n\nHe also called for action on rail fares, sewage dumps, social care and violence in schools.", "Callum Rycroft was hit by a car as he tried to cross the M62 with his father\n\nThe father of a 12-year-old boy who was hit by a car as the pair tried to cross the M62 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.\n\nCallum Rycroft was hit and killed as he and Matthew Rycroft attempted to cross the motorway in West Yorkshire after their vehicle had crashed.\n\nMatthew Rycroft, 36, of Nowell View, Leeds, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at a hearing at Leeds Crown Court.\n\nHe also admitted dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Rycroft had spent the day drinking at his parents' house in Huddersfield having taken Callum to visit.\n\nHis family had urged him not to drive home but he refused and was later spotted driving his Audi Q5 erratically before joining the M62 at junction 25.\n\nThe CPS said his parents had called him to ask him to pull over and that during the conversation Callum could be heard in the background saying 'Dad… won't stop'.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing Rycroft swerve across lanes on the motorway before colliding with a crash barrier, the CPS said.\n\nRycroft managed to exit the motorway at Hartshead Moor services, where he failed to negotiate a sharp bend on the slip road before hitting the kerb and overturning the vehicle.\n\nThe CPS said: \"Rycroft and Callum then began to walk toward the main carriageway.\n\n\"Callum called his mother, and dialled 999, but Rycroft told him to end the call. They were seen to cross the motorway to the central reservation, and then for an unknown reason tried to run back.\"\n\nCallum was struck by an oncoming vehicle and died instantly.\n\nThe crash happened near Hartshead Services at Brighouse\n\nTom Neofytou from the CPS said: \"This is an absolutely tragic incident involving the death of a 12-year-old boy.\n\n\"His father's insistence on driving whilst under the influence of alcohol is beyond comprehension.\n\n\"Rycroft continued to drive despite his parents' best efforts to stop him. His decision to leave the scene of the crash and attempt to cross the motorway whilst responsible for a young boy was reckless folly.\n\n\"Callum paid the ultimate price for his father's careless and criminal actions, and the rest of his family are left to mourn his loss. Our deepest sympathies remain with them.\"\n\nRycroft has been remanded in custody ahead of sentencing at a later date.\n\nA 47-year-old man from Bolton was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, but has been released on bail pending further inquiries, West Yorkshire Police previously said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man in court over death of boy, 12, on motorway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo members of the far-right Proud Boys group have been jailed for leading the US Capitol riot.\n\nDominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nEthan Nordean, 32, who led the group's march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge.\n\nThe former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced next week.\n\nBefore being sentenced, Nordean told the court: \"I would like to apologise for my lack of leadership that day\" and called the riot \"a complete and utter tragedy\".\n\n\"To anyone who I directly or even indirectly wronged, I'm sorry,\" he said.\n\nBut US District Judge Timothy Kelly told him that the events of the day broke a long political tradition.\n\n\"If we don't have a peaceful transfer of power in this country, we don't have anything,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nNordean, of Washington state, went by the nickname \"Rufio Panman\" and was well-known within the Proud Boys for his frequent brawls with antifa activists in the Pacific Northwest.\n\nHis sentence is one of the longest ones yet handed to Capitol riot defendants. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, was also given 18 years in prison earlier this year.\n\nThe other defendant sentenced on Friday, Pezzola, a 46-year-old former US Marine, fought with officers during the riot and smashed a window with a police riot shield.\n\nA selfie video taken on the day of the riot shows Pezzola smoking what he described as a \"victory cigar\" in the Capitol building.\n\nWhile he was convicted on the assault and obstruction charges, he was acquitted of seditious conspiracy - a charge applied to defendants for plotting to overthrow the government or use force \"to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States\".\n\nAn emotional Pezzola expressed some remorse for his actions during his sentencing hearing. His wife, daughter and mother all addressed the judge, with his mother describing him as having been a \"wonderful child\" that \"never gave me any trouble\".\n\nPezzola's wife said that her daughters have become victims of harassment and bullying at school.\n\nBut once the prison term had been handed down and the judge had left the room, Pezzola raised a fist and shouted: \"Trump won!\"\n\nThe Proud Boys - which started as an all-male, hard-drinking, self-described \"Western chauvinist\" fraternity seven years ago - saw themselves as Donald Trump's foot-soldiers and were among the first to march on the Capitol on the day of the riot.\n\nTrump supporters, including a group of around 200 Proud Boys, overran police lines and stormed the building in a bid to prevent Congress from ratifying Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nPezzola and Nordean went to trial alongside Tarrio and US military veterans Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl.\n\nOn Thursday, Biggs and Rehl were sentenced to 17 and 15 years in prison respectively. Prosecutors have requested a 33-year sentence for Tarrio.\n\nDominic Pezzola seen smashing a window with a police shield in a photo submitted as evidence by prosecutors\n\nOn Friday, Judge Timothy Kelly told Pezzola he had \"played a significant role\" in the Capitol riot, even if he was not in a leadership role in the Proud Boys.\n\n\"It was a national disgrace, what happened,\" Judge Kelly said.\n\nDuring the trial, a combative Pezzola had repeatedly downplayed his actions during the riot, arguing the crowd were \"trespassing protesters\" rather than an \"invading force\".\n\nHe also told jurors that his actions that day were explained by his reverting to military training when he saw police use non-lethal munitions to try to disperse the crowd.\n\nJoe Biggs (right) with Enrique Tarrio at a rally in 2019\n\n\"In the military and Marine Corps, you don't ever turn around and run away,\" Pezzola said.\n\n\"You're conditioned not to think about the flight response. You're conditioned to run toward the danger.\"\n\nProsecutors had asked for a 20 years in prison for Pezzola and 27 years for Nordean.\n\nMore than 1,100 have been arrested on riot-related charges, resulting in 630 guilty pleas and over 110 convictions.", "In a highly personal interview, Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska has told the BBC of the emotional impact the war has had on her family.\n\n\"This may be a bit selfish, but I need my husband, not a historical figure, by my side,\" she said.\n\nShe also spoke of the family missing spending time together.\n\n\"But we stay strong, we have strength both emotionally and physically. And I am sure we will handle it together,\" she added.\n\nWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Olena Zelenska spent months in hiding in secret locations with her children.\n\nShe described her emotional state at the beginning of the invasion as \"a constant feeling of adrenaline\". As time passed, she found it was \"necessary\" to calm herself and start living life in \"the existing conditions\".\n\nAfter emerging from hiding last year, the war thrust the former comedy scriptwriter into the spotlight, and she has since travelled the world to meet leaders and give speeches.\n\nThere is no doubt about the toll the war has taken on her and her family, like it has for millions of Ukrainians, and she becomes emotional when asked about her children.\n\n\"We don't live together with my husband, the family is separated,\" Olena Zelenska told the BBC. \"We have the opportunity to see each other, but not as often as we would like. My son misses his father.\"\n\nThe uncertainty of living in war has also come at an emotional cost for her children, she said.\n\n\"It pains me to watch that my kids don't plan anything. At such an age, young people. My daughter is 19. They dream of travelling, of new sensations, emotions. She does not have such an opportunity.\n\n\"There are limitations in time in what you can allow yourself, they exist, and we somehow try to live within them.\"\n\nWhen suddenly air-raid sirens begin to wail in the middle of our interview, she remains poised and unflinching - patiently waiting for it to end. This is very much daily life now for Ukrainians right across their country.\n\nShe is also all too aware who is at the top of the list of the Kremlin's targets - her husband, her children and herself.\n\nThe first lady and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky were high-school sweethearts who went on to work together in a comedy troupe and TV studio - he as an actor and she as a scriptwriter.\n\nNow, she reflects that she never dreamt of her husband becoming the \"historical figure\" he is today, saying she has missed him and needed him to stand by her side as her husband.\n\nDespite what she said may be a \"selfish\" longing, Olena Zelenska said the president \"really does have the energy, the will power, inspiration, and stubbornness to go through this war\".\n\n\"I believe in him. And I support him. I know that he has enough strength. For any other person I know, I think, it would be much harder this situation. He really is a very strong and resilient person. And this resilience is what we all need right now.\"\n\nHer recent work as first lady has focused on helping Ukrainians deal with the psychological impact of war, and she is preparing to co-host a summit in Kyiv that will focus on mental health and resilience. British actor and writer Stephen Fry - a prominent activist on mental health issues - is the other co-host.\n\n\"I really hope that I can inspire someone, can give someone hope or advice, or prove with my own example that we live, we work, we move forward,\" Olena Zelenska said.\n\n\"No-one can know what awaits them. After all, no-one could have imagined that in the 21st Century, such a war would be unleashed in the middle of Europe, that it would be so cruel. A bloody war. So I never imagined that I would be in this role at this time.\"\n\nUkrainians cannot be sure about tomorrow or have confidence in the future, she explained - but they have hope.\n\n\"We have huge hope for victory, but we don't know when it comes. And this long wait, constant stress, it has its toll.\"", "Emmanuelle Béart pictured at the Filming Italy festival earlier this summer\n\nFrench actress Emmanuelle Béart was a victim of incest as a child, she has revealed in a new documentary.\n\nBéart, who won a coveted César film award for 1986's Manon des Sources, does not name her alleged abuser in the documentary, titled Such a Resounding Silence, which she also co-directed.\n\nBéart said she had initially not wanted to talk about herself, only about other survivors of incest who are featured.\n\n\"But their honesty and their courage made me want to speak out too.\"\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Tuesday, co-director Anastasia Mikova told reporters the alleged attacker was not Béart's father, according to the Agence France Presse news agency.\n\nSpeaking for the actress, who was not present, Mikova said Béart would not name her abuser because that was not \"the approach of the film\".\n\nThe documentary was screened at the press event and Béart's voice was heard off-screen, addressing her alleged abuser: \"Since my father, my mother and my friends didn't notice anything, you could do this again, and you did, over four years.\"\n\nShe was \"saved\" by her grandmother, Béart said.\n\nSuch a Resounding Silence will be broadcast on France's M6 channel on 24 September.\n\nThe French star, 60, has appeared in dozens of movies since she shot to fame as an avenging daughter opposite Yves Montand in Manon des Sources.\n\nAlong with her César win, she's also been nominated for France's top movie awards seven more times for films including Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud and A Strange Passion.\n\nBéart is probably best known to international audiences for her portrayal of IMF agent Claire Phelps in 1996 Hollywood hit Mission: Impossible, opposite Tom Cruise.\n\nShe also starred in Vinyan (2008) alongside Rufus Sewell, about parents bereaved by the 2004 Asian tsunami.", "The Cuban foreign ministry says it has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine.\n\nIt said that Cubans living in Russia and \"even some in Cuba\" had been \"incorporated into the military forces taking part in the war in Ukraine\".\n\nCuba is a close ally of Russia, but it stressed in its statement \"it does not form part of the conflict in Ukraine\".\n\nThere has not yet been a response from Russia.\n\nThe Cuban foreign ministry did not specify who was behind the operation.\n\nLast August, President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to increase its number of soldiers after its combat forces suffered heavy losses in Ukraine.\n\nA Russian newspaper, Ryazan Gazette, has since reported that Cubans living in Russia had joined Russian combat forces fighting in Ukraine in exchange for a promise to receive Russian citizenship.\n\nThere have also been videos claiming to show Serbian volunteers training to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine.\n\nWhile it is not clear if the Cuban foreign ministry statement is linked to the reports in Ryazan Gazette, it states that \"Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against the use of mercenaries\".\n\n\"We will act decisively against those who... engage in human trafficking with the aim of recruiting Cuban citizens to bear arms in any country,\" the statement reads.\n\nCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez published the statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Cuba was using \"the force of the law\" to counter attempts to recruit its citizens.\n\nThe statement strikes a rare dissonant note in recent Cuban-Russian relations, which has seen the two countries forging tighter trade ties.\n\nJust over two months ago, the defence ministers of Cuba and Russia held talks in Moscow, and the Russian foreign minister travelled to the Communist-run island in April as part of a tour of Russia's Latin American allies.\n\nCuba has been a close ally of Russia since the Cuban revolution, which saw Fidel Castro seize power in 1959.\n\nCastro - whom the United States tried and failed to overthrow on numerous occasions - sided with Russia in the Cold War. Moscow in turn provided the government in Havana with economic, political and military assistance.\n\nA secret deal in 1962 allowing the Soviet Union to station nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter fresh US attempts to invade the island triggered one of the Cold War's most dangerous confrontations between the US and the Soviet Union.\n\nWhile the Cuban missile crisis came to an end peacefully after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F. Kennedy reached an agreement, Cuba's relations with the US have remain tense, not least due to the decades-long sanctions the US has imposed on Cuba.", "A further 1,300 staff at the collapsed retailer Wilko are to lose their jobs.\n\nAdministrators PwC, who are overseeing the chain's sale, said 52 stores would close due to an \"absence of viable offers for the whole business\".\n\nWilko fell into administration in August after struggling with losses.\n\nA full rescue of the chain is hanging in the balance after a deal tabled by HMV's owner stalled, but rival retailer B&M said it would buy up dozens of Wilko's shops.\n\nHowever, the GMB union said Wilko workers at stores bought by B&M would not be transferred over and would still be made redundant.\n\nThe GMB said it was making enquiries about whether current Wilko staff could be given \"preferential treatment\" in applying for any B&M jobs that might become available.\n\nAnd the fate of a further 300 stores remains uncertain, with proposals put forward by HMV's Doug Putman understood to have been held up due to funding issues.\n\nWilko was founded in 1930 and by the 1990s had become one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers. Today it employs around 12,500 people.\n\nBut the discount chain has faced strong competition in recent years from rivals including B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains.\n\nThe majority of Wilko stores are also on High Streets, which are struggling to attract shoppers with competition from suburban retail parks with car parking.\n\nThe GMB, which represents about 4,000 Wilko staff, said some 1,016 redundancies would be made at 52 shops across the country, with affected staff to be informed at 10:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nIt added that 24 of Wilko's stores will close next Tuesday, with a further 28 to shut by Thursday next week.\n\nPwC added that a further 299 redundancies would take place at Wilko's two distribution centres in Worksop and Newport, with roles being cut on Thursday.\n\nSome 269 roles have already been cut at Wilko's support centre.\n\nWhile the administrators said they were pleased by the £13m B&M deal, they also said it was clear that in discussions with potential bidders that some stores were not of any interest.\n\n\"In the absence of viable offers for the whole business, very sadly store closures and redundancies of team members from those stores are now necessary, in addition to the already announced redundancies at the support centre and distribution centres,\" said Edward Williams, joint administrator at PwC.\n\nAdministrators said they were continuing to \"explore all interest in the remainder of the business and are actively working with potential buyers\".\n\nSome retailers such as Dunelm and Toolstation have urged Wilko employees to apply for roles.\n\nAndy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB union, said officials were \"doing everything we can to secure a deal that would protect the majority of jobs and stores\".\n\nHe said the latest announcement would be of \"little comfort for those not knowing how they'll pay their bills\".\n\n\"Every single redundancy is a person who will wake up facing an uncertain future,\" he added.\n\n\"The reality is years of mismanagement have led us here.\"\n\nAre you a current employee at Wilko? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None B&M buys up to 51 stores from collapsed rival Wilko", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keegan: 'Does anyone ever say, you've done a good job?'\n\nThe education secretary has apologised for her language after being caught swearing on mic as she expressed irritation over the concrete crisis.\n\nHaving finished an interview with ITV, Gillian Keegan used the f-word as she asked \"does anyone ever say you've done a good job because everyone else has sat on their arse and done nothing?\"\n\nIn a later interview she said she was sorry for her \"off-the-cuff\" remark.\n\nShe added it was driven by irritation at a reporter's questions.\n\n\"He was making out it was all my fault,\" she said adding: \"It is frustrating because we are doing everything we can to take a leading position, to be on the front foot.\"\n\n\"I worry about this. I haven't slept all night worrying about this,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was also frustrated that some questionnaires sent to schools about their buildings had not yet been returned.\n\nAsked if she was accusing schools of sitting on their \"arse\", Ms Keegan insisted her comments were not aimed at anyone \"in particular\".\n\nShe also said she was not expecting to be thanked personally for her work but praised her department for taking a \"leadership role\".\n\nDuring the initial interview, the education secretary was pushed on whether the government had done enough to fix the problem of crumbling concrete - also known as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - in school buildings.\n\nMore than 100 schools have been fully or partially closed due to the risk.\n\nMs Keegan said local authorities and multi-academy trusts had always had the responsibility for maintaining the buildings.\n\nShe added it was \"not the job\" of the Department for Education to maintain school buildings but it had chosen to contact schools in order to have information on RAAC collected centrally.\n\nShe said that following a collapse in a Kent school in 2018, the department had sent warnings to \"the people responsible\".\n\nA Downing Street source said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was satisfied with Ms Keegan's apology. \"I think what will be at the forefront of parents' minds is the situation of their school, and the government's focus today has been on providing further transparency,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"What the public will continue to find is that in the vast majority of cases, their child's school is not affected.\"\n\nLabour's leader Sir Keir Starmer said ministers had \"dropped the ball... instead of coming out and saying this is what we going to do to fix the problems, you've got members of the Cabinet trying to blame other people\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrat's education spokesperson Munira Wilson said: \"Expecting people to thank her when children are being taught in classrooms at risk of collapse shows Keegan must be living on another planet.\"\n\nIn the House of Commons, where Ms Keegan was making a statement about RAAC, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson joked that if the education department needed more money it could install a swear box in the office.\n\nDuring her interview, Ms Keegan also defended going on holiday at the end of August when the crisis was beginning to unfold. She said she had taken meetings while on her break in Spain and had returned \"as soon as I was needed\".\n\n\"I'm on duty wherever I am. Occasionally you have to make some time for an elderly person's birthday - in this case my dad, who I adore.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer interview came at the end of a morning during which the government had been criticised for decisions it made over funding provided to schools.\n\nJonathan Slater, a former senior civil servant in the education department, said that the government had halved the budget for school repairs in England in 2021.\n\nHe said the government had initially agreed to fund work, including fixing RAAC issues, in 100 schools, however, this was reduced to 50 schools. Mr Sunak was chancellor at the time.\n\nMr Sunak said it was \"completely and utterly wrong\" to suggest he had overseen budget cuts that were now leading to issues in the structural integrity of school buildings.\n\nHe added said that 95% of the 22,000 schools in England \"won't be impacted\" and that the \"bulk\" of schools yet to be identified as having an issue would be known in the coming weeks.", "Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un met in the Russian port city of Vladivostok in 2019\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.\n\nThe two leaders will discuss the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine, the official said.\n\nWhere talks would be held is not clear.\n\nThe Kremlin spokesman had \"nothing to say\" on the reports, which were also carried by other US media. There was no immediate comment from North Korea.\n\nSources told the New York Times that Mr Kim was most likely to travel by armoured train.\n\nThe possible meeting comes after the White House said it had new information that arms negotiations between the two countries were \"actively advancing\".\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Russia's Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, had tried to \"convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition\" to Russia during a recent visit to North Korea.\n\nIt is thought that Russia might need 122mm and 152mm shells because its stocks are running low, but it is not easy to determine North Korea's full artillery inventory, given its secretive nature.\n\nWeapons on display at the meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu in July included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants.\n\nIt was the first time Mr Kim had opened the country's doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Putin and Mr Kim have since exchanged letters \"pledging to increase their bilateral co-operation\", Mr Kirby said.\n\n\"We urge the DPRK to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia,\" he said, using an abbreviation for the North.\n\nHe warned the US would take action, including imposing sanctions, if North Korea did supply Russia with weapons.\n\nThe two leaders last met in 2019, when Mr Kim arrived by train in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east. He was welcomed by officials with a traditional offering of bread and salt. This was also probably the last time Mr Kim travelled abroad.\n\nThere is concern both in Washington and in Seoul about what North Korea would get in return for an arms deal, which may result in increased military co-operation between the two countries in Asia.\n\nOn Monday, South Korea's intelligence service briefed that Mr Shoigu had suggested Russia, China and North Korea hold joint naval drills, similar to those carried out by the US, South Korea and Japan.\n\nAnother fear is that Russia could supply North Korea with weapons in the future, at a time when Pyongyang most needs them.\n\nMore worrying still, Kim Jong Un may ask Mr Putin to provide him with advanced weapons technology or knowledge, to help him make breakthroughs in his nuclear weapons programme.\n\nNorth Korea has also tested hypersonic missiles, which can fly at several times the speed of sound and at low altitude to escape radar detection, as well as others launched from submarines.\n\nHowever, a deal could end up being more transactional than strategic. For now, Russia needs weapons, and sanctioned-starved North Korea needs money and food.\n\nThe New York Times reported that the meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Putin could take place in the port city of Vladivostok, on the east coast of Russia.\n\nThe newspaper's diplomatic correspondent, Edward Wong, told BBC News channel that an advance team of North Korean officials had travelled to Vladivostok and Moscow late last month.\n\nThey \"included security officers who deal with the protocol surrounding travel of the leadership, so that was a strong sign for officials looking at this\", Mr Wong said.\n\nPyongyang and Moscow have both previously denied that the North is supplying Russia with arms for use in its war in Ukraine.\n\nJohn Everard, who served as UK ambassador to North Korea between 2006 and 2008, told the BBC that publicity around the possible visit was a \"strong reason why the visit is now unlikely to take place\", as Mr Kim is \"completely paranoid about his personal security\".\n\nNorth Korea has stockpiles of weapons that Moscow needs and which would work with Soviet-era military equipment, although Mr Everard said the weapons were \"in very poor condition\".\n\nAfter the Vladivostok meeting in 2019, Mr Putin said Mr Kim would require \"security guarantees\" in order to abandon his nuclear programme.\n\nThat meeting came just months after a summit in Vietnam between Mr Kim and then-US President Donald Trump had failed to make progress on denuclearising the Korean peninsula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2019: Putin and Kim toast at the summit in Vladivostok", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nBrazil have dropped Manchester United winger Antony following allegations of abuse by his former girlfriend.\n\nThe Brazilian football federation said the 23-year-old had been withdrawn from the squad after \"facts became public\" that \"need to be investigated\".\n\nPolice in Sao Paulo and Greater Manchester are investigating the claims, which the player has denied.\n\n\"I can calmly state that the accusations are false and that the evidence already produced and the other evidence that will be produced demonstrate that I am innocent of the accusations made,\" Antony said on social media.\n\n\"I trust that the ongoing police investigations will demonstrate the truth about my innocence.\"\n\nAntony is accused of attacking his former girlfriend Gabriela Cavallin \"with a headbutt\" in a Manchester hotel room on 15 January, leaving her with a cut head which needed treatment from a doctor.\n\nShe also alleges she was punched in the chest, causing damage to a silicone breast implant, which required corrective surgery.\n\nAntony added in his statement on Monday that his relationship with his former partner was \"tumultuous\", but insisted he \"never committed any physical aggression\".\n\nHe also released a statement in June saying he had been falsely accused by his former girlfriend of domestic violence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it is \"aware of the allegations made and enquiries remain ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this report\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not be commenting any further at this time.\"\n\nManchester United said they had no comment on the matter at present when contacted by BBC Sport.\n\nThe allegations come after the Premier League club announced last month that forward Mason Greenwood would leave by mutual agreement following a six-month internal investigation.\n\nCharges against Greenwood, including rape and assault, were dropped in February. The 21-year-old joined Spanish side Getafe on loan last week.\n\nAntony has been replaced in the Brazil squad by Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "The number of schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) and which had building projects cancelled in 2010 has risen to 17, BBC research has found.\n\nThey had been set for rebuilding under a Labour scheme, later scrapped by the Conservative-led government.\n\nSchool buildings have now been closed because potentially dangerous RAAC has been found.\n\nThe analysis raises questions about whether schools could have been helped earlier with government investment.\n\nBBC Verify looked at schools listed as having their building projects \"stopped\" in 2010 and then checked these names against a list of schools affected by RAAC (as of 30 August), published by the Department for Education. on 6 September.\n\nSeventeen schools, which had work cancelled in 2010, are on it.\n\nBefore the publication of this list, BBC Verify had found 13 of these schools on a RAAC list, compiled by the BBC.\n\nWe double-checked the names of the schools as they were in the 2010 list and as they are now in the official 2023 schools census data.\n\nThe Labour scheme - Building Schools for the Future (BSF) - was a £55bn project to renew every secondary school in England, rebuilding half of them and refurbishing or remodelling the rest.\n\nIt was ditched by the coalition government, which launched its own school building scheme in 2014.\n\nThe then education secretary Michael Gove said BSF was characterised by \"massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy\".\n\nThere was criticism of the scheme in a National Audit Office (NAO) report and a review of the scheme - commissioned by the government - found the allocation of funding for school buildings had been \"complex, time-consuming, expensive and opaque\".\n\nLabour has defended its scheme for \"rebuilding schools, the length and breadth of the country\".\n\nWhile there were questions about the value for money in the project, the structural issues for a significant number of schools applying for BSF funding were real.\n\nMore than 700 projects were shelved. Mr Gove's department published a list of schools affected in 2010.\n\nThis list stated which ones had work \"stopped\" but did not detail what this work was.\n\nWe don't know whether any of the schools cited problems with concrete in their bids to the BSF scheme.\n\nA lot more is known now about RAAC in schools, particularly after an incident at a school in Kent in 2018, but it's likely that any major rebuilding work would have replaced this problem concrete.\n\nThe schools which had work stopped in 2010 and now appear on the government's RAAC list are:\n\nThe government says the schools have introduced \"mitigations\" which include remote learning. Two have delayed the start of their terms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on the government response to crumbling concrete\n\nMany of the 17 schools have had some building work investment since 2010, according to reports in local media.\n\nThis ranges from refurbishment of a dining hall and toilets to new art and sports blocks.\n\nThe London Oratory School in Fulham had RAAC removed during work on its DT Block and Sixth Form common room, but it is still present in roofing panels elsewhere on the school site.\n\nThe Bromfords School in Essex, which missed out on BSF funding, was on a list of schools that successfully applied for government funding in 2022-23, some of which was to tackle RAAC.\n\nWe have contacted all of the schools involved.\n\nResponding to our findings, a Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said it was on track to rebuild its target of 500 schools over the next decade as part of the Schools Rebuilding Programme.\n\n\"That is on top of 520 schools already delivered since 2015 under the Priority Schools Building Programme,\" they said, adding that the School Rebuilding Programme was in its early stages so more construction projects would start in the next year.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the crumbling concrete crisis a \"national scandal\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while BSF was expensive and over ambitious \"it was saying something important - that the nation's schools needed to be refurbished\".\n\n\"What we've got today in some of those schools is head teachers scrambling around trying to identify concrete that might look like Aero bars when they should be focusing children's learning and development.\"\n\nGovernment minister Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast the BSF programme \"clearly couldn't have resolved the problem\" of RAAC on its own, since it only applied to secondary schools, and there are far more primary schools\".\n\nDo you know of a school that is affected? Share information in confidence by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Anna O'Neill spoke to businessman Phil and shopkeeper Kiran in the aftermath of the attempted robbery\n\nAn attempted robbery on the UK's busiest high street was witnessed by a reporter as she was broadcasting live.\n\nBBC Radio London's Anna O'Neill was speaking on air as she saw two men target an Australian businessman for his Rolex watch on Oxford Street.\n\nShopkeepers intervened to stop one of the robbers and police said another man with a knife had been Tasered and detained in Marble Arch Tube station.\n\n\"It's the first time I've seen anything like it,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\nPhil, the businessman who was attacked, told the BBC he had been walking past the Royal Gifts Gallery at about 10:50 BST when he heard some people behind him \"and just as I got to this spot, they tackled me and tried to get my watch off me and get my phone\".\n\nHe said: \"I was able to hold on to the small guy who was trying to take my watch and I wouldn't let him go. At this stage, these guys [the shopkeepers] were around him and pulling them off and then he got up and he ran without getting the watch.\"\n\nPhil, who only arrived in the UK on Tuesday morning, added that the shopkeepers \"retained the other fellow, but the other guy - the small fellow who tackled me - came back and he was starting to cut himself with a knife\".\n\nThe shopkeepers involved said the man had begun harming himself to try to get them to release his alleged accomplice, which they subsequently did.\n\nThe man was reportedly covered in blood which was dripping down his neck and chest.\n\nThe Met Police said the man had later been Tasered \"to prevent him causing further harm to himself or the public\" and was taken to hospital after he was detained.\n\nBBC Radio London had been reporting from Oxford Street as part of a feature on the future of the shopping destination.\n\nLast week, Marks & Spencer launched a legal challenge against a decision to prevent it bulldozing and redeveloping its flagship central London store, which is based on the street and dates back to 1929.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Jones said the dog attack which killed some of his sheep affected everyone who was on the scene that day\n\nA farmer who had 24 pregnant sheep killed by two XL American Bulldogs has said he is still struggling to come to terms with the \"horrifying\" attack.\n\nPaul Jones also said 46 ewes were hurt after the two dogs were \"savaging them\" in a barn at his north Wales farm.\n\n\"We do see dog attacks but I've never seen anything with this devastation,\" he said. \"The sheep were confined in the shed, they couldn't get out.\"\n\nThe dogs were shot and their owner was banned for keeping dogs and fined £900.\n\nIt took a vet 10 hours to stitch up his injured ewes, while police said dog attacks on animals were \"too common\".\n\nMr Jones said it was not just the emotional toll of the attack - he also lost £14,000 and only recouped half from his insurance company.\n\nHis horror story began when he noticed some sheep loose on the yard at Rhos Farm in Rhosllanerchrugog, just south of Wrexham, in March and went to investigate.\n\n\"I let go one of my small sheep dogs and came around the corner to find two sheep in the yard, basically ripped apart,\" Mr Jones recalled.\n\nHe then heard a \"huge commotion\" in one of his barns and found two dogs he later learned were American XL bulldogs, in the middle of the ewes, \"savaging them\".\n\nMr Jones said one of the dogs also came out on to the yard and tried to attack him before he was able to retreat.\n\nIt took a vet about 10 hours to stitch up the injured sheep after the dog attack\n\n\"We do see dog attacks on farms, at most four or five injured or killed, but nothing of this severity,\" he said.\n\n\"It was horrifying. Everyone who attended that day, it affected.\"\n\nHe shot both dogs dead and said his \"only solace\" is that it was him facing that dog and not his son or elderly mother.\n\n\"They threw those sheep around like they were paper,\" Mr Jones recalled.\n\nHe said his insurance company only paid out about half of the £14,000 he lost in the attack because they only pay compensation for dead animals, not injured ones. He also said his insurance premium has now doubled.\n\nA survey of Welsh sheep farmers revealed 95% suffer between one to 10 dog attacks a year on their animals\n\n\"I don't know how long it will take us to recover,\" he said.\n\nThe Farmers Union of Wales said dog attacks can have a \"tremendous\" impact on farming families, leaving them at \"financial and emotional breaking point.\"\n\nIt said attacks continued despite industry campaigns aimed at dog owners and that it had called for increased police powers for tougher penalties for offenders.\n\n\"We continue to lobby to make it mandatory for dogs to be kept on a lead in fields near or adjacent to livestock,\" an FUW spokesman said.\n\nThe dogs' owner David Hughes, 26, admitted to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and being the owner of a dog worrying livestock at Wrexham Magistrates' Court last week.\n\nPaul Jones said the sheep were trapped in their barn and couldn't escape the dog attack\n\nHughes, from Pen y Wern, in Rhos, was banned from keeping dogs for five years and fined £900.\n\nNorth Wales Police said dog attacks like the one Mr Jones suffered were \"too common\".\n\n\"It is so important to ensure pets are always kept on a lead and under control around in the countryside - or if left at home alone, that the house or garden are secure,\" said PC Chris Jones of North Wales Police's Rural Crime Team.\n\n\"A dog's owner is the only person who can prevent an attack from happening, and you may have to pay the ultimate price if you cannot control your animal.\"", "The maker of weight-loss drug Wegovy has become Europe's most valuable firm, dethroning the French luxury conglomerate LVMH.\n\nShares rose after the Danish pharmaceutical giant, Novo Nordisk, launched the popular drug in the UK.\n\nAt the close of trading on Monday, the firm had a stock market valuation of $428bn (£339bn).\n\nThe drug is now available on the National Health Service in the UK and also on the private market.\n\nWegovy is an obesity treatment that is taken once a week which tricks people into thinking that they are already full, so they end up eating less and losing weight.\n\nFamous personalities such as Elon Musk are among the reported users of the drug, which has captivated Hollywood and the public more widely since it was approved by regulators in the US in 2021.\n\nWegovy and Ozempic - a diabetes treatment with similar effects - have been described as \"miracle\" drugs.\n\nBut experts warn the jabs are not a quick fix nor a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise.\n\nIn trials, users often put weight back on after stopping treatment.\n\nThere has been a global shortage of the jabs so only limited stock arrived for the NHS in the UK on Monday.\n\nThe company said it would continue to restrict global supplies as it works to ramp up manufacturing.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, told the BBC's Wake Up to Money programme the firm had been \"genuinely surprised\" by the uptake and said it had been \"a victim of its own success\".\n\n\"It's not common that you see a pharmaceutical company so entrenched in popular culture but there are people saying that we need to take a step back and ensure it is being used appropriately and responsibly. Of course, with a lot of fanfare for a drug, you are risking a lot of blowback in the future,\" she said.\n\nIn the UK, NHS guidelines say patients can only access Wegovy, which contains the drug semaglutide, if they are significantly overweight and have weight-related health problems.\n\nAccording to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), nearly one in three adults are obese in the UK, which is the highest level in Europe.\n\nLast month, a new trial showed Wegovy has also been proven to reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack.\n\nWhile the findings still have to be fully reviewed, experts agreed the results were potentially significant.", "Approval is sought to spend £46.53m to fix IT problems at Birmingham City Council - less than half of what council leader John Cotton has estimated the total bill to be\n\nA spend of £46.53m is set to be approved to fix problems with a new Birmingham City Council IT system affecting payments, data management and background checks.\n\nThe Oracle system was brought in to overhaul internal functions including payments and HR processes.\n\nAccording to a new council report, the authority was meant to change such processes to fit Oracle's requirements.\n\nInstead another approach was taken and the problems emerged.\n\nThe report on the proposed spend said that rather than adopting Oracle as it was, officers instead sought to customise the system, bending it to the existing way the council conducted business.\n\nSuch a shift - which was contrary to a plan approved in 2021 - had \"severely impacted upon the council's ability to properly implement Oracle\", the council said.\n\nIt is estimated the final cost to put things right will be in the region of £100m, with the report requesting £46.53m this year to fund.\n\nPreviously, the new leader of the authority, John Cotton, said the council would not use money earmarked for other services to cover the bill, adding officers must be held to account.\n\nThe council said: \"The full extent of the issues was only uncovered by senior officers and councillors in April of this year and means some critical elements of the system are not functioning adequately and this has impacted primarily upon the day-to-day operations of Finance and HR.\"\n\nDifficulties have included a \"significant number\" of financial transactions having to be manually allocated, creating a backlog; in turn harming the council's ability to \"close\" its accounts for the year 2022/23.\n\nProblems have affected customers, with one school being visited by bailiffs.\n\nIn HR, there have been issues relating to recruitment, data management, and processes to update renewals of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.\n\nThe council has been contacted for comment on the nature of the DBS issues and the ways in which practice may have been compromised.\n\nThe council said it was working with external auditors to close its accounts by the end of August.\n\n\"An independent management review will explore why the issues took so long to emerge,\" the council added.\n\nCouncil cabinet member for finance and resources Brigid Jones said there were \"lessons to be learned\"\n\nCabinet member for finance and resources Brigid Jones said it was \"never easy when implementing a new IT system\" for an organisation of the council's scale.\n\nBut Ms Jones added she was \"determined\" the authority would \"learn from this\".\n\nShe said: \"Most important of all right now is the need to work at pace to resolve the issues we are facing and to be open and transparent about what they are.\"\n\nMs Jones stated the focus of the council leadership on this would be \"relentless in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nShe said: \"Through this report, we detail what needs to be done and the plan for how to fund this, giving us a way forward to ensure effective and efficient systems and processes are in place as soon as possible.\"\n\nPlans to solve the problems would need to reach into March of next year, the council said.\n\nThe report will be presented at a cabinet meeting on 27 June.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nThe father of Sara Sharif claimed his daughter's death was an accident, the 10-year-old's grandfather has said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Muhammad Sharif - the father of Urfan Sharif, Sara's dad - said he saw his son after he arrived in Pakistan.\n\n\"It was an accident, he didn't tell me how it happened,\" said Muhammad, and that Urfan had left the UK out of fear.\n\nPakistan police have been hunting for Urfan, his partner and his brother for weeks but have failed to find them.\n\nUK police want to speak to the three family members in relation to their murder investigation - but the trio left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, the day before Sara's body was found in Woking, Surrey.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Muhammad confirmed that he did see his son in Pakistan when Urfan came to Jhelum, the city he was raised in and where many of his family still live.\n\nWhen asked why Urfan came to Pakistan if the death was an accident, Muhammad replied: \"Because of fear.\n\n\"His daughter died and when you go under so much trauma, obviously you can't think properly.\"\n\nAsked how he felt about his son travelling to Pakistan, Mr Sharif said: \"All I can say is that they should have faced the case. They should have stayed there and faced it instead (of coming to Pakistan).\"\n\nHe said: \"They will ultimately go back to the UK and face their case.\"\n\n\"I have a deep sorrow that my granddaughter passed. The grief will stay with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara Sharif's grandfather speaks to the BBC about her death\n\nHe said she had visited Pakistan twice. \"Everything about her was so beautiful. You cannot single out one thing, she was a very lovely granddaughter.\"\n\nHe had a direct message for his son, Urfan, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik. They left the UK on 9 August and police want to speak to all three in relation to the murder investigation.\n\n\"Wherever they are, they will be able to listen to this. I say they should come out, defend their case, whatever it is. They should answer the questions. I don't say they should stay in hiding.\"\n\nThe family are thought by Pakistan police to have landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August, travelled to the city of Jhelum where they stayed for a few days, stopping for a few hours in the village of Domeli and leaving on 13 August.\n\nMuhammad denies that he has been in touch with Urfan recently. The police told the BBC that the family initially said Urfan had not been to see them at all. Muhammad said that this was not correct, that he never denied seeing his UK-based son.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nUrfan's Pakistan-based family have taken Jhelum police to court twice, accusing them of detaining several of Urfan's brothers and brothers-in-law illegally. On the first occasion the police said they would not arrest them further. In court on Tuesday, the police denied holding them; the judge told the police they must produce a report in the next two weeks explaining what has happened.\n\n\"We have had so many problems the last three weeks,\" Muhammad Sharif told us. \"Some of my sons are on the run, others are with police. No one is making contact with us because of fear of the police.\"", "There is a sharp generational divide in attitudes towards the monarchy, suggests a YouGov opinion poll, with young people much less in favour of it.\n\nAmong 18 to 24-year-olds, only 30% say the monarchy is \"good for Britain\", compared with 77% among the over-65s.\n\nThe survey of more than 2,000 adults in Britain comes as the first anniversary approaches of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nThe pollsters found that overall, 62% want to keep the monarchy.\n\nBut they report a \"remarkable difference between generations\", with younger people much less supportive on remaining a monarchy and more sceptical about the Royal Family representing good value for money.\n\nFor King Charles, as he approaches his first year on the throne, 59% of people thought he was \"personally doing a good job\".\n\nThe pollsters say there has been a broadly consistent picture of \"overall positivity towards the monarchy\", but there is also a sizeable and rising minority who are opposed.\n\nA decade ago, the same YouGov tracking survey found 17% wanted an elected head of state, which in this latest survey has risen to 26%, the highest in a series of regular surveys from YouGov going back to 2011.\n\nOn whether Britain should continue to be a monarchy or be replaced with an elected head of state, the poll found:\n\nBut underneath these overall figures, the survey shows widely diverging views.\n\nOn whether the Royal Family is good value for money, 75% of the over-65s believe they are, but only 34% of 18 to 24-year-olds feel the same.\n\nAnd while 80% of the over-65s want Britain to stay as a monarchy, that falls to 37% for the 18 to 24-year-olds.\n\nThere is also less support for the royals in Scotland or Wales than in England, where London has higher levels of people against the monarchy than elsewhere in the country.\n\nHistorian and royal commentator Ed Owens says the lack of support among the young should \"certainly be of concern\" to the Royal Family.\n\nBut he says it will be difficult for the royals to turn this around, when many of the factors are outside their control.\n\nDr Owens says opposition to the monarchy is part of a wider sense of \"disenchantment\" for younger generations about issues such as unaffordable housing, stagnant wages and student debt.\n\n\"The system doesn't seem to be working for them, so why should they celebrate an institution that seems to be at the heart of that system?\" says Dr Owens.\n\nBut he says there is hope for the monarchy in the popularity of some individual royals, with Prince William appearing to have an appeal across age groups.\n\nGraham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchy campaign Republic, said the survey showed a \"general trend of falling support, and that younger people will not be won back to the monarchist cause\".\n\n\"Sooner rather than later we'll see support for the monarchy fall below 50%,\" he said.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "United Airlines has resumed flights after briefly grounding all planes in the US on Tuesday because of a computer glitch.\n\nThe carrier said \"a software update caused a widespread slowdown in United's technology systems\".\n\nFlights already in the air continued to their destination as planned, the airline said.\n\nUnited said it \"identified a fix\" to allow its planes to start taking off about an hour later.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed United had asked the agency to pause all its departures nationwide.\n\nThe ground stop was lifted shortly before 14:00 EST (19:00 BST).\n\nSome 211 flights nationwide were delayed by the stoppage.\n\nIn January, an FAA computer outage halted departures of all US flights for several hours.", "Top boss of NHS complaints in England has told the BBC he wants Martha's rule to be introduced to give patients the power to get an automatic second medical opinion about hospital care, when they think things are going wrong.\n\nRob Behrens said he had been moved by the plea of Merope Mills, who shared the story of her daughter's death.\n\nMartha was 13 when she died from sepsis.\n\nAn inquest said she could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMerope Mills wants hospitals around the country to bring in Martha's rule, which would give parents, carers and patients the right to call for an urgent second clinical opinion from other experts at the same hospital, if they have concerns about their current care.\n\nIt is something that Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Rob Behrens fully supports.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Along with many others, I was moved and in great admiration for what Merope has said and done and I give unambiguous support.\n\n\"Unfortunately, as tragic as this case is, it's not the first and there have been many cases where patients have been failed by their doctors because they haven't been listened to.\"\n\nMartha Mills was enjoying her summer holidays before she had an accident\n\nMartha was on a family holiday in Wales in 2021, cycling on a flat and \"family friendly\" path, when she slipped on to the handle bars of her bike, with her abdomen taking the full brunt of the fall.\n\nThe force pushed one of her internal organs, her pancreas, against her spine, causing significant damage.\n\nShe later developed a complication called sepsis - when the body's response to an infection is overwhelming and ends up injuring its own tissues and organs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Martha Mills' mother, Merope, shares her struggle with her loss\n\nEarlier this week, Martha's mother, Merope, told Radio 4's Today programme that her family were not listened to by senior doctors on several occasions during her hospital care and were \"not given the full picture\" about Martha's deteriorating condition - leaving them unable to speak up for better treatment.\n\nMerope recalled: \"She started bleeding out of the tube in her arm... and one in her abdomen as well.\n\n\"It was a lot of blood as well, you know, soaking her sheets, and at night, we had to keep changing them.\n\n\"The doctors just told us it was a normal side-effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off.\"\n\nBut Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold.\n\nThe hospital that looked after Martha has admitted mistakes were made and the trust said in a statement that it \"remains deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\".\n\nMr Behrens said he was powerless to look into the circumstances surrounding Martha's death - unless the family request him to.\n\n\"In law, unfortunately, unlike all my European counterparts, I have to wait until someone brings an issue, a complaint to me. I don't have the power to go out and look at issues unless people complain about them.\n\n\"I think I am virtually the only ombudsman in Europe who doesn't have that power.\n\n\"The key point is, the people who most need our help as ombudsman are the people least likely to complain.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay has asked government and the NHS to explore the idea of Martha's rule.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting said it is something Labour would support and introduce: \"I'm sure I wasn't the only Today programme listener moved to tears by the heartbreaking testimony about what Martha's family have been through as a result of a tragedy that might well have been avoided if the family had been listened to, and if they had known their rights.\"\n\nSome similar alert systems exist already around the world, including one at the UK's Royal Berkshire Hospital.\n\nHere people who are worried a patient is deteriorating, but that the healthcare team is not recognising their concerns, can ring a critical care hotline for immediate help.\n\nAlison Schofield is lead nurse for the Call 4 Concern scheme: \"We are a team of nurses that specialise in assessing and treating critically ill patients.\n\n\"Patients and relatives and their friends can ring us if they are concerned about clinical issues or deterioration and we will come and assess and review that patient.\"\n\nShe said the scheme has worked well for staff and patients, and added her call for Martha's rule: \"Get the word out to everyone. Give patients and their relatives the power.\"", "The Electoral Commission has confirmed it failed a basic cyber-security test around the same time hackers gained entry to the organisation.\n\nA whistleblower told the BBC that the Commission was given an automatic fail during a Cyber Essentials audit.\n\nLast month the Commission revealed that \"hostile actors\" accessed its emails and potentially the data of 40 million voters.\n\nA spokeswoman said the Commission had still not passed the basic test.\n\nIn August the election watchdog announced hackers broke into their IT systems in August 2021 and had access to sensitive data until they were discovered and removed in October 2022.\n\nThe unnamed attackers accessed Electoral Commission email correspondence and could have viewed databases containing the names and addresses of 40 million registered voters, including millions of those not on public registers.\n\nIt's not yet been revealed who carried out the intrusion or how the commission was breached.\n\nBut now a whistleblower has revealed that in the same month that hackers were breaking into the organisation, the Commission was told by cyber-security auditors that it was not compliant with the Cyber Essentials scheme - a system backed by the government to help organisations achieve minimum best practice in cyber-security.\n\nCyber Essentials is voluntary but widely used by organisations as a way to show customers they are security-aware.\n\nThe government requires all suppliers bidding for contracts involving the handling of certain sensitive and personal information to hold an up-to-date Cyber Essentials certificate.\n\nBut the Commission failed in multiple areas when it tried to get certified in 2021.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Commission admitted the failings but claims they weren't linked to the cyber-attack that impacted email servers.\n\nOne of the reasons it failed the test was that about 200 staff laptops were running obsolete and potentially insecure software.\n\nThe Commission was urged to update the Windows 10 Enterprise operating system, which had fallen out of date for security updates months earlier.\n\nAuditors also issued the failure because staff were using old iPhones no longer supported by Apple to receive security updates.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which backs the Cyber Essentials scheme, advises all organisations to keep software up to date \"to prevent known vulnerabilities from being exploited\" by hackers.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card has helped many organisations become Cyber Essentials compliant and says it is too early to determine whether or not the failures highlighted in the audit allowed hackers to get in.\n\n\"Early indications are that the hackers managed to get into the email servers a different way, but there's a chance that the chain of attack may have included one or more of these poorly-secured devices,\" he said.\n\nRegardless of whether or not the hackers did \"it builds a picture of a weak posture and a probable failure to govern and manage\", he added.\n\nThe NCSC promotes Cyber Essentials certification, saying that \"vulnerability to basic attacks can mark you out as a target for more in-depth unwanted attention from cyber-criminals and others\".\n\nThe UK's Information Commissioner's Office, which has passed Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, said it was investigating the cyber-attack as a matter of urgency.\n\nWhen the hack was announced, the Electoral Commission said that the data hacked from the full electoral register was \"largely in the public domain\".\n\nHowever, less than half the data on the open register, which can be purchased, is publicly available, so the hackers would have accessed data belonging to tens of millions of people who opted out of the public list.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it did not apply for Cyber Essentials in 2022.\n\n\"We are always working to improve our cyber-security and systems and draw on the expertise of the National Cyber Security Centre - as many public bodies do - to continue to develop and progress protections against cyber-threats,\" it said in a statement.", "Police secured the area around Henry Jones playing fields while they examined the object\n\nA suspicious object found near playing fields on the outskirts of east Belfast was an elaborate hoax, police have said.\n\nTwo schools and two nurseries on the Church Road were closed on Tuesday morning for security reasons.\n\nYoung Ones reopened at 14:00 BST but Bumbles on the Hill and Lough View Integrated Primary and Nursery School will remain closed.\n\nThe road, which was closed for a number of hours, has reopened.\n\nBBC News NI understands the object was found at Henry Jones playing fields.\n\nEast Belfast Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is among clubs which use the council-run sports facilities.\n\nIt is the second time this year there has been a security alert there.\n\nOne parent told BBC News NI it has been \"an absolute nightmare\" and young children have been left disappointed.\n\nPhil Cole's three-year-old son, John, was due to start his second day of nursery at Lough View Integrated on Tuesday morning.\n\nPhil Cole, with his sons John and Finlay, says parents have been scrambling for alternative childcare arrangements\n\n\"John was incredibly excited about going to nursery and he has been let down by this,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's an absolute nightmare for parents.\"\n\nEarlier, he said friends were \"scrambling to arrange childcare\" following the closure.\n\nThe school will reopen on Wednesday.\n\nAmanda Steele said it was \"unbelievable\" the school was closed yet again due to a security alert\n\nAmanda Steele was on her way to take her daughter, Iona, to Lough View Integrated when she received messages from other parents saying the school was closed.\n\nShe said hundreds of parents have been affected by the alert's disruption.\n\n\"I just find it really unbelievable in this day and age in a modern society, 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, that we are dealing with children not being able to go to school because of bomb scares.\n\n\"I'm just honestly so frustrated. I'm really angry.\"\n\nAmanda said the playing fields, where the object was discovered, are meant to be used by everyone in the area.\n\n\"It's just awful that people feel like they have the right to deny a club to play in those playing fields, have the right to deny children to go and play in those fields, and are closing a school,\" she added.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a suspicious object at about 07:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt was later declared an elaborate hoax and has been taken away for forensic examination.\n\nA police spokesperson said the alert has caused \"huge disruption for for pupils, parents and teachers alike\".\n\n\"I would like to thank all those affected for their patience and co-operation whilst our officers worked to ensure the safety of all,\" they added.\n\nPolice at the security alert on Church Road\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gavin Robinson said the disruption caused by the alert \"does nothing but damage our community\".\n\nAlliance assembly member Peter McReynolds said those behind the alert \"need to reflect on their violent and disruptive ways in 2023\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) MLA Andy Allen posted online: \"Those responsible for this security alert, causing disruption and fear, need to catch themselves on.\"\n\nHe encouraged those with information to contact police.\n\nGreen Party councillor Brian Smyth said the local school has suffered \"due to the deranged mindset by a few over a GAA club\".", "Young women vaping has tripled in the last year according to new figures\n\nMore young women in the UK are vaping daily, a survey from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe proportion of women aged 16 to 24 who said they were doing it increased from 1.9% in 2021 to 6.7% in 2022, representing an estimated rise from around 62,000 to 225,000 across the UK.\n\nUse was high across this age group as a whole - more than one in 10 said they were daily or occasional users in 2022.\n\nThe number of people smoking cigarettes continues to fall.\n\nVaping and smoking is illegal for under-18s, with children's doctors calling for a complete ban on popular, brightly-coloured, flavoured disposable vapes in particular.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak recently said it was \"ridiculous\" that vapes were designed and promoted to appeal to children when they were supposed to be used by adults giving up smoking.\n\nThere is concern over how much damage they can do to developing lungs, while they are also bad for the environment due to being non-recyclable.\n\nDeborah Arnott, chief executive of charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said the data shows \"a worrying growth in vaping among teens and young adults\".\n\nShe added: \"The Government's response to the consultation on youth vaping due imminently must contain concrete measures to prohibit child-friendly branding, and put products out of sight and out of reach in shops, as well as much stricter regulation, including a tax on the pocket money-priced disposable vapes most popular with children.\"\n\nThe ONS used data from its Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, a poll of 16,300 people over the age of 16 in Britain, as well as numbers from an Annual Population Survey that involves 320,000 adults.\n\nThe proportion of people using vapes was highest among current cigarette smokers (27.1%) and former smokers (16.5%).\n\nAbout 2.4% of people who had never smoked cigarettes said they used vapes every day or on occasion, up from 1.5% in the last year. Occasional use in those who had never smoked jumped from 0.8% to 1.8%.\n\nOut of the UK population, 12.9% of people aged 18 or over, or 6.4 million people, smoked cigarettes in 2022.\n\nThe ONS estimates this is the lowest proportion of current smokers since records began in 2011.\n\nBroken down into countries, England had the lowest proportion of current smokers (12.7%) followed by Scotland (13.9%), Northern Ireland (14%) and Wales (14.1%).\n\nIn 2019 the government said it wanted to reduce the number of adults smoking in England to less than 5% by 2030.\n\nJames Tucker, data and analysis lead for the social care and health division at the ONS, said the figure is \"consistent with the continuing trend towards a decline in smoking prevalence over recent years\".", "Figures published today show waiting times for the NHS at another record high.\n\nDemand has been going up, but hospitals have really struggled to clear the backlog because they just don't have enough beds for the patients who need them.\n\nThe biggest reason for this is because shortages in social care mean too many patients can't get out of hospital when they are ready to be discharged.\n\nHumza Yousaf is very familiar with these challenges, having spent almost two years as health secretary.\n\nOne of the first things he did when he became first minister was to set out a commitment to increase pay for social care workers to a minimum of £12 an hour.\n\nHe has announced today that he will fulfil that promise, with the hope it makes social care a more attractive career option at a time when there are many better paid options elsewhere.\n\nWhat is unclear at this point, is where the money is going to come from and whether it will mean cuts elsewhere in health and social care?\n\nOver £600 million has been found to fund pay increases for nurses, junior doctors, paramedics and other NHS workers, with Scotland the only part of the UK to avoid strike action.\n\nBut with over 100,000 people working in adult social care, the money will have to be found somewhere to fund this increase in pay.", "Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, endangering marine life and coastal communities, the UN says.\n\nSand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after water and is used to produce concrete and glass.\n\nThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said some vessels were acting as vacuum cleaners, dredging both sand and micro-organisms that fish feed on.\n\nThis means that life may never recover in some areas.\n\nThe new data coincides with the launch of a new analysis tool called Marine Sand Watch that monitors dredging activities using marine tracking and artificial intelligence.\n\n\"The scale of environmental impacts of shallow sea mining activities and dredging is alarming,\" said Pascal Peduzzi, who heads UNEP's analytics centre GRID-Geneva.\n\nThe new platform estimates that out of some 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel used by humanity each year, an average of six billion tonnes come from the world's oceans and seas.\n\nThis is the equivalent of \"more than one million dump trucks every day\", Mr Peduzzi said.\n\nThe marine environment must be given time to recover, he said, adding that \"it's not sustainable\".\n\nLarge vessels were \"basically sterilising the bottom of the sea by extracting sand and crunching all the microorganisms that are feeding fish\", Mr Peduzzi said.\n\nSometimes the sand is dredged to the bedrock, meaning marine life may never recover, he added.\n\nThe UNEP recommended that sand dredging should also be banned from beaches to protect coastal resilience and economies.\n\nSand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric dams and solar panels. It can also play an important environmental role, protecting communities from rising sea levels.\n\nThe South China Sea, the North Sea and the US east coast are among the areas where the most dredging has occurred, the report states.\n• None How the scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSpain's men's players have condemned the \"unacceptable behaviour\" of federation president Luis Rubiales.\n\nRubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win last month.\n\nRubiales has repeatedly refused to resign over the kiss, which Hermoso said was not consensual.\n\nThe men's side have expressed their \"regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished\".\n\n\"We want to reject what we consider unacceptable behaviour on the part of Mr Rubiales, who has not lived up to the institution he represents,\" said forward Alvaro Morata in a statement on behalf of the Spain squad.\n\n\"We firmly and unequivocally stand on the side of the values that this sport represents.\n\n\"Spanish football must be a driving force for respect, inspiration, inclusion, and diversity and must set an example with its behaviour both on and off the field.\"\n\nLuis de la Fuente, head coach of the men's team, last week asked for \"forgiveness\" after initially applauding a speech in which Rubiales said he would not resign.\n\nDe la Fuente added he would not step down from his job.\n\nAfter Spain's 1-0 victory over England at Sydney's Stadium Australia on 20 August, Rubiales also grabbed his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.\n\nHe has been provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa and Spain's national sports tribunal (TAD) has opened a misconduct case against him.\n\nOn 1 September, Rubiales acknowledged he had \"made mistakes\" but repeated his belief that the kiss was consensual.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to defend myself to prove the truth.\"\n\nAfter calling a press conference, Morata read out the statement alongside fellow senior players Marco Asensio, Cesar Azpilicueta and Rodri.\n\n\"We want to convey, once again, our pride and heartfelt congratulations to the women's national team for winning the World Cup in Sydney,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a historic milestone filled with significance that will mark a before and after in Spanish women's football, inspiring countless women with an invaluable triumph.\n\n\"Therefore, we want to express our regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished.\"\n\nSpain's squad have gathered for a training camp before Euro 2024 qualifying matches against Georgia on Friday and Cyprus on Tuesday, 12 September.\n\n\"We would like to focus on sporting matters from now on, considering the importance of the challenges ahead,\" added Morata.\n\nWhat else has happened?\n\nOn 28 August Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault, while the regional leaders of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) called for Rubiales' resignation.\n\nHis mother locked herself in a church on the same day and went on an \"indefinite\" hunger strike in protest against the treatment of her son. She was taken to hospital two days later and discharged the following day.\n\nThe head of Spain's Olympic Committee Alejandro Blanco has said Rubiales' actions were \"inappropriate and unacceptable\", but an \"isolated incident\" that did not represent Spanish sport as a whole.\n\nThe RFEF is also exploring its options over whether it can sack Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda.\n\nVilda is still in his post despite most of his coaching staff resigning in protest against Rubiales' refusal to quit, while 81 female players, including all 23 World Cup winners, have said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales remained in his role.\n\nA video has also emerged appearing to show Hermoso and her team-mates laughing and discussing the kiss on the team bus following the game.\n\nHermoso appears to be viewing a meme of ex-Spain men's goalkeeper Iker Casillas kissing his then-partner Sara Carbonero, a television presenter, during an interview following the country's 2010 World Cup victory.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who plays for Mexican side Pachuca, later says \"he comes over and hugs me like this\" when talking about Rubiales.\n\nIn her statement denying the kiss was consensual, Hermoso said: \"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours.\n\n\"I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part. Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.", "Electric Ireland customer Christopher Stephens threw out hundreds of pounds of food\n\nPower company Electric Ireland has said about 100 customers lost electricity as part of a keypad fault that could potentially affect 4,500 customers.\n\nA number of people told BBC News NI they had been without power for more than 48 hours because of the issue.\n\nChristopher Stevens, a father-of-five from Ballymena, said it was \"a shambles\".\n\nNIE Networks said it was now installing new meters for those who lost power, while Electric Ireland has apologised.\n\nThe firm is Northern Ireland's third largest electricity supplier.\n\nThe fault affected top-ups purchased between midnight on 30 August and 13:23 BST on 31 August - the firm said the issue meant keypads had been capped at a £10 limit, so anyone who bought a credit of £10 or more in that period could not add it to their meters.\n\nMany customers who tried to do so received a \"Credit Hi\" message on their meter.\n\nCustomers have been experiencing problems with their meters\n\nThis meant they were unable to enter new top-ups to the meter until Electric Ireland cancelled all previous attempts - leaving some without electricity.\n\nIn an new statement on Sunday evening, Electric Ireland said about 100 customers lost electricity due to the keypad fault and that many have had their power restored.\n\nIt added that of its 74,000 Northern Ireland customers, it had identified 4,500 keypad meter customers \"who are potentially impacted by this issue\".\n\nElectric Ireland said it had begun to contact customers by text to let them know what actions were needed to return the meter to normal.\n\nIt also warned people not top up their meter unless instructed as that could \"delay restoration of their service\".\n\nSome customers who had gone days without power were heavily critical of the firm.\n\nMr Stephens was without power from 17:00 on Friday until Sunday afternoon.\n\nHe had to throw out about £250 worth of fresh and frozen food.\n\n\"It's just madness... it's a shambles how we've been left... it's been a crisis for me,\" he said.\n\n\"There's the cost-of-living and you're throwing things in the bin just because somebody can't deliver electric to my house, it's not my fault.\"\n\nChristopher Stephens said the fault had left him \"in crisis\"\n\nMr Stephens said the lack of power was stressful as his children prepared to return to school on Monday.\n\n\"It's depressing, it's stressing...you feel like you're letting your children down, they can't sit in the house, they have to be moved from pillar to post to get washed and everything else, it's just not on.\"\n\nMr Stephens also said that communication with Electric Ireland had been poor.\n\n\"I'm standing here waiting in the dark to be told what's happening,\" he added, speaking before his power was restored.\n\n\"As soon as I get sorted I'm bouncing... I'll not be back near them again. They're good enough to take the money but they're fairly taking their time to sort the problem out.\"\n\nMark Graham, from County Down, has been without power since 15:00 on Friday.\n\nMr Graham, who lives with with his wife and son in Ballynahinch, said the house was \"freezing\" because he has also been left without heat.\n\n\"The only reason I have charge in my phone is because of my powerbank, which has run out now,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nHis wife's parents have been bringing them flasks of hot water and the family have been eating takeaway food, \"which we can't really afford with the cost of living at the moment\".\n\nCommunication with Electric Ireland had been \"absolutely brutal\", he added.\n\nCustomers have had to empty their freezers after having no electricity for over 48 hours\n\nBBC News NI understands Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks doubled the number of on-call engineering teams on Sunday to help reconnect people.\n\nNIE Networks owns the network of lines, poles and substations that takes electricity from power stations to homes and businesses.\n\nIt does not generate electricity, nor does it sell power to consumers.\n\nMr Graham had contacted NIE on Sunday morning but it told him it was prioritising vulnerable customers affected by the Electric Ireland fault.\n\n\"That's understandable but at the same time I have a family and we have had no electricity since Friday afternoon, and it's now Sunday,\" Mr Graham said.\n\n\"I don't know how much more we're going to be able to cope.\"\n\nLater on Sunday, NIE confirmed it was to carry out meter replacements for all affected customers.\n\n\"We appreciate that a number of customers have been off supply for some time now and as such additional NIE Networks metering staff have been mobilised to carry out meter replacements for all customers who remain off supply,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nAnother Electric Ireland customer, Kathryn Williamson from Bangor in County Down, also criticised Electric Ireland's communication.\n\n\"Today I called NIE and was given another number to Electric Ireland that is not public,\" Ms Williamson said.\n\n\"After 45 minutes I got through and was told they need to send my top-up codes to another business to have them deleted . Then I must wait for a text . Once I get the text I have to ring again to get the go ahead from them to try and top-up.\n\n\"This is terrible. No one had even reached out, I had to call.\n\n\"The fridge and freezer food will be destroyed soon, I have an autistic child at home who needs appliances for sensory needs, he only eats certain food that must be cooked.\"", "Harrow Crown Court was closed indefinitely last week after RAAC was found there during improvements Image caption: Harrow Crown Court was closed indefinitely last week after RAAC was found there during improvements\n\nBad news. The concrete crisis may go well beyond schools, as various types of public buildings were constructed with the potentially dangerous material, according to experts.\n\nRAAC concrete was widely used in schools and colleges from the 1950s to the 1990s – and has also been used in courts and hospitals.\n\nIn fact, Prof Chris Goodier, of Loughborough University, said the material has been used in \"much of the building stock of the country\" in both the public and private sector.\n\nWe revealed yesterday that the government has ordered urgent tests on courts built in the 1990s after dangerous concrete was found on a site.\n\nRAAC planks are thought to be present in some hospitals. In Scotland, more than 250 NHS buildings could have been built using the material. Health officials are currently working on an investigation to find out whether it is present.\n\nHousing associations are also currently assessing whether the material has been used in the country's stock of social housing.\n\nAnd a theatre has in Northampton has shut, after RAAC concrete was discovered.", "Angela Rayner has been appointed shadow levelling up secretary, in a wide-ranging reshuffle by Sir Keir Starmer of his Labour team.\n\nShe replaces Lisa Nandy, who is demoted to become the party's new shadow minister for international development.\n\nMs Rayner will remain the party's deputy leader and will also take on the new role of shadow deputy prime minister.\n\nSir Keir's reshaping of his top team comes as MPs return from summer recess.\n\nThe long-awaited refresh did not see changes to the most senior shadow cabinet ranks, including shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.\n\nBut there have been a series of changes to more middle-ranking roles, with the Labour leader saying he was putting his \"strongest possible players on the pitch\" ahead of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nThe changes also mean Labour's front bench more closely mirrors ministerial roles created by a government reorganisation earlier this year.\n\nNotable appointments include Hilary Benn, a cabinet minister under former Labour PMs Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who becomes shadow Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThe Leeds Central MP has held several front bench roles before, but has not sat in the shadow cabinet since being sacked by Jeremy Corbyn for rebelling against his leadership.\n\nLiz Kendall, a defeated candidate in the 2015 leadership contest, becomes shadow work and pensions secretary, her most senior shadow cabinet role in her career so far.\n\nShe replaces Jonathan Ashworth, who takes on a role shadowing the Cabinet Office. Labour sources insist he will still have a key role in election campaigning, and is expected to retain a role attacking the government in the media.\n\nPat McFadden, who was Sir Tony's political secretary, moves from his shadow Treasury role to become national campaign coordinator. He will also shadow the Cabinet Office.\n\nMs Rayner already stands in for Sir Keir at Prime Minister's Questions when either Sir Keir or Mr Sunak is away, a role in which she usually spars with Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden.\n\nBut her new role now means she will also shadow Michael Gove, who is tasked with \"levelling up\" - a Tory campaign phrase that describes policies aiming to reduce regional inequality.\n\nHis department is also responsible for local government and housing, expected to be an important focus for both parties at the election.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she confirmed she would also be the party's \"strategic lead\" on its package of employment rights reforms, for which she was previously responsible as shadow secretary of state for the future of work.\n\nShe paid tribute to her predecessor Ms Nandy, adding she had served with \"grit, imagination and determination\".\n\nThere were also changes to reflect changes to government departments made earlier this year by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nIn a promotion, Peter Kyle has been moved from the Northern Ireland brief to a new role shadowing the government's combined science and technology department.\n\nThangam Debbonaire moves from shadow Commons leader to become the new shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport.\n\nNick Thomas-Symonds, whose international trade brief was merged with the business department, has been handed a more junior role shadowing the Cabinet Office.\n\nOversight of trade policy will go to shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, also reflecting another departmental merger.\n\nThe appointments were conducted without the wrangling that characterised a reshuffle following the 2021 local elections, when Ms Rayner emerged with a trio of shadow cabinet jobs after hours of talks with Sir Keir.\n\nBut in a letter marking her exit from the shadow cabinet, Rosena Allin-Khan pointedly remarked that Sir Keir did \"not see a space\" for her specific shadow cabinet role with responsibility for mental health policy.\n\nBaroness Jenny Chapman, who once served as Sir Keir's political director, leaves the shadow cabinet, but retains her front bench roles as the party's spokesperson in the House of Lords on business and the Treasury.", "A growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales' family courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus. The BBC spoke to six of them to investigate some of their stories.\n\n\"I'm told there is an arrest warrant out for me. Court orders say I can't contact family members, my child can't speak to their grandparents,\" says Rose - not her real name. \"It's destroyed my family.\"\n\nShe's isolated in a foreign country and says her bank accounts are frozen. But Rose still believes northern Cyprus - part of a divided island, occupied by Turkey but not recognised internationally as a state - is a safe haven for her.\n\nThe UK says it takes every case of international parental child abduction very seriously and the law can be used to bring children back. But northern Cyprus is not signed up to the international treaty on child abduction and there is no official extradition agreement.\n\nWe made the journey to this self-declared republic to find out what was driving mothers to break the law, leave family and friends behind, and flee abroad with only their children.\n\nRose says her partner in the UK was violent and raped her while she was pregnant. Even after she left, Rose says she was subject to a \"campaign of abuse\". \"I was stalked, harassed,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC has corroborated Rose's story with her family and friends. We have also seen confirmation that the police were called out to reports of stalking and abuse.\n\nOne police report, made after a claim of domestic violence, graded Rose as being at risk of further harm. Rose's partner was never convicted of an offence.\n\nOn days when her partner had contact with her daughter, Rose says the girl would return distressed. \"When your child says 'Mummy, Daddy's hurt me' it breaks you,\" she says.\n\nMany women abducting their children head for Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus, where there is no official extradition deal\n\nOfficers referred Rose to an independent domestic violence adviser and supported her move away from her ex.\n\nLike all the mothers we feature, Rose's story highlights the complexities involved in many drawn-out family court cases.\n\nThe father brought a case in the family court accusing her of frustrating contact with their daughter. Rose says the court didn't take seriously or investigate her safety concerns.\n\nRose says her child refused to see her father, which she believes was seen by the court as evidence of parental alienation - and led to the court ordering her daughter to live with the father.\n\nParental alienation is a disputed concept of children rejecting one parent because of manipulation by the other.\n\n\"It nearly destroyed me. The handover was horrific, my child was screaming, kicking - 'Don't make me go, Mummy' - grabbing me.\"\n\nAway from court, Rose had been referred to Victim Support and her child's school had raised concerns. \"But the court wanted contact [with the father] at all costs. I was protecting my child,\" she says.\n\nRose says contact with her daughter became very limited. On one visit, she decided to take her child and flee, eventually making it to northern Cyprus.\n\n\"The first night, I just stayed awake and watched my daughter breathe,\" she says.\n\nThe story of women fleeing the UK with their kids. They say the system has failed them.\n\nRose understands what she did was against the law.\n\nThe courts in northern Cyprus have considered evidence against the father and granted Rose and her child a protection order, which means he cannot approach her or the girl. A psychiatrist has also diagnosed Rose and her daughter with post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nBut the decision to run means Rose cannot leave her new home without facing possible criminal action. \"We are safe but in a type of prison,\" she says. \"I'd do it all again though, anything to protect my child - what mum wouldn't? All I have ever done is fight, without this I'd be dead.\"\n\nThe BBC spoke to nine mothers in all - from Tunisia to Thailand - who said they had fled the UK because they were victims of domestic violence. But it was in northern Cyprus where we found a sizeable group of women hiding with their children.\n\nIt took weeks of building trust before anyone would talk, many of the women we tracked down had lost hope and were terrified of being identified by their former partners. Some say they had changed their names and appearances drastically.\n\nAll of them say that before fleeing the UK, their children had been - or were due to be - placed permanently by the family court with fathers they had reported for abuse. Most of the mothers say they were accused in the cases by their former partners of parental alienation.\n\nThe BBC has seen multiple police reports for allegations of domestic violence in connection with the women we interviewed, written at the time of the incidents. We've also seen domestic abuse risk assessments - as well as IDVA (independent domestic violence adviser) reports detailing abuse.\n\nThe mothers all spoke to us on condition of anonymity. To protect the privacy of children and those involved, family courts mostly operate in secret and if the women spoke openly about their cases they risk being jailed for contempt of court, as well as facing arrest for child abduction.\n\nWith bank accounts frozen, some women face financial hardship as they try to make a new life in northern Cyprus\n\nThese mothers told the BBC that hundreds of women like them had fled the UK for foreign jurisdictions. Like Rose, some have had their bank accounts frozen, their passports have been cancelled, and Interpol has issued red notices for their arrest.\n\nMany of them were helped by an online network of women who have previously fled the UK and other people sympathetic to their plight. Some suggest northern Cyprus as a safe place out of reach of UK authorities.\n\nOne mother, who we are calling Sophie, says she fled to Turkish-controlled territory after reaching out for help. She now lives under a new name, having changed her appearance.\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues raised in this report, you can find details of help and support via the BBC Action Line here.\n\nSophie had reported her partner to the police for rape - and had claimed he was financially and emotionally abusive. Once she left him, he became aggressive and controlling towards their child, she says.\n\nMaintaining contact with an abusive parent was damaging her own relationship with her child, she says. \"My child started losing faith in me, they started mistrusting me.\"\n\nThe lowest point came, she says, when her child broke down and described in detail how they would take their own life if contact continued. They also developed physical and mental health problems.\n\nThis led to contact with the father breaking down. But Sophie says her concerns were not heard and she was accused of parental alienation. \"I was told I was the abuser,\" she says.\n\nShe felt she had no choice but to flee. \"It broke me into pieces, I couldn't step into that family court again. My nerves went, I lost my job… anxiety and depression all followed,\" she says.\n\nMany of the mothers were helped by an online network of women who have previously fled the UK\n\nSophie says she needed crisis mental health support, but was too afraid to seek it because she was afraid the court would criticise her for not coping.\n\nThere is no publicly-available data on how many mothers have fled the UK after suffering domestic abuse and being accused of parental alienation. One mum who has been in northern Cyprus for over a decade tells us she is aware of about 75 other mothers who have arrived during her time there. She describes a troubling picture of vulnerable people with young children in a place out of reach of UK authorities.\n\n\"Some have really struggled, been desperate, even stolen to feed their kids,\" she says. She adds that while many are fleeing after court disputes with their abusers, others were escaping the attention of social workers in the UK.\n\nAnother mother who says she fled abuse and parental alienation accusations - we're calling her Kerry - tells the BBC some women have been extorted or found that people have sold their personal information to their exes.\n\nSome mothers, having broken the law, continue to live in fear. Kerry says some former partners have hired private investigators. \"There's a list going round with names on, I'm petrified. It's like we're hunted by the family courts and our abusers,\" she says.\n\nAs part of our investigations, we discovered that five UK mums have died in the past six years after the family courts let fathers accused of abuse apply for contact with their children. Some of the women took their own lives - one had a heart attack outside court.\n\nThe judiciary in England and Wales has commissioned a report to examine the \"potentially heightened risk of suicide\" after involvement in family court proceedings.\n\nThe term \"parental alienation\" was first coined as \"parental alienation syndrome\" by the controversial US psychiatrist Richard Gardner. It applied to children who had purportedly been brainwashed by a parent - usually, but not always, their mother - into making allegations of abuse.\n\nThe concept was criticised for a lack of evidence - but has been reframed simply as \"parental alienation\". Supported by some psychologists, it is frequently cited in England and Wales' family courts.\n\nLawyer and local politician in northern Cyprus, Mine Atlı, says the UK should offer an amnesty to women who fled abroad with their children\n\nEarlier this year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls called for the use of parental alienation to be prohibited globally.\n\nThe Family Justice Council has issued new draft guidance for consultation on how to deal with \"allegations of alienating behaviour\". It focuses on dealing with evidence and finding facts first before judgements are made. This is something domestic violence and family law experts have been calling for.\n\nThe guidance acknowledges that \"parental alienation\" has been a \"vexed and highly emotive concept\" which has polarised opinion - and which the family courts in England and Wales have been increasingly asked to consider and act on.\n\nMine Atlı, a northern Cyprus politician and lawyer who has represented women who fled the UK, says these mothers need some form of amnesty. \"There needs to be a path of safety for these women,\" she says.\n\n\"These women and their children are being deprived of the national identities of their homelands because of the aggressive actions of a perpetrator.\"\n\nHe's says thousands of fathers message him asking for help to see their children - and that some haven't had contact for months. He urges family courts to examine evidence first during proceedings.\n\n\"If I'm talking to a dad I ask him not to use the phrase 'alienation'. It has only come to the fore over the past six or seven years. It means different things to different parents.\"\n\nIf one parent has turned a child against the other parent, the damage can last forever, he says.\n\nDr Angharad Rudkin - a child clinical psychologist and author - fears that because parental alienation as a concept is so misunderstood and controversial, the welfare of children can be lost in the debate.\n\n\"If children are being told 'Dad or Mum never loved you, you meant nothing to them,' it confuses and saddens them. It has a detrimental effect on their trust in relationships.\"\n\nDr Rudkin says the stress and anxiety of divorce can stay with children for the rest of their lives - and there needs to be an informed and calmer debate over potential alienating processes in relationship breakdowns.\n\nIn northern Cyprus, we learned of one mother - we are calling her Susan - who went through a decade of family court hearings before fleeing the UK. Her story highlights the complicated nature of drawn out proceedings with claim and counter claims being put before the family courts.\n\nShe says during 120 court appearances she and her child were not listened to, and the toll of the hearings led to serious problems at her place of work. \"It was state-sanctioned abuse,\" she says.\n\nSusan says she made about 50 calls to police against her husband during their relationship. After she left, she says her former husband still controlled her financially and stalked her.\n\nThe BBC has seen details of multiple police reports about Susan's husband. We have also seen evidence from professionals accepting that Susan was suffering trauma.\n\nSusan's children had refused to see their father in a contact centre, something she blames on the abuse inflicted on her. But she ended up being accused of parental alienation and the children's residency was transferred to the father.\n\nSusan decided to run. Breaking the law in this way has come at a huge cost for all involved. Family members have died and she could not even say goodbye. \"It's a persecution, it's always the victim who loses out. It's me who's labelled as a serious criminal.\"\n\nHer son, who spoke to us with her permission, says he is thriving in northern Cyprus. \"I'm a straight-A student, I'm stress-free here,\" he says. \"I want to be a doctor, but if I go back to England I'll be taken into care. I'm not allowed to have a passport. I have never been listened to.\"\n\nOne teenager said he was \"stress-free\" in his new home, but said he faced being taken into care if he returned to England\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales has called for urgent reform of the family courts. Nicole Jacobs says the courts are failing to deal with domestic abuse cases and putting children at risk.\n\nShe has also raised concerns about the use of parental alienation saying it's having a \"chilling effect on victims of domestic abuse\" resulting in unsafe contact orders in private family law proceedings.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice told the BBC it had made significant improvements to the family court system in recent years to protect domestic abuse victims - including preventing cross-examination by their abusers, expanding their eligibility for legal aid, and extending the use of special measures like protective screens and the ability to provide evidence by video-link.\n\nSeparately, the government says it is considering whether further action is needed on alienation. The most recent figures show that its International Child Abduction and Contact Unit - which helps to return children taken overseas by one parent without the other's consent - is dealing with 1,341 cases. Although it is not known how many are mothers escaping alleged abusers.\n\nFor the mothers hiding out in northern Cyprus, any confirmed change in guidance from the judiciary on parental alienation could come too late for them.\n\nSusan says she is scared and sick from stress. \"I've lost my family, friends and so much money. But if I'd stayed in England, I'd be dead and my kids would be in care.\"", "Government prosecutors are making their case that Tarrio should be handed the longest Capitol riot-related sentence.\n\n“Enrique Tarrio was the leader of this conspiracy,” says prosecutor Conor Mulroe, citing the injured officers from Capitol Hill that testified during trials for Proud Boy members.\n\n“Every single one of them has their own scars now, every single one of them has their own story of how they served that day,” Mulroe says.\n\n“They represent the best of American law enforcement - law enforcement that this defendant portrayed as the enemy of the people.”\n\nMulroe also mentions Tarrio’s previous crimes, including his involvement in a fraud conspiracy.\n\nMost recently he spent nearly six months in jail for burning a Black Lives Matter flag during one of the Proud Boys rallies in December 2020.\n\n“His leadership over the Proud Boys was about violence and manipulation,” Mulroe says.\n\n“He is unique among his co-defendants in the extent of his toxic influence over others.”\n\nProsecutors added that the downward adjustments for other group members do not apply here.\n\nTarrio did not serve in the military, and has a criminal record.", "We must admit, we'd never heard of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) until the other day.\n\nBut deep within certain and very particular corners of government, it has been a talking point for years.\n\nSo why has this suddenly become headline news?\n\nLet's examine the anatomy of this particular issue.\n\nOver the summer, a school ceiling collapsed. Until then, it hadn't been flagged as critical.\n\nThis, alongside other incidents and assessments from Department for Education (DfE) officials, led Education Secretary Gillian Keegan to conclude the government had underestimated the potential dangers of RAAC.\n\nConversations took place around a week ago between Downing Street and the education department and it was agreed action was necessary.\n\nMinisters were braced for difficult questions but felt they had no alternative.\n\nIt has led some at Westminster and beyond to wonder if Ms Keegan has overreacted.\n\nHer allies say the facts had changed and she has been \"more proactive on RAAC than any other government minister in the world\".\n\nEnter next, Jonathan Slater, the former permanent secretary at the education department - its most senior civil servant. He was sacked three years ago.\n\nMr Slater claimed in a BBC interview that there was a \"critical risk to life\" if the school repairs programme was not funded.\n\nHe said up to 400 schools a year needed work, but the department got funding for 100 while he was the senior official, which was \"frustrating\".\n\nHe was optimistic this would rise to 200 after he left. The actual number was 50.\n\nAs far as we can work out, the promise to fund 100 was never made public.\n\nThe government's spending review three years ago committed to \"rebuilding 500 schools in England over the next decade\".\n\nThe spending review two years ago said the same, working out at 50 a year.\n\nThe prime minister claimed Mr Slater's attack on his record was \"completely and utterly wrong\".\n\nWe have been speaking to people who were involved in those private negotiations within government.\n\nWhat do they recall of what happened then?\n\nOne figure acknowledged there was \"an accepted need to address the issue of RAAC\".\n\nBut, they added, there was little sense that it would be imminently dangerous.\n\nThe big picture context at the time was one of the country and the government recovering from the pandemic.\n\nThe context in the DfE was a focus on free schools and the need to boost funding per pupil.\n\nThe issue of replacing RAAC in schools featured in the discussions between the education department and the Treasury, we are told - but only briefly.\n\nAnd, one well-placed source told us, it is unlikely the issue would have ever reached Rishi Sunak.\n\nIn short, the DfE was concerned about RAAC, but had other pressing political concerns at the time too.\n\nAnd the Treasury wasn't persuaded it was pressing, and hadn't been for some time.\n\nRightly or wrongly, the government then had one position on the risk of RAAC and its relative importance.\n\nAnd, rightly or wrongly, the government now has a rather different one.\n\nCritics of the Conservatives suggest spending cuts over the last decade or so of their time in office are responsible.\n\nWhat is also worth considering is the insight this crumbling concrete offers into ministers' choices, judgements and attitudes to risk, both now and in recent years.\n\nSome of this is related to money. But instincts, priorities and context are key too, in the DfE and beyond - then and now.\n\nIt is how these have shifted - in the light of what has happened this summer - that has led to the consequences we are seeing, and will continue to see.", "Nadine Dorries had been a Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005\n\nA Mid Bedfordshire by-election has been called for 19 October after Conservative MP Nadine Dorries said she would vacate her seat.\n\nIn August, the former culture secretary resigned from the Commons, more than two months after pledging to go \"with immediate effect\".\n\nSo far, seven candidates have declared they would stand for the seat.\n\nDespite saying in June she would quit, Ms Dorries subsequently said she wanted to find out why she was refused a seat in the House of Lords.\n\nIt was widely thought she would be made a peer by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his resignation honours list.\n\nMs Dorries had been elected five times as a MP for the area since 2005.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hottest day of the year is expected in the next two days, with parts of the UK already in heatwave conditions.\n\nAreas of West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Devon and Wales passed the threshold on Tuesday, the Met Office said, although Tuesday's hottest temperatures did not pass June's high of 32.2C (90F)\n\nHeat-health alerts have been upgraded to amber for much of England, with only the North East under a yellow one.\n\nIt means people of all ages could be affected, putting the NHS at risk.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Amy Bokota said 13 weather stations had officially recorded a heatwave and she expected \"a few extra\" would be added to that list over the coming days.\n\nShe said 32C was expected on Wednesday before a possible peak of 33C on Thursday.\n\n\"It will then be 32C right the way until Sunday for some places in the south,\" she said.\n\nHeatwave criteria are met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting the heatwave threshold - which varies between 25C and 28C across the UK.\n\nHow are you coping with the hot weather? Get in touch.\n\nHot conditions will be also be felt in Wales, while parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland could see \"unseasonably high temperatures\".\n\nEnglish regions included in the amber warning are: London, the South East, the South West, the East and West Midlands, the East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nAll eight were issued with a yellow warning on Monday but this has now been upgraded.\n\nThe North East is the last remaining region to have a yellow alert in place - this means that the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions should take extra care.\n\nIt also means officials do not believe there will be a significant impact on the NHS in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Helen Willetts explains exactly how hot it's going to get in the UK this week.\n\nTemperatures reached 30C on Monday in southern England and south-east Wales, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe hot weather comes after what has generally been regarded as cool wet summer for much of the UK.\n\nWhile July in particular was wetter and cooler than average with the maximum temperature failing to regularly reach 20C, the previous month was the UK's hottest June on record.\n\nThe warm conditions are continuing through Tuesday, with highs of 31C expected near London.\n\nParts of southern and western England could also see temperatures stay above 20C overnight into Wednesday, according to the Met.\n\n\"We will see good sunny conditions through the week with cloudless skies, and some high temperatures by the time we get to Wednesday and Thursday, where we could see 31, maybe 32C,\" Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon told the PA news agency.\n\nHe said the high temperatures would be \"quite widely spread\" across the UK, with the hottest conditions mainly being felt in south-east and central England.\n\nMr Claydon warned that Wednesday night could be a particularly warm with temperatures potentially not dropping below 20C, which is what is termed a \"tropical night\".\n\nThere could also be a tropical night on Thursday, he said.\n\nThe Met Office said that tropical storms in the far western Atlantic, as well as deep areas of low pressure, have helped to amplify the jet stream - a fast wind high in the atmosphere - over the Atlantic Ocean. This has led to high pressure \"dominating over the UK\", it said.\n\nThe forecaster added that temperatures could also hit 31C on Friday, although there could be more cloudy weather and chances of rain in the far north-west of Scotland.\n\nConditions could change over the weekend, and Mr Claydon said there was \"no indication at the moment of another strong heatwave after this\".\n\nAverage temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe Met Office has also explained the reason for some \"picturesque\" sunsets across the UK.\n\nForecasters say it is due to \"Saharan dust\" which began to cover parts of the country yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Summer weather: will there be a heatwave?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Harrow Crown Court has been shut for the foreseeable future after potentially dangerous concrete was found\n\nThe government has ordered urgent tests on courts built in the 1990s after dangerous concrete was found at a site in north London, the BBC has learnt.\n\nHarrow Crown Court closed indefinitely last month because reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was found during improvement works.\n\nYet the court's closure came months after the government said it had fixed court buildings which used RAAC.\n\nA Ministry of Justice source said the government was complying with all laws.\n\nThe tests on the courts come after more than 100 schools in England were told they could not fully open just days before the start of the autumn term because of safety fears over the use of RAAC.\n\nThe closure of Harrow Crown Court could therefore fuel concerns across government that other buildings built in the 1990s using RAAC may be dangerous.\n\nIn May, His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals (HMCTS), the agency responsible for courts, said it had conducted a survey in 2021-22 and identified six buildings of concern.\n\nThis amounted to about 2% of the total courts estate.\n\nThe government said at the time that the survey resulted in concrete being removed from the buildings affected, and that all courts had been \"certified as safe\".\n\nBut following inquiries by the BBC, the government said that Harrow Crown Court had not been included in that survey because it was opened in 1991.\n\nThe survey only examined court buildings opened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s because those were deemed to be the ones at risk.\n\nLabour accused the government of \"complacency and incompetence\". Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, said the development \"immediately calls into question every other instance across government when ministers have assured us that the necessary surveys have been conducted, or are nearing completion\".\n\nShe added: \"Labour has already called for an immediate and comprehensive audit of the extent to which this dangerous concrete is present in our public buildings, and this latest revelation just makes the need for that audit even more urgent.\n\n\"When on earth will someone in this wretched government take some responsibility and get a grip of this situation?\"\n\nRAAC has air bubbles inside it and has a limited lifespan. It was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s as a cheaper alternative to standard building concrete.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your story about RAAC by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lancashire has starred in three series of Happy Valley\n\nBBC crime drama Happy Valley won best returning drama at the National TV awards, as its star Sarah Lancashire was honoured with two prizes.\n\nThe actress won best drama performance and was also given this year's special recognition award, presented by Sir Ian McKellen.\n\nLancashire looked overwhelmed when she picked up the latter, as the audience chanted her name.\n\n\"I have been so very fortunate to spend my working life doing a job I love.\"\n\nShe thanked the \"enablers\" who \"don't get credit\", including her family, agent and \"a very vital component - you, the audience. Without you, all this would grind to a crashing halt\".\n\nLancashire beat her co-star James Norton to the best drama performance prize for her portrayal of no-nonsense police officer Catherine Cawood.\n\nBrenda Blethyn (Vera), India Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) and Judy Parfitt (Call the Midwife) were also nominated.\n\nThe pair now have a record number of NTA wins\n\nGeordie duo Ant and Dec missed out on the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award - they had two shows up for the gong (I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway) but lost out to Gogglebox.\n\nThey did, however, keep up their record winning streak, picking up best presenter for the 22nd year running. The pair said they were the most nervous they had ever been collecting the gong on Tuesday night.\n\n\"We are the luckiest two men on telly,\" Ant said.\n\n\"I can't believe we are still getting away with this... we are as humbled and as grateful tonight as when we won it for the first time,\" Dec added.\n\n\"We'll keep doing it as long as you want us to keep doing it,\" said Ant.\n\nBut it was a different story for troubled ITV show This Morning, which had been on a 12-year winning streak of its own in the daytime, live magazine and topical magazine programme categories.\n\nThe show was plunged into crisis in May when Phillip Schofield quit after admitting he lied about an affair with a colleague.\n\nIt was again nominated for best daytime programme but was beaten by The Repair Shop.\n\nThe National TV awards are nominated and voted for solely by the public so all eyes were on whether the show would pick up the prize for a 13th year running.\n\nTribute was paid to the late Paul O'Grady, who also posthumously won the factual entertainment prize for ITV's Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs. Staff from Battersea Dogs Home - and pup Wiley - collected the award. Wiley woofed all the way through the speech, halting it at some points to the audience's delight.\n\nThe Graham Norton show won the a new award for TV interview, beating Piers Morgan (who received a few boos from the audience), Louis Theroux and Chris and Rosie Ramsey.\n\nDanielle Harold, who played the character of Lola in EastEnders, picked up best serial drama performance. Her character bowed out earlier this year, dying from a brain tumour. Harold was handed the prize by fellow EastEnders star Michelle Collins.\n\nThe BBC One soap also won best serial drama.\n\nIn fact, it was a dominating performance overall for the BBC, which picked up 11 out of a possible 17 prizes on the night.\n\nWord-of-mouth hit The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, won best reality competition show. The cast of the first series accepted the award as Winkleman \"was busy wearing tweed and chasing traitors\" (presumably she's filming the next series).\n\nLewis Capaldi is currently in the US\n\nAnother new category - authored documentary - was won by the Netflix show Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now, in which the pop star opens up on his mental health. The star is currently taking a break from touring to protect his health after struggling through his set at Glastonbury in June.\n\nCapaldi sent a video message to thank the public for voting, and heaped praise on his fellow nominees. He said he would have been at the ceremony but was currently in America.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing picked up the best talent show honour, while ITV's 1% Club, presented by comic Lee Mack, won best quiz/gameshow.\n\nOther winners included Bobby Brazier as best newcomer. Brazier plays Freddie Slater in EastEnders. He joked that \"I still don't have a clue what I'm doing.\"\n\nThe cast of Young Sheldon, who won best comedy, were unable to appear in person due to the ongoing actors' strike in the US. Most of the cast of Wednesday were also unable to be there for the same reason.", "Deborah Chalk felt \"immediate relief\" after having the device removed as part of a hysterectomy\n\nTwo hundred women in the UK who claim they were left in pain after having a permanent contraception device fitted, can now take group legal action through the courts, against its manufacturer.\n\nThe Essure coil \"has caused irreparable damage physically and mentally\", the women's lawyers say.\n\nGerman maker Bayer says it will defend itself vigorously against the claims.\n\nEssure was withdrawn from sale in 2017 but the UK medicines regulator says there is no risk to safety.\n\nLawyers in England began legal action in 2020 and now have permission to bring a group claim on behalf of 200 women.\n\nOther women wishing to join the group action have until 2024 to do so.\n\nThe Essure device is a small metal coil inserted into a woman's fallopian tubes.\n\nScar tissue forms around the coil, creating a barrier that blocks the tubes and keeps sperm from reaching the eggs.\n\nLaunched in 2002, the device was marketed as a simpler alternative to sterilisation by surgery.\n\nThe flexible coil is inserted into the fallopian tubes to prevent any future pregnancies\n\nBut some women say they suffered constant pain and complications afterwards, including heavy bleeding, with some ending up having hysterectomies or the device removed altogether.\n\nDeborah Chalk, 39, had the device fitted following the birth of her third child, after talking to her GP, but soon started having all kinds of issues.\n\n\"I began to suffer with headaches, abdominal pain, heavy bleeding, rashes, extreme itching and mood changes, to name a few,\" she says.\n\n\"The Christmas after the device was inserted, I woke up and my face had gone numb, which led to neurologists believing I had multiple sclerosis.\"\n\nThe symptoms began to affect her daily life - but doctors put the symptoms down to her Crohn's disease.\n\n\"It was only when I had a CT [computed tomography] scan and the doctor mentioned in passing that the device was in place that it dawned on me that it could also be the root of my issues,\" Deborah says.\n\nShe had it removed privately, as part of a hysterectomy, and felt \"immediate relief\".\n\n\"I was sat up laughing and smiling - something I hadn't done in a while,\" Deborah says. \"My mood just shifted and I have had no issues since.\"\n\nA company official said: \"Bayer's highest priority is the safety profile and effectiveness of our products and we have great sympathy for anyone who has experienced health problems while using any of our products, regardless of cause.\n\n\"The company stands by the safety profile and efficacy of Essure and will continue to defend itself from these claims vigorously.\"\n\nBayer said the device had been tested in 10 clinical trials and more than 70 real-world observational studies involving thousands of women.\n\n\"While all birth-control products and procedures have risks, the totality of scientific evidence on Essure demonstrates that the benefit-risk profile is positive,\" it said.\n\nThe claimants would still have to prove the merits of their alleged claims, the company added.\n\nLisa Lunt, who represents the 200 women and is head of medical-product claims at law firm Pogust Goodhead, said: \"Thousands of women have been fitted with the Essure device, around the world, and sadly many of them have suffered adverse effects from this product.\"\n\nAnd she hoped that \"Bayer agrees to compensate our clients for all of their unnecessary pain and suffering\".\n\nThe pharmaceutical company is facing legal action around the world in relation to the device.\n\nIt has paid out more than $1.6bn (£1.3bn) in the United States, to resolve claims from nearly 39,000 women, but admits no wrongdoing or liability.\n\nThe US Food and Drug Administration says women successfully using the device \"can and should continue to do so\".", "Jacob Angeli Chansley inside the Capitol during the riot of 6 January 2021\n\nA growing number of Capitol rioters have gone back on their guilty pleas and apologies - including one of the most recognisable faces from 6 January.\n\nStanding in court, Jacob Angeli Chansley, known as Jake Angeli, seemed like a changed man.\n\nShorn of the horned headdress, furs and face paint that helped earn him the nickname the QAnon Shaman, he was pleading guilty to obstructing an official proceeding. The charge stemmed from his part interrupting a joint session of Congress, and carried a maximum prison term of 20 years.\n\n\"I am truly, truly repentant for my actions, because repentance is not just saying you're sorry,\" he said. \"Repentance is apologising and then moving in the exact opposite direction of the sin that you committed.\n\n\"In retrospect, I would do everything differently on January 6th.\"\n\nA judge called his apology \"the most remarkable I've heard in 34 years\" and sentenced him to 41 months in prison - considerably less than the maximum allowed.\n\nNow more than a year-and-a-half later, Angeli is out of jail early, and his remorse is gone.\n\n\"Regrets only weigh down the mind,\" he told the BBC. \"They're like sandbags on a hot air balloon.\"\n\nAngeli - minus his Shaman clothing - speaking to the BBC\n\nHis about-face is such that he is even taking his case back to court to ask his guilty plea to be reversed. And he is far from alone in changing his mind about the events at the Capitol.\n\nSince 6 January 2021, over 1,000 people have been charged over their participation in the riots, and almost half have pleaded guilty. But chatter on online forums and media coverage shows a small but growing number have started to have a change of heart. Emboldened by shifting views of the riots, some have sought to recast their actions, and even benefit from their notoriety.\n\nFacing 30 days in prison and three years of probation, Athanasios Zoyganeles pleaded guilty last year to illegally demonstrating in the Capitol.\n\nBut like Angeli, he has since changed his mind. He told a reporter this month that he didn't do anything wrong and had been persuaded into an admission.\n\nHis lawyer has since asked to delay sentencing.\n\nIn addition to walking back regrets, a number of rioters have tried to capitalise on their involvement in the riots in a number of ways.\n\nDerrick Evans, a former member of the West Virginia state legislature, resigned his post after being arrested. He pleaded guilty, apologised in court, and served three months in prison.\n\nNow he is running for a seat in the US House of Representatives, and he refers to himself and other defendants as \"political prisoners\".\n\nThe term is commonly used across a broad section of the right and far-right of American politics to cast rioters as heroic and patriotic.\n\n\"I think as time continues to go on, I'm going to be proven to be on the correct side of history,\" he told the BBC recently.\n\nChristina Baal-Owens, executive director of Public Wise, a voting rights organisation that has worked to prevent 6 January rioters from being elected to office, said more and more rioters were using their public profiles to boost their political aspirations, especially in the lead-up to the 2024 elections.\n\n\"The far-right and January 6 rioters are trying to flip the narrative and make themselves martyrs,\" she said.\n\nA key moment for many was when Tucker Carlson aired small edited snippets footage of the day, which appeared to show rioters behaving peacefully inside Congress.\n\nThe footage on his now-cancelled Fox News show fuelled the narrative that they were largely peaceful demonstrations, and emboldened some, like Evans, to run for office.\n\n\"We're finally at the point where people such as myself, who went through this January 6 process and have already served our time in prison, are finally able to start speaking out and sharing the truth,\" Evans said.\n\nThe ferocity of feeling in some quarters means that some rioters have been able to raise funds - or social media clout - off their newfound fame.\n\nOn one popular Christian site, GiveSendGo, there are at least 150 campaigns mentioning the Capitol riot that collectively have raised more than $4.1m (£3.2m).\n\nIn some cases, prosecutors are trying to recoup those funds.\n\nAfter he pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building, Daniel Goodwyn, a member of the Proud Boys, appeared on television calling the Capitol riot defendants \"political prisoners\".\n\nHe made pleas for donations, raising more than $25,000. Prosecutors have since sought to fine him the same amount.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the riot\n\nJohn P Gross, a criminal law expert at the University of Wisconsin, said that having a change of heart can carry legal risks.\n\nThe concept of \"trial penalty\" means that in general, defendants who plead guilty receive lighter sentences than those convicted after a trial. Judges also have leeway to impose harsher sentences if they believe defendants aren't truly sorry.\n\n\"A judge can absolutely take lack of remorse into consideration when sentencing,\" he said. \"I would tell a client, under no terms whatsoever should you be saying anything to the media between when you plead and when you are sentenced.\"\n\nBut what happens if someone has already served their time, and wants to take it all back?\n\nIn order to change his guilty plea, Angeli must convince a judge he received ineffective representation from his original lawyer, Albert Watkins. He now says that statements his lawyer made in an attempt to mitigate his crimes weren't true.\n\n\"I never said I was duped by Trump,\" he told the BBC. \"I never denounced Q or the QAnon community… and I am not schizophrenic, bipolar, depressed or delusional.\"\n\nIn an email, Mr Watkins denied that he had said his client had denounced QAnon or was delusional and described Angeli as a \"gentle, young man who, in his own way, is very bright and talented. I wish him nothing but the best.\"\n\nLegally, rioters who try to take back a guilty plea are getting into potentially risky territory, said Mr Gross. It's rare for courts to allow someone to do that, and when they do, they run the risk of facing a new trial - something that federal prosecutors have underlined in their response to Angeli's case.\n\n\"I wouldn't endorse it as a legal strategy,\" Mr Gross said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2021, Jake Angeli spoke from jail about his role in the Capitol riots\n\nBecause of his ongoing case, Angeli didn't answer questions about his actions during the riot. But he implied that spending time in solitary confinement - which he called \"a form of soft torture\" - led to his original decision to plead guilty.\n\nAngeli has used his notoriety to boost his profile since exiting prison. He has a podcast, runs online courses and sells merchandise on his website - including selling $44 flags, $33 t-shirts and $17 mugs.\n\nHe is also back to spreading conspiracy theories online, insisting that he is only trying to spread the truth about a variety of government plots.\n\nAnd while he backed away from his statement in court that he would have done everything differently during the Capitol riot, he did express one thought that sounded almost like a regret.\n\n\"I really tried to stop people from going crazy,\" he said. \"I would have tried a lot harder had I known what was going to happen.\n\n\"But who's going listen to the crazy guy in the face paint and the horns telling everybody to calm down?\"", "Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was described the prosecutors as the riot's \"primary organiser\"\n\nThe Proud Boys' former leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.\n\nIt is the longest sentence handed down so far over the attack, which happened as lawmakers were certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.\n\nTarrio, 39, was not in Washington during the riot, but helped organise the far-right group's involvement.\n\nAs he was led from court, he flashed the two-fingered peace or victory sign.\n\nThe Department of Justice's sprawling investigation into the riot has so far seen more than 1,100 people arrested and charged.\n\nThe rioters turned out in support of then-president Donald Trump, who continues to deny that he lost the 2020 election. He has promised to pardon most or all of the rioters if he is re-elected president in 2024.\n\nTarrio was convicted in May of seditious conspiracy, a rarely used charge of planning to overthrow the government, and multiple other counts. He has been in jail since his arrest last year.\n\nIn their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors described Tarrio as a \"naturally charismatic leader\" and \"a savvy propagandist\" who was the \"primary organiser\" of the conspiracy he and his co-defendants were convicted of.\n\nThey also said he condoned and promoted violence from others. \"He was a general rather than a soldier,\" prosecutors wrote.\n\nThey argued he helped rally members of the far-right group to come to Washington DC and, while he was not in the city at the time, prosecutors said he monitored their movements and encouraged them as the attack unfolded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Trump supporters laid siege to the congressional complex, Tarrio posted online that he was \"enjoying the show\".\n\n\"Do what must be done,\" he wrote, urging on the rioters.\n\nUS District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee who presided over the sentencing hearing, concluded that Tarrio began planning an attack on the Capitol in December 2020 and instituted a rigid command structure.\n\n\"Tarrio was the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who organised, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal,\" Judge Kelly said. \"I don't have any indication that he is remorseful for the actual things that he was convicted of.\"\n\nBefore he learned his fate on Tuesday, an emotional Tarrio apologised to police and residents of Washington DC for his role in the riot. \"I am extremely ashamed and disappointed that they were caused grief and suffering,\" he said. \"I will have to live with that shame for the rest of my life.\"\n\nTarrio, who wore an orange jail uniform, added: \"I was my own worst enemy. My hubris convinced me that I was a victim and targeted unfairly.\"\n\nAcknowledging that Mr Trump had lost the November 2020 presidential election, Tarrio said: \"I am not a political zealot. I didn't think it was even possible to change the results of the election.\n\n\"Please show me mercy,\" Tarrio asked the judge. \"I ask you that you not take my 40s from me.\"\n\nTarrio was national chairman of the Proud Boys. Founded in New York City in 2016, members of the far-right group have described themselves as an all-male drinking club.\n\nThey regarded themselves as Mr Trump's foot-soldiers and have often been involved in street clashes with far-left anti-fascist activists.\n\nTarrio's lawyer argued in court on Tuesday that his client was a \"keyboard ninja\" and \"misguided patriot\" who tended to \"talk trash\", but had no intention of overthrowing the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: When the Proud Boys marched on the Capitol on 6 January 2021\n\nHowever, Judge Kelly noted that Tarrio had on many previous occasions expressed no remorse for his actions.\n\nTarrio was also found guilty in May of obstruction and conspiracy charges, civil disorder and destruction of government property.\n\nProsecutors had called his actions \"a calculated act of terrorism\", meriting a sentence of 33 years in prison. The defence wanted no more than 15 years.\n\nTarrio stood silently while the judge handed down the penalty. As he was led from court, Tarrio waved to his family in the public gallery and raised the two-fingered salute.\n\nHis lawyers said he plans to appeal.\n\nThe siege of the US Capitol stunned the world\n\nTuesday's was the last in a series of sentencing hearings for the ringleaders of the Capitol riot.\n\nUntil now, the longest sentences were the 18-year terms handed down last week to another Proud Boy, Ethan Nordean, and in May to Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia.\n\nThree other Proud Boys received prison sentences last week for their roles in the riot.\n\nFormer US Marines Dominic Pezzola and Zachary Rehl received 10 and 15 years respectively.\n\nThe charges against the rioters have varied - from relatively minor crimes like entering a restricted area, to destruction of government property, assault and conspiracy. Around 200 have pleaded guilty to felony charges.\n\nThe investigation is ongoing and the FBI is still trying to locate 14 rioters captured on video assaulting police officers or members of the media.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Grays, on the Thames estuary, is the administrative capital of the Thurrock borough\n\nA black hole in local authority budgets continues to grow, a BBC investigation reveals, prompting fears some will not be able to provide basic services.\n\nThe average council now faces a £33m ($42m) predicted deficit by 2025-26 - a rise of 60% from £20m two years ago.\n\nUnison said the situation meant some councils would not be able to offer the \"legal minimum of care\" next year.\n\nThe government said decisions on the funding beyond the next financial year had not yet been made.\n\nThe BBC's Shared Data Unit surveyed 190 upper-tier authorities in the UK to find out the extent of the financial difficulties facing town halls, which provide services from adult social care to bin collections and pothole repairs.\n\nIt revealed council chiefs expect to be £5.2bn short of balancing the books by April 2026 even after making £2.5bn of planned cuts.\n\nAt least £467m will be stripped from adult care services, which include elderly care homes, respite centres and support services for people with disabilities.\n\nThis year, councils are closing leisure centres, reducing care packages and raising fees for services like waste collection and parking in order to break even.\n\nUnison's head of local government Mike Short said town halls were in the \"direst of states\".\n\n\"This is not a sustainable situation,\" he said.\n\n\"Local authorities simply don't have the funds to provide even statutory services.\"\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, who chairs the Local Government Association (LGA), said inflation, the introduction of the National Living Wage, energy costs and increasing demand for services were adding \"billions of extra costs just to keep services standing still\".\n\nCampaigners in Gateshead protest against plans to close the town's leisure centre\n\nGateshead Leisure Centre was opened in 1981 by Elizabeth II and featured a pool, a soft play and a gym, as well as badminton and basketball courts.\n\nBut in November 2022, Gateshead Council recommended closing it, claiming it had no other choice \"after government cuts\".\n\nThe centre, which had more than 480,000 visits a year and served an area with high levels of deprivation, closed in July. A community bid is being put together to raise £40,000 and take over the site - but so far it has raised £5,000.\n\nMental health worker Layla Barclay, 39, from Bensham, led the campaign to keep it open.\n\n\"Everyone is just horrified it's actually come to this,\" she said. \"There is a lot of anger towards the council. We just feel that they didn't come to the community until it was too late.\"\n\nA pool has existed at the Alexandra Road site since 1941 and Wendy Arkle, 64, remembers first using it in the late 1960s as part of a Brownies swimming gala.\n\n\"There is just this huge void now,\" she said.\n\nOur investigation found on top of cuts, town hall chiefs are expected to use up £1.1bn of reserves to balance the books this year.\n\nBradford Council said the authority was using reserves at an \"unprecedented level\" while Leicester City Council said it was going to run out during the next financial year.\n\nSeveral councils have called for financial support from the government. Among them Slough, Croydon, Thurrock, Kensington and Chelsea, and newly created Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness councils will share around £393m in government funding this year.\n\nThurrock declared bankruptcy in December 2022 after a series of failed solar farm investments saw the council run up a £500m deficit - one of the largest ever reported for a council of its size.\n\nSlough was also forced to effectively declare bankruptcy after borrowing more than £700m to buy land and properties.\n\nKensington and Chelsea has been given an agreement in principle to borrow up to £51.8m to help pay the compensation due to the survivors and first responders of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. In a statement, the council said it had \"healthy finances\" and had frozen council tax this year.\n\nMeanwhile other large councils have indicated being in financial distress.\n\nBirmingham City Council, Europe's largest local authority, halted all non-essential spending in June after announcing it was facing a bill for a £760m unequal pay claim.\n\nThe £51m of savings being made at Shropshire amount to a fifth of its overall budget this year - the highest proportion for any council in the UK.\n\nA spokesman for the council said its financial position had been compounded by its \"rural nature and sparse population,\" which it said made it \"more expensive to provide services like social care\".\n\nCouncils are funded through a mix of council tax, business rates, income from services like parking and social housing rent, as well as money from the government known as the Revenue Support Grant.\n\nThat funding declined by nearly a third between 2010 and 2021, according to the Public Accounts Committee, which found council income was £8.4bn lower in real terms than it had been a decade before.\n\nIts chair Meg Hillier said the BBC study showed councils were at a \"tipping point\" where \"only so many more savings\" could be made.\n\nMs Hillier, the Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said: \"These findings should have the dashboard flashing red across the board for the government.\"\n\nDespite high profile failures, many councils have continued to take risks on commercial investments to increase their income.\n\nA Freedom of Information request by the BBC found Somerset Council had bought more than £136m worth of retail property since the start of the pandemic, including a B&Q in Ayr and a Wickes in Birmingham.\n\nStories about pressure on council budgets may not seem new. Local authorities were hit hard during the period of austerity.\n\nThe government has made more money available to councils in recent years, but rising prices and the cost of delivering services for which there is growing demand means budgets remain squeezed. This research shows the future looks bleak for some authorities who have already cut back on what they offer local communities.\n\nQuestions have been raised over investment decisions some councils have made, but beyond that there is a wider call for a rethink of the way local government is funded, to try and break what seems to be a cycle of pressure on the services on which so many people rely.\n\nNeil Crouch used to have access to a respite centre as part of his care package\n\nNeil Crouch, from Harlow in Essex, has motor conversion disorder, severe arthritis and suffers from kidney disease.\n\nEssex County Council, which is set to save £36m this year, cut the 48 hours of weekly funded social care he received down to 42, and removed his eligibility for respite care.\n\nPreviously, he was allowed two funded weeks a year at a centre that provides holidays for people with disabilities.\n\n\"It's such a shame,\" said Neil, who is becoming increasingly immobile and relies on carers and his elderly parents for support. \"It helps so much to have that respite care.\n\n\"My mum and dad are both in the mid-70s now, and it's getting hard for them. It's not an easy process to look for after somebody with a disability.\"\n\nNeil, who said many others like him are suffering from having their respite eligibility removed, is urging councils to rethink such cuts.\n\n\"They have holidays,\" he said. \"Because we are disabled does it mean we're not entitled?\"\n\nEssex County Council said, while it could not comment on individual cases, it still offered \"significant support\" to people needing respite care in the area.\n\nCurrently, councils discover how much money they are going to receive from the government one year at a time.\n\nThe LGA has repeatedly called on the government to change the way local authorities are funded. It has said multi-year settlements would give councils more clarity to plan effectively.\n\nA plan to allow councils to retain 75% of the business rates they collect instead of the current 50% was paused indefinitely in 2021.\n\nCouncillor Tim Oliver, who chairs the County Councils Network, said: \"We must remember that while inflation is beginning to reduce, these costs councils have incurred won't just disappear from our budgets overnight - they are now embedded into the future.\"\n\nA Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities spokesman said that, as no decision on council funding levels would be taken until the Spending Review next year the predicted deficit figures for 2025-26 were \"unsupported\".\n\nHe said the government had pledged to make £4.7bn available for the adult social care system in England in 2024-25 and confirmed there would be an increase in the Revenue Support Grant councils receive.\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments said they had increased resources for councils this financial year. The government of Northern Ireland declined to comment.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Twenty GMB union members protested during the Queen's Baton Relay in Birmingham last month\n\nThousands of Birmingham City Council workers are to be balloted over strike action regarding claims of delays to equal pay claims.\n\nThe GMB union believes that the authority's job evaluation scheme undervalues the work of those in jobs predominantly done by women.\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said workers must vote by 2 September.\n\nThe council said it had been liaising with union members since November and had agreed a new evaluation approach.\n\nIn 2012, the local authority said it would have to pay at least £757m to settle equal pay claims brought mainly by women who missed out on bonuses.\n\nMore than 170 people who mostly worked in traditionally female roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff, won a ruling at the Supreme Court over pay.\n\nIn November, the union said there could be a wave of fresh claims after \"significant new information\" emerged about how the council evaluated roles. An employment tribunal revealed key roles may have been evaluated incorrectly in terms of parity.\n\nBirmingham City Council said it has agreed a new approach to job evaluation with the union\n\nTwenty GMB union members protested peacefully during the Queen's Baton Relay in the city last month, when the union called on council leader Ian Ward to \"urgently intervene\" in pay disputes.\n\nMichelle McCrossen, GMB union organiser, urged the Labour-run council to \"settle this once and for all\".\n\n\"Birmingham City Council's shameful history of sex discrimination has already cost the city hundreds of millions of pounds and forced them to sell off city assets,\" she said. \"Their failure to fix the problem means that bill is growing by the day.\n\n\"We will not accept any more delays and distractions.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the council said it had been engaging with GMB on matters of equal pay since November and had already agreed a new approach to job evaluation.\n\n\"The council would encourage GMB to explore solutions working together, as it is committed to resolving historic equal pay issues and has already settled with the majority of trade union members following a previous agreement,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescuers are continuing to search for people swept away by the floods\n\nA boy has survived deadly floods in Spain by climbing up a tree and holding on to it overnight.\n\nThe authorities said his family's car had been swept into a river and the boy's father was still missing.\n\nThe 10-year-old was being treated for hypothermia, Spanish media reported.\n\nAt least three people have died and another three are missing as record rainfall caused flooding in central Spain, according to police.\n\nBridges were torn down and roads turned into rivers of mud in the heaviest-hit regions southwest of Madrid.\n\nIn a rural part of this area, the boy's family had been trying to escape the floods when their car was dragged into the river, the head of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, said.\n\n\"The poor boy spent the whole night perched in a tree,\" she said.\n\nSpain's civil guard police force said the boy's mother and sister had been found, but rescue services were still looking for his father near Aldea de Fresno.\n\nThe father was one of three people swept away by the heavy rainfall rescuers were still looking for, the civil guard said.\n\nIt also confirmed three deaths as a result of the storm in the Toledo region, southwest of Madrid.\n\nThe Spanish weather service (Aemet) said it had registered record rainfall of 9cm (3.5in) in the region on Sunday.\n\nClean-up operations continued on Tuesday, with people removing mud and debris left behind by the floods.\n\nThe regional administrations in Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha have asked the federal government to declare the affected areas \"catastrophe zones\", which would make Spanish government money available for repairing damaged buildings.\n\nResidents were warned by an emergency text message and loud alarm on Sunday about the storm - the first time the authorities had used this system.\n\nThe authorities said people adhering to advice to stay at home and leave vehicles behind had helped rescue services deal with the thousands of calls they received.\n\nSpain, along with much of Southern Europe, has endured an intense heatwave this summer.\n\nClimate scientists have warned that global warming means more water evaporating during the summer, leading to more intense storms.", "Scuffles broke out at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Woody Allen's film Coup De Chance.\n\nThe protesters chanted \"no rape culture\" as they attempted to get on to the red carpet, before being led away from the event.\n\nThe Venice Film Festival has given spots to new films by Woody Allen, Luc Besson and Roman Polanski, three directors hit by MeToo scandals.", "Police say they received a report of a shooting in the Ballsmill Road area at about 06:30 BST\n\nA man is in critical condition in hospital after being shot in the arm and neck while sitting in a vehicle near Crossmaglen, County Armagh.\n\nIt happened on the Ballsmill Road at about 06:30 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice said another vehicle pulled up, a man with his face covered exited and then shot the victim before making off.\n\nThe victim, who is in his 30s and lives locally, had been on his way to work, Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy said.\n\nIrish broadcaster RTÉ said he was found lying on the road by a passing motorist after the attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place in two locations along the Ballsmill Road outside Silverbridge.\n\nIn between the cordons, a forensic team has been searching for clues.\n\nThe road is a short distance from the border and sits just off the main Dundalk-Armagh road.\n\nA number of cordons have been set up near the scene of the shooting in the village\n\nPolice remain at the scene and a number of road closures are in place while investigations are ongoing.\n\nThey have appealed for anyone with information about the shoting to come forward.\n\nMr Murphy said it was \"a despicable and cowardly attack by criminal elements\".\n\n\"There is no place for these thugs on our streets,\" he added.", "Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, is set to be proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government - meaning it will be illegal to be a member or support the organisation.\n\nA draft order to be laid in Parliament will allow its assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized.\n\nThe home secretary said Wagner was \"violent and destructive... a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia\".\n\nShe said its work in Ukraine and Africa was a \"threat to global security\".\n\nSuella Braverman added: \"Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals.\"\n\n\"They are terrorists, plain and simple - and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law.\"\n\nWagner had played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as operating in Syria and countries in Africa including Libya and Mali.\n\nIts fighters have been accused of a number crimes including killing and torturing Ukrainian citizens.\n\nIn 2020, the US said Wagner soldiers had planted landmines around the Libyan capital, Tripoli.\n\nAnd in July, the UK said the group had carried out \"executions and torture in Mali and the Central African Republic\".\n\nThe group's future was thrown into uncertainty earlier this year when its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against Russia's military leaders.\n\nPrigozhin, who founded the group in 2014, died in a suspicious plane crash along with other Wagner figures on 23 August and was buried in St Petersburg.\n\nThe group's name will now be added alongside that of other proscribed organisations in the UK such as Hamas and Boko Haram.\n\nThe Terrorism Act 2000 gives the home secretary the power to proscribe an organisation if they believe it is concerned in terrorism.\n\nBefore the act, it was only possible to proscribe organisations connected to terrorism in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe proscription order will make it a criminal offence to support the group - including by arranging a meetings aimed at furthering the organisation's activities, expressing support for its aims or displaying its flag or logo.\n\nCommitting a proscription offence could lead to 14 years in prison.\n\nThe government had come under pressure from MPs for some months to proscribe the group.\n\nEarlier this year, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy urged the government to proscribe Wagner saying it was \"responsible for the appalling atrocities in Ukraine and across the world\".\n\nWelcoming the draft order on Tuesday, Mr Lammy said on social media: \"This is long overdue, but it's welcome the government has finally acted. Now the government should press for a Special Tribunal to prosecute Putin for his crime of aggression.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office had imposed sanctions on the group, including freezing the assets of Prigozhin and several top commanders.\n\nHowever, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Conservative MP Alicia Kearns said in July: \"Sanctions are not enough - the UK needs to proscribe the Wagner group for what it is: a terrorist organisation.\"\n\nHer committee also produced a report which said the government had been \"remarkably complacent\" and criticised its \"dismal lack of understanding of Wagner's hold beyond Europe, in particular their grip on African states\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has been seriously weakened by its failed mutiny in June against Russia's generals, as well as the recent death in the plane crash of its top leadership, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner writes.\n\nBut proscribing it in law will make it harder for members to move money around, our correspondent adds. It will also provide a legal basis for Ukrainians and others to sue Wagner for potentially billions of pounds in compensation through the British courts.\n• None Is Wagner still a threat to global security?", "Campaigners and opposition MPs have called for action on sewage spills, following a BBC News investigation.\n\nIt suggests three major water companies illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times in 2022 on dry days.\n\nThe practice, known as \"dry spilling\", is banned because it can lead to higher concentrations of sewage in waterways.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) said it was currently conducting its largest criminal investigation into \"non-compliance\" by water companies.\n\nWater companies are allowed to release sewage after it has rained, to prevent it overwhelming the system and backing up into people's homes.\n\nBut BBC News cross-referenced 2022 spill data from Thames, Southern and Wessex Water with rainfall data, to identify 3,500 hours of potential dry spills - which are illegal.\n\nOn Tuesday, water campaigner and musician Feargal Sharkey said it \"provides another layer of the horror that has become the water industry in England\", while Labour called for an \"immediate investigation into both the breach of the licence and the environmental damage caused\".\n\nThis was echoed by Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Tim Farron.\n\n\"These revelations are scandalous and the government must act immediately,\" he said.\n\n\"These companies should be held criminally responsible and see their day in court if found to be breaching their permits.\"\n\n\"They cut back enforcement and monitoring against water companies releasing this filth and are now failing to prosecute them when they are blatantly breaking the law,\" he said.\n\nThe EA's environmental-protection budget, funded by the government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was halved between 2010 and 2020.\n\nAnd one of its environmental-regulation officers told the BBC News investigation there was a \"firm link\" between budget cuts and staff losses and its failure to identify and investigate dry spills.\n\nBut in more recent years, the government has tried to reverse this trend, increasing the budget by 12% in the past year.\n\nAnd Environment Secretary Therese Coffey told BBC News government work had revealed the potential dry spills.\n\n\"We've got the monitoring going - that's how we're able to uncover the scale of the issue that we're tackling,\" she told BBC One's Breakfast programme.\n\nBut the Rivers Trust charity said the BBC News investigation highlighted bigger problems with the whole sewerage system, of blockages, misconnections and broken pipes.\n\nThe government has promised £56bn of capital investments to improve the UK's ageing sewerage system, including tackling the issue of groundwater infiltration.\n\nWessex Water said groundwater entered the network through largely private pipes - not owned by water companies - which could lead to diluted spilling.\n\nBut Prof David Hall, at the University of Greenwich, questioned whether the problem could be solved while private companies owned the system.\n\n\"The privatised system is at the heart of these problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It provides a very successful commercial model for the companies, allowing their owners to make no investments but still take out dividends of £1-2bn every year.\"\n\nNine companies handle sewage in England - but six did not provide their spill data to the BBC News investigation because industry regulator Ofwat and the EA were already investigating them for potential illegal spilling.\n\nJamie Woodward, professor of geography, at the University of Manchester, said this was unacceptable.\n\n\"Much greater transparency is needed across the water industry,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's a scandal that water companies can deny environmental-information requests to hide important data on hazardous sewage dumps. Making these data available is clearly in the public interest.\"\n\nIn response to the BBC News findings:", "Three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty sustained a facial injury in a minor altercation with fellow Great Britain swimmer Luke Greenbank during a recent training session.\n\nIt is understood Peaty did not require stitches, with British Swimming saying the incident was \"quickly and effectively resolved\" by the athletes and staff present.\n\nThe Sun reported the incident took place after 28-year-old Peaty made a comment about Greenbank's girlfriend, GB swimmer Anna Hopkin.\n\nHowever, Peaty later told The Times he had not mentioned Hopkin.\n\n\"Me and Luke are fine,\" he said. \"We had a moment and then shook hands immediately after some tension after a hard training set.\n\n\"I have no idea how Anna got dragged into this. I didn't even mention Anna and it's unfair on her.\"\n\nPeaty and Hopkin were part of the GB team who won 4×100m mixed medley relay gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, while he and Greenbank helped GB to silver in the 4x100m medley.\n\nPeaty - who holds the world record for the 50m and 100m breaststroke - pulled out of April's British Championships, citing mental health issues.\n\nHe has previously spoken about periods of depression and problems with alcohol, and earlier this year said he had been in a \"self-destructive spiral\".\n\nHe still intends to compete at next year's Olympic Games in Paris, where he will seek to win a third successive 100m breaststroke gold medal.", "Discount chain B&M has agreed to buy dozens of shops from the collapsed retailer Wilko, as talks over a bigger rescue deal hang in the balance.\n\nB&M said it will take on up to 51 of Wilko's 400 stores in a deal worth £13m.\n\nWilko fell into administration in August as it struggled with sharp losses and a cash shortage.\n\nIt is understood that a deal tabled by HMV's owner has stalled over issues with suppliers and funding.\n\nWilko was founded in 1930 and by the 1990s became one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers.\n\nBut the discount chain has faced strong competition from rivals including B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains, as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nWilko's stores remain open for now as it seeks a buyer for a bigger chunk of the estate, but more than 12,500 jobs were put at risk by the collapse.\n\nThe first redundancies - 269 jobs at Wilko's support centre in Worksop and 14 others at a subsidiary firm - started on Monday.\n\nB&M has not confirmed which Wilko shops it has bought, or how many posts could be saved as a result of the deal.\n\nThe money raised by the sale will help recover funds for Wilko's creditors, as administrators PwC oversee the running of the business with all of its associated costs such as employee wages.\n\nRetail expert Catherine Shuttleworth said the deal would also allow B&M to attract more customers. The chain has stepped up its expansion plans in the wake of the pandemic, opening 21 new stores in the last financial year.\n\n\"This may also create local jobs for Wilko colleagues in the newly-owned stores,\" Ms Shuttleworth said.\n\nB&M - which was originally called Billington & Mayman after its founders Malcolm Billington and Brian Mayman - opened its first store in Blackpool in 1978, before expanding throughout the UK.\n\nIt took on a number of shops from the likes of Woolworths and is now registered in Luxembourg, with shops in France.\n\nSeveral other retailers and investors have reportedly been in talks with PwC about potentially buying Wilko's shops or online brand.\n\nAt the end of last week, Canadian billionaire Doug Putman was thought to be edging closer to a deal to buy up to 300 shops. In 2019, his company Sunrise Records bought the collapsed music chain HMV and saved some 1,500 jobs and about 100 stores.\n\nThat takeover resulted in redundancies and shop closures, including the company's flagship Oxford Street store in London - but following a major turnaround, plans are in place to reopen it later this year.\n\nMr Putman's plan to buy Wilko is still \"live\", a source familiar with the situation told the BBC, but the businessman is apparently struggling to nail down final funding for the deal.\n\nThe source said it was a complicated deal to stitch together, including sorting out terms with all-important suppliers to fill the shelves.\n\nThey said everything possible was being done to give Mr Putman's bid its \"best shot\" and that discussions could continue for another few weeks.\n\nIf Mr Putman's bid fails Wilko will likely go into what is called liquidation, with rival retailers picking up parcels of stores.\n\nBill Grimsey, former boss of Wickes and Iceland, told the BBC's Wake Up to Money programme that he felt a sense of \"déjà vu\" when looking at Wilko's performance in recent years.\n\n\"It's Woolworths all over again,\" he said, likening it to the once popular High Street chain that went bust in 2008.\n\n\"It's seen a loss of identity, it's got too many stores in the wrong place and competitors are racing ahead… They've been caught napping for the last 10 years.\"\n\nMany Wilko shops are in High Street locations in traditional town centres. While these locations are convenient for shoppers without cars, since the pandemic there has been a shift to bigger retail parks and out-of-town options with more space, benefiting Wilko rivals like B&M and Poundland.\n\nAre you a current employee at Wilko? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What went wrong at Wilko?", "Kane \"Kano\" Robinson and Ashley Walters, formerly of So Solid Crew, star in Top Boy\n\nThe final series of Top Boy, Netflix's hit London street crime drama, has gone down well with TV critics.\n\nThe friction between powerful drug dealers Sully (played by Kane Robinson) and Dushane (Ashley Walters) \"defines the final season of the gripping gang drama\", the Guardian said.\n\nRadio Times described the swansong as \"frenetic\" and \"pacy and powerful\", but one that \"leaves you wanting more\".\n\n\"Top Boy and its captivating characters will be sorely missed,\" it added.\n\nThe final series, which will arrive on Netflix on Thursday, finds the fictional Summerhouse Hackney estate facing up to the consequences of long-running corruption while also facing new violent threats.\n\nThe Drake-backed drama's conclusion sees a rival Irish gang, the McGees, led by Jonny (Barry Keoghan) and Tadgh (Brian Gleeson), bring fresh tensions.\n\nIn a four-star review, Radio Times' Morgan Jeffery said it was \"a powerful send-off for an important series with a stellar ensemble cast\" - which includes the Bafta-nominated Jasmine Jobson returning as Jaq - who are \"at the very top of their game\".\n\nHe continued: \"This was certainly the right time to wrap things up - there's only so many times we can see Dushane and Sully at loggerheads before circumstances once again force them back into an uneasy partnership, the characters themselves even remarking on the familiarity of that premise here.\"\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin star Barry Keoghan joins the cast for the final series\n\nThe Evening Standard's Nick Clark, in another four-star review, wrote: \"If the show suffers without the charisma of Micheal Ward's Jamie, a trump card is the addition of guest stars Barry Keoghan, Oscar nominated for The Banshees of Inisherin, and Brian Gleeson as Irish gangsters muscling in on Sully's drug operation.\n\n\"What has always elevated Top Boy is that it was not just about the drugs and the guns, the gang culture and the money, but it's about the families, friends and communities too,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It's a show that touches on real social issues from police and politicians' treatment of those in the estates to gentrification, Brexit to immigration.\"\n\nThe Independent' Nick Hilton awarded three stars as Irish screenwriter Ronan Bennett's \"bleak but cinematic vision of modern urban life smashes to a close\".\n\n\"Attempts to crowbar in a contemporary political resonance (the Home Office is trying to send a Summerhouse resident on Dushane's crew 'back to Rwanda') and expand the visual scale of proceedings (a shootout in a care home ends with a half-dozen bodies, an event that would presumably lead the national news for weeks) detract from the narrative realism,\" he noted.\n\n\"Top Boy takes itself seriously, but, in the end, it was never [US crime drama] The Wire,\" he continued. \"But then, what is?\n\n\"This concluding chapter of the Top Boy saga pulls none of its punches - if anything it makes too many of them, like a rabbit-punching flyweight - and demonstrates that a big American streamer can be trusted to tell Black, British stories. Perhaps more so than our domestic broadcasters.\"\n\nWalters and Robinson have said they always wanted the story to end \"in the right way\". The recent trailers promised there would be \"no loose ends\".\n\n\"As ever, Top Boy transcends gang matters to consider its wider impact and contexts,\" wrote the FT's Dan Einav, awarding four stars. \"A quasi-novelistic saga of the streets, it continues to immerse us in a fragile community and to probe failing social systems.\"\n\nHe praised the \"thoughtful writing and instinctual performances\", adding: \"What stands out again is the complete absence of glamour.\n\n\"Criminality here is never aspirational but is often inevitable, as seen in a subplot involving Jamie's brother Stef becoming drawn to the world he was sheltered from. The show may be coming to an end, but the cycle of violence seems set to go on.\"\n\nJasmine Jobson returns as Jaq, looking to protect her family\n\nThis is the fifth series but is officially billed as season three by Netflix due to the first two having appeared on a different network, Channel 4.\n\nThe streaming giant revived Top Boy, after it was cancelled by Channel 4, when Canadian rapper Drake championed it and became an executive producer.\n\nAs well as Walters and Robinson, aka Kano, the show's cast has featured other rappers-turned-actors including Little Simz and Dave, plus future stars like Letitia Wright and Michaela Coel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people who spent days stranded at the Burning Man festival have started to leave, creating a huge traffic jam in the Nevada desert.\n\nHeavy rain created a mud bath at the remote festival site and flooded roads, trapping some 72,000 people there.\n\nTraffic was allowed to leave as of Monday afternoon which prompted a mass exodus from the site.\n\nThe wait time to leave the festival was five hours as of Tuesday morning.\n\nAnd there were reports of high tensions in the queue.\n\nIn a statement sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said that exhausted revellers had \"lashed out\" at each other while stuck trying to leave.\n\nHe added that \"large amounts of property and trash\" had been strewn around the festival site, including vehicles that had to be abandoned.\n\n\"Some participants were unwilling to wait or use the beaten path to attempt to leave the desert and have had to abandon their vehicles and personal property,\" he said.\n\nThe event's traditional finale - the burning of an effigy - was postponed twice before finally taking place on Monday evening.\n\nPeople were left stranded due to flooded roads in the area\n\nThe rainstorm that hit the Black Rock Desert near the end of last week is thought to have been the longest, heaviest rainfall since the festival began more than 30 years ago.\n\nMartyna Sowa, a dancer who was booked to perform at the event, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she was surprised at how bad the conditions became.\n\n\"It was a really strange experience,\" she said.\n\nRevellers, who are expected to be largely self-sufficient as part of the festival's ethos, were told to take shelter and to conserve food, fuel and water.\n\nBut the bad weather meant the portable toilet facilities were temporarily out of use, because service vehicles were unable to drive on the mud to empty them.\n\nWhile many remained on site, some chose to hike 5 miles (8km) through the mud to the nearest road. Among them was American DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock, who were given a lift by fans after walking out of the area over the weekend.\n\nOthers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties. \"I'm having a great time,\" Jazz Korona told the BBC.\n\nBy Sunday, however, the sense of exhilaration had been replaced by a growing air of exasperation with people increasingly keen to leave.\n\nFaye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she had been \"covered in mud for the past three days\".\n\n\"There are no showers here,\" she said. \"The only thing you can do is wash with baby wipes inside your tent.\"\n\nThe unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of the giant wooden effigy.\n\nOrganisers said a man's death on Friday was unrelated to the weather conditions.\n\nEmergency services were called to help the man, said to be about 40 years old, but he could not be resuscitated, they said. The local sheriff's office .\n\nBurning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events, in which visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert.\n\nIt was founded in June 1986 and was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nTickets can be very hard to get, and festivalgoers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.", "Local police say two people excavated a \"big gap\" on an existing cavity of the ancient Great Wall to create a shortcut\n\nA part of China's Great Wall has been severely damaged by construction workers in central Shanxi province, who used an excavator to dig through it.\n\nPolice say two people are suspected of trying to create a shortcut for their construction work.\n\nThe two have been detained and the case is under further investigation.\n\nThe 38-year-old man and 55-year-old woman were working near the affected area, the 32nd Great Wall.\n\nThey dug a \"big gap\" by widening an existing cavity of the Great Wall so that their excavator could pass through it. Police say they wanted to reduce the distance they had to travel.\n\nPolice also stressed that the two caused \"irreversible damage to the integrity of the Ming Great Wall and to the safety of the cultural relics\".\n\nLocated in Youyu county, the 32nd Great Wall is a section of the Ming Great Wall and is categorised as a historical and cultural site which is protected at the provincial level.\n\nOfficers were alerted to the damage on 24 August after receiving reports that there was a huge gap in the wall.\n\nThe Great Wall, a Unesco world heritage site since 1987, was built and rebuilt on a continual basis from around 220 BC until the Ming Dynasty in the 1600s, when it was the world's largest military structure.\n\nThe best-preserved parts were built during the Ming Dynasty between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is one of these that now has a huge new hole blasted through it.\n\nThe section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing is one of the country's best known tourist attractions\n\nWhile the better-known parts of the Great Wall consist of beautifully built structures dotted with ancient watchtowers, other parts of the structure are crumbling or have disappeared altogether.\n\nA 2016 report from newspaper Beijing Times suggests more than 30% of the Ming Great Wall has disappeared entirely, with only 8% of it considered well preserved.\n\nTo understand why somebody - such as the accused - might have such a blasé attitude towards wrecking a section of this world-famous historical structure, it is important to consider what it is.\n\nThe Great Wall is a series of battlements stretching across vast sections of northern China and it is in widely varying states of disrepair. It is sometimes found in places with villages or towns, but often in remote areas of various provinces.\n\nThe oldest portions, dating back thousands of years, were rammed earth walls and now appear as mounds, not even immediately recognisable as the Great Wall.\n\nMuch of the degradation of the wall has been attributed to local farmers stealing bricks or stones to build houses or animal pens.\n\nMore recently, the government has gone to greater lengths to preserve the Great Wall and, as a result, these two people are in a lot of trouble.\n\nThe public in China won't think that these actions have been extremely unusual, given the previous destruction of the Great Wall, but they will be upset by them, given the enormous historical and cultural importance of this structure - not only for China but for all of humanity.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nBritain's Jack Draper believes he can \"go all the way in this sport\" after his encouraging US Open run came to an end in the last 16.\n\nDraper's bid for a maiden Grand Slam quarter-final ended in a 6-3 3-6 6-3 6-4 loss to eighth seed Andrey Rublev.\n\nThe 21-year-old pushed Russia's Rublev hard in a physical encounter in a humid New York, but faded at the end.\n\n\"It's not my tennis holding me back, it's my physicality and staying on court consistently,\" he said.\n\n\"Once I do that I think I will prove to myself that I will be able to be one of the best players in the world.\"\n\nDraper, who was a doubt for the final major of the year with a shoulder problem, was the last Briton remaining in the singles.\n\nReaching the last 16 was Draper's best performance at a Grand Slam in his fledging career and provides optimism going into next season.\n\n\"My tennis is right there. I've barely played in the last couple of months and I've come here, made the fourth round and pushed a top-10 player,\" he said.\n\n\"If I just can get things right, still be being able to compete and train, I think I can go all the way in this sport.\"\n\nDraper's ranking plummeted after missing almost three months of the season - including Wimbledon - with a tear in his left shoulder.\n\nBut the left-hander, who reached a career-high of 38 at the start of the year, will return to the cusp of the world's top 100.\n• None Defending champion Alcaraz cruises into last eight\n\nOnce the pain of a Grand Slam exit settles, Draper will reflect on a week which showcased the huge talent he possesses.\n\nCounting a big serve and hefty forehand as his biggest weapons, the left-hander's ability has never been in doubt.\n\nKeeping fit has been his biggest problem, arriving at the US Open with what he described as a \"70-30 chance\" of playing after another shoulder injury.\n\nThe injury, sustained at the Winston-Salem Open last month, was separate to the one that had kept him out for the previous three months.\n\nBut he showed resilience in New York to come through his first three matches and he battled hard in testing conditions against the seemingly-tireless Rublev under the roof on Louis Armstrong Stadium.\n\n\"I gave it all mentally but I was pretty drained honestly,\" he said.\n\n\"You are playing against a guy who is tough to get the ball past. It is physically quite gruelling.\"\n\nHaving only played two matches on the ATP Tour since tearing a shoulder muscle at the French Open in May, it was perhaps unsurprising he faded physically after falling two-sets-to-one down.\n\nDraper's second serve came under increasing pressure and his service speed dropped as he was broken in the fifth game of the fourth set.\n\nThe result looked close to a formality at that point but the British number four continued to fight as hard as his body would allow him.\n\nHis weariness showed in a double fault which brought up a match point, though Rublev was unable to take the opportunity, missing another return on a second as Draper managed to hold.\n\nThat asked the question of Rublev to serve out and, after letting a third match point slip when he watched a return clip the line, took his fourth with a cross-court forehand winner.\n\nThe enormous roar Rublev let out when he finally clinched victory indicated the stress he had been put under by the Briton.\n\n\"From the first point I was feeling the ball really well and I thought Jack was playing well,\" said Rublev, who has reached his fourth US Open quarter-final.\n\n\"But I was able to break him and I kept thinking that even if I was losing I would make the match physical because Jack is coming back from injury.\n\n\"You could see in the fourth set he was tired and not able to play the same way.\n\n\"I was able to add extra speed and finish the match.\"\n\nRublev, 25, goes on to face either compatriot Daniil Medvedev, who is seeded third, or Australian 13th seed Alex de Minaur.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "GMB union members have protested in Birmingham about the evaluation of their roles\n\nThe news that Birmingham City Council has declared itself effectively bankrupt is only likely to add to the pressure on government to take another look at how council funding works.\n\nThere are particular circumstances affecting this local authority to do with a bill for equal pay claims and a problematic IT system, but it's not the only local authority facing tough financial times.\n\nThe government has made more money available to spend for this year and next year, but councils say the cost of providing services has shot up so much they're still short.\n\nSome are turning to their reserves - basically money they've set aside - to help pay for day-to-day spending, and others are trying to find ways to cut back.\n\nThat can affect the services that people rely on, like leisure centres or support for people with disabilities.\n\nRemember, councils were hit hard during the years of austerity - and so now some are warning that they are really struggling to make ends meet.\n\nBirmingham City Council's been sounding warning signals about its financial position for some time.\n\nThe authority had already said it would stop spending on everything that's not completely essential - now it's issued a notice which basically means it can't balance the books.\n\nThat doesn't mean the council will stop functioning - councils have to provide certain services by law.\n\nBut it does mean it's in serious financial straits and now has to have a meeting to work out what it's going to do next.\n\nThere have been calls for some time for the government to re-examine the way that councils are funded.\n\nThey get money in three main ways - from central government grants, through business rates and from council tax.\n\nCouncil leaders say they often don't know how much money they're going to get for each year far enough in advance and so they struggle to work out future spending plans.\n\nIn the 2021 spending review, councils were set funding levels up until April 2025, but many leaders say they want more certainty.", "An artist's impression shows the planned redevelopment of Dundonald International Ice Bowl\n\nA multi-million pound redevelopment at Dundonald International Ice Bowl has been approved at a full meeting of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council (LCCC).\n\nCouncillors agreed to invest £52m in the project over the next three years.\n\nThe UK government's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) had already pledged £12.2m.\n\nCouncil chief executive, David Burns, said the investment was a landmark commitment.\n\nThe Ice Bowl opened in 1986 and has more than 500,000 visitors a year.\n\nThe mayor of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Andrew Gowan, said that after 37 years the building was no longer fit for purpose and the \"announcement means we will see an exciting new leisure facility open to the public in 2026\".\n\n\"We expect visitor numbers to rise to more than 700,000 in the first year,\" he added.\n\n\"During construction, the existing ice bowl will remain open for business with full access to all activities.\n\n\"This flagship facility will help to grow our economy regionally, create jobs and enhance tourism within the LCCC area and greater Belfast.\n\n\"It will also contribute to local regeneration and support inclusion and equality of access to important health and wellbeing activities locally.\"\n\nVisitors will be able to enjoy an Olympic-sized ice rink, 24-lane bowling alley. 100-station gym, community rooms, restaurant and coffee shop.\n\nBelfast East assembly member Naomi Long said the Ice Bowl was a \"fondly-regarded local institution\".\n\n\"I'll be eagerly awaiting updates on the redevelopment work as it gets underway hopefully in the near future,\" she added.\n\nA planning application was originally made to rebuild the Ice Bowl in 2014.\n\nBut in December of that year the plans were put on hold due to concerns over costs for a range of projects associated with the reform of councils which was happening at the time.", "The seizure was described as a \"significant blow to an organised crime gang\"\n\nA Northern Ireland-based lorry driver has been charged after cocaine worth £6.8m was found hidden in a lorry in Liverpool, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.\n\nEdgaras Slusnys, from Randall Heights, Kilkeel in County Down, was arrested after his lorry was stopped on Friday.\n\nOfficers said 136 kilos of cocaine were found in a \"sophisticated hide\" in the rear doors of the lorry's trailer.\n\nMr Slusnys is charged with possession with intent to supply class A drugs.\n\nThe Lithuanian national, 37, was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 23 October.\n\nThe lorry he was driving is registered with a Northern Ireland-based haulier.\n\nOnce cut, the cocaine found would have a street value of about £6.8m, the NCA said.\n\nThe arrest was part of an ongoing NCA investigation.\n\nDavid Cunningham of the NCA said the seizure has dealt a \"significant blow to an organised crime gang and removed a substantial quantity of dangerous drugs from the streets\".\n\n\"The investigation continues to identify and bring to justice all those involved,\" he added.", "Equinor hope to develop Rosebank close to BP's Clair Ridge development (pictured) which has been in operation since 2018\n\nThe controversial Rosebank offshore development off Shetland has been granted consent by regulators.\n\nLocated 80 miles west of Shetland, Rosebank is the UK's largest untapped oil field and is estimated to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil.\n\nDevelopment and production approval has been given to owners Equinor and Ithaca Energy, following reassurances over environmental concerns.\n\nThe plan has faced widespread criticism due to its impact on climate change.\n\nSupporters of the project say it is vital for the energy security as it will reduce reliance on imports.\n\nIts owners say it will create about 1,600 jobs during the height of construction, support 450 UK-based jobs during its lifetime, and provide \"a significant amount of tax revenues for the treasury\".\n\nIt comes after the UK government said in July that it would issue hundreds of new licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.\n\nBut last month 50 MPs and peers from all major parties raised concerns Rosebank could produce 200 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and urged then Energy Secretary Grant Shapps to block it.\n\nIt has been predicted that Rosebank could produce 69,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, and about 44 million cubic feet of gas per day in its first 10 years.\n\nProduction is expected to begin in 2026/27 but a senior executive with Norweigan state oil company Equinor has admitted the new field will not be electrified at that point.\n\nElectrification of the extraction process is one of the key industry pledges for reducing its production emissions.\n\nThe oil and gas regulator, North Sea Transition Authority, said approval had been awarded \"in accordance with our published guidance and taking net zero considerations into account throughout the project's lifecycle\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the Rosebank oil field?\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said it \"makes sense\" for the UK to use its own oil and gas supplies as the UK makes the transition to renewables.\n\nThe UK has a target to hit net zero - emitting no more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide than the amount taken out of the atmosphere - by 2050.\n\n\"This is the right long-term decision for the UK's energy security,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho said its value to the economy would give the UK greater energy independence.\n\n\"We will continue to back the UK's oil and gas industry to underpin our energy security, grow our economy and help us deliver the transition to cheaper, cleaner energy,\" she added.\n\nAnti-Rosebank protesters outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero earlier this year\n\nOpponents argue the oil and gas produced from Rosebank will be sold at world market prices, so the project will not cut prices for UK consumers.\n\n\"It won't make the slightest difference to people's energy bills\", the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas claimed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nEquinor - which is the majority owner of Rosebank - confirmed that during a briefing for journalists earlier.\n\n\"If the UK needs Rosebank oil, it will go to the UK through open market mechanisms\", said Arne Gurtner, Equinor's senior vice president for the UK.\n\nScotland's Energy Secretary Neil Gray raised concerns that the majority of what will be extracted from Rosebank will go overseas rather than contribute to domestic energy security.\n\n\"We are therefore disappointed that approval has been given by the UK government while these concerns remain unaddressed,\" he added.\n\nHis colleague Stephen Flynn - the SNP's Westminster leader and MP for Aberdeen South, a constituency with strong links to the oil and gas industry - did not oppose the oil field outright.\n\nHe said that if the UK government was considering oil and gas projects \"through the prism of energy security, net zero, jobs, opportunities and concurrent renewables investment... then of course it should go ahead.\"\n\n\"Where I have concerns is I don't think the UK government is looking at projects through that prism,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that his party will not revoke the licence for Rosebank if it wins the election.\n\nBut he added that no new licences would be granted if Labour gained power.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast that allowing the North Sea exploration to go ahead would provide \"the stability that we desperately need in our economy\"\n\nScottish Green MSPs were among those who joined a protest against the Rosebank decision outside the UK government building in Edinburgh\n\nMeanwhile it was condemned as an \"utter catastrophe\" by the Scottish Greens, the SNP's partners in the Scottish government.\n\nClimate spokesperson Mark Ruskell said it was the \"worst possible choice at the worst possible time\" and showed \"total contempt for our environment and future generations\".\n\nHe was among dozens of climate activists demonstrating against the Rosebank decision out the UK government offices in Edinburgh.\n\nAnother, Bryce Goodall, said: \"We absolutely outraged that this has been decided in the midst of a cost of living crisis... this oil field is not going to do anything to lower energy bills or provide energy security whatsoever so I'm absolutely incensed with anger here.\"\n\nJuliet Dunstone, who was also part of the protest, said: \"We need to have a just transition and we need to prioritise people who are working in oil and gas to give them those green jobs and get them out of these polluting jobs that they're stuck in because we need to avert the climate crisis immediately or millions of people will die.\"\n\nBut Russell Borthwick, chief executive of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, said: \"Rosebank will make an important contribution to UK and European energy security, create several hundred new jobs here in Scotland and result in over £6bn being spent within the UK supply chain which is anchored in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.\n\n\"Today's announcement is a welcome shot in arm for the UK energy sector which will give investors, operators and the wider supply chain confidence as they strive to provide the power we need here and now and transition towards a net zero future.\"\n\nFor more than half a century, North Sea oil has been at the heart of economic and political debate in Scotland.\n\nThe discovery of the \"black gold\" turned Aberdeen into the oil capital of Europe and fuelled the Scottish independence movement.\n\nCritics of the UK's approach say it should have followed Norway's lead by investing revenue generated by the boom in a sovereign investment fund.\n\nNow the industry has moved westwards into the stormy waters of the North Atlantic ocean, the focus of the debate has switched to the environmental impact of drilling but those old arguments about economic benefit have been revived too.\n\nFor decades Shetland prospered handsomely from oil thanks to a deal the local council struck with energy firms to allow the construction of a terminal at Sullum Voe.\n\nHowever the oil from Rosebank will not be processed on Shetland but offloaded by tanker and sold on the international market.\n\nSupporters say the project, run by the Norwegian state energy firm Equinor, will create hundreds of jobs and bring in billions of pounds in investment.\n\nBut critics say the biggest winner is Norway.", "Campaigner protest the new Rosebank oil field outside a government building in Edinburgh\n\nFor the second week in a row, the politics of climate swirl again.\n\nIn his big green speech last week, the prime minister said his government would be \"brave\" in its decision making and focus on what was in the long term interests of the country.\n\nBut such interests, politically, are always in the eye of the beholder.\n\nThe prime minister has welcomed the approval of the Rosebank oil and gas field.\n\nCritics accuse the government of recklessness. Rishi Sunak argues he is being pragmatic.\n\nThis drilling isn't expected to lower bills in the UK, but a state seen as rogue - Russia - weaponising fossil fuels, has transformed one element of this debate.\n\nAnd most accept Russia's invasion of Ukraine gives the argument about energy security much, much more clout.\n\nBut one figure steeped in the politics of climate change suggested to me that Mr Sunak ought to be more candid about the trade off here - improving the UK's energy security, but allowing more greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nScotland's First Minister, the SNP leader Humza Yousaf, argues the approval dilutes incentives for energy companies to transition to renewables.\n\nThe UK government claims it will boost their investments in them.\n\nAnd then there is the Labour Party - whose position on all this is as important as it is fascinating.\n\nCritics accuse Labour of weakness - not having their cake, and then eating it anyway - Keir Starmer insists he's being responsible in both opposing this approval but saying a Labour government would respect existing licences that have been granted.\n\nOpposition parties, in normal times, don't have agency. They can talk, but not do.\n\nBut, a year-ish from the general election, with Labour miles ahead in the opinion polls, their view on this does matter to whether it happens.\n\nA categorical refusal to allow the project to proceed under a Labour government could squash it right now.\n\nBut the party's judgement - in its quest for economic credibility and political stability - is that would be wrong.", "Hollywood writers ended their strike at midnight Pacific time (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday, after nearly five months.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America (WGA) said in a statement that union leaders \"voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike\".\n\nIts 11,500 members will then vote on whether to approve a three-year deal that offers pay raises and protections around use of artificial intelligence.\n\nA separate dispute involves actors, who are also on strike.\n\nThe writers' walkout began on 2 May, which members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) joined on 13 July, making it the longest strike to affect Hollywood in decades. They were striking in a row over pay and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry.\n\nIt has cost the US economy around $5bn (£4.08bn), according to an estimate from Milken Institute economist Kevin Klowden.\n\nThe dispute has shut down many of America's top shows, including Billions, The Handmaid's Tale, Hacks, Severance, Yellowjackets, The Last of Us, Stranger Things, Abbott Elementary and several daytime and late-night talk shows.\n\nSome of them can now return to the air with Bill Maher, host of HBO's \"Real Time,\" posting on social media that he would be back with fresh episodes starting Friday.\n\nEarlier this week, screenwriters said they had reached a tentative deal with studio bosses, although no details were given.\n\nHowever, the end of the WGA strike does not return Hollywood to normal as the actors' union which walked off the job in July remains on strike.\n\nJust like writers, actors are looking to improve wages, working conditions, and health and pension benefits.\n\nThey are also keen to establish guardrails for the use of artificial intelligence in future television and film productions.\n\nThe WGA breakthrough could act as a template for SAG-AFTRA to draft its own deal with Hollywood studios.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa women are \"dreading\" playing on Sunday because of issues with the club's \"clingy\" shirts, says football commentator Jacqui Oatley.\n\nVilla's male players have reportedly told the club the shirts are retaining sweat, making them uncomfortable.\n\nThe new home claret and blue shirts, made by British sportswear group Castore, are the worst affected - noticeably changing colour in games.\n\n\"This is going to be a big problem,\" Oatley told BBC Newsbeat.\n\nAston Villa women are due to wear the kit in their Women's Super League opener against Manchester United on Sunday, which kicks off at 12:30 BST and is live on BBC Two.\n\nBBC Sport has been told several female players are unhappy about the prospect of wearing the kit.\n\nIt is understood Villa highlighted concerns about the new strips to Castore before the start of the season. The club are working closely with the company and have asked it to come up with a solution for both the men's and women's teams as soon as possible.\n\n\"They've got four TV games coming up,\" said Oatley. \"Normally they'd absolutely relish those games and look forward to them. But they're actually dreading it because they're really conscious about how they're going to look in this wet, clingy kit - for obvious reasons.\"\n\nDuring most of Villa's men's matches this season, players have changed their soaked shirts at half-time.\n\nOatley said the women's team \"absolutely hated\" playing in the kit during a pre-season friendly with Chelsea.\n\n\"You can imagine, as a female athlete, you have plenty enough to think about just being the best you can be on the football field without thinking about getting sweaty and your kit clinging to you, both from a performance aspect as it is with the men but also from an aesthetic aspect,\" Oatley said.\n\n\"And, as we know, women are different specimens when it comes to our bodies and it can really affect us and how we perform if we're constantly thinking about how we look, or a top might be clinging to our breasts and also our body shapes.\n\n\"These are genuine issues for women which you would have thought somebody would have thought through before they released this kit.\n\n\"But it seems perhaps that wasn't the case, because they didn't think about it for the men so I'm quite sure they won't have thought about it for the women.\"\n\nIn May 2022, Villa announced they had signed a \"landmark multi-year\" deal with Castore.\n\nBBC Sport has approached Villa and Castore for comment.\n\nOn Wednesday, Aston Villa manager Unai Emery was asked about the shirts following his side's Carabao Cup defeat by Everton. While he did not give a direct response to the question, Emery's translator did acknowledge \"there is a situation\".\n• None Our coverage of Villa is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Villa - go straight to all the best content", "Police released a photo of the suspect leaving the daycare\n\nThe husband of the owner of a New York City nursery where a child died of suspected fentanyl poisoning has been charged with the death, officials say.\n\nFelix Herrera Garcia was on the run after he was caught on camera fleeing the Bronx nursery with large bags.\n\nHe is the fourth person to be charged following the death of one-year-old Nicholas Dominici this month.\n\nPolice found a large quantity of fentanyl and other drugs under a trapdoor at the nursery.\n\nThe US Drug Enforcement Administration and Mexican officials arrested Mr Herrera Garcia on Tuesday on a bus in Sinaloa, Mexico.\n\nUS Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that the latest arrest \"reflects our tireless pursuit of Herrera, who fled the daycare even as the children he abandoned inside were suffering from his poisonous trade\".\n\nHe has been charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.\n\nNicholas Dominici had been at the Divino Niño nursery for just a week when he was exposed to fentanyl hidden in the nap room, police said.\n\nFour children were exposed to fentanyl at a Bronx nursery\n\nThree other children were admitted to hospital after being exposed to the powerful narcotic. An analysis of urine from one of the victims confirmed the presence of the drug.\n\nThe nursery's owner, Grei Mendez, 36, and her tenant, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, are facing federal charges of narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death, as well as conspiracy charges. Both face life in prison if convicted.\n\nA lawyer for Ms Mendez has said she denies the charges and was unaware that drugs were being kept in the nursery.\n\nSurveillance footage and phone records show that after finding the children ill, Ms Mendez called her husband, Mr Herrera Garcia, several times before contacting 911. Her husband then came and removed several full shopping bags from the nursery, officials said.\n\nIn the indictment, prosecutors said Mr Herrera Garcia was seen on video \"moving swiftly\" out a backdoor of the apartment building where the nursery is located.\n\n\"Instead of following the paved alleyway behind the daycare's building, Herrera Garcia hurried through overgrown grass and bushes to exit the area,\" prosecutors said.\n\nOn Monday, a third arrest was made in the case. Officials say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, helped run a drug trafficking operation from the Divino Niño daycare centre.\n\nDuring a search of the suspect's home, police say they found a stamp that was used to mark drug packages as well as devices used to prepare narcotics.\n\nThe incident shocked residents in the north-western Kingsbridge Heights neighbourhood of the Bronx, which had the highest rate of deaths from drug overdoses out of all New York City boroughs in 2021.", "Kelsey's children are now in school every day\n\nThe number of children missing school in England is a crisis that needs to be tackled with bigger, bolder national measures, MPs say.\n\nThe proportion of pupils who have been missing a significant amount of their education is about double the levels seen before the pandemic.\n\nFigures for the 2022-23 academic year show 22.3% of pupils were \"persistently absent\", which is defined as missing 10% or more of their lessons.\n\nIn years before the pandemic, the rate was between 10 and 12%. In the last academic year it was 17.2% in primary schools and 28.3% in secondary schools.\n\nA new report by the Commons Education Select Committee warns mental-health problems and cost-of-living pressures on families are among the complex reasons.\n\nParents and schools in Folkestone, Kent, where absence is higher than the national average, tell BBC News why they are struggling.\n\nKelsey and her two children, Leo and Roxanne, were evicted from their home last autumn.\n\nThe family was rehoused in a flat two bus rides and at least 40 minutes from their primary school - and as Kelsey tried to stabilise their life, her mental health deteriorated.\n\n\"It was hard, mentally draining, physically draining, like you don't want to get out of bed,\" she says.\n\n\"You feel like you're not good enough for your children.\"\n\nKelsey's depression meant she was sometimes unable to get the children to school.\n\nAt first, she was too embarrassed to admit she was struggling. But the school kept asking why Leo and Roxanne were absent - and then began sending a minibus to collect and drop them off when Kelsey was having particularly bad days.\n\nThe Turner Schools Trust then found places for the children at a school nearer to their new home - and this term, Leo and Roxanne have been in every day.\n\n\"It's made a massive difference,\" Kelsey says. \"It gave me more spirit, just from accepting the help.\"\n\nAnd she now looks forward to hearing about the children's day and can walk them to school, knowing there is someone she can ask for help if she needs it.\n\nThe school's family liaison worker, Hayley Prescott, whose job includes picking up and dropping off children at risk of missing school, says it takes a while to build trust when families are in crises like Kelsey's.\n\n\"We've had a lot of families in the situation where they're going to be evicted, or placed in temporary accommodation - a bedroom with a sink, with a toilet down the corridor,\" she says.\n\nHayley Prescott works with families in crisis, often because of poor housing\n\nThe Education Select Committee report says the kind of intensive support Kelsey has received should be more widespread.\n\nRobin Walker, who chairs the committee, says missing school can damage \"children's education, their development, [and] future prospects\".\n\nThe report says a pilot scheme for attendance mentors, who help families get children to school, should be expanded. Currently, schools such as the ones I visited in in Folkestone are managing out of their own budget.\n\nThe Turner Schools Trust has created a full-time post, with a senior member of staff helping pupils who have missed a lot of school reintegrate.\n\nThey include Ava, who has just started Year 10 and is on a two-year waiting list to be assessed for autism.\n\nHer \"overwhelming\" anxiety meant she missed almost 17 months of primary school and then struggled to start secondary during the pandemic.\n\nBut she says having one person she can go to for support has helped her get back into school every day.\n\nHer mother, Ruth, is very proud of what Ava has achieved with the help of the school.\n\n\"[The school] have gone above and beyond to do things for Ava - and here we are, she's now coming in full time,\" Ruth says.\n\n\"She's put a huge amount of effort in - she's a credit to me and to the school.\"\n\nRuth says her daughter Ava has been doing \"brilliantly\", after support from the school to improve her attendance\n\nThe report calls for a series of other measures, including:\n\nCost-of-living pressures are making it harder for families to afford uniform, transport and food - all of which can become barriers to children attending school, it adds.\n\nTurner Schools Trust chief executive Seamus Murphy says his schools are seeing more \"deep poverty\" than ever.\n\nLast year, they distributed 200 Christmas-dinner food boxes to pupils and their families - and he is already planning for 500 this December.\n\nThere needs to be a better understanding of the impact of poverty, Mr Murphy says, to avoid a \"lost generation\" of children missing out on education.\n\n\"If you are living in rat-infested accommodation, you are struggling to sleep, you are sharing your room with siblings and aren't able to do homework, you are hungry, you are walking rather than taking the bus to school - all of those are headwinds for the poorest children to come to school,\" he adds.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the vast majority of children were now in school but it remained focused on ensuring no child falls through the cracks.\n\nIt said: \"We recently announced an expansion to our attendance hubs and mentors programme and we are also working closely with schools, trusts, governing bodies and local authorities to identify pupils in need of additional support.\"", "The case has been filed under Walliams' real name David Edward Williams\n\nDavid Walliams has filed a High Court case against the production company that makes ITV's Britain's Got Talent.\n\nThe action against FremantleMedia is listed as dealing with data protection. No other details have been given.\n\nThe actor, comedian and author was a judge on the show from 2012 to 2022.\n\nLast November, he admitted making \"disrespectful comments\" about two contestants during filming in 2020. He apologised and said that the remarks \"were never intended to be shared\".\n\nThe Guardian reported that a leaked transcript seen by the newspaper showed he had made derogatory and sexually explicit remarks about contestants during the recording of an episode of the talent show in January 2020.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the TV personality said: \"I would like to apologise to the people I made disrespectful comments about during breaks in filming for Britain's Got Talent in 2020.\n\n\"These were private conversations and - like most conversations with friends - were never intended to be shared. Nevertheless, I am sorry.\"\n\nThames TV, which is part of FremantleMedia, said the company regarded Walliams' comments as private, but that his use of language was \"inappropriate\".\n\nDavid Walliams was a judge on Britain's Got Talent between 2012 and 2022\n\nThis January, Fremantle announced that former Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli would join Britain's Got Talent for its 2023 series, effectively replacing Walliams.\n\nWalliams remains one of the country's most successful entertainment figures. He rose to fame alongside Matt Lucas on BBC comedy Little Britain.\n\nDuring his time on Britain's Got Talent, he won the prize for best judge at the National Television Awards in 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020.\n\nHe has also enjoyed success as a best-selling author with books including Gangsta Granny and The Boy in the Dress.\n\nThe legal case has been filed under Walliams' real name David Edward Williams. His spokesperson has been asked for comment.\n\nFremantleMedia declined to comment. One of the country's biggest TV production companies, the company produces Family Fortunes, QI and Never Mind The Buzzcocks as well as Britain's Got Talent.", "The proposed plans (computer generated image, left) did not match the built reality, Greenwich Council said\n\nA developer has been ordered to demolish two apartment blocks in south-east London over breaches of planning conditions.\n\nThe high-rise blocks in the Mast Quay Phase II development in Woolwich were \"substantially different\" to the approved plans, Greenwich Council said.\n\nThe council said there were \"at least\" 26 deviations to the plans originally approved in 2012.\n\nThe developer, Comer Homes Group, can appeal against the decision.\n\nBoth blocks comprise 204 apartments and the council said it would support existing tenants in the build-to-rent development in finding alternative accommodation.\n\nCouncillor Aidan Smith, the council's cabinet member for regeneration, described the blocks as a \"mutant development\".\n\n\"We cannot let what has been delivered at Mast Quay Phase II go unchallenged,\" he said.\n\nThe council said there were at least 26 deviations from the agreed plans\n\nThe lower-rise blocks built in phase one of the development are not affected by the council's order.\n\nOmwusi Chisom, who lives in a two-bedroom apartment within the impacted development with his wife, said news of the demolition order was \"quite shocking\".\n\n\"Moving into a property takes a lot [of effort],\" he said. \"Trying to find a new place is not easy - I'm quite destabilised.\"\n\nOmwusi Chisom says the decision to demolish the blocks has been destabilising\n\nDespite the building not matching what planners had approved more than a decade ago, Mr Chisom said he is disappointed to leave the flat he pays more than £2,000 a month for.\n\nHe said the apartments, which sits along the River Thames, are in a \"great location\".\n\nAmong the deviations highlighted by the council was the failure to provide a roof gardens for residents and the public along with children's play areas.\n\nThere are also \"non-accessible 'accessible' apartments\" with steps to the balconies, meaning wheelchair users cannot use the outdoor space.\n\nCouncillor Anthony Okereke, the leader of Greenwich Council, said ordering the towers be demolished is a \"reasonable and proportionate\" response.\n\nHe added: \"The development that was given planning permission is not the one that we can all see before us today.\"\n\nThis is the first time the council has issued a planning enforcement notice of this scale.\n\nThe move to demolish the blocks was called a \"proportionate\" response (CGI plans pictured)\n\nThe council said there has been a year-long investigation after the breaches came to light following completion of the development in 2022.\n\nComer Homes Group has until 30 October to appeal the enforcement order with the government's Planning Inspectorate.\n\nMr Smith added: \"We will always work with responsible developers to unlock sites and deliver the new homes that our borough needs.\"\n\nA spokesperson from Comer Homes Group said: \"The Comer Homes Group is surprised and extremely disappointed by the decision of the Royal Borough of Greenwich to issue an enforcement notice in respect of our Mast Quay Phase ll development.\n\n\"We are particularly surprised to see the accompanying public statements which are inaccurate and misrepresent the position and our actions.\n\n\"We will be appealing against the enforcement notice and look forward to robustly correcting the inaccuracies and addressing the council's concerns.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Equinor hope to develop Rosebank close to BP's Clair Ridge development (pictured) which has been in operation since 2018\n\nRosebank, the largest untapped oil field in the UK, is off the coast of Shetland. Its approval by regulators is expected soon and production could begin as early as 2026.\n\nShould it go ahead? If it does, what will be the environmental impact? If it doesn't, what's the alternative?\n\nShetland is a perfect place to explore these questions. Leaving aside the environmental impact of the 500 million barrels of oil it could produce, just powering Rosebank and its sister fields would use the equivalent of half of the energy being produced by a giant and controversial new windfarm currently being built on Shetland.\n\nThe archipelago of 100 islands straddling the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean became part of Scotland in 1472 but never lost its Norse links.\n\nThis week, islanders celebrated their heritage in the old harbour of Scalloway in an event to mark the 2023 Tall Ships race.\n\nLocals dressed in tunics, capes and feather-tipped helmets brandished axes and hurled burning torches into a replica of a Viking longboat.\n\nBut any visitor who thought that the islands were stuck in the past would have been badly mistaken.\n\nThis may have been a land of farmers and fishers until the 1970s but the discovery of North Sea oil changed everything.\n\nThe construction of a terminal at Sullom Voe, an inlet in the north of the largest island, brought not just jobs but a fee for every barrel of oil it handled.\n\nThat meant the local council could set up an investment fund, which continues to pay for high-quality public services such as roads, care homes and sports facilities.\n\nIn the main town of Lerwick - 400 miles from Oslo; 600 miles from London - a smart leisure centre stands alongside a stylish school.\n\nEnvironmentalists on the islands acknowledge that Shetland has done well from hydrocarbons but say it is time to cut the cord.\n\nAlex Armitage, a councillor from the Scottish Green Party, who is also the islands' consultant paediatrician, describes oil and gas as a \"sunset industry\".\n\nHe says the wildfires which have ravaged the Greek island of Rhodes in recent days underline the urgency of accelerating the move to renewable energy by blocking new drilling in the North Atlantic.\n\nThe UK oil and gas regulator is currently considering whether or not to approve drilling in the Rosebank oil field, 80 miles west of Shetland, one of the biggest untapped reserves in British waters, containing between 300 million and 500 million barrels of oil.\n\nEarlier this week, UK Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK should \"max out\" its remaining reserves.\n\nThere are plenty of Shetlanders who agree with that stance.\n\nFrom the 1970s Arlene Robertson worked as a cook, a cleaner and a nurse at Sullom Voe. \"I was part of that boom,\" she says.\n\nThese days Ms Robertson campaigns for the islands to have greater control of their own affairs as a member of a group called the Shetland Autonomy Action Team.\n\nShe is in favour of Rosebank.\n\n\"We all want a better climate. We all want a better world to live in but I think, realistically, we have to follow what's feasible, and shutting down oil and trying to import it from places like Russia doesn't make much sense to me,\" she says.\n\nDr Armitage disagrees. \"The idea that [Rosebank] will support our UK national energy security is quite frankly preposterous,\" he says, pointing out that while some gas would be piped to Shetland, the oil would be pumped onto tankers at sea and exported \"to Rotterdam or wherever else in the world it would be able to be sold to the highest bidder\".\n\nThis week, the Norwegian oil company Equinor, which is the principal developer of Rosebank, underlined its \"clear expectation\" that the project would move forward.\n\nThe state-controlled firm's chief financial officer, Torgrim Reitan, said he was \"awaiting final conclusion on a couple of topics, and final approval from the regulators\" and expected \"some clarifications not too far into the future\".\n\nGreta Thunberg joined fellow climate campaigners in London on Friday to demand that the UK government rejects the huge Rosebank oil field\n\nWhile those discussions continue, the energy mix on Shetland is already changing, with the construction by SSE Renewables of a giant wind farm called Viking.\n\nMore than 70 of the project's 103 turbines, which measure 155m (509ft) from ground to blade-tip, have been erected so far.\n\nThe blades should start spinning next summer, supplying electricity to the UK National Grid via a subsea cable linking the islands and the Scottish mainland for the first time.\n\nSSE says the wind farm could provide enough electricity to power nearly 500,000 homes for the next 25 years.\n\nHeather Donald, the company's director of onshore development and construction, says Shetland \"will effectively decarbonise overnight with the flick of a switch,\" and provide \"a case study\" in energy transition for the rest of the UK.\n\nNot all Shetlanders are convinced.\n\nThere are claims about disruption of the peat moorland where the windfarm is being built; talk of the \"industrialisation\" of a once-rugged landscape; and worries about how much the community will benefit economically.\n\nAlthough Arlene Robertson and Alex Armitage have very different views on the pace of switching to renewable energy, they are united in a belief that the oil and gas boom is not being repeated.\n\nMr Armitage says Shetlanders are \"shivering in their homes\" because of high energy bills and Viking will not bring their costs down or bring significant extra funds to the community.\n\nMs Robertson agrees, saying: \"I'm absolutely horrified at the poor deal that we've got. It's peanuts.\"\n\nHeather Donald is SSE's director of onshore development and construction\n\nMs Donald of SSE denies Viking will have a negative effect on the peat.\n\nShe says the project is employing 400 people including 100 locals; and she insists it will help reduce bills and provide \"the biggest community benefit fund of any renewable project in the UK\".\n\n\"When the site goes into operation next year, it will be £2.2m every year for the duration of the wind farm,\" she adds.\n\nBut how will the electricity Viking produces be used?\n\nThe Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (Opred) is understood to be keen on the Rosebank oil field being powered by electricity supplied from shore rather than the traditional North Sea method of using gas or diesel generators.\n\nEquinor, BP and Ithaca are exploring electrification for Rosebank; the existing Clair Ridge development; and, potentially, the Cambo field, which is currently in limbo.\n\nThe BBC has been told that \"onshore connection to Shetland\" using \"the oversupply of renewable energy\" from the islands is an option under consideration.\n\nEquinor has said that electrification of all three fields would require around 200 megawatts of power.\n\nBut environmental lawyer, Tessa Khan, of the pressure group Uplift, says using renewables to perpetuate the burning of fossil fuels \"would be laughable if it wasn't so serious\".\n\nUplift's analysts reckon the power required for the three fields could be closer to 250MW, equivalent to more than half of the potential output from the 443MW Viking wind farm.\n\n\"Rosebank will produce oil for export and will not boost the UK's energy security,\" insists Ms Khan.\n\n\"If it also ends up taking vast amounts of cheap, clean energy that could be used to power hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, it will end up actively reducing the UK's energy security,\" she adds.\n\n\"We have no control over where the power goes,\" stresses Heather Donald of SSE Renewables.\n\nOnce the electricity is in the National Grid, she points out, it could be exported anywhere in the UK.\n\nNonetheless, the idea that a wind farm could provide electricity to half a million homes or end up powering several oil fields underlines the complexity of the UK's energy transition.", "The message that vaping is 95% safer than smoking has backfired, encouraging some children to vape, says a top health expert.\n\nDr Mike McKean treats children with lung conditions and is vice-president for policy at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.\n\nHe says the 2015 public messaging should have been clearer - vapes are only for adults addicted to cigarettes.\n\nEvidence on the possible health risks of vaping is still being gathered.\n\nDr Mike McKean is concerned that young people are taking up vaping because they see it as risk-free\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC, Dr McKean said: \"Vaping is not for children and young people. In fact it could be very bad for you,\" although he stresses that it is not making lots of children very sick, and serious complications are rare.\n\n\"Vaping is only a tool for adults who are addicted to cigarettes.\"\n\nHe says the 95% safe messaging was \"a very unwise thing to have done and it's opened the door to significant chaos\".\n\nThe \"switch to vape\" message has had an unintended consequence of driving children to take up e-cigs, he says.\n\n\"There are many children, young people who have taken up vaping who never intended to smoke and are now likely addicted to vaping. And I think it's absolutely shocking that we've allowed that to happen.\n\n\"It feels like we have put all our eggs in one basket and said 'this is the way to tackle cigarette smoking' and I feel we have neglected children and young people, by sort of embracing something almost too much without the real proper thought.\"\n\nProf Ann McNeil was one of the co-authors of the original 2015 report and told the BBC that the advice was based on the literature at the time and what was known about what the products contained.\n\n\"It was never intended to communicate that they're safe - it was intended to say there is a big difference in the harms.\"\n\nShe says vaping is less risky than smoking, but children should not be doing it.\n\nThe public health message stressed the relative safety of e-cigarettes\n\nThe 95% safer figure is still used today by the vaping industry to promote its products.\n\nDoctors, public health experts, cancer charities and governments in the UK all agree that - based on the current evidence - e-cigarettes carry a fraction of the risk of cigarettes.\n\nThe latest UK update on vaping and health published in 2022 says:\n\nLike cigarettes, selling vapes to under-18s is illegal, but data suggests a growing number of young people are doing it.\n\nMore than one in 10 people aged 16-24 said they were daily or occasional users in 2022, according to a survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAlthough vapes don't contain the same dangerous toxins as cigarettes, they do deliver a hit of addictive nicotine. Some teenage users say they are hooked. The BBC has been investigating youth vaping - recent tests on illegal vapes confiscated from a school found unsafe amounts of metals that could be inhaled into children lungs.\n\nThere is concern that young people are taking up vaping because they see it as completely risk-free.\n\nIan says he found his 13-year-old son smoking vapes and was horrified.\n\n\"He's addicted to vaping and the more I looked into it the more I realised he is not alone.\n\n\"I asked him why he does it and he says because it gives him a buzz, and that's how these addictions start.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak recently said it was \"ridiculous\" that vapes were designed and promoted to appeal to children when they were supposed to be used by adults giving up smoking.\n\nIn Australia, vapes are only available on prescription.\n\nSmoking rates in the UK have been steadily falling in adults and children, both before and after vapes were introduced. Vaping can help smokers quit cigarettes.\n\nMr Sunak is expected to announce measures soon aimed at cracking down on youth vaping in England. The Scottish and Welsh governments have already called for a ban on disposable vapes.\n• None RCPCH - The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Lib Dem leader says renewables should be Scotland's priority\n\nThe planned Rosebank oil and gas field development off Shetland should not go ahead, according to the Lib Dem leader.\n\nSir Ed Davey told BBC Scotland News the focus should instead be on renewables and insulating homes.\n\nA decision on Rosebank, the UK's largest untapped oil field, is expected shortly from a UK government regulator.\n\n\"Scotland has a fantastic renewables record and a fantastic renewables potential. That has to be our priority,\" he said.\n\nRosebank, located 80 miles of west of Shetland, is estimated to contain 500 million barrels of oil.\n\nA decision on its development had been repeatedly delayed but there have been reports it could come before the end of the year.\n\nSir Ed was pressed on his party's position ahead of his party's conference in Bournemouth this weekend.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland News: \"We need to invest in renewables. Scotland has a fantastic renewables record and a fantastic renewables potential. That has to be our priority.\n\n\"The great thing about offshore wind power, renewable power in general is that it's the cheapest and most popular. Surely that should be our priority.\"\n\nAsked directly if Rosebank should go ahead, he replied: \"I don't think it should go ahead. I think we need to focus on insulating people's homes, on pushing energy efficiency and pushing the renewable agenda.\n\n\"That is the energy of the future. It's the clean energy. It would give us real independence.\"\n\nAnti-Rosebank protesters outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero earlier this year\n\nLast month 50 MPs and peers from all major parties wrote to then energy secretary Grant Shapps urging him to block Rosebank, arguing that it could produce 200m tonnes of carbon dioxide and that most of the cost of development would be shouldered by the taxpayer.\n\nLabour has already said it would not grant licenses to explore new fields if it wins the next general election, although it would honour any licences that had already been granted.\n\nThe SNP has not said directly that is opposes Rosebank. Wellbeing economy secretary Neil Gray said recently that it was a decision for the UK government, but that he wants to see \"stringent climate compatibility checkpoints\".\n\nGrant Shapps, who had previously suggested the UK should \"max out\" its existing reserves, is now defence secretary, while Claire Coutinho was promoted to minister for energy security and net zero in last month's mini-reshuffle.\n\nElsewhere in his interview, Ed Davey insisted the Lib Dems were still a mainstream player in Scottish politics despite having only four MPs and four MSPs.\n\nHe said the party was enjoying success at local government level and was hopeful of regaining the Westminster seat of East Dunbartonshire - where former Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson was famously ousted by an SNP candidate in 2019.\n\nHe said the party was also targeting Skye and Lochaber, once held by Charles Kennedy before he was defeated by the SNP's Ian Blackford in 2015.\n\nAsked whether there was any way he would support another Scottish independence referendum, he said the current focus should be on things like cost of living pressures and the health service.\n\n\"I'm really proud of what Alex Cole-Hamilton and the team have been doing - campaigning on the NHS in particular and the cost of living issues that matter to people - so I really think we're back in Scotland and we're going forward,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Residents say stabbings happen \"far too often\"\n\nA 15-year-old girl who was killed on her way to school has been described as \"very comedic\" with a \"bright future\".\n\nFlowers and cards have been placed near the scene where the stabbing took place in Croydon, south London, at about 08:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\nA witness said the victim was stabbed in the neck with a foot-long knife.\n\nA boy aged 17, believed to be known to the victim, was arrested shortly after the girl died at 09:21.\n\nNeither the victim nor the suspect have been named.\n\nWitnesses said there had been an argument with a boy who tried to give the girl or her friend flowers.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police urged those with information or footage of the attack to come forward.\n\nCh Sup Andy Brittain said officers were supporting the girl's family who were \"facing the most tragic of news\".\n\n\"I am in contact with the local community, who are clearly as concerned as we are about this tragic incident,\" he added.\n\n\"Within 75 minutes a 17-year-old boy was arrested in New Addington, and remains in custody.\"\n\nThe force said that it was not looking for anyone else in connection to the offence.\n\nPeople in Croydon left flowers at the scene of the stabbing in Croydon\n\nOne of the cards left near the attack read: \"Sorry we live in this crazy world, this makes no sense. Fly high up there, my mummy will look after you. RIP beautiful, forever young, taken too soon.\"\n\nStaff at Old Palace of John Whitgift, the girl's school in Croydon, said the school community was \"deeply shocked at the death of a \"much-loved and valued friend and pupil\".\n\n\"It will take some time for the Old Palace community to come to terms with this terrible news, and we will offer support to our pupils as we try to do so.\n\n\"Above all, we send our love and deepest sympathies to the girl's family at this unimaginably distressing time.\"\n\nA bunch of flowers can be seen lying on the ground near a white forensic tent at the scene\n\nThe year 11 pupil had just got off the number 60 bus with a group of friends when she was attacked. Witnesses said the bus driver and other passers-by tried to save her.\n\n\"I know the officers who responded this morning, along with our emergency service colleagues, are devastated at the victim's death.\"\n\nHe said officers were on the scene within two minutes of the call being received and provided emergency first aid.\n\nVisiting the scene Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley called the murder \"senseless\" and said it was \"impossible to comprehend.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"moving and humbling to meet many members of the exceptional Croydon community who have come together in support of a family now dealing with the most unimaginable grief.\"\n\nMet Police Ch Sup Andy Brittain said it was \"every parent's worst nightmare\"\n\nPolice cars and ambulances surrounded a red double decker bus in Wellesley Road, near the Whitgift Centre.\n\nA white forensic tent has been erected within a police cordon outside the shopping centre and flowers can be seen by the tent.\n\nOne witness, who only wanted to be named as Bridget, said: \"I was on the bus before and came off and walked back down, I saw them resuscitating her.\n\n\"The driver was holding her and a lady. The emergency services were already here when I walked back.\"\n\nLocal youth worker Anthony King, who runs a crime reduction organisation in Croydon, said the girl - who was in her GCSE year - \"had a bright future ahead of her\".\n\nHe described her as an \"absolutely incredible young lady\" and told of how others said she was \"jovial, very comedic\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio London he met with the girl's friends and family following this morning's attack.\n\n\"This is the fourth or fifth time that I've had to look a parent in the eye and tell them their child has died. It's the worst day of my life and I can't imagine what that feeling is like [for them].\n\n\"The noises and screams I heard this morning will sit in my spirit indefinitely. Keep the family in your prayers and thoughts.\"\n\nHe added that it had been 22 months since a teenager had been murdered in Croydon.\n\nThe 15-year-old girl was a pupil at Old Palace of John Whitgift School\n\nThis is the 15th teenage homicide this year. There were 14 last year.\n\nAccording to Met Police data, between August 2022 and 2023, Croydon had more stabbings than any other borough in London, with 211 \"knife crime with injury\" offences recorded.\n\nWhen population size is factored in, Croydon has 0.5 \"knife crime with injury\" offences per 1,000 people, making it the 10th highest rate out of London's boroughs.\n\nCroydon resident Georgina Slater, told the BBC the killing was \"absolutely disgusting, and it's just happening far too often in this area\".\n\n\"I don't understand how at this time in the morning a little girl's been stabbed,\" she said.\n\nGeorgina Slater said the people of Croydon \"need help and no-one's doing it\"\n\n\"I don't know what the police are doing... they're just getting younger.\n\n\"We need intervention, we need stuff for the kids, they've got no guidance. The police turn up when it's this - where's the interventions in the schools?\"\n\nAnother passer-by, Christopher Ita, said: \"This will happen again next week, and next month, it'll just be somebody else.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"absolutely heartbroken\" by the killing and appealed for witnesses, adding he was in touch with the Met Police commissioner.\n\nForensic investigators at the scene of the stabbing\n\nPatrick Green, the chief executive of anti-knife crime charity the Ben Kinsella Trust, argued that knife crime is \"the most pressing problem facing this country today.\"\n\nHe called for police to be given more resources to deal with the issue and for work to be done to make knives less readily available online.\n\nMr Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that young people carrying knives for protection is \"a vicious cycle.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is work to be done about working with young people to make sure that they feel safe in the environments that they live and go to school in. That's critical.\"\n\nCroydon Central MP, Sarah Jones, said she was \"heartbroken that a child in my town has been killed on her way to school\".\n\nShe thanked the police and ambulance service for their quick response and attempts to save the girl's life.\n\nCroydon South MP and minister for policing Chris Philp said news of the girl's death was \"devastating\".\n\n\"Nothing can be worse for a parent than losing a child. We must redouble our efforts to take all knives off the streets of London, using every means available.\"\n\nSteve Reed, MP for Croydon North, called it \"another tragic, shocking and avoidable loss of life\".\n\nMayor of Croydon Jason Perry also said he was devastated, adding \"our whole community's thoughts are with the victim's family and friends\".\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flood warnings remain in place in some parts of Scotland after Storm Agnes, the first named storm of the season.\n\nBut a Met Office yellow warning for high winds covering most of the country, valid until 07:00, was cancelled.\n\nHeavy rain alerts covering Dumfries and Galloway and a strip from the west coast up to Aberdeen have expired.\n\nA small number of roads were closed in the south of the country, and there were reports of fallen trees.\n\nThe storm was formed after a deep area of low pressure developed in the Atlantic, enhanced by some energy from ex-tropical storm Ophelia which hit the north-east coast of the US over the weekend.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) put a number of flood warnings and alerts in place.\n\nSepa's flood duty manager David Morgan told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme those flood warnings and alerts are expected to be taken down as the day goes on.\n\n\"The worst of the weather has now passed and there will be a few showers through the course of today and a further band of rain this evening but from a flooding perspective there's nothing we're particularly concerned about,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's important to remember some of our larger rivers, downstream it takes quite a while for the rivers to respond. Some particularly in the north east are still to peak.\"\n\nHe said Sepa has not received any reports of property flooding and that it was mainly transport infrastructure and agricultural land affected.\n\nDrivers were also urged to take care as there is likely to be standing water on some roads.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, roads were closed at Whitesands and the A716 north of Drummore on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe region's virtual operations support team said there were some reports of fallen trees, and that staff would be out at first light to carry out inspections and clear away debris.\n\nNetwork Rail said speed restrictions were put in place during the storm, mainly affecting services on the West Highland Line.\n\nOther routes involved were Kilwinning to Largs, Kilmarnock to Sanquhar, Branchton to Wemyss Bay, Barrhill to Stranraer, Sanquhar to Annan and Lockerbie to Abington.\n\nIt said teams had been checking pumps in areas at risk of flooding and chainsaw teams were ready to respond if any trees came down.\n\nFerry operator CalMac also advised anyone using its services to check its status page for updates.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ava Evans calls insults on GB News 'really nasty' and says she's since received threats online\n\nDan Wootton has been suspended from GB News following comments made on his show by Laurence Fox, who asked what \"self-respecting man\" would \"climb into bed\" with reporter Ava Evans.\n\nThe broadcaster had earlier suspended Fox for his remarks about PoliticsJOE's Evans during a live show.\n\nEvans told the BBC she has since received threats.\n\nWootton, one of the channel's most high profile presenters, said in an apology that he should have intervened.\n\nThe channel called the insult \"totally unacceptable\" and said it was conducting a full investigation. Meanwhile Fox, also a host on the channel, has said he stands \"by every word of what I said\".\n\nHe made the comments discussing political journalist Evans' views on creating a 'minister for men' to tackle a mental health crisis.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Live on Monday, the PoliticsJOE political correspondent said the idea would \"make an enemy out of women\" and that mental illness was not specific to men.\n\nAddressing those comments on Dan Wootton Tonight on Tuesday, Fox said: \"We're past the watershed so I can say this. Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman - ever, ever...\n\n\"That little woman has been fed, spoon-fed oppression day after day after day...\n\n\"We need powerful, strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves, we don't need these sort of feminist 4.0… they're pathetic and embarrassing.\n\n\"Who would want to shag that?\"\n\nWootton could be seen smiling and laughing throughout Fox's remarks, before \"in a touch of balance\" saying Evans regretted her comments and calling her a \"very beautiful woman\".\n\nDan Wootton said he regretted the interview\n\nTalking about Fox's insult, Evans told the BBC's Newscast podcast it made her feel \"disgusting\" and \"vile\", and that the last 24 hours had been \"really nasty\".\n\nShe said she had received threats from people sympathetic to Fox, including a message telling her to \"watch her back\".\n\n\"Maybe, I'm going to have to watch over my shoulder before I go to my house, just so that I know no one's looking at where I live.\"\n\nShe also said she had received an emailed apology from GB News' editor saying Fox's comments were not representative of the broadcaster.\n\n\"It's probably the best apology I could have gotten,\" she said, adding that she initially did not expect the broadcaster would do anything.\n\nEvans is now calling on Conservative MPs to stop appearing on GB News.\n\n\"It's got the deputy chairman [Lee Anderson] on there, hosting a show. You've got Jacob Rees-Mogg on there, you've got Esther McVey presenting. These are elected members of parliament.\n\n\"It makes me very uncomfortable as a journalist to see those sorts of people, the people who make our laws, who speak in the 'mother of all parliaments' alongside that kind of narrative. It doesn't fit well for me.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier on PoliticsJOE's podcast, Evans accused Wootton, also executive editor at GB News, of calling her \"multiple times throughout the night\" after the exchange with Fox was broadcast.\n\n\"I was getting calls up until one o'clock in the morning, voicemails… I don't want to hear from him,\" she said.\n\nBefore his suspension, Wootton's lawyer said he remained sincere to personally apologise to her and \"respects her wishes\" if she does not want to be contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing his suspension, Fox posted a screenshot on Twitter, also known as X, appearing to suggest a conversation between him and Wootton after the show involving laughing emojis.\n\nThe former actor, who previously starred in Gosford Park, also claimed that he had conducted a \"pre-interview\" with the channel \"so they knew exactly what I intended to say\".\n\nHe has since accused the media of being \"obsessed with cancelling\" him. He added \"free speech is the most precious and valuable freedom we have\", and he \"would rather scrub toilets\" and retain his dignity.\n\nFox added of GB News on Thursday morning: \"I still haven't heard a word from them, and am waiting for the chop on Friday at my disciplinary hearing.\"\n\nHis comments on GB News have been condemned by media figures and politicians.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Newsnight, Caroline Nokes, a Conservative MP and chair of the women and equalities committee, described them as \"absolutely abhorrent\".\n\n\"I was appalled by a news channel publishing such blatantly misogynistic, outdated, hideous attitudes,\" she said.\n\nShe said media regulator Ofcom \"deserves a bit of time and space to do its job\" but added that she thought GB News should be taken off air.\n\nMs Nokes also criticised those among her fellow Conservative MPs who host programmes on the channel.\n\n\"From my perspective, if you're a member of parliament, you have a day job to do, getting on with the work that you have in the House of Commons, and not swanning off - in some cases several times a week - to present a show on a television channel,\" she said.\n\nHer colleague, Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan urged Ofcom to look into the incident, telling Sky News that Fox's comments and the response from Wootton were \"unacceptable\".\n\nGordon Brown, the former prime minister, also told the broadcaster Ofcom \"needed to have more teeth to deal with issues of standards\" and \"you can not have this fall in standards and allow it continue\".\n\nGB news presenter and Reform UK party leader Richard Tice told BBC News that Fox's comments were \"wholly inappropriate\" and he should apologise to Evans.\n\nOfcom said it had received a number of complaints about Fox's comments.\n\n\"We are assessing these complaints against our broadcast rules and will publish the outcome as quickly as possible,\" the regulator posted on X (previously Twitter) on Wednesday.\n\nLaurence Fox, also suspended, accused the media of being \"obsessed with cancelling\" him\n\nStewart Purvis, formerly CEO of ITN and a senior figure at Ofcom, said so far the regulator had not \"covered itself in any kind of glory\".\n\nMr Purvis, who said he had never publicly criticised Ofcom before, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"They (Ofcom) have got to decide which of the rules do they think it has broken and I can think of possibly two rules which it would appear to have broken.\"\n\nHe argued that the management of GB News was \"trying to face both ways\" by claiming to be an accurate, serious news organisation while also being sensationalist.\n\nMark Dolan, filling in for Wootton on Wednesday night, told GB News viewers Fox's comments were \"offensive... sexist... misogynistic\".\n\n\"In the end, a hard lesson has been learned. We have freedom of speech, but not freedom from the fallout,\" he added.\n\nThe controversy follows Wootton's Mail Online column being paused last month as the newspaper's publisher considers \"a series of allegations\" against him, which he denies.\n\nHe has admitted making \"errors of judgment\" but strongly denies any criminality.\n\nThe disputed allegations include that he used a fake online identity to offer money to individuals for sexually explicit images.\n\nWootton, a former Sun journalist, has had his own show on GB News since June 2021, when the channel launched promising to \"change the face of news and debate in the UK\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJorge Vilda - the former head coach of Spain's World Cup-winning side - is being investigated as part of the criminal case against Luis Rubiales.\n\nVilda was sacked this month amid the fallout from the behaviour of Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Rubiales at the World Cup final on 20 August.\n\nRubiales kissed forward Jenni Hermoso, which she says was not consensual.\n\nHe denies charges of sexual assault and coercion.\n\nVilda will appear before Spain's National Court on 10 October.\n\nSpanish media report that Vilda is being investigated for his part in the alleged coercion of Hermoso, who said pressure was put on her, her family and friends to defend Rubiales' actions. Vilda has denied this.\n\nAlbert Luque - the director of the men's national team - and RFEF director of marketing Ruben Rivera are also being investigated, having previously been called as witnesses.\n\nRubiales has been handed a restraining order preventing him from going within 200 metres of Hermoso.\n\nOn Tuesday, Spain beat Switzerland 5-0 in their first match on home soil since winning the World Cup.\n\nBefore kick-off in Cordoba, both sets of players stood behind a banner reading \"It's over, our fight is the global fight\" following the scandal which has engulfed Spanish football.\n• None What is Rosie Holt's perfect pub like? The 'fake MP' pops into Landlord Robbie Knox's mystical pub to create her ideal drinking hole", "Pte Tony Harrison, 21, was killed in 1991 in east Belfast while he was at home with his fiancée\n\nThe family of a British army paratrooper shot dead by the IRA has launched a legal challenge to the government's controversial legacy act.\n\nPte Tony Harrison, 21, was killed in 1991 in east Belfast while he was at home with his fiancée.\n\nNo one has ever been convicted of his murder.\n\nHis family have said the new legacy law, which will prevent investigations into Troubles-related killings, breaches human rights.\n\nThe legislation offers a conditional amnesty to those accused of killings during 30 years of violence known as the Troubles.\n\nIt will also stop any new Troubles-era court cases and inquests being held from May 2024.\n\nThere has been widespread opposition to the bill.\n\nOpponents of the legislation, including victims' groups and Stormont parties, have argued it will remove access to justice.\n\nThe act is already facing legal action from the families of victims in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Guardian first reported that Mr Harrison's family is now pursuing a legal case.\n\nLast week, the family notified the government in writing that they intend to seek a declaration from the courts that the new law breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nAndy Seaman, Tony's brother, told BBC News NI that he had missed \"major family milestones\".\n\n\"I was only 13 when my brother passed away,\" he said.\n\n\"My kids will never meet their uncle.\n\n\"Tony was three weeks shy of his 22nd birthday when he was killed\n\n\"I think about the man that he would have become, you know, but he wasn't given a chance.\n\n\"And all I'm asking is for the questions as to why the people who didn't give him that chance have been allowed to kind of walk, walk free for so long, without any explanation from the authorities as to why that has been allowed to happen.\"\n\nThe Troubles was a period of conflict which lasted for 30 years and cost the lives of more than 3,500 people\n\nMr Seaman said challenging the legacy act was a \"fundamental issue of human rights and justice\".\n\n\"I don't think it's for the government to tell victims or their families,what's good for them, or how best to recover,\" he added.\n\nLabour has said it will repeal the act if it takes power after the next General Election.\n\nMr Seaman said he wanted Labour to \"go one step further\" and commit to a fully funded investigation into his brother's death.\n\nOne man, Noel Thompson, a taxi driver, was convicted of conspiracy to murder in 1993 because he had driven the soldier to his girlfriend's home and had communicated its location to the IRA.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office was contacted and said it does not comment on ongoing legal issues.\n\n\"The Legacy Bill provides a framework to deliver effective legacy mechanisms for victims and families, while complying with our international obligations.\"", "OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed creator of ChatGPT, has confirmed the chatbot can now browse the internet to provide users with current information.\n\nThe artificial intelligence-powered system was previously trained only using data up to September 2021.\n\nThe move means some premium users will be able to ask the chatbot questions about current affairs, and access news.\n\nOpenAI said the feature would open up to all users soon.\n\nEarlier in the week, OpenAI also revealed the chatbot will soon be able to have voice conversations with users.\n\nChatGPT and other similar systems use huge amounts of data to create convincing human-like responses to user queries.\n\nThey are expected to dramatically change the way people search for information online.\n\nBut until now the viral chatbot's \"knowledge\" has been frozen in time. Its database has been drawn from the contents of the internet as it was in September 2021. It could not browse the net in real time.\n\nSo, for example, ask the free version when an earthquake last struck Turkey, or whether Donald Trump is still alive and it replies \"'I'm sorry, but I cannot provide real-time information\".\n\nChatGPT's inability to take recent events into account has been a turn-off for some potential users.\n\n\"If this functionality or capability weren't there, you would need to go to Google or to Twitter or to your preferred news outlet. Now, you can treat this as a source of the latest news, gossip and current events,\" says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at University College London.\n\n\"So the main implication is that it's going to absorb a lot of the incoming questions and inquiries that were going to search engines or going to news outlets,\" he said.\n\nBut, Mr Chamorro-Premuzic added that using the platform to search could be a double-edged sword.\n\n\"I think that's a good thing in terms of getting quick responses to your pressing, burning questions,\" he said, but warned that without sourcing, information provided through ChatGPT could be misleading.\n\n\"If it's not stating in a reliable way what the sources are, and it's simply doing a mix and a mish mash of what exists out there... then the concerns are around accuracy and people just assume the information they get there is reliable when it's not.\"\n\nAlready, OpenAI has come under the scrutiny of US regulators over the risk of ChatGPT generating false information.\n\nEarlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a letter to the Microsoft-backed business requesting information on how it addresses risks to people's reputations.\n\nIn response, the OpenAI chief executive said the company would work with the FTC.\n\nThere were a number of reasons why ChatGPT did not search the internet until now: computing cost for one thing. It is often said that every single query costs OpenAI a few cents.\n\nMore significantly though, the limited data provided a valuable safety net.\n\nChatGPT could not start regurgitating harmful or illegal material it happened to find newly uploaded to the net in response to a query.\n\nIt could not spout misinformation planted by bad actors about politics or healthcare decisions because it didn't have access to it.\n\nAsked why it had taken so long to allow users to search up to date information, the chatbot itself provided three answers.\n\nIt said developing language models took a long time and was resource-intensive, that using real-time data had the potential to introduce inaccuracies, and that there were some privacy and ethical concerns about accessing real-time information - particularly copyrighted content without permission.\n\nChatGPT's new functionalities perfectly highlight the enormous dilemma facing the AI sector. In order to be truly useful, the guardrails have to come off, or at least loosen - but doing that makes the tech potentially more dangerous and open to misuse.", "A picnic was interrupted when a hungry black bear approached a group of visitors, mounted their table and ate their food at Mexico's Chipinque Ecological Park in the state of Nuevo León.\n\nFootage shows the animal devouring enchiladas and tacos just inches away from several people who sit frozen in place.\n\nAt one point the bear moves its head within touching distance of a woman who's covering a child's face.\n\nAfter eating, it moves across the picnic table before jumping down.\n\nThe startling video was posted online and went viral, amassing over 10 million views on the social media platform TikTok.\n\nThe park's website warns visitors that encounters with black bears have increased in the Monterrey metropolitan area and have been seen prowling in parks, neighbourhoods and streets near the mountains increasing the risk to people and to the bears.\n\nThe park has also provided a list of recommendations online about what to do if a person encounters one of the animals. One of them is that visitors should \"never try to photograph a bear up close\".\n\nIn 2020 another video from the park went viral when a black bear was seen approaching a visitor and sniffing her hair.", "Lee Waters listening to an emotional speech on the issue by ex-Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price\n\nA no confidence vote in the minister who led the introduction of Wales' new 20mph speed limit has failed to pass.\n\nThe Conservative motion, against Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters, was easily defeated by 42 votes to 16, after no other parties backed it.\n\nBefore the vote, Mr Waters said he understood \"lots of people are angry and frustrated\" and \"we are listening\".\n\nBut Conservative transport spokeswoman Natasha Asghar told Mr Waters he should go \"before you cause any more damage\".\n\nThe reduction in the speed limit came in earlier this month, and makes 20mph the default in built-up areas, rather than 30mph.\n\nLocal councils can apply for exemptions, but Mr Waters has said some are \"reluctant\" to do so due to legal concerns.\n\nThe Conservatives want a lower speed limit around places such as schools and hospitals, but not elsewhere.\n\nThe Senedd debate, on Wednesday evening, began in a heated manner but became more measured towards the end.\n\nMs Asghar accused the minister of \"pushing ahead with this flawed policy without any care for businesses, emergency services, nurses, carers and motorists\".\n\n\"In a short time opposition to the move has exploded, with a petition calling for the £33m project to be axed growing at an astronomical speed,\" she said.\n\n\"In fact, just before standing up in front of you all in this chamber today, more than 440,000 people have added their name to the ever-growing petition.\"\n\nThe 20mph limit came into force on most restricted roads in Wales 10 days ago\n\nMr Waters said he understood that \"lots of people are angry and frustrated\".\n\n\"My message to the more than 400,000 people who have signed a petition is simple, we are listening to what you're saying,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand that not everybody likes this and we are willing to be flexible and how this is implemented in your local community.\"\n\nHe promised to \"work with local authorities to help get it right\" but said that \"it was never going to be perfect on day one\".\n\nThe minister stressed: \"Speeds are already down and, as a result, we can expect to see fewer accidents, fewer casualties, fewer deaths, fewer tragedies, a little bit slower but a whole lot better.\"\n\nLabour Caerphilly Senedd member Hefin David praised Mr Waters, who he said had \"stood up and been counted\".\n\n\"He's taken everything on the chin and he's had a series of threats against him.\"\n\n\"This man has done nothing other than keep his promise, that's what he's done, that's why this is absolutely absurd.\"\n\n\"We can have disagreements on policy but personalising politics in this way is courting something perilous and politics demands something better of us,\" she said.\n\nAdam Price recalled the death of his five-year-old cousin, hit by a car 51 years ago\n\nIn an emotional speech, former Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price regretted the tone of the public debate around the issue and recalled the death of his cousin Malcolm in Carmarthenshire 51 years ago.\n\nMr Price said the five-year-old was killed after being hit by a car while crossing the road.\n\n\"In preparation for this debate, I went on a personal pilgrimage yesterday to the spot where Malcolm died.\n\n\"I saw the new 20mph sign a hundred yards or so away, it had already been daubed with paint.\n\n\"And I thought to myself what have become when this sincere, decent, principled attempt to save the lives of children and others is a catalyst for so much anger and hate.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales ahead of the vote, Mr Waters said the row over the reduced speed limit has become personal and accused the Welsh Conservatives of \"personalising\" the issue around him, which he called \"unpleasant\".\n\nOn Tuesday, First Minister Mark Drakeford revealed he had received threats to his safety over the new law.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating.\n\nConservative Senedd group leader Andrew RT Davies said he had also received abuse over his stance on the new law.\n\nSenedd arithmetic meant this motion was bound to fail.\n\nThe 20mph law was in Labour and Plaid Cymru's manifestos.\n\nIt would have required a screeching U-turn for any of their members to vote against Lee Waters.\n\nThis is part of a broader strategy to try to convince drivers that the Tories are on your side.\n\nWe saw something similar with the row about the Ulez charge in London.", "We're soon going to be pausing our coverage of Storm Agnes. As it continues into the evening, let's look at what happened today.\n\nStrong gusts: Heavy rain and wind has affected the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and parts of south-west England. Some of the worst weather has hit Ireland, where gusts close to 67mph (110km/h) were recorded along the south coast.\n\nFlooding: Flooding was seen across much of Ireland. In Draperstown, County Londonderry, firefighters rescued a woman after her car became submerged in water. She has since been treated in hospital for hypothermia and shock.\n\nFalling trees: The strong winds, which aren’t uncommon in exposed western areas, led to trees being ripped from the ground. In Dublin, large trees came down by residential buildings\n\nPower cuts: About 1,000 customers were left without power in Poyntzpass, a small village in Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, 133 properties on the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast, were left without power along with eight in Constantine, Cornwall.\n\nTravel disruption: Ferries were disrupted between Northern Ireland and Scotland, where Network Rail speed restrictions are still in place on a number of routes across Scotland. And some flights were delayed coming in and out of Belfast City Airport because of the adverse weather.\n\nWeather warnings: Yellow weather alerts remain in place over Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, much of northern England and south-west England until 07:00 tomorrow morning.\n\nRemember you can track the storm by clicking Play at the top of this page.", "Travis King has not been seen or heard of since he left South Korea in July\n\nUS soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea in July, is in American custody after being expelled by Pyongyang, officials say.\n\nPvt King was transferred into US custody in China before being flown to a US military installation.\n\nThe 23-year-old reconnaissance specialist illegally crossed into North Korea in July.\n\nNorth Korean media said he had fled because of \"inhuman treatment\" and racism within the US military.\n\nA senior administration official said on Wednesday that after months of \"intense diplomacy\" Pvt King had been returned to US hands and had spoken to his family.\n\n\"We can confirm Pvt King is very happy to be on his way home, and he is very much looking forward to reuniting with his family,\" the official said.\n\n\"We are going to guide him through a re-integration process that will address any medical and emotional concerns and ensure we get him in a good place to reunite with his family.\"\n\nThe official added that the US made no concessions to secure his release.\n\nAfter being met by US officials in the Chinese border city of Dandong, Pvt King was taken by a state department aircraft to a US airbase in South Korea.\n\nHe was expected to return to US soil on Wednesday afternoon, according to state department spokesperson Matthew Miller.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, North Korea's state-run news agency said the country had decided to remove Pvt King, without offering further details.\n\n\"The relevant body in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to deport US soldier Travis King, who illegally entered the territory of the republic, in accordance with the laws of the republic,\" it said.\n\nPvt King has been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of a unit rotation.\n\nBefore entering North Korea, he had served two months in detention in South Korea on charges that he assaulted two people and kicked a police car. He was released from custody on 10 July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe had been due to return to the US for disciplinary proceedings, but managed to leave the airport and join a guided tour of the border village of Panmunjom on the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two countries. Pvt King crossed into North Korea while on the tour.\n\nThe senior administration official said that the immediate focus will be on getting him medically evaluated before any potential disciplinary and administrative actions.\n\nAccording to the senior administration official, the US learned earlier this month that North Korea intended to release Pvt King.\n\nSwedish officials travelled to North Korea and brought Pvt King to its border with China, where he was met by US ambassador Nicholas Burns. China played a \"constructive role\" but \"did not mediate\", the official added.\n\n\"All these pieces had to come together quickly,\" the US official said.\n\nAs the US and North Korea have no diplomatic relations, Sweden's embassy in Pyongyang has traditionally negotiated on behalf of the US.\n\nA Swedish embassy spokesman confirmed that the country had acted \"within its role as a protective power\" for the US in North Korea during the King case.\n\nJonathan Franks, a spokesman for Pvt King's mother, Claudine Gates, said in a statement that she will \"forever be grateful\" to the US Army and its partners \"for a job well done\".\n\nThe statement added that Pvt King's family does not intend to give any interviews \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nHis relatives have previously told US media that he had experienced discrimination while serving in the US military.\n\nThey have said his mental health suffered during his time in South Korean custody.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press news agency last month, Ms Gates said her son had \"so many reasons to come home\".\n\n\"I just can't see him ever wanting to just stay in Korea when he has family in America,\" she said.\n\nFrank Aum, a North Korea expert at the Washington DC-based US Institute of Peace, said that Pvt King's 71-day detention was \"fairly typical\" in cases of US citizens held in the country who \"are not perceived to have committed a major crime\".\n\nSome analysts had speculated Pyongyang might have opted to use the US soldier as a diplomatic bargaining chip.\n\nIn previous instances, North Korea has insisted a senior US representative travel to the country to negotiate any American detainee's release, though there is so far no indication that happened in this case.\n\n\"They [North Korea] have believed that may be some way to help re-start talks,\" said Mr Aum, who was previously a senior adviser on North Korea at the office of the US secretary of defence.\n\n\"But it didn't seem like North Korea was interested in doing that this time. That may be a reflection of the fact that North Korea is not interested in engaging with the US at the moment.\"\n\nMr Aum added that North Korean officials were also no doubt keen to avoid \"reinforcing an international perception\" that they are a major human rights violator making arbitrary detentions.\n\nState Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday that while the US \"is open to diplomacy\" with North Korea, the country's government has repeatedly \"rejected\" the possibility.\n\nMick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence and CIA paramilitary officer, told the BBC it is a \"good thing\" that Pvt King was being returned to US custody, although he \"is a young man that made some mistakes\".\n\n\"He is a US soldier and it was important that we did everything we could to bring him home,\" Mr Mulroy added.", "Shante Daniel-Folkes's son is growing up without his mum\n\nThe parents of a woman knocked down and killed by a police car that had been travelling at 84mph seconds earlier say officers should be subject to a speed cap in built-up areas.\n\nShante Daniel-Folkes, 25, was hit by a car driven by PC Nadeem Patel in Brixton, south London, on 9 June 2021. She had let another police car pass by.\n\nJanine Daniel said: \"They shouldn't be going 84mph, that's just madness.\"\n\nThe Met Police called it a \"tragedy\" and said it had reviewed its training.\n\nThe force had been responding to a report of a man in Herne Hill acting erratically, throwing rubbish into the road and a woman running away from him when Ms Daniel-Folkes - who had a son who is now aged five with special needs - was killed.\n\nPatel, 28, who had been driving at a top speed of 83.9mph on the night of the crash, was jailed for three years in February after admitting causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe car he was driving was travelling at about 55mph at the time of the collision after Patel braked for two seconds from a speed of more than 81mph. He has been sacked by the force.\n\nAlthough his siren was activated, he had switched off his front emergency lights so not to affect PC Gary Thomson's vision in the lead vehicle.\n\nMs Daniel described being informed by police that her daughter had died as, \"the worst night of my life\".\n\nJanine Daniel says her daughter's death is unbearable\n\nShe said: \"I shut the door. I told them I didn't want to hear it. I could have died. I just couldn't stand up. I collapsed to my knees and with all the fibres in my being I let out a big scream and I couldn't stop.\n\n\"It was very hard. I just keep on reliving that night over and over. It's it's not nice. No parent should have to go through that. It feels like I'm being tortured every single day.\"\n\nMs Daniel's said her daughter was \"always smiling\".\n\nShante Daniel-Folkes loved life, according to her mother\n\n\"Shante was such a beautiful girl inside and out. She was very funny, very kind, very loyal, very creative,\" she said.\n\n\"She loved arts, was an artist and loved listening to music. She loved life.\n\n\"I feel like somebody has just gone in my chest and ripped my heart out. It constantly hurts.\"\n\nThe officers were travelling in convoy along Stockwell Road at about 23:20 BST\n\nAt a sentencing hearing last month, Judge Mark Lucraft KC called for the Metropolitan Police to consider setting maximum speed limits for officers responding to incidents in residential areas.\n\nPC Thomson, 31, from Sussex, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of careless driving and was fined £500 and had five penalty points added to his driving licence. He was cleared of the more serious charge of dangerous driving.\n\nRodney Folkes described Thompson's sentence following his daughter's death as \"an insult to me, my family and our black community\".\n\nRodney Folkes says he is trying not to be angry but he is \"so sad\"\n\nHe said: \"The criminals here are the Metropolitan police, the bosses, the system who let it happen who make hundreds, if not thousands, of police officers drive dangerously on the road too fast.\n\n\"They're the ones I blame. I want them to drive at a safe pace. Considering that most driving limits in residential areas are 20/30mph, why can a police officer drive at 83.9mph?\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said: \"Our investigation also identified potential learning for the [Met Police] around creating a policy on speed caps for officers responding to incidents, and whether such caps could improve safety.\n\n\"We consulted with the force on this learning and, following the conclusion of this case, we now plan to make a formal learning recommendation to the force on a speed cap policy, to which the force would be required by law to respond.\"\n\nAn inquest into Ms Daniel-Folkes' death is yet to be held\n\nA spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: \"The death of Shante Daniel-Folkes was a tragedy and our thoughts remain with her family and friends.\n\n\"Police drivers are trained to make decisions around the appropriate use of speed on a case by case basis, considering all of the available information and individual circumstances known at the relevant time.\n\n\"Following this incident the Met has reviewed its driver training in respect of convoy driving. This is now included in all standard response driving courses.\"\n\nThis article was updated on 27 September 2023 to make it clear the police car was not travelling at 83.9mph at the exact time of the collision but moments earlier.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Peter Nygard, seen here leaving an Ontario courthouse, is facing extradition to the US\n\nCanadian prosecutors began laying out arguments against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard as his sexual assault trial opened in an Ontario court.\n\nIn opening remarks, they alleged Mr Nygard, 82, used his \"power and status\" to assault five women in incidents dating from the late 1980s to 2005.\n\nHe lured the women - aged 16 to 28 at the time - into a private bedroom in his firm's Toronto headquarters, prosecutors said.\n\nMr Nygard has denied all the charges.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty last week to five counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.\n\nIn the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday, Crown attorney Ana Serban accused Mr Nygard of using his status as a \"wealthy fashion designer to lure and sexually assault young women\".\n\nThe young women were offered jobs or tours to lure them to his Toronto offices, she said.\n\nThere, \"behind all the trappings of success and power, there's a bedroom suite with a giant bed... and a bar and doors, doors with no handles and automatic locks controlled by Peter Nygard,\" Ms Serban said, according to AFP.\n\nShe alleged Mr Nygard would attack the women once they were trapped in that room.\n\nAll five women in the lawsuit are expected to testify during the Ontario trial, which is expected to last at least six weeks.\n\nHe was brought into court in a wheelchair on Tuesday, his once flowing blonde mane turned gray and pulled back in a bun, and ghostly pale, AFP reported.\n\nMr Nygard also faces sex-related charges in Manitoba, Quebec and the US.\n\nHe is due to face another trial in the province of Quebec next year and is set to be extradited to the US once his criminal cases in Canada are completed.\n\nAccording to US authorities, the multimillionaire engaged in \"a decades-long pattern of criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims\" in the US, Canada and other countries.\n\nMr Nygard was once estimated to be worth at least $700m (£575m), after founding a sportswear company in the 1960s in the Canadian city of Winnipeg.\n\nThe Finnish-Canadian businessman later developed his firm, Nygard International, into a global apparel empire.\n\nMr Nygard often hosted celebrities and politicians at his properties to promote his brands, which included Bianca Nygard, Tan Jay, ALIA and SLIMS.\n\nHe stepped down as chairman in February 2020 shortly before it filed for bankruptcy following a raid by US authorities of its New York City corporate headquarters.\n\nHe has been in prison since his arrest in December of that year.", "Political reporter Ava Evans has called insults about her on GB News \"really nasty\" and said she has since received threats online.\n\nOn Tuesday Laurence Fox asked what \"self-respecting man\" would \"climb into bed\" with Evans during a discussion about political news on Dan Wootton Tonight.\n\nHe went on to say: \"That little woman has been fed, spoon-fed oppression day after day after day...\n\n\"We need powerful, strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves, we don't need these sort of feminist 4.0… they're pathetic and embarrassing.\n\n\"Who would want to shag that?\"\n\nGB News has suspended Wootton and Fox, who is also a presenter on the channel.\n\nWootton said in an apology that he \"regretted\" the interview and should have intervened to challenge Fox.\n\nThe channel called the insult \"totally unacceptable\" and said it was conducting a full investigation.", "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the House of Commons had been \"unaware of the context\"\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised on behalf of Canada's parliament after a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit was unwittingly applauded in parliament.\n\n\"This is a mistake that deeply embarrassed parliament and Canada,\" Mr Trudeau said on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaker Anthony Rota, who has assumed responsibility for inviting Yaroslav Hunka, 98, resigned on Tuesday.\n\nMr Trudeau also apologised directly to Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting Canada and present in parliament, saying: \"Canada is deeply sorry.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader was among those pictured applauding Mr Hunka, an image that has been exploited in Russian propaganda.\n\n\"All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context,\" Mr Trudeau said. \"It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust.\"\n\nHe said what happened was \"deeply, deeply painful\" to Jewish people and the many millions who were targeted by the Nazi genocide.\n\nMr Hunka, who fought with a Nazi unit in World War Two, got a standing ovation and was praised as a Ukrainian and Canadian \"hero\".\n\nHe served in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, a voluntary unit made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians under Nazi command.\n\nDivision members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal.\n\nMr Rota has said he was not aware of Mr Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to parliament.\n\n\"The Speaker was solely responsible for the invitation and recognition of this man, and has wholly accepted that responsibility and stepped down,\" Mr Trudeau said.\n\nBut neither the prime minister's comments nor the speaker's resignation have slowed criticism from Canada's opposition leader, the Conservative Party's Pierre Poilievre.\n\n\"There's always someone else to blame when it comes to Justin Trudeau. But, here's the reality: responsibility and power go together,\" he said.\n\n\"If he wants the power, he has to take the responsibility and come to the floor of the House of Commons today and apologise.\"\n\nMr Poilievre called the incident the \"biggest single diplomatic embarrassment\" in Canada's history.\n\nCanadian Jewish organisations welcomed Mr Rota's decision to step down, but the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies has said \"questions remain as to how this debacle occurred\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sean Hogg appeared at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh\n\nA rapist given community service after attacking a 13-year-old girl says he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice.\n\nLawyers for Sean Hogg, 22, told the appeal court that the judge misdirected the jury during his trial and the conviction should be quashed.\n\nHogg was found guilty of attacking the girl twice in Dalkeith Country Park in 2018, when he was 17.\n\nHe avoided prison after judge Lord Lake consulted Scotland's new sentencing guidelines for people aged under 25.\n\nDonald Findlay KC told the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh that Hogg had suffered \"a very significant\" miscarriage of justice at the hands of Lord Lake.\n\nHe said: \"The verdict that the jury brought back was demonstrably wrong.\"\n\nProsecutors from the Crown Office accepted that the judge misdirected the jury and that part of the verdict should be quashed.\n\nSolicitor general Ruth Charteris KC told the court: \"The Crown's position is that mistakes were made during the trial.\"\n\nHowever, the Crown argued that the jury still heard enough evidence for Hogg to be convicted of raping the girl on a single occasion.\n\nHogg was found guilty earlier this year of rape but due to the new under-25 sentencing guidelines, he was not jailed and instead given 270 hours of unpaid work.\n\nLord Lake said if Hogg had committed the crime when he was over 25, he would have given him a jail sentence of four or five years.\n\nLord Lake said if Hogg had committed rape when he was over 25 he would have been jailed for four or five years\n\nThree of Scotland's most senior judges are considering the appeal.\n\nDuring the hearing Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian noted that when the jury returned their verdict, the judge, prosecutor and defence immediately realised it was \"incompetent\" and contrary to the directions they had been given on the law.\n\nThe verdict was allowed to stand and Lord Lake's subsequent decision not to jail Hogg attracted widespread criticism.\n\nHe had said that under guidelines for sentencing people aged under 25, his primary consideration had to be rehabilitation.\n\nHogg, from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, was also put under supervision and added to the sex offenders register for three years.\n\nAfter the trial, Hogg's victim said she was failed by the justice system and the outcome would deter other girls from reporting rape.\n\nThe girl had been diagnosed with PTSD and underwent three years of counselling after the attacks.\n\nAamer Anwar, the lawyer representing the girl, who is now 18, said: \"My client was left devastated. As far as she is concerned, she came forward. She told the truth. She spoke up. She believes the police and the jury did its duty.\n\n\"There is much more she wishes to say, but it would be inappropriate to comment further until the appeal court issues its judgement.\"\n\nEarlier this year, First Minister Humza Yousaf said he believed those convicted of rape should go to prison but added that sentencing decisions had to be made by the courts.\n\nLady Dorrian said the appeal involved \"difficult\" issues and the judges would issue its decision at a later date.\n\nAnyone listening to today's hearing would have come away with the distinct impression that Sean Hogg's appeal has a very good chance of success.\n\nHis lawyer Donald Findlay KC had to say very little and was asked very little by the three appeal court judges. In contrast, the Crown's Ruth Charteris KC was on her feet for a very long time and endured robust questioning.\n\nWe now know that at the trial, the lawyers and the judge Lord Lake realised the jury's verdict was legally unsound but Hogg was sentenced anyway. Lord Lake's unpaid work order caused uproar and raised serious questions about the courts' sentencing guidelines for under-25s.\n\nUnless the mood music in court today was completely misleading, it appears likely that Sean Hogg's conviction will be overturned. In theory the Crown could ask for a retrial but the bar for that to happen is set pretty high.", "The turtle dove is just one familiar species facing an uncertain future\n\nNumbers of the UK's most precious animals and plants are still falling, as a countrywide nature-loss crisis continues.\n\nLoss of nature is outpacing investment and effort to tackle it, conservation organisations say.\n\nTheir State of the Nature report found 16% of 10,000 mammals, plants, insects, birds and amphibians assessed were threatened.\n\nThey include UK wildlife icons such as the turtle dove and hazel dormouse.\n\nThe government has said it is committed to \"increasing the amount of habitat for nature to thrive\".\n\nBut conservation organisations say more investment and a shift to much more wildlife-friendly farming and fishing are urgently needed.\n\nBusy roads often block migration paths for common toads, making it difficult for them to reach breeding ponds\n\nThe 203-page document was produced by more than 60 organisations, including wildlife conservation groups, government agencies and academics.\n\nIts analysis of decades of research paints a grim picture - natural spaces and the wildlife that depends on them are in decline.\n\nNida al-Fulaij, from the People's Trust for Endangered Species, told BBC News: \"The main takeaways from this report are alarming.\"\n\nAnd she explained how thousands of studies used in the report examined the abundance or distribution of UK wildlife.\n\n\"Where we can, we count species year after year,\" Ms Fulaij said.\n\n\"Another way to measure how a plant or animal is faring is to repeatedly examine a site and ask, 'Is the species here or not?'\"\n\nPlants and animals monitored since the 1970s have declined in abundance by an average 19%.\n\nAnd this trend suggests a bleak outlook for much of the country's native wildlife, conservation scientists say.\n\nPollinating insects are struggling in the UK\n\nThis should make everyone \"sit up and listen\", Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) chief executive Beccy Speight said.\n\nRestoring nature would also help to tackle the climate crisis.\n\n\"We need to move far faster as a society towards nature-friendly land and sea use,\" Ms Speight said.\n\n\"Otherwise, the UK's nature and wider environment will continue to decline and degrade, with huge implications for our own way of life.\"\n\nResponding to these calls for action, the government said it was investing in its \"30-by-30\" pledge, to protect 30% of land for nature by 2030.\n\n\"At the start of this year, I published our comprehensive Environmental Improvement Plan,\" Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said, \"setting out how we will create and restore at least 500,000 hectares [2,000 sq miles] of new wildlife habitats.\"\n\nBut RSPB conservation-science head Prof Richard Gregory told BBC News: \"We'd need more to achieve the goal of 30 by 30.\n\n\"The task ahead of us to recover nature in the UK is large and complex - we are really talking of billions of pounds and not millions to change systems and tackle the drives of decline.\n\n\"That investment would return a huge amount for society in time and save huge future costs if we allow the environment to continue to decline and degrade.\"\n\nSince 1970, the report says, of the 2,890 species in Britain's \"priority group\":\n\nIn the North Pennines, Nic and Paul Renison have transformed the way they farm, to create more space for nature, dividing their 400 acres (160 hectares) into small pastures and moving their cows into a new field each day.\n\n\"The idea is that it's like the buffalo on the plains - they move every day, then the pasture gets 60 days to recover,\" Nic said.\n\nWith the help of the Woodland Trust, they have also planted wildlife-friendly hedgerows to create wildlife \"corridors\" throughout their farm.\n\n\"The more you do, the more nature you attract - it gets addictive,\" Paul said.\n\nAll five of the UK's resident owl species can now be found on the Renisons' farm and 50 different bird species are breeding there, a recent survey revealed.\n\nNic and Paul Renison on their farm, in the North Pennines\n\nIn England, an estimated 70% of land is farmed.\n\nIn one large-scale study in central England, turning over land from crops to wildlife habitat increased yields, probably by boosting the abundance of insects that pollinate those crops.\n\nBut the Nature Friendly Farming Network said more investment would be needed \"to support all farmers in restoring nature and acting on climate change\".\n\nMany species of seabird have continued to decline in number\n\nBut the report also found \"targeted conservation\", concerted efforts to restore habitats and protect species, had worked well:\n\nReport author and University of Sussex environmental-biology professor Fiona Matthews said: \"We need a lot more investment [in nature].\n\n\"There is a belief in government that things can just magically happen for free.\"\n\nBut while she acknowledged the great work from thousands of volunteers, funded work was needed too.\n\n\"I often see a press release for £1m for this or that - but it is a drop in the ocean for what is actually required to tackle this issue,\" Prof Matthews said.", "The whisky was discovered at the back of a shelf in a cellar\n\nWhisky found behind a hidden cellar door in a Scottish castle may be the oldest in existence, according to experts.\n\nAbout 40 bottles of Scotland's national drink were discovered in Blair Castle in Perthshire late last year.\n\nResearch in the castle's archives and carbon dating technology suggest the contents date back to the early 1800s.\n\nIt may even be the same whisky tasted by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert during a trip to the castle in 1844.\n\nNow 24 of the bottles are being prepared for sale by auction in November.\n\nWhisky Auctioneer, which is based in Perth, said the whisky was believed to have been distilled in 1833 and bottled in 1841, before being rebottled in 1932.\n\nAfter being discovered at the back of a shelf, they were sampled by family and a local whisky expert.\n\nSince then, research has been carried out in the archives of Blair Castle and Atholl Estates, which include cellar inventories known as \"bin books\".\n\nTwenty-four of the bottles will go on sale in November\n\nIt unearthed extensive references to the production of whisky and aqua vitae, especially in the early 19th Century.\n\nAnd it found that whisky was consumed during Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's three-week stay at Blair Castle in 1844.\n\nAngus MacRaild, an old and rare whisky specialist and co-founder of Kythe Distillery, said it had been a great privilege to taste the whisky.\n\n\"This is a profoundly historic whisky and a remarkable artefact of Scottish distilling that is unlikely to ever be equalled in terms of provenance and preservation,\" he said.\n\n\"That it has been carefully re-bottled and preserved at natural strength, maintaining the freshness and power of this spirit for nearly two centuries is frankly, astonishing.\"\n\nBlair Castle hosted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 1840s\n\nCarbon dating by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre also supported its 19th Century origin.\n\nBertie Troughton, the Blair Castle resident trustee who made the discovery, said: \"Blair Castle is fortunate to have one of the best archives of any historic house in Scotland and it's been wonderful to see the story of these fabulous bottles come to life in the archives.\n\n\"Whisky has always been a huge part of the history of Blair Castle and we will be building an exhibition around the bottles we keep after the auction so that all who visit Blair Castle can see it and hear the history of this incredible whisky\".", "Actor and rapper Nashawn Breedlove, known for taking on Eminem in a rap battle in the film 8 Mile, has died aged 46.\n\nBreedlove played the formidable opponent Lotto in the 2002 film, loosely based on rapper Eminem's life, and appeared on the soundtrack for the 2001 film The Wash.\n\nHis mother confirmed his death on social media on Tuesday.\n\nHe died in his sleep at his home in New Jersey on Sunday, TMZ reported.\n\nRapper Mickey Factz remembered him as one of the few \"to beat Eminem.\"\n\n\"You will be missed for your tenacity and aggressiveness,\" he added in the tribute posted to Instagram.\n\n\"Nashawn was so humble and modest he didn't even know he had true fans,\" a comment under the post read.\n\n\"No one could deny his talent,\" his mother wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.\n\n\"Nashawn's departure from this world has left an immense void in my life, one that words cannot fully express. I can't put into words the pain and hurt that I feel.\n\n\"He was not just my son; he was a remarkable man whose character and strength inspired all who crossed his path.\"\n\nMany paying tribute to Breedlove fondly remembered his scene in 8 Mile, when his character Lotto takes on Eminem's B-Rabbit and raps, \"I feel bad I gotta murder that dude from Leave it to Beaver\".\n\nThough he ended up losing the battle, his performance left the entire crowd whooping and clapping in the film.\n\nThe film received critical acclaim and was a massive commercial success, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Lose Yourself by Eminem.\n\nBreedlove also contributed to the soundtrack of the 2001 comedy film The Wash starring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, under his stage name Ox.\n\nHis cause of death is currently unknown, entertainment news site TMZ reported, citing family sources.", "Weeks after wildfires ravaged the city, authorities are gradually letting Lahaina residents return for the first time.\n\n'It's going to break our family apart,' one resident says standing amidst the rubble that used to be her home.", "The Rosebank oil field is 80 miles west of Shetland. Oil and gas have long been a crucial staple of the economy there, and also for Orkney to the south.\n\nOur reporter Huw Williams took to the streets of Kirkwall in Orkney to find out what people there think about the go ahead for development and production at Rosebank.\n\nStewart McPhee from Stenness says: \"I think that it would be a good thing for Orkney, a very good thing, because it will bring a lot of people in.\"\n\nBut Susan Tyzack from Twatt argues that most of the oil should be kept in the ground and \"we should maintain a plan towards a green economy\".\n\nSusan Tyzack is against the Rosebank proposal Image caption: Susan Tyzack is against the Rosebank proposal\n\nJacqui Holmes does not back the investment in a new oil and gas field at Rosebank Image caption: Jacqui Holmes does not back the investment in a new oil and gas field at Rosebank\n\nJacqui Holmes from Lyness in Hoy also disagrees with the Rosebank oil and gas field going ahead and warns \"it is money that just gets thrown away\", arguing it should be put towards developing wind and solar power instead.\n\nTom King from Kirkwall is underwhelmed but overall backs the plans Image caption: Tom King from Kirkwall is underwhelmed but overall backs the plans\n\n\"I would be quite happy for it to go ahead,\" Tom King from Kirkwall tells our reporter, but adds that if the oil and gas are going to be taken away abroad in tankers \"it's no big deal for Scotland at all\".\n\nFiona McGuigan from Kirkwall backs the plans: \"We still need oil until we have a replacement so I think they should go ahead with the oil development.\"", "Plans have been lodged to develop a major oilfield north west of Shetland.\n\nNorwegian state-controlled oil company Equinor said the Rosebank field could produce almost 70,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak.\n\nThe company said it would do so with the \"lowest possible carbon footprint\".\n\nBut environmental campaigners argued that the development would be a \"total betrayal\" of the UK's climate goals, with Greenpeace vowing to \"fight Rosebank every step of the way\".\n\nEquinor said that if production started in 2026, then Rosebank could account for 8% of the UK's total oil production between then and 2030.\n\nIt has been predicted that Rosebank could produce 69,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, and about 44 million cubic feet of gas per day in its first 10 years.\n\nEquinor and its project partners say they will invest around £80m to ensure that the development, about 80 miles north west of Shetland, would be powered with electricity.\n\nIt has predicted that the project could create more than 1,600 jobs at the height of construction, and could generate £24.1bn of gross value add (GVA) over its lifetime. It aims to make a final investment decision on the field in the first quarter of 2023.\n\nEquinor senior vice-president Arne Gurtner said the firm was committed to net-zero by 2050.\n\nBut he added: \"For the next few decades oil and gas will continue to play a vital role alongside low-carbon systems.\n\n\"Therefore, while we still need oil and gas, we aim to develop and operate projects such as Rosebank with the lowest possible carbon footprint while bringing the maximum value to society in the shape of UK investment, local jobs and energy security.\"\n\nIndustry body Offshore Energies UK said it would benefit UK energy security and the Scottish economy.\n\nHowever, Uplift - which campaigns for a fossil fuel-free UK - said the Rosebank field would be twice the size of the controversial Cambo development.\n\nIt claimed that investing in the field would reduce the amount Equinor has to pay under the government's windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nUplift director Tessa Khan said: \"Rosebank will mean a massive transfer of wealth from the British people to one of the richest petrostates in the world.\n\n\"Approving Rosebank would be a total betrayal of both the government's climate goals and the British public, who face a severe recession while oil and gas companies make outrageous profits.\"\n\nGreenpeace has already have brought a legal challenge over the planned Jackdaw development in the North Sea.\n\nPhilip Evans, of Greenpeace UK, said: \"If Rosebank goes ahead, it will do nothing to help drivers or households with rising costs, because the oil doesn't belong to the UK and goes to a global market.\n\n\"We will fight Rosebank every step of the way, and urge the government to crack on with quick, cheap solutions that will actually help in the cost-of-living crisis and the climate emergency - renewables, home insulation and heat pumps.\"", "The former president has denied any wrongdoing and on Tuesday said the case in New York was another political \"witch hunt\"\n\nDonald Trump committed fraud by repeatedly misrepresenting his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars, a New York judge has ruled.\n\nThe ruling, part of a civil case brought against the former president and his family business, said he defrauded banks and insurers for years.\n\nIt is a major blow to Mr Trump that will likely hamper his ability to do business in the state.\n\nMr Trump and the other defendants have argued that they never committed fraud.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James had accused Trump, his two adult sons and the Trump Organization of inflating the value of their properties by more than $2bn (£1.65bn) to suit the needs of their business.\n\nShe claimed the defendants issued false records and financial statements in order to get better terms on loans and insurance deals, and to pay less tax.\n\nThe scathing decision on Tuesday was issued by Judge Arthur Engoron in the New York state court, after Ms James asked for a summary ruling before the trial begins. She argued that finding certain facts to be beyond dispute would speed up the trial.\n\nThe ruling resolves the key claim of fraud made in the lawsuit, meaning the trial will now focus on a more narrow set of six remaining claims and determine the size of any potential penalty.\n\nThe trial is scheduled to begin on 2 October and could last until at least December. Ms James is seeking $250m in penalties and a ban on Mr Trump doing business in his home state.\n\nIn his ruling, Judge Engoron said \"the documents here clearly contain fraudulent valuations that defendants used in business\".\n\n\"That is a fantasy world, not the real world,\" he wrote.\n\nJudge Engoron also ordered the cancellation of business certificates that allow some of the former president's businesses, including the Trump Organization, to operate in New York.\n\nThat will not dissolve his company, but could end his control over signature New York properties like the Trump Tower and the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street.\n\nThe judge denied the Trump team's request to throw out the case, and separately fined five Trump attorneys $7,500 each for making \"preposterous\" arguments already rejected by the court and fuelling what he called their clients' \"obstreperous\" conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York attorney general Letitia James wants the Trumps to repay $250m that she says was illegally obtained\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump said this ruling was \"a miscarriage of justice\" and indicated they would appeal.\n\nThe former president has denied any wrongdoing and on Tuesday said the case was another political \"witch hunt\" brought by a prosecutor who was biased against him.\n\nHe accused the judge of being \"highly politicised\".\n\nMr Trump is still seeking to delay the trial in New York and has sued the judge. An appeals court is set to rule this week on that lawsuit. If it rules against him, Mr Trump will have to fight out the rest of the case in court.\n\nIt is just one of several legal battles the Republican frontrunner is facing as he campaigns for an election rematch with President Joe Biden next year and a potential return to the White House.\n\nHe is also facing 91 felony charges across four criminal cases. He has pleaded not guilty in those cases.", "An HS2 construction firm boss has said he would be cautious about taking on future government projects amid doubts over the rail line's future.\n\nRising costs have led to speculation that the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the high speed line could be axed.\n\nMark Reynolds, of Mace Group, said it was \"very rare\" work on a major scheme \"gets stopped\", adding that working in the UK had been \"challenging\".\n\nThe government has said it is reviewing how costs of HS2 can be controlled.\n\nThe high speed rail project is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England. The first part, between west London and Birmingham, is already under construction.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, soaring costs and cuts - including the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds which was axed in 2021.\n\nMr Reynolds, chief executive of Mace Group, said said he learned about the potential cancellation of HS2's Birmingham to Manchester link \"like everyone else, about two and half weeks ago\" in news reports.\n\nThere is also speculation over whether the line will end at Old Oak Common in west London, rather than carry on to Euston station in central London.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced that work on a new station at Euston would be paused for two years as predicted costs had almost doubled to £4.8bn.\n\nMr Reynolds said the delay had been disappointing and came \"from nowhere\". Mace is part of a joint venture to overhaul Euston station for HS2.\n\n\"One minute the prime minister and the chancellor started telling everyone that the rail line is going to Euston and three weeks later, they said no, it's being paused for two years,\" he told the BBC's Today Programme.\n\n\"We had to demobilise over 1,200 people, designers, supply chain contractors on site.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a group of Labour's regional mayors and the Mayor of London sent a letter to the government requesting a meeting before any decision is made on the future on HS2.\n\nThe leaders said scrapping or curtailing HS2 would \"fail to produce any meaningful economic benefit\", arguing that investment in transport infrastructure was \"a huge driver of economic growth - creating jobs, increasing productivity and opening up new business opportunities\".\n\n\"We agree on the importance of ensuring public money is well spent but it will be an international embarrassment and a national outrage if all this gets us is a line that leads to journeys slower than the current one between Birmingham and London and nothing more,\" the mayors said.\n\nMr Reynolds said it was \"very rare that you work on a major scheme that gets stopped\", adding it \"doesn't normally happen in the UK, quite frankly at this scale\".\n\nThe government is yet to make an official announcement on the fate of HS2, but there have been reports that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been alarmed by the rising cost of the project, with suggestions it could exceed £100bn.\n\nThe Times newspaper reported Mr Sunak was considering reallocating money to other regional transport projects, including the Northern Powerhouse Rail project which would include a mix of new and upgraded lines to speed up journeys between Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Following the BBC Newsnight interview, UHB said it hoped Rev Lynn Busfield was able to raise her concerns with her executive lead\n\nMore than half of staff at a hospital trust that has been under fire for its \"toxic culture\" have said they felt bullied or harassed.\n\nThe findings come from an independent review commissioned by University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Trust.\n\nIt has been at the centre of NHS scrutiny after a culture of fear was uncovered in a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nIt added it was committed to changing the working environment.\n\nThe trust is one of the largest of its kind in England, responsible for the Queen Elizabeth (QE), Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals, as well as some community services.\n\nOf 2,884 respondents to a staff survey, 53% said they had felt bullied or harassed at work, while only 16% believed their concerns would be taken up by their employer.\n\nMany said they were fearful to complain \"as they believed it could worsen the situation,\" the review team found.\n\nProf Mike Bewick said in June that the trust had a \"mountain to climb\"\n\nThe details make stark reading, with most staff blaming their immediate line managers or colleagues for the bullying.\n\nAs many as 30% said they did not always feel safe at work, citing a lack of managerial support over violence and intimidation from patients.\n\nUHB's Independent Organisational Culture report follows a separate review for local NHS bosses by Prof Mike Bewick after whistleblowers told the BBC they had been punished for raising safety concerns.\n\nOne insider had previously described the trust in an interview as \"a bit like the mafia\".\n\nRichard Burden, chair of Healthwatch in Birmingham and Solihull, which represents patients, said it was imperative to address \"dangerous practices\" and bring individuals responsible to account.\n\n\"This culture of fear, coupled with the perception of a board and management that is, at best, disinterested and, at worst, actively hostile to staff raising concerns, clearly has serious ramifications for patient safety,\" he said.\n\nIn Prof Bewick's reports, published earlier this year, he wrote of a \"historical coercive bullying culture where fear and threats were used as a management tool\".\n\nThe latest of those two reports, however, identified that improvements had been made.\n\nThe second Bewick report, published in June, highlighted for the first time the issue of sexual harassment and the latest survey backs that up, with the review team saying that not enough was being done to \"ensure the sexual safety of staff\".\n\nReviewers analysed documents and spoke to about 4,000 staff members in various departments over four months from April, including non-medical, board and senior leader team members.\n\nTheir report highlighted how unacceptable behaviours and working practices had developed, leading to staff feeling isolated, discriminated against, unsafe and undervalued.\n\nJunior doctor Vaish Kumar died in June 2022 and left a suicide note blaming her death on her experiences of working at the QE Hospital\n\nThe review team also heard less than half (48%) of respondents felt respected by their employer, with many reporting feeling like \"just a number\".\n\nTolerance of poor behaviour had led to staff becoming de-sensitised, the report found, resulting in many feeling pushed beyond their capacity and a significant impact on mental health.\n\nThe report also set out key recommendations, including greater transparency by managers, a shift to valuing staff and measures to ensure a safe working environment.\n\nIn one sense we haven't really learned all that much from this 54-page report that we didn't already know.\n\nAnyone who's been following Newsnight's year-long investigation into what we were told was a \"toxic\" and \"mafia-like\" working environment at one of England's biggest and worst performing trusts would have been familiar with its findings.\n\nStaff who felt bullied into silence, who feared their careers would be harmed if they spoke up and a management seemingly more concerned with reputational damage than patient safety.\n\nBut what this review does is provide official confirmation and, vitally for the patients and staff at UHB, a roadmap towards a more healthy, inclusive and safer culture.\n\nAlthough several senior managers who presided over the trust in the past have since departed, the current CEO Jonathan Brotherton is not exactly a new broom. He has been at UHB for nearly a decade and was Chief Operating Officer from 2014 until his promotion earlier this year.\n\nMany staff have told us they are going to need convincing that the leadership style of UHB has really and permanently changed.\n\nIn August, whistleblowers wrote they feared little would change following the appointment of new chief executive Jonathan Brotherton from within the trust and little change at board level.\n\nAt the time, the trust declined to comment on the letter, sent to a cross-party reference group on the hospital trust.\n\nWhile the latest independent review observed the trust was taking steps to respond to challenges, it underlined the need for \"a fundamental shift in approach, attitude and understanding\".\n\nIn response, UHB said it fully accepted the report's core recommendations.\n\n\"We are very sorry for the unacceptable behaviours and working practices that the culture review highlights and welcome the recommendations, which we fully commit to implementing,\" Jonathan Brotherton, UHB chief executive, said.\n\n\"Whist the review makes very difficult reading, it resonates with what we have heard directly from staff,\" he added.\n\nMr Brotherton said the trust had already begun to make changes to its infrastructure and leadership and would do everything possible to become \"the best possible place to work\".\n\nMr Burden said a new culture and inclusion board at the trust would be \"a crucial test of UHB's commitment to facing up to past failings\".\n\n\"We are clear that self-reflection by the trust leadership is essential to building confidence among staff,\" the Healthwatch chair added.\n\nNHS Ombudsman Rob Behrens said the trust must now listen to staff and patients, \"accept accountability and learn from its mistakes\".\n\n\"[The trust] has made a start, but there is much work to do to before we see real change and a shift in the culture of fear that has been instilled at University Hospitals Birmingham Trust,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff deserve to work in a safe environment, where they are treated fairly, feel valued and are confident that when they raise concerns, those concerns are addressed.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GB News has suspended host Laurence Fox after he denigrated a journalist and asked what \"self-respecting man\" would \"climb into bed\" with her.\n\nHis comments were made in a live discussion after PoliticsJOE reporter Ava Evans said on the BBC that calls for a minister for men \"feed into the culture war\".\n\nGB News said it would formally apologise to Evans.\n\nThe broadcaster distanced itself from Fox's comments shortly after they were aired, with a statement describing the remarks as \"totally unacceptable\".\n\nIn a later statement issued on Wednesday morning, a GB News spokesperson said: \"GB News has formally suspended Laurence Fox while we continue our investigation into comments he made on the channel last night.\n\n\"Mr Fox's suspension is effective immediately and he has been taken off air. We will be apologising formally to Ms Evans today.\"\n\nFox - who unsuccessfully ran to be London mayor in 2021 - said \"I stand by every word of what I said\" in a social media post on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe BBC discussion took place on Monday's episode of Politics Live and featured Evans alongside comedian and commentator Geoff Norcott, who raised the issue of men's mental health and the fact that, for men under 50, suicide remains the biggest cause of death.\n\nWhen the host mentioned a call by a Conservative MP for a dedicated minister to address such issues, Evans - who is the political correspondent for online news platform PoliticsJOE - said: \"I think that it feeds into the culture war a little bit, this minister for men argument.\n\n\"[Mental illness] is a crisis that's endemic throughout the country, not specific to men. And I think a lot of ministers bandy this about to - I'm sorry - make an enemy out of women.\"\n\nShe later said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the comments had been \"a little rash\" and that she was \"actually very interested in a brief for a minister on young men's mental health\".\n\nFox, who hosts his own show on GB News, was asked about the exchange while appearing as a guest on another of the channel's programmes, Dan Wootton Tonight, on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're past the watershed so I can say this. Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman - ever, ever,\" he said.\n\n\"That little woman has been fed, spoon-fed oppression day after day after day.\n\n\"And she's sat there and I'm going like - if I met you in a bar and that was like sentence three, [the] chances of me just walking away are just huge.\n\n\"We need powerful strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves.\"\n\nHe then added: \"Who'd want to shag that?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. GB News suspends Laurence Fox for comments about a female journalist involved in a BBC discussion about men.\n\nReacting on the same platform alongside a video clip of the exchange between Fox and Wootton, Evans said: \"Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won't shag me? I feel physically sick.\"\n\nShe told Channel 5's Jeremy Vine show on Wednesday: \"I'm really hurt by it... I'm shocked about by it, I'm shocked that it went out.\"\n\nHost Wootton, who could be seen laughing at points as Fox spoke, issued two statements apologising on X, calling the remarks \"totally unacceptable\" and saying he had reacted \"out of shock\".\n\nHe continued: \"Having looked at the footage, I can see how inappropriate my reaction to his totally unacceptable remarks appears to be and want to be clear that I was in no way amused by the comments.\"\n\nIn social media posts on Wednesday, Fox shared a screenshot which he claimed shows a conversation with a GB News employee informing them of the nature of the comments he intended to make ahead of his appearance, though not with the specific explicit language.\n\nFox's comments attracted widespread condemnation, including from Labour MP and shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, who tagged media regulator Ofcom into a post on X in an apparent call for it to intervene.\n\n\"British television should never subject women to this sort of abuse,\" she said.\n\nEnergy Secretary Claire Coutinho said the comments were \"completely vile\", adding: \"I don't think any woman gives her opinion to be attractive to a member of the opposite sex.\"\n\nOfcom said it had received \"a number of complaints\" about Fox's comments which it was \"assessing\" against its broadcast rules.\n\nFox, 45, first established a public profile as an actor, most notably in ITV's detective series Lewis. His extended family is closely associated with the acting profession and he is the son of actor James Fox.\n\nIn recent years he has become known as a right-wing political commentator and activist. He launched his own political party, the Reclaim Party, in 2020.\n\nFox's attempt to become London mayor the following year saw him finish sixth with 1.9% of the vote.", "Serge Kelly's face was covered as he left Carrick-on-Shannon District Court on Tuesday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged over a hit-and-run collision in which a nine-year-old boy from County Tyrone died on Saturday night.\n\nRonan Wilson, from Kildress, died at the scene of the crash on Atlantic Way in Bundoran, County Donegal.\n\nSerge Kelly, 23, from Upper Mullaghmore, Cliffony, County Sligo was granted bail on Tuesday after appearing in court in Carrick-on-Shannon.\n\nHe faces three charges including failing to stop after a collision.\n\nA garda (Irish police) detective said Mr Kelly was charged at Ballyshannon Garda Station on Monday night.\n\nWhen accused of failing to offer assistance following the collision, the detective said Mr Kelly replied: \"It was wrong and I should have stopped but I didn't.\"\n\nIn response to a charge of failing to keep the vehicle near the scene of the collision, he replied: \"I should have but I didn't.\"\n\nWhen charged with failing to stop at the scene, the court was told Mr Kelly said: \"I know I should have but I didn't.\"\n\nRonan Wilson was from Kildress in County Tyrone\n\nThe defendant was granted bail after a €2,000 (£1,740) cash bond was given to the court with a further surety of €5,000 (£4,350) also provided.\n\nMr Kelly was told not to have any contact with prosecution witnesses and to surrender his passport.\n\nHe must also stay out of Bundoran.\n\nA hearse carrying Ronan Wilson's coffin receives the guard of honour at his GAA club\n\nThe case was adjourned until 20 October at Ballyshannon District Court.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, a guard of honour was held at Kildress Wolfe Tones GAA club as the hearse carrying Ronan's coffin arrived.\n\nHis funeral will take place at St Mary's Church in Dunamore in County Tyrone on Thursday.", "Developers and housebuilders are preparing to deliver biodiversity net gain\n\nThe government is delaying putting into effect new environmental laws forcing developers to improve countryside and wildlife habitats, the BBC has learned.\n\nBiodiversity Net Gain (BNG) was meant to become a mandatory part of the planning system in England in November.\n\nBut government sources told the BBC it would now not start until the new year.\n\nEnvironmentalists have lamented the delay. The government said it was still committed to the policy and would soon announce a new implementation date.\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts called the delay \"another hammer blow for nature\".\n\nBNG policy was approved as part of the 2021 Environment Act. The rules are designed to ensure developers leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand.\n\nThe delay comes after weeks of political uncertainty on environmental policy, with the government looking to throw out \"nutrient neutrality\" pollution rules and to water down policy on achieving net zero.\n\nThe UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), an industry body that promotes sustainable development, said any delayed implementation of BNG would \"hurt green businesses and development\".\n\nRichard Benwell, CEO of environmental coalition group Wildlife & Countryside Link, said net gain had \"already been pared back to the bare minimum to offset the habitat harm caused by new development\".\n\nHe added that a delay \"could strike at the foundations\" of the scheme.\n\nThe new rules would see wildlife habitats created across England\n\nThe Home Builders Federation said developers \"have embraced the principle of biodiversity net gain\" but that there were \"significant gaps\" in government guidance.\n\nNeil Jefferson, the federation's managing director, said that would \"not only prohibit local authorities' abilities to effectively manage this new requirement but inevitably lead to further delays in the planning process\".\n\n\"We need government to deliver on its requirements so that industry can provide these huge environmental benefits alongside desperately needed new homes,\" he said.\n\nPhilip Box, UKGBC's public affairs and policy advisor, added: \"Businesses from across the industry and our membership have raised concerns regarding any potential delay.\n\n\"This would be exceptionally damaging for them in terms of projected work pipelines, investment, supply chains, and related job roles.\"\n\nAs part of planning permission, under the new rules developers will have to agree to delivering a biodiversity gain, on or off site, set at a minimum of 10%.\n\nGeorgia Stokes, CEO of Somerset Wildlife Trust, was 'shocked' by news of the delay\n\nHabitats and wildlife impacted by development would be given a biodiversity value using a government-developed metric 'calculator': from native hedgerows and hay meadows, which support dozens of species and merit a high unit value, down to less habitat-rich cropland, and derelict land, which would be awarded a low value.\n\nSue Young, head of land use planning for The Wildlife Trusts, said they had wanted any gain to be set at 20% and said any delay now would \"cause uncertainty for developers and could affect the quality of schemes\".\n\n\"Attempts to delay or weaken rules for biodiversity net gain would deliver yet another hammer blow for nature from the current UK government,\" she added.\n\nGeorgia Stokes, CEO at Somerset Wildlife Trust, added: \"It feels unnecessary for there to be a delay and we're quite shocked that that's where we've ended up. We need the government to take action.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Local Government Association (LGA) has called on government to confirm what funding council planners will be given when BNG finally becomes law.\n\nA survey earlier this month by the Royal Town Planning Institute found more than 60% of public sector planning departments were unable to confirm they would have the necessary resources and expertise in place to deliver the scheme.\n\nDarren Rodwell, environment spokesperson for the LGA said: \"Councils are concerned about the impact of further delays on their ability to effectively implement BNG.\n\n\"Councils urgently need confirmation of go-live dates, essential guidance and definitions and a clear timetable of funding in order to employ additional staff and invest in the expertise and capacity.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government said it had already committed more than £15m to help local councils prepare and recruit new specialists to deliver the scheme.\n\nHe added: \"We are fully committed to biodiversity net gain which will have benefits for people and nature. We will set out more details on implementation timings shortly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is thought to have begun after fireworks were set off\n\nAt least 94 people have died and 100 others are injured after a fire broke out during a wedding in Iraq's biggest Christian town on Tuesday night.\n\nHundreds were celebrating at a banqueting hall in Qaraqosh, in Nineveh province, when the tragedy happened.\n\nWitnesses and civil defence officials said the fire was sparked by fireworks set off as the bride and groom danced.\n\nHighly flammable metal and plastic composite panels that covered the hall fuelled the blaze, they added.\n\nSecurity forces arrested 10 of the venue's staff, its owner and three people involved with the fireworks on Wednesday.\n\nIn the afternoon, hundreds of mourners attended a funeral for more than 40 of the victims at a cemetery in Qaraqosh, which is also known as al-Hamdaniya and Bakhdida. Some carried portraits of their deceased loved ones.\n\nIn an address, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako described the fire as a \"complete and total catastrophe\", according to Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw.\n\nAlsumaria TV, meanwhile, showed footage of a man at the funeral who it identified as the groom. BBC Verify ran an image of his face through facial recognition software, comparing it to a picture of the groom before the wedding, and is confident that the report is correct.\n\nCivil defence officials told BBC News Arabic that both the groom and his bride survived, though initial reports said they had perished.\n\nSeveral witnesses said entire families died in the fire\n\nFootage posted online showed the couple on the dancefloor as flaming debris begins to fall from the ceiling.\n\nAnother video, filmed moments before, appeared to show four large fountain fireworks alight in the hall and then a large ceiling decoration nearby being engulfed by fire.\n\nRania Waad, a wedding guest who sustained a burn to her hand, said that as the bride and groom were slow dancing, \"fireworks started to climb to the ceiling, the whole hall went up in flames\".\n\n\"We couldn't see anything,\" the 17-year-old told AFP news agency. \"We were suffocating, we didn't know how to get out.\"\n\nImad Yohana, a 34-year-old who escaped the inferno, told Reuters: \"We saw the fire pulsating, coming out of the hall. Those who managed got out and those who didn't got stuck. Even those who made their way out were broken.\"\n\nAnother survivor said several members of his family were among the victims.\n\n\"When [the fire] happened, my mother was in the bathroom,\" he said. \"I couldn't find her after. I searched for my daughter, my son, my wife, my father and I couldn't find them. They are gone.\"\n\nThe number of victims is unclear. On Wednesday evening, Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari cited Nineveh's health directorate as saying that 94 people had died, according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency (INA).\n\nBut the deputy governor of Nineveh, Hassan al-Allaq, told Reuters earlier that 113 people had been confirmed dead.\n\nThe injured have been transferred to hospitals across Nineveh, including the nearby city of Mosul, and in the neighbouring Kurdistan Region.\n\nA journalist in the Kurdish city of Irbil, Blesa Shaways, told the BBC there had not been sufficient \"logistical tools to rescue the people\" from the fire and that Mosul did not have enough ambulances, healthcare staff and medical equipment to treat the injured.\n\nMr Shammari said a preliminary investigation had found the blaze was \"caused by fireworks, which led to the roof burning heavily and collapsing on the citizens\", INA reported.\n\nThe interior minister also said the hall also lacked the required \"safety and security specifications\" and that those responsible would \"get their fair punishment\".\n\nAn emergency worker picks through rubble early on Wednesday\n\nEarlier, the Civil Defence Directorate said the hall had been covered with highly flammable metal composite panels, which are illegal in the country and \"collapse within minutes when a fire breaks out\". The panels also release toxic gases when burned, exacerbating fires.\n\nPrime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said building inspections would be carried out and safety procedures would be scrutinised, with \"the relevant authorities held accountable for any negligence\".\n\nSuch incidents are not rare in Iraq, where corruption and mismanagement are rife and accountability is lacking.\n\nIn 2021, officials said a lack of safety measures had contributed to the deaths of nearly 100 people in a fire at a hospital in the city of Nasiriya.\n\nQaraqosh was home to about 50,000 people, the vast majority of them Assyrian Christians, before it was overrun by the Sunni Muslim jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2014.\n\nAlthough most people fled, IS militants committed many atrocities against the Christians who remained. They also desecrated churches and burned hundreds of homes to the ground before Iraqi and US-led coalition forces recaptured the city in 2016.\n\nAbout half of Qaraqosh's residents are said to have returned since then, but many of the destroyed homes have yet to be rebuilt.\n\nAdditional reporting by Lina Sinjab in Beirut and Mattea Bubalo in London", "Natalie McNally was found dead in a house in Silverwood Green\n\nA man who posted a \"grossly offensive\" animated image of murder victim Natalie McNally on Facebook claimed he did it to \"lighten the mood\", a court has heard.\n\nThe court heard the image was posted under a police appeal news story.\n\nMs McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed at her Lurgan home in December 2022.\n\nA prosecution lawyer told Craigavon Crown Court that 22-year-old Withers was arrested after police received a complaint from Ms McNally's cousin about a Facebook comment from an account named \"John John\".\n\nIt was shared under a media outlet's post about a police appeal.\n\nThe image posted had been created on an app which used a family image of Ms McNally in her graduation gown.\n\nIt was animated and appeared to be singing, the court heard.\n\nIt was shared on three different Facebook posts between 23 to 28 December 2022.\n\n\"Several members of the public berated the defendant for the post but he didn't take it down,\" said the lawyer.\n\nWithers was subsequently identified by police and during interviews, he made full admissions to creating the image and posting it online.\n\n\"He maintained that his intent was to try and lighten the mood around the murder of the deceased, not to cause upset,\" said the prosecution lawyer.\n\nHe told police that he was different to other people, had no social skills and expressed regret for his actions, she added.\n\nA defence lawyer for Withers told the court he had instructed him to express how \"sorry he was for causing distress to the family and friends of the deceased\".\n\nWithers was described as a young man who \"lives a solitary life with no close relationships\".\n\nThe court heard he \"left school at 14 and was mercilessly bullied\".\n\nThe defendant had also been diagnosed with an emotionally unstable personality disorder and was suffering from \"deteriorating mental health at the time of the offending\".\n\nHe said he had not been taking new medication.\n\nA doctor's report described Withers \"as a disabled young man [who has] effectively developed a life of virtual living\".\n\nHe added: \"He genuinely believed, quite incredibly, that what he was doing was lightening the mood... his brain just doesn't work the same as other people.\"\n\nFreeing Withers on bail the judge said he would pass sentence on Friday.", "Iraq, home to some of the earliest known civilisations, has been a battleground for competing forces since the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.\n\nThe mainly Shia-led governments that have held power since have struggled to maintain order, and the country has enjoyed only brief periods of respite from high levels of sectarian violence.\n\nInstability and sabotage have hindered efforts to rebuild an economy shattered by decades of conflict and sanctions, even though Iraq has the world's second-largest reserves of crude oil.\n\nRashid was elected as president in October 2022, replacing Barham Salih. He can serve a maximum of two four-year terms in the largely ceremonial post.\n\nHe is opposed to the normalization of diplomatic relations with Turkey as long as there continue to be border violations.\n\nUnder an informal agreement between political parties, the presidency is reserved for Kurds, the premiership for Shia Arabs, and the post of speaker of parliament for Sunni Arabs.\n\nMohammed Shia al-Sudani became prime minister in October 2022 after more than a year of political paralysis, though critics say he is struggling to deliver on his promises.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2023, he defended the presence of United States troops in his country, saying they were needed to hep Iraq's security forces defeat ISIS.\n\nThis contradicts the stance of several Iran-aligned groups that in part make up the Shia-dominated Coordination Framework, the political bloc that nominated him as prime minister.\n\nThere are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations. But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly fractured media scene.\n\nTelevision is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations.\n\nThe partly-reconstructed Ziggurat of Ur, which was first built over 4,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq\n\nc.5500-2270BC - Sumerian civilisation flourishes in southern Iraq: Along with nearby Elam, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica it is one of the cradles of civilization. The world's earliest known texts come from Uruk and Jemdet Nasr.\n\n2334-2154BC - Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great and his successors exercises influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nc.1792-1750BC - Hammurabi, ruler of Babylon, issues the Code of Hammurabi, a law code which is among the first to establish the presumption of innocence.\n\n911-609BC - Neo-Assyrian Empire based in northern Iraq dominates the Near East, most notably under Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III.\n\n620-539BC -Neo-Babylonian Empire dominates the Levant, Canaan, Arabia, Israel and Judah, and defeats Egypt under Nebuchadnezzar II.\n\n539BC - Persians under Cyrus the Great defeat the Babylonians and region becomes part of the Achaemenid Empire.\n\n330BC - Macedonians under Alexander the Great conquer the region.\n\n632-654 - Muslim conquest of what is now Iraq and Iran.\n\n750-1258 - Abbasid Caliphate founds the city of Baghdad - under the caliph Al-Mansur - which becomes a centre of science, culture and invention in what is known as the Golden Age of Islam.\n\n1257-58 - Mongol armies under Hulagu Khan sack and destroy Baghdad, burning its extensive library. Estimates of those killed range from 200,000 to a million.\n\n1508 - Iraq comes under control of Safavid Iran.\n\n1639 - Treaty of Zuhab sees Iraq become part of the Ottoman Empire.\n\n1914 - World War One. Ottoman Turkey sides with Germany and Austria-Hungary.\n\n1915-16 - British troops invade and initially suffer a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army during the Siege of Kut.\n\n1920 - Following the end of World War One, the League of Nations approves the British mandate in Iraq, prompting nationwide revolt.\n\n1921 - Britain appoints Feisal, son of Hussein Bin Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, as king.\n\n1941 - Britain re-occupies Iraq after pro-Axis coup during World War Two.\n\n1958 - The monarchy is overthrown in a left-wing military coup led by Abd-al-Karim Qasim. Iraq leaves the pro-British Baghdad Pact.\n\n1963 - Prime Minister Qasim is ousted in a coup led by the pan-Arab Baath Party.\n\n1963 - The Baathist government is overthrown, but seizes power again five years later\n\n1990 - Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait, prompting what becomes known as the first Gulf War. A massive US-led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February 1991.\n\n1998 - US and British Operation Desert Fox bombing campaign aims to destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes.\n\n2003 - US-led invasion topples Saddam Hussein's government, marks start of years of violent conflict with different groups competing for power.\n\n2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed for crimes against humanity.\n\n2022 - 2,500 US. troops remain in Iraq as part of anti-ISIS operations despite the formal end of the US combat mission there in 2021.\n\nUS marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein shortly after the invasion in 2003. Years of instability followed", "A car has smashed into a tanning shop in Worcester and caused damage estimated at thousands of pounds.\n\nThe vehicle crashed through the front of Heatwave Worcester on Tuesday.\n\nThe driver was unhurt and the car had minor damage afterwards, West Mercia Police said.\n\nThe shop's owner, Nicole Le Poidevin, said she saw the car mount the pavement, stop and then accelerate at speed.\n\n\"The car hit my desk - it is built into the shop and has a concrete top and it literally wiped that out,\" she added.\n\nMs Le Poidevin and two customers, along with her dog, were uninjured.", "Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook parent Meta, has invested billions in virtual reality and AI\n\nMeta has announced a series of new chatbots to be used in its Messenger service.\n\nThe chatbots will have \"personality\" and specialise in certain subjects, like holidays or cooking advice.\n\nIt is the latest salvo in a chatbot arms race between tech companies desperate to produce more accurate and personalised artificial intelligence.\n\nThe chatbots are still a work in progress with \"limitations\", said boss Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nIn California, during Meta's first in-person event since before the pandemic, Mr Zuckerberg said that it had been an \"amazing year for AI\".\n\nThe company is calling its main chatbot \"Meta AI\" and can be used in messaging. For example, users can ask Meta AI questions in chat \"to settle arguments\" or ask other questions.\n\nThe BBC has not yet tested the chatbot which is based on Llama 2, the large language model that the company released for public commercial use in July.\n\nSeveral celebrities have also signed up to lend their personalities to different types of chatbots, including Snoop Dogg and Kendall Jenner.\n\nThe idea is to create chatbots that are not just designed to answer questions.\n\n\"This isn't just going to be about answering queries,\" Zuckerberg said. \"This is about entertainment\".\n\nAccording to Meta, NFL star Tom Brady will play an AI character called 'Bru', \"a wisecracking sports debater\" and YouTube star MrBeast will play 'Zach', a big brother \"who will roast you\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said there were still \"a lot of limitations\" around what the bots could answer.\n\nThe chatbots will be rolled out in the coming days and only in the US initially.\n\nMr Zuckerberg also discussed the metaverse - a virtual world - which is a concept that Mr Zuckerberg has so far spent tens of billions of dollars on.\n\nAlthough Meta had already announced its new virtual reality headset, Quest 3, the company gave further details at the event.\n\nMeta's boss described the headset as the first \"mainstream\" mixed reality headset. Cameras facing forward will mean the headset will allow for augmented reality. It will be available from 10 October.\n\nThe firm's big, long-term bet on the metaverse still appears yet to pay off, with Meta's VR division suffering $21bn (£17bn) in losses since the start of 2022.\n\nThe Quest 3 came after Apple entered the higher-priced mixed reality hardware market with the Vision Pro earlier this year.\n\nMat Day, global gaming strategy director for EssenceMediacom, said Mark Zuckerberg had \"reinvigorated\" the VR sector.\n\n\"Meta's VR roadmap is now firmly positioned around hardware priced for the mass market. This is a stark contrast to Apple's approach which is aimed at the high end tech enthusiast,\" he said.\n\nMeta's announcement came on the same day as rival OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed creator of ChatGPT, confirmed its chatbot can now browse the internet to provide users with current information. The artificial intelligence-powered system was previously trained only using data up to September 2021.", "Thousands have been subject to rigorous checks at the Armenia-Azerbaijani border\n\nSome 42,500 ethnic Armenians have now fled Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian officials say - a third of the population of the enclave which Azerbaijan seized last week.\n\nHundreds of cars are backed up on the one road leading into Armenia.\n\nAzerbaijan says residents will be safe, but Armenia's prime minister says \"ethnic cleansing\" has started.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - recognised as part of Azerbaijan - had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nThe mountainous region in the South Caucasus has been supported by Armenia - but also by its ally, Russia.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians and dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as Azerbaijan's army swept in. As part of a ceasefire deal, separatists have agreed to surrender their weapons.\n\nThe Azeris have said they want to treat ethnic Armenians as \"equal citizens\" but a limited amount of aid has been allowed through and many residents are fleeing.\n\nOn Monday, a massive fuel blast killed at least 68 people attempting to leave.\n\nNearly 300 more were injured and 105 are missing.\n\nIt is not yet clear what caused the explosion on Monday evening near the main city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians, but many were refilling their cars.\n\nAs they crossed the border on Tuesday, thousands of ethnic Armenians were subject to rigorous checks from Azerbaijani border control.\n\nAzerbaijani authorities claimed to be looking for \"war crimes\" suspects, and one government source told Agence France Presse news agency that the country intended to apply an \"amnesty to Armenian fighters who laid down their arms in Karabakh\".\n\n\"But those who committed war crimes during the Karabakh wars must be handed over to us,\" they said.\n\nHundreds of cars and buses are trying to reach the town of Goris across the border.\n\nA BBC team saw families crammed into cars, boots overflowing and roof-racks piled high with belongings. Convinced they are leaving their homes for good, people are squeezing as much of their lives as possible into their vehicles.\n\nInside Goris, a small town that is the same dusty brown as the jagged mountains that surround it, the narrow streets are filled with more cars and more families. One has arrived in a car held together with little more than sticking tape, its side badly dented and dotted with shrapnel holes, and windows smashed.\n\nThe owner tells the BBC it was hit by mortar fire when Azerbaijan launched a lightning assault to take control of the region last week. \"But it still got us here,\" he smiles, surrounded by small children.\n\nA family made the journey from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in their heavily damaged car\n\nOn the main town square, people mill around, unsure what to do next. Volunteers hand out some basic food and blankets.\n\nEvacuees are registered and there is the occasional bus to move people on to another town or village. But few seem to have a plan, beyond getting this far.\n\nFor two days last week, Malina and her family all huddled in their cellar as their village was under fire. After the Karabakh forces surrendered, Malina says the local authorities told everyone to leave for Armenia, for safety. Their village in the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh is now empty.\n\nMalina says her family left because - whatever the assurances - they would not feel safe under Azerbaijani rule.\n\nMalina says she and her grandchildren fled to seek safety\n\nThat sentiment is echoed by many others watching the situation unfold.\n\nOn Tuesday, US Secretary of state Antony Blinken urged Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to provide \"unconditional protections and freedom of movement for civilians\", and called for \"unhindered humanitarian access to Nagorno-Karabakh\".\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also called for both sides to respect human rights.\n\nSo far, only one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through since separatists accepted a ceasefire and agreed to disarm. Azerbaijan announced that another aid convoy, with 40 tonnes of flour and badly-needed hygiene products, was on its way to the enclave.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter and sleeping in basements, school buildings or outside.\n\nThe Armenian health ministry said it was sending helicopters to evacuate patients from the region's strained hospitals. Azerbaijan also said it had sent medical supplies.\n\nOn Tuesday, envoys from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Brussels for European Union-backed talks.\n\nIt was the first time diplomatic negotiations have been held between the two countries since Azerbaijan seized the enclave last week.\n\nAzerbaijan has also started separate negotiations with Karabakh's ethnic Armenian authorities about the region's future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "What do we know about Qaraqosh - the town hit by the blaze?\n\nLast night’s blaze ripped through al-Haitham Hall, which is located on the outskirts of the town of Qaraqosh. Also known as Bakhdida, it is the main centre of al-Hamdaniya district and is about 15km (9 miles) south-east of the city of Mosul. It was the biggest Christian town in Iraq - with a population of about 50,000, most of them Assyrians - before it was overrun by militants from the Sunni Muslim jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2014. Most residents fled, but those who refused or were unable to leave were issued an ultimatum by IS to pay a protection tax, convert to Islam or be killed. IS militants committed many atrocities against the Christians who remained before they were driven out by Iraqi and US-led coalition forces in 2016. They also desecrated and torched the ancient Church of the Immaculate Conception - Iraq’s largest - and reportedly burned more than 2,000 homes to the ground. About half of Qaraqosh’s residents are said to have returned since the town was liberated, and the Church of the Immaculate Conception was restored in time for a visit by Pope Frances in 2021. But many of the destroyed homes have yet to be rebuilt.", "Labour has dropped plans to end charitable status for private schools but says it will still remove other tax breaks if it wins the next general election.\n\nThe status exempts some private schools in England and Wales from taxes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer had previously said charitable status for private schools could not be justified.\n\nThe party now says it can remove \"unfair tax breaks\" without changing the rules on charitable status.\n\nThere are about 2,500 private schools in England and Wales and the government says half are registered as charities.\n\nHaving charitable status means schools can not operate for a profit and are eligible to claim some tax exemptions, for example, on donations and business rates.\n\nSince 2006, private schools have had to demonstrate they were creating \"public benefit\" to maintain their charitable status.\n\nLabour says it would charge private schools 20% VAT, as well as ending business rates relief, to raise an estimated £1.7bn.\n\nA spokesperson said the party would use the money raised from the changes \"to fund desperately needed teachers and mental health counselling in every secondary school\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Nick Robinson on the Political Thinking podcast, Sir Keir said the policy was not an \"attack on private schools\", but that the country had to \"do something about the appalling state of our schools\" and that those changes would need to be funded.\n\n\"I'm very comfortable with private schools,\" he said, \"but I want our state schools to be just as good, so it doesn't matter whether you send your child to private school or to state school because you'll get equal chances in life.\"\n\nThe party believes it would be quicker to end VAT relief, rather than removing charitable status from schools, which could be complicated and potentially open to legal challenge.\n\nBut the move appears to contradict comments made by Labour and members of Sir Keir's top team.\n\nIn 2021, Sir Keir told the Sunday Mirror: \"Labour wants every parent to be able to send their child to a great state school. But improving them to benefit everyone costs money. That's why we can't justify continued charitable status for private schools.\"\n\nIn a press release in July last year, the party said: \"Labour will end the charitable status of England's private schools.\"\n\nAnd during a parliamentary debate on the taxation of schools in January, Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said \"charitable status for most private schools is something that should come to an end\".\n\nSenior party sources argue that their charitable status pledge was just a shorthand for specific reforms, to which it still remains committed.\n\nIn a Q&A session hosted by the Mumsnet website, Ms Phillipson insisted the party's policy of ending tax breaks for private schools remained \"unchanged\".\n\nShe said \"ending charitable status was not a necessary part of doing that\" and \"we can press ahead with ending the tax breaks relatively quickly and then put that money into delivering better outcomes for children\".\n\nBut Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who attended fee-paying Winchester College, said the policy was part of a \"class war\" to \"punish\" aspirational parents.\n\nLabour's approach, he added, showed \"they just don't understand the aspiration of families like my parents who were working really hard\".\n\n\"They don't understand the aspiration that people have to provide a better life for their kids,\" he told BBC South Today.\n\nLast year, the Scottish government scrapped business rate relief for private schools.\n\nJulie Robinson, chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, argued that taking away the tax relief associated with charitable status for schools could create \"a two-tier system within the charity sector\".\n\nShe said it would set a \"worrying precedent that any charity seen as not reflecting the political ideology of the day could be subject to additional taxes\".\n\nThe council has also previously argued that tax changes would \"threaten the survival of the smallest independent schools\".\n\nLast year, the Labour leader clashed with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over the issue, with Sir Keir arguing that tax breaks for private schools were a \"scandal\".\n\nHe also cited Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, who asked, when he was out of government, how giving \"state support to the already wealthy\" could be justified.\n\nAccording to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the average private school in the UK charges about £15,200 per year, while the most expensive schools, such as Eton College or Harrow School cost about £50,000 per year.\n\nThe Conservatives have questioned whether tax changes would raise the £1.7bn Labour have claimed it would.", "(Left to right) Dame Prue Leith, Noel Fielding, Alison Hammond and Paul Hollywood\n\nAlison Hammond has been praised as a \"joyous\" and \"welcome\" new ingredient on the Great British Bake Off.\n\nThe This Morning presenter made her debut alongside regular Bake Off co-host Noel Fielding as the Channel 4 baking show returned on Tuesday.\n\nIt saw a fresh batch of 12 amateur bakers being set challenges by judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith.\n\nIn a four-star review, the Guardian said: \"Hammond's sheer joy has reinvigorated this show.\n\n\"While some of the handshakes and soggy bottom shtick has been getting stale, season 14 has wisely injected the most lovable jolt of energy in the form of Alison Hammond, who replaces Matt Lucas to present alongside Noel Fielding,\" wrote the newspaper's critic Leila Latif.\n\n\"Hammond's infectious cheeriness, which has melted everyone from Harrison Ford to Mariah Carey, is unparalleled.\n\nShe noted that while the \"laughs are limited\" in episode one - apart from \"Prue's sexual innuendos about beavers\" having \"everyone in stitches\" - the bakers were \"warmed by Hammond's sweetness\".\n\nHammond was described as \"a welcome newbie\" in another four-star review from the Telegraph's Anita Singh.\n\n\"The joy is back and challenges have stopped being impossibly difficult - but Fielding's quirks seem out of place next to Hammond's warmth.\"\n\nShe noted how Hammond \"has escaped (temporarily) from the chip pan fire that is This Morning, and found sanctuary in the tent\".\n\n\"She's a good signing,\" she continued. \"The show had lost its way in the past couple of years. The joy had gone out of it, challenges were too hard, moments of meanness were sneaking in. Change was needed, and Hammond is a lovely, sunny presence. A little Alison goes a long way, but she's deployed at just the right level here.\"\n\n\"The only problem is that, beside her, co-host Noel Fielding now looks creepy,\" she added. \"What seemed quirky when paired with Matt Lucas, or even Sandi Toksvig, is just plain weird in this new context.\n\n\"He doesn't supply any comedy, but merely wanders around being vaguely supportive and resembling an ungainly Chrissie Hynde.\"\n\n***The next part of this article contains some spoilers of what happened in episode one***\n\nHammond appeared in an opening sketch called The Breadfather, where she was presented as a \"new addition to the family\"\n\nHammond, who previously appeared on the show as a contestant, has replaced comedian Lucas, who announced in December he was to step down from his presenting role after a three series-stint.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's show she told her This Morning colleagues she had been nervous about her Bake Off presenting debut, saying she felt \"privileged\" to be doing it and \"didn't want it upstage anyone\". But, she added: \"I couldn't help the laugh. The laugh always comes out\".\n\nKicking off with cake week, the fresh contestants were tasked with baking a vertical layer cake and a chocolate cake in the technical challenge, before a sponge showstopper.\n\nThe episode saw 42-year-old civil engineering resource planner Dan, from Cheshire, awarded the star baker title.\n\nNew contestants (left to right): Josh, Nicky, Amos, Cristy, Dana, Rowan, Saku, Matty, Tasha, Abbi, Keith and Dan\n\nThe episode was awarded four stars by the Independent's Michael Hogan, who said was served up with \"its innuendoes and irresistible sense of fun, and new host Alison Hammond's influence is already clear\".\n\n\"Key to the tweaked recipe is new presenter Alison Hammond - a natural fit and immediate hit,\" he wrote, referencing \"a Mafia-spoofing\" opening sketch which saw Hammond welcomed to the family by Hollywood, aka \"The Breadfather\".\n\n\"Hammond replaces previous incumbent Matt Lucas, who was fine but too similar to his co-host Noel Fielding,\" he opined. \"Born within a year of each other, both were best known as the dafter half of comic double acts. And on Bake Off, their surreal skits became a distraction from the main action.\n\n\"Hammond is a 'proper' presenter, and right from the start, she puts the focus firmly back on the bakers.\"\n\nHogan said Hollywood \"holds back his coveted handshake for when it's really merited\" this time around. \"It had become a devalued accolade in recent series,\" said the critic. \"The arrival of the tactile Hammond, however, has rubbed off on the tent's resident alpha male.\"\n\nWhen one baker, the \"giggly\" and \"eccentric\" Sri Lankan intelligence analyst Saku, admitted to feeling nervous, Hollywood even \"gives her a calming cuddle\", he pointed out.\n\nThe Times said the series had returned after what it described as a \"cakus horriblis\" for the series\n\n\"Bake Off has discreetly gone back to basics after viewers slung doughnuts at it last year for becoming all a bit much,\" suggested James Jackson of the Times.\n\n\"If 2022 was something of a cakus horribilis for the show, this opening episode showed a kindly, consciously warm-hearted tent.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"Matt Lucas? Long gone. Accidentally offensive cultural appropriation? None (there was that hoo-ha over 'Mexican week' last time).\n\n\"Instead, Bake Off 3.0 got straight down to a gentle layer cake challenge with Lucas's replacement Hammond bringing her force-10 warmth to bear on the 12 new baking hopefuls.\n\n\"Despite all the Hammond pre-hype, she wasn't quite as dominant as one might have expected, the editors perhaps being judicious to bed her in with viewers.\"\n\nThe 12 amateur bakers were seen taking on challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith\n\nDeli and grocery manager Amos was the first contestant to be eliminated from the new series, after failing to impress the judges with his final bake - despite placing second in the technical challenge.\n\n\"It has been amazing being in that group of people walking into the tent on the first day, and that is softening the blow a little bit,\" he said, describing the new Hammond/Fielding double act as \"cheeky and naughty\".\n\n\"I remember being on the other side of the tent but just always being able to hear Alison's laugh which then made us laugh without even hearing what was said to make her laugh,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the funniest moments in the tent was Alison thinking my apple buttercream was champagne flavoured,\" he added.\n\nEmily Baker of iNews offered another four stars, saying Hammond had brought \"a stale format back to life\".\n\n\"Her bubbly energy has an inviting-hug appeal that makes it easy to see why she was the perfect pick for a show where the contestants are placed in highly pressurised situations,\" added Digital Spy's Janet A Leigh.\n\nAs well as the reviewers and bakers, the Daily Mail's Sean O'Grady pointed out how Hammond's debut had also gone \"down a treat with viewers\", with one person online describing her appointment as \"a stroke of genius\".\n\nThe Great British Bake Off continues on Tuesdays on Channel 4.", "Kellie Poole fell into the river after complaining of a headache\n\nA coroner has expressed his concern over the lack of regulation of cold water therapy after a woman died during a session.\n\nKellie Poole, 39, died on 25 April 2022 after collapsing back into the River Goyt in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.\n\nHer inquest heard an undiagnosed heart condition and immersion in cold water \"likely\" prompted a cardiac arrest.\n\nBut Peter Nieto said he found no aspect of the running of the session had contributed to her death.\n\nThe court had heard cold water immersion activities are unregulated, with no legal requirement for written risk assessments or waiver forms, but organiser Kevin O'Neill had verbally asked Ms Poole whether she had any existing health conditions.\n\nMr Nieto, senior coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, said this lack of oversight was a \"concern\", and that he would issue a prevention of future deaths report to raise the issue after Ms Poole's mother called for action.\n\nHe said: \"Kellie had an undiagnosed and in fact completely unknown cardiac condition.\n\n\"Mr O'Neill had asked her if she had any heart conditions which would preclude cold water immersion.\n\n\"I don't see any reason on the evidence why cold water immersion should not have proceeded.\"\n\nMs Poole was pronounced dead at the scene despite the efforts of paramedics\n\nRecording his conclusion, Mr Nieto said: \"Kellie died due to sudden cardiac arrhythmia triggered by immersion in cold water which likely became unsurvivable due to an undiagnosed, pre-existing heart condition.\n\n\"It is likely that the cold water triggered her heart to go out of rhythm, which then led her to go into sudden cardiac death.\n\n\"It is likely that the heart condition prevented recovery.\"\n\nThe two-day inquest at Chesterfield Coroner's Court had heard mother-of-three Ms Poole, from Droylsden in Tameside, Greater Manchester, had joined the session having never previously complained of health problems.\n\nShe said she had a headache after entering the water before falling forward, with attempts made to revive her after she was pulled from the water.\n\nThe water temperature on the day of her death was recorded as 10.7C (51.3F).\n\nMr O'Neill runs Breatheolution, a company that promotes cold water and breathing therapy and counts Coleen Rooney, actor Stephen Graham and Love Island contestant Scott Thomas among its clients.\n\nBoth Ms Poole's mother, Diane Service, and Mr O'Neill had earlier called for more oversight of cold water therapy.\n\nMs Service said: \"It is a change that needs to come very soon. It is too late for Kellie, but not for someone else.\"\n\nMr O'Neill told the inquest: \"There is not enough regulation, I wholeheartedly agree with that.\n\n\"I have witnessed every reaction possible in the cold in the last three years and it does need regulating.\"\n\nWhile declining to comment, Ms Poole's family indicated they were satisfied with the outcome.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A walkout by car workers in the US is a sign of economic dissatisfaction that will be a key issue in 2024\n\nDonald Trump is in Michigan to woo striking car-workers, a day after President Joe Biden turned up on the picket line in the Midwestern state - an early skirmish in the battle for the blue-collar vote ahead of next year's White House election.\n\nThe former president skipped the televised Republican debate over in California to deliver primetime remarks on Wednesday at a non-unionised car parts supplier just outside Detroit.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Biden's glad-handing of United Auto Workers (UAW) members, also near Motor City, was a first for a sitting US president during a strike in modern times.\n\nThe clusters of red-shirted car workers on the picket line in the Detroit suburb of Wayne this week had few illusions about what's driving these back-to-back visits by the two men most likely to face-off in the 2024 polls - efforts to lay claim to votes in what is expected to be a key state in that contest.\n\nOne of the striking car workers at Ford, 38-year-old Tony Branner, said he had voted for neither candidate in 2020.\n\nHe told the BBC he had not been paying much attention to the election campaign so far.\n\nBut with the two rivals practically at his doorstep, he was ready to listen.\n\n\"Whoever is fighting to help my job be better, I will support,\" he said. \"I'm interested in what both of them have to say.\"\n\nMr Trump's visit offers a reminder of his success in winning over many mostly white working-class voters who felt left behind economically and ignored by mainstream politicians.\n\nAfter the 2020 election, exit polls showed Mr Trump winning four in 10 union members - more than any other Republican for generations.\n\nIn his remarks on Wednesday evening, he presented himself as a saviour for the US car industry, warning of Mr Biden's efforts to tilt the industry toward electric vehicles.\n\n\"He wants electric vehicle mandates - that will spell the death of the US auto industry,\" he told the crowd. \"All of these cars will be manufactured in foreign lands.\"\n\nHe pledged to put a tax on foreign imports and take other measures to protect American manufacturing.\n\nThose messages are resonating with some on the picket line, where Mr Biden was already seen as suspect for decision such as cancelling the Keystone XL oil pipeline. That move drew criticism from unions worried about lost jobs.\n\n\"He's [Biden is] threatening the auto industry with EVs,\" said car worker Kevin Puckett, who voted for Mr Trump in 2016 and 2020, and expects to do so again.\n\n\"To mandate them and go full steam ahead - it's putting the car companies in a bad way.\"\n\nA day earlier, Mr Biden had cautiously endorsed the car workers' demands for a 40% pay rise, as he offered himself up as the true champion of the working class.\n\nMr Biden, who calls himself the most pro-union president in history, has installed pro-labour officials at key regulatory bodies, such as the National Labor Relations Board.\n\nHe has also backed provisions in his signature spending bills encouraging the use of made-in-America materials and requiring companies that receive federal money to offer certain levels of pay.\n\nBut much of Mr Biden's action has been symbolic: messages of support, like the appearance in Michigan this week.\n\nFor Biden supporter Lillian Dunson, one of hundreds of workers put on temporary layoff by Ford after the strike began on 15 September, those kinds of gestures were important.\n\n\"I believe that he [Mr Biden] feels what we feel, what the people feel - that he's not just a billionaire,\" she said.\n\n\"He's disingenuous,\" she added of Mr Trump, noting he remained on the side lines in 2019, the last time car workers went on strike.\n\nMr Trump - who is visiting Michigan without a union invite, unlike Mr Biden - has been critical of the UAW leadership in this strike.\n\nDuring his presidency, the National Labor Relations Board reversed several Obama-era rulings that had made it easier for small unions to organise.\n\nBut though the union's president, Shawn Fain, has been less than complimentary of Mr Trump, he has also withheld an endorsement of Mr Biden's bid for re-election.\n\nThe focus on the car workers comes as wider economic dissatisfaction remains high. Though unemployment is low and wages are rising, price inflation has remained stubborn.\n\nSome car workers said it was hard not to be seduced by Mr Trump's call to Make America Great Again.\n\nAs recently as the 1990s, the average worker in the industry commanded some of the highest pay in the country.\n\nBut that guarantee of a comfortable middle-class life has steadily eroded.\n\n\"I think we do need to take care of our own first,\" said Curtis Cranford, who has worked in the industry since 1985 and backed Mr Trump in 2016 and 2020.\n\nHe was rueful about his decision, noting what he described as \"personal\" shortcomings by Mr Trump, who has been found liable by courts for business fraud, defamation and sexual assault.\n\nMr Cranford was among a handful of workers who exchanged fist bumps with Mr Biden this week. He said the Democratic president seemed \"sincere\".\n\nBut he expressed disappointment with the White House's handling of issues such as immigration and inflation.\n\nHe is also concerned about money being spent to support Ukraine, and feels divided from Democrats on issues such as abortion.\n\n\"I really don't want to vote for [Mr Trump], but if he's the only Republican standing, then I probably would,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump won Michigan in a surprise victory in 2016. Mr Biden reclaimed the Great Lakes state four years later.\n\nDemocrats solidified their gains in midterm elections last year.\n\nBut the conflicting political views on the picket line suggest this Rust Belt state, which could hold the keys to the White House next year, is still very much contested territory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Olga Ivshina gets rare access inside Nagorno-Karabakh, under the close watch of a military escort\n\nAzerbaijan's military has paraded heavy weapons captured in Nagorno-Karabakh, amid warnings thousands of civilians are without shelter after the surrender of Armenian separatists.\n\nTanks, guns and RPGs were among the haul shown to the BBC, in the first access given to journalists since separatists agreed to disarm this week.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter.\n\nOnly one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through.\n\nThe convoy from the International Red Cross was the first to reach the disputed territory since Azerbaijan captured it in a lightning operation five days ago. Russia says it has also delivered aid, but it is not known how much.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nOn Saturday, Armenia urged the UN to send a mission to monitor the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that their very existence was now under threat.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the accusation, saying it wants to reintegrate the region's ethnic Armenian residents as equal citizens of the country.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians died, including 10 civilians, as Azerbaijan's army swept into the enclave earlier this week.\n\nNow, displaced from villages and separated from relatives, several thousand people were sleeping in tents or the open air near the airport in the main city Stepanakert, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, Karabakh officials said.\n\nThe airport is also near a base for Russian peacekeepers, five of whom were killed during the fighting.\n\nOn Saturday Azerbaijan said it was working with Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to disarm ethnic Armenian forces - one of its key demands in return for a ceasefire.\n\nIn the courtyard of a military HQ in Susa, near the regional capital, Azeri military officials proudly laid out weapons given up by separatists.\n\nThe haul included what appeared to be a T-72 tank, several BMP-2 armoured personnel carriers, machine guns, assault rifles, body armour and mines. The BBC estimates that the area filled was equivalent to half a football field.\n\nHelmets, RPGs and APCs taken from Armenian separatists\n\nRussia's defence ministry said six armoured vehicles, more than 800 guns and about 5,000 units of ammunition had been handed over so far.\n\nIt is unclear what will happen to the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan says it wants to reintegrate the region and an Azerbaijani official told the BBC that \"no one is kicking anyone out\".\n\n\"If we didn't care about civilians, women and children, we would have simply entered Khankendi,\" he added.\n\nAnother official said that the military had prepared camps for refugees outside of Karabakh that were \"ready to accept civilians\" - but there is much mistrust on both sides and many ethnic Armenians may not be willing to move.\n\nAzerbaijan has also told the UN that it will treat Karabakh Armenians as \"equal citizens\". But their destiny is in Azeri hands now.\n\nIt says it envisages an amnesty for those Karabakh fighters who hand over their weapons and they can leave for Armenia if they choose.\n\nArmenia has also set up facilities to take in thousands of civilians but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he did not want them to leave unless they had to.\n\nPeople in Stepanakert have told the BBC that many are likely to choose to leave.\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" journalist Siranush Sargsyan said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nUS Senator Gary Peters, who is leading a congressional delegation to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, said people in Nagorno-Karabakh were \"very fearful\" and called for the creation of an international observer mission.\n\n\"I think the world needs to know exactly what's happening in there,\" he said. \"We've heard from the Azerbaijani government that there's nothing to see, nothing to worry about, but if that's the case then we should allow international observers in to see.\"\n\nThe Red Cross aid convoy delivered wheat and yeast to make bread\n\nAreas where the BBC was allowed to visit appeared empty of civilians. Only police, soldiers and a few construction workers could be seen.\n\nThere were no smiles from Russian peacekeepers that the BBC saw, and the mood was serious. But so far, there has been no major violence since the surrender.", "The five mayors say any decision to not extend HS2 to Manchester would be damaging for transport across the North\n\nFailing to deliver HS2 in full would \"leave swathes of the North with Victorian transport infrastructure\", a group of Labour mayors have warned.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has joined the group of four northern mayors in Leeds to sign a letter to Rishi Sunak.\n\nThey called on the government to commit to delivering Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) in full.\n\nThe government has said no decision has been made on whether to axe the line from the Midlands to the North West.\n\nAlongside Mr Khan, West Yorkshire's Tracy Brabin, Greater Manchester's Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram, mayor of Liverpool City Region and South Yorkshire's Oliver Coppard attended the meeting.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"This government has said repeatedly that it is committed to levelling up in the Midlands and North.\n\n\"Failure to deliver HS2 and NPR will leave swathes of the North with Victorian transport infrastructure that is unfit for purpose and cause huge economic damage in London and the South, where construction of the line has already begun.\"\n\n\"Ensuring not only North-South, but West-East connectivity between Liverpool and Hull, via Manchester Airport, must be a non-negotiable,\" they added.\n\nThe group mentioned a \"much-needed\" underground station at Manchester Piccadilly and an NPR station in Bradford as key requirements.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham\n\nCulture secretary Lucy Frazer said the government would \"listen to a wide variety of voices\" when it came to considering HS2.\n\nAsked whether the prime minister and chancellor would be listening to the plea by the mayors, she said: \"As you know, it's the responsibility of the government to keep all projects under consideration. And that's what the chancellor is doing.\n\n\"He is, as he does on all matters which are spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' funding, looking at a whole range of projects to make sure that they are value for money.\"\n\nThe high-speed rail project is intended to link London, the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe first part, between west London and Birmingham, is already being constructed.\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn\n\nHowever, in late 2021 the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds was axed and in March it was announced that building the line between Birmingham and Crewe, and then onto Manchester, would be delayed for at least two years.\n\nThe NPR project would include a mix of new and upgraded lines to speed up links between Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds.\n\nIt plans to use a section of the HS2 line from Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly, as well as the planned upgrades to Manchester Piccadilly station.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds, Mr Burnham asked: \"Are we one country, or are we not?\"\n\n\"Why does one part of the country get different treatment to another - that's the message I've been putting back to the government, don't pull the plug on the North.\"\n\n\"Businesses in West Yorkshire have been telling me what they need more than anything is certainty and consistency, not this 'stop-start' approach that we've seen from Rishi Sunak,\" Ms Brabin said.\n\n\"It's stopping our competitiveness across the world.\"\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn.\n\nBut this was in 2019 prices so it does not account for the rise in costs for materials and wages since then, with some reports suggesting the price tag may now have soared past £100bn.\n\nWhen asked if there came a point the project becomes too expensive to continue, Mr Coppard replied: \"Well, there is when the government mismanage it to the extent that they have.\"\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said the prime minister and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt were reviewing the project now the costs have \"gone up a lot\".\n\n\"It's roughly tripled I think since it was first conceived,\" he told Sky News.\n\n\"No decisions have been taken about the remaining stages of HS2 but I do know the chancellor and the prime minister are looking at how the cost can be controlled.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The HS2 project is already well under way with spades in the ground and our focus remains on delivering it.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There have been scenes of panic and confusion as a growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees flee Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the region which has been under control of ethnic Armenians for the past 30 years.\n\nRoads are reported to be jammed with traffic as locals fear persecution and ethnic cleansing.\n\nThe BBC's Nataliya Zotova reports from the border between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.", "Storm Agnes swept into the south-west of England bringing winds of 63mph (101km/h) on the Isles of Scilly.\n\nNational Grid dealt with power outages at hundreds of properties but many had been reconnected on Wednesday evening as winds subsided.\n\nCoastguards have been advising people to take weather warnings seriously and a yellow wind warning is in place until 07:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nFlood alerts are in place on the north Cornwall and Devon coasts.\n\nThey extend from The Rumps to Hartland Point, excluding Bude, with communities most at risk including Port Quin, Port Isaac, Port Gaverne and Boscastle.\n\nWaves whipped up by Storm Agnes smash against rocks at Hartland Quay in north Devon\n\nEarlier on Wednesday 133 properties on the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast, were left without power and 530 properties around Jacobstow in north Cornwall were also without power.\n\nDevon was also affected during the day with power outages for about 50 properties around Westward Ho!\n\nAll properties on the Isles of Scilly, Jacobstow and Westward Ho! were later reconnected but 133 properties around Warbstow in north Cornwall were still without power.\n\nYellow weather warnings from the Met Office are in force for Wednesday and into Thursday\n\nThe Environment Agency said: \"With yellow wind warnings and coastal flood alerts in the south-west today, please stay safe and keep away from coastal paths, piers and promenades.\"\n\nMet Office severe weather warnings are in force from Wednesday afternoon until Thursday morning.\n\nThe storm was named after a deep area of low pressure developed in the Atlantic, enhanced by some energy from ex-tropical storm Ophelia which hit the north-east coast of the US over the weekend.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Travis King has not been seen or heard of since he left South Korea in July\n\nNorth Korea says it will deport US soldier Travis King, who ran across the border from South Korea during a tour in July.\n\nPyongyang will deport him having finished its investigation into King's \"illegal\" entry, state news agency KNCA said.\n\nIt did not specify how, when or to where Private King would be expelled - nor what his state of health was.\n\nThe announcement comes a month after North Korea acknowledged detaining him.\n\nAccording to KCNA, the 23-year-old confessed to having illegally crossed into North Korea \"due to inhuman treatment in the US military, antipathy to racism and disillusionment with the unequal US society.\"\n\n\"The relevant body in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to deport US soldier Travis King, who illegally entered the territory of the republic, in accordance with the laws of the republic,\" it said.\n\nPrivate King, a reconnaissance specialist who had been in the army since January 2021, has not been heard from or seen since his crossing.\n\nHe was in South Korea as part of his rotation and had been due to be sent home to the US to be disciplined after spending two months in detention in South Korea on assault charges.\n\nPrivate King was on a guided tour of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which separates the two Koreas, when he left the group and ran across the border.\n\nThe two countries are technically still at war after the Korean War ended with an armistice in the 1950s. Tens of thousands of US troops remain in the South.\n\nIn recent years, a number of American citizens who illegally entered North Korea - excluding those convicted of criminal activity there - have been freed within six months.\n\nSome have been returned home by air via Beijing. They include missionary Robert Park, who was freed in 2010 after being held for more than a month, and the US Korean War veteran Merrill Newman.", "A former soldier accused of killing a Londonderry teenager more than 50 years ago has died.\n\nRelatives of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty were informed of the death of the veteran, known as Soldier B, by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).\n\nHe was facing the prospect of being prosecuted for shooting the teenager in the Creggan area of Derry.\n\nDaniel's cousin Christopher, who was wounded in the incident, said he would \"never forget it\".\n\nDaniel Hegarty was shot on 31 July 1972 during Operation Motorman, the name given to a military operation by the Army to reclaim \"no-go areas\" set up by republican paramilitaries in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Daniel Hegarty: Cousin says he will never forget teenager's shooting\n\nChristopher Hegarty was 16 at the time.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI he said he would never forget his cousin's death.\n\n\"I knew he was dead,\" he said. \"I put my arms around him and I pulled him into my chest.\n\n\"I just called his name. I'll never forget it to this day.\"\n\nIt is understood Solidier B died on Thursday.\n\nHis death, ends the family's hope \"of getting him prosecuted,\" Mr Hegarty said.\n\nOperation Motorman was then the largest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956\n\nDaniel's sister Margaret Brady told BBC News NI the family pray God forgives the former soldier.\n\nShe said she was \"in total shock\" when the PPS notified her of the soldier's death on Friday.\n\nThe family has long campaigned, she said, to clear Daniel's name and to have the soldier responsible held to account.\n\n\"And we were granted it - not once, not twice, but three times.\n\n\"But the prosecutors dragged us back into court to get everything overturned, all to delay the soldier being prosecuted,\" she said.\n\nThe PPS said it \"strongly refutes any suggestion\" it acted to delay the former soldier's prosecution.\n\nThe Hegarty family said \"they took no delight\" in Soldier B's death\n\nIn July 2021, the PPS announced that it was dropping the case against Soldier B.\n\nBut that decision was challenged by the family and it was quashed by the Court of Appeal in June.\n\nIn 2011 an inquest jury unanimously found Daniel posed no risk and had been shot without warning.\n\nAn initial inquest had been held in 1973 and recorded an open verdict.\n\nThe second inquest was ordered by the Northern Ireland attorney general in 2009 after an examination by police detectives in the Historical Enquiries Team.\n\nIn 2007 the UK government apologised to the Hegarty family for describing Daniel as a terrorist.\n\nThe Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Herron said the death of a defendant meant it was \"the end of any potential prosecution in relation to them\".\n\nHe added: \"We strongly refute any suggestion that the PPS acted contrary to the administration of justice or sought to improperly stop or delay any prosecution of Soldier B.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is an extremely difficult time for the family of Daniel Hegarty who have hoped and campaigned for many decades to see a criminal justice outcome in this case,\" he said.\n\nDecision making in the case against Soldier B, he added, was both \"complex and challenging\".\n\nIt was further complicated, he said, \"by relevant evidential and public interest considerations\".\n\n\"These resulted in a series of judicial review challenges to decisions that were taken and we recognise the additional distress caused to the Hegarty family by the protracted nature of the various sets of legal proceedings,\" Mr Herron said.\n\nFoyle MP Colum Eastwood said the Hegarty family had shown \"grace in their response to this news\".\n\n\"There is no victory for anyone in any of this. Families like the Hegartys deserve the truth and they deserve justice,\" the SDLP leader said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain turned on the style in their first match on home soil since winning the Women's World Cup to crush Switzerland in Cordoba.\n\nAs on Friday in their game away to Sweden, both sets of players stood behind a banner reading \"It's over, our fight is the global fight\" following the scandal which has engulfed Spanish football.\n\nEarlier, fans greeted Spain's team bus with a banner which read: \"Thank you champions for your fight on and off the pitch\".\n\nThe game itself saw La Roja make it two wins out of two in Group A4 of the Women's Nations League.\n\nA mistake by keeper Elvira Herzog led to Manchester United's Lucia Garcia opening the scoring in front of 14,194 fans, a record crowd for a Spain women's national team home match.\n• None Luis Rubiales: The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nAitana Bonmati, who was awarded the Golden Ball for best player at the World Cup, added the second goal on the stroke of half-time before making it 3-0 after an assist by her Barcelona team-mate Alexia Putellas.\n\nSubstitutes Inma Gabarro and Maite Oroz got the fourth and fifth goals respectively.\n\nThere was a carnival atmosphere to welcome the world champions home.\n\nBefore kick-off, Putellas and team-mate Irene Paredes paraded the World Cup trophy in front of fans.\n\nFollowing the World Cup final on 20 August, then then president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the trophy presentation ceremony. Hermoso said the kiss was not consensual, setting off a remarkable chain of events.\n\nRubiales ignored calls to resign before eventually quitting on 11 September, World Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda was sacked and the Spain players threatened a boycott of Friday's game against Sweden.\n\nThe boycott was only called off two days before the game after the players reached an agreement with the RFEF, which said it had committed to \"immediate and profound changes.\"\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200 metres of Hermoso after she filed a legal complaint. He denied sexually assaulting Hermoso when he appeared in court on 15 September.", "CCTV footage of a fast food restaurant drive-through shows the moment a worker pulled a gun on a customer after an argument over missing fries.\n\nThe incident took place in March 2021 in Houston, Texas.\n\nThe driver’s family has since filed a lawsuit against Jack-in-the-Box and its employee, Alonniea Ford-Theriot.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNearly 100 people have been killed and many more injured in a blaze at a wedding celebration in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq. Eyewitnesses have described to the BBC scenes of horror and panic as the fire took hold.\n\nNineteen-year-old Ghaly Nassim was only a few metres away from the al-Haitham banquet hall when the fire broke out on Tuesday evening.\n\nHe rushed to help five of his friends who were trapped inside.\n\n\"One door was blocked, so we opened it by force. Massive flames came out of the hall. It was like Hell's doors opened,\" he said.\n\n\"The temperature was unbearable. I cannot describe the extreme heat.\"\n\nAt least 94 people were killed and 100 others were injured in the fire, which broke out during the first dance of the bride and groom. Civil defence officials told BBC News Arabic that the couple survived, though initial reports said they had perished.\n\nMr Nassim described the scenes as a \"real tragedy\".\n\n\"I could not do anything but run away from the fire,\" he said, sounding exhausted over the phone line.\n\n\"After the firefighters arrived, I rushed inside to look for my friends. I saw 26 dead bodies in the bathroom. A 12-year-old girl was completely burnt and left in a corner.\"\n\nThe Iraqi Civil Defence media spokesperson, Gawdat Abdul Rahman, told the BBC that the fire was caused by fireworks which were set off inside the hall in the majority Christian town.\n\nThe use of highly flammable building material inside the venue acted as a propellant, he added.\n\nMr Nassim believes that a lack of adequate emergency exits made things worse, as most guests tried to leave using the hall's main entrance, possibly causing a crush.\n\nHe said his friends had been accounted for and were safe.\n\nHighly flammable material is thought to have fuelled the blaze\n\nOne of them, 17-year-old Tommy Uday, was standing next to the exit when the fire broke out. This allowed him to flee quickly.\n\n\"I saw a big black cloud of smoke coming out of the ceiling, so I quickly ran out,\" he said, adding that \"the entire place was destroyed in a mere five minutes\".\n\nAbout 50 bodies were laid to rest on Wednesday. The remaining bodies are expected to be buried the following day. But many people are still searching for family members.\n\nGhazwan was separated from his 33-year-old wife, four-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter when the fire erupted.\n\nHis other daughter, who is 10 years old, came out of the hall \"suffering burns in almost 98% of her body\", Ghazwan's sister Eisan told the BBC.\n\nShe said that her brother was going around hospitals searching for his family.\n\nInside Mosul's specialised medical centre for burns, Dr Waad Salem told the BBC about 60% of those injured suffered severe burns.\n\n\"The majority of the burns are in the face, chest and hands,\" he said, adding that women and children were among the most affected.\n\nMany of those killed were buried the day after the disaster\n\nChief Nurse Israa Mohammed treated the injured throughout the night. She told the BBC she tended to about 200 patients.\n\n\"What I saw was very difficult,\" she said.\n\n\"I have seen people with more than 90% of their bodies completely burnt,\" she said, adding that at least 50 children were pronounced dead as soon as they arrived at the hospital.\n\nMs Mohammed said her medical facility was lacking in medical supplies and struggling to cope with the high influx of victims.\n\nFor many like Mr Nassim and his friends, it will be very hard to shake off the shock they have witnessed.\n\n\"I cannot describe what I feel,\" he said. \"I know families that lost almost everyone. At least three families have lost every single member in the fire. The whole community is sad, not only in Nineveh province, but all over Iraq. The whole country is sad.\"", "The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine has been approved by authorities in Glasgow.\n\nThe facility is backed by the Scottish government as a way to tackle the country's drugs deaths crisis.\n\nThe pilot scheme will be based at a health centre in the east end of Glasgow.\n\nIt will see users take their own drugs under the supervision of trained health professionals.\n\nGlasgow's Integration Joint Board, which brings together NHS and council officials, ratified the plans at an online meeting on Wednesday morning.\n\nIt is hoped the project, funded by the Scottish government, will be opened by next summer - and will run for an initial three years at a total cost of £7m.\n\nDr Saket Priyadarshi, associate medical director of Glasgow alcohol and drug recovery services, told the gathering the project would \"reduce drug-related harms\" for individuals as well as providing them with \"opportunities for treatment, care and recovery\".\n\nDr Saket Priyadarshi is medical director of Glasgow alcohol and drug recovery services\n\nA report on the facility prepared by officials from the NHS and Glasgow City Council said it aimed to tackle the problem of \"approximately 400 to 500 people injecting drugs in public places in Glasgow city centre on a regular basis\".\n\nThe idea has been discussed for years but it is able to go ahead now after Scotland's senior law officer said users would not be prosecuted for possessing illegal drugs while at the facility.\n\nThe guidance issued to prosecutors by Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC earlier this month stated that it would \"not be in the public interest\" to bring proceedings in such cases.\n\nThe Glasgow consumption room would be based at Hunter Street in the east end of the city alongside a clinic where 23 long-term drug users are currently prescribed pharmaceutical heroin.\n\nJade, 33, a drug user in the east end described it as a \"brilliant idea\" which would \"make a massive, massive difference\".\n\nShe told BBC News that she had used heroin and cocaine to block out trauma from her past and had witnessed many loved ones dying as a result of drug addiction.\n\n\"My ex-partner died of drugs. My dad died. He was an addict. My sister passed away. A lot of my friends have passed away,\" she said.\n\nUsers will be able to inject drugs at the Glasgow facility but a proposal for a room where they can smoke illegal substances has been removed from the original plans.\n\nDr Priyadarshi said that was because of the legal issues posed by Scottish anti-smoking legislation as well as technical challenges with ventilation and filtration.\n\n\"Maybe it's something we can add to in due course as we move forward,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This needle-strewn alley in Glasgow is where I inject drugs\n\nCecilia O'Lone, Labour councillor for the Calton ward where the facility is located, told the board meeting that there was \"some concern\" in the community about the plans.\n\n\"If we don't take the community with us, it's leaving it open to fail because it can be stigmatised,\" she told the meeting.\n\nSusanne Millar, chief officer of Glasgow's Heath and Social Care Partnership, said engagement would begin immediately, with an initial community meeting scheduled for Thursday.\n\nShe promised \"clear mechanisms for quickly sorting any issues that might arise\".\n\nThe consumption room is part of a wider move by the Scottish government to tackle a crisis which is claiming more lives per head than anywhere else in Europe.\n\nDrugs deaths peaked at 1,339 in 2020 before falling slightly in 2021 and then dropping by about a fifth in 2022 to 1,051.\n\nSince then preliminary figures suggest they have begun to creep up again.\n\nThe consumption room plan is supported by Scottish National Party, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians but the UK Home Office insists \"there is no safe way to take illegal drugs\".\n\nThat position is shared by Annemarie Ward, chief executive of the charity Faces and Voices of Recovery UK, which helped draft the Right to Recovery Bill tabled at Holyrood last year by the Scottish Conservatives.\n\nMs Ward said the SNP was playing politics by calling for Westminster to amend the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act to decriminalise possession of drugs, a move rejected by the UK government.\n\nInstead, she said, the Scottish government should be focusing not just on harm reduction but also on treatment, prevention, dissuasion and reintegration of users into society.\n\n\"They are stoking a constitutional debate about independence, unfortunately, and that's at the cost of people's lives,\" she said.\n\nSNP ministers deny that is the case.\n\nA draft design of the facility has been submitted for consideration\n\nLast week Elena Whitham, minister for drugs and alcohol policy, told the Scottish Parliament \"the war on drugs is over. No-one won and the main casualties were not organised criminals but the poorest and most vulnerable.\"\n\n\"We know that Scotland as a nation needs to do something different and, within the confines of the law, Police Scotland is going to be a part of that, working in partnership,\" said Dep Ch Con Malcolm Graham, head of local policing at Police Scotland.\n\nHe insisted the force would continue to crack down on drug dealers but added that supply was only part of the problem.\n\n\"We need to tackle the demand and we also need to tackle the harm,\" said Mr Graham, adding: \"There is no single answer to this problem that our nation faces.\"\n\nScottish Tory health spokesperson Dr Sandesh Gulhane said he was happy for the pilot to be considered as a range of measures to tackle drug deaths, but added the party still had \"serious reservations about how effective drug consumption rooms will be in reality\".\n\nThe MSP said the facility should not be seen as a \"silver bullet to tackle this crisis\".\n\nHe called for the government to back the Tory Right to Recovery Bill, which would enshrine in law access to treatment for those struggling with drug addiction.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mr Dos Santos, an international sprinter, was with his partner and their child when police stopped his vehicle\n\nA black professional athlete has said he was afraid for his family when police pulled him over during a stop and search in west London.\n\nRicardo Dos Santos and his partner, British sprinter Bianca Williams, were restrained and handcuffed by Met Police officers while their three-month-old was in the back of their Mercedes in Maida Vale in July 2020.\n\nNothing untoward was found in the car.\n\nThe couple believe they were victims of racial profiling.\n\nThe incident, a video of which was circulated on social media, led to the Met Police referring itself to police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nFive officers face dismissal if the disciplinary panel finds them guilty of gross misconduct.\n\nPortuguese sprinter Mr Dos Santos told the disciplinary hearing he had not broken any rules of the road when he was told to pull over.\n\nHe said he was not trying to \"evade\" the police or driving dangerously, and that he was \"just trying to get home\" because he feared for the safety of his family,\n\nHe added: \"As a young black person I've been stopped on multiple occasions by police.\n\n\"These are very traumatic experiences and my experience is very different to those of others.\n\n\"You have no idea how it feels to be accused of things you haven't done as a young black person in London.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter, after being posted by former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie\n\nMr Dos Santos and Ms Williams both claim they were targeted because they are black.\n\nDashcam footage from the Met Police vehicle that followed Mr Dos Santos' blacked-out car was shown at the disciplinary hearing.\n\nThe hearing was also shown body-worn video used by some of the officers.\n\nMr Dos Santos was heard swearing repeatedly at the officers and mocking them about their jobs and salary.\n\nWhen asked about his conduct while detained, the 28-year-old said: \"My way of dealing with trauma is by laughing. I was shaking when they pulled me over.\n\n\"They belittled me when they said I smoked cannabis, when I've never smoked cannabis in my life.\"\n\nSpeaking about the impact of the stop and search, Mr Dos Santos said it had affected his performance on the track.\n\n\"The colour of skin is the first thing they saw. You pull over someone for no apparent reason.\n\n\"I'm now speaking for a lot of people in London and the rest of the UK. For those who don't have a voice because me, Bianca and my coach all have a platform.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's real life. It's here.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We're awaiting further developments after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Croydon this morning. Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy and have launched a murder inquiry.\n\nHere's a quick recap of what we learned from the Met Police's press conference, which took place shortly after 14:00 BST:\n• Ch Supt Andy Brittain, the local policing commander for south London, said officers were called at 08:30 and took two minutes to arrive at the scene of the stabbing in Wellesley Road, Croydon\n• He described the death of the 15-year-old girl, who was walking to school, as \"every parent's worst nightmare\"\n• Within 75 minutes, police arrested a 17-year-old boy in the New Addington area - about five miles away from Croydon town centre\n• Brittain said the suspect is known to the victim, and he confirmed police are not looking for anyone else\n• He said police won't be naming the victim at this stage, adding there are still many unanswered questions about what happened\n• The mayor of Croydon says the council will do \"everything we can\" to support the community\n\nYou can read our story here.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nNewcastle boss Eddie Howe says his side are eager to \"go one better\" than last season's runners-up finish in the Carabao Cup after his side beat Manchester City to reach this campaign's fourth round.\n\nAlexander Isak scored the winner for a largely second-string Newcastle, who came to life after the break to beat a much-changed City.\n\nNewcastle, who lost to Manchester United in last year's final, made 10 changes from Sunday's 8-0 win at Sheffield United and barely got a kick in a first half dominated by the visitors.\n\nBut with Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon sent on at the break, the Magpies were transformed, with Isak slotting home following fine work from Joelinton.\n\n\"Pre-game, the run last year was in our thoughts,\" Howe told Sky Sports. \"It was an inspiration to us and helped our season, albeit the final maybe affected our league results. We look back on it with real pride.\n\n\"We want to try and go one further if we can but there is a long way to go at this stage. We are still there fighting.\"\n• None Listen to the Football Daily podcast: Isak knocks Man City out of EFL Cup\n\nDisciplined but passive in the face of City's possessional dominance, Howe's men were fortunate to still be level after 45 minutes, with Julian Alvarez missing two decent chances.\n\nPep Guardiola opted for seven changes of his own, giving a first start to young midfielder Oscar Bobb among them, but the familiar patient probing was evident.\n\nBut the home side deserved their victory thanks to their second-half display, which was full of energy and endeavour and played largely in the face of a City side who could not react.\n\nFor Pep Guardiola's side, it was just a second loss inside 90 minutes in their last 38 games in all competitions.\n\nNewcastle are now unbeaten in four games after a run of three straight losses, with their reward for Wednesday's win a fourth-round shot at revenge against the side that beat them in last year's final.\n\nThe only downside for Newcastle, with Paris St-Germain to come on Wednesday in the Champions League after Saturday's league visit of Burnley, was Isak departing the game on the hour with an injury.\n\nEven with so many changes, the styles of these two sides and the reasons they are both so prominent in the English game now was evident in an entertaining game of two halves at St James' Park.\n\nCity looked to dominate and patiently pick apart their opponent - a process they slotted into seamlessly in the first 45 minutes without making an important breakthrough.\n\nBobb buzzed about and produced some nice touches, Kalvin Phillips saw plenty of the ball and recycled it neatly inside the Newcastle half and Jack Grealish gave the home defence plenty to stay vigilant about.\n\nHad Alvarez shown the kind of predatory finishing that has defined his season thus far with two chances - the first the best of the two but saved by a Nick Pope boot - City could well be looking at a fourth-round tie of their own.\n\nBut even with a shadow side, Newcastle are a well-drilled unit out of possession and they held firm until the break before turning on the afterburners in a superb second period.\n\nThe introduction of Gordon and Guimaraes in place of full debutants Lewis Hall and 17-year-old Lewis Miley was the catalyst, but the whole Magpies side were improved.\n\nGone was the passivity and in its place an arrowhead of energy and intent straight to the heart of City's defence.\n\n\"It was a game of two halves,\" said Howe. \"[The] first was tough and City played well. We didn't but defended well as we didn't have the ball.\n\n\"[In the] second half we were excellent in most aspects, defensively and offensively. We attacked well and probably deserved to win in the end.\n\n\"There were tactical changes [at half-time] but the biggest thing was in belief. This is not a reflection on the lads we took off but the lads we brought on made a big difference. With the ball we were a better team completely.\"\n\nIsak has been brilliant in his sophomore season in England and he was on hand yet again to slot in at the back post after a driving, powerful run and low ball from Joelinton.\n\nAfter that they continued to press but also managed the game superbly to hold City at bay, despite the introduction of Phil Foden, Matheus Nunes and Jeremy Doku.\n\nThe closest the visitors came to forcing a penalty shootout was a Rico Lewis shot that he dragged past the post.\n• None Substitution, Newcastle United. Fabian Schär replaces Paul Dummett because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Attempt saved. Joelinton (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Rico Lewis (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jérémy Doku.\n• None Attempt saved. Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota said he did not know of the 98-year-old's previous Nazi ties\n\nThe Speaker of Canada's House of Commons has resigned after inviting a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit to parliament and praising him.\n\nAfter first resisting calls to step down, Anthony Rota quit on Tuesday after meeting party leaders in Ottawa.\n\n\"I must step down as your Speaker,\" he said in parliament. \"I reiterate my profound regret.\"\n\nYaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation after Mr Rota called him a \"hero\" during a Friday visit by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.\n\nMr Rota has said he did not know of Mr Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to attend the event.\n\nCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday it was \"extremely upsetting that this happened\".\n\n\"This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians,\" he told reporters.\n\nDuring World War Two, Mr Hunka served in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, a voluntary unit made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians under Nazi command.\n\nDivision members are accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians, although the unit has not been found guilty of any war crimes by a tribunal.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Poland's Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek said he had \"taken steps\" towards extraditing Mr Hunka.\n\nMr Hunka and his family could not be reached for comment by the BBC. They have not yet commented to Canadian media.\n\nMembers of Mr Trudeau's cabinet had joined cross-party calls on Tuesday for Mr Rota to step down.\n\nHours before the Speaker announced his resignation, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly called the mistake \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"I think the Speaker should listen to members of the House and step down,\" she said. \"I don't think there's any alternative.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHouse leader for Canada's New Democratic Party Peter Julian applauded Mr Rota's resignation, calling it the \"right decision\".\n\n\"We fully accept Mr Rota's apology and believe that he didn't intend to cause harm but, unfortunately, there are very real consequences to his lapse in judgment,\" he said in a statement.\n\nCanadian Jewish organisations also welcomed the speaker's decision to step aside.\n\nBut Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies said \"questions remain as to how this debacle occurred\".\n\nMichael Mostyn, CEO of Jewish human rights group B'nai Brith Canada, told the BBC that the incident \"cannot end simply with the speaker\".\n\n\"We have a situation in Canada, where we don't know our own history when it comes to Nazi perpetrators that made their way into this country,\" he said. \"It's a shame to our country.\"\n\nMr Rota's resignation has not slowed criticism from Canada's opposition leader, the Conservative Party's Pierre Poilievre.\n\nAddressing parliament, Mr Poilievre said the responsibility fell to Mr Trudeau \"to reverse the massive damage done to our international reputation\".\n\n\"Will he rise in this place and apologise for this massive and shameful failure?\" he said.", "Artwork: shortly after the Big Bang which created the Universe, matter and antimatter existed in equal amounts\n\nScientists have made a key discovery about antimatter - a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began.\n\nAntimatter is the opposite of matter, from which stars and planets are made.\n\nBoth were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang which formed our Universe. While matter is everywhere, though, its opposite is now fiendishly hard to find.\n\nThe latest study has discovered the two respond to gravity in the same way.\n\nFor years, physicists have been scrambling to discover their differences and similarities, to explain how the Universe arose.\n\nDiscovering that antimatter rose in response to gravity, instead of falling would have blown apart what we know about physics.\n\nThey've now confirmed for the first time that atoms of antimatter fall downwards. But far from being a scientific dead end this opens the doors to new experiments and theories. Does it fall at the same speed, for example?\n\nDuring the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have combined and cancelled each other, leaving nothing but light. Why they didn't is one of physics' great mysteries and uncovering differences between the two is the key to solving it.\n\nSomehow matter overcame antimatter in those first moments of creation. How it responds to gravity, may hold the key, according to Dr Danielle Hodgkinson, a member of the research team at Cern in Switzerland, the world's largest particle physics laboratory.\n\n\"We don't understand how our Universe came to be matter-dominated and so this is what motivates our experiments,\" she told me.\n\nEngineers adding liquid helium to the system to keep antimatter at minus 270 Celsius, near to the lowest possible temperature, absolute zero\n\nMost antimatter exists only fleetingly in the Universe, for fractions of seconds. So to carry out experiments, the Cern team needed to make it in a stable and long-lasting form.\n\nProf Jeffrey Hangst has spent thirty years building a facility to painstakingly construct thousands of atoms of antimatter from sub-atomic particles, trap them and then drop them.\n\n\"Antimatter is just the coolest, most mysterious stuff you can imagine,\" he told me.\n\n\"As far as we understand, you could build a universe just like ours with you and me made of just antimatter,\" Prof Hangst told me.\n\n\"That's just inspiring to address; it's one of the most fundamental open questions about what this stuff is and how it behaves.\"\n\nLet's start with what matter is: Everything in our world is made from it, from tiny particles called atoms.\n\nThe simplest atom is hydrogen. It's what the Sun is mostly made from. A hydrogen atom is made up of a positively charged proton in the middle and negatively charged electron orbiting it.\n\nWith antimatter, the electric charges are the other way round.\n\nTake antihydrogen, which is the antimatter version of hydrogen, used in the Cern experiments. It has a negatively charged proton (antiproton) in the middle and a positive version of the electron (positron) orbiting it.\n\nThese antiprotons are produced by colliding particles together in Cern's accelerators. They arrive at the antimatter lab along pipes at speeds that are close to the speed of light. This is much too fast for them to be controlled by the researchers.\n\nThe first step is to slow them down, which the researchers do by sending them around a ring. This draws out their energy, until they are moving at a more manageable pace.\n\nThe antiprotons and positrons are then sent into a giant magnet, where they mix to form thousands of atoms of antihydrogen.\n\nThe magnet creates a field, which traps the antihydrogen. If it were to touch the side of the container it would instantly be destroyed, because antimatter can't survive contact with our world.\n\nWhen the field is turned off the antihydrogen atoms are released. Sensors then detect whether they have fallen up or down.\n\nSome theorists have predicted that antimatter might fall up, though most, notably Albert Einstein in his General theory of Relativity more than a hundred years ago, say it should behave just like matter, and fall downwards.\n\nThe researchers at Cern have now confirmed, with the greatest degree of certainty yet, that Einstein was right.\n\nBut just because antimatter doesn't fall up, it doesn't mean that it falls down at exactly the same rate as matter.\n\nFor the next steps in the research, the team are upgrading their experiment to make it more sensitive, to see if there is a slight difference in the rate at which antimatter falls.\n\nIf so, it could answer one of the biggest questions of all, how the Universe came into existence.\n\nThe results have been published in the journal Nature.\n\nFollow Pallab on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The five suspects are (clockwise from top left): Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova (centre), Bizer Dzhambazov, Orlin Roussev and Ivan Stoyanov\n\nFive people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring operating in the UK have appeared in court.\n\nBulgarian nationals Orlin Roussev, Bizer Dzhambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Vanya Gaberova allegedly conspired to gather information which would be useful to an enemy.\n\nIt is alleged they carried out surveillance on people and places targeted by Russia between August 2020 and February 2023.\n\nThe suspects were remanded in custody.\n\nTheir surveillance activities are alleged to have apparently been for the purpose of assisting Russia to conduct hostile action against the targets, including potential abductions.\n\nThey did not enter pleas at Westminster Magistrates' Court, where they appeared via video link from four different prisons.\n\nAll five defendants remained silent other than speaking to confirm their names and dates of birth.\n\nMet Police counter-terrorism officers arrested them in February under the Official Secrets Act. They are:\n\nMr Stoyanov, nicknamed \"the Destroyer\", was an amateur mixed-martial-arts fighter appearing in contests in the UK. In Bulgaria he appeared in so-called combat sambo fights, a form of martial arts popular in eastern Europe.\n\nIvan Stoyanov took part in MMA fights in the UK\n\nWhile Ms Gaberova is an award-winning beautician, who specialised in eyelashes and ran a salon called Pretty Woman in west London.\n\nMr Roussev previously worked in financial services. Biser Dhzambazov and Katrin Ivanova lived as a couple and ran a community organisation for Bulgarian citizens living in the UK.\n\nDescribing the charges, prosecutor Kathryn Selby said the \"operating hub in this country for the offence of espionage\" was the property of Mr Roussev.\n\nHis home address was a now-closed seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth.\n\nMr Roussev is alleged to have organised and managed the cell's spying operations from the UK. It is alleged that such operations took place in the UK and Europe.\n\nThe five defendants are accused of being part of a conspiracy with a \"person known as\" Jan Marsalek. He is not charged in the case.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Roussev received tasking from abroad by a person known as Jan Marsalek.\n\nMr Marsalek is best known as the Austrian former chief operating officer of the company Wirecard, who became a wanted man in Germany after being suspected of having committed fraud.\n\nHe is believed to have left Germany in 2020 and is reportedly now in Russia.\n\nSpeaking at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram said the five would appear at the Old Bailey on 13 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Woman rescued from river with 'seconds to spare'\n\nMore than 30 firefighters helped rescue a woman from a flooded river in County Londonderry after Storm Agnes brought heavy rain and strong winds to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) found a car in the River Moyola in Draperstown with the driver trapped inside.\n\nShe was taken to Antrim Area Hospital and treated for hypothermia and shock.\n\nStorm Agnes is the first named storm of the season.\n\nIt arrived in Northern Ireland around lunchtime and has caused disruption to some flights, some ferries and to power lines.\n\nMore than 300 customers across Northern Ireland, including Poyntzpass in County Armagh, are still without power due to the severe weather.\n\nThe Met Office and Met Éireann had both issued weather warnings and had advised of the possibility of disruption to travel.\n\nThe NIFRS attended the scene of the trapped vehicle at about 14:30 BST on Wednesday.\n\n\"The first arriving crew used a ladder to reach the car from a bridge,\" said a statement.\n\n\"The conditions changed very quickly and the firefighter on the roof of the car had to take decisive action to save the occupant. The firefighter broke the rear window and brought the driver out of the car and on to the roof.\n\n\"From there a line was secured to the occupant of the car and she was walked up the ladder followed by the firefighter to safety.\n\n\"Soon after this the car was fully submerged.\"\n\nIt urged motorists should not attempt to drive through flooded roads or fords.\n\n\"Water is often deeper than it looks and your vehicle may be swept away or become stranded,\" said the statement.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, strong winds toppled several trees in Cork and Dublin.\n\nIn the coastal town of Youghal, County Cork, part of a roof was blown off a building on Front Strand.\n\nCork Council confirmed the road was closed and the situation was being monitored by the gardai (Irish police) and the fire service.\n\nMet Éireann has extended it status orange wind warning for counties Cork, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford until 19:00 local time on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Storm Agnes has battered Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with strong winds\n\nA status yellow warning for rain is in place for Cork, Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow Kerry and Waterford until midnight with a yellow warning for wind covering Leinster, Munster and Galway during the same period.\n\nThere has been some localised flooding in Cork and Cork County Council has warned motorists to avoid driving through flood water.\n\nA number flights at Belfast City Airport were cancelled on Wednesday afternoon and there has been disruption to P&O Ferries services on its route between Larne and Cairnryan in Scotland. The 16:00 departures were cancelled.\n\nHigh winds caused waves to crash onto the promenade in Whitehead, County Antrim\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a yellow warning for rain was in place until 20:00, with a yellow warning for wind active until Thursday at 07:00.\n\nThe Met Office warned earlier that up to 30mm (1.2in) of rain could fall in a few hours in some places, while parts of the Mournes and Sperrins could see up to 50mm.\n\nThis could lead to an increase risk of flooding as the storm continues to push north and east.\n\nSo far, the highest wind gust in Northern Ireland was 57mph, recorded at Glenanne in County Armagh.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, winds of 72mph (116kmph) were recorded on Sherkin Island in west Cork.\n\nThere have been high rainfall totals too, which 20-25mm in places this afternoon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEmergency services attended the scene of a fallen tree near Blackrock in Cork earlier on Wednesday\n\nWith the rain warning ending in Northern Ireland at 20:00, heavy showers with possible thunder will continue into the evening before easing away before midnight.\n\nThe rest of the night will be mostly dry.\n\nThe strong winds will ease for a time this evening, with the wind direction moving into the south west.\n\nExpect the winds to freshen again and remain strong through the night.\n\nHowever, with the higher wind gusts shifting into western counties and exposed coastal and hilly areas, they won't be as strong as earlier on Wednesday - nearer to 40 to 45mph.", "The allegation that a researcher in Parliament may have been spying for China has thrown a spotlight on Chinese intelligence activity in the UK - and whether the UK has been slow to respond.\n\nSpying used to be fairly straightforward. An intelligence service recruited an agent to steal or photograph some documents stamped 'Top Secret' from a safe and pass them on at a clandestine meeting.\n\nNow, there is cyber-espionage - the stealing of secrets remotely over computer networks.\n\nAnd intelligence services do more than just steal secrets. There is covert influence and interference. This might involve finding people who know the inside track on a policy debate - say about sanctions - and who might be able to shape it in a particular way. This can be hard to distinguish sometimes from diplomacy and lobbying (hiding who you really are is often the best sign).\n\nAnd in this new world, China poses a particular challenge. It has vast and well-resourced intelligence services - probably the largest by number in the world.\n\nRead the full article from Gordon Corera here", "Ukraine's defence ministry said Anthony Ihnat and Emma Iqual would 'forever live in our hearts'\n\nTwo foreign aid volunteers have been killed and two others injured in a Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has said.\n\nEmma Igual, the Spanish director of Road to Relief, and Anthony Ihnat, a Canadian colleague, died on Saturday as their vehicle drove towards Bakhmut.\n\nThe NGO said that German volunteer Ruben Mawick and Johan Mathias Thyr, a Swede, were badly injured by shrapnel.\n\nThe group said the vehicle suffered a \"direct hit\", flipped and caught fire.\n\nThe aid workers had left from Slovyansk and were headed to the Bakhmut area to assess the needs of civilians \"caught in crossfire\" in the town of Ivanivske, the statement said.\n\nMadrid confirmed that a Spanish national had died in the attack.\n\nRoad to Relief was registered in Ukraine last year to help evacuate civilians from the frontline.\n\nIt said that the team was preparing to assess the needs of Ivanivske when they were attacked by Russian forces.\n\nTheir work had \"resulted in numerous evacuations and crucial aid deliveries over the 18 months that we have been in operation,\" it said.\n\nMr Ihnat was described in an online tribute by fellow NGO Actions Beyond Words as \"an unbelievably gentle, kind guy who would light up any room\".\n\n\"We remember a beautiful hero to Ukraine,\" it said.\n\nThe Ukrainian defence ministry blamed \"Russian terrorists\" for the attack and said that Road to Relief was \"entirely focused on civilian projects\".\n\nIt said the deaths were \"a painful, irreparable loss. Emma and Anthony will forever be in our hearts.\"\n\nEastern Ukraine has become increasingly dangerous for aid workers, both Ukrainian and international.\n\nIn its latest report, published last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that there had been 100 \"security incidents\" affecting aid work this year.\n\n\"Attacks impacting distribution points have steadily increased throughout the year, forcing a temporary suspension of aid on many occasions,\" it said.\n\n\"In 2023, at least six aid workers were killed and 16 injured in the line of duty in Ukraine, compared to four killed in the whole of 2022.\"\n\nIn January, British nationals Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed as they tried to evacuate civilians in Soledar, north of Bakhmut, as Russia's Wagner mercenary group closed in.", "Dulcie Thomas plans to have two-year-old Essie and her two other children vaccinated\n\nParents are being urged to vaccinate young children against flu this autumn.\n\nLast year, almost 800 children in Wales were admitted to hospital because of the virus.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said there was concern that young children were more vulnerable as they did not mix with others during the Covid pandemic.\n\nAll school-aged children will be offered the flu vaccine and others who are eligible will also be contacted by NHS Wales, including over-65s.\n\nPHW launched the flu vaccination plan in anticipation of extra pressure the NHS faces during winter, when viruses spread more easily.\n\nLast year, 58% of two to 15-year-olds were vaccinated for flu, nearly 271,000, which was down on 62% in 2021.\n\nDulcie Thomas, 39, from Cardiff, plans to get her three children Primrose, eight, Nell, six, and Essie, two, vaccinated as soon as she can.\n\n\"As a mother it's all I've got, there's nothing else I can do to support them,\" she said.\n\n\"When it comes to viral illnesses, if there's something that's going to help me prevent that or even slow down any symptoms I'm going to do it, no questions asked.\n\n\"They've spent all the summer away from their friends, they return to school [and] it's almost like a little petri dish of viruses.\"\n\nShe said her experience as a paediatric nurse meant she had seen children seriously ill with flu.\n\nFlu can not be treated with antibiotics as it is a viral, rather than a bacterial, infection.\n\n\"We saw some children that weren't able to get better, who didn't have the reserve to fight whatever flu virus they were dealing with at the time,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a really scary place for parents and for staff as well.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said vaccination was the most important preventative action NHS Wales could offer\n\nShe encouraged anyone with doubts about vaccines to \"do your own research, try not to listen to scare stories\" and speak to a medical professional if they had any anxieties about side effects.\n\nThere are currently no cases of the latest Covid-19 sub-variant BA.2.86 in Wales.\n\nIt was first detected in the UK on 18 August, and NHS England sped up their vaccination roll out to combat it.\n\nIn the last winter flu season, flu cases peaked in the week leading up to Christmas. This was higher than the previous two winter seasons, which were affected by Covid.\n\nIt was lower than five years before (2017-18) and the seasonal peak came in January.\n\nGPs and health boards will contact those who are eligible for both the flu and Covid vaccines with details of when and where they can be vaccinated.\n\nWho is eligible for free flu vaccines?\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said vaccination was \"the most important preventative action NHS Wales can offer\"\n\nShe added: \"I urge people to come forward for both these vaccines when offered, particularly in the light of the new variant of Omicron (BA.2.86), so we can continue protecting our loved ones and keep Wales safe this winter.\"", "Patrick Grant wants to start making underwear at a factory in New Tredegar\n\nDid you know the Wonderbra was once made in Wales?\n\nIn fact, until the 1990s, the south Wales valleys had a thriving underwear making industry.\n\nNow, Patrick Grant, best known for being a judge on the BBC's The Great British Sewing Bee, has launched a campaign to reignite large-scale production in the area.\n\nWelsh stars, including singer and radio presenter Wynne Evans and comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, have joined Patrick to be photographed in their pants for the Hello Boyos! campaign, a nod to Wonderbra's Hello Boys campaign from 1994.\n\nPatrick, who founded clothing brand and social enterprise Community Clothing in 2016, said he was aiming for \"full-scale production of a range of underwear for men and women, make use of all those amazing skills, keep the tradition of making underwear in south Wales - which not a lot of people know about - and create important jobs in a town that, frankly, really needs it.\"\n\nComedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean stripped down to her underwear for the campaign\n\nPatrick said once the company has secured pre-orders for 10,000 pieces of underwear it would start full-scale underwear production at the former AJM Sewing factory in New Tredegar, Caerphilly county.\n\nPatrick's social enterprise, which works to preserve and expand jobs in UK clothing production, is already working with 42 factories across the UK, predominantly in areas with a strong textile heritage.\n\nFor Patrick, it is personal.\n\n\"My grandfather worked in the textile industry... I spent my entire childhood watching factories close and I've seen what the loss of a job does to individual people - jobs are more than just about money, jobs are about a sense of personal pride, they're about dignity, they're about actually having a purpose in life.\"\n\nAbout five years ago he began looking to find a factory to make underwear.\n\nWelsh model Sarah De Garnham modelling the underwear for the Hello Boyos! campaign\n\n\"Somebody said to me, 'there is one underwear factory left in south Wales and of course I got on the train',\" he explained.\n\nWhen, in 2001, Gossard, the maker of Wonderbra, closed its factory in Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly county, a member of staff bought the machinery, moved it to another factory in New Tredegar and set up AJM, a small production with 60 staff.\n\nThey won the Agent Provocateur contract but the luxury lingerie retailer moved its production in 2018 and the company ceased production.\n\nSince 2018, luxury lingerie brand, Edge o' Beyond, has been manufacturing underwear from the site, employing 12 machinists.\n\n\"I think we were looking at well over 2,000 skilled seamstresses employed amongst those six factories,\" said Patrick.\n\n\"There's still a core of brilliant seamstresses living in and around the south Wales valleys. Some of them are still doing little bits of ad hoc work, some sampling work, some small production runs.\"\n\nWynne Evans is backing the campaign to return the south Wales valleys to its underwear-making heyday\n\nThe company plans to make high-quality, size-inclusive underwear for men and women using 100% organic and single farm cotton fabric knitted in Leicestershire.\n\nEvery item will be hand cut and sewn by seamstresses at the New Tredegar factory and will be priced from £9 to £15.\n\nBut with far cheaper underwear widely available, is this something people can get behind in a cost of living crisis?\n\n\"The quality of our everyday clothes is now really very poor,\" said Patrick.\n\n\"We know it's not the cheapest, but we think it is relatively affordable, but the quality is amazing, so it should last you at least twice as long, if not three or four times as long.\"\n\nHe said a big change was needed in the industry as a whole.\n\n\"Fundamentally, we have to rethink our approach to a lot of the things we buy,\" he said.\n\n\"We've got to somehow find a way for people to buy fewer things, but better things and have those things made locally, so that all of that money goes back into the local economy.\"\n\nBerlei bra factory workers in Ebbw Vale fill in job application forms after losing their jobs in 1986\n\nHe is passionate about returning manufacturing to the UK.\n\n\"We've gone from being a country that makes a lot of stuff to being a country that makes almost nothing, importing almost everything we need,\" he said.\n\n\"It's low quality, it's made using dirty power on the other side of the world, it's got a carbon cost, it's got a human cost, it's got a societal cost and we have to change that.\"\n\nPatrick said his plans for the factory were greeted warmly when he visited New Tredegar to do some filming for the campaign.\n\n\"Everywhere we stopped and got our camera out people came out and were like... 'oh, my granny used to work in a factory'... everyone was delighted that something kind of positive was happening in the town.\"\n\nHe is positive for the future of the industry in Wales.\n\n\"Fingers crossed we'll be making underwear in Wales for decades to come.\"\n\nCorrection 18 September 2023: The story has been amended to reflect that there is already one company manufacturing underwear in New Tredegar", "The giant dam project, not yet completed, is already generating electricity (pictured last year)\n\nEgypt has voiced anger after Ethiopia announced it had filled the reservoir at a highly controversial hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river.\n\nEthiopia has been in dispute with Egypt and Sudan over the megaproject since its launch in 2011. Egypt relies on the Nile for nearly all its water needs.\n\nEgypt's foreign ministry said Ethiopia was disregarding the interests of the downstream countries.\n\nEthiopia says the $4.2bn (£3.4bn) dam will not cut their share of Nile water.\n\n\"It is with great pleasure that I announce the successful completion of the fourth and final filling of the Renaissance Dam,\" Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHe admitted the project had faced \"internal and external obstacles\" but \"we endured all that\". The dam began generating electricity in February 2022.\n\nEthiopia believes the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) will double the country's electricity output, providing a vital development boost, as currently half the 127-million population lacks electricity.\n\nThe plan is to generate more than 6,000 MW at the dam, which is about 30km (19 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan.\n\nEgypt and Sudan argue that common rules for the operation of Gerd must be agreed, fearing that energy-hungry Ethiopia may exacerbate their existing water shortages.\n\nNegotiations over the project resumed last month, having been suspended in 2021.\n\nSudan - currently mired in fighting between rival armies - did not immediately react to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's announcement on Sunday.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook the Egyptian foreign ministry said Ethiopia's \"unilateral\" filling of the reservoir violated a declaration of principles signed by the three countries in 2015, and branded Ethiopia's action \"illegal\".\n\n\"The declaration of principles stipulates the necessity of the three countries reaching an agreement on the rules for filling and operating the Gerd before commencing the filling process,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Ethiopia's unilateral measures are considered a disregard for the interests and rights of the downstream countries and their water security, as guaranteed by principles of international law.\"", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nPolice investigating the death of Sara Sharif have translated their appeal into Urdu to reach Pakistani nationals.\n\nSara's body was found in her home in Woking on 10 August, a day after her family members flew to Pakistan.\n\nDetectives are displaying posters in English and Urdu at the Surrey town's railway station and taxi ranks.\n\nOfficers who are fluent in Urdu are also supporting the investigation team to help translate information given by members of the public.\n\nSurrey Police have also produced a video-format appeal in Urdu.\n\nDetectives said they hope to reach Pakistani nationals living in Woking who do not speak English as their first language.\n\nAn international manhunt has been launched for Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 41, stepmother Beinash Batool, 29, and uncle Faisal Malikand, 28.\n\nSurrey Police have released an appeal in Urdu as part of the investigation into Sara Sharif's death\n\nMr Sharif and Ms Batool made their first public comments over the case in a video which was sent to the BBC this week.\n\nThe pair said they were willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nIn a statement issued on Thursday, Surrey Police said searches were still being carried out at the address in Hammond Road, Horsell, where 10-year-old Sara's body was found, and the family's previous home in Eden Grove Road, Byfleet.\n\nMr Sharif's five other children were also believed to be with the group in Pakistan.\n\nAn inquest into Sara's death has been opened and adjourned, while a post-mortem examination has so far failed to determine the exact cause of her death but said it was \"unlikely to be natural\".\n\nSurrey Police said it was still working with Interpol, the National Crime Agency and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in its bid to locate Sara's family.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman said: \"We are working hard to progress the investigation into Sara's murder and a key part of this is piecing together information about her life from anyone who knew her or her family.\n\n\"Every single piece of information we receive is reviewed by the investigation team and further enquiries carried out if appropriate.\"\n\nSpeaking to a Polish TV station, Sara's mother Olga said the girl was so badly injured she did not recognise her when she saw her body.\n\nPolice in Pakistan recently widened their search, which began around the city of Jhelum in the Punjab.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescue workers carry the body of a victim killed in the village of Talat N'Yaaqoub\n\nRescuers in Morocco have been using their bare hands as desperate search efforts continue for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake.\n\nA total of 2,681 people are known to have died in the tremor - the country's deadliest in 60 years.\n\nMorocco's government is under pressure to accept more international aid, as rescuers battle with exhaustion.\n\nSo far, it has accepted help from only four countries - Spain, the UK, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nOfficials defended the response, and said it would be too chaotic if teams from around the world suddenly arrived in Morocco.\n\nThe 6.8 magnitude tremor hit the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh, and destroyed many rural and remote villages.\n\nOne of them - Tafeghaghte - has had its population of 200 people nearly halved, and many are still missing.\n\nHeavy lifting equipment is struggling to get through roads blocked by boulders and other debris.\n\nHelicopters have been making round trips to deliver aid to mountainous regions.\n\nAlbert Vasquez, a communications officer for a team of 30 Spanish firefighters, told the AFP news agency that \"it's very difficult to find people alive after three days\" but \"hope is still there\".\n\nIn the village of Moulay Brahim, 26-year-old Said told the BBC that he saw his neighbour's house collapse.\n\n\"A family of six people lived there. The father was outside at the time and is still alive, but his wife and four children were there and died,\" he said, in a state of shock.\n\n\"The daughters were 15, eight and five years old. The last child was a little boy about to turn three,\" he explained.\n\nSaid has not been able to sleep or eat since Friday night.\n\n\"The situation is catastrophic. I don't know how I will recover from this,\" he said.\n\nKhadijah Deaoune looks for her goat among the the rubble of what used to be her home in the small village of Tinmel\n\nTom Godfrey, the team lead for UK rescue charity EMT, said the worst impact was in the south-west, where humanitarian relief was desperately needed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC en route the village of Amizmiz, he said his team were expecting to treat traumatic injuries initially, with the risk of disease increasing if aid was further delayed.\n\nThe World Health Organization said more than 300,000 people had been affected by the earthquake, the deadliest in Morocco since a 1960 earthquake destroyed Agadir, killing 12,000 to 15,000 people.\n\nThe Tinmel Mosque, a historic site in the mountains, has been severely damaged, and Marrakesh's old city, a World Heritage Site has suffered collapsed buildings.\n\nPressure - and anger - is mounting on Morocco's government to accept the help offered by several nations.\n\nMohamed Ouchen managed to save his family members from the rubble, but his home in Tikekhte, near Adassil was destroyed\n\nThe United States, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan and France - a former colonial power of Morocco - are some of the nations which have offered support.\n\nNeighbouring Algeria, which has a long history of fraught relations with Morocco, has offered specialised rescue workers, medical personnel and sniffer dogs, as well as beds, tents and blankets.\n\nBut the Moroccan government has said it does not want to risk a chaotic situation with dozens of countries and aid organisations arriving to help.\n\n\"A lack of co-ordination in such cases would be counterproductive,\" authorities said.\n\nDr Clare McCaughey, a GP based in Marrakesh, told the BBC that private clinics like hers would not hesitate to \"provide care to any earthquake victims free of charge\".\n\n\"Moroccans are doing what Moroccans do best,\" she said, adding that it has been \"incredible\" to see the outpouring of support from the community.\n\n\"There are huge trucks going up to the mountains, but also people [taking their cars] to the supermarkets and getting them up the hill to the people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (pictured last year) met on the set of That 70s Show, which also starred Masterson\n\nAshton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are facing further backlash after they sent letters of support to a judge following Danny Masterson's rape conviction.\n\nKutcher and Kunis, who starred in That 70s Show with Masterson, apologised for sending letters of support to a judge after he was found guilty of rape.\n\nMasterson was sentenced to 30 years to life for the rapes of two women.\n\nOne woman who came forward against Masterson said the apology was \"incredibly insulting and hurtful\".\n\nIdentified as Jane Doe number one, she sent a text message to Huffington Post journalist Yashar Ali in response to the recorded apology posted on Kutcher's Instagram.\n\n\"This video was incredibly insulting and hurtful,\" she wrote in the text, which Ali shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"My hope is that they learn radical accountability and the importance of self-education to learn when to keep their privilege in check - especially Ashton, who claims to work with victims of sex crimes. And as to Mila, I can only think of 'Times Up'.\"\n\nTime's Up is an organisation which campaigns to end harassment, assault and discrimination.\n\nChristina Ricci, who stars in Yellowjackets, said victims of abuse must be supported\n\nActress Christina Ricci shared a statement on social media which many interpreted as a comment on Kutcher and Kunis's support letters.\n\n\"So sometimes people we have loved and admired do horrible things. They might not do these things to us and we only know who they were to us but that doesn't mean they didn't do the horrible things and to discredit the abused is a crime,\" the Yellowjackets star shared on Instagram Stories.\n\nShe continued: \"People we know as 'awesome guys' can be predators and abusers. It's tough to accept but we have to. If we say we support victims - women, children, men, boys - then we must be able to take this stance.\"\n\nBoth attacks were said to have taken place in Masterson's home in the Hollywood area in 2003, when he was starring in That 70s Show.\n\nKunis and Kutcher, who married in 2015, rose to fame on the same sitcom.\n\nKutcher posted an Instagram video over the weekend in which he said: \"We are aware of the pain that has been caused by the character letters that we wrote on behalf of Danny Masterson.\n\n\"A couple of months ago, Danny's family reached out to us, and they asked us to write character letters to represent the person that we knew for 25 years, so that the judge could take that into full consideration relative to the sentencing.\n\n\"They were intended for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or retraumatise them in any way. We would never want to do that and we're sorry if that has taken place.\"\n\nKunis said: \"We support victims. We have done this historically through our work and will continue to do so in the future... The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system, or the validity of the jury's ruling.\n\n\"Our heart goes out to every single person who's ever been a victim of sexual assault, sexual abuse or rape.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by aplusk This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to the AP news agency, in his letter dated 27 July and sent to Los Angeles Superior Court judge Charlaine F Olmedo, Kutcher described Masterson as a man who treated people \"with decency, equality, and generosity\".\n\nKunis's letter to Los Angeles Superior Court judge Charlaine F Olmedo called Masterson \"an outstanding role model and friend\" and an \"exceptional older brother figure\".\n\nThe couple have since reprised their roles in Netflix series That '90s Show.\n\nKutcher also starred opposite Masterson on US sitcom The Ranch.\n\nA jury of seven women and five men found Masterson guilty of two counts of rape in May.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Artemis Technologies will send two vessels to Orkney - the larger of which would be smaller than the one portrayed here\n\nOrkney is to trial two electric ferries after being awarded more than £15m of funding.\n\nThe hydrofoil vessels - which have the hull above the water - are being supplied by Belfast-based Artemis Technologies for the three-year trial.\n\nThe £15.5m funding comes from the UK government's Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure Fund, which is aimed at decarbonising the maritime sector.\n\nOrkney Islands Council hailed it as \"tremendous\" news for the community.\n\nOne will be capable of carrying 12 passengers, and will travel between Kirkwall, Shapinsay, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre.\n\nA larger vessel, capable of carrying 50 people and some light cargo, will be on a route between Kirkwall, Westray, Eday, Sanday and Stronsay.\n\nThey are fully electric and the charging infrastructure is set to be installed over the winter.\n\nThis is ahead of the first smaller 12m (39ft) vessel arriving next year, with the 24m (78ft) hydrofoil to be delivered in 2025.\n\nA smaller vessel which would look similar to this could be in service next year\n\nCouncil leader James Stockan said it placed Orkney right at the very centre of the latest developments in the maritime industry.\n\n\"The funding announcement comes following a Herculean effort by our officers and I heartily congratulate them on their success,\" he said.\n\n\"This work is about looking at how we can, in the future, decarbonise our fleet.\n\n\"Securing two vessels of this smaller size is the first stage in that process, allowing us to see how electric vessels might work, with a view to potentially upscaling in the future when further funding packages are in place.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whilst this is tremendous news, this latest development must not be confused with our drive to secure funding for replacement ferries.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Orkney Ferries has announced plans to retire its oldest vessel, the Golden Mariana, which is about 50.\n\nIt was supposed to be replaced by a Norwegian vessel, the Nordic Sea, which Orkney Islands Council bought in 2020 with financial support from the Scottish government.\n\nBut this ship proved unsuitable for the short passenger-only route between Westray and Papa Westray, which will now be served by the charter boat Northerly Explorer from early next month.\n\nThe Nordic Sea will continue to provide relief cover elsewhere on Orkney Ferries services.\n\nPreviously Scotland has played a leading role in an international study to develop a hydrogen-powered ferry that could run on the Shapinsay route in Orkney.\n\nThe Hyseas III project produced a concept design with preliminary approval from regulators but plans for an actual vessel have not so far been taken forward. The world's first hydrogen-powered ferry has meanwhile started operating in Norway.", "Rescuers have warned that it will be difficult to find survivors after three days Image caption: Rescuers have warned that it will be difficult to find survivors after three days\n\nWe're finishing our live coverage of the ongoing impact of the earthquake in Morocco. Thanks for joining us.\n\nIf you'd like to stay updated with the main developments, the main news story is available here.\n\nFamilies have been sharing some harrowing stories about the loved ones they have lost with our reporter Alice Cuddy. You can read her piece here.\n\nThe page today has been brought to you by our reporters in Morocco: Tom Bateman, Alice Cuddy, Carine Torbey, Noura Majdoub, Nick Beake and James Copnall.\n\nOur team in the UK was James FitzGerald, Adam Durbin, Laurence Peter, Heather Sharp, Gem O'Reilly, Jacqueline Howard, James Gregory, Tarik Habte, Fiona Nimoni and me.", "The mock up featuring the 'unhealthy' cheese banned by TfL\n\nAn advert featuring an artisan cheese has been banned on London's transport network as it has been deemed too unhealthy.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said that the cheese element of the advert did not comply with its advertising standards.\n\nThe posters were designed for Tube platforms and buses by business premises provider Workspace.\n\nThey read: \"From crunching numbers to selling cheese online, it all happens at Workspace.\"\n\nEdward Hancock, CEO of the artisan cheese start-up Cheesegeek said: \"The whole reason for TfL's policy is to prevent childhood obesity but how they think artisan cheese will promote child obesity is incredulous.\n\n\"We were initially given the go-ahead a couple of months ago, but at the end August, we were told to tell them the saturated fat content of the cheese in the picture, and they came back saying it violated their standards.\n\n\"It is extremely frustrating and simplistic way of categorising food. It suggests TfL passengers aren't intelligent enough to understand the complexities of a balanced diet.\"\n\nThe transport network was the only place Workspace had planned to advertise as it only operates across London.\n\nOther foods banned on TfL adverts include olive oil, pesto and soy sauce.\n\nThe advert was planned to be used on buses and Tube platforms\n\nMr Hancock said: \"What seems extremely unfair is that alcohol is allowed to be advertised on the network, as well as lots of other unhealthy food.\n\n\"We spent months working on this and it's incredibly frustrating.\"\n\nTfL said advertised foods could be considered for an exception if there was appropriate evidence that the product did not contribute to high fat, salt and sugar diets in children.\n\nA TfL spokesperson added: \"The advert does not comply with our advertising policy, which uses the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) model to define foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt.\n\n\"The rest of the advertising campaign for Workspace was deemed compliant and four different creatives will be running on our network.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quinn Parker lived for 36 hours after delivery by emergency Caesarean section\n\nHospital inspectors are investigating an NHS trust over the deaths of three babies.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust could be prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over the deaths of the infants in 2021.\n\nA Nottinghamshire Police investigation has already been announced into the trust's maternity services by Chief Constable Kate Meynell.\n\nThe trust said it was cooperating with the CQC.\n\nThe investigation is examining whether the trust failed to provide safe care and treatment during the delivery of the three babies, who died within 14 weeks of each other.\n\nThe trust is currently at the centre of the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the NHS, with about 1,800 cases being examined by a review headed by the senior midwife Donna Ockenden.\n\nOn Thursday, Nottinghamshire Police also said it was opening a criminal investigation into the trust's maternity services.\n\nThe deaths the CQC are investigating occurred at the trust's City Hospital in April, June and July of 2021.\n\nBBC News understands one common theme that the CQC is investigating is whether staff could have spotted that the three mothers all had placental abruptions and delivered the babies sooner. Such a complication, which often presents as heavy bleeding in the mother, can deprive a baby of oxygen.\n\nIn a statement, CQC director of operations Lorraine Tedeschini said: \"We are currently in the process of making enquiries to establish whether there is reasonable suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed. Those enquiries are ongoing and we will report further as soon as we are able to do so.\"\n\nThe deaths the CQC are investigating occurred at the City Hospital\n\nAn inquest into the death of Quinn Lias Parker, who died at just two days old in July 2021, found that a series of errors by the hospital had contributed to his death.\n\nThe coroner said that \"earlier delivery would have been achieved… if the significance of the bleeding and pain had been clearly identified as an abruption\".\n\nIt is understood that the CQC is also looking into whether the trust breached its duty of candour to Quinn's family, a legal obligation to be open and honest with patients and their families.\n\nThe BBC understands the other cases being examined by the CQC are the deaths of Adele O'Sullivan and Kahlani Rawson.\n\nAdele was just 26 minutes old when she died in April 2021. An inquest found a series of missed opportunities in her mother's treatment including a delay in diagnosing the cause of her vaginal bleeding, a common symptom of placental abruption.\n\nKahlani died aged four days in June 2021. An inquest found there had been a delay in conducting a Caesarean section. Without that delay, the coroner concluded that Kahlani would not have died.\n\nShe also found that a placental abruption was likely to have occurred hours earlier but that CTG scans had been \"misinterpreted\" by staff, which led to \"reassurance\" about the baby.\n\nIn January, the trust was fined £800,000 - a record for a maternity incident - after being found guilty of failing to provide safe care and treatment to Wynter Andrews and her mother Sarah in 2019. Wynter died aged 23 minutes.\n\nCommenting on the new CQC investigation, Michelle Rhodes, chief nurse for the trust, said: \"The trust is currently providing information to the CQC to support their investigation of those serious incidents which occurred in 2021.\n\n\"We are cooperating fully and will await confirmation from the CQC as to whether they intend to pursue a formal prosecution.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Trapped US caver Mark Dickey has recorded a video message thanking Turkish authorities and rescuers.\n\nAbout 150 workers have been working to rescue the 40-year-old since he became trapped in the Morca Cave on Saturday.\n\nHe was co-leading a team to map a new passage in the cave when he began to suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding.\n\nSix units of blood were delivered to Mr Dickey, who can be seen saying he is alert but still \"needs a lot of help to get out\".\n\nThe Turkish Caving Federation said the operation was \"complex\" as he was stuck at a depth of 1,120m (3,675ft).\n\nSix units of blood were delivered to Mr Dickey, and his condition had stabilised by Thursday lunchtime, the group, which is helping to co-ordinate the rescue, added.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic won a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title by outlasting Daniil Medvedev in a punishing US Open final in New York.\n\nThe 36-year-old Serb won 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 but the straight-set scoreline does not tell how deep he had to dig.\n\nA comfortable opening set was followed by a brutal second which lasted one hour and 44 minutes.\n\nAfter the pair exchanged breaks early in the third, Djokovic took control to level Margaret Court's 50-year record.\n\n\"It obviously means the world to me,\" said Djokovic on winning his 24th major.\n\n\"I'm really living my childhood dream to compete at the highest level in this sport, which has given me and my family so much from difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I never thought I would be here but the last couple of years I thought I had a shot at history. Why not grab it when it is presented?\"\n\nSecond seed Djokovic looked physically troubled in that gruelling second set, but showed all the hallmarks of his greatness to win a fourth US Open title.\n\nDjokovic, who surpassed Rafael Nadal's record tally of 22 men's major titles earlier this year, has matched Australia's Court at the second attempt after losing the Wimbledon final in July.\n\nHe has won three of the four Grand Slam titles in 2023, becoming the first man to achieve this feat on four occasions.\n\nNow the incoming world number one has the chance to surpass Court at January's Australian Open - where he has already won a record 10 titles.\n\nIt felt fitting that Djokovic set up championship point by winning another lengthy rally and, after being made to wait to serve by shouts from the crowd, sealed victory when Medvedev hit a forehand into the net.\n\n\"I would definitely sign right away the paper if somebody would tell me I would win three out of four and play Wimbledon finals this year,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"There is a little regret that I didn't win that Wimbledon final. But, at the end of the day, I have so much more to be happier and content with than actually to regret something.\"\n• None 'One of sport's biggest achievements' - but Djokovic eyes more\n• None Quiz: Who has Djokovic beaten in Grand Slam finals?\n\nDjokovic shows again why he can never be written off\n\nWhen Djokovic lost to 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final it felt like a changing-of-the-guard moment in the men's game.\n\nBut, even in the twilight of his career, Djokovic continues to show he can never be written off.\n\nDjokovic has won eight of the past 12 majors he has played at and will replace Alcaraz again as the world number one on Monday.\n\n\"It's not my interest or business to really review what everyone talks about or thinks, whether there is a passing of the torch, or whatever you want to call it, happening or not happening in the sport,\" he said.\n\n\"I focus on what I need to do and how I get myself in an optimal state so that I can win the biggest trophies in our sport. That's what I care about.\"\n\nDjokovic was dialled in from the start of Sunday's final, playing patiently and precisely to break for a 2-0 lead, with Medvedev looking ragged as he fell 3-0 behind.\n\nWith Medvedev deep behind the baseline when receiving, Djokovic smartly decided to serve-volley on his way to 4-1 - a tactic he employed throughout - and showed his all-round quality to close out the opening set.\n\nDjokovic had only lost from a set up at the US Open once on 73 previous occasions, against Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka in the 2016 final.\n\nDjokovic's relentless returning continued to draw mistakes out of Medvedev, who was serving poorly and making loose errors, at the start of the second set.\n\nThe constant pressure led to another break point for Djokovic in the seventh game, but Medvedev hung on to hold as Djokovic tumbled on to the court after an energy-sapping 31-shot rally.\n\nSomething appeared to be troubling Djokovic physically as he held a long game for 4-4 and survived Medvedev's first break point of the match.\n\nThe Russian third seed was sticking longer in the rallies now, pushing Djokovic to his limits and creating a set point at 6-5 which the Serb saved with another serve and volley.\n\nBut Djokovic eventually got over the line to ensure a marathon set would be settled by a tie-break.\n\nMedvedev led 5-4 when a stunning 23-shot point eventually went his way despite Djokovic's doggedness, only for the veteran to lock in again and win the next three points for a two-sets-to-love lead.\n\nIt was clear to see Medvedev had needed to level by taking that second set to stand any real chance of victory and the feeling of the inevitable was heightened by the Russian needing treatment on a shoulder injury before the third set.\n\nHe offered resistance by putting it back on serve at 3-2, but Djokovic broke again immediately and confidently clinched another famous win.\n\nAfter shaking hands with his opponent, Djokovic sobbed as he knelt on the court before picking out his daughter Tara from the crowd.\n\nFurther tears followed as he went to celebrate with his nearest and dearest, which included parents Srdjan and Dijana, wife Jelena, son Stefan - and Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey.\n\nAddressing his family, Djokovic thanked them for all their \"sacrifices\" when he was a child growing up in war-torn Serbia in the 1990s.\n\n\"The odds were pretty much against me and my family. It was not accessible, not affordable, but I fell in love with tennis,\" he said.\n\n\"No-one in my family played tennis but [there was] incredible resilience and belief from my family.\n\n\"My wife, my kids, my team, this is your trophy as much as it is mine.\"\n\nDjokovic also pulled on a T-shirt which paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his friend who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2020 and wore 24 in his playing days.\n\n\"Kobe was a close friend, we chatted a lot about the winners' mentality when I was struggling with injury and trying to work my way back to the top.\n\n\"He was one of the people I relied on the most, he was always there for support in the most friendly way.\n\n\"His passing hurt me deeply and 24 is the jersey he wore at Lakers so I thought it would be nice to acknowledge him.\"\n\nThe New York crowds were treated to two special nights after Coco Gauff won a maiden Grand Slam women's singles title on Saturday at the beginning of her exciting career but Djokovic's triumph brought emotion for different reasons, with the Serb nearing the end of his.\n\nBBC pundits hailed Djokovic's achievement with former British number one Annabel Croft saying fans had witnessed \"something incredibly special\".\n\n\"We witnessed him tying Margaret Court with 24 titles. It has taken him a time to get there but he's done it. He's super-human isn't he?\" she said on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"He had to put himself through the pain barrier to be able to do it. I don't think Medvedev could have played any better. I just admire the strength of character he has but to find the layers he found in his game. It was perfection.\"\n\nAmerican former player Jeff Tarango hailed an \"incredible moment\" that \"no-one will ever see again\".\n\n\"I don't think any other human could have done what he did in this second set and be able to able to stumble through it, fall over many times and come back again, and again and again.\n\n\"This was a kid who grew up playing tennis in an empty swimming pool and he became the greatest tennis player of all time. You can try to psychoanalyse all you want but the fact is he has put all the pieces of the puzzle together. He can't get any better.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None They argue, they bicker, but most of all, they love each other!: Meet The Royle Family on BBC iPlayer now\n• None Stephen Nolan goes in to find out", "Police vehicles and privately-owned cars were damaged in the incident\n\nA man has been charged after a military-style truck was allegedly driven at police vehicles.\n\nGeoff Marshall, 41, of Station Road, Norton Fitzwarren, will appear in court on Tuesday.\n\nHe has been charged with one count of dangerous driving, 12 of criminal damage and one of battery, said Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nThe force said four police vehicles and five owned by members of the public were damaged in the incident on Sunday.\n\nMr Marshall will appear at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: \"The charges relate to an incident which happened yesterday afternoon when officers received reports of a man causing damage to a property, before subsequently driving a military-style lorry into police and public vehicles.\n\n\"The community can expect to see a continued police presence in the area while inquiries are carried out. We would like to thank members of the public for their patience and understanding.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Dickey: \"I’m not healed on the inside yet so I’m going to need a lot of help to get out of here\"\n\nA massive rescue operation has been launched in Turkey after an American man became trapped in the country's third deepest cave complex.\n\nAbout 150 workers have been working to rescue Mark Dickey, 40, since he became trapped in the Morca Cave on Saturday.\n\nHe was co-leading a team to map a new passage in the cave when he began to suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding.\n\nThe Turkish Caving Federation said the operation was \"complex\" as he was stuck at a depth of 1,120m (3,675ft).\n\nSix units of blood were delivered to Mr Dickey, and his condition had stabilised by Thursday lunchtime, the group, which is helping to co-ordinate the rescue, added.\n\nHis bleeding had stopped and he was able to walk unsupported, however he will still need a stretcher to be removed from the cave, the federation said in a statement.\n\n\"The operation is logistically and technically one of the largest cave rescues in the world,\" it said. \"A long and challenging rescue operation is initiated to carry Mark out on a stretcher.\"\n\nOn Thursday evening, in a video message from inside the cave, Mr Dickey thanked the people attempting to rescue him.\n\n\"I do know that the quick response of the Turkish government to get the medical supplies that I need, in my opinion, saved my life. I was very close to the edge,\" he said.\n\nHe added that while he was alert and able to communicate, he had not \"healed on the inside\" and will need a lot of help to make it out of the cave.\n\nMr Dickey's friend and fellow caving enthusiast Carl Heitmeyer earlier told the BBC his friend had \"stopped vomiting and for the first time in days has even ate a little.\"\n\nBut Dr Yaman Ozakin, a spokesman for the Turkish Caving Federation who is involved in the rescue operation, predicted that the rescue operation could take many more days, and its speed would depend on Mr Dickey's condition.\n\n\"The time it will take to evacuate Mark out of the cave depends on whether or not Mark will be in a condition to ascend in the cave without a stretcher,\" he told the BBC.\n\nIf Mr Dickey was able to climb without the help of a stretcher, it could still take up to a week, he said.\n\n\"If he has to be carried in a stretcher. It will most likely take 10-15 days, maybe more. The cave has narrow passages that need to be widened for a stretcher,\" they added.\n\nHe also confirmed it was the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency government agency leading the rescue, after it was earlier reported to be the army.\n\nA number of rescue workers from several other countries, including Croatia and Hungary, have flown to Turkey to assist in the rescue.\n\nMr Heitmeyer said there was hope rescuers would be able to get him out sooner, but warned any action to free Mr Dickey from the cave would be extremely difficult.\n\n\"This rescue will require many rigging teams, passage modification teams [to allow the stretcher to pass through] and also round-the-clock medical care,\" he said.\n\nHe said the Turkish military had managed to establish a communications line with Mr Dickey, and a base camp had been established around 700m (2,296ft) from the cave entrance.\n\nMr Dickey's fiancée, Jessica Van Ord, was also part of the expedition. She had remained with him while he was unwell, but began climbing out of the cave when his condition improved and is expected to surface late on Thursday, Mr Heitmeyere said.\n\nMark Dickey, who hails from New Jersey, is said to be a hardened caver with over 20 years experience.\n\nHe has been an instructor with the US National Cave Rescue Commission for 10 years, teaching a variety of cave rescue classes. He is also listed as the body's International Exchange Program Coordinator on its website.\n\nHe had been co-leading the expedition to the Morca Cave in a remote part of southern Turkey since the end of August, according to the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, who have been assisting with the operation.\n\nThe cave is extremely deep and Mr Heitmeyer told the BBC that it can take \"an experienced caver who knows the cave well\" about eight hours to go from the entrance to the base camp that Mr Dickey is trapped at.\n\n\"It can take up to 15 hours to get there for someone not familiar with the cave,\" he added, noting that rescue teams will have to deal with wet conditions and temperatures as low as 4C-6C.\n\nCave rescues at depths of more than 1,000m are relatively uncommon.\n\nIn 2014 a man was evacuated from a depth of 1,148m (3,766 ft) at the Riesending cave in Bavaria, Germany. Some 728 people were involved in the operation, which took 11 days.", "Rishi Sunak has said he \"will not accept\" Chinese interference in the UK's democracy, after it emerged a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for China.\n\nIn a statement to MPs, the PM said he told Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the recent G20 summit that any attempted spying \"will never be tolerated\".\n\nThe Met Police confirmed on Saturday that two men were arrested under the Official Secrets Act in March.\n\nThe man said in a statement he felt \"forced to respond\" to accusations in the media.\n\nChina has rejected the allegations of spying, with foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning calling it \"malicious slander\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has warned MPs against identifying the man - who is not being named by the BBC - using parliamentary privilege.\n\nDuring a statement to the House of Commons on the G20 summit in India, Mr Sunak told MPs: \"I have been emphatically clear in our engagement with China that we will not accept any interference in our democracy and parliamentary system.\n\n\"We will defend our democracy and our security.\n\n\"So I was emphatic with Premier Li that actions which seek to undermine British democracy are completely unacceptable and will never be tolerated.\"\n\nUnder questioning from Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Sunak said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly had also raised China's attempts to interfere with UK democracy on his recent visit to China.\n\nSir Keir said \"incidents like this show the constant threats that we face\".\n\nIn a separate statement, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said the government were \"reviewing\" increasing checks on figures working for the Chinese government in the UK.\n\nSeveral MPs called for China to be classed in the \"enhanced tier\" of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, introduced earlier this year.\n\nAdding countries to this creates additional reporting requirements for China-linked organisations.\n\nSenior Tory backbenchers, including former prime minster Liz Truss and ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have called for the government to officially designate China as a threat to the UK - a move so far resisted by ministers.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Dowden said there was a \"strong case to be made\" for this, but the government was \"currently reviewing\" which countries to add to the registration scheme.\n\nHe added that ministers were \"clear eyed\" about the challenges posed by China, but added it was not realistic to \"completely disengage\" with the country.\n\nNews of the arrests was first reported in the Sunday Times, which claimed the researcher had links to several Conservative MPs, including Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe arrest of the researcher has renewed a debate among MPs about whether the UK should take a stricter approach to China.\n\nChina is the UK's fourth largest trading partner, and British ministers regularly highlight the need to work with the country on big international issues such as tackling climate change.\n\nBut relations have soured in recent years over a series of issues, including threats to civil liberties in the former British colony of Hong Kong and China's support for Russia during the war in Ukraine.", "Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active, erupted again on Sunday, spewing fountains of lava more than 80ft (24m) in the air.\n\nFootage from the US Geological Survey shows how the event unfolded over several hours.\n\nThe eruption \"does not pose a lava threat to communities\", but volcanic particles and gases may create breathing problems for people exposed, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales held out amid a dramatic late Fiji fightback to edge a captivating World Cup opener in Bordeaux.\n\nWales led 32-14 through tries from Josh Adams, George North, Louis-Rees-Zammit and Elliot Dee.\n\nFiji responded with efforts from Waisea Nayacalevu and Lekima Tagitagivalu, before Josua Tuisova and Mesake Doge scored late tries to worry Wales.\n\nCentre Semi Radradra then dropped the ball with the Wales try line at his mercy in the final play of the game.\n\nThe wonderful eight-try spectacle evoked memories of when Fiji defeated Wales 38-34 in Nantes in 2007, but this time the men in red were the ones celebrating at the end with fly-half Dan Biggar named man of the match after kicking 12 points.\n\nVictory handed Wales a boost in their bid for quarter-final qualification after Australia defeated Georgia in the Pool C opening match on Saturday.\n\nWales face Portugal in Nice next Saturday before further group games against Australia in Lyon on 24 September and Georgia in Nantes 13 days later.\n\nThis was the fifth successive time the two sides had met in the World Cup, with Gatland's side triumphing in 2011, 2015 and 2019.\n\nGatland was beginning his fourth World Cup in charge with Wales after also leading Ireland in the 1999 tournament.\n\nWales had lost 26 games since 2019, the most defeats they have ever suffered between World Cups, with Gatland retuning to replace Wayne Pivac in December 2022.\n\nOnly one win came in a fifth-place finish in the 2023 Six Nations, which was also plagued by potential Wales player strike action over contractual issues before the England game, with that threat eventually averted.\n\nGatland stated this tournament represented a clean slate following brutal fitness training camps in Switzerland and Turkey. The Wales boss predicted his players would do something special and surprise people in France.\n\nFiji came into the tournament as the highest-ranked side in Pool C after rising to seventh place following an impressive victory over England at Twickenham. This was three places higher than Wales.\n\nThe Fijians had lost fly-half Caleb Muntz due to injury ahead of this game, with Teti Tela taking his place, while captain Jac Morgan was leading Wales on his World Cup debut as 10 players in the 23-man squad featured for the first time in the tournament.\n\nWales had spoken about doing the basics right, with locks Adam Beard and Will Rowlands making a storming start.\n\nBeard took a towering catch from the kick-off and Rowlands forced a turnover penalty which Biggar slotted over.\n\nCentre North, who was becoming only the fifth Welshman to play in a fourth World Cup, then sliced through the Fiji defence.\n\nThe ball was moved left and Adams crossed for yet another World Cup score after finishing the 2019 tournament in Japan as the leading try-scorer with seven.\n\nWales might have been buoyed by their opening start, but they were also guilty of over-playing on two occasions in their own half and were punished by Fiji captain Nayacalevu.\n\nHe galvanised his side as the centre powered through the attempted tackle from Toulon team-mate Biggar and flanker Aaron Wainwright, to sprint away with Frank Lomani converting.\n\nNayacalevu and fellow centre Radradra were the catalysts for the second score with searing midfield breaks to release flanker Tagitagivalu.\n\nThe first water break, a concept Gatland was not keen on as he backed his side's fitness and wanted to keep the game moving, came at the right time for a shell-shocked Wales, who managed to regroup.\n\nBiggar slotted over a second penalty shortly after the resumption, before North crossed following an intricate move with fellow centre Nick Tompkins as Wales again capitalised on Fiji's suspect midfield defence. Biggar converted as Wales regained the lead.\n\nFiji prop Eroni Mawi was denied a try after he lost possession over the Wales line. Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies was forced to leave the field for a head injury assessment after a high tackle from Fiji wing Selestino Ravutaumada that only yielded a penalty and not a yellow card.\n\nWales held out for an 18-14 half-time lead as Biggar left the field fuming with his team-mates for not kicking the ball off the field earlier.\n\nDavies passed his assessment and returned for the second half with Fiji lock Isoa Nasilasila giving away a cheap penalty from the restart after taking out Wainwright, but Biggar missed the kick.\n\nWales retained the pressure and following a Tompkins break, captain Morgan produced a searching cross kick to set up Rees-Zammit's score, which Biggar converted.\n\nA sublime piece of play from full-back Liam Williams with an audacious flick was followed by a bone-crunching tackle from Adams on Ravutaumada.\n\nThis created a Wales penalty and lifted the players, the replacements' bench and fans in the stadium.\n\nA raft of replacements included Tommy Reffell coming on for Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau, who had started despite missing the three warm-up matches in August because of a calf injury.\n\nFiji pressurised Wales as they brought on centre Tuisova and flanker Levani Botia, who lost the ball over the Wales line.\n\nA thundering Reffell tackle laid the platform for Biggar to produce a searching kick that gave Wales the attacking platform for the bonus-point fourth try.\n\nAfter Tagitagivalu was shown a yellow card for pulling down a Wales rolling maul, replacement hooker Dee drove over, with Biggar's conversion proving his last act before limping off the field.\n\nThe sides were evened up when replacement prop Corey Domachowski was shown a yellow card for a professional foul after Wales had been warned for persistent offending.\n\nFiji took advantage, with Tuisova powering over to set up an enthralling ending. Wales found themselves under incessant late pressure as Gatland's side avoided another yellow card in the closing moments.\n\nDoge was denied a try before he eventually burrowed over, and a loose Liam Williams kick gave Fiji the platform for one final attacking attempt.\n\nThey appeared to have worked the overlap perfectly for Radradra, but the former Bristol player suffered heartbreak when he looked a certain scorer, spilling possession and missing out on a try that could have steered Fiji to victory.\n\nBoth sides fell to their knees, with Wales as relieved as they were pleased to emerge victorious following a breathless finish.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNine vehicles were left damaged after a privately-owned military truck was driven through a police road block.\n\nOfficers attended an address in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, at 16.40 BST on Sunday after reports a man made threats to a person living there.\n\nWhen they arrived a large military truck was driven at police vehicles, damaging four police cars and five other vehicles. No-one was injured.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of police officers.\n\nHe has also been arrested on multiple counts of suspicion of criminal damage, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nThe military truck was used to smash into and past parked cars and police vehicles\n\nAfter driving through the road block, the truck hit a parked car and a signpost.\n\nThe vehicle was driven to the A361 bridge over the M5 in Somerset - roughly six miles away - where it was left.\n\nThe National Police Air Service (NPAS) said it deployed its Exeter aircraft to assist Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nThe force said the man who was arrested remains in police custody.\n\nAn area in Norton Fitzwarren has been cordoned off and forensic teams remain at the scene.\n\nJo Roadnight, who lives in the area, says the incident came as a real shock, as normally Norton Fitzwarren is \"a quiet place to live.\"\n\n\"It was such a shock that something like this had happened locally,\" said Ms Roadnight.\n\n\"As [people] were walking past our house they were chatting about what was going on and how unusual it was.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it. It was quite scary.\"\n\nDid you witness this incident? You can share your experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angel Lynn was bundled into a van before she was found injured on the A6\n\nA woman, paralysed after falling from a moving van when she was kidnapped by her coercive boyfriend, has spoken her first word in three years, her mother has said.\n\nAngel Lynn was dragged into the van by Chay Bowskill after an argument and then fell from the vehicle at 60mph (96km/h) on the A6 in Leicestershire.\n\nHer severe brain injuries, suffered in 2020, left her unable to talk or walk.\n\nHowever, Angel's mother Nikki revealed she has now said the word \"mum\" to her.\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Britain on Monday, Mrs Lynn said she had feared her daughter would never be able to talk again.\n\nAngel had not spoken since suffering her catastrophic injuries and has since had to communicate using computer software which reads her words.\n\nAngel also surprised doctors by taking assisted steps earlier this year\n\nMrs Lynn heard her making groaning noises when she visited her in hospital earlier this year.\n\n\"I said, 'Angel, you know if you're making those sorts of sounds, you must be able to say something',\" she said.\n\n\"It just came out. I had no warning or anything she was going to speak. I thought she'd never speak again.\n\n\"She said it the first time and I just couldn't believe it. I thought I've got to get it on camera, because sometimes she doesn't always do things a second time. I asked her to do it again and she did it straight away.\"\n\nAngel's father Paddy said: \"We have prayed for the past three years that she would [speak again].\"\n\nAngel, who requires 24-hour care, has previously surprised her family and medical staff by regaining enough strength to stand and take assisted steps.\n\nOn Sunday, Mrs Lynn ran the Great North Run in Newcastle to raise money for air ambulance staff who were called after Angel was found injured in the road near Loughborough.\n\nChay Bowskill had been in a relationship with Angel when he abducted her\n\nBowskill, from Syston, Leicestershire, was convicted of kidnapping Angel and originally sentenced to seven and a half years in a young offender institution.\n\nHis sentence was later reviewed by the Court of Appeal following concerns it was too lenient and increased to 12 years.\n\nHe was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour towards Angel, and perverting the course of justice.\n\nAngel's parents previously told the BBC they were devastated they had not seen the signs of his coercive behaviour before Bowskill abducted her.\n\nThey filmed a documentary to raise awareness of the dangers of abusive behaviour suffered by women at the hands of their partners.\n\nMrs Lynn said: \"[We're] just absolutely devastated that we didn't spot it because we wouldn't be here today had we spotted it earlier.\n\n\"It can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter how strong you are. It can happen to men and women.\n\n\"We've had to do this because this is how we tell other people about being coerced and how easy it is, even if you're strong-minded, that it can happen to you and to just get out of it, because I wouldn't want anyone else to go through what we've been through.\"\n\nRocco Sansome, who was driving the van when Angel fell from it, was sentenced to 21 months in a young offender institution.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended from playing after a drugs test found elevated levels of testosterone in his system.\n\nItaly's national anti-doping tribunal (Nado) said Pogba was tested after Juve's 3-0 win at Udinese on 20 August.\n\nThe 30-year-old France international, an unused substitute, was randomly selected for post-match drug testing.\n\nIf found guilty of doping, he could face a ban of between two and four years.\n\nJuventus said in a statement: \"Juventus Football Club announces that today, 11 September, 2023, the footballer Paul Labile Pogba received a precautionary suspension order from the National Anti-Doping Tribunal following the results of tests carried out on 20 August, 2023.\n\n\"The club reserves the right to consider the next procedural steps.\"\n\nPogba's agent, Rafaela Pimenta, said she was \"awaiting the second sample and cannot have an opinion before the results\".\n\n\"What is certain is that Paul Pogba never wanted to break a rule,\" Pimenta added.\n\nNado said Pogba had violated anti-doping rules when it found the prohibited substance \"non-endogenous testosterone metabolites\" and the results were \"consistent with the exogenous origin of the target compounds\".\n\nTestosterone is a hormone that increases the endurance of athletes.\n\nPogba has three days to produce a counter-analysis of the result to Nado.\n\nJuventus re-signed Pogba on a four-year deal in July 2022 after the player ran down his contract at Manchester United and left as a free agent.\n\nHowever, Pogba's return to Turin has been beset by persistent injury problems which also saw him miss last year's World Cup in Qatar.\n\nPogba has played a total of 51 minutes as a substitute this season in games with Bologna and Empoli.\n\nLast season he managed 108 minutes over six Serie A games, three brief appearances and one assist in the Europa League, and 11 minutes in the Coppa Italia - a total of 162 minutes and no goals.\n\nPogba's injury problems resurfaced recently, with Juventus boss Massimo Allegri saying the player picked up a minor back problem following his appearance against Empoli.", "Police were called to search for the toddler shortly after 17:00 on Sunday\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a toddler found in a village pond.\n\nThe two-year-old was reported missing from her home on Forge Road, Kingsley, near Bordon, Hampshire, at about 17:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nShe was found a short time later in Kingsley Pond and taken to hospital where she died on Monday, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThe woman, in her 40s, remains in custody for questioning, officers said.\n\nThe two-year-old was found in the large village pond near her home, police said\n\nThe force added that the girl's family were being supported by specialist officers.\n\nA nearby car park had been filled with about a dozen police cars as officers gathered to search for the toddler when she was first went missing.\n\nCordons placed around the pond had been lifted on Monday morning and there was little evidence of the large-scale incident the evening before.\n\nThe large pond, located just under 100m (328ft) from the closest homes on Forge Road, measures about 175m (574ft) long and 72m (236ft) wide.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Khadija's baby was born just minutes before a deadly earthquake struck Morocco\n\nKhadija's baby doesn't even have a name yet, but her first home is a tent by the side of the road.\n\nShe was born just minutes before Morocco's deadly earthquake struck on Friday night.\n\nThough the mother and daughter were unhurt, the hospital in Marrakesh they were in was evacuated. After a quick check up, they were asked to leave just three hours after the birth.\n\n\"They told us we had to go due to the fear of aftershocks,\" she said.\n\nWith their new-born, Khadija and her husband tried to take a taxi early on Saturday to their home in Taddart in the Atlas Mountains, about 65km (40 miles) from Marrakesh.\n\nBut on their way there they found that the roads were blocked by landslides, and only made it as far as the village of Asni.\n\nThe family have been living in a tent by the side of the main road since.\n\n\"I haven't received any help or assistance from authorities,\" she told us, holding her baby while sheltering from the sun under a flimsy piece of tarpaulin.\n\n\"We asked some people in this village for blankets so that we had something to cover us up.\"\n\n\"We have only God,\" she added.\n\nSince then, they have managed to build a basic tent. Khadija told us she has only has one set of clothes for the baby.\n\nFriends from their hometown have told the family that their house is badly damaged, and they have no idea when they might have somewhere suitable to stay.\n\nNot far from Khadija's tent there are signs of the growing frustration at the little help reaching towns and villages in the rural mountainous areas south of Marrakesh.\n\nAsni is just 50km (30 miles) from Marrakesh, but people say they urgently need aid to be delivered.\n\nA scrum of angry people surrounded a local reporter, aiming their frustrations at him.\n\n\"We don't have food, we don't have bread nor vegetables. We have nothing,\" said one man in the crowd who didn't want to give his name.\n\n\"No-one came to us, we don't have anything. We only have God and the king.\"\n\nSince the earthquake he has been living on the side of the village's main road with his four children.\n\nHis house is still standing, but all of the walls are badly cracked and are too scared to stay there.\n\nThey have managed to return and take some blankets, which are now all they have to sleep on.\n\nAs a truck drove past the crowd some people tried to flag it down, desperately hoping it carried supplies. But it just headed on, followed by jeers.\n\nThe reporter at the centre of the crowd was escorted away by police, still followed by people desperate to vent their anger.\n\nSome people say they have received tents from authorities, but there are nowhere near enough for all the people in need.\n\nNearby is Mbarka, another person living in a tent. She led us through side streets to her home that she can no longer live in.\n\nMbarka's home was destroyed in the earthquake\n\n\"I have no means to rebuild the house,\" Mbarka said. \"At the moment, it's just local people who are helping us.\"\n\nShe lived with her two daughters, son-in-law and three grandchildren.\n\nAs their house began to shake when the earthquake hit, they sprinted outside and were almost hit by a much larger home that started to slide down a hill towards them.\n\n\"We think the government will help,\" her son-in-law Abdelhadi said, \"but there are 120 villages in the area.\"\n\nWith so many people needing help, a huge number of people will have to wait longer for assistance.", "The deal will bring historic foes closer together, a move aimed at countering China's influence\n\nPresident Joe Biden has denied that the US is attempting to stem China's international influence, after signing a new historic deal with Vietnam.\n\nMore than 50 years since the last American soldier left Vietnam, Mr Biden travelled to Hanoi to sign the agreement that will bring the former foes closer than ever before.\n\nThe Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Vietnam is a major relationship upgrade for the US. It is the culmination of a relentless push by Washington over the last two years to strengthen ties with Vietnam, which it sees as key to counter China's influence in Asia. It is also no small feat. The partnership with Washington is the highest level of diplomatic ties extended by Vietnam.\n\nMr Biden told reporters in Hanoi that American actions were not about containing or isolating China, but about maintaining stability in accordance with international rules.\n\n\"I think we think too much in terms of Cold War terms. It's not about that. It's about generating economic growth and stability, Mr Biden told reporters in Hanoi on Sunday, in response to a question from the BBC.\n\n\"I want to see China to succeed economically, but I want to see them succeed by the rules,\" he said.\n\nSigns of improved ties had already irked Beijing, which called them more evidence of America's \"cold-war mentality\".\n\nBut Hanoi has thought this through, says Le Hong Hiep from Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, adding that the agreement with the US is \"symbolic rather than [one of] substance\".\n\nThe title may be symbolic but closer ties could mean better business deals, and less reliance on China.\n\nVietnam has a young and highly educated workforce. It has also fostered a spirit of entrepreneurship which makes it highly attractive to US investors - especially those who are looking to move their manufacturing bases out of China.\n\nBig names including Dell, Google, Microsoft and Apple have all shifted parts of their supply chains to Vietnam in recent years. The US also considers it a promising market for weapons and military equipment as Hanoi tries to wean off Moscow.\n\nWashington is also keen to help Vietnam become an integral part of the world's semiconductor supply chain and develop its electronics sector - areas which have become contentious as the US tries to restrict China's access to advanced tech.\n\nPresident Joe Biden travelled to Hanoi to sign an agreement\n\nAnd yet Vietnam may not see its new partnership with the US as choosing one side or the other. As Beijing's economy slows, Hanoi's closer relationship with Washington is only pragmatic.\n\n\"I was in America for seven years and I knew about the American dream and I got that opportunity. But I thought, I have a bigger dream. The Vietnamese dream,\" says Nguyen Huu Phuoc Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Selex Motors.\n\nHe is standing in the company's warehouse pointing at his e-scooter production line.\n\nMr Nguyen started the business five years ago. Now he has contracts with major delivery firms from Grab to Lazada.\n\nHe grew up in a tiny village in central Vietnam without electricity. In his lifetime, he has seen his country develop from one of the poorest in the world to one of the fastest growing economies in Asia.\n\n\"I wanted to contribute to build a prosperous and sustainable Vietnam, to fully utilise our opportunities and potential. We have missed a lot of opportunities. But I feel that it is the right time and we are the right generation to make it happen.\"\n\nWhile he talks, bosses of a Chinese delivery company are waiting in the wings to discuss a deal. Also watching are Foreign Ministry officials who accompanied the BBC throughout its rare visit to Vietnam.\n\nMr Biden will be under pressure to juggle strategic interests with the defence of human rights and freedom.\n\nVietnam's government critics face intimidation, harassment and imprisonment, according to Human Rights Watch.\n\nThe Communist Party has a stranglehold on the media and the state controls all print and broadcast outlets.\n\nBut there is quite a lot riding on this for Washington.\n\nThe greatest win is that this partnership puts it more firmly in Beijing's backyard.\n\nThe administration has worked hard to win Hanoi over. Mr Biden has dispatched his vice-president, his secretary of state, his secretary of defence and others to woo Vietnam over the last two years. US aircraft carriers also made stops in Vietnamese ports.\n\n\"It reflects the leading role that Vietnam will play in our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific as we look to the future,\" Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said at a briefing before Mr Biden's visit.\n\nThat \"network of partnerships\" across Asia has certainly grown in the last few months. Washington has negotiated the use of four new military bases in the Philippines and remarkably, it managed to broker a trilateral agreement with rival east Asian allies, Japan and South Korea.\n\nEven getting those leaders in the same room was once impossible. It has also signed security pacts in the Pacific with Papa New Guinea.\n\nThe speed of this diplomacy appears to have \"taken the Chinese by surprise\", said Dr John Hemmings, senior director of the Indo-Pacific Foreign and Security Policy Program at the Pacific Forum.\n\n\"Beijing perhaps didn't realise how quickly Washington would capitalise on these successes,\" Dr Hemmings says. \"Washington doesn't want to say it is in a Cold War. Instead, it is making appeals to countries with liberal democracies or countries where sovereignty is at risk. This double-handed approach is becoming more attractive to the region.\"\n\nVietnam may also be sending a warning shot to Beijing as the latter continues to encroach on its claims in the South China Sea.\n\nJust last week, state media reported Vietnamese fishermen's claims that a Chinese coastguard ship had fired a water cannon at their boat near the contested Paracel Islands.\n\nVietnam's young workforce makes it an alternative to China as a manufacturing hub\n\nBut Vietnam does not want to break up with China to be friends with the US, says Le Hong Hiep.\n\n\"In Vietnam's calculation, enhanced ties with the United States should not lead to a deterioration in its relationship with China. We are already seeing some indications that Vietnam may even be receiving President Xi soon,\" he added.\n\nHanoi has certainly preempted China's response. Before Mr Biden's visit, Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, went to the border with China, where he met the Chinese ambassador and praised the countries' friendship.\n\n\"No third country wants to take sides in a great power rivalry, but most countries in the region badly need international co-operation in various areas that are important for their prosperity and security,\" said Alexander Vuving, professor at Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.\n\n\"Leveraging these needs of regional countries is key to great power competition,\" he added.\n\nBut there is no doubt that the US and Vietnam have become better friends, as Washington recruits more allies in Asia.\n\nPolls suggest that the US is hugely admired in Vietnam. The horrors of one of the most brutal wars of the 20th Century are not forgotten, but mutual trust has grown since diplomatic ties were normalised in 1995.\n\nBoth countries have worked together to help recover the remains of US soldiers missing in action, and Washington has also assisted Vietnam in identifying the remains of its own soldiers.\n\nAnd each year, tens of thousands of Vietnamese students travel to study in the US, and that has supported the road to reconciliation.\n\nLuong Hong Duong believes engagement with the US will improve Vietnam's prospects\n\n\"We are students of HUST, we are bright, we are young, we have strength,\" a group of students chants at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, under the watchful eye of the government officials escorting the BBC.\n\nElsewhere one young man has grabbed a guitar and plays a popular Vietnamese song about appreciating what you have.\n\n\"Korean and Japanese technology firms are pumping money into Vietnam to develop technology centres, and now comes the US,\" says Luong Hong Duong, a second-year student.\n\n\"I can see in the future Vietnam will become another Silicon Valley for the US and everyone will come here and work. I can't wait for it to happen.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs we negotiated the final corner of the winding road and pulled up in the Moroccan mountain village of Moulay Brahim, it was immediately obvious we'd arrived in a community that had been plunged into grief by Friday night's deadly earthquake.\n\nAn elderly women staggered towards us, wailing, tears falling down her face, holding her head in her hands.\n\nA few metres away, a group of young men were sobbing. They'd just discovered their friend was among the dead.\n\n\"There have been so many deaths today,\" one of the men told us.\n\n\"And our friend, he was crushed. We buried him today and he was so young.\"\n\nAnother man, Mohamed - who is helping to organise this makeshift response - revealed that 16 people had already been buried in this village alone, having been recovered from the rubble on Saturday. Another two victims will be laid to rest on Sunday.\n\n\"We've been working every minute since it happened. Non-stop since then,\" he said. \"There are only about 10 people working here and we're trying to find people in the buildings. It's desperate.\"\n\nSome hope was delivered a few moments later, as members of the Red Crescent arrived. But this is a disaster that needs a considerably bigger and co-ordinated response.\n\n\"We have nothing here,\" said Mohamed. \"And we need everything. Food, medication, shelter.\"\n\nThis scene of destruction and despair is being played out across many parts of the High Atlas Mountains.\n\nOur 90-minute zigzag drive from Marrakesh up to the remote mountainside was elongated by boulders and rocks that lined the route and obscured our path.\n\nBroken and blocked roads have been seriously hampering the rescue effort. Teams have been fanning out from the main cities - notably Marrakesh - to try to reach the very worst-affected areas in the hope of pulling survivors from the rubble.\n\nOn our trip, a procession of ambulances raced past us, further into the unknown. Aerial footage has given us an idea of what awaits these emergency services, but it's still too early to gauge just how many people have lost their lives.\n\nHeavy-lifting equipment will be needed if there are to be any miracles in the coming hours. Not just in Moulay Brahim, but in many places. Hands and hammers can only do so much.\n\nBack in Marrakesh, thousands have been spending a second night in the open air. Roundabouts, car parks and a public square have been filled with figures of all ages wrapped in blankets.\n\nFew appear to be sleeping, though - at least not soundly. Being in the relative safety of the outside doesn't quell the fear of what another tremor could do.\n\nThere's rubble in many streets of this historic city, although Marrakesh has fared better than the mountainous areas to the south-west.\n\nA restaurant owner, Safa El Hakym, is trying to take in the damage.\n\n\"Thank God it's just the walls and materials that are gone,\" she says. \"The most important things are not lost.\n\n\"And thank God we have the power of humanity in Morocco: we are all together and putting our hearts into this and helping each other.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Morocco earthquake: What we know so far", "Mark Dickey has been caving for more than 20 years (file photo)\n\nSignificant progress has been made to rescue an American man who has been trapped in Turkey's third deepest cave complex for more than a week.\n\nOver 150 people have been involved in efforts to save Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cave on 2 September.\n\nHe has now been lifted around 1,000m (3,280ft) and is more than halfway out.\n\nRescuers hope he will reach the surface sometime on Monday evening or on Tuesday local time.\n\n\"Mark reached the last 180 meters at 16:26 CET [1526 GMT],\" the Turkish Caving Federation, which is involved in the rescue operation, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday.\n\n\"Now he will rest here for a while.\"\n\nMr Dickey was co-leading a team to map a new passage in the cave when he began to suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding on 2 September.\n\nHis condition later improved after he was given a blood transfusion. He has now been strapped to a stretcher and is being carried out.\n\nThis involves navigating through tight rock tunnels and explosives have had to be used at the narrowest points, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\nThe medical coordinator for the mission, Tulga Sener, on Monday described Mr Dickey's general health as \"very good\", despite him being unable to eat.\n\n\"He is being fed intravenously all the way through and at the camps in between and the necessary liquids and medications are being given for his stomach and his general health condition,\" Mr Sener said.\n\nWhile Mr Dickey has now made it most of the way out of the cave, the remaining distance may be difficult to navigate.\n\n\"It's a very particular phase of cave here because there are so many slopes, it's a bit tricky,\" said Giuseppe Conti from the European Cave Rescue Association.\n\n\"Then there is a piece, I don't know, I don't remember how many metres, but anyway this is flooded - a bit flooded, a bit.\"\n\nA number of rescue workers from several other countries, including Croatia and Hungary, have flown to Turkey to assist in the rescue.\n\nMr Dickey's fiancée, Jessica Van Ord, is also helping. She had remained in the cave with him while he was unwell but later climbed out.\n\nOn Thursday evening, in a video message from inside the cave, Mr Dickey thanked the people attempting to rescue him.\n\n\"I do know that the quick response of the Turkish government to get the medical supplies that I need, in my opinion, saved my life. I was very close to the edge,\" he said.\n\nMark Dickey, who hails from New Jersey, is said to be a hardened caver with over 20 years' experience.\n\nHe has been an instructor with the US National Cave Rescue Commission for 10 years, teaching a variety of cave rescue classes. He is also listed as the body's International Exchange Program Coordinator on its website.\n\nHe had been co-leading the expedition to the Morca Cave in a remote part of southern Turkey since the end of August, according to the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, who have also been assisting with the operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Dickey: \"I’m not healed on the inside yet so I’m going to need a lot of help to get out of here\"\n• None Huge rescue mission for US man deep in Turkey cave", "BBC correspondent Nick Beake is on the ground in the Moroccan village of Tafeghaghte, where's he been told 90 people are confirmed to have died after a huge earthquake struck in the High Atlas Mountains on Friday.\n\nSearch dogs have been sniffing through the rubble and rescuers are listening closely for any signs of life, but hope of finding more survivors is fading.", "German car giant BMW has announced plans to invest hundreds of millions of pounds to prepare its Mini factory near Oxford to build a new generation of electric cars.\n\nProduction of two new electric Mini models is due to begin at the plant in Cowley in 2026.\n\nThe move is expected to safeguard the future of the facility, as well as that of another factory in Swindon.\n\nMore than 4,000 people currently work across the two sites.\n\nBMW will spend £600m on updating the Cowley plant, developing the production lines, extending its body shop and building a new area for installing batteries.\n\nIt also plans to build additional logistics facilities at Cowley and at the Swindon factory - which makes body panels for new vehicles.\n\nThis will allow two next-generation electric designs, the Mini Cooper and the larger Mini Aceman, to be built at Cowley alongside conventional cars.\n\nA third electric model, the Countryman, will be made in Germany.\n\nThe UK investment will be backed by funding from the government - understood to be worth £75m.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of UK industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, called the announcement a \"vote of confidence\" in the country's automotive manufacturing industry.\n\n\"Not only does it secure the long-term future of the home of one of the world's most iconic brands, it also demonstrates once again our capabilities in electric vehicle production,\" he said.\n\n\"Investments such as this improve productivity and help deliver jobs, growth and economic benefits for the country.\"\n\nWith the Mini brand expected to go fully electric by 2030, BMW's decision is vital to the future of the two UK factories.\n\nThe first electric Mini was launched at the Cowley plant in 2019.\n\nBut last year, the company confirmed production of most of its electric cars would move to China, where the new models have been developed in partnership with Great Wall Motor.\n\nAt the time, BMW suggested that building both conventionally-fuelled and electric cars in the same factory was inefficient.\n\nNow, that plan has clearly changed.\n\nProduction of the new models will begin next year at Great Wall's factory in Zhangjiagang - with Cowley now expected to start building them as well in 2026.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said BMW's investment was \"another shining example of how the UK is the best place to build cars of the future\".\n\nAsked about speculation that the amount of government funding for BMW in relation to its Oxford plant is around £75m, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told reporters: \"I won't comment on the figure because that creates difficulties in future negotiations.\n\n\"What I will say is that we do provide some subsidy, very light subsidy, in the auto industry because it faces so much difficulty, and some of that is regulatory.\n\n\"So if we're asking manufacturers to transition to net zero, that creates additional costs which make it a little bit harder so we do have to factor that in.\"\n\nThis is the latest in a series of government-backed investments designed to promote the development of electric vehicles in Britain, ahead of a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars due to take effect in 2035.\n\nIn July, Jaguar Land Rover's owner, the Indian group Tata, said it would build a giant \"gigafactory\" to produce batteries in Somerset, a project expected to benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in taxpayer support.\n\nStellantis has just begun production of electric vans at its Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire; Nissan is expanding output of EVs at its Sunderland factory, while its partner Envision AESC is building a gigafactory close by.\n\nMeanwhile, Ford is investing heavily in its Halewood plant, preparing it to build electric motors.\n\nBut there have also been setbacks for the industry in recent years, including the closure of Ford's engine plant in Bridgend in 2020 and Honda's Swindon factory in 2021.\n\nIn January, Britishvolt, which had been planning to build a battery factory near Blyth, collapsed into administration. The future of the site remains uncertain.\n\nDavid Bailey, professor of business economics at Birmingham Business School, told the BBC the BMW announcement was \"great news, but remember the UK is playing catch-up\".\n\n\"We've been lagging behind in EV production. We're going to need a lot more if we are going to preserve a mass car industry in the UK.\"\n\nWhat is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from.\n\nThat could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel.\n\nBMW is one of a number of businesses lobbying in the EU and the UK for those measures to be watered down or delayed.\n\n\"The Brexit trade rules mean that if you don't have enough local content in cars, there will be a 10% tariff on trade between the UK and the EU,\" Prof Bailey said. \"Now clearly that's a big hit for the likes of Stellantis and BMW. That needs to be revised quickly.\"\n\nHe added that there was a lot of pressure \"on both sides of the Channel\" to change the trade rules. \"I think the European Commission will move at some point, but probably too late.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A devastating earthquake in southern Morocco, which has killed thousands of people, has also destroyed large areas of the historic centre of Marrakesh. Many residents and tourists were forced to spend the night outside, over fears of an aftershock worsening the situation in the city.\n\nA woman surveys the damage to a building in Marrakesh, after the powerful earthquake struck overnight on Friday\n\nDebris fell from buildings in the historic city, trapping many people and destroying vehicles\n\nDamage to buildings such as this mosque became clear after sunrise on Saturday\n\nMany buildings have collapsed, leaving residents to survey the damage\n\nThe epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was in the Atlas Mountains - less than 50 miles from the city\n\nPeople in Marrakesh have been donating blood to help the hundreds injured by the tremors\n\nMany residents of the city spent the night outside of their homes amid fears of an aftershock\n\nDozens of people slept near a hotel swimming pool in the city - a popular tourist destination\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The moment a man narrowly avoided a building collapse during Morocco's deadly earthquake has been caught on CCTV.\n\nThe video shows debris from the building in Marrakesh falling onto the street where the man is standing.\n\nFollow the latest on this story.", "Sarah Albone had reported Waddell to police on at least two occasions in the months before her murder\n\nA man who killed his partner in a \"frenzied and horrific attack\" and hid her body in a suitcase inside a wheelie bin has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMother-of-three Sarah Albone's body was discovered on 25 February after her family reported her missing.\n\nMatthew Waddell, 35, of Winston Crescent, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, had tried to make it appear she was alive by using her phone and bank card.\n\nHe denied murder but was convicted by a jury at Luton Crown Court.\n\nThe remains of the 38-year-old were found in a taped-up bin at her house, three months after she was last seen.\n\nOver that time, Waddell told her family and friends she was receiving treatment at a hospital in London and could not be contacted.\n\nHe sent text messages from her mobile phone, used her bank card and sold her belongings, the jury was told.\n\nProsecutor Martin Mulgrew said a purple suitcase was found wrapped in industrial cling film and under the remains of a carpet in the bin.\n\nAfter killing Ms Albone, Waddell claimed she was in hospital and receiving a treatment plan for her mental health\n\nMs Albone, who had multiple sclerosis (MS), had suffered an attack which included stamping, kicking, punching and possible use of a weapon, the court heard.\n\nThe cause of death was airway obstruction caused by catastrophic injuries to her head.\n\nIn a letter found in the house, Waddell wrote: \"I stamped on your head so many times I have caved your head literally, but you were still breathing. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around your head.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere.\"\n\nHe went on: \"I felt nothing.\"\n\nThe jury heard the couple first met in November 2020, with Ms Albone becoming dependent on him due to her MS and a neurological disorder.\n\nShe ended the relationship in January the following year because she felt he was emotionally controlling, Mr Mulgrew said.\n\nHe would return to her home repeatedly, the court heard, and ignored his bail conditions when he was arrested for harassment.\n\n\"He had developed an obsession and could not accept she would not be part of his life,\" said the prosecutor.\n\nShe reported him for assault in December 2021 and in a statement she catalogued his controlling and aggressive behaviour towards her, the court heard.\n\nHer stepsister, Corinne Foster, who described the relationship as \"toxic\", became suspicious about text messages she received from Ms Albone's phone in February.\n\nA message supposedly sent from hospital addressed Ms Foster as \"babe\".\n\n\"Sarah Albone would never have called her babe,\" Mr Mulgrew said.\n\n\"The tone and the grammar did not match.\"\n\nCordons and tents were put up at the house after the discovery of Ms Albone's body\n\nWaddell told Ms Foster that her stepsister was \"in the best place possible\" and they were putting a plan in place for mental health treatment.\n\nIn the witness box, he said he had snapped after suffering \"years of abuse\".\n\n\"It is a feeling like you would not believe,\" he said.\n\n\"You literally go numb. You stop feeling.\"\n\nJudge Michael Simon remanded Waddell in custody for sentencing on Thursday.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife is due to appear in court charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison.\n\nThe 21-year-old former soldier will face Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday after four days on the run last week.\n\nMr Khalife was arrested on a towpath in Northolt in London on Saturday.\n\nHe had been on remand at HMP Wandsworth after being charged with terror offences in January.\n\nThe Met Police said he had been charged with escaping on 6 September while on remand at the prison awaiting trial at the Old Bailey, contrary to common law.\n\nThe hunt for Mr Khalife led to land and air searches across west London.\n\nMr Khalife was apprehended 14 miles from the prison after being pulled off a bicycle by a plain-clothed officer.\n\nThe incident has prompted questions about security at Wandsworth prison, with Justice Secretary Alex Chalk telling the BBC he has launched investigations into security at the prison.\n\nMr Chalk says preliminary inquiries have determined that correct security protocols and staffing levels were in place at the time.\n\nMr Khalife is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and obtaining information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nHe is also charged with plotting a fake bomb hoax at MOD Stafford, where he had been based. He denies the charges against him and pleaded not guilty to them at a hearing in July.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.", "Brazilian fugitive Danelo Cavalcante was captured after two weeks on the run.\n\nOn 31 August, he escaped Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania by climbing a wall and for several days authorities thought he was inside a perimeter near the prison.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison after murdering his former girlfriend. Authorities say he committed a similar crime in his homeland, Brazil.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment trapped US caver Mark Dickey is carried out of Turkish cave\n\nA US citizen trapped in Turkey's third deepest cave for more than a week has been pulled to safety, rescuers say.\n\nMore than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cave on 2 September.\n\nOrganisers say it was one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever mounted.\n\nThe lowest point of the Morca Cave, in a remote part of the south, reaches nearly 1.3km (0.8 miles) below ground.\n\nMr Dickey was brought out of the cave at 00:37 local time (21:37 GMT), the Turkish Caving Federation announced on social media.\n\nCarl Heitmeyer of the New Jersey Initial Response Team, a group Mr Dickey leads, told BBC News that the caver had been rescued and expressed his thanks to all those involved in the operation.\n\nMr Dickey said he questioned whether he would survive the ordeal after his condition worsened. He told reporters the thought that he might die \"literally went through my head\".\n\n\"I kept throwing up blood. Then my consciousness started to get harder to hold on to and I reached a point where I said, 'I'm not going to live',\" he said.\n\nHis parents Debbie and Andy Dickey said the \"international caving community\" had \"made it possible for Mark to leave Morca cave and receive further medical treatment at a hospital facility\".\n\nThey said their son's rescue was \"indescribably relieving\" and filled them with \"incredible joy\".\n\n\"Mark is strong and we believe in his strength, but fully knew that he was in dire need of tremendous and immediate support,\" they said.\n\nMr Dickey had been co-leading a team to map a new passage in the cave when he began to suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding.\n\nHis condition improved after he was given a blood transfusion. He was then strapped to a stretcher and was slowly carried out.\n\nThis involved navigating through tight rock tunnels and explosives had to be used at the narrowest points, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\nA number of rescue workers from several other countries, including Croatia and Hungary, flew to Turkey to assist in the rescue.\n\nMr Dickey's fiancee, Jessica Van Ord, also helped. She had remained in the cave with him while he was unwell but later climbed out.\n\nOn Thursday evening, in a video message from inside the cave, Mr Dickey thanked the people attempting to rescue him.\n\nThe entrance to the Morca Cave\n\n\"I do know that the quick response of the Turkish government to get the medical supplies that I need, in my opinion, saved my life,\" he said. \"I was very close to the edge.\"\n\nRescuers said helping to save Mr Dickey had been a \"very honourable\" experience.\n\n\"We are cavers before everything,\" Ibrahim Olcu, a caver from Istanbul, said.\n\n\"A caver does not have a rescuer other than another caver, we saw that a little. To work in the rescue operation for another caver was very honourable, pleasing. I am experiencing this happiness.\"\n\nZsofia Zador, a Hungarian anaesthesiologist, said it was her first \"big rescue for me as a doctor\".\n\n\"This is quite a difficult cave because there are some small narrow passages and the shafts are quite muddy so it is not the easiest cave to traverse,\" she added.\n\nMr Dickey, who hails from New Jersey, is said to be a hardened caver with over 20 years' experience.\n\nHe has been an instructor with the US National Cave Rescue Commission for 10 years, teaching a variety of cave rescue classes. He is also listed as the body's International Exchange Program Co-ordinator on its website.\n\nHe had been co-leading the expedition to the Morca Cave since the end of August, according to the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, who have also been assisting with the operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Dickey speaking from inside the cave: \"I’m not healed on the inside yet so I’m going to need a lot of help to get out of here\"", "A privately owned military truck has been driven through a police road block, damaging nine vehicles.\n\nOfficers attended an address in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, at 16:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nWhen they arrived, a man left the address in the military truck, damaging four police cars and five privately owned vehicles.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident.\n\nA 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of police officers and multiple counts of suspicion of criminal damage, Avon and Somerset Police said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPennsylvania police have said they are expanding their search perimeter after multiple recent sightings of an escaped prisoner, now on the run for 12 days.\n\nDanelo Cavalcante stole a van and visited the homes of two acquaintances over the weekend, both outside the initial search area, a spokesman said.\n\nPhotos captured on a doorbell camera at one home appear to show the 34-year-old clean-shaven and in different clothes.\n\nThe Brazilian national's disappearance has sparked headlines in his country.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, Deputy US Marshal Robert Clark said the manhunt had entered a new phase after the suspect was able to escape the initial search perimeter.\n\n\"In the beginning, we were prepping for the short game,\" said Mr Clark.\n\n\"Now we're planning in for the long game. The search in the woods was to Cavalcante's advantage.\"\n\nCavalcante was sentenced last month to life without parole for killing his ex-girlfriend Deborah Brandao, stabbing her 38 times in front of her two young children in April 2021.\n\nHe fled Chester County Prison, about 25 miles (40km) west of Philadelphia, on 31 August by \"crab walking\" between two walls, scaling a fence and crossing through razor wire.\n\nA man believed to be Danelo Cavalcante was captured on a Ring doorbell camera early on Sunday morning\n\nThe local community remains on edge, with some schools closed last week, as Cavalcante repeatedly evades capture despite being spotted several times.\n\nHundreds of police officers, tracker dogs and aircraft had focused their search in and around Longwood Gardens, a nearly 200-acre botanical park popular with tourists.\n\nBut Cavalcante is alleged to have stolen a 2020 Ford Transit van about three-quarters of a mile outside the search perimeter on Saturday evening. Baily's Dairy of Pocopson Meadow Farm confirmed their delivery van was stolen.\n\nAt a news conference on Sunday, Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said the murderer had used the vehicle to travel to the home of a former work colleague in East Pikeland Township.\n\nThe ex-associate was not home but spoke to Cavalcante through their Ring doorbell camera.\n\nTwo photos from the camera, shared by Upper Providence Township police, capture the fugitive's now clean-shaven face. He had a beard and moustache when he escaped.\n\nThe footage also shows him wearing a baseball cap, hooded sweatshirt, green trousers similar to those in a prison uniform, and white sneakers.\n\nThe convict later tried to contact another old acquaintance, in the nearby Phoenixville area, according to Mr Bivens.\n\nThat person too was not home, and police were alerted to Cavalcante's possible sighting by a female resident.\n\nLaw enforcement believes he remains in the area and has likely entered other residences, businesses or vehicles.\n\n\"He is absolutely looking for support,\" said Mr Bivens. \"He needs that support - he doesn't have it.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Bivens said that federal immigration agents had arrested Cavalcante's sister after she refused to assist in the investigation. Agents have initiated deportation proceedings against her, he added.\n\n\"She has failed to co-operate so there was no value in law enforcement keeping her here at this point,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, police found the van stolen by Cavalcante in East Nantmeal Township, west of his previous known locations.\n\nIt had been abandoned in a field behind a barn after apparently running out of gas, and the keys had been left inside, according to Mr Bivens.\n\nThe manhunt has now shifted to the proximity of the van's discovery, he said.\n\n\"No perimeter is 100% secure, ever,\" Mr Bivens told reporters. \"I'm not going to make an excuse to you. I wish it had not happened.\"\n\nPolice faced issues with the area because it had \"tunnels, very large drainage ditches, things that could not be secured\", he added.\n\nCommunity members have been asked to lock their vehicles and homes, monitor surveillance footage and get familiar with the latest photos of Cavalcante.\n\nPolice have been been pre-authorised to use deadly force against Cavalcante if he does not surrender.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA Spanish high court judge has opened an investigation of former Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales.\n\nSpain forward Jenni Hermoso filed a legal complaint last week over Rubiales kissing her on the lips following her country's Women's World Cup final win.\n\nHermoso, 33, said the kiss was not consensual, while Rubiales claimed it was \"mutual\" and \"consensual\".\n\nRubiales quit as Spanish FA president as a result of the controversy.\n• None Luis Rubiales resigns as president of Spanish FA over Jenni Hermoso kiss\n\nLast week, Prosecutor Marta Durantez Gil filed a complaint with Spain's high court against Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion.\n\nOn Monday, Judge Francisco de Jorge of the National Court accepted the complaint.\n\nA magistrate will be assigned to lead an investigation, which will conclude either with a recommendation for the case to go to trial or be dismissed.\n\nThe charge of sexual assault under Spanish law can carry a punishment ranging from a fine to four years in prison.\n\nPachuca player Hermoso released a long statement on social media on 25 August saying the kiss was not \"consensual\".\n\n\"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours. I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part,\" she continued.\n\n\"Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nSpain men's coach Luis de la Fuente asked for \"forgiveness\" after applauding the speech in which Rubiales said he would not resign for kissing Hermoso.\n\nAsked about the resignation of Rubiales prior to his side's game against Cyprus on Tuesday, De la Fuente said: \"In here we think about football and we live in a bubble to be isolated.\n\n\"I think we have to focus on football and on what we football professionals can control.\n\n\"I have total and absolute respect for the decision taken by Mr Rubiales. People make decisions when they think they have to make them.\"\n\nDe la Fuente was also questioned on whether he felt the need to send a message to Rubiales, who hired him as manager in December.\n\n\"I have been working at the RFEF for 11 years. I have lived a long time before Luis Rubiales arrived,\" added De la Fuente.\n\n\"I am a football coach. Nobody has gifted me anything, I have earned it. I am grateful to all the people who have helped me throughout my life. And, no, I have not spoken to him.\"", "Work is being done to address confirmed Raac as surveys are carried out at schools across the country\n\n\"Several hundred\" surveys are now being carried out every week to find schools containing collapse-prone concrete in England, according to the Department for Education (DfE).\n\nOfficials told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that 98% of schools have returned questionnaires about the presence of the material.\n\n\"A few hundred\" are still outstanding.\n\nIt comes after ministers set a deadline of last Friday for school leaders and responsible bodies to respond.\n\nUsed in the construction of schools from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) can become \"crumbly\" over time and prone to collapse.\n\nThe DfE's permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood and chief operating officer Jane Cunliffe appeared before the committee of MPs on Monday afternoon.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, who chairs the PAC, said it was \"disappointing\" they could not provide MPs with more specific figures.\n\nThe civil servants confirmed that nine of the 156 schools initially announced as having Raac were actually found not to contain the material.\n\nBut they repeatedly resisted questions about how many schools were waiting for a survey, as Dame Meg asked whether the number was in the \"tens\" or \"hundreds\".\n\nMs Cunliffe said: \"It is very fast-moving, we are doing tens of surveys every day.\"\n\nThe DfE released its official list of 147 schools containing Raac last week.\n\nMs Acland-Hood said the list would be updated every fortnight.\n\nThe officials said more than 600 schools had now been surveyed for Raac, and that the department had increased its number of contracted surveyors from three to eight.\n\nThey said they hoped to have identified the \"majority\" of affected schools within \"a few weeks\".\n\nMs Cunliffe told MPs that in two-thirds of all the surveys conducted, Raac had not been found.\n\nThe officials said the focus of the surveys was currently on schools with suspected Raac, but that surveyors would soon look at a random sample of schools reporting no Raac to test for \"false negatives\".\n\nThey declined to provide a figure for the number of pupils affected by the crisis so far, but defended the \"co-ordinated\" cross-government approach.\n\nA total of 16 local authorities in Scotland have found potentially dangerous concrete in their schools, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nInvestigations are also continuing in Northern Ireland and in Wales, where two schools were forced to close.", "A researcher at the UK Parliament has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, amid claims he was spying for China.\n\nPolice have confirmed two men, one in his 20s and another in his 30s, were arrested under the act in March.\n\nSources have told the BBC one of them was a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, it is understood the researcher had access to several Conservative MPs.\n\nOn Sunday morning, No 10 said Rishi Sunak had expressed concerns about Chinese interference to a senior official from China.\n\nA spokesperson said the prime minister had met Chinese Premier Li Qiang during the G20 summit in India, and \"conveyed his significant concerns about Chinese interference the UK's parliamentary democracy\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is not attending the summit.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the researcher had access to security minister Tom Tugendhat and foreign affairs committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.\n\nSeveral government sources declined to comment on security matters.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"A man in his 30s was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire and a man in his 20s was arrested at an address in Edinburgh.\n\n\"Searches were also carried out at both the residential properties, as well as at a third address in east London.\"\n\nBoth men were taken to a south London police station, and were subsequently released on police bail until a date in early October, it said.\n\nThe Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, is investigating.\n\nIt is reported the researcher had access to Mr Tugendhat before he became security minister in September last year.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe man has not been named - but the Sunday Times said he had lived in China for a period.\n\nConservative MP Alicia Kearns said she was aware of the paper's report but declined to comment, adding: \"While I recognise the public interest, we all have a duty to ensure any work of the authorities is not jeopardised.\"\n\nAsked about the report on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said he could not comment on specific cases.\n\nHe defended the current stance towards China, saying the UK was right to \"engage\" with the country but Mr Sunak had highlighted the need to \"proceed with caution\".\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he added: \"Whatever lessons need to be learned by the parliamentary authorities I am sure will be learned.\"\n\nThe arrests will reignite the debate over London's relationship with Beijing. There has been growing concern about Chinese espionage and also interference in Parliament, with questions about whether more action should have been taken to mitigate risks.\n\nLast year, an unusual parliamentary interference alert was issued regarding the activities of Christine Lee.\n\nMI5 alleged she had been carrying out political interference activities including donating funds to support the work of MPs. This was all said to be on behalf of China.\n\nOther countries, notably Australia and Canada, have also seen recent claims of Chinese espionage or interference in politics, with the Chinese government denying any such activity.\n\nTensions have been increasing over both espionage and wider security threats in recent years - but the last few months has seen attempts by both Washington and London to stabilise relations with China.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visited Beijing less than two weeks ago and told the BBC it would not be \"credible\" to disengage.\n\nReacting to the arrests, Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said it was \"time for us to recognise the deepening threat that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) under (President) Xi now pose\".\n\nHe also questioned the UK's approach to China, adding: \"What price was Cleverly's kowtow visit to Beijing?\"\n\nTory MP Tim Loughton said: \"This is yet further evidence of how far the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reach into British institutions.\n\n\"Yet again the security of Parliament has potentially been compromised, reinforcing how we cannot view the CCP as anything other than a hostile foreign threat.\"\n\nParliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a long-awaited report in July, warning that the government had been slow to come to terms with the security risks from Beijing.\n\n\"It appears that China has a high level of intent to interfere with the UK government, targeting officials and bodies at a range of levels to influence UK political thinking and decision-making relevant to China,\" the report said.\n\nIt noted the challenges in prosecuting cases linked to espionage given that it was, at that time, not a criminal offence to be an agent of a foreign intelligence service.\n\nMI5 and the wider intelligence community have long complained that the old Official Secrets Act was inadequate in dealing with hostile state activity. The US and Australia both have been able to use a wider range of powers.\n\nNational security legislation to provide new powers to investigate espionage and other security threats did come into effect this summer in the UK, but this was after the arrest of the two men which took place under the old Official Secrets Act.", "The head of Spotify has denied claims that users can repeatedly listen to their own uploaded 30-second track to rake in monthly royalties.\n\nFinance analysts at JP Morgan had said that Spotify subscribers could make $1,200 (£960) a month by listening to their song on repeat, 24 hours a day.\n\nThe claim suggested Spotify's royalty payment structure could be manipulated.\n\nBut Daniel Ek, the streaming giant's CEO, says that is not how the platform's royalties work.\n\nThe theory was first reported in the Financial Times, and then tweeted about by Julian Klymochko, founder of Accelerate, a Canadian-based investment company.\n\n\"If that were true, my own playlist would just be 'Daniel's 30-second Jam' on repeat!\" Mr Ek tweeted back in response.\n\n\"But seriously, that's not quite how our royalty system works.\n\nConcerns have been raised that artificial streaming - where devices run chosen tracks on loop - is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan executives estimating as much as 10% of all streams are fake, according to the Financial Times.\n\nJust last week, Swedish Newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that criminal gangs were using Spotify's royalty system to launder money made through drug deals.\n\nAccording to Spotify's website, it has two tiers of royalties, and artists are paid out once a month - but how much they get can vary.\n\n\"Contrary to what you might have heard, Spotify does not pay artist royalties according to a per-play or per-stream rate,\" the website says.\n\n\"The royalty payments that artists receive might vary according to differences in how their music is streamed or the agreements they have with labels or distributors.\"\n\nUniversal Music Group and Deezer recently announced they will jointly launch a music streaming model aimed at generating bigger royalties for artists - meaning they will be paid more if users actively choose to listen to their music.\n\nThis could mean Spotify, and other streaming services such as Apple Music, will be forced to adjust their own models.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife has been charged with escaping from Wandsworth prison, after his four days on the run came to an end on Saturday.\n\nThe 21-year-old former soldier is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nHe was arrested on a towpath in Northolt after being pulled off a bicycle by a plain-clothed officer.\n\nMr Khalife escaped from the prison on Wednesday morning, seemingly by hiding under a food delivery lorry.\n\nThe Met Police said he had been charged with escaping on September 6 while on remand at HMP Wandsworth Prison awaiting trial at the Old Bailey, contrary to common law.\n\nHe was being held on remand at the prison in south-west London after previously being charged under the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Khalife is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and obtaining information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. He is also charged with plotting a fake bomb hoax at MOD Stafford, where he had been based. He denies the charges against him.\n\nHis escape prompted questions about security at Wandsworth prison, with Justice Secretary Alex Chalk telling the BBC he has launched investigations into the incident.\n\nMr Chalk says preliminary inquiries into the getaway have determined that correct security protocols and staffing levels were in place at the time.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"The real question is whether the protocols were followed to the extent they should be.\"\n\nThe minister also revealed earlier that dozens of prisoners were moved from HMP Wandsworth to other prisons after the escape, \"out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nMr Chalk told the BBC that \"approximately\" 40 inmates on remand were transferred this week, amid questions about whether Mr Khalife should have been held on remand at the Category B jail.\n\nPolice had offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information leading to Mr Khalife's arrest and detectives said they had received more than 100 calls from people offering information.\n\nHe was detained at 10:41 BST on Saturday - about 14 miles from the prison.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Urfan Sharif does not speak during the video, while his partner Beinash Batool reads from a notebook\n\nSara Sharif's father and stepmother claim they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities in a video - their first public comments since her death.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police want to speak to her father Urfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and brother Faisal Malik in relation to a murder investigation.\n\nThey are known to have travelled to Pakistan from the UK on 9 August and police have been unable to locate them.\n\nIn the low-quality footage Mr Sharif does not speak while Ms Batool reads from a notebook.\n\nShe spends only two sentences on Sara, describing her death as an \"incident\".\n\nMs Batool ends the video saying that they are willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nThe BBC was sent the video but has been unable to verify their account. Nor was the BBC able to verify the conditions under which the video was filmed or the location.\n\nIn a statement responding to the video, Surrey Police said \"clearly this is significant\" and it had been working with Interpol, the Foreign Office and the National Crime Agency to work out the next steps.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, progressing these enquiries through the appropriate channels has to be handled carefully and sensitively,\" the force said.\n\n\"Any co-operation from the people we want to speak to will assist the enquiry.\"\n\nAn inquest held last month heard the precise cause of death was \"not yet ascertained\" but was likely to be \"unnatural\".\n\nHer mother Olga Sharif told Polish television she hardly recognised Sara in the mortuary because of her injuries.\n\nThe majority of the 2 minute and 36 second-long video filmed by Mr Sharif and Ms Batool consists of allegations that the Pakistan police are harassing the couple's extended family, illegally detaining them and raiding their homes.\n\nSara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nMs Batool states that the reason the family are in hiding is because they fear that the Pakistan police will torture and kill them.\n\nIn response Jhelum police chief Mehmood Bajwa told the BBC the allegations of harassment and torture of family members are false.\n\nHe said if the family had any fears from the police they could go to court to seek protection.\n\nThe Pakistan police previously said in court that they have detained some family members for questioning - although they say they were not arrested - and told the BBC that they conducted some raids.\n\nThis week they denied in court that they are currently holding certain family members and have told the BBC that they have not tortured or stolen items from the family.\n\nDetectives launched an international search after Sara's body was discovered by police at an address in Woking, on 10 August.\n\nHer father, his partner and his brother, had travelled to Pakistan the previous day.\n\nSara had been living at the Surrey property with her father, her father's partner, her uncle and five brothers and sisters.\n\nIn the interview on Polish television, Olga Sharif said she had separated from Urfan Sharif in 2015. Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the family court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights.\n\nPolice said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan, leading them to find Sara's body, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan police say they did not receive a request, via Interpol, to initiate a search for the three until 15 August. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.\n\nPakistan police believe the trio landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August.\n\nThey believe they travelled to the city of Jhelum and relatives in a small hamlet near Domeli in central Punjab. According to the police investigation the family arrived there, at the home of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law late at night on 12 August before leaving around 05:00 the following day.\n\nFrom there police say they do not know where they went.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Former Foreign Office chief Lord McDonald has revealed he told ministers and colleagues he voted to stay in the EU in the wake of Brexit.\n\nUnder the civil service code, officials are expected to uphold the fundamental principle of impartiality.\n\nLord McDonald makes the admission in a BBC documentary series, State of Chaos.\n\nHe says: \"On this solitary occasion I decided to tell my colleagues and therefore let ministers know that I voted to remain in the European Union.\"\n\nAsked why he took this unprecedented step, Lord McDonald, who was in charge at the Foreign Office from 2015-2020, says: \"I felt they would assume that in any case. So I decided to embrace it.\"\n\nThe civil service code that governs officials' behaviour states that staff are expected to provide impartial advice to ministers and not express their own political preferences.\n\nWe've lived through great political turbulence. Laura Kuenssberg asks if our political system has been stretched to breaking point. Can it ever be normal again?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer and on BBC Two at 21:00 BST\n\nLord McDonald says there was a sense of \"mourning\" and staff in tears in the Foreign Office on the morning after the referendum result.\n\nBy revealing his vote, he says he was \"trying to convey a message to a group of people, most of whom I felt had voted to remain in the EU, that their personal feelings were beside the point\".\n\nHe says the board of the Foreign Office were \"not entirely comfortable\" that he had taken such a rare and unusual step.\n\nIn her first ever interview, in the same documentary, the former deputy Cabinet secretary, Helen MacNamara, says in response to Lord McDonald's decision: \"Wow… I don't know why that would be a good or helpful thing.\"\n\nLord McDonald's comments are likely to anger Conservative Brexiteers who have repeatedly accused top civil servants of dragging their feet during the process of leaving the EU.\n\nFormer Chancellor Philip Hammond denied the Treasury tried to block Brexit, but admitted that \"the Treasury was certainly trying to go for a soft Brexit and I don't think we should apologise for that at all\".\n\nElsewhere in the first episode of a three part series that traces events from 2016-2022, the former Deputy Prime Minister David Lidington confirms for the first time that there were discussions about him becoming prime minister to replace Theresa May and offer a second referendum.\n\nBut he denies the plot would ever have become reality.\n\n\"Theresa was not going to go,\" he says.\n\nYou can read more about the series here and watch the first episode on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The high-stakes soap opera that led to political chaos", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland v New Zealand: Second ODI, The Ageas Bowl\n\nEngland comfortably beat New Zealand by 79 runs to level the one-day international series in a rain-affected encounter at Southampton.\n\nThe game was reduced to 34 overs per side and England slipped to 55-5 having been put in to bat.\n\nBut Liam Livingstone's unbeaten 95 from 78 balls, in a seventh-wicket stand of 112 with Sam Curran, helped them recover to 226-7.\n\nReece Topley then took 3-27 as New Zealand fell to 147 all out.\n\nSeamer Trent Boult made an immediate impact upon his return to the side, having not played an ODI for almost a year, reducing England to 8-3 as Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and Ben Stokes added just seven runs between them.\n\nJos Buttler and Moeen Ali led a brief middle-order recovery before Livingstone and Curran, who made 42, set a formidable total.\n\nEngland's bowlers started brilliantly, David Willey bowling the dynamic Finn Allen with the second ball of the Black Caps' innings.\n\nMitchell's resistance kept them in the game throughout a measured start to the chase but England kept the pressure on throughout and New Zealand lost their last six wickets for just 36 runs.\n\nThe four-match series continues at The Kia Oval on Wednesday.\n• None 'I'm a better player than someone who just slogs it'\n• None Watch highlights on BBC Two and iPlayer at 23:00 BST\n\nAs New Zealand put England in to bat in bowler-friendly conditions, Boult was ready to pounce, having missed the series opener at Cardiff on Friday.\n\nAnd it took him just seven balls to strike, removing Bairstow in his second over with some help from a leaping Mitchell Santner at cover, before pinning Root lbw two balls later and then having a frustrated Stokes caught at mid-off in the fifth over.\n\nBoult bowled beautifully, well-supported by the economical Matt Henry who dismissed Harry Brook for two, but Livingstone followed his entertaining 39-ball half-century at Cardiff with a more measured performance.\n\nEngland rejigged the batting order after the early wickets, moving Livingstone a couple of places down to seven having been originally down at five, and he played sensibly to add 48 for the sixth wicket with Moeen before capitalising late in the innings alongside Curran.\n\nCurran also showed his valuable batting ability at number eight, eventually departing for 42 from 35 balls, as New Zealand struggled to match England's depth in their line-up.\n\nMitchell and Devon Conway made sublime tons in the first ODI, meaning their middle order wasn't tested.\n\nAnd while the former batted serenely for another half-century, he was put under pressure by a lack of partners at the other end and eventually holed out off Moeen, having to try and force a stalling run-rate.\n\nEngland's bowlers struggled to create any potency on a slow Cardiff pitch but led by Topley, they fought back with an impressive all-round performance.\n\nWilley was back to his best with the swinging ball, nipping one through Allen's defences in the first over, and also had Will Young brilliantly run out from mid-off for 33.\n\nGus Atkinson took his maiden ODI wicket, having opener Conway caught and bowled for 14, before Topley followed Livingstone in further pressing his case for a spot in England's World Cup starting XI.\n\nIn the mould of Liam Plunkett, England's middle-overs specialist who played a crucial part in their 2019 triumph, Topley bowled with impressive consistency and found some extra bounce with his height to trouble the Black Caps' batters.\n\nCaptain Tom Latham edged behind for 19, Topley held on to a sharp catch in his follow-through to dismiss the aggressive Glenn Phillips for two and Rachin Ravindra was caught at slip.\n\nAfter a poor outing in the first ODI, he made the most of his chance in the second and gave positive signs for England's bowling depth as they won without their key man in Adil Rashid, who had mild tightness in his calf.\n\nThe pace of Mark Wood is also yet to feature in this series to add further variation, but Atkinson looks set to be a suitable deputy, while the left-arm seam of Willey, Curran and Topley gives Buttler an enviable amount of options.\n\n\"I am delighted,\" said Buttler. \"From the position we found ourselves in to post a score was credit to the way we wanted to play. The partnership between Livingstone and Curran was fantastic.\n\n\"We needed to find ways to get them off their lengths. It has been the hallmark of this team to play positively. We're trying to get back into an ODI mindset because guys haven't played it for a while.\n\n\"Everyone is pretty clear on the options they have in the team. Today we had good batting depth and it was vital. Livingstone and Curran are well within their rights to be batting higher up the order. We're delighted to level the series.\n\n\"Willey and Topley were impressive. We spoke about improving our powerplay bowling from the other day. We were very good throughout the innings with the ball.\"", "The government is facing pressure to take stronger action against Beijing, after a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for China.\n\nSenior Conservative MPs have called for China to be categorised as a threat, a move backed by some cabinet ministers.\n\nRishi Sunak raised concerns about interference from Beijing with China's premier while at the G20 in India.\n\nChina has rejected accusations it was spying, calling it \"malicious slander\".\n\n\"We urge the UK side to stop spreading fake information,\" Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.\n\nPolice confirmed on Saturday that two men were arrested under the Official Secrets Act in March.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in a statement: \"A man in his 30s was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire and a man in his 20s was arrested at an address in Edinburgh.\n\n\"Searches were also carried out at both the residential properties, as well as at a third address in east London.\"\n\nSources have told the BBC one of them was a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, it is understood the researcher had links to several Conservative MPs. The BBC has approached him for a response.\n\nBoth men have been released on bail, and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, is investigating.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the researcher had access to security minister Tom Tugendhat and foreign affairs committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.\n\nThe arrest of the researcher has renewed a debate among Conservative MPs about whether the UK should take a stricter approach to China.\n\nSome Tories want the government to designate Beijing as a threat - a move so far resisted by ministers.\n\nSenior Tory backbenchers, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and MP Tim Loughton, have called for the government to act.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said it was \"time for us to recognise the deepening threat that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) under (President) Xi now pose\".\n\nAnd Mr Loughton warned about \"how far the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reach into British institutions\".\n\n\"Yet again the security of Parliament has potentially been compromised, reinforcing how we cannot view the CCP as anything other than a hostile foreign threat.\"\n\nSome cabinet ministers, such as Home Secretary Suella Braverman, are understood to support a tightening of the rules too.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the UK had to be \"very careful with the language that we use\" adding that calling China a threat would \"escalate things\".\n\nShe said the UK's current position - that China presents an \"epoch-defining challenge\" - was in line with the stance taken by British allies.\n\nMr Sunak said on Sunday that he had raised \"very strong concerns\" about any interference in British democracy with China's Premier Li Qiang.\n\nBut he also said the UK should not be \"carping from the side-lines\" and it was better to be in the room raising concerns.\n\nSir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, said China's definition of intelligence work was \"far broader\" than typically understood in the UK, including attempts to influence people as well as information gathering.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the UK had to \"find ways of engaging\" with China, including co-operation in areas such as climate change.\n\nBut he said the country should probably be designated a \"state of concern\" in the UK's security laws, updated earlier this year, which would bring additional reporting requirements for China-linked organisations.\n\n\"Sometimes we need to confront China. In my experience, just being nice to them doesn't get you very far,\" he added.\n\nParliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a long-awaited report in July, warning the government had been slow to come to terms with the security risks from Beijing.\n\n\"It appears that China has a high level of intent to interfere with the UK government, targeting officials and bodies at a range of levels to influence UK political thinking and decision-making relevant to China,\" the report said.", "A judge in Pakistan has ruled Sara Sharif's siblings, who travelled from the UK with her father, should be sent to a government childcare facility.\n\nThe five children were found at the home of their grandfather in Jhelum, north-eastern Pakistan.\n\nSara, 10, was found dead at her family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August - a day after three adults, including her father, left the UK.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik left the UK with five children aged between one and 13.\n\nSurrey Police said they would like to speak to the three adults in relation to Sara's death, and were \"absolutely committed to conducting a thorough investigation\".\n\nPakistan police have so far been unable to locate them.\n\nOn Tuesday, a court ruled Sara's five siblings should be sent to a Pakistan government childcare facility temporarily.\n\nThe ruling did not state how long the children may be kept in the government facility for. It also does not determine where the children will ultimately be sent.\n\nThe children arrived at court in a police car with blacked out windows. The younger ones were carried in by family members, as they were surrounded by armed police and local media.\n\nThey appeared in the first court for around 40 minutes before a judge concluded it did not have jurisdiction to make the decision.\n\nThe siblings were then moved to another court, where the BBC was allowed to join.\n\nWhile the judge asked questions of their grandfather and his lawyer, they sat on chairs at the side, legs dangling. The eldest child comforted the youngest, pacing the court while bouncing them.\n\nAt one point the children's family brought in refreshments - cartons of juice and packets of biscuits.\n\nAll five were sent to a waiting police car before the verdict was announced.\n\nSara's grandfather Muhammad Sharif, who is Urfan Sharif's father, made no comment as he left court. He had made a request to the court for the children to stay with him.\n\nPolice took the children from Mr Sharif's house, in Jhelum, on Monday, before returning them, on the condition he would bring them to court the next day.\n\nHe had earlier told BBC News the children had been staying at his home since their arrival on 10 August.\n\n\"I told Urfan and Beinash that they can go wherever they want to, but I will not let the children go with you. Until today, no one had asked me about the children.\n\n\"They kept asking me about Urfan, Faisal and Beinash, no one asked me about the children.\"\n\nMr Sharif has repeatedly denied being in touch with his son or knowing where he is.\n\nBBC News also spoke to sisters of Urfan Sharif, who said the children were very upset when they were taken from their grandfather's home.\n\n\"The children were crying, the police were dragging them away,\" Farzana Malik said.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nEyewitnesses told the BBC that police officers raided the property just before 16:30 local time (12:30 BST) on Monday. Officers stopped traffic and prevented anyone from filming on their phones, neighbours said.\n\nMr Sharif accused the police of breaking CCTV cameras and the gates of his home.\n\nPolice confirmed they had taken the children, but Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, stepmother, Beinash Batool, and uncle, Faisal Malik, were not with them. The police said the children did not resist leaving.\n\nFlowers and pictures of Sarah outside the family home in Woking, Surrey\n\nSurrey Police said \"the safety and welfare of these five children has always been a priority for us\", adding that they were working with relevant authorities \"to determine the next steps\".\n\nSurrey County Council said its \"overriding priority\" is the welfare of the children. BBC News understands the council was working through the night to get information to the court in Pakistan.\n\nTim Oliver, leader of Surrey County Council, said they were working with authorities \"to best ensure the immediate and longer term safety and wellbeing of the children\".\n\nSara's body was found after her father made an emergency call from Pakistan, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nThe BBC also visited the family home in Woking, Surrey, on Tuesday where, more than a month after Sara's body was found, there was still a police presence.", "A UK Parliament researcher arrested under anti-espionage laws amid claims he was spying for China has said he is \"completely innocent\".\n\nIn a statement released through lawyers, the man said he felt \"forced to respond\" to accusations in the media.\n\nThe researcher was one of two men arrested in March under the Official Secrets Act.\n\nIt is understood the researcher had access to several Conservative MPs.\n\nChina has rejected the allegations of spying, with foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning calling it \"malicious slander\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has warned MPs against identifying the man - who is not being named by the BBC - using parliamentary privilege.\n\nLawyers for the researcher quoted him as saying: \"It is wrong that I should be obliged to make any form of public comment on the misreporting that has taken place.\n\n\"However, given what has been reported, it is vital that it is known that I am completely innocent.\n\n\"I have spent my career to date trying to educate others about the challenge and threats presented by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\n\"To do what has been claimed against me in extravagant news reporting would be against everything I stand for.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed on Saturday that two men were arrested under the Official Secrets Act in March.\n\nOne of the men, in his 30s, was detained in Oxfordshire, while the other, in his 20s, was arrested in Edinburgh.\n\nSources have told the BBC one of them was a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nBoth men have been released on bail, and the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, is investigating.\n\nNews of the arrests, first reported in the Sunday Times, came as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was due to meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday during a G20 summit in India.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said he used the meeting to convey \"his significant concerns about Chinese interference the UK's parliamentary democracy\".\n\nThe newspaper said the researcher had access to Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe arrest of the researcher has renewed a debate among Conservative MPs about whether the UK should take a stricter approach to China.\n\nSenior Tory backbenchers, including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and MP Tim Loughton, have called for the government to officially designate China as a threat to the UK - a move so far resisted by ministers.\n\nSome want China to be classed in the \"enhanced tier\" in the UK's security laws, updated earlier this year, bringing additional reporting requirements for China-linked organisations.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, deputy PM Oliver Dowden said there was a \"strong case to be made\" for this, but the government was \"currently reviewing\" which countries to add.\n\nAsked by Labour to confirm when the government first raised the arrest with China, deputy PM Oliver Dowden said that Mr Sunak \"regularly\" raises interference in democratic institutions with China.\n\nHe told MPs it would not be the case that \"specific cases\" under police investigation would be raised.\n\nHe added that ministers were \"clear eyed\" about the challenges posed by China, but added it was not realistic to \"completely disengage\" with the country.\n\nThe SNP's Kirsty Blackman said there should be a review into why all MPs weren't told until news of the arrests became public.\n\nDefending the approach taken by the Commons authorities, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said it would have been \"wrong\" to brief all MPs, adding that those who \"needed to be told were told\".\n\nChina is the UK's fourth largest trading partner, and British ministers regularly highlight the need to work with the country on big international issues such as tackling climate change.\n\nBut relations have soured in recent years over a series of issues, including threats to civil liberties in the former British colony of Hong Kong and China's support for Russia during the war in Ukraine.", "Earlier today Kim Jong Un disembarked his train in Russia and was greeted in the Primorsky region Image caption: Earlier today Kim Jong Un disembarked his train in Russia and was greeted in the Primorsky region\n\nAs Kim Jong Un's train makes its way across eastern Russia, we're pausing this page.\n\nBut we will be back as soon as we know he's about to meet Putin and will bring you the latest updates here.\n\nThis page was written in London by me, Ali Abbas Ahmadi and Jacqueline Howard with Rob Corp and Paul Gribben.", "Kim Jong Un waves from his private train before leaving on a trip to the Russian far east.\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has crossed the border into Russia for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThey are likely to discuss an arms deal as Russia faces a Ukrainian counter offensive, a US official said.\n\nIt is now moving towards Vladivostok, where Russia is hosting the Eastern Economic Forum.\n\nThat journey is expected to take another five to six hours.\n\nThe meeting between the two leaders could take place as early as Tuesday local time - although the statement from the Kremlin said it would happen in \"coming days.\"\n\nPhotos shared by state media showed Mr Kim waving from his armoured train before departing Pyongyang.\n\nHigh on the meeting's agenda is the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine, a US official earlier told CBS, the BBC's partner in the US.\n\nMr Kim's last trip abroad was also to Vladivostok in 2019 for a summit with Mr Putin after the collapse of North Korea's nuclear disarmament talks with then US President Donald Trump.\n\nHis train is rumoured to include at least 20 bulletproof cars, making it heavier than average trains. It's weight also means the train is very slow - it can only travel at around 59 km/h (37mph).\n\nThe White House has said it has new information that arms negotiations between the Russia and North Korea are \"actively advancing\".\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby earlier said Russia's Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, had tried to \"convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition\" to Russia during a recent visit to North Korea.\n\nRussia and North Korea each have things that the other country wants, said Ankit Panda from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.\n\n\"What'll matter now is if both sides can find suitable prices they're willing to pay for the other's assistance,\" he told the BBC.\n\nRussia will likely ask North Korea for conventional arms, including artillery shells and rocket artillery munitions in exchange for food and raw materials, and continuing support at international forums like the United Nations, he said.\n\n\"This could open up the possibility of North Korea transferring more sophisticated weaponry to Russia to allow Moscow to maintain and backfill its own stocks of conventional weapons,\" he said.\n\nIt is thought that Russia might need 122mm and 152mm shells because its stocks are running low, but it is not easy to determine North Korea's full artillery inventory, given its secretive nature.\n\nWeapons on display at the meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Shoigu in July included the Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be the country's first ICBM to use solid propellants.\n\nIt was the first time Mr Kim had opened the country's doors to foreign guests since the Covid pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2019: Putin and Kim toast at the summit in Vladivostok", "The Aequorea victoria is more commonly referred to as the \"crystal jelly\", according to Cornwall Wildlife Trust\n\nA type of jellyfish that is rarely seen in UK waters has been spotted off the coast of Cornwall.\n\nExperts said there had been a \"massive influx\" of the Aequorea victoria, more commonly referred to as the \"crystal jelly\".\n\nThe species, seen at Cadgwith, on the Lizard Peninsula in west Cornwall, is more commonly found in Mediterranean waters.\n\nIn August there were also sightings around Alderney and Guernsey.\n\nExperts said the sightings were an \"indicator of warmer seas\".\n\nThe crystal jellies were spotted in water at Cadgwith\n\nMatt Slater, from Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said although they had stinging cells the animals were not powerful enough to harm humans.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Cornwall, Mr Slater said: \"For some reason, this year, we've had a massive influx all along the south coast.\n\n\"I was actually diving last week off the Lizard and there was a huge number of them and they were accumulating in the bays and forming almost a ceiling above us as we were diving underwater.\"\n\nMr Slater said it was \"boom or bust\" with this type of species.\n\nHe said: \"There's either not many or there's loads. This is because of their life cycle.\n\n\"They reproduce very rapidly and produce thousands of tiny larvae.\n\n\"In some years all of them will perish but in other years, when the conditions are different, they may all survive.\n\n\"That's why you sometimes get all or nothing.\"\n\nCornwall Wildlife Trust said the Aequorea victoria feed on plankton including marine plants and animal plankton.\n\nScientists at Plymouth's Marine Biological Association working on the 'Darwin Tree of Life Project' have taken samples for DNA analysis to work out exactly which species is being recorded.\n\nThere are several species within the family Aequorea and the association said DNA analysis was the only way to accurately tell which species it was.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mount Taranaki has a reputation as one of the deadliest mountains in New Zealand\n\nA climber in New Zealand \"miraculously\" survived a fall of 600m (1,968ft) with only minor injuries after tumbling down the side of a mountain.\n\nPolice said the man fell from Mount Taranaki on the North Island and was saved by spring weather which softened the ice and meant he landed in snow.\n\nThe police said the climber is \"exceptionally lucky to be alive\".\n\nThe distance he fell equals the Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's tallest buildings.\n\nIt is also nearly twice the height of the Shard in London which stretches 309m into the sky.\n\nThe climber was part of a group scaling Mount Taranaki when he fell from the summit about midday local time (midnight GMT) on Saturday 9 September.\n\n\"Having watched their fellow climber slide down the mountain and out of view, another member of the group climbed down to try and locate them,\" said the police.\n\nA member of the Taranaki Alpine Rescue also happened to be climbing that day and helped locate the fallen man.\n\nThe distance the climber fell was nearly twice the height of the Shard building in London\n\nMount Taranaki has a reputation as one of the deadliest mountains in New Zealand, according to the country's Mountain Safety Council.\n\nIn 2021, two mountaineers fell to their deaths from the same spot from which the climber plunged at the weekend.\n\nTaranaki is a dormant volcano which sits in relative isolation on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.\n\nThe Mountain Safety Council said: \"Its isolation from other mountains, proximity to the coastline, and geographic position make for some of the most fast-changing and adverse weather conditions found anywhere in New Zealand.\n\n\"The weather, combined with the complex and rough terrain, creates a highly unique environment. One mistake can be disastrous.\"\n\nWhile undoubtedly rare, other people have survived big falls relatively unscathed, though perhaps not as steep as the climber in New Zealand.\n\nAdam Potter tumbled 300m down Sgurr Choinnich Mor in Scotland. During the drop in 2011, he fell over three cliffs. Although battered, Mr Potter was able to stand up once he stopped sliding.\n\nAnother mountaineer survived a 400m drop in Canada when they plunged down the side of Mount Lefroy. The mountain in the west of the country measures 3,423m at its peak.", "The Cononish mine has been in development since 2007\n\nThe owner of Scotland's only gold mine has issued a warning about its future and suspended trading in its shares.\n\nScotgold Resources says it needs to raise significant funds to allow the company to continue as a going concern.\n\nThe firm reviewed its operations in July following \"disappointing\" production figures for the first half of the year.\n\nIt said at the time the third-party review would \"recalibrate\" its mine plan at Cononish, near Tyndrum.\n\nProduction was hit in the first quarter of this year after a key development was halted.\n\nOnly 758 ounces of gold were produced between January and March, although gold concentrate production steadily increased in the second quarter to reach 1,556 ounces.\n\nThe company said 1,033 ounces of gold were produced in July.\n\nScotgold chief executive Phil Day informed the company in June that he was stepping down in order to spend more time with his family in Australia.\n\nIn a new statement, Scotgold Resources said: \"The company is actively seeking additional financing and discussions are in an advanced stage and, should they materialise, are expected to provide sufficient funding for the company to continue as a going concern.\n\n\"The outcome of the funding discussions is highly uncertain and if the company cannot conclude a significant fundraise, it will cast material uncertainty for the company to continue as a going concern.\"\n\nIt's been a rollercoaster year for the Cononish mine.\n\nIn January, there were high hopes it was on the brink of success. After a decade of toil and setbacks, preparations were nearly complete.\n\nThe mine's chief executive, Phil Day, told me that gold extraction would increase. By the year end, the company aimed to be bringing out millions of pounds worth of gold each month.\n\nAnd in future? New gold mines in the Highlands, perhaps. \"The name of the game is to grow, grow, grow,\" he said.\n\nThat was the plan, the goal, the dream.\n\nProduction hadn't gone to plan. Results from the first half of the year were disappointing and a review of production was ordered.\n\nNow trading in shares has been suspended.\n\nBy any standards, this is a reversal of fortune. And a reminder, maybe, of how much is uncertain when it comes to gold.", "Sunday has become the seventh day in a row for temperatures to exceed 30C (86F), as the unprecedented September heatwave goes on.\n\nIt comes as Saturday was provisionally named the hottest day of the year so far, with 32.7C recorded in Heathrow.\n\nBut the heat will largely be centred on southern England, with many parts of the UK soon facing thundery downpours.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning for thunderstorms is in place from 14:00 BST to 23:59 on Sunday.\n\nThe alert applies to most of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England and Wales, and parts of southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 50mm (2in) of rain could fall in under two hours and \"large hail and lightning are likely additional hazards\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe warning means some people could also be in store for flash flooding and strong winds - with possible interruptions to road access and public transport.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Sarah Keith-Lucas said Sunday would be another very hot day, especially in the south, with temperatures of 32C possible.\n\nFurther north there is a chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms later in the day, but southern and eastern parts should stay dry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, an amber heat-health warning issued by the UK Health Security Agency was in effect for nearly every area of England until 21:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe amber alert remains in place for the south and east of England, and London, until 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThis indicates the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nAnd despite another sweltering day for some, the record-breaking September heatwave is expected to give way through the early parts of next week, as cooler air reaches all areas of the UK.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIf you have you been affected by the hot weather, you can share your tips and experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered devastating flooding in Libya.\n\nThe leader of the east Libyan government, which is not recognised internationally, said deaths exceeded 2,000 and thousands were missing.\n\nJalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist, told the BBC the death toll could reach as many as \"several thousand\" people.\n\nStorm Daniel made landfall on Sunday, prompting authorities to declare a state of extreme emergency.\n\nSeven Libyan army personnel went missing during ongoing rescue efforts.\n\nOfficials in the east imposed a curfew, while schools and shops were ordered to close.\n\nThe eastern cities of Benghazi, Sousse, Derna and Al-Marj were all affected.\n\nAs well as the rising death toll, the Libyan Red Cross said that at least 150 homes had been destroyed.\n\nThe head of the Red Crescent humanitarian network said at least 150 deaths had occurred in Derna alone, according to news agency Reuters.\n\nTwo dams in Derna - home to approximately 100,000 people - reportedly collapsed, submerging much of the area and drowning some residents.\n\nEastern Prime Minister Osama Hamad told a Libyan television channel: \"The missing are in the thousands, and the dead exceed 2,000... entire neighbourhoods in Derna have disappeared, along with their residents ... swept away by water.\"\n\nThe eastern region of Misrata was among those hit by heavy rains\n\nMr Hamad did not give a source for his figures.\n\nAlongside areas in the east, the western city of Misrata was among those hit by the floods.\n\nUnverified videos of the storm have been circulating online, including a clip showing torrents of floodwater sweeping a man away. Other footage shows drivers trapped on their car roofs.\n\nAlongside schools and shops, four major oil ports closed because of the storm.\n\nWhile the Benghazi-based administration has been dealing with matters in the east of the country, the rival, internationally recognised government in the capital, Tripoli, has also been involved.\n\nIts Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Dbeiba, said on Sunday that he had directed all state agencies to \"immediately deal\" with the damage and floods, while the United Nations in Libya said it was following the storm closely and would \"provide urgent relief assistance in support of response efforts at local and national levels\".\n\nLibya has been divided between two rival administrations since 2014, following the killing of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.\n\nBoth governments declared three days of mourning after Storm Daniel swept in.\n\nLast week, it struck Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, killing more than a dozen people.\n\nEgypt was on Monday bracing itself for Storm Daniel and in the evening, the nation's meteorological organisation said rainclouds had multiplied over the northwestern coast.\n\nClimate scientists have warned that global warming means more water evaporating during the summer, leading to more intense storms.\n\nAre you in Derna, Libya? Are you affected by the flooding? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Selling pick 'n' mix, stationery and even garden tools: Wilko has styled itself as a budget UK homeware chain for more than 90 years.\n\nWith 400 stores across the UK, the chain is well-known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nBut in early August, the High Street stalwart collapsed into administration and put 12,500 jobs at risk.\n\nDiscount chain B&M said in September that it would take on up to 51 of Wilko's 400 stores in a deal worth £13m. And the owner of Poundland has agreed to take on the leases of 71 Wilko shops.\n\nThere had been hope that a further 300 stores could be rescued by the billionaire owner of HMV, Doug Putman. But the failure of his bid means the Wilko name will disappear from the High Street in the next few weeks.\n\nThe business was founded in 1930 when JK Wilkinson opened his first store in Leicester. It expanded across the Midlands initially and by the 1990s became one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers.\n\nIn 2012, Wilkinson began rebranding its stores as Wilko, and by 2014, most stores had emblazoned the new name on storefronts.\n\nWhen we first heard the chain was struggling, we spoke to Wilko customers in stores and on social media.\n\nJames, a construction professional, remembered the first Wilko store in Leeds: \"My dad loved it - a brilliant location at the Arndale Centre in Headingley. It sold such a wide range of things.\"\n\nBut Stephen from North Tyneside said it didn't have everything he wanted.\n\n\"We only go in for specific items. It's good for washing up powder. It's not what it was, I don't think,\" he said.\n\nWilko stepped into the High Street gap left by the collapse of Woolworths in late 2008, but has struggled over the past decade partly due to growing competition from the likes of Poundland and B&M.\n\nWilko's sales were larger than B&M's a decade ago, but recently its sales had also fallen below Poundland, Home Bargains and The Range.\n\nSome analysts have pointed out that rivals seem to offer similar goods at lower prices - which made Wilko's business less appealing for potential suitors.\n\nShoppers had also noticed gaps on shelves after Wilko struggled to pay suppliers and at least one credit insurer withdrew trade cover, prompting some companies to pause deliveries.\n\nRichard Lim, boss of the Retail Economics consultancy, said the level of investment needed to get the retailer back on its feet and regain the trust of their suppliers was \"a significant stumbling point\".\n\n\"While some of the stores have been acquired, the core business needs emergency surgery and the acquisition risks appear too high for most,\" he told the BBC.\n\nWhen Wilko fell into administration it had 408 stores across the UK, many of them in High Street locations in traditional town centres.\n\nWhile these locations are convenient for shoppers without cars, since the pandemic there's been a shift to bigger retail parks and out-of-town options with more space.\n\n\"The purchase of 51 Wilko stores by B&M may have left the remainder of the estate less attractive for any purchaser,\" said Charles Allen, retail analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.\n\n\"It seems likely that poor, or outdated locations, were one reason for Wilko's demise, so if some of the better ones were no longer available, a deal to rescue the remainder may have become more difficult.\"\n\nRichard Lim said Wilko's focus on the High Street had not helped it keep up with its rivals.\n\n\"B&M and Home Bargains have really invested in their stores and since the lockdowns in the UK, customers are really after that shopping experience.\n\n\"Wilko also struggled to join up their online and in-store operations,\" he added.\n\nRetail analyst Catherine Shuttleworth said Wilko's problems were a result of bad decision-making by the owners.\n\n\"There were simply too many stores in the Wilko estate,\" she said.\n\n\"A cut to 250 stores would have been a sensible move by the owners of the business - tough decisions were needed but they simply weren't made.\n\n\"As the market became more competitive post-Covid and the shopper changed their shopping habits permanently, Wilko failed to act and this ultimately led to the position they are in today.\"\n\nBut nevertheless, many customers told the BBC they would be upset if their local Wilko closed.\n\n\"It's a bit like the old Woolworths,\" one said. \"It would be a huge loss - not everyone likes online shopping.\"\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLuis Rubiales has resigned as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup final presentation ceremony.\n\nHermoso, 33, said the kiss after Spain beat England was not consensual and she filed a legal complaint last Tuesday.\n\nRubiales said he had submitted his resignation to federation acting president Pedro Rocha in a statement.\n\n\"I cannot continue my work,\" he told Piers Morgan on his television show.\n\nThe 46-year-old has also resigned from his position as vice-president of Uefa's executive committee.\n\nThe fallout from the kiss has engulfed Spanish football in recent weeks and overshadowed Spain's World Cup win, with Rubiales ignoring repeated calls to resign.\n\nOn Friday, a prosecutor filed a complaint with Spain's high court - following Hermoso's testimony on Tuesday - against Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion.\n\nRubiales claimed the kiss was \"mutual\" and \"consensual\" but had been provisionally suspended by football's world governing body Fifa.\n\n\"After the quick suspension carried out by Fifa, plus the rest of open proceedings against me, it is evident that I will not be able to return to my position,\" Rubiales' statement read.\n\n\"Insisting on waiting and holding on is not going to contribute to anything positive, neither to the federation nor to Spanish football.\"\n\nRubiales said he hoped his departure would boost Spain's joint bid with Morocco and Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup.\n\nHe added: \"I have faith in the truth and I will do everything in my power to prevail.\n\n\"My daughters, my family and the people who love me have suffered the effects of excessive persecution, as well as many falsehoods, but it is also true that on the street, more and more every day, the truth is prevailing.\"\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, said they would not play for the national team again while Rubiales was in his position.\n\nWorld Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - was sacked on 5 September amid the scandal, with Montse Tome named as his successor.\n\nPoliticians, footballers and celebrities have spoken out against Rubiales, while protesters gathered at the federation's headquarters last month to demand his resignation.\n\nSpain's acting Labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, posted on X (formerly Twitter): \"The feminist country is advancing faster and faster.\n\n\"The transformation and improvement of our lives is inevitable. We are with you, Jenni, and with all women.\"\n\nAsked by Morgan whether something in particular finally led him to resign, Rubiales said he spoke to his family and listened to the advice of friends.\n\n\"My father, my daughters, I spoke with them - they know it's not a question about me - and some friends very close to me said to me 'Luis, you need to focus on your dignity and to continue your life because if not, you are going to damage people you love and the sport you love',\" Rubiales said.\n\n\"This was a question of not only me. An attitude towards me can affect third parties [that are] very important. It was the intelligent thing that I had to do.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Hermoso received a warm welcome from supporters and team-mates of her domestic club, Pachuca, before their 2-1 win against Pumas in the Liga MX women's league in Mexico.\n\nThe 33-year-old unveiled a mural on the walls of the Hidalgo Stadium celebrating her achievements with Spain in the Women's World Cup, and was also given a framed jersey with her number 10 on it.\n\nHermoso's complaint was one of sexual assault but Marta Durantez Gil has also added an allegation of coercion when filing to the high court after the forward told the prosecutor her relatives had been pressured by Rubiales and his \"professional entourage\" to say she \"justified and approved what happened\".\n\nIt is now up to the court to present formal charges against Rubiales.\n\nPrior to the kiss, Rubiales had been seen grabbing his crotch in the proximity of Queen Letizia and her daughter while celebrating Spain's 1-0 win over England in Sydney.\n\nA high court judge will now assess the complaint and decide whether to accept or archive the request. If accepted, a magistrate will be assigned to lead an investigation, which will conclude either with a recommendation for the case to go to trial or be dismissed.\n\nThe charge of sexual assault under Spanish law can carry a punishment ranging from a fine to four years in prison.\n\n\"The high court often tackles crimes with an international dimension, such as terrorism or organised crime. It is involved in this case because the alleged assault by Mr Rubiales took place in Australia,\" BBC Madrid correspondent Guy Hedgecoe explained.\n\nSpanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation on 28 August, looking into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault.\n\nAt the time, Spain's top criminal court said it was opening its investigation in light of the \"unequivocal nature\" of 33-year-old Hermoso's statements, saying it was necessary \"to determine their legal significance\".\n\nEarlier this month, Spain's national sports tribunal (TAD) opened a misconduct case against him, ruling he had committed a \"serious offence\" by kissing Hermoso.\n\nHowever, the TAD stopped short of the \"very serious offence\" the government had requested, that would have led to his suspension.\n\nFrom kiss to resignation - the timeline\n\n20 August - During the ceremony following the World Cup final, Spain forward Jenni Hermoso is first embraced then kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales.\n\nHermoso later reacts to the kiss during a live stream and says she \"did not enjoy\" it.\n\n21 August - Rubiales issues an apology saying he is \"sorry for those who were offended\" after being fiercely criticised by other footballers, the media and even by the Spanish prime minister, some of whom called on him to step down.\n\n25 August - A defiant Rubiales insists at a Spanish FA emergency meeting that he will not resign, and calls the kiss \"consensual\".\n\n25 August - The Spanish government says it is beginning legal proceedings seeking to suspend Rubiales, with the Spanish secretary of sport saying he \"wants this to be Spanish football's MeToo moment\".\n\n25 August - Later that day, Hermoso releases a statement on Instagram rebuffing Rubiales' claims, saying that \"at no time... was his kiss ever consensual\".\n\n25 August - 81 Spanish players - including all 23 who went to the Women's World Cup - announce they will not play for Spain's women's team until Rubiales is removed from his position.\n\n26 August - The Spanish football federation says it will take legal action over \"each falsehood that is spread\".\n\n26 August - Fifa announces it is provisionally suspending Rubiales pending the outcome of its disciplinary proceedings.\n\n26 August - World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda criticises Rubiales while his entire coaching staff resigns in protest against the federation president.\n\n27 August - The federation's delegate for sexual violence protocol confirms an internal investigation into events is under way.\n\n28 August - Rubiales' mother goes on hunger strike in a church in his hometown of Motril, while regional heads of Spanish football demand Rubiales' resignation.\n\n30 August - Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin describes Rubiales' behaviour as \"inappropriate\" - but calls for Fifa's investigation to be allowed to run its course.\n\n31 August - England manager Sarina Wiegman says the crisis surrounding Spanish football \"really hurts\" and shows there is still a \"long way to go\" in the women's game and society.\n\n5 September - Vilda is sacked as Spain head coach, 16 days after leading the team to World Cup victory.\n\n8 September - Spain's national prosecutor's office files a complaint to the high court from Hermoso about Rubiales.\n• None They argue, they bicker, but most of all, they love each other!: Meet The Royle Family on BBC iPlayer now\n• None Stephen Nolan goes in to find out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video: Inside Moroccan village with a population nearly halved by earthquake\n\nThe first resident of Tafeghaghte we met offered a blunt assessment of the devastation caused by Morocco's earthquake.\n\n\"People in this village are either in hospital or dead,\" they said.\n\nAs we clambered up to the top of the rubble we understood how no one could have escaped unscathed.\n\nThe bricks and stones of their traditional houses were no match for the size of this quake.\n\nNinety of the 200 residents here are confirmed dead and many more are missing.\n\n\"They didn't have the chance to get away. They didn't have time to save themselves,\" says Hassan, who's also made his way up the rubble.\n\nHassan says that his uncle is still buried beneath the rubble. There is no hope he will be dug out.\n\nNo one here has the machinery to do it and outside expertise has not arrived.\n\n\"Allah brought this and we thank Allah for everything. But now we need the help of our government. They are late, very late in coming to help people,\" he says.\n\nHassan adds that the Moroccan authorities should accept all offers of international assistance, but fears pride may prevent that happening.\n\nOn the other side of this tiny community, we see that everyone seems to be comforting one man in particular.\n\nAbdou Rahman (L), pictured with his nephew, lost his wife and three sons in the earthquake\n\nWe discover his name is Abdou Rahman. He has lost his wife and his three boys.\n\n\"Our house was up there,\" he says pointing to the area where it once stood. It is now just part of an expanse of debris.\n\n\"You can see the white blankets and the furniture too. Everything else has gone.\"\n\nAbdou Rahman says he ran 3km (1.9 miles) home from the petrol station where he worked after the earthquake hit.\n\nHe says he instinctively began calling out for his children, his shouts joining a din of others doing the same. There was no reply for him.\n\n\"We buried them yesterday,\" he says.\n\n\"When we found them, they were all huddled together. The three boys were asleep. They went down with the earthquake.\"\n\nIn a large tent just off the winding mountain road that connects the village to the outside world, dozens of families are sitting together.\n\nThere is inconsolable crying coming from every direction.\n\nThis latest wave of grief has been prompted by the body of a 10-year-old girl, Khalifa, being pulled from the debris.\n\nThis is grief in its rawest form. One woman faints, and another slumps into her chair and wails.\n\nMorocco's tragedy is that this scene is being played out in village after village across the Atlas Mountains.\n\nTraditional communities may have been content to be separate from some of the pressures of the modern world, but now, more than ever, they need outside help. Desperately so - and as quickly as possible.\n\nOne woman lost her 10-year-old daughter, Khalifa, in the quake", "Tayeb ait Ighenbaz was forced to choose whether to save his 11-year-old son or his parents when they became trapped under rubble after Morocco's earthquake struck.\n\nThe goat herder from a tiny community in the Atlas Mountains says he is haunted by the decision he had to make.\n\nTayeb was with his wife, two children and parents on Friday night in their small stone home when it was rocked by the country's biggest earthquake in 60 years.\n\nHe leads me to his former home, which now lies in ruins.\n\nYou can still see partially inside the building and he points at the rubble, saying: \"That's where they were.\"\n\n\"It all happened so quickly. When the earthquake happened we all ran to the door. My dad was sleeping and I shouted at my mum to come, but she stayed behind to wait for him,\" he recalls.\n\nOn the other side, he could see only his wife and daughter.\n\nAs he made his way back into the fallen building, Tayeb found both his son and his parents trapped under debris. He could see his son's hand poking through the rubble.\n\nHe knew he had to act quickly, and headed in the direction of his son Adam, digging desperately through the rubble to pull him out.\n\nWhen he turned to his parents, trapped under a large slab of stone, he says it was too late.\n\n\"I had to choose between my parents and son,\" he says with tears in his eyes.\n\n\"I couldn't help my parents because the wall fell over half of their bodies. It's so sad. I saw my parents dying.\"\n\nTayeb points down at stains on his light-coloured jeans, saying this is the blood of his parents.\n\nAll of his clothes are in his house, and he has been unable to get changed since the earthquake.\n\nThe family are now living with relatives in makeshift tents close to their former home. Tayeb says all of his money was in the house and most of his goats have been killed.\n\n\"It's like being born again into a new life. No parents, no house, no food, no clothes,\" he says. \"I'm 50 years old now and I'm having to start again.\"\n\nHe can't begin to think how to move forward, but remembers the lessons that his parents taught him. \"They always said 'be patient, work hard, never give up'.\"\n\nAs we talk, his son Adam runs over, dressed in a Juventus football kit with Ronaldo's name on the back, and wraps his arms around his dad.\n\n\"My dad saved me from death,\" he says grinning up at him.\n\nJust minutes down the road towards the town of Amizmiz, another father and son stand with their arms wrapped around each other.\n\nAbdulmajid ait Jaefer says he was at home with his wife and three children when the earthquake struck and \"the floor fell through\".\n\nHis son, 12-year-old Mohamed, got out of the building, but the rest of the family were stuck.\n\nAbdulmajid says his legs were trapped under rubble, but he was pulled out by a neighbour. He then spent two hours trying to rescue his wife and one of his daughters. Both were dead when he pulled them from the debris.\n\nThe following day, his other daughter's body was also pulled from the rubble.\n\nAbdulmajid, 47, is now sleeping under tarpaulin across the road from his house.\n\nHe can see the kitchen, with the fridge still standing and clothes hanging out to dry.\n\nHe says he cannot leave the area because he needs to \"stand guard\" over his possessions, and the memories of his life there.\n\n\"That's my kitchen and my fridge. We were all in there. Now I'm just looking at it,\" he says.\n\nBefore Friday, Abdulmajid says he had \"never even dreamed about an earthquake. Even now, I can't believe it.\"\n\nAs we talk, cars stop next to us and people lean out to offer condolences. Others walking down the street stop to hug the mourning father and husband.\n\n\"There were five people in my family. Now there are two,\" he tells me sadly.\n\n\"For now, I'm thinking of only one thing: my son.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video: Inside Moroccan village with a population nearly halved by earthquake", "Terror suspect Daniel Khalife may have used bedsheets in his escape from Wandsworth prison, a court hearing has been told.\n\nThe ex-soldier, 21, attended Westminster Magistrates' Court after four days on the run last week.\n\nHe was arrested in Northolt in London on Saturday. He is accused of escaping from lawful custody.\n\nDeputy chief magistrate Tan Ikram remanded him in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 29 September.\n\nMeanwhile, Commander Dominic Murphy, the Met Police's head of Counter Terrorism Command, said the way the public had helped to find Mr Khalife was \"really quite astonishing.\" He suggested to BBC News that finding the former soldier without the public's aid would have been impossible.\n\nMr Khalife is accused of escaping on 6 September while on remand at HMP Wandsworth by strapping himself under a food delivery truck using a material which was \"made from bedsheets with clips at each end\".\n\nProsecutor Thomas Williams said that a plain-clothed police officer was told Mr Khalife had been seen on a bicycle on a canal towpath in Rowdell Road.\n\nThe officer drove to the towpath and saw the former soldier on a bike. He drew his Taser and gave Mr Khalife a warning to get off, which he did.\n\nThe court heard he had a phone, a bag containing cash and receipts which suggested he had bought clothes and food and possibly topped up a mobile phone.\n\nDaniel Khalife appeared in court flanked by two police officers\n\nMr Khalife, wearing a police-issued tracksuit, spoke to confirm his name and date of birth during the eight-minute hearing. His address was given as \"of no fixed abode\".\n\nHe was brought to court in an armoured police van accompanied by two unmarked cars.\n\nIn the dock he was flanked by two police officers and one dock officer.\n\nHis barrister Gul Nawaz Hussain KC said there was no indication of plea at this stage.\n\nMr Khalife was in Wandsworth prison awaiting trial on charges of allegedly obtaining information useful to the enemy, eliciting information about members of the armed forces contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000, and perpetrating a bomb hoax.\n\nProsecutor Mr Williams said the trial on those charges had been due to start on 13 November.\n\nThe Met's Mr Murphy compared the incident to previous counter-terrorism manhunts he had been involved in and suggested this case was \"probably the biggest\" in terms of the significance of the public's impact.\n\n\"I'm trying to find one young man, a pretty resourceful young man, who's escaped from prison in a city of more than 9 million people,\" he explained. \"There is no way to do that without the public.\n\n\"I don't think we could have done it without a public, certainly not in that time.\n\n\"It's been an incredibly impressive thing.\"", "Leaders, including Joe Biden of the US and India's Narendra Modi (front left and right), attended the summit\n\nRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has praised a joint declaration by G20 leaders in Delhi that avoids condemning Moscow for its war against Ukraine.\n\nRussia had not expected consensus and agreement on the wording was \"a step in the right direction\", said Mr Lavrov.\n\nThe closing G20 statement denounced using force for territorial gain but made no mention of Russian aggression, prompting criticism from Ukraine.\n\nThe two-day summit also inducted a new permanent member, the African Union.\n\nThe 55-member bloc joins at the invitation of hosts India, one of whose key objectives while president has been to make the G20 more inclusive with greater participation of so-called Global South countries.\n\nThe world's biggest economies reached other key deals in Delhi, including one on climate and biofuels - although there was criticism of the summit's failure to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.\n\nFor the second year in a row, there was no official G20 \"family photo\". No reason was given but reports say many leaders refused to be photographed, pointing to Russia's presence at the summit.\n\nVery few had expected a joint declaration at this year's G20 - not least on the first day of the summit. The group is deeply divided over last year's invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Neither Russia's Vladimir Putin nor China's Xi Jinping turned up in Delhi, sending lower-level delegations instead.\n\nSo there was surprise when, just hours after the summit started, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced consensus had been reached on how to phrase the Ukraine section of the statement, which saw last year's direct criticism of Russia watered down.\n\nMr Lavrov told a news conference on Sunday that a \"milestone\" had been reached.\n\n\"Speaking frankly we didn't expect that. We were ready to defend our wording of the text. The Global South is no longer willing to be lectured,\" he said in answer to a question by the BBC's Yogita Limaye.\n\nThe UK and US talked up the joint statement too, but Ukraine - which took part in last year's Bali summit but was not invited this year - said it was \"nothing to be proud of\".\n\nThis was the 18th summit between the 19 member countries and the European Union\n\nIn Bali last year, most members had deplored \"in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine\". In contrast, the Delhi declaration talks about \"the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine with regard to global food and energy security\".\n\nIt calls on states to \"refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition\", which could be seen as directed at Russia, but also notes \"different views and assessments of the situation\".\n\nAnalysts say the economic balance and power dynamics is shifting within the G20, away from advanced market economies of the West to emerging giants, particularly in Asia.\n\nThere were other big moments at the summit too, including ambitious deals aimed at tackling climate change.\n\nThe G20 members announced that they have reached a 100% consensus to \"pursue and encourage efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally through existing targets and policies\". The bloc accounts for more than 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nAnd India launched a global biofuel alliance with US and Brazil to boost the use of cleaner fuels. The grouping is aimed at accelerating global efforts to meet net zero emissions targets by facilitating trade in biofuels derived from sources including plant and animal waste.\n\nLeaders paid tributes at the Gandhi memorial - the closest the group came to a \"family photo\"\n\nThere was also a multinational rail and ports deal linking the Middle East and South Asia on the sidelines of the summit. The pact is seen as a counter to China's Belt and Road push on global infrastructure.\n\nEarly on Sunday afternoon, Mr Modi closed the summit, ending months of fanfare and anticipation. He handed a ceremonial gavel to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, which is taking over the presidency.\n\n\"We are living in a world where wealth is more concentrated, in which millions of human beings still go hungry, where sustainable development is always threatened, in which global governance institutions still reflect the reality of middle of the last century,\" he said.\n\nMonsoon downpours had dampened some planned events earlier in the day - leaders walked in the rain to pay respects to India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi at the site of his cremation. A tree planting ceremony was downgraded to a symbolic exchange of saplings between G20 presidents past, present and future.\n\nMr Modi's government has put on an extravagant show from start to finish, with delegates being treated to cultural performances, a gala dinner party and the very best of Indian hospitality.\n\nBut it also stirred up a few controversies, especially after Mr Modi's placard as he opened the summit referred to India as \"Bharat\" (which means India in Hindi), sparking speculation of a possible change of name for the country.\n\nMr Modi and his ministers, however, called the event a huge success and said that India's G20 presidency had proven its abilities as a global leader.\n\n\"We have sought to make this G20 as inclusive as possible,\" Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said.\n\nFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India had managed to ensure that differences over issues do not overshadow core developmental concerns of the global community.\n\n\"India's G20 Presidency has walked the talk successfully,\" she said.", "A Westminster committee has backed calls for drug consumption rooms to be trialled in Scotland\n\nScotland's chief law officer has said it would not be in the public interest to prosecute users of drug consumption rooms for simple possession offences.\n\nThe move could help pave the way for such facilities to be established despite opposition from Westminster.\n\nDrugs law is reserved to the UK government but Scotland has some leeway in setting its own prosecution rules.\n\nLord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC said she would be prepared to publish such a policy, if she was asked to do so.\n\nIn a statement she added: \"It does not amount to an exclusion zone whereby a range of criminality is tolerated.\"\n\nScotland continues to have the worst drug death rate in the UK and the rest of Europe, although the latest figures showed some progress.\n\nDrug consumption rooms - facilities where people can inject drugs under supervision - have been advocated by campaigners as a harm reduction measure as part of a wider strategy.\n\nAccording to studies, they can reduce overdose deaths, public injecting and drug-related litter, while a range of bodies and health experts - including the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - have backed previous Scottish proposals.\n\nThe Home Affairs Committee at Westminster recently recommended that the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) be amended to allow a pilot project to run in Scotland.\n\nBut the call was swiftly rejected by the Home Office.\n\nOn Monday a spokeswoman said: \"There is no safe way to take illegal drugs, which devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities and we have no plans to consider this.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said he did not believe drug consumption rooms were the answer, but said he was happy for a range of options to be looked at.\n\nHe said: \"We still have significant reservations about the effectiveness of consumption rooms, but the SNP now have no excuses not to take this action that they have been demanding for so long.\"\n\nMr Ross, who is promoting a Right to Recovery Bill at Holyrood which focuses on access to treatment, said Scotland's drug-death rate remained a \"national emergency\".\n\nPeter Krykant converted an old van into a \"safe space\" for users to take their own drugs\n\nAn unofficial pilot of a drugs consumption room in Glasgow has already taken place.\n\nFrustrated by delays and deadlock, campaigner Peter Krykant set up his own facility in the back of a van in September 2020.\n\nEvery Friday he would park up in Glasgow city centre, offering drug users a well-lit space where they could inject with sterile equipment and safe syringe disposal facilities.\n\nThe van was also equipped with naloxone, a drug that could reverse an overdose and a defibrillator.\n\nInitially police took a relaxed approach - but after two months he was arrested, accused of obstructing officers who wanted to conduct a search.\n\nThe case never came to court because the Crown dropped the charges, and the van continued to operate for a full year.\n\nAn academic study later concluded that 894 supervised injections had taken place and there had been nine successful interventions involving an overdose.\n\nPeter Krykant later told the BBC how various pressures contributed to his own relapse into Class A drug use after 11 years of being free from the habit.\n\nHe also spoke of difficulties getting the help he needed in Scotland, and how a \"Good Samaritan\" paid for him to attend a treatment facility in England.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf urged the UK government to look at the \"really strong evidence base\" for piloting a safer drugs consumption facility.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland News: \"It's not a silver bullet, it's one tool that we can use to help us deal with the drugs death issues that we have here in Scotland.\"\n\nScotland's Drugs and Alcohol Policy Minister Elena Whitham said the Lord Advocate's statement removed an obstacle to establishing the first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility in the UK.\n\nThe minister has been examining plans for a pilot project developed by Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and Police Scotland, facilitated by the Scottish government.\n\nMs Whitham said those plans could now be presented for approval to the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board - which brings together council and health officials.\n\nShe added: \"While the service would still be limited to some extent, due to the reserved Misuse of Drugs Act, we are confident it would save lives.\n\n\"We know from evidence from more than 100 facilities worldwide that Safer Drug Consumption Facilities work. It is now time to see this approach piloted in Scotland.\"\n\nPolice Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Gary Ritchie said the force was committed to working in partnership to reduce the harm associated with problematic substance use and addiction.\n\nHe added: \"Our approach to any initiative aimed at tackling these harms will be to establish how best policing can support it within the confines of the law.\n\n\"It is important to note that existing legislation will not be changing and, while we may take an overall supportive policing approach, police officers will still be bound by their legal duty to uphold the law and will not be able to simply ignore acts of criminality which they see occurring.\"\n\nShortly after Dorothy Bain's appointment as Lord Advocate in 2021, she announced that people caught with Class A drugs such as heroin for personal use in Scotland could be dealt with by means of a police warning rather than prosecution.\n\nLast year the number of people who died due to drug misuse in Scotland fell by 279, the lowest level for five years.\n\nFigures from National Records of Scotland show 1,051 people died of drug misuse in 2022.", "A 10-year-old boy accidentally hanged himself on a rope while playing with friends, an inquest has heard.\n\nLewi Sullivan from Rassau near Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, was with friends on 1 September when he found a rope around a tree and said he would hang himself in a \"playful manner\".\n\nThe rope was placed around his neck and the boy accidentally fell.\n\nA passer-by cut him down, but he died at the University Hospital of Wales three days later.\n\nThe cause of death was hypoxic ischemic brain injury and hypoxia hanging, the inquest heard.\n\nLewi loved rugby and motorbikes and he loved being in lorries and machines with his dad\n\nIn a tribute last week, his dad Nigel Sullivan said: \"Lewi was a fantastic, caring and loving son.\n\n\"He really was every father's dream, and we had this brilliant father-and-son bond,\" he added.\n\nLewi, who lived with his dad Nigel, step-mother Louise and his two brothers, was described as \"the best child a dad could ask for\".\n\nHis parents - including mum Falina - thanked those who tried to help their son, including paramedics from the air ambulance.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned until 14 May 2024.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice", "Russia has been using the platforms as military facilities since capturing them in 2015 (file image)\n\nUkraine says it has successfully retaken control of four gas drilling platforms in the northern Black Sea, close to the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nVideo of the operation, which Ukraine says took place last month, shows special forces removing Russian military equipment.\n\nRussia seized control of the so-called Boyko Towers in 2015, shortly after it illegally annexed Crimea.\n\nThere has been a battle for control of these strategic waters since last year.\n\nA video and statement released by Ukraine's military intelligence, entitled Battle for the Sea, offer a rare glimpse into this sphere of the conflict.\n\nIn the video, which the BBC cannot verify, rigid inflatable boats are seen speeding across the Black Sea, carrying teams of Ukrainian special forces.\n\nAt one point, the boats pass close to Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, which was captured by Russia on the first day of its full-scale invasion last year and recaptured four months later.\n\nTroops are then seen clambering onto one of the platforms and removing Russian supplies, as well as vital radar equipment.\n\n\"On the drilling platforms, the Russians set up warehouses with ammunition and fuel for helicopters,\" the video commentary says.\n\n\"They also placed radar stations on the towers with the help of which they monitored the situation in the entire Black Sea.\"\n\nThe radar in question, a Neva-B, was acting as a repeater, expanding Russia's field of vision in the vital waters between Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nAt one point, the video appears to show frantic efforts by Ukrainian troops to defend themselves against a Russian Su-30 fighter jet, circling overhead.\n\nThere are celebrations as a shoulder-held anti-aircraft missile is launched, causing the jet to retreat.\n\nThere's no obvious evidence of any further combat, but a spokesman for military intelligence said Russian troops on one of the platforms had been killed.\n\nAccording to military intelligence, the operation was full of drama, including a 14-hour search for a soldier (\"special agent Konan\"), who fell overboard but was finally rescued after being spotted by a drone.\n\nUkraine's account of the operation cannot be independently verified, but on 27 August, Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) tweeted that there had been \"skirmishes\" around the gas platforms.\n\n\"Last week, a Russian combat jet shot at a Ukrainian military small boat operating near a platform in the north-west of the sea,\" the MoD noted, in a possible reference to the operation.\n\nIt's all part of a largely unseen battle for control of the northern Black Sea, which both sides see as vital.\n\nThe platforms commanded valuable hydrocarbon resources, the MoD said, and could be used as \"forward deployment bases, helicopter landing sites and to position long-range missile systems.\"\n\nIn recent days, Russia has more than once claimed to have intercepted small boats carrying Ukrainian troops off the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nLast year, control of Snake Island and the Boyko platforms - named after Ukraine's former minister of energy - was all seen as part of Russia's threat to Ukraine's Black Sea ports.\n\nNow it's Russia that appears to have most to worry about, as Ukrainian drones and commandos launch raids on the northwest corner of Crimea, damaging a radar base on the Tarkhankut Peninsula and even planting a Ukrainian flag during an operation to mark Independence Day, on 24 August.\n\nSerhiy Kuzan, of the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, called the Boyko towers mission \"a daring long-distance operation.\"\n\n\"We beat the Russians because we were the first to reach the towers and remove the Russian eyes and ears,\" he said, \"before the Russians sent their aircraft to protect their equipment.\"\n\nKyiv has made no secret of its intention to reclaim the Crimean Peninsula.\n\n\"Russia also lost the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea,\" the video commentary says, \"which makes Ukraine many nautical miles closer to the return of Crimea.\"\n\nIt may be a distant prospect for now, but reducing Russia's ability to see what's going on in the northern Black Sea is seen as vital for gradually weakening Moscow's grip.", "Morocco faces a race against time to save those trapped under the rubble by Friday's earthquake, as emergency services battle to supply remote areas.\n\nVillagers continue to dig by hand and shovel to find survivors, as response teams struggle to bring in machinery.\n\nThose same tools may now be needed to prepare graves for some of the thousands killed in the quake.\n\nPeople \"have nothing left,\" a villager told the BBC. \"People are starving. Children want water. They need help.\"\n\nFriday's earthquake, the country's deadliest for more than 60 years, struck below a remote cluster of mountainous villages south of Marrakesh.\n\nThe government reported that at least 2,122 people were killed and more than 2,421 injured, many critically.\n\nThe 6.8-magnitude tremor collapsed homes, blocked roads and swayed buildings as far away as the country's northern coast.\n\nMorocco's King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning on Saturday, as the scale of the devastation became clearer.\n\nThe royal palace said civil protection units had been deployed to increase stocks in blood banks, water, food, tents and blankets.\n\nBut it conceded that some of the worst-affected areas were so remote that it was impossible to reach them in the hours after the quake - the most crucial period for many of the injured.\n\nFallen rocks partially blocked the already poorly-maintained roads into the High Atlas Mountains, where many of the worst-affected areas lie.\n\nSurvivors in remote villages have begun to bury loved ones\n\nMany buildings have been reduced to rubble in the small town of Amizmiz, in a valley in the mountains about 34 miles (55km) south of Marrakesh.\n\nThe local hospital is empty and deemed unsafe to enter. Patients are instead treated in tents in the hospital grounds - but staff are overwhelmed.\n\nA hospital official, who asked not to be named, said that around 100 bodies were brought there on Saturday.\n\n\"I was crying because there were so many dead people, especially the young children,\" he said. \"Since the earthquake I haven't slept. None of us have.\"\n\nBeyond the hospital, the streets are packed with rubble from destroyed buildings, heavy traffic and those who have lost everything to the quake.\n\nA woman wails in grief and is held by those around her.\n\nThere are more tents at the side of the roads for people who have lost their homes, but not everyone has them.\n\nDozens of people are sleeping on rugs laid on the ground in the central square.\n\nAbdelkarim Brouri, 63, is one of those whose house partially collapsed and has nothing to protect him from the elements.\n\n\"I can't go back home,\" he said, pleading for more help. \"We're helping each other. There's no help coming from outside.\"\n\n\"We used blankets to make a tent,\" said Ali Ait Youssef, another Amizmiz resident. \"The tents the government distributed are not enough.\"\n\nIn a nearby village, crude graves covered with sticks and stones marked out some of the 100 residents killed.\n\nGravediggers were preparing more as locals said they had yet to receive any official support and were left to find and bury the dead themselves.\n\nInternational efforts to aid the recovery have begun to increase in pace.\n\nThe UK said Morocco had accepted its offer to deploy emergency response teams, including rescue specialists, a medical team, search dogs and equipment.\n\nSpain and Qatar also said they received formal requests and would send search and rescue teams. A BBC reporter saw Spanish sniffer dogs in a village in the Atlas Mountains on Sunday.\n\nFrance said it \"stood ready\" to help but was awaiting a formal request from Morocco. \"The second they request this aid, it will be deployed,\" said President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThe US said it had \"search and rescue teams ready to deploy... We are also ready to release funds at the right time.\"\n\nTurkey, which suffered its own catastrophic quake in February that killed 50,000 people, made its own offer to send personnel.\n\nCaroline Holt, of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told Reuters that the next two to three days would be \"critical for finding people trapped under the rubble\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere, relatives began to bury dozens of dead in the almost-entirely-destroyed village of Tafeghaghte, 37 miles (60km) southwest of Marrakesh.\n\n\"Three of my grandchildren and their mother are dead,\" said 72-year-old Omar Benhanna. \"They're still under the debris. It wasn't so long ago that we were playing together.\"\n\nMeanwhile in Agadir city, along the southern Atlantic coast, a woman named Hakima described how she fled her village, Msouna, after losing four relatives in the \"catastrophic\" shocks.\n\nNeighbours pulled her out of the rubble, she said - but no aid had yet reached Msouna and nearby settlements.\n\n\"My family has lost their homes, their belongings - they have nothing left,\" she said. \"People are starving. Children just want water. They need help.\"\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The first Wilko shop closures will begin on Tuesday after the collapsed retail chain failed to find a buyer.\n\nStores including those in Liverpool, Cardiff, Acton and Falmouth are among 24 branches to shut, with a further 28 closing on Thursday.\n\nIt marks the beginning of the end of the Wilko brand on the High Street, with all 400 of the discount chain's shops set to close by October.\n\nAround 12,500 staff are likely to lose their jobs.\n\nWilko fell into administration in August after struggling with losses and fierce competition from other discount chains, such as Poundland and The Range.\n\nDoug Putman, the billionaire owner of music retailer HMV, had been trying to buy at least 100 Wilko shops but the deal fell through as rising costs complicated the deal.\n\nOn Monday, administrators PwC said that \"despite extensive efforts\" it had become clear that \"no significant part of the Wilko operations can be rescued\".\n\nRival B&M has agreed to buy 51 of Wilko's buildings in a £13m deal, but it is understood the stores will not be run under the Wilko brand.\n\nAnd on Tuesday the owner of Poundland agreed to take on the leases of 71 Wilko shops. The company said that Wilko staff would have priority when applying for new jobs at the Poundland shops.\n\nMeanwhile, retailers including Dunelm and Toolstation have urged Wilko employees to apply for roles at their businesses, saying they will be prioritised for vacancies.\n\nOn top of this week's store closures:\n\nIn Barking, one shopper told the BBC that she had popped into the local branch of Wilko for one last time.\n\n\"I've been coming here ever since I was a little girl,\" she said.\n\nNext door to the store, fishmonger Nadeem said he was devastated by the closure. He said the chain helped to drive shoppers to the area and was worried about the impact for his business.\n\nIn Stafford, the Wilko store saw a steady stream of customers on its final day, with some shoppers holding heavily discounted products as they left.\n\nOne customer said that local businesses had been handing out job applications to staff, saying: \"We look after our own.\"\n\nNadine Houghton, national officer at the GMB union, said: \"Wilko was far more than a brand, a retailer or the products it sold, it was the thousands of loyal team members now facing an uncertain future.\"\n\nFounded in 1930, Wilko had become one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers by the 1990s. However, more recently its large store portfolio became unsustainable, with the business owning too many shops in High Street locations at a time when out-of-city retail parks were becoming more popular with consumers.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Maureen Hinton said Wilko's store locations were part of its problems.\n\n\"Accessibility for the kind of products it was selling is very limited - it's very difficult to carry home bulky products from a High Street where you can't have access to cars and parking, which is being deterred in High Streets,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that Wilko did not organise its store portfolio as soon as soon it should have done because it had such high High Street rent costs, which was a particular problem during a time when Wilko's competitors were expanding.\n\nCoupled with a lacklustre online offering, the family-run chain faced the perfect storm, analysts say.\n\nLuke, an ex-manager at a Wilko branch in Nottingham, lost his job six weeks ago and said the loss of footfall after Covid restrictions played a big part in Wilko closures.\n\n\"We are in the 21st Century where you can order online,\" he said.\n\nAnother worker, who wished to remain anonymous, agreed that the Somerset store she worked in never recovered after the second Covid lockdown, but told the BBC that Wilko's bosses were the root of the firm's problems.\n\n\"[There was] mismanagement, greed and total incompetence at the top. It's sad, its utterly sad,\" she said. She added that the store she worked at never recovered after the second lockdown.\n\nLisa Wilkinson, who was Wilko's chairwoman until January and who is the granddaughter of the chain's founder, said \"everybody has thrown everything\" at trying to save the business.\n\nDo you work at one of the stores which will close on Tuesday? Are you affected by Wilko shop closures? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A top US diplomat has questioned the absence of China's defence minister Li Shangfu, renewing speculation of a possible corruption purge.\n\nGeneral Li has been not seen in public for about two weeks and has reportedly missed several meetings.\n\nRahm Emanuel, the US envoy to Japan, speculated on Mr Li's absence, tweeting that the \"unemployment rate\" in the Chinese government was very high.\n\nMr Li's absence follows recent axings of several top military officials.\n\nCiting sources in the US and China, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Mr Li is being removed from his post.\n\nIt also comes months after foreign minister Qin Gang disappeared from public view. Mr Qin's sudden absence and replacement in July has still not been fully explained.\n\nIn Gen Li's case too, the Chinese government has not said much. When asked about it earlier this week, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman had reportedly said she was \"not aware of the situation\".\n\nGen Li's last public appearance was three weeks ago - on 29 August - in Beijing at a security forum with African nations. It is not unusual for defence ministers to be absent from the public view for a few weeks.\n\nAn aerospace engineer who began his career at a satellite and rocket launch centre, Gen Li has had a smooth ascent through the ranks of the military and Chinese political elite.\n\nJust like Mr Qin, he is said to be a favourite of President Xi Jinping. He is also the second cabinet minister and state councillor, after Mr Qin, to have gone missing in recent months.\n\nSpeculation of a military corruption purge first began to mount online in early August when two generals in China's rocket forces, which control land-based missiles, were replaced. The president of the army's military court was also removed months after his appointment.\n\nIn tweets last week and on Friday, Mr Emanuel highlighted Gen Li's absence while referring to the disappearance of Mr Qin and the other military officials.\n\nHe also pointed out that Gen Li had been a \"no-show\" for a trip to Vietnam and a Beijing meeting with Singapore's navy chief recently, alleging that Gen Li could have been placed on house arrest.\n\nThe outspoken ambassador, who is known for his colourful tweets, compared the absence to the Agatha Christie mystery And Then There Were None and Shakespeare's Hamlet. \"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,\" Mr Emanuel tweeted on Friday.\n\nA Reuters report citing Vietnamese officials said Mr Li had abruptly pulled out of a meeting last week with Vietnamese defence leaders who were told the Chinese general had a \"health condition\".\n\nSingapore's navy chief Sean Wat had visited China and met military officials last week. The BBC has asked the Singaporean navy to confirm Mr Emanuel's allegation.\n\nMr Qin's disappearance, now coming to three months, was also chalked up to \"health conditions\" and has been widely speculated to be linked to a corruption purge as well. He has since been removed from his post.\n\nMr Qin (L) and Mr Li (R) are both seen as being favoured by President Xi Jinping\n\nChinese officials are said to rarely miss top meetings for health reasons as they regularly undergo rigorous medical tests.\n\nGen Li is not without controversy. In 2018, when he headed the equipment development arm of the military, he was sanctioned by the US government over China's purchases of Russian combat aircraft and arms.\n\nThe sanctions were thought to be a sticking point for Gen Li, who refused to meet his US counterpart Lloyd Austin at a Singapore defence summit earlier this year.\n\nObservers say that Gen Li's disappearance once again shows the opacity of Chinese political leadership, while also underscoring the shakiness of some of Mr Xi's decisions.\n\n\"High-level disappearances and possible corruption investigations are not a good look for Xi because he approved the selection of the current leadership,\" says Neil Thomas, an expert on Chinese elite politics with the Asia Society Policy Institute.\n\nBut he added that ultimately \"Xi's leadership and overall political stability do not appear under threat, as none of the cadres affected are part of his inner circle.\"\n\nAnalyst Bill Bishop noted that the Chinese military has had a \"long history of corruption\" and Mr Xi - who under China's political structure double-hats as the supreme leader of China's military - had tried to tackle it just like his predecessors.\n\nNevertheless, he noted in his latest analysis, \"it would be remarkable\" that after more than a decade of Mr Xi in power \"there is still such high-level corruption [in the military], and for the Rocket Force officers and Li Shangfu, Xi cannot blame his predecessors\".\n\nHe noted that Gen Li, Mr Qin and the rocket force leaders were all promoted by Mr Xi, and \"more purges will likely be seen as the solution\".\n\nIan Chong, a non-resident scholar with Carnegie China, also pointed out that the disappearances are happening at a time of heightened military activity near Taiwan and tensions in the South China Sea.\n\nChinese warships, including the Shandong aircraft carrier, have been gathering in the Taiwan Strait in recent days prompting concerns of another round of naval exercises.\n\nAs the military and foreign ministry are important outward-facing elements of the Chinese system, some \"would be concerned about issues of communication, escalation and crisis management\" at this point of time, Dr Chong said.\n\nMr Emanuel's tweets would be seen as unusual for a high-level US diplomat, especially one who is ambassador to a major US ally, Japan, which has a fraught relationship with China.\n\nWhile they are \"perplexing\", \"I am pretty sure he has a greenlight from the White House\" to be pointing out Gen Li's absence in this way, said Brad Glosserman, a senior adviser with the Pacific Forum research institute.\n\n\"It is possible that Mr Emanuel is trying to elicit some response from China regarding the disappearance\", Dr Chong said.", "The Metropolitan Police has apologised and agreed to pay a settlement to a man who suffered a brain injury after being hit on the head by a police baton during a protest 13 years ago.\n\nAlfie Meadows was injured during a demonstration against student tuition fees in London on 9 December 2010.\n\nHe was charged with violent disorder and faced numerous trials before being unanimously acquitted in March 2013.\n\nIn Friday's statement, the Met said Mr Meadows was \"protesting peacefully\".\n\nIt said it had apologised to him in June and settled a civil action following a claim he made in August 2020. But the force added that the officer who struck Mr Meadows has not been identified and \"held to account for their actions\".\n\nThe amount of the settlement has not been disclosed but could run to six figures, according to the PA news agency.\n\nAlfie Meadows needed more than 100 staples in his head and was left with a large scar\n\n\"It felt like a process that was never going to end,\" Mr Meadows told Channel 4 News. \"It felt like I was on trial the whole time, that I was being punished for the crime of surviving this police assault.\"\n\n\"I've just been so aware of how I've been treated and how the police have been failed to be held to account,\" he said, adding that the incident and trials that followed had a \"serious impact\" on his life and mental health.\n\n\"All of the years I've lost fighting for truth and accountability and coming up against denial, blame and attempts to criminalise me,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, a Met Police spokesman said Mr Meadows suffered \"very serious injuries\" during the 2010 demonstration, which coincided with a vote on the proposed tuition fees increase in Parliament.\n\n\"Although the situation in Parliament Square was chaotic and threatening, we acknowledge that Mr Meadows was protesting peacefully and the use of force against him was unjustified,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesperson added that between 2010 and 2019 a number of investigations had taken place, but \"none were able to identify the officer in question\".\n\n\"We sincerely regret, despite extensive CCTV and witness inquiries, the officer who struck Mr Meadows did not come forward, could not be identified and has not been held to account for their actions.\n\n\"We have apologised to Mr Meadows for this.\"\n\nHe added that since 2010 the force has introduced body-worn cameras and improved self-defence training for officers in an effort to help prevent such an incident ever occurring again.\n\nThis article has been updated to correct the year in which Mr Meadows was acquitted.", "The UK has officially banned Russia's Wagner paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, weeks after the death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nThe order was approved on Friday - making it illegal to be a member of, or to support, Wagner.\n\nThose found guilty of aiding the paramilitary could face steep fines and penalties of up to 14 years in prison.\n\nProposing the order last week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called Wagner a \"threat to global security\".\n\n\"Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals,\" Ms Braverman said.\n\n\"They are terrorists, plain and simple - and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law.\"\n\nUnder the order, it is a criminal offence to support the group. This includes arranging meetings to further its activities, expressing support for its aims and also displaying Wagner's flag or logo.\n\nThose found guilty of supporting Wagner could be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison, or face a fine.\n\nWagner will now be added to a list of 78 other proscribed organisations in the UK, including as Hamas and Boko Haram.\n\nThe Wager paramilitary group, founded in around 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, quickly became a key tool of Russian state power under President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe group has helped to support allies of Mr Putin in countries such as Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.\n\nIts troops fought on the front lines following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with the mercenaries heavily involved in the conflict in the east of the country. It was responsible for some of Russia's rare victories in cities such as Soledar and Bakhmut.\n\nBut Wagner's future was thrown into uncertainty earlier this year when Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against Russia's military leaders. He later died in a suspicious plane crash along with other Wagner figures on 23 August and was buried in St Petersburg.\n\nOn Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied that an investigation into the causes of the crash had been too slow, claiming that it was \"not a simple investigation, not a simple incident\".\n\n\"The investigation is ongoing, that is why giving some kind of commentary would be absolutely premature,\" he told reporters.\n\nSenior MPs in the UK have been calling on the government to proscribe Wagner for months.\n\nEarlier this year, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee produced a report condemning the government's \"remarkably complacent\" approach to the group and criticised its \"dismal lack of understanding of Wagner's hold beyond Europe, in particular their grip on African states\".\n\nBut the new ban could have come too late to have a real impact.\n\nLast month, experts told the BBC that rival private military companies were seeking to take over Wagner, in the absence of Prigozhin's dominating leadership.\n\nOn Thursday, Alicia Kearns - chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee - urged the government to take \"a more strategic approach towards [private military companies] operating across all conflict zones\".\n\nAnd the Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy accused the government of being too slow to act and of \"failing to keep up with changing threats to our national security\".\n\nThis legislation has, in most people's view, come much too late.\n\nAs UK government lawyers were poring over the finer legal details, in preparation for the Home Office's announcement on 5 September of the intended ban, the Kremlin was already busy dismantling Wagner's power.\n\nNever again could President Putin risk having such a well-armed paramilitary group challenge the authority of his generals.\n\nThe Wagner of today, though still potentially dangerous, is a shadow of what it was in the freewheeling days of its late leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.\n\nMost analysts now expect it to come more tightly under the control of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, and spend less time fighting and more on deniable, \"grey zone\" operations such as covert sabotage and cyber operations.\n\nBut as an extended arm of Kremlin policy in troubled parts of the world like Mali and Libya, Wagner - or whatever it may be rebranded as - still has the capacity to make money out of war, instability and alleged atrocities. To that end, banning it in Britain as a terrorist organisation has been largely welcomed.\n\nAnton Mardasov, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute's Syria Program, told the BBC that despite the loss of Prigozhin, Wagner had managed to \"maintain some autonomy for now\" in its more distant African deployments.\n\n\"Formally, it manages to survive and conduct business due to the fear of local authorities in the countries where Wagner is present for their regime and assets, so the threat of a gap and the activation of militants from the branches of Al-Qaeda and other radical groups helps Wagner,\" he said.\n\nBut in recent months Russia is said to have established dozens of new private military companies, all with varying loyalties to oligarchs, businesses and politicians.\n\nAnd Arab media has reported that Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov ordered Wagner to either withdraw from Syria, or join Russian forces operating there by the end of September.\n\n\"The situation is explosive and there are no concrete prospects for its resolution yet,\" Mr Mardasov told the BBC.", "Many women in Iran have permanently taken off their headscarf\n\nA young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun. An unmarried couple walk hand in hand. A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran's once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: \"Screw you!\"\n\nThese acts of bold rebellion - described to me by several people in Tehran over the past month - would have been almost unthinkable to Iranians this time last year. But that was before the death in the morality police's custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been accused of not wearing her hijab [veil] properly.\n\nThe mass protests that shook Iran after her death subsided after a few months in the face of a brutal crackdown, but the anger that fuelled them has not been extinguished. Women have just had to find new ways to defy the regime.\n\nA Western diplomat in Tehran estimates that across the country, an average of about 20% of women are now breaking the laws of the Islamic Republic by going out on to the streets without the veil.\n\n\"Things have changed so much since last year,\" a 20-year-old music student in Tehran, who we are calling Donya, tells me over an encrypted social media platform. She is one of the many women who now refuse to wear the veil in public. \"I still can't believe the things I now have the courage to do. We've become so much bolder and braver.\n\n\"Even though I feel scared to my bones whenever I walk past the morality police, I keep my head up and pretend I haven't seen them,\" she says. \"I wear what I like now when I go out.\" But she quickly adds that the stakes are high, and she is not reckless. \"I wouldn't wear shorts. And I always carry a headscarf in my bag in case things get serious.\"\n\nShe tells me that she knows of women who have been raped in custody, and cites reports of a woman sentenced to wash corpses as punishment for not wearing the hijab. All the women I spoke to referenced the surveillance cameras that monitor the streets to catch and fine those who flout the dress code.\n\nThe Western diplomat estimates that the proportion of women refusing to publicly wear the hijab in the ritzier neighbourhoods of north Tehran is even higher than 20%. But he stresses that the rebellion is not limited to the capital.\n\n\"It's a generational thing much more than a geographical thing… it's not just your bright educated people, it's basically any young person with a smartphone… so that's what takes you right out into the villages, and all over.\"\n\nThe diplomat describes the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death as a huge, and terminal, \"turning point\" for the regime, which has tried to control how women dress and behave for more than four decades.\n\n\"It turned [the regime] into a one-way street with a dead-end,\" he says. \"The only thing we don't know is how long the street is.\"\n\nThe uprising, led by women, was the most serious challenge to Iran's theocratic regime since the revolution of 1979. In crushing it, human rights groups say the regime killed more than 500 people. Thousands were wounded - some blinded after being shot in the face. At least 20,000 Iranians were arrested, with accounts of torture and rape in jail. And seven protesters were executed - one of them publicly hanged from a crane. As intended, this had a chilling effect.\n\nAnti-regime graffiti is scrubbed out but then reappears again, \"Donya\" says\n\nIn an apparent attempt to prevent further unrest to mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, the authorities have carried out another wave of arrests. Among those locked up are women's rights activists, journalists, singers, and relatives of people killed during the protests. Academics deemed unsupportive of the regime have also been purged from their jobs.\n\nBut extraordinary acts of quiet defiance continue every day.\n\nDonya says people in Tehran continue to deface government billboards and to write \"#Mahsa\" and \"Woman, Life, Freedom\" - the rallying cry of the protests - on walls, mostly on the subway.\n\n\"The government keeps wiping them out but the slogans keep coming back.\"\n\nShe, and the other women I spoke to, all stressed that this is not a struggle they are waging alone - with many men keen to support them.\n\n\"Some of them wear sleeveless clothes and shorts or wear make-up when they go on the streets, because these things are illegal for men to wear. Some men wear mandatory hijab on the streets to show how bizarre it looks when you force someone to wear something they do not like.\"\n\nThe morality police patrols, which were temporarily paused in the wake of the protests following Mahsa Amini's death, have been visible again in the past few weeks - though Donya says they seem to be wary of provoking direct confrontation for fear of reigniting mass demonstrations.\n\nBut the authorities have sought to impose control in other ways in the past year. They have shut down hundreds of businesses for serving unveiled women, and have been issuing fines and impounding cars driven by women not wearing the headscarf.\n\nCurrently women without the veil risk a 5,000-500,000 rial [$0.12-$11.83] fine or a prison spell of between 10 days and two months.\n\n\"Bahareh\", 32, says she's already received three text warnings on her phone from the authorities, after being captured on CCTV driving in Tehran without the veil. She says if they catch her again they might impound her car.\n\n\"Bahareh\" says she felt exhilarated the first time she took off her headscarf in public\n\nAccording to the police in one province alone - East Azerbaijan province - 439 cars had been impounded as of 11 August for hijab infringements.\n\nBahareh has also been stopped from going into the city's metro and into shopping centres. Hardest of all, she was prevented from attending celebrations at her son's school to mark the end of his first year there.\n\nBut she is also clear in her mind that there is no going back, recalling the thrill she experienced when she first took off her headscarf in public last September.\n\n\"My heart was pounding. It was so exciting. I felt like I'd broken a huge taboo.\"\n\nNow she's so used to it, she doesn't even carry one with her.\n\n\"Not wearing it is the only tool I have to show my civil disobedience, not just against the hijab but against all the laws of the dictatorship, all the suffering that Iranians have endured over the past 43 years. I will keep going for all the mothers and fathers who have to wear black in mourning for their children.\"\n\nIt's impossible to gauge exactly how many people would like to see the end of the Islamic Republic, but fury at the regime is widespread, according to film-maker Mojgan Ilanlou, who was jailed last October for four months after taking off her veil and criticising Iran's supreme leader. She was briefly detained again last month in an effort , she says, to intimidate her.\n\nMojgan at the graves of those killed in the protests\n\n\"The women of Iran have crossed the threshold of fear,\" she tells me from her home in Tehran, though she admits that the latest round of repression has been so \"horrifying\" that for 10 days last month she decided to de-activate her Instagram account - where she regularly posts pictures of herself unveiled in public.\n\n\"This is a marathon not a sprint,\" she says, likening it to the moment Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, igniting the US civil rights movement. \"Her refusal to give up her seat wasn't just about a person sitting on a chair. It's a statement telling others: 'I'm not afraid of you. Look at me. I have power.'\"\n\nAnd Ilanlou says it's working. Men's attitudes towards women are changing, even in more conservative parts of the country, she says. A social revolution is under way.\n\n\"Society won't go back to the pre-Mahsa time,\" she believes. \"In the streets, in the metro and in bazaars, men now admire women and praise their courage… Remarkably, even in some very religious cities like Qom, Mashhad and Isfahan, women no longer wear a headscarf.\"\n\nShe, like the Tehran-based diplomat, insists this is a rebellion that cuts across social classes. She describes street vendors unveiled on the metro. And she told me that she'd shared a crammed lice-infested room in Qarchak jail last year with a young impoverished woman - who became a mother at just 11 years old - who had also refused to wear her headscarf.\n\nAnd it's not just the hijab. Ilanlou says women are now making other demands, such as for equal rights in a marriage contract.\n\nFor Elahe Tavokolian - a former factory manager - and others, the sacrifice has been heavy. She misses her children, 10-year old twins, desperately.\n\nFrom the suburbs of Milan where she now lives, in borrowed spare rooms, she calls them whenever she can.\n\nAs she talks about them, tears roll down her cheek from her left eye.\n\nElahe, who had never taken part in protests before last September, was shot by Iranian security forces in Esfarayen in the north of the country.\n\nElahe now has a glass eye following an operation in Italy\n\n\"I was with the children and we'd just been buying supplies for the start of school. They were covered in my blood.\"\n\nEscaping to Turkey, she got a medical visa to travel to Italy, where surgeons removed her right eye and the bullet which had penetrated it.\n\nShe still needs another operation so that she can close the eyelid over her new glass eye.\n\nAnd she has no idea when it will be safe for her to return to Esfarayen, and see her children again.\n\n\"Whenever we speak, we always talk of our hope that we can be together again in Iran, in better days.\"\n\nFor now, those better days seem a long way away.\n\nHuman rights groups say no Iranian official has ever been held to account for Mahsa Amini's death and the ensuing crackdown.\n\nAnd the regime is not backing down - quite the reverse. A draft law currently before parliament - the so-called Hijab and Chastity Bill - would impose new punishments on women who go unveiled, including fines of 500m-1bn rials [$118-$23,667] and prison terms of up to 10 years for \"those who do not comply… in an organised way or encourage others to do so\". It's been described by UN-appointed human rights experts as a \"form of gender apartheid\".\n\nThe government has \"dug its heels in\", according to Jasmin Ramsey, deputy director of the New York-based NGO The Center for Human Rights in Iran.\n\nBut the Iranian population refuses to surrender, she says.\n\n\"Iran remains a tinderbox, ready to ignite at any moment.\"", "A view of drones during a military exercise in an undisclosed location in Iran (file image)\n\nThe UK, France and Germany are to retain sanctions on Iran in an attempt to deter Tehran from selling drones and missiles to Russia.\n\nIn 2015 Iran agreed to a nuclear deal and, under the terms, some sanctions were due be lifted next month.\n\nHowever, the European nations believe Iran breached the deal by enriching and storing uranium.\n\nIran says their move is \"illegal and provocative\" and \"clearly violated\" the terms of the nuclear deal.\n\nEuropean diplomatic sources said the decision was driven not just by a desire to prevent Iran gaining economically, but also to try to reduce the possibility of Tehran transferring ballistic missiles to Russia.\n\nTehran has already sold many drones to Moscow which have been used against Ukraine.\n\nThe UK, France and Germany said the sanctions were designed \"to maintain nuclear proliferation-related measures on Iran, as well as arms and missile embargoes\".\n\nThe European powers - known collectively as E3 - announced that they would incorporate expiring UN sanctions into their own laws.\n\nDespite the sanctions, many drones made in Iran have been used by Russia in its war against Ukraine.\n\nSeparately, the UK has announced sanctions against officials responsible for drafting and implementing Iran's mandatory hijab legislation, including the culture minister and mayor of Iran's capital Tehran.\n\nThe move comes ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini. Her killing after being arrested by morality police for allegedly breaking hijab rules kicked off a wave of protests.\n\nIran agreed to the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - eight years ago.\n\nUnder the 2015 accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. The accord bars anyone from buying, selling or transferring drones and missiles to and from Iran.\n\nThe agreement envisaged a \"transition day\" eight years later, when remaining ballistic missile and nuclear-related sanctions on Iran would be lifted.\n\nThe sanctions also included an asset freeze on a list of people and organisations believed to be helping advance the nuclear programme.\n\nCountries such as Russia and China will no longer be bound by the restrictions if they do not adopt sanctions similar to those of the UK, France and Germany before 18 October.\n\nThe E3 said the sanctions would remain in place until Tehran was \"fully compliant\" with the deal.\n\nIran said the decision \"clearly\" violated the E3's obligations under the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which calls upon Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.\n\nThe E3 said the decision was compliant with the JCPOA, as Iran had \"refused opportunities to return to the JCPOA twice\" and had \"continued to expand its programme beyond JCPOA limitations and without any credible civilian justification\".\n\nDonald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the JCPOA in 2018.", "BBC correspondent Anna Foster is on the ground in the Libyan port city of Derna, where thousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel.\n\nShe describes the scene of the disaster, where rescuers, ambulance crews and forensic teams are working fast after whole neighbourhoods were washed away.\n\nFigures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 and thousands of people are still missing.", "The two males were born on in June at Longleat Safari Park\n\nA \"special\" pair of rare red pandas have been born as part of an international breeding programme for the endangered species.\n\nThe twin males were born in the summer at Longleat Safari Park and handlers said they were developing well.\n\nKeepers said this was down to their parents, who are important to the European Endangered Species Programme due to their diverse genetics.\n\nKeeper Samantha Peeke said it was \"an incredible thing to be part of\".\n\n\"As the cubs grow, they will go on to join the endangered species breeding programme and help ensure the survival of their species,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst they are young, they spend most of their time inside one of the nest boxes in the enclosure, where [their mother] Emma feeds and cleans them.\n\nThe red panda is recognised as endangered in the wild, meaning the species faces a high risk of extinction\n\n\"Every animal birth is always special and exciting, but breeding an endangered species is an incredible thing to be part of.\"\n\nThe cubs were born in June, but the zoo has only now released details about them.\n\nAs they mature, the cubs will start to explore the outside world under the watchful eye of parents Emma and Lionel supported by expert keepers.\n\nThe red pandas are part of an important and breeding programme to protect the endangered species\n\nThe twins will be checked on throughout the day and Emma will be monitored closely whilst keepers adapt her diet and environment as needed to ensure she has everything she needs to look after them.\n\nThe cubs will also be regularly weighed to ensure their continued growth and development.\n\nLongleat said it has extensive experience of looking after and breeding red pandas, with six previous cubs having been successfully reared at the park, all of which have gone on to join breeding programmes at other collections across Europe.\n\nThe cubs' parents Emma and Lionel have played a major role in their successful development from birth\n\nThe red panda is recognised as endangered in the wild, meaning the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future due to deforestation and habitat loss, poaching and the illegal pet trade.\n\nAccording to the Wiltshire safari park, numbers are thought to be as low as 2,500 in the wild.\n\nIn addition to being part of the European Endangered Species Programme for the Red Panda, Longleat is also helping to fund habitat restoration and replanting projects in Nepal.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools face three days of strikes in September\n\nSchools across Scotland face weeks of closures and disruption after a third union rejected a new pay offer.\n\nUnite has joined Unison and the GMB in turning down the proposal from council body Cosla. All three have warned time is running out to avert strike action.\n\nParent groups have raised fears school closures will have a \"detrimental\" effect on their children.\n\nBut on Thursday Cosla said there was no more money available for pay without cuts to jobs and services.\n\nThe latest offer from the body, which represents Scotland's 32 councils, is a two-part plan which it said would give workers at least a £1,929 increase in annual salary by 1 January 2024.\n\nThe decision to reject this means three out of four schools could be closed by a programme of strikes beginning with a three-day walkout on 26, 27 and 28 September.\n\nOn Friday Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"It has taken Cosla five months to increase their offer by a measly 38 pence a week for the lowest paid council workers.\n\n\"Unite's local government representatives rightly rejected this offer. The fight for better jobs, pay and conditions in local government goes on, and if needs be by strike action. Unite will back its members all the way.\"\n\nUnison has already said Cosla has until 20 September to \"significantly improve\" the offer and prevent walkouts.\n\nGMB Scotland dismissed the latest offer as \"far too little, far too late\" to avoid the upcoming strikes.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said he had already provided Cosla with additional funding to help negotiation in the pay offer and hoped that this would be enough.\n\nCalling on both sides to continue \"meaningful discussions\", he said: \"We'll continue to do what we can to support those discussions but they are negotiations for Cosla and nobody… wants to see strike action and our schools closed.\"\n\nScottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar said the Scottish government needed to show leadership and get round the table with Cosla and the trade unions and strike a deal that is \"fair for workers and fair for those that require council services.\"\n\nThe three unions had to ballot each council area separately and this has led to a complex picture of who has the right to strike across the country.\n\nOnly six out of the 32 councils will be unaffected. These are the areas where the unions did not win a mandate.\n\nThey are Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.\n\nNo council has said what effects these strike days will have but the unions expect the actions to lead to widespread school closures.\n\nParents outside a school in Paisley spoke about the effects the industrial action could have on their childcare.\n\nPaul Lumsden says he hopes the dispute is resolved as quickly as possible\n\nPaul Lumsden said: \"It's obviously disruptive to the kids. I hope the staff get looked after and the outcome is resolved as quickly as possible.\n\n\"It means we have to get more childcare arranged. We've got childcare arrangements in place but it's not that convenient having to chop and change to ask parents and grandparents.\"\n\nZornista Koleva said: \"It will bring some difficulty for parents like me. I think if they need to fight for better conditions they need to go for it. I definitely need to change my working days.\n\n\"I have three kids so I will need to take some time off probably. I feel a bit frustrated as it feels last minute.\"\n\nZornista Koleva says she will need to take time off on strike days\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Leanne McGuire, of the Glasgow City Parents Group, said the latest strikes felt like \"history repeating itself\".\n\nIt is the fourth year of disruption following the Covid lockdowns and teacher strikes.\n\nShe told the programme: \"My concern is that we start to feel that this is the new normal in schools and it really shouldn't be.\n\n\"Pupils should be able to get through their full school year without any disruption, regardless of what that disruption is for.\"\n\nMs McGuire said there was a lot of sympathy for the striking workers and anger at Cosla, the councils and the Scottish government that the dispute had not been settled.\n\nShe added: \"When these talks come down to the wire, that's where families get really frustrated because we don't know what plans to put in place.\n\n\"That's where people start getting really frustrated about it.\"\n\nRobert Woolley, of the Highland Parent Council Partnerships, said he was worried school closures were having a detrimental effect on pupils who were forced to learn alone at home.\n\n\"I think it's detrimental to the social aspect of life being stuck behind a screen. It's not normal. You worry about the future of your children,\" he said.", "Finally in the studio - Trevor Noah receives a standing ovation as he bursts in\n\nWe all know that nightmarish feeling in the pit of our stomachs as we realise we're running late! On Friday, that played out live on air for Trevor Noah.\n\nThe South African comic was due to appear on the 947 radio station in Johannesburg for a morning chat.\n\nBut bad traffic, a confused taxi driver and angry locals left the former Daily Show host late for his interview.\n\n\"There's a bicycle fighting with a taxi driver,\" he yelled frantically down a crackly phone line to the show's hosts.\n\n\"That's not in your traffic report,\" the flustered star added, before announcing that he was \"gonna get in with some guy,\" eliciting screams of concern from the presenting team.\n\nThe 39-year-old, who quit the Daily Show in 2022 after an acclaimed seven-year run at the helm, finally burst into the studio shortly after.\n\n\"Can I just say, whoever is in this traffic, I feel you. We are together,\" he laughed while explaining the ordeal.\n\n\"The driver I'm with doesn't know where we're going,\" he recalled. \"So I jump out of the car, said I'm gonna run.\"\n\n\"While I'm running people are in the street - listening to your show - [are] hooting and shouting 'Trevor it's the other way! You're going the wrong way, Trevor!'\n\n\"Then one guy decides to stop. He doesn't just point, he stops the car. He says 'Trevor, get in.'\n\n\"Then he took me to the wrong building!\" Noah roared in exasperation.\n\nHe was finally spotted by a staff member, who took him to the studio, where Noah was greeted to cheers and applause.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by 947 This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nNoah was born in Johannesburg and made his name in the South African comedy circuit, before being named as late-night legend Jon Stewart's replacement as host of the Daily Show in 2015.\n\nHe left in 2022, saying he was \"filled with gratitude for the journey\" but that there was \"another part of my life that I want to carry on exploring\".\n\nThe programme has yet to appoint a new host, instead running with a rotating presenter, with stars including Sarah Silverman and Al Franken sitting in the chair.\n\nLast month Noah returned to South Africa, where he has started a run of 12 stand-up specials across the country.\n\nHe has also inked a high-profile deal with streaming giant Spotify to host a weekly podcast slated to premiere later this year.\n\nSpotify said the as yet unnamed series will combine Noah's \"signature humour and razor-sharp wit with his global perspective to deliver a unique take on the hottest and most captivating topics of the moment.\"", "Queen Camilla is known for being an \"Archers addict\"\n\nArdent Archers fan Queen Camilla is celebrating the 20,000th episode of BBC Radio 4 drama by raising a glass to the \"joy, tears and laughter\" it gives.\n\nCamilla said she was \"sad\" to miss a reception for the show.\n\nShe sent a message to be read out at the event in Birmingham, where the show is recorded, by Louiza Patikas who plays Helen Archer.\n\nThat character has been part of a coercive control storyline, praised by the Queen for raising awareness.\n\nCamilla's message to the show's editor, Jeremy Howe, referenced the recent return of Rob Titchener to the show, after his divorce from Helen.\n\nCamilla said: \"As one of your greatest fans, and sadly unable to join you this evening, I will be thinking of you all and raising a glass to mark over a quarter of a million minutes of Archers magic from the last 72 years.\n\n\"Thank you for bringing joy, companionship, laughter, tears, compassion and understanding to your audience across the globe.\n\n\"Here's to the next 20,000 episodes - and, let's hope, the end of Rob Titchener once and for all!\n\nCamilla and June Spencer cut an Archers-themed cake during a reception to celebrate the show's 70th anniversary in 2021\n\nThe Guardian called Rob Titchener \"the Archers' most iconic villain\", and the domestic abuse storyline encouraged many other victims to seek help.\n\nThe world's longest-running serial drama began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nIn 2021, the Queen hosted a 70th anniversary reception for the show, where she admitted to suffering \"severe withdrawal symptoms\" after recordings were disrupted during Covid.\n\nShe had a scene written for the occasion, and it was recorded as she watched, having already previously made a cameo appearance on the show.", "This is the moment police in Rio de Janeiro swooped in and rescued a puma cub being held illegally.\n\nBrazilian Federal Police believe it was to be sold on for more than $4,000. Officers are investigating who is responsible, with no arrests made yet.\n\nThe cub was sent to an animal centre in Seropédica for checks, with the aim to return it to the wild.\n\nThose responsible could face several years in prison.", "Jenna Coleman (right) described Wilderness as a \"darkly twisted thriller\"\n\nIt's the new TV thriller starring Jenna Coleman and featuring Taylor Swift on its soundtrack - here the writer behind Wilderness reveals what the new series means to her.\n\nShe spent years working as a journalist and as a police press officer.\n\nSo, if anyone knows how to write crime stories, it's author Beverley Jones.\n\nAnd now her twisty revenge thriller, Wilderness, will hit our screens on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.\n\nBut, as Bev, from Pontypridd, explains, she was just about to quit writing when one unexpected phone call changed her life completely.\n\n\"It was back in 2019 and I was sitting in my box room at home, quietly sulking and downloading application forms for jobs in PR,\" said the 48-year-old, who writes under the pen name B.E. Jones.\n\n\"I was several books in by that point and was just about to give up writing in order to go back to the nine-to-five life.\n\n\"I'd decided to take a career break from my job as a press officer for South Wales Police to try my hand at being a full-time novelist.\n\n\"But while being a published writer can earn you some money, it's not really a living wage.\n\n\"So I was preparing to semi-retire and concentrate once again on things like, you know, paying the mortgage.\"\n\nWhich is when the phone rang.\n\n\"It was my agent calling to tell me that Wilderness, the sixth of seven books I've done, was being turned into a television series - I almost burst into tears,\" said Bev, adding that it's been like a whirlwind ever since.\n\nJenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen play a married couple who go on a US road trip to mend their broken marriage\n\n\"I knew these TV adaptations can sometimes languish on the backburner for years before seeing the light of day, so I promised myself I wouldn't get too carried away.\n\n\"However, a few months later Firebird Films - the company who picked up the book - invited me to London to a chat about it, at which point they pulled out an already completed script and told me they had financial backers who were raring to go.\n\n\"I was amazed at how keen and on-the-ball they were.\"\n\nBut then Covid struck and the whole world shut down.\n\n\"That meant the original backers had to opt out, but then I found out Amazon Prime Video were coming onboard - that was a hard secret to keep, let me tell you,\" said Bev.\n\n\"Within six months a cast had been sorted and filming had begun.\"\n\nIn Wilderness, former Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman plays Olivia, a woman whose world falls apart when she discovers her husband Will (The Haunting of Bly Manor's Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has been cheating on her.\n\nDescribed by Coleman herself as a \"darkly twisted thriller\", the plot follows the couple as they then head off on a road trip around the USA, initiated by Will to help mend their broken marriage.\n\nHowever, it soon becomes apparent that Olivia has much more in mind for the holiday than simply forgiving and forgetting.\n\nAdapted for the screen by Marnie Dickens, who was previously behind the 2019 BBC series Gold Digger, Wilderness' cast also includes Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson and UK drama stalwart Clare Rushbrook, last seen on BBC Two's Inside No.9 and 2022's award-winning Sherwood.\n\nTaylor Swift fans should also take note - the mega-selling singer's re-recorded version of Look What You Made Me Do, heard for the first time over the recently launched teaser trailer for Wilderness, also plays over the show's opening credits.\n\nIt's a world away from Bev's beginnings in local journalism, sniffing out community stories and covering court cases for The Rhondda Leader newspaper.\n\nStints at The Western Mail and behind the scenes at BBC Wales' Wales Today programme would follow.\n\n\"Growing up in the Valleys in the 70s and 80s things could be tough, so I was always escaping into my own fantasy world and penning little stories,\" she added.\n\n\"Becoming a journalist much later, along with my job with the police, exposed me to the darker side of human nature and I'd report about all sorts of crime day after day - a lot of it much stranger than fiction.\n\n\"As a result my first book in 2012, Telling Stories, was about a young journalist in Cardiff who ends up investigating a case that proves to be a bit too close to home.\n\n\"Well, they do say you should write about what you know.\"\n\n\"After that I just kept plugging away, putting out book after book, all the while hoping for that elusive break-out hit - which can be a slog,\" she added.\n\nNevertheless, Wilderness would eventually prove all that toil worthwhile.\n\n\"The last couple of weeks have been crazy, but good crazy,\" admitted Bev.\n\n\"I was at Bafta's Piccadilly headquarters in the West End on Monday night for a special screening of Wilderness' first two episodes, which was great - certainly not my usual Monday night out,\" she said.\n\n\"Then later, as I was driving through London, a bus pulled up next to me with an enormous poster for Wilderness plastered on its side.\"\n\nBev learned her trade reporting for a her local newspaper and working for the police\n\nThe best part for Bev, however, is that her biggest worry about Wilderness' TV adaptation turned out exactly how she'd wanted.\n\n\"I'm over the moon that Jenna's character in the series remains Welsh - just how I wrote her,\" she said.\n\n\"As is Clare Rushbrook, who plays her mam.\n\n\"Both their accents on the show are really great, which is always a big stumbling block.\n\n\"When a non-Welsh person plays someone from Wales getting the voice right can be really difficult, and a dodgy Welsh accent can really hamstring an entire production.\n\n\"For me, it's impossible to ignore.\n\n\"In fact, I told Firebird Films that if they decided to cast someone who couldn't pull it off I'd rather the onscreen character of Olivia wasn't Welsh at all.\n\n\"So I'm really pleased with what they've done.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn official in eastern Libya has denied allegations that many of those killed in devastating floods last weekend were told to stay in their homes.\n\nOthman Abdul Jalil, a spokesperson for the Benghazi-based government, told the BBC that soldiers warned people in the city of Derna to flee.\n\nHe denied that people were told not to evacuate, but conceded some may have felt the threat was exaggerated.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC teams in Derna say aid agencies are yet to arrive at the city.\n\nWhile reporters witnessed a hive of activity in the centre of Derna - with rescuers, ambulance crews and forensic teams working to identify the dead - there was little sign of major international aid agencies.\n\nA spokesperson for one organisation said that trying to coordinate aid operations in the country was \"a nightmare\".\n\n\"Libya one week ago was already complicated,\" said Tomasso Della Longa from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).\n\nMaking the situation even more complicated is the fact that the floods have destroyed crucial infrastructure, like roads and telecommunications systems.\n\nDeath tolls that have been provided vary from around 6,000 up to 11,000. With many more thousands still missing, Derna's mayor has warned that the total could reach 20,000.\n\nThe BBC has been told that some victims' bodies have washed ashore more than 100km (60 miles) from Derna, after they were swept out to sea.\n\nA spokesperson for the United Nations' humanitarian office, Jens Laerke, told the BBC that there were still survivors and dead bodies under the rubble, and that it would be some time before they knew the true number of casualties.\n\n\"We are trying to not to have a second disaster there. It is critical to prevent a health crisis, to provide shelter, clean water and food,\" he said.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have so far been buried in mass graves, according to a UN report.\n\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked disaster workers to stop doing this, because a hasty burial in mass graves can lead to long-lasting mental distress for grieving family members.\n\nThousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel on Sunday, washing whole neighbourhoods into the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nSurvivors have described terrifying escapes and people being swept away in front of their eyes.\n\nEntire neighbourhoods were washed into the Mediterranean Sea\n\nThe country's fragmented political situation is said to be complicating the recovery. Libya is split between two rival governments - with the UN-backed administration based in the capital Tripoli and the rival Egyptian-supported one based in Benghazi.\n\nThere have been widespread allegations that the two dams that collapsed were not well-maintained, and there are growing calls for an urgent inquiry into how the flooding became so catastrophic.\n\nThere are also conflicting reports as to whether - and when - people were told to flee their homes. Residents have told the BBC that they received mixed messages from the two rival governments on whether they should stay or leave.\n\nGuma El-Gamaty, a Libyan academic and head of the Taghyeer Party, said on Thursday that people in the flood zone should have been evacuated, but \"on the contrary they were told to stay put and stay inside their houses and not go out\".\n\nBut Derna's mayor told Arab news channel Al-Hadath that he \"personally ordered evacuating the city three or four days before the disaster.\" The BBC has not been able to verify Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi's claims.\n\nAs the weather got worse, police and military were telling people to leave their homes for higher ground, survivors have told the BBC.\n\nBut it seemed many people did not take the threat seriously.\n\n\"A lot of them did but unfortunately, people sometimes, they said, 'well you know, this is exaggerating, this might not be the case',\" an official from Libya's unofficial, eastern administration told the BBC's Newshour programme.\n\nThere are also allegations that officials took to Libyan television on Sunday night, and ordered people to stay in their homes because of the bad weather. But the same official, Othman Abdul Jalil, denied this.\n\nIt is too early to attribute with certainty the severity of this storm to rising global temperatures. However, climate change is thought to be increasing the frequency of the world's strongest storms.\n\nProf Liz Stephens, an expert in climate risks and resilience at the UK's University of Reading, said scientists were confident that climate change was super-charging the rainfall associated with such storms.\n\nOn Friday, a top UN official, Martin Griffiths, said the disaster was \"a massive reminder\" of climate change and the challenge it posed.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation", "The red admiral was the most spotted type of butterfly\n\nThe number of butterflies in the UK has risen to its highest level since 2019, according to conservationists.\n\nResearch by the Butterfly Conservation wildlife charity recorded more than 1.5 million butterflies and day-flying moths between 14 July and 6 August.\n\nThe red admiral was the most spotted across the UK with 248,077 being recorded in the charity's research.\n\nBut long-term trend figures show many species have significantly decreased since the count started 13 years ago.\n\nDr Zoe Randle said butterflies are a really good indicator of a healthy environment, adding that the insects have benefited from 2023's mixed weather.\n\n\"This summer has been a bit of a washout,\" she told the BBC. \"The rain combined with the hot days has kept vegetation growing, to be lush and green for caterpillars to feed on.\n\n\"The red admiral had a really good summer this year - an increase of 338% of last year's count. That particular butterfly is doing well from climate change in the UK at least - it usually lives on the Mediterranean coast or north Africa.\"\n\nUsing data collected by volunteers across the country, scientists measured butterfly abundance and distribution levels of different species.\n\nDr Randle praised the public's help this year with the research, saying there was \"really good engagement\" this year.\n\n\"In all UK countries - Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England - participation was up and also the number of counts was up which was fantastic,\" she said.\n\n\"It is really refreshing to see people participate. It is fabulous.\"\n\nPeople took part by spending 15 minutes in a sunny spot - a playground, local park or residential garden - looking out for moths and butterflies\n\nConservationists believe butterflies have benefited from the wetter weather this year - with 12 butterflies recorded on average per count compared to nine in 2022's long periods of drought and heat.\n\nAccording to the Big Butterfly Count, the gatekeeper was behind the red admiral as the second most-seen species with 222,896 sightings - an increase of 12% on last year.\n\nBut, long-term figures show a decrease of 28% since 2010 in the species.\n\nWhite butterflies came third and fourth, with large whites seen 216,666 times and small whites 190,506 times - an increase of 11% and 15% on last year respectively.\n\nSpecies which have declined since last year and over the long term include ringlet, common blue and speckled wood, according to the research.\n\nDr Richard Fox, head of science at Butterfly Conservation, said one of the biggest threats facing butterflies was \"habitat loss\".\n\n\"Butterflies need a place to live,\" he said. \"If they can feed, breed and shelter, they can thrive.\"", "The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020 - particularly around age verification and privacy settings.\n\nIt is the biggest fine to date TikTok has received from regulators.\n\nA spokesperson for the social media firm said it \"respectfully disagree[s] with the decision, particularly the level of the fine imposed\".\n\n\"The criticisms are focused on features and settings that were in place three years ago, and that we made changes to well before the investigation even began, such as setting all under 16 accounts to private by default,\" they said.\n\nThe fine was issued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law.\n\nGDPR sets out rules that companies must follow when handling data.\n\nThe DPC found that TikTok had not been transparent enough with children about its privacy settings, and raised questions about how their data was processed.\n\nData Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon told BBC News the inquiry also found that accounts made by those aged between 13 and 17 were made public by default on registration, meaning the content they posted was visible to anyone.\n\n\"That is precisely at the hands of TikTok because of the way they designed the platform, and we say that infringed the data protection by design and by the default requirements of the GDPR,\" Ms Dixon said.\n\nThe firm has been given three months to makes its data processing completely comply with GDPR.\n\nProf Sonia Livingstone, who researches children's digital rights and experiences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, welcomed the DPC's decision.\n\n\"[Children] want to participate in the digital world without being exploited or manipulated. And that means that platforms must explain how their data are treated and, most important, treat their data fairly, since privacy is a child's right,\" she said.\n\nThere remains an investigation under way about whether TikTok has illegally transferred data from the EU to China. TikTok is owned by Beijing firm ByteDance.\n\nDespite the fine being in the hundreds of millions, it is actually smaller than other penalties seen in recent months - such as the €1.2bn (£1bn) fine Meta was given by the regulator in May for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States.\n\nIt is however substantially larger than the £12.7m fine TikTok was issued by the UK data watchdog in April for allowing children aged under 13 to use the platform in 2020.\n\nThe fine issued by the DPC specifically refers to 2020, and TikTok took several actions in the years following to make it more compliant.\n\nThis included it becoming one of the first social media sites to make accounts for 13 to 15-year-olds private by default in January 2021.\n\nIt will also introduce a change this month which will mean all 16 and 17-year-olds signing up to the platform will have their account set to private by default.", "The government has rejected calls for a legal definition of honour-based abuse.\n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) recommended the definition in its report into honour-based abuse in July.\n\nOn Friday, the government responded by saying it already has a working definition used by the Home Office and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"It is not clear that making the definition statutory would improve understanding of, or the response to, these crimes,\" it added.\n\nHonour-based abuse is perpetrated by people who claim to be upholding the so-called honour of a family or community.\n\nIt can include forced marriage, coercive control, and even murder.\n\nThe decision has sparked backlash from MPs, specialist charities, and the domestic abuse commissioner.\n\nCaroline Nokes, chairwoman of the WEC, said she was \"disappointed\" with the government's response.\n\nThe WEC's report in July had warned that there was a widespread ignorance of this type of abuse among front-line workers across public services, including in the police, social care and education.\n\n\"A statutory definition would help police officers and other front-line agencies recognise and record incidents of honour-based abuse accurately and consistently,\" said Ms Nokes.\n\n\"This matters, a lack of data makes it difficult to identify where honour-based abuse occurs, in what forms, and importantly who is most at risk.\"\n\nNatasha Rattu, director of specialist charity Karma Nirvana, agreed, telling BBC News: \"There's a real opportunity through a statutory definition to have that strength in recognising exactly what this [type of abuse] is.\n\n\"Many victims, we feel as a consequence [of this decision], will continue to be missed by professionals that should have a duty in law to protect and safeguard them.\"\n\nThe government's non-statutory definition of honour-based abuse is that it is \"an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse... which has or may have been committed to protect or defend the honour of an individual, family and/or community for alleged or perceived breaches of the family and/or community's code of behaviour\".\n\nMs Rattu said that this type of abuse does not always involve \"an incident or crime\", but is \"a pattern, it's a course of conduct\".\n\n\"Our survivors are very clear that the current [non-statutory] definition doesn't represent their lived experiences,\" she added.\n\nNicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner, also said: \"I urge the government to reconsider its response to this report.\n\n\"I am disappointed to see the government reject calls for a statutory definition of so-called honour-based abuse, which would recognise the severity of this crime, raise awareness, and bring more perpetrators to justice.\"\n\nResponding to the backlash, the Home Office added in a statement that it was \"committed to ending all forms of 'honour' based abuse\".\n\n\"It is crucial that professionals recognise and understand these crimes, which is why we have a clear non-statutory definition of 'honour' based abuse and we have given a range of support to professionals,\" it added.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email us in confidence at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nNew Zealand stormed to their 50th win at the Rugby World Cup, running in 11 tries to thrash Namibia, but lost Ethan de Groot to a late red card for a dangerous collision.\n\nDe Groot was given a yellow card for a high tackle on Adriaan Booysen inside the final 10 minutes with a 'bunker' review upgrading it to a red.\n\nThe All Blacks had recorded a bonus-point fourth try inside 25 minutes.\n\nThey led 38-3 at half-time as Damian McKenzie and Cam Roigard crossed twice.\n\nEnglish referee Luke Pearce had initially given prop De Groot a yellow card after his shoulder caught the head of replacement Booysen in a lazy tackle.\n\nBut with no mitigation, his call was soon upgraded.\n\n\"We will have a look at it - there was a lot of shoulder on shoulder in that contact,\" New Zealand head coach Ian Foster told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We will compare it to something that happened yesterday and see what comes from it.\"\n\nOn Thursday, France's Romain Taofifenua avoided a red card for a high tackle, raising more questions about inconsistent decisions from officials at the Rugby World Cup.\n\nNew Zealand were on a two-match losing streak, having lost 35-7 to South Africa in a warm-up Test and seen their 31-match perfect record in World Cup pool stages come to an end against France seven days ago.\n\nThey made nine changes for their fixture in Toulouse and, as the rain hammered down, started fast with Roigard crossing inside 90 seconds.\n\nThe half-back added his second five minutes later before McKenzie went under the posts in the 20th minute and Leicester Fainga'anuku rode two tackles to score his side's fourth.\n\nMcKenzie continued to dictate play and deservedly crossed for a second time before Lienert-Brown added a sixth try just before the break.\n\n\"We tried to establish ourselves up front and we got that dominance pretty early, which was key to the game,\" added Foster.\n\n\"It allowed us to pick and choose how we played after that, but obviously we are delighted with the result and it is a step forward.\"\n\nNamibia tired in the second half, allowing De Groot, Dalton Papali'i and David Havili to add tries before the hour-mark.\n\nWinger Caleb Clarke dived over in the 67th for try number 10, and, after being reduced to 14 players, the three-time winners continued to dominate as Rieko Ioane went over in the closing stages.\n\nNew Zealand's win lifts them to second in Pool A. After a week off, they face Italy in their next match on 29 September.\n\nIt was a significant night for second row Sam Whitelock, who made his 148th New Zealand appearance to join Richie McCaw as the All Blacks' most-capped player.\n\nNamibia, who lost 52-8 to Italy in their opener, have never won a match at a World Cup, losing 23 times since their debut in 1999.\n\nTiaan Swanepoel reduced their deficit to 12-3 in the opening 11 minutes with an assured penalty kick.\n\nBut the underdogs struggled in attack and a historic second-ever World Cup try against the All Blacks - having scored one in a loss in 2015 - never looked likely.\n\nThey face France in their next match in six days time before taking on Uruguay in their final Pool A fixture.\n\n\"We were up against a classy All Blacks side and with the pace they play at, it was quite tough for our boys,\" said Namibia head coach Allister Coetzee.\n\n\"We have got France next and our World Cup is about our last game [against Uruguay]. We have to do better at set-piece and we have to get better at looking after the ball.\"\n\nThe African side are likely to play the rest of the tournament without centre Le Roux Malan, who was carried off in the first half with a serious ankle injury.\n\nPlay was stopped for seven minutes before Malan left the field to applause from both sets of players and supporters inside Stadium de Toulouse.", "A 102-year-old War World Two veteran has abseiled down a hospital in London, to raise money for charity.\n\nColin Bell, who was in the RAF as a Mosquito bomber pilot, descended 280ft down the Royal London Hospital in central London.\n\nHe is raising money for three charities, the Royal College of Nursing Foundation, the RAF Benevolent Fund and the London Air Ambulance.\n\nThe veteran began his mission last month when he completed a six mile walk in Cambridge where he lives.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford said it will be a \"very anxious morning\" for thousands of people waiting to hear if their jobs are safe.\n\nTata Steel in Port Talbot is seeking UK government funding to switch its coal furnaces to zero-carbon electric ones.\n\nWhile the deal would secure £1bn for the site, it could mean up to 3,000 UK job losses.\n\nMr Drakeford said there should be \"a transition plan\" to make job losses \"manageable\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"This will be a very anxious morning for many, many families in Port Talbot waiting to see the detail of whatever has been agreed between the UK government and the company.\n\n\"On the one hand, it does seem that there is to be investment at the plant that will secure the long-term future of jobs in that town,\" he said. \"But if the price is thousands of jobs to be lost, then that is a very high price.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Friday morning, Mr Drakeford said the Welsh government has not been involved in negotiations between Tata Steel and the UK government.\n\nHe said the deal would mean \"the jobs that remain in Port Talbot should be jobs that are secure and reliable\".\n\nMr Drakeford said Port Talbot and Tata Steel \"have to play their part\" in decarbonisation but that he has spoken to the UK Prime Minister about the importance of sustaining steel production in the UK.\n\nMr Drakeford said the details of the deal would be very important for Port Talbot\n\nIn an announcement on Friday, ministers are expected to say the deal is intended to secure the survival of the plant which employs half of Tata Steel's 8,000-strong workforce.\n\nTata warned last year that its UK operations were under threat unless it secured government funding to help it move to less carbon-intensive electric arc furnaces.\n\nBut unions complained they had been shut out of negotiations over the deal.\n\nCharlotte Brumpton-Childs, GMB national officer, said government intervention was \"long overdue\" but it was \"unacceptable\" to impose a programme without consulting workers.\n\n\"GMB has urged ministers and Tata Steel to have a longer-term view on the decarbonisation of steel,\" she said. \"It is not a just transition if thousands of jobs are sacrificed in the name of short-term environmental gains.\"\n\nShe said the union supports modernisation and decarbonisation of the industry but \" ignoring technologies outside of electric arc furnaces will mean tens of thousands of people will lose their livelihoods\".\n\nThe company's blast furnaces produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which drives global warming\n\nDr Simon Cran-McGreehin, head of analysis at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), said: \"The government may be trying to do the right thing here, but if this deal leads to 3,000 job loses it can't be right.\n\n\"Having a long-term vision that leads to hydrogen-based steel manufacture at Port Talbot, as well as the arc furnaces that recycle used steel, could protect many more jobs.\"\n\nGary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union said: \"This deal will have devastating consequences for jobs and workers. It will rip the heart out of the Port Talbot community.\n\n\"For years, GMB has called for investment in this critically important industry. Instead of listening the Government dithered and delayed until it is too late, and thousands of workers, their families and communities will pay the price.\n\n\"Our country cannot be secure without a functioning domestic steel industry and workers must be at the heart of plans to modernise it,\" he said. \"Once again, we see how so-called transitions are anything but fair or just for working people.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Surveillance footage shows the moment cars were swept away by flooding in the Maghar neighbourhood of the Libyan city of Derna.\n\nLarge parts of the city were devastated when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel.\n\nFigures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 - with thousands still missing. The city's mayor says the total could reach 20,000.\n\nThe footage, verified by the BBC and dated to the early hours of 11 September, shows how rapidly the disaster unfolded.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nA tearful Andy Murray dedicated a Davis Cup win to his grandmother Ellen after revealing he missed her funeral because it was the same day as his match.\n\nOvercome with emotion, Murray said: \"I'm sorry to my family I'm not able to be there. Gran, this one is for you.\n\n\"I spoke to my dad about it and he said 'she'd want you to play'. He said 'make sure you win' - so I did.\"\n\nAfter clinching a hard-fought win over 21-year-old Riedi, Murray told the crowd about the emotional strain he was playing under.\n\nGreat Britain captain Leon Smith said he did not know about the situation, adding Murray playing in \"very, very difficult\" circumstances demonstrated the player's strength of character.\n\n\"I'm sure it was tough for him to miss. What he went out and did was quite incredible, as well as being vitally important for the team,\" said Smith.\n\nFollowing a moving on-court interview, Murray sat on his chair with his head under his towel, before receiving another consoling round of applause from fans at Manchester's AO Arena.\n\nIt came after the three-time Grand Slam champion showed his quality and experience to come through a tough test against Riedi, who was making his Davis Cup debut.\n\n\"It's incredible to get through that one - it easily could have gone the other way,\" said Murray, who helped Britain win the Davis Cup in 2015.\n\n\"It was ridiculous the shots he was pulling off, some amazing returning.\"\n\nWith Britain aiming for a place in November's eight-team knockout stage, Murray put his nation on the path to victory in the opening singles match of the group-stage tie on Friday.\n\nBritish number one Cameron Norrie missed the chance to secure the win when he lost 7-5 6-4 to three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka later.\n\nHowever, Dan Evans and Neal Skupski secured a second straight GB win by beating Swiss pair Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Stricker 6-3 6-3.\n\nFour nations - Britain, Australia, France and Switzerland - are playing in the group-stage event in Manchester.\n\nThey all play each other once in a round-robin format, with the top two countries going through to the knockout stage - known as the 'Final Eight' - in Malaga in November.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Why did the US and UK invade Iraq 20 years ago? Gordon Corera speaks to those at the heart of the decision-making\n• None Dreams can't be built with suspicious minds: Doctor Foster sees her charmed life explode when she suspects her husband of an affair", "Surveillance footage shows two Transportation Security Administration officers at Miami International Airport in Florida allegedly taking cash from bags at a security checkpoint.\n\nThe officers were arrested in July and are facing charges of grand theft. They have pleaded not guilty.", "Jolene Bunting, pictured in 2019, is a former independent unionist councillor for Belfast City Council\n\nA former Belfast councillor who compared a drag queen to a wolf in make-up has lost her appeal against being fined for breaking a court order.\n\nJolene Bunting had previously been barred from harassing actor Matthew Cavan, known as Cherrie Ontop.\n\nShe was fined £750 in June after failing to take down a social media video immediately.\n\nMs Bunting claimed the financial penalty imposed after violating the court order was \"disproportionate\".\n\nHowever, on Friday, judges at Belfast's Court of Appeal ruled the sentence was appropriate and necessary to send out a wider message.\n\n\"The appellant has been guilty of a deliberate and flagrant breach of a court order,\" Madam Justice McBride said.\n\nMs Bunting has already been barred from any further harassment of the performer for the next five years.\n\nCherrie Ontop, the drag queen persona of Matthew Cavan, pictured in 2019, was targeted after a children's storytelling event\n\nIn July 2022, Ms Bunting, a former independent unionist councillor, was involved in protests outside the Mac theatre in Belfast.\n\nMr Cavan, in his role as Cherrie Ontop, was taking part in a children's story-time event.\n\nA group calling themselves Parents Against Grooming held banners which read \"hands off our children\".\n\nA video featuring an image of a wolf and a photograph of Mr Cavan later appeared on YouTube, which was viewed 22,000 times.\n\nPreviously, Mr Cavan said the posting was a twisted portrayal of his work, which left him horrified at being likened to the creature in make-up from the children's fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood.\n\nHe later received threats from so-called paedophile hunters because of the YouTube video.\n\nA group from east Belfast messaged Mr Cavan warning him they knew where he lived and were watching him. Others told him to take his own life.\n\nMr Cavan previously said the attention led to him losing three well-paid gigs.\n\nHe also said he was put on anti-anxiety medication and installed security cameras and lights at his home.\n\nMs Bunting, who sat on Belfast City Council, denied specifically targeting Mr Cavan and claimed she was only concerned about safeguarding children.\n\nLast August, the drag queen obtained an interim court order requiring her to take down social media posts on YouTube and Twitter without delay.\n\nHowever, contempt of court proceedings were then brought against Ms Bunting for failing to comply until the day of the hearing.\n\nIn June, she was handed a £750 fine and was given 26 weeks to pay.\n\nMatthew Cavan, pictured in 2017 as part of the Visage exhibition, had to install security cameras and lights after threats\n\nHowever, Ms Bunting appealed the sentence, claiming it was wrong in law and that it failed to account for the eventual purging of her contempt.\n\nHer barrister said instead of a financial penalty, a remedial outcome of keeping the peace would have been proper.\n\nRejecting the argument, Justice McBride said there were no flaws in the sentence based on the case's public nature.\n\nShe also highlighted Ms Bunting's failure to remove the video from her social media accounts until the day of the hearing.\n\n\"We are satisfied the sentence imposed was not wrong in principle or on the facts, and accordingly dismiss the appeal,\" she added.", "Marks & Spencer is swapping plastic carrier bags for paper ones in all stores, in an expansion of a trial that began in 10 branches in January.\n\nIt follows other High Street stores in swapping plastic bags to paper in a bid to cut plastics use.\n\nSupermarkets Morrisons, Waitrose and Aldi all use paper bags for customers, though some stores offer plastic bags as an option.\n\nMarks & Spencer has more than 1,000 stores nationwide.\n\nThe retailer said it had worked with the University of Sheffield to develop a bag that is made using renewable energy, since paper is more energy-intensive to produce than plastic.\n\nPaper bags also weigh more than plastic; this means transportation requires more energy, adding to their carbon footprint, according to research.\n\nIn a blog post, Marks & Spencer corporate affairs director Victoria McKenzie-Gould said the company hoped that the move would help to avoid \"to the mountain of plastic bags\" that can build up in cupboards at home.\n\nThe new bags also fold easily into a backpack, according to Ms McKenzie-Gould.\n\nShe added: \"For the vast majority who already reuse their own bags, which remains the most sustainable option, not a lot will change. But on the odd occasion when we all need to reach for one more bag, we're pleased to be offering a more sustainable option for customers.\"\n\nMorrisons was the first supermarket to scrap plastic bags in 2021.\n\nEnvironmental groups have raised some concerns over how many uses a paper bag can actually survive.\n\nPaper bags are not as durable as bags for life, being more likely to split or tear, especially if they get wet, although Marks & Spencer said their bags can carry over 15kg and be reused over 100 times.\n\nPaper decomposes much more quickly than plastic, making it is less likely to be a source of litter or risk to wildlife.\n\nPaper is also more widely recyclable, while plastic bags can take between 400 and 1,000 years to decompose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police carried Greta Thunberg away from a protest just hours after she was fined over a previous incident\n\nSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying a police order to leave a protest at a busy port in Sweden, months after she was convicted of a similar offence.\n\nShe was fined in July for refusing to leave a protest on a road for oil transport from Malmo harbour.\n\nAfter the verdict, Ms Thunberg and other activists returned to the port and were again removed by police.\n\nHer second trial is scheduled for 27 September.\n\nIn a statement, Swedish prosecutor Isabel Ekberg said the demonstration on 24 July had not been authorised and had disrupted traffic.\n\nMs Thunberg was demonstrating at the port in southern Sweden alongside the group Reclaim the Future. They attempted to prevent traffic from getting in and out, in order to protest the use of fossil fuels.\n\nThe protest took place hours after Ms Thunberg had been convicted and fined 2,500 Swedish Krona (£180; $224) for a protest in the same port on 19 June.", "Jaswant Singh Chail was pictured after his arrest on Christmas Day 2021\n\nA man who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow, planning to kill the Queen, has apologised to the Royal Family.\n\nHe admitted a charge under the Treason Act, making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe apologised to the royals and the King for taking \"such horrific and worrying times to their front door\", the Old Bailey heard.\n\nA judge is deciding whether the former supermarket worker, from North Baddesley, Hampshire, is jailed, given a hospital order, or should face a \"hybrid\" order.\n\nChail's barrister Nadia Chbat told the court: \"He has expressed distress and sadness about the impact his actions had on the Royal Family, particularly while Her Majesty was in her latter years.\n\n\"He has expressed relief no-one was actually hurt. It is important to him there was a surrender.\"\n\nChail's crossbow was found to be comparable to a powerful air rifle, with the potential to cause fatal injury\n\nShe said that before his mental health declined, Chail was a kind, gentle and sometimes funny person, according to his family and friends.\n\nMs Chbat said the break-in \"utterly shocked and devastated this family unit and the defendant has sincere regret for how this has impacted on his family\".\n\n\"And that deep regret will be with him for the rest of his life because of the severity of the offending that took place.\"\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan KC said Chail's crimes were so serious they should attract the highest possible sentence.\n\nShe said: \"This is not simply somebody carrying a crossbow - it was loaded and ready to be fired.\"\n\nThe maximum sentence for treason is seven years in prison, but the prosecutor said had Chail raised his weapon at his target, he could have been charged with the more serious offence of high treason, which carries a life sentence.\n\nMr Justice Hilliard said: \"It might be said that if it's a prime minister, any other significant figure or politician, it is top of the range.\"\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor at the time due to the pandemic\n\nChail appeared in court by video link from the high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.\n\nHis sentencing hearing previously heard how he broke into the grounds while the late monarch was staying at the castle during the pandemic.\n\nThe trial heard he had exchanged 5,000 sexually charged messages with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot before arriving at Windsor Castle.\n\nHe also had described himself as a \"Sith\" and \"Darth Jones\" in reference to characters from the Star Wars franchise.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago.\n\nNesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh - but Adaseel, the mountain village that was home to her school and pupils, was closer to the epicentre.\n\nThe Arabic- and French-language teacher returned to Adaseel where she went searching for the children.\n\nShe discovered that all 32 - ranging from six to 12 years old - had died.\n\n\"I went to the village and started asking about my kids: 'Where is Somaya? Where is Youssef? Where is this girl? Where is that boy?' The answer came hours later: 'They are all dead.'\n\n\"I imagined holding my class's attendance sheet and putting a line through one student's name after another, until I had scratched off 32 names; they are all now dead,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs ElFadel describes her lost students - seen here before the earthquake - as \"angels\"\n\nThey were among the almost-3,000 people killed by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Morocco, which struck on the evening of 8 September.\n\nThe hardest-hit areas were those south of Marrakesh, where many mountain villages were completely destroyed. Adaseel was one of those places.\n\nMs ElFadel recalled how she heard about what happened to six-year-old Khadija.\n\nRescuers found the body of the child lying next to her brother Mohamed and her two sisters, Mena and Hanan. They had all been in their bed - probably asleep - during the quake, and they all went to Ms ElFadel's school.\n\n\"Khadija was my favourite. She was very nice, smart, active and loved to sing. She used to come to my house, and I loved studying and talking to her.\"\n\nThe language teacher described her students as \"angels\", and respectful children who were eager to learn. Despite struggling with poverty and a crushing cost-of-living crisis, the children and their families thought of going to school as \"the most important thing in the world\".\n\n\"Our last class was on Friday night, exactly five hours before the quake hit,\" Ms ElFadel said.\n\n\"We were learning Morocco's national anthem, and planned to sing it in front of the whole school on Monday morning.\"\n\nThe school where Ms ElFadel worked was badly damaged by the earthquake\n\nDespite her calm voice, Ms ElFadel has been suffering with trauma. She still cannot process what happened to her students and to her school.\n\n\"I don't sleep; I'm still in shock,\" she said.\n\n\"People consider me one of the lucky ones, but I don't know how I can continue living my life.\"\n\nMs ElFadel loved teaching Arabic and French to children in a village populated by Amazigh - who mainly speak their own language, Tamazight.\n\n\"Arabic and French were very hard to learn, but the kids were very bright, and they were almost fluent in both languages,\" she recalled.\n\nShe plans to continue her career in teaching, and hopes authorities will rebuild Adaseel's school - which collapsed during the earthquake.\n\nA total of 530 educational institutions have been damaged to varying degrees, including some of which have completely collapsed or suffered severe structural damage, according to official statements.\n\nThe Moroccan government has temporarily halted classes in the hardest-hit areas.\n\n\"Maybe one day when they rebuild the school and classes are back in session, we can commemorate those 32 kids and tell their story,\" Ms ElFadel said.", "Gabby Logan is known for fronting BBC football, athletics, rugby and other sports coverage\n\nTV host Gabby Logan and her husband will receive \"substantial\" damages after the Mail Online falsely reported they had been paid to promote a tax avoidance scheme to celebrity friends.\n\nLogan and her partner Kenny, an ex-rugby player, threatened to sue the Mail's publisher Associated Newspapers after the story appeared in February.\n\nThe company later retracted the story.\n\nThe couple have also received damages from an accountant who was quoted in it and former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie.\n\nJonathan Coad, a solicitor for the Logans, told the PA news agency the total \"amounts to six figures\".\n\nThe original story claimed the couple had received £500,000 commission for promoting the tax avoidance scheme.\n\nAnd Gwilym Jones, the director of a litigation investment company, was quoted claiming the couple had tried to disguise the commission as loans to avoid paying tax on it.\n\n\"These allegations were wholly untrue, as the Mail Online has now acknowledged,\" papers filed at the High Court on Friday said.\n\nThe legal documents also said Mr Jones' claim \"caused serious harm and distress to... Gabby and Kenny Logan\".\n\nMr Jones \"repeatedly refused to retract the false and seriously defamatory allegations\", but \"eventually accepted\" a settlement offer and paid damages after the Logans launched legal action, the filing said.\n\nAfter the story was published, Mr Mackenzie posted a tweet calling the couple's alleged behaviour \"shocking\". He has now deleted the tweet and also paid damages.\n\nThe court papers said: \"Although Kenny was a brand ambassador for a company that sold financial products which included tax avoidance schemes and earned commission for making introductions, neither Gabby nor Kenny Logan ever promoted tax avoidance schemes, either to their celebrity friends or to anyone else.\n\n\"Still less did they admit to so doing. Neither did they receive commission of £500,000 for this alleged activity.\"\n\nThe case comes nine years after Gabby Logan admitted being part of a tax avoidance scheme, but said she had invested in \"good faith\" believing it was \"a way of funding new acts in the music industry\" and vowed to repay any tax she owed.", "Charlotte Towner says Coco is \"60kg of love\"\n\nOwners of American bully XLs have spoken of their \"heartbreak\" at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to ban the breed.\n\nThe announcement on Friday follows a spate of attacks, including one which killed 52-year-old Ian Price.\n\nMr Sunak described bully XLs as a \"danger to communities, particularly our children\".\n\nAnd campaign groups such as Bully Watch and Protect Our Pets called the breed \"a clear and present threat to public health\".\n\nHowever, some animal charities including the RSPCA argue breed-specific bans are not effective, and a number of owners have told the BBC they believe their dogs are not inherently more violent.\n\nThey believe more should instead be done about irresponsible ownership.\n\nCharlotte Towner, who owns a two-year-old American bully XL called Coco, says her dog is good company, even for her young child.\n\nMs Towner thinks the dogs mainly get bad publicity because of how they look and argues a ban would not \"eradicate the problem\" of attacks.\n\n\"I mean, don't get me wrong, my girl's weighing in at 60kg. But she's 60kg of love,\" she told BBC Newsbeat, arguing questions needed to be raised about owners, rather than animals.\n\n\"I just think, don't judge a book by its cover. Before you decide to make the ban, perhaps come and meet other dogs like Coco that are getting the bad name when they really don't deserve it.\"\n\nMs Towner, who lives in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, says Coco is well behaved around her 18-month-old daughter.\n\n\"She knows not to be playful, she knows not to bounce around and all she ever does is just give her kisses.\n\n\"Coco is the best-behaved dog I've ever owned and I've owned a fair few. I've owned poodles, Labradors, even owned a Rottweiler\", she says.\n\n\"I just think banning the breed isn't going to solve the problem, you need to look at the owners and look at how they're raising their dogs, and more punishment should be done.\"\n\nThe 26-year-old from Tamworth said: \"It's devastating for me and other bully owners out there that haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nHe said his \"tame and calm\" 18-month-old dog Bane has the temperament of a Labrador.\n\n\"They're so much kinder and gentle than what they're portrayed to be\", he added.\n\nMr Higgs said he could \"completely understand\" the reaction to the news of increased dog attacks but it was \"easy to tarnish all dogs with the same brush\".\n\n\"I think we should be looking more at the owner\".\n\nAnother American bully XL owner, Jordan Shelley, said licences and training programmes should be introduced for all breeds.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: \"I would love to see mandatory training courses, I think that would be fantastic. People really need that education and then you have the ability to license and take away those licenses from people when they aren't abiding by the regulations.\"\n\nHe said by then \"stopping those people from owning the dogs in the first place, we will reduce the number of dog bites [and] fatalities\".\n\nSerena Norton, from West London, is against the proposed ban and told the BBC her four bully XL dogs were all \"very loving and well behaved\".\n\n\"They are quite docile and all they want to do is play,\" she explained.\n\nBut she added that training and socialisation was a must with the dogs, especially when they were young.\n\n\"I believe that these dogs are a product of their upbringing and reflect their owners,\" she said.\n\nNot all American bully XL owners are positive about the experience, and one charity told the BBC it had been contacted by people needing urgent help with their animals.\n\nIra Moss, manager of All Dogs Matter, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the charity had received an increasing number of calls from owners in the past months, telling them their dogs were becoming too big and they did not know how to manage them.\n\nShe said the breed was \"powerful\" and required experience to manage.\n\nMs Moss also said she was surprised it had taken so long for the government to do something about bully XLs, and she would like to see a ban on the way advertisers were allowed to market the breed online.\n\n\"Anyone can go along and pick one of these dogs, take it home, with no experience,\" she said.\n\nEmma Whitfield, who has campaigned for a ban after her son Jack Lis was killed by an American bully XL in Wales two years ago, also told the BBC that while she did not doubt there were \"good examples of the breed\", she believed there were too many injuries and fatalities attributed to American bully XL dogs, which \"you don't see from other breeds\".\n\n\"The bad breeders and the bad owners have done this, this is on them,\" she said.", "Sara Sharif's body was found at her home on 10 August\n\nThe father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif have appeared in court accused of murdering the 10-year-old.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking, have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThey appeared at Guildford Magistrates' Court and were remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey in London.\n\nSara's body was found at her home on 10 August.\n\nAll three defendants are accused of murdering Sara on or about 8 August, and causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nThe court was told the defendants denied the charges.\n\nThe prosecutor said that Sara's body was found in a bottom bunk of a bunkbed in an upstairs bedroom.\n\nThe actual cause of her death is still yet to be established, the court heard.\n\nAt the end of the 20-minute hearing, district judge Tan Ikram said they would remain in custody until their next court appearance on Tuesday.\n\nThe three defendants left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August.\n\nThey were arrested at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday evening after five weeks out of the country, disembarking a flight from Dubai.\n\nEarly on Friday morning, Surrey Police confirmed they had been charged after just over 28 hours in police custody.", "A shortage of air traffic controllers has caused more delays at Gatwick\n\nFlights at Gatwick Airport were cancelled, delayed or diverted at short notice on Thursday due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.\n\nGatwick confirmed 22 cancellations as of 22:00 BST, while the website FlightRadar24 said hundreds of flights in and out of the airport were delayed.\n\nThe National Air Traffic Services (Nats) apologised for its staffing shortages.\n\nGatwick Airport said it expected a normal service on Friday.\n\nThe disruption comes just over two weeks after a technical issue at Nats led to 2,000 flights being cancelled across the UK.\n\nEasyJet expressed frustration at Thursday's delays and cancellations, while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary called on Nats' boss to resign.\n\nMr O'Leary said: \"It is unacceptable that more flights and hundreds of passengers are suffering delays to/from Gatwick Airport due to Nats CEO, Martin Rolfe's blatant failure to adequately staff UK ATC.\n\n\"Airlines are paying millions of pounds to Nats each and every year and should not have to see their passengers suffer avoidable delays due to UK ATC staff shortages.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary called on the chief executive of Nats to resign over the latest disruption\n\nLaura Neary, 29, had her flight from Gatwick to Dublin diverted to London Stansted instead - which she had to travel to by coach.\n\n\"I don't even know if I can get back to Dublin tonight,\" Ms Neary said.\n\nPaul Treloar, who planned on landing at Gatwick airport on Thursday, posted on social media: \"It's now four hours later and our flight from Samos has been diverted to Bournemouth. Can you give us any idea if/when we're likely to be able to land at Gatwick this evening?\"\n\nMike Reed, another traveller, wrote on social media that he had been in Bari, Italy, \"sat on hot plane for 'up to an hour'\"\n\n\"The situation at Gatwick is unacceptable,\" Julia Lo Blue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership, said.\n\nShe explained that the disruption has \"huge financial implications\" for the sector, as well as causing \"havoc for travellers\".\n\nIn a statement Gatwick Airport said: \"Nats are a world-class provider of air traffic services and London Gatwick's senior management recognises how hard the airport's air traffic controllers are working to keep the operation moving.\n\n\"We are working closely with Nats to build resilience in the airport's control tower to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.\"\n\nNats apologised to people who had been inconvenienced, adding: \"Airlines operating at London Gatwick were aware of the situation when Nats was appointed, but that does not dilute the apology we offer sincerely to them and their passengers who have been inconvenienced by recent disruption.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nIs your flight one of those cancelled? Have you been delayed flying to or from Gatwick? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dalgety Bay beach had been closed since May 2021 while a clean-up operation took place\n\nA multimillion-pound clean-up of a radioactive hotspot in Fife has been completed - more than three decades after it was first discovered.\n\nThe stretch of coastline at Dalgety Bay has been contaminated with radium from scrapped World War Two aircraft.\n\nA team of scientists and engineers have spent the last two years sifting the material from the sand.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said people could access the bay for the first time since 2011.\n\nThe agency was due to begin the clean-up in 2020 but was hit by delays and it began the following year.\n\nProf Paul Dale, unit manager of Sepa's radioactive substances team, said : \"The completion of this work is significant for Dalgety Bay and for Scotland's environment.\n\n\"Sepa have been clear in our requirements that remediation would be done once, and it would be done right - providing a permanent and positive resolution for the communities who lived with the environmental legacy of Second World War radium contamination for several decades. \"\n\nIt is believed the radioactive particles came from radium-coated glow-in-the-dark components in World War Two aircraft that were incinerated and dumped on the bay.\n\nThousands of the particles have been found there since 1990 - at first during routine monitoring.\n\nThe red line shows the site boundary of the previously affected area at Dalgety Bay\n\nPrevious attempts to tackle the contamination had been hampered by disagreement between the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Sepa and Fife Council over who was responsible.\n\nSepa formally named the MoD as the polluter, but the work continued to be hampered by delays.\n\nThe MoD had previously said it expected the long-running saga to be resolved by the end of 2018.\n\nProf Dale said the successful operation had been possible because organisations had worked \"constructively\" together.\n\nTo remove all the hazardous material, a team of engineers sifted through tonnes of sand and soil from the whole beach.\n\nThe project was last reported to have cost £10.5m.\n\nThe largest cache of particles was contained within the headland at Dalgety Bay Sailing Club.\n\nEngineers used a purpose-built scanner which was assembled in a cabin on the shore to detect the radioactive particles.\n\nThe equipment was created by Jen Barnes, the radiometrics lead for engineering company Jacobs.\n\nJen Barnes developed the special radioactive material detector in a cabin at Dalgety Bay\n\nSome contamination remains in the area.\n\nSepa said the remediation work replaced rock armour around the headland and installed a replacement slipway for the Dalgety Bay Sailing Club so radioactive material was no longer being eroded and washed onto the beach.\n\nThe agency added that about 6,500 particles, mostly low activity, were removed.\n\nWork was paused between October and April each year to protect overwintering birds.\n\nDiggers scoop up the sand and soil from Dalgety Bay beach\n\nCouncillor Altany Craik of Fife Council said: \"I'm so pleased the beach at Dalgety Bay will finally be back in use for the public after such a long time.\n\n\"The community has been very patient through all this disruption and I'm delighted that they can finally enjoy the area again.\"", "Hollywood director Baz Luhrmann attended the black tie event with Dame Anna Wintour and outgoing British Vogue editor Edward Enninful\n\nBritain's top stars from the world of fashion and the creative arts descended on London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane for what is being called the biggest sartorial event of the season.\n\nThe second annual Vogue World kicks off London Fashion Week (LFW) which officially opens on Friday.\n\nThe event, which closed with a fashion runway showcasing highlights from autumn/winter 2023 collections, made its debut during New York Fashion Week last September.\n\nHere are some of the most striking looks from the red carpet in London:\n\nStormzy performed at the Vogue World event, with FKA Twigs, Sophie Okonedo and Olivier award-winning director Stephen Daldry also taking to the stage\n\nBritish diver Tom Daley won gold at the Tokyo Olympics and is also known for his love of knitting\n\nActress Sienna Miller in Schiaparelli proudly showed off her baby bump. The 41-year old, who has an 11-year-old daughter with ex-boyfriend Tom Sturridge, is expecting her first child with partner Oli Green\n\nNcuti Gatwa is the new Doctor Who actor and was one of the stars in this year's biggest blockbuster movie Barbie\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOscar winner Kate Winslet turned heads in a Paul Smith suit. She stars in the long-awaited biopic about the model-turned-war photographer Lee Miller\n\nActor Gemma Chan is one of the biggest British East Asian heritage stars in Hollywood\n\nPrincess Beatrice wore a cape dress by Richard Quinn and attended the event alongside her sister Princess Eugenie of York, who turned heads in Fendi\n\nActor Maisie Williams is best known for her role as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones\n\nActress-model Jodie Turner-Smith, dressed in Viktor & Rolf, made her film debut in 2016's Neon Demon\n\nTV presenter AJ Odudu is known for Big Brother's Bit on the Side and Strictly Come Dancing\n\nUS drummer Shannon Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars and actor-singer Jared Leto\n\nIrish actress Nicola Coughlan has a fashion moment in Harris Reed. She is well known for her role in Netflix's Bridgerton as well as playing Clare Devlin in Derry Girls", "Botero insisted he painted \"volume\" in his figures\n\nColombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91.\n\nHis works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics and other serious subjects.\n\nPresident Gustavo Petro called him \"the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our virtues\".\n\nThe artist, who lived in Monaco, was suffering from pneumonia, his daughter Lina said on Friday.\n\nLocal media hailed Botero as the greatest Colombian artist of all time. His hometown, Medellín, has declared a week of mourning.\n\nThe son of a travelling salesman, Botero was born in 1932. In his 20s he travelled to Europe, where he discovered classical art before moving to the US in 1960.\n\nHe said that in the late 1950s he discovered \"a new dimension that was more voluminous, more monumental, more extravagant, more extreme\".\n\nHe exaggerated the size of his subjects, sometimes for comical effect or for parody.\n\nOne of the most famous examples is his version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with a puffed-up face.\n\nBotero said he found it impossible to depict dainty creatures.\n\nHe could take a thin needle as his subject, he said, but on canvas or in bronze it would be transformed into an object 10 times the size, bulging at the sides.\n\nHis daughter once asked him to draw an animal for a piece of homework.\n\n\"Ok, I will do it,\" he said in a 2008 BBC interview. \"Then I started to be very careful, tried to be very careful, doing the horse and then suddenly it started to be Boteresque. And she said 'no, no, Papa, no, no Papa, you are spoiling the whole thing'.\"\n\n\"You see already my brain is completely deformed, I cannot do it. Anything I do is Boteresque.\"\n\nCritics often derided the exaggerated size of his subjects.\n\n\"If I paint a woman, a man, a dog or a horse, I always do with this idea of the volume,\" Botero told Spain's El Mundo newspaper in 2014.\n\n\"I don't paint fat women,\" he went on. \"What I do paint are volumes.\"\n\nBotero offered a modern take on the Stations of the Cross\n\nSome of his more sombre works show Colombian guerrilla fighters and earthquakes.\n\nThere were some controversies. He faced criticism for his painting of the death of the notorious drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar, who was gunned down by police in Medellín in 1993.\n\nBotero originally showed Escobar dodging bullets in an heroic show of defiance but later bowed to pressure and produced an image of the dead drug lord.\n\nHe also caused a stir with his huge portraits showing the US Army's torture of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. They were exhibited at a venue close to President George W Bush's White House in Washington.\n\nBotero had studios in Paris, New York, Mexico, Colombia and Italy. Any of his works sells for over $2m, according to Sotheby's auction house.\n\nBotero's sculptures have been displayed in public spaces from Bogota to New York and Paris", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rubiales's day in court over World Cup kiss... in 86 seconds\n\nA judge has banned Spain's ex-football chief Luis Rubiales from going within 200m of footballer Jenni Hermoso.\n\nProsecutors asked for the restraining order as the national court in Madrid considered a criminal complaint of sexual assault and coercion.\n\nAppearing in court for the first time, Mr Rubiales denied sexually assaulting Ms Hermoso by kissing her on the lips after Spain's Women's World Cup win.\n\nMs Hermoso's lawyer was adamant it was a \"non-consensual kiss\".\n\nMr Rubiales resigned his position as head of the football federation (RFEF) earlier this week and appeared in a closed court session on Friday to deny two criminal offences.\n\nInvestigating judge Francisco de Jorge was asked to bar him from approaching within 500m (1,600ft) of Jenni Hermoso or from communicating with her.\n\nHe later agreed to the order but placed restrictions at 200m (650ft), adding that Mr Rubiales should not contact the player during the investigation.\n\nA further request that he should appear before the judge every 15 days was rejected.\n\nSpain won the Women's World Cup in Australia on 20 August, but the team's success has been overshadowed ever since by Mr Rubiales's actions during the celebrations after the final whistle.\n\nA boycott of the national team still has not been resolved, a week ahead of their next game, and 39 players have signed a letter saying that changes made by the football federation \"are not enough for the players to feel in a safe place\".\n\nLuis Rubiales arrived in court in a black suit and white shirt, and spent a reported 45 minutes being questioned by the judge.\n\nAfter denying the allegations against him, he left the court alongside his lawyer Olga Tubau.\n\nMr Rubiales has maintained that when he held her head in his hands and kissed her on the lips it was mutual and consensual. He eventually resigned on Sunday as president of the federation, declaring: \"I have faith in the truth and I will do everything in my power so that it prevails.\"\n\nMs Hermoso, 33, says that she did not consent to the kiss. Prosecutors submitted her initial complaint of sexual assault and added one of coercion, arguing that he had put pressure on the Spain forward to come to his defence amid uproar in the days after the kiss.\n\nOutside court, her lawyer Carla Vall said that everyone had seen what had happened: \"We can say precisely that thanks to [these images], and thanks to social change and changes in the law, we can show that Mr Rubiales had a complete lack of consent.\"\n\nJenni Hermoso said no-one should be a victim of such non-consensual behaviour\n\nSpain's left-wing government reformed laws on consent in the past two years after a notorious gang-rape case in 2016 that led to five men being cleared of rape.\n\nUnder the so-called \"Only Yes is Yes\" law, a non-consensual kiss can be considered an offence of sexual assault, so Mr Rubiales could face a fine or even a jail sentence if the case goes to trial and he is found guilty.\n\nFive days after the World Cup victory, Jenni Hermoso issued a statement saying that no person in a work, sport or social setting should be a victim of such non-consensual conduct: \"I felt vulnerable and a victim of an impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part.\"\n\nShe is due to give evidence to the court at a later date.\n\nThe judge will decide whether the case goes to trial after examining a series of videos from before, during and after the ceremony.\n\nHe has asked to see the moment of the kiss \"from all angles\". He will also examine videos of the celebrations in the dressing room and on the team bus as they left the stadium in Sydney.\n\nMr Rubiales was initially suspended by world football's governing body Fifa, before he eventually stood down as both head of the RFEF and vice-president of Uefa.\n\nFor weeks he had refused to stand down, while opinion polls suggested more than 70% of Spaniards found his conduct unacceptable.\n\nIn one combative address to the RFEF last month he hammered home the words \"no voy a dimitir\" - I will not resign - five times.\n\nIn a TV interview with Piers Morgan, he repeated his contention that the footballer had lifted him up at the time of the kiss, rather than the other way around. \"We had the fleeting kiss, two-tenths of a second, but what was created from that is crazy,\" he said.\n\nThe events in Sydney continue to rock Spanish football. Earlier this month, women's team coach Jorge Vilda was fired and replaced by assistant coach Montse Tomé, the first woman to run the team.\n\nVilda's own role in the federation has itself been controversial. Fifteen members of the women's team, known as La Roja, resigned a year ago complaining the situation in the national team had affected their emotional state and mental health.\n\nTomé was due to announce her first squad on Friday ahead of two UEFA Women's Nations League matches against Sweden and Switzerland later this month.\n\nHowever, she had to postpone a press conference on Friday afternoon as 39 players, including 21 members of the World Cup-winning squad signed a letter calling for a series of measures before they returned to the national team.\n\nAmong the conditions were a restructuring of women's football and its national leadership at the RFEF. They did open the door to returning to the team but said their demands were based on zero tolerance for figures within the REF who had \"incited, covered up or applauded attitudes that go against women's dignity\".\n\nThe only two players from the World Cup squad who did not sign the letter were Claudia Zornoza and Athenea del Castillo. Zornoza, 32, announced on social media that she had already taken the decision to retire from international football ahead of the tournament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Princess Diana first wore the sheep jumper to a polo match in 1981\n\nPrincess Diana's sweater featuring a black sheep among rows of white ones has sold for $1.14 million (£920,000) at an auction by Sotheby's in New York.\n\nBidding opened 31 August, and the top bid stayed under $200,000 (£161,000) until the auction's final minutes.\n\nSotheby's had estimated the value of the \"sheep jumper\" at $50,000 to $80,000 (£40,300 to £64,500).\n\nIt did not disclose the identity of the winning bidder.\n\nThe simple piece of knitwear, which was unearthed in an attic in March, commanded a higher price than many other objects tied to the \"People's Princess\" that were sold at auctions in recent years.\n\nDiana's car, a Ford Escort, may be the closest, going for $806,000 (£650,000) in 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The story of how Diana's iconic sweater was lost...and found again.\n\nThe amethyst-bedecked Attallah Cross that Diana frequently wore was sold to reality star Kim Kardashian for roughly one-fifth of the sweater's amount - $203,000 (£163,800) - at an auction in January.\n\nThe sweater's design is often described as symbolic of Diana's place within the royal family.\n\nBut fashion historians believe Diana was not sending a message, as she may have done in later years with her famous \"revenge dress\", when she wore the sweater in 1981, a month before her wedding to then Prince Charles. Instead, many say Diana was simply sporting the \"Sloane Ranger\" style she helped popularise.\n\nIn the era before social-media influencers, newspaper photos of Diana in the sweater gave its maker, Warm and Wonderful knitwear, a \"stratospheric launch\" and inspired copycat designs, according to Sotheby's.\n\nShortly after her marriage, Buckingham Palace wrote to Warm and Wonderful that the sweater had been damaged and sought a repair or replacement. Princess Diana then wore the replacement to another polo match in 1983.\n\nSotheby's included the letter to Warm and Wonderful as well as a thank-you note for the replacement in the auction lot. It also used the sweater's small hole to confirm authenticity.", "An American fast food chain met with protests from the gay community last time it opened in the UK is planning to have another go.\n\nChick-Fil-A aims to open five restaurants in the UK.\n\nThe sites have not yet been chosen, but the first will open in early 2025.\n\nIts previous foray into the UK market in 2019 faced a boycott over its founders' support for Christian groups opposed to same-sex marriage.\n\nThe firm is still run by the Cathy family which founded it, but has made a policy change in recent years.\n\nIt appointed its first head of diversity in 2020 and has changed its approach to charitable giving, focusing on education and hunger alleviation.\n\nHowever, the family's Christian values mean restaurants do not open on Sundays, a policy that will also apply in the UK.\n\n\"From our earliest days, we've worked to positively influence the places we call home and this will be the same for our stores in the UK,\" said Joanna Symonds, Chick-Fil-A's head of UK operations.\n\n\"We encourage our operators to partner with organisations which support and positively impact their local communities, delivering great food and wider benefits to those around them,\" she added.\n\nChick-Fil-A said it would invest over $100m over the next 10 years in the UK. Most of the sites would be run and owned as franchises, and would create between 80 and 120 jobs per branch, it said.\n\nThe Atlanta-based firm, famous for its chicken sandwiches, already has 2,800 outlets in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada, and plans to open further sites in Europe and Asia.\n\nIn 2019 it opened a temporary pop-up store in Reading's The Oracle shopping centre, at a time when the chicken chain was already dividing opinion in its home market.\n\nThe restaurant in Reading's Oracle shopping centre did not have its lease extended\n\nThe firm was founded in 1946 by Samuel Truett Cathy and has been managed by the family ever since.\n\nIn 2012 its then chief executive Dan Cathy provoked controversy by criticising the idea of gay marriage. While the LGBT community spoke out against his comments, many customers across the south of the US, where most of its restaurants are located, turned out in support.\n\nGay rights activists also objected to the Cathy family's financial support for Christian organisations such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army.\n\nAt the time its Reading store was facing protests Chick-Fil-A said it \"never donated with the purpose of supporting a social or political agenda\" and was represented by a diverse workforce including \"black, white; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian\" staff.\n\nThe Salvation Army said it opposed \"any discrimination, marginalisation or persecution of any person\".\n\nIn announcing the new UK investment, the chain highlighted its current charitable work, which include a $25,000 one-off donation to a local non-profit organisation when a Chick-fil-A restaurant is opened, and donations of surplus food to local shelters, soup kitchens and food charities. Those policies would apply to its UK branches too, it said.", "The PM said experts and police will work together to \"accurately define the breed\" and powers will be used in the Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was clear the American XL bullies were \"a danger to communities\" and a ban was needed.", "Sensitive information was left in a restaurant and there was possible disclosure of a former identity\n\nSensitive information being left behind in a restaurant and the possible disclosure of a person's former identity are among serious government data breaches in Northern Ireland.\n\nNew figures show there have been almost 50 breaches by Stormont departments during the past decade.\n\nAlmost a third were by the Department of Justice.\n\nSeveral breaches by the Department for Communities were deemed to be \"major incidents\".\n\nThey included the loss of papers containing medical data and a member of staff inappropriately accessing their ex-partner's benefits information.\n\nThe nine Stormont departments said that where breaches occurred the cases were referred to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and action was taken to ensure information was deleted.\n\nBut a former government watchdog has said the data breaches highlight a worrying trend.\n\nFelicity Huston was previously the commissioner for public appointments in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said: \"The government is insisting more and more that we go online and they collect vast amounts of our data that way - the least they can do is keep it safe.\"\n\nThe nine Stormont departments said that where breaches occurred, steps were taken to ensure information was deleted\n\nThe Department for Communities (DfC) was responsible for the breaches relating to information being left in a restaurant and the possible disclosure of a former identity.\n\nOther breaches by the DfC included the loss of a laptop and hard-copy files containing \"special category information\".\n\nIn that case the police were informed of the incident and the laptop was disabled. A hard copy file and laptop were subsequently handed into Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nThe Department for Communities said it referred all data breaches to the ICO and was advised that no further action was required in relation to each case.\n\nInformation on the breaches comes as details of 10,000 police employees were accidentally included in a response to a freedom of information request.\n\nThat breach, and two others that were subsequently made public, caused considerable concern among PSNI officers and staff, who face continuing threat from paramilitaries and must be vigilant about their personal security.\n\nAn independent review is being carried out to establish how those breaches happened.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne has since resigned after a number of controversies, including the data breaches.\n\nThe latest figures obtained by BBC News NI show that of the 48 data breaches recorded by Stormont departments since 2013, 13 were by the Department of Justice.\n\nThey included a letter posted by the Northern Ireland Policing Board which did not arrive at the intended recipient's address.\n\nThe DoJ's policing policy and strategy department was also found to have shared information with \"unauthorised parties\".\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne heading into a meeting of the Policing Board\n\nIn an another case a letter was sent from Laganside Courts to the wrong person and there was \"the erroneous release of personal data\" by the Coroners' Service.\n\nThe DoJ said all of the cases were reported to the ICO and staff awareness training was carried out.\n\nData breaches recorded by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) included a staff member who accessed personal folders of colleagues and medical information being sent to the wrong home address.\n\nThe breaches were reported to the ICO while the individuals whose personal data was breached were informed and they received an apology.\n\nThe Executive Office (TEO) breaches involved an incident in which 77 email addresses of members of the Truth Recovery Victim and Survivor Consultation Forum were identifiable in a calendar invitation.\n\nTEO also recorded a breach from the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in which the email addresses and names of approximately 251 people were issued.\n\nIn both cases the incidents were reported to the ICO and letters were issued to those affected.\n\nTEO said it apologised to all those people, adding that the breaches were \"deeply regrettable\" and that is had learned from the incidents.\n\nThe Department of Health (DoH) published a report provided by the Muckamore Abbey Hospital (MAH) Independent Review Panel, which included some personal details of a small number of patients and staff.\n\nThere have been almost 50 breaches by Stormont departments during the last decade\n\nThe DoH also received reports from six members of the public who experienced issues with their Northern Ireland Covid Certification Service (CCS).\n\nTheir accounts were showing personal details and vaccine certificate information relating to other users.\n\nDuring an investigation it was discovered that the issue was a technical malfunction.\n\nThe incidents were reported to ICO and correspondence was issued to all of the people who were affected.\n\nFelicity Huston previously criticised the leaking of the names of candidates for the role of victims' commissioner in 2008.\n\nShe said the latest data breaches were deeply worrying.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sensitive information was left in a restaurant and there was possible disclosure of a former identity\n\nShe added: \"I was struck by the variety of breaches, from small things like envelopes not arriving to lost healthcare information, and that's deeply disturbing.\n\n\"After what's happened with the police and now this, people will quite rightly start to think: 'What next will turn up in the public domain?'\"\n\nThe information on data breaches was released to BBC News NI under Freedom of Information legislation.\n\nThe data relates to breaches by government departments and did not always include information on activity by their arms-length bodies.\n\nAn ICO spokesperson said: \"People have the right to expect that their personal information is kept safe and handled responsibly.\n\n\"Organisations must have robust measures in place to protect personal information, especially when that data is sensitive.\"", "Ninety-seven people died as a result of the crush at the 1989 football match\n\nA senior Tory minister \"hid in a cupboard\" to avoid meeting the families of the Hillsborough disaster, Theresa May has said.\n\nThe former prime minister refused to name them as she made the claim.\n\nShe said meeting the relatives herself convinced her to pursue the work which led to the original inquest verdicts being overturned.\n\nNinety-seven Liverpool supporters died as a result of the April 1989 crush during the FA Cup semi-final.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Merseyside, Mrs May said that when she became home secretary in 2010, not all of her ministerial colleagues were keen to meet the grieving families.\n\nShe said that a senior minister had hidden in a cupboard rather than attend.\n\nWhilst she would not name the person concerned, she said \"it exemplified a sense\" of the attitude of some colleagues.\n\nMrs May added that \"others thought it happened so long ago there's no point in revisiting it, some thought it had happened under a Conservative government - why should another Conservative government open this door?\"\n\nShe said she was conscious that as a Conservative politician she would have to work harder to gain the trust of the families and survivors, and in Liverpool, where the party has not enjoyed much support.\n\n\"I think it was a case that the families couldn't trust anyone in authority and they'd been hitting their head against a brick wall for so long,\" she said.\n\nMrs May said she had to decide whether to continue with the work of the independent panel on Hillsborough.\n\nIt had been set up by the previous Labour government, after the then-Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was heckled by survivors at an Anfield memorial for the fans who died.\n\nThe panel was to consider and publish documents relating to the disaster which had never been made public.\n\nMrs May said her mind was made up to continue the work when she met Jenni and Trevor Hicks, whose daughters Vicki and Sarah had died, and Margaret Aspinall, who had lost her son James.\n\nShe said: \"It brought home to me what had happened and the impact it had on families. Remember this was 2010 - the tragedy took place in 1989, and yet all those years on the families were fighting.\n\n\"That was a critical element - it showed they hadn't given up because they were absolutely clear that the fans weren't responsible for what had happened.\n\n\"It shone through in everything they said to me.\"\n\nTheresa May says she initially believed the authorities' stories which blamed the fans\n\nThe work of the independent panel concluded that no Liverpool fans were responsible in any way for the disaster, and revealed that police statements had been changed in the aftermath of what happened.\n\nThe original inquest verdicts of accidental death were quashed in 2012, paving the way for fresh inquests, which returned a conclusion of unlawful killing for those who died, with fans' behaviour exonerated.\n\nReflecting on the 1989 reporting of the disaster, Mrs May admitted that she had initially accepted the view that fans were to blame.\n\n\"I have to confess that at the time I believed the stories that the authorities were saying - hearing all the stories that were being put out that it was the fault of the Liverpool fans,\" she said.\n\n\"That fed into an environment at the time where there was a focus on football hooligans on violence at matches and I guess for a lot of members of the public what was being told by the authorities fit into that pattern and people accepted it\".\n\nShe said that despite police failings being highlighted in initial reviews of the disaster, \"it hadn't been picked up\".\n\nHer own views changed on meeting relatives of the fans who died, and speaking to Bishop of Liverpool James Jones, who became her advisor on Hillsborough.\n\nJenni Hicks recalled that they had had the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough and \"we still didn't know what had happened to our loved ones\".\n\nShe said they had met with several home secretaries but it was Theresa May who had been the \"only one that really listened, but not just listened - she heard\" and then \"acted upon what we'd said\".\n\nNinety-seven people died as a result of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster\n\nIn 2017, Bishop Jones published The Patronising Disposition of Unaccountable Power report which aimed to ensure \"the pain and suffering of the Hillsborough families is not repeated\".\n\nMrs May said she believed one of his recommendations - that of a public advocate who would support victims of disasters like Hillsborough - would be introduced by the end of this Parliament, but admitted progress had been slow.\n\nShe said: \"If you look at the length of time of this - first inquests, independent panel, second inquests - how much better is it for families if we can get to the truth at an earlier stage?\n\n\"How much better is it for government not to have these things hanging over them, but be able to learn lessons at an earlier stage?\".\n\nMrs May said meeting the Hillsborough families was the \"thread\" which eventually inspired her to write her book, The Abuse of Power.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The government has refused to guarantee the future of the HS2 rail line between Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson instead suggested that ministers would need to balance the interests of \"passengers and taxpayers\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met on Wednesday and discussed the HS2 project.\n\nTheir primary concerns are said to be over spiralling costs and delays to the project.\n\n\"Spades are already in the ground on our HS2 programme and we're focused on delivering it,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Sunak was committed to the line going to Manchester, the spokesman did not confirm whether it would, saying: \"We are committed to HS2, to the project.\"\n\nHowever, No 10 did confirm that ministers were looking at \"rephasing\" the project, hinting at a possible delay.\n\nSpeculation over the scheme's future resurfaced this week after The Independent carried a photograph of a document with details of a \"savings table\" of the costs of each part of the scheme north of Birmingham.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said: \"Why should it be the North of England that pays the price?\n\n\"What we are going to end up with here is in the southern half of the country, a modern, high-speed rail network, and the northern half of the country left with crumbling Victorian infrastructure. That won't level us up, it will do the exact opposite.\"\n\nHS2 has been somewhat symbolic for the government's levelling-up agenda and has been seen in recent years as an important way to help bridge economic regional disparities.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced that work on a new station at London Euston would be pushed back by two years because of rising costs.\n\nAt the same time, the government said the section between Birmingham and Crewe would be delayed by two years, to spread out spending.\n\nCosts around HS2 have increased significantly and are now well above its original budget of £33bn, which was set a decade ago when work on the line began.\n\nIt was originally planned for HS2 to run between London and Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nBut two years ago, plans for the eastern leg from Birmingham to Leeds were cut back, so the new line would stop at the East Midlands.\n\nA spokesperson for the High Speed Rail Group said scrapping phase two would be a \"disaster\" for the North of England and the Midlands and the \"ultimate U-turn\".\n\nHe added: \"The government needs to kill the speculation and make its intentions clear, and it ought to commit clearly and unambiguously to delivering the project as planned.\n\n\"The 30,000 people delivering HS2 deserve this. Our future generations deserve this. The North and Midlands deserve this.\"\n\nHenri Murison, chief executive from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC's Today programme that scrapping the Manchester leg would be \"political betrayal\" and \"economically illiterate\".\n\n\"This isn't just about changing the way that people might be able to get to London or to Birmingham, this fundamentally rips up the entire basis of the commitments that Rishi Sunak as chancellor made to the north of England,\" he said.\n\n\"What do we say to all those inward investors who have come to Manchester… that the government would promised them that they would build HS2?,\" he added.\n\n\"They came and invested money, we then promised that we would build Northern Powerhouse Rail, they invest more money, and now their private sector investment has been significantly undermined and its long-term benefit because of something the government is doing.\"", "The promise from the prime minister in the first week of January was clear. \"NHS waiting lists will fall and people will get the care they need more quickly,\" he said.\n\nAnd yet, waiting lists in England are getting longer and longer. They are at a record high.\n\nThe gap between the promise and reality is stark.\n\nBut what really struck me was how direct the prime minister has chosen to be in two ways.\n\nFirstly, to acknowledge more bluntly than ever before that his promise is - for now at least - going up in a puff of smoke.\n\nAnd secondly, why he thought that was happening.\n\nHe blames the strikes in the NHS.\n\nIt sets up an invitation for you to decide who you blame: Medics on picket lines or the prime minister?\n\nGranted, for some time ministers have referred in the round to industrial action making it harder to bring waiting lists down.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak has now gone considerably further than that.\n\nHe said the government was making \"very good progress\" before the strikes. And without them, he reckons, he would have kept his promise.\n\nFigures inside the NHS don't dispute the colossal impact of the strikes.\n\nOne long-standing manager told me the extra £200m promised for the NHS this winter wouldn't come close to covering the costs of the doctors strikes so far - let alone those still to come.\n\nThey added, though, that the number of vacancies in the NHS and rising demand are other big contributory factors to the backlogs.\n\nBut a government source zoomed in on the consequences of industrial action.\n\n\"The impact is much bigger than just the strike days,\" they said.\n\n\"The knock-ons are huge - not only are so, so many appointments postponed, they all then have to be re-arranged. It's a huge amount of extra work.\"\n\nNext week will see junior doctors and consultants in England walk out at the same time for the first time in the history of the NHS.\n\nSo, is there any prospect of a resolution to the industrial action?\n\nRight now, the answer feels like no.\n\nThose I speak to in government, publicly and privately, appear resolute. The pay offer to doctors is \"final\" and further walkouts won't change that they say.\n\nThey argue doctors have been offered what they see as a generous pay rise and loads of other NHS staff have accepted their pay offers.\n\nThe shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told me \"it is deeply cynical to blame NHS staff for rising waiting lists,\" adding: \"I don't think he's interested in sorting out these strikes. He's got a scapegoat.\"\n\nLabour say if they were in government they would talk to the striking doctors, but it's not clear precisely how they would pacify them, given their pay demands appear well in excess of what Labour would be willing to pay.\n\nSo either way these strikes are costly: Costly in their impact and costly to the public purse to resolve.\n\nThe former Conservative Health Minister Lord Bethell said the strikes \"are fundamentally the cause of the current problem\" in the NHS.\n\nBut, on Rishi Sunak's promise to cut waiting lists, he added: \"I think the pledge was a mistake frankly.\"\n\nWhoever is chosen for blame here, the prime minister chose to make a promise.\n\nAnd he's now acknowledging it is one he is breaking.", "Eurozone interest rates have been hiked to a record high by the European Central Bank (ECB).\n\nThe bank raised its key rate for the 10th time in a row, to 4% from 3.75%, as it warned inflation was \"expected to remain too high for too long\".\n\nThe latest increase came after forecasts predicted inflation, which is the rate prices rise at, would be 5.6% on average in 2023.\n\nBut the ECB signalled that Thursday's hike could be the last for now.\n\n\"The governing council considers that the key ECB interest rates have reached levels that, maintained for a sufficiently long duration, will make a substantial contribution to the timely return of inflation to the target,\" the bank said.\n\nIt added that it expected inflation in the 20-nation bloc to fall to around 2.9% next year and 2.2% in 2025.\n\nAs in other parts of the world, the eurozone has been hit by rising food and energy prices that have squeezed household budgets.\n\nCentral banks have been increasing interest rates in an attempt to slow rising prices.\n\nThe theory behind increasing rates is that by making it more expensive for people to borrow money, they will then have less excess cash to spend, meaning households will buy fewer things and then price rises will ease. But it is a balancing act as raising rates too aggressively could cause a recession.\n\nInterest rates in the UK are currently higher than in the eurozone at 5.25%, but UK inflation is also higher at 6.8%, and the Bank of England is expected to raise rates again next week.\n\nThe ECB said it was determined to see inflation fall to its 2% target in a \"timely manner\".\n\nHowever, policymakers admitted they had lowered their economic growth projections for the bloc \"significantly\" due to the impact of higher rates.\n\nEconomists at Pantheon Macroeconomics said the ECB's communication around its latest decision was a \"clear indication\" that rates would not rise further.\n\n\"We now see a high bar for anything other than a holding operation in the October and December meetings,\" they said.\n\n\"Looking further ahead, we still see a narrow window for rate cuts next year, though there is no way that you can get the ECB to even contemplate that scenario at this point.\"\n\nECB president Christine Lagarde did not rule out further rate rises, but said the \"focus is going to move, going forwards, to the duration, but that is not to say - because we can't say that now - that we are at peak\".\n\nIn June, revised figures showed the eurozone fell into recession last winter. Revised data from Germany - Europe's largest economy - contributed to the economic slump.\n\nA recession is generally defined as when an economy shrinks for two three-month periods, or quarters, in a row. A contracting economy can be bad news for businesses and result in job losses.", "Up to 3,000 people across the UK could lose their jobs as a result of the funding deal\n\nPort Talbot's steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel in a greener way, but it could see thousands lose their jobs.\n\nTata Steel will add £700m of its own as it invests in cutting emissions. It had asked ministers to provide a bigger chunk of the cost.\n\nBut the package could mean as many as 3,000 job losses across the UK.\n\nThe site in south Wales is home to Britain's biggest steelworks.\n\nThe steelworks features two blast furnaces working around the clock to produce steel used in everything from tin cans to cars.\n\nBut it is also one of the UK's largest polluters.\n\nThe UK government has agreed to fund the installation of new electric arc furnaces for steelmaking.\n\nThe £1.25bn furnaces are expected to be up and running within three years of getting regulatory and planning approvals.\n\nThe company warned there would be a \"transition period including potential deep restructuring\" at the plant.\n\nThe UK government said the deal \"has the potential to safeguard over 5,000 jobs across the UK\".\n\nTata Steel employs about 8,000 people in the UK, 4,000 of those in Port Talbot.\n\nThe site in Port Talbot is the biggest steelworks in Britain\n\nUnions previously said the move to the new less labour-intensive furnaces could lead to thousands of job losses.\n\nThe UK government said the transition was expected to reduce the UK's entire business and industry carbon emissions by 7%, Wales's overall emissions by 22% and the Port Talbot site's emissions by 85%.\n\nIt also said the plan to replace existing coal-powered blast furnaces at the site would \"reduce the UK's entire carbon emissions by around 1.5%\".\n\nFor the government and the UK steel sector the £500m support package for Port Talbot's steelworks is an important intervention that secures an industry whose future, finances and emissions are unsustainable.\n\nAnd, as government officials point out, it is much less than the £1.5bn Tata originally said was needed to save Port Talbot from possible closure.\n\nFor the Labour Party, it's another example of a hotchpotch, patchwork of last-minute deals that are a poor substitute for a coherent industrial strategy. The worst possible combination of spending hundreds of millions while costing thousands of jobs.\n\nFor the workers and unions, it's a terrible outcome of a process that they have not been involved with or consulted upon, with a result that will leave the UK still reliant on imports of the kinds of steel these new proposed furnaces cannot supply.\n\nRead more of Simon's analysis: UK now forced to act in a global subsidy war\n\nKemi Badenoch, business and trade secretary for the UK government, called the deal \"an historic package of support from the UK government\".\n\nAsked whether the job losses were a price worth paying, she said: \"That's completely the wrong way to look at it.\n\n\"We are saving jobs which would have been lost. Without this investment we would probably have seen the end of steelmaking certainly in this part of the country, possibly in the whole of the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kemi Badenoch says the deal will save jobs which would otherwise have been lost.\n\nRishi Sunak said people whose jobs are at risk should be \"reassured\" there was a £100m transition plan in place to help them retrain.\n\n\"Obviously, there will still be some people affected and I know this will be an anxious time for them.\"\n\nNatarajan Chandrasekaran, Tata group chairman, described the agreement as \"a defining moment for the future of the steel industry\".\n\n\"The proposed investment will preserve significant employment and presents a great opportunity for the development of a green technology-based industrial ecosystem in south Wales.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock, Labour MP for Aberavon, said the investment to decarbonise was long overdue, but that he was concerned that ministers did not \"adequately consult steel unions\".\n\n\"At the heart of this failure is the narrow focus on electric arc furnace technology, which will not only result in more job losses than necessary, but which simply cannot produce the qualities and grades of steel needed to meet the full spectrum of Tata's customer base,\" he said.\n\nProtestors gathered outside the site in Port Talbot following the announcement\n\nDavid Rees, MS for Aberavon, said Port Talbot had a \"proud history of steel making and the loss of its blast furnaces in the years ahead will see an end to traditional steel making in Wales\".\n\nHe added: \"Also, we cannot hide from the fact that this pathway to decarbonisation will see many steelworkers lose their livelihoods, creating hardships for families across our communities.\"\n\nJonathan Reynolds, shadow business and trade secretary, said: \"Only the Tories could spend £500m of taxpayers' money to make thousands of British workers redundant.\n\n\"Britain needs an industrial strategy that invests alongside industry delivering a return on taxpayers' investment whilst protecting our national capabilities and workforce.\"\n\nThe Welsh government described the deal as a \"worrying time for the whole community\" and has urged the firm to consult with staff and trade unions over the deal.\n\nThe government added: \"While today's announcement contains significant investment for the longer term, it is inevitable that Tata employees, and their families, are focused on the impact it will have on jobs in Port Talbot and Tata's downstream facilities.\"\n\nLuke Fletcher MS, and Plaid Cymru's economy spokesperson said decarbonising the steel industry should not be at the expense of its steelworkers.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said the plans were \"disgraceful, short-sighted and lack ambition\" while the TUC said the deal was a \"devastating blow for workers at Port Talbot\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Assistant general secretary of the Community trade union Alasdair McDiarmid said: \"We believe that Tata and the government's focus has been on rushing through the cheapest and easiest deal rather than the best deal for our industry, for the workforce and for the country.\"\n\nRedundancies will be a \"hammer blow\" for Port Talbot, says Plaid politician Luke Fletcher\n\nThe steelworks in Port Talbot have been owned by Tata Steel since April 2007.\n\nTata's UK plants were put up for sale in March 2016, leading to months of uncertainty, but the move was eventually put on hold and a 10-year £1bn investment plan announced for the site.\n\nTata agreed a merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp in 2018, but this later fell through.\n\nIn 2019, there were also fears that 1,000 jobs in Wales would be put at risk as part of a restructuring plan.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic hit, concerns were raised about the plant's future in April 2020 with calls for £500m of government funding to keep the furnaces going, by MP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock.\n\nA few months later in July 2020, reports emerged about plans to replace the two blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces, with Tata dismissing them as \"unsubstantiated speculation\".\n\nIn July 2022, Tata's former head of strategy, Nirmalya Kumar, said the Port Talbot plant had not been profitable for the past 15 years.", "'Everything that would suggest human life has been washed away'\n\nIt is astonishing when you stand in Derna and see how the centre of the city has been simply carved away; there is nothing left. Where the river ran down to the sea, there are just banks of earth and mud. People are talking about this torrent of water having the force of an atomic bomb. Yesterday I was looking at cars that had been picked up and thrown inside buildings. Trees have been uprooted, and everything here suggests that human life has been washed away. And you must consider that this is happening in a country which has been wracked by conflict for more than a decade, so the normal civil contingencies are not in place. Things like tents, medical care and clean water need to be brought into the country. This is very difficult when you have these two parallel administrations controlling Libya. And then even when you manage to get that aid into Benghazi, it is a 6-7 hour drive to Derna. I’ve seen local Libyans with pickup trucks doing what they could. But the normal large-scale, well-rehearsed humanitarian operation from the international community that you would normally see a week after a disaster like this is not in place.", "Mohammed was attacked as he played outside the family home Image caption: Mohammed was attacked as he played outside the family home\n\nA boy attacked and injured in Walsall by a Staffordshire bull terrier, leading to the arrest of a woman, remains in hospital with serious injuries to his arm and legs.\n\nThe dog had \"come out of nowhere\" to bite Mohammed, as he played with a football outside their home, his father Gohar Siddique said.\n\n\"He has had a very difficult time in hospital as well, and is scared, afraid, to go outside,\" he added.\n\n\"This will impact him for a long time.\"\n\nThe 60-year-old woman was detained on suspicion of possession of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury, and released with a caution.\n\nThe dog was seized and had since been destroyed, said West Midlands Police. The attack happened in Bentley Drive on Wednesday.", "The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has insisted that Wandsworth prison was adequately staffed on the day terror suspect, Daniel Khalife, escaped.\n\nPrisons minister, Damien Hinds, announced earlier that 80 prison officers - nearly 40% of expected staff - had not turned up for their shift.\n\nHowever, officials have now issued a second statement clarifying that the majority of the absences were planned.\n\nThey said fewer than five of the 80 absences were unauthorised.\n\nAccording to the department, reasons for planned absences from Wandsworth prison on 6 September included staff training, annual leave and sickness. These absences were planned for in advance by the prison governor.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said: \"Staffing levels at HMP Wandsworth have increased by around a quarter since 2017 and there were an appropriate number of staff on duty that day.\n\nEarlier the MoJ said an initial investigation into Mr Khalife's escape had not found the staffing level to be a contributing factor in the escape on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking on 10 September, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said preliminary inquiries had determined that correct security protocols and staffing levels were in place at the time.\n\nPrisons minister Damian Hinds said: \"Overall staffing levels were above the minimum staffing level required by the prison's Regime Management Plan to deliver a safe and decent regime.\n\n\"All staff in both the kitchen and the gatehouse were on duty on 6 September.\"\n\nMinimum staffing levels are set locally - the BBC has not yet been able to confirm what the minimum levels are at Wandsworth prison.\n\nMr Hinds also said the government had taken steps to increase the overall prison workforce, adding that the 12 months to June 2023 had seen an increase of more than 700 full-time equivalent officers.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said \"in general, of course, people should turn up to work wherever they work\", but the full facts needed to be established to prevent this from happening again.\n\nThe last formal inspection of Wandsworth, published last year, found staffing shortfalls \"were preventing the prison from running a decent and predictable regime\".\n\nIn the 12 months to March 2023, Wandsworth lost an average of 20 working days per worker to sickness absence - the sixth highest of the 106 prisons in England and Wales that submitted data.\n\nThe figure was also 54% higher than the average (13 days) of all the prisons that submitted data and substantially higher than the UK average, which was 6 days in 2022.\n\nAndrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors Association, told the BBC's World at One that prisons were \"a very stressful environment\" leading to high levels of staff sickness.\n\n\"In some of our prisons it does border on being quite dangerous,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prison protocols were in place but questions remain - Alex Chalk\n\nInitial figures published by the government in response to a question from local Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan revealed that Wandsworth prison has regularly operated with between 36% and 48% expected staff missing.\n\nStaff surveys reported that less than 64% of expected staff turned up to work on the last day of the month for 11 out of the last 12 months. The highest reported level of staffing was 81%, recorded on a weekend when the number of staff on rota is usually lower.\n\nThe disclosures come on the day details of an independent investigation into the prison escape have been published.\n\nIt will be headed by Keith Bristow, a former director-general of the National Crime Agency and chief constable of Warwickshire Police.\n\nMr Khalife was arrested on a canal towpath in west London on 9 September after being pulled off a bicycle by a plain-clothes counter-terrorism officer.\n\nThe MoJ said the probe would look into the rules at HMP Wandsworth and how Mr Khalife might have got the tools he needed to escape.\n\nStaffing levels and an assessment of security measures, such as checks relating to the delivery lorries, will also be looked at.\n\nA report will be submitted to Mr Chalk and the head civil servant at the MoJ.\n\nMeanwhile, the Justice Committee has launched an inquiry into the prison population and capacity of current prisons.", "The failure of two dams sent a torrent of water through Derna, washing entire streets into the sea\n\nThe first sign that something was wrong was the sound of the dogs barking.\n\nIt was 2.30am and dark outside. When Husam Abdelgawi, a 31-year-old accountant in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, got up and went sleepily downstairs to check on them, he felt water under his feet.\n\nHusam opened the front door of the house he shared with his younger brother, Ibrahim. More water flooded in, pulling the door off of its hinges.\n\nThe brothers ran to the back door, where they were met by a \"ghastly, unimaginable scene, worse than death itself to witness\", Husam said, in a phone interview from the city of Al-Qubbah.\n\n\"The bodies of women and children were floating past us. Cars and entire houses were caught up in the current. Some of the bodies were swept by the water into our house.\"\n\nThe water swept Husam and Ibrahim up too, carrying them farther and faster than they imagined possible. Within seconds, they were 150m apart.\n\nIbrahim, 28, managed to grab on to floating power cables still tethered to their poles and grapple himself back towards where Husam was stuck. The brothers used the cables like ropes to pull themselves towards a nearby building and through a third-floor window, and from there they made it to a fifth-floor rooftop where they could wait out the flood.\n\n\"The area where we were was a higher part of the city,\" Husam said. \"In the lower parts, I don't think anyone on the fifth or sixth floors has survived. I think they are all dead. May God have mercy on their souls.\"\n\nPeople look at missing notices in the aftermath of the floods in Derna\n\nEstimates of the number of dead vary. Libya's ambassador to the UN says about 6,000 people are confirmed to have died with thousands more missing. A Red Crescent official in Libya said about 10,000 people were believed killed. Derna's mayor has warned that 20,000 people may have lost their lives.\n\nThe flood was triggered by the failure of two dams outside Derna, unleashing a torrent of water through the city's centre.\n\n\"Derna was divided in two halves by the water and everything in between is gone,\" said Rahma Ben Khayal, an 18-year-old student who made it to safety on a rooftop in the city. \"The people in between are all dead,\" she said.\n\nThe torrent that washed away entire streets had begun a day earlier, as light rain.\n\nIt was not frightening at first, said Amna Al Ameen Absais, a 23-year-old medical student born and raised in Derna, who is guardian to her three younger siblings following the death of both parents from illness.\n\nAs the raindrops drummed outside, the four siblings sat in their first floor apartment in the Beach Towers, a seven-story building next to the waterfront, playing games and scrolling on their phones. They dressed her younger brother in a life vest and laughed.\n\nAmna managed to escape with her three younger siblings\n\nBut as Sunday night wore on, the rain got heavier. Sirens sounded. The siblings couldn't sleep.\n\n\"It really began about 2.30am,\" Amna said, in a phone interview from the nearby city of Tobruk. \"The noise was getting much louder. My brother said he could see water covering the street.\"\n\nAs the water rose, the neighbours began to migrate upstairs. Amna grabbed the cat and four passports and they went up from their first floor apartment to a third floor apartment. \"People were looking outside into the dark, praying,\" she said. Then the water reached the third floor. \"Everyone started screaming. We moved up again, to the fifth floor and finally up to the seventh floor.\"\n\nPanic had set in. \"I lost the cat,\" Amna said. \"I lost my little brother for a minute but then I found him. I realised we could not even stay on the seventh floor, we had to go to the rooftop.\"\n\nFrom there, they could see neighbours on the roof of a three-storey building opposite, including a family with whom they were friends. The neighbours were waving their phone torches. Moments later, their entire building collapsed into the water in the dark.\n\n\"It felt like an earthquake,\" Amna said. \"That family still hasn't been found. Their son is looking for them. We told him that we saw their building collapse in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThe remains of Amna's building, Beach Towers, after it partially collapsed in the flood.\n\nSome of Amna's own family are missing, too. Her uncle, his wife and their three sons lived in a nearby building that collapsed. \"Our last call was about 9pm, he was calling to make sure we were OK,\" she said. \"We haven't heard from him since.\"\n\nEventually, Amna was able to escape the building with all three siblings, after the floodwaters lowered. Her street had disappeared completely. \"It was like the earth had split open,\" she said. \"Only a cavity left where the street used to be.\"\n\nA neighbour she knew slipped and disappeared into the water in front of them, her husband and son unable to save her, Amna said. She heard that her best friend, Aisha, had not made it.\n\nAmna and her siblings walked for hours to higher ground, passing bodies on the way. The death toll from the catastrophe looks set to rise significantly. Husam Abdelgawi, the accountant, said he had already counted at least 30 friends among the dead, and more than 200 acquaintances. \"It is a miracle that I survived,\" he said.\n\nThe damage to Derna itself is catastrophic. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed.\n\nMohamed al-Menfi from Libya's internationally-recognised government in the western city of Tripoli said he had asked the country's attorney general to investigate - anyone whose actions or failure to act were responsible for the dams' collapse should be held accountable, he said.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization said most loss of life could have been prevented if Libya had a functioning weather agency - \"They could have issued warnings. The emergency management authorities would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people. And we could have avoided most of the human casualties,\" said WMO head Petteri Taalashe.\n\nMany survivors are waiting desperately for news of loved ones. Others are mourning, for the dead and for Derna.\n\n\"I don't think I can ever go back,\" Amna said. \"Those streets were my whole life. We knew every corner of the city. Now it's gone.\"", "The father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif have been charged with the murder of the 10-year-old girl, Surrey Police has said.\n\nUrfan Sharif, 41, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking, have been charged.\n\nThey have also each been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nSara's body was found at her home on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\".\n\nThe three adults left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August.\n\nThey were arrested at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday evening after disembarking a flight from Dubai. Early on Friday morning, Surrey Police confirmed they had been charged.\n\nThey have been remanded in custody to appear at Guildford Magistrates' Court later on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSara's five siblings, aged between one and 13 years old, also travelled to Pakistan on 9 August with Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik.\n\nThe children were found by police in Pakistan at the home of Mr Sharif's father on Monday and have since been moved to a government childcare facility in the country.\n\nSurrey Police said Sara's mother, Olga Sharif, had been informed of the latest developments and was being supported by specialist officers.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, has been criminally charged with three counts of lying when buying a firearm, after a proposed plea deal collapsed.\n\nThe indictment marks the first time the child of a sitting president has been criminally prosecuted.\n\nA planned plea bargain to resolve gun and tax-related charges he faced abruptly fell apart in July.\n\nAll three counts relate to Mr Biden, 53, allegedly lying on forms while buying a gun when he was a drug user.\n\nProsecutors allege he falsely claimed that he was \"not an unlawful user of and addicted to any stimulant narcotic drug\" when he purchased a Colt Cobra Special revolver at a Delaware gun store in October 2018.\n\nAt the time, Mr Biden was a heavy user of crack cocaine.\n\nUnder US federal laws, it is a crime to lie on such documentation, or possess a firearm while a drug user.\n\nIf convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, the justice department said in a statement. Actual sentences for federal crimes are usually less than the maximum possible penalties.\n\nIt is still unclear when and where Mr Biden's initial court appearance will take place.\n\nMr Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, suggested the charges had been influenced by \"Republicans' improper and partisan interference in this process\".\n\nHe said his client \"did not violate the law\" and that his brief possession of an unloaded gun was never a threat to public safety.\n\n\"But a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice,\" said Mr Lowell.\n\nCornell Law School professor Randy Zellin told the BBC he believes that Mr Biden is unlikely to serve any time in prison and a plea agreement is likely.\n\n\"It's a nonsense case,\" he said. \"Nobody got hurt. It's a victimless crime. He's never been in trouble before. Is this really how we want to waste judicial resources?\"\n\nIn June, a two-part agreement was reached between prosecutors and Mr Biden's legal team, which later collapsed.\n\nUnder the terms of that agreement, he would have been charged with two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nHe would also have been forced to admit to illegal possession of a firearm and agree to drug treatment and monitoring to avoid a felony charge and potential imprisonment.\n\nBut US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika said she could not \"rubber stamp the agreement\", adding that the proposed resolution of the gun-related offence was \"unusual\".\n\nThursday's charges are the first brought by justice department special counsel Davis Weiss, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in August.\n\nMr Weiss' office had previously said he was seeking to indict Mr Biden by 29 September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nThe younger Mr Biden's legal woes have become a political lightning rod as his father seeks re-election, although he has never held a position in the White House or his father's administration.\n\nEarlier this week, Republicans in the US House of Representatives announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.\n\nAmong the accusations being levelled against the elder Mr Biden are that he lied about his involvement in his son's business dealings while serving as vice-president from 2009-17.\n\nTwo tax investigators also claimed the justice department stymied the investigation into Hunter Biden's tax return. The department has denied the claims.\n\nOn X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer - the man leading the indictment inquiry - said the charges against Hunter Biden were a \"very small start\".\n\n\"But unless US Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in the fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear President Biden's DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden and the big guy\".", "Lucy Letby refused to appear in court for her sentencing last month\n\nNurse Lucy Letby is to appeal against all her convictions for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six.\n\nHer legal team has lodged an application for permission to appeal according to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.\n\nAmong her crimes, Letby injected babies with air and poisoned two with insulin at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe 33-year-old was sentenced to a whole-life term in August.\n\nSumming up at the end of her trial, judge Mr Justice Goss told the jury it was a case in which the prosecution \"substantially, but not wholly\" relied on circumstantial evidence.\n\nNews of her planned appeal comes after it was revealed a further court hearing will take place on 25 September where the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether to pursue a retrial for six outstanding counts of attempted murder.\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on those counts at the end of Letby's trial.\n\nLetby, who became the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history, refused to appear in the dock for her sentencing hearing on 21 August.\n\nThe judge proceeded without her and said he was addressing her as if she were in the dock.\n\nShe was given repeated whole-life terms - one for each offence - becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nWhole-life orders are the most severe punishment available and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nJudge Goss said the \"cruelty and calculation\" of Letby's actions between June 2015 and June 2016 were \"truly horrific\".\n\n\"You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.\n\n\"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing.\n\n\"You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors.\"\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nHe said Letby, originally from Hereford, would be provided with copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the parents.\n\nThe mother of one baby boy killed by Letby said she was \"horrified that someone so evil exists\".\n\nA candlelit vigil to remember the victims was held at Chester Cathedral on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Department of Health has said an independent inquiry will be held into Letby's case, and will examine \"the circumstances surrounding the deaths and incidents, including how concerns raised by clinicians were dealt with\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The attack happened in Bentley Drive, Walsall, on Wednesday\n\nA woman has been arrested after a 10-year-old boy was attacked and injured by a Staffordshire bull terrier.\n\nThe boy, Mohammed, was being treated in hospital for injuries to his arm and legs after the attack in Bentley Drive, Walsall, on Wednesday, police said.\n\nThe dog was seized and had since been destroyed, said West Midlands Police.\n\nMohammed's father, Gohar Siddique, said the dog had \"come out of nowhere\" to attack his son as he played with a football outside their home.\n\nHe remains in hospital with \"very bad injuries on his right arm and both of his legs,\" said the father.\n\n\"He has had a very difficult time in hospital as well, and is scared, afraid, to go outside.\n\n\"This will impact him for a long time,\" he added.\n\nHe has released CCTV footage and images of the attack to warn others about dangerous dogs.\n\nThe boy was attacked as he played with a football outside his house\n\nMohammed remains in hospital suffering injuries to his arm and both legs\n\n\"Sometimes we see the news it happens with other people and I never ever imagined that it would happen to my children,\" he said.\n\nA 60-year-old woman has been detained on suspicion of possession of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury.\n\nShe has been released with a caution.\n\nOfficers said they believed the dog had managed to get out of his owner's home without her knowing.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Supermarkets' loyalty schemes are not the bargains they appear, according to a leading consumer rights group.\n\nWhich? says Sainsbury's and Tesco are using \"dodgy tactics\" by increasing the prices of everyday items so the discounts for people with loyalty cards look bigger than they really are.\n\nHowever, the claims have been rejected by both supermarkets.\n\nSainsbury's and Tesco said all prices have been going up due to inflation, which is much higher than usual.\n\nAgainst this backdrop of rising prices, the UK's two biggest supermarkets now offer two different prices for many items- a higher one for shoppers without loyalty cards and a lower one for shoppers with a loyalty card.\n\nOn the face of it that can look like big savings for scheme members, with sometimes a £1 to £2 difference in price.\n\nHowever Which? said supermarkets were inflating the \"regular\" price and the members' deal was often not significantly better than the general recent price for the product, in their store or at rivals'.\n\nWhich? said it had tracked pricing history in stores for six months to see whether the regular price displayed was really the standard price the items were sold at over a reasonable recent period.\n\nAmong the deals it highlighted were:\n\nWhich? said the regular price went up from £6 to £8.10 two days before the Nectar offer was launched.\n\nSainsbury's said Which?'s methodology was \"flawed\" and the regular price was not £6.\n\n\"The base price of this item has been £8.10 since December 2022 and £6 was a promotional price throughout this year, including on Nectar Prices when it launched in April,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Which? fails to recognise that base prices have been increasing throughout the year due to inflation,\" they added.\n\nThe salad cream had been sold at £2.99 for several weeks but the price was increased to £3.90 just 22 days before the Clubcard promotion began, Which? said. Which? found the condiment had been sold at £3.90 for just 14% of the previous six months.\n\nTesco said its 8,000 Clubcard deals offered genuine savings for customers.\n\n\"All our Clubcard Price promotions follow strict rules, including considering how they compare against prices in the market, to ensure they represent genuine value and savings for our Clubcard members,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBoth supermarkets said they followed Trading Standards rules on promotions.\n\nHowever, Which? said it had found that around a third (29%) of the member-only promotions were at their so-called regular price for less than half of the preceding six-month period.\n\nSue Davies, head of food policy at Which? said the investigation showed loyalty offers were not all they were cracked up to be.\n\n\"As member-only pricing continues to grow, the sector, its pricing practices and who is eligible for membership needs to be properly scrutinised so that all shoppers - including society's most vulnerable - can benefit and no one is misled into buying things they wouldn't have usually bought or which isn't quite the deal they believe it to be,\" she said.\n\nThe consumer group said not everyone was able to access the discounts, including children buying lunch, young parents and carers, and people in temporary accommodation. As a result they may be paying inflated prices, it said.\n\nShoppers commenting online were divided over whether loyalty schemes were a good or bad thing.\n\nSome described them as a \"scam\", saying they were \"sick of seeing a price shoot up, knowing that it's going to be a special offer a couple of weeks later\".\n\nOthers called for more clarity, including the suggestion that supermarkets should have to display the price charged over the previous six months.\n\nMany said supermarkets without such schemes were more attractive.\n\nHowever, other shoppers said loyalty scheme pricing had helped them weather \"hard times\".\n\nWhich? said it had shared its findings with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this year said it would explore whether competition was working effectively in the grocery sector.\n\nA CMA spokesperson said: \"Grocery prices are a huge concern to people all over the country and shoppers need help to spot the best value for their money. That's why the CMA has a programme of work in the groceries sector such as looking into unit pricing practices online and instore.\n\n\"We will consider the information provided by Which? about its recent investigation into loyalty prices.\"", "Steelworkers want clarity over whether the UK government will invest £500m into Tata Steel\n\nSteelworkers have said reports of potential job losses in Port Talbot were \"frightening\" and called for certainty about a deal to decarbonise.\n\nShadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds met steelworkers after reports the UK government could offer £500m to Tata Steel to help it reach net zero.\n\nMr Reynolds said it seemed ministers were \"spending half a billion pounds to make 3,000 people unemployed\".\n\nTata Steel UK said it was \"fully committed to meaningful consultation\".\n\nThe UK government has also been asked to comment.\n\nA UK government announcement is expected on Friday about the amount of money it is willing to spend to help Tata Steel modernise its operations across the UK.\n\nAlan Coombs, a member of the Community union, said workers had \"not been part of any discussions\" in Port Talbot.\n\n\"We don't know the scope of things, how big, how small it is going to be.\n\n\"We have heard some things in the press.\n\n\"Some of it is quite frightening, to be honest with you - but we have got to wait until we get the official statement from Tata and they present something to us.\n\n\"They haven't presented anything to any unions at this point in time.\"\n\nThe Financial Times and Sky News reported a deal to fund the decarbonisation of Tata Steel UK's operations was imminent, and said that the UK government would contribute £500m towards the plan.\n\nThe Financial Times and Sky News have reported that a deal to fund the decarbonisation of Tata Steel UK's operations was imminent\n\nBut they warned the changes would include long-term job losses of about 3,000 workers across the UK.\n\nMr Reynolds said it was important that workers got certainty about the future.\n\n\"What I am extremely alarmed about is that first of all the workers here have been promised, as recently as a fortnight ago, that they would be integral to any transition plans, that they would be a part of that process but they have been kept completely in the dark. That is unacceptable,\" Mr Reynolds said.\n\nHe added: \"But I am also worried, if the reports are true, that the UK Conservative government is proposing spending half a billion pounds to make 3,000 people unemployed.\n\n\"We want green steel but there are ways to do that. And there are ways to do that which makes it an incredibly positive story for the UK. But we are not getting that at the minute.\n\n\"People will know that the technology that is being proposed, if the reports are true, fundamentally limits the products that can be made here in Port Talbot.\n\n\"There are huge repercussions for that, there are huge repercussions for the existing order book let alone the future.\"\n\nMP Stephen Kinnock says Tata should explore all options\n\nMP for Aberavon Stephen Kinnock said Tata should explore all options, rather than commit to electric arc furnaces.\n\n\"[Electric arc alone] seems to me to be a very short-sighted approach.\n\n\"They should be looking at all kinds of different options, not just electric arc furnaces but also direct reduced iron, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage so that we can protect the order book, keep all of those jobs, and also move towards a cleaner, greener way of making steel.\"\n\nCommunity union national officer Alun Davies said he was \"gutted\" by the reported proposals that may mean 3,000 job losses.\n\n\"I don't even want to think about that, to be honest. I have a lot of friends in there, a lot of friends who rely on it as a well-paid job.\"\n\nSteelworkers held a rally before the meeting on Thursday\n\nResponding to reports that Tata and the UK government could announce a deal as soon as Friday Mr Davies said: \"If this is correct, then Tata should have really told us what we are expecting.\n\n\"These conversations should have happened a while ago.\n\nGary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union said the deal \"will have devastating consequences for jobs and workers\", adding: \"It will rip the heart out of the Port Talbot community.\"\n\nHe said the union has been calling for investment for years but accused the government of not listening, which he said meant \"thousands of workers, their families and communities will pay the price\".\n\nDr Simon Cran-McGreehin, head of analysis at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), said: \"The government may be trying to do the right thing here, but if this deal leads to 3,000 job losses it can't be right.\"\n\nHe said jobs could be protected by manufacturing hydrogen-based steel and having arc furnaces that recycle used steel.\n\n\"We have been talking to them about decarbonisation for two or three years and have always been told they would consult with us fully, which is why this is such a shock.\"\n\nA UK government source told the BBC that any deal would be \"hugely significant\". They added Tata's UK business had been making losses for years, and the alternative would be 8,000 jobs lost with over 12,000 in supply chain at risk.\n\nIn a statement, Tata said: \"Tata Steel is fully committed to meaningful consultation and due process as soon as practicable with our stakeholders, including trade union partners and employee representatives, prior to decision making on relevant proposals including those relating to decarbonisation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian Price, 52, died after suffering multiple injuries in the attack by two suspected American bully XLs\n\nA man who died after suffering multiple injuries in an attack by two suspected American bully XLs has been named as Ian Price.\n\nHe was left in a critical condition after being attacked by the dogs in Stonnall, near Walsall, Staffordshire.\n\nThe 52-year-old was taken to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital but was later confirmed dead.\n\nA man, 30, from Lichfield has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, said Staffordshire Police.\n\nOfficers had spoken to the dog owner on two previous occasions after being called to incidents in the area, the force said.\n\nIt has been given a further 10 hours to question the suspect.\n\nHe had initially been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of dogs dangerously out of control, causing injury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says it is clear the American XL bully dogs are \"a danger to communities\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to ban American bully XL dogs, describing them as a \"danger to communities\".\n\nPolice said it was understood the dogs were bully XLs, but further tests were being carried out to determine their breed.\n\nOne of the dogs died after being restrained and the other died after an injection was given by a vet, police said.\n\nThe BBC understands these dogs were owned by the man who was arrested by detectives\n\nThe attack happened in Main Street at about 15:15 BST on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the public tried to help Mr Price and attempted to get the dogs off him.\n\nMeanwhile, children at nearby St Peter's Primary Academy were stopped from leaving for several hours for safety reasons.\n\nOne of the dogs was captured outside, while the other was contained in the owner's flat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man dies after attack by 'American XL bully dogs' in Staffordshire\n\nOne resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said in March a woman and her dog was seen being chased into a shop by the same two dogs that had killed Mr Price.\n\n\"It was carnage - the two dogs were after her dog,\" they said.\n\n\"I think they had taken a few nips at him. The woman was hysterical but she was unhurt.\"\n\nThe resident said police had been called to the incident, which also saw customers jumping over the shop's counter for protection, and the dogs' owner had been given a caution.\n\nOfficers had attended the incident on 30 March, confirmed Staffordshire Police, who said the shop was damaged after people in the area \"went inside\".\n\n\"No complaints were made in relation to the incident and no offences were identified,\" it said.\n\nOfficers had also spoken to the dog's owner on 14 January, it added.\n\nThe dog's owner was \"co-operative and engaged positively with officers\", the force said.\n\n\"Both dogs were in the address at the time and appeared to be calm. They did not show any signs of aggression towards officers.\"\n\nThey had reviewed video of the fatal incident and previous reports and concluded that the material did not meet the criteria for a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nPolice are keen to speak to people with information about the attack that killed Ian Price\n\nSupt Tracy Meir, of Staffordshire Police, said the victim's family was being supported.\n\n\"Detectives continue to investigate and we have taken statements, viewed CCTV and carried out house-to-house inquiries in the local area, but are keen to speak to anyone with information,\" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said American bully XL dogs would be banned by the end of the year, after work was done to define the breed.\n\nHe said he shared \"the nation's horror\" regarding videos of recent dog attacks, including Thursday's incident that \"tragically led to a fatality\".\n\nA recent dog attack on an 11-year-old girl in Birmingham sparked the debate about banning certain dog breeds.\n\nThe girl and two men were set upon by an American bully XL outside shops in Bordesley Green on 9 September.\n\nAna Paun, 11, said she had started to run after seeing a dog staring at her when it grabbed her hand and started moving her about.\n\nFollowing Mr Sunak's pledge to ban the breed, the girl's mother told the BBC: \"We are happy about this news.\n\n\"But we would be more happy if owners were forced to look after their dogs better.\"\n\nHowever, the Dog Control Coalition, a group including RSPCA, Battersea Dogs Home and the Royal Kennel Club, said banning specific breeds was not the solution - pointing to \"irresponsible breeding, rearing and ownership\".\n\nBBC Verify reported that 10 people died because of dog bite injuries in England and Wales last year.\n\nLast year, there were nearly 22,000 cases of out-of-control dogs causing injury. In 2018, there were just over 16,000, a BBC investigation found.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Train drivers have announced two more strikes as part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe Aslef union said its members at 16 train companies in England would walk out on 30 September and 4 October.\n\nIt added an overtime ban for drivers would take place on 29 September and for five days from 2 to 6 October.\n\nThe industrial action also coincides with the Conservative Party conference, which will be held in Manchester from 1 to 4 October.\n\nServices are expected to be cancelled and cause disruption on the strike and overtime ban days.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper described the latest strikes as \"cynical\" and \"politically motivated\".\n\nBoth the train drivers' union Aslef and the RMT, which represents other rail workers, have been locked in a row with train companies over pay and working conditions, leading to regular strikes in the past 18 months.\n\nProgress in the dispute with union bosses has ground to a halt since the latest proposals put forward in the spring by train operators were rejected.\n\nThe offer put forward included a series of changes to working practices which would enable pay rises of 4% for one year and 4% the next.\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary, said while the union regretted striking again, \"the government, and the employers, have forced us into this position\".\n\nHe said the union's members had not had a pay rise since 2019 which was \"not right when prices have soared in that time\".\n\n\"Train drivers, perfectly reasonably, want to be able to buy now what they could buy four years ago,\" he added.\n\nIn 2021, the median salary for train drivers was £59,189 per year.\n\nThe 16 companies affected by the latest strike action are Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, c2c, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Greater Anglia, GTR Great Northern Thameslink, Great Western Railway, Island Line, LNER, Northern Trains, Southeastern, Southern/Gatwick Express, South Western Railway, TransPennine Express, and West Midlands Trains.\n\nHow will the strikes affect you? You can get in touch the following ways:\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, said it wanted to give staff pay rises, but said a deal was linked to \"implementing necessary, sensible reforms that would enhance services for our passengers\".\n\n\"The union have rejected a fair and affordable offer without putting it to their members,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We ask the Aslef leadership and executive to recognise the very real financial challenge the industry is facing and work with us to deliver a more reliable and robust railway for the future.\"\n\nAslef's Mr Whelan compared Transport Secretary Mr Harper to \"Where's Wally?\", claiming he had not made contact with the union since December last year.\n\n\"Where's Mark Harper? He holds the purse strings. The train companies have told us. They say they cannot act without his say-so.\"\n\nHe called on Mr Harper to \"come to the negotiating table\" to end the dispute.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Harper said the strikes train drivers were \"paid an average of £60k for a 35-hour, 4 day week\".\n\n\"There's an offer on the table to take that up to £65k - and still they strike, putting their own jobs at risk,\" he added.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the government had \"facilitated fair and reasonable offers to both RMT and Aslef\".\n\n\"Further strike action will not only put a strain on taxpayers, but risk driving passengers away from the network for good. These strikes will not prevent the need for essential workplace reforms,\" a spokesperson said.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\n\"One player is going to die.\"\n\nThat was the stark warning from Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev as he battled the heat, humidity and Andrey Rublev at the US Open in New York last week. It came just a week after some races at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest were moved because of fears over the safety of competitors.\n\nWith extreme temperatures more likely across the globe as a result of climate change, these kind of impacts are becoming the new reality for sport.\n\nIn less than three years' time, the 2026 men's World Cup final will cap an expanded tournament of 48 teams playing 104 matches in six summer weeks across Canada, the United States and Mexico.\n\nThe previous edition - held in Qatar in 2022 - was moved from June and July, when temperatures regularly exceed 40C and can reach 50C, to November and December to protect players and fans.\n\nBut after a record-breaking summer of extreme heat and wildfire air pollution - in which 96% of the US population (318 million people) experienced an extreme heat alert, 175 cities had at least a week of extreme heat, and 45 cities witnessed unusually high temperatures for more than half of their summer days - could Fifa have another issue on its hands?\n\nSome of the world's leading sport scientists certainly think so.\n\nHere are some of the factors to consider:\n• None of 48C was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona. Temperatures hit 43C for 19 days running.\n• None In Texas this summer, temperatures were above 38C for 27 consecutive days. The heat forced the closure of businesses and public facilities such as parks, museums and zoos.\n• None The US government's Heat Index - which measures temperature plus humidity - puts readings of 32C at 'extreme caution' for sporting activity and 39C at 'danger'. Miami, a 2026 host city, has registered 38C or higher every day for more than a month on the Heat Index.\n• None In total, about 100 million people have experienced very poor air quality this summer as Canadian wildfires spread smoke across several cities.\n\nUniversity of Portsmouth professor Mike Tipton specialises in extreme temperature impacts on the human body and has worked with Team GB athletes, including triathlete Jonny Brownlee after his infamous collapse from heat stress in Mexico in 2016.\n\n\"I would have concerns,\" Prof Tipton told BBC Sport. \"They would range from players through to officials and spectators.\n\n\"Probably the best approach is then to hope for the best but plan for the worst. That would mean giving some consideration to moving the event to a different time.\"\n\nProf Tipton believes if the World Cup is played in the extreme temperatures seen this summer in North America, performance and strategy will change.\n\n\"You simply cannot physically achieve what needs to be achieved and play the same game as you would play in Liverpool in the winter as you would under a 'heat dome' in America in the summer,\" he said.\n\nAlmost 30 years ago, at the 1994 men's World Cup in the United States, news reports recorded on-field temperatures over 100F during several mid-afternoon kick-offs, with the New York Times reporting 160 fans were treated for heat-related stress and 12 were hospitalised.\n• None US Open heatwave: How hot is too hot to play a Grand Slam?\n• None What to expect from the 2026 men's World Cup\n• None What effect do heatwaves have on the body?\n\nThen there is the smoke...\n\nThe Canadian wildfire season, stoked by above-average temperatures this summer, is now the worst on record.\n• None Fires have burned nearly 15 million hectares (37.5 million acres) of land.\n• None Last weekend there were more than 1,000 active fires burning in Canada.\n• None The smoke drifted into the US, with 18 states under air-quality alerts this summer, meaning people were advised to stay indoors, and baseball, football and even indoor basketball games were cancelled.\n• None World Cup 2026 host cities Vancouver, Seattle, Boston, Toronto, Philadelphia and New York have all been affected by wildfire smoke.\n\nProfessor Michael Koehle is a respiratory health academic based at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, and says being exposed to wildfire smoke over consecutive days \"will have health consequences\".\n\n\"The problem is you can't predict these things very far in advance,\" said Prof Koehle, who has worked with Athletics Canada and the Canada men's football team. \"I don't know how you manage the consequences of disruption.\n\n\"If the local Public Health Agency says you cannot hold this match, how do you handle that?\"\n\nProf Koehle said it would be a \"logistical nightmare\" to move matches at short notice out of North America if air quality is poor in 2026, adding: \"It's certainly going to be easier for the players and the spectators if it's held in April, May, September or October, due to the risk of disruption.\"\n\nCritics believe Fifa has to address the emissions it is creating. By Fifa's own estimation, the 2026 World Cup will be the most emitting tournament it has ever staged.\n\nIts claims Qatar 2022 would be carbon-neutral were called \"dangerous and misleading\" by environmentalists, and a Swiss regulator ruled Fifa made \"unsubstantiated claims\" about the reduced climate impact of the tournament.\n\nMexico and the USA held men's World Cups in 1986 and 1994 respectively, while Canada hosted the Women's World Cup in 2015.\n\nHowever, in recent years all countries have seen an increasingly hostile climate.\n\n\"Scientists believe this unprecedented heatwave was made five times more likely due to human-induced climate change,\" says BBC weather forecaster Simon King.\n\n\"While these scenarios may not occur during the World Cup in 2026, the fact is climate change makes it more likely.\"\n\nWhat do the players think?\n\nThe impacts of heat are already being felt by players. While playing in Houston - a 2026 host city - back in 2017, England international Rachel Daly had to be taken to hospital because of heat exhaustion.\n\nMonterrey is another 2026 host city - and former England player Gary Lineker played there during the 1986 World Cup. He recalls it being \"the hottest match I ever played in\".\n\n\"We played in 43-44C,\" he said. \"I think I lost about 12 pounds in fluids. In the second half I was dizzy and couldn't really perform. Most of the players were the same... it was ridiculous.\n\n\"I'd like to see Fifa worry more about things like climate change generally; it's something Fifa really need to look at.\"\n\nIn a paper published by the British Medical Journal this year - and co-authored by Vincent Gouttebarge, the chief medical officer of global players' union FifPro - concerns were raised that Fifa guidelines do not go far enough.\n\n\"Heat guidelines are often used as the default policy,\" it said. \"Still, these seem less protective than guidelines in other sports or from countries traditionally exposed to extreme hot conditions.\n\n\"Such a concern is likely to be relevant for the 2026 Fifa World Cup that will be held in the traditional June-July window across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico and USA.\"\n\nIt recommends 11 \"hot tips\" which \"should be considered and facilitated by governing bodies, competition organisers, clubs, staff members and players\".\n\nAre there any potential options?\n\nThe Qatar World Cup was moved seven years in advance to allow plenty of time for the global football calendar to adjust and was always considered a one-off by Fifa. A winter World Cup in 2026 would pose opposite challenges with several host cities such as Vancouver, Toronto and Seattle experiencing sub-zero temperatures.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this year, Fifa vice-president Victor Montagliani suggested stadiums would be \"climate controlled\", helping players and fans at the games.\n\nBBC Sport contacted FIFA for comment and was referred to the controls and significant considerations that are already in place. These include the monitoring of temperatures by officials - with referees advised to take water breaks when necessary, climatic controls in some of the stadiums, and the fact the allocation and scheduling of matches will aim to minimise the effects of high temperatures in line with analysis of the climate in the host cities.\n\nDetail on exact kick-off times has not yet been released, but Prof Tipton suggested only early morning starts would offer \"significant\" respite.\n\nClimate controls include roofs on some stadiums. Indoor arenas don't guarantee a safe environment, though, with netball player Amy Steele suffering career-ending heat exhaustion when playing indoors.\n\nAnother factor will be the provision of water for the expected travelling support of at least a million people, and the related energy consumption demands to help keep fans cool inside stadiums, when public buildings have had to close this year.\n\nIt is also anticipated there will be additional training grounds which don't have roofs.\n\nMontagliani added: \"Looking forward, it is not impossible to change tournaments, as we have seen, but I don't think that is going to be the solution.\n\n\"Having them play winter in Toronto might not be ideal or in Chicago or in Philadelphia. I think there are pros and cons either way. The reality is, winter, summer, spring or fall it doesn't change the fact that we need to do whatever we can to help in this whole climate and environment issue, ensuring that our footprint is as minimised as possible, through technology and how you run tournaments.\"\n\nOn Fifa's wider climate responsibility, Montagliani said: \"The truth of the matter is whether it is a confederation or Fifa or a league or a club, we are not going to change the issue around the climate thing in the world. That has to be done by countries and bigger industries.\n\n\"We will try to do our bit, absolutely, and we will try to be cognisant in that. It is very important and we will obviously have experts helping us in that journey. But it is a much bigger issue than football.\"\n• None Take a look behind the scenes at some of the most extraordinary hotels: From the ultimate in luxury to jaw-dropping locations", "Two people died in the crush at O2 Academy Brixton, while a 21-year-old woman remains in hospital\n\nThe O2 Academy Brixton can reopen once it has met 77 \"extensive and robust\" conditions \"designed to promote public safety\", Lambeth Council has said.\n\nThe south London music venue's licence was suspended last December after two people were killed when fans without tickets tried to force their way in.\n\nThe council held a two-day licencing hearing on whether the academy should be allowed to host events again.\n\nThe venue's owner said a timeline for when it will reopen would be announced.\n\nThe 77 conditions to be met by the venue include stronger doors, new crowd management systems, more detailed risk assessments, a new ticketing system, a centralised control and command centre and new security and management.\n\nThe council's cabinet member for safer communities, Mahamed Hashi, said the measures had been \"proposed by (owners) AMG (Academy Music Group) at the hearing to support their aim of regaining the venue's licence so it can reopen, and making sure we never see a tragedy again like the one there in December 2022\".\n\nHe added that the local authority would continue to support the ongoing police investigation into the incident.\n\nIn a statement, AMG said it was \"immensely grateful\" to Lambeth Council for its decision and that the academy would reopen with a series of test events.\n\nThe Met Police said it would work with AMG and the council to ensure \"safety is paramount\".\n\nSupt Gabriel Cameron said it had always been the Met's aim that the academy was \"run by a licensee who will take all necessary steps to ensure [safety]\".\n\nDuring the two-day hearing the force had called for a different firm to run the venue.\n\nRebecca Ikumelo, 33, and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, died in hospital after the crush\n\nMother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, from Gravesend in Kent, who was a security contractor working at the venue, died in the crush during a gig by Afrobeats artist Asake on 15 December 2022.\n\nA third woman remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service treated 10 patients at the scene, eight of whom were transferred to hospital.\n\nIn the days and weeks after, concerns were raised over the strength of the venue's doors and staffing levels, including whether there was enough medical cover.\n\nAmy Lamé, the mayor's appointed nightlife czar, said she welcomed the decision to reopen the \"cherished\" venue.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shane Loughlin inhaled nitrous oxide behind the wheel on the night of the crash\n\nA driver of a car later involved a crash that killed three young people has been jailed after being filmed inhaling laughing gas at the wheel.\n\nShane Loughlin, 32, drove up to 90mph in selfie footage from the night of the crash shown to Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to one year and five months after admitting dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.\n\nHe was later injured when the same car crashed in St Mellons, Cardiff.\n\nThe video showed Loughlin, from Rumney, Cardiff, filming himself heading east down the M4.\n\nThere were passengers in the car. At times he had neither hand on the wheel of the Volkswagen Tiguan.\n\nDad-of-three Loughlin was seen inhaling from balloons and the car veered across lanes.\n\nHe was in the back seat of the same car when it crashed shortly after 02:00 GMT on 4 March, killing Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21 and Rafel Jeanne, 24.\n\nLoughlin was jailed after admitting dangerous driving and driving whilst disqualified\n\nLoughlin and Sophie Russon, 20, were critically injured and taken to hospital.\n\nJudge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke told him: \"This was a deliberate decision to drive dangerously. You ignored the rules of the road and disregarded the risks to others.\n\n\"It was prolonged driving and prolonged use of the mobile phone to record what you were doing. You had passengers in the vehicle.\n\n\"You were filming, it would appear, to be able to share that video with others.\"\n\nHe took a deliberate decision to ignore the rules of the road, said the judge, adding that he showed \"total disregard\" for other road users.\n\n\"You know full well the consequences that can arise from a road traffic collision,\" said Judge Lloyd-Clark.\n\n\"It was luck, not judgment, that meant you didn't seriously injure or kill anyone else or yourself.\"\n\nThe court heard he had 23 previous convictions for offences including drug driving, driving while disqualified and battery of the mother of his children.\n\nJudge Lloyd-Clark dubbed his conviction history as \"truly appalling\".\n\nShe disqualified him from driving for two years and eight months. He will have to pass an extended driving test to get his licence back.\n\nLoughlin was in the back seat of the car Eve Smith, 21, Rafel Jeanne, 24, and Darcy Ross, 21, died in\n\nShortly before the crash Loughlin moved to the back seat.\n\nThe court was told the car and its five occupants crashed deep in undergrowth near a roundabout in the St Mellons.\n\nThey were not found for 46 hours.\n\nSouth Wales Police officers investigating the fatal crash removed items from the scene including a packet of party balloons and nitrous oxide canisters.\n\nThey also found Loughlin's iPhone which contained four videos of him driving dangerously.\n\nIn one video, lasting 23 seconds, Loughlin filmed himself driving the car as he inhaled from a balloon.\n\nThe speedometer was at 80mph, with the fuel light and airbag light illuminated.\n\nAnother clip showed the vehicle driving on the M4 at 90mph, with a winter tyre warning light on.\n\nCCTV showed Loughlin, disqualified from driving at the time, getting in and out of the vehicle's driver seat at a petrol station at 22:41 on 3 March.\n\nLoughlin was arrested at Cardiff Bay police station on 17 May.\n\nDuring a police interview, he said he could not remember driving and that he had not inhaled nitrous oxide before.\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene of the fatal crash\n\nJason Howells, prosecuting, said: \"He told police he did not think he would have been driving because he was a disqualified driver.\"\n\nHe later appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court, where he admitted dangerous driving and driving while disqualified.\n\nThe court heard Loughlin was the subject of a community order, relating to an incident involving the sister of Mr Jeanne - his former partner and mother to his three children - at the time.\n\nAndrew Taylor, defending, said the fatal collision was a reminder that \"partying and driving motor vehicles is a cocktail that should never be mixed\".\n\n\"The driver at the time the fatal crash happened was not this defendant and he cannot be blamed for the accident that cost those lives,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor said: \"When he was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, he was advised that the only thing probably that saved his life was the cold temperatures at the time.\n\n\"The mental and physical scars will be with Shane Loughlin forever and a day.\"\n\nHundreds attended a vigil after the three died\n\nHe said his client's heart function was between 24% and 50% and it was likely he would require heart surgery.\n\nPreviously, Joel Lia, 28, of Rumney, Cardiff was fined for driving the Volkswagen Tiguan without a licence or insurance an hour before the crash.\n\nHe had left the vehicle shortly before the fatal collision.\n\nAn initial inquest hearing into the deaths of Mr Jeanne, Ms Ross and Ms Smith heard they were declared dead at the scene of the crash.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to await the findings of further histology and toxicology tests.\n\nThe length of time taken by Gwent Police and South Wales Police to find the group, who were reported missing by family members, is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nA Gwent Police officer has been issued with a notice of misconduct concerning their review of the missing persons' logs and relevant risk assessments.\n\nOn 2 September at 04:20 BST Loughlin was caught drink-driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance in Cardiff.\n\nHe admitted those charges and is due to be sentenced for those driving offences at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ray Lee allegedly impersonated a police officer to convince victims to hand over cash and jewellery\n\nA man alleged to be the leader of an organised crime gang that targeted elderly and vulnerable people is unlawfully at large.\n\nRay Lee is awaiting trial over a series of frauds in which he purportedly appeared as a police officer and asked victims for cash and jewellery.\n\nOver 40 alleged victims reported losses to police totalling about £200,000.\n\nHe was given compassionate bail for a funeral in Dublin, but failed to return to Maghaberry Prison on 24 August.\n\nThe 30-year-old is described as being 5ft 9in (175cm) tall, of slim build with brown eyes and brown hair.\n\nPolice have appealed to Mr Lee, or anyone who knows of his whereabouts, to contact them.", "The parents of a critically ill baby girl have asked a judge to prevent medics ending her life support.\n\nSix-month-old Indi Gregory has mitochondrial disease and is being cared for at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham.\n\nThe hospital has applied to the High Court to end her treatment and has said it can do no more for her.\n\nHer parents said they were devastated by the application and that their daughter deserved a chance at life.\n\nBarrister Emma Sutton told the judge that Indi was \"critically\" ill\n\nIndi's father Dean Gregory, 37, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, attended the High Court in London on Friday.\n\nHe hopes to persuade Mr Justice Peel to refuse an application which Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust said was in his daughter's \"best interests\".\n\nThe judge relaxed statutory restrictions covering private family court hearings and said Indi, her parents and the hospital involved could be named in media reports.\n\nHe was told Indi's mother Claire Staniforth, 35, had remained by her daughter's side in intensive care at the QMC where she has been treated for the rare genetic condition.\n\nMitochondrial disease prevents cells in the body producing energy and the NHS says the condition is incurable.\n\nIndi has been undergoing treatment at the QMC in Nottingham\n\nBarrister Emma Sutton KC, who led the trust's legal team, told the judge that Indi was \"critically\" ill.\n\n\"Since her birth, Indi has required intensive medical treatment to meet her complex needs and is currently a patient on the paediatric intensive care unit within Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham,\" Ms Sutton said.\n\n\"The case relates to the most difficult of issues, namely whether life-sustaining treatment for Indi should continue.\n\n\"The court is asked to make that decision because Indi's parents and those treating her cannot agree.\"\n\nMs Sutton said Indi had \"devastating neurometabolic disorder\" which is \"exceptionally rare\" and her case was extremely complex.\n\nShe said: \"Sadly, patients who present at birth with this disorder have a life expectancy of a matter of months.\n\n\"The trust seek a declaration that in the event Indi again deteriorates to a point where medical care and treatment is required to sustain her life, that it is not in Indi's best interests to receive any critical care or painful interventions, and it is lawful for her treating clinicians to withhold the same.\n\n\"The trust also seek a declaration that it is lawful and in Indi's best interests to be cared for in accordance with the compassionate care plan and such other treatment and nursing care as her treating clinicians in their judgment consider clinically appropriate to ensure that Indi suffers the least pain and distress and retains the greatest dignity.\"\n\nMs Sutton told the court: \"Although tragic, the trust say that the medical evidence is clear and is supported by second opinion evidence.\n\n\"Whilst further invasive treatment may, for a short time, prolong Indi's life, it will not improve its quality and will cause her further pain and unnecessary suffering.\"\n\nShe said the trust had prepared a care plan to make Indi's death \"as comfortable, pain-free and peaceful as possible\".\n\nIndi's parents posted this picture of her on their GoFundMe page as part of their dispute with the NHS trust\n\nMr Gregory told the BBC before Friday's hearing that he and his partner were devastated by the trust's application, which he described as \"disgraceful\".\n\nHe said: \"She's disabled but she doesn't deserve to be discriminated against.\n\n\"It's not their [the trust's] child. They don't see how she is. We see her every day. We are with her every day.\n\n\"We see her progress and she's a happy girl.\"\n\nDuring the hearing, Mr Justice Peel told Mr Gregory, Indi was his \"number one priority\" and added: \"It is all about her interests.\"\n\nHe adjourned the case to allow Mr Gregory to seek legal representation.\n\nIndi's parents have started a fundraising page as part of their dispute with trust and supporters have so far donated more than £1,000.\n\nIn a statement, NUH's chief nurse Michelle Rhodes said: \"We can confirm that the trust has made an application to the High Court to ensure that Indi's best interests can be protected.\"\n\n\"We wish to express our sympathies to Indi's family at this very difficult time.\n\n\"We know that this is an extremely difficult case for all involved and we continue to support Indi's family and provide specialised care for Indi.\n\n\"Cases like this are so difficult and we are of course saddened that we are unable to do more for Indi, but we will always act in the best interests of our patients and do all we can to advocate for them when needed.\"\n\nThe legal dispute echoes that of Charlie Gard who had encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome and died in 2017 after a legal bid for experimental treatment was refused.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nPremier League club Everton are set to have new owners after Farhad Moshiri agreed to sell his 94% stake to American investment fund 777 Partners.\n\nThe takeover would bring to an end the tumultuous tenure of British-Iranian Moshiri, who first invested in 2016.\n\nThe sale is expected to be completed by the end of 2023, subject to Premier League, Football Association and Financial Conduct Authority approval.\n\nThe takeover would mean half of the 20 top-flight clubs are American-owned.\n\nMoshiri said in a statement: \"The nature of ownership and financing of top football clubs has changed immeasurably since I first invested in Everton over seven years ago.\n\n\"The days of an owner/benefactor are seemingly out of reach for most, and the biggest clubs are now typically owned by well-resourced private equity firms, specialist sports investors or state-backed companies and funds.\"\n• None Football Gossip Daily: Should Everton fans be rolling out the bunting?\n\nJosh Wander, the 777 founder, said: \"We are truly humbled by the opportunity to become part of the Everton family as custodians of the club, and consider it a privilege to be able to build on its proud heritage and values.\n\n\"Our primary objective is to work with fans and stakeholders to develop the sporting and commercial infrastructure for the men's and women's teams that will deliver results for future generations of Everton supporters.\"\n\nSpeaking about the takeover, ahead of Everton's home Premier League game with Arsenal on Sunday, manager Sean Dyche said: \"There is no impact on me at the moment or the players.\n\n\"I was aware something may be happening. There is ongoing checks from the Premier League and alike so that will take some time.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see their view. The business side and stadium - they are things to be looked at when it's signed and sealed and tied up.\n\nThe club's fan advisory board issued a statement saying the takeover needed to be scrutinised in the \"most rigorous manner possible\".\n\n\"We recognise the news today raises many questions for Evertonians and we have already asked for an urgent meeting with Club and 777 representatives to obtain some clarity on the plans for the development of the club,\" the statement read.\n\n777 looking forward to 'world-class' new stadium\n\nEverton lie 18th in the Premier League after picking up just one point from their opening four games this season.\n\nThey have endured disarray on and off the pitch, narrowly escaping relegation in the past two seasons, including staying up with victory on the final day last term.\n\nNext month the club will go before an independent commission for an alleged breach of the Premier League's Financial Fair Play rules, but Everton have denied wrongdoing and said they were \"prepared to robustly defend\" their position.\n\nIn March, the club posted financial losses for the fifth successive year, taking their cumulative losses over that period to more than £430m.\n\nThey are also in the process of building a new stadium on Bramley-Moore Dock and costs could reach £760m, a £260m increase on figures quoted by the club last year.\n\n\"I have been open about the need to bring in new investment and complete the financing for our iconic new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, on the banks of the Mersey, which I have predominantly financed to date,\" said Moshiri.\n\n\"I have spoken to a number of parties and considered some strong potential opportunities. However, it is through my lengthy discussions with 777 that I believe they are the best partners to take our great club forward, with all the benefits of their multi-club investment model.\"\n\nWander added: \"We are committed to partnering with the local community over the long term, working on important projects such as the development of Bramley-Moore Dock as a world-class stadium venue, allowing thousands more Evertonians to attend our home matches and contribute to the economic and cultural regeneration of Merseyside.\"\n\nWhat has happened at Everton?\n\nMoshiri has invested more than £750m in Everton since 2016, but some supporters have been deeply unhappy about his ownership.\n\nToffees fans held protests before some home games last season and called for Moshiri and the board to leave the club.\n\nChief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale, chief finance and strategy officer Grant Ingles and non-executive director Graeme Sharp have all since left their boardroom roles, but chairman Bill Kenwright remains in his post.\n\nIn February, Moshiri told Everton's fans' advisory board the club was \"not for sale\" but he had been talking to \"top investors of real quality\".\n\nEverton reached an exclusivity agreement with New York-based company MSP Sports Capital for investment in the club in May, but talks collapsed in August.\n\nIn the latest accounts, the club had an annual turnover of £181m - down from £193.1m - having suspended commercial sponsorship arrangements with Russian companies in March 2022.\n\nRussian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who had his assets frozen by the European Union following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has a 49% stake in USM Holdings, which sponsored Everton's training ground. Usmanov had been a long-time business partner of Moshiri.\n\nMoshiri put a cash injection of £70m into Everton in 2021-22.\n\nDuring his tenure, Everton have had eight permanent managers - Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva, Carlo Ancelotti, Rafael Benitez, Frank Lampard and current boss Dyche.\n\nThe incoming proprietor of Everton is an investment platform based in Miami that has branched out into sports clubs over the past few years.\n\nIt aims to provide growth capital for businesses and describes its move into the sports market as being an \"investment in the long game\".\n\nFootball clubs it has invested in include Vasco de Gama in Brazil, Standard Liege in Belgium and Hertha Berlin of Germany, but it has faced protests from supporters about the way its clubs have been run.\n\nThe firm also holds a share in La Liga's Sevilla, who won the Europa League last season.\n\n777 bought a 45% stake in the British Basketball League in 2021, in a deal which was determined to present no conflict of interest despite the same firm also owning the London Lions, who won the title in 2022-23.\n\nThe group's interests are not limited to sport - it also has assets in insurance, aviation, media and entertainment.\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, with his son Beau, at the White House on 4 July\n\nPolitically speaking, there are currently two Americas.\n\nOne is outraged and horrified that the former president, Donald Trump, is facing 91 federal and state criminal charges in what they see as a deep state conspiracy orchestrated in part by Joe Biden's Department of Justice.\n\nThe other believes that very same justice department has spent five years unfairly pursuing Mr Biden's son, Hunter, over his tax affairs and behaviour while a self-declared and repentant drug addict.\n\nIn other words, both Americas believe the department responsible for enforcing the laws of the land has been taken captive by the other side and is hopelessly politicised.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyer responded to the news that his client had been indicted on three federal gun charges by accusing the prosecutor of bending to \"improper and partisan interference\" from Trump-supporting Republicans.\n\nMeanwhile, Andy Biggs, one of those conservatives in Congress, suggested the charges were simply a manoeuvre to make it look like the justice department was fair. \"Don't fall for it. They're trying to protect him from way more serious charges coming his way!\" he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHunter Biden's legal woes will of course be a blow in a personal sense to his father and his family. But the ramifications go much further than that.\n\nRepublicans have for some time known that the president's son is a vulnerability. Exploiting that has the power not just to significantly rile up Joe Biden, but also to help distract from their own problems with Mr Trump's legal jeopardies.\n\nAdd to that the fact that most Democrats, when asked, are far from happy that Mr Biden is running for the White House again in 2024. Hunter seems like just another reason for some continuing to press for the 80-year-old president to step aside for the next generation.\n\nAll this means that the outcome of Hunter Biden's case will play a significant part in what promises to be a turbulent election year.\n\nBut Republicans face something of a dilemma.\n\nIt's true that the three gun-related charges are felonies rather than misdemeanours; and it's true that further charges could come relating to Hunter Biden's tax affairs and foreign dealings. But none of it currently quite rises to the scale and quantity of Donald Trump's alleged crimes.\n\nSo any attempt to weaponise Hunter Biden's problems could simply invite the American people to compare and contrast.\n\nAlso, as Democrats will no doubt continue to point out, Hunter Biden is not running for dog catcher, let alone to be President of the United States.\n\nOne intriguing aspect of Hunter Biden's case is that his lawyers clearly believe the plea deal that broke down in July could still be resurrected - and that the recent expansion of Second Amendment rights by various courts could be an element in his defence.\n\nAfter all, there is nothing in the Constitution about drug addicts being unable to bear arms.\n\nThat would be an extraordinary irony given where most Democrats stand on gun control.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nThursday's indictment came just days after Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden - a move dismissed as a political stunt by the White House.\n\nMr McCarthy said there were \"serious and credible allegations\" into the family's business dealings and President Biden's conduct. And Republicans will hope this new inquiry implicates the president in the peddling of power and corruption.\n\nSo far, however, seven months of existing investigations into Hunter Biden have produced snippets from former business partners, an FBI informant and a couple of IRS agents, but nothing that comes close to a real smoking gun.\n\nThat may change when the subpoenas begin to fly, but the Republican majority in the House is so slim, that it is far from certain that Republicans would win an impeachment vote on the House floor, if it got that far.\n\nWhat is certain, is that the once-clear distinction between the political and legal systems has become increasingly blurred. And that's a major problem, according to Randy Zelin, adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School.\n\n\"Somebody woke up one day and said, boy I have a new toy and that is called the federal criminal justice system, where I'm going to use the criminal system to punish people who don't agree with my politics,\" Prof Zelin told the BBC.\n\n\"I think the sole influence here is that this country is being torn apart by this never-ending battle.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ashton Kutcher has come under intense criticism for a letter supporting Danny Masterson\n\nAshton Kutcher has resigned from the charity he set up to tackle child sexual abuse, following outrage over a letter of support to a judge after Danny Masterson's rape conviction.\n\nIn his resignation to the charity, Thorn, Kutcher said his support letter was an \"error in judgement\".\n\nMasterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the rapes of two women.\n\nA similar letter was sent by Kutcher's wife, actress Mila Kunis.\n\nThe letters and subsequent apology from Kutcher and Kunis - both of whom starred in That 70s Show alongside Masterson - were widely criticised by victims and advocacy groups.\n\nIn a resignation letter directed to the board of Thorn and posted online, Kutcher said his decision to step down from the board is \"rooted in the recognition of recent events\".\n\n\"After my wife and I spent several days of listening, personal reflection, learning and conversations with survivors and the employees and leadership at Thorn, I have determined the responsible thing for me to do is resign as chairman of the board, effective immediately,\" Kutcher said in the resignation letter.\n\n\"I cannot allow my error in judgment to distract from our efforts and the children we serve,\" he added.\n\nEstablished by Kutcher and ex-wife Demi Moore in 2012, Thorn focuses on combatting sexual exploitation of children.\n\nMuch of the group's focus is on the Internet and the role it plays in the spread of child sexual abuse material and sexual slavery. To date, the group claims to have identified 27,000 child victims and removed more than two million potentially sexual abuse files from the internet.\n\nIn his resignation message, Kutcher said his letter of support for Masterson - in which he described him as someone who treated people with \"decency\" and \"generosity\" - was \"yet another painful instance of questioning victims who are brave enough to share their experiences\".\n\n\"This is precisely what we have all worked to reverse over the last decade,\" he added.", "Researchers believe new findings about a form of cellular suicide gives new ideas for treating Alzheimer's\n\nScientists in the UK and Belgium think they have figured out how brain cells die in Alzheimer's disease.\n\nIt has been a mystery and a source of scientific debate for decades.\n\nBut the team, writing in the journal Science, connect the abnormal proteins that build up in the brain with \"necroptosis\" - a form of cellular suicide.\n\nThe findings have been described as \"cool\" and \"exciting\", as they give new ideas for treating the disease.\n\nIt is the loss of brain cells, called neurons, that lead to the symptoms of Alzheimer's, including memory loss.\n\nAnd if you look inside the brains of people with the disease you'd see the build-up of abnormal proteins called amyloid and tau.\n\nBut scientists have not been able to join the dots between these key traits of the disease.\n\nThis is what the researchers - at the UK's Dementia Research Institute at University College London and KU Leuven in Belgium - now think is happening.\n\nThey say abnormal amyloid starts to build up in the spaces between neurons, leading to brain inflammation, which the neurons do not like. This starts to change their internal chemistry.\n\nTangles of tau appear and the brain cells start producing a specific molecule (it's called MEG3) that triggers death by necroptosis. Necroptosis is one of the methods our bodies normally use to purge unwanted cells as fresh ones are made.\n\nThe brain cells survived when the team were able to block MEG3.\n\n\"This is a very important and interesting finding,\" researcher Prof Bart De Strooper, from the UK's Dementia Research Institute, told the BBC.\n\n\"For the first time we get a clue to how and why neurons die in Alzheimer's disease. There's been a lot of speculation for 30-40 years, but nobody has been able to pinpoint the mechanisms.\n\n\"It really provides strong evidence it's this specific suicide pathway.\"\n\nThe answers came from experiments where human brain cells were transplanted into the brains of genetically modified mice. The animals were programmed to produce large quantities of abnormal amyloid.\n\nThere has been recent success in developing drugs that strip amyloid out of the brain and they mark the first treatments to slow the destruction of brain cells.\n\nProf De Strooper says the discovery that blocking the MEG3 molecule can hold off brain cell death could lead to a \"whole new line of drugs development\".\n\nHowever, this will take years of research.\n\nProf Tara Spires-Jones, from the University of Edinburgh and the president of the British Neuroscience Association, told me \"that is a cool paper\".\n\nShe said it \"addresses one of the fundamental gaps in Alzheimer's research… these are fascinating results and will be important for the field moving forward.\"\n\nHowever, she stressed that \"many steps are needed\" before knowing whether it could be harnessed as an effective treatment for Alzheimer's.\n\nDr Susan Kohlhaas, from Alzheimer's Research UK, said the findings were \"exciting\" but still at an early stage.\n\n\"This discovery is important because it points to new mechanisms of cell death in Alzheimer's disease that we didn't previously understand and could pave the way for new treatments to slow, or even stop disease progression in the future.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Patrick Kielty wants to reflect the different identities on the island of Ireland in his take on The Late Late Show\n\nHosting RTÉ's The Late Late Show is \"truly the honour of a lifetime\", Patrick Kielty has said in an emotional opening to his debut.\n\nWelling up in RTÉ's studio 4, he said his family will be \"watching the show from County Down\" and further afield.\n\nEarlier, he said the show would have an all-Ireland flavour as a by-product of his Northern Ireland upbringing.\n\nThe comedian and entertainer becomes the fourth permanent presenter of the world's longest-running live chat show.\n\nThe show is an Irish institution, having started only months after the 1962 launch of Irish TV.\n\nKielty started out at a Belfast comedy club and has presented Love Island, This Morning and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz as well as other comedy and theatre shows. He is married to presenter Cat Deeley.\n\nHe has had to wait several months for his debut, with the announcement that he was to become the new presenter having been made in May.\n\nAmong the guests on opening night were former Irish President Mary McAleese, Republic of Ireland footballer James McClean and comedian Tommy Tiernan.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI's Declan Harvey this week, the County Down man said hosting the programme and being from Northern Ireland made him \"the all-Ireland dynamic\".\n\nHe is returning to a show on which he performed one of his first televised comedy sets as a young stand-up.\n\nKielty said he was now much a \"lot more comfortable in my skin\" about taking on more serious matters about life on the island and its people.\n\n\"I am much more at ease going from comedy to something more serious and talking about who I am and what I believe in,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 100 seconds with the new Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty\n\n\"The documentaries I've made were really an eye-opener to me in terms of who we are as a people.\n\n\"That idea of Northern Ireland, the north, the south... it's a really familiar, binary thing - I feel much more fluid about it.\n\n\"The brilliant thing about the Late Late Show is that it's always been a place where people can come on and discuss different things - that's really what interested me in doing the show.\n\n\"There are a lot of different identities on this island and it's about reflecting all of those.\"\n\n\"There is a responsibility that people are looking to you in terms of what you say about different things,\" he explained.\n\n\"Yet at the same time I think you have to be who you are and at the heart of that is somebody who likes a laugh and tells a joke.\"\n\nHe takes up his new role in the wake of a major crisis at Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, sparked by a scandal over the pay of The Late Late Show's previous presenter Ryan Tubridy.\n\nIn the show's debut, Kielty took many opportunities to crack a joke about recent events saying it was nice to have the show on \"after the news\".\n\nHe said he expected a lot of people to view the programme.\n\n\"Based on the latest figures for TV licence payments we're expecting an audience of up to 27 people tuning in tonight,\" he joked.\n\nThe Dundrum Inn was packed to cheer on the village's famous son\n\nSpeaking about the programme's relaunch, the Dundrum man explained they pulled out all the stops.\n\n\"We also have our shiny new set - no expense spared, or, if you're the host, no expenses spared.\"\n\nIn his BBC News NI interview, Kielty said he did not view the relaunch of the programme as part of the recovery plan for RTÉ.\n\n\"I see it as the biggest show on Irish TV on a Friday night that I'm lucky enough to host - I think anything else is a by-product,\" he said.\n\nThe 52-year-old already has experience as a TV chat show host, having presented Patrick Kielty Almost Live on BBC One Northern Ireland in the late-1990s and early-2000s.\n\nAsked about what he had learned from that time, he said: \"It taught me to not believe you're in control of everything - and anything can happen.\"\n\nAs for his pre-show preparation?\n\n\"Some stretches in the dressing room as if I'm going out to play and game of football, even though I'm going to sit on a chair!\"\n• None Can Kielty make the Late Late Show his own?", "Leo Varadkar accused the UK government of double standards for criticising his united Ireland comments\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has described the UK government's criticism of his comments about a united Ireland as a \"double standard\".\n\nLeo Varadkar said last week he believed he would see a united Ireland in his lifetime.\n\nIn response, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton Harris said the remarks were \"unhelpful\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he needed the \"clearest pitch possible\" in efforts to restore Stormont's devolved government.\n\nThe institutions collapsed last year when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew in protest against post-Brexit trade barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP has said the Windsor Framework deal - struck by the UK government and European Union this year to address concerns with the Northern Ireland Protocol - does not go far enough.\n\nIt has been in talks with the government to seek further legislative assurances of Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market.\n\nMr Varadkar said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak describes himself as a \"proud unionist\" and others in the UK government often speak about their commitment to the union.\n\n\"Not only do we accept that, we respect it,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"Why is there a double standard applied to Irish politicians when we say what's in our constitution, that we'd like to see a united Ireland and work towards it?\"\n\nReferencing the Northern Ireland secretary's remarks, Mr Varadkar said the Irish government has been \"extremely helpful to the British government since the Brexit journey began\".\n\nIn response, the Northern Ireland Office said under the Good Friday Agreement, \"Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK for as long as its people wish for it to be\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are absolutely clear that there is no basis to suggest that a majority of people in Northern Ireland wish to separate from the United Kingdom.\"\n\nDUP deputy leader Gavin Robinson urged Leo Varadkar to \"dial down his border poll rhetoric\"\n\nHe said that under his leadership as taoiseach they negotiated several agreements with the UK government including the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"When they couldn't honour that agreement, we were the adults in the room, and we negotiated the Windsor framework,\" he added.\n\nMr Varadkar also reiterated his call for discussions about \"alternative arrangements\" if Stormont is not restored.\n\n\"There does come a point where these talks between the UK government and the DUP can't be ongoing forever and can't exclude others forever,\" he said.\n\n\"And we do need to sit down at some point and talk about what alternative arrangements can be put in place within the confines of the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker said the UK government's talks with the DUP are in the final stages.\n\nBut DUP MP Ian Paisley said he does not believe there will be a restoration of the Stormont institutions this year.\n\nMeanwhile, responding to Mr Varadkar's comments, DUP deputy leader Gavin Robinson urged the Irish prime minister to \"dial down his border poll rhetoric\" and \"spend his time focusing on building better relationships between his country and ours\".\n\n\"There is overwhelming support for Northern Ireland remaining an integral part of the United Kingdom,\" he added.\n\n\"Leo Varadkar is playing domestic politics in his own country and must know that a border poll is the last thing Northern Ireland needs, that such a campaign would take the focus off the issues that need advanced and in the end having further harmed relationships would be defeated.\"\n\nOn Friday evening, the former Irish President Mary McAleese said demographics were moving in the direction of a united Ireland but she was \"happy to leave it to the terms of the Good Friday Agreement\".\n\n\"It was hard fought for,\" she added during an interview on RTÉ's The Late Late Show.\n\n\"If the day ever dawns when there is a majority that might be in favour of a united Ireland there is a plan for a referendum and it will be in the hands of those people.\"\n\nSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill called for the Stormont executive and assembly to be restored \"so that we can push on and get back to business\".\n\n\"Everyone has been more than reasonable in giving space and time, but there must be a clear limit and public patience is now running out,\" she said.\n\nThe SDLP's Matthew O'Toole said chaos was being created in Northern Ireland's public services\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) assembly member Matthew O'Toole said the absence of devolved government is \"creating chaos\" in Northern Ireland's public services.\n\nHe told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that among the public, \"anger is passing into contempt and that contempt is passing into indifference\".\n\n\"That's really, really toxic in any democracy,\" he added.\n\n\"We're just creating chaos in our public services, we're making it impossible for decisions to be made, they're building up, they're stacking up throughout the system.\n\n\"I know the limitations of the institutions, the limitations of our structures and indeed the limitations of some of my colleagues, but that doesn't mean we don't need devolved government, because when we don't have it, frankly it makes things worse.\"\n\nIndependent unionist Claire Sugden added that although the devolved institutions are not functioning, assembly members are still working for their constituents.\n\n\"I can assure you my constituency office never stops,\" she said.", "Police dropped Gareth Roper outside Iceland in Platt Bridge, Wigan shortly before he was killed\n\nA man was killed in a hit-and-run crash shortly after police left him barefoot outside an Iceland store three miles from home, a court has heard.\n\nGareth Roper was struck in Wigan by a Volvo driven by Jamie Evans, 30, and died later with severe head injuries.\n\nEvans, who did not have a licence, admitted causing the death of Mr Roper, 35, by dangerous driving at Bolton Crown Court earlier this year.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.\n\nThe court heard how officers had attended Mr Roper's home in the early hours of New Year's Day 2022, after his wife reported he was \"acting somewhat strangely\".\n\nHis children were woken during the disturbance and Mr Roper was taken away to \"prevent any further difficulties\".\n\nThe police officers who left Mr Roper are being investigated, the court heard\n\nSara Haque, prosecuting, said Mr Roper, a father of six, was de-arrested nine minutes later and was left outside the Iceland store in Platt Bridge, Wigan, Greater Manchester.\n\nShe said: \"He was left barefoot and without any money or his mobile phone.\n\n\"The officers who left him at the scene are still under investigation.\"\n\nCCTV footage moments before the fatal crash just after 04:15 GMT showed Mr Roper walking along the centre of Lily Lane, Bamfurlong.\n\nHis jumper was tied around his waist and he could be heard whistling and clapping, the lawyer said.\n\nThe car was estimated to be travelling at 55mph in a 30mph zone. Evans drove off and handed himself in to police later that day.\n\nIn a victim statement read to the court, Mr Roper's wife Rachel said: \"Nobody expects that the police will come to your door and tell you your husband has been killed in a hit-and-run.\n\n\"He was only taken away about 45 minutes earlier and now I was being told he was dead.\n\nShe said she wanted to tell the driver he had \"ruined a happy family with a hardworking dad\".\n\n\"He has taken all that away. He has shown no remorse. He just doesn't care,\" she added.\n\nMr Roper was found lying on Lily Lane in Bamfurlong\n\nThe court heard the family had noted Evans had posted photographs on Facebook of himself partying, and in one post he had bragged that he would soon be going \"on holiday\" to Forest Bank prison.\n\nMr Clarke was told there was evidence that Evans had been drinking lager and spirits before the crash.\n\nHe was released on bail after his arrest in January 2022 but four months later got behind the wheel again and sped away in a van from a pursuing police vehicle, the court was told.\n\nEvans, of no fixed address, was subsequently jailed for 26 weeks for that offence after he was convicted of dangerous driving, having no licence and failing to provide a specimen of breath.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The collision, involving a motorcycle and a pink electric scooter, happened at the junction of Waun Wen Road and Tegid Road in Mayhill, Swansea\n\nTwo 11-year-old girls have been seriously injured in a crash involving a motorcycle and an electric scooter.\n\nTwo men, aged 18 and 24, have been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.\n\nThe crash was on Friday at about 15:50 BST at the junction of Waun Wen Road and Tegid Road in Mayhill, Swansea.\n\nThe two girls were both taken to hospital, and South Wales Police said there will be \"great concern\" locally, but asked people \"not to speculate\".\n\nA pink electric scooter has been seized as part of the investigation and the location of the motorcycle, believed to be a Husqvana, is unknown.\n\nPolice have appealed for anyone with information to get in touch\n\nCh Insp Jonathan Fairhurst of South Wales Police, said: \"Our thoughts are with the families of the two girls who are seriously injured in hospital.\n\n\"We understand there will be a great deal of concern within the community and extensive inquiries are being carried out to establish the exact circumstances of the collision.\n\n\"We respectfully ask people not to speculate at this time.\"\n\nThe force has appealed for with anyone with information relating to the incident, or the missing motorbike, to get in touch.", "The Elizabeth Cross recognises the loss suffered by families of armed forces personnel killed\n\nThe father of a murdered police officer says his campaign to recognise fallen emergency workers with posthumous medals is gaining momentum.\n\nBryn Hughes, whose daughter PC Nicola Hughes was killed in Greater Manchester in 2012, is urging the government to the turn the idea into law.\n\nBoth Labour and the Welsh government back his plan to award those who die in the line of duty an Elizabeth Cross.\n\nThe Home Office says it is \"determined\" to recognise the sacrifice of officers.\n\nBut it remains unclear if or when the proposal could become a reality.\n\nMr Hughes' campaign, which has been ongoing for years, won the support of Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper in recent weeks.\n\nNow former prison officer Mr Hughes, of Huddersfield, wants meetings with the Home Office and government to discuss details of how the scheme could work.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast on Saturday: \"What we're asking for now (is), the government, the Home Office, now to pick it up and finish it off if you like.\n\n\"We've had assurances that it is a government priority for this year and then my next step now is to ask for that meeting and say, let's have a look at this priority.\"\n\nHis daughter PC Hughes, 23, was killed alongside fellow PC Fiona Bone, 32, in a gun and grenade ambush by on-the-run Dale Cregan. The pair had been falsely called to what they thought was a burglary in Tameside.\n\nEight officers have died in homicides since the incident, according to The Police Remembrance Trust.\n\nMr Hughes says emergency workers killed on duty deserve to be \"remembered and honoured\" and he has been running marathons as part of his campaigning and fund-raising.\n\nSpeaking ahead of National Police Memorial Day on Sunday, he explained: \"I've said all along with Nicola and Fiona and other officers we've lost, they're there to protect the public, there to serve the public, and it's quite right that they should be remembered and honoured when they lose their lives in those circumstances.\"\n\nBryn Hughes wants the sacrifice of officers killed in the line of duty to be recognised\n\nPCs Fiona Bone (left) and Nicola Hughes were murdered while on duty in 2012\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Every life lost in service to the public is a tragedy and our thoughts remain with every fallen officer and emergency service worker.\n\n\"The police do an extraordinary job and the Police Covenant recognises their bravery and commitment.\n\n\"We are determined to ensure the sacrifice officers make is recognised and the government has prioritised work to identify ways through which we can do that.\"\n\nThe Elizabeth Cross, first awarded in 2009, is given to relatives of members of the armed forces who have been killed in action since the end of World War Two or as a result of a terror attack.", "The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow is among the sites identified in the desktop survey\n\nMore than half of the NHS buildings in Scotland which are suspected to contain a potentially dangerous form of concrete have not been fully inspected.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) could be present in up to 254 NHS buildings including hospitals.\n\nThe Scottish government confirmed 97 buildings have been assessed since a review was ordered.\n\nThe crumbly material can collapse without warning.\n\nIt comes after more than 30 schools in Scotland were found to contain Raac. It led to a scramble to find alternative temporary classrooms, with some schools reintroducing online learning, amid safety fears.\n\nBuildings in 10 universities were also closed while assessments for the concrete take place.\n\nA review which started several months ago identified 254 NHS buildings had two or more characteristics that are consistent with the presence of Raac.\n\nThe Scottish government said 97 buildings have now been physically surveyed - and it expects all the possible sites which it describes as \"high and medium risk\" to be assessed by November.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said they are taking the issue \"very seriously\" and are \"fully aware\" of the issues that can be caused by Raac.\n\nThey said: \"Reviews of Raac have been conducted by local authorities, NHS Scotland and other public sector organisations for some time so we can all fully understand the scope of Raac including in hospitals.\n\n\"In addition we established a cross sector working group on Raac to ensure action is taken where required so that people are safe and feel safe in buildings.\"\n\nScottish Labour's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie told BBC Scotland News progress to resolve the issue in hospitals has been \"quite slow\".\n\nShe said: \"We genuinely feel that NHS staff, patients, they're being left in the dark about the true extent of the problem and whether there is a danger to their health and wellbeing.\n\n\"It is clear there will be disruption to a significant number of buildings in just trying to fix the problem to ensure that the estate is safe and that patients and clinicians are safe too.\n\n\"That is going to be disruptive and the sooner they can identify the problem the sooner they can get on with fixing it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. NHS staff and patients are being 'left in the dark'\n\nNHS Assure - the body responsible for NHS building safety - said 132 of 254 identified buildings are at high risk of containing Raac while 122 were medium risk.\n\nMajor sites such as Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow are named in the report as having buildings which could contain Raac.\n\nNHS Grampian had the most buildings which could potentially contain Raac, with 53 identified by the health board, followed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with 44 and NHS Lothian with 35.\n\nNHS Highland identified 25 potentially affected buildings, while NHS Fife had 22. NHS Forth Valley reported eight and NHS Borders seven.\n\nThe concrete, an aerated substance, was used to build roofs, walls and floors from the 1960s to the 1990s.\n\nStructural engineers are required to confirm if the material is present in the buildings. They will also advise on how to manage or remove it.", "A teenager who died while challenging an NHS decision over her life-preserving treatment can be named for the first time.\n\nSudiksha Thirumalesh, 19, had mitochondrial disease and died earlier this month during a legal battle.\n\nShe wanted to raise money for an experimental treatment she thought might help her rare genetic disorder.\n\nAs reporting restrictions were lifted, her family spoke of their anger at being prevented from speaking out.\n\nMs Thirumalesh's brother Varshan Thirumalesh said: \"We were gagged, silenced and prevented from accessing specialist treatment abroad.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today on Saturday: \"She was really struggling for the past one year and two months and she wanted to seek the experimental therapy abroad.\n\n\"She always wanted to tell her story to the public so that's why it was very important that we were able to tell the story [after her death].\"\n\nPaying tribute to his \"caring sister and amazing friend\", Mr Thirumalesh added: \"She got the justice that she deserved. Unfortunately she is not here to see what is going on… she wanted everyone to know what was happening.\"\n\nThe NHS trust involved - which cannot be named - said Ms Thirumalesh needed end-of-life care rather than ongoing treatment.\n\nShe had wanted to finance a trip to Canada for nucleoside therapy but, in August, a judge ruled that she could not make the decision for herself, because she did not have the mental capacity.\n\nThe judge also said that: \"From the evidence, it appears... treatment in Canada is not an immediate option because the trial has been paused as a result of funding constraints.\"\n\nHer doctors said her breathing difficulties were due to her deteriorating mitochondrial disease weakening her muscles, rather than long Covid or other infections that she has had.\n\nLawyers for the trust said Ms Thirumalesh, who was known as ST during the legal case, was \"actively dying\" and needed a ventilator to breathe.\n\nMs Thirumalesh had a cardiac arrest and died on 12 September before the Court of Protection could hear her case.\n\nHer family say the former A-level student, who had spent almost a year in intensive care, was still able to communicate with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists.\n\nJudges were told she was a \"fighter\", and that she had told a psychiatrist: \"I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything.\"\n\nSpeaking outside the High Court, her brother Varshan Thirumalesh said in a statement: \"We are deeply disturbed by how we have been treated by the hospital trust and the courts.\"\n\nA judge had earlier imposed reporting restrictions in the case.\n\nThe order meant it was impossible for media outlets to name Ms Thirumalesh, and her family was unable to campaign to raise money for treatment overseas.\n\nHer Christian family wanted the order lifted after her death and successfully challenged the ruling on Friday. A second decision about whether the NHS trust and clinicians who treated her can be named, is expected on Monday.\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre which supported the family through the court case, said a more \"open and transparent system\" is needed, and called for a public inquiry.\n\n\"This profoundly disturbing case has demonstrated the urgent need for an overhaul into how end-of-life decisions are made in the NHS and the courts,\" she said.\n\nMs Thirumalesh was diagnosed with the same condition as Charlie Gard, a baby from London, whose life support was withdrawn in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland held on against Scotland at Sunderland's Stadium of Light to win their first Women's Nations League match and begin their quest to secure qualification for TeamGB for the Olympic Games.\n\nWorld Cup finalists England were tested by a gutsy Scotland team who created plenty of opportunities as they continued to showcase their progression under manager Pedro Martinez Losa.\n\nHeaded goals from Lucy Bronze and Lauren Hemp gave the Lionesses the lead before Kirsty Hanson got one back for Scotland in first-half injury time.\n\nScotland were aggrieved not to have had a penalty earlier for a shove on Martha Thomas by England captain Millie Bright in the box and they hit the crossbar in the second half with a dipping volley from Hanson.\n• None 'Sometimes it doesn't look beautiful' - Wiegman on England win\n\nEuropean champions England also had a goal ruled out in the first half when Chloe Kelly was offside as Rachel Daly headed in a corner.\n\nVictory puts England on three points in the four-team group A1 along with Belgium, who beat the Netherlands 2-1.\n\nTeam GB would qualify for the Olympics should nominated nation England reach the Nations League final, or finish third if hosts France reach the final.\n\nThere was a lively atmosphere in the North East but while opponents on the pitch, both teams were united off it.\n\nEngland's Bright had expressed support this week for Scotland, who resolved a dispute with their football association following accusations of inequality. That came before the Lionesses announced they had also reached an agreement with their FA on a dispute over performance-related bonuses.\n\nBoth teams chose to play in black armbands on Friday evening and there was a period of silence before kick-off in memory of former England youth international Maddy Cusack, who passed away earlier this week.\n\nThey also showed support and solidarity for the Spanish team by wearing white wristbands with the hashtag #SeAcabo - which translates to English as \"it's over\" - and came together for a group photo before kick-off.\n• None Reaction as England and Scotland go head-to-head\n\nIt was an intriguing contest at Stadium of Light as both teams, lining up for the first time in the new Women's Nations League tournament, were tested in different ways.\n\nEngland were back on home soil for the first time since shrugging off their World Cup final defeat by Spain just a month ago, while Scotland faced a team who are used to rubbing shoulders with world giants.\n\nIt was no surprise to see the Lionesses stamp their authority early on, reacting to a warm reception by fans in Sunderland to dominate possession and test Scotland's defence in the opening 20 minutes.\n\nDaly thought she had found the breakthrough when she headed past Lee Gibson from a corner but Kelly was marginally offside and impeding the Scotland keeper - a good spot from referee Maria Sole Caputi given there was no video assistant referee.\n\nTottenham striker Thomas was sure she had earned a penalty when Bright carelessly barged into the back of her but England got away with it and capitalised when Bronze went up the other end and superbly directed Katie Zelem's inviting cross into the net.\n\nHemp quickly made it 2-0 with another powerful header, getting the better of Rachel McLauchlan, but Scotland ensured a nervy second half as Hanson pounced on Claire Emslie's cut-back after a mistake in the Lionesses' defence to halve the deficit.\n\nWith the Women's Super League season yet to kick off, England looked like a team who had reached a World Cup final a month ago and had not fully recovered as the game lacked intensity and threatened to fizzle out towards the end.\n\nBut Scotland were relentless in their attempts to cause an upset and almost did - Hanson smashing the crossbar, Christy Grimshaw testing goalkeeper Mary Earps and Thomas heading straight at England's number one.\n\nHowever, while this was not as plain sailing as England may have hoped, it was 'job done' on their Nations League debut and is the first step in the right direction towards Olympic qualification on behalf of Team GB.", "Russell Brand says it has been an \"extraordinary and distressing\" week after rape and sexual assault allegations were made against him.\n\nIn a video published on social media, he thanked followers for their support and for \"questioning the information that you've been presented with\".\n\nThey are his first public comments since allegations were published by the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches last weekend.\n\nIn a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches, four women accused Brand of sexual assaults and rape between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand denied the claims before the allegations were published, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe actor and comedian did not address the allegations directly in Friday's three-minute video, but made claims about what he described as \"media corruption and censorship\" and \"deep state and corporate collusion\".\n\nHe said he would release a fuller video on video streaming site Rumble on Monday, saying the platform had made \"a clear commitment to free speech\".\n\nEarlier this week, responding to a UK Parliament committee that asked if it would cut Brand's income in the wake of the allegations, Rumble said it would not \"join a cancel culture mob\".\n\nIn the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 investigation, four women made allegations against Brand:\n\nThis week, another woman also accused Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show in 2008.\n\nYouTube has suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\". It said it was taking action \"to protect\" its users.\n\nIn recent years, he has repositioned himself, posting regular videos about spirituality, anti-establishment politics and, recently, UFOs, to his online followers.", "The march in Bangor was led by a red dragon before speeches near the city cathedral\n\nThousands of people have joined a march calling for an independent Wales.\n\nSaturday's event in Bangor, Gwynedd, was the sixth \"March for Independence\", and staged by the groups YesCymru and All Under One Banner Cymru.\n\nThe organisers said the turnout showed that the demand for independence was increasing.\n\nSpeakers included Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, who said an idea once \"ridiculed... is now a prominent part of our national political discourse\".\n\nThousands also gathered at a similar parade in Swansea in May.\n\nGeraint Thomas, a director of Yes Cymru, said they had expected between about 6,000 - 8,000, but the organisers claimed more than 10,000 attended.\n\nAngharad Gwyn has attended several previous marches, and says they are important \"to keep the momentum going\"\n\n\"To see so many people here in Bangor is great,\" he said. \"It shows the power of the message and the tremendous increase in support for independence that is currently taking place.\n\n\"Our aim here today is to spread the message further and to try to show people what is possible for us as a nation.\"\n\nMarcher Angharad Gwyn said: \"It's very convenient to have this parade in Bangor because I live near Caernarfon.\n\nThe organisers say they had expected 6,000-8,000, rather than more than 10,000\n\n\"It's nice that these events are moving around the country and coming to places like Bangor.\n\n\"I've been to similar marches in Cardiff and other places before and it's important to continue to keep doing them to keep the momentum going.\"\n\nLlio Roberts, who was also on the march, said: \"I think it's extremely important that we're here today. It's an opportunity to share our message to this area and to the rest of the country.\"\n\nLlio Roberts: \"It's an opportunity to share our message to this area and to the rest of the country\"\n\nAnother supporter, Ioan Bryn, said he was pleased to see the parade in his home city.\n\n\"It's great to see friends and family and to be able to spread the message to people who haven't heard of an independent Wales and what that might mean,\" he said.", "Like thousands of others, Joanne Patterson is a volunteer.\n\nShe says her family would describe her as a serial volunteer.\n\nShe volunteers with Damolly Football Club in Newry, at a youth gym, a food bank, as well as church work.\n\nOn a cool Wednesday evening, Joanne can be found putting Damolly's young female players through their paces under the floodlights at Abbey Grammar School in the city.\n\n\"On nights like tonight when you get soaked, you certainly question it. But volunteers get as much out of it as they put in,\" she says.\n\n\"Like a lot of parents, you probably start by standing on the side of the pitch and then you help a wee bit and then you help a wee bit more, and then in five or six years you can see yourself overseeing everything.\"\n\nBut latest figures from Nisra's continuous household survey suggest a substantial decline in the numbers volunteering.\n\n\"Mostly our volunteer population was at about 28% of our adult population and it sat at that point for years - it never really moved,\" Denise Hayward of Volunteer Now said.\n\nVolunteer Now is the lead organisation for promoting and supporting volunteering across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"[They were] the first real stats after Covid [and] the numbers had gone down to 17%. That could be church-based organisations, sports, arts,\" Ms Hayward said.\n\n\"We were part of a big UK-wide research project looking at this and one of the things that came out of it was that older people, or people with an illness, were told to shield and stay at home. That broke the habit of volunteering and many of them never came back or came back slowly.\n\n\"Now that may well change, but overall, we have seen a decline of over 10 percentage points and that is very concerning.\"\n\nMs Hayward described the impact on fundraising as huge because \"volunteers are a huge driver of fundraising\".\n\nBut it has also affected the delivery of organisations' services.\n\n\"Often volunteers are the ones doing things like befriending schemes. Some needs really rocketed because you saw more isolation, so what you are seeing is demand for services, in many cases, increasing but actually a decreased ability to deliver those services.\"\n\nJoanne Patterson has been talking about the issues faced by the decline in volunteering\n\nIn Newry, Joanne Patterson has seen other reasons for the decline.\n\n\"I know ourselves, we have seen it and so have other local groups,\" she said.\n\n\"During lockdown people took up activities that they hadn't previously done, like open-water swimming, walking or running, and they have opted [for] that rather than volunteering to take those couple of hours a week to themselves.\"\n\nThe cost of living is compelling people to take on extra hours at work, she says, or they find that their shift patterns have changed. It's a trend she sees happening at other clubs.\n\nBecause of all this, clubs like Damolly has had to be more direct in terms of recruiting volunteers.\n\n\"We are like most clubs, especially grassroots football clubs, that you do lose coaches,\" Ms Patterson added.\n\n\"You don't like to and you're obviously looking to recruit and retain.\n\n\"We lost three coaches before the summer, so we have three dads who have agreed to come along and help as a group because their three sons are part of that group.\n\n\"They have taken on the role of volunteers and already I can see on their faces that they are loving what they are doing.\"", "Maurizio and Mauro have been together for 20 years and had twins through a surrogate\n\nItalian authorities are bringing in new measures targeting LGBT families and making it harder for them to have children. Many same-sex parents feel that a new law, which would make it illegal to have surrogacy abroad, is a personal attack against them.\n\n\"We have two options: to stay in Italy and face prison, or to run away.\"\n\nHusbands Claudio and Davide (not their real names) have a baby on the way through surrogacy - a woman in another country is carrying their son for them.\n\nThe practice is illegal in Italy and most of Europe, so couples travel to countries where it is legal - such as the US and Canada - and bring their babies back home.\n\nBut the Italian senate is set to approve a bill that would make surrogacy a \"universal crime\" - one so serious that it would be prosecuted even if committed abroad, like human trafficking or paedophilia.\n\nNo other country has a similar ban.\n\nIf the bill becomes law, couples like Claudio and Davide could face a fine of one million euros (£872,000) and up to two years in jail.\n\n\"I'm afraid that our child won't have his parents because we will be in jail,\" Claudio says.\n\nThe couple are terrified about what might happen to them and their child, and have asked us not to reveal their identities. They fear someone in the Italian government could find out who they are and target them.\n\nClaudio and Davide's surrogate gave them a teddy bear which plays an ultrasound recording of their son's heartbeat\n\nThey are getting ready to escape, seeking political asylum in more LGBT-friendly European countries. Davide is learning Dutch and Maltese in preparation.\n\n\"I feel like I'm being forced into exile, just for wanting to become a father,\" he says.\n\nIt would be an incredibly difficult move for the couple, who would miss their supportive community.\n\n\"Our families and friends are all really looking forward to meeting the baby,\" Claudio says.\n\nAnd they are heartbroken at the thought of being forced out of Italy.\n\n\"I don't want to leave my country. I am proud to be Italian,\" Davide says.\n\n\"I'm trying my best to be a good citizen, and now I'm being treated like a criminal - just because I want to have a family.\"\n\nThe surrogacy bill is part of the socially conservative agenda of Giorgia Meloni - Italy's first female prime minister, whose Brothers of Italy party is a direct political descendant of a movement formed by members of Mussolini's Fascist Party after the war.\n\nShe describes herself as a Christian mother and is a firm believer that a child should only be raised by a mother and a father.\n\nItaly's prime minister Giorgia Meloni has said that children deserve to be raised by a mother and a father\n\nThis is a country where the influence of the Catholic Church has always been strong - gay marriage is illegal, and same-sex couples have fewer rights than in most of Western Europe.\n\nArtificial insemination or adoption are not options for LGBT couples here, so for many, surrogacy abroad is the only way to have a family.\n\nThe practice has been at the centre of a fractious political debate.\n\nMeloni has described it as \"a symbol of an abominable society that confuses desire with rights and replaces God with money\".\n\nAnd Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini compared surrogacy to using a cash dispenser: \"An ATM-woman… that produces babies... is an aberration,\" he said.\n\n\"I will fight this barbarous and inhumane practice - just the thought of it makes me sick.\"\n\nBut Angelo Schillaci, Professor of Comparative Public Law at Rome's Sapienza University, calls the proposed law \"irrational\" and says it does not make sense to place surrogacy in the same legal category as paedophilia and crimes against humanity.\n\n\"This bill is seeking to punish things that are perfectly legal in countries that are our allies, such as the US and Canada,\" Prof Schillaci says. \"It would be like prosecuting someone for smoking weed in Amsterdam after they've come back home.\n\n\"This is really problematic because it's part of a wider attack on LGBT rights in Italy,\" he adds.\n\n\"Rainbow families\" in Vicenza protesting against the new measures that affect them\n\nCarolina Varchi, the Brothers of Italy MP who drafted the bill, vehemently rejects that. \"Most people who use surrogacy are heterosexual,\" she says.\n\nExperts have told the BBC that 90% of the couples who use surrogacy in Italy are straight, and many of them hide the fact that they have gone abroad to have a baby.\n\nBut same-sex families returning to Italy with a child will not be able to hide.\n\nMs Varchi strongly believes the new law will \"protect women and their dignity\".\n\n\"It's intolerable. Women's bodies are reduced to objects that are rented for nine months to bring a child into the world, who is then ripped away to be delivered to the clients.\"\n\nMs Varchi adds: \"We are not discriminating against children. This bill only targets the parents who commission a baby.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that surrogacy should be seen as a crime as serious as paedophilia, and prosecuted as such. However she suggested that most people would receive a fine, rather than face prison.\n\nIn countries where surrogacy is legal, regulations vary - including whether or not a surrogate can be paid more than expenses, and what steps must be taken to ensure surrogates give free and informed consent.\n\nBut Ms Varchi believes that even in countries like the US and Canada - where surrogacy is heavily regulated - women do it for the money.\n\n\"This is a business worth billions,\" she says. \"In 2023 we must have the courage to say that money cannot buy everything - it certainly cannot buy a woman's body, it cannot buy a human life.\"\n\nBut the families the BBC spoke to say they have great relationships with their surrogates.\n\nCarlo and Davide's surrogate even gave them a teddy bear that plays the sound of their son's heartbeat, which she recorded during an ultrasound.\n\n\"When politicians talk about surrogacy, they use the term 'uterus for rent',\" says Maurizio, whose twins were born to a surrogate in the US eight months ago. He feels the phrase is designed to humiliate.\n\nAnd it's not just surrogacy - the Italian government is also using other ways to make it more difficult for LGBT parents to create a family.\n\nBefore Mauro and Maurizio were able to have their twins' American birth certificates recognised in Italy, their council in Milan - like other local authorities across the country - were ordered by the government to stop registering same-sex parents' children.\n\nAt the time of our interview they told us that the move had so far deprived their twins of Italian citizenship and means they would have difficulties having access to the country's free health care system and nursery schools.\n\nMauro fears the new law will stigmatise their children\n\n\"Our twins don't exist in the eyes of the Italian state,\" Mauro says. \"They are treated like illegal migrants. It's profound discrimination.\"\n\nIt's causing them huge anxiety - every time they leave home with the children, Luisa and Giorgio, they carry all sorts of documents in case they need to prove that they are in fact their fathers.\n\nBrothers of Italy MP Ms Varchi points out that \"non-biological parents can ask our courts to adopt the children - in special circumstances, this will be recognised\".\n\nHowever this process, called \"step-child adoption\", is expensive and can take years.\n\n\"It's humiliating to adopt your own child,\" Mauro says. \"The government's belief that gay parents cannot raise happy children is homophobic.\"\n\nIn the northern city of Padova things have taken a more drastic turn. A state prosecutor has demanded the cancellation of 33 birth certificates of children born to lesbian couples dating back to 2017. All non-biological mothers will be removed and they will lose their rights over their children.\n\nCaterina is one of the children whose world has been turned upside down. Born using a Danish sperm donor, she has blond hair and blue eyes.\n\n\"The Italian government is waging war against our children\" says Valentina\n\nHer mums, Valentina and Daniela, chose to register her in Padova because the city's mayor was willing to put same-sex parents on their children's birth certificates.\n\nBut now their daughter is suspended in a legal limbo.\n\n\"All queer people in Italy are under attack. For the government, our families are not real families,\" Valentina says, holding back tears while she watches her 16-month-old chase rabbits at the park.\n\nAs her daughter's birth mother, her status is secure. But the order from the prosecutor is that Daniela's last name be removed from Caterina's birth certificate.\n\n\"I won't be able to take my daughter to school, I won't be able to make decisions for her at a hospital, I won't be able to travel abroad with her, without Valentina's written permission,\" Daniela explains ruefully.\n\n\"If Valentina were to pass away, our daughter would become an orphan of the state, and she would lose me too.\"\n\nDaniela and Valentina preparing to go to a rally in support of \"rainbow families\" and LGBT parents\n\nAll affected mothers in Padova are preparing to go to court to challenge the decision - but judges have routinely ruled against same-sex parents in the past.\n\n\"We feel like the Italian government is waging war against our children,\" Valentina says.\n\nLike other LGBT parents, they believe the right-wing government wants to impose its idea of a \"traditional family\".\n\n\"I'm really angry. This is a total injustice: our children are being targeted because of an ideological choice,\" Daniela says.\n\nSo far, there is no suggestion the government will back down.\n\nThe proposal to make surrogacy a universal crime is likely to become law - chipping away at the already fragile status of Italy's LGBT community.\n\nThose we spoke to told us that they don't want their children to be treated as second-class citizens - and they will keep fighting for their right to have a family.\n\n\"We are all furious,\" Daniela says. \"It makes our blood boil, and it gives us the energy to keep fighting. Like all dark periods, we have to face it with courage.\"", "The London Ambulance Service went to Pasley Park after a man was bitten\n\nA man was rushed to hospital on Friday evening after being attacked by a dog, believed to be an American bully XL, in a south London park.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim, in his 40s, was bitten on the arm in Pasley Park, Walworth, just after 18:00 BST.\n\nThey said the owner fled the scene with the grey dog before officers arrived.\n\nIt comes as demonstrators in London protested against the government planning to ban American XL bully dogs.\n\nEfforts are being made to track down the owner, a force spokesperson said.\n\nThey told the BBC: \"There have been no arrests. Inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nLawyer and writer Ness Lyons said the XL Bully \"jumped a fence\" and attacked the man at her local park.\n\nPosting on X, formerly Twitter, Ms Lyons wrote: \"Man was bitten badly in several places including his abdomen.\n\n\"Police and ambulance came, but it took an hour. Horrifying.\n\n\"The owner grabbed his dog and legged it.\"\n\nSome residents in Walworth near to Pasley Park said they \"lived in fear\" of the American XL bully dogs. Others felt the breed should be \"muzzled\".\n\nOne man, who did not want to give his name, told BBC London: \"I tend to walk on the other side of the street when I see one and it does worry me for children and other vulnerable people.\"\n\nBut another man in the park said it was an issue with the owners rather than the dogs.\n\nOwners marched in central London in defence of XL bully dogs\n\nOn Saturday, bully XL owners walked through central London in opposition to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ordering\"urgent work\" to define and ban the animals.\n\nThey held placards with messages like \"don't bully our bullies\", and chanted \"save our bullies\" and \"Rishi out\".\n\nJoanne Bridge told BBC London: \"Personally my dog is as soppy as anything, he's round my grandchildren. I've got an autistic grandson and he's really calming for him.\"\n\nMr Sunak has promised to ban American XL bully dogs under the Dangerous Dogs Act by the end of the year.\n\nOwners could face a requirement to neuter dogs and muzzle them in public, thegovernment's chief vet has suggested.\n\nThe American XL bully has been involved in anumber of recent attacks have England - including one near Walsall in which a man died.\n\nAnother dog attack on an 11-year-old girl in Birmingham provoked the debate about banning certain dog breeds.\n\nHowever, the Dog Control Coalition, a group including RSPCA, Battersea Dogs Home and the Royal Kennel Club, said banning specific breeds was not the solution - pointing to \"irresponsible breeding, rearing and ownership\".\n\nBBC Verify reported that 10 people died because of dog bite injuries in England and Wales last year.\n\nLast year there were nearly 22,000 cases of out-of-control dogs causing injury. In 2018 there were just over 16,000, a BBC investigation found.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says it is clear the American bully XL dogs are \"a danger to communities\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey is putting social care at the heart of his party's policy platform\n\nA plan for free social care in England will be at the centre of the Liberal Democrats' offer to voters at the party's annual conference.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Ed Davey will pledge a care package worth £5bn a year at the conference in Bournemouth.\n\nHe says reforming social care is one of the biggest challenges facing the country and a major priority for his party.\n\nThe party will use the conference as a platform to launch its policy agenda.\n\nStarting on Saturday, the conference in Bournemouth will see the Lib Dems debate and vote on their pre-manifesto policies ahead of the next general election, which is expected next year.\n\nThe fourth-largest party in the UK Parliament, the Lib Dems are looking to build on recent successes in by-elections they have won in traditional Conservative strongholds, collectively known as the \"Blue Wall\".\n\nThe conference - their first such event in person since 2019 - gives them a shop window to showcase their vision for the country and sell their ideas to voters.\n\nProminent among those policies is the party's plan for social care, which the Conservatives attempted to reform under the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson.\n\nLast year, analysis by Age UK found that 2.6 million people aged 50 and over were living with some form of unmet need for care in England.\n\nMany of the pressures felt by the NHS are put down to a shortage of social care staff.\n\nAnother key factor is that most patients cannot leave hospital when they are ready because of a lack of care support in the community, meaning beds are blocked.\n\nThe Lib Dems say if they were in government, they would fund free nursing care for everyone who needs it, as well as support with mobility, hygiene and medication.\n\nThey say this would allow more people to receive the care they need in their homes.\n\nThe party estimates the proposal would cost £5bn a year before savings are factored in, but with an estimated £3bn of savings in NHS and care home costs, it says the real net cost would be £2bn.\n\nThe party said it would set out how this policy would be funded next week, when Sir Ed will address the conference.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event - which was cancelled last year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II - Sir Ed said the Conservatives had \"failed on care and the NHS for far too long\".\n\n\"People cannot get the care they need at home and are far too often either left in hospitals or sent to live in care homes,\" said Sir Ed, who is a carer for his disabled son, John.\n\n\"That's why the Liberal Democrats are bringing forward a proper alternative. We are calling for free personal care so that everyone can live independently and with dignity.\"\n\nOther Lib Dem policies being launched at Bournemouth include:\n\nMuch of the Lib Dem pre-manifesto will look familiar to the party faithful.\n\nPledges to reform the UK's electoral system, grant the vote to people aged 16 and over, and forge a closer relationship with Europe are expected to be included.\n\nBut the party has moved away from the Europhile stance of its previous leader, Jo Swinson, who promised to take the UK back into the EU and stood down after a poor showing in the 2019 general election.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sir Ed said rejoining the EU was currently \"off the table\" and most people on the doorstep just \"aren't talking about Europe\".\n\nHe said: \"We want Britain to be back at the heart of Europe, but we're also realistic that's going to take some time.\"\n\nSir Ed has also insisted he is not interested in a pre-election pact with Labour.\n\nHe rejected the idea the Lib Dems could form deals with Labour ahead of by-elections next month in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, seats won by the Tories at the last general election.\n\n\"I'm focused - and I won't be distracted - from my top task, which is to defeat Conservative MPs,\" Sir Ed said.\n\nIn the past, the party has held the balance of power, most recently in 2010, when it entered a coalition government with the Conservatives under David Cameron.\n\nIf neither Labour nor the Tories win a majority in the next general election and the Lib Dems perform well, the party could be in a position to share power again.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering a new baccalaureate qualification to rival A-levels\n\nRishi Sunak is considering a major reform of A-levels in England which could see the introduction of a new \"British baccalaureate\".\n\nThe prime minister's plans could include the compulsory study of maths and English up to the age of 18, according to newspaper reports.\n\nThe shake-up of A-levels would be controversial - but no final decision has been taken.\n\nLabour said the proposals were an \"undeliverable gimmick\".\n\nThe government has denied that Mr Sunak is trying to find radical proposals which will help his party in the polls, with No 10 saying this week that the prime minister is focused on long-term solutions.\n\nMr Sunak initially suggested the idea of a new baccalaureate qualification during his unsuccessful leadership campaign against Liz Truss last year, and has previously said he wants all young people to study maths to 18.\n\nIt is possible the prime minister will set out more of his plans for education at the Conservative Party conference in October.\n\nAndrew Mitchell, who attends Cabinet in his role as a Foreign Office minister, said he expects Mr Sunak to agree to a significant reform of England's education system.\n\n\"We will be guided by the best expertise on how we ratchet up standards and give children the best possible chance of getting the graduate jobs of the future,\" he told BBC Radio 4.\n\nAbout half of 18-year-olds in England currently take A-levels, typically sitting exams in three subjects.\n\nIn 2021, the EDSK education think tank said the dominance of A-levels in secondary education was \"inescapable\" and that they were too narrow, calling for a new baccalaureate qualification to replace them.\n\nIn theory, it would broaden the curriculum to cover any academic, applied and technical subject which students could gradually specialise in over the course of a three-year qualification.\n\nEducation is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, so decisions in each nation are taken by devolved governments.\n\nThe proposal for England is being called a \"British baccalaureate\" to differentiate it from the current English baccalaureate, which is a separate set of subjects at GCSE level.\n\nAny educational reform in England would be controversial, and concerns have already been raised about the potential impact on existing recruitment and retention issues within teaching.\n\nDavid Robinson, director for post-16 and skills at the Education Policy Institute, said steps to broaden the curriculum were \"encouraging\", but added that it would cause an increase in workload for teachers.\n\nDaniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, called it a \"sketchy proposal\" and said teaching was already facing a \"recruitment and retention crisis\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Sixth Form Colleges Association said the post-16 curriculum, which is \"narrow by international standards\", was partly reflective of \"chronic underinvestment in sixth form education since 2010\".\n\nThe government is already working through its rollout of T-levels, a new vocational qualification which the first cohort of students started in 2020.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson accused Mr Sunak of \"pursuing short-term headlines\" with an \"unworkable policy\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson did not comment directly on the proposals, but said the government was already \"reforming technical education\", and had set out \"bold plans\" to facilitate the study of maths up to the age of 18.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pilot of a US Marines F-35 jet that went missing called emergency services from a South Carolina home where his parachute landed.\n\nIn audio from the call, obtained by the BBC, the pilot told a dispatcher that he was \"not sure\" where his $100m (£80m) plane was.\n\nA local resident can also be heard calmly explaining that the pilot had landed in his backyard.\n\nDebris from the jet was discovered on Monday, a day after it went missing.\n\nIn the four-minute call to the 911 emergency number, the resident of a North Charleston home can be heard telling a confused dispatcher that \"we got a pilot in the house\".\n\n\"I guess he landed in my backyard,\" the resident added. \"We're trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please\".\n\nThe 47-year-old pilot, who has not been named, said that he felt \"OK\" after ejecting at approximately 2,000ft (609m). Only his back hurt.\n\n\"Ma'am, a military jet crashed. I'm the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash landed somewhere. I ejected.\"\n\nThe pilot later again asked the dispatcher to \"please send an ambulance\" and said that he \"rode a parachute down to the ground\".\n\nThe US military's F-35 programme is plagued with technical issues, according to a new report\n\nAccording to the Marine Corps, the pilot ejected as a result of a malfunction and landed in a residential area near Charleston's international airport.\n\nIn a separate 911 call obtained by the AP, an unidentified official said that they had \"a pilot with his parachute\" that had lost sight of the aircraft \"on his way down to the weather\".\n\nWhile it is unclear how and why the F-35 continued flying after the pilot's ejection, the Marine Corps said that its flight control software may have helped it remain level even without a pilot's hands on the controls.\n\n\"This is designed to save our pilots if they are incapacitated or lose situational awareness,\" the statement quoted by the AP said.\n\nThe search may have been hampered by the plane's anti-radar stealth capabilities and technology that wipes the jet's communications system if a pilot ejects.\n\nAn investigation into the incident is ongoing.\n\nA report to the US government on Thursday said that inadequate training, a lack of spare parts and complex repair processes had left the US military's F-35 fleet around 55% effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police in Florida got a shock when the driver they stopped on a major highway turned out to be a 10-year-old boy.\n\nThe boy and his 11-year-old sister were stopped in Alachua, hundreds of miles from where they were reported missing by their mother earlier in the week.\n\nPolice said the pair had made their runaway bid after she had confiscated their electronic gadgets.\n\n\"Much to their surprise deputies observed a 10-year-old male driver exit, with his sister,\" they said.\n\nThe Alachua County Sheriff's office described the traffic stop as \"high risk\" and late at night - 03:50 local time (07:50 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nThe white sedan the pair had been travelling in had been reported missing by their mother in North Port, Florida, a city more than 200 miles (320km) from Alachua.\n\nOfficers learned that \"both children were upset with their mother because she took away their electronic devices, which is believed to have been done because they were not using them appropriately\", the sheriff's office said.\n\nPolice added there was no reason to believe they were being mistreated at home.\n\nThe children's mother drove three hours north to Alachua to collect her children.\n\n\"Our detectives did speak with their mother at length who was clearly doing her best to raise two young children and she was very receptive to the recommendations they provided in helping her get assistance,\" police said.\n\nThe legal age to obtain a learner's permit in Florida is 15. Drivers can apply for a full licence at 16 after holding a learners permit for a year.", "A \"Dumbo\" octopus, with ear-like fins similar to the 1940s Disney cartoon character, has been seen in a broadcast on a EVNautilus live stream, which is exploring the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the north Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe octopus can live at depths of up to 7,000 metres and has been filmed by a remotely operated Ocean Exploration Trust vehicle.", "Chris Kaba was shot by police in September last year\n\nA number of police officers in London have stepped back from firearms duties after a marksman was charged with the murder of a man.\n\nUnarmed Chris Kaba, 24, died after he was shot in south London last year.\n\nThe Met said many firearms officers were \"worried\" about how the charging decision \"impacts on them\". Armed officers from other forces are being deployed as a contingency measure.\n\nThe force said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital but they were being supported from Saturday evening by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nA source suggested that more than 100 officers have handed in what is known as a ticket permitting them to carry firearms.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said firearms officers were concerned that the Crown Prosecution Service bringing a charge against the officer \"signals a shift in the way the decisions they take in the most challenging circumstances will be judged\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A number of officers have taken the decision to step back from armed duties while they consider their position. That number has increased over the past 48 hours.\n\n\"We are in ongoing discussions with those officers to support them and to fully understand the genuinely held concerns that they have.\"\n\nThe Met added it has a \"significant firearms capability and we continue to have armed officers deployed in communities across London as well as at other sites including Parliament, diplomatic premises, airports etc\".\n\nThe statement comes after Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and senior officers have been meeting with firearms officers following the CPS decision to charge the officer.\n\nSir Mark said on Friday many firearms officers are \"understandably anxious\" and were \"reflecting on the potential price of such weighty responsibilities\".\n\nMr Kaba died on 5 September 2022 from a single gunshot wound to the head after the car he was driving was hemmed in by a police vehicle and an officer opened fire in Streatham Hill.\n\nHe was being followed by an unmarked police car with no lights or sirens and turned into a residential street where he was blocked by a marked police car.\n\nA firearms officer fired one shot through the windscreen and hit Mr Kaba.\n\nHis death prompted a number of protests, particularly among London's black communities.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi that Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.\n\nThe officer charged with the murder has not been named publicly after an application for anonymity was granted in court and is known as NX121. He has been released on bail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Ukrainian missile strike has hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.\n\nA serviceman is missing after the missile attack, according to Moscow. Footage on social media shows plumes of smoke over the building in Sevastopol.\n\nThe fleet is an important target for Kyiv and is seen as the best of Russia's navy.\n\nUkraine has hit several targets in Crimea recently, including an air-defence system and two naval vessels.\n\nAgainst the backdrop of the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Canadian parliament to give a speech in which he thanked Canada for being an \"example for others around the world\" in its support of his country.\n\nMr Zelensky, who was given multiple standing ovations, said \"people will be the winners, not the Kremlin\", and insisted Ukraine could call on support as it was about \"saving lives of millions of people\".\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged additional support worth 650m Canadian dollars ($482m, £394m), including 50 armoured vehicles and training for F-16 fighter jet pilots and engineers.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack on Crimea was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France, highlighting the importance of Western weaponry to Kyiv.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said five missiles were shot down by its air defences, while the Ukrainian military-linked StratCom Ukraine said Ukraine had \"successfully\" hit the naval base.\n\nUkraine's air force commander Gen Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram \"we told you there'd be more\".\n\nKyiv's forces have recently been launching near-daily strikes against Russian forces based in Crimea.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's navy claimed to have knocked out an S-400 air defence missile battery covering the peninsula, degrading Russia's ability to defend against fresh attacks.\n\nA day earlier, a large Russian landing ship and submarine were damaged in an attack which Ukraine said also made use of Storm Shadow missiles.\n\nThe attacks on Crimea are strategically and symbolically important.\n\nAs well as being a platform from which to attack Ukraine, the Black Sea fleet is a major symbol of Russia's centuries-old military presence in the region.\n\nIt was based in Crimea under a leasing deal even before Russia illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had to take control of Crimea to stop it from falling into Western hands.\n\nRussia has also repeatedly threatened to use the fleet to block shipping routes used by Ukraine to export grain.\n\nThe Ukrainian president is visiting North America, where he has been urging world leaders to continue to support Ukraine.\n\nOn Thursday, he met President Joe Biden in Washington where there is growing scepticism - particularly among Republicans - over the level of funding for Kyiv.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was visiting Canada for the first time since Russia's invasion\n\nBut speaking at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, Mr Zelensky said Russia was \"spreading disinformation, spreading its narratives all around the place\" to try to divide the unity of the rest of the world.\n\nAsked about reports in the US media that President Biden had agreed to supply Ukraine with a small number of long-range missiles, Mr Zelensky did not directly answer the question but said the two countries were discussing \"all the different types of weapons\", including long-range weapons, artillery shells and air defence systems.\n\n\"I believe that [on] the majority of what has been discussed yesterday with President Biden, I think will be able to reach agreement.\"\n\nHe said it was a matter of time but added \"quite frankly the sooner, the less people we will lose\".\n\nThe US already provides far more financial aid and weapons to Ukraine than any other country.", "Smoke rises from a shipyard in the Russian-held Crimean port of Sevastopol\n\nThis week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.\n\nEstimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014?\n\nCrimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away.\n\n\"The strategy has two main goals,\" says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies.\n\n\"To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.\"\n\nIn other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south.\n\n\"They depend on each other,\" Musiienko says.\n\nLet's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol.\n\nSatellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.\n\nBritain's Ministry of Defence said two Russian ships had been badly damaged in the attack\n\nOn Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a large amphibious landing ship, the Minsk, had \"almost certainly been functionally destroyed\".\n\nNext to it, one of Russia's Kilo class diesel-electric submarines, the Rostov-on-Don - used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles hundreds of miles into Ukraine - had \"likely suffered catastrophic damage\".\n\nPerhaps equally importantly the dry docks - vital for maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet - would likely be out of use \"for many months\", the ministry said.\n\nIt said special forces had played a key role, using boats and an unspecified \"underwater delivery means\" to get ashore, before using \"special technical assets\" to help identify and target the vessels.\n\nBut with the fires barely out in Sevastopol there were more dramatic night-time explosions as Ukraine blew up one of Russia's most modern air defence systems, an S-400, around 40 miles (64km) north at Yevpatoria.\n\nThis was another sophisticated operation that used a combination of drones and Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles to confuse and destroy a key component of Russia's air defences on the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nA significant side note: Russian attempts to use exactly this technique over Kyiv have generally failed, largely thanks to the presence of US Patriot interceptor missiles.\n\nThursday was the second time in less than a month that Ukraine has knocked out an S-400 surface-to-air missile system on the peninsula.\n\nOn 23 August, at Olenivka, on the western tip of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, Ukraine managed to destroy another launcher and a nearby radar station.\n\nRussia was thought to have not more than six S-400 launchers in Crimea. Now it has lost two.\n\nBut these are only some of Ukraine's recent operations.\n\nOthers have knocked out Russian radar positions on offshore gas platforms and, according to Kyiv, used experimental maritime drones to attack a hovercraft missile carrier at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour.\n\nWith its airbases, troop concentrations, training grounds and the Black Sea fleet, Crimea has been a key target since Russia's full-scale invasion last year.\n\n\"In Crimea, they still have a lot of stockpiles, with artillery shells and other types of weapons,\" Musiienko says. \"And this is the main logistic supply line for them.\"\n\nOver the months, Kyiv's operations have grown in sophistication, from a drone attack in August 2022 which destroyed an estimated nine Russian aircraft at the Saky air base, to the combined drone and missile attacks of today.\n\nWith more advanced weapons thought to be in the pipeline, Musiienko expects Ukraine to launch ever more sophisticated operations.\n\n\"When we get ATACMS (tactical ballistic missiles) from the United States, I think we will try to use - in one attack - ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and also drones,\" he says.\n\n\"And that will be a serious problem for Russia's air defence system,\" he adds.\n\n\"We will try to blind them.\"\n\nEach successful attack, he says, makes the next one easier. \"We are clearing the way, and it's becoming more simple.\"\n\nThe latest reports from Washington suggests the Biden administration is close to approving the ATACMS long range missile system after months of Ukrainian lobbying.\n\nDoes any of this mean that Kyiv is getting closer to its goal of liberating Crimea?\n\n\"It's getting closer, but there's still a lot to do,\" says retired Ukrainian navy captain Andriy Ryzhenko.\n\n\"We need to liberate the Sea of Azov coast and cut the land corridor,\" he says, referring to Ukraine's slow, grinding offensive in the south.\n\nAnd then there is the Kerch Bridge.\n\nUkraine has been hitting Moscow's lifeline to Crimea for almost a year, but Russian heavy equipment still moves along its vital railway.\n\nDespite being much better defended now, it remains very much in Kyiv's sights.\n\nThis file picture from July shows damage apparently caused by a Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and Russia\n\n\"When we shut down the Crimean bridge, it will be a logistical problem for them,\" Ryzhenko says, with some understatement.\n\nCutting off Crimea would be catastrophic for Russia and provide a welcome boost to Ukraine's difficult southern offensive.\n\nSo is all this a prelude to a Ukrainian effort to retake the peninsula?\n\nObservers here in Kyiv are trying not to get ahead of themselves.\n\n\"I think this could be a preparation for the liberation of Crimea,\" Musiienko. \"But I understand that it will take time.\n\n\"What we're trying to do right now is clean the way to Crimea.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Ukraine was using every means at its disposal to force Russia to abandon Crimea.\n\n\"It looks like if the Russians do not leave Crimea on their own,\" he said in a radio interview, \"we will have to 'smoke them out'.\"", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "President Macron greeted Pope Francis in Marseille before attending the closing session of the Mediterranean Meetings\n\nPope Francis has called on European nations to show greater tolerance towards migrants during a visit to the southern French city of Marseille.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of bishops and young people from Mediterranean countries, the pontiff said \"those who risk their lives at sea do not invade\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron was among the audience for the address.\n\nIt comes as the migration debate has been reignited by mass arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week.\n\nFrance's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who greeted the Pope upon his arrival in Marseille on Friday, said the country would not welcome any migrants coming from the island.\n\nSome 8,500 people arrived on Lampedusa on 199 boats between Monday and Wednesday last week, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration.\n\nPope Francis said on Saturday that migration was not an emergency, but rather \"a reality of our times, a process that involves three continents around the Mediterranean and that must be governed with wise foresight, including a European response\".\n\n\"There is a cry of pain that resonates most of all, and it is turning the Mediterranean, the 'mare nostrum', from the cradle of civilization into the 'mare mortuum', the graveyard of dignity: it is the stifled cry of migrant brothers and sisters,\" he said, using Latin terms meaning \"our sea\" and \"sea of death\".\n\nHe also called for \"an ample number of legal and regular entrances\" of migrants, particularly those fleeing war, hunger and poverty, rather than on \"preservation of one's own well-being\".\n\nClergy members including Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline gathered at the Palais du Pharo for the pontiff's address\n\nThe Pope's remarks echoed his message on Friday that it was a duty of humanity to rescue migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.\n\nThe 86-year-old warned governments against the \"fanaticism of indifference\" and \"paralysis of fear\", saying that \"people who are at risk of drowning when abandoned on the waves must be rescued\".\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Marseille to watch him pass through the city.\n\nHis official business in Marseille was to take part in the closing session of the Mediterranean Meetings event, which covered migration, as well as economic inequality and climate change.\n\nFrancis's visit marked the first visit by a pope to Marseille, France's second-largest city, in 500 years.\n\nHe attended a private meeting with President Macron and will celebrate Mass in the Velodrome stadium before travelling back to Rome later on Saturday.", "Charlotte Tasselli-Arnold, right, with sister Victoria Cogan and grandmother Doris Tasselli\n\nRelatives of the victim of a wartime tragedy who was buried in an unmarked grave in Ayrshire have been traced.\n\nFrancesco D'Inverno died in the sinking of the Arandora Star in 1940 - one of hundreds of Italian internees to lose their lives.\n\nHis body was found near Lendalfoot, South Ayrshire, and he was laid to rest in Girvan's Doune Cemetery but he was only identified decades later by detailed research.\n\nNow members of his family have been tracked down in Kent and hope to come and visit the grave.\n\nCharlotte Tasselli-Arnold, from Southfleet, is the great-granddaughter of Ginevra Tasselli who married Francesco after her first husband died.\n\nFrancesco D'Inverno, second from right, married Ginevra Tasselli, centre, after her first husband died\n\nHe became stepfather to her four children before he died in the sinking of the passenger liner converted to carry \"enemy aliens\".\n\nCharlotte was contacted by Ritchie and Lorna Conaghan of the Girvan and District Great War Project who helped to identify Francesco's burial site.\n\n\"Ritchie tracked me down on Facebook and got in contact with the family that way,\" she said.\n\n\"At first I was thinking, you know, is this legit?\n\n\"He name-dropped a few of the people in my family - Ginevra and Francesco - and then obviously I quickly realised that it was all true.\n\n\"I mean, he probably knew at the time more about the family history than me.\"\n\nFrancesco died in the sinking of the Arandora Star in 1940\n\nHer great-grandmother Ginevra had four children with her first husband but she was widowed quite young and met and married Francesco who became their stepfather.\n\n\"To the children he would have been around - especially for Teresa, the youngest - she probably would have known him more than she did her own dad because he died so young,\" said Charlotte.\n\nShe said she felt finding out where Francesco was buried provided \"some comfort\" to the family after so many years.\n\n\"It's unbelievable, really, there's been some twists and turns to the story,\" she said.\n\n\"My nan is still alive, she's 94. Ginevra would tell her about about Francesco, and so she would tell us.\n\n\"She felt relief for Ginevra that he was laid to rest - he was found, he had a Catholic burial. My nan's found a lot of comfort in it I think.\"\n\nShe said it had been a learning curve finding out more about the Arandora Star too.\n\nIt is hoped a proper gravestone can be put at the spot where Francesco D'Inverno is buried\n\n\"There is so little documented about it,\" she said.\n\n\"I learned about World War Two in school - a lot of people do and you hear all the war stories - but this is a really big story that doesn't really get talked about.\n\n\"These were all innocent people you know, that were just rounded up - it just wouldn't happen today would it?\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for all the work that had been carried out by Ritchie, Lorna and others to find Francesco's last resting place.\n\n\"If it wasn't for their perseverance of trying to find out the history of this person we would never have known any of this information,\" she said.\n\nNow the family hopes to visit the grave in Ayrshire where fundraising efforts are taking place to put a gravestone in place.\n\n\"We would like to come and sort of pay our respects,\" said Charlotte.\n\n\"Obviously Ginevra never managed to get there or find out where he was so we feel that, you know, as a family we want to see where he is and also say thank you and meet the people that made it all happen.\n\n\"He would have just remained buried there and none of us would have known.\"\n\nThe discovery has also sparked a lot of conversation and discussion among her relatives.\n\nCharlotte said: \"I said to Ritchie: 'You know you've rewritten the story for our family, because it's now so current.\n\n\"I think it definitely will be passed down for generations now whereas it would probably have just got forgotten which would have been so sad.\"", "Hundreds gathered to protest against Wales becoming the first country in the UK to reduce the default speed limit from 30mph to 20mph\n\nCrowds have gathered to protest against Wales' 20mph law as a petition opposing the new limit reaches 400,000 signatures.\n\nLast week Wales became the first UK nation to reduce speed limits in built-up areas from 30mph to 20mph.\n\nHundreds joined a march in Cardiff on Saturday, with banners protesting about the change and other issues.\n\nThe Welsh government said the aim of the new default limit is to save lives and make communities safer.\n\nBanners held by demonstrators also complained about a variety of other things, such as Ultra Low Emission Zones (Ulez), Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), Clean Air Zones (Caz), digital IDs, \"cashless societies\", and called for people to \"defy the travel lockdown\".\n\nThe online petition opposing the speed limit reduction is by far the largest ever received by the Senedd, with the previous record holder reaching only 67,000 signatures.\n\nA counter-petition, supporting the new limit, has gained about 500 signatures so far.\n\n\"Drakeford and Waters must go\" read one sign\n\nOn Friday Welsh Conservatives announced they will table a vote of no confidence against deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who led the introduction of the new law.\n\n\"His position is untenable, it's time for him to go,\" said Welsh Tory transport spokeswoman Natasha Asghar.\n\nShe accused Mr Waters of \"attempting to undermine the will of the overwhelming majority of Welsh people because he is unable to admit he has got it wrong\".\n\nProtestors were also opposing, among other issues, \"cashless societies\" and \"digital IDs\"\n\nMr Waters and First Minister Mark Drakeford have strongly defended the policy, which was an election manifesto commitment.\n\n\"When speed limits are lower, people feel safer to cycle and to walk, so less people are driving,\" said Mr Waters.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"The introduction of a 20mph speed limit in mainly residential areas is designed to save lives and make our communities safer for everyone, including motorists.\n\n\"It has been thoroughly researched, voted on in the Senedd and received the backing from a majority of Senedd members.\"", "Footage authenticated by BBC Verify shows the moment a Ukrainian missile strike hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.\n\nOne serviceman is missing after the missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol, according to Moscow.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France. The BBC has been unable to verify this claim.", "María Blanco Rayo's daughter was one of the girls affected\n\nA sleepy town in southern Spain is in shock after it emerged that AI-generated naked images of young local girls had been circulating on social media without their knowledge.\n\nThe pictures were created using photos of the targeted girls fully clothed, many of them taken from their own social media accounts.\n\nThese were then processed by an application that generates an imagined image of the person without clothes on.\n\nSo far more than 20 girls, aged between 11 and 17, have come forward as victims of the app's use in or near Almendralejo, in the south-western province of Badajoz.\n\n\"One day my daughter came out of school and she said 'Mum there are photos circulating of me topless',\" says María Blanco Rayo, the mother of a 14-year-old.\n\n\"I asked her if she had taken any photos of herself nude, and she said, 'No, Mum, these are fake photos of girls that are being created a lot right now and there are other girls in my class that this has happened to as well.'\"\n\nShe says the parents of 28 girls affected have formed a support group in the town.\n\nSpanish authorities have launched an investigation into the images\n\nPolice are now investigating and according to reports, at least 11 local boys have been identified as having involvement in either the creation of the images or their circulation via the WhatsApp and Telegram apps.\n\nInvestigators are also looking into the claim that an attempt was made to extort one of the girls by using a fake image of her.\n\nThe impact the images' circulation has had on the girls affected varies. Ms Blanco Rayo says her daughter is bearing up well, but that some girls \"won't even leave their house\".\n\nAlmendralejo is a picturesque town with a population of just over 30,000 which is known for its production of olives and red wine. But it's not used to the sudden attention this case has brought, making the town national headline news.\n\nThat's in great part because of the efforts of one of the girls' mothers, Miriam Al Adib. She's a gynaecologist who has used her already prominent social media profile to place this issue at the centre of Spanish public debate.\n\n\"I wanted to give the message: it's not your fault,\" Miriam Al Adib says\n\nAlthough many of the AI images are believed to have been created over the summer, the case only came to light in recent days after Dr Adib posted a video reassuring the girls affected and their parents.\n\n\"We didn't know how many children had the images, if they had been uploaded to pornographic sites - we had all those fears,\" she says.\n\n\"When you are the victim of a crime, if you are robbed, for example, you file a complaint and you don't hide because the other person has caused you harm. But with crimes of a sexual nature the victim often feels shame and hides and feels responsible. So I wanted to give that message: it's not your fault.\"\n\nThe suspects in the case are aged between 12 and 14. Spanish law does not specifically cover the generation of images of a sexual nature when it involves adults, although the creation of such material using minors could be deemed child pornography.\n\nAnother possible charge would be for breaching privacy laws. In Spain, minors can only face criminal charges from the age of 14 upwards.\n\nThe case has caused concern even for local people who are not involved.\n\n\"Those of us who have kids are very worried,\" says Gema Lorenzo, a local woman who has a son, aged 16, and a daughter, aged 12.\n\n\"You're worried about two things: if you have a son you worry he might have done something like this; and if you have a daughter, you're even more worried, because it's an act of violence.\"\n\nIf you have a son you worry he might have done something like this; if you have a daughter, you're even more worried, because it's an act of violence.\"\n\nFrancisco Javier Guerra, a local painter and decorator, says the parents of the boys involved are to blame. \"They should have done something before, like take their phones away, or install an application that tells them what their children are doing with their phone.\"\n\nThis is not the first time such a case has become news in Spain. Earlier this year, AI-generated topless images of the singer Rosalía were posted on social media.\n\n\"Women from different parts of the world have written to me explaining that this has happened to them and they don't know what to do,\" says Miriam Al Adib.\n\n\"Right now this is happening across the world. The only difference is that in Almendralejo we have made a fuss about it.\"\n\nThe concern is that apps such as those used in Almendralejo are becoming increasingly commonplace.\n\nJavier Izquierdo, head of children's protection in the national police's cyber-crime unit, told Spanish media that these kinds of crimes are no longer confined \"to the guy who downloads child porn from the Dark Web or from some hidden internet forum\".\n\nHe added: \"That obviously is still going on, but now the new challenges we are facing are the access that minors have at such an early age [to such technology], such as in this case.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important... in 83 seconds\n\nDusty samples from the \"most dangerous known rock in the Solar System\" have been brought to Earth.\n\nThe American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.\n\nThe samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.\n\nNasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside chance of hitting our planet in the next 300 years.\n\nBut more than this, the samples are likely to provide fresh insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago and possibly even how life got started on our world.\n\nThere was jubilation when the Osiris-Rex team caught sight of their capsule on long-range cameras.\n\nComponents such as the heatshield and back cover were removed in the temporary clean room\n\nTouchdown on desert land belonging to the Department of Defense was confirmed at 08:52 local time (14:52 GMT), three minutes ahead of schedule.\n\nThe car-tyre-sized container had come screaming into the atmosphere over the western US at more than 12km/s (27,000mph). A heatshield and parachutes slowed its descent and dropped it gently, perfectly on to restricted ground.\n\n\"This little capsule understood the assignment,\" said Tim Priser, the chief engineer at aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. \"It touched down like a feather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dante Lauretta: \"I was a babbling baby in that helicopter for a while\"\n\nAsked how the operation went to retrieve the capsule from the desert, some of the recovery workers returning in their helicopters told BBC News' science team that it was \"awesome\".\n\n\"I cried like a baby in that helicopter when I heard that the parachute had opened and we were coming in for a soft landing,\" said Osiris-Rex principal investigator Dante Lauretta.\n\n\"It was just an overwhelming moment for me. It's an astounding accomplishment.\"\n\nScientists are eager to get their hands on the precious cargo which pre-landing estimates put at some 250 grams (9oz).\n\nThat might not sound like very much - the weight of an adult hamster, as one scientist described it - but for the types of tests Nasa teams want to do, it is more than ample.\n\n\"We can analyse at a very high resolution very small particles,\" said Eileen Stansbery, the chief scientist at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Texas.\n\n\"We know how to slice and dice a 10 micron-sized particle into a dozen slices and to then map grain by grain at nano scales. So, 250 grams is huge.\"\n\nHelicopters were sent out to retrieve the landed capsule\n\nCleanliness was the watchword out in the desert. When the recovery teams caught up with the capsule on the ground, their motivation was to bring it back to a temporary clean room at the nearby Dugway army base as quickly as possible.\n\nIf, as researchers think, the sample contains carbon compounds that may have been involved in the creation of life then mixing the rocky material with present-day Earth chemistry has to be avoided.\n\n\"The cleanliness and preventing contamination of the spacecraft has been a really stringent requirement on the mission,\" said Mike Morrow, the Osiris-Rex deputy project manager.\n\n\"The best way that we can protect the sample is just to get it from the field into the clean lab that we've set up here in a hangar as quickly as possible and get it under a pure nitrogen gas purge. And then it's safe.\"\n\nThis was achieved just before 13:00 local time, a mere four hours after touchdown.\n\nThe lab team disassembled the capsule, removing its heatshield and back cover but leaving the sample secure inside an inner canister.\n\nThis is being flown on Monday to a dedicated facility at Johnson where the analysis of the samples will begin.\n\nUK scientist Ashley King will be part of a six-person \"Quick Look\" team that will conduct the initial assessment.\n\n\"I'm expecting to see a rocky type material that's very soft, very fragile,\" the Natural History Museum expert said.\n\n\"It'll have clay minerals - silicate minerals that have water locked up in their structure. Lots of carbon, so I think we'll probably see carbonate minerals, and maybe some things we call chondrules and also calcium-aluminium inclusions, which were the very first solid materials to form in our Solar System.\"\n\nA C17 transporter will take the samples to a curation facility in Texas\n\nNasa is planning a press conference on 11 October to give its first take on what has been returned. Small specimens are to be distributed to associated research teams across the globe. They hope to report back on a broad range of studies within two years.\n\n\"One of the most important parts of a sample-return mission is we take 75% of that sample and we're going to lock it away for future generations, for people who haven't even been born yet to work in laboratories that don't exist today, using instrumentation we haven't even thought of yet,\" Nasa's director of planetary science, Lori Glaze, told BBC News.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christine Terzo says her chronic UTI shaped her whole life.\n\nOne in every two women will suffer a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point in their life.\n\nBut for women like Angela Dullaghan, what is usually an easily curable infection has ruled her life.\n\nThe 61-year-old has suffered with chronic UTIs since childhood and estimates she has spent £9,000 on treatment.\n\n\"For years, I thought it was my fault,\" said Angela. \"It impacted on my work, my relationships and my social life.\"\n\nAngela, who lives in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, said she had seen five NHS urologists since attempting to get treatment for her condition over the past two decades, and has often felt dismissed.\n\nAngela Dullaghan says she tried everything she could think of to get rid of her UTI\n\n\"One consultant said to me, it sounds as if you know more about this condition than I do,\" Angela said.\n\nAnother high-fived her after she acknowledged it was unlikely he could help her, she added.\n\nThe Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Campaign (Cutic), an organisation campaigning for better recognition of the condition, said this lack of medical awareness is what pushed them start their work.\n\n\"Around the beginning of 2016, a group of patients got together and decided that we really needed to do something,\" said Carolyn Andrew, one of Cutic's directors.\n\nIts first objective was to address UTI testing, as the tests available often fail to pick up on chronic and recurrent infections.\n\nThis is something that Angela has experienced first-hand:\n\n\"There have been times when I have been absolutely crying and pain and discomfort, send a urine specimen to the GP's surgery and there's nothing abnormal detected,\" she said.\n\nChristine Terzo says it is 'about time chronic UTI sufferers are listened to'\n\nChristine Terzo, from Ruthin, Denbighshire, has also suffered with chronic UTIs at several points during her life, most recently for the past nine years.\n\nThe 64-year-old, who was forced to retire early due to her condition, said it has \"shaped her whole life.\"\n\nChristine also said she was being told there was no infection in her bladder and denied antibiotics when she was in serious pain.\n\n\"I had steroid cream. I had pessaries. I had oestrogen cream. I had all sorts of things when really all I needed was antibiotics,\" she said.\n\nProf Jennifer Rohn is part of a team trying to develop better testing and treatment for UTIs\n\nProf Jennifer Rohn from University College London, whose research focuses on chronic and recurrent UTIs, added \"old-fashioned\" tests used for UTIs can be especially bad at picking up on chronic infections.\n\n\"Basically, the bacteria have ways of getting through the [bladder wall] and setting up shop inside the cells.\n\n\"And of course, when they're inside the cells, the immune system can't see them. Also antibiotics - most of them cannot get in there.\"\n\nIt was due to this lack of adequate testing and treatment available Dr Catriona Anderson set up her private clinic, Focus, where she often treats patients with chronic UTIs.\n\nThere, the team uses more detailed tests which can identify bacteria in lower numbers.\n\nCutic estimated 1.7 million women across the UK suffer with chronic UTIs, and Dr Anderson said it would be possible to run these sensitive tests in the NHS for that amount of people.\n\n\"It's not easy to apply this sort of test to huge populations, but actually you can run it for the number of patients that have this condition,\" she said.\n\nBoth Angela and Christine found relief in the past few years upon discovering Cutic's Facebook support group.\n\nThey pursued private treatment with Prof James Malone-Lee - an expert in chronic UTIs - and other consultants at the Harley Street Clinic in London on the advice of other sufferers.\n\n\"Finally, after 30-odd years, I felt listened to,\" Christine said of her first visit to the clinic.\n\nHowever, while both Angela and Christine are both now in treatment, their condition continues to impact heavily on their lives.\n\nAngela said that factoring in travel, accommodation, medication, and consultation, she has spent \"in the region of £9,000\" over the past seven years on her UTI, and still budgets about £100 a month to go towards medical expenses.\n\nChristine was referred to the only NHS specialist clinic in the UK, at the Whittington Hospital in London.\n\nWhile this eliminated some costs, she still had to pay for the train fare to London and back to north Wales for her appointments, something that she acknowledges many people would be unable to afford.\n\n\"I'm very fortunate, but it's still a chunk out of my money,\" she added.\n\nChristine Terzo says that before she began treatment, she thought she was having a mental breakdown due to doctors dismissing her condition\n\nRaising awareness and making treatment more accessible is one of Cutic's main aims going forward, after they successfully helped have chronic UTIs added to the NHS advice page earlier this year.\n\nThe group are also focused on raising recognition of the condition in children, with zero specialists being able to treat them.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Where possible health boards provide treatment locally but sometimes more specialist treatment elsewhere is needed.\n\n\"NHS Wales is developing a 10-year plan to detail how it will meet the standards set out in the Women and Girls Health Quality statement.\"", "A missile has hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea navy in Crimea, a local Moscow-appointed official has said.\n\nVideos circulating on social media show plumes of smoke billowing out of the building in Sevastopol.\n\nBBC Verify has confirmed the footage to be genuine and new.", "About 10% of schools in Northern Ireland are due to be checked for collapse-prone concrete\n\nIt is unclear if Northern Ireland will receive extra money from the UK government to fix public buildings affected by crumbling concrete.\n\nThe Department of Finance has asked its Stormont counterparts to notify it of buildings affected by Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).\n\nFurther Education (FE) Colleges are also checking campuses for it.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or Raac, is a lightweight material that was used mostly in flat roofing.\n\nIt has also been used in floors and walls, between the 1950s and 1990s.\n\nConcerns that RAAC can be prone to collapse at the end of its lifespan have led to the closure of some school buildings in England.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, about 120 schools are being surveyed for the concrete on the basis of their age and type of construction.\n\nIn England, the government has said it will spend \"whatever it takes to keep children safe\".\n\n\"All schools where Raac is confirmed will be provided with funding for mitigation works that are capital-funded where needed, such as propping and temporary accommodation on site,\" the government has said.\n\nOnce extra public spending is decided for England, what is known as a \"Barnett consequential\" is used to allocate money to the devolved nations.\n\nBut in a statement to BBC News NI, the Department of Finance (DoF) said that \"devolved administrations would normally receive Barnett consequentials of any additional funding provided to Whitehall departments for issues such as this\".\n\n\"At this time it has not been confirmed whether any additional funding will be provided,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The Department of Finance has asked that information on Raac surveys carried out by NI Departments and their sponsored bodies is shared with DoF.\"\n\nIt said the information would help identify any high risks areas, confirm if Raac was ever used in Northern Ireland or assess the need for further surveys.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC News NI has learned that all of Northern Ireland's six FE Colleges are checking their campuses for use of the concrete.\n\nEach of the colleges serve a wide geographical area and have a number of campus buildings in different locations.\n\nBelfast Metropolitan College, Southern Regional College and South West College told BBC News NI that no Raac had been identified in surveys of their buildings.\n\nBoth North West Regional College and Northern Regional College said they were surveying their campuses for Raac.\n\nMeanwhile, South Eastern Regional College said that \"we can say with certainty that the SERC College campuses at Ballynahinch, Downpatrick, Lisburn and Newcastle were constructed post-2000 and so post date the use of Raac in public buildings\".\n\n\"Campuses in the North Down and Newtownards area (Bangor, Holywood and Newtownards) are not thought to contain Raac,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"The SERC estate is subject to five yearly cyclical building surveys, and a survey is currently under way.\"", "Children waved British and French flags as the King greeted them\n\nKing Charles received an enthusiastic welcome as crowds turned out in Bordeaux for the final day of the state visit to France.\n\nAfter two days in Paris, his trip to the south-west city gave the King more of a chance to engage with the public.\n\nA festival event which included the King meeting the Fiji rugby team turned into a scrum of well-wishers.\n\nThe King was surrounded by two of the main features of a royal visit - people holding up mobile phones and security.\n\nThe state visit had seen two days of formal events in Paris - including a speech to the French Senate, about Ukraine and climate change, which received a standing ovation.\n\nThere was a more relaxed atmosphere for his day in Bordeaux, shaking hands with crowds gathered outside the city's historic Hotel de Ville.\n\nThis trip has been a carefully choreographed attempt to build up French-British relationships which might have been strained by Brexit.\n\nThat extended to staff giving the waiting crowds a mix of French and British flags to wave, creating photo-opportunities of this mutual admiration, as the King stepped out of a Renault Espace.\n\nIn a day that mixed heavy rain and bursts of hot sunshine, the King was crowded round closely by visitors at a festival at the city's Place de la Bourse.\n\nHe often seems energised by these encounters and he made slow progress while the background music blared out Running Up That Hill, by Kate Bush.\n\nCrowds had gathered to get a glimpse of 'le Roi Charles III'. As with all these events now, everyone who wasn't thrusting out a hand to shake was holding up a mobile phone.\n\nIt was a break from what had been sometimes stiflingly tight French security during the visit.\n\nThe crowds were a break from tight French security earlier on in the visit\n\nThe King and Queen Camilla attended a reception on HMS Iron Duke to celebrate defence ties between the UK and France\n\nThere had been a spectacular welcome for the King at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Wednesday, but with barriers blocking out any of the public it had been observed only by a silent cordon of police and a pen of journalists.\n\nFrench security concerns had also played a part in a decision for the King and Queen to be flown from Paris to Bordeaux, rather than catching the high-speed train as initially planned.\n\nThe royal couple had also flown to France from Britain - when the previous state visit had seen the late Queen travelling to France on a Eurostar train.\n\nThere had been some awkward timing for the King's visit. Many of the events focused on environmental issues, when UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had been announcing a change of plans over net zero.\n\nWhatever his private thoughts, the King's speech to the Senate, which would have been prepared with the advice of ministers, was carefully crafted to avoid criticism of the government.\n\nTheir majesties caught a tram to the grand Place de la Bourse\n\nThe King contended with a mix of rain and sun in Bordeaux\n\nMeanwhile, our Paris correspondent noted on Thursday how, 85 years later- on the surface at least - there was a rather different ambience in the French capital for the King Charles' visit when compared to that of his grandfather, King George VI.", "Two police officers have been taken to hospital after a noxious gas was released in a building in Belfast.\n\nThe incident occurred at Ravenhill Reach Court at 21:15 BST on Friday, after officers responded to a 999 call.\n\nA suspected gas leak was detected in a communal area and the building was evacuated.\n\n\"It has since been established that this was not a gas leak and we believe some kind of noxious substance was released,\" said the police.\n\nTwo other officers were also affected but not taken to hospital, while some residents were \"displaying symptoms\".\n\nInspector Dawson said: \"I would commend the professionalism of the officers who were in attendance. Despite suffering from the effects of the substance, they ensured that residents were evacuated to safety.\"\n\nEnquiries are ongoing to establish the source of the substance and police have appealed for information.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBruno Fernandes' stunning volley gave Manchester United a much-needed victory as they edged past winless Burnley in the Premier League.\n\nUnited were in desperate search for inspiration following three straight defeats and received it on 45 minutes courtesy of captain Fernandes, who brilliantly volleyed home a first-time finish from Jonny Evans' lofted pass.\n\nThe sublime strike was worthy of winning any game and gave United their third win from six league games this season, leaving Vincent Kompany's side bottom of the table with only a point so far.\n\nBurnley played some delightful football in periods and Zeki Amdouni gave the visitors a scare with a free header that was pushed away by Andre Onana at full stretch.\n\nThe Burnley frontman had an even better chance when he was played through by Aaron Ramsey, but a low shot cannoned off the foot of the post.\n\nEvans thought he had given United the lead when he headed in a corner, but the effort was ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR) for Rasmus Hojlund's block on goalkeeper James Trafford.\n\nBurnley went hunting for an equaliser in the second period and Sander Berge narrowly headed over as United held on for victory.\n• None How did you rate Burnley's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester United's display? Send us your views here\n\nFernandes comes to the fore\n\nUnited had shipped three or more goals in each of their three consecutive defeats against Arsenal, Brighton and Bayern Munich, and they badly required a positive result to get their faltering season back on track.\n\nMarcus Rashford's effort into the side-netting after just 45 seconds may have given indications that this was a side rejuvenated, but it was another largely insipid and lethargic showing from the Red Devils.\n\nBurnley grew into the game after Rashford's early opportunity and will be left wondering about the outcome had Amdouni converted either of the chances that fell his way in the first half.\n\nUnder-fire goalkeeper Onana did superbly to keep out a header from the Swiss striker, who also struck the woodwork after a fine team move.\n\nThe hosts were playing some eye-catching football but were undone by a moment of magic from Portuguese midfielder Fernandes on the stroke of half-time.\n\nThe skipper, who had tested Trafford earlier, peeled away from his marker before letting Evans' pinpoint pass drop into his path and unleashing an unstoppable volley into the bottom corner.\n\nFernandes could have netted a second even more spectacular strike in injury-time, but his effort on the hook was kept out by Trafford.\n\nDefender Evans, who rejoined the club this summer, was making his first United start since March 2015 and had headed in, but the goal was chalked off by VAR.\n\nThe Northern Ireland international was part of the Leicester side that finished in the bottom three last season and Burnley will be looking to avoid the same fate this time.\n\nThey have lost all four home games so far this season and it took them nine matches for their first victory in 2021-22 - a campaign which ended in relegation to the Championship.\n• None Attempt saved. Benson Manuel (Burnley) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mike Trésor.\n• None Benson Manuel (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Jordan Beyer (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Diogo Dalot with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rasmus Højlund (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Attempt missed. Benson Manuel (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Josh Cullen.\n• None Attempt blocked. Casemiro (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hannibal Mejbri with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jay Rodríguez (Burnley) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Josh Cullen with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Poland's President Andrzej Duda compared Ukraine to a drowning man who risks dragging his rescuers down with him\n\nFrom the beginning of Russia's full-on invasion, Warsaw has been a firm supporter of Kyiv.\n\nIt's often led the way in sending military aid and equipment, and argued passionately that this support is essential to protect Poland itself from Russian aggression.\n\nThe change of tone from the Polish government on Ukraine is startling.\n\nNow suddenly it feels like the political knives are out for Kyiv.\n\nThere's talk of how Ukraine should be \"grateful\" for Polish support. This week came a warning from Poland's prime minister about ending weapons transfers, although others in his party then scrambled to soften that message.\n\nBut there was no misinterpreting the Polish President's words. Andrzej Duda compared Ukraine to a drowning man who risks dragging his rescuers down with him.\n\nMoscow seized upon that comment with glee.\n\nThe sharp downturn in relations between the neighbouring countries began with a dispute over grain imports that remains unresolved.\n\nUkraine needs to export its harvest, and land routes are now critical because Russia is deliberately attacking ports on both the Black Sea and the Danube river. But in an effort to protect its own farmers, Poland won't allow cheaper Ukrainian grain to hit its domestic market, only to pass through to the rest of the European Union in transit.\n\nPoland has been one of Ukraine's strongest allies throughout the war\n\nFor Poland's governing Law and Justice party, or PiS, the equation is simple - farmers here don't want competition from Ukrainian grain and PiS wants those farmers' votes at next month's elections.\n\nKyiv is fuming, but Poland's airwaves - and social media platforms - are currently packed with pre-election talk and the tone at times is near-shockingly vicious.\n\nPiS are ahead in the opinion polls but the margins are tight and most commentators think it's too close to call.\n\nIn the battle for votes, PiS has positioned itself as the strongest defender of Polish interests. So redefining how it is assisting Ukraine is just one of the cards it is playing alongside other populist causes such as migration.\n\nPiotr Lukasiewicz, from the Polityka Insight analysis group, explains: \"It's not about grain, it's not about weapons. It's about sentiment among the conservative electorate, which is the big issue for PiS, and they have to ride this sentiment.\n\n\"It's constructed around the notion that Ukraine is not thankful enough [for Polish support] and that Ukrainians here are getting too much in terms of social services and finance,\" he says.\n\nPiS is trying to coax voters from the far-right Konfederacja party, which is currently polling at close to 10% support.\n\nThis week, Konfederacja members picketed the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw and held up a mock invoice for Poland's support. Konfederacja proclaimed the total cost of helping Kyiv to be over 100bn zloty (£18.79bn, $23.1bn) and wrote: \"Paid: zero. Gratitude: none.\"\n\nOpposition politicians have slammed the government's conduct as dangerous nationalism.\n\nBut Poland's shift in tone isn't happening in isolation.\n\nThe shadow of \"Ukraine fatigue\" hangs over election campaigns from Slovakia to the United States, a serious worry for Kyiv which needs continuing and firm Western support as it battles Russian forces.\n\nThe Polish government is stressing that international aid will continue to flow to Ukraine's frontlines via Rzeszow in the east, a critical hub for everything from tanks to bullets. Meanwhile, talks between Ukraine and Poland on the grain dispute are continuing.\n\nThere appear to be efforts on both sides to prevent the war of words from escalating into a full-blown crisis.\n\nAnd whilst PiS pursues the rural, conservative vote, support for Ukraine here in Warsaw remains strong.\n\n\"It's definitely not good that we're limiting help. The thing Russia is doing is unacceptable. We should defend ourselves and help Ukraine defend their freedom,\" Viktoria told me, in a city that still has lots of Ukrainian flags draped out of apartment windows in solidarity - and a lot of Ukrainian refugees.\n\n\"I think this is a tool the government uses to win the election. They play on all the emotions and this is dirty speech before elections,\" Rafa suggested.\n\n\"I hope it's just talking. It depends who wins the elections. In one month, that will be clear.\"\n\nBut some think the damage for Poland is already done.\n\n\"Words matter,\" analyst Piotr Lukasiewicz argues \"I think it will have consequences and they will be bad for Poland.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police were called to Redcar Road, Blackpool, on Thursday morning\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a women in her 50s was found dead with multiple injuries in Blackpool.\n\nOfficers were called to Redcar Road shortly before 11:00 BST on Thursday following a report of an unexpected death. Lancashire Police named the woman as Alison Dodds.\n\nThe force said her death is being treated as suspicious.\n\nDetectives are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Olga Ivshina gets rare access inside Nagorno-Karabakh, under the close watch of a military escort\n\nAzerbaijan's military has paraded heavy weapons captured in Nagorno-Karabakh, amid warnings thousands of civilians are without shelter after the surrender of Armenian separatists.\n\nTanks, guns and RPGs were among the haul shown to the BBC, in the first access given to journalists since separatists agreed to disarm this week.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter.\n\nOnly one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through.\n\nThe convoy from the International Red Cross was the first to reach the disputed territory since Azerbaijan captured it in a lightning operation five days ago. Russia says it has also delivered aid, but it is not known how much.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nOn Saturday, Armenia urged the UN to send a mission to monitor the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that their very existence was now under threat.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the accusation, saying it wants to reintegrate the region's ethnic Armenian residents as equal citizens of the country.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians died, including 10 civilians, as Azerbaijan's army swept into the enclave earlier this week.\n\nNow, displaced from villages and separated from relatives, several thousand people were sleeping in tents or the open air near the airport in the main city Stepanakert, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, Karabakh officials said.\n\nThe airport is also near a base for Russian peacekeepers, five of whom were killed during the fighting.\n\nOn Saturday Azerbaijan said it was working with Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to disarm ethnic Armenian forces - one of its key demands in return for a ceasefire.\n\nIn the courtyard of a military HQ in Susa, near the regional capital, Azeri military officials proudly laid out weapons given up by separatists.\n\nThe haul included what appeared to be a T-72 tank, several BMP-2 armoured personnel carriers, machine guns, assault rifles, body armour and mines. The BBC estimates that the area filled was equivalent to half a football field.\n\nHelmets, RPGs and APCs taken from Armenian separatists\n\nRussia's defence ministry said six armoured vehicles, more than 800 guns and about 5,000 units of ammunition had been handed over so far.\n\nIt is unclear what will happen to the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan says it wants to reintegrate the region and an Azerbaijani official told the BBC that \"no one is kicking anyone out\".\n\n\"If we didn't care about civilians, women and children, we would have simply entered Khankendi,\" he added.\n\nAnother official said that the military had prepared camps for refugees outside of Karabakh that were \"ready to accept civilians\" - but there is much mistrust on both sides and many ethnic Armenians may not be willing to move.\n\nAzerbaijan has also told the UN that it will treat Karabakh Armenians as \"equal citizens\". But their destiny is in Azeri hands now.\n\nIt says it envisages an amnesty for those Karabakh fighters who hand over their weapons and they can leave for Armenia if they choose.\n\nArmenia has also set up facilities to take in thousands of civilians but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he did not want them to leave unless they had to.\n\nPeople in Stepanakert have told the BBC that many are likely to choose to leave.\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" journalist Siranush Sargsyan said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nUS Senator Gary Peters, who is leading a congressional delegation to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, said people in Nagorno-Karabakh were \"very fearful\" and called for the creation of an international observer mission.\n\n\"I think the world needs to know exactly what's happening in there,\" he said. \"We've heard from the Azerbaijani government that there's nothing to see, nothing to worry about, but if that's the case then we should allow international observers in to see.\"\n\nThe Red Cross aid convoy delivered wheat and yeast to make bread\n\nAreas where the BBC was allowed to visit appeared empty of civilians. Only police, soldiers and a few construction workers could be seen.\n\nThere were no smiles from Russian peacekeepers that the BBC saw, and the mood was serious. But so far, there has been no major violence since the surrender.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden plans to give Ukraine advanced long-range missiles to help Kyiv with its ongoing counter-offensive, US media report.\n\nThey quote US officials familiar with the issue as saying Ukraine will get some ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 190 miles (300km).\n\nThis would enable Kyiv to hit Russian targets deep behind the front line.\n\nAt least two Ukrainian missiles hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Friday.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that the attack in the port of Sevastopol used Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France.\n\nSuch missiles have a range of just over 150 miles.\n\nKyiv has for months been pushing for ATACMS to boost its hard-going counter-offensive\n\nNBC News and the Wall Street Journal quote unnamed US officials as saying Mr Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv would get \"a small number\" of ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles. The two leaders met at the White House on Thursday.\n\nThe WSJ adds that the weapons will be sent in the coming weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Washington Post cited several people familiar with the discussions as saying Ukraine would get ATACMS armed with cluster bomblets rather than single warheads.\n\nNeither the US nor Ukraine have officially confirmed the reports.\n\nAfter the Biden-Zelensky talks Washington announced a new tranche of $325m (£265m) in military aid - including artillery and ammunition - for Ukraine. America's Abrams tanks will be delivered to Kyiv next week.\n\nHowever, both presidents have been evasive on the ATACMS issue.\n\n\"I believe that most of what we were discussing with President Biden yesterday… we will be able to reach an agreement,\" Mr Zelensky said on Friday during a visit to Canada.\n\n\"Yes, [this is] a matter of time. Not everything depends on Ukraine,\" he added.\n\nKyiv has for months been pushing for ATACMS to boost its tough and bloody counter-offensive in the south.\n\nIt says key Russian supply lines, command positions and other logistical hubs deep behind the front line would then be within striking distance, forcing Moscow to move them further away and thus making it harder to resupply troops and weaponry.\n\nRussian positions in the occupied Ukrainian regions in the south - including Crimea - would be particularly vulnerable, Ukraine says.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the Biden administration was initially hesitant to provide Ukraine with modern weaponry.\n\nBut its stance has since shifted dramatically, with Kyiv getting high-precision Himars long-range rocket systems and Patriot air defence missiles.\n\nPresident Biden has been hesitant on ATACMS amid fears that such missiles could bring a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia closer.", "Will Troughton believes Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie took the elephants to the beach as a publicity stunt for their show\n\nTwo elephants take a dip off the Welsh coast while onlookers dressed in Edwardian garb watch on in amazement.\n\nMore than a century after Arthur Lewis captured this improbable scene in Aberystwyth, his image still provokes delight from those who come across it.\n\nElephants Salt and Pepper were the star attractions in travelling animal show Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie, which was performing in the Ceredigion town.\n\n\"I think the main reason they took them down to the beach was to publicise the fact they were in town,\" said Will Troughton, curator of photography at National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.\n\n\"You couldn't really miss two elephants walking through the main streets of Aberystwyth,\"\n\nThe travelling \"beast show\", which was in operation from 1846 to 1931, spent just two days in Aberystwyth.\n\nIt was once perhaps Britain's most successful travelling menagerie, touring its assortment of exotic creatures - including monkeys, brown bears, lions and tigers - all around Britain.\n\nArthur Lewis sold his photographs as postcards in his father's shop\n\nKeen photographer Arthur would take pictures at local events and make them into postcards to sell at his father's shop in the town.\n\nThis particular picture, with the town's imposing Victorian promenade and Constitution Hill in the background, would have taken some work to arrange.\n\n\"It's taken across the water so Arthur Lewis must have gone out on a small boat,\" said Will.\n\n\"You can see in the background there's a small skiff there so he must have got one of the boatmen there to take him out so he could take the photo.\"\n\nOnce on the boat, getting the shot would have been a challenge.\n\n\"He would have been on a boat that's bobbing around, exposure times were quite long at that time so he's done a good job to get that photo. It was not that easy,\" said Will.\n\nSome may be surprised to learn the photograph did not make it into the newspapers at the time.\n\nBostock and Wombwell's Menagerie toured its travelling \"beast show\" all around Britain\n\n\"They very rarely put photographs in at the time because they were very expensive to do and you had to prepare a copper plate from the glass negative and then print it up, so it was a time consuming process and often the event would be out of date by the time they could do that,\" explained Will.\n\nThe photo was taken a week after the coronation of King George V and just ahead of the new king and queen's visit to the town to lay the foundation stone for Wales' national library.\n\n\"The whole town would have been buzzing at that time,\" said Will.\n\n\"To top it all you've got these elephants walking along the main street.\"\n\nThe photograph's title - Mixed Bathing in Aberystwyth, which has been penned on to the image by the photographer, tells us something about attitudes in the early 1900s.\n\n\"Up until 1901, mixed bathing in Britain was banned so men and women couldn't bathe together,\" said Will.\n\n\"[When it was] repealed it took quite some time for a lot of places to understand that it wasn't immoral or immodest for husbands and wives for example to bathe together so it wasn't until 1908 that mixed bathing in Aberystwyth was officially sanctioned.\n\n\"So the idea of mixed bathing in 1911 was still to an extent, quote: a new concept.\"\n\nTwo women bathing in the sea at Aberystwyth in 1916, 15 years after the legal segregation of bathing areas in Britain ended\n\nThe photograph of Salt and Pepper, which can be seen on various souvenirs in many gift shops in the town, seems to have become part of the town's identity.\n\nThe image has inspired a novel - Elephants and Hot Chocolate by the Seaside by Adam Leonard Phillips - and even an urban myth.\n\nA story many in the town have heard is that after their sea dip the elephants were taken for a walk up the town's very steep Constitution Hill, which can be seen in the background of the picture.\n\nThe story goes that one of the elephants stumbled and crashed into its funicular railway, killing two people and a dog.\n\n\"It's absolute tosh, there's not a word of truth in it,\" said Will.\n\nAfter Arthur died in 1952, the national library received between 1,200 and 1,300 of his negatives.\n\nThroughout his photography career, Arthur captured thousands of images in the town, everything from royal visits to storms that battered the area, but this is one of his most enduring and reproduced images.\n\nBut why has this photo continued to appeal?\n\n\"I think it's the incongruity of it really and also the photo itself. It has a nice balance to it,\" said Will.\n\n\"It's nostalgic in one way but then also it's slightly bizarre and I think people like things that have got that slightly bizarre element to it.\"\n\nIt is a favourite of his too.\n\n\"I must admit, I'm very fond of it,\" he said.\n\n\"Even though you see it everywhere I think it must be one of Arthur Lewis' most famous individual shots.", "Last updated on .From the section Irish Rugby\n\nIreland remain in pole position to top Pool B after they beat holders South Africa in a low-scoring but riveting World Cup slugfest in Paris.\n\nWith Ireland struggling, Manie Libbok's penalty edged South Africa ahead in the first half before Mack Hansen's try.\n\nCheslin Kolbe hit back for the Boks but after Libbok failed to convert, Johnny Sexton's penalty put Ireland ahead.\n\nIn a nail-biting finish, Ireland's defence absorbed pressure before Jack Crowley's penalty sealed an epic win.\n• None Win over South Africa like 'Grand Slam on steroids'\n\nAt the end of a brutal and relentless Test battle, South Africa pushed for a match-winning try, but after being repelled by a heroic defensive effort from the world's number one side, the Irish contingent in the 78,452 Stade de France crowd greeted a famous win with thunderous acclaim.\n\nIt is Ireland's 16th straight Test win and a major boost to their World Cup hopes having fronted up to a ferocious South African side to put themselves on the cusp of another quarter-final place.\n\nHaving beaten Scotland and Romania, South Africa remain on course to reach the last eight but this was their first defeat in nine World Cup matches and they must now regroup after being bested by one of their biggest rivals in a titanic heavyweight dust-up.\n\nBut the Springboks will rue their missed chances on a night when their unreliable goal-kicking prevented them from turning momentum in their favour.\n\nThis had been widely touted as the most anticipated match of the pool stage, pitting the world's top two sides in a fascinating clash of styles: the speed and ruthlessness of the Irish attack against a mighty, parsimonious South African defence that shipped just three points in their opening two games.\n\nWhile Ireland won 19-16 when the sides met in Dublin last year, it is well known that South Africa are a different beast at rugby's global showpiece.\n\nBoks backs coach Mzwandile Stick had said on the eve of the match that \"World Cups are a different story\", and during a first half in which Ireland made a series of uncharacteristic errors, his words appeared prophetic.\n\nIndeed, while both sides displayed early nerves, it was South Africa who benefited from a creaking Irish line-out, with Libbok's penalty coming at the end of a move sparked by one of several Ronan Kelleher throws that missed its target.\n\nDespite being roared on by raucous Irish support, the Grand Slam winners seemed out of sorts, the Springbok confidence growing with every ferocious hit on a green jersey and Ireland frustration deepening with every failed attempt to break the three-time champions.\n\nWhile the brute of South Africa's defence clearly unnerved their rivals, Ireland weathered the storm before momentum dramatically swung seven minutes before the interval when a brilliant carry from the in-form Bundee Aki, who won his 50th cap.\n\nAki, who earlier landed a crucial tackle on Jesse Kriel, showed pace and power to drive his side up the pitch. This time, Ireland stayed patient and moved the ball smartly before a thunderous roar greeted Hansen touching down - although he came close to the deadball line - after Sexton had come within inches of scoring a superb try of his own.\n\nThe veteran fly-half nailed the conversion to put Ireland 7-3 up with the returning feelgood factor helped by Garry Ringrose's return after passing a head injury assessment (HIA).\n\nDespite finishing the first half on top, Ireland's line-out issues continued after the restart but they were given a let-off when a Faf de Klerk penalty from halfway came back off the post.\n\nThe Springboks piled on the pressure from there and eventually worked the ball wide to Kolbe, who crossed to move the champions 8-7 in front.\n\nBut with Libbok having pushed his conversion attempt wide, Ireland edged back ahead through Sexton's penalty.\n\nChasing the game, South Africa gradually turned to their much talked-about 'Bomb Squad' - the seven forwards named on the bench - and while Ireland's indiscipline offered the Boks a route back into the game, their kicking woes deepened as Libbok and De Klerk failed to land penalties.\n\nIrish nerves were somewhat calmed by Crowley, Sexton's fly-half replacement, kicking them five points clear.\n\nWith the clock ticking down Irish fans roared their team towards victory, and while South Africa found time for one last attempt to snatch the win, those in green turned over a maul as the two nations' first World Cup meeting ended with Irish ecstasy.\n\nHaving underlined their status as the world's best team and serious contenders for the Webb Ellis Cup, Andy Farrell's side face Scotland in a fortnight while South Africa take on Tonga next week in their final pool match.", "Jamie-Leigh Kelly is missing with her newborn son and three-year-old daughter\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction as police search for a missing woman and her two children.\n\nJamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a centre for vulnerable mothers and children in Colindale, north-west London, with her newborn son and daughter, three, on Tuesday.\n\nA man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the investigation on Wednesday.\n\nThe Met said it had located a blue Ford Fiesta that Ms Kelly got into.\n\nHer children are under care orders and were taken from the centre against the wishes of staff.\n\nOn the day Ms Kelly and her children went missing, they left the address against the wishes of staff and got into the car being driven by a woman.\n\nOfficers have now located the car and arrested a 30-year-old woman. She remains in custody.\n\nThe man who was arrested on Wednesday was held on suspicion of child abduction and conspiracy to kidnap.\n\nHe remains in custody in Essex after a warrant of further detention was granted by the court.\n\nDet Supt Lewis Basford, who leads the Met's public protection command in the east London area, said: \"We are making significant progress in our investigation but we remain extremely concerned about the welfare of Jamie-Leigh and her children, one of whom is less than one month old.\"\n\nOfficers believe Ms Kelly is \"being assisted\" and has urged members of the public to call 999 immediately if they see her.\n\nShe was wearing a white long-sleeved top, jogging trousers and trainers when she left the centre and is described as white with green eyes, slim and about 5ft 4ins (1.6m) tall.\n\nShe has links to Thurrock in Essex and Havering, east London.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People living with long Covid after being admitted to hospital are more likely to show some damage to major organs, according to a new study.\n\nMRI scans revealed patients were three times more likely to have some abnormalities in multiple organs such as the lungs, brain and kidneys.\n\nResearchers believe there is a link with the severity of the illness.\n\nIt is hoped the UK study will help in the development of more effective treatments for long Covid.\n\nThe study, published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, looked at 259 patients who fell so ill with the virus that they were admitted to hospital.\n\nFive months after they were discharged, MRI scans of their major organs showed some significant differences when compared to a group of 52 people who had never had Covid.\n\nThe biggest impact was seen on the lungs, where the scans were 14 times more likely to show abnormalities.\n\nMRI scans were also three times more likely to show some abnormalities in the brain - and twice as likely in the kidneys - among people who had had severe Covid.\n\nThere was no significant difference in the health of the heart or liver.\n\nDr Betty Raman, from the University of Oxford and one of the lead investigators on the study, says it is clear that those living with long Covid symptoms are more likely to have experienced some organ damage.\n\nShe said: \"The patient's age, how severely ill they were with Covid, as well as if they had other illnesses at the same time, were all significant factors in whether or not we found damage to these important organs in the body.\"\n\nThe findings are part of a bigger study looking at the long-term effects of Covid on those who were hospitalised, known as the Phosp-Covid study.\n\nThe researchers found some symptoms matched up with signs of organ damage revealed by the MRI scans - for example, a tight chest and cough with abnormalities in the lungs. However, not all of the symptoms experienced by those living with long Covid could be directly linked to what was seen on the scans.\n\nDr Raman says it also seems that abnormalities in more than one organ were more common among people who had been admitted to hospital and were still reporting physical and mental health problems after they had recovered from the initial infection.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that people with multi-organ pathology on MRI - that is, they had more than two organs affected - were four times more likely to report severe and very severe mental and physical impairment,\" she said.\n\n\"Our findings also highlight the need for longer term multidisciplinary follow-up services focused on pulmonary and extrapulmonary health (kidneys, brain and mental health), particularly for those hospitalised for Covid.\"\n\nProf Chris Brightling, from the University of Leicester and who is leading the Phosp-Covid study, says the research is part of a wider effort to understand the group of different symptoms that make up the syndrome known as long Covid.\n\n\"This detailed study of whole-body imaging confirms that changes in multiple organs is seen months after being hospitalised for Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"The Phosp-Covid study is working on understanding why this happens and how we can develop tests and new treatments for long Covid.\"", "This mother and daughter are among thousands of ethnic Armenians caught up in the surrender of Karabakh forces to Azerbaijan\n\nIt took just 24 hours for Azerbaijan's military to force the surrender of an enclave that is home to 120,000 ethnic Armenians.\n\nWhat happens next to the men, women and children in this corner of the South Caucasus is a source of increasing anxiety.\n\nFor all of Azerbaijan's promises, Armenians there fear for their future and whether they will be forced to leave - or worse.\n\nSiranush Sargsyan has just visited several shelters in the regional capital when she fires off a series of voice messages and declares there is \"literally nothing to eat\".\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" she said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nOil-rich Azerbaijan is doing its best to reassure the civilian population, promising food, fuel and \"re-integration\".\n\nThey may not be forced to leave, but there is little desire to stay.\n\nCivilians wait in uncertainty for Azerbaijan's takeover of Karabakh's main city\n\nMany civilians fled outlying villages this week as the Azerbaijani army pushed towards her city, which ethnic Armenians call Stepanakert but Azerbaijan knows as Khankendi. \"They know nothing about their relatives. It's a real horror,\" she said.\n\nKarabakh officials have told the BBC that many families have been separated by Azerbaijani army positions and do not know if their relatives are still alive.\n\nTens of thousands of people have lost their lives in wars here since the fall of the Soviet Union - the first in the early 1990s, when Armenia occupied the region.\n\nAt least 200 more ethnic Armenians died this week as the military swept further into an enclave that is viewed internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has begun burying its dead soldiers, thought to number more than 100.\n\nAzerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, says Karabakh Armenians can now \"finally breathe a sigh of relief\". But that seems a long way off for now.\n\nThere is very little trust in Karabakh towards a government in Baku run tightly for 30 years by one family, especially when the president calls the region's leaders \"bloodsucking leeches\".\n\nThe images for now are of ethnic Armenians searching for relatives, sheltering in basements and using makeshift stoves to cook what little food they can find.\n\nAt the end of last year, Azerbaijan imposed an effective blockade on the only route into Armenia.\n\nUntil this week's offensive, Sargsyan, a journalist, devoted her time to documenting the months of shortages of food, medicines and toiletries.\n\nThat route out, known as the Lachin Corridor, will become key in the coming days or weeks if Karabakh's ethnic Armenians decide to leave in big numbers.\n\nWhat was for decades a separatist enclave with its own TV stations, university and language will now be subsumed into the state surrounding it.\n\nAzerbaijan argues that only 50,000 people are affected, but Ms Sargsyan says there are more than that in her city alone and puts the true number at 110,000.\n\nSome 5,000 have sought refuge at a Russian peacekeepers' base at the local airport.\n\nCaucasus specialist Thomas de Waal of Carnegie Europe has become increasingly worried about their fate and believes there is a real and credible threat of ethnic cleansing, whether it happens more or less peacefully or with bloodshed.\n\n\"The big question is about men who are under arms or who have fought against Azerbaijan - which is probably the majority of the Karabakh population.\"\n\nSeveral thousand refugees have sought protection from the Russian peacekeepers\n\nArmenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has already made plans to accommodate 40,000 families. He has accused his neighbour of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, although his assessment for now is that the civilian population is not facing \"direct danger\".\n\nAzerbaijani officials are considering some kind of amnesty, with a promise not to prosecute fighters who lay down their weapons.\n\nBut presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev told the BBC's Azerbaijani service \"this will not cover those who committed crimes in the First Karabakh war\".\n\nAzerbaijan has lists of men it regards as responsible for war crimes in 2020 and earlier.\n\nA 68-year-old man heading to Armenia for surgery was arrested in July during a Red Cross evacuation, on suspicion of war crimes in 1992. His family says they are untrue.\n\nImages shared on social media on Friday showed Karabakhis removing portraits from an outdoor display of those who had died in the 2020 war.\n\nMr de Waal believes two key deterrents can prevent an exodus of ethnic Armenians from turning deadly.\n\nOne is the possible involvement of two international groups - the Red Cross and the contingent of 2,000 Russian peacekeepers, who were deployed in Karabakh after the 2020 war.\n\nSiranush Sargsyan has little faith in the peacekeepers: \"I know the Russians will do nothing. They will pretend they're saving the lives of children but they will do nothing to protect us.\"\n\nThen there is the fact that Azerbaijan cares deeply about its image in the West.\n\nAzerbaijan said a convoy carrying food and hygiene products was sent into Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday\n\nAzerbaijan is adamant there are no such plans to force the local population to leave, highlighting the focus it placed in initial talks with local leaders on Thursday on \"re-integration\" of ethnic Armenians in society.\n\n\"We have never wanted ethnic cleansing,\" says Zaur Ahmadov, Azerbaijan's ambassador to Sweden, who remembers his compatriots being expelled from their homes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.\n\nHundreds of thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis were thrown out of Armenia and there were massacres on both sides.\n\nThe ambassador believes incorporating Karabakh's people into the wider population is perfectly possible, and that their cultural, educational and religious rights can all be ensured.\n\nHe says 30,000 Armenians are already living in his country outside Karabakh, in mixed marriages.\n\n\"Full normalisation will require some time,\" he told the BBC. \"But trucks full of food have already been transported to Khankendi; there will be fuel supplies and restoration of infrastructure such as kindergartens in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is an optimistic view when Azerbaijani forces are positioned on the outskirts of the regional capital and the disarmament of the Karabakh army is not yet done.\n\nAs soon as it is, the Azerbaijanis will move in.\n\nIt is at that point the local population will be entirely dependent on Azerbaijani promises, says Richard Giragosian, the head of the Regional Studies Center think tank in Armenia.\n\n\"The immediate problem for Karabakh Armenians is the lack of security guarantees, not just from Azerbaijan, but from Russia's peacekeepers,\" he says.\n\nUltimately he believes that Karabakh's male population will be allowed to leave because there is too much international attention.\n\nBut he too is highly sceptical that anyone will be persuaded to join Azerbaijani society.\n\n\"They pretend they want to integrate us,\" says Siranush Sargsyan. \"But they want to erase us from this place.\"", "At 16, you can't legally buy alcohol, place a bet or vote in a general election - but you can consent to sex.\n\nIt has been this way since 1885 in the UK, when the age of consent was raised from 13. For gay and bisexual men, the age of consent was reduced from 18 to 16 in a law change in 2000, after a long campaign for equality.\n\nBut now, people are debating if consent laws should be changed again. This time, discussion has been triggered by allegations made against Russell Brand - in particular, those made by one alleged victim, \"Alice\", who says she had a relationship with Brand when he was in his 30s and she was 16.\n\nAlice told the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches that Brand sexually assaulted her, and that, looking back, she feels she was groomed by him during their relationship. Brand denies her allegations.\n\nDue to the fact she was over the age of sexual consent at the time, Alice says it would have been difficult for anyone to raise concerns about their relationship to the police.\n\nBut Alice believes we should start considering a change to the law in the form of \"staggered ages of consent\", so that people over 18 would not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\n\"There's a reasonable argument [that] individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 can have relations with people within that same age bracket,\" she told BBC Women's Hour. \"You're allowed to make mistakes as a teenager, they should be with other people your own age.\"\n\nThis view has been echoed by many people on social media, with some commentators floating ideas such as restricting those under 18 to sleeping with those under 21.\n\nBut would a change in the law protect 16 and 17-year-olds from harm? And could it criminalise healthy relationships that happen to have an age gap?\n\nWhile sex involving one or more people under 16 is illegal, police use discretion to decide whether a prosecution is in the public interest. They take into account factors such as the relationship between the people involved, whether the underage person consented to what happened and how close in age the people were.\n\nIf a person is under 13, they cannot be seen as consenting in law - even if they say they consented.\n\nIt is already illegal to take, share or possess indecent images of people under 18 - even if the person is a consenting 16- or 17-year-old.\n\nIt is also against the law for people in a position of trust, such as teachers, to engage in sexual activity with a child in their care, even if that child is over the age of consent.\n\nBut what if special protections were introduced more widely for sexual relationships involving those who are over the age of consent, but still children?\n\n\"My view would be that changing the law doesn't actually achieve a lot,\" says Roger Ingham, director of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton.\n\nHe says one of the arguments for having an age of consent is that it allows people who may feel pressured to have sex under 16 to say, \"it's against the law\".\n\n\"How often that's actually used, how often that stops people having sex that they don't want, we don't know.\"\n\nHe says surveys suggest that by the time they reach 18, the majority of people - about 60 to 70%, he says - have had sex (usually defined as intercourse).\n\nBut if the age of consent were to be raised to 18, for example, he says this would be \"bringing in an awful lot of people into the bracket of being criminalised, even if the practice of the police and the prosecution is not to prosecute under certain conditions\".\n\nHe says teenagers in consensual relationships below the age of consent - for example two 15-year-olds - are often nervous about going to family planning clinics to seek contraception in case they are reported - so one risky consequence of raising the age of consent could be more young people having unprotected sex.\n\nIn reality, sexual health clinics keep underage patients' details confidential, unless they are under 13 and thought to be at risk of harm, in which case other services may be alerted.\n\nBrand denies the allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse\n\nProf Ingham says more comprehensive sex and relationships education could help protect 16 and 17-year-olds, adding there should be \"much more attention paid to issues of consent, not just in sexual situations\".\n\nJayne Butler, chief executive of the charity Rape Crisis, agrees that better sex and relationship education and increased understanding are needed to shift societal attitudes around consent.\n\n\"We don't want to criminalise consensual relationships between 16-year-old peers, but there needs to be recognition of the significant power imbalance between older men and 16 year olds,\" she says.\n\n\"The cultural acceptance of relationships between young, potentially vulnerable people and someone much older needs to be addressed, and this doesn't start or end with just changing the law.\"\n\nProf Ingham says the issue of consent is challenged when someone with power or status, such as a celebrity, takes an interest in a young person.\n\nA \"star-struck\" young person may be willing to have sex at the time but may regret it later, he says.\n\n\"It's a really complicated psychological issue, I'm not sure how you can legislate for it, to be honest.\"\n\nDr Laura Janes, from the Law Society's criminal law committee, also points out that the law in this area is already quite complex.\n\n\"What many people find confusing is we have different ages of consent for different things,\" she says - highlighting that in the UK someone is considered criminally responsible at 10 but can't have sex until 16 or vote in a general election until 18.\n\n\"If you take these three dates of what the law thinks you can do in terms of your development, we have already got a law which is very incoherent and inconsistent,\" she says.\n\nA 16-year-old in the UK is allowed to have sex but not vote in a general election\n\nThe age of consent in England and Wales is broadly similar to other European countries - slightly higher than France's 15 and Germany's 14, but lower than Ireland's 17 and Malta's 18. However, the gap between the age of criminal responsibility and the age of consent in England and Wales is the biggest of all countries, she says.\n\n\"It's important to remember the law is a very blunt instrument and creates black and white lines,\" Dr Janes says.\n\nAnd, crucially, the law changes according to the moral values of society, she says - so you have to take into account the cultural reality. She highlights YouGov research from earlier this year that shows a fifth of people say they had sex before the age of consent.\n\nOn top of this, she says one of the problems with English law is there has been a \"proliferation in the number of laws we have\". And the question is what another law change would achieve, when there are other current laws - for example, against coercive control - which aim to protect young people from the kind of harmful relationships that can happen when one partner is older.\n\n\"There's been a huge number of new offences that have appeared on the statute book and there is a real risk of it becoming overcomplicated,\" she says.\n\nDr Janes says that before any law change is considered, the priority should be making sure young people understand what the current law is - and then ensuring they know they can use it with confidence. \"There needs to be a cultural understanding where people feel sufficiently confident to go to the police,\" she says.\n\nAnd if there are going to be any legal changes, particularly if they involve intimacy and relationships between young people, \"it has to be really clear and it has to be understandable to everyone, including potential victims and potential perpetrators\".\n• None Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go to police?", "The UK has some of the least energy efficient homes in Europe\n\nA taskforce to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades has been disbanded, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe group - which included the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt and other leading experts - was only launched in March.\n\nBut it appears to be a casualty of Rishi Sunak's decision to scrap energy efficiency regulations for landlords in an overhaul of green policies.\n\nMembers were informed in a letter, seen by the BBC, that it was being wound up.\n\nEnergy efficiency minister Lord Callanan told the group its work would be \"streamlined\" into ongoing government activity\n\nA spokesperson for the Energy Security and Net Zero department said: \"We would like to thank the Energy Efficiency Taskforce for its work in supporting our ambition to reduce total UK energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030.\n\n\"We have invested £6.6bn in energy efficiency upgrades this Parliament and will continue to support families in making their homes more efficient, helping them to cut bills while also achieving net zero in a pragmatic, proportionate and realistic way.\"\n\nBut former Conservative MP Laura Sandys, who sat on the taskforce, said she was \"disappointed\" by the decision to disband it and \"confused\" about the government's intentions on the cost of living.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she said energy efficiency must be the \"first priority to reduce citizens' costs\" and \"improve energy security\".\n\nA source close to the energy taskforce told the BBC: \"The cheapest energy you can have is the stuff you don't use.\n\n\"This taskforce was meant to help that - if government is shelving it because recommendations are too challenging for them, then it runs contrary to what the PM said about helping ordinary people and being honest about difficult choices.\"\n\nLabour's shadow net zero secretary Ed Miliband said: \"Every family is paying the price in higher energy bills due to 13 years of Tory failure on insulating homes.\n\n\"After Rishi Sunak's track record as chancellor with the disastrous Green Homes Grant, this is another short-sighted decision that will cost families money.\"\n\nLabour says it would upgrade 19 million of the UK's most poorly-insulated homes over a decade if it gets into power.\n\nThe Green Homes Grant was a voucher scheme for insulating homes which was axed in 2021 after being criticised as wasteful and inefficient.\n\nThe UK is often described as having some of the oldest and least energy efficient housing in Europe.\n\nIn 2020, BBC research found 12 million UK homes were rated D or below on their Energy Performance Certificates, which means they do not meet long-term energy efficiency targets.\n\nThis year a BBC investigation found six out of 10 recently inspected UK rental homes failed to meet a proposed new standard for energy efficiency.\n\nThe prime minister has now pledged to scrap policies that would force landlords to upgrade energy efficiency in their homes, after pressure from landlords about the costs of doing so, but said the government would \"encourage\" households to carry out the work.\n\nThe old policy was that from 2025, new tenancies would only be possible on properties with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of C or higher - from 2028, this would apply to existing tenancies as well. Both have been scrapped.\n\nThe government's energy efficiency taskforce was first announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at his last Autumn statement.\n\nIt was asked by ministers to come up with a plan to reduce energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030 across domestic and commercial buildings.\n\nThe taskforce was chaired by former NatWest chief executive Alison Rose\n\nWhen it was announced, the government said this would cut bills and help push down inflation and would include \"accelerating household insulation and boiler upgrades.\"\n\nIt was chaired by Alison Rose, who was chief executive of Nat West bank at the time (she was forced out of the bank in July after a row over Nigel Farage's bank account).\n\nThe taskforce's membership included Sir John Armitt; head of leading housebuilder Barratt Developments, David Thomas; and leading experts from the University of Salford, the UK Green Building Council and National Energy Action.\n\nLord Callanan wrote to members of the group on Friday saying co-chair Dame Alison Rose would not be replaced and the group would be dissolved.\n\nHe told them the work their work to date had not been \"wasted\" and that \"draft recommendations will be instrumental in driving forward this important agenda.\"\n\nEnergy analyst Jess Ralston at non-profit group the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit told the BBC: \"This appears to be yet another U-turn that could lead to higher bills just like the prime minister's decision last week to roll back landlord insulation standards that could leave renters paying an additional £8bn on energy bills.\"\n\nShe added: \"gas boiler and petrol car phase-out weren't set to have any impact on cost of living for struggling families for more than a decade\".", "Rishi Sunak's decision to extend some of the UK's net zero deadlines has proved - perhaps predictably - rather divisive.\n\nThe prime minister said he was putting \"the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment\".\n\nSupporters say the planned green policies, including a 2030 ban on new petrol cars, would have hit people too hard financially, especially in such inflationary times.\n\nCritics, however, say taking longer to reach net zero will damage the UK's economic prospects, undermine business confidence and leave us behind in the global race for investment, they say.\n\nEven some of Mr Sunak's own MPs have warned that backtracking could cost jobs and push up energy bills in the future.\n\nSo will the changes mean more money in people's pockets, as Mr Sunak's supporters claim? And what does a slower move to net zero mean for the UK economy?\n\nMr Sunak says that \"some of the things that were being proposed\" - such as bans on new petrol and diesel cars and new gas boilers - \"would have cost typical families upwards of £5,000, £10,000, £15,000\".\n\nHowever the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), an independent think tank, has pointed out that no one was being forced to take up these measures immediately.\n\nThe planned ban on the sale of gas boilers was not due to start until 2035, it says. The policy also only applied when a boiler broke or a person chose to switch.\n\nThe think tank added that the PM cancelling new energy efficiency regulations for the private rental sector could cost British households almost £8bn in higher bills over the next decade - and more if gas prices spike again.\n\nECIU director Peter Chalkley said that the changes to net zero policy would \"add to the cost of living for those struggling, not make things easier\".\n\nMeanwhile, Matthew Agarwala, a University of Cambridge environmental economist, described the overall changes as \"reckless\".\n\n\"Renters face longer in lower quality homes, the public faces toxic air pollution for longer,\" he said. \"And rather than taking control of transport costs with domestic renewable electricity, drivers are left exposed to the whims of international oil prices,\" he says.\n\nPushing the ban on petrol and diesel engines from 2030 to 2035 is expected to have a \"limited\" effect on people's pockets, according to sources in the motor industry.\n\nThe majority of people buy second-hand cars and the ban only relates to the sale of new vehicles.\n\nCar makers are split on the decision to push back the ban. Ford said watering down the policy would undermine the move to electric cars. Toyota and Jaguar Land Rover said the move was \"pragmatic\".\n\nSome in the car industry worry that the government is sending mixed messages - on one hand, telling manufacturers to make more electric cars with strict sales targets and fines for failure due in 2024, while on the other, appearing to tell consumers that they can put the brakes on switching.\n\nAnalysts suggest that to meet sales quotas, car-makers may have to make electric vehicles cheaper. A new electric vehicle on average costs 39% more than its petrol or diesel equivalent.\n\nAnd there are concerns about Sunak's announcements outside the car industry, too.\n\nOn gas boilers, industry group Energy UK said some of its members were pleased with the plan to boost grants for heat pumps and announcements on fast-tracking energy grid projects.\n\nHowever, its chief executive Emma Pinchbeck said members were mainly concerned about \"uncertainty\" and \"change in tone\" from government when it comes to them making investment decisions.\n\n\"Money moves,\" she said. \"And there are now other places in the world going faster than we are.\"\n\nHow will the switch to net zero impact the economy? Some of the costs of moving to a low-carbon economy are daunting, and jobs will undoubtedly go in old carbon-intense sectors.\n\nStuart Adam, senior economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says some net zero policies could be a win-win for the economy and the environment - but warns there \"there will be some [economic] pain\" in the transition.\n\nAs an example - a deal to keep the biggest steelworks in Britain open at Port Talbot will save 5,000 jobs, according to the government. The flip side is that up to 3,000 will still be lost.\n\nThe site in Port Talbot is the biggest steelworks in Britain\n\nThe government has already agreed to give £500m to Tata for the Port Talbot deal. The firm, which owns Jaguar Land Rover, will also get hundreds of millions in subsidies to build a new £4bn electric car battery factory in Somerset.\n\nNissan has also secured £100m in public money towards a £1bn investment in expanding a Chinese-owned battery plant in Sunderland, and BMW has announced plans to invest hundreds of millions to transition its Mini factory in Oxford to electric car production.\n\nChris Stark, the chief executive the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC), said that such huge subsidies are \"very tricky\" in the short term - using the public purse to drive change can hit ordinary pockets.\n\nHowever the CCC, which oversees the government's progress on reducing greenhouse gases, estimates that short-term costs could be completely offset by long-term benefits.\n\nMr Stark said that overall the transition may well deliver jobs and growth that wouldn't be there without it - an \"invest-to-save\" scenario.\n\nThe independent consultancy Oxford Economics has concluded that forging ahead with transition could act as a catalyst for private-sector investment and boost the UK economy by 2050.\n\nMr Agarwala, the environmental economist, said there was a risk that some people may be seeing things through \"green-tinted glasses\" that blur the impact of immediate costs.\n\nHowever, he argues that those costs won't necessarily be as high as some fear.\n\nPrices for green technology will continue to fall, he predicts, just as prices for solar and wind power have already plummeted.\n\n\"Either we face the upfront investment costs, which, like all other investments, yield benefits in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"Or we face the climate catastrophe costs, which yield no benefit, only disaster.\"", "A man and baby have been taken to hospital after a car crashed and flipped onto its side in Edinburgh.\n\nPolice said the man was walking with a pram when the crash happened on West Maitland Street near the junction with Coates Place at about 17:00 on Friday.\n\nThe 35-year-old was taken to the Royal Infirmary while the baby was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People to be checked over.\n\nThe BBC understands they were not seriously injured.\n\nThe driver of the car was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nRoads in the area were closed and re-opened at about 18:20.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were also called to the scene to make the vehicle safe.\n\nTrams and buses were disrupted while police made inquiries and full tram service resumed at about 18:45.", "The wedding was held at the Galgorm hotel near Ballymena\n\nAn off-duty police officer has been charged over an incident at a wedding at a hotel in County Antrim.\n\nIt happened at the Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort, near Ballymena, on Thursday.\n\nThe officer, a man aged 30, was charged with drink-driving, disorderly behaviour and four counts of common assault.\n\nHe is expected to appear before Ballymena Magistrates' Court on 19 October.\n\nAn off-duty officer was arrested outside the venue over what police described as an unrelated matter and later released without charge.\n\nIt is understood a misconduct investigation is ongoing by the PSNI's professional standards department.\n\nCorrection 24 September 2023: In an earlier version of this story we stated that another off-duty police officer had been arrested and charged with drink-driving. That was not the case. She was released unconditionally without charge.", "Andrey Medvedev in uniform before defecting from Wagner\n\nNorwegian police have arrested a former commander in the Wagner mercenary group who had claimed asylum in Norway after he apparently tried to cross back into Russia illegally.\n\nIt is the latest colourful incident involving Andrey Medvedev, who has been in the West since January.\n\nHe was arrested soon after his arrival in Norway under immigration laws.\n\nThen in April, he pleaded guilty to being involved in a fight outside a bar and carrying an air gun in public.\n\nHowever, he was acquitted of assaulting police officers.\n\nMr Medvedev, who crossed into Norway from Russia's far north, is believed to be the first member of Wagner to defect to the West.\n\nThe mercenary group - whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash in August - has been used in many Russian operations.\n\nWhen Mr Medvedev first came to Norway, he said he was seeking asylum because he feared being \"brutally murdered\" after witnessing war crimes committed in Ukraine.\n\nBut in May, he said in a video on YouTube that he wanted to go back, despite the potential risk to his life.\n\nPolice said late on Friday that a man in his 20s had been taken into custody for attempting to cross the Russian border, but they declined to name him.\n\nCrossing into Russia is only allowed at certain points.\n\nMr Medvedev's Norwegian lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, confirmed his client's identity to Reuters news agency and said the arrest was due to a misunderstanding.\n\n\"He was up there to see if he could find the place where he crossed [into Norway in January]. He was stopped when he was in a taxi,\" Mr Risnes said\n\nHe added that it \"was never his intention\" to cross back. \"He was never near the border.\"", "Vulnerable households face an \"inevitable new winter crisis\" without more help on energy bills, a group of MPs has said.\n\nThey called on the government, regulator Ofgem, and energy suppliers to take urgent action.\n\nPeople are being squeezed by cost of living pressures and debt, the MPs on the Commons select committee added.\n\nIndustry group Energy UK said suppliers had been increasing support at \"a very difficult time for its customers\".\n\nIn a report, the MPs on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee said that the government had provided \"unprecedented levels of support\" last year when it stepped in to help with soaring energy bills.\n\nBut they are now concerned that no new help has been announced for this winter.\n\nIn addition, last year £440m of support intended for vulnerable families went unallocated, and was returned to the Treasury. Households who missed out on the Energy Bills Support Scheme should get their payment, the MPs said.\n\nSuppliers and Ofgem should make sure customers get more \"time, attention and support\", they added.\n\nAngus MacNeil, the chair of the committee, said: \"The nights are now drawing in and many of our most vulnerable people will be haunted by harrowing memories of the relentless sacrifices they were forced into last year, just to keep their heads above water in the face of exorbitant energy costs.\"\n\nHe said a quarter of those people still carry energy debts, and an announcement of more help from the government was \"long overdue\".\n\nThe committee said the government should extend the Warm Home Discount scheme, which gives a £150 one-off discount on energy bills, and it called on Ofgem to make sure suppliers give vulnerable customers \"more time, attention and support\".\n\nMr MacNeil said that energy firms needed to make \"a drastic improvement in customer service and empathy\" for people facing tough times.\n\nHe added that \"unfair and regressive standing charges\" should go. \"After all you don't pay a standing charge to buy petrol, you just pay for what you use,\" he said.\n\nNearly all consumer energy bills include a standing charge, which is a fixed daily payment covering the costs of supply and other levies.\n\nOfgem said its first priority was to protect customers, adding there are rules in place requiring suppliers to be \"proactive in identifying those who might be struggling and providing appropriate advice and support\".\n\nSuppliers should treat customers with compassion, an Ofgem spokesperson said, adding that it was keeping standing charges under review.\n\nEnergy UK said suppliers had increased support \"during a very difficult time for its customers over the last 18 months\".\n\nThis includes \"emergency credit, offers of payment holidays and altered repayment arrangements\".\n\nCustomers may also be able to get direct financial assistance through suppliers' funds, \"which are often run in partnership with charities and consumer groups who can also offer specialist support and advice\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"An extended period of record bills has seen an unprecedented number of customers seeking support with call volumes quadrupling and an accompanying increase in the time taken to resolve challenging and complex cases,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nSo energy firms have expanded customer service teams and set up specialist teams \"to deal with the most challenging cases\".\n\n\"Suppliers will continue to do all they can to support customers struggling with bills but in the middle of a wider cost-of-living and affordability crisis, they alone cannot provide all the help people need,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMark Garnier, who is also on the MP committee, said that while the government \"did step up to the plate last year\" it now \"needs to give some assurances on support to vulnerable households\".\n\nEnergy prices at present are limited for a typical household to £1,923 a year - that is the latest Ofgem price cap.\n\nThe cap is on the price per unit of energy, so bills for individual households can still go above that, depending on how much energy is used.\n\nThe energy price cap is lower than last year, but government support has also been scaled back.\n\nLast winter, household energy bills were limited to £2,500 under the government's Energy Price Guarantee Scheme.\n\nIn addition, all homes got a £400 payment to help with energy bills.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee is in place until the end of March, but will only come into effect if energy prices go above £3,000 a year.\n\nIn response to the Committee's report, a Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said:\n\n\"The Energy Price Guarantee will remain in place to protect people until April next year - part of nearly £40bn of support to cover around half a typical household bill.\"\n\nPeople most in need can get support through the Warm Home Discount, and the government's £1bn Great British Insulation Scheme, the spokesperson said.\n\nIn addition, \"landlords must respond swiftly when dealing with damp and mould to ensure renters can live in safe and decent housing\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe government is to introduce a law to set time limits on social landlords to make repairs, after the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from a respiratory condition caused by mould.\n• None Energy firms must help customers with unpaid bills", "One of the two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) run by HS2, which began its operation in 2022 in Ruislip\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the government against building a \"mutilated\" version of HS2.\n\nHe said suggestions the high-speed rail link that began construction under his premiership could be scaled back were \"Treasury-driven nonsense\".\n\nLast week, the government refused to guarantee HS2 would continue between Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nThe BBC understands a definitive decision on HS2 will be made in the coming week.\n\nOn Saturday, more than 80 companies and business leaders seek clarity over the commitment to HS2.\n\nIn a letter to the government, they expressed \"deep concern\" over \"the constant uncertainty\" that \"plagues\" the project.\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said on Friday that \"our focus remains on delivering\" HS2.\n\nIt was under Mr Johnson's government that HS2 - intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England - was given the green light to start construction in 2020.\n\nThe first part of HS2, between west London and Birmingham, is in mid-construction, and £2.3bn has already been put towards the next sections including acquiring land and property.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts - including to the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds.\n\nOn Thursday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said it was to be expected that he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would have discussions when \"major infrastructure projects overrun in their costs\", but said no decisions had been made.\n\nMr Johnson argues that what he calls \"desperate truncations\" would not yield any short-term savings \"and make no difference to the case for tax cuts\".\n\nHe added that it would be \"the height of insanity to announce all this just before a party conference in Manchester\".\n\nThe former prime minister said: \"It makes no sense at all to deliver a mutilated HS2\", adding there was a \"need\" for the rail link in the north of England.\n\nThe bosses of dozens of businesses and business groups - including Manchester Airports Group, British Land, Virgin Money, and the Northern Powerhouse - have all signed the letter to the government urging renewed commitment to HS2, saying that repeated mixed signals are damaging the UK's reputation and the wider supply chain.\n\n\"Two years ago, Yorkshire and the North-East lost the eastern Leg of HS2, with no settled alternative yet identified following protracted delays,\" they said.\n\n\"It is now reported that the entire line from Birmingham to Crewe - allowing access to Scotland - the new line to Manchester, and Euston station as the terminus may all be cancelled entirely in the upcoming Autumn Statement\".\n\nThey added the \"repeated mixed signals\" on HS2 were damaging the country's wider supply chain as \"spending commitments cannot be made with confidence\".\n\nNorthern Powerhouse chief executive Henri Murison said any rowing back on HS2 may come to be seen as Sunak's \"worst decision as prime minister\".\n\n\"It will put back the cause of rebalancing this country for another 100 years\", he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThere have been signals that the Manchester leg of the high-speed rail network could be scrapped.\n\nMr Murison heavily criticised recent government changes in policy, arguing: \"What that says to British business is: 'You can't rely on this government. If they tell you something is going to happen, you shouldn't believe them.' And that's terrible for our country.\"\n\nJohn Dickie, Business London's chief executive, also suggested policy shifts were \"no way to run Britain's long-term infrastructure projects.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"The constant chopping, changing, the uncertainty over the scope and the timing of this project is a big reason why its costs have risen over the past decade or so.\n\n\"It makes no sense to stop doing work now today when it will just cost taxpayers more in the future.\"\n\nJohn Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, said scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg \"would be a tragedy\".\n\nHe told Today: \"Here is a country which sets itself ambitions and then runs away when it starts to see some challenges. We have to meet the challenges.\"\n\nLabour's position on HS2 has not been completely clear.\n\nLabour peer and deputy chair of the Oakervee review Tony Berkeley told the Today programme that money would be better spent elsewhere.\n\nBut party leader Sir Keir Starmer insists he still supports the project and blames the government for introducing the \"uncertainty\" over its future as ministers consider the move to save billions.\n\nThe party's campaign co-ordinator Pat McFadden said that he needs to see the price-tag before committing to the full original route as \"there may be revised costs\".\n\nShadow Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has also said it would be irresponsible for her to make a commitment without the final costs.\n\nHS2 is meant to create more capacity and speed up journey times.\n\nThe government has previously argued it would have economic benefits too, but critics think it is far too expensive and the money could be better used in other ways.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said there would be a two-year delay on the Birmingham to Crewe leg.\n\nWork on Euston was also paused while an \"affordable\" design was worked on.\n\nThe eastern leg to Leeds was scrapped by the government in 2021.\n\nThe government's official estimate of the cost of the project, excluding the eastern leg, is about £71bn in 2019 prices.", "One of the signs, seen on the Ballycastle Road in Coleraine in July\n\nA Northern Ireland university is removing refences to \"world leading\" in ad posters after complaints were made to the UK's advertising watchdog.\n\nUlster University (UU) said there was no formal investigation or sanction from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) in relation to the billboards.\n\nHowever it said it was in the process of replacing them.\n\nThe ASA said it spoke to UU after receiving two complaints about the advertisements.\n\nSome ad billboards in Coleraine stated: \"You are only 10 minutes away from a world-leading university.\"\n\nAs first reported in the Belfast Telegraph, the ASA said the complainants argued the claim was misleading, based on the university's Times Higher Education World University ranking.\n\n\"We spoke with Ulster University and they provided assurance that they would remove the ad. As such, as we consider the matter closed,\" it added.\n\nThe Times Higher Education World University Rankings puts the university between number 601 and 800 on the list.\n\nAdvertisers must present evidence that justifies their claims to the ASA, if asked to do so.\n\nBBC News NI understands that the ASA takes matters on a a case-by-case basis and could take other matters rather than ranking into account if given evidence for the university's \"world-leading\" claim.\n\nA spokeswoman for the university said its \"research environment\" had been judged to be excellent and worthy of the description.\n\n\"The 'world-leading' reference in this ad was based on a number of factors and rankings, and particularly the REF 2021 rating, where that independent expert reviewer specifically defines that 97% of Ulster University's research environment is world leading or internationally excellent,\" she said.\n\nShe added that in the Research Excellence Framework 2021, UU had ranked in the top 10% in the UK for world leading or internationally excellent research impact and that 97% of Ulster University's research impact had outstanding or very considerable impacts in reach and significance.\n\nThe spokeswoman also said the university was found to be in the top 250 young universities in the world in The Times Young University Rankings 2023, which lists the world's best universities that are 50 years old or younger.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFrance captain Antoine Dupont has had surgery on a fractured cheekbone sustained in the 96-0 win over Namibia.\n\nThe French Rugby Federation (FFR) said the scrum-half would return to France's squad \"in a few days\" but has not confirmed how long he will be unavailable for.\n\nDupont, 26, went off in the 46th minute on Thursday after Johan Deysel made a head-on-head tackle and was sent off.\n\nFrance's final Rugby World Cup pool match is against Italy on 6 October.\n\nWriting on social media Dupont said: \"Wounded but not sunk. Show must go on. Can't wait to return to the squad.\"\n\n\"Following his injury sustained during the France-Namibia match, Antoine Dupont underwent surgery at Toulouse's Purpan University on September 22 at around 11pm [local time],\" the FFR said of the 2021 world player of the year.\n\n\"In a few days' time, he will be able to return to the French team as part of a gradual sporting recovery under medical supervision.\"\n\nThe quarter-finals are scheduled for the weekend of 14-15 October, the semi-finals the weekend after and the final on Saturday, 28 October.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, France attack coach Laurent Labit stressed Dupont would stay with the squad and that he had not \"finished the competition\" as the hosts bid to win the tournament for the first time.\n\n\"Antoine stays with us, everyone will be together,\" Labit said. \"We will do as we have always done with short-term injuries in hoping that the opinion of the surgeon is positive for Antoine and us.\n\n\"The specialist will give the verdict and Antoine will make the decision. We will respect that. We can't think too far ahead.\"\n\nNamibia captain Deysel faces a disciplinary hearing in Paris on Tuesday following his red card, which was upgraded from a yellow following a 'bunker' review by the television match official.\n\nFormer Australia captain Stirling Mortlock told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Daily podcast he believes Dupont will play again at the World Cup.\n\nMortlock, who played 80 Tests for the Wallabies, said he had suffered a similar maxillo-zygomatic fracture to the France talisman during his playing career.\n\n\"I had a depressed one, it was late in the season and I had to have an operation to push it back out,\" Mortlock said.\n\n\"If I would have been in this situation I would certainly have said to the surgeons 'put a titanium plate in and I am going to play'.\n\n\"It really depends on how depressed and how significant the fracture is, but even if it is a significant one I would imagine they would be putting a titanium plate in there.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would be really surprised if we don't see him later on in the World Cup.\"\n\nFormer Ireland winger Tommy Bowe told Rugby Union Daily Argentina lock forward Tomas Lavanini also had a similar injury and was back playing \"within three to four weeks\".\n\n\"It's a shame for the competition but at the same time fingers crossed,\" he said.\n• None Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney reveal their most memorable incidents", "London's Mayor Sadiq Khan set out a £14.2m plan to raise the Met's standards in January\n\nSadiq Khan has refused to rule out breaking up the Metropolitan Police if current efforts to reform it fail.\n\nThe Mayor of London warned \"nothing is off the table\" when it comes to improving the force's culture.\n\nOn Friday, he announced the details of a new London Policing Board to further hold the Met to account.\n\nThe board's creation was a key recommendation made by Baroness Casey in her scathing review of cultures in the Met earlier this year.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, Mr Khan was asked whether there was the prospect of the Met Police being broken up if the culture did not improve.\n\nHe said: \"I think... we need to try and see if this works. And if it doesn't work nothing is off the table.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether that would include breaking up the force into smaller independent organisations he said \"we are not at that stage\".\n\nReferencing Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police's commissioner, he said: \"Sir Mark himself has had the humility and candour to say he needs around two or three years to turn things around. I think he's right, by the way. You don't change a system or culture overnight.\"\n\nHe said that he wanted a critical part of his mayoralty to be about the reform of the police service.\n\n\"It's incredibly important,\" he said. \"The way we've always done stuff isn't working. And that's what the police board is seeking to address as well.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Khan told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the new board consisted of experts from a wide range of areas.\n\n\"This outside expertise will be really important in ensuring we bring about the long-lasting cultural and systematic change in the police service that Londoners so desperately want and need,\" he said.\n\nThe board's members include author and educator Stuart Lawrence - the younger brother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence - and Neil Basu, the Met's former assistant commissioner for specialist operations.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukraine says Friday's missile strike on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials.\n\nIn a short statement, the Ukrainian military claimed the strike had caused deaths and injuries but did not provide more details.\n\nOn Friday Moscow said one serviceman was missing after the attack.\n\nThe fleet, based in the port city of Sevastopol, is seen as the best of Russia's navy.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France.\n\nThe Ukrainian military statement on Saturday asserted that it had left \"dozens of dead and wounded occupiers, including the top management of the fleet\".\n\nKyiv's intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, claimed that two Russian commanders were badly injured in the missile strike.\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify many of the battlefield claims made by either side.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Western powers were \"de facto fighting against us, using the hands and bodies of Ukrainians\".\n\nHe was speaking to journalists after delivering a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, where he denounced the West as \"a real empire of lies\" unable to negotiate with the rest of the world.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering international condemnation. Moscow had illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.\n\nThe Sevastopol area came under renewed attack on Saturday. The city's Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said debris from a missile shot down by air defences had fallen near a pier.\n\nHe also told residents he was ordering an inspection of bomb shelters following some complaints they were hard to access or in poor condition.\n\n\"We earnestly ask everyone: stop sowing panic and pleasing our enemies with this - panic is their main goal,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKyiv's forces have recently been launching near-daily strikes against Russian forces based in Crimea.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's navy claimed to have knocked out an S-400 air defence missile battery covering the peninsula, degrading Russia's ability to defend against fresh attacks.\n\nA day earlier, a large Russian landing ship and submarine were damaged in an attack which Ukraine said also made use of Storm Shadow missiles.\n\nThe attacks on Crimea are strategically and symbolically important.\n\nAs well as being a platform from which to attack Ukraine, the Black Sea fleet is a major symbol of Russia's centuries-old military presence in the region.\n\nIt was based in Crimea under a leasing deal even before Russia's 2014 annexation of the peninsula.", "Prosecutors allege Bob and Nadine Menendez accepted bribes to secretly aid the Egyptian government\n\nA veteran US senator has temporarily stepped down as head of the chamber's powerful foreign relations committee as he battles bribery charges.\n\nJustice department prosecutors allege Robert Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for aid to Egypt's government.\n\nThe couple have denied the charges.\n\nThe embattled senator has rejected calls from fellow Democrats back in his home state of New Jersey to resign his seat.\n\nSenate majority leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday that Mr Menendez had decided to step down as chairman of the influential committee \"until the matter has been resolved\".\n\nThe New York Democrat said his colleague was \"a dedicated public servant and is always fighting hard for the people of New Jersey\".\n\nIt is not the first time that Mr Menendez, 69, who has served in Congress since 2006, has had to give up the coveted post on the foreign relations panel.\n\nHe also stepped down in 2015 after being indicted in New Jersey on charges that he had accepted bribes from a Florida eye doctor. That case ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.\n\nMaryland Democrat Ben Cardin, who took over as the committee's leading Democrat at the time, is expected again to temporarily ascend to fill the vacancy.\n\nMr Menendez and his spouse, Nadine Arslanian, are accused of accepting bribes of cash, gold, payments towards a home mortgage and a luxury vehicle from three New Jersey businessmen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProsecutors allege the pair accepted the money to secretly aid the Egyptian government and to enrich the three men: Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.\n\nAccording to the 39-page indictment unsealed on Friday, Mr Menendez's leadership position and power as a senator enabled such influence-peddling.\n\nThe pair each face three criminal counts: conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under colour of official right.\n\nIn a statement from her lawyers, Mrs Menendez denied any wrongdoing and said she would defend herself in court.\n\nMr Menendez sought to portray the allegations as politically motivated.\n\n\"For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,\" he said in a lengthy statement.\n\n\"Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.\"\n\n\"I am confident that this matter will be successfully resolved once all of the facts are presented and my fellow New Jerseyans will see this for what it is,\" he added.\n\nFederal agents found cash inside jackets bearing Senator Menendez's name, according to the indictment\n\nBut a wave of top Democrats, including at least four members of Congress from New Jersey, called for the lawmaker to resign.\n\nIn a statement, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the allegations were \"so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state\".\n\n\"Therefore, I am calling for his immediate resignation,\" he wrote.\n\nUnder New Jersey law, if Mr Menendez resigns from the Senate, the governor would appoint a temporary replacement to serve out the rest of his term.\n\nBut any delay between resignation and temporary appointment could pose headaches for Democrats in a Senate they control by a one-seat margin.\n\nThe White House, for whom Mr Menendez is a key foreign policy ally, has so far declined to comment.\n\nIn a defiant second statement on Friday, Mr Menendez vowed: \"I am not going anywhere.\"\n\nHis indictment comes after a years-long justice department investigation.\n\nIn the summer of 2022, federal agents executed search warrants at Mr Menendez's home and found evidence of the bribery agreements, including over $480,000 (£390,000) in cash, much of which was \"stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets and a safe\", prosecutors allege.\n\nAgents said they also found a Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicle paid for by Mr Uribe parked in the garage, as well as $100,000 of gold bars in the home, pictures of which were included in the indictment.\n\nAs a result of the charges, Mr Menendez and his wife have been asked to forfeit several assets, including their New Jersey home.\n\nIn a statement to US media, a spokesperson for Mr Hana said: \"We are still reviewing the charges but based upon our initial review, they have absolutely no merit.\"\n\nThe BBC has reached out to businesses owned by Mr Daibes for comment. The Embassy of Egypt in Washington DC did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nMr Menendez, his wife and their three co-defendants are scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court on 27 September.", "Our investigation found that school vandalism - and public interference in the police investigation into Nicola Bulley's disappearance - was driven by TikTok algorithms\n\nPolice leaders and teachers' unions are warning that TikTok frenzies that encourage anti-social behaviour are putting a strain on public services.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed how disproportionate engagement driven by TikTok was linked to disruption.\n\nThe BBC found four recent examples, including public interference in the police investigation of Nicola Bulley's disappearance and school vandalism.\n\nTikTok says its algorithm prioritises safety while building communities.\n\nThe BBC's investigation found that TikTok's users are seeing videos which they wouldn't normally be recommended - which, in turn, incentivise them to do unusual things in their own videos on the platform.\n\nThese frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - were illustrated in interviews with former staffers, users of the app and BBC analysis of wider social media data.\n\nThe two other examples the BBC investigated were outside the UK - an online obsession with the murder of four students in the US state of Idaho that led to innocent people being falsely accused, and the suggestion that TikTok fanned the flames of recent riots in France.\n\nChief Constable Pippa Mills, the National Police Chiefs' Council Lead for Communications, says not all of TikTok's effects are inherently negative - but the cases highlighted by the BBC investigation show TikTok \"can lead to dangerous and sometimes criminal behaviour offline\".\n\n\"We've, upsettingly, seen additional and unnecessary pain and grief caused to victims and their families alongside detrimental impact on investigations,\" she says.\n\n\"The effects of these behaviours on criminal investigations and the service to our communities should not be underestimated.\"\n\nWhat connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, anti-social behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence that they are all examples of TikTok \"frenzies\".\n\nThe chairwoman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) has also told the BBC she is \"deeply concerned\" by the added pressure that interference and anti-social behaviour by TikTok users puts on police.\n\nDonna Jones called on the platform to take more responsibility for the impact of its design on its users.\n\nShe said: \"The key difference here with TikTok in comparison to other social media platforms, as this investigation shows, is that their business model is based on active participation.\"\n\nTeachers' unions have also expressed concern at how social media platforms were affecting behaviour amongst pupils.\n\nIncidents often occur outside of school, but problems also tend to spill into school time, leaving teachers and leaders to deal with the fallout - says Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).\n\n\"Although schools are able to report social media misuse, they are essentially at the mercy of technology companies and their terms of service,\" he adds.\n\nSeveral TikTok videos showed protests at UK schools where police were called\n\nThe NASUWT has also raised concerns over how social media platforms are \"contributing to a behaviour crisis in schools\".\n\nThe government needs to take stronger action to keep schools safe for \"students, staff and the wider community\", says general secretary Dr Patrick Roach.\n\nTikTok has previously distanced itself from outbreaks of disorder, such as the threatened looting of London's Oxford Street last month, which politicians blamed on the billion-user app.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan reiterated his calls for social media companies including TikTok to \"take more responsibility and clamp down on irresponsible and dangerous posts that incite violence and disorder\".\n\nThe BBC investigation was published in the same week a new law was passed in the UK parliament - the Online Safety Bill - aimed at making social media firms more responsible for users' safety on their platforms.\n\nThe government said the BBC's findings on TikTok frenzies highlighted \"just how much it mattered\" that it had taken \"decisive action to prevent social media content from spiralling out of control and putting people at risk\".\n\nTechnology Secretary Michelle Donelan told the BBC the Bill would take \"a common-sense approach to reining in the Wild West of social media\".\n\nShe explained: \"It will mean that if social media platforms do not comply with their safety duties and tackle illegal content, they will face fines that could reach billions of pounds.\"\n\nPolice and teachers representatives welcomed the new legislation but said it needed to go further.\n\nThe APCC's Donna Jones described it as a \"starter for 10\" which needs \"more revisions to ensure maximum protection for young people\".\n\nMeanwhile, Geoff Barton from the ASCL said it was \"a long way from seeing how effective it will be in practice\".\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC in a statement it recommends different types of content to interrupt repetitive patterns for users, removes \"harmful misinformation\" and reduces the reach of videos with unverified information.\n\nIt also told the BBC that users \"naturally\" took more of an interest in stories at \"moments of national conversation, which are intensified by 24-hour news reporting\".\n\nThey also pointed out that the BBC has posted on TikTok about many stories like this.", "Sir Ed Davey's party has been doing well at by-elections\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are \"losing votes to Labour\" because of their reluctance to talk about Brexit, polling guru Sir John Curtice has said.\n\nProf Curtice explained why the Lib Dems were struggling in the opinion polls to a room packed with party activists.\n\nHe said they had lost ground to Labour among voters who would like to rejoin the European Union.\n\nAhead of the Lib Dem conference, leader Sir Ed Davey said rejoining the EU was currently \"off the table\".\n\nBrexit was once the party's defining issue, but at its conference in Bournemouth, the Lib Dems are focusing on other areas, with a raft of \"family friendly\" policies such as more parental leave and flexible child care.\n\nThe party's pre-manifesto, which is due to be approved and voted on at the conference, describes EU membership as a \"long-term objective\" rather than an immediate priority.\n\nThis cautious positioning has not gone down well with the party faithful who believe the Lib Dems should be pushing for a rapid return to the EU.\n\nThe party's messaging on Europe - and whether it is bold enough - was the subject of lively debate at a fringe event on the first day of conference.\n\nAt the event - titled \"Shouldn't we be doing better?\" - Professor Curtice suggested the party would benefit from being bolder on Europe, or other core issues.\n\nFollowing the event, he told the BBC that \"given their current standing in the opinion polls, they still face a formidable challenge at the next general election\".\n\nHe said the Lib Dems had done well in by-elections in Conservative-held seats, most recently by winning in Somerton and Frome.\n\nBut he said despite Conservative woes, the Lib Dems have not \"managed to get above the 12% in the polls that they got in the 2019 general election\".\n\nHe estimated that based on current national opinion polling, the best the party could hope for was about 30 seats in the House of Commons - double the number they have at the moment, but still well short of their pre-coalition strength.\n\nSo where is the party losing ground?\n\nProfessor Curtice said: \"The truth is, while the party has focused on attacking the Conservatives, it has perhaps failed to notice that it's losing votes to Labour.\n\n\"In particular, it's losing the votes of people who want to be inside the EU to Labour.\n\n\"Whereas Labour can argue it has gained ground among both Leave and Remain voters.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats have frankly lost ground among Remain voters and the ground that they have gained amongst Leave voters is not sufficient to compensate for it.\"\n\nProfessor John Curtice said the Lib Dems need to be bolder to win over more voters\n\nIn recent weeks, Labour has shifted its position on Europe, going from an effective vow of silence to talking up closer relations with EU states.\n\nLast week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited the Netherlands to discuss migration and had a meet-and-greet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.\n\nAnd in terms of policy, Labour has been open about its desire to rewrite the EU-UK trade deal and find ways to improve co-operation with European nations.\n\nIn contrast, the Lib Dems have been relatively shy in articulating their post-Brexit vision for the UK.\n\nAppearing alongside Professor Curtice at the conference event, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran was asked to give her view on the party's approach to Europe.\n\nShe said while the party wanted to rejoin the EU, \"to get even close to that point, we have to do stuff before to repair that relationship\".\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokeswoman said the Lib Dems needed to talk about Brexit \"in a way that doesn't push people away\".\n\nMs Moran - a former Lib Dem leadership contender - she said expected the party's policy on Europe to \"move\" following the conference.\n\n\"We need to work out where we need to put the dial at the moment,\" she said.\n\nElsewhere at the conference, Sir Ed said his party would seek \"root-and-branch\" reform of the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU rather than \"tinkering around the edges\" of the existing deal.\n\nWill that be enough to win over the Europhiles who have strayed to Labour though?\n\nWhen asked if the Lib Dems should be bolder on Europe, Professor Curtice said the party needed to be \"willing to take a risk\".\n\n\"In doing that, it needs to think about the kind of people it's most likely to attract,\" said the professor of politics at Strathclyde University.\n\n\"And the honest truth is, that's more likely to be people who are in favour of being inside the European Union rather than outside.\"", "An inquest heard the cause of death for Sara has not yet been established\n\nPolice in Pakistan say they did not receive a request to search for the family of Sara Sharif until five days after her body was found in the UK.\n\nThey say the request was via Interpol. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.\n\nThe body of 10-year-old Sara was found on 10 August in Woking.\n\nUK police want to speak to her father, Urfan Sharif, his partner, Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik in relation to their murder investigation.\n\nAccording to new details the BBC has been told about the Pakistan investigation, police now believe they were staying with family in Pakistan until early on 13 August. After this date, the police say they don't know where they went in the country.\n\nAlong with my team we have been following the trail.\n\nOver 8,000km (4,971 miles) from Woking, it runs cold.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nWe are walking through the streets of a small hamlet near Domeli in central Punjab, Pakistan; dirt tracks barely wide enough to drive a car through, surrounded by fields, woodland and dramatic hills on the horizon.\n\nThis, the Pakistan police tells us, is the last location they know Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik visited. According to their investigation, the family arrived at the home of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law here late at night on 12 August, leaving around 05:00 local time the following day. From there the police say they don't know where they went.\n\nWe visit the family home, but all they will say is that Mr Sharif's brother-in-law was taken by police several days ago; they haven't seen him since. The brother-in-law's uncle, Ameer Afzal, does speak to us.\n\n\"Yes, Urfan Sharif visited us,\" Mr Afzal tells us. \"I didn't meet him personally, but my family told me in the morning that he visited with his family at night.\"\n\n\"We are very worried about why the police took my nephew. If there is any issue with the Urfan's family, we have nothing to do with that.\"\n\nAmeer Afzal told us he was very worried about his nephew, who is Mr Sharif's brother-in-law\n\nThe police have begun to reveal more information about the family's first few days in Pakistan. They were already known to have landed at Islamabad airport early on 10 August. It was from here that Mr Sharif made a 999 call which led officers in the UK to the house in Woking where they discovered Sara's body. An inquest heard she had sustained \"multiple and extensive injuries\" likely to have been caused over a sustained period of time.\n\nAccording to Pakistan police, Mr Sharif and his family were collected by family members from Islamabad airport and then driven to Jhelum, over 130km (81 miles) away. They then spent nearly two days at the family home before relocating around 23:00 local time on 12 August to his sister's home for a few hours.\n\n\"His brother-in-law said that they were leaving the house at 5am and I asked them you came at 12 in the night now you are leaving so quickly?\" Syed Khurram Ali, Regional police chief with the Punjab police tells us.\n\n\"They said we have some important thing to do, but didn't explain what. When we asked the family what was the reason for the visit, they say it is just a routine visit.\"\n\nDuring our conversation, Mr Ali tells us that the Punjab police were told to begin their search for the family on 15 August after receiving a request from Interpol through Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency or FIA. Sara's body was found on 10 August.\n\nThe tiny hamlet of Domeli in central Punjab is the last known sighting of Sara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik\n\nWe have been trying to establish the reason for the five-day gap. Surrey Police has said that they had been liaising with international partners since 10 August, but would not tell us when they put a request to Interpol to ask Pakistan's police to search for the family. We did not hear back from the Pakistan FIA. The Pakistan police say they then pulled together a team to begin the search on 16 August.\n\nThree weeks since Sara's body was discovered, the police say they still do not know where her father, stepmother and uncle are. The police told us that they now have two teams dedicated to finding them and have searched locations in Jhelum, Sialkot and Mansehra, with new information coming in regularly.\n\n\"I think it would be very difficult for them to stay in hiding for quite some time,\" says Mr Ali.\n\n\"They will be contacting different people for their different needs. It is not possible that they hide for an indefinite period. Police are pursuing them, working on it day and night. I'm sure we are going to find them.\"", "Parisians in April voted to ban rental e-scooters but turnout was low\n\nA ban on rental electric scooters has come into effect in Paris in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed in the French capital.\n\nAlmost 90% of those who took part in April's vote over the issue were in favour of the ban - but fewer than 8% of those eligible turned out to vote.\n\nParis is now one of the first capitals to have outlawed the rented electric vehicles, just five years after being one of the first to adopt them.\n\nBut is the ban simply an example of democracy in action, or are more cynical forces at play?\n\nIt's not that I'm taking sides. As a cyclist of the traditional variety, I am more than a little peeved by the way electric \"personal vehicles\" like e-scooters are crowding out our space.\n\nForty years campaigning for cycle paths, only to be squeezed to the side by a new kind of motorised transport - that gets one's goat.\n\nNor do I take kindly to what - as a father of young children - I have in recent years witnessed all too regularly: scooters powering down the pavement and requiring urgent avoidance.\n\nA good friend of mine broke a rib when he was knocked over by an e-scooter in Paris. This was last year, and it still hurts when he coughs.\n\nNo, I have no love for the free-floating vehicle. If I had my way, they would never have been invented, and today the population would be biking around the streets of Paris like it was Amsterdam in the '70s - using legs, not fingers on a button.\n\nBut that does not mean I can't see a stitch-up when it's staring me in the face.\n\nThe mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is a member of the Socialist party. That great institution once provided presidents for France, such as François Mitterrand and François Hollande.\n\nBut in last year's presidential election, when Ms Hidalgo stood as the Socialist candidate, she got 1.75% of the national vote. It was pitiful.\n\nNothing if not dogged, Ms Hidalgo believes political hills are to be climbed. Needing to find a new cause to show that in Paris at least she still counted as a winner, she lit upon e-scooters.\n\nSeemingly forgetting that it was she herself who introduced on-street hiring in 2018, she became overnight the voice of the antis - all those people who find scooters profoundly annoying.\n\nThen at the start of this year, she announced her masterstroke: let the voter decide. Personally she was opposed, but whatever the result of the referendum - she said - she would follow the choice of the people. Who can say fairer than that?\n\nAnd so the vote happened, with minimum publicity, in April. Barely one in 14 of the Paris electorate made the effort. And perhaps unsurprisingly, they nearly all said they wanted the machines banned.\n\nWhat happened was obvious, and predictable. Older people - who vote regularly and hate e-scooters - turned out in force. Many younger people, who actually use the things, are more likely to have stayed at home.\n\nThe mayor had her victory. And now the last of the rented scooters have been withdrawn from the street, much to the chagrin of tourists, late-night revellers and, yes, some commuters.\n\nA lot of other people will be delighted - not least dealers in e-scooters, because privately-owned vehicles are unaffected.\n\nI imagine it like the moment a century ago when the last horse quietly left the metropolis. His day was done. No more would the familiar clip-clop echo over the cobbles. A quiet field awaited.\n\nBut of course it is not like that at all. Horses had been taking people around Paris since the Romans called it Lutetia. They'd been made redundant by the combustion engine.\n\nFree-floating e-scooters have been around all of five years. Nothing has replaced them. Unlike the horses, I can't help feeling that at some point they'll be back.", "Buildings in Dundee's Ninewells Hospital are identified in the report\n\nMore than 250 NHS buildings in Scotland could contain a potentially dangerous type of concrete that can collapse without warning.\n\nNHS Scotland issued a Safety Action Notice in February and completed a \"desktop survey\" of its estate in June.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was used to build roofs, walls and floors from the 1960s to the 1990s.\n\nNHS Scotland has warned the material is potentially vulnerable to \"catastrophic failure without warning\".\n\nBut a Scottish government spokesperson said there was \"no evidence to suggest that these buildings are not safe.\"\n\nNHS Scotland's review identified 254 buildings that \"have two or more characteristics which are consistent with the presence of RAAC\".\n\nFollowing the desktop survey, health officials began on-site investigations to determine whether RAAC is actually present. These are expected to take between six and eight months to complete.\n\nThe sites identified in the initial survey range from main ward hospital blocks to disused public toilets.\n\nMajor sites such as Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock and the more recently constructed Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow are named in the report as having buildings which could contain RAAC.\n\nAny repairs are expected to come at a considerable cost.\n\nNHS Grampian had the most buildings which could potentially contain RAAC, with 53 identified by the health board, followed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with 44 and NHS Lothian with 35.\n\nNHS Highland identified 25 potentially affected buildings, while NHS Fife had 22. NHS Forth Valley reported eight and NHS Borders seven.\n\nThe lightweight concrete was widely used from the 1960s to the 1990s\n\nThe lightweight concrete was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s as a cheaper alternative to the standard building material.\n\nIt was widely used in public buildings and has been found in Scottish hospitals, schools and police stations.\n\nRAAC has air bubbles inside of it and has a limited lifespan.\n\nNHS Scotland warned in its Safety Action Notice that RAAC planks are considered to be \"relatively weak and prone to degradation over time\".\n\nIt added: \"The limited visible exposure of panels to assess their condition may result in catastrophic failure without warning.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said NHS Boards were required to regularly assess the condition of their property.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"The programme of activity planned for RAAC is in line with these requirements.\n\n\"Due to our absolute commitment to ensuring facilities are sound we have commissioned this exercise to better understand the position.\"\n\nThe alarm was first raised about the potential dangers of RAAC, also known as Siporex, in 2018 after the roof of a primary school in Kent suddenly gave way.\n\nA leaked email sent to Downing Street from senior officials at the Department for Education in December said many school buildings now posed a \"risk to life\" as a result of the presence of crumbling concrete.\n\nPupils at two Edinburgh primary schools will be moved into temporary classrooms when the new term begins next month after RAAC was found in the roofs.\n\nChildren at Trinity and Cramond primaries will be taught in portable classroom units.\n\nFour classes at Trinity Primary will move into makeshift classrooms being erected in the nearby Trinity Academy playground.\n\nAnd at Cramond, two blocks each with two separate rooms and toilets will be sited on the netball pitch.\n\nThe makeshift units were previously used at Liberton Primary School after a fire caused significant damage to the building in 2020.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has not said when the remedial work will begin, but it has asked engineers to progress initial designs for the roof replacements.\n\nEarlier this year, the council said 15 buildings it owned\"may\" contain the concrete mix and surveys are ongoing to determine if any others are at risk.\n\nJoan Griffiths, education, children and families convener for Edinburgh Council, said: \"The safety of all our young people and staff in our schools is paramount and the measures we have taken reinforce this position.\n\n\"As soon as this was confirmed we immediately put in place alternative learning and teaching arrangements at these schools for the small number of classes affected.\"\n\nOther local authorities, including West Lothian Council, have already set out plans to spend millions replacing RAAC panels in schools.", "The PM's director of communications, Amber de Botton, has resigned 10 months after taking the job, saying it was \"the right time to move on\".\n\nAnnouncing her decision on social media, she said it had been \"an honour and privilege\" to do the job, and thanked Rishi Sunak for his \"support and leadership\".\n\nMs de Botton left her job as an ITV News journalist to join No 10.\n\nThe PM's current press secretary, Nerissa Chesterfield, will replace her.\n\nMs Chesterfield worked at the free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, before being hired by Mr Sunak to join his communications team in the Treasury early in his tenure as chancellor in 2020.\n\nMs de Botton began her role in Downing Street, a few days after Mr Sunak became prime minister.\n\nPraising her former boss, she said: \"The team he has built around him is dedicated and focused because those are the qualities he inspires.\n\n\"I also want to thank my colleagues - No10 is a demanding and high pressure place to work - yet the professionalism and talent they display every day is exceptional.\"\n\nBefore joining Downing Street, Ms de Botton worked as head of politics at ITV and deputy head of politics at Sky News.\n\nThe prime minister has thanked her \"for all her hard work\" and \"calm professionalism\".\n\n\"She brought with her top-level journalistic and management experience that has been invaluable,\" he said.\n\nAmber de Botton leaving is a classic of a very particular kind of Westminster news story - Person leaves a job you didn't know they had.\n\nBut Westminster is full of important and powerful people - or more accurately important and powerful jobs - occupied by folk who are not public figures in and of themselves.\n\nThe No10 director of communications is a vital role at the heart of government - talking to senior journalists daily, and often more frequently than that - attempting to explain what the government in general and the prime minister in particular is doing, and why.\n\nTalking up what they see as triumphs and putting the best gloss they can on cock-ups, catastrophes and calamities.\n\nThey help define the tone and tenor of the prime minister's public image.\n\nAmber de Botton was a long standing and highly regarded journalist - at Westminster and beyond - before being hired by Rishi Sunak.\n\nShe brought to Downing Street particular knowledge of how television news works.\n\nBut unlike her successor Nerissa Chesterfield, she hadn't been alongside Mr Sunak as he rapidly climbed the Westminster ladder, nor had she been through his first failed attempt to become prime minister, when he was beaten by Liz Truss.\n\nPeople don't tend to take jobs at the top of politics with job security a priority and there are personal reasons that have contributed to Amber de Botton leaving now.\n\nI have been BBC Political Editor for less than 18 months, and I am on to my fourth Downing Street director of communications.\n\nMs de Botton's departure comes a comes a day after Mr Sunak carried out a mini-reshuffle of his cabinet following the departure of Defence Secretary Ben Wallace from frontline politics.\n\nGrant Shapps replaced him, with Claire Coutinho taking his old job of energy security and net zero secretary.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Music chief executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is stepping down from his role after three years to become the prime minister's new director of strategy.\n\nMr Njoku-Goodwin has previously held a number of roles within government, including acting as an adviser to former minister Matt Hancock and at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.", "Lucy Letby was working on the unit where baby Alvin died\n\nA mum whose one-month-old baby died on the unit where Lucy Letby worked has said she is \"sickened\" by a photo of the nurse with her son.\n\nEmily Morris from Deeside, Flintshire, said she was preparing to leave the Countess of Chester Hospital when her son Alvin died in 2013.\n\nShe said Letby's \"weird\" behaviour was proven by a newly revealed image.\n\nShe is calling for the death to be reinvestigated and police said inquiries were taking place.\n\nMs Morris, 35, and Alvin's stepdad Mark Lewis, 39, only saw the picture for the first time on Thursday.\n\nIt had been stored on a disc included in a memory box and they did not have a laptop on which they could download the images.\n\n\"It shocked us. It's really hard, to see a person who has done that to those babies next to you. It makes you sick,\" said Ms Morris.\n\n\"You can see she is grabbing his blanket. I have told everybody that she did that and now there's proof. That's proof that she was with him.\"\n\nBaby Alvin died in 2013 after being cared for on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester hospital\n\nAlvin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and cared for on the neonatal unit following his birth.\n\nMs Morris said she was first concerned about Letby's behaviour when she attended her son's christening at the hospital.\n\n\"She wanted to touch him and change the bedding and constantly wanted to lean over him,\" she said.\n\n\"And you just think, 'that's weird for a nurse'. But all the other nurses were absolutely fine with him.\n\n\"At the christening, when my family was leaning over the pram to make a fuss of him, she was constantly keeping her eyes on my family.\"\n\nLetby was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.\n\nShe was given a whole-life sentence, meaning she will spend the rest of her life in prison.\n\nThe UK government's Department of Health and Social Care has ordered an independent inquiry to look at the wider circumstances surrounding what happened, including the handling of clinicians' concerns.\n\nLetby wrote a message in Alvin's christening book, which read: \"To Alvin, with love on your special day.\"\n\nMs Morris said: \"It was heartbreaking, seeing her name in the book, because of all the things we read in the news saying the kids that got targeted were the ones she wrote to.\n\n\"So I think in my heart Alvin might have been targeted.\"\n\nMs Morris said police investigating Lucy Letby told her in 2018 that they had not found any suspicious circumstances in Alvin's case, but called on them to re-examine the evidence.\n\n\"I would feel sick to my stomach knowing that she hurt my boy, because he was the happiest baby in the world, giggling and laughing, loving life,\" she said.\n\n\"So I would really hate it if she had actually hurt my son.\"\n\nMr Lewis added he welcomed the news that the independent inquiry into the Letby case would have powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.\n\nHe said \"every single case that was involved with Lucy Letby\" should be considered.\n\n\"Families need answers,\" he said.\n\nAlvin's mum and stepdad want his death to be reinvestigated by police following Lucy Letby's convictions\n\nDet Supt Paul Hughes of Cheshire Police said the force was \"committed to a complete and thorough investigation into the full period of time that Lucy Letby was employed as a nurse\".\n\n\"This investigation remains ongoing, through a transparent and open-minded process,\" he said.\n\n\"The families of all babies, who are part of this investigation, have been informed and are supported. We will of course provide a more detailed update when we can.\"", "Russia has said that BAE System's new business in Ukraine will be an \"object of special attention\" for its military.\n\nThe UK defence giant has signed deals to ramp up weapons and equipment supplies to Kyiv, which include ultimately producing light artillery in the country.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russians saw the move \"in a negative light\".\n\nBAE has made much of the arms the UK and other nations have sent to Ukraine.\n\nSince Russia's invasion of the country in February 2022, Britain has become a major defence supplier to Ukraine.\n\nThe BBC understands that BAE has not yet opened an office or factory in Ukraine but is in discussions about potentially doing so.\n\nThe firm said the move will allow it to work directly with Ukraine to explore potential partners and produce some weapons there.\n\n\"The development of our own weapons production is a top priority,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.\n\nMr Zelensky made the announcement after holding a meeting with BAE's chief executive Charles Woodburn.\n\n\"Signing the agreements and establishing a legal entity in Ukraine builds on our existing trust and support and paves the way for us to work together to provide more direct support to the Ukrainian armed forces,\" said Mr Woodburn.\n\nBut Mr Peskov responded to the decision saying: \"We of course see it in a negative light, and any facilities for the production of weaponry, particularly if that weaponry shoots at us, do of course become an object of special attention for our military\".\n\nInterfax news agency said the Kremlin's spokesman said foreign arms production in Ukraine \"cannot fundamentally change the situation\".\n\n\"It also cannot in any way influence the predetermined successful outcome and completion of the special military operation,\" he added\n\nUkraine and Sweden signed a statement of intent to strengthen co-operation in production, operation, training and servicing of CV90 armoured vehicles, which are currently produced by BAE Systems' Hägglunds business in Sweden.\n\nMr Zelensky said in May that Kyiv and BAE were working on a plan for the company to open an office in Ukraine.\n\nKyiv is eager to boost its supplies of weapons and other military equipment, as well as create jobs in an economy hit hard by the war.\n\nBAE, which has seen its share price jump by more than 75% since February 2022, is already providing training and repair services to Ukraine's military.\n\nThe multinational arms, security and aerospace company employs 93,000 people in about 40 countries around the world.\n\nIt is Europe's biggest defence contractor with annual sales of more than £23bn and almost £2.5bn in profits last year.", "Jason Tyrone Spence suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, the court was told\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of Cornelius O'Neill near Kilrea, County Londonderry.\n\nMr O'Neill, 56, died on Tuesday in the Tamlaght O'Crilly area.\n\nJason Tyrone Spence, 33, from Millburn Street, in Cookstown, County Tyrone, appeared before a sitting of Londonderry Magistrate' Court on Thursday.\n\nHe will appear in court again next month.\n\nA police officer said the victim had been stabbed by Mr Spence using a large knife in an unprovoked attack.\n\nThe stabbing was witnessed by the victim's partner who is the defendant's mother, the court heard.\n\nCornelius O'Neill was 56 years-old and from the Kilrea area, the police say\n\nThe officer said there was CCTV evidence.\n\nThe defendant fled the scene and was arrested in Cookstown with blood on his person and on his clothing, the court was told.\n\nA defence solicitor told the court there was no bail being applied for.\n\nHe said Mr Spence suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and a mental health assessment would be required.\n\nDistrict judge Barney McElholm ordered an assessment be carried out on the accused.\n\nHe will appear again on 20 September.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMason Greenwood has not played for Manchester United since January 2022 Last month, United said Greenwood, 21, would leave the club by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation. It came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February. \"The move enables Greenwood to begin to rebuild his career away from Manchester United,\" the Premier League club said. \"The club will continue to offer its support to Mason and his family during this period of transition.\" Greenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, has scored 35 goals in 129 games for United since his debut in 2019 aged 17. He has not played for United since being arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online. Greenwood was then charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Following his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game. After the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\". United then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues. In announcing the result of their investigation, United said: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United. \"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford, and we will now work with Mason to achieve that outcome. \"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged. That said, as Mason publicly acknowledges today, he has made mistakes which he is taking responsibility for.\" In a statement, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\" An announcement of the investigation's results was expected before United's opening Premier League game of the season against Wolves on 14 August, but the decision was delayed amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford. A group of female United supporters protested against his potential return outside Old Trafford before the Wolves game, and said they wanted the club to \"demonstrate a zero-tolerance approach\" towards violence against women. The club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future. In an open letter to fans, chief executive Richard Arnold said: \"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with.\" He added that Greenwood's potential reintegration was \"one of the outcomes we considered and planned for\" but that \"several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for\" and his view \"evolved\". United's handling of the investigation was criticised by former player Gary Neville and TV presenter Rachel Riley.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Warren Thomas, a structural engineer in Welwyn Garden City, has been showing me how a chunk of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) can simply be snapped in his fingers.\n\nRAAC is light and easy to mould into panels for floors and ceilings. A grid of steel bars is set into the panels to stop them bending or snapping.\n\nBut, he says, the tiny holes in the material allow water in, which corrodes the steel. This can be hard to spot because the material does not display obvious cracks, unlike normal concrete.\n\nAdd to that the challenge that the RAAC panels are often covered with wood or plaster.\n\nWarren believes this material can be safe, but needs to be maintained and inspected. This task is now a growing part of his business.\n\nBut despite the collapse of part of a school in 2018, it is only in the last year that the requests have started to come in. As a result, he says, “we’re playing catch-up.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is again calling for \"mental competency tests\" for ageing US leaders after Senator Mitch McConnell froze up in two separate news conferences.\n\n\"The Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country,\" Ms Haley told Fox News.\n\nMr McConnell, 81, stared into space for more than 30 seconds when asked this week if he would run for re-election.\n\nA doctor has medically cleared him to work. He had a similar lapse in July.\n\nMr McConnell has led the Senate Republicans since 2006 and has built a reputation as a ruthless political tactician who keeps his party rank-and-file in line.\n\nMembers of the Kentucky senator's caucus have not publicly questioned his ability to lead, though they have the option to call a meeting to discuss the matter when the Senate returns to Washington next week.\n\nMs Haley, a former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, is the most senior Republican to speak out about Mr McConnell's health concerns.\n\nShe told Fox News on Friday: \"I mean, Mitch McConnell has done some great things and he deserves credit. But you have to know when to leave.\"\n\nMs Haley, 51, has focused her presidential campaign on the argument that America needs a new generation of leaders. The average age for members of the US Senate is 65.\n\n\"I think that we do need mental competency tests for anyone over the age of 75, I wouldn't care if they did them over the age of 50,\" she said.\n\n\"It's sad,\" she told Fox. \"No-one should feel good about seeing that any more than we should feel good about seeing [90-year-old California Senator] Dianne Feinstein, any more than we should feel good about a lot of what's happening or seeing Joe Biden's decline.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: US senator freezes in front of reporters in July\n\nDuring Wednesday's press event in Covington, Kentucky, Mr McConnell was unable to answer questions, which had to be repeated by staff.\n\nThe senator suffered from a concussion after falling at an event in March, according to staff.\n\nBrian Monahan, the attending physician of the US Congress, said on Thursday he had consulted with Mr McConnell and his neurology team.\n\nDr Monahan said in a statement on Thursday: \"Occasional lightheadedness is not uncommon in concussion recovery and can also be expected as a result of dehydration.\"\n\nRepublican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote in a social media post on Thursday that Mr McConnell was \"not fit for office\".\n\n\"Severe ageing health issues and/or mental health incompetence in our nation's leaders MUST be addressed,\" Ms Greene said, also mentioning the age of US President Biden, who is 80.\n\nDemocratic congressman Dean Phillips called on social media for term limits for members of Congress and the Supreme Court.\n\nPresident Biden said on Thursday he did not have any concerns about whether Mr McConnell was fit to do his job.\n\n\"He's a friend,\" Mr Biden told reporters in Washington DC, \"and I spoke to him today. And you know, he was his old self on the telephone.\"", "This is where we will end our coverage of the sentencing of seven people convicted over the deaths of 21-year olds Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin.\n\nA judge has handed down a collective total of more than 160 years in sentences to TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, her mother Ansreen Bukhari, and five other accomplices.\n\nThis page was edited by Dulcie Lee and Jemma Crew, with writers Thomas Mackintosh, Andre Rhoden-Paul and Jacqueline Howard.\n\nTo keep across the latest on this topic, you can find our news story here: TikToker Mahek Bukhari and mum jailed for life for crash murders.\n\nThank you for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself \"to prove the truth\".\n\nRubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win in Sydney, Australia on 20 August.\n\nHermoso said the kiss during the medal ceremony was not consensual.\n\nRubiales has repeatedly refused to resign despite being suspended by world football's governing body Fifa.\n\nIn his first public comments since 25 August, when he refused to step down at an extraordinary general assembly called by the federation (RFEF), Rubiales acknowledged he had \"made mistakes\" but repeated his belief that the kiss was consensual.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to defend myself to prove the truth.\"\n\nThe TAD ruled Rubiales committed a \"serious offence\" by kissing Hermoso, but stopped short of the \"very serious offence\" charge the government had requested which would have led to his suspension.\n\nIn response, sports minister Miquel Iceta called for Rubiales' temporary suspension until the case has been resolved.\n\n\"The Sports Council and the government believe the RFEF president's actions should be classified as a very serious abuse of authority which damages the image of Spanish football,\" he said.\n\nRubiales, who also grabbed his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby, continued: \"On 20 August, I made some obvious mistakes, for which I sincerely, from the heart, regret.\n\n\"I've learned that no matter how great the joy and how deep the emotion, even when you win a World Cup, sports leaders should be held to exemplary behaviour, and mine was not so.\n\n\"I still have confidence in the independence of the bodies where this matter should be resolved, despite the political pressure and the interest-driven brutality of certain media outlets.\n\n\"Although information about this matter is being subjected to numerous manipulations, lies, and censorship, the truth has only one path, and that's why I repeat, I trust that justice will be served.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to send a message to all the good people in our country and beyond our borders, including those women who have really been attacked and who have my full support and understanding: this is not about gender, it is about truth.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nWhat else has happened?\n\nOn Monday, Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault, while the RFEF's regional leaders called for his resignation.\n\nRubiales' mother locked herself in a church on the same day and went on an \"indefinite\" hunger strike in protest against the treatment of her son. She was taken to hospital on Wednesday and discharged the next day.\n\nAlso on Friday, the head of Spain's Olympic Committee said Rubiales' actions were \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" but an \"isolated incident\" that did not represent Spanish sport as a whole.\n\nAlejandro Blanco, who described Rubiales as a personal friend, added that he advised the 46-year-old in a phone call after the World Cup final to apologise, highlight the success for Spanish women's football and offer his resignation.\n\n\"I believe that [resigning] would have been a coherent gesture, one that the whole of society would understand and the best gesture that could be made to show repentance,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the head coach of Spain's men's team hasasked for \"forgiveness\" after applauding last Friday's speech in which Rubiales said he would not resign.\n\nLuis de la Fuente said it was an \"inexcusable human error\" but added he would not step down from his job.\n\nThe RFEF is also exploring its options over whether it can sack Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda.\n\nVilda remains in his post despite most of his coaching staff resigning in protest against Rubiales' refusal to quit. Eighty-one Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, have also said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales remained in position.\n\nA video has emerged appearing to show Hermoso and her team-mates laughing and discussing the kiss on the team bus following the game.\n\nHermoso appears to be viewing a meme of ex-Spain men's goalkeeper Iker Casillas kissing his then partner Sara Carbonero, a television presenter, during an interview following his country's 2010 World Cup victory.\n\nShe later says \"he comes over and hugs me like this\" when talking about Rubiales.\n\nIn her statement denying the kiss was consensual, Hermoso said: \"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours.\n\n\"I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part. Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added that she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.", "The UK economy made a stronger recovery during Covid at the end of 2021 than previously estimated, according to sharply revised official figures.\n\nData has now revealed that the economy was 0.6% bigger in the final three months of 2021 compared to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe previous figures said that the UK economy was 1.2% smaller.\n\nThe government said it showed \"those determined to talk down the British economy have been proved wrong\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said changes were mainly because it had \"richer data\" from its annual survey.\n\nThe revised figures also show the pandemic lockdown collapse in the economy was smaller than thought in 2020, with output declining by 10.4% rather than 11%.\n\nThe recovery in 2021 was also faster with growth of 8.7% rather than 7.6%.\n\nRecently, the ONS estimated that between April and June this year, the UK economy was still 0.2% smaller than the final three months of 2019 - the last full quarter before Covid struck the following March.\n\nThis meant the UK was at the bottom of the biggest G7 economies in terms of its recovery from the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the upward revision could now mean that the UK economy is performing much better than Germany and is only just behind France and Italy when the ONS releases its latest figures.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said: \"The fact that the UK recovered from the pandemic much faster than thought shows that once again those determined to talk down the British economy have been proved wrong. \"There are many battles still to win, most of all against inflation so we can ease cost of living pressures of families.\"\n\nWhile the difference between how much the UK economy shrank and grew at the end of 2021 is huge, it needs to be viewed in the context of massive pandemic swings.\n\nThe ONS said a key reason for the change was that companies had piled up unsold stocks in the pandemic rather than run them down.\n\nIt also increased its calculation for output by health services, notably the NHS.\n\nThe net result of all this is that by 2022, the UK was not the outlier within the G7 in terms of the damage done by the pandemic. In fact, the UK economy was hit pretty much in line with the other major European nations.\n\nOnly the UK and the US have made any changes to their 2021 economic data.\n\nThe likes of Germany, France and Italy have not. If they choose to, it could show their economic performance was worse than initially thought - or better.\n\nNonetheless, the revision by the ONS gives an important insight into the lasting impact of the pandemic on the UK economy.\n\nIt was impacted less than originally feared. But it does not tell us much about the economy right now, hit by an energy shock and rising interest rates, which occurred almost entirely after this revision.", "Huw Stephens (left) will take over four of Steve Lamacq's current five daily slots\n\nBBC Radio 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq is to scale back his afternoon shows from five days a week to one after 18 years, saying he's \"a bit knackered\".\n\nLamacq has hosted the station's daily weekday teatime show since 2005.\n\nHe will take a break in October before returning with a weekly show on Mondays in January. Huw Stephens will take over his slot from Tuesdays to Fridays.\n\nLamacq said \"the obsessive way I do this job hasn't really left enough time\" for his wife and young daughter.\n\n\"On top of that, I'm going to be 59 next month and there are some other things which I'd quite like to do while I can,\" he told listeners on Friday.\n\nOne of those things will be to \"give something back and try and find a more practical way of supporting the live music circuit, which I owe so much to\", he said.\n\n\"It will be a wrench to leave this slot full time. But after 36 years in radio and journalism chasing around after new bands, I'm a bit knackered and the family at this point comes first because they've been there for me - and now I want to be there for them.\"\n\nSamantha Moy, head of 6 Music, described Lamacq as a \"legend\".\n\n\"Committed, passionate, with a knack for finding the diamond in the rough, he is one of our finest,\" she said, adding: \"While we were tucked up in bed, he was at a gig, watching someone unheard or unsigned, that he'll play on the radio, who might then become your new obsession.\n\n\"Over 30 years is a long time to be doing that every day of the week, 20 years of them at 6 Music.\"\n\nStephens will broadcast his shows from Cardiff as part of the BBC's Across the UK plans.", "Alison Hammond will join Dame Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Paul Hollywood on the new series\n\nThe Great British Bake Off is scrapping its national-themed challenges after receiving criticism from some viewers in recent years.\n\nThe show had a Japan week in 2020, a German week in 2021, and faced a backlash after Mexican week last year.\n\nExecutive producer Kieran Smith told the Guardian: \"We didn't want to offend anyone but the world has changed and the joke fell flat.\n\n\"We're not doing any national themes this year.\"\n\nThe Great British Bake Off will return to Channel 4 later this month for its 13th series.\n\nAlison Hammond is replacing Matt Lucas as host alongside Noel Fielding, with Dame Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood returning as judges.\n\nThe show will be \"very traditional\" this time, Smith said. \"We're doing all the regular weeks: Cakes, biscuits, bread, patisserie, chocolate, plus party cakes is a new theme.\"\n\nAfter Mexican week, there were accusations of casual racism and stereotypes because the hosts wore sombreros, used maracas and spoke in accents. There were also complaints that it featured dishes that weren't authentic.\n\nAfter the episode aired, Hollywood said he was \"gutted\" with the reaction.\n\n\"I'd literally come back from Mexico about three weeks before we filmed the episode,\" he said.\n\n\"I was all over the place, and we set the challenges based on what I'd seen there. The challenges were very good, and everyone did a good job.\"\n\nDame Prue said they had no intentions to be controversial, adding: \"The thing about Bake Off is that it absolutely represents inclusivity and diversity and tolerance and togetherness.\n\n\"So the idea that we were set out to insult anybody is ridiculous.\"", "Two members of Snow Patrol are leaving the band, but the other three will continue as a trio.\n\nOn Facebook, frontman Gary Lightbody paid tribute to Jonny Quinn and Paul Wilson and said the band wishes them nothing but happiness and success.\n\nThe remaining members are Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid.\n\nThey confirmed a new Snow Patrol album, their eighth studio record, is still set for release next year.\n\nThe news comes just weeks after the band celebrated 20 years since their breakout album was released, The Final Straw.\n\nGary Lightbody, from Bangor in Northern Ireland, posted a heartfelt tribute to the two band members.\n\n\"We are heartbroken they have decided to leave us but we wish them nothing but happiness, success, joy, compassion and everything they want in all their future endeavours.\"\n\nThe band's frontman Gary Lightbody paid tribute to the two band members on Facebook\n\nLightbody said the band would continue as a trio: \"Nate, JMD and myself will continue with SP and there will be a new album next year but more news of that will come at an appropriate time\".\n\nSpeaking about Johnny Quinn, Lightbody said he was \"more than a drummer\".\n\nWith a background in band management and gig promotion, he also took up the role of \"manager for us [Snow Patrol] many times during the last quarter century,\" he added.\n\nLightbody also revealed the drummer's nickname was \"thunderclap\" because he \"hit the snare drum so hard he was prone to smash right through the drumskin\".\n\nOn bassist Paul Wilson, Lightbody said he \"played every instrument so bass was maybe a little restrictive for his many talents\", adding that he was \"one of the funniest guys I've ever known\".\n\nThe band formed in 1994 in Dundee\n\nPaying homage to the two band members, Lightbody said they deserved their own separate posts for a \"proper and individual send off\".\n\nSnow Patrol was formed in Dundee in 1994 under the name Shrug, with an original line-up of Northern Ireland-born musicians Gary Lightbody, Mark McClelland and Michael Morrison.\n\nAfter a brief period of performing under the name Polarbear, they adopted the name Snow Patrol in 1997.\n\nJonny Quinn joined the band as a drummer in the same year. In 2005, Paul Wilson joined as the bassist.\n\nThe band's big break came in the mid-2000s, with hits including Run and Chasing Cars, which was crowned as the most-played song of the 21st Century on UK radio in 2019.\n\nContinuing members Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid joined the group as permanent members in 2002 and 2011, respectively.", "A critically ill 19-year-old and her family are fighting the NHS in court over plans to stop more treatment and proceed instead with end-of-life care.\n\nThe former A-level student wants to go to Canada for an experimental therapy which she believes might help her rare genetic condition.\n\nThe hospital says she is \"actively dying\" - she needs a ventilator to help her breathe and is fed through a tube.\n\nIt will be up to the UK's Court of Protection to decide her future.\n\nA hearing will decide whether NHS doctors continue to treat her.\n\nThe teenager, referred to in the legal documents as ST, has a mitochondrial disease, similar to Charlie Gard - a baby whose life support was withdrawn after a high-profile legal case in 2017.\n\nThe collective view of the doctors treating her is that ST is now in, or fast approaching, the final stage of her life because of her progressive disease.\n\nDespite all the physical difficulties ST has, she is able to communicate with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists.\n\nST has said: \"I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything.\"\n\nShe wanted to make that decision for herself, but the court has ruled she cannot.\n\nST believes she can stay alive for long enough to go for experimental nucleoside therapy treatment abroad, despite there being no centre offering it to her yet and no guarantee it would help her.\n\nHearing the case this week, Mrs Justice Roberts said treatment in Canada was \"not an immediate option\" because the trial has been paused as a result of funding constraints.\n\n\"None of the material disclosed by the family or the trust in relation to potential treatment options in North America confirms that ST will be considered eligible,\" she added.\n\nST is aware that she has been in an intensive treatment facility for almost a year and that there is nowhere in the UK where her life can be supported outside an ITU.\n\nShe knows and accepts that she would need to be weaned off ventilatory support before she was able to live outside the unit - it remains her goal to try.\n\nDoctors say her current breathing difficulties are due to her deteriorating mitochondrial disease weakening her muscles, rather than long-Covid or other infections that she has had.\n\nST's Christian family say they will continue to fight her case and have put in an application seeking existing reporting restrictions to be lifted so that they can publicise their daughter's situation and raise money for her treatment.\n\nIn a statement via their solicitor, the family said: \"We are shocked to be told by the judge that our daughter does not have capacity to make decisions for herself after all the experts have said that she does. We are very distressed by this injustice, and we hope that, by Jesus's grace, this will be corrected on appeal.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Algerian coastguard has shot dead two tourists holidaying in Morocco who reportedly strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis.\n\nThey were among four French-Moroccan dual nationals who had set off from the Moroccan resort of Saidia.\n\nA third member of the group was arrested by the coastguard which patrol the two states' closed border.\n\nThe two nations have a long history of tension, tied to Morocco's claims to the disputed Western Sahara.\n\nThe border between them was closed in 1994, with Algiers severing ties two years ago. It accused Morocco of hostile acts - an allegation rejected by Rabat.\n\nThe shooting sparked anger in Morocco after a fisherman posted footage of a lifeless body floating in the sea.\n\nMohamed Kissi was the only one of the group of four to make it back to Morocco, AFP news agency reports, quoting Moroccan media.\n\n\"We got lost but we kept going until we found ourselves in Algeria,\" said Mr Kissi, whose brother Bilal was killed. He said the group had also run out of fuel.\n\n\"We knew we were in Algeria because a black Algerian dinghy came towards us\" and those on board \"fired at us\", he said.\n\n\"Thank God I wasn't hit but they killed my brother and my friend,\" he added.\n\nMr Kissi denied the group had tried to escape when they were discovered by the coastguard, telling local media that his brother had tried talking to officials before he was shot.\n\n\"They arrested my other friend. Five bullets hit my brother and my friend. My other friend was hit by a bullet.\"\n\nMr Kissi said he then tried to swim back to Saidia and was eventually picked up by the Moroccan navy.\n\nHis cousin, the actor Abdelkarim Kissi, has called on the Moroccan authorities to bring the case to international courts.\n\n\"They killed Bilal Kissi my little cousin,\" he wrote on social media.\n\n\"His only fault was crossing the Algerian territorial waters, he was on vacation with his friends.\"\n\nAbdelali Merchouer has been named as the second man killed.\n\nHis body is still in Algeria, according to Moroccan news site Le360.\n\nThe man arrested by the Algerian coastguard, named as Smail Snabe, reportedly appeared before a prosecutor on Wednesday but no details were given.\n\nA Moroccan government spokesman declined to comment on the shooting, telling AFP it was \"a matter for the judiciary\".\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Algeria.\n\nThe two nations share a border nearly 2,000km (1,242 miles) long which has been a source of tension since independence from French colonial rule.\n\nIt was closed in 1994 for security reasons after Islamist militants bombed a hotel in the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh.\n\nWhat is the dispute about? The two countries have border disputes which date back to the era of French colonisation - and even fought a war in 1963.\n\nAnd since then? Relations have never recovered. Algeria backs the Polisario Front, which is fighting for Western Sahara's independence from Morocco.\n\nWhat are the effects? The long border through the Sahara Desert remains tightly closed - there is no direct legal trade between the two neighbours.", "Martha McClelland, who is originally from California in the US but now lives in Londonderry, lost her sight completely two years ago\n\nA visually impaired woman living in Londonderry has said she feels like a prisoner in her own home, waiting more than two years to get a new guide dog.\n\nMartha McClelland, who is originally from California in the United States, lost her sight completely from glaucoma and macular degeneration.\n\nAfter her guide dog, Jasmine, retired two years ago, she began having falls.\n\nShe said she now found it more difficult to get out and about and has lost her independence.\n\n\"The first fall was four weeks after she was retired,\" Mrs McClelland said.\n\n\"I broke both elbows, one very badly and it didn't heal properly. I also broke my leg and tore a cruciate ligament\".\n\nMrs McClelland said the injuries had a lasting impact on her confidence.\n\n\"I am now afraid going out and walking with the white cane,\" she said.\n\n\"It has really curtailed me. Sometimes I even feel like a prisoner in my own flat.\"\n\nJasmine retired from working life two years ago, but still lives with Martha as a family pet\n\nMrs McClelland, who is originally from California and moved to Derry 50 years ago, has applied for a new guide dog but has still not got one.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic led to delays in the availability and training of dogs, charity Guide Dogs Northern Ireland has said.\n\nA guide dog's average working life is six to seven years and they are normally retired at about 10 or 11 years old, depending on their health and the amount of work they need to do.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's The North West Today programme, the charity's head of guide dog service operations Maria Rogan said the pandemic halted both the breeding and training of new guide dogs right across the UK.\n\nShe acknowledged many people had been affected.\n\n\"It's one we are working tirelessly to overcome, and meet the needs of everyone on our waiting list\".\n\nShe said the process of rearing and training a guide dog was time consuming and could take about two years.\n\nThere are more than 1,400 guide dogs trained in the UK each year\n\nBoth Ms Rogan and Mrs McClelland are hopeful an initiative run by Guide Dogs Northern Ireland will help people waiting on a guide dog.\n\nThey are asking people to consider becoming a My Sighted Guide volunteer.\n\nThese are people who help visually impaired people, like Mrs McClelland, reconnect with the community by going on walks and out shopping with them.\n\n\"If I could get a guide while I'm waiting to get a new dog that would be wonderful,\" Mrs McClelland said.\n\n\"Become a My Guide volunteer and just have a bit of fun with a blind person, you could be surprised what good craic we are and it would be a great help to us\".\n\nThe volunteer programme, Ms Rogan said, is an essential part of the guide dog charity's service, helping to \"build confidence and independent living\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump's trial in Georgia over charges of election fraud will be livestreamed and televised, a judge has ruled.\n\nAll the hearings will be available live on Fulton County Court's YouTube channel, said Judge Scott McAfee.\n\nA date for the trial has not yet been set, but it could be next year when Mr Trump is running for re-election.\n\nMr Trump and 18 people are charged with a conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.\n\nThe former Republican president, who faces three other criminal trials, has pleaded not guilty to the 13 charges he faces in Georgia.\n\nAll proceedings in Fulton County's courts are usually livestreamed.\n\nHowever, it will be the only one of Mr Trump's four trials that will be broadcast, and could be one of the most watched trials in recent years.\n\nMr Trump briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn himself in at Fulton County Jail and have his mugshot taken. He has waived the right to appear in court next Wednesday at his arraignment, a short hearing at which the plea is officially entered in court.\n\nProsecutors allege that he pressured Georgia officials to reverse the results of the election in the state, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.\n\nCentral to the prosecution's case is a phone call he made to the state's secretary of state to \"recalculate\" the vote tally.\n\n\"I just want to find 11,780 votes,\" he is heard saying on a recording of the call.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n\nMr Trump has said the call was \"perfect\" and his lawyers listening on the call did not raise any concerns.\n\nThe former New York real estate tycoon is the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and his mounting legal problems have done nothing to dent his popularity among his supporters.\n\nHe has said the case in Georgia and the other three criminal cases he faces are politically driven.\n\nSeveral of his co-defendants in Georgia, including his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have said they will waive their right to appear in court next week.\n\nClark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that decision is \"usually non-controversial\".\n\n\"Mr Trump fully knows the charges against him,\" he said. \"That's the main purpose of the arraignment, to read the charges to the accused, and [to enter] the person's plea. So he doesn't need to be there, he knows what they are.\"\n\nAmong the charges he and his co-defendants face is racketeering, commonly known as the Rico act.\n\nAcross the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime.", "The video was released by a Telegram channel with links to Yevgeny Prigozhin\n\nWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.\n\n\"For those who are discussing whether I am alive or not... everything's OK,\" he says in the short clip on Telegram.\n\nThe Russian mercenary leader was buried at a funeral in St Petersburg on Tuesday, according to his press team.\n\nPrigozhin and nine others were killed in the crash near Moscow on 23 August, which led to frenzied speculation.\n\nThe Wagner boss was described by many as a \"dead man walking\" after he led a failed mutiny in June, during which his fighters took control of a Russian city and marched towards Moscow.\n\nThe White House has suggested that Russian authorities could be behind his death, although the Kremlin has dismissed any suggestion of its involvement as a \"complete lie\".\n\nWagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone, which published the new video on Thursday, said the jet had been shot down by the Russian military - although it provided no evidence to support this claim.\n\nIn the short clip, less than 30 seconds long, Prigozhin said: \"For those who are discussing whether I'm alive or not, how I'm doing - right now it's the weekend, second half of August 2023, I'm in Africa.\n\n\"So for people who like to discuss wiping me out, or my private life, how much I earn or whatever else - everything's OK.\"\n\nThe so-called \"weekend\" reference in the video, on \"the second half of August\", suggests the video could have been recorded on 19 or 20 August.\n\nRecorded in a moving vehicle, the video shows Prigozhin wearing camouflage clothes and a hat similar to what he wore in a video published by Grey Zone on 21 August, in which he also suggested he was in Africa.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the locations or the dates of either video.\n\nPrigozhin was once a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But as Russia's invasion of Ukraine faltered, he became a frequent critic of his country's military leadership, if not the president himself.\n\nMr Putin described the attempted mutiny in June as a \"stab in the back\", but appeared to have signed off on a deal that saw Prigozhin avoid charges and Wagner fighters move to Belarus or join the regular Russian military.\n\nHowever, many experts were doubtful that Prigozhin would be allowed to get away with such a brazen challenge to the Kremlin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: BBC gets as close as possible to Prigozhin grave", "More than 100 drivers are taking part in Rali Ceredigion, which begins on Saturday\n\nA Welsh rally has been recognised for its environmental sustainability by the governing body of Formula 1.\n\nAbout 130 cars will race 105 miles (169km) across two days in Rali Ceredigion, which begins on Saturday.\n\nIt is the only UK rally to receive Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) environmental accreditation, for both 2022 and 2023.\n\nRace organisers said it is the first event of its kind to fully offset the emissions of all competing vehicles.\n\nOrganiser Phil Pugh said the event was taking many steps to stay environmentally friendly, such as all competing cars using low emission fuels and offering a car share service for fans.\n\n\"You don't have an FIA two-star accreditation by doing nothing,\" he said. \"You've got to reach those goals set by the FIA and they are very stringent.\"\n\nOrganisers claim the event will be one of the world's largest carbon offsetting programmes for a rally event\n\nOrganisers have said this year's event will offset more than 100 tonnes of carbon emissions, one of the world's largest carbon offsetting programmes for rally events and by far the largest in the UK.\n\nCarbon Positive Motorsport, an offsetting company working with the race, said this figure was 25% more carbon than the event itself was estimated to produce.\n\nCarbon offsetting is a method in which organisations that produce CO2, a greenhouse gas, can pay another company to remove a certain amount from the atmosphere.\n\nCarbon Positive Motorsport uses a natural offsetting method by planting trees in Scottish highlands around Loch Ness.\n\nOne industrial method is carbon capture and storage which involves using machinery to remove CO2 from the air and store it, often deep underground.\n\nHowever, some experts have criticised offsetting as a \"get out of jail free card\" that can prevent large polluters from changing their behaviour.\n\nRali Ceredigion is the first rally to take place entirely on closed public roads in Wales, after a 2017 law change allowed such events to be held on public highways as opposed to only on private land.\n\nThe organisers anticipate thousands of supporters will visit mid Wales to follow the event over the weekend. They estimated that the economic impact of last year's rally was about £2m.\n\nEvie Keyworth, who works at Baravin, a restaurant on Aberystwyth's seafront, said: \"We've very excited for it - it means we're very busy, and we're fully booked at the moment which is very good for us.\n\n\"It gives us more exposure, gets a lot more tourists in and it's an exciting activity for our town to come together and enjoy the race as well.\"\n\nEvie Keyworth says she is excited about the hustle and bustle of race weekend\n\nRichard Griffiths, owner of the Richmond Hotel on Aberystwyth promenade, called the race an \"extremely important event in the calendar of Aberystwyth\", attracting thousands of people to the region.\n\n\"That helps the economy, and mid Wales is a rural area that needs a lot of support in different areas,\" he said.\n\nFollowing a ceremonial start in Aberystwyth on Friday evening, drivers will race 14 stages on Saturday and Sunday through Borth, Cwmerfyn and Cwm Ystwyth, Llanafan and Nant y Moch.\n\nAhead of the ceremonial start a state of the art hybrid rally car, the M-Sport Ford Puma, will take to the streets of Aberystwyth on a demonstration run before the street stage of the rally there on Saturday evening.\n\nM-Sport Ford Puma during Day Three of the FIA World Rally Championship Finland\n\nThis be the first time a hybrid rally car - powered by 100% fossil-free fuel - has been driven on an asphalt rally stage in the UK.\n\nM-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson, who will be at the event said: \"The feedback about Rali Ceredigion has been universally positive and it's fantastic to see an event that is still in its infancy attracting great interest.\"\n\nThe first Rali Ceredigion was won by Osian Pryce, from Machynlleth, who also came second last year and won the British Rally Championship in 2022.\n\n\"Hopefully we can pick up where we left off last year, as I enjoyed the stages and we're hoping for everything to click into place as it's been a difficult season so far,\" he said.\n\n\"It's great that the event has the support of the local community again, and is showcasing what Ceredigion has to offer.\"", "Issey Cross' summer anthem Bittersweet Goodbye has been streamed millions of times\n\nHeard this one before? If you're a music fan it's a question you might have been asking yourself recently.\n\nMore and more artists seem to be using samples - snippets of older tracks - to create new ones.\n\nFrom Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice's Barbie World to Issey Cross' Bittersweet Goodbye, our summer playlists have been full of throwbacks.\n\nAnd analysis shared with BBC Newsbeat shows that about one in four current UK Top 40 hits uses samples.\n\nData from the Official Charts Company and website whosampled.com suggests as many as one in four tracks in the chart make use of retro tracks.\n\nThis week's number two, Doja Cat's Paint The Town Red, samples Walk on By, first released by Dionne Warwick in 1964.\n\nBou's Closer takes us back to the 90s, recycling dance anthem Children by Robert Miles.\n\nAnd Charlie XCX wants to remind us of Toni Basil's 1981 hit Hey Mickey with Speed Drive, which also samples Robyn's Cobrastyle.\n\nBut one of summer's biggest songs based around a sample is Issey Cross's Bittersweet Goodbye, which entered the charts last week at number 31.\n\nThe dance track uses the hook from 1997 hit Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, a track which, ironically, sampled Rolling Stones hit The Last Time.\n\nIce Spice and Nicki Minaj dominated the charts with their track Barbie World, which sampled Aqua\n\nYou might assume that the sampling phenomenon is a result of our current fascination with the 90s and noughties.\n\nWhether it's down to nostalgia or social media exposing a new generation to the era, it's inspiring trends in film, TV and fashion.\n\nAnd it would be easy to assume the rise in musical throwbacks is simply down to young people rediscovering older music online.\n\nWhile that's definitely played a part, US journalist Jayson Greene tells BBC Newsbeat the truth \"is more interesting than that\".\n\nJayson, who works for respected music website Pitchfork, looked into the issue of \"making old hits new again\".\n\nHis investigation started with music publishing companies - once a \"sleepy sector of the music business\" but one that's seen big investments recently.\n\nIn the US, two firms have snapped up the rights to dozens of tracks by legendary artists such as Bob Marley, Prince, James Brown, and Whitney Houston.\n\nJayson spoke to their bosses and found that the companies will look for opportunities to promote the material in the hope it gets used.\n\nIf it does, they get paid, and the songs that sell are the ones that people already know.\n\n\"The most universally recognisable properties are the ones that are being recycled,\" says Jayson.\n\nHearing familiar songs \"hits like a node in your lizard brain that recognises something you already love\", he says.\n\n\"And so that song seems more interesting to you than maybe something you've never heard before.\"\n\nThat's good for business, but potentially less beneficial for creativity, says Jayson.\n\n\"Because everybody knows them already... nobody has to do any work breaking in a new entity, a new voice,\" he says.\n\nKatie Gregson-MacLeod says TikTok introduces users to new music\n\nIt's only fair to point out that one in four tracks using samples means that the other three are original compositions.\n\nAnd singer-songwriter Katie Gregson Macleod feels there's still an appetite for original music, especially on social media platforms.\n\n\"I think that [TikTok's] proven time and time again that people aren't just looking for the same thing, recycled,\" she says.\n\nKatie has been writing songs since she was a teenager and balanced her music career between university and a job in an Edinburgh coffee shop.\n\nThe Scottish singer finally got her big break last year when her song Complex went viral - and she was then signed to the same record label as Adele and nominated for an Ivor Novello award.\n\nOn sampling, Katie says: \"I don't know if it's tiresome yet. I think people just love to hear that stuff.\"\n\n\"I firmly believe that this sort of nostalgia cycle we're in is just a phase,\" he says.\n\n\"This happens every few years.\"\n\nHe sees similarities with current cinema trends - and suggestions that people are getting tired of superhero movies.\n\nJayson says lots of people have reacted to his article, and he's noticed an increase in people calling out overuse of samples on social media.\n\n\"When people start seeing how the sausage is made, I just think people's reactions to this stuff are starting to indicate that yes, there's got to be a turning of the tide, pretty soon.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Disruption by the war has had a devastating effect on pupils in Ukraine\n\nIt was a quiet summer morning in Romny, a provincial town in northern Ukraine.\n\nAs Tetyana Prokopenko, a local headteacher, left for work last Wednesday, she told her husband she had to hold some meetings to prepare for the new term.\n\nShortly after 10:00 local time she would be dead, together with her deputy, secretary and a librarian.\n\nThey were all killed by a Russian kamikaze drone which almost completely destroyed their school.\n\n\"She was passionate about that school, it was her life. She was there 24/7,\" Mrs Prokopenko's husband, Valery, says, tearfully.\n\nHeadteacher Tetyana Prokopenko was killed by a drone strike on her school\n\nRussian air strikes will be a constant threat to Ukrainian teachers, children and parents as the new school term begins on 1 September.\n\nAccording to Ukrainian authorities, more than 360 educational facilities have been completely destroyed and more than 3,000 damaged during the war with Russia.\n\nRussia and Amnesty International have accused Ukraine of setting up military bases at schools, but Kyiv describes these allegations as \"a campaign of disinformation and propaganda\".\n\n\"I swear there were no military there,\" Valery says of the school in Romny where his wife was killed.\n\nTo minimise the deadly threat, many pupils will be studying remotely, and it is up to the local authorities to decide whether schooling will be conducted in the classroom or from home.\n\nTheir decision depends on the security situation in each region, and on whether schools there have bomb shelters.\n\nUkraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, is close to the Russian border and targeted frequently. Therefore, schooling there will almost exclusively be done remotely.\n\nTo enable at least some form of safe in-person education, the authorities there have built 60 classrooms at underground metro stations, enough to accommodate more than 1,000 pupils.\n\nDeputy Education Minister Andriy Stashkiv has told the BBC that about a sixth of Ukrainian schools are now expected to work remotely - but that is far fewer than the one in three last year.\n\nSome 80,000 of their pupils will be logging in from Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine.\n\n\"It's a huge challenge for us and it's dangerous for them because the occupiers threaten them and their parents if they find out that they continue studying in Ukrainian schools. It's a very sensitive security issue and schools do not say who these pupils are because this can put their lives and health at risk,\" Mr Stashkiv says.\n\nThe school curriculum is also being adapted to wartime conditions, and studying mine safety will now be compulsory.\n\nTo make the course more accessible for younger children, it features Patron, the famous mine-sniffing dog, who also stars in a cartoon series educating young Ukrainians about the dangers posed by unexploded munitions.\n\nImages of the friendly Jack Russell terrier help create the \"atmosphere of psychological and mental safety\" Ukrainian children need, Lesya Yurchyshyn, a teacher from Kyiv, told the BBC's Ukrainecast podcast.\n\nAnother feature of the curriculum that has been changed by the war with Russia is the removal of numerous Russian writers last year by Ukraine's education ministry.\n\nHundreds of schools have been totally destroyed\n\nDisruption caused by the war has had a devastating effect on the quality of education in Ukraine.\n\nThe UN's children's agency Unicef says that Ukrainian children are showing signs of \"widespread learning loss\".\n\n\"Inside Ukraine, attacks on schools have continued unabated, leaving children deeply distressed and without safe spaces to learn. Not only has this left Ukraine's children struggling to progress in their education, but they are also struggling to retain what they learnt when their schools were fully functioning,\" says Regina De Dominicis, Unicef Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia.\n\nAnd it has been a while since schools were fully functioning in front-line cities like Zaporizhzhia, where remote education has been in place - with brief interruptions - since Covid restrictions were introduced in spring 2020.\n\n\"This isn't normal schooling,\" says Kostyantyn Samiylo, the head of the Perspektyva school in Zaporizhzhia. \"Poor, poor children, they haven't seen proper schooling for three years!\"\n\nAccording to him, distance learning makes it much more difficult to motivate children or to test their knowledge.\n\nMr Samiylo describes how he has been missing the peaceful sight of children going to school - something you can only see further away from the front line.\n\n\"I got tearful when I visited western Ukraine last year and saw children going to school with their little bags. It's awful to think that our children don't have this opportunity,\" Mr Samiylo says.\n\nBut whatever impact distance learning may have on education in Ukraine, teachers, officials and parents all agree that safety comes first.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAston Villa cruised past Hibernian at Villa Park to book their place in the Europa Conference League group stage.\n\nSealing their spot was little more than a formality for Villa, who led 5-0 on aggregate after thrashing Hibs in the first leg.\n\nJhon Duran set the tone for an easy night for the hosts with a 12th-minute opener.\n\nLeon Bailey and Matty Cash extended the advantage for Unai Emery's men as Hibs crumbled under Villa's pressure.\n\nHibs, still searching for a manager after last weekend's sacking of Lee Johnson, rarely found a path through the hosts' back line.\n\nVilla found themselves in near-total control of the ball and brushed past the visitors' defence with ease.\n\nBailey tucked home a powerful finish from close range before the break while Cash turned home when David Marshall failed to clear a Bailey free-kick in the second half.\n\nEmery's side's group-stage opponents will be revealed in Friday's draw, which takes place at 13.30 BST.\n• None Relive Aston Villa's victory over Hibernian as it happened\n• None All the best Aston Villa news and views in one place\n• None Go straight to our Hibs page\n\nEmery's men can confidently say they have bounced back from their 5-1 drubbing at the hands of Newcastle United on the Premier League's opening day.\n\nThey have since beaten Everton and Burnley, recorded an 8-0 aggregate victory over two legs against Hibs, and will feel positive about their future prospects in Europe.\n\nThe impressive performance of 17-year-old debutant Omari Kellyman, who registered an assist and came close to scoring a goal of his own near the end of the game, should leave Emery enthused about the depth in his ranks.\n\nHe was able to make six changes from the team who won against Everton and inflicted second-half damage on Hibs with the introduction of goalscorer Cash, Diego Carlos, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins.\n\nVictory was dominant for Villa as they reduced the visitors to just a single shot on target.\n\nEmery's immediate attention will turn to Sunday's league fixture away to Liverpool before his side then return to action later in September after the international break.\n\nTheir first Conference League game will then take place on 21 September.\n• None Attempt saved. Matty Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leon Bailey.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Omari Kellyman (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by John McGinn.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Robin Olsen (Aston Villa).\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Martin Boyle (Hibernian).\n• None Attempt blocked. John McGinn (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leon Bailey.\n• None Offside, Hibernian. Jimmy Jeggo tries a through ball, but Martin Boyle is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo members of the far-right Proud Boys group have been jailed for leading the US Capitol riot.\n\nDominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nEthan Nordean, 32, who led the group's march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge.\n\nThe former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced next week.\n\nBefore being sentenced, Nordean told the court: \"I would like to apologise for my lack of leadership that day\" and called the riot \"a complete and utter tragedy\".\n\n\"To anyone who I directly or even indirectly wronged, I'm sorry,\" he said.\n\nBut US District Judge Timothy Kelly told him that the events of the day broke a long political tradition.\n\n\"If we don't have a peaceful transfer of power in this country, we don't have anything,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nNordean, of Washington state, went by the nickname \"Rufio Panman\" and was well-known within the Proud Boys for his frequent brawls with antifa activists in the Pacific Northwest.\n\nHis sentence is one of the longest ones yet handed to Capitol riot defendants. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, was also given 18 years in prison earlier this year.\n\nThe other defendant sentenced on Friday, Pezzola, a 46-year-old former US Marine, fought with officers during the riot and smashed a window with a police riot shield.\n\nA selfie video taken on the day of the riot shows Pezzola smoking what he described as a \"victory cigar\" in the Capitol building.\n\nWhile he was convicted on the assault and obstruction charges, he was acquitted of seditious conspiracy - a charge applied to defendants for plotting to overthrow the government or use force \"to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States\".\n\nAn emotional Pezzola expressed some remorse for his actions during his sentencing hearing. His wife, daughter and mother all addressed the judge, with his mother describing him as having been a \"wonderful child\" that \"never gave me any trouble\".\n\nPezzola's wife said that her daughters have become victims of harassment and bullying at school.\n\nBut once the prison term had been handed down and the judge had left the room, Pezzola raised a fist and shouted: \"Trump won!\"\n\nThe Proud Boys - which started as an all-male, hard-drinking, self-described \"Western chauvinist\" fraternity seven years ago - saw themselves as Donald Trump's foot-soldiers and were among the first to march on the Capitol on the day of the riot.\n\nTrump supporters, including a group of around 200 Proud Boys, overran police lines and stormed the building in a bid to prevent Congress from ratifying Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nPezzola and Nordean went to trial alongside Tarrio and US military veterans Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl.\n\nOn Thursday, Biggs and Rehl were sentenced to 17 and 15 years in prison respectively. Prosecutors have requested a 33-year sentence for Tarrio.\n\nDominic Pezzola seen smashing a window with a police shield in a photo submitted as evidence by prosecutors\n\nOn Friday, Judge Timothy Kelly told Pezzola he had \"played a significant role\" in the Capitol riot, even if he was not in a leadership role in the Proud Boys.\n\n\"It was a national disgrace, what happened,\" Judge Kelly said.\n\nDuring the trial, a combative Pezzola had repeatedly downplayed his actions during the riot, arguing the crowd were \"trespassing protesters\" rather than an \"invading force\".\n\nHe also told jurors that his actions that day were explained by his reverting to military training when he saw police use non-lethal munitions to try to disperse the crowd.\n\nJoe Biggs (right) with Enrique Tarrio at a rally in 2019\n\n\"In the military and Marine Corps, you don't ever turn around and run away,\" Pezzola said.\n\n\"You're conditioned not to think about the flight response. You're conditioned to run toward the danger.\"\n\nProsecutors had asked for a 20 years in prison for Pezzola and 27 years for Nordean.\n\nMore than 1,100 have been arrested on riot-related charges, resulting in 630 guilty pleas and over 110 convictions.", "More than 50 prison guards and seven police officers have been taken hostage in several jails in Ecuador, according to officials.\n\nTwo car bombs also went off in the capital, Quito, both targeting the country's prisons authority (SNAI).\n\nNobody was hurt in the bombings and at least six people have been arrested.\n\nThe authorities believe at least one of the incidents could be retaliation for a police search for weapons at one of the country's biggest jails.\n\nEcuador's Interior Minister, Juan Zapata, said the authorities were taking action, but did not give further details.\n\n\"We are concerned about the safety of our officials,\" said Mr Zapata.\n\nHours earlier, a bomb targeted a building that had formerly been used by the SNAI in Quito. The second explosion targeted the agency's headquarters.\n\nPolice said the later attack was carried out using a vehicle that had been rigged with explosives.\n\nQuito Mayor Pabel Munoz said there were also grenade explosions in the city during the night.\n\nEcuador is facing growing violence linked to drug-trafficking gangs, which has put a huge strain on the under-resourced and overcrowded prison system.\n\nHundreds of inmates have been killed in deadly fights in Ecuador's overcrowded jails in recent years.\n\nSuch is the influence of narco-politics in Ecuador, its prisons are places of power - it's where those involved in drugs offences get locked away.\n\nBut they're also the control centres of many of the cartels and gangs now - so when inmates don't like what the authorities are doing, they make that known through violence and riots.\n\nThe country is less than two months away from the run-off round of presidential elections - a campaign that has been, until now, marred by violence and the assassination of a candidate.\n\nEcuador's largest city, Guayaquil - home to the country's biggest port and prison complex - has traditionally been the epicentre of violence in the country but the capital, Quito, has been hit by a rising murder rate too.\n\nNowhere is untouched as the violence soars and fears increase around the upcoming presidential vote.\n\nOn Wednesday, hundreds of police officers and soldiers carried out a search for weapons and explosives in Cotopaxi jail in Latacunga, about 55 miles south of Quito, as part of efforts to prevent further violence.\n\n\"The measures we have taken, especially in the prison system, have generated violent reactions from criminal organisations that seek to intimidate the state,\" said Ecuador's President, Guillermo Lasso.\n\n\"But we are firm and we are not going to go back on the objective of capturing dangerous criminals, dismantling criminal gangs and pacifying the country's prisons.\"\n\nThe authorities have been seeking to regain control of prisons following surge in violence linked to drug trafficking gangs", "Families have been going to the mortuary in Diepkloof, Soweto, to see if they can find loved ones\n\nFamilies have been searching mortuaries in the South African city of Johannesburg a day after one of the worst building fires in the country's history.\n\nAt least 76 people were killed in the blaze, including 12 children.\n\nPanic-stricken and desperate, Grif, a Malawian who would only give his first name, arrived at the Diepkloof morgue.\n\nThere, among the dozens of bodies, many burnt beyond recognition, he found one of his two missing younger sisters.\n\nThe 26-year-old got a call in the early hours of Thursday morning about the fire, and he immediately started going to different hospitals in the city to look for Miriam and Fatima. After a few hours, it became clear, he needed to change his search.\n\nOn Friday, he began looking in the city's morgues and eventually went to Dieplkloof in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, where all the victims had been brought.\n\nStanding outside the low-rise building, teary-eyed and exhausted, he told the BBC that he was able to identify one of his sisters.\n\nLucky may not be the right work in this instance, but the authorities say that only 12 out of the more than 70 bodies are identifiable by sight.\n\nGrif said he would keep searching for his other missing sister.\n\nThe two women lived together in the condemned and over-crowded five-storey building in central Johannesburg. Grif lived in a similar one nearby.\n\nMany of the victims are thought to be undocumented migrants, eking out a living on the margins of South African society.\n\n\"I'm feeling so much pain,\" Grif said. \"And I'm scared to tell my family. It's too painful and there's nothing I can do.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, firefighters had gone back inside the building to see if they could find any more bodies.\n\nThe cause of the fire is still unknown, but forensic investigators have also been at the site, picking through the charred remains of the burnt-out structure.\n\nThe government has promised help to all the victims, but it is a very difficult situation for many of them, as they are in the country without official papers. Some fear that coming forward could expose them to the authorities.\n\nTwenty Malawians are thought to be among the dead, according to that country's foreign ministry, quoted by the Reuters news agency.\n\nTanzania's Acting High Commissioner Peter Shija has said that he has so far found out that five of his compatriots died in the blaze and three were injured. He told South African news broadcaster eNCA that 150 Tanzanians had been living in the building before it was engulfed in flames.\n\nVisiting the scene in central Johannesburg on Thursday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa called the tragedy a \"wake-up call for us to begin to address the situation of housing in the inner city\".\n\nThe building used to be a home for abused women and children, but once the lease expired, it was \"hijacked\", President Ramaphosa explained to reporters.\n\nMany properties around the area where the blaze happened have been deemed unfit to live in.\n\nYet these old blocks, abandoned by their owners or the city authorities, are full of families, often paying rent to criminal gangs who run them.\n\nSome of those who use the buildings include undocumented migrants, mostly from other African countries.\n\nThe conditions inside many of them resemble shanty towns, with flimsy partitions separating homes, and little or no access to running water and power.\n\nSome reports suggest that a candle, paraffin stove or faulty electricity connection may have been behind Thursday's blaze.\n\nThe country is just emerging from winter, with night-time temperatures in Johannesburg this week dropping to 4C.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Hashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain, both from Banbury, died at the scene\n\nThe families of two young men murdered in a high-speed car chase have told a court their lives have been torn apart by their deaths.\n\nSaqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, were killed in a crash on the A46 in Leicestershire in February 2022.\n\nTikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, 24, and her mother Ansreen Bukhari, 46, were convicted last month of murder.\n\nFamilies of the victims have been addressing Leicester Crown Court ahead of the pair's sentencing later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What CCTV evidence showed us in the TikTok murder case\n\nTheir trial previously heard Mr Hussain had threatened to reveal he was having an affair with Mrs Bukhari, and she and her daughter devised a plan to silence him.\n\nThe pair, both from Stoke-on-Trent, \"lured\" Mr Hussain, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, to a meeting in a Tesco car park in Leicester, saying he would be given back £3,000 he said he had spent on taking his lover out during their relationship.\n\nThe Bukharis had planned to take Mr Hussain's mobile phone from him, believing it contained explicit images of Ansreen Bukhari.\n\nHowever Mr Hussain, and his friend Mr Ijazuddin, who accompanied him, were then ambushed by a masked gang, recruited by the Bukharis, and chased by two cars, later crashing into a tree in a ball of flames.\n\nAlso due to be sentenced for murder are fellow defendants Rekan Karwan, 29, from Leicester, and Raees Jamal, 23, from Loughborough, who were recruited by the Bukharis and driving the pursuing cars.\n\nMahek Bukhari (left) and her mother Ansreen wanted to silence Saqib Hussain, who had threatened to reveal an affair he was having with the older woman, the trial heard\n\nNatasha Akhtar, 23, from Birmingham; Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, both from Leicester, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.\n\nIn statements read to the court, the parents of Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin said their lives had been changed forever by their deaths.\n\nMr Ijazuddin's father, Sikandar Hayat, said: \"My heart has been ripped out and none of us will be the same again. None of us will truly smile again.\n\n\"All we have left is memories of our beloved son.\"\n\nHe said his son, who accompanied his friend Mr Hussain to the rendezvous that ultimately led to their deaths, had been \"innocent\".\n\nHe said he could not understand why the defendants had not called the emergency services to get help after the crash.\n\n\"They left him and his friend to burn in a furnace of hell,\" he said.\n\nMahek Bukhari had an air of confidence throughout her trial.\n\nShe would share laughs and giggles with other defendants during quieter parts of proceedings.\n\nShe casually played Monopoly and the card game Uno while she waited for the jury to come back with a verdict.\n\nShe even waved and laughed at reporters from a court balcony while they were standing outside with cameras, just two hours before she was convicted of double murder.\n\nBut she was sitting slumped in the dock, in tears, closing her eyes as Hashim Ijazuddin's father and brothers delivered powerful and cutting victim impact statements.\n\nHer mother Ansreen, meanwhile, was sitting with a vacant expression on her face.\n\nAddressing the Bukharis in the dock, he asked them: \"Was it worth it?\"\n\nHe said they had ruined their own lives as well as those of the victim's families.\n\nIn a statement read on their behalf, Mr Hussain's family said his parents had been left as \"two lifeless corpses\", unable to eat or drink in the run-up to their son's funeral.\n\nMr Ijazuddin's brother Zaheer described the Bukharis as \"murdering monsters\".\n\nBoth families said they were haunted by the fear the victims must have felt in their final moments.\n\nThe trial heard a 999 call made by Mr Hussain from the passenger seat of his car as it was chased along the A46 towards Six Hills in Leicestershire.\n\nHe told police: \"There's guys following me, they have balaclavas on… they're trying to ram me off the road.\"\n\nA scream was heard on the line before the call abruptly ended.\n\nClockwise from top left: Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal, who were found guilty of murder; Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa and Natasha Akhtar, who were convicted of manslaughter\n\nThe court heard mitigation from Ansreen Bukhari's barrister Philip Upward, who said she had been under pressure from Mr Hussain for months, and he had threatened to release pictures and video of her.\n\nHe said she had not intended for her lover and his friend to be killed.\n\nNor had she been armed or disguised, he said, when she went to meet Mr Hussain in Leicester.\n\n\"She will accept she was weak, as a mature woman, in responding to his advances,\" he said.\n\n\"She will spend the rest of her life living in the shadow of her shame.\"\n\nThe court heard, in mitigation for Mahek Bukhari, that she was \"immature\" and acted to protect her mother, her \"closest friend\".\n\nHer barrister Christopher Millington said Mr Hussain had been engaged in \"serious criminal behaviour\" towards Ansreen Bukhari.\n\nThe hearing was told Mahek had not planned to kill either man.\n\nMr Millington added: \"Intentions were formed on the spur of the moment on the A46.\"\n\nBarristers for Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal also said neither had planned to kill the victims but intended to scare Mr Hussain at the meeting.\n\nRajiv Menon, in mitigation, said Ameer Jamal had played a \"minor role\" in events leading up to the fatal crash.\n\nHe had been there to \"make up the numbers\" if there was a need to take Mr Hussain's phone at the car park meeting, he said.\n\nHe had been a passenger in the Seat car driven by his cousin Raees Jamal, who he had been encouraging to \"chill out\".\n\nBalraj Bhatia, for Gulamustafa, said Raees Jamal asked his client to join him in Leicester only shortly before the night in question.\n\nHe said: \"Sanaf Gulamustafa is not a leader or a decision-maker. He does not take the initiative - he is a follower.\"\n\nMr Bhatia said Gulamustafa's father died on the night of the crash and he had been unable to attend the funeral as he was in custody.\n\nJohn Cooper, representing Akhtar, who was Raees Jamal's girlfriend, said his client had played a minor role, as a look-out at the car park meeting.\n\nHe said she had become involved in the events only on the day and was \"besotted\" with Jamal, who wanted her car for the trip to Leicester.\n\nHe said she was now a \"completely broken\" young woman facing a prison term and had expressed remorse and sadness at the loss of life.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prison in Milton Keynes was found to have \"chronic\" staff shortages and a high rate of attacks on staff\n\nInspectors have called for the high-security jail HMP Woodhill to be put into emergency measures amid attacks on officers and \"chronic\" staff shortages.\n\nThe prison, in Milton Keynes, was deemed to be \"fundamentally unsafe\" following an inspection in August.\n\nCharlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, has contacted Justice Secretary Alex Chalk to issue an urgent notification for improvement.\n\nThe prisons minister said there was an \"urgent need for improvement\".\n\nWoodhill holds about 500 male offenders, with some being Category A, and was said to have the \"highest rate of serious assaults in England and Wales\" on staff, with \"bullying and intimidation by prisoners to be commonplace\".\n\nLow morale meant many staff had \"voted with their feet\", with more officers leaving than joining, and with \"no indication that the situation would improve\", the watchdog said.\n\nIn August, the BBC reported the jail was on a recruitment drive for new officers, with previous inspections also highlighting a lack of staff at the site.\n\nChelsea Lee, deputy head of residence, said it took \"a certain kind of person\" to be a prison officer.\n\n\"Sometimes we have bad days. There can be high frustrations working in this kind of custodial environment,\" she said.\n\n\"There could be multiple incidents throughout the day and it's quite high stress levels for the officers.\"\n\nHMP Woodhill has been trying to recruit more prison officers for a long time\n\nMr Taylor expressed concern that a \"complex, high-risk\" prison like Woodhill could not \"operate effectively with such chronic staff shortages\".\n\n\"Urgent support is needed from HMPPS [His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service] to help Woodhill and other establishments to develop credible, long-term plans that improve staff recruitment, and, crucially, staff retention,\" he said.\n\nPrisons Minister Damian Hinds said: \"The findings of this report demonstrate the urgent need for improvement at HMP Woodhill and we will be working closely and quickly with the prison to set out how it can address these issues.\"\n\nHe said the prison service was \"working hard to recruit and retain staff\", including increasing starting salaries for prison officers and recruiting more staff.\n\nIn previous inspections, staff shortages and retainment had also been labelled a \"considerable concern\" at HMP Woodhill\n\nThe inspector's report also found high levels of violence and drugs at the jail, with the rate of self-harm among inmates the highest in the country for men's prisons.\n\nTwenty-six offenders were found to be \"self isolating\" in cells in fear of their own safety, while staff shortages meant education classes and work had been cancelled for inmates, leaving them \"frustrated\".\n\nThe watchdog said without significantly improving staffing levels, \"it was not clear how the jail will improve\".\n\nNotorious prisoner Charles Bronson is one of the inmates based at HMP Woodhill\n\nPia Sinha, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, branded the report \"shocking\", adding: \"After repeated warnings, it is extremely disappointing that the prison now finds itself in this position.\n\n\"Ministers urgently need to get a grip on what has gone wrong.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Iranian man has died in jail after his death sentence for taking part in anti-government protests was overturned by Iran's supreme court.\n\nJavad Rouhi was arrested last year during protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was held for allegedly wearing \"improper\" hijab.\n\nOfficials say Mr Rouhi, 35, died from ineffective hospital treatment after suffering a seizure in prison.\n\nActivists are holding the authorities responsible for his death.\n\n\"Unfortunately, [Mr Rouhi] died despite the actions of medical staff, and a legal case has been filed to follow up on the reason for his death,\" the Iranian judiciary's news website, Mizan, reported.\n\nHowever, an hour before the official announcement on Thursday, several human rights activists announced the death of Mr Rouhi on social networks and accused judicial and security authorities of \"killing\" him.\n\nMr Rouhi was arrested just days after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran's infamous morality police, triggering months of national unrest.\n\nHe was found guilty of leading rioters, destroying property, and apostasy for allegedly burning a Quran during a demonstration.\n\nHowever, activists are currently sharing video clips from last year showing him dancing during the protests.\n\nAmnesty International says he was subjected to floggings, freezing temperatures, electric shocks and had a gun held to his head to force him into confessing.\n\nMr Rouhi was originally handed a triple death sentence on charges of blasphemy, destroying public property and inciting people against national security by a court in Nowshahr, a city in northern Iran.\n\nHowever, the sentence was overturned by the country's supreme court in May, referring his case to another court for re-evaluation.\n\nThe court's review of the case files revealed that Mr Rouhi had participated in the protests individually, and his actions did not align with the legal definitions of \"moharebeh\" (waging war against God) and \"corruption on earth\", offences that can result in the death penalty under Islamic jurisprudence.", "X's owner Elon Musk says the platform is the \"global address book\"\n\nX, formerly known as Twitter, will collect biometric data on its users, such as a photograph of their face, in an update to its privacy policy.\n\nPeople signed up to its subscription service, X Premium, can choose to provide a selfie and photo ID for verification.\n\nThe policy also states X may collect employment and educational history.\n\nThis would be to \"recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job\".\n\nThere has been speculation that X may want to offer recruitment services.\n\nIn May, X Corp acquired a tech recruiting service called Laskie, according to reports. It was the first take over of a company since Elon Musk bought Twitter, as it was then known, last year for $44bn (£34.7bn)\n\nThe new privacy policy will come into force 29 September.\n\nIt states: \"We may collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on) to recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job, to enable employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertising.\"\n\nLiberty Vittert, professor of the practice of data science at Washington University in St Louis, said the move is in line with X's attempt to establish \"more targeted and individual experiences for users\" and rival platforms such as LinkedIn.\n\nBut she said the shift was one users \"should absolutely be wary of\", warning it could be misused by employers in ways such as using tweets, retweets or accounts followed to make decisions about a job.\n\nDr Stephanie Hare, tech ethics researcher says the data collection \"is a massive data grab, though with your consent\" and as this is not compulsory for users she doesn't believe the move is upsetting from a civil liberties stand point.\n\nAccording to X, the collection of biometric data - a term which covers data relating to a person's physical attributes such as a facial scan or fingerprint - is for X Premium users.\n\nThe company told the BBC: \"X will give the option to provide their government ID, combined with a selfie, to add a verification layer.\n\n\"Biometric data may be extracted from both the government ID and the selfie image for matching purposes. This will additionally help us tie, for those that choose, an account to a real person by processing their government-issued ID. This will also help X fight impersonation attempts and make the platform more secure.\"\n\nMr Musk has also reiterated X's plans to give users the option to make video and audio calls. He said the feature \"works on iOS, Android, Mac & PC\" and that no phone number would be needed.\n\n\"X is the effective global address book\", he claimed.\n\nHowever, there was no date given for when the new calling feature would be available.\n\nTikTok already collects biometric data in the United States.\n\n\"We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under U.S. laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints\" the company says in its privacy policy.\n\nHowever, last year in a Senate hearing, TikTok's then chief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, said the company did not use \"any sort of facial, voice or audio, or body recognition that would identify an individual.\"\n\nMr Musk has an ambition to turn X into an \"everything app\", a one-stop-shop for various online services, as part of that the addition of extra features, and extra updates to the privacy policy to enable them, may well continue.", "The Public Health Agency made the precautionary measure after a new Covid variant emerged\n\nThe bringing forward of this year's flu and Covid vaccination programmes in Northern Ireland will cause chaos, a GP representative has said.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) said it made the decision as a precautionary measure following the identification of a new Covid variant.\n\nThe programme has been brought forward to 18 September.\n\nDr Alan Stout said most GPs were informed about the decision by social media.\n\nThe vaccines are available to over 65s, frontline care workers and some others groups.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says there is limited information available about the new variant BA.2.86, but it has a high number of mutations and has appeared in several countries.\n\nIt is not classified as a variant of concern but health officials believe speeding up the vaccination programme will protect those at greatest risk of becoming severely ill.\n\nDr Joanne McClean from the PHA said that there was no evidence that the new variant was more transmissible or would cause more severe illness.\n\nTwo cases of the new variant have been identified in the UK and Dr McClean said it was \"inevitable\" that it would eventually be detected in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said the move was a precaution, adding \"we would rather be safe than sorry\".\n\n\"We always said that new variants emerged that looked a bit different that we would react to that and that's what we are doing\", she said.\n\nDr McClean said there had been a rise in cases over the summer but this was much lower compared to previous waves and has since declined.\n\nShe said the PHA currently did not have plans to roll out a wider vaccination programme with the focus being on protecting the most vulnerable groups.\n\nDr Alan Stout, the chair of the British Medical Association's GP committee in Northern Ireland, said he first learned the decision may be made after discussions with colleagues about proposed changes to the programme in England.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the decision would cause chaos for GP surgeries which are already under pressure\n\nHowever, Dr Stout said that after he raised the issue with the Department of Health, it said it was not aware of any potential changes.\n\n\"This isn't about the decision or the rationale,\" he explained. \"It's about the communication. GPs as we all know deliver the vast majority of these vaccines every year,\" he said.\n\nDr Stout said GPs had in fact still not been \"officially\" told about the decision.\n\n\"We don't have the CMO (chief medical officer) letter which officially starts the programme, we haven't been told what vaccine we are going to use, we haven't got any information on supply of vaccine or delivery dates or quotas.\n\n\"We were working towards a start date of early October and a lot of practices have actually been ahead of the curve and will have booked their clinics.\"\n\nDr Stout said this move would cause \"chaos\" for GP practices, which are already under pressure, for a number of weeks with \"phone lines going mad\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in his Georgia election fraud case, waiving the right to appear in court next week.\n\nMr Trump is among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the US state's 2020 vote results.\n\nHe turned himself in at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week, where he had his mugshot taken.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, describing the case as politically motivated.\n\nIn total, Mr Trump faces 13 felony counts - including racketeering - for allegedly pressuring Georgia officials to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state.\n\nIn a court document filed on Thursday, Mr Trump said he \"fully understands\" the nature of the allegations and his right to appear in court.\n\n\"Understanding my rights, I do hereby freely and voluntarily waive my right to be present at my arraignment on the indictment and my right to have it read to me in open court,\" the signed document says.\n\nMr Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has appeared at each of his three previous arraignments.\n\nHe was required to do so for the cases he is facing in New York and Florida, and opted not to request a virtual appearance for a separate case in Washington DC.\n\nIn all three cases, there was tight security as Trump supporters and counter-protesters gathered near the courthouses.\n\nMr Trump surrendered and was arraigned simultaneously in his federal court cases, which led to his high-profile courtroom appearances. However, in Georgia state court, a defendant's surrender and arraignment usually happen separately.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n\nBrian Tevis, an Atlanta attorney who represents one of Mr Trump's co-accused, Rudy Giuliani, told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that \"99% of the time\" defendants who are given the option choose to waive their arraignment.\n\nClark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that decision is \"usually non-controversial\".\n\n\"Mr Trump fully knows the charges against him,\" he said. \"That's the main purpose of the arraignment, to read the charges to the accused, and [to enter] the person's plea. So he doesn't need to be there, he knows what they are.\"\n\nEarlier this week, three other co-defendants in the case entered not guilty pleas, including former Trump attorneys Ray Stallings Smith and Sidney Powell, as well as former celebrity publicist Trevian Kutti.\n\nRudy Giuiliani, Mr Trump's formal personal attorney, also plans to waive his arraignment in Fulton and plead not guilty, his spokesperson Ted Goodman said on Thursday.\n\nMr Trump was originally due to be arraigned on 6 September, followed by the other defendants in 15-minute intervals.\n\nAll 19 defendants in the case - including Mr Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act.\n\nAcross the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime.\n\nFulton County's District Attorney, Fani Willis, a Democrat, has increasingly come under fire from some Republicans and Trump allies for her decision to indict Mr Trump in the case.\n\nEarlier in August, State Senator Colton Moore sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican, calling for a special session to impeach Ms Willis.\n\nAt a Thursday news conference, Mr Kemp said he had yet to see evidence that such a move would be justified.\n\n\"As long as I am governor, we're going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically,\" the governor said.\n\nAll court proceedings against Mr Trump and the 18 co-defendants in Georgia will be televised and broadcast on YouTube, a Fulton County judge ruled on Thursday.", "Adam Driver was on the red carpet at the 80th Venice International Film Festival\n\nAdam Driver has criticised big film studios and streamers for their treatment of workers as the US actors' and writers' strike continues.\n\nThe actor was speaking before premiere of Ferrari at the Venice Film Festival.\n\nHe was able to attend thanks to an agreement that independent films can still be promoted during the strike.\n\nDriver said he was \"in solidarity\" with the unions, and questioned why major companies cannot meet their demands when independent producers have done.\n\nIt is now 50 days since members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) joined the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) on strike for the first time in more than 60 years.\n\nDriver, who plays Enzo Ferrari, told reporters: \"Why is it that a smaller distribution company like [Ferrari's] Neon and STX International can meet the dream demands of what [SAG] is asking for... but a big company like Netflix and Amazon can't?\"\n\nThe Oscar-nominated actor added that when independent producers and distributors agree to SAG's terms, it \"just makes it more obvious that these people are willing to support the people they collaborate with, and the others are not\".\n\nFerrari director Michael Mann said all those working on the film stood in \"total solidarity\" with those on strike.\n\n\"Ferrari got made because the people who worked on Ferrari made it by forgoing large percentages of salaries, in the case of Adam and myself, and producers working basically for no fees.\n\nAdam Driver stars as Enzo Ferrari in the film at about the iconic Italian car brand\n\n\"No big studio wrote us a cheque, and that's why we can stand here in solidarity with both unions,\" he said.\n\nMore than 170,000 people have stopped working in a dispute over pay and the use of artificial intelligence in the film and television industries.\n\nIn July, the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said it had offered SAG a deal including wage increases and \"first-of-their-kind protections\" in areas including AI.\n\nFerrari, which also stars Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, centres on the 1957 Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy. The film got mixed reviews from critics after its premiere.\n\nThe Telegraph's Robbie Collin said it was \"an electrifying ride\" and \"a triumphant return for director Michael Mann\", although much of the first hour felt \"a little jumbled and staid\".\n\nVariety agreed it was a \"gripping and masterful drama\", which was \"supple and compelling\".\n\nAdam Driver was joined by Michael Mann and Patrick Dempsey at the film festival\n\nThe US film site's critic Owen Gleiberman gave credit to \"the ace acting of Driver, Cruz, and Woodley... as well as Mann's singular ability to interlock the film's crises like hidden depth charges of drama\".\n\nCruz's performance as Ferrari's wife Laura was singled out by several reviewers.\n\n\"This is Cruz's richest American film role in god knows how long, and she eats it up. An Oscar nod is all but guaranteed,\" Rolling Stone's Marlow Stern wrote.\n\n\"But there's something missing from Ferrari,\" he continued. \"Like much of Mann's oeuvre, it operates at an emotional remove, keeping the viewer at arm's length. This works fine when we're navigating the criminal underworlds of Heat and Collateral, but less so when it comes to marital discord, or sport.\"\n\nThe film may not be in contention for many Oscars next year, Deadline's Damon Wise said.\n\n\"A gnomic and, given what's at stake, strangely unemotional lead performance from Adam Driver makes it hard to warm to this odd and deeply self-absorbed character. Add in the glacial pace of its narrative, and a film expected to take an early awards-season lead will struggle to hold that pole position.\"\n\nHe added: \"The last 15 minutes or so, though, do rally, with a moment in which Cruz gets, finally, to do some acting.\"\n\nIn a three-star review, BBC Culture's Nicholas Barber concluded: \"The racing sequences have enough energy and jeopardy to raise the pulse rate, but the rest of Ferrari... well, surely a film about high-speed cars shouldn't pootle along as slowly as this one does.\"", "The poster was placed in the Chapel Road area of Dungiven\n\nPolice have said information on a poster put up in Dungiven linking three people to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is incorrect.\n\nThe details were publicly displayed in Chapel Road on Thursday evening.\n\nAss Ch Con Chris Todd said it was a \"clear attempt to intimidate police officers, staff and their families\".\n\nLast month, the names of 10,000 officers and civilian staff were mistakenly released in a Freedom of Information request.\n\nAss Ch Con Chris Todd said he recognised the impact on the individuals and their families following Thursday's incident and that police have been in contact with them.\n\nThe senior officer said an investigation was under way and additional security and patrols had been implemented across Northern Ireland as part of the police response.\n\nHe added that \"police can confirm that the information contained on the poster is incorrect\".\n\nOne woman in her 50s from a small, rural village in County Derry spoke to BBC News NI.\n\nShe said she shared the same name as one of those on the poster but neither she, nor anyone in her family, had any connection with the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey says he has spoken with two of the people named\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey said the incident is \"very sinister\" and the poster was quickly removed early on Friday morning.\n\n\"As a party we have bought in to try and make policing work,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a system on the Policing Board of accountability and that's the way forward - there is no other way we are going to change society or make policing work.\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell described the timing of the incident as \"exceptionally sinister and serious\".\n\n\"Coming into the week with the chief constable, the whole issue with the Policing Board and morale at an all-time low in the police, now someone has decided - at the weekend of that week - to put this up,\" he said.\n\nDUP MP Gregory Campbell says some of the information which was posted was not accurate\n\n\"My information is that some of the information contained on this banner, or whatever it was, isn't even accurate.\n\n\"It's designed to create tension and cause a division and we have to make sure that it doesn't succeed in doing that.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Cara Hunter said \"given the sensitive nature of policing here, it's imperative that officers feel as safe as possible in their homes and in their communities\".\n\n\"It's disgraceful that anyone would try to exploit this to intimidate or to put officers in real danger,\" she said.\n\n\"Those who seek to intimidate or threaten police have no support from the local community here and any attempt to use information about police officers in this way should be fully condemned and rejected.\"\n\nPolice appealed to anyone with any information relating to this incident to contact them on 101. They said they were particularly keen to hear from anyone who was travelling through Dungiven on Thursday night and who may have dash cam footage.", "The highest storm alert is in force in Hong Kong as Typhoon Saola is approaching.\n\nIt could be the strongest storm to hit the region in decades, with the Hong Kong Observatory is warning of winds with mean speeds of 118 km/h.\n\nTens of millions of people in Hong Kong and adjacent areas of mainland China have taken shelter. Emergency shelters have been opening in the city of Shenzhen.", "House prices are 5.3% lower compared to August last year in the biggest annual decline since 2009, according to Nationwide.\n\nThe building society said the drop represented a fall of £14,600 on a typical home in the UK since house prices peaked in August 2022.\n\nIt said higher borrowing costs for buyers had led to a slowdown in activity in the housing market.\n\nMortgage approvals are also about 20% below pre-Covid levels.\n\nSince December 2021, the Bank of England has lifted interest rates 14 times in row in a bid to clamp down on rising consumer prices in the UK. The bank's base rate now stands at 5.25%.\n\nThat, in turn, has led to lenders raising their mortgage rates, putting increased pressure on homebuyers.\n\nNationwide's chief economist Robert Gardner said the rise in the cost of borrowing meant the fall in average house prices was \"not surprising\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that affordability for house was \"much more stretched than it was before\" pointing to a typical rate now being towards 6% compared to 1.5% in late 2021.\n\n\"Clearly that has had a big impact on the market as a whole,\" he added. \"I think it is going to take time for things to pick up at all.\"\n\nAccording to financial information service Moneyfacts, the average two-year fixed mortgage rate on Friday was 6.7%, while the average five-year fix was 6.19%.\n\nAverage house prices in the UK peaked at £273,751 in August 2022 but fell to £259,153 last month.\n\nWhile the drop is the biggest since 2009, property prices are still much higher than they were in August 2021 when the average was £248,857.\n\nNationwide is one of the country's biggest mortgage lenders. But the building society's figures only take into account buyers with mortgages and do not include those who purchase homes with cash or buy-to-let deals.\n\nAccording to property website Zoopla, people with mortgages currently make up 60% of all house sales, compared with 31.8% cash-buyers and buy-to-let making up the remaining 8.2%.\n\nMr Gardner said there had been a \"modest shift\" in the type of properties being purchased among buyers who needed a mortgage in recent times.\n\n\"While transactions are lower than pre-pandemic levels across all property types, the biggest decline has been in detached houses,\" he said.\n\nMr Gardner said there signs buyers were looking towards \"smaller, less expensive properties, with flats seeing a smaller decline\".\n\nFlats have remained \"relatively more affordable\", he added. The price of detached properties had risen by 23% since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, while the price of flats had gone up by 13%.\n\nAccording to Nationwide, mortgage completions in the first half of 2023 were 33% lower than in 2019.\n\nThe number of first-time buyers is down 25% compared to pre-pandemic levels, with buy-to-let purchases down 30%.\n\nIn contrast, cash deals are up 2%.\n\nThe lender said a first-time buyer \"earning the average wage and buying a typical first-time buyer property with a 20% deposit\" would now see their monthly mortgage payment \"absorb over 40% of their take-home pay\".\n\nMr Gardner said while activity in the housing market would likely remain subdued in near term, increases in earnings together with lower house prices \"should help improve housing affordability over time, especially if mortgage rates moderate once [interest rates] peak\".", "Ukraine's forces have made \"notable progress\" in their push against heavily fortified Russian positions in the south, the US government says.\n\nWhite House security spokesman John Kirby said those gains were made in the past 72 hours south of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNN that Kyiv's forces were advancing, but \"it's a tough fight\".\n\nRussia claims to have taken strategic heights near the city of Kupiansk in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nNone of the claims have been independently verified.\n\nMr Kirby said Kyiv itself had admitted that the push in the south - aimed at splitting the Russian land corridor to Crimea - was going slower than had been hoped.\n\n\"They have achieved some success against that second line of Russian defences,\" he said.\n\nEarlier in the week, Ukraine's military said it had captured the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nIn the north-east, Russia has massed forces to recapture territory that Ukraine liberated east of Kharkiv.\n\nIn the south, Russia is believed to have built up an elaborate system of trenches and tunnels, defended by minefields, as well as artillery positions and so-called \"dragon's teeth\" anti-tank concrete barriers.\n\nKyiv launched its counter-offensive after securing more advanced weapons from its allies in the West and preparing assault battalions.\n\nBut progress has been slow and Kyiv continues to urge Nato countries to deliver tanks, de-mining equipment and warplanes - notably US-made F-16 fighter jets.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Kuleba voiced irritation with those who criticised the pace of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves,\" he said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Spain.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian forces had seized the Crimea peninsula and much of Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014.\n\nIn recent weeks, Ukraine has launched its own attacks on mainland Russia. Russian officials said three Ukrainian drones targeting the bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland had been destroyed in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nPresident Putin told pupils on Friday, at the start of the school year, that Russia's triumph in World War Two proved that their nation was invincible.\n\n\"I understood why we won the Great Patriotic War,\" he said in a lecture designed to strengthen patriotism in schools. \"It is impossible to defeat this kind of nation with this kind of attitude. We were absolutely invincible. And we are the same now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's so-called \"important conversations\" were introduced in schools after the Russian full-scale invasion began.\n\nRussia's military also announced on Friday that it had put a new strategic nuclear missile system, called Sarmat, \"on combat duty\".\n\nThe long-range missiles have multiple warheads. Their deployment has not been independently confirmed.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Mohamed Al Fayed, who has died aged 94, rose from the streets of Alexandria to owning one of the most famous department stores in the world.\n\nBut behind the success story lay a complex man whose machinations shook the British establishment to its very core.\n\nAllegations of impropriety brought about the downfall of three Conservative politicians.\n\nAnd he continued to insist that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was murder - a claim dismissed by both French and British investigators and an inquest jury.\n\nHe was born plain Mohamed Fayed in Alexandria, Egypt, but his birth date has been the subject of conjecture.\n\nIn his self-approved entry in Who's Who it is listed as January 1933 without a precise date - but when he took part in a Department of Trade inquiry it was officially recorded as 27 January 1929.\n\nHe began his business life hawking bottles of fizzy drink on the streets but gained a lucky break in the mid-1950s when he met and married the sister of the Saudi millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.\n\nKhashoggi gave his new brother-in-law a job which granted him access to influential circles in London and the Gulf.\n\nBy the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.\n\nHe had founded his own shipping company in Egypt and become the financial adviser to the Sultan of Brunei.\n\nHe moved to the UK in 1974 adding the \"Al\" to his name, a decision that saw him dubbed \"the phoney pharaoh\" by the satirical magazine Private Eye.\n\nIn 1979, together with his brother Ali, he bought the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Six years later, he defeated the Lonrho group in the battle to buy Harrods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at the life of high-profile Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed\n\nIt sparked a feud with Lonrho's chairman, Tiny Rowland. The Department of Trade and Industry's report on the row, in 1990, concluded that the Fayeds had lied about their background and their wealth.\n\nThe feud with Rowland ended in 1993 with a reconciliation in Harrods food hall but it probably contributed to Al Fayed being refused British citizenship. He viewed the decision as an affront to his dignity.\n\n\"Why won't they give me a passport?\" he railed at the time. \"I own Harrods and employ thousands of people in this country.\"\n\nA colourful figure, he often clowned around for customers at Harrods\n\nDisappointed over the passport affair, Al Fayed told the press that he had paid two Conservative ministers, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, cash to ask questions related to his interests, in the House of Commons.\n\nBoth left the government. Hamilton, who strenuously denied the allegation, lost a subsequent libel case against Fayed.\n\nJonathan Aitken, then a Cabinet minister, resigned after Fayed revealed that he'd been staying for free at the Ritz in Paris at the same time as a group of Saudi arms dealers.\n\nAitken would eventually serve time in prison for lying about the affair in court and Al Fayed's vendetta against the Conservative party inflicted lasting damage.\n\nAmong his other business dealings were the ownership of Fulham Football Club and a 50,000-acre estate in Scotland which he developed into a tourist attraction.\n\nFor years Al Fayed had courted the Royal Family, sponsoring events like the Windsor Horse Show.\n\nWhen it emerged that his son, Dodi, had become a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, it seemed he might be moving closer to, if not acceptance by, the British establishment.\n\nThe coroner dismissed his evidence at Princess Diana's inquest as being completely without substance\n\nBut everything changed in 1997 when his son and the princess were killed in a car crash in Paris while being driven and guarded by Al Fayed's employees.\n\nEvidence that the car's driver had been drinking heavily embarrassed Al Fayed, but he shifted the blame.\n\n\"The paparazzi are the main cause. If anyone wanted to hurt my son or Diana they had plenty of opportunities,\" he said.\n\nAt the crash inquiry he verbally abused the princess's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, saying: \"I don't give a damn about her. She is a snob.\"\n\nIn the years after the accident, Al Fayed continued to blame what he called \"the establishment\" for the deaths of Dodi and Diana.\n\nIn February 2008, he gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths claiming the couple had been murdered on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.\n\nHis remarks were widely condemned and, in summing up, the coroner said that \"the conspiracy theory advanced by Mohamed Fayed has been minutely examined and shown to be without any substance\".\n\nFulham FC was just one of many business interests\n\nIn 2010, after months of denying Harrods was for sale, he sold the business to Qatar Holdings for £1.5bn. Nearly half of the purchase price was used to clear the company's debts.\n\nIn an interview with the London Evening Standard, Al Fayed claimed he had sold Harrods because he was frustrated with pension fund trustees blocking his efforts to extract a dividend.\n\n\"I'm here every day, I can't take my profit because I have to take a permission [sic] of those bloody idiots.\"\n\nStill bitter over the death of his son, Al Fayed bankrolled a 2011 documentary entitled Unlawful Killing, which reiterated his conspiracy theories about the Paris crash.\n\nAlthough it was shown at the Cannes film festival, legal issues prevented it going on general release.\n\nAl Fayed never forgave his adopted country for refusing the citizenship he craved so much.\n\nThe political scandals and the accusations over the deaths of Dodi and Diana, were seen by many as his revenge against an establishment which had never accepted him as one of its own.", "Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has flown back to the USA over a family matter\n\nBlink-182 have postponed a number of their UK and Ireland shows after drummer Travis Barker had to return home due to an \"urgent family matter\".\n\nThe pop-punk trio were due to perform two dates at the Hydro in Glasgow as well as shows in Belfast and Dublin.\n\nThey posted the news on social media hours before the first Hydro show.\n\nIt said: \"Due to an urgent family matter, Travis has had to return home to the States. The Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin shows are being postponed.\n\n\"More information in regards to his return to Europe and rescheduled dates will be provided as soon as available.\"\n\nThe Glasgow shows on Friday and Saturday would have marked the beginning of the European leg of the band's tour.\n\nIt is the first time they have performed together in their best-known line-up since guitarist Tom DeLonge split from the band for a second time in 2015.\n\nHe and bassist Mark Hoppus, who revealed he was having treatment for cancer in 2021, were in the band's original line-up with Barker joining in 1998.\n\nBlink-182's US reunion was reportedly the highest grossing tour of their career.", "Joe Biggs (right) with Enrique Tarrio at a rally in 2019\n\nA leader of the far-right Proud Boys has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, one of the longest terms yet handed out over the US Capitol riot.\n\nUS Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38, was an instigator of the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021, prosecutors said.\n\nThe former Infowars correspondent was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in May.\n\nIn court, Biggs pleaded for leniency and expressed remorse for his actions.\n\nThe sentence, handed down by US District Judge Timothy Kelly, is below both federal sentencing guidelines and the 33 years sought by prosecutors.\n\nAnother Proud Boys member, Zachary Rehl, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years, also on a charge of seditious conspiracy.\n\nRehl, a former US Marine and leader of the Philadelphia branch of the Proud Boys, was seen on video spraying a chemical irritant at officers outside the Capitol during the riot.\n\nBiggs was convicted of a slew of charges in May, including seditious conspiracy, intimidation or threats to prevent officials from discharging their duties and interference with law enforcement during civil disorder.\n\nIn a sentencing memo, prosecutors said that Biggs - a veteran of the war in Iraq and former correspondent for conspiracy website Infowars - \"employed his military experience to direct and control large groups of men under his command\" to lead a \"revolt against the government\".\n\n\"Biggs viewed himself and his movement as a second American revolution where he and the other 'patriots' would retake the government by force,\" the memo said.\n\nIn court, a tearful Biggs apologised for his actions and said he had been \"seduced\" by the crowd on the day of the riot.\n\n\"I just moved forward. My curiosity got the better of me,\" he added. \"I'm not a terrorist. I don't have hate in my heart.\"\n\n\"I know that I have to be punished, and I understand,\" Biggs said.\n\nAs he sentenced Biggs, Judge Kelly said he was \"not trying to minimise the violence\" but that the 6 January riot paled in comparison with other mass casualty events. A stricter sentence, he added, might have created sentencing disparities with other convicted rioters.\n\nBiggs went to trial alongside four other Proud Boys members including former chair Enrique Tarrio, whose sentencing was abruptly postponed on Wednesday. His sentencing is scheduled to take place next week. Prosecutors are seeking a 33-year sentence.\n\nThe Proud Boys involved in the case have said they plan to appeal against the conviction.\n\nIn court, federal prosecutor Jason McCullough said the crimes were \"very serious\" and that a stiff sentence would send a message ahead of next year's presidential election.\n\n\"There is a reason why we will hold our collective breaths as we approach future elections… They pushed this to the edge of a constitutional crisis,\" he said.\n\nProsecutors used text messages, social media posts and videos to show that the Proud Boys were involved in a co-ordinated effort to stop the certification of the 2020 election at the Capitol.\n\nAs of 6 August, more than 1,100 people had been arrested on charges related to the riot, resulting in more than 630 guilty pleas and 110 convictions.\n\nAnother prominent participant in the riot, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: When the Proud Boys marched on the Capitol on 6 January, 2021", "People work during the response effort to a Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine, in January\n\nRussia and Belarus have been invited back to Stockholm's Nobel Prize banquet after being left out last year because of the Ukraine war, the Nobel Foundation says.\n\nIran has also been invited back to the event in Sweden's capital after not being allowed to attend last year.\n\nThe foundation said it sought to include even those who did not share the values of the Nobel Prize.\n\nThe leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party, Jimmie Akesson, was also invited for the first time this year but said he was too busy to attend.\n\nFive of the six Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm each year, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo.\n\nLast year, the Nobel Foundation said ambassadors from Russia and Belarus would not be invited \"due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine\". Belarus is a key ally of Russia and its leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has backed Russia's \"special military operation\", as it calls the invasion of Ukraine in February of last year.\n\nIran was also not invited last year. Tehran has long faced criticism for its human rights record. The UN has said the government there could have committed crimes against humanity in its crackdown on protests last year.\n\nVidar Helgesen, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, explained the decision to invite the countries back: \"It is clear that the world is increasingly divided into spheres, where dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced.\n\n\"To counter this tendency, we are now broadening our invitations to celebrate and understand the Nobel Prize and the importance of free science, free culture and free, peaceful societies.\"\n\nSwedish Liberal MEP Karin Karlsbro accused the Foundation of setting a \"dangerous precedent\" by \"giving a green light to inviting Russia to a glamorous party while missiles fall over Ukrainian cultural centres and murder children.\"\n\nSpeaking to Swedish public radio, she called Russia, Belarus and Iran \"rogue states\" that \"oppress their citizens, wage war and terror against their own people and neighbouring countries\".\n\n\"They're countries that don't subscribe to democratic values in any way,\" she said. \"There's a war in Europe. [They take] an incredibly naive position. It undermines the cohesion we need throughout society.\"\n\nSwedish political party leaders are traditionally invited to the banquet but Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson was snubbed in the past.\n\nHis party was founded by Nazi sympathisers and had been shunned by the mainstream for decades. It won around a fifth of votes in last year's general election.\n\nMr Akesson said he would not be attending. \"Unfortunately I'm busy that day,\" he wrote on Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at the life of high-profile Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed\n\nMohamed Al Fayed, the former Harrods boss whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died aged 94.\n\nBorn in Egypt, he built a business empire in the Middle East before moving to the UK in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, he never realised his ambition to gain a passport for his adopted country.\n\nHe spent his later years questioning the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Dodi and Diana.\n\nMr Al Fayed had remained largely out of the public limelight in the past decade, living in his Surrey mansion with his wife Heini.\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, his family said: \"Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohamed, has passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday August 30, 2023.\n\n\"He enjoyed a long and fulfilled retirement surrounded by his loved ones.\"\n\nMichael Cole, a former BBC Royal correspondent who later worked for Mr Al Fayed as director for public affairs at Harrods, described him as \"an extraordinary character\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Al Fayed was a \"fascinating and a larger than life\" character and someone who was \"full of humanity\".\n\nAfter the sale of Harrods to Qatar in 2010 Mr Al Fayed stayed on as honorary chairman for six months\n\nFulham Football Club, which Mr Al Fayed owned for many years, said that it was \"incredibly saddened to learn\" of his death.\n\n\"We owe Mohamed a debt of gratitude for what he did for our club, and our thoughts now are with his family and friends at this sombre time,\" it said in a statement.\n\nHis successor at the club, Shahid Khan, expressed his condolences in a tribute on the club's website.\n\n\"The story of Fulham cannot be told without a chapter on the positive impact of Mr Al Fayed as chairman,\" he said.\n\n\"His legacy will be remembered for our promotion to the Premier League, a Europa League Final, and moments of magic by players and teams alike.\"\n\nJournalist Piers Morgan described Al Fayed as an \"extraordinary tour de force of a man who never got over the death of his beloved son Dodi in the crash that also killed Diana\", adding that he was a \"flawed, complex character\" but that he liked him.\n\nMr Al Fayed rose from selling fizzy drinks on the streets of his native Alexandria in Egypt to become a big name in business with all the right contacts.\n\nHis break came after he met his first wife, Samira Khashoggi, the sister of Saudi millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi - who employed him in his Saudi Arabian import business.\n\nThe role helped him forge new connections in Egypt, and although the marriage lasted little more than two years, Mr Al Fayed went on to launch his own shipping business.\n\nIn 1966, he became an adviser to one of the world's richest men, the Sultan of Brunei.\n\nHe moved to Britain in 1974 and five years later bought the Ritz hotel in Paris with his brother Ali for £20m.\n\nThey went on to take over Harrods in 1985 for £615m, following a vicious bidding war with mining conglomerate the Lonrho group.\n\nUnder his ownership, Fulham FC rose from the third tier to the Premier League.\n\nHe gave generously to charities including Great Ormond Street Hospital and, as a father of five, showed a particular interest in helping underprivileged or unwell children.\n\nHe set up the Al Fayed Charitable Foundation in 1987 to better the lives of impoverished, traumatised and very sick youngsters.\n\nIt was from his Ritz hotel in Paris that his son Dodi, a film producer, and his then-partner Diana, Princess of Wales, departed, before the car crash which killed them both in 1997.\n\nMr Al Fayed never recovered from the shock of the crash, becoming obsessed with the speculation surrounding the deaths.\n\nHis evidence at the inquest in February 2008 included claims that the deaths were on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.\n\nThey were deemed a \"conspiracy theory\" by the coroner and rejected by the jury.\n\nMr Al Fayed, with his wife Heini, at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997\n\nMr Al Fayed twice failed in his attempt to secure British citizenship.\n\nOn the second occasion in 1995, angered by the rejection, he told the press that he had paid two Conservative ministers, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, to ask questions in the House of Commons about his interests.\n\nThey both left the government, and Mr Hamilton, who denied the allegation, also lost a libel case against Mr Al Fayed.\n\nA third politician, Jonathan Aitken, who was then a cabinet minister, also resigned after Mr Al Fayed revealed that he stayed for free at the Ritz in Paris at the same time as a group of Saudi arms dealers.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Al Fayed sold Harrods to the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar. Nearly half of the purchase price was used to clear the company's debts.\n\nRoyal historian Prof Kate Williams said Mr Al Fayed was a man on a mission after his son's death, but said he would also be remembered as a man who reshaped the iconic Harrods department store.\n\n\"It was his dream and his baby,\" she said.\n\nShe added that Mr Al Fayed was a great benefactor for charities and hospitals - which is how he met Princess Diana.\n\n\"He was a very significant force in British life,\" Prof Williams told BBC Breakfast, adding that he was a figure who would not be forgotten.", "The camp is now a memorial where visitors learn about Nazi atrocities and mourn the victims\n\nGerman prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of some 3,300 people at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two.\n\nThe man, not yet named, was an adolescent when he served as a guard at Sachsenhausen between July 1943 and February 1945, the indictment says.\n\nHe allegedly assisted in the \"cruel and insidious\" mass killing of inmates.\n\nSince 2011, Germany has prosecuted ex-Nazis for complicity - not only for murder or torture as individuals.\n\nBut it is a race against time, as those indicted have been very old and some have died before going on trial.\n\nThe Nazi SS imprisoned more than 200,000 people at Sachsenhausen, including political prisoners, Jews, captured Soviet soldiers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies).\n\nTens of thousands of inmates died from starvation, forced labour, medical experiments and murder by the SS. The camp was built north of Berlin in 1936.\n\nIn the latest prosecution, the case will be handled by a juvenile court, given that the man was an adolescent at the time of the crimes. He now lives in Main-Kinzig, a rural district in central Germany.\n\nLast year, a 101-year-old, Josef Schütz, was found guilty of assisting in mass murder at Sachsenhausen. He was given a five-year prison sentence, but died in April this year, still free while awaiting the outcome of an appeal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pro-war blogger Alexander Kots charged £440-£680 per post on his Telegram channel\n\nRussia's pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found.\n\nAlongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion.\n\nKnown in Russia as \"Z-Bloggers\" because of their support for a war often symbolised by the letter Z, they are often embedded with the Russian army and post footage from the front line where they call on young Russians to enlist.\n\nSince the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, pro-war influencers have gained millions of followers on Telegram, the social media platform many Russians turned to after President Vladimir Putin banned Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.\n\nThat explosion in users has led to a surge in Telegram's advertising market.\n\nWar influencers have taken advantage of this. They sell ad spaces for companies looking to reach their young audiences.\n\nTo find out how much they charge, members of the BBC's Global Disinformation Team posed as hotel owners interested in posting ads on their channels.\n\nWe reached out to some of the most prominent players.\n\nOne of them was Alexander Kots, a veteran correspondent for a pro-government newspaper who became a war influencer, with more than 600,000 followers on his personal Telegram channel.\n\nSemyon Pegov, known as WarGonzo, was another. Perhaps the most well-known Z blogger, he has more than 1.3 million followers.\n\nWar blogger Semyon Pegov (L) was among a number of Putin influencers invited to meet the Russian leader in June\n\nAlexander Kots said it would cost 48,000-70,000 roubles (£440-£680) per post on his channel, depending on how long the ad was kept at the top of his Telegram feed. WarGonzo quoted us the equivalent of £1,550 per post.\n\nTop war influencers post at least one ad per day, so their potential income dwarfs Russia's average monthly wage of 66,000 roubles (£550).\n\nAn advertising agent working with Wagner-linked channels quoted us the equivalent of £260 per ad in Grey Zone, a Telegram channel with exclusive access to Wagner and over 600,000 followers.\n\nZ-bloggers such as Alexander Kots post ads for anything from Telegram\n\nTo advertise on the channel of Alexander Simonov, a correspondent for the Ria Fan website founded by late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, the agent quoted £180 per post.\n\nAnother Ria Fan reporter, Alexander Yaremchuk, has fewer followers so his rates are lower, at £86 per post.\n\nWhile some of the Z-bloggers have significant experience of war reporting for state-run media, others like Maryana Naumova have no professional training.\n\nA former powerlifter, she took a reporting course on a Wagner mercenary base and now presents her own show on national TV.\n\nMaryana Naumova sent this image to the BBC but refused to speak to us\n\nThe BBC tried to interview prominent war-bloggers, but Alexander Kots was the only one of them who agreed to talk.\n\nSpeaking from the occupied Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, he described himself as a reporter in an information war. Nevertheless he understood Russia's propaganda depended, in part, on people like him.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence often listens to us, and we have a direct channel to privately communicate information to them. It's all behind the scenes, and I do that,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's Global Disinformation Team tells the story of social media influencers making money from war propaganda.\n\nThe growing market for the Z-bloggers' material is sustained by a steady stream of exclusive videos. The footage brings them a diverse following, from domestic pro-war audiences to Western and Ukrainian analysts trying to understand what is really going on in the Russian trenches.\n\nTop bloggers shared this video, but the BBC analysis suggests it is staged\n\nHowever, some of the videos posted by the pro-war bloggers are fake.\n\nLast March, prominent influencers including Alexander Kots posted a dashcam video that purported to show two Ukrainian soldiers stopping a car with a woman and a small child.\n\nThe gunmen in the video call the woman \"a pig\" for speaking Russian and threaten her. Z-bloggers said the video was a perfect example of how Ukraine treated civilians.\n\nBut we have geolocated this video to Makiivka, a town near Donetsk. This area of Ukraine has been occupied by pro-Russian proxy forces since 2014. It is impossible that a uniformed Ukrainian soldier could have operated in this occupied territory.\n\nAdded to that, the use of dashcams is illegal in Ukraine. The ban was imposed after the full-scale Russian invasion to keep troop movements secret.\n\nAnd the cross on the vehicle is different from the one used by Ukraine's armed forces. All these elements suggest the video was staged.\n\nIt is one of many fakes spread by Z-bloggers to encourage young Russians to support the war, and there is evidence they are succeeding.\n\nPutin has given pro-war influencers medals and official positions\n\nIn one video a mobilised Russian man says he went to a recruitment centre after watching a number of videos from Vladlen Tatarsky, one of the most vocal bloggers. Tatarsky was killed in April 2023 at a meeting with his fans.\n\nAnother Russian man who volunteered to fight in Ukraine told a blogger he did so after watching a lot of WarGonzo reports. \"I follow all the military news and analysis on Telegram,\" he said, referring to the Z-bloggers.\n\nAsked to respond to the rise of pro-Putin war bloggers on the platform, Telegram said it was the \"last platform through which Russians can access independent media outlets like Meduza, uncensored international news like the BBC or [President] Zelensky's speeches\".\n\nA spokesman said while all parties were \"treated equally\", Telegram respected international sanctions and blocked Russian state media \"where laws forbid it\".\n\nOver the course of the war, President Putin has shown his appreciation of the Z-bloggers' efforts.\n\nHe appointed Alexander Kots to the presidential human rights council and made Semyon Pegov and several other bloggers members of a working group on mobilisation.\n\nIn June, he invited pro-war influencers and state media reporters to the Kremlin for a two-hour long conversation.\n\n\"The fight in the information space is a battlefield. A crucial battlefield,\" he told them. \"And I really count on your help.\"", "Ruby Franke (right) and Jodi Nan Hildebrandt (left) appeared in YouTube videos together\n\nA Utah woman who ran a popular parenting advice YouTube channel is facing child abuse charges after her malnourished son escaped from home, officials said.\n\nRuby Franke and her business partner Jodi Nan Hildebrandt were arrested in Ivins, Utah this week.\n\nOfficials also found Ms Franke's 10-year-old daughter in a malnourished condition at her partner's house.\n\nBoth women were charged with six counts of child abuse on Friday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ms Franke and Ms Hildebrandt for comment.\n\nPolice say Ms Franke's 12-year-old son climbed out of the window and ran to a neighbour's house to ask for food and water.\n\n\"The calling party [the neighbour] stated the juvenile appeared to be emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around the extremities,\" according to a statement from the Santa-Clara Ivins Public Safety Department.\n\n\"Upon arrival, law enforcement observed the wounds and the malnourishment of [the boy] to be severe,\" the department said.\n\nThe boy had to be taken to the hospital \"due to his deep lacerations from being tied up with rope and from his malnourishment\".\n\nMs Franke's 10-year-old daughter was also taken to the hospital.\n\nOfficials later obtained a search warrant in connection with the incident, and in total, four children were taken into the care of family and child services, according to the statement.\n\nOn Friday, Washington County officials in Utah formally charged Ms Franke and Ms Hildebrandt.\n\nThe charges stem from the alleged abuse of two children in three different ways: physical abuse, malnutrition and severe emotional harm.\n\nEach count carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $10,000 (£7,940), Washington County officials said.\n\nMs Franke, 41, became YouTube famous in 2015 for her channel called 8 Passengers that discussed parenting of her six children.\n\nThe channel gained over 2 million subscribers before it was deactivated earlier this year.\n\nThe vlogger has faced a backlash in the past for her strict parenting measures described on the channel, including her son claiming he slept on a bean bag for several months as punishment and Ms Franke describing withholding meals as another disciplinary measure.\n\nThe bean bag incident led some viewers to call local child protective services, though Ms Franke claimed to Insider the incident had been taken out of context.\n\nShe has also appeared in YouTube videos posted by Ms Hildebrandt - a counsellor and life coach - on her site, ConneXions Classroom.\n\nIn one such video posted on 10 May 2022, Ms Franke described herself as Ms Hildebrandt's \"side-kick\" and questioned why so many children were suffering from depression.\n\n\"I never expected my second-grader to come home and say so-and-so has anxiety and so-and-so has depression,\" she said. \"Something is off. This isn't right.\"\n\nIn a second video - entitled \"guiding children to truth\" - Ms Hildebrandt called on mothers \"to understand that principles are necessary\" for children to have a \"calm and peaceful\" life.\n\nAccording to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, Ms Hildebrandt was put on probation for 18 months and nearly lost her licence to be a pornography-addiction therapist after publicly discussing a patient without his permission.\n\nMs Franke's eldest daughter Shari Franke shared a post on Instagram after her mother's arrest, saying that she and her family \"are so glad justice is being served\", US media reported.\n\n\"We've been trying to tell the police and CPS for years about this, and so glad they finally decided to step up,\" she reportedly said.\n\nMs Franke has requested an attorney and did not speak to officers, according to the Associated Press. That attorney had not publicly been identified on Thursday.", "Part of Parks Primary School in Leicester has been taped off as it contains RAAC\n\nParents have described their shock at being told their children's schools need to close due to the risk of dangerous concrete collapses.\n\nMore than 100 schools have been told to shut areas affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) without safety measures in place.\n\nIt follows the collapse last week of a beam previously thought to be safe.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools have had to fully close, but it could be as many as 24.\n\nParents hit out at the timing of the government's announcement, with some saying the short notice left them scrambling to arrange childcare.\n\n\"This is an absolute disgrace,\" said Wendy Kirwood, who was told several corridors, a library and sports hall at her son's school in Workington, Cumbria, were affected.\n\nMartina Eliasova's daughter was due to start Year Two at Katherines Primary Academy in Harlow next week, but the start of term has been postponed to 11 September.\n\n\"It'll be difficult because she's only six,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't have family here. I can't say 'mum, can you help my daughter?' I have to either take holiday, or just have her home and somehow battle through.\"\n\nMartina Eliasova's daughter was due to return to school next week\n\nThe government says parents at 156 schools in England confirmed to have RAAC should have been contacted. Parents who have heard nothing are unaffected, pending further building checks.\n\nOf the total, 52 were deemed a critical risk, and safety measures have already been put in place.\n\nAsked whether buildings at those 52 schools \"could have potentially collapsed\", schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC: \"Yes, and that's why we took action.\"\n\nThe rest were deemed to be \"non-critical\", and were told to develop contingency plans.\n\nBut on Thursday, those schools were told to close buildings and rooms with RAAC unless they had safety measures in place.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of schools identified with RAAC could rise as more surveys are carried out.\n\nThe government has not said when a list of affected buildings will be published - drawing criticism from the Labour Party, which wants an audit of all public properties - but the BBC has been compiling its own.\n\nMr Gibb told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the guidance changed because \"a beam that had no sign... that it was a critical risk and was thought to be safe collapsed\".\n\nThe incident took place last week, but it is not clear where.\n\nWriting in The Times, Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the public accounts committee, said on a recent visit to a hospital, the building was so fragile due to RAAC that obese patients were only permitted to walk about on the ground floor.\n\nShe said the concrete issue was the \"tip of the iceberg\" for a \"failing school estate\".\n\nAnne Longfield, former Children's Commissioner for England, told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme she was \"flabbergasted\" by the sudden closure of schools, but said it is \"something we can't take any chances on\".\n\nMs Longfield, who chairs the Commission on Young Lives, said the return to home learning was a \"too swift default\", and it was a \"deeply painful reminder\" for families who have already faced much disruption.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) has not given a timeline for replacing the RAAC, which was widely used until the mid-90s.\n\nThere are more than 20,000 schools in England.\n\nIn Scotland, 35 council-run schools have been found to contain the material. All were under assessment.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would survey schools and colleges, while Northern Ireland's Department of Education said schools were being checked as a matter of urgency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nMany children whose classrooms are out of action face being housed in temporary alternatives, other schools or will need to return to online lessons.\n\nSome have already experienced months out of school in recent years due to the pandemic, as well as disruption because of teacher strikes.\n\nPascal Dowling, whose child's school in Somerset has been affected, said she wanted the government to \"bear responsibility for yet another catastrophic failure\".\n\n\"Our children have already had two years of their education turned upside down by Covid countermeasures and now face a winter trying to catch up in hastily constructed sheds,\" she said.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson urged ministers to \"come clean with parents and set out the full scale of the challenge that we're facing\".\n\nOn Thursday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the plan would \"minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTeachers' unions have criticised the DfE for making the call so close to pupils returning to school.\n\nThe DfE said it would fund the cost of remedial works, such as temporary classrooms.\n\nHowever, schools would have to bid through the department's capital funding process for permanent replacements for lost classrooms or buildings.\n\nThe risk of injury or death from a school building collapse was said to be \"very likely and critical\" by the National Audit Office (NAO) watchdog in June.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nIt is still manufactured in hundreds of factories around the world, and is still used as a building material in numerous countries, according to Chris Goodier, professor of construction engineering and materials at Loughborough University.\n\n\"It does seem as though the UK is at the forefront of being aware of this problem,\" he said, adding that there was little information globally available on its durability.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it had been warning about the risk of RAAC since 2018.\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.\n\nIt said it has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018, in case affected buildings needed to be evacuated.\n\nAside from schools, numerous public buildings have been identified as being at risk because of RAAC, including courts, hospitals and police stations.\n\nIs your child's school affected? Share information in confidence by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Liberal Democrats are trying to force ministers to hold the Mid Bedfordshire by-election at the start of October.\n\nNadine Dorries resigned as an MP there last week.\n\nThe government has not confirmed when it will formally start the process to hold a by-election.\n\nThe Lib Dems have said they will break convention and table a motion themselves if the government does not, on Monday when Parliament returns.\n\nThat would mean the election to succeed Ms Dorries could be held on 5 October - the day after the Conservative conference finishes and the earliest possible date.\n\nThe Lib Dems said they wanted to minimise the amount of time that the area is without an MP.\n\nUnder parliamentary convention, the party of the departing MP normally starts the formal process for a by-election. It usually takes six or seven weeks from then to polling day. But there is nothing to stop others tabling a motion, which MPs could then vote on.\n\nThe Conservatives have a majority in Parliament and could therefore block any motion, but that would lead to accusations they are delaying the by-election.\n\nThe race in Mid-Bedforshire will be a key test of support for the main political parties. The seat has been held by the Conservatives since the 1920s but both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are throwing resources at the seat to try and win it.\n\nIt's possible however that could split the anti-government vote.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"People in Mid Bedfordshire have been denied a voice in Parliament for far too long, all because Nadine Dorries abandoned them and Rishi Sunak refused to do anything about it.\n\n\"They should not be made to wait a day longer to elect an MP who will finally stand up for them.\n\n\"It would add insult to injury if Rishi Sunak now decides to delay this by-election for his own political reasons.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"The PM has been clear that the people of Mid Beds deserve proper representation. A by-election will take place in a timely manner.\"\n\nThere will be another key by-election in early October in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat in Scotland, previously held by Margaret Ferrier.\n\nShe was forced out by a recall petition after being suspended from Parliament for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThat seat will be a key test of the political mood in Scotland. Labour see it as crucial to show evidence they are capable of staging a significant comeback in Scotland. It will also be a first big electoral test for the new SNP leader Humza Yousaf.\n\nThe SNP has said it will move the writ for that vote on Monday - meaning it will be held on 5 or 12 October.", "The owner of HMV is edging closer to a deal to buy collapsed discounter Wilko, saving thousands of jobs and the majority of shops, the BBC understands.\n\nDoug Putman plans to keep up to 300 of the current 400 Wilko shops open if he succeeds in buying the chain.\n\nIf the deal goes ahead, it would mean thousands of the current 12,500 jobs at risk could be saved.\n\nThe development comes after a bid from private equity firm M2 Capital to buy the business fell through.\n\nThe discount chain, a stalwart of the High Street, fell into administration in August putting 12,500 jobs at risk across 400 shops.\n\nIt is understood that any rescue deal would not save the chain's two distribution centres in Worksop and Newport or its head office.\n\nThere is no guarantee this last ditch revised bid will succeed. But a source familiar with the situation says the offer is credible enough for major creditors to be consulted.\n\nAdministrators at PwC said on Thursday that 269 jobs at the chain's support centre in Worksop and 14 others from a subsidiary firm of Wilko would be cut at the close of business on Monday 4 September.\n\nPwC said all of the chain's stores are currently trading and remain open, while \"discussions continue with those interested in buying parts of the business\".\n\nSky News first reported Mr Putman was close to securing a deal.\n\nMr Putman is 39-year-old Canadian billionaire who has something of a reputation for rescuing faltering well-known companies.\n\nIn 2019, his company Sunrise Records bought the collapsed music chain HMV and saved some 1,500 jobs and about 100 stores.\n\nThe takeover did result in redundancies and shop closures, including the company's flagship Oxford Street store in London - but following a major turnaround, plans are afoot to reopen it later this year.\n\nIn recent years, amid falling demand for DVDs and CDs, HMV has broadened its focus to encompass merchandise, music technology, more live music and in-store signings.\n\nCould he also turn around Wilko in a similar way? The discount chain has faced stiff competition in recent years from the likes of The Range, Home Bargains and B&M.\n\nSome analysts think a slimmed down Wilko has a small chance of survival, but if Mr Putman's deal fails Wilko could suffer the same fate as Woolworths, which saw its stores snapped up by rivals.\n\nThe businessman's family also run Everest Toys, one of the largest toy wholesalers in North America.\n\nThe GMB union, which represents about 4,000 Wilko staff, said it remained hopeful for a bid from a viable buyer to save the jobs of employees in stores and online, but warned \"we cannot in any way guarantee this and must therefore continue to prepare for the worst\".\n\nThe union said the majority of people working in Wilko's commercial trading team, IT, finance, legal and Human Resources would be made redundant on Monday.\n\nIt said it had requested redundancies at distribution centres to \"begin with volunteers\" and that it was speaking to Bassetlaw District Council, the Welsh Assembly, and other organisations to try to \"save the sites\".\n\n\"It should be stressed that at this point, we do not have high hopes of doing so but we will not stop working on this and hope that even if we are unable to do so prior to closures, we will actively look to keep members' details in the hope of being able to staff up quickly if we find buyers or new tenants for the sites,\" a GMB statement said.\n\nShoppers in Birkenhead, Merseyside told the BBC that they would miss their Wilko store if it were to close.\n\n\"It's just really sad because everyone relies on it because you can get absolutely anything in here, especially DIY things - screws and things that my husband is always running out of,\" one shopper said.\n\n\"I think it's a big part of the community, it'll be a sad loss [if] it closes. The staff are just worried, they don't know whether to look for jobs or not,\" she added.\n\nWilko stepped into the gap on the High Street left by the collapse of Woolworths in late 2008, but has struggled over the past decade partly due to growing competition from the likes of Poundland and B&M.\n\nMany of Wilko's stores are also on High Streets in traditional town centres, which became an expensive liability as customers shifted to bigger retail parks and out-of-town locations.\n\nThe company, which was founded in Leicester in 1930, was family-run until its collapse this month and is well-known for its affordable everyday items.\n\nJob cuts at the chain were suspended in recent days as PwC considered M2 Capital's bid for the entire business, which was submitted last week.\n\nM2 Capital said it made a £90m bid for Wilko and claimed at the weekend that it would retain all employees' roles for two years.\n\nHowever, it is believed that the private equity firm was unable to provide proof of funding for its bid to administrators prior to a deadline on Wednesday.\n\nDuring a conversation littered with expletives, M2 Capital chairman Robert Mantse told the BBC that his dealings with the administrators had been a \"circus\" and accused PwC of being \"beyond unfair\".\n\nHe said M2 is now considering legal action. Asked what his next steps would be, Mr Mantse replied he was \"going to lunch with a very pretty girl\".\n\nWilko's rivals such as B&M and Poundland are also understood to be interested in buying up parcels of stores.\n\nThose retailers, along with Home Bargains, have created strong competition for Wilko in recent years as the high cost of living has pushed shoppers to seek out bargains.\n\nAll the companies have so far declined to comment.\n\nMeanwhile, staff who are looking to leave Wilko will be \"fast-tracked\" for a job at Dunelm, the home retailing chain said. Dunelm said it would guarantee \"all those who apply an opportunity to have an interview\".\n\nAre you a Wilko employee? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 100 schools in England are scrambling to make arrangements after being told to shut buildings with a type of concrete prone to collapse.\n\nThe government gave the order just days before the start of the autumn term.\n\nSome pupils have already been told they will be learning remotely, in temporary classrooms or at different schools.\n\nThe government has not said when a list of affected schools will be published, drawing criticism from the Labour Party.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, who said Labour had not seen the full list, urged ministers to \"come clean with parents and set out the full scale of the challenge that we're facing\".\n\nOn Thursday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said affected schools would contact parents directly, adding: \"If you don't hear, don't worry\".\n\nSchools found with buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) have been told they must introduce safety measures, which could include propping up ceilings.\n\nA \"minority\" will need to \"either fully or partially relocate\" to alternative accommodation while those measures are installed, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.\n\nBut the DfE has not given a timeline for replacing the material, which was used until the mid-90s.\n\nMs Keegan said the government was taking a \"cautious approach\", and that \"over the summer a couple of cases have given us cause for concern\".\n\nAt Willowbrook Mead Primary in Leicester, where arrangements have been made for children from different year groups to attend two different schools, while older pupils will have to use online learning, the head teacher said in a letter to parents: \"I appreciate that the timing is far from ideal.\"\n\nIt is one of many schools affected after the DfE announced on Thursday that any space or area in schools, colleges or nurseries, with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without \"mitigations\" being put in place.\n\nThis came after the government was made aware of a number of incidents where RAAC failed without warning, not just in school buildings, but elsewhere too.\n\nMs Keegan said her department's plan would \"minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC\".\n\nBut teachers' unions have criticised the DfE for making the call so close to pupils returning to school.\n\n\"It is absolutely disgraceful, and a sign of gross government incompetence, that a few days before the start of term, 104 schools are finding out that some or all of their buildings are unsafe and cannot be used,\" National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Education secretary tells parents not to worry and shares more details about how schools were identified\n\nThe risk of injury or death from a school building collapse was said to be \"very likely and critical\" by the watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) in June, after it highlighted concerns for school buildings that still contained RAAC.\n\nThis is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of around 30 years.\n\nWhile the vast majority of schools and colleges will be unaffected by this announcement, the NAO report identified 572 schools where this concrete might be present.\n\nThere are 156 settings in England with confirmed RAAC, according to DfE data. Of those, 52 already had safety mitigations in place, and 104 were being contacted this week about getting them in place.\n\nThe DfE said it sent a questionnaire to schools in 2022, asking if they had any confirmed or suspected cases of RAAC in their buildings. If schools provided a positive response, this was then confirmed by DfE-commissioned engineers.\n\nSchools that are concerned but have not yet filled out the survey are encouraged to do so at this website, the DfE said.\n\nThe Education Hub, a blog run by the DfE, said based on responses, schools with suspected RAAC would be brought forward for surveying. It said it hopes all schools suspected to contain RAAC will be surveyed within weeks.\n\nTwo primary schools in Bradford - Crossflatts and Eldwick - are among those affected, with parts closed to pupils after the concrete was identified, the council said.\n\nShazad Ismail's son, Yahya, is about to go into Year 5 at Crossflatts. Part of one building has been closed and temporary classrooms are now being built.\n\nNine-year-old Yahya is a pupil at an affected school\n\n\"The head teacher sent a letter... it's going to widely affect a lot of children.\"\n\nOther schools that BBC News has gathered evidence on, which suggests they are also affected, are:\n\nThere are more than 20,000 schools in England.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it had been warning about the risk of RAAC since 2018.\n\n\"Leaving this announcement until near the end of the summer holidays, rather than at the beginning, has left schools and councils with very little time to make urgent rearrangements and minimise disruption to classroom learning,\" said Cllr Kevin Bentley, its senior vice-chairman.\n\nJulie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents mostly head teachers, said the government had \"failed to invest sufficiently in the school estate\" and called the announcement a \"scramble\".\n\nShe said it was \"clearly vital\", but \"the actions these schools will need to take will be hugely disruptive, and this will obviously be worrying for pupils, families and staff\".\n\n\"The government should have put in place a programme to identify and remediate this risk at a much earlier stage,\" she added.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Munira Wilson said \"pupil safety is paramount but for this to come out just days before term starts is totally unacceptable\".\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.\n\nIt said it has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018, in case affected buildings needed to be evacuated.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it will survey the country's schools and colleges to check if any are made with RAAC.\n\nNumerous public buildings have been identified as being at risk because of RAAC, including schools, hospitals and police stations.\n\nAre you a teacher at an affected school? Is your child's school impacted? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mahek Bukhari (left) and her mother Ansreen wanted to silence Saqib Hussain, who had threatened to reveal an affair he was having with the older woman, the trial heard\n\nA social media influencer and her mother have been jailed for the \"cold-blooded\" murder of two men who died when their car was rammed off the road.\n\nMahek and Ansreen Bukhari recruited others before the killing of Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21.\n\nThe fatal car chase in Leicestershire came after Mr Hussain threatened to reveal an affair he had been having with Ansreen, 46.\n\nThe court heard it was a plot of \"love, obsession and extortion\".\n\nMahek - a 24-year-old social media influencer who the judge branded \"entirely self-obsessed\" - was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 31 years and eight months.\n\nAnsreen, whose head had been turned by the \"perceived glamour\" of her daughter's career, was jailed for life and given a minimum term of 26 years and nine months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What CCTV evidence showed us in the TikTok murder case\n\nLeicester Crown Court heard the Bukharis \"lured\" Mr Hussain to a meeting in a Tesco car park, saying he would be given back £3,000 he claimed to have spent on his lover during their relationship.\n\nThey planned to take his mobile phone from him, believing it contained explicit images of Ansreen, which he had threatened to reveal.\n\nHowever Mr Hussain and his friend Mr Ijazuddin were then ambushed by a masked gang, recruited by the Bukharis, and chased in their Skoda Fabia along the A46 at speeds of up to 90mph by a Seat Leon and Audi TT - before crashing into a tree in a ball of flames.\n\nJudge Timothy Spencer KC said: \"The prosecution categorised this as a story of love, obsession and extortion and they are right.\n\n\"They were also right in categorising this case as one of cold-blooded murder.\"\n\nHashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain, both from Banbury, died at the scene\n\nThe judge said TikTok and Instagram, where Mahek Bukhari had amassed tens of thousands of followers posting beauty and fashion advice, were at the heart of the case.\n\nHe told Mahek: \"Your tawdry fame through your career as an influencer has made you entirely self-obsessed.\"\n\nHe said her \"warped values\" had led to her having \"no apparent awareness\" of the impact her actions had on others.\n\nShe blew a kiss to her father, present in court, as she was taken from the dock to start her jail sentence.\n\nThe judge said Ansreen's head had been turned by the \"perceived glamour\" of her daughter's career, with her often appearing in posts online and attending promotions and shisha bar openings.\n\nHe said it was a world removed from her life as a mother and housewife.\n\nHe told her: \"You are the grown-up in this group and you should have behaved as the grown-up but you allowed your understandable concern about exposure to strip you of any rational judgement.\"\n\nHe said she had made a \"calamitous decision\" to ask for Mahek's help with Mr Hussain.\n\nHe cited two key WhatsApp messages from Mahek.\n\nOne said: \"I'll soon get him jumped by guys and he won't know what day it is... I'll make sure he gets jumped, he won't know who did it and how.\"\n\nClockwise from top left: Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal, who were found guilty of murder; Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa and Natasha Akhtar, who were convicted of manslaughter\n\nEarlier on Friday, the court heard statements from the families of the victims, in which the parents of Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin said their lives had been changed forever.\n\nMr Ijazuddin's father, Sikandar Hayat, said his son, who accompanied his friend to the rendezvous that ultimately led to their deaths, had been \"innocent\".\n\nHe said he could not understand why the defendants had not called the emergency services after the crash.\n\n\"They left him and his friend to burn in a furnace of hell,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement read on their behalf, Mr Hussain's family said his parents had been left as \"two lifeless corpses\", unable to eat or drink in the run-up to their son's funeral.\n\nDuring the trial, a 999 call made by Mr Hussain in the moments before the fatal crash was played.\n\nHe told police call handlers: \"There's guys following me, they have balaclavas on… they're trying to ram me off the road.\"\n\nA scream was heard on the line before the call abruptly ended.\n\nThe judge said: \"It was one of the most moving and distressing pieces of evidence ever heard in a criminal court.\"\n\nAlso sentenced for murder were fellow defendants Rekan Karwan, 29, and Raees Jamal, 23, who were recruited by the Bukharis and driving the pursuing cars.\n\nThe court heard Jamal is serving a sentence for rape.\n\nThe heartbreaking saga for the Hussain and Ijazzudin families is finally coming to an end.\n\nIt's difficult to put into words just how painful it has been for them since their sons' deaths back in February 2022.\n\nMr Hussain's father Sajad and Mr Ijazzudin's father Sikander have spent every minute inside this courtroom in Leicester, making the journey every day from their Oxfordshire home to the East Midlands.\n\nMahek Bukhari, the ringleader, is now a shell of her former self the press have observed.\n\nShe shared smiles and laughs with other defendants during quieter parts of the trial, and casually played board games in the precinct when the jury retired.\n\nShe casually played Monopoly and the card game Uno while she waited for the jury to come back with a verdict.\n\nShe even waved and laughed at reporters outside with cameras from a balcony in the court foyer just hours before she broke down in tears when she was convicted of double murder.\n\nThe judge said Mahek approached Karwan as \"a go-between\", before Karwan \"brought in Raees Jamal\".\n\nHe said it was not chance that Karwan took over the driving of the Audi when the fatal pursuit took place.\n\nHe suggested Raees Jamal was enthralled with Mahek, despite being in a relationship \"of sorts\" with fellow defendant Natasha Akhtar, and was willing to \"do her bidding\".\n\nThe judge said Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulamustafa were \"willing recruits\" in the ambush.\n\nHe added lies told by Akhtar revealed she was an \"integral part of this venture\" and she was either \"deluded\" or found lying second-nature.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Ohio have released bodycam footage showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant black woman.\n\nTa'Kiya Young, 21, died on 24 August when she was shot while in her car outside a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township, a suburb of Columbus.\n\nFootage shows officers attempting to question her for alleged shoplifting.\n\nOne officer standing in front of her car is seen in the video released on Friday firing directly towards her as she appears to drive in his direction.\n\nThe video shows the two officers speaking with Ms Young for about one minute before the shot is fired.\n\nOne officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to \"get out of the car\".\n\n\"For what?\" she responds twice, adding: \"I'm not going to do that.\"\n\nOne officer seen in front of the car has his left hand on the bonnet, his gun drawn in the other hand.\n\n\"Are you going to shoot me?\" she says moments before a single shot is fired and the officer quickly moves out of the car's path.\n\nOfficers are then seen breaking her window after the car rolls into the brick wall near the entrance of the store.\n\nOfficers say they attempted to perform medical aid, but neither the mother of two nor her unborn child survived the shooting.\n\n\"This was a tragedy. Ms Young's family is understandably very upset and grieving,\" Blendon Police Chief John Belford said in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"While none of us can fully understand the depths of their pain, all of us can remember them in our prayers and give them the time and space to deal with this heart-breaking turn of events.\"\n\nBoth officers, who have not been identified, were in the car park for an unrelated call. They were both placed on administrative leave after the shooting.\n\nThe officer that stood at the car window has been returned to duty but the one that fired the shot remains on leave.\n\nThe video was viewed by Ms Young's family before it was released on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, the family said the shooting \"is clearly a criminal act\" and was \"avoidable\".\n\nThe Blendon Township police department have asked the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation to look into the shooting.\n\nMs Young was the mother of two boys, aged six and three. Her family say she was due to give birth in November.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 25 August - 1 September.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nSeria Hogg said her friend Shabs Mirza would love to do a collaboration with the street artist Banksy so she left him a graffiti message \"Shabs woz here\" on a wall (where it was allowed) as she was leaving his sold out Cut and Run exhibition in Glasgow.\n\nFrank Rozzelle came across this abandoned boat on Mull.\n\nRoddy Simpson took this photograph of a distinctively marked spider on his garden shed in Linlithgow.\n\nDougie Johnston took this photo of Victoria Street winding into The Grassmarket in Edinburgh.\n\nEmma Ford sent in this beautiful picture of cows on the Isle of Harris.\n\nMargaret Linda Callaghan captured an arty shot of her friend Asif Bablu at Rattray Head Lighthouse.\n\nKeiss harbour looking bonny in the sun, in a picture sent in by Valery Tough\n\nJohn Kerr said he had the pleasure of sitting by a beaver pond in Perthshire watching the mother and her kits eating, swimming and having fun.\n\nWalter Baxter saw this grey heron on his walk around Haining Loch in Selkirk.\n\nDavid May said the sunflowers just south of Perth made for a spectacular floral display.\n\nFrances Menter took this picture of Robbie Burns with a 'bonnet' to match the spire on Dundee's McManus Galleries.\n\nDerek Braid said he took this picture at the North Berwick Rowing Regatta. There were 10 different races held with nine clubs from across Scotland taking part.\n\nSue Brown encountered a kilted Stormtrooper casually walking down a street off Union Street in Aberdeen.\n\nJess Mason took this snap of performers waiting to enter the military tattoo in Edinburgh.\n\nKathy Ross photographed the view from the gardens of Culross Palace - over the palace and across the Firth of Forth.\n\nFiona Macdonald was up early to get this shot of the dawn light in Cromarty\n\nDennis Guyan captured the action at the Lonach Games in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.\n\nAlistair Warwick watched judging the best in show at the Holm show in Newcastleton.\n\nJim Johnston took this wonderful picture of a Jay at night just outside Lockerbie.\n\nDavid Keenan managed to catch a very moody Dunnotar Castle just before sunrise.\n\nFiona Douglas saw this moody early morning sky over Loch Sunart at Strontian.\n\nAlastair Nunn captured the Forth Rail Bridge taken at dusk from South Queensferry.\n\nAmanda Hutchison was shocked and amazed when this sparrowhawk flew into her kitchen in Dornock in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nElaine Maslin took this picture of the RSABI Great Glen Challenge during the kayak stage on Loch Oich.\n\nVikki Kewney said her son Alex, who is already tall for his age, found a way of getting an extra couple of feet to watch a street performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nSarah Sivers took this picture while making her way through the Falkirk Tunnel on the Union Canal.\n\nJanina Dolny said this Edinburgh Castle view from the Vennel Steps is one of her favourite places when the Tattoo is on.\n\nRobin Cook took this picture of an Admiral butterfly and a Peacock butterfly on a Buddleia flower in his Aberdeen garden.\n\nMartin Harrower took this very atmospheric shot at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.\n\nPete Carnochan took this snap of hay bales near Anstruther.\n\nJon Davey took this musical action shot at The Big Beach Busk on the Portobello Prom.\n\nDave Stewart saw his first adder, basking in the sun on a path at Little Assynt near Lochinver.\n\nBarbara Jones found these seagulls scavenging for food at 3am in Glasgow city centre\n\nSam Bilner captured the magic of a full moon over Eilean Donan Castle.\n\nGrant Golding took this picture of his 10-year-old son Alfie catching great air on a jump at Cambusbarron after being inspired by the UCI.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "The strike in England is in protest over junior doctors' pay\n\nJunior doctors and consultants in England are to coincide strikes during the autumn in an escalation of the pay row with the government.\n\nIt will be the first time joint walkout and comes after junior doctors voted in favour of continuing with strikes.\n\nIn the British Medical Association (BMA) ballot, 98% voted in favour on a turnout of 71% which gave the union a new six-month mandate.\n\nMinisters called the co-ordination of strikes \"callous and calculated\".\n\nJunior doctors have already staged five walkouts this year and will now strike again from 20 to 22 September - the first day of which coincides with a walkout by consultants.\n\nThey will then walk out from 2 to 4 October, which is when consultants will also be striking.\n\nWhen the two groups strike together, cover will be provided to staff emergency services as well as a small amount of cover on the wards.\n\nBMA junior doctor committee co-chairmen Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: \"We are sending a single message, loud and clear to the government: 'we are not going anywhere'.\n\n\"We are prepared to continue with our industrial action, but we don't have to - the prime minister has the power to halt any further action by making us a credible offer.\"\n\nThe BMA says a 35% pay rise is needed for junior doctors to make up for what it says are 15 years of below-inflation wage rises.\n\nThe government has given junior doctors 6% plus £1,250, which works out at an average of nearly 9%.\n\nMinisters have said there will be no more talks because that was the final settlement, pointing out they had agreed to pay what the independent pay review body had recommended.\n\nSo far, more than 940,000 appointments and treatments have had to be postponed because of strike action by NHS staff since December.\n\nAlongside junior doctors and consultants, nurses, ambulance workers, physios and radiographers have all also taken part in strikes.\n\nMost of the other health unions have ended their strike action.\n\nNHS England and ministers have both said strikes by doctors are a factor in the rising number of people waiting for treatment.\n\nConsultants have taken part in two walkouts so far. The BMA represents about two-thirds of doctors.\n\nLatest figures show the hospital backlog had topped 7.5 million for the first time, meaning nearly one in seven people is on a hospital waiting list.\n\nSir Julian Hartley, chief executive at NHS Providers, which represents health managers, said the co-ordinated action was a \"serious escalation\" of the dispute.\n\n\"We now face the grim prospect of another six months of walkouts from junior doctors, which will pile even more pressure on the NHS this winter, causing yet more disruption for patients.\n\n\"Trust leaders understand doctors' reasons for striking, but patients are paying the price.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said the ballot result was \"extremely disappointing\" and would weigh heavily on the rest of the workforce and patients who were both \"shouldering the brunt of the BMA's relentless strike action\".\n\n\"My door is always open to discuss how we can work together with NHS staff to improve their working lives, but this pay award is final, so I urge the BMA to call an end to this callous and calculated disruption,\" he said.\n\nThis story was updated on 25 September to include reference to the 71% turnout in the ballot.\n\nAre you a doctor with a view on the strikes? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Anwen has enjoyed picking out her school uniform ready for primary school, says her mum Bethan\n\nWhat will the teacher be like? Where are the toilets? Are the other children nice? These are some of the key questions for children starting school.\n\nAs the new term begins, families are preparing for the first day in primary or the move up to secondary.\n\nThree-year-old Anwen from Llanelli will be starting primary school in the next few days.\n\nMum Bethan said she hopes it will \"be a smooth transition and there won't be any tears\".\n\n\"But whether they come from me or her I don't know,\" she said.\n\nAnwen's family have visited the school and had a one-to-one meeting with the headteacher.\n\n\"We learnt a lot from it. It's only our first child and we hadn't been to a school for years and seeing what they've got to offer is great,\" Bethan said.\n\nAnwen has been asking about her teacher and her new classmates and she has enjoyed buying and trying on the new uniform, said her mum.\n\nIn the three-year-old's nursery, Anwen and the other children have read stories about moving to big school and looked at scrapbooks with photos of the new teachers in.\n\nThey have also visited the school to ease them into the first day.\n\nAnwen and her class mates have been looking at a scrapbook with their new teachers in\n\nMair Billington, the leader of the nursery group, said: \"We want our children to be happy and to be comfortable. It makes life so much easier when they go over and think it's fun and are comfortable with the environment.\n\n\"The transition into school is for the child but also for the school to be prepared for them as well,\" she said.\n\nMs Billington said this preparation is particularly important for children with additional learning needs.\n\nWhile Anwen is starting her primary school career, 11-year-old Beatrice is moving up to secondary school.\n\nShe said taster visits to her new school in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, felt like being in \"a high school movie\".\n\n\"They've given us loads of tours in the school so we don't get lost and we've met loads of the teachers and we've had lessons with them,\" Beatrice said.\n\n\"I'm really excited to come because I've already made some new friends.\n\n\"I'm a bit worried about the homework but in my old primary school they give us homework, so hopefully it isn't too much.\"\n\nHer primary school classmate, Sam, is also a bit apprehensive about the move.\n\nHe said he is a \"excited for a new challenge\" but thinks he will \"get lost a little bit\".\n\n\"I'm a bit nervous about that,\" he said.\n\nSam and Beatrice have both visited their new school over the past few months to reduce their nerves\n\nHaving a taste of lessons during transition week has helped prepare them.\n\nSam said: \"We've just been doing lessons like science, maths, history. We've been doing all of that and it helps get us into Year 7.\"\n\nThe focus on the transition from one school to another has intensified in many schools, especially since the extra pressures brought by the pandemic.\n\nTo mitigate this, a specific role has been created at Ysgol Eirias to run activities.\n\nJessica Ramsden, the transition coordinator, said an initial open evening at the school is open to families with children as young as eight.\n\nActivities intensify as they get closer to starting at the school, including taster sessions and a tea and toast session for Year 6 pupils and their parents.\n\n\"It helps them settle in, it releases the anxiety of joining us\", she said.\n\nResearch from Save the Children suggests it can be an anxious time for children and their parents.\n\nMelanie Simmonds, head of Save the Children Cymru, said its research had highlighted the importance of strong relationships between children and the adults in their lives as they started primary school.\n\n\"This transition into big school is a big deal for children and for their families,\" she said.\n\n\"The early years of children's lives are really critical for their outcomes and most importantly for children experiencing poverty.\n\n\"When the transition's done right, it means they're starting school happy, that they've got really positive relationships.\n\n\"These are the foundations for learning and in turn will help their outcomes as they go through their education.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The drawbacks of having the longest mullet\n\nA 58-year-old Tennessee woman has earned the title of the world's longest competitive mullet for a female.\n\nTami Manis, from Knoxville, sports a flowing mane that is 5ft 8in (172.72cm) - nearly the height of the average man.\n\nMs Manis, a public health nurse, has had a mullet since the 1980s, inspired by a music video from American rock band 'Til Tuesday, and has not cut her hair in 33 years.\n\nHer hairstyle will be featured in the 2024 Guinness World Records book.\n\nMs Manis said her mullet journey began when she first watched the music video for the song Voices Carry some four decades ago.\n\n\"The girl had a rattail and I really wanted one of those,\" she told the Guinness World of Records.\n\nShe then cut her mullet off in November 1989 and immediately regretted it, so she began to grow it the following February and has not trimmed it since.\n\nA mullet is commonly referred to as being \"business in the front and a party in the back\" because of its short cut at the front, top and sides, and length in the back.\n\nTami Manis says the secret to growing her hair this long is good genes and Argan oil.\n\nIt was the style du jour in the 1980s and early 1990s, made popular by stars like Billy Ray Cyrus, Mario Lopez and Patrick Swayze.\n\nMs Manis said she catches most people by surprise who don't notice how long her hair is until she turns around.\n\nAs for how she was able to grow it so long, Ms Manis credits her good genes.\n\n\"I also do a conditioner which has Argan oil in it,\" she said.\n\nBut sporting a mullet that long isn't always easy. For one, Ms Manis' hair is longer than she is, meaning she often keeps it braided so she can manage it.\n\nBefore her World Record title, Ms Manis competed in the 2022 US Mullet Championships, where she finished in second place.", "The Met Police has received more than 500 reports of crimes relating to Ulez cameras since 1 April\n\nThere have been 171 reports of crimes relating to Ulez cameras logged since 17 August, the Met Police has said.\n\nThe BBC previously revealed that more than 300 cameras had been vandalised between April and mid-August.\n\nThe actual number of cameras affected is likely to be even higher as one report can represent attacks on multiple cameras.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ultra Low Emission Zone expanded across all of the capital's boroughs on 29 August.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police told the BBC: \"To date, Met investigations have led to the arrest of two individuals, one charged and bailed for trial to June 2024 and the other [case] discontinued by the CPS.\"\n\nIt added that the force \"continues to monitor anti-Ulez protests, as we do for all potential public order matters, to consider if bespoke policing plans are required\".\n\nMP for Sutton and Cheam and London minister Paul Scully has written to Mr Khan urging him to remove the Ulez camera in front of the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, which has been targeted by vandals.\n\nHe told Mr Khan the camera was \"serving as a prominent lightning rod towards those who are willing to take the law into their own hands\".\n\nHe added that the location of the camera was aimed at intentionally catching motorists \"venturing little more than a hundred metres into the boundary to visit loved ones, receive treatment or attend their place of work\".\n\nThe implementation of the expanded clean-air zone has been controversial, with some protests attracting between 200 and 300 people.\n\nAs of mid-August, TfL had installed 1,900 cameras in outer London and there are now more than 3,400 cameras across the Ulez.\n\nA Transport for London spokesperson said: \"Criminal damage to Ulez cameras puts the perpetrators at risk of prosecution and life-changing injuries, while simultaneously risking the safety of the public.\n\n\"Camera vandalism will not stop the Ulez operating London-wide. All vandalised cameras are replaced as soon as possible.\"\n\nMost cameras damaged are in outer London\n\nUnofficial data gathered by a group of people calling themselves Julie's Ulez map, who are opposed to the expansion, shows that out of the 1,762 cameras in outer London, about 750 have been damaged or stolen.\n\nData from the map suggests that across Greater London, almost one in four cameras are damaged or missing.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Gilbert Matthews, left, said the deaths of two friends sparked the idea for a skate trip\n\nSix friends with barely any experience of skateboarding are planning to roll the length of Wales.\n\nSo far training has resulted in a broken wrist, aching Achilles tendons and bad hips.\n\nBut the Wrexham group soldiered on and are setting off on the 278 mile (447 km) charity journey from Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan to Anglesey.\n\nThe group, who call themselves The Unskateables, came up with the idea after two friends died of brain cancer.\n\nJosh Land, 22, Kyle Harvey, 29, Gavin Rogers, 42, Gilbert Matthews, 45, and Craig Salisbury and Mark Roberts, both 47, hope to finish by Sunday.\n\n\"No-one's got any experience, no-one owned a longboard, so it's going to be quite a challenge really,\" said Gilbert.\n\nWayne Phillips, 41, died in July 2021, and James Rush, 38, in August 2022.\n\nGilbert said: \"They were just amazing people - trailblazers in health and wellbeing, fitness.\n\nFriends Wayne Philips, left, and James Rush died from brain cancer in 2021 and 2022\n\n\"They both had really beautiful smiles, had that ability to listen to people.\n\n\"Really brave when they fought the cancer, right until the really sad end.\"\n\nThe group came up with the idea on a surf trip to Morocco.\n\nThey are using the trip to raise money for the Nightingale House Hospice in Wrexham, which cared for both men. More than £9,000 has been donated.\n\nThey will skate in pairs in two-hour stints with a safety bike behind them.\n\nThey will cross Bannau Brycheiniog - also known as the Brecon Beacons - cruise the coastline, and go through Eryri or Snowdonia, before arriving at Cemaes Bay on Anglesey.\n\nDespite the patchy summer they are not worried by the weather - although luckily the forecast for the weekend is for more sun and higher temperatures.\n\n\"We are all Welsh lads, we are all used to the wind and the rain,\" Gilbert said.\n\n\"It will just add a little bit more fun to it really. There's also a pretty full moon at the moment, so that will help us with the night times and then Saturday and Sunday.\n\n\"I think we'll be putting our sunblock on, rather than our rain jackets.\"\n\nGilbert is expecting the trip to be an emotional experience.\n\nWayne Phillips' four-year-old daughter, Maggie, is expected to be at the starting line to see them off, and James Rush's daughter Jess, three, is set to welcome them at the other end.\n\n\"It will be a real relief when we get going, and Wayne and James will certainly be part of that sort of emotion,\" Gilbert said.\n\n\"They'll motivate us the whole way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Scottish education secretary says only a \"relatively small\" number of Scottish schools are affected\n\nThe Scottish government has confirmed a wall containing collapse-risk concrete had to be secured at a Scottish school.\n\nA total of 35 council-run schools have been found to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).\n\nEducation Secretary Jenny Gilruth said the incident happened at an MoD school - the only one of which is the private Queen Victoria school in Dunblane.\n\nMore than 100 schools in England have been told to close areas of their buildings that have RAAC.\n\nMs Gilruth said councils across Scotland were carrying out assessments, with all expected to report back by next week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Architect Colin Meikle explains what RAAC is, what the problem with it is, and why and when it was used\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's Drivetime radio programme: \"There was not a collapse, as far I understand it.\n\n\"Instead, the wall was made secure on further inspection.\"\n\nThe minister added: \"The total number of schools in Scotland affected is 35, so a relatively small number in comparison to the overall school estate which is around 2,500 schools.\n\n\"Our schools are safe. It's really important to say our local authorities have sought to provide me with reassurances throughout the course of the last few months.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said that where RAAC is found, remedial work could include the closure of impacted rooms or sections of the building and the use of temporary, modular provision for pupils to ensure the continuity of education.\n\nIt has also stressed that pupils will not be taught in the parts of buildings where the concrete is considered a risk.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight concrete that was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s.\n\nIt is a cheaper alternative to standard concrete and because it's aerated, or \"bubbly\", it is less durable with a limited lifespan of around 30 years.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive says RAAC is now beyond its lifespan and may \"collapse with little or no notice\", with a collapsed beam over the summer making the UK government aware that more schools in England were at risk than had previously been thought.\n\nA Scottish government ministerial group was set up when RAAC issues were originally raised.\n\nJenny Gilruth said: \"I have a list of schools that are impacted in Scotland, and the mitigations that our local authority partners have put in place will now be considered by officials in Scottish government.\n\n\"We'll look to interrogate some of that data a bit further and also provide reassurance to parents and carers.\n\n\"I think it's really important that our local authorities, who have a statutory responsibility for the delivery of education locally, engage directly with our parents and carers.\"\n\nBBC Scotland News has contacted all of Scotland's 32 councils to ask whether any of their schools contained RAAC.\n\nOf those who have responded so far, West Lothian Council said it has been found at five primary schools and four community centres.\n\nIt has also been identified at one school in East Lothian and at Forres Academy in Moray, where some classrooms have been closed.\n\nTwo schools in Highland have been identified and one in Perth is being repaired.\n\nA letter sent to parents of children at schools in Edinburgh says that RAAC has been identified in seven schools and appropriate mitigation measures have been put in place at each. They are Cramond Primary, Trinity Primary, Pentland Primary, Colinton Primary and Currie High School Covert Primary and St Andrew's Fox Covert RC Primary, which are on one site, are also affected.\n\nEast Lothian Council said its affected school was Preston Lodge High, where RAAC had been used in the construction of some, but not all, parts of the building.\n\nPreston Lodge High is among the schools affected by RAAC\n\nSeven schools in Aberdeen are affected - Abbotswell Primary, Cornhill Primary, Hazlehead Academy, Northfield Academy, Quarryhill Primary, St Machar Academy and Westpark School. All buildings remain open.\n\nThere are two schools in Dundee where RAAC has been used, but a council spokesperson said assessments showed there was no \"immediate safety issue\".\n\nThree schools in Dumfries and Galloway have so far been identified with RAAC panels. Further investigations are being carried out on two others.\n\nInverclyde has one school with RAAC - a council spokesman said surveys were carried out over the summer and the school was deemed safe to open.\n\nMackie and Westhill Academies in Aberdeenshire also have areas of RAAC installation, while one school in North Lanarkshire is affected.\n\nIn North Ayrshire, RAAC was used in the PE block at Ardrossan Academy. Access to the PE block is restricted.\n\nClaire Laidlaw's son is in primary three at Knightsridge Primary in Livingston - where pupils were relocated to either Deans Primary School or Deans Community High in November 2022 following a structural report.\n\nShe said the news that areas of the building were not safe came as a shock and added that pupils were moved immediately.\n\n\"It's been a bit of a nightmare if I'm perfectly honest,\" she said. \"Some of the communication hasn't been the greatest - being told they've been keeping an eye on it and all of a sudden within two days it's shut completely.\"\n\nPupils are now back at Knightsridge with a £6.7m programme of work still taking place - but Ms Laidlaw said she still has concerns.\n\nShe said: \"Part of me is glad that he's back but there's always that other half when if other parts of the school aren't completely finished, should they really be in?\"\n\nFigures released to the Scottish Liberal Democrats in May suggested that a total of 37 Scottish schools had been found that used the concrete.\n\nThey included nine in Dumfries and Galloway, seven in Aberdeen, six in Clackmannanshire and five in West Lothian.\n\nThere were two schools each in Dundee, Highland and North Lanarkshire, and one school each in Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, East Lothian and Perth and Kinross.\n\nPupils at two primary schools in Edinburgh were moved to temporary classrooms in July due to the same issue.\n\nIt emerged the same month that 254 NHS Scotland buildings contained the material.\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the government should have done far more over the summer to assess the scale of the problem and called for a ministerial statement.\n\nHe said: \"We cannot have children being taught in potentially unsafe buildings.\n\n\"Scottish Liberal Democrats would provide the funds needed for schools to urgently remove this concrete from their buildings and clear the backlog of school repairs.\"", "A deadly fire in Johannesburg's inner city was \"a wake-up call\" for South Africa, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nSeventy-four people were killed - including 12 children - after a blaze in a five-storey building, which was being occupied by homeless people.\n\nMore than 50 others were injured.\n\nEarlier, the city of Johannesburg confirmed it owned the building, but said cartels had taken it over. Officials say the cause of the deadly fire is unclear.\n\nIn a news conference at the site of the fire, Mr Ramaphosa said the incident needed to be investigated and lessons learnt to prevent future tragedies.\n\n\"It's a wake-up call for us to begin to address the situation of housing in the inner city,\" the South African leader said.\n\nThe building used to be a home for abused women and children, but once the lease expired, it was \"hijacked\", President Ramaphosa explained to reporters.\n\nMany properties around the area where the blaze happened have been deemed unfit to live in.\n\nYet these old blocks, abandoned by their owners or the city authorities, are full of families, often paying rent to criminal gangs who run them.\n\nSome of those who use the buildings include undocumented migrants, mostly from other African countries.\n\nThe buildings, which lack running water, toilets or a legal electricity connection, are then said to have been \"hijacked\".\n\nSouth Africa faces a chronic housing shortage, with an estimated 15,000 people estimated to be homeless in Johannesburg.\n\n\"We need to get on top of this and find effective ways of dealing with problems of accommodation, of housing, and services in the inner city,\" Mr Ramaphosa added.\n\nHe also commended emergency services, who arrived at the scene 10 minutes after the fire was reported.\n\nJohannesburg city manager Floyd Brink said 200 families were affected by the fire and \"all efforts\" were taken to provide accommodation.\n\nA spokesman for the emergency services, Robert Mulaudzi, told the BBC that the fire had gutted the building but firefighters had been able to bring out some of the occupants.\n\nHe explained that because the building was not properly looked after, makeshift structures and debris had made it hard to search for and rescue people.\n\nA video posted by Mr Mulaudzi to the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, showed fire trucks and ambulances outside the building with burnt-out windows.\n\nPhotos from the scene showed covered bodies lined up near the burned building.\n\nOne woman told journalists she was outside the building searching for her 24-year-old daughter.\n\n\"As soon as I heard the building was burning down, I knew I had to run here to come and look for her,\" she said.\n\n\"Now that I'm here, I'm kept in suspense because I really don't know what is happening. I don't get any direction - so I'm actually very anxious, I don't know if my daughter is alive.\"\n\nIn a visit to the scene, Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda said Johannesburg officials would relocate people living in similar \"hijacked\" buildings in the city, and turn those buildings into social housing. \"We are not going there with brute force,\" he told reporters, \"we are trying to apply a sensitive strategy.\"\n\nAsked whether his administration would take responsibility for the tragedy, Mr Gwamanda said the government was dealing with the issue of cartels hijacking buildings, which was taking place across the city.\n\nIn the wake of the fire, many South Africans on social media condemned the online xenophobic attacks that some have made against the victims and survivors of the fire.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If it is safe to do so, get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The drone attack on an airbase in the Russian city of Pskov on Tuesday was launched from inside Russia, Ukraine's military intelligence chief has said.\n\nKyrylo Budanov said two Ilyushin cargo planes were destroyed and two damaged. Russia says four were damaged.\n\nMr Budanov did not say whether the attack was carried out by Ukrainian or Russian operatives.\n\nUkraine's drone attacks on Russia occur almost daily. It had already admitted the Pskov attack.\n\nBut Mr Budanov's comments appear to end speculation that it was caused by a long-range weapon.\n\nOn Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Ukrainian-made weapon had hit a target at a distance of 700km. Pskov is nearly 700km (434 miles) from the Ukrainian border.\n\n\"We are working from the territory of Russia,\" Mr Budanov told the War Zone website on Thursday, without saying what type or quantity of drones were used.\n\nHe said the drones targeted the tops of the aircraft - the location of the fuel tanks and a critical section of the wing spar.\n\nThe damaged aircraft are long-range cargo planes, ideal for transporting troops and equipment over long distances and therefore valuable war assets for Russia.\n\nUkrainian officials are generally tight-lipped about attacks inside Russia, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Paul Adams. But it seems that as the campaign gathers pace, officials in Kyiv are more willing to claim them as part of the country's war effort.\n\nMeanwhile, drone attacks on several locations in Russia continued overnight Thursday to Friday.\n\nUnconfirmed reports say a factory making electronic parts for rockets in the town of Lyubertsy outside Moscow was hit.\n\nHowever, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in his Telegram channel that the drones over Lyubertsy were shot down without causing any damage or casualties.\n\nAs with previous attacks in the Moscow area, a number of flights from Moscow airports were delayed or cancelled on Friday morning.\n\nKursk region governor Roman Starovoyt said one residential and one administrative building had been hit in the town of Kurchatov, close to the Kursk nuclear plant.\n\nUkraine is continuing its counter-offensive into Russian-occupied territory.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War said on Thursday that advances were made near Bakhmut in the east, as well as in the west of Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nUS White House spokesman John Kirby said \"notable progress\" had been made by Ukrainian forces in Zaporizhzhia in the last 72 hours.\n\nObjective observers of the counter-offensive \"can't deny\" this progress, he said, adding that criticism of the slowness of the Ukrainian advance by anonymous officials was \"not helpful\".\n\nKyiv said earlier this week it had captured the settlement of Robotyne, which officials believe will lead to further progress to the south.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A Ukrainian government official has confirmed to the BBC that Ukraine was behind Wednesday's drone attack on a Russian airbase at Pskov.\n\nA number of Ilyushin transport planes were said to be damaged or destroyed.\n\nThe official, from the Ministry of Defence, confirmed local reports that Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) was behind the attack.\n\nMeanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Ukrainian-made weapon had hit a target at a distance of 700km.\n\nHe did not specify the weapon or the target, but the distance could correspond to the Pskov attack.\n\nUkraine believes that four Il-76 planes were destroyed and two others damaged. Russian officials say four planes were damaged.\n\nThe damaged aircraft are long-range cargo planes, ideal for transporting troops and equipment over long distances and therefore valuable war assets for Russia.\n\nRussia has vowed that Ukraine will \"not go unpunished\" for the attacks.\n\nUkraine's drone war on Russia is now an almost daily occurrence. Wednesday's attacks at Pskov, Bryansk and elsewhere were among the most widespread so far.\n\nA fuel depot in Kaluga and a microelectronics factory in Bryansk where components for Russian weapons systems are made were also hit in those attacks.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said another drone had been shot down south-east of Moscow.\n\nEarlier, Russian media reported dozens of flights had been delayed at Moscow airports, a regular occurrence during drone attacks.\n\nIn a Telegram post, Bryansk regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said three drones had been shot down over Bryansk.\n\nUkrainian officials are generally tight-lipped about attacks inside Russia. But it seems that as the campaign gathers pace, officials in Kyiv seem more willing to claim them as part of the country's war effort.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wallace Hunter's son Keir said he believed his father's death was \"entirely preventable\"\n\nThe son of a pensioner who died from scalding injuries in a hotel bath has described the frantic 90-minute attempt to rescue him as a \"horror story\".\n\nWallace Hunter died at the Pitlochry Hydro in 2019 after being trapped in the bath, while guests and emergency services tried to smash in the door.\n\nEfforts to help the 75-year-old were hampered by the door opening outwards and being bolted from the inside.\n\nHe said it was \"unfathomable\" that no criminal charges had been brought over his father's death.\n\nThe company which owned the hotel at the time has since been liquidated.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time about his father's death, Keir said the tragedy was \"what we wake up thinking about and what we go to bed thinking about\".\n\nWallace Hunter, who was from Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, was staying at the Perthshire hotel with his wife Janice at the time of the incident in December 2019.\n\nKeir said: \"He was spending time with his wife, exploring Scotland, a country that he loved.\n\n\"Something like this is entirely preventable and should not have happened.\"\n\nWallace Hunter was unable to get out of the scalding bath, with rescue efforts hampered by the bolted bathroom door.\n\nThe incident happened at the Pitlochry Hydro Hotel in December 2019\n\nKeir said his father had been conscious and talking at the beginning.\n\n\"Had they been able to get to him quickly there's no question he would still be here,\" he said.\n\n\"The guests, then the police, were smashing fire extinguishers off the door, it was chaos. And that was on this side of the door.\n\n\"My family ruminate on my dad's experience on the other side of the door, facing his fate and knowing that people were trying to get to him.\n\n\"The hour-and-a-half became a horror story and the experience my father endured is hard to comprehend.\"\n\nMr Hunter was found to have suffered third-degree burns to 83% of his body after fire crews finally managed to break down the door.\n\nKeir said: \"The horror continued when finally having got my dad out, the emergency services tried in vain to perform CPR.\n\n\"My mother witnessed the whole thing. As well as losing her husband, the experience has taken a massive toll on her.\n\n\"The police officers who I spoke to, who are obviously hardened to accidents, told me it was horrific and it was the worst incident they had ever attended.\"\n\nKeir is seeking damages, claiming negligence on the part of the hotel's previous operators.\n\nWallace Hunter was described by his son as a much-loved father and grandfather\n\nKeir and his legal team said they had uncovered online complaints about the hotel's hot water system prior to his father's death.\n\nHe said one 2016 review complained that the water in the bath area \"went scalding hot, then freezing cold\".\n\nHe added: \"So here you have a hotel accepting elderly and more vulnerable guests while there are claims about the hot water.\n\n\"There's no way this should not have been resolved prior, there should have been protocols in place.\"\n\nThe hotel is under new ownership following the collapse of Specialist Leisure Group in 2020.\n\nKeir said the family never received an apology for the incident from the former operators and were not even refunded.\n\nHe said the travel firm that the hotel was booked through continue to send his mother promotional material for holidays.\n\nHe said: \"That's regardless of the fact we have written to them explaining the situation and asking them not to do so.\n\n\"Every time she gets one through the door, it triggers her.\"\n\nHe said a Crown Office press release announcing the fatal accident inquiry, which was issued without the family's knowledge, caused further deep distress after his \"elderly and vulnerable\" mother was subsequently \"door-stepped\" by a reporter.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman told BBC Scotland News: \"We have apologised to the next of kin for any distress that may have been caused by not advising them in advance of publication.\"\n\nA preliminary hearing for the inquiry, which is expected to begin next year, was due to take place at Alloa Sheriff Court on Friday.\n\nIt has now been adjourned until the end of October.\n\nKeir said the family welcomed the fatal accident inquiry taking place.\n\nHe said they were looking forward to the inquiry probing matters relating to the hotel's hot water system, the door arrangement, the hotel's health and safety arrangements, and the response to the emergency on the day.\n\nHe said: \"I hope the sheriff is able to provide actual findings that will protect people and the public interest going forward.\n\n\"But ultimately I still really struggle with the idea that no individual or organisation has been held accountable.\n\n\"We do not want another family to go through this. With the FAI looming and the civil case proceeding, it's very hard for the wounds to close and the family to move on.\"\n\nThe family's lawyer Glen Millar of Thompsons Solicitors said it was impossible to overstate the \"tragedy and horror\" of Mr Hunter's death.\n\nHe said: \"To make matters worse, the family have been offered no apology and there has been no acceptance of any blame.\n\n\"The court will be asked to consider evidence of multiple complaints by guests about the water system in the hotel prior to this dreadful accident.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA popular female bear has been shot dead on the outskirts of a town in central Italy and a man has claimed he opened fire out of fear.\n\nThe bear, named Amarena, was filmed earlier this week roaming around the town of San Sebastiano Dei Marsi with her two cubs.\n\nLocal governor Marco Marsilio said no bear in the Abruzzo region had ever threatened residents with any danger.\n\nHowever, earlier this year a jogger was killed by a bear in the Alps.\n\nThere was widespread shock in Abruzzo that Amarena had been killed. The bear was well known in the area and named after a variety of black cherry that she was particularly fond of.\n\nThe governor said on social media that the killing was incomprehensible and was a \"very grave act against the whole Abruzzo region which leaves pain and anger\".\n\nEnvironment Minister Gilberto Pichetto spoke of a \"very serious episode\" and said everything possible had to be done to ensure her two cubs were protected and remained free.\n\nAmarena was one of about 60 critically endangered Marsican bears that live in the Abruzzo National Park and are native to central Italy.\n\nThe national park posted a graphic image of the bear lying dead on the ground and said in a statement that she had been hit by gunfire outside the park, on the outskirts of San Sebastiano dei Marsi.\n\nPark rangers had quickly intervened, it said, because the cubs were there but vets were only able to confirm that the bear had died.\n\nAlthough Amarena had caused damage in the past to crops and livestock, there was no justification for the attack, it said: \"[Amarena] had never created any kind of problem for humans.\"\n\nThe man who killed the animal was identified and questioned by local police.\n\n\"I shot out of fear, but I didn't want to kill. I found her inside my property and it was an impulsive, instinctive act,\" he was quoted as saying by Ansa news agency.\n\nPark director Luciano Sammarone told Ansa that the bear had crossed a private fence, but people should reserve judgement until it was established what had happened. \"However, I'm struggling to believe this was a matter of self-defence.\"\n\n\"Amarena was a symbol of the park,\" said Piero Genovesi, head of Italy's wildlife service Ispra. \"Everybody loved her. She was so frequently observed; she was never aggressive.\"\n\nThere had been some concern locally that the video which emerged on social media of Amarena and her two cubs on Tuesday had led to an influx of sightseers keen to get a glimpse of the bears.\n\nIn the footage, people in San Sebastiano Dei Marsi look on from a distance as the mother is seen walking through the town, waiting for her cubs and then moving down some steps away from the small crowd.\n\nThe two bear cubs have not yet been found and dozens of park rangers and police are trying to find them.\n\nMr Genovesi told the BBC that the cubs were only seven months old and it was important for them to be remain in nature \"because bears have a tendency to become very rapidly used to humans\".\n\nThere was no danger to people from the cubs, but there was a danger to the cubs, he explained, as they could already be too used to eating food made by humans.\n\nAnother of Amarena's cubs, Juan Carrito, had also been a frequent visitor to local villages before he died\n\nAnother of her cubs, named Juan Carrito, died in January after being hit by a car. He too was popular with locals, despite breaking into a bakery and eating a freshly baked batch of biscuits in 2021.\n\nAnimal protection organisation Oipa complained that Amarena was yet another victim of individuals allowed to carry weapons, but also of the climate of hatred towards large carnivores stirred up by some of Italy's political leaders.\n\nThe shock surrounding the latest death is very different from the events of last April, when Andrea Papi, 26, was fatally attacked in the north-eastern region of Trentino-Adige.\n\nThe bear blamed for killing him in the foothills of the Alps last spring was identified as JJ4 and the product of a programme to repopulate the area with bears from Slovenia.", "Her hair is 172.72cm (5ft 8in) long and now officially the world's longest female mullet in the Guinness World Records book.\n\nShe says she has to braid it to keep it and herself safe.", "The deteriorating school estate is damaging pupil attainment and teacher retention, the National Audit Office says\n\nAn estimated 700,000 children are being taught in unsafe or ageing school buildings in England that need major repairs, according to a report.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) report says the Department for Education (DfE) has, since 2021, assessed the risk of injury or death from a school building collapse as \"very likely and critical\".\n\nTeachers have told the BBC about risks posed by sewage leaks and asbestos.\n\nThe DfE says it has been \"significantly investing in transforming schools\".\n\nAn official said \"nothing is more important\" than safety at school - and the department had allocated more than £15bn since 2015 to keep schools safe and operational.\n\nBut the NAO, the UK's independent public spending watchdog, said risks had not been addressed because of years of underfunding.\n\nIt said the deteriorating condition of school buildings was damaging pupil attainment and teacher retention.\n\nSteve Marsland, head teacher at Russell Scott Primary School, in Manchester, said his head is filled with \"worry and panic\" over keeping the 460 children at his school safe after raw sewage came up through the floors \"on many occasions\".\n\n\"We had a plummet in attendance through sickness after the sewage floods, it is an absolute disgrace.\n\n\"It has been going on since 2015 and is down to poor building practice,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nHe said energy bills before his building was rebuilt were between £12,000 to £15,000 a year, but then went up to £45,000 a year, and was now nearly £9,000 a month because of rising energy costs.\n\nTameside Council said it shared Mr Marsland's disappointment at the building work carried out in 2015, and supported the school's application to the DfE for funds to rebuild the school.\n\nThe NAO's report found regional variations in how much money needed to be spent per pupil to put schools back into good condition.\n\nThe East and West Midlands had the greatest average need per pupil, followed by parts of northern England.\n\nThe report found more than a third (24,000) of all English school buildings had passed their estimated initial design life.\n\nAnd it highlighted continuing concerns for school buildings that still contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - a lightweight form of concrete prone to collapse, used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s.\n\nThe DfE has identified 572 schools where RAAC might be present, so far confirming it in 65, of which 24 required immediate action.\n\nThe NAO also said a safety risk from asbestos was also more severe in poorly-maintained buildings.\n\nYear 2 teacher Philip Clayton works in a \"sweltering\" classroom with cracks in the walls\n\nKate Chisholm, executive head teacher of Oakfield Schools Federation, in Gateshead, said her school buildings were \"full of asbestos\" as they were built in the 1960s.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: \"Our buildings are all glass-facing as well, so last year when it was very hot, our buildings got up to 40C and we had to shut the school.\"\n\nHer Year 2 teacher Philip Clayton said temperatures in his classroom hit 32C earlier in the month. Despite leaving doors open and using fans, he says it often becomes \"unbearable\".\n\n\"It becomes very sweltering, and very difficult to concentrate, so despite best efforts... it can be a big challenge for staff and pupils alike to work.\n\n\"Staff are trying their very best to provide high-quality education, but the building really doesn't support us in delivering that.\"\n\nMs Chisholm said although the school was \"on its knees\", it was still not expected to see major repairs any time soon.\n\n\"There has been a lack of centralised funding from the government over the last few decades, which has meant the local authority hasn't been able to maintain the schools, even though they wanted to,\" she said.\n\nIn a written response to Liberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson, in February, the government said at least 39 schools had had to close since December 2019, over various safety concerns.\n\nThe NAO said the DfE had recommended minimum funding of £5.3bn per year to mitigate the most serious risks of building failure, in its 2020 spending review, with £7bn per year being the \"best-practice\" level.\n\nBut the department was subsequently given an average of £3.1bn per year from the Treasury.\n\nRachel Jones, head teacher at Kingsley St John's Primary School, in Cheshire, says her school building is suffering from \"completely stretched\" budgets.\n\n\"Most of the cuts that are being made in school are on the building, because I'm putting things off,\" she says.\n\n\"We're using gaffer tape instead of having things replaced.\"\n\nMs Jones feels \"embarrassed\" showing prospective parents around the school, despite the \"excellent\" standard of teaching.\n\n\"You're constantly making apologies and it's a constant battle to overcome those first impressions,\" she added.\n\nA separate NAO report, also released on Wednesday, found the DfE had insufficient plans for making state-funded school buildings in England more environmentally friendly.\n\nResponding to both reports, the National Education Union's joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said the government was spending \"nothing like enough\" on school buildings.\n\n\"That not only has an impact on education. If you're not sure which buildings might collapse, or if there is asbestos in the buildings which isn't well managed, then there are risks to life and limb as well,\" he added.\n\nA DfE official said the government was investing in 500 projects for new and refurbished school buildings, through its school-rebuilding programme.\n\nAcademy trusts, local authorities and voluntary-aided school bodies were responsible for the maintenance of schools and should contact the department with concerns.\n\n\"We will always provide support on a case-by-case basis, if we are alerted to a serious safety issue by these responsible bodies,\" the official added.\n\nThe government does not have to respond to the NAO's recommendations, but the report will be used as evidence in an ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the state of schools.", "Titanic is to take to the waters of Belfast Lough again this weekend.\n\nNot the legendary liner itself, of course, but a 22-foot-long replica built by East Belfast Yacht Club.\n\nThe club was founded by workers from the Belfast shipyards in the early years of the 20th Century, in the years before construction of the Titanic began in 1909.\n\nIts Titanic will take to the city's waters as part of the Belfast Maritime Festival on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThe model was built over a decade ago but has been dusted and repaired for its sailing this weekend\n\nWith its home between Victoria Park and Belfast City Airport, East Belfast Yacht Club is only a stone's throw away from Harland & Wolff where Titanic was built.\n\nThe company's modern-day cranes Sampson and Goliath overlook the part of Belfast Lough where members sail.\n\nAnd the club's history is tied to the shipyard, according to long-time member Brian Larmour.\n\n\"The club was actually set up in 1904 by a number of shipyard workers, including some of the higher-ups - management types,\" he said.\n\nPaul has been careful to recreate many of the features and details of the original Titanic\n\n\"The Titanic was for many years forgotten about.\n\n\"Nobody wanted to talk about it for a long time until (Robert) Ballard found it out in the Atlantic.\"\n\nIt was club member Paul Andrews who originally built the Titanic replica to commemorate the centenary of the tragedy in 2012.\n\n\"East Belfast Yacht Club was founded by shipyard men who originally worked on the Titanic,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I built this boat at absolutely no expense, it was all stuff I had lying about.\n\nYacht clubs members have spent hours in the workshop to get the model ready for the water\n\n\"I'm not a model-maker by any means but I just decided to give it a go and it turned out quite well.\n\n\"The Titanic is very special, we should claim it.\n\n\"It was a horrible loss of life but we should remember it for the beautiful thing that it was.\n\n\"The whole world has gone on to build bigger and better ships but I don't think we ever built more beautiful ships.\"\n\nBunting has been attached to the model Titanic for the sailing this weekend\n\nOver a decade after he originally made it, Paul's Titanic has been repaired by club members and spruced up to sail in Belfast Lough again.\n\nIt takes four people to get it into the water for it to sail the short distance to the nearby Queen's Quay and Belfast Harbour Marina for the Maritime Festival.\n\nBut it is Paul who has to actually climb inside to pilot it.\n\nOne of the four iconic funnels is removed to let him get into the ship, then replaced when he is inside.\n\n\"I'm an amateur boat-builder so I thought if I build it that I can ride in it it'll be more interesting than just building a model,\" he said.\n\nPaul says his attempt at building a Titanic replica has \"turned out well\"\n\n\"I actually prefer to sit in it and steer it because if something goes wrong at least there's an overgrown child to put things right!\n\n\"Everybody's looking, thinking: 'Where's it being remote controlled from?' and then you pop the hatch up and the kids love it, it's a bit of fun.\"\n\nHe admits that he is proud of his handiwork.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed as not everybody makes an eejit of themselves like this!\n\n\"But I've grown to love it, I've grown to love it.\"", "France made the perfect start on their quest for a first Rugby World Cup title as they beat three-time champions New Zealand to delight the Stade de France in Paris.\n\nThe hosts had to fight deep into the final quarter after tries from New Zealand wing Mark Telea inside the opening minutes of both halves threatened to wreck the opening-day party.\n\nUltimately, though, Thomas Ramos' relentless boot and a well-worked try from Damian Penaud edged them clear of the enterprising, if fading All Blacks.\n\nA 73rd-minute penalty from Ramos finally put France out of seven-point range on the scoreboard and the home fans could celebrate in comfort as their players hunted for a crowning try.\n\nThey found it with three minutes left as Melvyn Jaminet gathered fellow replacement Maxime Lucu's teasing chip.\n\nFrance will continue their Pool A campaign on Thursday against Uruguay before meetings with Namibia and Italy.\n\nVictories in all three would guarantee them top spot and a last-eight meeting with the runners-up from Pool B, which contains Ireland, South Africa and Scotland.\n\nNew Zealand, who had won all 31 of their previous pool-stage game at World Cups, will know from painful experience that all is not lost.\n\nFour years ago, at Japan 2019, they beat South Africa in the pick of the pool-stage matches, only to watch the Springboks become the first team to lose their opening game and go on to lift the William Webb Ellis Trophy.\n\nFrance's players stayed out and and soaked up the atmosphere of blaring Euro-disco and late summer heat after the final whistle.\n\nIn seven weeks it will be autumn, but the stage will be the same. The result and, perhaps more importantly, the resolve will harden belief that this golden generation could be the one to finally lift the silverware that has escaped them in three previous finals.\n\nThe atmosphere had been similarly bubbling before kick-off, but it took only 93 seconds for the All Blacks to check expectations.\n\nFrom New Zealand's first piece of clean ball, Rieko Ioane sliced through a France midfield missing the presence of the injured Jonathan Danty and cantered into clear air.\n\nBeauden Barrett spotted a weakness and plonked a kick over the narrow Penaud, giving Telea enough time to collect a bouncing ball in comfort and dot down.\n\nThe Stade was stunned. But not for long.\n\nA defiant chorus of Allez Les Bleus rang around as Richie Mo'unga tugged his conversion wide.\n\nThe home team responded and slowly clawed their way back. Two Ramos penalties capped a spell of pressure and gave them a 6-5 lead after 20 minutes.\n\nNew Zealand, whose captain Sam Cane was a late injury withdrawal, looked in no mood to play their assigned role of fall guy on the tournament's opening night though. The three-time champions, stuffed with big-game smarts, probed cleverly and found space and weaknesses.\n\nTelea bristled with threat and France, who lost hooker Julien Marchand to injury, coughed up mistakes to heap pressure on themselves.\n\nMo'unga and Ramos traded penalties for a 9-8 France lead and the crowd might have sat more comfortably at the break had the latter not missed a shot from out wide, which may have been better kicked into the corner than at the sticks.\n\nAs it was, New Zealand ended the half on top. A delicious wraparound put Mo'unga into space and Dalton Papali'i surged deep into France territory. Pinned back on their own line, France's relief was palpable as Codie Taylor's pass drifted into touch to let them off the hook.\n\nFrance stormed into the second half, Gregory Alldritt offloading to Antoine Dupont inside the first minute as the line beckoned.\n\nThe same pair had combined to cap France's Grand Slam win over England here in 2022. This time though New Zealand snuffed out the threat and sparked something of their own.\n\nAs France's blindside defence rushed up, Ioane spotted space and flung an ambitious, but accurate pass over the top. Telea gathered on the bounce and raced in to make it 13-9 to the All Blacks as the home fans screamed that the pass had drifted forward.\n\nA replay on the big screen, shown after Mo'unga missed the conversion, only increased the decibels aimed at referee Jaco Peyper.\n\nAnd the South African official's popularity sunk further when Jalibert was flattened without the ball and play continued regardless.\n\nIt was beginning to feel like the evening might fall flat.\n\nHowever, the injustice fuelled some fight in the French and Penaud, having been denied shortly before by Mo'unga's breathtaking corner-flagging cover tackle, plunged over to restore France's lead to 16-13 after smart work from Jalibert.\n\nPeyper partially satisfied the demands of the home fans, dispatching Will Jordan to the sin-bin for taking out Ramos in the air and France milked the man advantage for another penalty to crank the gap out to 19-13.\n\nA flurry of points in the final six minutes plumped the scoreline to add some sheen to the home side's work, but they were ultimately deserving winners of a game watched by the rest of the rugby world.\n\n'We are not champion now'\n\nFrance number eight Gregory Alldritt: \"It was a massive game for our team and I am proud to be French tonight.\n\n\"The support was massive and it is just fantastic to get support like this. We are just looking forward to the next game, but we said if we lost today it is not the end of the World Cup.\n\n\"But we are not champion now so we just have to keep working and go step by step.\"\n\nFrance head coach Fabien Galthie: \"There was a lot of pressure in the first half. It took us time to relax and they scored quickly and easily.\"We lost Marchand early on. It was the worst possible scenario and even if we were ahead at the break, we did not control the game. But then we took back control.\n\n\"It will do us the world of good, this win. It is a relief and welcome.\"\n\nNew Zealand head coach Ian Foster: \"It was a hell of an opening match, everything we expected. We fired some good bullets at them, we just didn't fire enough. It doesn't change much for us, we just have to find another way out of this pool.\"\n\nFormer England fly-half Paul Grayson on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"When it mattered in the second half, France got it right. They dominated possession in the second half and you felt certain at some point they would come up with something to make the difference. They make very few mistakes.\"\n\nReplacements: Jaminet for Ramos (76), Vincent for Falatea-Moefana (58), Lucu for Dupont (76), Gros for Wardi (53), Mauvaka for Marchand (12), Taofifenua for Woki (49), Boudehent for Cros (63). Not Used: Aldegheri.\n\nReplacements: Havili for Liernert-Brown (63), Fainga'anuku for Telea (72), Christie for Smith (63), Tu'ungafasi for de Groot (53), Taukeiaho for Taylor (57), Newell for Laulala (53). Not Used: Jacobson.", "Sylvester Stallone and Pope Francis playfully shadow boxed during a visit to the Vatican by the actor and his family.\n\nThe Rocky star was received by the pontiff who told him he \"grew up with [his] films\".\n\nStallone jokingly responded \"we box\" and threw a few light air jabs, which the Pope then returned.", "Dust can be seen around the minaret of the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the city.\n\nThe video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, prompted fears it could collapse.", "The Elizabeth line first opened in May 2022, and fully opened a year later\n\nThe UK's newest railway line had more cancellations than any other, new Office of Rail and Road figures show.\n\nA total of 9.1% of services on the Elizabeth line did not run in the four weeks to 19 August, followed by CrossCountry at 7.5%.\n\nOverall cancellations rose to 3.9% from 3.3% in the previous four weeks. Last week, it was revealed almost half of trains arrived at least a minute late.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) apologised for a \"number of recent issues\".\n\nIt comes just months after the line, which links Reading and Essex via central London, fully opened in May.\n\nAccording to TfL, up to 24 trains an hour are expected to run at the busiest times between Paddington and Whitechapel.\n\nBut commuters have previously told the BBC their journeys have been disrupted by a number of delays and cancellations.\n\nHoward Smith, Elizabeth Line director, said: \"The Elizabeth line has rightly and quickly become one of the most popular railways in the country.\n\n\"It has also been one of the most reliable, but we have had a difficult period which included disruption for our customers for which we apologise.\n\n\"There were a number of recent issues including significant problems with Network Rail's signalling systems and infrastructure on the western section, and a defective maintenance train.\n\n\"We continue to work with all parties involved in the Elizabeth line to provide a safe and reliable railway. This includes our partners, such as Network Rail, and a programme of upgrades delivered by the train manufacturer, Alstom, will further improve reliability of our fleet of trains.\"\n\nWhen P-coded cancellations were included in the overall figure for England, Wales and Scotland, the total number of cancelled trains rose to 4.6%, up from 3.7% in the previous period.\n\nP-coding means services axed up to 22:00 BST the night before, meaning trains in effect disappear from the overnight timetable and so do not show up in on-the-day cancellation statistics.\n\nNorthern Trains, run by the government's Operator of Last Resort, had the highest number of P-coded cancellations as a result of train crew shortages.\n\nIt recorded 2,064 in the latest period, and 56 where part of the journey was cancelled.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An old mosque in Marrakesh is among the many buildings that have been severely damaged\n\nThe earthquake of magnitude 6.8 which has hit central Morocco is the biggest the area has seen since before 1900.\n\nThousands have died in the quake, which struck at 23:11 local time on Friday.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5km, the US Geological Survey said.\n\nThe main tectonic driver is the collision between the plates that carry the European and African continents.\n\nThis quake will be related to the thrusting and faulting that continues to push up the Atlas Mountains.\n\nBut Morocco is not really the place where such powerful earthquakes occur.\n\nMost of the earthquake activity from this slow (4mm/year) geological \"car crash\" is further east in the Mediterranean, around Italy, Greece and towards Turkey.\n\nMany of the deaths are said to be in hard-to-reach mountain areas\n\nIn terms of history, there has been nothing bigger than a magnitude 6.0 within 500km (300 miles) of Friday night's epicentre since before 1900.\n\nThis unfamiliarity has consequences. The quake memory in the population will be limited and so will have been the preparedness.\n\n\"There's nobody alive in the local area who experienced an earthquake as big as this, and if they're close to the epicentre the shaking would have been very intense and buildings won't have been built to seismic resilience standards, even the modern ones,\" David Rothery, professor of planetary geosciences at the Open University, UK, told BBC News.\n\nIt is often also the case that quakes that hit at night have bigger death tolls, as people are more likely to be inside collapsing buildings.\n\nThe US Geological Survey runs a model that estimates the probable scale of the casualties and economic losses. It suggests for this event that the death toll could be in the high hundreds to low thousands.\n\nThe current toll could therefore rise and there could be aftershocks. As a rule of thumb people could expect to see one that is about one magnitude less than the main shock.\n\nBut even smaller tremors risk bringing down already damaged buildings.", "A researcher at the UK Parliament has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, amid claims he was spying for China.\n\nPolice have confirmed two men, one in his 20s and another in his 30s, were arrested under the act in March.\n\nSources have told the BBC one of them was a parliamentary researcher involved in international affairs issues.\n\nAs first reported in the Sunday Times, it is understood the researcher had access to several Conservative MPs.\n\nOn Sunday morning, No 10 said Rishi Sunak had expressed concerns about Chinese interference to a senior official from China.\n\nA spokesperson said the prime minister had met Chinese Premier Li Qiang during the G20 summit in India, and \"conveyed his significant concerns about Chinese interference the UK's parliamentary democracy\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping is not attending the summit.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported the researcher had access to security minister Tom Tugendhat and foreign affairs committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns, among others.\n\nSeveral government sources declined to comment on security matters.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"A man in his 30s was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire and a man in his 20s was arrested at an address in Edinburgh.\n\n\"Searches were also carried out at both the residential properties, as well as at a third address in east London.\"\n\nBoth men were taken to a south London police station, and were subsequently released on police bail until a date in early October, it said.\n\nThe Met's Counter Terrorism Command, which oversees espionage-related offences, is investigating.\n\nIt is reported the researcher had access to Mr Tugendhat before he became security minister in September last year.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe man has not been named - but the Sunday Times said he had lived in China for a period.\n\nConservative MP Alicia Kearns said she was aware of the paper's report but declined to comment, adding: \"While I recognise the public interest, we all have a duty to ensure any work of the authorities is not jeopardised.\"\n\nAsked about the report on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said he could not comment on specific cases.\n\nHe defended the current stance towards China, saying the UK was right to \"engage\" with the country but Mr Sunak had highlighted the need to \"proceed with caution\".\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he added: \"Whatever lessons need to be learned by the parliamentary authorities I am sure will be learned.\"\n\nThe arrests will reignite the debate over London's relationship with Beijing. There has been growing concern about Chinese espionage and also interference in Parliament, with questions about whether more action should have been taken to mitigate risks.\n\nLast year, an unusual parliamentary interference alert was issued regarding the activities of Christine Lee.\n\nMI5 alleged she had been carrying out political interference activities including donating funds to support the work of MPs. This was all said to be on behalf of China.\n\nOther countries, notably Australia and Canada, have also seen recent claims of Chinese espionage or interference in politics, with the Chinese government denying any such activity.\n\nTensions have been increasing over both espionage and wider security threats in recent years - but the last few months has seen attempts by both Washington and London to stabilise relations with China.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visited Beijing less than two weeks ago and told the BBC it would not be \"credible\" to disengage.\n\nReacting to the arrests, Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said it was \"time for us to recognise the deepening threat that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) under (President) Xi now pose\".\n\nHe also questioned the UK's approach to China, adding: \"What price was Cleverly's kowtow visit to Beijing?\"\n\nTory MP Tim Loughton said: \"This is yet further evidence of how far the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reach into British institutions.\n\n\"Yet again the security of Parliament has potentially been compromised, reinforcing how we cannot view the CCP as anything other than a hostile foreign threat.\"\n\nParliament's Intelligence and Security Committee issued a long-awaited report in July, warning that the government had been slow to come to terms with the security risks from Beijing.\n\n\"It appears that China has a high level of intent to interfere with the UK government, targeting officials and bodies at a range of levels to influence UK political thinking and decision-making relevant to China,\" the report said.\n\nIt noted the challenges in prosecuting cases linked to espionage given that it was, at that time, not a criminal offence to be an agent of a foreign intelligence service.\n\nMI5 and the wider intelligence community have long complained that the old Official Secrets Act was inadequate in dealing with hostile state activity. The US and Australia both have been able to use a wider range of powers.\n\nNational security legislation to provide new powers to investigate espionage and other security threats did come into effect this summer in the UK, but this was after the arrest of the two men which took place under the old Official Secrets Act.", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking last month\n\nA number of relatives of the father of Sara Sharif have been detained for questioning by police in Pakistan.\n\nSara's father, Urfan Sharif, 41, and his partner Beinash Batool, 29, fled the UK after the 10-year-old was found dead at their home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nA police spokesman in Jhelum said 10 close relatives had been detained but not arrested.\n\nOn Friday, Muhammad Sharif, Sara's grandfather, told the BBC he had sent a message to his son Urfan Sharif to surrender himself to police \"two to three days ago\".\n\nBBC Pakistan correspondent Carrie Davies said he conveyed the message to his son through an intermediary.\n\n\"If they surrender to the police it will mean the end of the problems that have happened to us,\" Muhammad Sharif said.\n\nHe and his family have accused the police of harassing them, illegally detaining some members and raiding their homes. Muhammad Sharif has also accused the police of creating fake cases against them to add further pressure.\n\nThe police have denied this. Syed Khurram Ali, regional police chief in Punjab, said: \"We are putting pressure on them and it is difficult for them to keep so many people hidden. We are closing on their relatives, questioning them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara Sharif's grandfather Muhammad Sharif speaks to the BBC about her death\n\nMuhammad Sharif also previously told the BBC that Sara's death was an accident and three family members who left the UK for Pakistan would \"ultimately\" return to face police questioning.\n\nPolice in Pakistan often detain the close relatives of wanted suspects, however they are not kept in jail to avoid the intervention of a court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara's mother Olga Sharif describes moment she saw her body\n\nIn video footage on Wednesday, Sara's stepmother spoke publicly for the first time since the youngster was found dead.\n\nBeinash Batool described Sara's death as \"an incident\" and said she and Sharif were willing to co-operate with UK authorities.\n\nThe couple left the UK with five children aged between one and 13.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nSurrey Police are seeking information to help them gain a picture of Sara's life and have translated their appeal into Urdu.\n\nDetectives are displaying posters in English and Urdu at the Surrey town's railway station and taxi ranks.\n\nCORRECTION: This article was amended on 9 September to correct our reporting after the BBC was told Muhammad Sharif, the father of Urfan Sharif, was not among those detained.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four videos show extent of damage in Marrakesh\n\nThe death toll from a powerful earthquake in Morocco has soared to more than 2,000, with a similar number of injured.\n\nThe interior ministry says more than 1,400 have serious injuries, and the heaviest casualties are in provinces just south of Marrakesh.\n\nKing Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning and ordered shelter, food and other help for survivors.\n\nMany people are spending a second night out in the open.\n\nThe magnitude 6.8 quake hit Marrakesh and many towns on Friday night. In remote mountain areas, entire villages are reported to have been flattened.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh - a city with world heritage status which is popular with tourists.\n\nBut the tremors were also felt in the capital Rabat, some 350km away, as well as Casablanca, Agadir and Essaouira.\n\nThe interior ministry says Al Haouz province has the highest death toll, followed by Taroudant province. There are far fewer deaths in Marrakesh, though the Unesco-protected old city has suffered considerable damage.\n\nIt is believed that many simple mud brick, stone and timber homes in mountain villages will have collapsed, but the scale of devastation in remote areas will take some time to assess.\n\nWhen he arrived in one such village, BBC correspondent Nick Beake says, an elderly woman was wailing as 18 bodies had been recovered in that one place.\n\nMany people are camping out for the night there, he says, as they fear aftershocks. They say they are desperately short of food and water. But such places are hard to reach, with mountain roads strewn with rocks and other debris, making access difficult for the emergency services.\n\nKing Mohammed VI chaired an emergency meeting with officials to co-ordinate rescue efforts and aid\n\nFlags will be at half-mast on all public buildings in the country for the next three days, the royal palace said in a statement.\n\nThe king ordered the armed forces to assist rescue teams, and Moroccans are donating blood as part of the national effort to help victims.\n\nIt was Morocco's deadliest earthquake since Agadir was devastated by a 6.7-magnitude quake in 1960, which killed more than 12,000.\n\nFriday's quake was also the most powerful to hit Morocco for more than a century.\n\nThe UN said it was ready to assist the government of Morocco in its rescue efforts - and similar pledges have come from several countries including Spain, France and Israel.\n\nNeighbouring Algeria has had hostile relations with Morocco in recent years, but is now opening its airspace for humanitarian flights to Morocco.\n\nRescuers have been searching through rubble\n\nMany families were trapped when the quake struck at night.\n\nMontasir Itri, who lives in the mountain village of Asni, close to the epicentre, told Reuters: \"Our neighbours are under the rubble and people are working hard to rescue them using available means in the village.\"\n\nHouda Outassaf had been walking around Jemaa el-Fna Square in Marrakesh when he felt the ground start to shake.\n\n\"I have at least 10 members of my family who died... I can hardly believe it, as I was with them no more than two days ago,\" he told AFP news agency.\n\nA mosque minaret collapsed in Jemaa el-Fna Square and many narrow streets in the city's old Medina were filled with rubble.\n\nIn Moulay Brahim, Al Haouz province, people prayed next to the bodies of victims\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Terror suspect Daniel Khalife escaped from the kitchens of Wandsworth prison on the morning of Wednesday 6 September.\n\nThe 21-year-old former soldier had joined the British Army in 2019 and was discharged following his arrest. Mr Khalife is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and plotting a bomb hoax.\n\nHis planned escape is thought to have begun when he attached himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry he had access to as part of his kitchen job.\n\nAn aerial view of HMP Wandsworth and its exit points\n\nAfter leaving Wandsworth prison in south-west London, and through security checkpoints, the lorry made its way north towards the river, and then west towards Putney.\n\nWithin an hour, officers had pulled the truck over for examination. Mr Khalife was gone, but straps were found underneath the truck.\n\nThe Met began reviewing CCTV footage and used a helicopter to search areas in west and south-west London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV of lorry used in prison escape\n\nLate on Thursday night, officers searched Richmond Park, a 2,500-acre area south-west of the prison.\n\nTwo helicopters were used. It is also thought that infra-red technology was used to identify body heat.\n\nThe search was not based on specific information but Mr Khalife was known to have links in nearby Kingston-upon-Thames.\n\nPolice confirmed on Friday afternoon they were investigating a sighting of Mr Khalife. He was reportedly seen walking away from the BidFood van near the Wandsworth roundabout.\n\nThe hunt later appeared to focus on Chiswick in west London, after sightings of the missing prisoner were reported to the police by members of the public.\n\nPolice said their investigation \"took a different course\" on Friday night, when officers conducted an \"intelligence-led search at a residential premises\" in the Richmond area.\n\nWhile Mr Khalife was not found there, the force received a number of calls from the public with sightings of the suspect nearby.\n\nThe Met said on Saturday morning at about 09:00 BST it was focusing on \"intensive search activity\" efforts in and around the Chiswick area, after Mr Khalife had been spotted.\n\nHe was detained just over an hour later at 10:41 BST - about 14 miles from the prison - after a plain clothed officer pulled him from a bicycle on the canal towpath in the Northolt area, in north-west London.", "Chris Lewis had to return to hospital with pneumonia\n\nA mountain rescue volunteer who was badly injured while trying to help wild campers who broke coronavirus lockdown restrictions has died.\n\nChris Lewis, a member of the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) in the Lake District, fell 500ft (150m) in 2021, severely damaging his spine.\n\nThe campers, from Liverpool and Leicester, were both fined £200.\n\nThe MRT praised Mr Lewis's \"highly valued\" expertise and \"significant contribution\" to the rescue community.\n\nIt said Mr Lewis was admitted to Furness General Hospital on 2 September with a chest infection and pneumonia and died two days later.\n\nTeam leader Mike Rippon said he was \"a lovely, genuine person\" and his death was a \"very sad loss\".\n\n\"He was very knowledgeable and was a great person to have around in the team,\" Mr Rippon added.\n\n\"His expertise and companionship was brilliant for new team members.\"\n\nTwo further rescue teams were called out, with one aiding the initial effort and another helping Mr Lewis\n\nMr Lewis, 62, was called out to Red Screes above the Kirkstone Pass near Ambleside in February 2021.\n\nThe fall left him with multiple facial fractures and needing a wheelchair and round-the-clock care.\n\nHe continued to support mountain rescue teams in the Lakes and, in March, received the Inspiring Eden Award for his bravery and service to the community.\n\nMr Rippon said Mr Lewis had remained a trustee, still came to meetings, and was \"very keen to be back on board\" and to \"make the best\" of things.\n\n\"Chris was keen to continue putting as much back into this voluntary rescue service as he possibly could,\" he said.\n\nThe two campers in 2021 had called for help after one of them began having chest pains.\n\nSome members of the MRT had just reached the pair after midnight when Mr Lewis slipped.\n\nThe temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saturday was the hottest day of the year, according to provisional figures from the Met Office.\n\nA temperature of 32.7C (91F) was recorded at Heathrow Airport, making it the sixth day in a row that the heat had exceeded 30 degrees.\n\nThursday was previously the warmest day of 2023, with 32.6C recorded in Wisley, Surrey.\n\nBut Saturday may be the last hot day for parts of England and Wales, with a warning of possible thunderstorms.\n\nA yellow Met Office weather warning for thunderstorms is in place on Sunday for most of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England and Wales, and parts of southern Scotland, from 14:00 BST to 23:59.\n\nIt comes as figures published by NHS England show there has been a fivefold increase in the number of people seeking advice about heat exhaustion over the past week.\n\nThe current heatwave is the longest run of 30C September days on record.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Sarah Keith-Lucas said Sunday would be another very hot day, especially in the south, with temperatures of 32C possible.\n\nTemperatures will cooler further north, with a chance of more widespread showers and thunderstorms later in the day, but southern and eastern parts should stay dry.\n\nCooler air will reach all parts of the UK through the early part of next week with showers in the forecast at times.\n\nMeanwhile, an amber heat-health warning issued by the UK Health Security Agency is in effect for nearly every area of England until 21:00 on Sunday.\n\nThis indicates that the effects of high temperatures could be felt across the whole health service.\n\nProlonged heat above 30C is a risk for older people and those with respiratory or cardiovascular diseases.\n\nThe rise in temperatures has led to a 552% increase in people visiting the NHS website for heat exhaustion advice.\n\nThere were 32,130 visits to the health advice page on heat exhaustion and heatstroke from Sunday to Thursday this week, according to figures released by NHS England, which runs the NHS website.\n\nThere were 4,928 visits made during the same period last week.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe world has already warmed by an average of 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIf you have you been affected by the hot weather, you can share your tips and experiences by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nCarlos Alcaraz had his reign as US Open champion ended by Daniil Medvedev as the Russian set up another New York final against Novak Djokovic.\n\nThe Spanish top seed lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 3-6 6-3 to Medvedev, ensuring there will be no repeat of the Wimbledon final between Alcaraz and Djokovic.\n\nDjokovic swatted aside young American Ben Shelton to move within one more win of a record-equalling 24th major title.\n\nThe Serb, 36, won 6-3 6-2 7-6 (7-4) to close in on Margaret Court's tally.\n\nAlcaraz, 20, prevented Djokovic levelling Court when they met at the All England Club in July and Russian third seed Medvedev, who won his sole major at Flushing Meadows two years ago, could do the same on Sunday.\n\nMedvedev regained his composure in a tense finish to serve out victory, taking a fourth match point to win a captivating contest which left most of the 24,000 crowd on Arthur Ashe Stadium on their feet.\n\nDjokovic lost to Medvedev in the 2021 final and was not allowed to enter the United States for last year's tournament because he was unvaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nHowever, he has now has reached a 10th US Open final on his return and will aim for a fourth triumph on Sunday.\n\nDjokovic reacted by mimicking Shelton's celebration of picking up a phone - to indicate he was dialled in - and slamming it down.\n\n\"These are the matches and occasions I thrive on, they inspire me every day to keep working as hard as the young guys,\" said Djokovic, who, for the third time in his career, has reached every Grand Slam final in a year.\n\n\"I still feel I have something left in the legs and something to give to the sport. I couldn't be happier.\"\n• None Salisbury & Ram win third US Open title in a row\n• None Can you name all the US Open singles champions from 2000 onwards?\n\nMedvedev played '12 out of 10' to beat Alcaraz\n\nGoing into the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, most people predicted Alcaraz and Djokovic would continue their developing rivalry by meeting once again in a major final.\n\nOne man with the outstanding pedigree to stop that happening was Medvedev.\n\nThe 27-year-old has proved he can thrive on the North American hard courts, particularly when he dominated the swing in 2019 before losing to Rafael Nadal in the US Open final and two years later when he landed his maiden major title.\n\nBefore facing Alcaraz in the last four, the Russian said he needed to play \"11 out of 10\" to beat the top seed.\n\nAnd so he did in the opening two sets, sticking in the rallies to draw errors out of Alcaraz and dominating his service games on his way to a commanding lead.\n\nAlcaraz, backed by a lot of Spanish fans in the crowd, clawed a set back as his continual moves forward paid off.\n\nBut he was still unable to reach his highest level with Medvedev, rock solid from the baseline and showing sharp anticipation, superb in all facets.\n\nMedvedev saved three break points for a 2-1 lead and took Alcaraz's serve in a pivotal sixth game lasting more than 13 minutes.\n\nGetting over the line was not a simple task, Medvedev double faulting twice after missing a match point, before he landed three timely first serves to help secure victory.\n\n\"I said I needed to play 11 out of 10 against Carlos. I played 12 out of 10, except from the third set,\" said Medvedev, who will contest his third US Open final in five years.\n\n\"He is honestly really unbelievable. To beat him you need to be better than yourself and I managed to do it.\"\n\nDjokovic teaches another lesson to another youngster\n\nA sign of Djokovic's greatness has been his ability to dominate much younger opponents on the biggest stages over recent years.\n\nIn the past five seasons, Djokovic has lost only eight of the 53 matches he has played against opponents under the age of 23.\n\nAt Wimbledon, Alcaraz was only the second player younger than Djokovic - after Medvedev at the 2021 US Open - to beat him in a major final since 2020.\n\nWith Djokovic's technique, mentality and athleticism showing few signs of weakening, Shelton was the latest young pretender to be taught a lesson.\n\nThe second seed enforced his quality and experience from the start, serving smartly and returning Shelton's biggest weapon well before intensifying the pressure.\n\nDjokovic remained utterly calm and controlled to quieten the home crowd, further flattening the mood at the start of the third set.\n\nShelton made a trip to the locker room in a bid to change the dynamic, but two double faults led to Djokovic breaking in the first game with a superb passing winner.\n\nWinning in straight sets looked a formality for the 23-time major champion until Shelton found his best level of the match to break back for 4-4.\n\nThe world number 47 created a set point at 5-4 which Djokovic saved with a pinpoint service winner, before a sloppy game allowed Djokovic to strike for 6-5.\n\nShelton was not finished yet. He saw Djokovic push a forehand wide on match point and broke back to force a tie-break, only for Djokovic to ramp up the intensity again before taking his second match point.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Prison escapee Daniel Khalife has been arrested in north-west London, after breaking out of Wandsworth prison on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Georgia special grand jury recommended charging one current and two former US senators and 18 other allies of ex-President Donald Trump, a newly released report says.\n\nBut prosecutors decided not to indict them for alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election results in the state.\n\nThe jury had voted to recommend indictments against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.\n\nThe full report was released on Friday.\n\nThe document, much of which was previously under seal, offers the clearest picture yet of the secret jury's thinking as they investigated whether Mr Trump and his allies broke the law in Georgia during the 2020 US presidential election.\n\nThat investigation culminated in the criminal charges that were brought against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants last month for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results.\n\nAll have pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nFormer Georgia Senators David Purdue (left) and Kelly Loeffler (right) on stage with Donald Trump in Georgia in December 2020\n\nThis report, which was posted online, sheds light on who else was investigated and how close they came to being prosecuted.\n\nIn total the special grand jury recommended charges against 39 people. Eventually 19 people, including Mr Trump, were charged.\n\nThe panel spent seven months interviewing about 75 witnesses. They had broad investigative powers and could recommend charges based on their findings - but did not have the power to indict.\n\nThe grand jury report shows the breakdown of each vote to recommend charges against the major figures caught up in the investigation, including Mr Trump.\n\nBut the actual document shows dissent among the 23-member panel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n\nTwo jurors voted against recommending charges for individuals accused of posing as false electors. They believed they had been \"misled to understand what was their civic duty\".\n\nWhile nearly all were in agreement to charge Mr Trump and his top attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, there was a more pronounced split about whether to charge the senators.\n\nFootnotes included beneath each vote give a glimpse into their disagreements. The splits could portend challenges for prosecutors at an eventual trial, where a jury must vote unanimously to convict.\n\nThe report notes that one dissenting juror believed Ms Loeffler and Mr Perdue were \"pandering to their political base\" when they made false statements about the election results as they were running for re-election, but that did not necessarily make them \"guilty of a criminal conspiracy\".\n\nThe relatively bare-bones report does not specify the actions each senator took that would incur possible charges. But much is known about their public statements and private actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election.\n\nBoth Mr Loeffler and Mr Perdue were up for re-election in 2020. They publicly backed Mr Trump's attempts to challenge the results of the presidential race and repeated unfounded claims that widespread fraud had potentially occurred.\n\nRecounts and audits found no such fraud in Georgia and confirmed Joe Biden had won the state.\n\nMs Loeffler defended her actions in a statement on Friday, claiming she was \"speaking out in defence of election integrity\".\n\nMs Willis had also scrutinised a call that Mr Graham made to the state's top election official shortly after the election, as well as other actions.\n\nHe had called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ask whether certain postal ballots could be thrown out, the Washington Post reported.\n\nMr Graham denied the accusations on Friday, saying that when he called Mr Raffensperger he was simply doing his job and inquiring over a legitimate concern of potential voter fraud.\n\n\"I feel comfortable with the questions I asked,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, I did my job.\"\n\nMr Graham repeatedly framed the charges against Mr Trump and the recommended indictment against him as politically motivated.\n\nMr Perdue's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\n\nSome additional major figures not indicted include his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, attorney and aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyer Cleta Mitchell.\n\nIn a statement on Friday on his social network Truth Social, Mr Trump said the grand jury report had \"zero credibility\", adding that jurors wanted to \"indict anybody who happened to be breathing\".\n\nFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis created the special grand jury soon after the 2020 US presidential election. Unlike a typical grand jury, this body had investigative powers.\n\nThe panel was selected in May 2022 and turned in its final report in January. Much of it has remained under seal until now.\n\nMs Willis created a second, typical grand jury this summer, which voted to indict Mr Trump and the 18 co-defendants in a sweeping racketeering case.\n\nThe indictment alleges the 19 worked together in order to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election by pressuring Georgia election officials, harassing poll workers, and organising a slate of false electoral college members to submit a false vote for Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been criminally indicted four times, including in the Georgia case.\n\nHe has repeatedly denounced the prosecutions as politically motivated, deliberately aimed at derailing his presidential ambitions.", "The portrait of the late Queen has not been released before\n\nKing Charles III and Queen Camilla have marked the first anniversary of Elizabeth II's death with a prayer service near Balmoral.\n\nThey were at Crathie Kirk, while the Duke of Sussex visited St George's Chapel in Windsor - the late queen's final resting place.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales attended a private service at St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe King also released a message and a favourite photograph of the late queen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gun salutes across the UK mark King Charles III's first year on throne\n\nThe photograph chosen by the King shows the queen at an official portrait sitting in 1968 aged 42.\n\nElizabeth II died aged 96 at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on 8 September last year, just months after her Platinum Jubilee which marked 70 years on the throne.\n\nThe King, who has spent the summer at his Birkhall residence and Balmoral, attended the nearby Crathie Kirk church for private memorial prayers on Friday morning.\n\nFollowing the service, the King and Queen went on a walkabout, smiling and sharing jokes with Balmoral Estate staff, members of the royal household, local primary school pupils and residents from the nearby town of Ballater.\n\nPrince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales attended a short private service on Friday at St Davids Cathedral - some 500 miles away in Wales.\n\nCatherine, wearing earrings which belonged to the late queen, laid flowers in front of a portrait of her.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince Harry was photographed leaving St George's Chapel in Windsor after paying respects to his grandmother.\n\nThe chapel, where the late queen's moving Committal Service was held, is home to Elizabeth II's final resting place - the King George VI Memorial Chapel.\n\nIn his short tribute, the King thanked the nation for the \"love and support\" shown to him and Queen Camilla during his first year as monarch.\n\n\"In marking the first anniversary of Her late Majesty's death and my accession, we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us,\" the King said.\n\n\"I am deeply grateful, too, for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during this year as we do our utmost to be of service to you all.\"\n\nHis written message, which accompanies the audio recording, is signed Charles R.\n\nKing Charles spoke to the crowds outside the service at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral\n\nPrince William and Catherine attended a service in Wales on Friday\n\nThe formal colour photograph was taken by Cecil Beaton on 16 October 1968 and has not been released until now.\n\nIt shows the late queen in her Garter robes, wearing the Grand Duchess Vladimir's Tiara, made of 15 interlaced diamond circles.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a message that the scale of the late queen's service \"only seems greater\" a year after her death.\n\n\"Her devotion to the nations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth only seems deeper,\" he said.\n\n\"And our gratitude for such an extraordinary life of duty and dedication only continues to grow.\"\n\nMr Sunak said he treasured his memories of meeting the late queen and was struck by her \"wisdom, her incredible warmth and grace\", as well as her \"sharp wit\".\n\n\"People across the UK - whether they had the good fortune to meet Her late Majesty or not - will be reflecting today on what she meant to them and the example she set for us all,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the queues to see the late queen lying in state showed she had \"always enjoyed a special bond with her people\".\n\n\"It was a relationship built from her understanding that service of this great nation is the thread that unites sovereign and subject,\" he said.\n\n\"So, as we reflect on her legacy again today, let us embrace that spirit of public service as our guide towards a better future.\"\n\nTo mark the anniversary of King Charles's accession to the throne, gun salutes were fired at midday on Friday in Hyde Park and at 13:00 BST at the Tower of London.\n\nBells were rung at Westminster Abbey at 13:00 to mark the occasion.\n\nPrince Harry separately paid his own tribute to the late queen, saying she \"is looking down on all of us\".\n\nIn a speech at the WellChild Awards ceremony in London on Thursday, he recalled how he had been forced to miss last year's event as he flew to Balmoral after his grandmother became ill.\n\nYou can read more royal stories in the weekly BBC News Royal Watch Newsletter - sign up here from within the UK, or here, from outside the UK.", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, faces eight charges of conspiracy to murder and could receive the death penalty\n\nThe prime minister has confirmed that he raised the case of a Scottish Sikh who has been held by Indian authorities since 2017, in talks with the country's prime minister.\n\nRishi Sunak had faced pressure to highlight the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, whose family claim has been the victim of torture.\n\nMore than 70 MPs demanded that Mr Sunak lobby for his release.\n\nEarlier this week, the Foreign Office ruled out intervening in the case.\n\nHowever, after speaking to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Mr Sunak confirmed he raised the case along with other consular issues.\n\nHe did not provide details, but said: \"The foreign office are continuing to provide support to Mr Johal's family and will continue to do so\".\n\nMr Johal, a 36 year-old campaigner for Sikh human rights, travelled to India in October 2017 to get married.\n\nHe was shopping with his wife when his family say he was snatched from the street by plain-clothes officers of the Punjab Police and forced into an unmarked car.\n\nHe says he was beaten and tortured by officers over the following days, and given electric shocks to his genitals, before being made to sign a blank confession document.\n\nThese allegations have been denied by the Indian authorities.\n\nMr Johal has remained in detention in a series of Indian prisons ever since, accused of funding the purchase of weapons used to assassinate a number of right-wing Hindu religious and political leaders in the Punjab.\n\nHe is currently facing eight charges of conspiracy to murder, linked to political violence in India, and could receive the death penalty.\n\nHe denies the charges against him and says his arrest and trial are political.\n\nThe UK government has previously refused to call for Mr Johal's immediate release - saying it could be seen as interference in the judicial process and would not be in his best interests.\n\nOn the plane to Delhi, when asked if he would be raising the case, Mr Sunak had said: \"I'll be raising a range of things with Prime Minister Modi - this is something that, just so people are reassured, has already been raised on multiple levels on multiple occasions.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet - a lawyer and Labour councillor - accused Mr Sunak of allowing Mr Johal to \"rot in jail.\"\n\nAfter hearing about Mr Sunak's involvement he said: \"I am pleased that the prime minister has raised my brother's case with his counterpart, but raising is not enough unless he has called for Jagtar's release in line with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's findings.\n\n\"Clearly, the prime minister had no option other than to raise Jagtar's case, after so many MPs demanded he do so.\n\n\"I fear that this is just more talk from the UK government and no action. The campaign continues until Jagtar is back home in Scotland.\"\n\nHuman rights group Reprieve's director Maya Foa said: \"Theresa May 'raised' Jagtar's case. So did Boris Johnson. But six years after his abduction and torture he's still in prison, facing a possible death sentence for something he didn't do.\n\n\"The government often says ministers have raised the case a hundred times, as if that makes their failure to seek the release of an arbitrarily detained British national any less shameful.\n\n\"What did Rishi Sunak say to Narendra Modi about the case and how did he respond? Without answers to these questions, the prime minister's talk is meaningless.\"\n\nDabinderjit Singh, the principal adviser to the Sikh Federation, said Mr Sunak had appeared \"very reluctant\" to press the Scot's case since entering No 10 almost a year ago until being \"forced through pressure\" from MPs to do so.\n\nHe added: \"He has, however, demonstrated his weakness and lack of leadership by shamefully falling to stand up for the rights of a British citizen and calling for Jagtar's immediate release.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak and his Foreign Office ministers are now talking utter nonsense in terms of Jagtar's best interests and justice.\n\n\"They appear scared and clueless on how best to apply diplomatic pressure on India and are leaving it to the corrupt Indian judicial system.\"", "We will be pausing our live coverage of events in Morocco shortly, thank you for joining us.\n\nBefore we go, let's take a look at what's happened over the last few hours:\n• The death toll from the quake has gone up to 1,037, with some 1,200 injured in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake which struck overnight, officials say\n• The quake was felt throughout the country, but most severely in Marrakesh, with many victims believed to be in remote villages in the nearby High Atlas Mountains, near the quake's epicentre\n• Many people are still on the streets, waiting to be sure their houses are safe before going back in\n• Along with many countries offering help, Algeria has said it was ready to open its airspace in support of Morocco, despite breaking off ties with its neighbour two years ago\n\nToday's coverage was brought to you by our writers Ece Göksedef, Laurence Peter, Maria Zaccaro and Mattea Bubalo. We were also joined by our colleague Megan Fisher on the video desk. The page was edited by James FitzGerald, Henri Astier, Emily McGarvey and me.\n\nYou can keep up to date with the latest news from Morocco with our news story here.", "Welsh rugby fans have descended on Bordeaux ahead of Wales' Rugby World Cup opener against Fiji on Sunday evening\n\nIn a region already famous for wine, this weekend Welsh fans will seize another chance to turn Bordeaux red.\n\nThe city already holds a special place in Welsh sporting folklore as the place where the national football team began their historical Euro 2016 run.\n\nThousands have travelled to the sunny banks of the Garonne, this time hoping for glory at the Rugby World Cup.\n\nWales face Fiji at the Stade Nouveau de Bordeaux in their first match of the tournament at 20:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nAs it is the first time Wales has played a World Cup match in the city, the opportunity for a trip to the south of France to was too good to miss for some.\n\n\"It feels like we've landed in heaven. It's a beautiful place, the atmosphere and the history,\" said Ian Roberts, from Cardiff, who has travelled with son Matthew.\n\nIan Roberts and son Matthew have travelled from Cardiff for Sunday's match\n\nFor others, such as Deb and her husband Alan, from Brecon, it's been a welcome return.\n\n\"It's our second time here, we came about five years ago,\" said Deb. \"It's a vibrant city, we love it.\"\n\nWith them were another couple, Gaynor and Christoph, from Brecon, as the group celebrated Gaynor's 60th birthday in Bordeaux.\n\n\"I did want to go to the Caribbean but the husband said no, we're going to the Rugby World Cup,\" said Gaynor.\n\nGaynor is celebrating her 60th birthday on the trip with friends Deb, Alan, Steve, Su and husband Christoph\n\nAnd having experienced some of France's tournament atmosphere in 2016, Kurtis, from Barry, was willing to make the long trip by car again with two of his friends.\n\n\"We left Barry yesterday at 7pm and arrived in Bordeaux at 2pm today, it was an absolute slog,\" he said.\n\n\"I hope it will be worth it, with the atmosphere in the game on Sunday.\"\n\nWelsh football fans were praised by Bordeaux authorities for their behaviour at the Euros, and Florian, manager of the Charles Dickens pub, remembers the lasting impression they left.\n\n\"That was really crazy, it was fully packed with them,\" he said.\n\n\"They were dancing, joyful, singing, a little bit of drinking but not too much.\"\n\nWales face Fiji at 20:00 BST on Sunday at Bordeaux's Stade Nouveau\n\nAs kick off approached for the tournament opener between France and New Zealand on Friday, and temperatures began to drop from a high of 34C, locals and visitors began filling the bars.\n\nBut it is Irish green rather than Welsh red that has been more prominent in the city so far, with the the Six Nations champions also facing Romania on Saturday at the Stade Nouveau de Bordeaux.\n\n\"We're waiting for it again,\" added Florian.\n\n\"We have started to see them arrive since yesterday - I have a good feeling.\"", "It was night when the earthquake hit Morocco, with many people already in bed. But the quake, measuring 6.8, soon led to people fleeing their homes in sheer panic.\n\nAn aftershock, of 4.9 magnitude, struck 19 minutes later.\n\nIt is now known that thousands have died - but the final death toll is still unclear. While the epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, many died in Marrakesh, some 44 miles away.\n\nAbdelhak El Amrani, 33, who lives in Marrakesh, told AFP: \"We felt a violent tremor, and I realised it was an earthquake. I could see buildings moving.\n\n\"Then I went outside and there were a lot of people there. People were all in shock and panic. The children were crying and the parents were distraught.\"\n\nMichael Bizet, a French national who owns three properties in Marrakesh's old town, told the news agency: \"I thought my bed was going to fly away. I went out into the street half-naked and immediately went to see my riads [traditional Moroccan houses].\n\nBritish journalist Martin Jay, who lives in Morocco, said he was woken by the sound of screams.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The first hint was my wife screaming. We both had nodded off to sleep - but not into deep sleep - just into that light slumber I suppose... and she started screaming, and I just sort of opened my eyes and couldn't quite join the dots up.\n\n\"I couldn't quite equate the situation, I couldn't imagine I was in the middle of an earthquake.\n\n\"Everything was vibrating, everything, the bed, the floor, the four walls.\"\n\nHe said people were told not to return to their homes.\n\n\"So you have this weird evening of almost every single town in Morocco, most people are sitting on the ground outside of their houses or apartment blocks, because they were afraid of the second earthquake which they predicted would come two hours later. Thank God it didn't.\"\n\nMany people left their homes and spent the rest of the night outside, in fear of more aftershocks\n\nFellow Marrakesh resident Fayssal Badour had been driving when the quake hit at 23:11 local time.\n\n\"I stopped and realised what a disaster it was,\" he told AFP. \"The screaming and crying was unbearable.\"\n\nMina Metioui said that, in Marrakesh, the noise sounded like \"a fighter jet\", getting louder and louder.\n\n\"The next thing I see, my room is moving, pictures, frames started falling off the wall,\" she told BBC News. \"You know, things just started dropping off. That's when I realised we're going through some sort of an earthquake.\n\n\"It took a second what felt like minutes. Then I heard people screaming, getting out the property... it was really a horrible experience.\"\n\nRescue efforts are now ongoing, with many buildings seriously damaged.\n\nMontasir Itri, who lives in the mountain village of Asni, close to the epicentre, told Reuters: \"Our neighbours are under the rubble and people are working hard to rescue them using available means in the village.\"\n\nHouda Outassaf had been walking around Jemaa el-Fna Square in Marrakesh when he felt the ground start to shake.\n\n\"It was a truly staggering sensation,\" he told AFP. \"We're safe and sound but I'm still in shock.\n\n\"I have at least 10 members of my family who died... I can hardly believe it, as I was with them no more than two days ago.\"\n\nThe historic city of Marrakesh is popular with tourists, attracting thousands each year.\n\nLorella Palmer, a British woman on holiday there, told BBC News: \"The room just started shaking.\"\n\n\"I think your brain doesn't register straight away what is happening until the picture frames and the bed start shaking,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Gabon's new prime minister has told the BBC that the country should hold fresh elections within the next two years, following a military coup last week.\n\nThe junta which overthrew President Ali Bongo has promised a free and fair election, but not set out a timetable.\n\nHowever, Raymond Ndong Sima told the BBC's Newshour programme: \"I have said in a document that I published that that should be done within two years.\"\n\nHe said a timetable would be decided in the coming days.\n\nMr Sima was installed as interim prime minister on Thursday, after Gen Brice Oligui Nguema, who led the coup against Mr Bongo, became Gabon's transitional president.\n\nMr Bongo had led the oil-rich West African country since 2009 when he succeeded his father who had been in power for more than 40 years. The family had strong links to France, the former colonial power in Gabon.\n\nThe coup has been condemned in Africa and the West, including France.\n\nCivilians appear to have welcomed the change, with cheers greeting Gen Nguema's inauguration on Monday.\n\nHowever, some have questioned whether his rule will be a break from the past, having spent most of his career in Mr Bongo's inner circle.\n\nAsked what had changed since the coup, Mr Sima told the BBC's Newshour: \"What has changed is that the military has refused to beat up the population and we have a promise that we will look into the institutions that [will] come back to the democratic rule.\n\n\"In politics you would rather take a little bit of what you can get.\"\n\nMr Sima added that he would take time for Gabon to transition away from the previous regime.\n\n\"You cannot end the political influence of a family that has ruled for over 50 years in one day because there are indirect influence and direct influence,\" he said.\n\nThe new prime minister - who once served under Mr Bongo before standing against him in two elections - ruled out bringing a legal case against Gabon's former president.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Bongo to face trial on allegations of corruption.\n\nBut Mr Sima said: \"I think what is interesting for people is not to open the case. I don't think it would be viable to open a case at this moment.\"\n\nFrance conducted a seven-year investigation into the Bongo family, which revealed assets including numerous properties and nine luxury cars before it was dropped in 2017. The family strongly denied all the allegations.\n\nMr Bongo was released from house arrest on Thursday and the junta has said he is free to leave the country to seek medical check-ups.\n\nIn the past, he has received treatment in Morocco after suffering a stroke.", "The G20 summit in India has agreed on a joint declaration, including a statement on the war in Ukraine.\n\nOn the first of their two-day meeting, G20 leaders denounced the use of force for territorial gain but stopped short of directly criticising Russia.\n\nThe Ukrainian government said the statement was \"nothing to be proud of\".\n\nThe summit in Delhi also discussed a number of global issues, including climate change and the debt burden of developing countries.\n\nBut it was a day of unexpectedly big headlines at the G20 summit.\n\nFew expected a joint declaration, not least on the first day of the summit given the sharp divisions in the group over the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the group had reached consensus on the declaration.\n\nA strong indication that last-minute negotiations were ongoing came in an earlier draft of the declaration accessed by the BBC on Friday - it showed the paragraph on Ukraine was left blank.\n\nThe sticking point was the Ukraine war - as it was during the Bali summit last year.\n\nThe Delhi declaration appears designed to allow both the West and Russia to find positives. But in the process, it has used language that is not as strong in its condemnation of Moscow as it was in Bali last year.\n\nIn Bali, the members deplored \"in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine\" - although it noted that \"there were other views and different assessments of the situation and sanctions\".\n\nThe Delhi declaration does not directly criticise Russia for the war.\n\nBut it does talk about \"the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine with regard to global food and energy security\". It also repeated the acknowledgement of \"different views and assessments\".\n\nImportantly, the declaration specifies \"the war in Ukraine\" rather than \"the war against Ukraine.\" This choice of words could have increased the likelihood of Russia endorsing of the declaration.\n\nUkraine - which took part in the Bali summit - was not invited this year, and its response to the declaration has been critical.\n\n\"In terms of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, G20 has nothing to be proud of,\" the Ukrainian foreign ministry tweeted.\n\nIt's hard for Kyiv to see the dropping of any reference to Russian \"aggression\" as anything but a sign that its Western backers are losing the argument with the \"global South\" over how to characterise the war.\n\nThe other big news came when Mr Modi formally invited the African Union (AU) to become a permanent member of the G20.\n\nDelhi prioritised elevating the voices of these nations as the foundation of its presidency, and in the near future, it is poised to reap the rewards of this strategic choice as it vies with China for influence across Asia and Africa.\n\nThe decision is also good news for Africa as the continent of 1.4 billion people will now have wider representation on a global forum like the G20.\n\nAt the ministerial level meetings in the run-up to the summit, there had been no agreement on the issue. But now officials say they have reached \"100% consensus\".\n\nThere has been evident give-and-take on climate in the declaration.\n\nIt says the G20 countries will \"pursue and encourage efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally through existing targets and policies\". G20 accounts for more than 75% of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nDeveloping countries had in the past resisted increasing renewable energy targets, phasing down fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from developed nations.\n\nOn greenhouse emissions peaking - the point after which emissions will need to drop - developing nations have been able to buy time.\n\nThe declaration says that \"timeframes for peaking may be shaped by sustainable development, poverty eradication needs, equity, and in line with different national circumstances\".\n\nExperts have also emphasised the importance of the Green Development Pact, a plan to tackle the environmental crisis through global co-operation over the next decade.\n\nG20 countries have also pledged to work together to enable low-cost financing for developing countries to support their transitions to low emissions.\n\nPramit Pal Chaudhuri, South Asia practice head of Eurasia Group, said India had done \"reasonably well\" on green finance.\n\n\"Green finance now largely goes from rich countries to other rich countries. Private capital is central to this financing. Not even emerging economies get it. India has been pushing to change that. At the heart of it is to get multilateral development banks to begin the process of de-risking private capital flows in the green space,\" he said.\n\nThen there is the growing concern over debt. The World Bank has calculated that the world's poorest nations are burdened with an annual debt service of over $60bn to bilateral creditors, which escalates the risk of defaults. Two-thirds of this debt is owed to China.\n\nThe group has said it wants to help these countries manage their debt burden. The Delhi declaration has committed to address debt vulnerabilities in developing countries.\n\nAdditional reporting by Navin Singh Khadka in Delhi and BBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams in Kyiv.", "Dave and Central Cee performed Sprinter together at Glastonbury Festival\n\nDave and Central Cee's record-breaking Sprinter has been declared UK song of summer 2023 by the Official Charts.\n\nThe track, a Latin-tinged melodic take on drill, finds them rapping about partying with plenty of girls.\n\nIt became the longest-running UK rap chart-topper last month, with 10 straight weeks at the summit.\n\nKylie Minogue's hypnotic Padam Padam - her first UK top 10 single in more than a decade - ended the summer as the country's most downloaded track.\n\nLondon rappers Dave and Central Cee's collaboration collected 812,000 UK chart units in total, including 105 million UK streams, also making it the most-streamed song of the summer.\n\n\"The duo's smash is a playful, knowing track that indulges in rap clichés while acknowledging their absurdity,\" wrote BBC music correspondent Mark Savage.\n\nSprinter gave Brit Award and Mercury Prize-winner Dave his third number one, and Mobo Award-winner Central Cee his first.\n\nAs fate would have it, it marked 10 weeks at the top on the same day that hip-hop celebrated its 50th birthday last month.\n\nThe pair performed the tune - taken from their joint EP Split Decision - together live at Glastonbury Festival in June, where they were joined for an adorable cameo by the baby from the track's music video, aka British-Nigerian artist and designer Slawn's son Beau.\n\nA few months later, Central Cee spat his bars solo in a shortened version of it to fans at Leeds Festival, who did their best to rap-a-long.\n\nElsewhere on the list, revealed on Saturday, fellow London rapper J Hus finished the summer in fourth place with Who Told You, which features Canadian star and Top Boy executive producer Drake.\n\nWhile the number one spot may be occupied by two men (with arguably too many women), seven out of the top 10 tracks feature female artists.\n\nSecond place on the songs of the summer list went to Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris and English singer Ellie Goulding for their trance-pop hit Miracle, which spent eight weeks at number one.\n\nAnother number one, Dua Lipa's Barbie movie soundtrack anthem, Dance The Night, took the bronze podium position.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Dua Lipa This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo's haunting ballad Vampire, the most-purchased single of the summer on physical formats, also made the top 10.\n\nThe young American placed ahead of her compatriots Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, with their suitably seasonal sad bangers, Cruel Summer and Flowers, respectively.\n\nEarlier in the year, Cyrus's ode to self-love after a break-up spent 10 weeks at the summit, like Dave and Central Cee's track. And by July it had been declared the biggest song of 2023 overall so far.\n\nBut that was before the top boys of summer had even driven their Sprinter out of the showroom forecourt and off up the charts.", "Mr Kim attended the parade with his young daughter\n\nNorth Korea has marked the 75th anniversary of its founding day with a parade attended by Russian diplomats and a Chinese delegation.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a Russian military song-and-dance ensemble and officials from Beijing were all in attendance.\n\nThe event follows rumours that Mr Kim might meet Vladimir Putin this month.\n\nIt is understood Mr Kim is planning to travel to Russia to discuss with the Russian president the possibility of North Korea providing Moscow with weapons to support its war in Ukraine.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the matter when asked by a journalist in Moscow on Saturday, according to the Interfax news agency.\n\nIn a message to congratulate Mr Kim on the 75th anniversary of North Korea's founding, Mr Putin said he was convinced the two countries would \"continue to strengthen bilateral ties on all fronts\".\n\nHe said this would help ensure \"the security and stability on the Korean peninsula and northeast Asia\".\n\nThe event was held in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square\n\nMr Putin noted that the Soviet Union was the first country to recognise the North Korean regime. He said that relations between the two countries had since been based \"on the principles of friendship, good neighbourliness and mutual respect\".\n\nThe Russian embassy in Pyongyang said earlier this week it had been allowed to bring in 20 diplomatic and technical staff.\n\nThe official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim Il Sung Square \"was full of excitement and joy\" and all those who attended the parade \"paid the highest glory and warmest thanks to Kim Jong Un, peerless patriot and ever-victorious iron-willed commander\".\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping \"extended congratulations in a call to Kim Jong Un\" on the anniversary, Chinese state media reported.\n\nA Chinese delegation led by Liu Guozhong, vice-premier of the State Council, attended the parade instead and met with Mr Kim.\n\nThe event featured paramilitary forces rather than soldiers in the regular army and it did not showcase the country's banned weaponry which include ballistic missiles, according to state media.", "A devastating earthquake in southern Morocco, which has killed thousands of people, has also destroyed large areas of the historic centre of Marrakesh. Many residents and tourists were forced to spend the night outside, over fears of an aftershock worsening the situation in the city.\n\nA woman surveys the damage to a building in Marrakesh, after the powerful earthquake struck overnight on Friday\n\nDebris fell from buildings in the historic city, trapping many people and destroying vehicles\n\nDamage to buildings such as this mosque became clear after sunrise on Saturday\n\nMany buildings have collapsed, leaving residents to survey the damage\n\nThe epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was in the Atlas Mountains - less than 50 miles from the city\n\nPeople in Marrakesh have been donating blood to help the hundreds injured by the tremors\n\nMany residents of the city spent the night outside of their homes amid fears of an aftershock\n\nDozens of people slept near a hotel swimming pool in the city - a popular tourist destination\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "George Ford kicked 27 points to steer England to a magnificent World Cup victory over Argentina after they were reduced to 14 men after three minutes.\n\nTom Curry was sent off by the bunker review system for a clash of heads with Juan Cruz Mallia that took place in the third minute in Marseille.\n\nEngland controlled the second half and Ford added 15 points as England started Pool D with a morale-boosting win.\n\nRodrigo Bruni powered over in the 79th minute for the only try of the game for hapless Argentina.\n\nThere's not exactly a large sample but this was, by a million miles, the biggest win of Steve Borthwick's reign as England coach, a win that he not only wanted but very badly needed to quell the gathering storm around his running of the team.\n\nIt was an old school triumph that was in name only similar to the feast of rugby on Friday night when France beat the All Blacks. But if England are to revive themselves, it has to start somewhere - and this was hugely encouraging.\n\nDespite being down in numbers for all bar a few minutes, it was a win orchestrated by the unflappable Ford, who took the game by the scruff of its neck and didn't let go.\n\nTheir dominance was then hammered home by England's physicality, which hasn't been spotted so much of late. England beat the Pumas in every facet. It was no oil painting of a game - very far from it, in fact - but given where they were coming from, the England management might have been minded to look at it like a thing of wonder hanging in the Louvre.\n\nThe pre-match pressure on England was as intense as the Marseille sun, the criticism playing out on a loop before this contest.\n\nFour wins in their last 13 Tests, a win percentage of 33% under Borthwick, a 50-point loss to France not long ago, a first loss in their history to Fiji fresh in the memory, no coherent gameplan, no physical dominance, a plodding pursuit of tries, little in the way of excitement or hope.\n\nEverything came down to the Stade Velodrome. For England fans, there would have been a buzz but also a dread around this World Cup opener and that would only have hardened when Curry, just back from injury, went high in a tackle on Mallia in the second minute and got a yellow that was upgraded to a red by the bunker review.\n\nThe Sale flanker was off the pitch before a significant number of England fans had made it into the stadium because of long delays outside the ground thought to be a consequence of security checks.\n\nFormer England hooker Brian Moore wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"the organisation at the Marseille stadium was beyond shambolic\".\n\nA statement from World Rugby and France 2023 said: \"While fans were able to take their seats, fan experience is paramount, and we are working with all stakeholders to establish the facts and implement measures to prevent such delays for the remaining Rugby World Cup 2023 matches at the venue.\"\n\nEngland's poor discipline, and alarming card count, is another area that has vexed them. Emiliano Boffelli punished them with the resultant penalty. But, wait. Minutes after Curry walked, so did Santiago Carreras for a late hit on Ford.\n\nThe England fans howled for a red upgrade, but it never came. What also never came was a Test of quality.\n\nIt was a slugfest between two sides who battled forlornly with their own attacking shortcomings, but England had way too much for the Pumas. Even with 14 men, they won with ease. Their forwards squeezed all life and hope out of their opposite numbers.\n\nCourtney Lawes was terrific. Maro Itoje roared back to form. Manu Tuilagi was a powerhouse in everything he did in the midfield and as an auxiliary flanker, but Ford was the main man. His game management was decisive.\n\nFord banged over a penalty to level it at 3-3 then started to drop-kick the Pumas to distraction. There were moments - fleeting ones - when England looked to go wide and play, but there was little conviction and confidence in what they were doing.\n\nWhen Ford put over the first of his kicks - a beauty - he didn't really have any other attacking option.\n\nWhen he landed his second - from somewhere close to Marseille port - he wasn't blessed with options then either.\n\nIn this surreal trip back to the 1990s when drop-goals were considered fashionable, the Pumas had a crack themselves, but fly-half Carreras had none of Ford's brilliant execution.\n\nThe Ford hat-trick came just before the break. A line-out, an England rumble, static ball. Ford had enough, called for it and put England 12-3 clear. None of it was easy on the eye. Only rarely did the crowd become energised, but England had to win somehow. A beauty contest, it was not. England ground the Pumas into the dirt.\n\nArgentina either froze or were over-hyped to begin with. Their decision-making with what little ball they had was wretched. They hardly raised a gallop all night. England gave them the square root of nothing. You had to constantly remind yourself that this was 14 Englishmen versus 15 Pumas.\n\nFord put further distance on the scoreboard with a penalty early in the new half and the lead stretched out to 12. Then he did it again before it went to 15. This was the rhythm of the night. England drove forward, the Pumas infringed and Ford made them pay. It went to 21-3 and 24-3. A rout.\n\nEventually, after an age, the Pumas got into the England 22. They advanced to the England line, huffed puffed and… got turned over. Their body language at that point was of broken men. The final whistle could have sounded and it would have come as a blessed relief.\n\nThere was a little more pain, and a little more Ford, before Bruni's late try.\n\nNobody saw this coming. The Pumas will never want to see it again. England, under a cloud that only darkened when Curry departed, have something to build on at last.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford: \"The drop-goals are always planned, it is a great weapon for us, especially when the ball is a bit greasy.\n\n\"We went down a man early on and had to come away with as many points as possible when we had field position. The boys up front were incredible to get us into that field position.\n\n\"We have had a bit of a rocky build-up to this World Cup but I think in the last 10 days there has been a different feeling to the place.\"\n\nEngland head coach Steve Borthwick: \"There was a sense I had from the players they had been written off a bit too early. They are a quality group of players that are going to keep on improving and moving forward.\n\n\"We will enjoy this tonight and the fans will enjoy it but our focus will switch to Japan very quickly for our next game on Sunday.\"\n\nArgentina head coach Michael Cheika: \"Pretty much everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I think we let the play get too stop and start.\n\n\"England played the circumstances very well and full credit to them.\n\n\"Our players will take a lot from this experience. We have many first-timers in World Cup games and they will take a lesson of how we need to be ready when the whistle blows.\"\n\nReplacements: Lawrence for Tuilagi (69), Smith for Ford (75), Care for Mitchell (59), Marler for Genge (54), Dan for George (72), Stuart for Cole (50), Martin for Chessum (59), Ludlam for Lawes (66).\n\nReplacements: Moroni for M. Carreras (63), Velez for Bertranou (69), Bello for Gallo (63), Creevy for Montoya (67), Sclavi for Gomez Kodela (50), Petti for Alemanno (41), Rubiolo for Lavanini (50), Bruni for Gonzalez (59).", "Ukraine is clearly disappointed at the G20’s wording on the war.\n\nThe foreign ministry spokesman, Oleg Nikolenko, said the G20 had “nothing to be proud of\", while thanking “those who tried to include strong wording in the text\".\n\nAnd in a post on Facebook, he quoted the language of the declaration, complete with a teacher’s corrections in red.\n\nObviously, these included references to Russia - conspicuously absent from the text agreed in Delhi - and replacement of the neutral term “war in Ukraine” with the rather more pointed “war against Ukraine\".\n\nIt’s hard for Kyiv to see the absence of any reference to Russian “aggression” (included in the last declaration agreed in November) as anything but a sign that its Western backers are losing their argument with the “global South” over how to characterise the war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The four-day hunt for Daniel Khalife... in 81 seconds\n\nDaniel Khalife - who was for a time this week Britain's most wanted man - was born in Westminster in 2001, along with his twin sister.\n\nHe is British and has Lebanese heritage on his father's side. His parents split up when he was young.\n\nGrowing up, Mr Khalife's family life was in and around the south-west London borough of Kingston upon Thames.\n\nHe attended Teddington School, a local mixed comprehensive with good results, and left after his GCSEs in 2018.\n\nPeople who remember him from the time who have spoken to BBC News have not recalled anything that would have made them think he would end up a terror suspect on the run.\n\nOne former school friend said he was quite a funny character, just a normal teenager - and certainly not badly behaved.\n\nMr Khalife was also remembered as a talented runner - a natural gift that may have been in use during his prison break-out.\n\n\"He just sort of got on with it like most of us did,\" one school friend told BBC News.\n\n\"He had social skills. He wasn't particularly socially withdrawn or anything. He had friends.\n\n\"[Since the prison break] Everyone's just had the same reaction [of shock]... It was just mind-blowing. It wasn't expected at all.\"\n\nAnother said ahead of his recapture: \"Some funny stories I could tell you... One thing I will tell you though, he's not a terrorist. He doesn't know his arse from his elbow.\n\n\"He was the 100m school champion... they're not catching him.\"\n\nAfter school, he joined the Army, becoming a private in the Royal Signals Regiment, based at MOD Stafford.\n\nThe facility is home to some of the British military's most sophisticated technology and communications operations and it includes the Defence Electronics and Components Agency.\n\nThere, for a time at least, he continued to run and joined a military family running group.\n\nHe was also into computer gaming - using the brand icon of the makers of Grand Theft Auto as his profile picture in a number of social media profiles.\n\nWatch how the story of Daniel Khalife's escape unfolded on BBC iPlayer.\n\nOne former fellow serviceman told BBC News that Mr Khalife tried to \"be the joker\" during basic training.\n\n\"He was either making funny remarks or trying to be cocky or stuff like that with the training staff,\" he recalled. \"Just like when kids mess around at school with teachers really.\"\n\nOutside of Army life he seemed to be a normal young man. BBC News has seen one video of him taken in a pub near where he was based on a night out.\n\nWhat happened between 2019 and his arrest and charge in 2023 is not clear - and may only become so if Mr Khalife is found and tried for the original offences he was facing.\n\nIn January this year, he was brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court - which deals with the initial stages of all terrorism cases in England and Wales.\n\nThe court heard that the 21-year-old was facing two allegations.\n\nProsecutors alleged that in August 2021 he obtained information about members of the armed forces from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System - and that the information was of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.\n\nThat is a relatively minor terrorism offence because the maximum jail sentence is 12 months.\n\nHe was also accused of a bomb hoax almost four weeks before his arrest. The court was told that he had allegedly placed three canisters with wires on a desk in his accommodation, intending people to believe the contraption was a real explosive device.\n\nAfter that appearance in court, there was a delay in his case being sent to crown court while another far more serious allegation was prepared.\n\nMr Khalife is now accused of committing an act \"prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state\", contrary to the Official Secrets Act.\n\nIt's alleged that between May 2019 and January 2022 he obtained, collected, recorded, published, or communicated information which was useful to an enemy - a spying offence.\n\nThe BBC understands that the allegation relates to Iran.\n\nAt his last court appearance in July, Mr Khalife formally pleaded not guilty to all three allegations and a judge at the Old Bailey said he would face a jury trial in November.\n\nWhether that trial will go ahead as planned, in light of his recapture on Saturday, is now unclear.", "Two men have been seriously injured in a double attack in Sheffield city centre, police have said.\n\nA 20-year-old was stabbed on Carver Street at about 03:00 BST. Shortly after, another man - also aged 20 - was hit by a car at the same location.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said officers believe the two incidents were linked.\n\nOfficers said the stab victim was in a \"serious but stable\" condition, while the other man suffered \"potentially life-changing\" leg injuries.\n\nA third man, in his 20s, has been arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs with the intention to supply. He remains in police custody.\n\nDet Insp Mark Cockayne said there would be a heightened police presence in the area as the force investigated the incidents.\n\nPolice have confirmed they are linking the two incidents.\n\nDet Insp Mark Cockayne said there will be a \"heightened police presence\" in the area as officers investigate.\n\nI know incidents of violence such as this will be a cause for concern for people who live, work in and visit Sheffield city centre.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nComedian Mike Yarwood, whose TV impressions made him a household name, has died aged 82.\n\nYarwood was one of the biggest TV stars of the 1970s with hit BBC shows.\n\nHe was famous for his impressions of former prime ministers Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, as well as the then Prince Charles.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie described Yarwood as \"simply one of the greats\" and \"one of Britain's most loved performers\".\n\n\"From Harold Wilson to Frank Spencer, his legendary impressions were always pin sharp, warm and funny. We will remember them all with a smile,\" he said.\n\nThe Royal Variety Charity, which announced his death, said he \"leaves behind an immeasurable void in the entertainment industry\".\n\n\"His talent for impersonation brought smiles to the faces of millions and his unique ability to capture the essence of his subjects made him an icon in the comedy world,\" the charity added.\n\nActress and singer Kate Robbins described Yarwood as \"the guvnor of impressionists\".\n\nShe said she was \"lucky enough to work with him in the 80s\", adding: \"When I was Sarah Brightman to his Cliff Richard we could hardly get anything done for laughing so much.\"\n\nImpressionist Rory Bremner said Yarwood had \"inspired us, propelled impressionists up the bill and was the court jester of the 'golden age' of TV.\"\n\nAnd LBC presenter Iain Dale described him as \"a titan of comedy\".\n\n\"He was the impressionist's impressionist and blazed the trail for those that followed in his wake, yet he was sometimes underappreciated.\"\n\nOthers paying tribute included TV personality and former newspaper editor Piers Morgan.\n\n\"Massive TV star when I was growing up, and such a gifted comedian and impressionist,\" he wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"RIP Mike, and thanks for all the laughs.\"\n\nYarwood was most well known for his impersonations, particularly of prominent political figures.\n\nHe created catchphrases which became identified with famous figures, even though they had never actually used them - including \"silly Billy\" for former Chancellor Denis Healey and \"I mean that most sincerely, folks\" for TV presenter Hughie Green.\n\nThe Mike Yarwood Show in 1977 holds the record for the largest single Christmas Day audience of 21.4m viewers, according to the Royal Variety Charity.\n\nHaving regularly attracted audiences of more than 20 million, Mr Yarwood found the decline of his career in the 1980s difficult to adjust to.\n\nMr Yarwood spent his latter years at the Royal Variety Charity's care home, Brinsworth House.\n\nHe was born on 14 June 1941 in Bredbury, Cheshire, and was a lifelong supporter of Stockport County Football Club.\n• None A look back at Mike Yarwood's famous impressions. Video, 00:00:12A look back at Mike Yarwood's famous impressions", "Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a towering figure in South African politics and outspoken Zulu chief, has died at the age of 95.\n\nDuring the racist apartheid regime, he founded the Zulu Inkatha party after becoming disillusioned with the African National Congress (ANC).\n\nThousands were killed in clashes between supporters of the two parties in the early 1990s.\n\nBut he was later welcomed back into the fold, serving as President Nelson Mandela's minister of home affairs.\n\nChief Buthelezi was a shrewd but controversial politician, who disagreed with the ANC's tactics of armed action against white-minority rule and trod a moderate path as leader of an ethnic-Zulu homeland.\n\nHe was opposed to international sanctions on South Africa, arguing that they would only harm the country's black majority.\n\nDuring the clashes in the early 1990s, Nelson Mandela's ANC accused him of collaborating with the white-minority government.\n\nSome feared the violence could lead to a civil war and derail the transition to democracy which saw Mandela become president in 1994.\n\nMany believed that members of the apartheid security forces were working with the Inkatha movement to fight the ANC but Buthelezi always denied that.\n\nHe said he had \"played a significant role in our country's history for seven decades\".\n\nThe president added: \"Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been an outstanding leader in the political and cultural life of our nation, including the ebbs and flows of our liberation struggle, the transition which secured our freedom in 1994 and our democratic dispensation.\"\n\nHe said Chief Buthelezi had died in the early hours of Saturday, two weeks after celebrating his 95th birthday.\n\nChief Buthelezi shakes hands with ANC leader Nelson Mandela, watched by South African President FW De Klerk, in 1994\n\nChief Buthelezi was hereditary chief of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group.\n\nHe was born into the Zulu royal family - his mother was Princess Magogo kaDinzulu, the sister of the Zulu king. Chief Buthelezi played the role of his own great-grandfather, the Zulu King Cetshwayo, in the 1964 film Zulu.\n\nHe was prime minister of KwaZulu, the Zulu homeland, and in 1975 founded the Inkatha Freedom Party, a Zulu political and cultural movement. He stepped down as party leader in 2019 after 44 years at its helm.", "Jordan Chadwick's body was repatriated with the help of the Ukrainian International Army\n\nA British man who went to fight for the International Legion in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands bound behind his back.\n\nJordan Chadwick, 31, from Burnley in Lancashire, served as a Scots guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.\n\nHis mother Brenda Chadwick said her family were \"devastated\" by the death of her son, who was known as Joe.\n\nThe Ukrainian International Army organised his repatriation on the 7 August.\n\nAn inquest to establish the cause of Mr Chadwick's death will be held in February.\n\nMrs Chadwick told the BBC that he always wanted to be a soldier from a young age.\n\n\"His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,\" she said.\n\nBut on 26 June, Mrs Chadwick said she was informed by Lancashire Police that her son had been killed.\n\nMr Chadwick served as a Scots guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) contacted her the following day and confirmed the tragic news.\n\nShe said: \"Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.\n\n\"No words can be found to describe the loss of such a short life.\n\n\"A son, brother, grandson, nephew and uncle, who was loved immensely.\"\n\nAn FCDO spokesperson said: \"We are providing assistance to the family of a British man who died in Ukraine and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "So far 2023 has seen some false dawns for the UK economy. The next few weeks' data are critical.\n\nRecession has been avoided but growth has bumped along the bottom.\n\nAnd even as inflation falls from the double-digit levels of a year ago, it has proven more stubborn and sticky, and spread to the service sector.\n\nThe ONS's recent huge revision of historical growth changes the picture of the immediate post-pandemic recovery, especially relative to other European countries.\n\nBut a broader reassessment of UK prospects may have to wait for news in the coming weeks.\n\nData released in September could show whether the crises of the past three years are being put firmly behind us.\n\nExpectations within government are for the rollercoaster ride to continue for the next few weeks at least.\n\nUnemployment might tick up again when new figures are released on Tuesday. However, the UK should finally return to a situation where earnings are growing by more than the rise in the cost of living too.\n\nThe economy (GDP) could also have shrunk a little in July - we'll find out on Wednesday.\n\nRising fuel prices in August are likely to lead to a blip in the latest inflation numbers, released the following Wednesday, according to both Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.\n\nAll of this will feed into the Bank of England's interest rate decision in a fortnight.\n\nA rate rise had been expected, but recent hints have suggested the Bank may prefer to keep rates at current levels for longer.\n\nAgainst this backdrop, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is plugging the latest data into its forecasts to be published in November, alongside the Autumn Statement.\n\nOn the face of it, higher wages are pushing up the tax take, meaning that this year's borrowing numbers are coming in less than originally forecast.\n\nHowever, there is more red ink pouring into the projections. At the Budget forecast in March, the peak in Bank of England rates was expected to be 4.3%. It is already 5.25%.\n\nTen-year UK borrowing rates were forecast to be an average of 3.6% in March, and they reached 4.8% last month.\n\nThe OBR already stated at the Budget that a one percentage point rise in borrowing costs would increase borrowing by £20bn in 2027-28, \"wiping out headroom\" in its forecast.\n\nWhen the OBR points out that the Treasury is not on course to meet its self-imposed constraints on borrowing, that can result in pressure for tax rises or spending cuts.\n\nRight now the political conversation is about the opposite - pre-election tax cuts, or more spending on, for example, school repairs.\n\nFor the chancellor, this autumn should help settle Britain on a stable, steady economic trajectory.\n\nIt will not be spectacular, but it will be a world away from last year's shambles under his predecessor.\n\nInflation should continue to fall, down to 3% in a year's time. The UK will stay in a respectable middle lane of growth in the major G7 economies.\n\nThe Treasury's main medium-term policy focus will be acknowledging and trying to deal with the UK's relatively poor record on business investment.\n\nThe Budget contained a suite of measures designed to help ease the labour supply problem.\n\nThe Autumn Statement will be about this business investment challenge. The Treasury thinks it explains a quarter of the UK's productivity underperformance with other major economies.\n\nThe prize, if the UK was as productive as Germany, for example, would be an increase in GDP per head of £6,000.\n\nBut households are very much not out of the woods.\n\nEven a declining headline rate of inflation, and rising average earnings, will not mask increasing pain as rising interest rates hit homeowners and renters.\n\nThe ONS consumer habits survey shows the bulk of people still spending more than usual on food shopping, buying less, and noticing less variety on the shelves.\n\nSupermarkets notice hundreds of thousands of home meals, replacing eating out.\n\nBanks notice mortgage holders who used to shop at the priciest of supermarkets switching to discount retailers.\n\nBy the end of the month the Bank of England could give a definitive steer that interest rates have peaked at 5.5%, albeit at the cost of their staying at such a level for the next year or so.\n\nIndustry is confident that high stocks of gas, and the ability to reduce demand, mean the whole of Europe should be resilient to any further energy market disruptions.\n\nBut the combination of some further stoppage in gas tanker trade and a very cold winter still has the capacity to create a nasty inflationary surprise in the new year.\n\nA path to a more normal economic situation could emerge soon. The data about to be released should give some big clues.", "A sighting of escaped terror suspect Daniel Khalife is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nA witness saw him near Wandsworth roundabout on Wednesday morning, walking away from the food delivery van he used to escape from HMP Wandsworth.\n\nThe Met is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information that leads directly to his arrest.\n\nThe 21-year-old is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and plotting a fake bomb hoax.\n\nThe delivery van had stopped near the south entrance to the roundabout, at the top of Trinity Road, when a member of the public reported seeing Mr Khalife crawling out from underneath it.\n\n\"The man was then seen walking towards Wandsworth town centre,\" the police statement added.\n\nThe sighting is one of several \"key lines\" of enquiry the Met says it is following.\n\nCdr Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the force had received 100 calls from the public and the Wandsworth Roundabout sighting \"could be very significant\".\n\n\"This remains a fast-paced and dynamic investigation, but I want the public to know that a large number of officers are working extremely hard to locate Khalife,\" he said.\n\nHe said his message to the suspect was to hand himself in: \"We will be closing in on you, Daniel, you really need to come in and give yourself up.\"\n\nCdr Murphy added that efforts were being focused on London but would also look at other parts of the UK as the investigation developed.\n\nThe Met has also opened its UK Image Appeal website, allowing members of the public to submit any images and videos which are relevant to the investigation.\n\nPolice have established the route the delivery van took on Wednesday\n\nMr Khalife is described as slim, 6ft 2in (1.9m), with short brown hair.\n\nPolice say there is no reason to believe he poses a threat to the public, but urged people not to approach him and instead call 999.\n\nMr Khalife - who joined the British Army in 2019 - is thought to have clung to the underside of a delivery lorry to make his escape from HMP Wandsworth in London.\n\nDetectives believe he was still wearing his prison-issue cook's uniform when he slipped out of the category B jail on Wednesday.\n\nSome 150 Met Counter Terrorism Command officers have been deployed in the search since Khalife was declared missing at 08:15 BST.\n\nA search took place on Thursday night into the early hours of Friday in Richmond Park, south-west London - just 2.8 miles (4.6km) from the prison.\n\nBBC News was told it was not based on any specific lead or intelligence, and search efforts have been scaled back.\n\nDaniel Khalife, top left, during his time in the British Army in 2018\n\nThe Met has released a photo of the type of clothing Mr Khalife was wearing when he escaped from prison\n\nThe Met said it had been able to clarify the route taken by the delivery lorry as it left the prison, following new CCTV enquiries.\n\n\"After exiting Wandsworth roundabout onto Swandon Road, the van remained on the road until turning left onto Fairfield Street,\" the force explained.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the force was exploring the possibility the former soldier was helped by other prisoners or guards.\n\nJustice Secretary Alex Chalk said an independent investigation will take place following the escape.\n\nIt will run alongside reviews looking at the categorisation and placement of all HMP Wandsworth prisoners, and all those in custody charged with terrorism offences.", "The former Princess of Wales first wore the sweater in 1981, a month before her wedding to then Prince Charles. Misplaced for decades, it was rediscovered in an attic in March this year.\n\nOn Thursday, the sweater was sold for $1.14 million (£920,000) at an auction by Sotheby's in New York.", "Jane Felix-Richards, from Cardiff was staying about 20 minutes from the main square in Marrakesh\n\nHolidaymakers caught up in the Morocco earthquake have spoken of the terrifying moment disaster hit.\n\nJane Felix-Richards and her family, from Cardiff, were staying about 20 minutes from the main square in Marrakesh.\n\nThey were in the foyer of their hotel having a drink when they heard a \"deep rumble that got increasingly louder\".\n\nAs the building began to move Ms Felix-Richards thought there had been an explosion in the building.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been killed in the disaster, which struck at 23:11 local time on Friday\n\nThe 6.8 magnitude quake struck at 23:11 local time on Friday and more than 2,000 have been left dead.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5km, the US Geological Survey said.\n\nIt was followed by a 4.9 aftershock 19 minutes later.\n\n\"The whole building started to violently shake, chandeliers were swinging, plaster was coming off the walls, glasses were being smashed,\" Ms Felix-Richards said.\n\n\"I thought a bomb had gone off and the roof was coming down.\n\n\"I told the family to run, we ran to the doors leading out to the pool.\"\n\nThey were locked so her husband pushed open a side door.\n\n\"Everyone went through that door to escape,\" Ms Felix-Richards said.\n\nCarina Lewis, bottom right, recalled \"everything started flying around\" in her hotel\n\nSirens could be heard in the distance.\n\nMs Felix-Richards said: \"It was an incredibly scary experience. Today we are still in shock. It feels completely surreal.\"\n\nCarina Lewis, a student nurse from Treorchy, said she was petrified when the quake hit while she was in Marrakesh's Aqua Mirage hotel, and \"everything started flying around\".\n\nThe building, 37 miles (60km) from the epicentre, has been left with cracks in the walls.\n\nMs Lewis, from Treorchy, said she and her family had been \"left in limbo\".\n\nThe 42-year-old is in the north African country with her two sons, her daughter, one of her son's friends and her partner Lee.\n\nMs Lewis said walls in her hotel had been left damaged by the quake\n\nShe said: \"We had just come back to the hotel, it was something like 10:30 or 10:40pm and there was suddenly a whirring sound outside, almost like a motorbike.\n\n\"The next thing, everything started flying around, the whole building was shaking, things were flying off the counter. There was a door that was meant to be locked, and it just flew open.\n\n\"I grabbed my boy out of the bed and the passports and we just went out as quickly as we could.\"\n\nPeople in the corridor, she said, were screaming and running and told her: \"It's an earthquake, get out.\"\n\nRather than return to the hotel they slept on the grass of a playing field and then on sun loungers by the pool.\n\nMs Lewis said the aftershock was not as bad as the first quake but that they are expecting more.\n\nThey do not know when they will be able to return to Wales, but are due to fly back on Monday.\n\nMs Lewis said: \"They said we can go back in [the hotel]. They said the blocks are structurally safe. But there are massive cracks in the floors. All up the walls.\n\nShe and her family are due to fly back to Wales on Monday\n\n\"We went in. But in my son's room you can see a huge crack and the balconies have moved. They've shifted.\n\n\"I've taken pictures and video of the damage. My son's friend who is with us, his dad is a structural engineer. It can't be safe.\"\n\nNow they are sitting outside with their luggage.\n\n\"I've never felt an earthquake before and I don't want to feel one again,\" Ms Lewis said.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland's winning run in their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign came to a halt as they were held to a draw by Ukraine in Wroclaw.\n\nUkraine were backed by 40,000 fans in the Tarczynski Arena, giving the game the fervent feel of a home fixture despite the hosts being unable to play in their own country because of the war with Russia.\n\nThe magnificently noisy backing in Poland turned to a deafening roar when Arsenal's Oleksandr Zinchenko put Ukraine ahead after 26 minutes, turning in a cross from Yukhym Konoplya.\n\nEngland had plenty of possession but lacked creativity and it needed a moment of brilliance from captain Harry Kane to set up the equaliser four minutes before half-time, dropping back almost to the halfway line before sending a magnificent raking pass to play in Kyle Walker for his first international goal on his 77th appearance.\n\nGareth Southgate's side had the better of the second half, going close when Bukayo Saka's shot was turned on to the bar by the slightest touch from Ukraine keeper Georgiy Bushchan.\n\nEngland are still firmly on course to qualify from Group C for next summer's Euros in Germany, but this was a lacklustre performance.\n\nHarry Kane's goalscoring importance for England is proved by his status as the country's record marksman, but his development into the complete player cannot be over-estimated.\n\nKane helped to rescue a point from a dreary team display with the brilliant demonstration of his vision and range of passing to set up Walker, who finished with composure.\n\nIt was a rare moment of quality from England and questions will once more be raised about what appeared to be a conservative approach from manager Southgate.\n\nEngland's midfield contained the natural talent and variety of Jude Bellingham and James Maddison, but there was a lack of balance and urgency in the face of a Ukraine side determined to repay their fans for some very special support.\n\nIt would take something truly remarkable for England to slip up in qualifying, yet there was very little else in the way of positive news to take away from Wroclaw as Southgate's players head to Glasgow for Tuesday's friendly against Scotland.\n\nThis was a truly special occasion in Wroclaw as thousands of Ukrainians away from their war-torn home country put on a magnificent show of support and unity for their football team.\n\nThe stadium was packed with Ukrainian supporters living in Poland, all whipped up into a loud frenzy before kick-off by the enthusiasm and cheerleading of the PA announcer.\n\nAnd the noise when Zinchenko gave them the lead was ear-splitting, as it was every time Ukraine won a tackle, header or advanced anywhere near the England goal.\n\nPhone torches lit up the stadium in the closing stages as Ukraine closed out a point, and the unity between players and supporters at the final whistle was emotional and remarkable.\n• None Attempt blocked. Conor Gallagher (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.\n• None Substitution, Ukraine. Ehor Nazaryna replaces Mykhailo Mudryk because of an injury.\n• None Harry Maguire (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Taras Stepanenko (Ukraine).\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (England) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Phil Foden with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Mykhailo Mudryk (Ukraine). Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Andrew Flintoff has been pictured for the first time since he was injured in an accident while filming Top Gear last year.\n\nFlintoff, 45, was injured in December at the motoring TV show's test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.\n\nHe was seen with the England team during their one-day international with New Zealand at Cardiff on Friday.\n\nFilming of the 34th series of the BBC show was suspended pending a health and safety review into the incident.\n\nFlintoff was not working with England in a formal capacity but was invited to be around the team.\n\nThe former all-rounder, who had visible scars on his face and tape on his nose, wore a bucket hat and dark glasses as he led fielding drills with the England players at Cardiff's Sophia Gardens.\n\nHe was then seen sitting on the England balcony during the New Zealand innings, with the visitors going on to complete a dominant eight-wicket victory.\n\nEngland captain Jos Buttler said it was \"great\" to have Flintoff around the squad.\n\n\"He's obviously an England legend and it's just nice to have him around the group,\" Buttler said.\n\n\"He's not been brought in with any specific role, just to be around and observe.\n\n\"A few of the lads can pick his brains a little bit and he's settled in really well. It's great to have him with us. Just for this series.\"\n\nFollowing the accident on 13 December, Flintoff received medical care at the scene before being taken to hospital for further treatment.\n\nIn March, the BBC apologised to Flintoff for his injuries and said it would continue to support him during his recovery.\n\nFlintoff retired from cricket in 2009 having played 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven T20s for England.\n\nHe played a key role in England's Ashes successes of 2005 and 2009, and was captain between 2006 and 2007.\n\nFlintoff moved into TV presenting after retiring and joined Top Gear as a host in 2019 alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.\n• None The lives of three strangers with nothing in common collide:\n• None What harm does vaping do to teenagers?: Panorama investigates the recent vaping phenomenon and its potential risks", "As we reported earlier, the BBC Singers were threatened with closure this year.\n\nSo when Marin Alsop credited tonight's musicians, the BBC Singers got an extended round of applause from the audience - well aware the group was almost shut down.\n\nAlsop also got an ovation when she mentioned this was the 10th anniversary of her becoming the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms.\n\n\"Apparently it's worthy of inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records,\" she said. \"And as silly as that is, it reminds me of how much work remains to build a more equitable world for the next generations.\"\n\nThe conductor also paid tribute to Proms' founder Sir Henry Wood.\n\n\"He wasn't just an outstanding musician, but he was also an entrepreneur with a vision towards making classical music available and accessible to everyone.\n\n\"I think he’d be very proud of the BBCs commitment to broadening the reach of the Proms and creating an even more inclusive landscape for the future.\"", "Horatio Castille said he could see why someone might mistake him for Daniel Khalife\n\nA kitchen porter who police mistook for escaped prisoner Daniel Khalife said the experience was \"nerve-wracking\".\n\nHoratio Castille from Banbury in Oxfordshire says he was handcuffed by officers after they received a possible sighting of Mr Khalife, who is on the run after escaping from Wandsworth prison.\n\nA video of 19-year-old Mr Castille's arrest was viewed thousands of times.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed the man was not Daniel Khalife.\n\nThames Valley Police has been approached for comment.\n\nThe Met is offering a £20,000 reward for information that leads to Daniel Khalife's arrest\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Castille was waiting at Banbury station for a train to London when Thames Valley Police officers approached him.\n\nWhile sat on a bench on the platform, he was put in handcuffs and told that they had received a phone call from a woman who said he matched the description of Mr Khalife.\n\n\"They told me about this Daniel guy who's broken out of prison, and showed me a picture of him and I was like 'no, no, that's not me',\" he explained.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Horatio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOver the next few minutes, about 20 other officers then turned up on the platform.\n\nMr Castille said his fingerprints were taken and cross-checked on the police's database.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it was scary, but I would say it was kind of nerve-racking as you can imagine, just randomly being put in cuffs.\"\n\nHe said the officers were \"very professional\" and that he felt lucky that it had been a \"positive experience\".\n\n\"I could see why someone would see me and think it was the same guy.\"\n\nA Met spokesperson said: \"We are aware of a man being stopped by police in the Banbury area.\n\n\"We have liaised with colleagues in Thames Valley and confirmed the man in question is not Daniel Khalife.\"\n\nMr Khalife, 21, who escaped from prison on Wednesday, is accused of trying to spy for an enemy state, understood to be Iran, and plotting a fake bomb hoax.\n\nOn Friday a sighting of Mr Khalife near the Wandsworth roundabout was being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beachgoers had to run when a cliff collapsed at West Bay in August. Video: Daniel Knagg\n\nRecent footage of people running from collapsing cliffs is a stark reminder of the dangers of our coast.\n\nBut on one stretch of Dorset's Jurassic Coast, major cliff falls are soon followed by an influx of fossil hunters, creating a headache for those tasked with keeping people safe.\n\nThe unstable shores have seen numerous rescues and even some fatalities.\n\nBut as experts explain, those taking the risks are usually the least likely to find any prehistoric remains.\n\nHundreds of tourists scour the beach in the aftermath of a cliff fall\n\nSeveral major cliff falls have already been reported this year at West Bay and Charmouth.\n\nDuring the tourist season, the beaches at Charmouth are patrolled by fossil wardens whose job it is to warn visitors against the riskiest behaviour, and steer them towards the easier pickings near the shoreline.\n\n\"If I see someone hacking away at the bottom of the cliff, I will go and speak to them,\" says Stuart Godman, who has been patrolling the beach for 17 years.\n\nStuart Godman has been patrolling the beach at Charmouth for 17 years\n\n\"You will always get the odd person here and there who does not listen but I'm not going to get into an argument with them.\"\n\nIt seems the majority of risk takers are holidaymakers - keen to bag themselves a souvenir, oblivious to the slow trickle of dust and stones from above.\n\nMr Godman points out huge boulders on the crowded beach that he says were not there the day before.\n\nPeople are discouraged from digging at the base of the collapsing cliff\n\nThe fossils at Charmouth are about 180-200 million years old and embedded in the dark-grey limestone. The air is filled with the sound of the waves and of hammers hitting rock.\n\nAnyone found hitting the pale, more recently formed chert stone is strongly discouraged because it splinters, making it hazardous and impossible to split successfully.\n\n\"If you look along the shoreline, that's where you will find the fossils, usually after a few tides,\" said Mr Godman.\n\nIsaac Cousins, 13, (left) discovered an ichthyosaur vertebra on the water's edge\n\nAnd, as if on cue, a father and son approach, holding up a vertebra of an ichthyosaur - a prehistoric marine reptile - they found on the water's edge.\n\nAspiring palaeontologist Isaac Cousins, 13, had clearly done his research, knowing exactly where to look and even correctly identifying his find.\n\nRising up from the beach is the remains of the latest rockfall - a huge shelf of soft clay and crumbling rock that fell in July.\n\nStuart Godman called emergency services in 2020 after finding a boy stuck in mud on the cliffs\n\nAbout 20ft (6m) up, on top of the landslip, a small group of adults and teenagers hunt for prehistoric treasure.\n\nThree years ago, close to this very spot, Mr Godman encountered a similar scene - a family fossil-hunting high up on the collapsed cliff.\n\n\"I suggested they come down but the lad, an 11-year-old, had got stuck in the mud 80-90ft (25m) up the cliff.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A drone captured the extent of a landslip near West Bay in July. Video: Lyme Bay RIB Charter\n\nWith the tide coming in, Mr Godman alerted the emergency services, triggering a rescue operation involving two coastguard teams, three fire engines and the ambulance service - about 40 people in total.\n\nAside from mild hypothermia, the boy was uninjured, but his predicament highlighted that falling rocks are not the only danger here.\n\nLizzie Hingley, a commercial fossil hunter, says her most successful beach trips have often been weeks or months after a collapse.\n\nHer methods speak for themselves with her finds including \"category one\" fossils - species previously unknown to science, which have been named after her.\n\n\"People who go straight after a cliff fall, unless you know what you are doing or if it goes through a certain layer of cliff, you are unlikely to find anything,\" she said.\n\n\"Sometimes it's a case of waiting for the tide to run over it to break it up. Sometimes it's a couple of months after the landslide.\n\n\"If you go around hitting random rocks with a hammer, one person in a million might have some luck. Your eyes really are your best tool.\"\n\nA significant cliff fall in August blocked the beach at West Bay\n\nMs Hingley, who began fossil hunting as a child, turned professional six years ago, preparing and selling her finds online.\n\nShe estimates there are about 10 or 20 others like her, making a living from the beach.\n\n\"There are certain beaches that I would not go to,\" she said. \"Not Burton Bradstock or West Bay because they do have a tendency to collapse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A collapse in January blocked the beach between Burton Bradstock and West Bay. Video: @EnvAgencySW\n\nIt was on this stretch in 2012 that tragedy struck when a sudden collapse killed 22-year-old holidaymaker Charlotte Blackman, who had been walking along the beach with her boyfriend and family who were just metres away.\n\nFollowing the latest spate of collapses, large warning signs mark the start of the cliffs but, 50m (160ft) up, the occasional intrepid explorer can be seen peering over the overhang, while families picnic on the beach below.\n\nEvery hour, a voice from the RNLI lifeguards office booms over a loudspeaker, urging people to stay clear.\n\nSigns at West Bay urge people to stay away from the cliffs\n\nThe coast between Lyme Regis and Burton Bradstock, primarily owned by the National Trust and Charmouth Parish Council, is covered by a \"fossil collecting code of conduct\", aimed at keeping people safe and ensuring finds are correctly recorded.\n\nIt urges people to only search on a falling tide, avoid the base of cliffs, wear appropriate clothing and to tell someone of their whereabouts and expected return time.\n\nThe coastguard offers similar advice, adding that people should carry a charged mobile phone.\n\nWalkers clamber over recent rockfalls to take photographs beneath the latest cliff collapse\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four videos show extent of damage in Marrakesh\n\nA strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck central Morocco, killing more than 2,000 people and causing severe damage in several areas.\n\nResidents rushed into the streets when the quake struck at 23:11 local time (22:11 GMT) on Friday.\n\n\"Violent\" tremors were felt in several areas of the country from Casablanca to Marrakesh, where many buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged.\n\nThe country's royal palace has declared three days of national mourning.\n\nIt also said the armed forces would deploy rescue teams to provide affected areas with clean drinking water, food supplies, tents and blankets.\n\nMany of the victims are believed to be in hard-to-reach mountain areas.\n\nThe epicentre was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71km (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh.\n\nMany people are still believed to be under the rubble and rescue efforts are under way. Several bodies have already been recovered.\n\nHospitals in Marrakesh have seen an influx of injured people, and the authorities have called on residents to donate blood.\n\nMorocco's interior ministry said the earthquake killed people in the provinces and municipalities of al-Haouz, Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant, adding that more than 1,200 had been injured.\n\nIn Marrakesh some buildings have collapsed and the damage is particularly severe in parts of the Medina, a Unesco World Heritage site.\n\nDust could be seen surrounding the minaret of the historic Kutubiyya mosque, a major tourist attraction near the old city's main square, while the historic Jemaa el Fnaa mosque partly collapsed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResident Rashid Ben Arabi rushed to his car in Marrakesh minutes after the earthquake struck the city last night.\n\nHe quickly headed with his wife and one-year-old daughter to the town of Amizmiz - about 56km (35 miles) from Marrakesh - to make sure his father and mother were still alive.\n\nHe said the roads were full as everyone fled the city amid complete darkness and a power outage.\n\n\"As soon as I entered my town, I saw people in a hysterical state, crying and screaming, and everyone was looking for their families,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw a man lying on the ground by the rubble of his house; he could hear the screams of his two children trapped under the destroyed building, but he couldn't do anything to help them; rescue teams hadn't yet arrived at the scene.\"\n\nRashid eventually found his parents who were safe and sound but wrapped in blankets and sleeping in the street.\n\nThey were among the many people who spent the night out in the open as the Moroccan government had warned everyone not to go back into their homes in case of severe aftershocks.\n\nA 4.9-magnitude aftershock was recorded 19 minutes after the earthquake.\n\nThe extent of the damage in mountain villages is instead unknown, but it is believed to be widespread.\n\nThe Jemaa el Fnaa mosque in Marrakesh suffered damages, especially to its tower\n\nRelatives mourn in front of the bodies of victims killed in the earthquake in Moulay Brahim, in al-Haouz province\n\nAlarmed Casablanca residents fled their homes and camped overnight in the streets\n\nRescuers use a small excavator to search for survivors under the rubble in Marrakesh\n\nThe quake's epicentre in a remote area of the High Atlas Mountains was relatively shallow - and tremors were also reportedly felt in the capital Rabat, some 350km away, as well as Casablanca and Essaouira.\n\nSimple buildings in mountain villages near the epicentre may not have survived and, being remote, it may take some time to determine casualties there.\n\nThe quake was also felt in neighbouring Algeria, but officials said it had not caused any damage or casualties.\n\nAlgeria said it was ready to open its airspace for humanitarian and medical flights to Morocco, despite the fact that it severed ties with its neighbour in 2021 in a move which included suspending direct flights in both directions.\n\nSpeaking at the G20 summit in Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the international community would come to Morocco's aid.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez offered \"solidarity and support to the people of Morocco\". French President Emmanuel Macron said he was \"devastated\" by the news and offered assistance to Morocco.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky expressed their solidarity while Vladimir Putin said Russia shared \"the pain and the mourning of the friendly Moroccan people\".\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? If it's safe to do so, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Heathrow and Gatwick airports have said they are monitoring porous concrete found on their sites after school closures linked to the material.\n\nThe airports had previously found the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) before extensive news coverage over its use.\n\nHeathrow said it had the means to keep it safe until it can put \"permanent solutions\" in place.\n\nGatwick said it has found no cause for concern.\n\nThe discovery of the concrete, which can crumble, in schools and public buildings has led to a number of closures since the start of September.\n\nThe material was discovered at Heathrow Terminal 3 last year, and the airport has put measures in place to make it safe.\n\nSince the Raac concrete was found at Heathrow, the airport has reviewed its management plans and is satisfied with them.\n\nA Heathrow spokesperson said the airport had been \"assessing our estate and will continue to mitigate the risk where this material is found\".\n\nGatwick has carried out regular inspections on the concrete and is not worried about its findings.\n\nA Gatwick spokesperson said: \"We have a register of locations containing Raac on the airport campus, which are closely monitored through a regular comprehensive structural inspection regime.\"\n\nThe most recent Gatwick inspection was in June, and \"did not present any concerns\".\n\nGatwick will continue to monitor the Raac on a regular basis, the spokesperson added.\n\nA spokesman for Manchester Airport said regular inspections had found no Raac on site, and the airport was running another inspection to double-check.", "How big was the search for Khalife?\n\nPolice were searching for 21-year-old Khalife for four days. Extra security checks at airports and ports led to long delays for passengers, as authorities believed he may have been attempting to leave the country. Officers searched all car boots at the Eurotunnel and at Dover in case he was trying to stow away. But when Khalife was found on Saturday morning, he was in Chiswick, west London - about five miles from Wandsworth Prison. Police had been reviewing CCTV footage and a police helicopter had also been searching parts of west and south-west London in recent days and nights. The Met had sought the public's help, releasing several images of Khalife and asking people to call 999 if they saw him, but not to approach him. Armed officers and police dogs searched parts of west London, as a police boat patrolled on the River Thames. Police stopped and searched vehicles and asked local residents for their identification. The Met Police is yet to give more details on how Khalife was finally found.", "Prince William has visited a project to restore oysters to waters around New York\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned against \"doom and gloom\" in discussions about tackling climate change.\n\nHe was speaking in New York as the finalists were announced for his flagship environmental project, the Earthshot Prize.\n\nThe prince said a dose of realism was important, but it was also necessary to give people a sense of hope.\n\nBill Gates, UN climate envoy Mike Bloomberg and former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern were among the guests.\n\n\"I think if we remark on how pessimistic and doom and gloom everything is, even though there is a healthy dose of that needed... it doesn't provoke the reaction from us humans that we would like,\" Prince William told the event in New York.\n\n\"An important part of the prize's design and development is not just to provide the solutions, but it's to make people believe there is hope.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"impatient\" to see a more rapid scaling up of new approaches to reducing environmental harm.\n\nPrince William's New York visit this week has seen him stepping up on a global stage, including a meeting with UN secretary general Antonio Guterres.\n\nBut there have been comments on social media expressing cynicism about VIPs and celebrities flying so many miles to talk about decarbonisation and tackling climate change.\n\nThe Earthshot event has been held alongside New York's Climate Week and the United Nations has been staging its annual general assembly, including a keynote speech from US President Joe Biden.\n\nThe prince has used the week as a platform for his annual competition, which is dedicated to finding innovative ways to promote sustainability and tackle climate change.\n\nThe heir to the throne also held meetings with leaders of countries vulnerable to climate change, including the president of Ecuador.\n\nA shortlist of 15 Earthshot finalists was announced, with nominees coming from countries including Peru, India, Sierra Leone and Poland.\n\nOne project, from the UK, aims to produce tyres for electric cars which will reduce harmful tyre pollution. And a finalist from the US aims to improve the treatment of industrial wastewater.\n\nFive winning entries will receive £1m each at a ceremony in Singapore in November.\n\nFormer Microsoft boss and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke at the Earthshot event of his optimism about technological advances, saying that \"innovation is delivering very well\" in reducing environmental harm.\n\nOthers in attendance included Baroness Scotland, secretary general of the Commonwealth, and Maros Sefcovic of the European Commission.\n\nThe prize was inspired by US President John F Kennedy's \"Moonshot\" programme, which resulted in the US Apollo lunar launches and the first man setting foot on the Moon in 1969.\n\nThe late president's daughter Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Australia, was also among the guests in New York.\n\nWhen he arrived in the US earlier this week, Prince William said of tackling the environmental crisis: \"The challenge may feel huge, but as John F Kennedy taught us, we rise to the challenge not because it is easy, but because it is hard. And vital.\"", "More than one in 10 people in the world's oldest country have crossed the 80-year-old mark for the first time\n\nFor the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older.\n\nNational data also shows 29.1% of the 125 million population is aged 65 or older- a record.\n\nJapan has one of the lowest birth-rates in the world and has long struggled with how to provide for its ageing population.\n\nIt has the world's oldest population, measured by the proportion of people aged 65 or up, the United Nations says.\n\nThat proportion stands at 24.5% in Italy and 23.6% in Finland, which rank second and third respectively.\n\nIn Japan, those aged over 65 are expected to account for 34.8% of the population by 2040, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.\n\nThe country's elderly employment rate is among the highest across major economies - workers aged 65 or more make up more than 13% of the national workforce.\n\nBut this has done little to relieve the burden on the country's social security spending.\n\nJapan has approved a record budget for the next fiscal year, in part due to rising social security costs.\n\nEfforts to boost its birth rates have also met with little success amid the growing cost of living, and notoriously long working hours.\n\nBirth rates are slowing in many countries, including Japan's neighbours, but the problem is particularly acute in Japan.\n\nThe country was estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 babies born last year - the lowest number since records began in the 19th century.\n\nIn the 1970s, that figure was more than two million.\n\nPrime Minister Fumio Kishida said in January that his country is on the brink of not being able to function as a society because of its declining birth rate.\n\nHowever authorities remain hesitant about accepting migrant workers as a solution to falling fertility.\n\nOther countries in Asia are facing similar demographic challenges.\n\nLast year, China's population fell for the first time since 1961, while South Korea has reported the lowest fertility rate in the world.", "The parents of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried are being sued for money they allegedly received improperly from the crypto firm ahead of its collapse.\n\nIn a filing, managers at the bankrupt firm accuse the couple of holding millions of \"fraudulently transferred\" dollars and of turning a blind eye to misconduct at the company.\n\nThe action was filed on behalf of those owed money after the firm's failure.\n\nThe fall of the company led to the arrest of Mr Bankman-Fried last year.\n\nUS prosecutors have accused the former billionaire, once dubbed the \"King of Crypto\", of illegally transferring millions from the exchange to plug losses at his trading firm, make political donations and buy property.\n\nHe has denied the charges and is in jail awaiting trial next month.\n\nAttorneys for his parents said the claims against them were \"completely false\" and designed to hurt their son's chances at trial.\n\nThe legal action, filed as part of a wider bankruptcy suit, says Mr Bankman-Fried's parents - then both professors at Stanford University - exploited their \"access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves, directly and indirectly, by millions of dollars\".\n\nThey received a $10m (£8m) gift in cash from funds that belonged to Alameda, an FTX partner company, while FTX also gave them a $16.4m property in the Bahamas, according to the filing.\n\nFTX was once one of the biggest cryptocurrency trading firms in the world, holding assets worth an estimated $15bn in 2021. It filed for bankruptcy last year, after a sudden rush by customers to withdraw funds revealed a huge gap in the company's finances reportedly worth up to $8bn.\n\nManagers for the bankrupt firm say it was used by Mr Bankman-Fried and other \"insiders\" as a \"piggy bank\" and his parents \"helped perpetuate or benefited from this fraudulent largesse\".\n\nThe filing claims his father, Allan Joseph Bankman, an expert on US tax law, served as an adviser to FTX and \"played a key role in perpetuating this culture of misrepresentations and gross mismanagement and helped cover up allegations that would have exposed the fraud\".\n\nHe also helped to quash an internal complaint alleging price manipulation made in 2019, it adds.\n\nMr Bankman was allegedly treated to stays at hotels charging $1,200 a night, while the lawsuit cites messages in which he complains about receiving a $200,000 salary, claiming it is supposed to be $1m.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Bankman-Fried's mother, Barbara Fried, helped direct her son's political donations, encouraging him to obscure their source, according to the filing.\n\nManagers for FTX are seeking to recover money from the couple.\n\nThe downfall of Mr Bankman-Fried, one of the most high-profile players in the industry, sent shudders through the sector and helped to galvanise regulatory scrutiny.", "YouTube has suspended Russell Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\".\n\nThe video platform said it was taking action \"to protect\" its users.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC said it had removed some programmes featuring the comedian and actor from its streaming services.\n\nIt comes after he was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013. He denies the claims, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe BBC said it had removed some content that \"now falls below public expectations\" from iPlayer and BBC Sounds.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a YouTube spokesperson said: \"If a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action.\"\n\nIn recent years, the former TV and radio personality has repositioned himself, posting regular video about spirituality, anti-establishment politics and, recently, UFOs, to his 6.6 million subscribers. He also posts on Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter) and Rumble.\n\nYouTube's decision to block his revenue streams applies to \"all channels that may be owned or operated\" by the 48-year-old, it confirmed to the BBC.\n\nOther channels associated with his main YouTube page include Awakening With Russell, Stay Free With Russell Brand and Football Is Nice, which have about 500,000 subscribers between them.\n\nSara McCorquodale, author and chief executive of social media analysis agency CORQ, estimated Brand made about £2,000 to £4,000 per YouTube video.\n\n\"He was probably making more revenue from YouTube than any other platform,\" she told BBC News. \"Everything existed to drive people towards his YouTube channel, so that probably was a significant revenue stream that has obviously now been paused.\"\n\nHowever, Rumble is still carrying adverts on his content, \"so his ability to make money has by no means means stopped\", she said.\n\nAccording to Companies House, Brand's company - called Pablo Diablo's Legitimate Business Firm Ltd - saw its net assets more than double from £2m in 2020 to £4.1 million in 2021.\n\nYouTube's move \"will have some impact\", Ms McCorquodale said. \"But his audience is still there. They are very passionate, they want his content, and so they're going to follow him.\"\n\nShe predicted that Brand could launch an \"independent, subscription-based platform\" instead, where his legions of fans could pay to watch his videos.\n\nThere are lots of different ways for people to make money on YouTube.\n\nOne of the most obvious is through ad revenue. After gaining enough viewers, YouTubers can have ads running before and during their videos, earning varying amounts. One YouTuber with half a million subscribers recently showed the BBC they made around £10,000 from a video with 1.5 million views.\n\nBut the exact money made from videos can vary dramatically and be much lower - or even higher - than this.\n\nOther ways of making money include channel memberships, where people subscribe to see more of your content, as well as super chat and super thanks, where a viewer can pay to have their message to the creator appear more prominently.\n\nBut the big way YouTubers make money is through sponsorships, known as \"spons\" in the community.\n\nAt the top of the description of all but his most recent video, in which he commented on the allegations, Brand has a prominently-placed spon. The companies include a skincare firm, a food supplement powder, a VPN and a coffee alternative.\n\nCompanies pay for prominent sponsorship on videos earning hundreds of thousands of views, and will generally pay much more for the amount of conversions - people who buy the product using the link. This could be anything from one twentieth to half the purchase price.\n\nIt's impossible to accurately estimate how much this is, as the finances are agreed on a case-by-case basis. But suffice to say, it is not uncommon for a YouTuber to make more money through spons than any other income source on the platform.\n\nThe allegations against Brand were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nOn Monday, the Metropolitan Police said it had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Times reported claims from two more women, including one who alleged he was threatening and verbally abusive towards her when she refused to have sex with him.\n\nAhead of the Dispatches broadcast, Brand took to his online social media video platforms to pre-emptively deny all claims of misconduct, saying he was the subject of \"a co-ordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute\".\n\nBrand performed at a scheduled gig at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on Saturday evening. The remainder of his tour has since been postponed\n\nOn Monday, one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault when she was 16 has told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour his behaviour was an \"open secret\".\n\nThe woman, known as Alice, added that allegations against him have been \"a long time coming\".\n\nSpeaking for the first time since accusations became public, she said his denial was \"laughable\" and \"insulting\".\n\nThe remaining shows of Brand's Bipolarisation tour have also been postponed.\n\nHe still has a presence on Rumble, where he has 1.4 million followers, and he hosts a regular show every weekday, but there was notably no new episode on Monday.\n\nPrior to his reinvention as an online guru, the comedian's traditional earnings were made through high-profile TV and radio presenting jobs, books and movie appearances, as well as his live comedy shows.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir Mark Rowley is the most senior police officer in the UK\n\nTwelve months on from taking up the job of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley has said a \"cancer\" at the organisation still needs to be cut out - but that progress has been made during his time at the Met, which was reeling after a series of scandals when he rejoined the force.\n\nIn an address to the Policy Exchange think-tank, he said: \"Lifting the stone is always painful because you find things underneath it that you didn't expect.\"\n\nWhat has Sir Mark found at the scandal-plagued force, and what impact has he had in his year as commissioner?\n\n\"More than one person has questioned my sanity,\" Sir Mark admitted to the BBC when he started as Met commissioner, the top policing job in the UK, on 12 September 2022.\n\nHe took the helm at one of the lowest points in the force's history, with the Met having suffered severe reputational damage over its employment of Wayne Couzens, the serving officer who in March 2021 kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, and due to a series of other scandals.\n\nInspectors were so concerned by the state of the Met Police that, in June 2022, they put it under an advanced form of monitoring.\n\nFollowing the resignation as Met commissioner of Dame Cressida Dick, the Home Office advertised for a candidate who could address the issues facing a force that was under the scrutiny of both the Baroness Casey review and the Angiolini Inquiry. Crucially, it wanted someone with a plan to restore Londoners' trust and confidence in the Met Police.\n\nSir Mark, who had served as chief constable of Surrey Police and later the Met's head of counter-terrorism, said he had that plan and was on a \"personal mission for change\".\n\nA review into standards at the Met Police was commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard\n\nOn Monday, he reflected on his first year in office, telling the Policy Exchange: \"We've set a mission of more trust, less crime and higher standards. That's what we're going to deliver on my watch.\"\n\nSo far, he has not had it easy, though, with further scandals that had their roots in Dame Cressida's time as commissioner emerging during his tenure. The conduct of serving and former police officers continues to make the headlines on a regular basis.\n\nThe most damaging case for the Met to emerge under Sir Mark - although by no means the only one - involved the crimes of David Carrick, who was in February jailed for raping several women over a 17-year period while serving as an officer. His offending raised urgent questions about the culture inside the Met - among them, how could Carrick have continued serving, unchallenged, for so long?\n\nSir Mark admits that the Carrick case is an ugly one, but maintains the Met is a force in reform.\n\nHe has brought more detectives on to a team that investigates rogue officers and launched a dedicated hotline to report them. And such officers now face being rooted out more quickly, with police chiefs to gain the power to automatically sack police officers in certain circumstances - a development the Met Police Federation has criticised as \"a return to kangaroo courts\".\n\nThis new power may feel like something of a victory for Sir Mark, who has long been calling for sackings to be made easier to carry out. He has said there are hundreds of officers in the force who \"shouldn't be there\" and are either suspended or on restricted duties because he lacks the power to get rid of them.\n\nThe commissioner told the Policy Exchange think-tank that the \"cancer\" at the Met Police needed to be removed: \"You can have a majority of the organisation who are good people, but systemically you can fail and have failed to root out the people who shouldn't be there, to set the standards and the culture.\"\n\nSir Mark reflected on his first year in office at an event at the Policy Exchange think-tank, hosted by Sir Trevor Phillips\n\nRooting out rogue officers is one thing, but what can be done to bring about widescale cultural change? How do you reassure Londoners that the Met won't miss opportunities to stop another David Carrick or Wayne Couzens? That's a far more complex challenge.\n\nThe commissioner has promised to improve leadership and training, and says more whistleblowers within the force are coming forward because they feel supported by bosses.\n\nBut in March, a scathing review by Baroness Casey laid bare how serious some problems in the Met were, finding the force to be institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic.\n\nSome Londoners I spoke to after the release of the report, many from black communities, were shocked by some of the detail but many also said they weren't surprised. And some have urged Sir Mark to accept the problems in the Met are \"institutional\" - a word he argues has become \"ambiguous\" and \"politicised\".\n\nTo try to rebuild trust, the commissioner has promised to work more closely with communities on controversial issues such as stop and search, where Baroness Casey says there needs to be \"a fundamental reset\". A new pilot scheme, recently introduced in the boroughs of Lambeth and Barking and Dagenham, aims to deploy the tactic much more precisely, using data to focus on weapons hotspots.\n\nDavid Carrick raped several women while serving in the Met\n\nThere's also an attempt to use data to protect women and girls, ranking the most dangerous predatory male offenders in the same way the Met ranks terror suspects. Hundreds more officers are being moved into public protection teams, which investigate rape and child abuse, after Baroness Casey said this had been \"deprioritised\".\n\nBut will all this restore confidence among those who feel so badly let down? The latest figures from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime suggest there's still work to do: 67% of Londoners surveyed said the Met was an organisation they could trust.\n\nOf course, the key to turning that around could be as simple as getting the basics of policing right - addressing the concerns of Londoners who complain they've given up reporting crime, that their reports of anti-social behaviour are not dealt with, or that they fear violence.\n\nUnder Dame Cressida Dick, the Met Police came under fire for its handling of a vigil held after Sarah Everard's murder\n\nThe homicide rate has fallen in London, however knife crime has risen by 18% and the commissioner has said he's concerned about the number of street robberies. So far this year, 13 teenagers have lost their lives to violence - nearly as many as the 14 who were victims of homicide in the whole of 2022.\n\nSir Mark has promised a shake-up of frontline policing - refocusing it around the concerns of local communities and putting more officers on the streets - although he says he's \"very worried\" about recruitment, having missed a key government target this spring and losing about £60m of funding as a result.\n\nHe's hoping he can free up frontline officers, under plans to stop attending callouts to mental health incidents where there is no immediate threat to life.\n\nAnd so it's clear that there's still much to be done, although any significant changes are likely to be gradual.\n\nIn the meantime, more bad headlines for the Met seem inevitable.\n\nThe Angiolini inquiry, examining the history of Couzens and Carrick in the Met, has yet to report its findings, while the family of Chris Kaba, who was shot dead by police a week before the commissioner took up his role, are still waiting to hear if the officer involved will face criminal charges.\n\nLondoners are demanding safer neighbourhoods and the confidence to report crime in the belief something will be done. There are many who say they like the sound of the pledges the commissioner has made, but they're wary. They've heard big promises many times before.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A plane carrying five Americans jailed in Iran for years has landed in the US after a controversial prisoner swap.\n\nThey touched down in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, just south of Washington DC on Tuesday morning.\n\nThey earlier flew from Tehran to Doha where they were transferred on to a plane bound for the US.\n\nThe last piece of the deal fell into place on Monday when $6bn (£4.8bn) in Iranian cash - held in South Korea - was sent to banks in Doha.\n\nThe released prisoners are dual Iranian-US citizens. Five Iranians have also been released from US custody and of those five, three chose not to return to Iran.\n\nThe plane carrying the five Americans landed at Davison Army Airfield shortly before 05:30 local time (09:30 GMT) and they had an emotional, tearful reunion with family members on the tarmac.\n\nFriends and family waved small US flags as the group departed the plane.\n\n\"The nightmare is finally over,\" a relative of one of the freed Americans, Siamak Namazi, said. \"We haven't had this moment in over eight years. It's unbelievable.\"\n\n\"[It is] the beginning of a very long road to recovery and healing,\" a representative for the family added.\n\nAlso on board the plane were two family members, US presidential envoy Roger Carstens and Abram Paley, deputy special envoy for Iran. Both met the released detainees in Doha.\n\nMorad Tahbaz (left) and Emad Shargi (centre) after they arrived at a US airfield in Virginia\n\nIn brief remarks at Fort Belvoir, Mr Carstens encouraged the former detainees to take advantage of \"post-isolation support\" being offered by the US military and expressed confidence they would \"maintain the fight to bring more Americans home\".\n\nUS officials long maintained that five detainees held in Iran were wrongfully imprisoned for political leverage.\n\nThe Americans include 51-year-old businessman Mr Namazi - who has spent nearly eight years in Tehran's notorious Evin prison - as well as businessman Emad Shargi, 59, and 67-year-old environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who also holds British citizenship.\n\nThe other two prisoners did not wish to be named.\n\nThe five Iranians released as part of the deal were mostly imprisoned in the US on charges that they violated US sanctions.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, US President Joe Biden welcomed the prisoner swap and said that the Americans would be reunited with their loved ones \"after enduring years of agony, uncertainty, and suffering\".\n\nAt the same time, Mr Biden vowed to \"continue to impose costs on Iran for their provocative actions in the region\".\n\n\"And as we welcome home our fellow citizens, I once more remind all Americans of the serious risks of travelling to Iran,\" he added. \"American passport holders should not travel there\".\n\nThe president's comments came as the US announced fresh sanctions targeting former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's intelligence ministry.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Namazi said he \"would not be free today, if it wasn't for all of you who didn't allow the world to forget me\".\n\n\"From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for being my voice when I could not speak for myself and for making sure I was heard when I mustered the strength to scream from behind the impenetrable walls of Evin Prison,\" he added.\n\nFamily members embrace two of the five freed Americans after they arrived at Fort Belvoir in the US\n\nThe Iranian funds released as part of the deal were owed by South Korea to Tehran for oil bought before Trump administration sanctions in 2019 banned such transactions. The US has said that the released funds can only be used for humanitarian purposes.\n\nThe return of the money, however, has sparked controversy in the US and come under intense criticism from some of Mr Biden's political opponents.\n\nSeveral prominent Republicans have expressed concerns that Iran will use the money to back proxy groups in the Middle East.\n\nThe US government has downplayed these concerns. Last week, state department spokesman Matthew Miller said the US treasury department has \"strict oversight\" on the money and that Washington \"has the ability to police their use\".\n\nA senior administration official also told reporters that the US will move to block the funds if Iran tries to divert them or use them for anything other than humanitarian purposes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment five Americans freed from Iran change planes in Qatar", "Mr Trudeau (left) and Mr Modi had a tense meeting in Delhi recently\n\nThe escalating row over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader has the potential to derail years of close relations between Canada and India, two key strategic partners on security and trade.\n\nThe rift burst into the open on Monday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was investigating \"credible allegations\" about the potential involvement of Indian government agents in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June.\n\nIndia responded furiously - it \"completely rejected\" the allegations, calling them \"absurd\". Both have expelled one of the other's diplomats and it's unclear how they now pull back from the brink.\n\nJust a few months ago, the countries were making progress towards signing a free trade agreement - long in the works - this year. Now, talks are paused and an imminent Canadian trade mission to India postponed.\n\nSo how did things reach this point?\n\nThe recent G20 summit hosted by Delhi offered some hints, key among them Mr Trudeau's tense (and short) meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Then he suffered the embarrassment of having to wait in Delhi for two more days before he could leave after his plane developed a technical fault.\n\nSecurity personnel outside Canada's High Commission in Delhi on Tuesday\n\nAfter the two leaders met there was no mincing of words. Mr Trudeau said Canada would always defend \"freedom of expression\" while acting against hatred.\n\nIn an uncharacteristically sharp statement, the Indian government said it had \"strong concerns about continuing anti-India activities of extremist elements in Canada\" who it accused of \"promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats\".\n\nThe reference is to calls by Sikh activists in Canada for Khalistan, or a separate homeland for Sikhs. It's a demand that evokes painful memories for millions in India, especially in northern Punjab state where Sikhs form the majority of the population (outside Punjab, Canada has the highest number of Sikhs in the world).\n\nThe demand for Khalistan peaked in India in the 1980s with an armed insurgency later crushed - thousands of people were killed. The movement is not prominent in Punjab now, and all mainstream Indian political parties vocally oppose it.\n\nBut calls for Khalistan are still loud among some in the Sikh diaspora in countries such as Canada, Australia and the UK. Delhi has reacted sharply to demonstrations for and referendums on Khalistan by Sikh activists in these countries - not illegal there, but a major irritant for India.\n\nIn July, Khalistan supporters held a demonstration outside India's consulate in Toronto\n\nThe issue received wider global attention after three pro-Khalistan activists died in quick succession in different countries earlier this year.\n\nParamjit Singh Panjwar, chief of the Khalistan Commando Force who was designated a terrorist by India, was shot dead in May in Pakistan - his killers haven't been identified yet.\n\nIn the UK, Avtar Singh Khanda, said to be the head of the Khalistan Liberation Force, died on 15 June in hospital. Khanda had been arrested in March after a demonstration in London where protesters pulled down the Indian flag at the country's embassy. But a UK police spokesperson said the death \"was not deemed to be suspicious\".\n\nThree days after his death, Nijjar, also designated a terrorist by India, was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia - it's this murder that has now led Canada to take a strong public stand against a powerful ally.\n\nRelations between the two have survived previous strains - Canada reacted sharply to Indian nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998; India expressed its disappointment in 2005 after two Canadian Sikhs accused of a deadly Air India bombing were acquitted.\n\nBut otherwise, the two nations have mostly been on good terms, except for the Khalistan issue. They have a lot in common: \"a shared tradition of democracy and pluralism\" and \"a common commitment to a rules-based international system\", as Canada itself puts it.\n\nThey are both Commonwealth countries and members of the G20 group of leading world economies. Canada, which wants a bigger footprint in Asia, sees India as a counterweight to China.\n\nIt's not just geopolitics, the countries also have strong trade links.\n\nIndia was Canada's 10th largest trading partner in 2022, with bilateral trade in goods at $11.9bn that year, up 56% from the previous year. They were very close to signing that trade agreement now on the backburner.\n\nSo there's obviously a lot at stake for both countries.\n\n\"I do think that this is a lesson to us all that there is nothing sacrosanct about India's close relationships with Western partners. This is a wake-up call that yes, India is a non-aligned player, it values its relations with the Global South, it definitely values its relations with the West. But that doesn't mean that it's going to be insulated from the possibility of a major crisis in relations,\" says Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center think-tank in Washington.\n\nIndia's foreign minister S Jaishankar said earlier this year that Canada's response to Khalistan has been driven by \"vote bank compulsion\", a reference to the support Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party gets from Sikhs. Mr Trudeau's minority government is also backed by the New Democratic Party (NDP), which is led by Jagmeet Singh, himself a Sikh.\n\nIt's an assessment many Indian experts agree with.\n\nChintamani Mahapatra, founder of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, says that Mr Trudeau's statements on the issue of Khalistan are \"divisive\".\n\n\"He ignores the sentiments of the larger Indo-Canadian community, which includes the Canadian Sikhs, and appears biased in favour of the Khalistanis. Would he like external support for Quebec separatists? Of course not,\" he says, adding that the relationship between India and Canada has become more stressful due to Mr Trudeau.\n\n\"In the name of democracy, human rights and freedom of speech, Canada should not jeopardise its relations with other countries.\"\n\nBut Avinash Paliwal, who teaches politics and international studies at SOAS University of London, says the sudden escalation may not be due to just domestic compulsions.\n\n\"If your intelligence agencies have gathered credible information that another country, even if it is an ally, was involved in a covert operation on your soil, you're bound to act on that,\" he says, adding that it's likely that Mr Trudeau tried to raise the issue through other channels first.\n\nAccording to India's statement, Mr Trudeau did bring up the allegation with Mr Modi but received short shrift.\n\nThe Canadian PM has received support from other domestic politicians, including main opposition leader Pierre Poilievre. The West has reacted too - the US says it is \"deeply concerned\" by the allegations, while the UK says it is \"in close touch\" with Canada on the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trudeau: We are not looking to 'provoke' India\n\nExperts say that while Western countries see India as necessary to counter China's influence, there is also growing concern about the direction of Indian politics under Mr Modi - critics say attacks on minorities have risen since his government came to power, and raise other human rights concerns.\n\nThe developments will also be closely watched by Beijing and Moscow, which will be glad to see a \"fissure between India and the West\", Mr Paliwal says. However, he adds that this wouldn't \"derail the strategic story\" or \"make Washington turn its back\" on India.\n\nMr Kugelman says China and Russia will see the confrontation differently.\n\n\"Beijing does not want to see India broaden and deepen relations with like-minded countries keen to push back against China. So in that regard, this may be seen as a strategic benefit for Beijing. Russia may be perfectly happy to see Canada bogged down in this crisis,\" he says.\n\nIn the short term, though, an India-Canada confrontation will have geopolitical consequences. If Canada continues to issue strong statements and goes on to directly accuse India, it will present a unique challenge to Western governments, specially the UK and Australia.\n\nThe way the West backed Delhi at the recent G20 summit was a clear indication that it wants India to be a viable counterweight to China.\n\nBut it will be a strategic headache for them if it comes to a point where they have to choose between India and Canada. So far, the UK, the US and Australia have given calculated statements.\n\nBut can India and Canada still mend their differences to avoid a geopolitical challenge for the West?\n\nMr Mahapatra says that while the Khalistan issue can affect economic co-operation in the short term, it's unlikely to derail long-term ties between the countries. He also cautions against \"extreme steps\", especially from Canada.\n\n\"Expelling a diplomat means you don't want a dialogue. Such issues need to be dealt through dialogue and diplomacy, not confrontation,\" he says.", "Prices will rise faster in the UK than any other advanced economy this year, a forecast suggests.\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said UK inflation would average 7.2% in 2023.\n\nThe think tank said this would be the highest rate in the G7 group, which includes the US, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Italy.\n\nThe government said it was confident it was \"on the right track to halve inflation\" by the end of 2023.\n\nIt added that the OECD's forecast \"illustrates yet again why we need to stick to the plan that we have set out\".\n\nThe OECD, a globally recognised think tank, raised its forecast for UK inflation by 0.3 percentage points from its previous estimate for 2023.\n\nAt 7.2% it will be higher than in Germany and Italy, which are forecast to have rates of 6.1%, France (5.8%), the US (3.8%), Canada (3.6%) and Japan (3.1%).\n\nThe think tank predicts UK inflation will fall to 2.9% in 2024.\n\nThe UK's latest inflation data for August will be released on Wednesday and is predicted to rise from 6.8% to 7%, after falling steadily in recent months.\n\nClare Lombardelli, chief economist at the OECD, said the UK had \"seen slightly higher inflation than previously expected\" and that the Bank of England was \"taking the right action in raising rates\" to tackle it.\n\nThe Bank of England has put up rates 14 times since December 2021 and is expected to increase them again on Thursday, from 5.25% to 5.5%.\n\nThe economic theory behind this is that it makes it more expensive for people to borrow money, meaning they will have less excess cash to spend, households will buy fewer things and price rises will ease.\n\nBut it's a balancing act as raising rates too aggressively could cause a recession.\n\nThe OECD's economists also reduced their economic growth forecast for the UK for next year, due to pressure on households and businesses from higher interest rates.\n\nThe think tank added that economic activity had \"already weakened\" in the UK due to the \"lagged effect on incomes from the large energy price shock in 2022\".\n\nIt predicts growth of 0.3% in 2023, the second-weakest among the G7, and growth of 0.8% next year.\n\nDarren Jones, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury said the OECD's economic forecasts \"show that the Tories are delivering more of the same\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added that the government was \"making significant progress\" to slow prices but was \"not complacent\".\n\nHe added that the OECD's predictions on economic growth did not take into account recent revisions elsewhere suggesting Britain's economy had recovered quicker than others from the Covid pandemic.\n\nForecasts aim to give a guide to what is most likely to happen in the future, but can be incorrect and do change. They are used by businesses to help plan investments, and by governments to guide policy decisions.", "Wayne Couzens (L) and David Carrick (R), both pictured in uniform, abused their positions as police officers\n\nPolice officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced.\n\nThe change follows high-profile cases of officers committing rape and murder.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, called the changes \"a return to kangaroo courts\".\n\nUnder the new system, chief constables or their deputies will chair misconduct panels hearing serious allegations against officers.\n\nUntil now the panels have been chaired by an independent lawyer.\n\nThe Police Regulations, which govern officers' behaviour, will also be changed to allow police officers who fail re-vetting checks to be dismissed.\n\nPolicing minister Chris Philp said the changes would target the \"small minority of police officers who let down the police force, and therefore let down the public\".\n\n\"They will make sure there is nowhere to hide for officers who don't deserve to wear the uniform,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been publicly campaigning for the change, telling MPs in April that independent lawyers are \"more forgiving\" of bad behaviour than senior police officers.\n\nIn a statement issued by the government, Sir Mark said he was glad ministers had recognised the need for \"substantial change\".\n\nLast year, Sir Mark said he had \"about 100\" officers who could not be trusted to speak to the public, but who he could not throw out of the force because of restricted powers available to him.\n\nA review of the Met by Baroness Casey found the number of officers dismissed for gross misconduct started to fall when independent chairs were introduced to run the hearings.\n\nHome Office data on police misconduct shows that in the year ending March 2022, 58 officers out of 284 found guilty of gross misconduct were not punished with dismissal from the police.Of the 284 officers, 133 resigned or retired before they could be formally sanctioned.\n\nThe Police Federation had lobbied the government not to change the current system, and called the announcement a \"huge retrograde step\".\n\nIts national chair, Steve Hartshorn, said: \"A return to kangaroo courts, whereby an officer is already guilty in the eyes of the chief officer before any evidence is heard, and they already know what outcome they want to see, is deeply concerning.\"\n\nTiffany Lynch, also from the federation, criticised the changes, saying it was important to \"see due process\", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme that officers must have the opportunity to defend themselves.\n\nShe also said that effective processes were already in place to ensure officers found guilty of gross misconduct could be fired.\n\nBut the chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Gavin Stephens, told BBC News the new system contained checks and balances to ensure independence.\n\n\"There's nothing that upsets police officers more than to see their fellow officers transgress, commit crime, and commit awful misconduct offences,\" he said.\n\n\"That really aggrieves us as it aggrieves our communities, and we want to act firmly and swiftly to ensure that those who don't belong in policing are not serving.\"\n\nAndy Marsh, from the College of Policing, also called the changes a \"very significant step forward\" that would ensure police chiefs were \"accountable for delivering the standards and culture in their force\".\n\nLabour said the announcement did not go far enough, and has also called for officers under investigation for rape and domestic violence to be suspended during any inquiries.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"For too long our police chiefs have not had the powers they need to root out those who have no place wearing the uniform.\n\n\"The public must have confidence that their officers are the best of the best, like the vast majority of brave men and women wearing the badge, and that's why those who disgrace the uniform must have no place to hide.\"", "Researchers at Google DeepMind have trained their AI system to identify potentially disease causing genes\n\nGoogle's AI firm DeepMind has used artificial intelligence to identify changes in human DNA that might cause diseases.\n\nThe researchers believe they have pinpointed 89% of all the key mutations.\n\nThe development is expected to speed up diagnosis and help in the search for better treatments.\n\nA leading independent scientist told BBC News that the work was \"a big step forward\".\n\nProf Ewan Birney, deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, said: \"It will help clinical researchers prioritise where to look to find areas that could cause disease.\"\n\nThe technique works by checking the order of the components in human DNA strands.\n\nAll living organisms are built from DNA. It is made from four blocks of chemicals called adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). In humans, when an embryo is developing, the order of these letters are read to produce proteins, which are the building blocks of the the cells and tissues that make up various parts of the body.\n\nBut if the letters are in the wrong order - perhaps because of an inherited disorder - the body cells and tissues aren't made properly - and this can lead to disease.\n\nLast year Google DeepMind's AI worked out the shape of nearly all proteins in the human body.\n\nThe new system, called AlphaMissense, can tell If the letters in the DNA will produce the correct shape. If not, it is listed as potentially disease-causing.\n\nCurrently genetic disease hunters have fairly limited limited knowledge of which areas of human DNA can lead to disease. They have classified 0.1% of letter changes, or mutations, as either benign or disease causing.\n\nGoogle DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli said that the new model pushed that percentage up to 89%.\n\nCurrently, researchers have to search for potentially disease-causing regions across billions of chemical building blocks that make up DNA. That has now changed, according to Mr Kohli.\n\n''Researchers can now focus their efforts on the new areas, that they were not aware of and we have highlighted as potentially disease-causing,'' he said.\n\nThe new tool - published in the journal Science - has been tested by Genomics England, who work with the NHS. According to Dr Ellen Thomas, who is the deputy chief medical officer at Genomics England, the health service will be among the first organisations to benefit from the new development.\n\n\"The new tool is really bringing a new perspective to the data. It will help clinical scientists make sense of genetic data so that it is useful for patients and for their clinical teams,\" she said.\n\nProf Birney said he expected AI to become a massive part of molecular biology and life sciences.\n\n\"I don't know where it's going to end but it's changing nearly everything we do at the moment,\" he said.\n\nFollow Pallab on X, formerly known as Twitter", "Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) is England's only NHS specialist gender clinic for children\n\nThe majority of children in a landmark study on puberty blockers experienced positive or negative changes in their mental health, new analysis suggests.\n\nThe original study of 44 children, who all took the controversial drugs for a year or more, found no mental health impact - neither benefits nor harm.\n\nBut a re-analysis of that data now suggests 34% saw their mental health deteriorate, while 29% improved.\n\nThe authors of the original report have welcomed the new evidence.\n\nThe re-analysis, which has been seen by BBC Newsnight, questions some of the conclusions from the 2021 study about the potential mental health impact of puberty blockers on under 16s. It also sheds some light on this much-debated, but little understood, area of children's medicine.\n\nThe new study has not been in a peer-reviewed journal yet. The authors say they felt there was an urgency in getting the information into the public domain.\n\nIn 2011, a team from the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) - England's only NHS specialist gender clinic for children - and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) embarked on what became known as the early intervention study.\n\nThey enrolled 44 children, aged between 12 and 15, over the following three years. The study looked at the impact taking puberty blockers - medicines used to postpone puberty in children - was having. It resulted in the age at which puberty blockers could be offered on the NHS being lowered.\n\nWhen the landmark study's results were published in 2021, it revealed blockers brought \"no changes in psychological function\" to those taking them.\n\nBut this differed from earlier findings of Dutch researchers, who pioneered this approach to treating gender dysphoria. They reported a positive impact on young people's mental health and wellbeing.\n\nThe early intervention study used scores from both parent and child questionnaires, which assessed children's behavioural and emotional problems. These are widely and reliably used in psychology in many countries and include more than 100 questions on things like school, feelings, and relationships.\n\nThe overall finding of \"no change\" was based on a group average - or mean - of those scores, given at different points in time.\n\n\"That's a very standard way of doing things,\" Professor Chris Evans, a retired psychiatrist and psychotherapist, told Newsnight. \"The problem is it doesn't pay attention to how much variation there was across the participants.\"\n\nFor example, a quarter could score extremely high, a quarter could score quite high, a quarter could score quite badly, and a quarter could score extremely badly. Yet the group average would be somewhere in the middle.\n\nProf Susan McPherson, from the University of Essex, and David Freedman, a retired social scientist, have since re-analysed the data. They instead looked at the individual trajectories of each of the young people in the early intervention study.\n\nThey found, after 12 months of puberty blocker injections - 34% of the children had reliably deteriorated, 29% had reliably improved, and 37% showed no change, according to their self-reported answers.\n\nThe proportions were a little lower in the parents' scores, but in three quarters of the cases, there was broad agreement between parents and their children.\n\nThe impact on each of the children varied.\n\nFor a child who \"deteriorated\", it could mean moving from being psychologically well and not needing treatment for their mental health, to meeting criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis such as depression or anxiety. Whereas a child who \"improved\" could move from needing mental health treatment to being considered mentally well.\n\nHowever, what neither the original research paper, nor the re-analysis, can do is tell us why these young people fared so differently.\n\nThe study is small - just 44 young people. And because of the way the original study was designed - without a control group - experts can't infer cause and effect or say these changes in wellbeing were caused by being on puberty blockers.\n\nBut despite those limitations, the new analysis suggests the need for more research, both into this specific group and on the impact of puberty blockers more generally.\n\nMr Freedman argues it is vital that young people and their families have the \"best information possible\" when making decisions on medical treatment.\n\nIn June NHS England announced that puberty blockers will only be made available to young people taking part in clinical trials.\n\nDr Hilary Cass's interim report into children's gender services highlighted \"gaps in evidence\" around the drugs, and a systematic review carried out by NICE found the quality of the evidence for the use of puberty blockers in this context to be \"very low\".\n\nSimilar reviews have been undertaken in Sweden and Finland, with both reaching the same conclusion. A number of other European countries have begun taking a more cautious, less medical approach to helping young people questioning their gender identity.\n\nBoth the Tavistock and Portman Trust and UCLH said they welcomed new contributions to the evidence base around how to support young people with gender incongruence.\n\nA spokesperson from Tavistock and Portman [NHS Foundation] Trust said data from the original study had been published to allow other researchers to conduct \"further analyses\". It said the analysis plan for the original study was independently produced by experts in medical statistics.\n\nA spokesperson for UCLH said it supported Dr Cass's recommendation that \"research should be fully embedded in the development of new services for children and young people expressing gender incongruence\".\n\nThey added: \"We will work closely with the new national [Children and Young People's Gender Dysphoria] research oversight board to support the collection and analysis of robust data in this area.\"\n\nThe board will oversee the design and conduct of the new puberty-blocker research trial, as well as ensure research is embedded at the heart of new children and young people's gender dysphoria services.\n\nThe Cass Review Team told the BBC that it has commissioned \"an updated systematic review\" of academic publications on puberty blockers.\n\nThis review, along with this new analysis will be taken into account in its final recommendations, which are expected by the end of the year.", "Councillor John Cotton said he apologised for the \"impact\" the council's finances will have on citizens\n\nThe leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had \"no prior notice\" of its \"bankruptcy\" crisis.\n\nCouncillor John Cotton said he had met with Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove this week to discuss support.\n\nThe leader was on holiday in the US when the section 114 notice was issued, halting all new spending.\n\nHe confirmed \"all council activity\" was being reviewed but pledged to protect \"the things that matter most\".\n\nSpeaking to Politics Midlands, he said: \"It is clear we are facing a number of challenges in Birmingham so I would like to start by offering an apology on behalf of Birmingham City Council to the people of the city.\n\n\"I am apologising for the impact we know this has on citizens.\n\n\"We are having to review all of our council activity, and look at where we make our spend but my priority is that we continue focus on front-line service delivery, the things that matter most to the people of this city.\"\n\nHe said he did not want to add to \"the burdens of people in the city who have already been going through a cost of living crisis\".\n\nBirmingham City Council is to stop all new spending, with the exception of money protecting vulnerable people and statutory services\n\nCouncillor Cotton has come under fire for being out of the country on a family holiday when the Section 114 was declared, but said he had \"no prior notice\" it was going to happen and took \"immediate steps to grip the situation\".\n\nThe notice means the council is only committing to fund statutory services, like refuse collection, schools and adult social care.\n\nHe insisted he had confident on the cabinet team and officers who were working to deliver a financial recovery plan, which will be discussed at a meeting of the authority on 25 September.\n\nThe city council's problems are, in part, because it needs to settle a £760m bill for equal pay claims and it had already taken the decision to stop non-essential spending. in July.\n\nIt also faces an immediate budget shortfall of £87m this year, and has blamed the implementation of its Oracle IT system for its desperate situation.\n\nMr Cotton said he met Mr Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and was having ongoing communication with his department and the Local Government Association as the authority recognised it had challenges and needed assistance to address them.\n\nBut Mr Cotton said the issue was \"in the context of 10 years of austerity and cuts to services\" and that councils across the country were seeing problems due to cuts from central government to local authority funding.\n\nMr Cotton pledged to protect the services that matter most to people in Birmingham\n\nIn response Marcus Jones, Conservative MP for Nuneaton, said the situation was \"absolute incompetence\".\n\n\"To try and lay the blame at the door of anyone else is unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"Where councils have done the right things, got on top of the issues right from the start, where councils haven't made silly investments in all sorts of things councils shouldn't be meddling in, they are in a reasonably good position.\"\n\nWhile Steve McCabe, Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, added: \"I am embarrassed that this has happened in Birmingham.\n\n\"But we have got to be realistic, this is not just a Birmingham problem, this is happening all over the country.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrea Logue should have been celebrating her 21st birthday later in September\n\nThe mothers of two young people who died after taking suspected \"extra-strength\" pills say people need to be aware street drugs are \"lethal\".\n\nAndrea Logue and Seán Pól Boyle died in separate incidents in the north west in August.\n\nTheir families have spoken to BBC Spotlight as part of an investigation into the supply of dangerous drugs.\n\nPolice say 14 people have been arrested since the start of June in connection with drug deaths.\n\nThis article contains details some readers may find distressing.\n\nBoth Andrea and Seán Pól died on 12 August.\n\nIt is believed they had taken pregabalin, an anti-epileptic drug also used to relieve chronic pain.\n\nLater that month, a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officer told a court in Londonderry there had been three deaths and five heart attacks in one weekend, linked to super strength pregabalin tablets.\n\nAndrea and Seán Pól's families say they want other young people to know the dangers associated with un-prescribed medication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndrea was 20 when she died in hospital after she was found unconscious at a friend's house near her home in Strabane, County Tyrone.\n\n\"A doctor brought us into a private room and told us that Andrea was in a coma. Not [induced] by them, by whatever drug she'd taken,\" her mother Amanda said.\n\n\"At about 15:00 he told us that there was nothing more he could do. We had to make the decision to turn off the machine.\"\n\nAndrea Logue would have celebrated her birthday later in September\n\nAmanda said she wanted to warn other families of the dangers of illegal drugs being sold on the street under the guise of prescription medication.\n\n\"People think because it's the same name as what a doctor prescribes, that it has to be the same thing,\" she said.\n\n\"People need to be aware that they're not the same as a prescription medicine, that they are lethal, they are dangerous and they do kill.\"\n\nRosemary Lynn's son Seán Pól would have celebrated his 29th birthday on Tuesday.\n\nThe father of two died as the result of a suspected heart attack, believed to have been caused by taking the extra-strength pregabalin pills.\n\n\"Dealers need to be taken off the streets because they are murdering our children,\" Rosemary said.\n\n\"I'm angry at the people that dealt these drugs to him because they took my son. They took my child.\"\n\nSeán Pól had been released from prison weeks prior to his death, and had a history of drug addiction.\n\nRosemary was asked to accompany police to identify her son's body in the property where he died.\n\n\"The hardest thing ever [is] lying over the top of your son, lying over the top of your baby boy and there's nothing you can do to save him,\" she said.\n\n\"All a mammy wants to do is protect her children and I could not protect him from these drug dealers. I couldn't save him.\"\n\nRosemary Lynn said her son should have been celebrating his birthday on Tuesday\n\nSpotlight was able to have drugs delivered to an undercover journalist as part of the investigation.\n\nLaboratory testing revealed the pills they obtained were bromazolam, a synthetic benzodiazepine, which the PSNI said was a common factor in a wave of overdoses in Belfast in July.\n\nThe drugs were safely disposed of after testing.\n\nBromazolam has not been approved for use in the United Kingdom but is becoming a common ingredient in street drugs.\n\nSecurity and community sources have told BBC Spotlight that the East Belfast UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) is one of the major suppliers of the potentially lethal pills.\n\nCoroner Joe McCrisken told the programme bromazolam had been implicated in a number of deaths in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpotlight can report that criminal gangs and paramilitaries are increasingly buying the drugs in bulk.\n\nThey are often sold on in batches of 20 or 50 on closed social media sites and encrypted messaging apps.\n\nOne dealer, who was secretly filmed by BBC Spotlight, boasted to the undercover reporter about the quality of the illegal pills he was selling.\n\nMr McCrisken described the drugs, which are sold on the street as yellows or benzos, as \"incredibly potent\".\n\n\"It poses comparatively higher risks than other legally prescribed benzodiazepines, due to its ability to produce strong sedation and amnesia even at a low dosage,\" he said.\n\nCoroner Joe McCrisken says bromazolam has been implicated in a number of deaths in Northern Ireland\n\nOther pills given to the undercover reporter, who was secretly recording the exchange, were referred to online as \"blues\".\n\nTesting in a lab has confirmed they contained New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), often known as so called \"legal highs\".\n\nDespite the name, these drugs are still illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.\n\nIn a statement, the PSNI said it had made 14 arrests in relation to drug-related deaths within Northern Ireland since the start of June.\n\nThe PSNI also said it was working with national and international law enforcement partners, including An Garda Síochána (Irish police) to target suppliers and supply lines.\n\nDet Supt Emma Neill said 14 people have been arrested in connection with drug-related deaths sine June\n\nDet Supt Emma Neill said the supply online, and via social media apps, is actively being investigated, and that the police could not comment further \"for operational reasons\".\n\nIf you have been affected by addiction, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.\n\nIf you live in Northern Ireland, you can also call Lifeline, a 24 hour helpline on 0808 808 8000.\n\nSpotlight: Deadly Little Pills is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.", "Alexander Stadium was put on the world stage during last year's Commonwealth Games\n\nWith its finances under scrutiny after it essentially went bankrupt, could Birmingham City Council sell off the land and property it owns to pay its bills?\n\nIt is two weeks since the authority said it was ceasing all non-essential spending, as it desperately worked out how to balance its books and pay off £750m in equal pay claims.\n\nIn a report ahead of its meeting on 25 September to put together a financial recovery plan, it is set to ask the government for \"exceptional financial support\" - likely to take the form of permission to borrow money to service debt, or sell assets, such as buildings and land, to raise cash to deal with its financial liabilities.\n\nThe Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street has also suggested it should bring in a \"taskforce of property experts\" to realise its assets to help deal \"specifically with the mammoth equal pay bill\".\n\nBut doing that is not as easy as it sounds.\n\nThe council owns 26,000 acres across Birmingham, including 40% of all land within the city boundary, and about 6,500 property assets - and that is separate to housing, infrastructure and schools.\n\nThe property portfolio has a value of over £2.4bn and generates £32m in revenue.\n\nMoney made from sales of assets is usually restricted to fund other capital expenditure or paying off debt - and shouldn't subsidise the council's day-to-day spending.\n\nHowever, authorities in severe financial states can get special permission from the government to use the money differently.\n\nThe council sold the NEC Group, which includes the National Exhibition Centre, International Convention Centre, Utilita and Resorts World Arena, in 2015 for £307m to help fund £1bn of equal pay claims.\n\nSo what assets could the council look at selling off - and what is it likely to keep hold of?\n\nThe city council owns shares in Birmingham Airport along with six other councils\n\nA new terminal at the city's airport was opened to passengers in 1984 by Her Majesty the Queen and since 1986, shares have been owned by the seven district councils of the West Midlands - including Birmingham.\n\nIn total, the authority owns 18.68% of the total shareholding.\n\nBBC Midlands Political Editor Elizabeth Glinka said given that Coventry and Solihull also both have shares in the airport, a sale by Birmingham would be \"quite embarrassing\".\n\nAnd as the other councils in the West Midlands Combined Authority aren't going to want to lose control to another investor, it's complicated.\n\nIn its draft statement of accounts for 2021-22, the council said Covid-19 continued to have an impact on the financial performance the airport, which is showing a net loss, adding it would \"continue to monitor the performance of its companies\".\n\nThe city council also has approximately 59,000 social housing properties.\n\nBBC political reporter Rob Mayor said: \"Presumably there is room to sell off and effectively outsource that, which would be a concern to tenants.\"\n\nMark Coxshall, the Conservative leader of Thurrock Council, which issued a section 114 last year, previously refused to rule out selling 10,000 homes in order to help pay off a £1.5bn debt.\n\nIt was despite concerns from Labour member Lynn Worrall that residents would be angry they \"could end up with a housing association running our houses\".\n\nHowever, Birmingham recently came under fire as about 23,000 of the homes had serious health and safety issues, including overdue asbestos checks as well as fire and electrical risks, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) review found.\n\nThe Alexander Stadium was the centrepiece of the 2022 Commonwealth Games\n\nThe stadium, in Perry Barr, was the main venue for athletics when the city hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games.\n\nAn investment of £72m was made in advance of the competition, and the facility now boasts two world class athletics tracks, and the council says \"modern conference, meeting and event spaces\".\n\nAs of August, the council had also begun marketing 968 homes on land that was initially earmarked for the athletes' village, although plans for that were dropped.\n\nBirmingham library, the largest of its kind in Europe, opened in 2013\n\nThe city's public library - complete with an amphitheatre, gardens and hundreds of thousands of books - opened to the public in 2013 at a cost of £189m.\n\nIt is believed to be Europe's largest public lending library and houses one of the UK's most important Shakespeare collections.\n\nIn 2015, it received nearly two million visits and was the most visited tourist attraction outside of London.\n\nOur West Midlands political editor added that both the stadium and the library would feel like \"family jewels\".\n\nBut she questioned who might be interested in buying both, and whether it would happen - with the risk of both becoming a \"fire sale\" where they go for less than their true value.\n\nWhile our Birmingham political reporter added: \"I think again there's a question about who would buy it - presumably some sort of lease back deal is more likely?\"\n\nA lease back sees an owner sell a property to a third party who then agrees to simultaneously rent it back to the original owner on completion so they can remain in place.\n\nBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery is currently closed for maintenance works\n\nBirmingham Museum & Art Gallery is housed in a Grade II* listed building. It is operated by the museums trust, but the council owns both the building and its collections.\n\nThe building, home to the largest public Pre-Raphaelite collection in the world, closed in 2020 for building work, but partially reopened in 2022 for the Commonwealth Games.\n\nIt has since been closed for essential maintenance work, with plans to reopen sometime in 2024.\n\nIn a post on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Street added: \"The idea of Birmingham City Council selling its cultural assets to help its finances seems a red herring [and] something I'd be totally against.\n\n\"An asset sale for an authority so rich in land is absolutely right - but I'm sure the focus will be on sites [and] land of strategic value.\"\n\nWith assets like Sarehole Mill, which has connections to Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien, Rob Mayor said there was \"puzzlement\" at what selling it off might achieve.\n\n\"How much would you get and who would buy it?\" he added.\n\n\"The major cash they have tied up is in land which can be developed.\"\n\nThe author grew up opposite the now 250-year-old mill, and in 2019 thousands of pounds were raised to restore it after one of its wheels was unable to turn due to trapped debris caused by a flood.\n\nProf Tony Travers, visiting professor in the LSE Department of Government, said selling off assets \"would not provide money immediately to relieve 'annual' budget pressures\".\n\n\"If the council sold off, say, a building, it couldn't immediately use the cash to spend on day-to-day services, but it could put the money in the bank and use the interest to do so,\" he said.\n\nIf a building is already generating income, he said the issue would be if it would generate more in interest if it was sold.\n\nProf Tony Travers said Birmingham City Council had in the past been given special permission to use revenue from asset sales towards paying off claims\n\n\"Having said that, the government has in the past allowed Birmingham to 'capitalise' such spending. That is, treat it as if it were capital.\"\n\nThis is called a \"capitalisation direction\" and can come through the exceptional financial support the council is seeking from the government.\n\nMax Caller, a former non-executive director of Birmingham City Council, who was appointed in 2019 to try to help it deal with historical financial problems, said the sale of assets is what Slough has used to help ease its problems after it filed a section 114.\n\nThe council owns some 26,000 acres of land (more than 10,500 hectares)\n\n\"What actually happens then is that the asset sales are applied to paying back the debt and then to any outstanding debt, which reduces the debt charge the authority is paying,\" he said.\n\n\"Those are revenue, so it reduces the revenue bill and reduces the net spend.\n\n\"It is a complicated way to do it, most authorities can't do it and you have to be in trouble to get there.\"\n\nWhen asked if the sale of assets was being considered to raise funds, the city council said it was still very early stages after the section 114 notice, signalling effective bankruptcy, was issued.\n\nAsked about the potential of selling assets on BBC Politics Midlands, council leader John Cotton added: \"We're having to review all of council activity and look at where we make our spend.\n\n\"But my priority is that we continue to focus on front-line service delivery and the things that matter most to the people of the city in making those decisions.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The City watchdog says it has found no evidence to suggest politicians' bank accounts are being closed primarily because of their views.\n\nThe findings by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) follow a row over threats to close the Coutts account of former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.\n\nMr Farage, who claimed his account was being shut over his views, told the BBC the findings were \"total nonsense\".\n\nThe FCA stood by its findings but said it would be making further inquiries.\n\nThe government said free speech was \"a fundamental human right\".\n\n\"While no bank, building society or payment firm reported to us that they had closed accounts primarily due to someone's political views, further work is needed for us to be sure,\" said FCA boss Nikhil Rathi.\n\nThe watchdog's investigation looked at data from 34 banks and payment companies covering the period from June 2022 to June 2023.\n\nIt said it had reviewed a number of cases where political views or other opinions were cited as a cause for closing an account.\n\nBut in none of the cases was this the main reason, with customer behaviour, such as the use of \"racist language directed towards staff\", most often to blame.\n\nHowever, the watchdog acknowledged its findings had been \"gathered from firms at speed\" and said it would be doing \"further work\" to verify the data.\n\nResponding to the report, Mr Farage called the findings \"absolutely farcical\".\n\n\"To suggest no one gets debanked for their political views is total nonsense,\" he said, adding that there were \"dozens\" of examples of where this had happened.\n\n\"It's very difficult to believe the FCA can say this and I can only conclude that they're part of the problem, rather than part of the solution,\" he said.\n\nThe FCA had already been preparing to look into the issue of \"debanking\" prior to the row between Mr Farage and NatWest, which owns the private bank Coutts.\n\nMr Rathi said the investigation did not consider Mr Farage's case because it \"only looked at accounts that have been closed\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Radio 4's World At One that his organisation was \"making sure that case is being specifically investigated in detail by a third party\".\n\nLast month, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called on the regulator to speed up its probe in the wake of the row.\n\nIn a letter to the FCA, he asked it to \"urgently investigate\" whether account closures for political reasons are widespread.\n\nThe Treasury has also announced plans to subject UK banks to stricter rules over closing customer accounts.\n\nCommenting on the FCA's report on debanking, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith, said: \"Everyone must be able to express their lawful opinions without fear of losing the vital access to a bank account.\n\n\"We have already acted to force banks to explain and delay any decision to close an account to protect freedom of expression - meaning customers will have a 90-day notice period and a clear explanation for any account closure. That will be backed up in legislation this year.\n\n\"We note the initial report of the FCA. Clearly there is more to be done to validate the submissions by banks and to ensure that the FCA have thoroughly followed up debanked customer perspectives.\"\n\nWhen Coutts decided to close Mr Farage's account, he said it did not give him a reason.\n\nMr Farage subsequently obtained a document looking at his suitability as a Coutts customer, which included minutes from a meeting in November last year reviewing his account.\n\nIt confirmed that Mr Farage had fallen below their publicly available commercial criteria to be a customer.\n\nHowever, the 40-page document also flagged concerns that he was \"xenophobic and racist\", and raised concerns about the reputational risk of having Mr Farage as a client.\n\nIt said that to have Mr Farage as a customer was not consistent with Coutts' \"position as an inclusive organisation\" given his \"publicly stated views\".\n\nNatWest has since announced an independent review, with lawyers looking at the decision to close Mr Farage's account and other instances of customers losing Coutts accounts.\n\nDame Alison Rose, chief executive of NatWest Group, quit after saying she had made a \"serious error of judgment\" in speaking to a BBC journalist about Mr Farage's Coutts account.\n\nThe boss of Coutts, Peter Flavel, also quit due to the row.\n\nIn August, it was reported that Coutts had reversed the decision to close Mr Farage's account.\n\nThe BBC had initially reported the ex-MEP's account was being closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nThe BBC has since apologised to Mr Farage for the inaccurate story.", "The escalating row over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader has the potential to derail years of close relations between Canada and India - two key strategic partners on security and trade.\n\nThe BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins examines how things reached this point and why the case is putting the relationship between Justin Trudeau and Narendra Modi on ice.", "A man whose brother died after being hit by a car travelling at 30mph has said the new 20mph default limit will be worth it if lives are saved.\n\nWales has become the first country in the UK to reduce speed limits in built-up areas from 30mph to 20mph.\n\nGareth Parry, whose brother Keith was killed in 1994, called it a \"fantastic change.\"\n\nBut the move has been controversial, with criticism from the Welsh Conservatives and UK ministers.\n\nA Senedd petition calling for the Welsh government to remove the 20mph law has gained more than 60,000 signatures.\n\nNatasha Asghar, the Welsh Conservative's shadow transport minister, said the petition \"highlights that there has been little to no consultation with the general public\".\n\n\"The new blanket 20mph speed limit has been in place for just one day and already people have had enough of it,\" she added.\n\nWhile walking to school to promote the scheme, Deputy Climate Change Minister, Lee Waters, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that the new speed limit has been in the works for four years and trialled in eight places.\n\n\"When speed limits are lower, people feel safer to cycle and to walk, so less people are driving,\" he said.\n\nHe told Wales Today the police would enforce with a light touch for about a year.\n\nThe guidance is is that drivers pulled over doing less than 30mph will be given advice.\n\n\"We need to give it a bit of time to bed in,\" Mr Waters said.\n\nPushback during the day from those objecting to the new limit had \"not been a lot fun\".\n\n\"I completely understand why people are exasperated by it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a big, big change which will take some time for people to get used to.\"\n\nKeith Parry was killed in 1994 after being hit by a car doing 30mph\n\nMr Parry, who represents Hendre ward on Gwynedd's council, Cyngor Gwynedd, said: \"I lost a brother who was knocked down.\n\n\"The car was only doing 30. My brother never came home.\n\n\"If we can prevent one accident [with the 20mph limit] it's worth it. I don't want to see another family going through what we've been through.\"\n\nThe law has reduced the speed limit on about 35% of Welsh roads where lamp-posts are no more than 200 yards (183m) apart.\n\nMonday marks the first time the new speed limit is in force on the school run.\n\nThis 20mph sign on Broad Street in Canton, Cardiff has been defaced\n\nThe Welsh government said it would result in up to 10 fewer road deaths a year in Wales.\n\nBut in Maesteg in Bridgend county, Louise Griffiths, 47, worried the change might cause \"havoc\" in some areas.\n\n\"In some areas I think it's necessary, like schools but in other places I think it'll cause havoc,\" she said.\n\n\"It might even cause a few accidents with people becoming impatient.\"\n\nMatt Davies says he didn't \"notice\" any impact of 20mph on traffic in Maesteg on Sunday\n\nMatt Davies, 32, said he had \"not really noticed [the change] affecting traffic\" after a short drive through the town on Sunday.\n\n\"If it'll save lives and money for the NHS then that's a good thing.\"\n\nAfter strong criticism of the policy by Conservative politicians, including the Commons leader Penny Mordaunt who called it \"insane\", a Welsh minister suggested the Tories were happy to see children killed on the roads.\n\nWales' counsel general, Mick Antoniw, the senior legal adviser to ministers, said on Saturday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter: \"Tories so happy to see people and particularly children killed and injured on our roads.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary David TC Davies called it an \"absolutely appalling suggestion\", telling the BBC's Politics Wales programme Mr Antoniw should \"apologise and withdraw that gratuitously offensive tweet which he put out yesterday\".\n\nMr Antoniw later apologised and deleted the post.\n\n\"I apologise if it has created offence by suggesting that any individual would be happy with the death of a child,\" he said.\n\n\"It was probably not the best choice of words. The word happy was used in the sense of them being content or being prepared to accept the consequences of their policy.\"\n\nBreakfast is on BBC Radio Wales from 07:00-09:00 every weekday.", "The Commonwealth Games was hailed as the start of a so-called \"golden decade\" for the city\n\nA former adviser to Birmingham City Council has said the hosting of the Commonwealth Games was a mistake given its legacy of financial problems.\n\nMax Caller said last summer's event had been a \"challenge too far\" for a council beset with difficulties.\n\nThe authority is to stop all but essential spending amid an outstanding £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.\n\nUrgent talks are taking place following Tuesday's announcement that the Labour-run council was effectively bankrupt.\n\nThe local authority has an £87m hole in its budget this year and might have to spend up to £100m to fix a botched IT system.\n\nMr Caller is a former non-executive director of the council and was appointed in 2019 to try and help it deal with historical financial problems.\n\nHe told the Today programme the Commonwealth Games, which was awarded to the city in December 2017, had diverted the authority's focus away from finding solutions.\n\n\"The problem with councils that are in trouble is they just need to focus on getting better, rather than trying to do nice new things,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a limit to the amount of political and managerial capacity and if you're spending time doing Commonwealth Games you cannot cope with the serious problems that you already face.\n\n\"The advice that I gave, and that others gave, to officers and members at the time was that this was likely to be a challenge too far.\n\n\"If it were me, I wouldn't have done it.\"\n\nHe said while the games had been an \"amazing event\", it had moved effort away from addressing \"the underlying problems that had been around since before 2015\" and the council's focus should have been on \"doing the basics\".\n\nHe added: \"You can't do nice things if you haven't done the boring really well.\"\n\nThe games were awarded to Birmingham in December 2017 and held in the city in August 2022\n\nAs news of the desperate situation unfolded on Tuesday, taxpayers demanded to know which services could be at risk, with fears over road maintenance, libraries and cultural projects.\n\nPat Hollingshead runs a charity in Druids Heath which receives funding from the city council and fears for its future.\n\n\"I think it is going to have an impact on everybody but my concern is that I run a community centre and we do a food bank, we do lunch club, we do warm space,\" she said.\n\n\"Since the pandemic we have now got the older generation back in the hall for the lunch club but if anything happens to the building it will just put them all back in isolation.\n\n\"[Spending cuts] will have a big impact on Druids Heath because we were supposed to be having a regeneration as well.\n\n\"I just don't know what will happen.\"\n\nKynton Swingle is worried about the knock-on effects on the community\n\nKynton Swingle works for the Fox Hollies Community Association in Acocks Green which caters to people of all ages from lower income households.\n\nIt receives funding from the council and provides services like mother and toddler groups, youth clubs, warm hubs, lunch clubs for the elderly and community gardens.\n\nBut Kynton is worried about how the changes will affect the people he supports.\n\n\"We've seen our numbers increase massively over the last 12 months,\" he said, \"particularly with the warm hubs we offer.\"\n\n\"We've found that there are more families needing food hampers, free school uniforms, somewhere just to meet and come to.\"\n\nShirley East said she does not understand how the council has \"gone bust\"\n\nShirley East, who was attending its luncheon club, said: \"I don't understand how come they have gone bust. Everybody pays their council tax and pays taxes.\n\n\"I wouldn't like them to close these places because it is the only places I've got to go now.\"\n\nEli Holland, manager of Birmingham Central Foodbank, has concerns about a possible reduction in the support for those struggling financially.\n\nWhile his service does not rely on council funding, he said cuts to support services \"would have a massive, detrimental impact\" on many of the people he helps.\n\n\"We are hopeful that the council's commitment to continue funding core services will include providing for those around our city who are experiencing poverty.\"\n\n\"Tough decisions\" will have to be made over cuts to services, said the city council's leader\n\nCouncil leader John Cotton told the BBC \"tough decisions\" would need to be made but statutory services like social care, waste collections and protecting the vulnerable would continue.\n\nHowever, the viability of large-scale events, such as the annual German Christmas Market, will now be under severe scrutiny.\n\nThe council's funding of the 2026 European Athletics Championships at the city's Alexander Stadium is also unclear.\n\nThe Conservative mayor for the West Midlands, Andy Street, said the region's combined authority may have to step in and fund certain projects if the city council walks away from them.\n\nMayor Andy Street has said the West Midlands Combined Authority is stepping in to fund projects\n\n\"There's one high profile investment project that we have already stepped into and it has happened, I can't say what it is, it is confidential and literally later today we've got other discussions about others that might come up,\" he said.\n\n\"I am determined that the council's problems do not stop the investment in the future of this city because that is the way in the long term we get out of some of the difficulties we face.\"\n\nMeanwhile, talks are continuing to safeguard the thousands of jobs at the city council.\n\nSharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union - which represents hundreds of workers, said: \"Birmingham City Council's workers must not pay the price for the council's or central government's incompetence and financial mismanagement.\n\n\"Our members undertake vital frontline services that are essential for the communities they serve and they should not be impacted through no fault of their own.\"\n\nJohn Kent, leader of the Labour group on Thurrock Council, said people in Birmingham will notice changes soon\n\nThurrock Council in Essex declared itself bankrupt in December and the leader of its Labour opposition, John Kent, warned people in Birmingham they were likely to see noticeable changes in the city - and quickly.\n\n\"We've seen dirtier streets, grass being cut less frequently, our only theatre is now under threat and every subsidised bus route in the borough was just cancelled,\" he told BBC WM.\n\nHe also said council tax in Thurrock rose by 10% last year and was likely to increase by the same again this year.\n\n\"That's the situation we will be in for many years to come. People are rightly very, very angry.\"\n\nMore than 10,000 council employees were asked last month if they want to leave as the authority began a voluntary severance scheme\n\nOn Tuesday evening, the government revealed it had been \"engaging regularly\" with the council in recent months \"over the pressures it faces, including around its equal pay liability, and have expressed serious concern over its governance arrangements\".\n\n\"We have requested written assurances from the leader of the council that any decision regarding the council's issues over equal pay represents the best value for taxpayers' money,\" a spokesperson for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said.\n\nMore than 10,000 council employees were asked last month if they wanted to leave as the authority launched a voluntary severance scheme to help tackle the equal pay claim, which is rising by between £5m to £14m a month.\n\nThe council declared a Section 114 notice which means it can no longer balance its budget and cannot commit to any new spending.\n\nBut all local authorities have a list of statutory services they must provide, these include education, children's safeguarding and social care, adult social care, waste collection, planning and housing services, road maintenance and library services.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), Rishi Sunak criticised Labour over Birmingham City Council's financial state.\n\nTory MP for West Bromwich East, Nicola Richards, said: \"People in the West Midlands are disappointed to see that Labour-run Birmingham City Council has gone bankrupt.\n\n\"Does the Prime Minister agree that Labour have demonstrated yet again that they always run out of other people's money?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister responded: \"She is exactly right. We started by hearing how Labour in London are charging hardworking people with Ulez.\n\n\"Now we are hearing about how Labour in Birmingham are failing hardworking people, losing control of taxpayers' money and driving their finances into the ground.\n\n\"They've bankrupted Birmingham, we can't let them bankrupt Britain.\"\n\nBefore PMQs, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was asked whether he would consider a bailout for Birmingham if he was in power.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"If you take a step back from Birmingham, you'll see there are versions of this across the country and that is because for 13 years local authorities have been stripped of the funding they need.\n\n\"So we will have to look at that again.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says local authorities have been long underfunded\n\n\"Frankly, this is a version of a question which is being to put to me every day which is, how on earth is an incoming Labour government, if we are privileged to come into power, going to fix the complete mess everywhere across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"There are things we can do but I think this is the latest example, we've seen councils across the country struggling, of all political persuasions because of the underfunding over many, many years.\"\n\nJonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, added that Birmingham City Council's declaration was a \"sobering moment\" .\n\n\"Questions will no doubt be asked about decision-making and governance in Birmingham,\" he said\n\n\"But questions should also be asked about an inconsistent, fragmented and short-term funding system that is driving dozens of councils across the country to financial ruin.\n\n\"Birmingham is the biggest council to fail so far, but unless something changes, it won't be the last.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Naomi Ferrans was riding her bike in her home town\n\nA nine-year-old girl has died after being knocked down while riding her bike in an East Ayrshire town.\n\nNaomi Ferrans, from New Cumnock, was struck by a tractor that was towing a trailer in the Castle Place area of the town at about 12:35 on Monday.\n\nShe was pronounced dead at the scene. The A76, which passes through New Cumnock, was closed for several hours for investigation work.\n\nPolice Scotland said inquiries into the incident were ongoing.\n\nInsp Craig Beaver of Ayrshire's Road Policing Unit said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Naomi at this difficult time and we ask that their privacy is respected.\n\n\"Our enquiries are ongoing and we are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident and who hasn't already spoken to officers to get in touch.\n\n\"I would also appeal to anyone who was in the area around the time and who may have dash-cam footage which could assist to contact us.\"\n\nFloral tributes to Naomi were left near the scene of the collision\n\nTributes have been paid to the young girl online.\n\nLinda McAulay Griffiths, chief education officer at East Ayrshire Council said: \"Our thoughts are with all involved at this very sad time.\n\n\"We will be working closely with the school and together we will do all we can to help and support those affected in the coming days.\"\n\nCumnock Juniors Girls Football Club wrote: \"The players, parents and coaches of Cumnock Juniors 2016s send our deepest condolences, to our friends at the Cumnock Juniors Girls team, following the devastating news of the tragic and sudden death of one of their U10 players. Thoughts and prayers\".\n• None Young child dies after being struck by vehicle", "Russell Brand has said his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003 in the wake of media allegations about Russell Brand.\n\nOfficers did not name Brand, but said they were in contact with the woman and were \"providing her with support\".\n\nOver the weekend the comedian and actor was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nFollowing the allegations, upcoming shows on Brand's live tour have been postponed, the promoter confirmed.\n\nOn Monday one of the women whose allegations against Brand were part of the investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches told the BBC the comedian's behaviour had been an \"open secret\", and described his denials as \"laughable\".\n\nIn a statement the Met said it was aware of the media allegations and continued: \"On Sunday, 17 September, the Met received a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.\"\n\nThe force first spoke to the Sunday Times on Saturday, it said, and has since made further approaches to the newspaper and Channel 4 to ensure anyone who believes they are a victim of a sexual offence \"no matter how long ago it was\" knows how to report it to the police.\n\nThe force has not said they have begun a criminal investigation or that any arrests have been made.\n\nBrand posted a video several days ago on YouTube denying the allegations\n\nThe BBC has contacted Brand's representatives for comment.\n\nHe has denied all claims of misconduct, saying he is the subject of \"a coordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\"\n\nThe former TV and radio presenter, who now posts videos online about spirituality and politics, said his relationships have been \"always consensual\". On Monday, Brand did not appear for his regular livestream on video platform Rumble.\n\nBrand was due to perform his stage show, Bipolarisation, in Windsor on Tuesday but its promoters said it had been postponed.\n\n\"We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don't like doing it - but we know you'll understand,\" they said in a statement.\n\nTheatre Royal Windsor said it would be offering ticket refunds. Brand's show in Plymouth on Friday and a show in Wolverhampton on 28 September have also been postponed.\n\nHe last performed his show on Saturday night at Wembley Park Theatre in London, where he told the crowd \"there are obviously some things I cannot talk about and I appreciate you understand\".\n\nDuring the time of the alleged sexual assaults by four women reported by Dispatches and the Times, Brand had been working for the BBC, Channel 4 and Endemol, now acquired by Banijay. On Sunday each announced they had launched investigations of their own.\n\nThe Times said it has received more allegations since the investigation was revealed, but is yet to verify them.\n\nOn Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman described the allegations against Brand as \"very serious\", saying \"there should never be any space for harassment\", while Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said she would speak to broadcasters about their investigations into him.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Brand's publisher, Bluebird, said it was \"pausing\" all future projects with him.\n\nA best-selling author since publishing his first autobiography in 2007, Brand has been working with Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird since 2017.\n\nHe was working on another book that was scheduled for publication this December.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the women who has accused the entertainer of sexual assault when she was 16 told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour on Monday that the allegations against him had been \"a long time coming\".\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the accusations became public, the woman, known as Alice, said his denial was \"laughable\" and \"insulting\".\n\n\"It feels quite honestly surreal at the moment to see my story everywhere and even elements of my story on the front pages of publications that I hadn't spoken to,\" she told BBC presenter Emma Barnett.\n\n\"And it feels like it was a long time in the coming.\"\n\nAlice went on to say her mother did everything in her power to warn her daughter, then still at school, off the entertainer, then in his 30s.\n\n\"She followed all those motherly impulses. She took my phone away. She grounded me... she would try to keep me confined to the house,\" she explained.\n\nShe also told Woman's Hour she was picked up at a school by a BBC chauffeur-driven car and taken to Brand's home. The BBC has not directly responded to this claim.\n\nAlice said she felt she had been \"groomed\" and felt \"cheapened\", developed an eating disorder and that her experience had affected her future relationships.\n\n\"It's the biggest open secret going - you don't have to be an investigative journalist to have conversations with somebody who has an awful experience with him or somebody knows something.\"\n\nShe is now calling for an introduction of legal \"staggered ages of consent\", suggesting people over 18 should not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.", "Brendan says the air ambulance saved his life\n\nA former builder whose stomach was cut open after he fell on his circular saw has thanked medics who saved him.\n\nBrendan Clancy slipped while cutting pallets and initially believed he was fine but soon felt \"something squidgy\".\n\nThe 67-year-old from Upper Cwmtwrch in the Swansea Valley managed to drive himself to a local hospital.\n\nHe was flown to Cardiff for emergency surgery and has since recovered fully from his ordeal with no lasting injury, but has a 12-inch scar on his abdomen.\n\nWarning: this article contains graphic details of injury\n\n\"I must have been running on adrenaline, I knew I needed help but knew I couldn't wait for help to arrive,\" he said.\n\n\"My wife was away in Carmarthen and my phone was in my pocket where my insides were spilling out.\n\n\"They just kept coming out and it seemed as if it would never stop.\"\n\nHe wrapped his innards in a clean T-shirt then drove from his home to the minor injuries unit in Ystradgynlais, a 10-minute drive away.\n\nBrendan Clancy's wife Jayne was away for the day and he could not reach her as his phone was in his pocket\n\n\"I was making sure I was keeping my senses and concentrating on the road while driving.\n\n\"I have a manual car, and all my guts were all over the gear lever side, but it helped to take my mind off it.\n\n\"When you are carrying your guts, you don't think of anything else apart from keeping them all in one place.\n\n\"There was no blood even though the saw had cut through about four inches of my bowel, but I could see my breakfast.\n\n\"When I got to hospital, two ladies were coming out and said they were just about to close. They looked down and saw my bowel bag and my innards being outwards and called me an ambulance.\n\n\"It was only when I was put on a trolley I felt the rush of pain.\"\n\n\"I appreciate how incredibly lucky I am to be alive,\" says Brendan, with his wife Jayne\n\nThe accident was on 9 June, and he was taken to the nearby playing fields, where the air ambulance was waiting for him.\n\nThey flew him to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. On arrival he had four hours of surgery and was discharged a few days later.\n\nHe said the air ambulance played a vital role.\n\nBrendan has thanked the medics at Wales Air Ambulance\n\n\"I could not fault the Wales Air Ambulance; they were all absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"I have lived all over the world and to my mind there is no other service in this world that could better it.\n\n\"I appreciate how incredibly lucky I am to be alive and how lucky we are to have such an amazing service in this country.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Faisal Malik, Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool (left to right) will next appear in court in December\n\nThe father, stepmother and uncle of Sara Sharif have appeared at the Old Bailey and were told they will face a murder trial next autumn.\n\nUrfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool, and Urfan's brother, Faisal Malik, are also charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.\n\nAll three appeared in court on Tuesday via video link.\n\nThe court heard after her death, Sara was found to have a \"constellation\" of healed and healing injuries.\n\nSara's body was found at her home in Woking on 10 August.\n\nA post-mortem examination found that Sara had suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\".\n\nProsecutor Giles Bedloe told the court that post-mortem investigations to establish how Sara died were continuing.\n\nSara Sharif's body was found at her home on 10 August\n\nMr Sharif, 41, Ms Batool, 29, and Mr Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking, Surrey, spoke only to confirm their names and dates of birth.\n\nThey are next due to appear on 1 December for a plea hearing, and will stand trial in September 2024.\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft KC remanded all three defendants in custody until their next hearing.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Three in court accused of Sara Sharif's murder\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's director general said there's \"no room for complacency\" in the TV industry as he announced a review of complaints against Russell Brand during his time working for the broadcaster.\n\nBrand hosted programmes on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 between 2006 and 2008, as well as being a guest on other shows.\n\nThe corporation has already removed some programmes featuring the comedian and actor from its streaming services.\n\nIt comes after he was accused of rape and sexual assaults, which he denies.\n\nBrand has said his relationships were \"always consensual\" and that he is the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\".\n\nOn Tuesday, director general Tim Davie told staff the BBC's internal review would \"look at any complaints made about Russell Brand's conduct during his time, what was known at the time, what was done\", and promised \"full transparency\".\n\nHe said: \"The objective is to be totally transparent - just share what we have and be really supportive in terms of how we do it.\"\n\nHe added that he wanted the review to be completed in \"weeks not months\", and \"we do want to get to the facts\".\n\nChannel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, has also announced an internal investigation.\n\nAlthough the alleged assaults are not said to have taken place on BBC or Channel 4 premises, the allegations have led to questions over whether broadcasters were aware of, and acted on, any complaints.\n\nThe assault allegations were made at the weekend in a joint investigation between Channel 4's Dispatches, the Times and the Sunday Times.\n\nThey quoted sources claiming a complaint was made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand while he was hosting his show.\n\nOne of Brand's accusers, a woman known as Alice, said a car provided by the BBC for Brand collected her and took her to his house, when he was in his 30s and she was a 16-year-old schoolgirl.\n\nShe now wants to know \"why more wasn't done at the time\" to protect young women.\n\nMr Davie confirmed the review would look into \"the position regarding any cars used by the BBC at that time\".\n\nDispatches also broadcast clips of Brand on air in 2007 offering to send his female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile naked, and discussing his sexual fantasies about an \"erotic\" Radio 2 newsreader. He was also said to have exposed himself while urinating in a bottle in front of colleagues and guests.\n\nMr Davie said the BBC had changed since then. \"When I listened back, frankly, to some of those broadcasts I go, that is just completely unacceptable,\" he said. \"What led to that being on air?\"\n\nHe said the TV industry had experienced \"significant issues\" with \"a deep power imbalance\" between presenters and other staff.\n\n\"There is no room for complacency,\" he continued. \"I do feel we're in a different place, I'm proud of our culture, but to say that doesn't mean there aren't dangers. We should all be looking after each other, we should be very vigilant, we should keep improving our processes.\"\n\nThe comedian resigned from the BBC in 2008 after a prank call on the show with comedian Jonathan Ross to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.\n\nHe did return as a guest, and the corporation has removed some programmes that \"now falls below public expectations\" from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.\n\nAn episode of QI and a Joe Wicks podcast, both of which featured appearances by Brand, are believed to have been removed, although other programmes, such as his 2013 appearance on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, are still online.\n\n\"The BBC does not ban or remove content when it is a matter of public record, unless we have justification for doing so,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nChannel 4 has removed all programmes featuring the comedian.\n\nThe chair of the House of Commons media committee has written to the two broadcasters about their investigations.\n\n\"The allegations have been widely described by reporters in the press and on social media as an 'open secret' and quite often these secrets are shared between friends and colleagues just to keep each other safe,\" Dame Caroline Dinenage said.\n\n\"But my concern is when people in power are aware of rumours or stories yet don't act, then a culture is allowed to permeate.\"\n\nIn a letter to Dame Caroline, Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon said she was \"appalled\" by the allegations. She said the company had \"carried out extensive document searches\" but had \"found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4 management at the time\".\n\nShe added: \"We will continue to look at this issue and will forensically examine any further information, including the accounts of those affected.\"\n\nShe said she had also asked Banijay, the company that now owns the producer of programmes he hosted like Big Brother's Big Mouth to \"urgently and comprehensively investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us\".\n\nDame Caroline also wrote to GB News about presenter Beverly Turner's support for Brand in a tweet over the weekend and her defence of it while presenting coverage of the allegations on Monday.\n\nWhile Turner was challenged on her comments by co-presenter Andrew Pierce, the MP said the committee was \"concerned that having a presenter so clearly supporting an individual who is the subject of intense media coverage, including seeking their appearance on the show, undermines any perception of due impartiality in the broadcasting\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, YouTube announced it had suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\", while podcast platform Acast said adverts were turned off \"immediately\" for Brand's Under The Skin podcast following the allegations.\n\nDame Caroline has written to TikTok to ask whether Brand will still receive ad revenue from its platform, and what procedures are in place to ensure creators cannot undermine the welfare of victims.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain players who had said they are boycotting the national team have turned up for international duty.\n\nPlayers launched the boycott after the Spanish Football Federation's former president Luis Rubiales kissed Jenni Hermoso after the Women's World Cup final last month.\n\nHowever, there are still doubts over whether the players will play in forthcoming Nations League games.\n\nSpain play Sweden on Friday then face Switzerland on Tuesday.\n\nSix players living in Madrid arrived at a hotel in the capital city before leaving to join up with the rest of the team in Valencia, where they will train before heading to Sweden on Thursday.\n\nThe six include five players from Real Madrid - Olga Carmona, who scored the winning goal in the World Cup final win over England, Misa Rodriguez, Oihane Hernandez, Teresa Abelleira and Athenea del Castillo, and Atletico Madrid forward Eva Navarro.\n\nBar Del Castillo, the players have all said they support the boycott.\n\nAsked by a reporter if she was happy to be in the squad, goalkeeper Rodriguez replied \"no\" as she arrived at the hotel.\n\nA number of Barcelona-based players - including two-time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas - have also travelled to the camp near Valencia.\n\nWhen asked by reporters at Barcelona airport how she felt about the situation, Putellas replied: \"Well, bad.\"\n\nBarcelona team-mate Mapi Leon also expressed disquiet when asked by reporters, saying: \"We have to talk long and hard about if we are coming to a safe place or not when we have been forced to come.\n\n\"We have been forced to come. But if they want to sanction us [for staying away], then we have to come.\"\n\nSpanish journalist Guillem Balague says the players have reported to the camp because of the legal repercussions of not turning up which include being banned from the national side and fines.\n\nThe players are expected to meet with the federation and government to continue negotiations having previously called for changes to the federation.\n\nVictor Francos, the head of the Spanish government's national sports agency, told SER radio station if the players did not show up \"the government must apply the law\".\n\nThe Spanish government also wants to see their newly crowned world champions qualify for next year's Olympic Games, with the two finalists from the inaugural women's Nations League qualifying for Paris 2024.\n\n\"We want there to be changes, for them to be quick, for the confidence of the players to be restored and, most importantly, what we want is to see them play and see them win,\" government spokeswoman Isabel Rodriguez said on Tuesday.\n\nSweden coach Peter Gerhardsson said the potential boycott had not affected his side's preparations for Friday's Group A4 match.\n\n\"Naturally, we'd like to have that information, but it isn't anything that I need for this training session or for tomorrow,\" he said.\n\nSpanish football journalist Ernest Macia told BBC Radio 5 Live that all of the players called up to Tome's Nations League squad were expected to arrive in Valencia by the end of Tuesday.\n\n\"The Spanish federation issued train tickets this morning, tourist class, for Barcelona players to go there [Valencia],\" Macia said.\n\n\"The lawyers and the Spanish authorities have said 'If you don't go there, we would suspend you for two years without being able to play football for Barcelona or with Madrid, or whatever'. So the players have to go.\"\n\nThe players will have avoided sanctions by reporting for international duty, says Macia, but it remains uncertain whether they will play against Sweden on Friday.\n\nMacia added that a \"middle ground\" agreement between the players and the federation could be to \"find another coach in the next 24 hours\".\n\n\"[An agreement might be] to try and find a new national team coach and make some more changes in the weeks to come, because the players are not happy with the coach Montse Tome because they feel she is close to Luis Rubiales. They want more changes,\"he said.\n\n\"That would probably be the middle ground, but the federation feel defensive and I don't think they are willing to do so.\"\n\nWhen new head coach Montse Tome named a squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures it included 15 members of the World Cup-winning side, but Hermoso was left out.\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nEarlier on Tuesday Hermoso released a statement saying calling up players who are boycotting the team shows \"nothing has changed\" at the country's football federation.\n\nTome, who replaced World Cup-winning coach Jorge Vilda when he was sacked as part of the fall-out following Rubiales' kiss, said the Pachuca forward was omitted \"to protect her\".\n\nBut Hermoso pointed out inconsistencies after the federation promised \"a safe environment\" on Monday.\n\n\"Protect me from what? And from whom?\" Hermoso said.\n\nHermoso also accused the federation of using \"manipulation\" to \"intimidate\" players and offered her support to the players \"who have been caught by surprise and forced to react to another unfortunate situation caused by the people who continue to make decisions within the RFEF\".\n\n\"This is why we are fighting and why we are doing it in this way,\" she added.\n\nAfter the call-ups were announced on Monday, the players published a statement stressing the boycott remained in place and expressing their regret that they were again \"put in a position in which we never wanted to be in\".\n\nIt added they intended to explore the potential legal implications of being called up against their wishes.\n\nHermoso, 33, said: \"We have been searching for weeks - months, even - for protection from the RFEF [Spanish Football Federation] that never came. The people who ask us to trust them are the same ones who today disclose the list of players who have asked not to be called up.\n\n\"The players are certain that this is yet another strategy of division and manipulation to intimidate and threaten us with legal repercussions and economic sanctions. It is yet more irrefutable proof that shows that even today, nothing has changed.\"\n\nA group of 81 players boycotted the team after Rubiales kissed Hermoso following last month's final, and on Friday, 39 players said their strike would continue until further changes were made - despite Rubiales resigning.\n\nOf those 39 players, 20 were selected for Tome's 23-strong squad.\n\nBefore Tome's squad announcement, the RFEF had urged striking players to return to the national team. The organisation previously said the players have \"an obligation\" to play if selected.\n\n\"It's the start of a new phase, the clock is ticking,\" said Tome on Monday.\n\n\"There is nothing behind us and we really want to connect with these players.\"\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200 metres of Hermoso, who has said the kiss was not consensual, after the 33-year-old filed a legal complaint.\n\nAppearing in court for the first time last Friday, Rubiales denied sexually assaulting Hermoso.", "The Northern Ireland Policing Board has rejected claims that it can just \"slot someone into\" the position of chief constable.\n\nChief executive Sinead Simpson said that legal advice received by the board explained that a proper appointments process was needed.\n\nSimon Byrne resigned earlier this month after a number of controversies.\n\nThe Policing Board is to launch a recruitment process for his successor later this month.\n\nLast week, former Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable George Hamilton said a decision by the board not to appoint a formal interim or acting chief constable showed a \"failure of leadership\".\n\nMs Simpson rejected this assessment as she gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Tuesday.\n\nThe Policing Board, which oversees the PSNI, said Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton would \"exercise all the functions of the chief constable\" until a successor is appointed.\n\nMembers of the Policing Board gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Stormont\n\nVice-chair of the board, Edgar Jardine, said they are content to allow Mr Hamilton to continue in his role.\n\nIn response to criticism about the Policing Board's decisions and potential replacements for the chief constable, he said: \"It struck me as I listened to it, that they were dining from an á la carte menu where they had a range of options, we were actually dealing with a set lunch menu with very concernable restrictions around what we can do.\"\n\nChairperson Deirdre Toner expressed that the situation was \"unprecedented\" and the board is in a very difficult legal and political situation.\n\nShe added that the board \"could not have anticipated that the deputy chief constable would have to undergo an unplanned medical procedure\" and so have advised the service that Mr Hamilton could temporarily promote an existing assistant chief constable to the role of deputy chief constable if Mr Hamilton is incapacitated.\n\nDUP MP Carla Lockhart asked the Policing Board if it believed its credibility was still intact.\n\nIts vice-chair responded that the credibility of the board would have been damaged more if it \"had of strayed from the constraints within the legislation in which they have to work\".\n\nMs Lockhart said she believed it was time \"the board got a handle on the leadership of the (PSNI) organisation\".\n\nSimon Hoare, chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, said he empathised with the Policing Board about the \"legislative straight jacket\" in which it has been placed.\n\nHowever, Mr Hoare said he didn't get the sense that the board was \"bashing down any doors\" and questions members about their sense of urgency.\n\nMr Hoare said the committee would like to see a \"greater sense of urgency\" from the Policing Board\n\n\"I think the board are doing the best they can in what are very trying circumstances,\" the MP told reporters at Stormont.\n\n\"I do have a concern about urgency versus process… there are a lot of very legitimate questions being asked across Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nMr Hoare acknowledged confidence in the PSNI has taken \"a hell of a knock\" in recent weeks and said there \"has to be\" a root-and-branch review of the Policing Board.\n\nHe said the committee gave the Policing Board \"a very clear message\" during Tuesday's meeting.\n\n\"We want to see a greater deal of urgency to this.\"\n\nDuring the session, Mr Hoare also raised questions about the Department of Justice's review into the Policing Board following a court ruling that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined following an arrest at a Troubles commemoration in February 2021.\n\nA High Court judge said the officers were disciplined to allay any threat of Sinn Féin abandoning its support for policing.\n\nSinn Féin has denied it threatened to withdraw support, but Mr Justice Scoffield was told that as a deputy chief constable went to deal with the incident he received a phone call from Gerry Kelly, as part of a \"frenzy of activity\" in the immediate aftermath.\n\nMr Hoare questioned if it was appropriate for Mr Kelly to remain in position while the review was carried out.\n\n\"Someone who sits on the board made… communications with senior police officers with regards to an operational issue,\" he said.\n\n\"That must reflect on the robustness of the board and its independence.\"\n\nWhile not commenting directly on that issue, Ms Simpson told the committee that only a justice minister could remove someone from the board and without one nothing could be done.\n\n\"On that basis, any member of the board has effectively a free hand to operate as he or she wishes in the absence of a minister,\" Mr Hoare added.\n\n\"That is just a recipe for disaster.\"", "Remains have been found at a house, in Great Baddow, during the search for the missing couple Lois and John McCullough\n\nHuman remains, believed to be those of a couple whose daughter is charged with their murder, were found at the defendant's home, police confirmed.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Pump Hill, Chelmsford, on Wednesday over concerns for the welfare of two people in their 70s, who were missing.\n\nVirginia McCullough, 35, of Pump Hill, has appeared at crown court charged with killing John and Lois McCullough.\n\nThe judge set a provisional trial date for May.\n\nThe defendant was accused of murdering her parents in Chelmsford between 21 August 2018 and 15 September 2023.\n\nMs McCullough appeared before Chelmsford magistrates on Monday, and appeared at Basildon Crown Court via video link from HMP Peterborough on Tuesday.\n\nJudge Samantha Leigh remanded her into custody until a plea hearing on 1 December, with a provisional two-week trial scheduled to take place at Chelmsford Crown Court beginning on 13 May.\n\nNo application for bail was made.\n\nPolice remained in Great Baddow where the remains were found\n\nEssex Police said it received reports of concern for the wellbeing of two people aged in their 70s on 13 September.\n\nThe force said it began an investigation and that detectives later found human remains in Pump Hill, Great Baddow.\n\nDet Supt Rob Kirby, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said on Monday that the investigation was \"incredibly complex\".\n\nHe said a police presence would remain on the street \"throughout the coming days\".\n\nThe family of John and Lois McCullough, who are being supported by specialist officers, said in a statement released through police: \"We are deeply shocked by their deaths and ask for privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nEssex Police said officers would remain in the area for some time\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC and Channel 4 will be scouring their archives to see if any complaints were made about Russell Brand when he was working for them, and if they could and should have been acted upon at the time.\n\nThat's the basis of the internal investigations both broadcasters have announced in the wake of the rape and sexual assault allegations against him - which he denies.\n\nChannel 4 has already said it has \"carried out extensive document searches and thus far have found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4 management at the time\".\n\nThe BBC's director general has said the corporation will \"look at any complaints made about Russell Brand's conduct during his time [he worked there], what was known at the time, what was done - so full transparency, we're digging into anything that we've got there\".\n\nThat will include looking into a claim from one woman who says she was sexually assaulted by Brand that she was once picked up by his BBC car when she was 16 and he was in his 30s; and another that complaints were made to the boss of Radio 2 about his behaviour in the studio.", "Frank Ospina was detained in the UK in March - he died in an immigration centre later that month\n\nThe family of a Colombian man who is believed to have killed himself at a Heathrow immigration removal centre say he begged for help and was willing to leave the UK.\n\nFrank Ospina died within a month of being detained, while he was waiting to be deported. His family say he had no existing mental health problems.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating conditions inside immigration centres, at a time when the government is taking a harder line on migrants. Documents shared with us show mounting strain on detainees.\n\nWe have also uncovered new details about an incident in which a group of detainees tried to kill themselves in the days following Mr Ospina's death.\n\nIt comes ahead of the publication of a report, due next week, into abusive behaviour by staff at the Brook House facility, a centre near Gatwick. A public inquiry was launched following a landmark undercover BBC Panorama investigation, in 2017.\n\nWarning: This article contains discussion of suicide\n\nImmigration removal centres are facilities where people refused the right to stay in the UK can be held, together with foreign nationals who have served prison sentences and are awaiting deportation. Detainees who are refused bail remain locked up until they can be put on a plane to leave the country.\n\nThe BBC has been given internal documents from inside the immigration system obtained by two organisations, the human rights journalism unit Liberty Investigates, and the charity, Medical Justice.\n\nThe documents suggest there is growing frustration among those being held at immigration centres because of delays to the resolution of their cases, which are in turn having a negative impact on detainees' mental health.\n\nFrank Ospina, 39, a Colombian engineering graduate, came to the UK in late 2022 to visit his mother, who had settled here, and to visit prospective universities.\n\nHaving decided to instead enrol on a master's course in Spain, which was due to begin in May, his family say he took a short-term job washing dishes. But as a foreign national Mr Ospina did not have the right to work in the UK.\n\nHe was arrested in an immigration raid, and taken to the Heathrow detention centres.\n\nFrank Ospina was arrested after taking temporary catering work while visiting his mother in the UK - after he was detained his family say his mental health went downhill rapidly.\n\nFollowing his detention on 3 March this year, his mental health deteriorated rapidly, according to his sister, Tatiana Rios Ospina, and brother-in-law, Julian Llano, who live in Chile.\n\n\"My brother was a civil engineer who graduated from the best public university in Colombia,\" Ms Rios Ospina told the BBC. \"He was hard-working and very intelligent. They took him to the limit of sanity.\"\n\n\"He kept insisting that he felt very bad, mentally, that he needed to get out of there,\" Mr Llano says. \"He didn't ask for help - he begged for help, not only to us, but also to the people there.\"\n\nAfter two weeks, Mr Ospina's mother visited. She found him struggling to communicate, and in a \"weak mental state\". Ms Rios Ospina also called her brother, who was allowed a phone. He was \"weird\" and unable to finish sentences, she says.\n\nOn 21 March, Mr Ospina called the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees. The adviser who spoke to him says he was prepared to be removed from the UK under a voluntary return scheme and was not trying to avoid deportation.\n\nTatiana and Julian are bewildered by Frank's death in a UK immigration removal centre - but they are sure he wasn't an asylum seeker.\n\nHe was put on \"constant watch\", his family say, in a cell with a window at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, one of two at Heathrow Airport.\n\nWhen a desperately worried Ms Rios Ospina called again, she begged her brother to think of his family and of what he had to lose.\n\nThe family received the devastating news that Mr Ospina had died during the night of 25 March. His mother was later told this was his second attempt at suicide.\n\n\"They put pressure on him by saying he was going to stay there, while Frank was asking to be released,\" Mr Llano says. \"He said he could pay his ticket out - we could pay - but they said he would stay there for months.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Our thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of Mr Ospina.\n\n\"The welfare of all those in our care is of the utmost importance. Any death in immigration detention is a tragic event and will be subject to investigation by the police, the coroner, and the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.\"\n\nIt will be for the coroner to establish how Mr Ospina died.\n\nOn 26 March, detainees at Heathrow were informed of Mr Ospina's death by a flyer slipped under the doors of their rooms. Two days later, at around 10.30am, a protest began.\n\nBBC News has been given internal \"use of force\" statements, made by custody officers working at the Harmondsworth centre on 28 March, which describe how between three and six detainees tried to kill themselves simultaneously.\n\nThis is how events unfolded according to the officers who dealt with it. We have omitted some details as the statements include descriptions of methods of suicide:\n\nOFFICER A: It was \"madness. Residents were tying things to railings and trying to jump.\"\n\nOFFICER B: \"There were about five of them that were attempting to climb over the barriers on level 2.\"\n\n\"All of a sudden another resident put one leg over the barrier. I immediately grabbed him to deter him...\"\n\nOFFICER C: At 1040 hrs an \"all out station\" was announced over the custody officer's radios to attend one wing of the centre.\n\nOFFICER A: \"I was placed in a headlock by a resident... A number of hits to my back and head.\"\n\nOFFICER D: The mood was \"highly charged and volatile\".\n\nMitie, the firm contracted by the Home Office to operate the centre, said no detainees made it past safety barriers, or were able to harm themselves.\n\nA detainee who is in close contact with those involved told the BBC it was a \"mixture of attempted suicide and protest\", in which three or four people were intent on taking their own lives. He believes the chaotic immigration removal system is primarily to blame for levels of stress and unrest in the Heathrow immigration centres.\n\n\"The people who want to go, they won't give a ticket to,\" he says. \"The ones who don't want to go, they are trying to deport.\"\n\nHarmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre is Europe's largest detention facility and can hold up to 676 adult males.\n\nThere have been riots, protests and suicides at removal centres for decades, but there is concern among immigration charities that things will get worse. Ministers want to control immigration into the UK, recognising it as a priority for many voters.\n\nNew laws will mean more migrants who come from \"safe countries\" or used \"deception\" to enter the UK - including on small boats - will be removed automatically. The government insists the UK will \"continue to support those in genuine need\" by committing to resettle the most vulnerable in the UK.\n\nBut the Home Office sees immigration removal centres as essential to tackling illegal immigration and despite guidance that detention should be temporary, the number of people locked up is expected to grow.\n\nThe charity Medical Justice has been warning for years that vulnerable people in detention, already potentially traumatised by the places they have escaped, are deteriorating in removal centres. The organisation visits detainees to carry out medical examinations, often in support of applications for them to be released, which are sometimes cited in court.\n\nMedical Justice has given the BBC the results of assessments it carried out on 66 detainees, between June 2022 and March 2023. The assessments found:\n\nDr Rachel Bingham, from Medical Justice, blamed the \"prison-like\" atmosphere of detention centres. When responding to mental health concerns, she said staff sometimes use the same techniques as prison officers.\n\n\"Put them in a cell, put them with somebody watching them, or frequent intrusive checks which are not by health professionals,\" Dr Bingham says. \"So the process designed to manage distress can actually increase it.\"\n\nBut unlike most prisoners, she says immigration detainees often have no idea when they will be released. \"The indefinite nature of detention can result in a crisis in their mental health.\"\n\nAnother former detainee, Ali, not his real name, says he was kept in his cell and handcuffed, even while going to pick up food.\n\nIn June 2022, he was one of seven people due to be removed from the UK on the inaugural flight of asylum seekers to be flown to Rwanda. The flight was aborted at the last minute following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. Ali now wants to return to France.\n\nIn other countries, he says \"they will fingerprint you, then they will give you a document asking you to leave the country. Not detain you for months\".\n\nHe adds: \"I haven't seen it anywhere in the world. Yet Great Britain is supposed to be the greatest country in the world.\"\n\nMitie said detainees were only restrained if they were at risk of harming themselves, or others, and it didn't believe any were handcuffed for an extended period.\n\nA deportation flight scheduled to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute after intervention from the European Court of Human Rights in June 2022.\n\nUnder detention centre Rule 35, staff must complete a report on detainees who are \"injuriously affected\" by being held, along with those who have suicidal intentions or have been tortured.\n\nThat should trigger a review of whether someone should be detained.\n\nLast year, the Home Office warned immigration staff that they should be taking a more proactive approach to filing these reports.\n\nHome Office officials say concerns about mental health can be raised at any point and official statistics suggest that in the last two years the number of Rule 35 reports has increased.\n\nBut Medical Justice say that of 66 cases it reviewed, only five had received a Rule 35 report, including just three of the 13 who had attempted suicide.\n\nAn inquest, expected in the coming months, will examine the circumstances of Frank Ospina's death. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is also investigating.\n\n\"Nobody should have to go through this again,\" Mr Llano says. \"There should be a security protocol, when a person who becomes mentally unstable, they should be treated automatically, by suitable people, in suitable centres. Not in detention.\"\n\nThe government has recognised there are increased demands for healthcare at Heathrow and says it is employing more doctors and nurses.\n\nThe most detailed examination of the state of detention centres is expected from the report of the Brook House Inquiry, due on 19 September.\n\nIf you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, details of organisations offering advice and support can be found on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nA judge has denied a request by President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, to appear remotely via video to face federal gun charges.\n\nHe will be arraigned in person at a Delaware federal court on 3 October on three criminal counts, of possessing a gun while he was an illegal drug user and lying to buy it.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyers have said he will plead not guilty.\n\nIf convicted, the 53-year-old could face up to 25 years in prison.\n\nIn a two-page court filing on Tuesday, Mr Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell had asked for his client to enter his not guilty plea via video conference as it would \"minimize an unnecessary burden on government resources and the disruption\" from a Secret Service detail accompanying him.\n\nThis was not a case of the president's son \"seeking any special treatment\", he wrote.\n\nBut Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke denied the request in a court order on Wednesday, noting that government prosecutors had already opposed it.\n\nAppearing in person would \"emphasize the integrity and solemnity of a federal criminal proceeding\", he said.\n\nJudge Burke added that the criminal charges against Mr Biden \"are new and were not addressed at his prior hearing\" in relation to a plea agreement.\n\nThe charges on which Mr Biden was indicted last week stem from October 2018, when he bought a handgun in Delaware in a period when he was struggling with a crack cocaine addiction.\n\nBut Mr Biden allegedly lied on the federal firearm application form, stating that he was not using illegal drugs at the time, for which he now faces two felony counts punishable by up to 10 years each.\n\nA third count relates to his possession of the firearm while being a drug user, and carries a maximum prison sentence of up to five years.\n\nHunter and Joe Biden at an event in 2016\n\nThe weapon was found in Mr Biden's vehicle by his late brother's widow, Hallie, who tossed it into a rubbish bin behind a shop, reportedly out of fear he might use the gun to hurt himself.\n\nThe pistol was returned to the store days later by a man who discovered it while rummaging through the bin for recyclable items. By then, the missing weapon had drawn separate investigations from Delaware police and the Secret Service.\n\nIn June, a plea deal reached between prosecutors and Mr Biden's legal team on gun and tax charges collapsed after another judge raised objections, noting the agreement was \"unusual\".\n\nUnder the terms of that deal, Mr Biden would have been forced to admit to illegal possession of a firearm and agree to drug treatment and monitoring to avoid a felony charge and potential imprisonment.\n\nHe would also have pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nLegal analysts have said, however, that the basis of the new gun charges against Mr Biden may be subject to a constitutional challenge.\n\nMr Biden has no prior criminal record. He had the weapon for fewer than two weeks and never used it. Few people matching that profile face such charges, let alone prison time, they note.\n\nCharges against Mr Biden over his alleged tax violations were formally dismissed in August.\n\nProsecutors have indicated they will refile the charges in California or Washington DC rather than in Delaware.\n\nHunter Biden has become a political lightning rod, despite not holding a position in the White House or on his father's re-election campaign.\n\nThe House of Representatives Oversight Committee will next week hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing into the president over his son's business dealings.\n\nThe White House says the Republican-led inquiry is politically motivated and predicated on baseless claims.", "The government uses hotels to accommodate thousands of refugees\n\nThe cost of housing migrants in hotels has risen to £8m a day, according to new figures from the Home Office.\n\nThe use of hotels has increased over the last few years as the number of people entering the UK illegally or claiming asylum has hit record levels.\n\nThe government has promised to \"reduce\" the use of hotels to house migrants while their claims are processed.\n\nThe Home Office's Annual Accounts, published on Tuesday, promised to \"take action to address the unacceptable costs of housing migrants in hotels which is costing the taxpayer around £8m a day\".\n\nA government source said the new figures showed \"why we've got to get migrants out of hotels and stop the boats\".\n\nYvette Cooper, Labour's shadow home secretary, accused the Conservatives of \"busting the Home Office budget, breaking the asylum system, and the British people are paying the price\".\n\n\"Shockingly, the cost of hotel accommodation has gone up by a third since Rishi Sunak promised to end hotel use,\" she added.\n\nThe government has a legal obligation to provide asylum seekers - who are not allowed to work while their claim is being processed - with a basic level of accommodation.\n\nAsylum seekers would typically only be housed in hotels or hostels for a few weeks, before being moved to long-term self-catered homes.\n\nHowever the increase in people claiming asylum -and the backlog of unprocessed claims - has led to a growth in the use of hotels to provide temporary accommodation.\n\nA government source said: \"We're confident our Rwanda scheme, which is awaiting a judgment from the Supreme Court, will break the people smugglers' business model.\n\n\"All Labour would do is add to the problem by welcoming our fair share of the million asylum seekers in the European Union every year and make illegal migration legal.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer suggested a Labour government may be willing to accept migrants in the UK in exchange for a returns deal - as part of a plan to crack down on international people smuggling gangs. But Labour have denied they would formally join the EU quota scheme.\n\nThe government announced on Tuesday it had ended the use of hotel accommodation to house thousands of Afghan families given refuge in the UK.\n\nThe families had come to the UK under the Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme - set up in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.\n\nCabinet Office minister Johnny Mercer confirmed the government had met its deadline to end the use of these bridging hotels for Afghan refugees by the end of August.\n\nHe told the Commons more than 85% of the 8,000 Afghans who were living in hotels at the end of March had now been moved into homes or pre-matched into settled accommodation.\n\nHe added that fewer than 5% of the 24,600 people relocated from Afghanistan were now in temporary accommodation provided by their local council, with some \"regrettably\" turning down suitable offers of housing.\n\nThe Local Government Association previously said one-in-five Afghans leaving hotels were presenting to councils as homeless.\n\nMr Mercer said no Afghans had slept rough throughout the process.\n\nHowever, Labour shadow minister Luke Pollard said the treatment of Afghans, many of whom worked with the British government, was \"shameful\".\n\nHe added that an estimated 1,000 Afghans accessing homelessness support \"is nothing to smile about\".\n\nA police van was set on fire after a protest outside a hotel in Knowsley housing migrants turned violent\n\nIn recent months, hotels housing asylum seekers have been targeted by demonstrations which have sometimes turned violent.\n\nUnder the government's Rwanda plan, announced in April 2022, some asylum seekers would be sent to Rwanda, to claim asylum there.\n\nThe legality of the scheme is currently being considered by the Supreme Court, after an earlier ruling by the High Court that the Rwanda plan was lawful.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made reducing the numbers coming to the UK illegally one of his key priorities.\n\nThe Illegal Migration Act, which was passed this year, gives ministers new powers to remove anyone arriving in the UK illegally.\n\nBut it has attracted fierce criticism including from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said it risked \"great damage\" to the UK's reputation.\n\nLast year the number of people arriving in the UK in small boats via the English Channel hit over 45,000 - the highest number since figures were first collected in 2018. The total number of people to have landed on UK shores in 2023 now stands at about 21,000.\n\nThe number of people claiming asylum has also risen to a 20-year high. In the 12-months to June 2023, 97,390 people applied for asylum.", "Katy Perry's Las Vegas residency is due to end this November\n\nKaty Perry has sold a bundle of her music rights to Litmus Music, with multiple sources pricing the deal at $225m (£182m).\n\nThe sale, which was announced on Monday, covers all five albums Perry released for Capitol Records, from 2008's One of the Boys to 2020's Smile.\n\nThat includes multi-platinum hits like Firework, Teenage Dream, Hot 'n' Cold, California Gurls and I Kissed A Girl.\n\nIt is the biggest catalogue deal for a single artist this year.\n\nJustin Bieber was the previous title holder, after offloading his stake in his back catalogue to the UK-based Hipgnosis Songs Capital in January for $200m (£162m).\n\nLitmus now owns Perry's stake in the master recordings and publishing for the records, meaning it will collect any future royalties the music earns.\n\nTwo of her songs - Dark Horse and Roar - have more than one billion streams on Spotify. Roar is also one of the most-watched videos of all time on YouTube, with 3.8 billion plays.\n\nA major star in the 2010s, Perry has slowed her work rate down in recent years, concentrating on her Las Vegas residency and raising a family with her partner, the actor Orlando Bloom.\n\nShe will also return for her seventh season as a judge on American Idol next year.\n\nLitmus music is a venture co-founded by former Warner Music and Capitol Records president Dan McCarroll and financed to the tune of $500m (£404m) by The Carlyle Group.\n\nAccording to a press release, the deal with Perry is rooted in McCaroll's \"longstanding working relationship\" with the singer when they were both at Capitol.\n\nLitmus co-founder and CEO Hank Forsyth said: \"Katy's songs are an essential part of the global cultural fabric. We are so grateful to be working together again with such a trusted partner whose integrity shines in everything that she does.\"\n\nThe company previously acquired Keith Urban's rights to his master recordings and a \"portfolio\" of tracks by songwriter Benny Blanco, who has worked with Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Rihanna and Britney Spears.\n\nThe acquisition of music rights has been a booming business for the last couple of years, with artists including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Shakira, Debbie Harry and Justin Timberlake forgoing future royalties for upfront, nine-figure sums.", "Drivers have been warned of rising fuel costs after global oil prices surged to their highest level for 10 months.\n\nBrent crude, a benchmark for prices, breached $95 a barrel on Tuesday amid predictions of shorter supplies.\n\nIt came as the International Energy Agency (IEA) said a decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut production could cause a \"significant supply shortfall\" by the end of this year.\n\nThe RAC motoring group warned drivers were \"in for a hard time\" at the pumps.\n\nLatest figures show UK drivers are now paying £1.55 on average per litre of petrol, with diesel at £1.59.\n\nSince the start of August, average petrol prices have increased by 10p per litre and diesel prices by 13p.\n\nFollowing Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, oil prices soared, hitting more than $120 a barrel in June last year.\n\nThey fell back to a little above $70 a barrel in May this year, but have steadily risen since then as producers have tried to restrict output to support the market. Saudi Arabia and Russia, members of the Opec+ group and two of the world's largest oil-producing nations, decided to reduce production earlier in August.\n\nAt the same time, the US Energy Information Administration said on Monday that US oil output from its top shale-producing regions was set to decline in October for the third straight month, reaching its lowest level since May.\n\nAs the biggest exporter and the leader of the pack, Saudi Arabia wants oil prices to stay elevated to make sure it has a steady stream of income while it tries to diversify its economy.\n\nHowever, the West has accused Opec, whose members regularly meet to agree on production levels, of manipulating prices.\n\nPetrol and diesel prices have jumped in recent months, and further rises could lie ahead due to crude oil being the main component of fuel, motoring groups say.\n\nThe AA warned rising prices were coming at a time when fuel efficiency typically drops as a result of darker evenings due to engines needing to work harder with heaters and lights being used more.\n\n\"Drivers have been lashed by a 10p-a-litre rise in the cost of petrol since the beginning of August,\" said Luke Bodset, the AA's spokesman on pump prices.\n\n\"The only things in their favour have been daylight still in the rush hour and mild weather, which means less fuel consumption. The drivers now beginning to feel happier are those with electric cars.\"\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said with oil heading back towards $100 a barrel, drivers were \"in for a hard time at the pumps\", but he added that a rise to three figures \"should really only take the average price up by another 2p\".\n\nBut he warned: \"If retailers are intent on making more money per litre with increased margins then this could [take the average petrol price] closer to 160p.\"\n\nAnalysts warn rising global oil prices could impact inflation - the rate at which prices rise - in many countries. Inflation soared in 2022 and has only recently started to come down.\n\n\"The symbolically important $100 [a barrel of oil] mark is now being considered once more,\" said Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"This is a difficult development, with fuel accounting for a significant portion of overall inflation.\"\n\nThe latest inflation figure for the UK will be released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Inflation has fallen in recent months but remains high at 6.8%.\n\nOver the last few years households have been hit by higher fuel and energy bills, while businesses have put up prices to cope with rising costs.\n\nA recent fall in the pound may have made fuel even more expensive. As well as supply and demand, oil prices are also affected by the exchange rate between the pound and dollar, as Brent crude is traded in dollars.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman defended Opec+'s moves to restrict supply on Monday, saying energy markets needed light-handed regulation to limit volatility.", "Euronwydd Godwin lost two-and-a-half stone while in hospital recovering from her fall\n\nWhen Euronwydd Godwin fell down the stairs she punctured her lung, developed two brain clots and broke several bones.\n\nTwo years on with \"every gadget you can think of\" the 80-year-old advocates for fall prevention.\n\n\"If you put the money in, when that person comes out of hospital, with a bit of luck they won't go back in,\" she said.\n\nIt comes as a taskforce is teaching children to spot the risks at home.\n\n\"There's a lot more that we need to do - it's a major public health issue that we had for a long time just sat on,\" said Angharad Phillips, health initiatives officer with Age Cymru.\n\n\"We are appealing to children and families to look at their own lifestyle and what they can do. It's not for the NHS to pick up the pieces.\"\n\nThe charity, along with a range of other organisations, is part of the National Falls Prevention Taskforce Wales.\n\nEuronwydd Godwin crawled upstairs on her elbows and knees to raise the alarm, after a fall two years ago\n\nFor Euronwydd - or Ronau as she is known to friends - the cause of the fall in the early hours at her home in North Cornelly in Bridgend county, wasn't clear.\n\nHer family still can't quite comprehend how she commando crawled back upstairs to retrieve her phone and raise the alarm.\n\nHer injuries were so severe, the retired nurse spent over a month in an induced coma at the major trauma unit at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\n\"We honestly thought she was never going to come out,\" said daughter Cheryl Evans.\n\nA big part of Euronwydd's recovery was support from Care and Repair.\n\nShe said within a week she had been kitted out with gadgets to help her learn to live independently again.\n\n\"I couldn't even pick a saucepan up. They've given me a second chance of life.\"\n\nAccording to the national clinical lead for falls and frailty, there are more than 4,000 hip fractures and 20,000 fractures of any bone which can have an \"unmeasurable cost\" in Wales.\n\nDr Inder Singh says some patients are reluctant to say they have had a fall\n\n\"If somebody has a fracture there's a one-in-three chance they will sustain the next fracture in 12 months,\" Dr Inder Singh said.\n\n\"But if they are picked up by the appropriate services, which we are trying to introduce in Wales, this risk can be reduced by 35-40%.\n\n\"It's not the first fracture that causes major harm all the time, it's a subsequent fracture.\"\n\nHe said the goal is for all parts of Wales to have a fracture liaison service to help identify the first fracture and put the support in place.\n\nHe added that in the past three years progress has been made, with a third of those patients now identified, compared to just 9% in 2020.\n\nPupils are asked to spot the risks in a typical home\n\nBut the stigma of admitting a fall seems to be an issue, said Ms Phillips.\n\nShe has been inviting children in schools across Wales to visit an interactive webpage containing a falls \"incident scene\".\n\nChildren at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pontybrenin in Gorseinon were shown a scene from a typical home and asked to turn detective to spot the risks.\n\nNine-year-olds Alana, Rosie and Libby (l-r) have been learning how to spot trip hazards in the home\n\n\"I've learnt to help my nan and grandad to clean the house, so they don't trip over stuff and fall - if the carpet is folded over, and toys are on the floor, I'll pick them up,\" said nine-year-old Libby.\n\n\"It's something really good to learn and think about,\" said Alana, another pupil.\n\n\"When I go over to some of my relatives' house, maybe I could help them around the house if I see some things that could cause hazards.\"", "Wayne Couzens (L) and David Carrick (R), both pictured in uniform, abused their positions as police officers\n\nMore than 1,000 Metropolitan Police officers are currently suspended or on restricted duties, the force has said, as it tries to root out rogue officers.\n\nThe crackdown follows convictions of former officers David Carrick, a serial rapist, and murderer Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe Met's Stuart Cundy said the number of affected officers was almost the size of a small police force, with one in 34 suspended or restricted.\n\nHe warned that removing all corrupt officers could take years.\n\nIn figures described as \"eye-watering\", the Met - Britain's largest force which employs 34,000 officers - also revealed:\n\nSome 450 are also being investigated for historic allegations of sexual or domestic violence, the force said.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at New Scotland Yard, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cundy said there were plans to hold around 30 misconduct hearings and 30 gross incompetence hearings each month, meaning that around 60 officers a month could face the sack.\n\n\"This is going to take one, two or more years to root out those who are corrupt,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also individuals who may have had a false allegation, but they are always going to be small numbers.\"\n\nFigures released by the force show 183 officers are currently suspended, while 860 are on restricted duties.\n\nThe Met has been shaken by a series of scandals in recent years, and was subject to a blistering review by Baroness Casey earlier this year.\n\nZoe Billingham, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, warned that the issue was likely to worsen before improving.\n\n\"These are eye-watering figures\", she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"But we always knew… that the Metropolitan Police's commitment to rooting out corruption would mean that we would see as members of the public more cases coming forward, that the problem would get worse before its get better.\"\n\nMs Billingham suggested that Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley had \"absolutely no choice\" but to take the action, adding that the force's first priority should be restore trust.\n\nOfficers said around one in three staff had been cleared out of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, the elite team in which Couzens and Carrick served.\n\nThe unit, which guards sites including Parliament and embassies in London, is made up of around 1,000 officers, three-quarters of whom are armed.\n\nBaroness Casey singled the unit out for particular criticism in her review, describing an unhealthy culture in which offensive comments were seen as banter and supervision was minimal.\n\nUnder new reforms, officers will not be able to remain in the squad indefinitely, and will instead be rotated around to other parts of the Met every eight years.\n\nCouzens was given a whole-life sentence for the murder of Sarah Everard in 2021, while in February serial rapist David Carrick was handed 30 years for attacks carried out against a dozen women over two decades.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said around 60 officers per month could face the sack over the next two years\n\nFollowing Carrick's conviction, reviews were conducted of some 1,600 cases in which officers faced allegations of domestic or sexual violence but no action was taken from the last 10 years.\n\nInvestigations into 450 of those cases are ongoing.\n\nThe force has also checked all officers against records on the police national computer, uncovering 11 cases which were subject to further assessment and five which are now gross misconduct investigations.\n\nDetails of all Met employees, both civilian staff and police, were also checked against intelligence records on the Police National Database.\n\nFourteen are under further investigation for potential gross misconduct, with more due to be added. The most serious of all the cases reviewed involved rape allegations.\n\nOn Monday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced plans to make it easier for police chiefs to sack rogue officers, including introducing the presumption that anyone found to have committed gross misconduct will be sacked.\n\nEarlier this year, Met Commissioner Sir Mark said it was \"nonsensical\" he did not have the power to sack staff.\n\nHe told BBC Radio London, the force had \"hundreds of people who shouldn't be here\".\n\n\"In all cases, I don't have the final say on who's in the Metropolitan Police. I know that sounds mad, I'm the commissioner,\" he said.\n\nSir Mark highlighted how independent legal tribunals can decide the Met has to retain officers even if the force wants to sack them.\n\nLast month, the Home Office announced that \"chief constables (or other senior officers) will also be given greater responsibilities to decide whether officers should be sacked, increasing their accountability for their forces, and will now chair independent misconduct panels.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police officer in Atlanta, in the US, waded through waist-deep water to rescue a motorist trapped in floodwater.\n\nOfficers had been dealing with a string of emergencies caused by the heavy rain, one of which occurred when the officer came across a partially submerged sedan with the driver still inside.\n\nThe water was so deep that the vehicle was being lifted off the ground and that the doors could not be opened, the Atlanta Police Department said.\n\nThe police officer used his baton to break the driver's side window and he and a fire department rescuer were able to take the driver to safety.", "The government's justification for footing a £265,000 bill for Boris Johnson's Partygate inquiry legal fees has been criticised by the spending watchdog.\n\nAn inquiry by MPs found the former prime minister had deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties during the pandemic.\n\nThe top lawyers helping Mr Johnson were paid for with taxpayer funds.\n\nThe government has repeatedly defended using public money to cover the costs.\n\nBut following its inspection of government accounts, the National Audit Office (NAO) said it was not convinced by the reasoning behind the decision, saying it was not \"wholly persuasive\".\n\nIn an audit opinion, the government's spending watchdog said due process was not followed when signing off the money for Mr Johnson's lawyers.\n\nAs the BBC reported earlier this year, the Cabinet Office did not seek Treasury sign-off before deciding to pay for the bill with public money.\n\nThe Treasury's spending rulebook says its consent should always be sought for costs \"which set precedents, are novel, contentious or could cause repercussions elsewhere in the public sector\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has argued the Treasury is not required to approve all of its spending decisions, and because the Partygate inquiry related to Mr Johnson's conduct as a minister, he was entitled to taxpayer-funded legal support.\n\nBut Gareth Davies, who leads the NAO, suggested a spending commitment of this kind should have been flagged as novel and contentious.\n\nMr Davies wrote: \"I have considered the precedents cited by the Department [the Cabinet Office] in concluding that this proposed expenditure was not novel, contentious or repercussive, and did not find these to be wholly persuasive.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the way public money has been used by the government and gives audit opinions on spending decisions across the public sector.\n\nIt first emerged in February that the spending watchdog was examining the decision to cover Mr Johnson's legal costs during the Partygate inquiry by the Commons Privileges Committee.\n\nAs the bill grew into a six-figure sum, the Cabinet Office came under pressure to explain why taxpayers - and not Mr Johnson himself - were on the hook.\n\nThe government said the decision was justified, saying there is a precedent for supporting former ministers with legal representation.\n\nIt has cited legal support given to former ministers during public inquiries into the Grenfell Tower fire, the BSE disease outbreak in cattle, and infected blood products as examples of precedents.\n\nBut to date, the government has not been able to name an example of a former minister receiving taxpayer-funded legal support for a parliamentary inquiry.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to two former ministers who were investigated by MPs for misleading Parliament and were not given legal support.\n\nIn his audit opinion, Mr Davies said the government \"recognised that none of these previous examples was an exact precedent for this case\".\n\nIn a submission to the NAO, the Cabinet Office noted: \"There is no case that is exactly analogous to the circumstances of the Privileges Committee's inquiry into Mr Boris Johnson MP.\"\n\nMr Davies added that most of the examples cited by the government \"relate to legal advice provided to former prime ministers to support their evidence sessions with public inquiries, which is a well-established practice\".\n\n\"In my view, these examples are substantively different from an investigation by the Committee of Privileges into a potential contempt of the House by a prime minister.\"\n\nMr Davies concluded that the Cabinet Office's chief accounting officer \"should have approved this expenditure before it was incurred\", supported by a formal assessment, in line with Treasury guidance on novel and contentious spending.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"There is a long-standing principle that former ministers' legal expenses are met by government in relation to issues that arose during their tenure.\n\n\"Matters of process are for the Cabinet Office.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said there was no suggestion of impropriety in the National Audit Office report and repeated its argument that former ministers \"may be supported with legal representation after they have left office\".\n\n\"The government has been consistently clear that the contract award followed the proper procurement process,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson has faced calls to pay the legal costs himself, with opposition parties highlighting he has earned millions since standing down as prime minister.\n\nThe inquiry by the Privileges Committee was launched last April, after opposition parties accused Mr Johnson of misleading MPs about gatherings in government buildings during Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nIn an unprecedented decision, the committee found Mr Johnson had committed repeated contempts of Parliament with his Partygate denials.\n\nIn its conclusions, the committee said criticisms of the inquiry in opinions submitted by Mr Johnson's legal advisers were \"without merit\".\n\nMr Johnson said the inquiry amounted to a \"political assassination\", and branded the committee's findings \"deranged\".\n\nThe former prime minister stepped down as a Conservative MP in June, saying he was \"forced out of Parliament\" over Partygate.", "Take the Money and Run on display at Kunsten Museum in Aalborg\n\nA Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner ($72,000; £58,000) to a museum after giving it two blank canvasses for a project he named Take the Money and Run.\n\nThe Kunsten Museum in Aalborg had intended for Jens Haaning to embed the banknotes in two pieces of art in 2021.\n\nInstead, he gave it blank canvasses and then told dr.dk: \"The work is that I have taken their money.\"\n\nA court has now ordered him to return the cash - but keep some for expenses.\n\nThe art project was intended as a statement on salaries in Denmark and Austria.\n\nThe museum asked for the artist to return all the money, around 534,000 kroner - but Mr Haaning refused.\n\nNow, after a long legal battle, a Copenhagen court on Monday ordered Mr Haaning, 58, to refund the museum 492,549 kroner.\n\nThat figure, it said, was equivalent to the sum the museum had given him minus the artist's fee and the cost of mounting.\n\nMuseum director Lasse Andersson said that he had laughed out loud when he first saw the two blank canvasses in 2021, and decided to show the works anyway.\n\n\"He stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit, but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic,\" the museum's director, Lasse Andersson, told the BBC's Newsday programme in 2021.\n\nAfter the judgment, Mr Haaning told dr.dk that he did not plan taking the case any further.\n\n\"It has been good for my work, but it also puts me in an unmanageable situation where I don't really know what to do.\"\n\nHe told TV2 Nord on Monday the museum had made \"much, much more\" money than what it invested thanks to the publicity surrounding the affair.\n• None Museum wants its cash back over blank canvasses", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpain players have reiterated that they are boycotting the women's national side despite being called up to the latest squad.\n\nFifteen members of the team that won the World Cup last month have been included in a squad for upcoming Nations League fixtures.\n\nA group of 81 players boycotted the national team after then Spanish FA boss Luis Rubiales kissed forward Jenni Hermoso following last month's final.\n\nThe fall out led to Rubiales resigning.\n\nOn Friday, 39 players - including 21 of the 23 World Cup-winners - said their strike would continue until further changes were made and that they did not yet \"feel in a safe place\".\n\nTwo-time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas was among the 15 players called up who were part of the triumphant squad in Australia and New Zealand. However, Hermoso was left out.\n\nThe players later published a statement, issued by Futpro, stressing the boycott remains in place and expressing their regret that they were again \"put in a position in which we never wanted to be in\".\n\nThey added that they intended to explore the potential legal implications of being called up against their wishes, saying: \"We will study the possible legal consequences to which the RFEF (Spanish football federation) exposes us by putting us on a list from which we had asked not to be called for reasons already explained publicly and in more detail to the RFEF, and with this make the best decision for our future and for our health.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nThis was the first squad announcement by new coach Montse Tome, who replaced Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - after he was sacked earlier this month.\n\nTome, who was Vilda's assistant manager, has become the first woman to hold the position of Spain women's boss.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the RFEF had urged striking players to return to the national team. The organisation previously said the players have \"an obligation\" to play if selected.\n\n\"We stand with Jenni,\" Tome said.\n\n\"We believe that the best way to protect her is like this, but we are counting on Jenni.\"\n\nBarcelona duo Mapi Leon and Patri Guijarro - who were not included in Spain's World Cup squad after signing an open letter against then-coach Vilda - were also named in Tome's side.\n\n\"It's the start of a new phase, the clock is ticking,\" said Tome.\n\n\"There is nothing behind us and we really want to connect with these players.\"\n\nOn Friday, the 39 players boycotting the national team released a statement saying they would not return until further conditions were met, including reshaping certain departments within the RFEF, adding that they did not yet \"feel in a safe place\".\n\nThe RFEF responded by expressing its commitment to change being made \"to restore the functioning of the entity\".\n\nThe Spanish government also assured players that changes will be made and there will be a greater representation of women in the federation.\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200m of Hermoso, who has said the kiss was not consensual, after the 33-year-old filed a legal complaint.\n\nAppearing in court for the first time last Friday, Rubiales denied sexually assaulting Hermoso.", "A cocker spaniel from Stonehaven has joined an exclusive group of canines who have reached the top of every Munro in Scotland.\n\nSix-year-old Glen and his owner George Creighton have climbed 282 Munros across the country.\n\nThe pair completed the challenge, which they started in 2018, on Saturday after scaling their final peak, Ben More on Mull.\n\nGeorge said having a canine companion made it a special achievement.\n\nHe said: \"I am so proud of Glen. It is an achievement for me too, but to do it with my dog, it truly has been such a special experience.\n\nGeorge and Glen reached the peak of their final Munro, Ben More, on the Isle of Mull on Saturday\n\n\"I certainly have mixed emotions. I am so glad we have managed to complete all 282 but at the same time, I'm sad it's over.\"\n\nMunros are Scottish peaks of more than 3,000ft (914m).\n\nThe 70-year-old began scaling the mountains in his retirement, and was inspired by a guide to get a four-legged companion to join him on his adventures.\n\n\"It has been a great activity for us both; for me to keep me fit, and for Glen, well it is always good to have company and what is better than an energetic spaniel,\" he said.\n\nOver the past five years, George and Glen have taken on some of the more precarious summits, including scaling the famed inaccessible pinnacle in Skye's Cuillin mountain range.\n\nBut for George it has brought about many smiles and laughter which he says he \"wouldn't trade for the world\".\n\nHe continued: \"Getting Glen was the best decision I have ever made. His energy is just terrific. He certainly keeps me on my toes.\n\n\"Sometimes I take the bike with me to take some of the pressure off the legs, but Glen is off and away.\n\n\"He has eased off a bit in his older age, and knows when we are up early, he has a big day ahead of him.\"\n\nWhen asked what lies in wait next for the duo, George joked: \"Who knows, we might even take on Kilimanjaro one afternoon.\"", "Peers have passed a controversial new law aimed at making social media firms more responsible for users' safety on their platforms.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill has taken years to agree and will force firms to remove illegal content and protect children from some legal but harmful material.\n\nChildren's charity the NSPCC said the law would mean a safer online world.\n\nBut critics argued it would allow a regulator, and tech firms to dictate what may or may not be said online.\n\nThe nearly 300-page bill will also introduce new rules such as requiring pornography sites to stop children viewing content by checking the ages of users.\n\nWhile the act is often spoken about as a tool for reining in Big Tech, government figures have suggested more than 20,000 small businesses will also have to comply.\n\nPlatforms will also need to show they are committed to removing illegal content including:\n\nNew offences have also been included in the bill, including cyber-flashing and the sharing of \"deepfake\" pornography.\n\nAnd the bill includes measures to make it easier for bereaved parents to obtain information about their children from tech firms.\n\nThe technology secretary Michelle Donelan told the BBC the bill was \"extremely comprehensive\".\n\nAsked when there would be evidence of tech firms changing their behaviour she said: \"We've already started to see that change in behaviour happening.\n\n\"As soon as this bill gains Royal Assent, the regulator will be working even more hand in hand with those social media platforms and you'll see them changing the way that they're operating\", she added.\n\nThe bill has had a lengthy and contentious journey to becoming law, beginning six years ago when the government committed to the idea of improving internet safety.\n\nThe idea that inspired the bill was relatively simple, scribbled down on the back of a sandwich packet by two experts, Prof Lorna Woods of the University of Essex and William Perrin of the charitable foundation Carnegie UK.\n\nProf Woods told the BBC that finally seeing it pass was \"slightly unreal\".\n\n\"I think when you're waiting for anything for a long time, there's always that sense of, 'Oh, it's here,'\" she said.\n\nBut the complexity of the act does cause her concerns that big tech companies will challenge parts of it in court.\n\n\"I think maybe the complexity leads itself to that sort of challenge and that could delay the full coming into force of the regime.\"\n\nDriving the bill have been the stories of those who have suffered losses and harm which they attribute to content posted on social media.\n\nOnline safety campaigner Ian Russell has told the BBC the test of the bill will be whether it prevents the kind of images his daughter Molly saw before she took her own life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest.\n\nImran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate welcomed the passage of the bill saying \"too much tragedy has already befallen people in this country because of tech companies' moral failures\".\n\nBut digitalrights campaigners the Open Rights Group said the bill posed \"a huge threat to freedom of expression with tech companies expected to decide what is and isn't legal, and then censor content before it's even been published\".\n\nLawyer Graham Smith, author of a book on internet law, said the bill had well-meaning aims, but in the end it contained much that was problematic.\n\n\"If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, this is a motorway,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said it was \"a deeply misconceived piece of legislation\", and the threat it posed to legitimate speech was likely to be \"exposed in the courts\".\n\nAnd popular messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal have threatened to refuse to comply with powers in the bill that could be used to force them to examine the contents of encrypted messages for child abuse material.\n\nHowever following statements made the government about these powers in the Lords, Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, said that they were \"more optimistic than we were when we began engaging with the UK government\"\n\nBut she added it was imperative that campaigners press for a public commitment that the \"unchecked and unprecedented power\" in the bill to undermine private communications would not be used.\n\nWikipedia has also said it can't comply with some of the requirements of the bill.\n\nAfter royal assent the baton will pass to the communications regulator, Ofcom, who will be largely responsible for enforcing the bill.\n\nIt will draw up codes of conduct that will provide guidance on how to comply with the new rules.\n\nThose who fail can face large fines of up to £18m, or in some cases executives could face imprisonment.\n\nDame Melanie Dawes, chief executive of Ofcom, called the bill's passage through parliament \"a major milestone in the mission to create a safer life online for children and adults in the UK.\" \"Very soon after the Bill receives Royal Assent, we'll consult on the first set of standards that we'll expect tech firms to meet in tackling illegal online harms, including child sexual exploitation, fraud and terrorism,\" she added.\n\nThere is a lot staked on the success of the bill - not only the safety of children and adults, but also the UK's ambitions as a tech hub and possibly, if things go wrong, continued access to popular online services.\n\nFor Prof Woods the bill will be a success if social media companies and others are more responsive to user concerns.\n\n\"And maybe we won't have to see quite so much of the stuff we don't want to see in the first place. But I don't think we should expect perfection. Life's not perfect,\" she said.", "Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government's key green commitments in a major policy shift.\n\nIt could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.\n\nResponding to the reported plans, he said the government was committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but in a \"more proportionate way\".\n\nThe aim of net zero is for the UK to take out of the atmosphere as many greenhouse gas emissions - such as carbon dioxide - as it puts in.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"For too many years politicians in governments of all stripes have not been honest about costs and trade-offs. Instead they have taken the easy way out, saying we can have it all.\n\n\"This realism doesn't mean losing our ambition or abandoning our commitments. Far from it.\n\n\"I am proud that Britain is leading the world on climate change.\"\n\nHe said the UK was committed to international climate agreements it had already made.\n\n\"No leak will stop me beginning the process of telling the country how and why we need to change,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak added that he would give a speech later this week \"to set out an important long-term decision we need to make so our country becomes the place I know we all want it to be for our children\".\n\nIf he presses ahead with the plan it would represent a significant shift in the Conservative Party's approach to net zero policy, as well as establishing a clear dividing line with the Labour Party.\n\nAccording to multiple sources briefed on Downing Street's thinking, Mr Sunak would use the speech to hail the UK as a world leader on net zero.\n\nBut he would also argue that Britain has over-delivered on confronting climate change and that other countries need to do more to pull their weight.\n\nSome specifics of the speech are still thought to be under discussion, but as it stands it could include as many as seven core policy changes or commitments, documents seen by the BBC suggest.\n\nFirst, the government would push the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars - currently set to come into force in 2030 - back to 2035. The 2030 date has been government policy since 2020.\n\nSecond, the government would significantly weaken the plan to phase out the installation of gas boilers by 2035, saying that they only want 80% to be phased out by that year.\n\nThird, homeowners and landlords would be told that there will be no new energy efficiency regulations on homes. Ministers had been considering imposing fines on landlords who fail to upgrade their properties to a certain level of energy efficiency.\n\nFourth, the 2026 ban on off-grid oil boilers will be delayed to 2035, with only an 80% phase out target at that date.\n\nIn addition, Britons will be told that there will be no new taxes to discourage flying, no government policies to change people's diets and no measures to encourage carpooling.\n\nMr Sunak is also likely to rule out what he sees as burdensome recycling schemes.\n\nThe government had reportedly been considering a recycling strategy in which households would have had \"seven bins\" - with six separate recycling bins plus one for general waste.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said it was \"an absolute farce\", with \"late night policy statements from the Downing Street bunker, as ever driven by the absolute chaos within the Conservative Party, with a weak Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\".\n\nHe declined to say whether Labour would restore any targets that are ultimately scrapped.\n\n\"We are making clear that we are absolutely rejecting this completely futile, short-term and facile way of doing politics,\" he said. \"This is not a serious way to make long-term decisions that require vast amounts of investments, where lots of jobs are at risk.\"\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore, the former chairman of the UK government's net zero review, said diluting green policies would \"cost the UK jobs, inward investment, and future economic growth that could have been ours by committing to the industries of the future\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak still has time to think again and not make the greatest mistake of his premiership, condemning the UK to missing out on what can be the opportunity of the decade to deliver growth, jobs and future prosperity,\" he said.\n\nConservative peer Lord Zac Goldsmith, who resigned as a minister earlier this year with a scathing attack on Mr Sunak's \"apathy\" over climate change, said the prime minister was \"dismantling\" the UK's credibility on environmental issues.\n\n\"His short stint as PM will be remembered as the moment the UK turned its back on the world and on future generations. A moment of shame,\" he said.\n\nGreen Party MP, Caroline Lucas called any rollback on net zero \"economically illiterate, historically inaccurate and environmentally bone-headed\".\n\nBut Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the net zero scrutiny group, said he was \"pleased to see some pragmatism\" from Mr Sunak.\n\nMoving back dates for net zero targets \"will take pie in the sky 'greenwash' measures out of clearly unachievable deadlines\".\n\nFormer Conservative minister David Jones said modifying green policies was \"inevitable and sensible\", adding that pressing on with the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would \"seriously damage the British motor industry\".\n\nOn Thursday, the King will be on a State Visit to France, where he will host what is known as a Climate Mobilisation Forum.\n\nThe event convenes specialists in climate finance, and aims to help developing economies make adjustments to cut emissions.\n\nThe King will be accompanied by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.\n\nHow will you be affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCanada has accused India of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader, an allegation strongly denied by Delhi.\n\nOn Monday PM Justin Trudeau said Canada was looking at \"credible allegations potentially linking\" the Indian state to Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder.\n\nMr Nijjar was was shot dead outside a Sikh temple on 18 June in Canada.\n\nIndia has expelled a Canadian diplomat after Canada expelled Indian diplomat Pavan Kumar Rai over the case.\n\nMr Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in his vehicle by two masked gunmen in the busy car park of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, a city about 30km (18 miles) east of Vancouver.\n\nA prominent Sikh separatist leader in the western-most province of British Columbia, he publicly campaigned for Khalistan - the creation of an independent Sikh homeland in the Punjab region of India.\n\nSikhs are a religious minority that make up about 2% of India's population. Some groups have long called for a separate homeland for Sikhs.\n\nIn the 1970s Sikhs launched a separatist insurgency in India which saw thousands killed before it was quelled the following decade.\n\nSince then, the movement has been mostly limited to countries with large Sikh populations such as Canada and the UK. There are an estimated 1.4 to 1.8 million Canadians of Indian origin and the country has the largest population of Sikhs outside Punjab.\n\nIndia has in the past described Mr Nijjar as a terrorist who led a militant separatist group - accusations his supporters say are unfounded. They say he had received threats in the past because of his activism.\n\nHardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered on 18 June in Surrey, British Columbia, in what police have described as a \"targeted\" attack\n\nMr Trudeau said in parliament on Monday that he had raised the issue of Mr Nijjar's killing with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent G20 summit in Delhi.\n\n\"Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,\" he told lawmakers.\n\nOn Tuesday, India's ministry of external affairs said that it \"completely rejected\" Mr Trudeau's claims which it described as \"absurd\" and politically motivated.\n\n\"We are a democratic polity with a strong commitment to rule of law,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\nIt accused Canada of providing shelter to \"Khalistani terrorists and extremists\" who threaten India's security.\n\n\"We urge the government of Canada to take prompt and effective legal action against all anti-India elements operating from their soil,\" the ministry said.\n\nAfter Mr Trudeau's comments, several large posters and tributes to Mr Nijjar were visible at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey.\n\nMoninder Singh, a spokesman for the British Columbia Sikhs Gurdwaras Council, told the BBC that the community appreciated \"that at least the prime minister stood up and acknowledged that there is a foreign hand behind this murder\".\n\nOther Sikh groups in Canada, including the World Sikh Organisation, welcomed the prime minister's statement, saying Mr Trudeau confirmed what was already widely believed in the community.\n\nMr Trudeau had a tense meeting with Mr Modi last week during the G20 summit in India\n\nMr Trudeau's remarks come after his tense meeting with Mr Modi last week during the G20 summit in India where Mr Modi accused Canada of not doing enough to quell \"anti-India activities of extremist elements\", referring to the Sikh separatists.\n\nCanada also recently suspended negotiations for a free trade agreement with India. It gave few details on why, but India cited \"certain political developments\".\n\nMr Nijjar is the third prominent Sikh figure to have died unexpectedly in recent months.\n\nIn the UK, Avtar Singh Khanda, who was said to be the head of the Khalistan Liberation Force, died in Birmingham in June. West Midlands police told the BBC they were not opening an investigation.\n\n\"Following speculation surrounding the death of Avtar Singh Khanda, a thorough review was undertaken by West Midlands Police which concluded that there were no suspicious circumstances,\" the force said.\n\nParamjit Singh Panjwar, who was designated a terrorist by India, was shot dead in May in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province.\n\nThe backdrop to the tension between Delhi and Ottawa is the increasing pressure the Indian administration has put on governments of three countries with sizeable Sikh populations: Canada, Australia and the UK.\n\nIt has openly said that a failure to tackle what it calls \"Sikh extremism\" would be an obstacle to good relations.\n\nOn Tuesday, the White House said it was \"deeply concerned\" about Mr Trudeau's allegations.\n\n\"We remain in regular contact with our Canadian partners. It is critical that Canada's investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice,\" White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said.", "Morgan Ridler spent his last hours in the care of Ty Hafan before he died of cancer\n\nBuilding a holiday park next to a children's hospice will \"taunt\" families dealing with the trauma of losing their children, a mother has said.\n\nBarry Island Pleasure Park's owner has submitted plans for the park next to Ty Hafan hospice in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nParents said their children would not have had such a peaceful death if a holiday park was next door.\n\nTy Hafan has formally objected to the application.\n\nHenry Danter defended his plans for the park, saying he would be the \"best neighbour Ty Hafan could ask for\".\n\nBut Natalie Ridler told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Having to hold the hand of your dying child while listening to healthy families enjoying this next door is more trauma added onto a very traumatic situation.\"\n\nHer son, Morgan, died in palliative care after he was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in 2021.\n\nThe three-year-old, from Swansea, was transferred under the care of Ty Hafan for the final hours of his life.\n\n\"Although what we were about to go through was awful, it was almost like a soft blanket around you,\" his mother said.\n\nThe large site is situated between the hospice and Beechwood College, a specialist educational facility, which has also opposed the plans.\n\nIn July, a planning application was made to use land on Hayes Road, Sully, for storage containers, and a fresh bid has now been lodged to store caravans and motorhomes on the site.\n\nTy Hafan, in Sully, near Penarth, provides care and support to children with life-shortening conditions and their families, and is surrounded by memorial gardens for bereaved families to visit.\n\nIt is a \"very sacred site\" for Ms Ridler.\n\n\"We all feel that there is a little bit of our children there,\" she added.\n\n\"Having a space to escape to and breathe is so important for not only bereaved parents, but for children who use that facility long-term that aren't going to live a full life.\"\n\nMicaela Turner says it was important that Cai got to enjoy his final walk in nature\n\nMicaela Turner's son, Cai, was diagnosed with a very rare and severe congenital multisystem disorder when he was a baby.\n\nHe was not expected to live past the age of two, but he died just before his 12th birthday last year at Ty Hafan.\n\nMicaela said: \"If there was a caravan park or a holiday park next door here when Cai was alive, I think it would have changed my decision where I wanted Cai to die.\n\n\"I would have found it hard knowing there would be people next door having fun and creating noise and not understanding there's a children's hospice next door, and Cai wouldn't have had the experience he had,\" she said.\n\n\"There were lots of times I needed five minutes to process what was going on. I knew my child wasn't coming home.\n\n\"I knew that I was going to watch my son die over the next few days. I would often come and sit by the sea to take away some of the anxieties and fears.\"\n\nCai received care at Ty Hafan for more than 11 years and took his last walk around the grounds.\n\nHe stayed in a room overlooking the sea and close to the boundary line at the lower end of the hospice where children stay before they die.\n\nThe memorial garden backs on to the land Henry Danter plans to develop\n\nMicaela said the noise from the holiday park would be a concern as the boundary line is at the lower end of the hospice where Cai stayed in his final days.\n\n\"We brought Cai here for his last walk to this area because he loved the sea, the birds and the wind and loved the natural environment. We knew it was his last walk so we knew it was important,\" she said.\n\n\"The tranquillity, security and safety of Ty Hafan has to be kept the way it is.\"\n\nShe said it would be detrimental to the hospice if the caravan park was built and children could not have the same experience that Cai had.\n\nMarie Jones' youngest son Alfie, 12, has a rare genetic condition which means he is unable to walk or talk. He is deaf, partially sighted and needs someone to feed him.\n\nMarie is also against the plans as she said it would be a tragedy to have the park built a few feet away from the memorial garden.\n\nMarie Jones and Micaela Turner say they may not have chosen Ty Hafan to care for their children if there had been a holiday camp next door\n\n\"The memorial garden is just so peaceful and quiet and it's really important it stays this way,\" she said.\n\n\"It wouldn't be a place of tranquillity, a place to come and rest because the boundary line is just so close.\n\n\"Families feel safe here and families can just recover and relax... I think it would make us look differently about how we use Ty Hafan.\"\n\nThe college said having a peaceful and safe environment was vital and plans to develop the holiday camp would have a serious impact on the health and wellbeing of students.\n\nIt said the number of people, noise and traffic resulting from the development would make it hard \"to provide the necessary therapeutic and safe environment\".\n\nOwner Henry Danter said the holiday park would be \"the talk of Wales\" and he would be the \"best neighbour Ty Hafan could ask for\".\n\n\"I can tell you, Henry Danter will make this site really picturesque,\" said Mr Danter.\n\n\"It's a jungle at the moment but I'll make it into beautiful gardens, with palms trees, olive trees, roses and fountains.\"\n\nHe said the park would not be \"interfering with anyone\" because \"you've got to walk at least 10 minutes to get there\".\n\nMr Danter added that the site would benefit the hospice as people who needed to be close by could access accommodation.", "Rishi Sunak has insisted he cares about reaching net zero but that the 2050 target needs to be achieved in \"a proportionate and pragmatic way\".\n\nThe prime minister has faced criticism from environmental groups and some of his own MPs that he is not committed to tackling climate change.\n\nMr Sunak told LBC he wanted to leave the environment in \"a better state than we found it in\" for his two daughters.\n\nBut he added that the UK would still need fossil fuels in the future.\n\nAsked if he was confident he could win over his environmentally conscious daughters, Mr Sunak said they were not \"eco-zealots\" and like most people, were \"open to sensible, practical arguments\".\n\nHe has previously described his daughters as \"passionate environmentalists\", who have often asked him what he is doing about climate change.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from some Conservative MPs to review the government's green policies, after the party's surprise win in the Uxbridge by-election, when it capitalised on anger over London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez).\n\nHowever, he has said the government is committed to reaching net zero by 2050 - which means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are increasing global temperatures.\n\nOther leading climate campaigners in the Conservative Party have criticised Mr Sunak's commitment to environmental issues.\n\nLord Goldsmith recently resigned from the government, accusing the prime minister of \"apathy\" over climate change.\n\nThe prime minister has also attracted criticism for the number of domestic flights he has taken to travel for government business across the UK.\n\nEarlier this week he defended flying to Scotland, to announce support for a carbon capture project, as \"an efficient use of time for the person running the country\".\n\n\"If your approach to climate change is to say that no one should go on holiday, no one should go on a plane, I think you are completely and utterly wrong,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nIn his interview with LBC he also revealed he was taking his family on a summer holiday to California this week, including a visit to Disneyland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is due to head on a family holiday this Thursday\n\nMr Sunak has announced the government is granting 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences, as well as supporting a carbon capture project in the north east of Scotland.\n\nThe decision was criticised by environmental campaigners, who said it would \"send a wrecking ball through the UK's climate commitments\".\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore said the move was \"the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time\" and \"on the wrong side of history\".\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said: \"I 100% believe that what I'm doing is right,\" adding that even after meeting the 2050 target the UK would still need fossil fuels.\n\nHe argued it was \"sensible\" to use \"the energy we have here at home\", as this would be better for jobs and avoid the environmental cost of shipping energy from abroad, as well as reducing the UK's reliance on other countries.\n\nMeanwhile, Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps is meeting oil and gas bosses in Downing Street to talk about the government's decision to invest in home-grown energy sources, including renewables and North Sea oil and gas.\n\nMr Sunak is also facing pressure over measures to move towards electric cars.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch is understood to have raised concerns about rules due to come into effect next year that require car manufacturers to sell a certain proportion of electric models.\n\nFrom January, 22% of vehicles sold have to be zero emission, or car makers could be hit with fines.\n\nSome manufacturers have been calling for a softening of the rules, and as first reported by the Politico website, Ms Badenoch has passed on their concerns to her cabinet colleagues.\n\nBut Labour said the sector was \"crying out for certainty\" and Ms Badenoch's reported comments were a \"threat to investment\".\n\nMinisters have insisted the government remains committed to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, despite calls from some Tory MPs for a delay.", "Fashion giant H&M has become the latest retailer to charge shoppers who return items bought online.\n\nCustomers now must pay £1.99 to return parcels either in store or online, with the cost taken from their refund. However, returns are still free for H&M members.\n\nRival retailers such as Zara, Boohoo, Uniqlo and Next already charge for online returns.\n\nAn H&M spokesperson told the BBC the move was introduced in the summer.\n\nOnline shopping rose strongly during the pandemic, but this has also meant a big increase in the number of items being sent back because they do not fit, or are not as expected.\n\nReturns can be a headache for retailers, because not only do they often cover the costs of online returns as a way of winning customers from rivals, but it also takes longer for warehouse staff to process returned stock.\n\nAnalysts said other retailers were likely to follow H&M in charging for returns.\n\n\"It's interesting that companies seem to be doing it by stealth, but it's a sensible thing to be doing,\" said retail expert Jonathan De Mello.\n\n\"It makes economic sense, as it discourages shoppers from bulk buying online products and then returning the majority of them. That's been a real problem for companies.\"\n\nHe said that while some customers might react negatively, most would understand the need for companies to make this decision.\n\nMany shoppers are also becoming more aware of the environmental impact of deliveries and returns. Fewer postal returns means fewer delivery vehicles travelling up and down with parcels.\n\nBut Mr De Mello warned that it might spark a backlash among some groups of people, such as those with disabilities, who rely on online shopping.\n\nOn H&M's website, it tells shoppers they will not be charged the £1.99 fee if items are determined to be faulty or incorrect. It urged customers to make sure to note that information when registering their returns.\n\nIt also says its members can continue to make returns for free.\n\nMr De Mello said that reflects a wider trend in retailing towards loyalty schemes.\n\n\"Particularly in the cost of living crisis, retailers need to work harder to retain customers, as people are keen to shop around for the best deals,\" he said.\n\n\"Loyalty is fickle, but if you can provide clear incentives, such as free returns, then you're more likely to retain your customers.\"\n\nHave you noticed any changes in online shopping recently? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "President Zelensky was clear and brutal in his analysis.\n\nRussia, he said, was weaponizing food shortages, energy, even nuclear power. It was committing genocide by abducting children from occupied parts of Ukraine. And he warned against “shady deals” to try to end the war on unfair terms.\n\nSo far, so straightforward.\n\nBut his key point was to warn the international community that the outcome of the war would affect them all. Russia’s goal, he said, was to turn Ukraine into “a weapon against you, against the rules based international order”.\n\nThe peace formula that he has been outlining for months was, he said, not just for Ukraine, but also the rest of the world.\n\nSo the pitch was clear and aimed squarely at countries - many of them in the Global South - which have thus far stayed on the side lines.\n\nWestern powers have been rushing around the UN trying to address those countries’ wider concerns about development issues and climate change.\n\nBut President Zelensky’s argument was just about security. If Ukraine wins, then the rest of the world will be better protected from suffering similar aggression.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Evil cannot be trusted,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the UN General Assembly, as he urged the world to unite to end Russian aggression against his country.\n\nIn a passionate speech in New York, Mr Zelensky said a nuclear-armed Moscow must be stopped from \"pushing the world to the final war\".\n\nHe also accused Russia of weaponising everything from food to energy.\n\nIn a speech which focused heavily on the danger Russia poses to the world, he argued that other common challenges such as climate change can only be properly addressed after Moscow had been pushed back.\n\n\"While Russia is pushing the world to the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after the Russian aggression no-one in the world will dare to attack any nation,\" Mr Zelensky said to world leaders attending the annual General Assembly.\n\nHe also said Russia simply had \"no right to hold nuclear weapons\".\n\n\"Weaponisation must be restrained, war crimes must be punished, deported people must come back home, and the occupier must return to their own land.\n\n\"We must be united to make it, and we will do it!\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nHe also accused Moscow of carrying out \"genocide\" by abducting Ukrainian children.\n\nIn March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the alleged unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied Ukraine's accusations - but a number international experts and organisations point to a growing evidence that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Leaders show different approaches on Ukraine at Unga\n\nThe Ukrainian president went on to warn against \"shady deals\" to try to end the war - the biggest in Europe since World War Two - on unfair terms.\n\nBut his key point was to warn the international community that the outcome of the war would affect everyone.\n\nRussia's goal, he said, was to turn Ukraine into \"a weapon against you, against the rules-based international order\".\n\nThe peace formula that he had been outlining for months was, he said, not just for Ukraine, but also the rest of the world.\n\nSo the pitch was clear and aimed squarely at countries - many of them in the so-called \"Global South\" including Brazil and India - which have thus far stayed on the sidelines.\n\nPresident Zelensky accused Russia of weaponising everything from food to energy\n\nA number of nations have even strengthened their economic ties with the Kremlin.\n\nWestern powers have been rushing around the UN trying to address those countries' wider concerns about development issues and climate change.\n\nEarlier in the day, the Ukrainian leader applauded Joe Biden's speech, in which his US counterpart warned of grave consequences if Russia's aggression was not stopped.\n\n\"Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalise Ukraine without consequence. If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMeanwhile, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi - whose country has provided combat drones to Russia and is seen as Moscow's key ally - accused Washington of escalating the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"The United States of America has fanned the flames of violence in Ukraine in order to weaken the European countries. This is a long-term plan, unfortunately,\" he told the gathering in New York.", "Keir Starmer and his top shadow ministers were spotted at the Gare du Nord in Paris on Thursday\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer has held what he describes as a \"very constructive and positive\" meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.\n\nIt is the latest stopping off point in Sir Keir's grip-and grin-world tour, after photos, handshakes and smiles in the last couple of days in the Netherlands, Canada and France.\n\nIt is all about projecting an image of a government in waiting, albeit with the danger, for him, of being accused of hubris.\n\nAfter all, the road to Downing Street leads via High Peak, Midlothian and Pendle rather than The Hague, Montreal and Paris.\n\nThis morning he was at the headquarters of the media and entertainment company Vivendi, meeting around a dozen business leaders from a collection of French firms described as having a \"strong commercial footprint\" in the UK.\n\nHe is accompanied by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.\n\nThe media were excluded from the meeting with Mr Macron, which began with an exchange of gifts. Mr Macron was given an Arsenal shirt with his name on it. The French President gave the Labour leader some cufflinks.\n\nDiplomatic niceties mean heads of state tend to avoid allowing the flashbulbs too close to a get together with an opposition politician; the formal relationship is always one government to another.\n\nToday is significant for an obvious reason: Sir Keir is, literally, being given the time of day by the President of France, which tells you that President Macron reckons there is a good chance Sir Keir will be the next prime minister.\n\nBut what do they actually talk about?\n\nI am told by Labour folk that it is a 'getting to know each other session' rather than much else.\n\nSir Keir would not be drawn on the details of their discussion, telling reporters afterwards that it \"covered a wide range of issues\".\n\n\"It was my first opportunity to say how much I value the relationship between our two countries, particularly when it comes to prosperity and security and how, if we are privileged enough to be elected into power, intend to build on that relationship and make it even stronger than it is today,\" he added.\n\nBack in March there was bromance under a shared brolly when Rishi Sunak headed to Paris, for what he described as an \"entente renewed\" and the President said was a \"reunion\".\n\nIn other words, the relationship between London and Paris has already been reset, after the anger of Brexit and Liz Truss's remarks when she said the \"jury was still out\" on whether President Macron was a friend or foe.\n\nRishi Sunak met President Macron at the Elysee Palace in March\n\nHow realistic is it for Labour to promise to change the Brexit deal?\n\nSir Keir told the Financial Times at the weekend that the existing arrangement was \"too thin\".\n\nBut he doesn't want any fundamental changes - such as rejoining the EU's customs union or the single market.\n\nFirstly, it is a fascinating insight into Labour's psychology that the party is even willing to talk about Brexit.\n\nFor the last few years, there has been a near omertà about it from plenty at Westminster, and particularly Labour.\n\nThere was a perception that people were sick of it, and Labour in particular felt deeply bruised by it, having lost so many previous Labour strongholds at the last general election that had heavily backed Leave.\n\nBut now, it's being talked about again. The elections and polling guru Prof Sir John Curtice offers an insight into why.\n\nHe argues support for Brexit has slumped and politicians, and Keir Starmer in particular, appears to be reacting to that.\n\nSo how much appetite will there be in Brussels to change the UK's Brexit deal?\n\nA report out today by UK in a Changing Europe, a think tank, concludes that the scope for changing the Brexit deal - the Trade and Cooperation Agreement to give it its full title - is limited.\n\nIt argues the EU's current mindset is to leave it pretty much as it is, as Brussels is fed up of talking about Brexit and has bigger priorities.\n\nIt also suggests that Labour's suggested changes to the deal on such things as veterinary standards and the mutual recognition of qualifications could prove quite long winded to negotiate for relatively minor benefits.", "Diane Abbott has branded a Labour Party investigation into her comments about racism \"fraudulent\".\n\nShe was suspended as a Labour MP in April after suggesting Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism \"all their lives\".\n\nMs Abbott later apologised and withdrew her remarks.\n\nThe party said it had introduced an independent complaints process to investigate cases and would not give a running commentary.\n\nMs Abbott said she had been told by Labour whips - who are in charge of party discipline - there would be an investigation but she claimed this was now in the hands of Labour Party HQ and that no proper process had been undertaken in the four months since her suspension.\n\nIf the whip remains suspended at the next election, she cannot stand as a Labour candidate. Ms Abbott is claiming this is the outcome the party leadership has been seeking.\n\nThe MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington said the HQ would report to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, \"who almost immediately pronounced my guilt publicly\".\n\n\"This completely undermines any idea that there is fairness or any natural justice. It is procedurally improper,\" she wrote in a statement posted on X.\n\nShe added that the \"Labour apparatus\" had installed its own, hand-picked personnel in her constituency, clearing the way to replace her as the candidate prior to the next election.\n\nSenior Labour figures had suggested privately that one solution to the stand-off would be to restore the whip in return for an undertaking by Ms Abbott to stand down at the next election.\n\nHer statement suggests that no such deal was struck, though Labour sources insist that, despite her criticisms, they have not ruled out restoring the whip and the investigation was continuing.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"The Labour Party rightly expects the highest standards of behaviour from its elected representatives, and has introduced an independent complaints process to investigate cases.\n\n\"We do not give a running commentary on ongoing investigations.\"\n\nMs Abbott, who is on the left of the party and a staunch supporter of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, claimed \"others have committed far more grave offences, and belated or grudging apologies have been wrung from them\".\n\n\"Yet they have been immediately excused as supporters of the leadership,\" she said.\n\nMs Abbott added: \"Taken together, the procedural impropriety, Starmer's pronouncement of my guilt, the four-month delay in the investigation, the repeated refusal to try to reach any accommodation, all point in the direction that the verdict has already been reached. The crushing of democracy in my local Labour Party is the latest confirmation.\n\n\"I am the longest serving black MP. Yet there is widespread sentiment that as a black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says his party acted \"swiftly\" after Diane Abbott's letter to the Observer newspaper\n\nMs Abbott currently sits as an independent MP and is not allowed to represent Labour in the House of Commons.\n\nHer suspension came after she wrote in a letter to the Observer newspaper that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people \"undoubtedly experience prejudice\", which she said is \"similar to racism\".\n\nThe letter added: \"It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice.\n\n\"But they are not all their lives subject to racism.\"\n\nIn her apology, Ms Abbott said \"errors\" arose in an initial draft that was sent, adding: \"But there is no excuse, and I wish to apologise for any anguish caused.\"\n\nAsked about Ms Abbott's comments the following day, Sir Keir condemned them and said they were antisemitic.\n\nMr Corbyn said the treatment of Ms Abbott was \"a disgrace\".\n\nHe wrote on X: \"The latest stitch-up represents yet another flagrant attack on local democracy.\"\n\nMomentum, the left-wing campaign group set up to support Mr Corbyn, said: \"If there is any semblance of democracy and due process in Starmer's Labour, a fair and proper process should rapidly be concluded and the whip restored.\"\n\nMs Abbott, who has been an MP since 1987 and was the first black woman elected to Parliament, served as shadow home secretary in Mr Corbyn's cabinet between 2016 to 2020.\n\nSir Keir promised tough action to \"root out\" the antisemitism which had dogged the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership, when he took over in 2020.", "The girl who died was a pupil at Inverkeithing High School\n\nA teenager has been charged with a drugs offence after the death of a schoolgirl in Inverkeithing in Fife.\n\nPolice officers were called to a report of a teenage girl becoming unwell at a property in the town at about 02:45 on Monday.\n\nShe was taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where she was pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy who was arrested has been released pending further inquiries.\n\nAnother teenage girl was also taken to hospital after feeling unwell, but she is understood to be in a stable condition.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said the death of the girl, who was a pupil at Inverkeithing High School, was being treated as unexplained and inquiries were continuing.\n\nInverkeithing High head teacher Ian Adair said he was not in a position to share details of what had happened.\n\nIn a letter to parents, he wrote: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of our young person, and I am sure yours will be too over the coming days in particular.\"\n\nFife Council described the girl's death as \"tragic and untimely\".\n\nThe council's education manager Karen Lees said: \"We are supporting the school community and in particular any pupils who knew this young person, providing space, time and help to those who might be impacted by this terrible event.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMilitary officials have found the debris of an F-35 military jet that went missing after the pilot ejected over South Carolina.\n\nThe wreckage of the $100m (£80m) plane - which disappeared on Sunday afternoon - was discovered in rural Williamsburg County, said authorities.\n\nThe pilot ejected from the cockpit and parachuted to safety in a North Charleston neighbourhood.\n\nThe public had been asked to help find the jet.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, military officials said the debris was found \"two hours north-east of Joint Base Charleston\".\n\nVideo shows a long narrow gash in a wooded area, where the crashed jet has downed trees as parts of the machinery broke off.\n\nThe sheriff's office for Williamsburg County said it had diverted traffic on nearby rural roads from the \"extensive debris field\" for an undetermined amount of time. The sheriff's office also said there were no reported injuries and a spokeswoman told the BBC that the office did not receive any calls about a possible crash or loud boom in recent days.\n\nOfficials had focused their searches around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, north of the city of Charleston - the jet's last known location.\n\nThe debris found has been confirmed as the wreckage of the missing plane, a military spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"The mishap is currently under investigation, and we are unable to provide additional details to preserve the integrity of the investigative process,\" the Marine Corps said on Monday after the search ended.\n\nThe public has been asked to keep away from the area to allow investigators to do their work.\n\nLockheed Martin, the company behind the stealth fighter plane, is supporting the government's investigation, according to a company spokeswoman.\n\nThe fighter jet was left in autopilot mode when the pilot ejected, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston told NBC News, adding that it may have been airborne for some time, complicating its discovery.\n\n\"A plausible sequence of events is that when the pilot ejected, the electronics for the transponder were fried and thus the military was no longer able to track its location,\" JJ Gertler, a senior analyst at the Teal Group, a defence consultancy, told the BBC during the search for the plane.\n\nHe said it was possible the aircraft kept flying after the pilot ejected, but that it was \"extremely unlikely\" due to \"the damage the aircraft would have received from the ejection seat\" and \"the change in aerodynamics when the canopy is gone\".\n\nThe plane, a FB-35B Lightning II, belonged to the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, which works to train pilots, US media reported.\n\nThe pilot that ejected was taken to hospital and was in a stable condition. A second F-35 flying at the same time returned safely to base.\n\nJoint Base Charleston had posted on X - formerly Twitter - asking the public for help to find the aircraft.\n\nThe request led to mockery online and criticism from lawmakers.\n\nNancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman for South Carolina, asked on X, formerly Twitter: \"How in the hell do you lose an F-35?\n\n\"How is there not a tracking device and we're asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?\"\n\nThe aircraft is a stealth jet - meaning its airframe, sensors and systems are designed to operate undetected by enemy radar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is what the crashed F-35 US military jet looks like\n\nIf the plane was flying to pre-planned waypoints, its crash location may have been determined by when its fuel would run out.\n\nThe known speed and the altitude at the moment of ejection, as well as how much fuel it had left, could have made it a simple math exercise to determine its location.\n\nEarlier on Monday, the US Marine Corps announced a two-day pause in air operations throughout the military branch this week.\n\nA Marine Corps press release on Monday said officials plan to \"discuss aviation safety matters and best practices\" sometime this week.\n\nIt said the missing jet amounted to the third \"Class-A mishap\" in the past six weeks - a category of incident that causes more than $2.5m in damage. It did not elaborate on previous incidents.\n\nIn August, three marines died in an accident involving an Osprey tilt-rotor plane and another was killed when his jet crashed during a training exercise near San Diego.\n\nIn 2018, the US military temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 jets after a crash in South Carolina.", "Remains were discovered in the search for missing Lois and John McCullough\n\nDetectives believe they have discovered the remains of a couple whose daughter has been charged with their murder.\n\nEssex Police was called to an address in Pump Hill, Chelmsford, on Wednesday over concerns for the welfare of two people in their 70s, who were missing.\n\nVirginia McCullough, 35, of Pump Hill, appeared in court earlier accused of murdering John and Lois McCullough some time between 2018 and 2023.\n\nPolice said human remains had now been found at an address on the same street.\n\nVirginia McCullough appeared for a brief hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court\n\nThe court charge sheet said Virginia McCullough had been charged with her parents' murder in Chelmsford some time between 21 August 2018 and 15 September this year.\n\nDet Supt Rob Kirby said formal identification of the bodies was yet to take place and a police presence would remain in the road in the \"coming days\".\n\n\"This continues to be an incredibly complex investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"A family is grieving the loss of two relatives and officers are supporting them.\"\n\nEssex Police said they were working to build a \"clear picture\" as part of their investigation in the Great Baddow area of Chelmsford\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the victims' family said: \"We are deeply shocked by their deaths and ask for privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nMs McCullough appeared for a brief hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Monday, wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit, and was remanded in custody to appear again at Basildon Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nThe Reverend Phil Sheldrake, the vicar at St Mary's Great Baddow, told the BBC that clergy were on hand to speak to anyone affected.\n\n\"We are shocked to hear the tragic news that's come from our own community and what we want to do as a church is simply react to that by opening up this building as a place people can come and pray, light a candle and just be,\" he said.\n\nEssex Police asked for anyone with information to get in contact.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roger Whittaker, pictured on the BBC's Top of the Pops in the 1970s\n\nFolk singer Roger Whittaker, famous for his 1969 hit song Durham Town and expert whistling, has died at the age of 87.\n\nHis other hits included The Last Farewell and New World in the Morning, and he sold nearly 50 million records around the world, his website said.\n\nAfter starting in folk clubs, his successes included the Skye Boat Song, a duet with Des O'Connor in 1986.\n\nHe was also able to sing in several languages.\n\nThey included German and French, allowing him to appeal to a wide audience, especially in Germany, where he was particularly popular.\n\nWhittaker was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1936, while his parents were from Staffordshire, England.\n\nRoger Whittaker started singing when he was studying medicine\n\nWhittaker studied medicine after doing compulsory national service in Kenya, where he spent two years in the colonial Kenya Regiment fighting the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, or Mau Mau, who wanted independence from the UK.\n\nWhile studying for his degree, he sang in local clubs and wrote his own songs.\n\nBut he left his medical course after 18 months and went in to teaching, moving to the University of Bangor in Wales in 1959 to get a teaching qualification.\n\nWhile there, he composed some songs to sing during university Rag Week, and sent a demo track to a music publisher.\n\n\"Before he knew it, Roger was back in the studio recording his first single, The Charge of the Light Brigade,\" his biography said.\n\nHis next release, Steel Men, picked up airplay while he was still a student, and his career began to progress, with TV work following.\n\nDespite fighting with the British colonial army in Kenya, he is also very popular in the country.\n\nHis song My Land is Kenya, in which he professes his heartfelt love and connection to the country where he was born and grew up, is often played on TV and radio during national holidays or during election campaigns.\n\nHe retired with his wife Natalie in France in 2012.", "Conservative MP Dehenna Davison has resigned as a levelling up minister, saying \"chronic migraines\" have made it \"impossible\" to do her job.\n\nWriting to the prime minister, she said people deserved \"a minister who can give the job the energy it needs\".\n\nShe said serving in government had been \"an immense privilege that I will forever remember\".\n\nShe also pledged her \"wholehearted support\" to Rishi Sunak's government from the backbenches.\n\nMs Davison became an MP in the 2019 general election taking the traditional Labour stronghold of Bishop Auckland in County Durham.\n\nShe was seen as a rising star from the new crop of Conservative MPs representing seats in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nHowever just three years into her parliamentary career she announced that she would be stepping down at the next election, saying she wanted to devote more time to \"life outside politics - mainly to my family\".\n\nNow, she has said she will step down as a minister and use her remaining years in Parliament to focus on helping people in her constituency and fighting for justice for \"one punch assault victims and their families\".\n\nMs Davison's father was killed by a single punch outside a Sheffield pub when she was just 13 years old. She has previously spoken about her \"burning sense of injustice\" over what she felt was the \"lenient\" sentence handed out for the assault.\n\nIn a letter published on her social media, Ms Davison said her health problems had had a \"great impact\" on her ability to carry out her government role.\n\n\"Some days I'm fine, but on others it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the demands of ministerial life.\"\n\nMs Davison has served as a junior minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities since September 2022.\n\nResponding to her resignation, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said: \"Really sorry to lose Dehenna from the department - a brilliant minister and kind friend. Wishing her all the very best for the future. She has so much to offer.\"\n\nConservative MP Jacob Young has been appointed to replace Ms Davison as a minister in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.\n\nMillions of people in the UK get migraines and they can have a huge impact on daily life.\n\nAs well getting a headache, people can feel nauseous or queasy and even vomit during an attack.\n\nSome say they get an \"aura\" just before - that might be visual symptoms such as blind spots or seeing zig zag patterns or flashing lights.\n\nOthers don't get any such warning that they need to find a quiet, dark room to lie down in while waiting for medication to kick in for some relief.\n\nThe pattern of attacks can be unpredictable, making it hard to plan for work and social occasions. Trying to push on through an attack is not necessarily safe or advisable. They can last for hours and make you feel drowsy and confused.", "Brook House immigration removal centre, near Gatwick Airport, can hold up to 448 detainees\n\nCustody officers at an immigration removal centre smuggled in drugs for detainees to sell, an inquiry heard.\n\nThe ongoing inquiry into Brook House removal centre, near Gatwick Airport, is examining the mistreatment of detainees, as well as the attitudes and culture of staff.\n\nIt follows a series of investigations triggered by BBC Panorama in 2017.\n\nIn a statement a detainee claimed his cellmate was earning up to £400 a day supplying others in the centre.\n\nParcels of contraband would be prepared outside to be brought in by custody officers working for G4S, which ran Brook House at the time, it was claimed.\n\nThe inquiry heard one officer, described as \"totally corrupt\", was smuggling in the packages before handing them over to detainees.\n\nFive years ago, Callum Tulley, a former Brook House officer and now a BBC journalist, carried out secret filming for Panorama\n\nThe inquiry is currently considering the alleged failures of Brook House to deal with the mental health problems of people being held.\n\nThe drugs claims were made in the statement, read to the inquiry, of a man who arrived in the UK from Somalia in 1994.\n\nAfter he admitted a series of criminal offences, and served time in prison, he was taken to Brook House to await deportation.\n\nThe detainee, codenamed D687, gave evidence to the inquiry of the centre's failure to manage his diagnosed PTSD and depression.\n\nHe also said that another man being held at Brook House was obtaining drugs.\n\nBrook House immigration removal centre was filmed by an undercover reporter in 2017\n\nIn his statement he said: \"I asked how he was bringing drugs in. He told me he had an officer doing that bit for him.\"\n\nD687 asked which officer, and said he was pointed to a custody officer he knew by the nickname \"Ginge\".\n\nHe told the inquiry he had since identified the officer as Luke Instone-Brewer.\n\n\"My cellmate was also selling drugs at Brook House and separately told me that Ginge was bringing it in,\" D687 said.\n\nThe inquiry heard that packages of contraband, which also contained weapons, were prepared outside the centre.\n\nDetainees would arrange for a delivery fee of £500 per package to be paid into a bank account, plus a few pennies to identify the transaction, the inquiry heard.\n\nInside Brook House a detainee would take delivery, confirming exactly how much had been paid.\n\nD687 said parcels would be sold on to his cellmate, who would then split it up and supply other detainees by slipping bags of drugs under cell doors, charging £25 per delivery.\n\nCannabis and spice use remains rife at Brook House according to detainees who spoke to the BBC from inside the facility last year.\n\nG4S handed over the operation of Brook House to Serco in 2020.\n\nD687 told the inquiry in his statement that using drugs made his mental health issues worse, and in 2017 he tried to hang himself.\n\nThe aftermath of this suicide attempt was captured by secret cameras smuggled into Brook House by the BBC Panorama reporter Callum Tulley, who was working as a custody officer. The resulting documentary led to the current public inquiry.\n\nPanorama filmed 109 hours of footage and captured many incidents in which detainees were suffering the effects of spice.\n\nD687 said in his statement that during his time at Brook House: \"I was treated like an animal, something less than human.\n\n\"It has left an impact on me and my mental health which I don't think I'll ever get over.\n\n\"When I entered Brook House I felt relatively normal. When I left I felt broken, hopeless and mad.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russell Brand made his name in stand-up comedy in the early 2000s\n\nThe noughties aren't so long ago that it's possible to dismiss them as a different age. But there are parts of the decade that British culture would rather forget.\n\nRussell Brand was at the centre of a messy celebrity scene in the 2000s that now feels like the Cool Britannia party gone sour.\n\nThe recent allegations against the comedian, and resurfaced clips of things he said and did on air and on stage, have provided a sobering reminder of the seedier side of the pop and media culture in that decade.\n\nAmong the claims in Channel 4's recent Dispatches investigation into the star, there was a clip from his BBC Radio 2 show in 2007 that seemed to have gone largely unnoticed at the time.\n\nIn it, Brand interviewed Jimmy Savile and apparently offered up his \"very attractive\" assistant to go to meet him naked.\n\nWhile the clip was from before Savile had been exposed as a serial sexual predator, it's scarcely believable now that it was broadcast on Britain's biggest radio station.\n\nIt's one of several clips of Brand pushing the line between outrageous and offensive that were used in Channel 4's documentary on Saturday, and that have since been widely shared and discussed.\n\nBrand holding up the Sun newspaper's page three on stage in 2006\n\nBrand has strongly denied the central allegations of sexual assault and rape, saying his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe programme also reminded us how, also in 2007, Brand boasted of his sexual fantasies about an \"erotic\" Radio 2 newsreader, and exposed himself in the studio while urinating in a bottle in front of colleagues and guests.\n\nFormer BBC One controller Lorraine Heggessey said she was \"amazed\" action wasn't taken at the time.\n\n\"It's not actually that long ago,\" she told BBC 5 Live on Monday. \"This was the 2000s, so let's not think it was the dim and distant past. It wasn't.\n\n\"I don't think it would be acceptable to say anything like that. I'm amazed that it was acceptable at that time frankly. The output that I've heard breached all sorts of BBC guidelines.\"\n\nOther clips saw Brand kissing an interviewer on the lips and trying to undo her bra, and an uncomfortably forward interview with model Caprice Bourret.\n\nWriting in The Independent, Katie Rosseinsky said: \"We just didn't bother to question it. In Brand's mid-Noughties heyday, remarks like this were seen as edgy, but acceptably so - they might have elicited nervous laughter, but laughter all the same.\"\n\nAuthor and Sunday Times columnist Sarah Ditum, who will next month publish a book called Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties, said \"none of it looks good\".\n\nShe was never a fan of Brand, she said. \"But he was very popular. He was very valuable to the broadcasters he worked with, and an element of the public enjoyed his taboo-smashing kind of stuff.\"\n\nIn the early 2000s, the old media were competing with the internet for the first time.\n\n\"I think the presence of the internet had a kind of inciting effect, and the traditional broadcasters were willing to push the envelope and break norms,\" Ditum said.\n\n\"In some ways, it was a really creative, interesting time for television. But the other side of that is people acting with impunity.\"\n\nThose resurfaced clips were still largely filmed before social media could send something viral. But the following year, another of Brand's Radio 2 broadcasts did not go unnoticed.\n\nWhen he and Jonathan Ross left obscene voicemail messages for Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs about Brand's sexual relationship with Sachs' granddaughter, the ensuing outcry forced Brand to resign.\n\n\"I don't think the nastiness of it was really comprehensible to me at the time,\" said Ditum.\n\n\"I saw it more in the context of this escalating tradition of zoo radio - this brash, envelope-pushing environment, which has been taking place not just on the BBC but commercial networks as well.\n\n\"You go back to it now and you just think, that is outrageously horrible, and it's treating her as an object.\"\n\nFollowing the recent allegations against Brand, the BBC said it hoped its response to the 2008 scandal \"demonstrates that the BBC takes issues seriously and is prepared to act\", and that it had \"evolved its approach\" to handling presenters and complaints over successive years.\n\nBrand with singer Amy Winehouse at the Q Awards in 2006\n\nNoughties celebrity culture will be remembered for stars like Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty tackling troubles in the glare of publicity, while the tabloids, magazines and new online outlets wielded unfeeling and voyeuristic power.\n\nBrand also battled addiction but came out the other side, and there was \"100% a sexual double standard\" that meant men had it easier than women, Ditum said.\n\nWhile Brand was given the award for \"shagger of the year\" three times in a row by the Sun, women who were seen as promiscuous were \"slut-shamed\".\n\nRosseinsky wrote: \"The [Dispatches] film serves as a grim indictment of the ingrained, quotidian misogyny of the Noughties, but it also emphasises how little has changed.\"\n\nRevelations about abuses by Savile, Harvey Weinstein and others in the past decade have contributed to a culture change in the entertainment industry in many ways. But the problems caused by abuses of power are by no means fixed.\n\nAnd they have also moved online. A new generation of celebrities are on social media platforms that don't have the same responsibilities as traditional broadcasters.\n\n\"If you want to be famous, then you would go on YouTube today. You would go on TikTok. You would make yourself into an influencer,\" Ditum said.\n\n\"There are some very grim stories that come out of the relationships between influencers and their followers. It's a heady atmosphere for grooming, because not only do you have the kind of coercive power and fame, you also have no surrounding responsible institution.\n\n\"So we're not living in a kind of beautiful, free and clear post-misogyny environment. But it has changed shape, and it has changed forums.\"", "What is the role of the lord advocate?\n\nThe court has now paused for lunch. Dorothy Bain KC will continue her argument at 14:00. Until then, let's take a look at her role as the lord advocate. The office of lord advocate dates back to the 1400s, and after 1707 was the chief legal advisor to the UK government on Scottish legal matters. After devolution, the lord advocate became legal advisor to the Scottish government, while a new office of Advocate General for Scotland was set up to advise the Crown and UK ministers on matters of Scots law. The lord advocate tends to represent the Scottish government in big court cases, with other recent examples including the various legislative disputes over Brexit and the powers of the Scottish Parliament. As well as advising ministers on legal wrangles and legislative plans, the lord advocate can take part in the weekly meetings of the first minister's cabinet. They can also sit on the government benches at Holyrood and make statements to MSPs or answer questions on behalf of ministers. The lord advocate is also the head of Scotland's independent prosecution service, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.\n• What are the roles of Scotland's lord advocate?", "Five years ago, Callum Tulley, a former Brook House officer and now a BBC journalist, carried out secret filming for Panorama\n\nA public inquiry into the mistreatment of immigration detainees has heard a BBC Panorama documentary revealed \"shocking\" treatment which had \"no place in a decent and humane\" system.\n\nThe inquiry into Brook House removal centre, near Gatwick, is examining mistreatment of detainees, as well as the attitudes and culture of staff.\n\nIt follows a series of investigations triggered by Panorama in 2017.\n\nAt the time, G4S ran the Sussex centre, but Serco took it over last year.\n\nAs the inquiry began, detainees told the BBC about conditions at Brook House now.\n\nIn the past two weeks, the BBC has spoken to half a dozen current and former detainees at Brook House, who are allowed access to phones. There were no allegations of violence, but the handling of Covid was a major concern.\n\nSeveral described how their wing was moved in with detainees from another area, allowing Covid to spread.\n\nThis has resulted in what they described as \"lockdowns\" where people on affected wings are not allowed to move freely around the centre and have less time to access its shop, gym and library.\n\nOne former prisoner, now held at Brook House and expecting to be deported, said there was a \"tense atmosphere\".\n\n\"Two nights ago everyone refused to go into their cells in protest. There are rumours of people wanting to go on a mass hunger strike,\" he said, claiming there had been at least 14 Covid cases.\n\nOthers complained about the length of time it took to resolve immigration cases.\n\nOne current detainee said he was desperate to be sent home. He claimed 20 out of 65 people in one wing would leave the country willingly but the Home Office had not allowed it.\n\nThe BBC was told Covid outbreaks mean detainees cannot be sent on deportation flights because even those testing negative are blocked from flying by airlines because they are in isolation wings.\n\nSerco, which now runs the centre, denied there were \"lockdowns\" but confirmed that detainees are allowed to move freely for up to two hours at a time, in rotation, as part of standard government Covid protocols.\n\nAnother continuing problem centred on the length of time it took to resolve immigration cases.\n\nA former detainee and a convicted criminal said: \"If you are in prison you know the judge has given you a length of two or three years. In a detention centre you don't know when you're coming out. You can't handle it.\"\n\nHe said he had spent as long in three detention centres, including Brook House, as he had in prison.\n\n\"I always felt I had to harm myself. I have to take my life away. I was sick in my head,\" he said. \"When I came out it took me one year to recover. Now I can feel that I'm normal.\"\n\nCovert footage showed harsh treatment, drug use, bullying and raised concerns about detainees' mental health\n\nFive years ago, Callum Tulley, a former Brook House officer and now a BBC journalist, carried out secret filming for Panorama.\n\nThe programme revealed harsh treatment, widespread drug use and bullying and raised concerns about the mental health care given to detainees.\n\nCounsel to the inquiry Brian Altman QC said 109 hours of footage had been given to the inquiry and four hours identified as \"key evidence\".\n\nTen members of G4S staff were dismissed or resigned in the wake of the BBC broadcast.\n\nBrook House immigration removal centre was filmed by an undercover reporter in 2017\n\nOn its first day, the inquiry heard there would be evidence on restraint techniques used and how staff responded to bullying.\n\nThe G4S contract is also of particular interest, as well as how the Home Office oversaw the operation of the centre.\n\nG4S was paid about £1m a year by the Home Office, with penalties for poor performance including escapes, or detainees taking their own lives.\n\nMr Altman said short-staffing was an \"almost daily occurrence\". And the BBC footage captured \"bravado, mockery, macho behaviour and banter, which may have normalised disdain for and even violence towards detained persons\".\n\nThe centre, which holds foreign nationals who have served prison sentences and people whose asylum claims have been refused, can house more than 500 men and has the same security as a Category B prison.\n\nThe wider immigration system is not part of the inquiry's remit.\n\nThe first phase of public hearings began on Tuesday and will continue until early December.\n\nThe second phase of the inquiry will take place early next year and is expected to conclude by the spring.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yury Garavsky, a former member of a secret Belarusian hit squad, fled to Switzerland in 2018\n\nTwenty-four years after three prominent opposition figures vanished in Belarus, a former member of the country's special forces has gone on trial in a Swiss court.\n\nYury Garavsky is charged with the forced disappearance of the three men.\n\nHe was arrested after confessing he was part of a unit tied to the abduction and presumed killing of opponents of the country's authoritarian leader.\n\nNow a Swiss judge will decide whether he is telling the truth.\n\nIn media interviews, Mr Garavsky has given a detailed account of how a secret hit squad snatched the three opponents of Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' leader, from the streets of Minsk, drove them out of town and then shot them twice in the back.\n\nThe prosecution is a stark reminder that political repression in Belarus, which captured the world's attention again when mass opposition protests were crushed in 2020, has deep and very dark roots.\n\nFor the families of the three disappeared - former interior minister Yury Zakharenko, opposition politician Viktor Gonchar and pro-opposition businessman Anatoly Krasovsky - it is an important moment after years of agonising uncertainty about their fate.\n\nYury Zakharenko (centre, with a moustache) vanished from the Belarusian capital, Minsk, in May 1999\n\nTwo of the men's daughters - who both left Belarus soon after their fathers' abductions - will be in court this week. Both have told the BBC they hope the trial in the city of St Gallen will bring them some relief.\n\nFor a long time, Elena Zakharenka hoped that her father had been imprisoned by the Belarusian KGB security service and might return. When she finally accepted that he was dead, she was haunted by the fear that he'd been tortured.\n\nValeria Krasovskaya also described the anguish of not knowing how her father died, and of never having a body to bury.\n\nYury Garavsky is being tried where he was arrested in Switzerland, because the country is party to a United Nations convention against forced disappearance. He had fled there from Minsk in 2018, seeking asylum.\n\nThe fact that the Swiss are applying the treaty makes this a significant legal moment. It is also the first time such universal jurisdiction has ever been applied for a Belarusian citizen.\n\nYury Zakharenko's daughter Elena Zakharenka says she is haunted by the fear that he may have been tortured\n\nSpeaking in 2019 to Germany's Deutsche Welle and the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Garavsky confessed to kidnapping the three opponents of Alexander Lukashenko and to handling the murder weapon.\n\nHe accused his commander Dmitry Pavlichenko - the head of the notorious SOBR special forces unit - of carrying out the actual killing.\n\nIn 2003, a Council of Europe investigation also linked Col Pavlichenko to the forced disappearances and concluded that the crime had been covered-up \"at the highest level of state\".\n\nDmitry Pavlichenko described Garavsky's revelations in 2019 as \"nonsense\". He later claimed not to know his accuser, although a photograph shows the two men together at an official event.\n\nThe Belarusian authorities have yet to reply to a BBC request for comment.", "Heated skirting boards and mirrors feature in the Energy House 2 at Salford University\n\nThe way we heat our homes is changing.\n\nAs the world moves away from fossil fuels, we will be saying goodbye to our gas fires and boilers - and instead electrifying the heating systems in our homes.\n\nExtinguishing the fires in our homes is a big change, human beings evolved around the comfort of a campfire.\n\nSo, what will this mean for you - and the systems that deliver the energy we depend upon?\n\nIn just 12 years' time you probably won't be able to buy a gas boiler any more.\n\nThe government's ambition is to ban sales of new ones from 2035.\n\nHeating our homes accounts for as much as 16% of the UK's planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.\n\nThe front-runner in the race to replace our boilers is undoubtedly the heat pump.\n\nThere is a very simple reason why - they are extraordinarily efficient.\n\nHeat pumps collect energy from an external source - it could be the air, ground or water - and then concentrate it.\n\nThey cost more than gas boilers, but for every unit of energy you put in, you can get about three units of heat out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnfortunately, it is not quite as simple as that.\n\nThat means to get the heat into your home, it is a good idea to have bigger radiators.\n\nAnd you will keep more of the heat in if your home is well-insulated and has double glazing. But doing that additional work can massively add to your costs.\n\nTypically, it costs £10,000 to buy and install an air source heat pump - the type best suited to most UK homes.\n\nAnd there is another issue.\n\nUnit for unit, electricity typically costs three times as much as gas.\n\nThat means even though your new heat pump is three times as efficient as your gas boiler it costs about the same to run.\n\nInvestigating the controversial plans to change how we heat our homes and produce electricity. Is it possible and what will it take?\n\nGrants are available to household to help with the cost of installing heat pumps - but it depends where you live and what type of pump you are buying.\n\nThe biggest grant available in England and Wales is £6,000 - in rural Scotland it's £9,000 - for a ground source heat pump. That's because it typically costs more to install a ground pump than an air one.\n\nNorthern Ireland has schemes which may help some people on lower incomes install heat pumps.\n\nCritics say this support is not enough and that people need more help if the government is going to get anywhere near its target of 600,000 new heat pump installations every year by 2028.\n\nAt the moment it is way below that.\n\nThere were just 60,000 heat pumps installed in the UK last year, making it one of the slowest adopters of this new technology in Europe.\n\nAt current rates of installation, it will take more than 400 years before every British home has a heat pump.\n\nSo far fewer than 12,000 grants have been cashed - perhaps because it only covers the cost of the pump itself, and not the installation.\n\nAnd even if households are able to pay, there is another barrier to hitting the government's heat pump targets.\n\nThe UK only has 4,000 trained heat-pump installers - it is estimated we will need 33,000 by 2028.\n\nThere are not nearly enough trained heat pump installers in the UK\n\nThere are other electric heating systems - immersion boilers, electric fires, fan heaters and infra-red radiators, for example - but none of these is as efficient as heat pumps.\n\nAn alternative could be hydrogen-powered boilers.\n\nThey are just like your existing gas boiler - so no need for a new set of radiators - except that they burn hydrogen instead of natural gas.\n\nBut using hydrogen has its problems - for a start, where would it all come from?\n\nMost of the readily available hydrogen is locked up in the water of our oceans.\n\nThe cleanest and greenest way to produce it would be to use electricity, through a process called electrolysis - but most of the time it would be more efficient just to use that electricity to heat our homes with heat pumps.\n\nWe could produce hydrogen from the natural gas we currently use, but we would then have to find a way to stop all the carbon dioxide (CO2) the process produces from going into the atmosphere.\n\nThe CO2 could be captured and pumped underground - but that is expensive and has never been done at scale before.\n\nAlthough burning hydrogen is clean, the process of producing it from gas creates CO2\n\nWhat is more, hydrogen boilers have not proved popular with the public.\n\nA trial scheme in Ellesmere Port has just been cancelled after residents refused to have new boilers installed in their homes.\n\nWhatever choices we make about how we heat our homes in future one thing is certain, we are going to need a lot more electricity.\n\nAnd it all needs to be green.\n\nRight now, at peak times, the National Grid requires 60GW of electricity.\n\nBy 2050, some estimates suggest it will need to double to at least 120GW.\n\nAt the moment about 40% of our electricity is generated by burning gas - so that's going to have to be phased out.\n\nThe way we heat - and insulate - our homes needs to change to meet greenhouse gas targets\n\nIn 27 years, we need to roughly quadruple the amount of green energy we produce as a country.\n\nSo, to get to net zero in time, the government has set an ambitious target - decarbonise the entire electricity supply by 2035.\n\nThe UK has been making great progress with offshore wind, but building wind turbines at sea is expensive.\n\nThe cheapest renewable power is from onshore wind and solar.\n\nMany experts say the UK will need thousands of much cheaper wind turbines on land.\n\nOnshore wind turbines are one of the cheapest ways to generate energy\n\nThat will require changes to the planning rules which currently make it very difficult to get approval - opponents say they blight the landscape and there are worries about the impact they have on birds and animals.\n\nAnd the government says we need more nuclear power too, even though it is expensive and takes years to build.\n\nMost of our existing nuclear plants are due to be shut down in the next few years but there are two big new plants in the offing.\n\nHinkley Point C in Somerset is massively over budget and is now expected to start operating in 2027.\n\nA second new plant has been proposed in Suffolk, next to Sizewell B, but it has been stuck in planning.\n\nAnd to get these new sources of electricity into your home the electricity grid needs a massive and expensive upgrade too.\n\nBut we can do it, says Emma Pinchbeck, the CEO of Energy UK which represents the power generating industry and the National Grid.\n\n\"In my job, what's changed over the last five years has been this is no longer about money. It's about wires in the ground or enough people to build the kit,\" she says.\n\nWe have got the technology to reach net zero, the question is whether we can put it in place fast enough to meet our 2050 target and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nUpdate 20 October 2023: This article has been amended to clarify there are three types of heat pumps and to explain what household grants were available at the time of publication on 1 August. The government has announced changes to some grants since this article was first published.", "Last week Mexico held its first ever congressional hearing on the subject of UFOs, where UFO enthusiast and journalist Jaime Maussan produced two artefacts he claimed amounted to evidence of \"non-human\" life.\n\nHis appearance quickly went viral online, fuelling conspiracy theories and also drawing some ridicule.\n\nDays later, journalists were invited to film tests carried out by Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, a forensic doctor with the navy.\n\nPrevious claims the pair have made about similar specimen have been dismissed by scientists as the mummified remains of humans.\n\nIn response to their appearance at the hearing, Nasa scientist Dr David Spergel, questioned why the pair did not make their data samples public.\n\nUS authorities have recently engaged with questions about unexplained sightings and in July the US Congress listened to witness testimony on unexplained phenomena.\n\nA recent report by Nasa into hundreds of UFO sightings concluded that there was no evidence aliens were behind the unexplained phenomena.", "A little bit more now about the death of Sikh separatist activist Avtar Singh Khanda, who died on 15 June in Birmingham, West Midlands, following a sudden illness.\n\nIn the UK, some groups are repeating calls for an investigation into his death.\n\nHe was said to be the head of the Khalistan Liberation Force, which the Indian government has proscribed as a terrorist organisation.\n\nSome British-Sikh supporters of the Khalistan movement are saying that, in light of the allegations from the Canadian government around the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, UK authorities should look into Khanda's death as well.\n\nAs I mentioned earlier, West Midlands Police at the time said there were no suspicious circumstances in Khanda's death, and confirmed to me again today they would not be opening an investigation.\n\nThe campaign for a separate Sikh state, known as Khalistan, is a highly contentious issue within the Sikh community in the UK.\n\nThe ashes of Avtar Singh Khanda, who died in June, arriving in Punjab earlier this month Image caption: The ashes of Avtar Singh Khanda, who died in June, arriving in Punjab earlier this month", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBy Shamoon Hafez BBC Sport at the City Ground\n\nCallum Hudson-Odoi scored a glorious equaliser on his Nottingham Forest debut to earn a Premier League draw against Burnley.\n\nThe Clarets looked to be controlling the game but deadline day signing Hudson-Odoi had other ideas, curling a stunning strike into the top corner on the hour mark.\n\nBurnley had taken a first-half lead through Zeki Amdouni's well-taken shot into the bottom corner after fine work by the lively teenager Luca Koleosho.\n\nSwiss striker Amdouni, who scored the winner here in the Carabao Cup just 20 days ago, had already given goalkeeper Matt Turner a warning sign with a stinging drive from range before netting a cool finish.\n\nVincent Kompany's visitors thought they had grabbed the winner 12 minutes from time when Lyle Foster stroked in from close range, but it was ruled out for a handball by Sander Berge in the build-up.\n\nBurnley's night then ended on a sour note when top scorer Foster was sent off for violent conduct in injury time, after a needless off-the-ball elbow on Ryan Yates.\n\nFollowing three straight defeats, the result allows Burnley to get off the mark this season, while Forest have made a decent start to the campaign with seven points from five games.\n• None How did you rate Forest's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Burnley's display? Send us your views here\n\nThese two sides met at the City Ground for the second time in three weeks and it seemed like a repeat result was on the cards.\n\nBurnley's club record signing Amdouni converted a 90th-minute winner to send his side through to the EFL Cup third round at the expense of Forest last month.\n\nAnd he netted again on Monday night with a drilled effort from the edge of the box after being set up by Italy youth international Koleosho, who outpaced home skipper Joe Worrall close to the byeline.\n\nKoleosho impressed, giving Argentine World Cup winner Gonzalo Montiel the runaround throughout the game before being replaced by Belgium international Mike Tresor.\n\nThis was a solid showing from Kompany's men in their first away game of the campaign after conceding three or more goals in all their matches so far.\n\nA club-record five consecutive Premier League defeats was avoided but their return to the top-flight has been a struggle after cantering to the Championship title last season.\n\nForest, though, hit back in the second period through Hudson-Odoi's brilliant finish with the side highlighting their prowess in front of goal by scoring in their 12th straight top-flight game.\n\nThe equaliser came from Taiwo Awoniyi's knockdown and the Nigeria striker is becoming an integral part of a Forest side that keeps changing personnel, now contributing a goal or assist in his last nine league games.\n\nThe two sides face Manchester clubs on Saturday - Forest travelling to Treble winners and league leaders Manchester City (kick-off 15:00 BST), while Burnley host United on the same day (20:00).\n• None Josh Cullen (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Nottingham Forest. Ola Aina tries a through ball, but Ibrahim Sangaré is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ola Aina.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Josh Brownhill tries a through ball, but Mike Trésor is caught offside.\n• None Lyle Foster (Burnley) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Attempt missed. Mike Trésor (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Josh Brownhill (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ameen Al Dakhil (Burnley) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA public inquiry into a migrant removal centre found a toxic culture with detainees forcibly moved while naked and some subjected to unnecessary pain.\n\nIt found migrants at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport, were subjected to degrading treatment and to racist and derogatory language by staff.\n\nThe inquiry was triggered by a BBC Panorama investigation in 2017.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said the Home Office will \"carefully consider the findings\" of the inquiry.\n\nInquiry chair Kate Eves recommended that the government change the law to limit detention at such centres.\n\nThere is currently no maximum period detainees can be held while they wait to be deported or fight for asylum.\n\nThe Brook House Inquiry Report found it to be a place of \"stress and distress\".\n\nThe inquiry identified 19 instances over a five-month period that amounted to mistreatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects you from inhumane, degrading treatment or punishment.\n\nThe 19 instances of mistreatment identified by the inquiry included:\n\nMs Eves said: \"Brook House was not sufficiently decent, secure or caring for detained people or its staff at a time when these events took place.\"\n\nShe said it was \"entirely unsuitable for detaining people for anything other than a short period of time\".\n\nThe chair has made 33 recommendations which, if implemented, will ensure what happened at Brook House does not happen in the future and provide a more humane, compassionate and professional environment, the report said.\n\nThe report said that the indefinite nature of immigration detention caused \"uncertainty and anxiety\" for detained people, which was detrimental to their physical and mental wellbeing.\n\nThe centre was found to be overcrowded, dirty and noisy from aircraft at nearby Gatwick, while there were limited activities for detainees and prolific use of the so-called zombie drug Spice, with evidence custody officers were bringing it into the centre.\n\nBrook House immigration removal centre was filmed by an undercover reporter in 2017\n\nSome detainees are former foreign national criminals scheduled for deportation, while others are asylum seekers or people refused the right to remain in the UK.\n\nMs Eves' report found staff had used inappropriate and dangerous force. In some incidents, teams of custody officers carried detainees naked and screaming through Brook House.\n\nThe report also found there was abusive and racist language used, including in two cases where detainees were trying to kill themselves.\n\nThe BBC began its investigation in 2016 when custody officer at Brook House, contacted Panorama.\n\nHe was encouraged by a BBC Panorama documentary aired that month about the abuse of teenage prisoners at Medway Secure Training Centre in Rochester, Kent.\n\nHe told the BBC that Brook House \"was a pretty horrifying place to work\".\n\nHe added: \"Abuse was rife. Self-harm was rife. Broken men at every turn.\n\n\"In the lead up to me wearing secret cameras in Brook House I witnessed countless instances of abuse and it was horrifying and it was really difficult for staff and obviously much more difficult for the detainees who were the victims of this abuse,\" Mr Tully said.\n\nCovert footage filmed inside Brook House showed harsh treatment, drug use, bullying and raised concerns about detainees' mental health\n\nThe inquiry's recommendation to limit detention in immigration removal centres may pose a significant challenge to the government.\n\nChanges in the law as part of a 'Get Tough' policy on immigration make it more likely people who come to the UK in small boats will be detained.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating conditions inside immigration centres as the government takes a harder line on migrants. Documents shared with us show mounting strain on detainees.\n\nThe family of a Colombian man, Frank Ospina, who is believed to have killed himself at a Heathrow immigration removal centre, told the BBC that he begged for help and was willing to leave the UK.\n\nThe inquiry warned the government that a failure to act on previous recommendations was a \"dark thread that runs through this report\".\n\nThe chair has urged the Home Office to respond within six months.\n\nMs Braverman said she acknowledged the \"failings in both oversight and governance to protect the welfare of detained individuals\" at the centre\n\nShe told MPs in a written statement in the House of Commons that \"significant improvements to immigration detention\" had been made since the 2017 events.\n\nShadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said some of the evidence was \"utterly harrowing\" and showed the government had \"delivered neither control or compassion\".\n\nBrook House can house more than 500 men and has the same security as a Category B prison.\n\nSince the documentary, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show there have been 53 allegations of serious misconduct at Brook House, which may have resulted in disciplinary proceedings.\n\nThe Home Office would not say how many had been substantiated.\n\nSacha Deshmukh, from Amnesty UK, said: \"The levels of violence, racism and verbal abuse meted out to Brook House detainees are further examples of how people subject to immigration powers are routinely dehumanised and stripped of their rights.\"\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the inquiry had \"not only exposed grave safeguarding failures, but shown clearly that the Home Office is not able to provide basic levels of care and humanity for vulnerable people in detention\".\n\n\"It should be unthinkable that the government is planning on detaining more people than ever before under its Illegal Migration Act, including families and children,\" he said.\n\nYou can watch the original Panorama episode - Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets - now.\n\nAvailable on BBC iPlayer (UK Only)\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove has announced he will appoint commissioners to take over Birmingham City Council\n\nEmergency measures to help run Birmingham City Council during its financial crisis have been announced by the government.\n\nCommissioners will oversee the effectively bankrupt authority, with powers to make decisions directly.\n\nLevelling Up secretary Michael Gove told the Commons bosses at the Labour-run council had \"harmed the city\".\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street suggested the authority could sell its stake in Birmingham Airport.\n\nThe \"asset rich\" council could also raise funds by disposing of some of the 40% of the land in the city that it owns, he added.\n\nMr Gove said a local inquiry into the financial crisis would be launched.\n\nThe authority is facing the prospect of a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.\n\nIt has also warned the bill is increasing by £5m to £14m each month.\n\nThe government was prepared to extend additional financial support to the city, Mr Gove said, but he warned of \"tough decisions\" ahead, with a hike in council tax and a sale of assets each a possibility.\n\n\"Poor leadership, weak governance, woeful mismanagement of employee relations and ineffective service delivery have harmed the city,\" Mr Gove told Parliament.\n\n\"I do not take these decisions lightly, but it is imperative in order to protect the interests of the residents and taxpayers of Birmingham, and to provide ongoing assurance to the whole local government sector.\"\n\nAndy Street, mayor of the West Midlands, said the situation in Birmingham was an \"avoidable tragedy\"\n\nThe commissioners, he confirmed, would have the means to make decisions directly, if needed, and the inquiry would consider \"the more fundamental questions\" of how the city got into its position.\n\nThe council had to prepare, and agree, an improvement plan within six months but had only five working days to make representations, Mr Gove announced.\n\nResponding in the Commons, Angela Rayner, shadow Levelling Up secretary, said a \"crisis\" in local government had been caused by \"the Conservatives' wrecking ball\".\n\n\"With every swing, another local council is pushed to the brink and another local community falls over the edge,\" she said.\n\n\"And this isn't a one-off. So can I ask [Mr Gove] what work his department is doing to support local authorities that are warning of financial distress now?\"\n\nThe leader of Birmingham's administration, John Cotton, said the authority would now work with the government to get the council back on \"a sound financial footing\".\n\nHe had been concerned there was a lack of senior capacity at the council \"to deal with the issues that we faced\", he posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nThe council is also facing a projected deficit of £87m in this year's budget.\n\nAs a result of the inability to balance the books, it earlier this month announced all new spending would cease, although services it has a statutory duty to provide - including education, social care and waste collections - will continue.\n\nTwo months before the issuing of that Section 114 notice, which formally outlined the constraints, the council said it had taken the decision to stop spending on all \"non-essential\" services. What those are have yet to be announced.\n\nMr Gove has appointed Max Caller as the lead commissioner, a previous adviser to the city who has since said hosting the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham was a \"mistake\".\n\nA former chief executive of the London boroughs of Hackney and Barnet, Mr Caller was the lead commissioner into the recent intervention at Slough Borough Council, and was previously lead inspector for best value inspections at Liverpool and Northamptonshire councils.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games was hailed as the start of a so-called \"golden decade\" for the city\n\nMr Street said the council's situation was an \"avoidable tragedy\" but added he fully supported the government's intervention.\n\n\"What is mission critical now is for the commissioners to work with the council to protect services for residents and businesses across the city,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Both should work in tandem to address the equal pay bill as quickly and effectively as possible to get the council back on a secure financial footing.\"\n\nHe said the review must be \"rigorous in identifying and then resolving the underlying cultural and process failings in the council once and for all\".\n\nWhile he suggested selling off assets to pay its huge bills, Mr Street warned against selling cultural assets such as the city museum and art gallery or Aston Hall.\n\nAn extraordinary general meeting of the full council is due to be held next Monday to discuss a financial recovery plan.\n\nIn a report released ahead of it, chief executive Deborah Cadman said work to address problems \"must be urgent, will involve hard choices about what we deliver and how we operate and will result in a smaller organisation\".\n\nThe council has already paid out more than £1bn in compensation to underpaid workers.\n\nThe settling of claims in 2012 followed a court ruling that found hundreds of mostly female employees, working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering positions, missed out on bonuses given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners.\n\nIn June, it emerged there was a further £760m equal pay liability - a sum equivalent to the entire annual spending on services and no means to meet the bill.\n\nFinancial support from the government could take the form of permission to borrow money to service debt, or sell assets, such as buildings and land, to raise cash to deal with its financial liabilities.\n\nCouncil tax could be raised in the city, Mr Gove said\n\nProf Tony Travers, visiting professor in the London School of Economics' Department of Government, told the BBC selling off assets \"would not provide money immediately to relieve 'annual' budget pressures\".\n\nBut he said the government had in the past allowed Birmingham to \"capitalise\" spending earmarked for equal pay, meaning the council could use the money from asset sales to cover such liabilities.\n\nCouncillor Robert Alden, leader of the Conservative opposition in Birmingham, said residents deserved better and called for more transparency from the authority over equal pay claims.\n\nThe Labour administration had \"failed to get a grip\" of the issue, he said, adding that they had not listened to the opposition, officers, auditors or trade unions.\n\n\"They have put their heads in the sand instead of facing up to the mess they've made,\" he said.\n\nThe Secretary of State's rebuke of Birmingham City Council's leadership was stinging.\n\nHe criticised the culture at the top of the authority and said in an era of senior leaders coming and going, \"the one constant has been a failure to deliver for residents\".\n\nJust a year ago, the city was basking in the glow of hosting the Commonwealth Games - a tournament which the council said would herald a \"golden decade\" for Birmingham.\n\nNow, some residents have been walking the streets wondering which of the city's crown jewels will have to be sold off to balance its books.\n\nAmong other measures to address the financial woes, an increase in council tax has been suggested in a report released ahead of Monday's council meeting.\n\nBut that will fall on people who are already dealing with a cost of living crisis.\n\nAnd although the council leader has said the authority will \"continue to be on the side of our residents\" there are worries that those who are struggling the most will be hardest hit by the cuts that are on the way.\n\nThe GMB union called on the authority to compensate women affected by inequalities in pay.\n\n\"The quickest, cheapest and fairest way to get a grip of the crisis in Birmingham is to work with GMB to end the discrimination and [to] compensate the women,\" said Rhea Wolfson, the union's head of industrial relations.\n\nMeanwhile, Unite warned it would fight any attempt to cut jobs of its members at the council ahead of the commissioners' takeover.\n\nGeneral secretary Sharon Graham said: \"No-one should be under any illusion, Unite will never sit back and allow our Birmingham city council members' jobs to be sacrificed to pay for others' failures.\n\n\"If there is any attempt to cut the jobs, pay or conditions of our members, Unite will fight those proposals using every resource available to the union.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UNESCO said the current plans will have \"significant and inappropriate adverse impacts\" on the World Heritage Site\n\nUN cultural body Unesco has urged the government to make amendments to a controversial plan for a road tunnel near Stonehenge.\n\nThe World Heritage Site (WHS) is at risk of being placed on the danger list if changes are not made to the proposed tunnel scheme on the A303.\n\nNational Highways' plans were approved by the government in July.\n\nThe government says the scheme is needed to tackle a \"long-standing traffic bottleneck\".\n\nUnesco wants the government to act before the World Heritage Committee meets again in February 2024.\n\nEarlier in September, leading members of The Stonehenge Alliance and Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site took a petition to the Unesco headquarters in Paris.\n\nIt gained 225,000 signatures from 147 countries urging the UK Government to halt plans for the \"damaging\" road scheme.\n\nThere are concerns from activists and Unesco that Stonehenge could lose its World Heritage status if the scheme goes ahead without amendments.\n\nHighways England said it wanted to build the tunnel to reduce traffic and cut journey times on the A303\n\nHowever, the Department for Transport approved the £1.7bn two-mile (3.2km) tunnel from Amesbury to Berwick Down in Wiltshire on 14 July.\n\nDavid Bullock, National Highways' Project Manager for the A303 Stonehenge scheme, said: \"It is very much a scheme objective to conserve and enhance the World Heritage Site and this is being achieved through close collaborative working with heritage groups, the independent A303 Scientific Committee, and our archaeology contractors, who have an extensive track record of work in connection with the Stonehenge landscape.\n\n\"We have taken a lot of care to get to this point, and we will continue to work with the Heritage Monitoring Advisory Group and experts within the Scientific Committee to ensure the scheme is delivered with heritage and the Outstanding Universal Value of the World Heritage Site at the heart of every decision made.\n\n\"We remain confident this scheme is the best solution for tackling a long-standing traffic bottleneck, improving journeys, bringing much-needed relief to local communities, boosting the economy in the south-west, while returning the Stonehenge landscape to something like its original setting.\"\n\nIn a report, Unesco said: \"Over the years, the Committee and the Advisory Bodies have been clear and consistent that the proposed A303 improvement scheme should not proceed in its current form.\"\n\n\"The currently proposed western portal and associated dual carriageway within a cutting would have significant and inappropriate adverse impacts on the physical and visual integrity of the property\", it added.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team was set up in 2018 following the Windrush scandal\n\nThe Home Office is disbanding its team dedicated to its Windrush policy.\n\nThe team was set up in 2018 following the Windrush scandal, in which thousands of British people were wrongly classed as illegal immigrants.\n\nMany - mostly of Caribbean origin - were wrongly deported.\n\nIn its annual report, the Home Office said as the team had made \"significant progress\", its Windrush response \"will now be embedded into the fabric of our everyday operations and activities\".\n\nThe team being closed is responsible for the department's Windrush policy, and for implementing the recommendations that were made by Wendy Williams in her \"Windrush Lessons Learned\" review in 2020.\n\nEarlier this year, the Home Office faced criticism for dropping its commitment to three of her 30 recommendations.\n\nThe announcement also follows widespread criticism of the Windrush compensation scheme.\n\nThere have been growing calls - including one by Human Rights Watch earlier this year - for the scheme to be taken out of the Home Office's control and handed to an independent body.\n\nThe team that is being disbanded is separate from the team that handles Windrush compensation cases.\n\nIn its report, the Home Office said there had been \"a concerted effort across the government to right the wrongs suffered by those affected\" by the scandal.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper called the government's decision \"truly shameful and insulting to the Windrush generation\".\n\n\"There is still so much more work to do,\" Ms Cooper told the BBC.\n\nThe scandal, which unfolded in April 2018, affected people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nThey have been labelled the Windrush generation - a reference to the ship HMT Empire Windrush, which docked in Tilbury on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, to help fill post-war UK labour shortages.\n\nThis year marks the 75th anniversary of its arrival.\n\nIt also affected people from non-Caribbean countries that were previously British colonies, who moved to the UK before immigration laws changed in 1971.\n\nMany of those affected were unable to find work and housing or access to healthcare. Some, who had been in the UK for most or all of their lives, were wrongfully deported.\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said it had \"made significant progress since Wendy Williams' review and our important work to implement her recommendations continues with the same focus\".\n\n\"It is natural that teams delivering on this work change and evolve as improvements continue to be made and become more embedded. Both the compensation and status scheme teams, as well as our engagement and outreach team remain unchanged.\"\n\nIt added that it had paid or offered more than £79 million in compensation to those affected.", "This is the moment two seal pups tangled up in a fishing net were rescued on a South African beach.\n\nMembers of the public at West Coast National Park cut through the nets, which allowed the seals to go back into the sea.\n\nA private guide and filmmaker captured the moment on camera, sharing the rescue on social media.\n\n\"It was a very tangible reminder of how important it is to educate ourselves, clean up our beaches and work to ensure plastics and things like this are not in our oceans,\" James Suter wrote of the incident in a post accompanying the video on Instagram.\n\nA third seal was also rescued off camera, his post said.", "A public inquiry will investigate allegations of mistreatment at G4S-run Brook House immigration removal centre.\n\nAlleged abuse of detainees at the centre near Gatwick Airport were filmed by an undercover BBC reporter in 2017.\n\nAn ongoing probe by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) will now have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence, the Home Secretary said.\n\nG4S said it would \"co-operate fully with the inquiry,\" adding that Brook House detainees were \"well treated\".\n\nPanorama footage aired in September 2017 showed alleged assaults, humiliation and verbal abuse of detainees by officers at the centre.\n\nAt least six staff members were dismissed by G4S.\n\nBrook House immigration removal centre, near Gatwick Airport, can hold up to 448 detainees\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"I want to establish the facts of what took place at Brook House and ensure that lessons are learnt to prevent these shocking events happening again.\"\n\nLawyers for two former detainees had argued at the High Court that only a public inquiry would be able to make sure witnesses give evidence and provide \"accountability and lesson-learning\".\n\nA High Court judge ruled in their favour in August and the Home Office failed in a bid to challenge the ruling.\n\nMs Patel said the inquiry, which should reach its conclusions within 12 months, will identify whether there was any mistreatment and who was responsible.\n\nIt will also look at whether the actions or policies of the Home Office and its contractors \"caused or contributed to any identified mistreatment\" and whether any changes would prevent mistreatment in the future.\n\nIt will not determine the civil or criminal liability of any people or organisations involved, she said in a ministerial statement.\n\nJohn Whitwam, of G4S, said: \"We are focused on the continuous improvement of Brook House IRC.\n\n\"The latest inspection was positive, with HM Chief Inspector of Prisons commenting that the centre is safe, detainees are well treated and there is a positive culture of proactive leadership.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish Parliament has passed a law allowing people to self-identify their sex - but it has been blocked by Westminster\n\nThe UK government's block on Scottish gender recognition reforms is unlawful, Scotland's top law officer has said.\n\nThe Scottish government is seeking to overturn the veto at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.\n\nLord Advocate Dorothy Bain said the court had a \"constitutional duty\" to review the unprecedented use of a Section 35 Order by Downing Street.\n\nThe UK government has raised concerns about the impact of the legislation on Britain-wide equality laws.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which would allow people in Scotland to self-identify their sex, was passed by the Scottish Parliament in December last year.\n\nBut for first time since the creation of the devolved parliament, the UK government used Section 35 of the Scotland Act to prevent a bill receiving royal assent.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack raised concerns that it would affect the 2010 Equality Act, which applies in Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nIt sets out different \"protected characteristics\" including those of sex and gender reassignment, and underpins the rights and protections afforded to these groups.\n\nThe civil case at the Court of Session, which is being heard by Lady Haldane, began on Tuesday and will last several days. If the result is appealed, it could ultimately be heard in the Supreme Court in London.\n\nLord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC warned the UK government could have a \"veto\" over Scottish government policy it did not agree with\n\nMs Bain, representing the Scottish government, said conditions required to use a Section 35 Order had not been met, meaning its use was unlawful.\n\nShe told the court the case did not concern the \"merits of the bill\", which was passed by 86 votes to 39 at Holyrood, nor the Scottish secretary's opinion on it.\n\nThe Lord Advocate warned that if the UK government was successful, Westminster \"could veto practically any act of the Scottish Parliament having an impact on reserved matters because he disagreed with it on policy grounds\".\n\nShe added: \"That would be tantamount to the Scottish Parliament being able to legislate only insofar as the UK executive consented.\"\n\nMs Bain argued such an approach would contradict the \"overarching\" purpose of the Scotland Act.\n\nThe court heard that a Section 35 Order was designed to be \"narrowly construed\" and \"tightly controlled\" and should only be used in very specific circumstances as a \"last resort\".\n\nMs Bain raised questions about the timing of the UK government's intervention, four weeks after the bill was passed in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe argued Mr Jack made two \"material errors of law\" - namely that nothing in the bill makes modification of the law as it applies to reserved matters, nor does it have an \"adverse effect\" on the operation of the law as it applies to reserved matters.\n\nThe Lord Advocate told the court that because the bill only changed the process for getting a gender recognition certificate, not the actual effect of the certificate itself, there was no impact on equalities laws.\n\nActivists opposed to the legislation held a protest outside the Court of Session\n\nShe said the reasons given by the UK government for using the Section 35 Order were \"insufficient in law\".\n\nMr Jack's suggestions that the bill would have \"adverse effects\" on reserved matters, Ms Bain argued, were \"either unfounded, too speculative or hypothetical or insufficiently cogent and material to justify the exceptional step of making the order\".\n\nShe described complaints about divergence between Scottish law and laws in other parts of the UK as irrelevant, pointing out that gender recognition is devolved to Holyrood.\n\nThe Lord Advocate told the court Westminster had long established that divergence is acceptable and characterised Mr Jack's argument as irrational.\n\nAnd she described concerns that the legislation would lead to an increase in fraudulent applications for gender recognition certificates as an \"irrelevant consideration\" that did not relate to reserved matters and was not based on \"credible evidence\".\n\nMs Bain accused Mr Jack of presenting a \"partisan\" case against the reforms, ignoring arguments in favour of it and failing to take \"reasonable steps\" to understand relevant information.\n\nDavid Johnston KC, who is acting for the UK government, urged the court to reject the Scottish government's petition.\n\nHe said it was not Mr Jack's \"duty\" to scrutinise the bill as MSPs do, but to \"protect the interests of the United Kingdom if he identifies adverse effects on the operation of law as it applies to reserved matters\".\n\nThe lawyer described Section 35 as \"integral to the constitutional distribution of power in the Scotland Act\". He said it was \"express recognition\" that devolved bills could have an adverse effect on the operation of reserved law and that the UK government should have limited power to intervene if that happens.\n\nMr Johnston will be given further time to set out the UK government's case on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK government's objections to the reforms are largely based on concerns about how the 2004 Gender Recognition Act - which set up the certification process which is being reformed - interacts with the Equality Act.\n\nThe case is being heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nThe UK government argues it is \"highly problematic\" to have two different gender recognition systems within the UK.\n\nIt cites several potential issues, including with single-sex organisations, schools and tax rules.\n\nThe reforms would see applications for a gender recognition certificate handled by Scottish registrars, rather than a UK panel, and would remove the need to obtain medical reports with a formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nThe plans would also cut the amount of time applicants need to have lived in their acquired gender from two years to a matter of months, and cut the age at which people can apply to 16.\n\nThe UK government claims making the gender recognition process easier could \"significantly\" increase the risk of fraudulent applications from those with \"malicious intent\", which could lead to people \"no longer feeling safe in any sex-segregated setting and self-excluding from such settings even though they could significantly benefit from them\".\n\nFor nearly 500 years the Court of Session has considered the thorniest and weightiest matters of the moment.\n\nThere can hardly be a more fundamental issue than what it means to be a man or a woman.\n\nJudge Lady Haldane, in civilian attire rather than robe and wig as this is a civil not a criminal case, is familiar with the topic, having issued a hotly-debated ruling about the definition of sex last year.\n\nBut the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, representing the Scottish government, says these proceedings are different.\n\nThe court, she says, is not being asked to rule on whether changes to gender law approved by Holyrood \"could or should have been different or better.\"\n\nRather, argues Ms Bain, the issue is whether or not the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack overstepped his constitutional authority in deciding to block the bill.\n\nShe argues that he did. The UK government obviously disagrees, as we will hear from its counsel, David Johnston KC, in the coming days.\n\nBut whatever happens here, in the airy, wood-panelled courtroom number one of Edinburgh's Parliament House, is unlikely to be the end of the matter.\n\nAn appeal to a panel of three judges in what is known as the Inner House of the Court of Session may well follow.\n\nAnd, given that the case hinges on the unprecedented use of a provision of the Scotland Act which established devolution, it would be odd indeed if it did not end up before the UK Supreme Court in London.", "Azerbaijan's defence ministry said it had destroyed a number of ethnic-Armenian targets in Karabakh\n\nAzerbaijan has said its military measures in Nagorno-Karabakh are continuing for a second day, having launched what it calls \"anti-terror\" operations in the enclave.\n\nIt says it will not stop until Karabakh's ethnic Armenians surrender.\n\nTensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway region, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.\n\nAzerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday morning, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said military equipment belonging to the Armenian armed forces had been \"neutralised\", including military vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft missile installations.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh authorities say 27 people have been killed, including two civilians, and many more wounded since the offensive began.\n\nBaku has said it is prepared for talks, but insists \"illegal Armenian military formations must raise the white flag\" and dissolve their \"illegal regime\".\n\nCasualty numbers increased among civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh as the Azerbaijani offensive went into a second day\n\nAzerbaijan and Armenia first went to war in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Then in 2020 Azerbaijan recaptured areas in and around Nagorno-Karabakh before a truce was agreed and monitored by Russian peacekeepers.\n\nEthnic Armenians in Karabakh appealed on Tuesday for a ceasefire and for talks to start. But it was clear from the Azerbaijani ultimatum that Baku's aim was to complete its conquest of the mountainous enclave.\n\nHundreds of Armenian protesters, frustrated by their country's response, clashed with police outside parliament in Yerevan, condemning their leader as a traitor and calling on him to resign.\n\nBoth Russia's foreign ministry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, to cease military action immediately.\n\nAzerbaijan said talks could start in the town of Yevlakh, some 100km (60km) north of the Karabakh regional capital of Khankendi, called Stepanakert by ethnic Armenians.\n\nBuildings and vehicles were damaged by shelling in the Karabakh regional capital\n\nSince the end of 2020, 2,000 Russians have monitored the fragile truce but Moscow's attention has been diverted by its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAn estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the mountainous enclave. Russia said its soldiers had moved almost 500 civilians from the most at-risk areas, while separatists said they had helped move a total of 7,000.\n\nFor the past nine months, Azerbaijan has imposed an effective blockade on the only route into the enclave from Armenia, known as the Lachin Corridor.\n\nAzerbaijan said it had launched its operation in response to the deaths of six people, including four police officers, in two landmine explosions on Tuesday morning.\n\nAir raid sirens then rang out and the sound of artillery and gunfire could be heard in Karabakh's main city. Residential buildings were damaged and journalist Siranush Sargsyan described seeing a building next door being hit.\n\nDefence officials in the breakaway region said the Azerbaijani military had \"violated the ceasefire along the entire line of contact with missile-artillery strikes\". Other Karabakh representatives spoke of a \"large-scale military offensive\" although later reports said that the intensity of fire had decreased.\n\nThe Azerbaijan defence ministry insisted it was not targeting civilians or civilian buildings, and that \"only legitimate military targets are being incapacitated by the use of high-precision weapons\".\n\nIt accused Armenian forces of \"systematic shelling\" of its army positions and said it had responded by launching \"local, anti-terrorist activities... to disarm and secure the withdrawal of formations of Armenia's armed forces from our territories\".\n\nAzerbaijani officials posted images of what they said was the aftermath of a deadly landmine blast\n\nIn a brief televised address, Armenia's prime minister rejected claims that his military was involved.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said it had been warned of the Azerbaijani offensive only minutes in advance and urged both countries to respect a ceasefire signed after the war in 2020. The EU's regional special representative, Toivo Klaar, said there was \"urgent need for immediate ceasefire\".\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to fighting on Wednesday morning and for \"stricter observance of the 2020 ceasefire and principles of international humanitarian law\".\n\nSouth Caucasus commentator Laurence Broers said on Tuesday the Armenian population in Karabakh had been weakened by the blockade and the Azerbaijan operation had been launched \"seemingly to retake Armenian-populated Karabakh in its entirety\".\n\nArmenia is a member of the Russian-led CSTO military alliance but relations with Moscow have soured.\n\nNikol Pashinyan said recently that Russia was \"spontaneously leaving the region\" and 175 Armenian soldiers have been taking part in military drills with US forces this week. Azerbaijan meanwhile has strong support from its ally Turkey.\n\nHikmet Hajiyev, special adviser to Azerbaijan's president, called on the separatist ethnic-Armenian administration to \"dissolve itself\".\n\n\"Azerbaijan has always said we are ready to provide rights and security of Karabakh Armenians under the constitution,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAzerbaijan had denied building up troop numbers in the region and there had been hopes that tensions might subside.\n\nOn Monday, it allowed aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross into Karabakh on two roads, one via the Lachin Corridor from Armenia and the other on Azerbaijan's Aghdam road.", "Skylarks are among the Red List species to be recorded at Wild Woodbury\n\nA rewilding project has led to the return of a number of bird species that are in critical decline.\n\nSeven birds on the Conservation Concern Red List have been spotted at Wild Woodbury in Dorset.\n\nDorset Wildlife Trust has been transforming the 170 hectare (420 acre) former agricultural site, near Bere Regis, since acquiring it in 2021.\n\nThe charity said it had logged more than 1,600 species on the nature reserve - 300 more than last year.\n\nNightingale, greenfinch, grey partridge, marsh tit, skylark, nightjar and tree pipit - all Red List species - have been recorded.\n\nA major part of the scheme has been to \"re-naturalise\" the River Sherford, creating a wetland which now hosts lapwing, golden plover and common snipe.\n\nFuture plans include the introduction of grazing animals to create a mosaic of habitats that will improve biodiversity.\n\nThe 170-hectare site was intensively farmed before being acquired by Dorset Wildlife Trust\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Post Office workers who have had wrongful convictions for theft and false accounting overturned are to be offered £600,000 each in compensation, the government has said.\n\nBut Harjinder Butoy, who served 18 months in prison, said: \"It's not enough\".\n\nAround 700 prosecutions of branch managers may have received evidence from faulty accounting software.\n\nThe fault made it look like money was missing from their sites.\n\nSo far, 86 convictions have been overturned.\n\nThe Post Office minister said the sum was offered with \"no ifs or buts\".\n\nThe compensation is for postmasters whose convictions relied on the now discredited Horizon IT system, in return for them settling their claims.\n\nPostmasters who have already received initial compensation payments, or have reached a settlement with the Post Office of less than £600,000, will be paid the difference.\n\nNoel Thomas, 76, from Anglesey was sent to prison for false accounting in 2006 but eventually had his conviction quashed. He said that for many of those affected, the £600,000 will not repay what they have lost from the Horizon scandal.\n\nNoel Thomas, pictured with his wife Eira, was wrongly jailed for nine months in 2006, in the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice\n\n\"How do you put a price on what I've been through, what my family have been through?\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"People have gone through a hell of a lot. Don't forget, some have lost properties in all this business.\"\n\nThe government said the offer aimed to \"bring a resolution to the scandal\".\n\nPostmasters will continue to receive funds to cover legal fees. Anyone who does not want to accept the offer can continue with the existing process.\n\nOthers are still waiting to have their convictions overturned. Those who successfully do so in future, based on Horizon evidence, will also be entitled to the compensation.\n\nHarjinder Butoy also said the offer of £600,000 \"is definitely not enough\".\n\nHe co-ran a post office in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, and was given a three-year, three-month sentence after his conviction in 2007. He served 18 months in prison before he was released, and still awaits compensation.\n\nHarjinder Butoy was one of 39 former postmasters who had their convictions quashed in April 2021\n\nHe said he won't be tempted by the new offer of \"quick and easy\" money.\n\n\"At the moment, the compensation process is slow but it's honest compensation according to what we're asking for. Yes, if it takes another year, it takes another year.\n\n\"They [the Post Office and government] know that the compensation is going to be a lot more than £600,000 - and are just trying to do it 'quick and easy'.\n\n\"I wouldn't mind having this all behind me - but I'm not going to let them get away with it so easy, because I know [what I'm owed] is a lot more\".\n\nHe said no amount of compensation would \"give him his dream back\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, the Post Office Minister appointed last autumn, told the BBC: \"If you've suffered a conviction, and you've had that conviction overturned, £600,000 is there waiting for you.\n\n\"We're doing this because people have suffered horrendous situations of course, financial loss as well as personal damage to reputation, and many other things have happened to people. So we want to get this compensation out the door.\"\n\nHe said the government had \"erred on the side of generosity\", but admitted that for some people it would not be enough.\n\n\"If you've suffered, if you've spent time in jail, if you lost your house, if your marriage has failed, all those things - if those things have happened to you, no amount of money will ever be enough,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If you think your claim is worth more than £600,000, you can still go through the normal routes.\"\n\nSome £21m has been paid in compensation so far to postmasters with overturned convictions.\n\nIt is one of three different compensation schemes that have been set up as the scandal developed.\n\nThe Post Office Horizon scandal has been described as \"the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history\".\n\nBetween 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - an average of almost one a week - based on information from a recently installed computer system called Horizon.\n\nSome went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft. Many were financially ruined and have described being shunned by their communities. Some have since died.\n\nThe solicitor representing most of the 86 who had their convictions overturned, Neil Hudgell from Hudgell Solicitors, told the BBC that the £600,000 was \"a hugely attractive carrot being dangled\".\n\nHe said, though, \"for some, it doesn't represent full and fair compensation\".\n\nHe added that others would likely be accepting the compensation and be happy to enjoy \"peace\" after retirement, \"although it means accepting a value less than fair\".\n\nThe Horizon inquiry is investigating the scandal and is likely to conclude in 2024.\n\nLast month, Nick Read, the boss of the Post Office, agreed to return all of his bonus payment for his participation in the inquiry - a total amount of £54,400.", "Wrestling fans in Japan have been treated to a one-off match between two professional fighters grappling in the aisle of a super-fast bullet train.\n\nTokyo-based DDT Pro-Wrestling organised the battle between Minoru Suzuki and Sanshiro Takagi in a carriage for 75 passengers.\n\nTickets sold out within 30 minutes, according to local media.", "Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor and broadcaster\n\nOne of the women who has accused entertainer Russell Brand of sexual assault when she was 16 has said his behaviour was an \"open secret\".\n\nThe woman, known as Alice, added that allegations against him have been \"a long time coming\".\n\nThe comedian and actor has been accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since accusations became public, she said his denial is \"laughable\" and \"insulting\".\n\n\"It feels quite honestly surreal at the moment to see my story everywhere and even elements of my story on the front pages of publications that I hadn't spoken to,\" Alice told BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour presenter Emma Barnett.\n\n\"And it feels like it was a long time in the coming.\n\n\"But it also felt like something that would never be realised for me, and so I can't say that I'm glad because it's been an unpleasant experience. But I hope that we can have conversations that can lead to protecting people in the future.\"\n\nBrand has denied all claims of misconduct, saying he's a subject of \"a coordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\" The former TV and radio presenter, who now posts videos online about spirituality and politics, said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nAlice said she found his response to be \"insulting\" but unsurprising. \"And it's laughable that he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy,\" she continued.\n\n\"He's not outside the mainstream. He did a Universal Pictures movie last year, he did Minions - a children's movie. He is very much part of the mainstream media.\n\n\"He just happens to have a YouTube channel where he talks about conspiracy theories to an audience that laps it up. And it may sound cynical, but I do think that he was building himself an audience for years of people that would then have great distrust of any publication that came forward with allegations. He knew it was coming for a long time.\"\n\nShe added: \"And as for him denying that anything non-consensual happened, that's not a surprise to me. These men always deny any of these allegations brought to them. I knew he would.\n\n\"He didn't deny that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Woman's Hour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlice went on to say her mother did everything in her power to warn her daughter, then still at school, off the entertainer, then in his 30s.\n\n\"She followed all those motherly impulses. She took my phone away. She grounded me... she would try to keep me confined to the house,\" she explained.\n\nAlice said she felt she had been \"groomed\" and felt \"cheapened\", developed an eating disorder and that her experience had affected her future relationships.\n\n\"It's the biggest open secret going - you don't have to be an investigative journalist to have conversations with somebody who has an awful experience with him or somebody knows something.\"\n\nShe is now calling for an introduction of legal \"staggered ages of consent\".\n\nInvestigations have been launched by the BBC and Channel Four since Brand was accused of rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nAlice described the claims made against him as \"just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nShe stated her belief that a chauffeur-driven car provided by the BBC for Brand collected her and took her to his house. She now wants to know \"why more wasn't done at the time\" to protect young women.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"The documentary and associated reports contain serious allegations spanning a number of years Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programmes between 2006 and 2008, and we are urgently looking into the issues raised.\"\n\nAlice also said there were requests for girls and women to be \"taken off\" the show, with reference to Brand's work with Channel Four.\n\n\"I was working in television at the time, and was party to conversations about employing Russell on a TV show and taking women off those shows too, so that he didn't assault them, because he had before and that, he wasn't inappropriate with them. 'So we'll just take the young women off so that he can work on this',\" she said.\n\nChannel Four said in a statement it was looking into allegations raised.\n\nThe Times said it has received more allegations since the investigation was revealed, but is yet to verify them.\n\nProduction company Banijay UK says it has launched an \"urgent investigation\" into allegations of misconduct against Brand, who presented programmes produced by a company it now owns in 2004 and 2005.\n\nThe full details of the fresh allegations against Brand since the weekend may not emerge for some time, one of the journalists investigating him has said.\n\nSaturday's performance at Wembley Park Theatre was Brand's first public appearance since allegations against him were published\n\nSunday Times media editor Rosamund Urwin, who worked on the story, told BBC Breakfast that any fresh claims need checking which \"takes a huge amount of work\".\n\nShe noted journalists have received a \"huge number of leads\" since the story broke on Saturday,\n\nBrand went ahead with a gig that evening for 2,000 fans at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, in London, part of his Bipolarisation tour.\n\nLorraine Heggessey, the former controller of BBC One from 2000 until 2005 - before Brand worked for the corporation - said there were \"numerous examples\" of unacceptable behaviour by the star on-air which should have been dealt with by his bosses.\n\nOne such example saw Brand jokingly offer up his female assistant to Jimmy Saville during a live phone conversation.\n\n\"Well, it is shocking,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"Obviously at that time, the revelations about Jimmy Savile hadn't come out. But even then, the content of the clip I would have thought would have been unacceptable to be broadcast, and should have been flagged, editorially and referred up the chain.\"\n\nLorraine Heggessey also told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell that there was a culture of pandering to top stars\n\nAsked if this had been part of the overriding culture at the time, Heggessey - who appeared in the Dispatches documentary - replied: \"Well, I think it was part of the culture of the Russell Brand show, I'm not sure it was the part of the culture in general at that time, and there's just seems to have been a lack of senior editorial oversight over what he was doing and an inability to rein him in.\"\n\nShe added: \"There were numerous examples of his behaviour and his constant demeaning of the female newsreader, who was increasingly put in an impossible position, and even when complaints were obviously made about it, he joked about those on-air.\n\n\"So nobody seems to have stepped in at any time to say enough is enough, and the results are plain for all to see.\"\n\nThe BBC reiterated it was \"looking into the issues raised\".", "Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.\n\nIn a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the billionaire said a payment system was the only way to counter bots.\n\n\"We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system,\" the Tesla and SpaceX boss said.\n\nThe BBC approached X for further details but has not yet received a statement from the company.\n\nIt is unclear whether this was just an off-the-cuff comment, or a signal of firmer plans that have yet to be announced.\n\nMr Musk has long said that his solution for getting rid of bots and fake accounts on the social media platform is charging for verification.\n\nSince taking over Twitter last year he has looked to incentivise users to pay for an enhanced service, which is now called X Premium.\n\nThis has been done by giving paid subscribers more features, like longer posts and increased visibility on the platform.\n\nHowever, users can currently still use X for free.\n\nAlthough there is a clear financial interest for the company to charge users, Mr Musk insisted that getting people to pay for the service is aimed at tackling bots.\n\n\"A bot costs a fraction of a penny\" to make he said. \"But if somebody even has to pay a few dollars or something, some minor amount, the effective cost to bots is very high\".\n\nX Premium currently costs $8 (£6.50) a month in the US. The price differs depending on which country a subscriber is in.\n\nThe world's richest person said that he was now looking at cheaper options for users.\n\n\"We're actually going to come up with a lower tier pricing. So we just want it to be just a small amount of money,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a longer discussion, but in my view, this is actually the only defence against vast armies of bots,\" Mr Musk added.\n\nHowever, a risk is that by putting X behind a paywall it may lose a large chunk of its users. That in turn, could drive down advertising revenue, which currently accounts for the vast majority of the company's income.\n\nMr Musk's conversation with the Israeli prime minister also touched on antisemitism on X.\n\nThe platform has been accused by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) campaign group of not doing enough to stop antisemitic content.\n\nIn a statement, the organisation said that Mr Musk was \"engaging with and elevating\" antisemites.\n\nEarlier this month, he said that the company would sue the ADL to \"clear our platform's name\".\n\nIn the conversation with Mr Netanyahu, Mr Musk reiterated that he was \"against antisemitism\".\n\nMr Netanyahu accepted the balance between free speech and content moderation was a challenge but urged Mr Musk to get the balance right.\n\n\"I hope you find within the confines of the First Amendment, the ability to stop not only antisemitism... but any collective hatred of people that antisemitism represents,\" he said.\n\n\"I know you're committed to that\", Mr Netanyahu added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester City came from behind and Julian Alvarez scored two second-half goals as Pep Guardiola's men began the defence of their Champions League title with a win against Serbian champions Red Star Belgrade.\n\nEuropean Cup winners themselves in 1991, Red Star threatened a famous win when Osman Bukari put them in front at the end of the first-half.\n\nBut City took less than 90 seconds to level after the restart as Alvarez raced onto Erling Haaland's return pass, rounded Red Star keeper Omri Glazer with a superb piece of deception and squeezed the ball home from a tight angle while still running at full speed.\n\nGlazer spoiled an otherwise superb performance 13 minutes later when he went to punch Alvarez's free-kick away from danger but instead got only the faintest touch on the ball which did not divert it away from the far corner.\n\nRodri's last European goal was the historic effort than secured the trophy against Inter Milan in June. The Spain midfielder ensured City took a successful first step towards this season's final at Wembley by scoring their third as he advanced unchecked into the Red Star box and guided a precise shot into the bottom corner.\n\nThe hosts deserved their win - by the final whistle they had amassed 77% possession and had an incredible 37 shots to Red Star's three.\n• None All the best Man City content in one place\n\nWhile the excellent Alvarez could celebrate doubling his tally for the campaign, which now stands at four, it was a rare night of frustration for Haaland.\n\nWith 30 goals in 26 Champions League games before this match, it is fair to say the 23-year-old has taken a liking to this competition.\n\nHis 27th start in the Champions League will not be one that sticks in his memory though.\n\nAt various points both the Norwegian and his manager were left shaking their heads at Haaland's failure to convert any of a growing number of opportunities he would normally have buried.\n\nIt was a powerful header that triggered the negative response from Guardiola as Haaland rose majestically and met the ball powerfully, only for it to come crashing back off the crossbar.\n\nShortly afterwards, Haaland seemed sure to score with a first-time shot on the turn from Alvarez's cut back, only to blaze over.\n\nCity were ahead by the time Haaland probably sensed it was not to be his night. Again the Norwegian rose to meet a far-post cross a couple of strides from goal. This time he took the downward option. Glazer got a hand to it and somehow shovelled the ball on to the post, where it was cleared.\n\nHaaland had one more opportunity, another header, which he failed to keep on target.\n\nIn this part of the world, Glazer is not a popular surname.\n\nFor 45 minutes, Red Star Belgrade's goalkeeper generated the kind of irritation among City fans that the Manchester United owners tend to trigger at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Israel international denied Rodri, Nathan Ake and Phil Foden during a one-sided opening period.\n\nFoden in particular, unmarked on the edge of the six-yard area in a reasonably central position, should have done better.\n\nThose chances formed part of a 22-shot barrage before the break that brought no reward, the most City have managed in the first half of a Champions League game without scoring.\n\nIt meant there was incredulity among the City support when Bukari ran onto Mirko Ivanic's through ball and converted, sparking pandemonium on the Red Star bench after a long wait for the video assistant referee to overturn the initial offside decision.\n\nBy that time Jeremy Doku had replaced Bernardo Silva, who did not look impressed to depart the action so early.\n\nWhen the interval whistle blew, Red Star - and Glazer - were dreaming of a famous victory, something the Serbian side have not achieved in England since 1973.\n• None Peter Olayinka (Red Star Belgrade) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Srdjan Mijailovic (Red Star Belgrade).\n• None Attempt saved. Nathan Aké (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Julián Álvarez with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Oscar Bobb (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Matheus Nunes.\n• None Marko Stamenic (Red Star Belgrade) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jérémy Doku (Manchester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Julián Álvarez. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Manson pleaded no contest to the charges on Monday\n\nMarilyn Manson has been sentenced in New Hampshire for blowing his nose and spitting on a camerawoman in an incident the judge called \"egregious\".\n\nThe musician will serve 20 hours of community service and pay around $1,400 (£1,100) in fines for the 2019 misdemeanour at his concert.\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Brian Warner, was required to appear in court in person on Monday.\n\nThe judge said he would be permitted to do his service work in California.\n\nManson, 54, had initially pleaded not guilty to the assault charges, but later changed his plea to no contest. The no contest plea means he did not contest the charge, but was not required to admit guilt.\n\nAccording to a police report, Manson, 54, spat on the woman on 19 August 2019 as she filmed his performance at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford.\n\nThe police investigator, who reviewed footage of the event, said Manson was seen putting his face close to the camera held by photographer Susan Fountain and spitting a \"big lougee\" at her.\n\nA moment later he returned, kneeled over her and placed his hand over one nostril before launching a \"significant amount of mucus\" on to her.\n\nThe police report adds that the camera shows Manson \"point and laugh at Fountain as she gets down and walks away\".\n\nIn a statement read in court, Ms Fountain said, \"I've never been humiliated or treated like I was by this defendant.\n\n\"For him to spit on me and blow his nose on me was the most disgusting thing a human being has ever done.\"\n\nAs part of his punishment Manson must also alert police to any concerts planned for New Hampshire for the next two years, and provide proof that his community service has been completed by no later than 4 February 2024.\n\nManson, who wore a black suit in court, spoke to the judge twice. He acknowledged his name - Brian Warner - and said \"yes\" when asked if he understood the sentence.\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside court, Manson said he planned to perform his service with \"people in recovery\".\n\nManson has released 11 studio albums since 1994, three of which have reached the top 10 in the UK.\n\nHis biggest hit single was a cover of Tainted Love, which reached number five in 2001.\n\nHe has faced multiple accusations of sexual assault in recent years and has attempted to sue an alleged victim, claiming that she has harmed his career.", "The council said it was facing increasing demands on spending\n\nMid and East Antrim Borough Council is facing a funding shortfall of about £7m this year, BBC News NI understands.\n\nThe issue emerged after the authority commissioned external analysis of its finances.\n\nThe interim findings were presented to councillors during a special behind-closed-doors council meeting last week.\n\nCouncil officials are expected to present options to councillors in the coming weeks in an effort to address the funding pressures.\n\nIn a statement, the council said it had faced \"increasing demands\" on spending alongside a reduced income.\n\nIt added that after examining \"all aspects of governance\" there was evidence of a \"systemic absence of robust processes in some service areas\".\n\nA spokesman said councillors are \"committed to implementing measures that address these failings and provide oversight and transparency of the core business of the council\".\n\n\"We are working closely with external public bodies in supporting our oversight and grip to enable solid foundations to be created and support the council in its ambition to deliver services for citizens that they need and value,\" he added.\n\nThe council said there had been \"no discussions regarding job cuts\".\n\nThe Department for Communities, which oversees local government in Northern Ireland, said it was informed of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) analysis by the council's interim chief executive, Valerie Watts.\n\nA spokesman for the Stormont department said the local government auditor, Colette Kane, would consider the \"financial resilience\" of the council as part of her annual audit.\n\n\"At this time the actions proposed to address any potential budget issues is a matter for the council,\" he added.\n\nEarlier in 2023, the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (Nilga) said inflationary pressures were placing a \"significant squeeze on the finances and resources across the local government sector\".\n\nAll of the region's 11 councils agreed their highest rise in household rates bills since a reform of local government in 2015.\n\nIn the Mid and East Antrim council area, average bills increased by £27.35 a year after a rates increase of 5.43% was agreed.\n• None Council to refer itself to watchdog over Larne port", "Western ministers and officials will be working hard to try to ensure the diplomatic row between Canada and India does not bleed into other international relationships.\n\nThe last thing the United States and other western powers want now is a row that divides them from India.\n\nOn the grand geopolitical chess board, India is a key player.\n\nNot only is it a growing power - the most populous country in the world, the fifth-biggest economy. But it is also seen by the West as a potential bulwark against China.\n\nThis was apparent at the recent G20 meeting in India when Ukraine's Western allies agreed a final communique which did not condemn Russia by name for its invasion.\n\nThey chose to protect their relationship with India by avoiding a row over the statement, a choice which angered some in Kyiv.\n\nThe other fear among Western diplomats will be the risk that countries start taking sides in the Canada-India dispute.\n\nTensions between the two nations deepened considerably this week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of being behind the assassination of a Sikh activist in western Canada in June.\n\nIn recent months India has been trying to pitch itself as the leader of developing countries - sometimes called the Global South. Many of these countries have refused to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe US and some European countries have been making real diplomatic efforts to win over these countries, telling them the war matters to them and their economy.\n\nDiplomats will not want this row to upset those efforts if it is somehow spun as a North v South battle between two Commonwealth countries, a confrontation between a transatlantic power and a developing nation.\n\nCanada's foreign ministry said Mr Trudeau had raised the issue with US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nFor now Canada's allies are staying loyal but cautious.\n\nThe White House said the US was \"deeply concerned\" about the allegations of the murder, saying it was \"critical that Canada's investigation proceed and the perpetrators be brought to justice\".\n\nFor countries like the UK and Australia, which both have large Sikh communities, there is always the potential for a diplomatic row like this to have domestic political consequences.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Britain would \"listen very, very carefully to the serious concerns that have been raised by Canada\".\n\nHe told the BBC he had spoken to Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly about the allegations on Monday, and the UK took \"very seriously the things that Canada are saying\".\n\nHe refused to say if Britain would suspend trade talks with India - but said the UK would wait until the Canadian investigation was complete before deciding what further action to take.\n\n\"Both Canada and India are close friends of the UK, they're Commonwealth partners,\" Mr Cleverly said.\n\nA spokesperson for Australia's foreign ministry said Canberra was \"deeply concerned' by the allegations, and had \"conveyed our concerns at senior levels in India\".\n\nSo for now, the West will wait and watch as the investigation progresses.\n\nSome allies may be given access to what Canadian intelligence knows. What would change the situation is if firm proof was established.\n\nIf that happened, Western powers would have to make a choice between backing Ottawa or New Delhi, a choice between supporting the principle of the rule of law or the hard necessity of realpolitik.\n\nIn the past, Western nations have condemned alleged extraterritorial assassinations carried out by countries such as Russia or Iran or Saudi Arabia.\n\nThey will not want India to join that list.", "Celtic is seeking to settle legal claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club.\n\nLawyers acting for more than 20 former players have been told the club intends to enter settlement negotiations.\n\nIn recent years several former coaches and officials at the club have been convicted of sexual offences against teenage players spanning decades.\n\nCeltic said it \"has always taken allegations regarding abuse at Celtic Boys Club extremely seriously\".\n\nA statement released by the club added: \"Celtic Football Club and their lawyers have made strenuous efforts to investigate these matters and they continue to do so.\n\n\"Celtic's lawyers continue to investigate and discuss these cases with the lawyers acting for those who suffered abuse at Celtic Boys' Club. Those discussions are ongoing.\n\n\"It would not be appropriate for Celtic Football Club to comment any further while there are ongoing legal proceedings\".\n\nCeltic had previously said it was not responsible because the boys' club was an \"entirely separate\" organisation.\n\nEarlier this year a judge gave the go-ahead for a US style \"class action\" group litigation to proceed against Celtic for alleged abuses at Celtic Boys Club.\n\nThe boys' club was established as a feeder team to the senior Celtic side in 1966 and the two clubs had close ties, sharing players, officials and premises.\n\nLawyers acting for the former players argue the boys club and Celtic were \"intimately connected\" and the senior club was \"vicariously liable\" for assaults carried out in the youth set up.\n\nThe litigation, run by Thompsons Solicitors, relates to historical claims of sexual assault by convicted paedophiles Jim Torbett - the founder of the Boys Club - and Frank Cairney, a former coach.\n\nFrank Cairney was jailed after his abuse came to light\n\nA statement from Thompsons said it was \"pleased to confirm\" that Celtic had indicated its intention to enter settlement negotiations within the group litigation.\n\nIt said: \"Celtic Plc have not formally admitted liability or made any other formal concessions but their desire to now enter negotiations to explore the possibility of a settlement of this action has been made clear.\n\n\"This means that parties will ask the court to adjourn the forthcoming proof [hearing] to allow work to be undertaken to value individual cases.\"\n\nThe firm said it would not be commenting further.\n\nGroup proceedings were brought in to Scots law in 2020. They allow groups of two or more people with the same, or similar, claims to raise a single action in the Court of Session.\n\nA hearing for the group litigation had been scheduled for October at the Court of Session before Lord Arthurson.\n\nNow, that hearing will not go ahead, and Celtic and Thompsons will attempt to agree terms and compensation for each claimant out of court.\n\nJim Torbett had been given permission by renowned Celtic manager Jock Stein to create the boys club in 1966, as an affiliated feeder team to the senior side.\n\nA steady stream of talent flowed from the boys' club into the Celtic first team throughout the 70s and 80s.\n\nBut it would later become clear Torbett's motives were not confined to providing the stars of the future for the Parkhead club.\n\nTorbett was convicted in 1998 of abusing three players in the 1970s, and served a short prison sentence.\n\nJim Torbett has maintained he is a \"good person\"\n\nBut in 2016, as claims of decades-long sexual abuse rocked football, BBC Scotland started investigating Celtic Boys Club once more.\n\nFresh allegations were made in a 2017 BBC Scotland documentary, in which the BBC tracked Torbett down to the US and confronted him.\n\nThe documentary sparked a new police inquiry and led to Torbett being convicted in 2018 of abusing three boys in the 1980s.\n\nA series of further convictions soon followed, with Frank Cairney and Jim McCafferty imprisoned after their decades of abuse at the boys' club and other teams came to light.\n\nAs many as six men with coaching or other positions at the Celtic Boys Club have been convicted for sexual offences against children.\n\nAfter the convictions, survivors of the alleged abuse took their case to the civil courts. They brought their case against the senior Celtic side arguing it bore ultimate responsibility for the abuse they suffered.\n\nThe two clubs - they said - were so intertwined as to be the same thing, with players frequently being signed to the senior club on schoolboy contracts, but being farmed out to the boys' club to continue their footballing development.\n\nSeveral figures, including Jock Stein, held positions at both the boys' club and Celtic.\n\nFormer Celtic manager Jock Stein (left) gave Torbett (right) permission to establish the Celtic Boys Club in 1966\n\nMany survivors say that there was no distinction between one club and the other, in their minds or in practice.\n\nSince the beginning of the legal action against them, Celtic has expressed sorrow and regret at the abuse which took place but had stated publicly and argued in court that it was not responsible because the two clubs were entirely separate entities.\n\nNow there seems to be a shift in Celtic's position, with the club signalling to lawyers representing survivors that it is prepared to enter into negotiations to settle their cases.\n\nIt is understood discussions will take place between the two legal teams over the coming months on the exact terms of any settlements.", "Elliot, from Myton School in Warwick, is receiving a mix of face-to-face and remote learning because of Raac\n\nThe government is expected to issue an update to its official list of schools in England with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) on Tuesday.\n\nMPs will also question the Department for Education (DfE) on the disruption affecting schools and colleges.\n\nOfficials have said they are checking hundreds of schools every week and, as of 30 August, 147 schools in England were known to be affected.\n\nOne parent with a son at an affected school said they feel abandoned.\n\nFay Arrundale's son Elliot attends Myton School in Warwick, but the secondary school had to close some of its buildings because of Raac and is now having different year groups attending in alternate weeks.\n\nElliot is one of more than 22,000 pupils in England who are receiving a mix of face-to-face and remote learning because of Raac.\n\nFay, who is self-employed and having to juggle her work schedule around the changes, says Elliot can become distracted when having online learning and that he \"needs the structure of school\".\n\nShe says the school have been \"fantastic\" but there is no timescale on when things will return to normal, as any progress on getting portable classrooms is \"really slow\".\n\n\"It is like Covid all over again,\" explains Fay, \"but it's harder as that time, the world was going through the same thing, but this feels like we have been abandoned.\"\n\nMyton School's two main buildings were built in the 1950s or 1960s and are \"old and in disrepair\", so the head teacher applied for extra cash from the government's school rebuilding programme.\n\nBut a letter from the DfE, seen by BBC News, rejected the application because other schools were in worse condition.\n\nRaac is a lightweight material that was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls, between the 1950s and 1990s. It is a cheaper alternative to standard concrete and has a lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nJust days before the start of the autumn term, the DfE updated its guidance so that schools with Raac, which was previously deemed safe, were told to close any areas containing the concrete without safety measures in place.\n\nOfficials have said they are checking hundreds of schools every week for Raac\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed an updated list but accused the government of being on the back foot.\n\nSome schools were still dealing with \"huge logistical issues\" and \"we haven't got a timescale of when this will be sorted out\", he said.\n\nSusan Acland-Hood, a permanent secretary at the DfE, and Education Minister Baroness Barran, who has responsibility for school capital investment, will appear before the Education Committee on Tuesday and are expected to provide an update on the situation.\n\nRobin Walker, chairman of the Education Committee, said its members have heard \"loudly and clearly the distress and anxiety that this crisis is causing to families and staff\" at affected schools.\n\n\"We share the feeling of urgency to establish how this situation developed, how and when it can be resolved, and what lessons need to be learnt,\" he said.\n\nThe DfE has previously defended its decision to change its guidance so close to the start of the term, saying it acted after three incidents during the summer.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said they have continued working \"flat out\" this week to minimise disruption to education and to keep children and staff safe.\n\nIn Scotland, schools in 16 local authorities have been found to contain Raac and surveys will be carried out at 120 schools across Northern Ireland to check for the concrete, the Education Authority has said.\n\nTwo schools have closed in Wales while checks are being carried out, and students in one other school are receiving a mixture of face-to-face and remote learning.\n• None Number of schools in England with Raac up by 17", "Fred Leparan (left) was convicted after attempting to sell a baby boy to an undercover reporter\n\nA Kenyan hospital employee who was caught by the BBC selling a baby on the black market has been convicted of child trafficking.\n\nFred Leparan, who worked at Nairobi's Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital, was filmed accepting $2,500 (£2,000) to sell a baby boy under the hospital's care.\n\nHe was arrested in 2020 following a BBC Africa Eye investigation.\n\nLeparan was charged alongside another hospital employee, Selina Awour, with child theft.\n\nAwuor was convicted of three counts of child neglect but was acquitted of child trafficking.\n\nThe pair will be sentenced on 26 September.\n\nAn Africa Eye reporter initially approached Leparan posing as a potential buyer, after hearing from a source that the senior clinical social worker was involved in illegal child trafficking from the government-run hospital.\n\nA meeting was arranged at the hospital, where Leparan asked the undercover reporter, who said she and her husband had struggled to conceive, only cursory questions about their situation before agreeing to sell the baby boy.\n\nOn the day the baby boy was supposed to be transferred from the hospital to a government-run children's home, along with two other children, Leparan was filmed falsifying the transfer paperwork so that the home would expect two children rather than three.\n\nThe BBC team ensured that all three children were delivered directly to the children's home, but filmed Leparan amending the paperwork and informing them that the child was now theirs to take away.\n\nSelina Awour, also a hospital worker, was convicted of child neglect\n\nDespite the evidence against him, the case dragged on for more than two years. Leparan was able to retain one of the best legal defences in Kenya, but his witness testimony on the stand was inconsistent and evasive.\n\nForced to acknowledge that it was him in the undercover footage, he attempted to claim the voice belonged to someone else, even as his mouth moved along with the words. Later, he admitted some of the words were his own.\n\nLeparan also claimed that he did not recognise various parts of the hospital where he had worked for three years, as footage was shown to the court of Leparan secretly arranging the theft and transfer of the baby boy.\n\nThe BBC investigation captured the illegal sale of one child from Mama Lucy, but a former employee who spoke to Africa Eye on condition of anonymity said that he was aware of 12 children under the care of the hospital who went missing in just two months.\n\n\"So many people are corrupt. Once they are given something small they keep quiet and never talk,\" he said, referring to bribes given to staff.\n\nDemand for stolen children remains significant in Kenya, driven by a cultural stigma around infertility and adoption as well as an unwieldy legal adoption process.\n\nThe hospital scam operated by Leparan represents only one aspect of this complex problem. Africa Eye also filmed traffickers arranging the purchase and sale of babies in illegal street clinics, and the brazen theft and sale of babies from vulnerable, homeless mothers living on the city's streets.\n\nMary Auma, who ran a clinic where vulnerable mothers gave birth and sold their babies to her, so she could sell them on for a profit, disappeared after she was filmed by our undercover team. On a recent return to Nairobi, we found no sign of Auma, and her clinic was shuttered.\n\nBut babies are still being stolen in Nairobi. Close to the steps of the shuttered clinic, a woman approached us holding a flyer that bore the picture of her five-year-old granddaughter, Chelsea Akinye.\n\nChelsea had been snatched from the street a year and six days earlier, said her grandmother, Rosemary. She said she had been searching for Chelsea every day since, posting her flyers around the neighbourhood and beyond.\n\nShe described the five-year-old as a happy girl and a promising student.\n\n\"When she came from school, she would get anyone close to her to help her with homework before she would go out to play,\" Rosemary said.\n\n\"I have searched for Chelsea all the way to Busia. Since that day, I leave very early in the morning, sometimes at 4am, to search for her.\"\n\nRosemary pastes a picture of her missing five-year-old granddaughter, Chelsea, to a post\n\nLike other parents or grandparents who have been subjected to the terrible ordeal of having a child being snatched, Rosemary sometimes longs for closure in any form.\n\n\"I imagine someone would have abandoned her somewhere, or she has been killed and left somewhere. And I go and bury her, and it leaves my heart,\" she said.\n\nThere are few reliable statistics on the extent of child trafficking in Kenya. According to the country's Labour and Social Protection Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore, 6,841 children were reported missing between July 2022 and May 2023. Only 1,296 have been reunited with their families.\n\nMueni Mutisya, from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Child Trafficking Unit, told the BBC that the unit currently gets on average around five new child abduction cases a week. The majority affect the lowest income families, Ms Mueni said.\n\nThe day after our initial investigation was published, in 2020, Kenya's then minister for labour and social protection, Simon Chelugui pledged tough government action to combat the trade in stolen children, promising that culprits would face \"the full force of the law\".\n\nNew laws did come into effect last year that strengthened child protections in Kenya, but according to Ms Mueni more still needs to be done. She called for new laws that would oblige members of the public to report suspicions that a child may have been abused or abducted.\n\n\"Let us have a common goal of protecting children,\" she said.\n\nThe most vulnerable children are still those being raised by the poorest families, according to Maryana Munyendo, the head of charity Missing Child Kenya, which operates a toll-free line for people to report abductions.\n\n\"Within Nairobi, we still get a lot of cases from the slum areas,\" Ms Munyendo said. She said her phone line still received three missing child reports every day on average.", "US talk show host Jimmy Fallon (second right) interviewed Sir Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards in Hackney\n\nThe Rolling Stones have unveiled their first album of original material since 2005, and the first since the death of drummer Charlie Watts.\n\nHackney Diamonds will feature 12 tracks and be released on 20 October, preceded by lead single Angry.\n\nKeith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Sir Mick Jagger announced the album on Wednesday at an event in Hackney.\n\nRichards said: \"Ever since Charlie's gone, it's been different, he's number four. Of course he's missed.\"\n\nBut, he added, the new album will feature Steve Jordan in Watts' place, a drummer Richards said the band knew from \"way back\" and who filled Watts' seat on tour this summer.\n\n\"It would have been a lot harder without Charlie's blessing,\" Richards said, explaining that Watts had previously told the band Jordan should replace him if he ever was not around to record.\n\nWatts died in 2021 aged 80, prior to the band's 60th anniversary tour, after suffering from throat cancer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Mick explained: \"The album has 12 tracks. Most are with Steve, but two are tracks we recorded in 2019 with Charlie.\"\n\nThe album is preceded by a new lead single, titled Angry, which also received its premiere at the event in Hackney.\n\nEuphoria actress Sydney Sweeney, who was sitting in the audience at the launch event where she was briefly interviewed by host Jimmy Fallon, features in the music video for the song.\n\nIn a five-star review, the Telegraph's Neil McCormick called the song \"an absolute blast,\" describing it as the band's best single in 40 years.\n\nFans gathered outside Hackney Empire on Wednesday ahead for the launch of the band's new album\n\nDiscussing the recording of the album, Wood told Fallon: \"We did it pretty quickly actually.\n\n\"There were lots of ideas floating around, we gathered them together just before Christmas last year and made a go of it.\"\n\nThe record will feature Lady Gaga, and other rumoured guest stars include Sir Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.\n\nAsked about the gap since 2016's Blue & Lonesome, an album of blues covers, Sir Mick said: \"We've been on the road most of the time, maybe we were a bit too lazy, but then we said, 'let's put a deadline'.\"\n\nHe said the band cut 23 tracks, which were mixed in February, before deciding on the final 12 to include on the album.\n\nSir Mick said the sound of the album was \"angry\", like the title of the lead single, but added there was an \"eclectic\" mixture of genres on the record, including love songs and ballads.\n\nHe continued: \"I don't want to be big headed but we wouldn't have put this album out if we hadn't really liked it. We said we had to make a record we really love ourselves.\n\n\"We are quite pleased with it, we are not big headed about it, but we hope you all like it.\"\n\nThe stage is littered with fallen chandeliers, the famous lips logo is slashed to pieces. The Stones might be entering their 80s, but they're not going quietly.\n\nSir Mick and Ronnie bound onto the stage, vamping for the crowd and stirring up a frenzy. Keith Richards hangs back in his shades and a trilby hat, forever cool.\n\nThey're in a playful mood, teasing Jimmy Fallon for his questions (\"the first track is called Angry, what's the main emotion behind that?\"), and singing an impromptu version of the 1965 track Off The Hook.\n\n\"Mick and Keith, you've been together longer than me an my wife. What's the secret?\" asks a fan.\n\nThe trio are obviously energised by the new album, with Keith talking up the \"damn funky riffs\" and Sir Mick declaring: \"We wouldn't have put this album out if we hadn't really liked it.\"\n\nOne fan posed in a hoodie and against a backdrop featuring the Stones' famous lips logo\n\nThey also confirm some of the big rumours - Lady Gaga will appear on a song called Sweet Sound Of Heaven, and drummer Charlie Watts features on two of the 12 songs.\n\nThe scale of the press conference is reassuringly old school. There's an endless free bar, a rowdy phalanx of paparazzi, and broadcasters from all around the world - Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, the US - elbowing each other for prime position.\n\nOutside, pressed against the barriers, fans have come from just as far afield - waving banners and clutching albums in the hope Sir Mick's brought a Sharpie.\n\nAs it ends, we hear one new song: The rowdy and rambunctious Angry, which finds Mick Jagger in the middle of a domestic fight, snarling like a Rottweiler, but hoping for reconciliation.\n\nIf the relationship has to end, he says, \"Let's go out in a blaze.\"\n\nFor what could realistically be the Stones' final album, that's a solid manifesto.\n\nOne fan told the BBC he had flown in from Poland just for the launch, which was also livestreamed on YouTube.\n\n\"They are the kings of rock and roll,\" he said. \"We've been waiting 18 years to get some new Rolling Stones music and finally here it is. I think it's a really special day.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It's fantastic that they're doing all this, I've been a fan of theirs for a very long time - I first saw them in the mid-1960s.\"\n\nOne attendee said he was a \"hardcore fan\" of the group. \"It's so great they've come here today to Hackney,\" he said. \"To me, they're original rockers, they've never changed, they're dynamite.\"\n\nThe band have not released an album of original songs since 2005, but did record a blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, in 2016\n\nSpeaking to BBC News after the press conference, Wood confirmed the band would likely take the new material on tour.\n\nAsked about Watts, he added: \"I was with Charlie before he passed, and he said 'make sure Steve Jordan covers for me until I'm repaired enough to come and join you'. So Steve has his blessing, and that's a really comforting thing.\"\n\nThe last track on the album is a cover of Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone, but Richards said it should not be perceived as the band saying goodbye.\n\n\"That's not intended,\" he said, \"it was actually Andrew Watt who came up with a 1920s guitar, and said 'maybe you guys could finally do a song that the name of the band came from\".\n\n\"And Mick and I looked at each other and said 'yeah, OK'. So there it is, it's more a tip of the hat to Muddy Waters, Chicago and all the blues men we learned our stuff from.\"\n\nThe announcement of Hackney Diamonds follows a teaser campaign that began with an unassuming advert in the Hackney Gazette - a free newspaper distributed in corner shops and supermarkets that covers the London borough.\n\nOstensibly for a local glazing firm, the blurb contained several references to Rolling Stones songs, and a phone number where fans could register interest.\n\nOver the weekend, the band also shared a preview of one of the songs, via a website called dontgetangrywithme.com.\n\nHowever, it was another elaborate ruse: after a prolonged loading screen, the site only played a short snippet of music before appearing to crash.\n\nThe group's new single was awarded five stars in the Telegraph, which said it was their best song in 40 years\n\nThe band responded to supposed difficulties on social media with the message, \"Sorry, don't get angry with me\" - a reference to the song's opening lyric.\n\nBut all was finally revealed in Hackney on Wednesday afternoon, with all three remaining Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood - in attendance.\n\n\"New album, new music, new era,\" a trailer for the livestream promised.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by The Rolling Stones\n\nThe album will be their first since 2016's Blue & Lonesome, which featured covers of the songs by Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf that first inspired them to form a band in the 1960s.\n\nBefore that, their last album of original material was 2005's A Bigger Bang, trumpeted as a return to basics, but which failed to reach the heights achieved by classics like Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Escape from the British Museum tells the story of a jade teapot becoming human and wishing to return to China.\n\nA short video series is racking up views in China, amplifying calls for the British Museum to return artefacts.\n\nIt tells the story of a jade teapot, played by a woman, looking for its way back to China.\n\nThe world-renowned museum has been under pressure after 2,000 items were reported to be \"missing, stolen or damaged\" last month.\n\nThe scandal has prompted demands from China and other countries for treasures to be returned.\n\nTitled Escape from the British Museum, the three-part series from two Chinese social media influencers tells the story of a jade teapot coming alive and taking a human form as she tries to escape from the museum.\n\nHer wish? To return home to China, with the help of a Chinese journalist she meets on the streets of London.\n\nThe teapot is a real artefact - and relatively recent addition to the British Museum. It was made in 2011 by a Chinese artist who specialises in intricate jade carvings.\n\nThough not exactly a cultural relic, the delicate technique used in the making of the pot is a craft unique to China and that has resonated with the Chinese public.\n\nFirst released on China's version of TikTok, Douyin, the series has been played 270 million times on the platform. It has also seen its creators, who claim to be independent content makers, gaining more than five million followers on Chinese social media apps within one week.\n\nThe series has also been strongly endorsed by state media. State broadcaster CCTV gave it a pat on the back this week, saying: \"We are very pleased to see Chinese young people are passionate about history and tradition… We are also looking forward to the early return of Chinese artefacts that have been displaced overseas\".\n\nThe series has also inspired other influencers to dress up as characters from ancient Chinese paintings and sculptures.\n\nWhile traditional media have scrambled to decode the secret of the series' success, social media users credit it to the relatable message of \"homecoming\".\n\nThe show has fuelled calls among Chinese for treasures to be returned\n\n\"Maybe the Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum are also missing home right now. But they can only be squeezed into the crowded booths. Will they be thinking 'Bring me home' when they see Chinese faces there?\" read one top-liked comment on Douyin.\n\n\"Eventually, there will be a day when [the items] come home in a dignified way,\" another user commented on Weibo.\n\nCultural heritage and ownership has become a more sensitive topic for the Chinese public in recent years amid rising nationalist sentiment. President Xi Jinping continues to push for a strong Chinese identity against growing tensions with the West.\n\nLast year, luxury brand Dior was accused of \"culturally appropriating\" a Chinese traditional design for one of its skirts, triggering backlash online and protests in front of their stores.\n\nAnd earlier this year around the Lunar New Year, a video of a Chinese influencer visiting the museum went viral on Douyin, in which the user said the treasures must be homesick. A comment suggesting the escape of the treasures be turned into an animation inspired the series.\n\nThe series' release has come as the British Museum faces intense pressure over the thefts. Last week, Chinese nationalist newspaper The Global Times issued an editorial asking the museum to give back its entire Chinese collection.\n\n\"We formally request the British Museum to return all Chinese cultural relics acquired through improper channels to China free of charge,\" said the newspaper, which is known to be a Beijing mouthpiece.\n\nIt's not the first time China has made such demands - which also echo the calls of other countries including Sudan, Nigeria, and Greece, which have all asked the British Museum to give back stolen artefacts.\n\nEgypt has been asking for the return of the Rosetta Stone, forcibly taken by the British empire in 1801. Greece has also been campaigning for its Parthenon sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, to be returned.\n\nThe British Museum has long argued that it's in the best position to protect such treasures, but critics say the latest thefts show this argument no longer applies.\n\nSome British lawmakers still insist it is a safe place. The museum houses about eight million objects from six continents. Only 80,000 items - or about 1% of the total collection - are on display at any given time.", "Simon Byrne had faced a number of controversies in recent weeks\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) data breach could cost the service up to £240m in extra security for officers and potential legal action, MPs have been told.\n\nHe appeared without Simon Byrne, who resigned as chief constable on Monday.\n\nEarlier, a member of the Policing Board said Mr Byrne will not be paid for the remainder of his contract.\n\nAss Ch Con Todd said the force has calculated some estimated costs that it could potentially incur after investigations are completed.\n\nHe told the Northern Ireland Affairs committee that recovery costs were calculated at approximately £24m to £37m, while individual claims for litigation were estimated at potentially up to £180m.\n\nHe also rejected any suggestion that the data had been leaked deliberately.\n\nThe SDLP's Mark H Durkan told BBC Radio Foyle that he would be \"paid for three months' notice that he has to work\".\n\nMr Durkan said Mr Byrne would not be asked to carry out his duties for those three months.\n\nAccording to the PSNI's accounts for 2021-22, the chief constable position carries a salary of about £230,000.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Mr Byrne said it was \"now time for someone new to lead this proud and resolute organisation\".\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton will take command of the PSNI until a new chief constable is in post.\n\nThe chief constable's X - formerly Twitter - account has been changed to \"Office of the Chief Constable\".\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton will take command of the PSNI until a new chief constable is in post\n\nOn Tuesday morning, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland said there is a \"serious disconnect and a worrying disconnect\" between senior leadership in the PSNI and rank-and-file officers.\n\nLiam Kelly told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster: \"That is what I have been very clear about, as a result of this fiasco and everything that has gone on over the last number of months and weeks, whoever is coming in here has a mountain to climb.\n\n\"They need to address those cultural deficiencies that we have in service, they need to rebuild the confidence both of the officers and the public and restore credibility in policing because as things stand at the moment this has been an unedifying event for everyone concerned.\"\n\nMr Kelly has invited Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton to its extraordinary meeting on Wednesday.\n\nThe federation said it will meet to consider the fallout over Simon Byrne's departure and confidence in other senior PSNI management.\n\nMr Kelly later told MPs that Mr Hamilton was \"still vulnerable\" as to whether he should remain in his job, following the High Court ruling in which the deputy chief constable had involvement.\n\n\"I've invited him to address the executive committee so he can address members' concerns around the way forward,\" he added.\n\nThe federation chairman said that Mr Byrne had made the \"right decision\" to step down.\n\nPressure had been mounting on Mr Byrne following a number of controversies.\n\nLast Tuesday, a court ruled two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined following an arrest at a Troubles commemoration in February 2021.\n\nThe event was marking the anniversary of the 1992 Sean Graham bookmakers attack where five people were murdered by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nThe judge said the officers were disciplined to allay any threat of Sinn Féin abandoning its support for policing in Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin has denied this.\n\nMr Byrne said he was considering an appeal against the ruling.\n\nMr Kelly said on Tuesday that the ruling was \"damning\" and there needed to be \"a full investigation into what happened\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month, a number of data breaches came to light, including one where the names and details of the PSNI's 10,000 officers and civilian staff were published in error as part of a Freedom of Information request.\n\nMr Byrne later said the information was in the hands of dissident republicans, who could use the list to generate \"fear and uncertainty\".\n\nSome of the information included the rank or grade of employees, where they are based and the unit in which they work.\n\nThis led to some staff saying they fear for their safety due to continuing threats from paramilitaries.\n\nAn independent-led review is due to be carried out into the breaches.\n\nMPs from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee were questioning PSNI representatives on Tuesday as part of its investigation into the breaches.\n\nThe chair of the committee, Simon Hoare, said it will, if it is required, use its powers to \"summon\" the Policing Board to appear to give evidence.\n\nThe board withdrew from the hearing after the resignation of Mr Byrne as chief constable.\n\nMr Hoare said he hoped the board would find another time to come and answer questions in public.\n\nThe committee also heard that:\n\nMr Hoare also questioned how four PSNI staff missed that officers' details were attached to the FOI but the person who received it was quick to spot the information and published it online.\n\nIn reply, Ass Ch Con Todd said initial assessment showed there was \"non-malintent\" by the individuals involved.\n\nDeirdre Toner is chair of the NI Policing Board and issued a statement after Monday's meeting\n\nMr Byrne had ruled out resigning following an emergency meeting of the Policing Board last Thursday that lasted almost seven hours.\n\nThis prompted the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to submit a motion of no confidence in him.\n\nOther unionist parties had called for the chief constable to go, while several parties raised questions about the PSNI leadership.\n\nFollowing Monday's meeting, the Policing Board agreed a number of key points.", "Manchester United's former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the club's co-chairman Avram Glazer\n\nManchester United shares have seen their biggest ever one-day fall after a report that the team's US owners are going to take it off the market.\n\nThe club's shares fell by more than 18% in New York on Tuesday.\n\nThat came after the Mail on Sunday reported that no potential buyer had matched the club's asking price.\n\nThe US-based Glazer family announced in November it was considering selling the Premier League club as they explored \"strategic alternatives\".\n\nManchester United's co-chairmen, brothers Joel and Avram Glazer, are holding out for an offer of £10bn, according to the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHowever, prospective bidders Sheikh Jassim of Qatar and British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe had not come close to offering that amount, the paper said.\n\nThe newspaper cited a source with long-standing close ties to the club's owners as saying the Glazer family may try again next year to sell the team when they hoped to attract more bidders.\n\nThe club did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nTuesday's share price fall wiped around $700m (£556m) off Manchester United's stock market valuation. It is now valued at about $3.2bn.\n\nThe Glazer family bought Manchester United in 2005 for $790m.\n\nHowever, they have faced fierce opposition from some fans who accuse them of loading the club with debt and not investing enough in it.\n\nSince the takeover the club has spent more than £1bn on interest and loan payments, plus share dividends - the majority of which have gone to the Glazer family.\n\nBut the club has also spent some 1.36bn euros (£1.18bn) on transfers under the Glazers.\n\nLast month, the 1958 Group, which is made up of fans that want the Glazers out of the club, held a protest at Old Trafford to signal their continued opposition to the family's ownership.", "Electric Ireland says about 1,000 customers are still seeking resolution to an issue which saw a number of customers lose power after a keypad fault.\n\nThe error, which has affected up to 4,500 customers, meant some meters were capped at a £10 credit limit.\n\nThe firm issued some guidance to those affected.\n\nElectric Ireland is Northern Ireland's third-largest electricity supplier, with about 100,000 customers.\n\nThe company said the problem only hit customers who topped up their meters between midnight on 30 August and 13:23 BST on 31 August.\n\nBill Coyle, Northern Ireland residential manager for Electric Ireland, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme it realised the impact on its customers and was \"really sorry for that\".\n\n\"There are about 4,500 who are potentially affected by this and we have communicated out to those customers by text or email to let them know that they are in the affected group,\" he said, on Wednesday morning.\n\n\"I would just like to assure anybody else at this stage if you have not got a text or email from us or you didn't vend in the early hours of Wednesday morning until midday on Thursday, those customers are fine, your meter is working as normal.\n\n\"We have issued a solution to 3,500 customers as of last night, that leaves 1,000.\n\n\"Our teams are continuing to work on this at the moment, we intend to issue further instructions to another batch of customers this morning and will continue to do that during the day.\"\n\nElectric Ireland had previously said it could be the middle of the week before the keypad fault was resolved for most customers.\n\nSome customers had to empty their freezers of food after having no electricity for more than 48 hours at the weekend.\n\nJohn French, Utility Regulator chief executive, described the situation as \"horrendous\" and said it should have been dealt with earlier.\n\nHe said it constantly monitored the performance of electricity supply companies in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"They [Electric Ireland] are starting to grasp the nettle now, but they could have done it a lot sooner,\" Mr French told BBC News NI.\n\n\"We have been on with them, explaining what we expect as the minimum standards around this and what we expect them to do.\n\n\"They needed to front up earlier than what they have done, but hopefully they are grasping the nettle now and hopefully consumers will be back on supply as quick as possible.\n\n\"It is an unfortunate error, but it should have been dealt with quicker.\"\n\nThe fault has affected up to 4,500 customers across Northern Ireland\n\nEarlier this week, Peter McClenaghan, of the Consumer Council, said \"thousands of people\" were stressed by the situation and it was essential that Electric Ireland \"step up to the plate\".\n\nHe added that the organisation would push for compensation for people.\n\nMr Coyle said: \"It goes without saying that we are going to refund for any top ups that we have had to cancel.\n\n\"In relation to compensation, we are examining this with a view to adhering to regulatory and industrial norms, particularly for customers that are without supply for a long period of time, but right now our focus has to be on getting this issue resolved for our customers.\"\n\nMr Coyle also said the company was confident it had not been in breach of its licence obligations, in \"an unprecedented situation\".\n\nElectric Ireland said it was continuing to work to reset the meters of customers who have been affected.\n\n\"We appreciate this is very challenging for the affected customers and their families and we are really sorry for the upset caused,\" it said, in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this complex issue.\"\n\nIt also said customers should not top up their meters until they receive instruction from them to do so, and that topping up before this \"may delay the reset of their meter\".", "Ozempic is a drug which is prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes\n\nA man with diabetes has just a month's supply left of a drug to help manage his condition after a surge in demand by people using it to lose weight.\n\nIt follows a global shortage of the drug Ozempic, with supplies not expected to return to normal until June 2024 at the earliest.\n\nThe Welsh government said people's medication will be reviewed and alternatives prescribed where possible.\n\nJohn Whale, 72, has lived with type 2 diabetes for seven years.\n\nMr Whale was prescribed a weekly Ozempic injection earlier this year for a high blood sugar count.\n\n\"I started that regime at the beginning of March and my blood test result in June was down to I think 57.\n\n\"It had more than halved in three months, so I thought I was on the right track here.\"\n\nOne side effect of the drug - which contains the active ingredient semaglutide - is that it suppresses people's appetite, and as a result it has gained popularity as an aid to losing weight.\n\nBut the rush for it has resulted in a global shortage, with diabetics like John now struggling to get the supplies they need.\n\nMr Whale said: \"There's a pharmacy linked to my surgery across the road, they said we can't get it.\n\n\"I got the prescription rewritten and I took it out there and to just about every chemist in north Cardiff, and it's totally out of stock.\n\n\"Something needs to be done because you're storing up a lot of trouble and discomfort, and death even, in future years if people can't get this regular treatment.\n\n\"I just feel that as diabetics, this is a medicine that was designed for us and we can't get it - I can go online and get a private prescription but it's more than half my pension and I can't afford that.\"\n\nMr Whale said he is concerned that if he cannot access the drug he will develop a complication from his continued high blood sugars.\n\n\"That could mean possibly disability benefits or care or hospitalisation, all of which is going to be an added expense to the Welsh or UK government,\" he added.\n\nJohn Whale says every chemist he tried has been out of stock of diabetes drug Ozempic\n\nSupplies are not expected to return to normal until June 2024, which is said to be a concern for charities working with diabetes.\n\nRachel Burr, director of Diabetes Cymru, said: \"[People are] sitting at home, they're reading the news, and it can be very stressful thing to be thinking that their medication may run out.\n\n\"It's really concerning to us that it's being prescribed off-label at a time when people are not able to access their medication for type 2 diabetes.\n\n\"We would certainly like to see clinicians adhering to the guidance that's been given. It should only be prescribed for people in Wales and the UK for people living with type 2 diabetes.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Due to the extent and anticipated duration of the global supply disruption, in line with practice in all parts of the UK, people currently prescribed semaglutide will have their medication reviewed and, where necessary, an alternative treatment will be prescribed.\"", "At least one person has died in Greece, after torrential rain triggered flash floods in parts of the country.\n\nThe coastal port city of Volos has seen the same mount of water falling in 24 hours that it usually gets for the whole of autumn - according to local experts.\n\nThe mayor of Volos, Achilleas Beos, visited some of the flooded areas and said, \"there is no reason to be moving around. Stay in your homes so we can operate our equipment.\"\n\nOn the island of Skiathos, strong currents dragged away plants and vehicles as flood water rushed through the streets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Yamaha baby grand piano used by late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury to compose some of the group's most iconic hits has sold at auction for £1.7m.\n\nThe price was slightly below estimates but was still a record for a composer's piano, auctioneers Sotheby's said.\n\nMercury used the piano to write songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, and handwritten lyrics for that hit fetched £1.38m.\n\nAlmost 1,500 items are being sold across six auctions by Mary Austin, one of the star's oldest friends.\n\nThe star's piano and many other personal items went on display at an open exhibition before being auctioned\n\nOther highlights from the first sale on Wednesday included:\n\nOne of the star lots was the original 15-page manuscript for their epic hit Bohemian Rhapsody, with the working title \"Mongolian Rhapsody\", which revealed in its notes the different directions in which Mercury saw the track going.\n\nMercury fronted the UK band whose mix of glam rock, heavy metal and camp theatrics made them one of the most popular bands of the 1970s.\n\nMercury's crown and accompanying cloak, in fake fur, red velvet and rhinestones, were made by his friend and costume designer Diana Moseley\n\nManuscripts of working lyrics for the Queen Don't Stop Me Now, Somebody to Love and We Are The Champions, autographed Freddie Mercury\n\nZanzibar-born Mercury had a big art collection and paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso that adorned his home are also going under the hammer, as well as the last painting he bought a month before he died from Aids aged 45 in 1991.\n\nIn total, 1,469 items from his home at Garden Lodge are being offered for sale by Austin, a close friend and one-time fiancée of the star.\n\nMercury's moustache comb is also going under the hammer\n\nSpeaking to the BBC when the auction was announced in April, Austin said: \"The collection takes you deeper within the individual and the man I knew.\"\n\nShe added: \"You see the spectrum of his taste. It's a very intelligent, sophisticated collection.\"\n\nMany of the singer-songwriter's glamorous outfits are up for grabs\n\nOther personal items going up for sale include more of his lyrics and flamboyant stage costumes as well as his moustache comb, champagne bottles from his cellar, and his posthumous Brit Award.\n\nBefore Wednesday's first sale, which fetched a total of £12.2m, the auction house hosted the collection at a month-long free open exhibition.\n\nThe prices including buyer's premium and fees.Hammer prices at Sotheby's attract a buyer's premium of between 26 and 13.9% depending on the value, as well as local VAT.", "Dr Sinead Cook from the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare is worried social media content is influencing people's decisions\n\nMisinformation about contraception on social media may be contributing to Scotland's record high abortion figures, doctors have told the BBC.\n\nThe number of terminations carried out in Scotland rose by almost a fifth between 2021 and 2022.\n\nFor the first time in 14 years, the number of 16 to 19-year-olds accessing abortion services also increased.\n\nThere are concerns this is being driven in part by false and misleading information on apps such as TikTok.\n\nVideos on the platform include false claims about hormonal contraception, such as the pill, the implant, the jab and some types of the coil.\n\nThe misinformation online often focuses on side effects.\n\nOne TikTok video that has been viewed more than 600,000 times falsely claims hormonal birth control can cause infertility and brain tumours.\n\nAnother video posted by an influencer with more than 300,000 followers claims \"birth control is this generation's cigarettes\" and \"ruins our bodies\".\n\nMeanwhile the hashtags #naturalbirthcontrol and #quittingbirthcontrol have had hundreds of millions of views.\n\nHashtags concerning birth control have been viewed hundreds of millions of times\n\nWhile the reasons behind Scotland's record high abortion figures are not entirely clear, and a number of different factors are likely to have contributed, doctors have raised concerns about social media misinformation.\n\nDr Sinead Cook from NHS Grampian is the Scottish chair of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. She is worried this content is influencing decisions about contraception, especially among young people.\n\nWorking in a sexual health clinic in the north east of Scotland, she said she had seen patients who were \"terrified of hormonal contraception\" because of what they had watched on TikTok.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland News: \"The biggest concern is that social media is encouraging people to either not start contraception or to stop their contraception without really understanding what their other options are.\n\n\"The risk is that we're going to just see people having unplanned pregnancies, which they really don't want, at the end of the day.\"\n\nThe numbers of terminations carried out in Scotland rose from 13,937 in 2021 to 16,596 in 2022.\n\nThe number of 16 to 19-year-olds accessing abortion services also increased from 1,480 in 2021 to 1,899 in 2022.\n\nDr Cook said the rise in abortion figures in Scotland were probably the result of a number of factors - not only a fear of hormones.\n\n\"I don't think we know why the numbers have gone up,\" she said. \"They've gone up amongst all people of reproductive age, including amongst young people.\"\n\nShe said that when her team talked to patients who did not use contraception and were attending for abortions, many cited concerns about the side effects of contraceptives.\n\nDr Cook was speaking to a new Disclosure documentary for BBC iPlayer investigating why more women are turning their backs on hormonal birth control.\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which provides help and support to women considering or going through abortions, said it was also concerned people were being put off hormonal contraception because of social media.\n\nLucy Grieve from the charity said that in the past year it had seen a lot of people \"scared off\" hormonal contraception as a result of information they had seen on apps including TikTok and Instagram.\n\n\"That undoubtedly plays a role in the rising abortion figures in Scotland,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC contacted TikTok about some of the videos on its platform that carry misinformation about the side effects of hormonal contraceptives.\n\nTikTok said it had reviewed the content which had been flagged to it and taken down videos that violated its rules on medical misinformation.\n\nWhile social media may be one factor, BPAS said the current cost-of-living crisis was also forcing women to make difficult choices due to financial pressures.\n\n\"People are having to make the decision to end a pregnancy that might have been wanted but they really have to ask themselves difficult questions,\" Ms Grieve said.\n\n\"Can they afford to pay their mortgage? Can they afford to feed their other kids?\"\n\nBPAS said waiting times for contraception and a lack of sex education for young people may also be contributing to the record number of abortions.\n\nCondoms are the only type of contraception that can protect against STIs and prevent pregnancy.\n\nWomen are also turning to social media to share their own personal experiences of different birth control options, and there is growing conversation about the side effects many experience.\n\nMariya, from Paisley, had a contraceptive implant placed in her arm but said the hormones affected her mental health.\n\nMariya from Paisley suffered anxiety while she had the contraceptive implant\n\nThe implant is a small rod that sits under the skin on the arm and releases hormones over three years to prevent pregnancy. It is more than 99% effective, according to the NHS.\n\nMariya, 22, said that while she had the implant her anxiety was \"spiralling out of control\".\n\n\"I was scared to go outside my flat, I was scared to go to Tesco, I was calling in sick to work,\" she said.\n\n\"I nearly stopped eating. Looking back, that was probably one of the darkest moments I've been in.\"\n\nMariya is just one of thousands of women who say they have moved away from hormonal contraception due to side effects, but social media is awash with similar experiences.\n\nMatilda, from Leek in Staffordshire, says her mental health was severely impacted by hormonal contraception.\n\nAfter a negative experience on the Mirena coil - and having already tried the injection and various pills - Matilda wanted to do something different.\n\nThe 24-year-old found what she thought was an alternative to hormonal contraception called Natural Cycles.\n\nIt markets itself as digital contraception and the company says it has 2.5 million registered users.\n\nThe app, which is not yet recommended for use by the NHS and considered by some as more of an aid rather than birth control, is heavily advertised on social media by influencers.\n\nUsing an algorithm to track and predict ovulation, Natural Cycles indicates the fertile window during which someone may fall pregnant.\n\nMatilda was using a contraceptive app when she became pregnant with her daughter Penelope\n\nUsers take their temperature every morning and input that data into the app.\n\nNatural Cycles says the app is effective from day one and that it will only indicate \"green days\" - when a user can have unprotected sex - when it has enough data to do so.\n\nMatilda was using the app and immediately started following its predictions by having unprotected sex on \"green days\" and avoiding sex altogether on \"red days\".\n\nShe said: \"I just saw green and red. Most people think if you sat at a traffic light, red means stop, green means go.\n\n\"I assumed that I entered my data meant that they knew enough about my body and my cycle that I could be having unprotected sex.\"\n\nMatilda fell pregnant using the app and now has a 10-month-old baby girl.\n\n\"It just wasn't something I think I was quite ready for at the age I was,\" she said.\n\n\"Obviously I've come to terms with it now - and I love it now - but it was definitely a massive shock.\"\n\nNatural Cycles told BBC Scotland News that no method of contraception was 100% effective even when used perfectly. Its website says Natural Cycles is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use.\n\nIt said: \"Less than one in 100 women become pregnant due to the algorithm assigning a green day when a user is fertile and the method's real-life effectiveness is the same as its published rates.\"\n\nMatilda doesn't want to go back on hormonal contraception because she says her experience with the coil was so bad.\n\nBut - in the rising tide of misinformation online - are other women and girls like her getting the right information they need, to make the right choice for them?\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story you can visit BBC Action Line\n\nShould I Quit My Birth Control? Investigating the growing trend in social media influencers pushing women towards natural birth control methods.", "A commuter with a portable handheld fan on the tube\n\nSaturday is expected to be the hottest day of the year as September's warm weather reaches its peak.\n\nThe UK experienced its hottest September day since 2016 on Wednesday, with 32C (89F) recorded in Kew Gardens in west London.\n\nHeat-health alerts have been upgraded to amber for much of England, with only the North East under a yellow one.\n\nIt means people of all ages could be affected, putting the NHS at risk.\n\nAreas of West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Devon and Wales all hit the heatwave threshold on Tuesday, the Met Office said, although the hottest temperatures did not pass June's 32.2C high - the current hottest day of the year.\n\nSaturday could see temperatures reach as high as 33C in London, although it will be cooler further north.\n\nOn Wednesday much of England and Wales remained in the high 20s. But areas of north-east Scotland and the north of England experienced cooler temperatures due to sea fog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How hot will it get this week?\n\nMost of Scotland and Northern Ireland saw temperatures in the mid-20Cs and there could be some isolated thunderstorms overnight into Thursday in some northern and western areas.\n\nThere is a chance of tropical nights in the south of England, defined as temperatures being over 20C, with Wednesday and Thursday threatening to break the September night time record of 21.7C.\n\nA temperature of 30C has already been recorded in the UK for three consecutive days, matching the record for September, the Met Office said.\n\nThe hot spell is being driven by tropical storms pushing high pressure over the UK, the Met Office said.\n\nMeteorologist Amy Bokota said 13 weather stations had officially recorded a heatwave on Tuesday and she expected \"a few extra\" would be added to that list over the coming days.\n\nHeatwave criteria are met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting the heatwave threshold - which varies between 25C and 28C across the UK.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said air quality would deteriorate for many during the second half of the week, partly due to the sunshine and heat.\n\n\"Under areas of high pressure pollutants get trapped and build up,\" he said. \"South-easterly winds also help to bring in polluted air from industrial parts of northwest Europe.\"\n\nThe worst conditions look to be on Friday and Saturday, before improving later in the weekend as the breakdown of the mainly hot and dry weather begins across the north-west of the UK.\n\nHow are you coping with the hot weather? Get in touch.\n\nEnglish regions included in the amber warning are: London, the South East, the South West, the East and West Midlands, the East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nAll eight were issued with a yellow warning on Monday but this has now been upgraded.\n\nThe North East is the last remaining region to have a yellow alert in place - this means that the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions should take extra care.\n\nIt also means officials do not believe there will be a significant impact on the NHS in the area.\n\nThe hot weather comes after what has generally been regarded as cool, wet summer for much of the UK.\n\nWhile July in particular was wetter and cooler than average with the maximum temperature failing to regularly reach 20C, the previous month was the UK's hottest June on record.\n\nAverage temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week, with changes starting to be seen over the weekend.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe Met Office has also explained the reason for some \"picturesque\" sunsets across the UK.\n\nForecasters say it is due to \"Saharan dust\" which began to cover parts of the country yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Summer weather: will there be a heatwave?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A portrait of David Harewood has been unveiled in the drawing room at Harewood House near Leeds\n\nActor David Harewood has said the government should \"100%\" apologise for Britain's role in the slave trade.\n\nThe Homeland star has discovered his ancestors were enslaved on sugar plantations in Barbados.\n\nHe told the BBC the government's failure to say sorry was \"detrimental to the many thousands of people in the country who are descended from slaves\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has previously said \"trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward\".\n\nHarewood's ancestors were enslaved on plantations owned by the Lascelles family, the Earls of Harewood, who built Harewood House, a vast 18th Century stately home near Leeds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's still not easy': Actor David Harewood on his family's slave history\n\nNo expense was spared, with furniture by Thomas Chippendale, landscaping by famed garden designer Capability Brown and portraits by Reynolds and Gainsborough.\n\nBut it was financed with the proceeds of slavery. The Lascelles made their fortune and gained their title on the back of an inhumane trade.\n\nHarewood's ancestors, like all slaves, were forced to take the name of their owners.\n\n\"The only reason that my name is Harewood is because of slavery,\" the star said. But even he didn't know that story until recently.\n\nHarewood House was built in the 18th Century with money that the current earl's ancestor made from the slave trade\n\nWhen the actor visited Harewood House while in his thirties and working at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, he thought the shared name was a coincidence.\n\n\"It's only later in life that I've realised that significance and that connection.\"\n\nHarewood and David Lascelles, the current Earl of Harewood, are now acknowledging their shared history by placing a portrait of the actor on display among the family portraits in Harewood House's grand Cinnamon Drawing Room.\n\nThe Earl of Harewood said: \"Being honest about the past is the only way to start to address the prejudices of the present.\"\n\nThe current Earl of Harewood commissioned the portrait of David Harewood by Ashley Karrell as part of Harewood House's Missing Portraits series\n\nThe portrait by Ashley Karrell is part of a series called Missing Portraits, which addresses the lack of diverse representation in the Harewood collection.\n\nThe earl said their families \"interlock in a weird and dark way\", adding: \"We can't change what's happened, but we can change what happens now.\n\n\"I'd like people to think we'd tried our best to make a difference here.\"\n\nDavid Harewood hopes that when visitors \"see a picture of a black person that they may recognise from the television, they will enquire as to why his picture is there, and then they'll understand… all of the unpaid work that my ancestors did, and the brutality of what they suffered… helped build this house\".\n\nThe issue of how to address the sins of slavery is very current. Barbados is leading calls for reparations, which Harewood supports. The descendants of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone recently travelled to Guyana, the latest family to apologise for their ancestors' links to the slave trade.\n\nAbout five million enslaved Africans were taken to the Caribbean, nearly half of whom were brought to the British Caribbean\n\nLike the actor, the earl believes the British government should make a formal apology.\n\n\"I think that needs to be something that happens at a national level… At the moment, with our feeble prime minister, there's absolutely no sign of that happening, sadly.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Sunak said the focus should be on \"understanding our history and all its parts, not running away from it, but right now making sure we have a society that's inclusive and tolerant of people from all backgrounds...\n\n\"But trying to unpick our history is not the right way forward and is not something we'll focus our energies on.\"\n\nThe current earl has not said sorry for his own family's involvement.\n\n\"I've always felt rather ambiguous about apologising for something I haven't done personally,\" he said, adding the family had spent about £1m on community projects and opened up its archives.\n\nJoshua Reynolds painted this portrait of Edwin Lascelles, Baron Harewood, who built Harewood House from the proceeds of slavery\n\nIf Harewood requested a personal apology, he \"probably would [give one] if he asked me directly\", he said.\n\nWe looked through handwritten family papers dating back to when the Lascelles acquired the Thicket and Fortescue plantations in Barbados in 1787. They list \"Slaves Stock and Utensils\" - itemising Thicket's 238 slaves as worth £45 each.\n\nGoats, hogs, sheep and cattle are listed above slaves.\n\nParticularly poignant and shocking is the reference to six \"negroes of no value\".\n\nThis document relating to the acquisition of the Thicket and Fortescue plantations by Edwin Lascelles in 1787 lists the purchase of \"230 negroes\", of whom six are dismissed as \"of no value\"\n\nWhen slavery was abolished, slave owners were compensated. Between 1835 and 1836, Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood, received £26,307 for 1,277 slaves - worth an estimated £2.6m in today's money.\n\nSlaves received nothing as part of the deal.\n\nThe injustice of slavery means none of this is straightforward for David Harewood. He has wrestled with getting involved with a family that benefitted from his ancestors' pain.\n\nHe told me of feeling at times \"deeply uncomfortable\" when sitting in the house.\n\n\"There's a part of me that just wants to scream and burn the place down... But I'm not sure what that would achieve.\"\n\nDavid Harewood was the first black actor to play Othello at the National Theatre in 1997\n\nHe also believes Harewood House is a \"testament to the resilience of my ancestors\", and is impressed by the earl's desire to be accountable for the past.\n\n\"Whenever black people attempt to talk about the legacy of slavery, it's somehow seen as doing Britain down,\" he said.\n\nIn fact, he said, both men are trying \"to acknowledge that very uncomfortable past and to try and find a way through to a constructive conversation that sparks debate\".\n\nIn his memoir, Maybe I Don't Belong Here, Harewood described himself as \"a black kid from Small Heath in Birmingham who dared to dream of a life amongst Hollywood stars\".\n\nHe's been on stage and screen as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and, in 1997, was the first black actor ever to play Othello at London's National Theatre.\n\nNow his portrait also sits in one of the country's grandest aristocratic homes. \"The ancestors, I think, would be amazed at this.\"\n\nThe portrait is on view at Harewood House from Friday, 8 September.", "The Commonwealth Games was hailed as the start of a so-called \"golden decade\" for the city\n\nA former adviser to Birmingham City Council has said the hosting of the Commonwealth Games was a mistake given its legacy of financial problems.\n\nMax Caller said last summer's event had been a \"challenge too far\" for a council beset with difficulties.\n\nThe authority is to stop all but essential spending amid an outstanding £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.\n\nUrgent talks are taking place following Tuesday's announcement that the Labour-run council was effectively bankrupt.\n\nThe local authority has an £87m hole in its budget this year and might have to spend up to £100m to fix a botched IT system.\n\nMr Caller is a former non-executive director of the council and was appointed in 2019 to try and help it deal with historical financial problems.\n\nHe told the Today programme the Commonwealth Games, which was awarded to the city in December 2017, had diverted the authority's focus away from finding solutions.\n\n\"The problem with councils that are in trouble is they just need to focus on getting better, rather than trying to do nice new things,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a limit to the amount of political and managerial capacity and if you're spending time doing Commonwealth Games you cannot cope with the serious problems that you already face.\n\n\"The advice that I gave, and that others gave, to officers and members at the time was that this was likely to be a challenge too far.\n\n\"If it were me, I wouldn't have done it.\"\n\nHe said while the games had been an \"amazing event\", it had moved effort away from addressing \"the underlying problems that had been around since before 2015\" and the council's focus should have been on \"doing the basics\".\n\nHe added: \"You can't do nice things if you haven't done the boring really well.\"\n\nThe games were awarded to Birmingham in December 2017 and held in the city in August 2022\n\nAs news of the desperate situation unfolded on Tuesday, taxpayers demanded to know which services could be at risk, with fears over road maintenance, libraries and cultural projects.\n\nPat Hollingshead runs a charity in Druids Heath which receives funding from the city council and fears for its future.\n\n\"I think it is going to have an impact on everybody but my concern is that I run a community centre and we do a food bank, we do lunch club, we do warm space,\" she said.\n\n\"Since the pandemic we have now got the older generation back in the hall for the lunch club but if anything happens to the building it will just put them all back in isolation.\n\n\"[Spending cuts] will have a big impact on Druids Heath because we were supposed to be having a regeneration as well.\n\n\"I just don't know what will happen.\"\n\nKynton Swingle is worried about the knock-on effects on the community\n\nKynton Swingle works for the Fox Hollies Community Association in Acocks Green which caters to people of all ages from lower income households.\n\nIt receives funding from the council and provides services like mother and toddler groups, youth clubs, warm hubs, lunch clubs for the elderly and community gardens.\n\nBut Kynton is worried about how the changes will affect the people he supports.\n\n\"We've seen our numbers increase massively over the last 12 months,\" he said, \"particularly with the warm hubs we offer.\"\n\n\"We've found that there are more families needing food hampers, free school uniforms, somewhere just to meet and come to.\"\n\nShirley East said she does not understand how the council has \"gone bust\"\n\nShirley East, who was attending its luncheon club, said: \"I don't understand how come they have gone bust. Everybody pays their council tax and pays taxes.\n\n\"I wouldn't like them to close these places because it is the only places I've got to go now.\"\n\nEli Holland, manager of Birmingham Central Foodbank, has concerns about a possible reduction in the support for those struggling financially.\n\nWhile his service does not rely on council funding, he said cuts to support services \"would have a massive, detrimental impact\" on many of the people he helps.\n\n\"We are hopeful that the council's commitment to continue funding core services will include providing for those around our city who are experiencing poverty.\"\n\n\"Tough decisions\" will have to be made over cuts to services, said the city council's leader\n\nCouncil leader John Cotton told the BBC \"tough decisions\" would need to be made but statutory services like social care, waste collections and protecting the vulnerable would continue.\n\nHowever, the viability of large-scale events, such as the annual German Christmas Market, will now be under severe scrutiny.\n\nThe council's funding of the 2026 European Athletics Championships at the city's Alexander Stadium is also unclear.\n\nThe Conservative mayor for the West Midlands, Andy Street, said the region's combined authority may have to step in and fund certain projects if the city council walks away from them.\n\nMayor Andy Street has said the West Midlands Combined Authority is stepping in to fund projects\n\n\"There's one high profile investment project that we have already stepped into and it has happened, I can't say what it is, it is confidential and literally later today we've got other discussions about others that might come up,\" he said.\n\n\"I am determined that the council's problems do not stop the investment in the future of this city because that is the way in the long term we get out of some of the difficulties we face.\"\n\nMeanwhile, talks are continuing to safeguard the thousands of jobs at the city council.\n\nSharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union - which represents hundreds of workers, said: \"Birmingham City Council's workers must not pay the price for the council's or central government's incompetence and financial mismanagement.\n\n\"Our members undertake vital frontline services that are essential for the communities they serve and they should not be impacted through no fault of their own.\"\n\nJohn Kent, leader of the Labour group on Thurrock Council, said people in Birmingham will notice changes soon\n\nThurrock Council in Essex declared itself bankrupt in December and the leader of its Labour opposition, John Kent, warned people in Birmingham they were likely to see noticeable changes in the city - and quickly.\n\n\"We've seen dirtier streets, grass being cut less frequently, our only theatre is now under threat and every subsidised bus route in the borough was just cancelled,\" he told BBC WM.\n\nHe also said council tax in Thurrock rose by 10% last year and was likely to increase by the same again this year.\n\n\"That's the situation we will be in for many years to come. People are rightly very, very angry.\"\n\nMore than 10,000 council employees were asked last month if they want to leave as the authority began a voluntary severance scheme\n\nOn Tuesday evening, the government revealed it had been \"engaging regularly\" with the council in recent months \"over the pressures it faces, including around its equal pay liability, and have expressed serious concern over its governance arrangements\".\n\n\"We have requested written assurances from the leader of the council that any decision regarding the council's issues over equal pay represents the best value for taxpayers' money,\" a spokesperson for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said.\n\nMore than 10,000 council employees were asked last month if they wanted to leave as the authority launched a voluntary severance scheme to help tackle the equal pay claim, which is rising by between £5m to £14m a month.\n\nThe council declared a Section 114 notice which means it can no longer balance its budget and cannot commit to any new spending.\n\nBut all local authorities have a list of statutory services they must provide, these include education, children's safeguarding and social care, adult social care, waste collection, planning and housing services, road maintenance and library services.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), Rishi Sunak criticised Labour over Birmingham City Council's financial state.\n\nTory MP for West Bromwich East, Nicola Richards, said: \"People in the West Midlands are disappointed to see that Labour-run Birmingham City Council has gone bankrupt.\n\n\"Does the Prime Minister agree that Labour have demonstrated yet again that they always run out of other people's money?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prime minister responded: \"She is exactly right. We started by hearing how Labour in London are charging hardworking people with Ulez.\n\n\"Now we are hearing about how Labour in Birmingham are failing hardworking people, losing control of taxpayers' money and driving their finances into the ground.\n\n\"They've bankrupted Birmingham, we can't let them bankrupt Britain.\"\n\nBefore PMQs, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was asked whether he would consider a bailout for Birmingham if he was in power.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"If you take a step back from Birmingham, you'll see there are versions of this across the country and that is because for 13 years local authorities have been stripped of the funding they need.\n\n\"So we will have to look at that again.\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer says local authorities have been long underfunded\n\n\"Frankly, this is a version of a question which is being to put to me every day which is, how on earth is an incoming Labour government, if we are privileged to come into power, going to fix the complete mess everywhere across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"There are things we can do but I think this is the latest example, we've seen councils across the country struggling, of all political persuasions because of the underfunding over many, many years.\"\n\nJonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, added that Birmingham City Council's declaration was a \"sobering moment\" .\n\n\"Questions will no doubt be asked about decision-making and governance in Birmingham,\" he said\n\n\"But questions should also be asked about an inconsistent, fragmented and short-term funding system that is driving dozens of councils across the country to financial ruin.\n\n\"Birmingham is the biggest council to fail so far, but unless something changes, it won't be the last.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales scandal.\n\nMontse Tome has been named as his successor, becoming the first woman to hold the position.\n\nSpain's win was overshadowed by the country's football federation president Rubiales kissing forward Jenni Hermoso, which she said was not consensual.\n\nMost of Vilda's coaching staff resigned and 81 players refused to play for Spain in the aftermath.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign but has been provisionally suspended by Fifa, football's world governing body.\n\nIn a statement, Spanish federation the RFEF did not give a specific reason for Vilda's dismissal, saying he had been \"a promoter of the values ​​of respect and sportsmanship in football\".\n\nHowever, the RFEF has been exploring whether it could sack 42-year-old Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - since last week.\n\nThe RFEF called the move \"one of the first renewal measures\" announced by interim president Pedro Rocha, who has taken on the role while Rubiales is suspended by Fifa.\n\nVilda was spotted applauding Rubiales at the RFEF's extraordinary general assembly earlier in August - when Rubiales repeatedly insisted he would not resign and said he would offer Vilda a new deal - though he has since criticised his behaviour.\n\n\"The RFEF appreciates [Vilda's] work at the head of the national team and in his functions as the head of sports for the women's teams, as well as the successes achieved during his time crowned with the recent achievement of the World Cup,\" said the RFEF.\n\n\"We value his impeccable personal and sporting conduct, being a key piece in the notable growth of women's football in Spain.\"\n\nTome, a former midfielder who won four caps for Spain, was part of Vilda's coaching team.\n\nThe 41-year-old will lead Spain into Uefa Women's Nations League qualifying later this month, with fixtures against Sweden and Switzerland on 22 and 26 September.\n\nThe RFEF said: \"She knows the locker room very well and also has extensive knowledge of the excellent national youth team.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nVilda, who had been in charge of the national team since 2015, survived a player 'revolt' in September 2022, when the RFEF released a statement revealing 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\n'Las 15' - as the players became known - denied claims they had asked for Vilda, who has always maintained the support of Rubiales, to be sacked, but tension followed amid reports of concerns over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nOf those 15, just three ended their exile and were back in the squad as Spain beat England in the World Cup final in Sydney last month.\n\nVilda oversaw 108 matches as Spain coach, winning 75, and reached the European Championship quarter-finals in 2017 and 2022.\n\nThe World Cup winners are currently second in the Fifa women's world rankings.\n\nThe RFEF's statement added: \"The RFEF would like to express its gratitude to Jorge Vilda for the services provided, for his professionalism and dedication during all these years, wishing him the best successes in the future.\n\n\"The RFEF is left with an extraordinary sporting legacy thanks to the implementation of a recognised game model and a methodology that has been an engine of growth for all the women's categories of the national team.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Rocha apologised to the \"whole of the football world\" for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\" of Rubiales.\n\nRocha said he plans to \"give back the spotlight\" to the women's team after their World Cup victory was overshadowed.\n\nA lengthy statement said: \"The Royal Spanish Football Federation, through its president, Mr. Pedro Rocha, considers it is essential to present the most sincere apologies to the football institutions, the players, especially the players of the Spanish National Football Team and the English National Football Team, stakeholders involved in football and the fans around the world for the totally unacceptable behaviour of its highest institutional representative during the final of the Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 and in the moments that followed.\n\n\"The damage caused to Spanish football, to Spanish sport, to Spanish society and the values ​​of football and sport as a whole have been enormous.\n\n\"The RFEF wants to transmit to the whole of society and to the whole of the football world its utmost regret for what happened that has tarnished our team, our football and our society.\n\n\"We must apologise most sincerely and make a firm and absolute commitment that events like these can never happen again.\"\n\nOn Monday, Spain's men's players condemned his \"unacceptable behaviour\", expressing their \"regret and solidarity with the players whose success has been tarnished\".\n\nAfter insisting he would not resign in a speech days after the World Cup final, Rubiales said the kiss with Hermoso was consensual, while the RFEF said it would take legal action over her \"lies\".\n\nRocha said he \"regretted\" the incident had \"negatively impacted what should have been a continuous celebration of football\".\n\n\"The performance of Mr. Rubiales both at that moment and in the hours that followed are not acceptable under any circumstances and for this reason the RFEF immediately withdrew from its website all those inappropriate and meaningless communications that did not value what was achieved by the national team and did not take into account the statements by the player about these events.\n\n\"To be clear, this position was that of Mr. Rubiales, not that of the RFEF. We feel especially sorry and ashamed for the pain and additional distress this has caused.\"\n\nRocha added: \"I want to congratulate our team once again for its historic triumph, recognising the impact and legacy that this victory will have on the future of Spanish football. We are convinced that their spirit has inspired millions of people of all ages, and we cannot be prouder of the way they have behaved, both inside and off the field of play.\n\n\"In due time, I intend to give them back the spotlight and celebrate their achievements as they deserve.\"\n• None Will Jessie and Tom rekindle the old flame?:\n• None Boot Dreams: Now or Never: Roman Kemp and Bruno Fernandes give rejected players a second chance at the game they love", "Leigh Griffiths was playing for Dundee at the time of the incident\n\nFormer Scotland and Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths has been fined a total of £17,000 for kicking a smoking flare into a crowd of rival supporters.\n\nThe player admitted endangering St Johnstone fans during a League Cup match while he was playing for Dundee.\n\nA court was told Griffiths was on loan from Celtic and was fined £15,000, two weeks wages, by the club.\n\nHe was also fined £1,000 by Dundee, and received a further £1,000 fine at Dundee Sheriff Court.\n\nGriffiths had flown back from Australia for the court appearance and will return for promotion play-offs with his current team Mandurah City this weekend.\n\nThe court was told Griffiths is currently playing for nothing and the outcome of the court case would have a bearing on whether he would be granted a visa for longer-term work in Australia.\n\nGriffiths, 33, previously admitted acting in a culpable and reckless way by kicking the pyrotechnic device into a group of 1,800 away fans on 22 September 2021.\n\nHe admitted striking David Soutar with the smoke bomb. The device stained Mr Soutar's jeans but did not cause injury.\n\nDepute fiscal Lora Apostolova told the court that St Johnstone scored a goal and two smoke bombs had landed on the pitch.\n\nShe said: \"The accused ran from about 40 yards away towards the area where the smoke bombs landed and kicked one towards the stand where the St Johnstone fans were.\"\n\nShe said the flare flew into a crowd of people and struck Mr Soutar at the bottom of his leg. She said fans captured the incident on their phones as they filmed the post-goal celebrations.\n\nSolicitor Larry Flynn, defending, said Griffiths was frustrated by the smoke bomb holding up the re-start of the match.\n\nHe said the steward who would have cleared the device had not been given the go-ahead to do so.\n\nMr Flynn told the court Griffiths had apologised for the incident prior to the police becoming involved.\n\nGriffiths said: \"It is regrettable it ended up in the stand.\n\n\"My intention was to move it from the pitch.\n\n\"Having just lost a goal I was eager to get the match re-started as quick as possible and I would like to apologise for the distress caused by my actions.\"\n\nSheriff Way said: \"No-one was harmed and I accept he wasn't doing it as revenge or to stir up the enemy.\n\n\"I am conscious of the fact the game now seems to be driven by money.\n\n\"It seems appropriate that he has suffered financial penalties here.\"", "A 52-seater bus and a car crashed on a bridge in Pembrokeshire on Tuesday afternoon\n\nA man has been killed after the car he was driving crashed with a 52-seater coach.\n\nThe driver of the coach was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the crash near the Cleddau Bridge in west Wales on Tuesday.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has confirmed the driver of the car died at the scene and his next of kin are being supported.\n\nPolice said 24 of the coach passengers, tourists from Cumbria, were taken to hospital and have all been discharged.\n\nA major incident was declared by fire crews after a driver was trapped and \"many\" bus passengers suffered injuries in the crash on Tuesday at 14:15 BST.\n\nThe main road between Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven has since reopened.\n\nTitterington Holidays, based in Penrith, Cumbria, has confirmed its coach was involved in the crash.\n\nTitterington Holidays' owner Paul Titterington has confirmed one of the company's coaches was involved in the crash\n\nOne of the holiday firm owners Paul Titterington said the coach passengers were on a five-day trip and were a mix of ages.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that it was \"worrying to hear news of a major incident on the Cleddau Bridge\" in Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"My thoughts are with all those involved and my thanks to the first responders and emergency services working at the scene,\" he said.\n\nA man was airlifted to hospital after the crash at the Cleddau Bridge near Pembroke Dock\n\n\"Crews responded to a road traffic collision involving one 52-seater bus and one private motor vehicle,\" Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nFire crews cut free \"a severely trapped driver\" who was later flown to hospital by air ambulance.\n\n\"Several of the bus passengers suffered with various injuries and many of them were taken to hospital by road ambulances and police vehicles,\" the statement added.\n\nThe air ambulance and five emergency land ambulances attended the scene on Tuesday afternoon as fire crews worked to free the trapped driver and also gave first aid to injured passengers.\n\nThe main A477 road from Pembroke Dock to Milford Haven and Haverfordwest was shut westbound for the remainder of Tuesday as accident investigation work was carried out but has since reopened.\n\nLauren Joseph was trying to cross the bridge after work, travelling to her home near Milford Haven just after the crash - and faced an hour-long, 35-mile diversion.\n\n\"As I got there the council advised me to go the long way around at the Carew roundabout due to an incident,\" she said.\n\n\"I am currently doing 20mph on a 60mph because of the congestion caused by the crash.\"\n\nDyfed-Powys Police are appealing with anyone with information relating to the incident to contact the force.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara's mother describes moment she saw her body\n\nThe mother and grandmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have said they hardly recognised her in the mortuary, because she was so badly injured.\n\nSara's mother Olga Sharif said \"One of her cheeks was swollen and the other side was bruised.\n\n\"Even now, when I close my eyes I can see what my baby looked like.\"\n\nSara was found dead on 10 August at her home in Woking. Police want to speak to three family members in relation to their murder investigation.\n\nShe had been living at the Surrey property with her father, her father's partner, her uncle and her five brothers and sisters.\n\nHer father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, and the rest of the family all flew to Islamabad on 9 August.\n\nPolice in Pakistan are trying to locate them on behalf of detectives in Surrey who say they want to speak to three adults. Surrey Police said the post-mortem investigation revealed Sara suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\" that were likely sustained over an extended period of time.\n\nIn the interview - with the Polish television programme Uwaga! on the channel TVN - Olga Sharif said she had separated from Urfan Sharif in 2015. Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the family court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights.\n\nSara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nOlga Sharif, who is originally from Poland but now lives in the UK, said that at first she was able to see her two children regularly but then things got harder.\n\n\"Their stepmother wrote to me not to come anymore because the children did not want to see me,\" she told TVN.\n\n\"It's not normal that once the children were happy, and arguing about who would talk to Mum first, and then the kids don't even want to talk to me on the phone and are calling me the worst names.\"\n\nIt is not clear when this happened, and the BBC has been unable to contact Beinash Batool for a response.\n\nSylwia Kurz said her daughter would like the son she had with Urfan Sharif to be returned to her.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\n\"Olga would very much like to have him, so that he can be with her.\"\n\n\"She would like to get her son back, as we all would.\"\n\n\"My grandson is 13 years old, after all, so he must have known why Sara didn't fly with them.\"\n\nOlga said that when she was married to Urfan Sharif he had mistreated her. The BBC has been unable to contact Urfan Sharif to respond to her claims.\n\nThe full interview is being shown in Poland on TVN's programme \"Uwaga!\" at 19:55 local time.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The government says it closed down parts of some schools in England because of evidence about unsafe concrete.\n\nBut problems with the material have been known about for many years. Questions are now being raised about the timing of big decisions on funding for school buildings.\n\nScores of public buildings constructed with new concrete\n\nBetween the 1950s and 1990s the material, known as RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete), was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls.\n\nBut its short lifespan means its use in permanent buildings has caused problems.\n\nUse of RAAC is stopped as concerns emerge\n\n1994: Concerns about the risks of using RAAC in public buildings started to appear in research.\n\n1996: Excessive cracking and corrosion was found in some roof planks that had been designed before 1980.\n\nThe finding - from a former government-owned research laboratory called the Building Research Establishment - led to the use of RAAC being effectively stopped.\n\nHowever, the report also said: \"There is no evidence so far to suggest that RAAC planks pose a safety hazard to building users\".\n\n1999: Owners of buildings with pre-1980 RAAC were to told to get them inspected. The advice came from a body set up to spot risks to building safety - the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS).\n\n2010: Spending on education infrastructure reached its peak in 2010 - the final year of the last Labour government. During its 13 years in power, school spending on areas including buildings and computers had risen steadily.\n\nLabour also ran a scheme called Building Schools for the Future, which was later axed by the new Conservative-led government. A government-commissioned review of the programme said value for money had been consistently poor. A National Audit Office report said the costs were higher than they needed to be because of avoidable delays and extensive reliance on consultants by local authorities.\n\n2014: Investment fell under the coalition government and reached its low-point in 2014.\n\nHowever, in the same year, the government launched its own schools building scheme. This led to an increase in spending - which is still in place - but not at 2010 levels.\n\n2017: A three-year inspection programme was launched by the government. Part of its aim was to look at the materials such as RAAC in schools.\n\n2018: A concrete block fell from the ceiling of a school in Kent, more than 20 years after the BRE's report about excessive cracking.\n\nThe incident prompted warnings from both the Local Government Association and DfE. Organisations responsible for school buildings were told to take steps to confirm the safety of their construction.\n\n2019: Schools with 40-year-old RAAC planks were told they had now passed their expected service life. SCOSS - which issued the alert - added that schools should consider replacing the planks.\n\n2019: Following the completion of the inspections of school buildings, Jonathan Slater - the top civil servant in the DfE at the time - said they concluded that between 300 and 400 schools needed replacing each year.\n\n2020: In order to maintain, repair and rebuild schools for the next years, the DfE said it would require £4bn a year.\n\n2021: A pledge to rebuild 500 schools over the next decade was announced by the government in its Spending Review. However, this amounts to only about 50 a year.\n\nFebruary 2021: The DfE issues a guide on how to identify RAAC. A questionnaire was sent out the following year to organisations responsible for school buildings, asking whether they had any of the material.\n\nSeptember 2022: Surveyors were sent into schools to see if there was RAAC present and to rate it as \"critical\" or \"non-critical\", following the launch of a government programme.\n\nIn the same month, a stark warning that \"RAAC is now life-expired and liable to collapse\" was issued by the Office of Government Property.\n\nJune 2023: The government was told that insufficient funding was making the risk more severe by the National Audit Office - an independent watchdog that tracks government spending.\n\nThe government is spending £15bn - or about £1.7bn a year - on \"maintaining and improving the condition of school buildings and grounds\". However, that is significantly less than the amount the DfE previously said was needed to bring school buildings up to scratch.\n\nAugust 2023: A RAAC panel failed at a school in England that would have been classed as non-critical.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said the incident led her to take action - just days before the new school year was due to begin.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland's Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka and Harry Kane and seven Manchester City players are on the 30-man shortlist for the 2023 Ballon d'Or.\n\nCity's Erling Haaland is one of 12 Premier League players nominated.\n\nArgentina legend Lionel Messi is the overwhelming favourite to win and extend his record to eight Ballons d'Or after winning the World Cup.\n\nMidfielder Bellingham and striker Kane both moved clubs this summer - to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich respectively.\n\nTreble-winning Manchester City are represented by record-breaking goalscorer Haaland, Kevin de Bruyne, Ruben Dias, World Cup winner Julian Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Rodri and Josko Gvardiol.\n\nCroatia defender Gvardiol was not at City last season but Ilkay Gundogan, now at Barcelona, was and he also makes the shortlist.\n\nThe other Premier League nominees are Arsenal's Saka and Martin Odegaard, Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, Manchester United keeper Andre Onana and Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.\n\nThere are two players who left European clubs this summer - Messi, who joined Inter Miami from Paris St-Germain, and current holder Karim Benzema, who left Real Madrid for Al-Ittihad.\n\nFive-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Al-Nassr, was not nominated for the first time since 2003.\n\nBellingham, who joined Real from Borussia Dortmund this summer, is one of 10 nominees for the best young player award, the Kopa Trophy.\n\nNew Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund is also nominated.\n\nArsenal and England's Aaron Ramsdale is one of four Premier League goalkeepers on the 10-man shortlist for the Yashin Trophy, for the world's best keeper.\n\nOnana, Manchester City's Ederson and Aston Villa's Martinez, a World Cup winner with Argentina, are the others.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, arriving to Tuesday's cabinet meeting, urged schools to respond to a government survey on concrete\n\nThe education secretary has said she is sorry the call to close some schools over unsafe concrete came at the \"worst time\" just before the start of term.\n\nGillian Keegan, speaking on BBC Radio 2, also told 5% of schools who had not replied to a survey about RAAC concrete to \"get off their backsides\".\n\nMore than 100 schools in England have closed or partially closed and some are struggling to secure building surveys.\n\nOne company said temporary classrooms could take up to six months to build.\n\nSchools are returning from their summer break this week, but the risk posed by collapse-prone reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has resulted in full or partial closures and some pupils are learning online.\n\nSpeaking to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, Ms Keegan said she had to take action after three incidents during the summer involving RAAC - one in a school outside England, one in England and at a commercial property.\n\n\"I had to make a decision right at the end of August which was the worst time,\" she said.\n\n\"I am very sorry about the timings but I 100% think it was the right decision.\"\n\nA list of schools that have been identified as having the potentially dangerous concrete will be published \"before Friday\", schools minister Nick Gibb said.\n\nMs Keegan said she had two lists - the initial list of schools asked to close buildings last week, and another of schools that are suspected to contain RAAC and are going to be surveyed in the next fortnight.\n\nShe added there could be hundreds of schools affected.\n\nThe education secretary said the government was waiting on questionnaires sent to schools to see how prevalent RAAC concrete was.\n\n\"There's RAAC all over the world ... in March 2020 we'd asked all the responsible bodies to survey for RAAC - we went to 20,000 schools and the vast majority don't have RAAC.\"\n\nCriticising schools in England that had not yet responded to the survey, she said: \"Hopefully all this publicity will make them get off their backsides\".\n\nHowever, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, said \"any attempt to start shifting the blame onto individual schools will be seen by parents and public for what it is: a desperate attempt by government to deflect from its own significant failings\".\n\nDaniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said it was \"outrageous\" of Ms Keegan to \"lay any responsibility... at the door of schools\", saying the Department for Education (DfE) had been \"dragging its heels over many years on this issue\".\n\nEarlier, Hina Robinson, chair of governors and parent of a child at Wyburns primary school in Rayleigh, Essex, told the BBC that the DfE had provided some phone numbers of engineers but none were available for remedial work.\n\n\"The focus is on 'how can we get children back into learning in a building of some sort',\" Ms Robinson said, adding some children will return to online learning until a space can be found.\n\nShe said online learning was \"very difficult for the children,\" but even those who were able to be on site face disruption as \"classrooms are set up in places that aren't meant to be classrooms\".\n\nJoshua Wedgewood, a student at St Leonards Catholic School in County Durham, is learning online as his school is temporarily closed because of RAAC concrete concerns.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was like being back in the Covid pandemic, saying: \"On a screen it's just not real life, it's isolating, it's being stuck inside your home. It's not nice.\"\n\nJames Saunders is a head teacher at Honywood School, Essex, where about half of the rooms are unusable and some students are learning online.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live that he has explored the option of setting up marquees outside the school as \"they're quicker to set up than a mobile classroom\".\n\nDavid Wernick, boss of the Wernick Group - which provides portable buildings - told the BBC the situation was \"akin to what happened at the beginning of Covid\", when hundreds of test centres were set up around the UK.\n\nKieran Webberley, of Wernick, estimated a \"simple\" temporary building would take \"days, a couple of weeks maximum\" to construct while a more \"bespoke modular\" two-storey temporary building that could house 10 rooms would take anywhere between two to six months depending on its complexity and could cost up to £2,000 per square metre.\n\nWernick Group subsequently said this figure was incorrect, but declined to provide a different number.\n\nBrian Berry, chief executive at the Federation of Master Builders, said: \"Local builders tend to have full schedules months ahead, so may struggle to cater for the scale of the issue facing schools, like putting up portable classrooms at speed, to ensure children don't miss lessons.\"\n\nMeanwhile safety consultant Damini Sharma said RAAC could be present in more buildings, including social housing, courts and hospitals but was potentially difficult to detect because it was often covered.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that RAAC was was a very lightweight, porous material that was used predominantly from the 50s to the 80s\" and \"not really suitable for permanent structures\".\n\nThe information about the lifespan of the material was not available when it was first used, she said.\n\nThe head of the spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, accused the government of taking a \"sticking plaster approach\" to carrying out essential maintenance on school buildings.\n\nGareth Davies said the \"unflashy\" job of repairs has been neglected.\n\nBut schools minister Mr Gibb said the response to the crisis had been \"world-leading\".\n\nMr Gibb added that his department bid for 200 school refurbishments a year in 2021 - but the Treasury only funded 50.\n\n\"The Treasury has to take into account all the other bids from across Whitehall,\" he said.\n\nHe said that since Rishi Sunak became prime minister, an additional £4bn had been allocated in revenue funding for schools in England, which meant £59.6bn will be in the budget next year - a \"record amount\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"unforgivable\" that children were missing the start of term because of potentially unsafe buildings.\n\n\"Children are not at school today because of the action the government has failed to take in relation to schools,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, Ms Keegan apologised after being caught swearing on mic as she expressed frustration at a lack of gratitude for the handling of the school building crisis in England.\n\nShe made the comments just after finishing an interview with ITV news while the camera was still filming.\n\nA No 10 source told the BBC those comments by Ms Keegan were \"wrong\", but in a follow-up interview Ms Keegan apologised for her \"choice language\".\n\nUpdate 8 September: This article was updated after Wernick Group said the figure they gave as the estimated cost of a \"bespoke modular\" two-storey temporary building was incorrect.", "The expert team found the risks of RAAC concrete had been underestimated\n\nTens of thousands of government and privately owned buildings should be safety checked because of crumbling RAAC concrete, experts say.\n\nThe team that alerted the government to the problems posed by the concrete said safety checks will need to be regular.\n\nThe Loughborough University team told BBC News about their research and their advice for dealing with the problem.\n\nProf Chris Goodier said most affected buildings were probably not dangerous but should be inspected just in case.\n\n\"We've suddenly found out that a certain proportion of our building stock is not as good as we thought it was,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a small proportion but we have millions of buildings - even if its just one per cent of 10 million that's 100,000,\" he said.\n\nCrush test. Wet Raac on the left breaks up much easier than a dry sample\n\nProf Goodier said that as well as government buildings such as hospitals, court houses and prisons, an unknown number in the private sector offices and warehouses were also potentially affected because they contained the concrete, also known as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)..\n\nHis team is advising the government to send surveyors to assess the affected buildings, most of which the researchers expect to be found not to have any dangerous flaws. But they will require regular inspections.\n\nThe holes in the RAAC make it light enough to float whereas normal concrete sinks. But RAAC absorbs water.\n\nOthers buildings may need areas reinforced or have certain areas closed and a small number may need to be rebuilt.\n\nBut in the longer term, the team says a new approach will be needed of regular inspections and management of possibly tens of thousands of buildings, according to Prof Sergio Cavalaro from the Loughborough team.\n\n\"Buildings that were not inspected will now need to be inspected. We need to intensify these inspections. But that will be a challenge because there are so many buildings that need inspections. So we may lack the qualified people to do it in a timely fashion,\" he said.\n\nThe term the researchers are using is \"living with RAAC\" and say the material should be dealt with in the same way as the asbestos crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIt won't be clear exactly how much RAAC is involved until the assessments are conducted, according to Prof Goodier.\n\n\"There are 40 really big hospitals which have 10,000 RAAC planks in the ceiling and some have spent £10m to look after that. There are 22,000 schools and they found 150 with RAAC but they vary in size a lot some will be tiny ones.\n\nUnder the microscope cracks appear next to the steel rod on the upper right that would otherwise go unseen.\n\n''But the public sector is the easy bit because the government has control over that and knows where it is. But when you move to the private sector - you are mainly looking at 1960s, 1970s offices, factories and warehouses and possibly some housing where you may not know who owns it,\" Prof Goodier said.\n\nIt was the Loughborough team's research that showed that the potential risks of RAAC were greater than previously thought. Although the material has been used for decades, there has been very little research into what happens when it ages.\n\nThe team started looking into the issue two years ago, on behalf of the NHS.\n\nThey found three main factors that had not been fully taken into account by risk assessors.\n\nAll this is made more likely by a lack of proper maintenance, say the researchers.\n\nTo make matters worse, these problems aren't really apparent until the material breaks.\n\n\"Collapse after something looks like it's going to collapse is one thing, it's collapse without warning is the worry,\" says Prof Goodier.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had been guided by expert advice. \"That professional advice from experts on RAAC has evolved over time, from advice in the 1990s that RAAC did not pose a safety hazard to more recent advice on identifying and assessing structural adequacy,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your story about RAAC by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "King Charles will be deploying his French language skills when he addresses France's Senate on a royal state visit later this month.\n\nEarlier this year the King won over an audience of politicians in Berlin when he delivered much of his speech to the Bundestag in German.\n\nThis is a rescheduled trip, after the initial plans were cancelled because of street protests over pensions.\n\nThe King will attend events in Paris and Bordeaux, says Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis three-day trip to France, from 20 to 23 September, was originally intended to be the symbolic first state visit for King Charles and Queen Camilla, prioritising the need to strengthen European ties that had been frayed by Brexit.\n\nBut that was overtaken by events in March, when demonstrations over pension changes made it impossible to go ahead, particularly when rioters set fire to one of the planned venues.\n\nAt present there are not understood to be concerns about disruptions, which had been aimed at French politicians rather than the state visit.\n\nThe rearranged dates will now overlap with the Rugby World Cup, and it is expected that there could be photo-opportunity meetings with sports stars.\n\nSuch state visits are carried out on the advice of the government and the intention is to reinforce the close business, cultural and military ties with France, including support for Ukraine.\n\nThere will be a full ceremonial agenda, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron, with events in Paris at the Arc de Triomphe, the Elysee Palace and a state banquet at the Palace of Versailles.\n\nThe King, on his 35th official visit to France, will become the first British monarch to speak in the Senate to members of both houses of the French parliament.\n\nIf he follows the example of his German speech to the Bundestag, there will be a charm offensive with multilingual cultural references and jokes, this time delivered in the interests of the entente cordiale.\n\nThe German trip, which became the King's inaugural state visit, was seen as a diplomatic success, and a Foreign Office spokesperson said such trips produced a positive impact on trade.\n\nQueen Camilla, reflecting her interest in writing, will launch a Franco-British literary prize during the stay.\n\nWhile the Paris events will focus on formalities, the trip to Bordeaux will address interests in the environment and tackling climate change.\n\nThis will include meeting emergency workers who helped to tackle wildfires and a trip to an organic vineyard.\n\n\"The state visit will celebrate Britain's relationship with France, marking our shared histories, culture and values,\" said Chris Fitzgerald, the King's deputy private secretary.", "For weeks on end, Australian nursery owner Humphrey Herington has been racking his brain to identify the elusive thief eating his seedlings.\n\nAt first he thought it was escaped goats. Then perhaps a pesky possum.\n\nThe last thing he expected was to walk into work one day and find a \"cheeky\" koala, dazed and too stuffed to move, surrounded by stripped eucalypt plants.\n\n\"He looked like he was full. He looked very pleased with himself,\" Mr Herington told the BBC.\n\nStaff are now building a koala-proof fence around their seedling tables to thwart the marsupial - dubbed Claude - whose snacking on several thousands plants has cost the nursery A$6,000 (£3,000; $3,800).\n\nIronically, the plants Claude devoured were being grown to boost koala habitats in the region - the species is endangered.\n\nThe team at Eastern Forest Nursery, near Lismore in northern New South Wales, had first noticed plants were being chewed a few months ago.\n\n\"There weren't really any signs - there was no tracks or anything - to indicate what it could have been,\" Mr Herington said.\n\nThey set a possum trap - to no avail - and even examined animal droppings for clues. But the culprit was only caught when they became a little too greedy.\n\n\"We came out to work one morning and there he was, sitting there on a pole.\"\n\n\"And there were lots of plants missing that morning... I guess that day he must have had a really big feed and was too tired to go back to his tree.\"\n\nWith Claude unmasked as the leaf thief, Mr Herington gently wrapped him in a towel and moved him to some trees about 300m (984 feet) from the nursery.\n\n\"But a couple of days later, he came back and continued with his nightly visits,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Herington isn't mad, he's rather amused. Koalas aren't exactly known for their agility or ingenuity.\n\n\"I just couldn't believe that it was a koala,\" he said. \"I was shocked but I was also... a little bit impressed.\"\n\nTinged with that though, is concern.\n\n\"I've been here for 20-odd years and this hasn't really happened before,\" Mr Herington said. \"Is it that there is a shortage of food?\"\n\nIn 2022, koalas were listed as endangered along most of Australia's east coast, after a dramatic decline in numbers.\n\nThe once-thriving marsupial has been ravaged by land clearing, bushfires, drought, disease and other threats.\n\nIn 2021 a NSW inquiry found koalas would be extinct there by 2050 unless there was urgent action. There may be as few as 50,000 of the animals left in the wild, some conservation groups say.", "The lido is near the River Cam Image caption: The lido is near the River Cam\n\nPelham Wilson has been visiting the same swimming pool in Cambridge for 50 years, but today, being one of the hottest days of the year, feels special.\n\nJesus Green Lido, which sits between the River Cam and trees is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Today temperatures neared 30C (86F)\n\nAnna Jackson, a garden designer, tells PA that the lido is \"magical\".\n\n\"I've been coming here since I was about six, and it's heaven, absolute heaven.\n\n\"It's right in the centre of Cambridge, it's a complete jewel, I feel like I've taken a holiday for a couple of days in a couple of hours.\n\n\"Just the clear blue with the sun shining on it - everyone sounds happy.\"\n\nThe pool celebrates its 100th anniversary this year Image caption: The pool celebrates its 100th anniversary this year\n\nPelham explains that at one stage authorities were thinking of splitting the pool in two and having a heated pool and a non-heated pool.\n\n\"I think that would have been a mistake - it's a pretty unique atmosphere here.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United say they are taking allegations made against winger Antony \"seriously\" after he was accused of abusing his former girlfriend.\n\nPolice in Sao Paulo and Greater Manchester are investigating the claims, which the player has denied.\n\nThe 23-year-old was withdrawn from the Brazil squad after news of the allegations emerged.\n\nUnited said: \"Manchester United acknowledges the allegations made against Antony and notes that the police are conducting enquiries. Pending further information, the club will be making no further comments.\n\n\"As a club we are taking this matter seriously, with consideration of the impact of these allegations and subsequent reporting will have on survivors of abuse.\"\n\nAntony said on social media: \"I can calmly state that the accusations are false and that the evidence already produced and the other evidence that will be produced demonstrate that I am innocent of the accusations made.\"\n\nAntony is accused of attacking his former girlfriend Gabriela Cavallin \"with a headbutt\" in a Manchester hotel room on 15 January, leaving her with a cut head which needed treatment from a doctor.\n\nShe also alleges she was punched in the chest, causing damage to a silicone breast implant, which required corrective surgery.\n\nAntony added in his statement on Monday that his relationship with his former partner was \"tumultuous\", but insisted he \"never committed any physical aggression\".\n\nHe also released a statement in June saying he had been falsely accused by his former girlfriend of domestic violence.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it is \"aware of the allegations made and enquiries remain ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding this report\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not be commenting any further at this time.\"\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "A former officer who was taken hostage in Peterhead Prison during a siege in 1987 has died aged 93.\n\nJackie Stuart - then aged 57 - was held for five days when 50 inmates took control of a hall in a protest over conditions at the jail.\n\nThe siege ended when SAS troops stormed the building.\n\nMr Stuart was a key figure in the setting up of the Peterhead Prison Museum which opened in 2016 and helped give tours there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe museum said in a statement: \"Jackie was instrumental in setting up the museum and has been a stalwart since we opened.\n\n\"His dedication to the museum was evident for all to see and for those lucky enough to meet him while visiting we know it was always the highlight of your experience.\"\n\nThe siege took place against a backdrop of unrest in Scottish prisons. There had been a number of disturbances and roof top protests over the previous year at other jails including Edinburgh's Saughton and Barlinnie in Glasgow.\n\nPeterhead Prison, which was known among inmates as \"The Hate Factory\", already had a reputation for disturbances and there had been a riot the year before.\n\nThe prison was overcrowded and conditions were hard. The cells had no sanitation facilities, which meant inmates had to \"slop out\" every day, taking their waste out of their cells in the morning.\n\nPrisoners, many of whom were from the central belt, were also angered by being placed in north-east Scotland, a long distance from friends and family.\n\nThe siege in September 1987 began when 50 inmates took control of D-hall and took two officers hostage.\n\nOne of them, Bill Florence, was stabbed by a prisoner in the initial riot. He was released after a day but Mr Stuart was held for five days, repeatedly beaten, paraded on the roof 90ft (27m) above the ground, and threatened with being set on fire.\n\nThe siege ended when soldiers from the SAS force stormed the building. They used stun grenades and gas to overwhelm the remaining prisoners in an attack which lasted three minutes.\n\nThe siege lasted for several days\n\nMr Stuart later recalled: \"I was paraded along the roof with a chair round my neck and petrol in my pockets.\n\n\"They were going to set fire to me if they didn't get something but it never came to that.\"\n\nMr Stuart had six weeks off work after the end of the siege before returning to his duties.\n\nPaying tribute to his contribution to their work, the museum added that \"our hero\" was \"gone but never forgotten\".\n• None The prison riot that ended with the SAS", "The UK is expected to re-join the EU's flagship research scheme, Horizon, with an announcement likely on Thursday.\n\nTalks on the UK becoming a fully-fledged member of the EU's €100bn (£85bn) programme again began after a deal was cut on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland earlier this year.\n\nAccording to sources in Brussels, there has been movement in EU-UK talks.\n\nDowning Street and the European Commission have yet to comment.\n\nThe UK's associate membership of Horizon was agreed in principle as part of the Brexit Trade and Co-operation Agreement, but the issue became bogged down in the dispute about the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe higher education sector is likely to give the news, first reported by Bloomberg, a big welcome.\n\nUniversities and researchers have repeatedly warned that the uncertainty over whether the UK would re-join was extremely damaging.\n\nSources within government have also indicated that the UK will re-join the EU's space programme, Copernicus, but not its nuclear research scheme, Euratom.\n\nPeter Kyle, the shadow science minister, said the country had \"missed out on two years of innovation\" whilst being outside of the Horizon programme.\n\nRe-joining the scheme would allow the UK to start \"unlocking all the potential we have in this country\", Mr Kyle said.\n\nMinisters had drawn up a plan B, known as Pioneer, as an alternative.\n\nThe government always insisted it was deadly serious about the possibility of going it alone with the Pioneer programme, although it wasn't their preferred option.\n\nFigures within government have previously suggested that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was genuinely torn.\n\nOn the one hand, re-joining Horizon would help repair EU-UK relations and potentially play well with those who deeply disliked Brexit.\n\nOn the other hand, Mr Sunak was said to be keen to get \"value for money\" as well as build credibility with Leave supporters who might favour a clean break.\n\nThe UK had been expected to remain associated with the scheme after Brexit but it soon became apparent that Brussels was blocking Britain's return.\n\nThat's because the EU was angry at the government's failure to fully implement a deal on post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.\n\nUntil that issue was resolved, it was clear that Horizon association would not be possible.\n\nThen, in February, Rishi Sunak signed a deal with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen - the Windsor Framework.\n\nThat paved the way for talks on Horizon, which look as though they're finally reaching their culmination.\n\nIt's a further moment of reconciliation between the UK and the EU following the bitter disputes over Brexit that followed the 2016 Leave vote.", "Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson opens the Labour-led debate in Parliament, which seeks the release of Department of Education papers which she says \"would tell us what has, and what hasn't been happening in our schools\".\n\nShe says the government again refused to release the papers yesterday, and the PM again evaded questions about them during PMQs.\n\nShe goes onto say the motion is about more than the documents being sought, about more than RAAC, and about more than schools and their safety.\n\nShe says today it is quite simply about responsibility: \"Whether the PM was told that urgent action was needed to secure the safety of schools, when instead he slashed the cost of champagne.\"\n\nShe goes onto say the issue is also about whether he will \"accept responsibility for the choices he makes, or whether he will be clear where responsibility lies\".", "A further 1,300 staff at the collapsed retailer Wilko are to lose their jobs.\n\nAdministrators PwC, who are overseeing the chain's sale, said 52 stores would close due to an \"absence of viable offers for the whole business\".\n\nWilko fell into administration in August after struggling with losses.\n\nA full rescue of the chain is hanging in the balance after a deal tabled by HMV's owner stalled, but rival retailer B&M said it would buy up dozens of Wilko's shops.\n\nHowever, the GMB union said Wilko workers at stores bought by B&M would not be transferred over and would still be made redundant.\n\nThe GMB said it was making enquiries about whether current Wilko staff could be given \"preferential treatment\" in applying for any B&M jobs that might become available.\n\nAnd the fate of a further 300 stores remains uncertain, with proposals put forward by HMV's Doug Putman understood to have been held up due to funding issues.\n\nWilko was founded in 1930 and by the 1990s had become one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers. Today it employs around 12,500 people.\n\nBut the discount chain has faced strong competition in recent years from rivals including B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains.\n\nThe majority of Wilko stores are also on High Streets, which are struggling to attract shoppers with competition from suburban retail parks with car parking.\n\nThe GMB, which represents about 4,000 Wilko staff, said some 1,016 redundancies would be made at 52 shops across the country, with affected staff to be informed at 10:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nIt added that 24 of Wilko's stores will close next Tuesday, with a further 28 to shut by Thursday next week.\n\nPwC added that a further 299 redundancies would take place at Wilko's two distribution centres in Worksop and Newport, with roles being cut on Thursday.\n\nSome 269 roles have already been cut at Wilko's support centre.\n\nWhile the administrators said they were pleased by the £13m B&M deal, they also said it was clear that in discussions with potential bidders that some stores were not of any interest.\n\n\"In the absence of viable offers for the whole business, very sadly store closures and redundancies of team members from those stores are now necessary, in addition to the already announced redundancies at the support centre and distribution centres,\" said Edward Williams, joint administrator at PwC.\n\nAdministrators said they were continuing to \"explore all interest in the remainder of the business and are actively working with potential buyers\".\n\nSome retailers such as Dunelm and Toolstation have urged Wilko employees to apply for roles.\n\nAndy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB union, said officials were \"doing everything we can to secure a deal that would protect the majority of jobs and stores\".\n\nHe said the latest announcement would be of \"little comfort for those not knowing how they'll pay their bills\".\n\n\"Every single redundancy is a person who will wake up facing an uncertain future,\" he added.\n\n\"The reality is years of mismanagement have led us here.\"\n\nAre you a current employee at Wilko? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None B&M buys up to 51 stores from collapsed rival Wilko", "A 10-year-old boy who was \"loved by all around\" has died after falling from a rope swing.\n\nLewi Sullivan from Rassau, near Ebbw Vale, fell to the ground while he was out playing with his friends on Friday.\n\nA passer-by spent 20 minutes trying to revive him before paramedics arrived. He was flown to Noah's Ark Hospital, Cardiff, but died three days later.\n\nIn a tribute his dad Nigel Sullivan said: \"Lewi was a fantastic, caring and loving son.\"\n\nThe 44-year-old added: \"He really was every father's dream, and we had this brilliant father and son bond.\n\n\"I was proud to bits of him, and I know he was really proud of me, not only as a father, but also as a friend.\n\n\"We had a very strong friendship bond as well as being father and son and that was really special to me.\"\n\nLewi, who lived with his dad Nigel, step-mother Louise and his two brothers, was described as \"the best child a dad could ask for\".\n\nHis parents - including mum Falina - thanked those who tried to help their son including paramedics from the air ambulance.\n\nNigel said his son was \"the best child a dad could ask for\"\n\nNigel said: \"I just want to thank everyone who tried to help Lewi - the kids who were with him when it happened, and even some passers-by.\n\n\"I know one guy tried to help him for almost 20 minutes before the ambulance arrived.\n\n\"The air ambulance was out of this world, the paramedics were fantastic, the police incredible.\n\n\"All of the professionals who helped him were incredible.\"\n\nHe also said Lewi, who died on Monday, was \"an absolute gem of a child\".\n\n\"He loved his rugby and motorbikes and he loved being in lorries and machines with me.\n\n\"He was loved by all around here and he would stop and speak to anybody.\n\nLewi loved rugby and motorbikes and he loved being in lorries and machines with his dad\n\n\"He was such a lovable kid. He was a real loveable rogue, a real character with a wicked sense of humour.\"\n\nNigel said Lewi was \"proud\" to be part of Beaufort rugby club.\n\nA Beaufort RFC spokesman said: \"As a club, we are truly devastated by the passing of one of our mini bulls Lewi.\n\n\"You were the funniest and most outgoing little lad who loved playing rugby for Beaufort RFC.\n\n\"You will sadly be missed by many.\"\n\nA fundraising page has been set up to raise funds for the Air Ambulance and the Noah's Ark paediatric critical care unit at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Florida man was arrested after trying to \"run to London\" across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.\n\nThe US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.\n\nOfficials said the 44-year-old marathon runner refused to leave the vessel for three days.\n\nMr Baluchi has tried three similar voyages before, all of which ended in Coast Guard intervention.\n\nThe makeshift contraption he was using is shaped as a wheel, with paddles that are designed to propel it forward as the wheel revolves.\n\n\"Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage,\" the criminal complaint says.\n\nMr Baluchi's voyage began as officials were preparing for the arrival of a major hurricane.\n\nOfficials said he refused to step off the vessel and threatened to kill himself. He also claimed that he had a bomb on board, according to court papers.\n\nOn 1 September, he eventually surrendered and abandoned his vessel after being brought to a Coast Guard base in Miami.\n\nOfficials later determined that the \"bomb\" had been fake.\n\nHe is now facing federal charges of obstruction of a boarding, and violation of a Captain of the Port order.\n\nIt is unclear whether he has obtained a lawyer to represent him in his criminal case.\n\nThis was not Mr Baluchi's first arrest for taking to the ocean in his vessel, which he calls a \"bubble\".\n\nIn 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.\n\nIn 2014, he had to be rescued from a similar contraption near St Augustine, and then two years later he again had to be rescued off the coast of Jupiter, near Palm Beach in Florida.\n\nAccording to previous interviews, Mr Baluchi said he was attempting the voyages to raise money for a variety of causes, including for the homeless and the Coast Guard.\n\n\"My goal is to not only raise money for homeless people, raise money for the Coast Guard, raise money for the police department, raise money for the fire department,\" he told WOFL-TV in Orlando in 2021.\n\n\"They are in public service, they do it for safety, and they help other people.\"", "The 52 Wilko shops set to close next week due to the chain's collapse have been named.\n\nAdministrators PwC said 24 shops would close next Tuesday, with a further 28 to shut on Thursday, 14 September due to the \"absence of viable offers\" for the whole company.\n\nMore than 1,000 staff are being made redundant as hopes of a rescue deal for the business hang in the balance.\n\nEdward Williams, joint administrator at PwC, said the closures and job losses were necessary due to lack of buyers for the whole business.\n\n\"The loss of these stores will be felt not only by the team members who served them with such dedication, including through the uncertainty of recent weeks, but also the communities which they have been a part of,\" said Mr Williams.\n\nAdministrators announced more than 1,300 redundancies on Tuesday, with job losses at the 52 stores as well as Wilko's distribution and support centres.\n\nThe following stores will close on 12 September:\n\nThe following stores will close on 14 September:\n\nStaff at the affected shops were told of the job losses at 10:00 BST.\n\nRival B&M has agreed a £13m deal for up to 51 of Wilko's buildings, but the fate of the brand and a further 300 stores remains uncertain, with a bigger rescue package put forward by HMV's Doug Putman understood to have been held up due to funding issues.\n\nPwC said \"active discussions with parties interested in buying parts of the business\" were continuing and that it was \"committed to preserving as many jobs as possible\".\n\nBut it warned that it was possible that \"further store closures may regrettably be necessary\".\n\nThe retail chain, a stalwart of the High Street for decades, fell into administration in August after struggling with losses. It has around 12,500 staff and 400 shops\n\nWilko was founded in 1930 and by the 1990s had become one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers. But the chain has faced strong competition in recent years from rivals including B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains.\n\nSome retailers such as Dunelm and Toolstation have urged Wilko employees to apply for roles.\n\nAre you a current employee at Wilko? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Some took the chance to have a quick dip in the ocean at Seapark near Holywood, County Down, to escape the heat\n\nWednesday was the third consecutive day where a temperature in Northern Ireland reached 25C or higher.\n\nIt officially marked the current spell of weather as a heatwave - the last of which was at the end of June.\n\nTemperatures reached 25.5C at the Giant's Causeway and 25.3C at both Armagh and Stormont on Wednesday.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a heatwave is when temperatures exceed 25C for at least three consecutive days.\n\nOn Thursday, temperatures are forecast to reach 27C or higher, challenging the current September maximum of 27.6C.\n\nThat was recorded in Armagh on 1 September 1906 - more than 100 years ago.\n\nDespite being hotter on Thursday, there will also be a risk of showers and a possible thunderstorm.\n\nThe warm weather is expected to continue through the rest of the week with temperatures well above the early September average.\n\nOn Tuesday, Castlederg in County Tyrone was the hotspot, recording a maximum temperature of 26.4C.\n\nIt was the highest since 26.4C was recorded at Helen's Bay, County Down, on 24 June.\n\nAnnalong's coastal path has been popular with walkers in County Down\n\nOver the weekend, there will be a slight drop in temperature, and it will feel a little fresher by Sunday.\n\nThere will also be a risk of thundery showers over the weekend.\n\nAlong the north coast, beachgoers have managed to catch a bit of sunshine and surf, like in Portballintrae\n\nParts of the east coast may be plagued by areas of sea mist drifting northwards up the Irish Sea.\n\nThis will subdue the temperature on some of the beaches in counties Antrim and Down.\n\nNight-time temperatures are expected to remain high too, in the mid or high teens until early next week.\n\nFarmers like this one in the Craigantlet Hills, County Down, have also been taking the advantage of the good weather\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a yellow weather warning for later this week has been issued for \"very warm and humid weather\".\n\nMet Éireann said daytime temperatures could exceed 27C, with night-time temperatures not falling below 15C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe meteorological service said it could lead to heat stress, uncomfortable sleeping conditions, and a risk of water-related incidents.\n\nThe warning is in place from 08:00 local time on Thursday until 08:00 on Saturday morning.", "The number of schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) and which had building projects cancelled in 2010 has risen to 17, BBC research has found.\n\nThey had been set for rebuilding under a Labour scheme, later scrapped by the Conservative-led government.\n\nSchool buildings have now been closed because potentially dangerous RAAC has been found.\n\nThe analysis raises questions about whether schools could have been helped earlier with government investment.\n\nBBC Verify looked at schools listed as having their building projects \"stopped\" in 2010 and then checked these names against a list of schools affected by RAAC (as of 30 August), published by the Department for Education. on 6 September.\n\nSeventeen schools, which had work cancelled in 2010, are on it.\n\nBefore the publication of this list, BBC Verify had found 13 of these schools on a RAAC list, compiled by the BBC.\n\nWe double-checked the names of the schools as they were in the 2010 list and as they are now in the official 2023 schools census data.\n\nThe Labour scheme - Building Schools for the Future (BSF) - was a £55bn project to renew every secondary school in England, rebuilding half of them and refurbishing or remodelling the rest.\n\nIt was ditched by the coalition government, which launched its own school building scheme in 2014.\n\nThe then education secretary Michael Gove said BSF was characterised by \"massive overspends, tragic delays, botched construction projects and needless bureaucracy\".\n\nThere was criticism of the scheme in a National Audit Office (NAO) report and a review of the scheme - commissioned by the government - found the allocation of funding for school buildings had been \"complex, time-consuming, expensive and opaque\".\n\nLabour has defended its scheme for \"rebuilding schools, the length and breadth of the country\".\n\nWhile there were questions about the value for money in the project, the structural issues for a significant number of schools applying for BSF funding were real.\n\nMore than 700 projects were shelved. Mr Gove's department published a list of schools affected in 2010.\n\nThis list stated which ones had work \"stopped\" but did not detail what this work was.\n\nWe don't know whether any of the schools cited problems with concrete in their bids to the BSF scheme.\n\nA lot more is known now about RAAC in schools, particularly after an incident at a school in Kent in 2018, but it's likely that any major rebuilding work would have replaced this problem concrete.\n\nThe schools which had work stopped in 2010 and now appear on the government's RAAC list are:\n\nThe government says the schools have introduced \"mitigations\" which include remote learning. Two have delayed the start of their terms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on the government response to crumbling concrete\n\nMany of the 17 schools have had some building work investment since 2010, according to reports in local media.\n\nThis ranges from refurbishment of a dining hall and toilets to new art and sports blocks.\n\nThe London Oratory School in Fulham had RAAC removed during work on its DT Block and Sixth Form common room, but it is still present in roofing panels elsewhere on the school site.\n\nThe Bromfords School in Essex, which missed out on BSF funding, was on a list of schools that successfully applied for government funding in 2022-23, some of which was to tackle RAAC.\n\nWe have contacted all of the schools involved.\n\nResponding to our findings, a Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said it was on track to rebuild its target of 500 schools over the next decade as part of the Schools Rebuilding Programme.\n\n\"That is on top of 520 schools already delivered since 2015 under the Priority Schools Building Programme,\" they said, adding that the School Rebuilding Programme was in its early stages so more construction projects would start in the next year.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the crumbling concrete crisis a \"national scandal\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while BSF was expensive and over ambitious \"it was saying something important - that the nation's schools needed to be refurbished\".\n\n\"What we've got today in some of those schools is head teachers scrambling around trying to identify concrete that might look like Aero bars when they should be focusing children's learning and development.\"\n\nGovernment minister Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast the BSF programme \"clearly couldn't have resolved the problem\" of RAAC on its own, since it only applied to secondary schools, and there are far more primary schools\".\n\nDo you know of a school that is affected? Share information in confidence by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Air Canada said it was 'reviewing this serious matter'\n\nAir Canada has apologised after kicking two passengers off a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-smeared seats.\n\nSusan Benson, who was on the Las Vegas-Montreal service, said the pilot warned the passengers they would be put on a no-fly list if they kept complaining.\n\nShe added that staff had tried to cover \"a bit of a foul smell\" with perfume and coffee grounds.\n\nAir Canada said the passengers \"clearly did not receive the standard of care to which they were entitled to\".\n\n\"We didn't know at first what the problem was,\" Ms Benson posted on Facebook of the flight late last month.\n\n\"Apparently, on the previous flight someone had vomited. The flight attendant was very apologetic, but explained that the flight was full.\"\n\nShe said staff \"placed coffee grinds in the seat pouch and sprayed perfume\", but that the seat and seatbelt were \"wet and there was still visible vomit residue\".\n\nMs Benson said the pilot came out of the cockpit after several minutes of \"back-and-forth\".\n\nThe passengers were told \"they could leave the plane… and organise flights on their own dime, or they would be escorted off by security and placed on a no-fly list!\"\n\nThey were then escorted off by security.\n\nMs Benson said the row made her \"ashamed to be a Canadian and ashamed of Air Canada\".\n\nAir Canada said it was \"reviewing this serious matter\" and that \"operating procedures were not followed correctly in this instance\".", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nThe father of Sara Sharif claimed his daughter's death was an accident, the 10-year-old's grandfather has said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Muhammad Sharif - the father of Urfan Sharif, Sara's dad - said he saw his son after he arrived in Pakistan.\n\n\"It was an accident, he didn't tell me how it happened,\" said Muhammad, and that Urfan had left the UK out of fear.\n\nPakistan police have been hunting for Urfan, his partner and his brother for weeks but have failed to find them.\n\nUK police want to speak to the three family members in relation to their murder investigation - but the trio left the UK for Pakistan on 9 August, the day before Sara's body was found in Woking, Surrey.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Muhammad confirmed that he did see his son in Pakistan when Urfan came to Jhelum, the city he was raised in and where many of his family still live.\n\nWhen asked why Urfan came to Pakistan if the death was an accident, Muhammad replied: \"Because of fear.\n\n\"His daughter died and when you go under so much trauma, obviously you can't think properly.\"\n\nAsked how he felt about his son travelling to Pakistan, Mr Sharif said: \"All I can say is that they should have faced the case. They should have stayed there and faced it instead (of coming to Pakistan).\"\n\nHe said: \"They will ultimately go back to the UK and face their case.\"\n\n\"I have a deep sorrow that my granddaughter passed. The grief will stay with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sara Sharif's grandfather speaks to the BBC about her death\n\nHe said she had visited Pakistan twice. \"Everything about her was so beautiful. You cannot single out one thing, she was a very lovely granddaughter.\"\n\nHe had a direct message for his son, Urfan, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik. They left the UK on 9 August and police want to speak to all three in relation to the murder investigation.\n\n\"Wherever they are, they will be able to listen to this. I say they should come out, defend their case, whatever it is. They should answer the questions. I don't say they should stay in hiding.\"\n\nThe family are thought by Pakistan police to have landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August, travelled to the city of Jhelum where they stayed for a few days, stopping for a few hours in the village of Domeli and leaving on 13 August.\n\nMuhammad denies that he has been in touch with Urfan recently. The police told the BBC that the family initially said Urfan had not been to see them at all. Muhammad said that this was not correct, that he never denied seeing his UK-based son.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nUrfan's Pakistan-based family have taken Jhelum police to court twice, accusing them of detaining several of Urfan's brothers and brothers-in-law illegally. On the first occasion the police said they would not arrest them further. In court on Tuesday, the police denied holding them; the judge told the police they must produce a report in the next two weeks explaining what has happened.\n\n\"We have had so many problems the last three weeks,\" Muhammad Sharif told us. \"Some of my sons are on the run, others are with police. No one is making contact with us because of fear of the police.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has denied it is changing plans to force messaging apps to access users' private messages if requested by the regulator Ofcom.\n\nThere has been a stand-off between the UK government and tech firms over a clause in the Online Safety Bill relating to encrypted messages.\n\nThese are messages that can only be seen by the sender and recipient.\n\nThe Bill states that if there are concerns about child abuse content, tech companies might have to access it.\n\nBut platforms like WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage say they cannot access or view anybody's messages without destroying existing privacy protections for all users, and have threatened to leave the UK rather than compromise message security.\n\nThe debate has raged for several months and for some it has turned into an argument about privacy versus the protection of children. The government insists it is possible to have both.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill is due to become law in autumn and cleared its final stage in the House of Lords on Wednesday before returning to the commons.\n\nThe government has denied that its position has changed. In a statement in the House of Lords, the minister, Lord Parkinson, clarified that if the technology to access messages without breaking their security did not exist, then Ofcom would have the power to ask companies to develop the ability to identify and remove illegal child sexual abuse content on their platforms.\n\nIndeed, the Bill already stated that the regulator Ofcom would only ask tech firms to access messages once \"feasible technology\" had been developed which would specifically only target child abuse content and not break encryption.\n\nThe government has tasked tech firms with inventing these tools.\n\n\"As has always been the case, as a last resort, on a case-by-case basis and only when stringent privacy safeguards have been met, [the Bill] will enable Ofcom to direct companies to either use, or make best efforts to develop or source, technology to identify and remove illegal child sexual abuse content - which we know can be developed,\" said a government spokesperson.\n\nSome security experts suggest such tech tools may never exist, and the tech firms themselves say it is not possible.\n\nHead of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, posted on X Wednesday that \"the fact remains that scanning everyone's messages would destroy privacy as we know it\".\n\nMeredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, has previously said it was \"magical thinking\" to believe we can have privacy \"but only for the good guys\".\n\nShe told the BBC that the firm welcomed the latest clarification which was \"a good start to incorporating the voices of human rights defenders into the final stages.\n\n\"We hope to see more progress over the next days, ideally making stronger commitments in the text of the bill,\" said Ms Whittaker.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said in reaction to the minister's clarification that in practical terms this meant the powers to access private messages would not be deployed: \"The government is still technically taking the power but is placing so many conditions on its use it cannot to my mind ever be used.\"\n\nBut some campaign groups warned nothing had changed. Index on Censorship told the BBC that the Bill was \"still a threat to encryption and as such puts at risk everyone from journalists working with whistleblowers to ordinary citizens talking in private.\n\n\"We need to see amendments urgently to protect our right to free speech online,\" it added.\n\nAnd Matthew Hodgson, who runs the British-based messaging platform Element, said \"all 'until it's technically feasible' means is opening the door to scanning in future rather than scanning today.\"\n\nIt was merely \"kicking the can down the road\" in his view.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation - which finds, flags, and removes images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web said that in its opinion it was already technically feasible to scan encrypted messaging systems while preserving privacy.\n\n\"As far as we can see, the Government's position on this has not changed\", it said.\n\n\"We know technologies exist, now, which can do this - with no more invasion of privacy than a virus guard or spam filter\".\n\nAnother view is that this is an attempt at a last-minute diplomatic resolution in which neither the tech firms nor the government lose face: the government says it knew all along that the tech did not exist and removes immediate pressure from the tech firms to invent it, and the tech firms claim a victory for privacy.\n\nCurrently, the two most viable tech solutions are to either break the encryption - which would leave a backdoor open to any bad actors who found it - or introduce software which scans content on a device. It is called client-side scanning and has been dubbed \"the spy in your pocket\" by critics.\n\nChildren's charities like the NSPCC have described encrypted messaging as the \"front line\" of child abuse because of privacy settings.\n\nBut privacy campaigners say everybody has a right to privacy protection.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Urfan Sharif does not speak during the video, while his partner Beinash Batool reads from a notebook\n\nSara Sharif's father and stepmother claim they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities in a video - their first public comments since her death.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police want to speak to her father Urfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and brother Faisal Malik in relation to a murder investigation.\n\nThey are known to have travelled to Pakistan from the UK on 9 August and police have been unable to locate them.\n\nIn the low-quality footage Mr Sharif does not speak while Ms Batool reads from a notebook.\n\nShe spends only two sentences on Sara, describing her death as an \"incident\".\n\nMs Batool ends the video saying that they are willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nThe BBC was sent the video but has been unable to verify their account. Nor was the BBC able to verify the conditions under which the video was filmed or the location.\n\nIn a statement responding to the video, Surrey Police said \"clearly this is significant\" and it had been working with Interpol, the Foreign Office and the National Crime Agency to work out the next steps.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, progressing these enquiries through the appropriate channels has to be handled carefully and sensitively,\" the force said.\n\n\"Any co-operation from the people we want to speak to will assist the enquiry.\"\n\nAn inquest held last month heard the precise cause of death was \"not yet ascertained\" but was likely to be \"unnatural\".\n\nHer mother Olga Sharif told Polish television she hardly recognised Sara in the mortuary because of her injuries.\n\nThe majority of the 2 minute and 36 second-long video filmed by Mr Sharif and Ms Batool consists of allegations that the Pakistan police are harassing the couple's extended family, illegally detaining them and raiding their homes.\n\nSara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nMs Batool states that the reason the family are in hiding is because they fear that the Pakistan police will torture and kill them.\n\nIn response Jhelum police chief Mehmood Bajwa told the BBC the allegations of harassment and torture of family members are false.\n\nHe said if the family had any fears from the police they could go to court to seek protection.\n\nThe Pakistan police previously said in court that they have detained some family members for questioning - although they say they were not arrested - and told the BBC that they conducted some raids.\n\nThis week they denied in court that they are currently holding certain family members and have told the BBC that they have not tortured or stolen items from the family.\n\nDetectives launched an international search after Sara's body was discovered by police at an address in Woking, on 10 August.\n\nHer father, his partner and his brother, had travelled to Pakistan the previous day.\n\nSara had been living at the Surrey property with her father, her father's partner, her uncle and five brothers and sisters.\n\nIn the interview on Polish television, Olga Sharif said she had separated from Urfan Sharif in 2015. Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the family court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights.\n\nPolice said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan, leading them to find Sara's body, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan police say they did not receive a request, via Interpol, to initiate a search for the three until 15 August. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.\n\nPakistan police believe the trio landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August.\n\nThey believe they travelled to the city of Jhelum and relatives in a small hamlet near Domeli in central Punjab. According to the police investigation the family arrived there, at the home of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law late at night on 12 August before leaving around 05:00 the following day.\n\nFrom there police say they do not know where they went.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A 52-seater bus and a car crashed on a bridge in Pembrokeshire on Tuesday afternoon\n\nA bus driver who collected survivors of a holiday coach crash from hospital has described seeing broken arms, noses, and black eyes.\n\nTudur Lewis said Tuesday's crash near the Cleddau Bridge, Pembrokeshire, was \"everyone's worst nightmare\".\n\nA car driver involved in the crash died at the scene and the coach driver was seriously injured.\n\nOf the 52-seater coach's passengers, 24 tourists from Cumbria were taken to Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest.\n\nThe coach involved was from Titterington Holidays, based in Penrith, Cumbria.\n\nMr Lewis, who works for Taf Valley Coaches, was asked by his own tour company's boss to pick up those who had received treatment and take them back to their hotel in Cardigan, Ceredigion.\n\nHe described the passengers as being \"in shock\" and admitted not knowing what to say to them.\n\n\"They came out with broken arms, broken noses and black eyes and things,\" he said.\n\nA major incident was declared as emergency services responded at about 14:15 BST, with the main road between Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven closed for much of Tuesday.\n\nTitterington Holidays' owner Paul Titterington has confirmed one of the company's coaches was involved in the crash\n\nMr Lewis' own depot is half a mile away from the crash site and he was asked to go and help in the aftermath.\n\nMr Lewis said he would take the group half way home on Thursday, before Titterington Holidays sends their own coach to meet the passengers for the rest of their journey.\n\n\"We all help each other… We are all competitors, but when it comes to any problems everybody gets together and helps,\" he said.\n\nThere was heavy congestion and emergency services dealt with the crash\n\nHe said there had been a lot of concern in the local community following the crash.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Sam Kurtz, called for improved safety on the roads in the area.\n\nHe said that people in Pembrokeshire had woken up \"feeling numb\" from the news of a tragedy so close to home.\n\n\"This is an incredibly busy stretch of road, connecting north and south Pembrokeshire together. It's a main commuter route… the people of Pembrokeshire will know this road very well,\" he said.\n\nMr Kurtz said he has raised concerns about safety on the A477 in the past and hopes improvements will now be made.", "That ends today’s live coverage of Daniel Khalife’s escape and the ensuing manhunt. Thank you for following along.\n\nTo remind you, the Met Police has said this evening there have been no confirmed sightings so far of the 21-year-old former soldier and appealed to the public to come forward with any information.\n\nYou can read our latest on the story here, and we will keep you updated with any developments.\n\nThe writers across the day were Emily Atkinson, Malu Cursino, Alex Binley, Ece Goksedef and Barbara Tasch. The editors were James Harness, Alex Therrien and Rob Corp.", "Pupil support staff are among those who have voted for industrial action\n\nStrikes that could have caused school closures across much of Scotland have been called off.\n\nGMB members including janitors and cleaners at 10 councils were scheduled to take industrial action next Wednesday and Thursday.\n\nHowever, the union said it is considering joint strikes with other trade union members later this month.\n\nCouncil body Cosla told BBC Scotland that it had taken part in \"constructive\" talks.\n\nBBC Scotland News understands council leaders have agreed to make an extra £10m available to fund an improved pay offer in a bid to avert strikes by GMB, Unison and Unite within weeks.\n\nHowever, any improved pay offer, which must be agreed by all 32 councils, is likely to be well short of what the unions would ideally want.\n\nThe Scottish government has told Cosla it will not provide any more money to fund a pay deal.\n\nThe industrial dispute involves non-teaching staff including catering, cleaning, pupil support, administration and janitorial workers in schools and early years centres.\n\nKeir Greenaway, GMB Scotland's senior organiser in public services, said: \"We wanted to give parents, children and local authorities as much clarity around our plans as possible.\n\n\"We had served notice for two days of strike action this month but as our sister unions cannot join us on these dates these have been withdrawn and we are actively discussing joint action later in the month.\n\n\"Cosla has an opportunity to avert that action if they can offer our members a fair pay rise and we can only urge them to take that opportunity.\"\n\nA Cosla spokesperson said the body hoped to meet trade union leaders \" as soon as possible to discuss next steps\".\n\nUnions have rejected an average pay increase of 5.5% - with a 99p an hour rise in the living wage for the lowest paid.\n\nCosla previously said the \"strong offer\" raised the local government living wage by 99p to £11.84 per hour.\n\nGMB Scotland had a mandate for strikes in Aberdeen, Clackmannanshire, Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Glasgow, Orkney, Renfrewshire and South Ayrshire.\n\nUnison members in 24 of the 32 council areas voted to strike, as did Unite members in 10 areas, though neither union had confirmed dates for the industrial action.\n\nNews the threat of school closures next week has been lifted will come as a relief to many parents and students.\n\nBut the risk of disruption to schools within weeks is still real.\n\nThe dispute is over the pay offer for the vast majority of council workers but the three big unions have mandates for strike action among non-teaching staff in schools.\n\nThey would, in effect, be striking for themselves and many of their colleagues in other roles.\n\nThe unions have not set a headline pay demand as such. But they note the headline 5.5% rise is still substantially below inflation.\n\nIf the new pay offer - expected next week - is not good enough for the unions, action is still likely within weeks. It is possible dates may be announced soon to add to the pressure on councils.\n\nThe big question is just what sort of improved pay offer councils will be able to afford. Any offer has to be affordable to all 32 of them.", "Police secured the area around Henry Jones playing fields while they examined the object\n\nA suspicious object found near playing fields on the outskirts of east Belfast was an elaborate hoax, police have said.\n\nTwo schools and two nurseries on the Church Road were closed on Tuesday morning for security reasons.\n\nYoung Ones reopened at 14:00 BST but Bumbles on the Hill and Lough View Integrated Primary and Nursery School will remain closed.\n\nThe road, which was closed for a number of hours, has reopened.\n\nBBC News NI understands the object was found at Henry Jones playing fields.\n\nEast Belfast Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is among clubs which use the council-run sports facilities.\n\nIt is the second time this year there has been a security alert there.\n\nOne parent told BBC News NI it has been \"an absolute nightmare\" and young children have been left disappointed.\n\nPhil Cole's three-year-old son, John, was due to start his second day of nursery at Lough View Integrated on Tuesday morning.\n\nPhil Cole, with his sons John and Finlay, says parents have been scrambling for alternative childcare arrangements\n\n\"John was incredibly excited about going to nursery and he has been let down by this,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's an absolute nightmare for parents.\"\n\nEarlier, he said friends were \"scrambling to arrange childcare\" following the closure.\n\nThe school will reopen on Wednesday.\n\nAmanda Steele said it was \"unbelievable\" the school was closed yet again due to a security alert\n\nAmanda Steele was on her way to take her daughter, Iona, to Lough View Integrated when she received messages from other parents saying the school was closed.\n\nShe said hundreds of parents have been affected by the alert's disruption.\n\n\"I just find it really unbelievable in this day and age in a modern society, 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, that we are dealing with children not being able to go to school because of bomb scares.\n\n\"I'm just honestly so frustrated. I'm really angry.\"\n\nAmanda said the playing fields, where the object was discovered, are meant to be used by everyone in the area.\n\n\"It's just awful that people feel like they have the right to deny a club to play in those playing fields, have the right to deny children to go and play in those fields, and are closing a school,\" she added.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a suspicious object at about 07:15 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt was later declared an elaborate hoax and has been taken away for forensic examination.\n\nA police spokesperson said the alert has caused \"huge disruption for for pupils, parents and teachers alike\".\n\n\"I would like to thank all those affected for their patience and co-operation whilst our officers worked to ensure the safety of all,\" they added.\n\nPolice at the security alert on Church Road\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gavin Robinson said the disruption caused by the alert \"does nothing but damage our community\".\n\nAlliance assembly member Peter McReynolds said those behind the alert \"need to reflect on their violent and disruptive ways in 2023\".\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) MLA Andy Allen posted online: \"Those responsible for this security alert, causing disruption and fear, need to catch themselves on.\"\n\nHe encouraged those with information to contact police.\n\nGreen Party councillor Brian Smyth said the local school has suffered \"due to the deranged mindset by a few over a GAA club\".", "Doris and Keith Stanbridge are planning foreign holidays and home improvements after their win\n\nA grandmother who bought a lottery ticket after seeing two money spiders has won £10,000 every month for the next 30 years.\n\nDoris Stanbridge, 70, from Dorking, Surrey, said she was now able to retire with her 66-year-old husband Keith.\n\nShe said: \"I wasn't planning on retiring for a few more years but I am going to stop working in the next few months.\"\n\nShe saw the two money spiders while at home and decided to buy a lucky dip.\n\nMrs Stanbridge said: \"I was out in the kitchen when I felt something tickle my arm. I looked down and it was a money spider crawling off of my hand.\n\n\"I flicked it off, went into the conservatory and there was another one.\"\n\nShe told her daughters, who were with her at the time: \"I should do the lottery.\"\n\nAfter her win, she said: \"I didn't think about the ticket. We had my 70th birthday party the night before so we had been busy.\n\n\"I was going through my emails, deleting bits and pieces when I saw one from The National Lottery saying: 'Congratulations, you're a winner'.\"\n\nShe said the couple had no plans to move house.\n\n\"We have always liked living here. We have just had the kitchen and conservatory done but now the rest of the house is looking tired so we need to tidy it up. I also want to have a new bathroom upstairs.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, endangering marine life and coastal communities, the UN says.\n\nSand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after water and is used to produce concrete and glass.\n\nThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said some vessels were acting as vacuum cleaners, dredging both sand and micro-organisms that fish feed on.\n\nThis means that life may never recover in some areas.\n\nThe new data coincides with the launch of a new analysis tool called Marine Sand Watch that monitors dredging activities using marine tracking and artificial intelligence.\n\n\"The scale of environmental impacts of shallow sea mining activities and dredging is alarming,\" said Pascal Peduzzi, who heads UNEP's analytics centre GRID-Geneva.\n\nThe new platform estimates that out of some 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel used by humanity each year, an average of six billion tonnes come from the world's oceans and seas.\n\nThis is the equivalent of \"more than one million dump trucks every day\", Mr Peduzzi said.\n\nThe marine environment must be given time to recover, he said, adding that \"it's not sustainable\".\n\nLarge vessels were \"basically sterilising the bottom of the sea by extracting sand and crunching all the microorganisms that are feeding fish\", Mr Peduzzi said.\n\nSometimes the sand is dredged to the bedrock, meaning marine life may never recover, he added.\n\nThe UNEP recommended that sand dredging should also be banned from beaches to protect coastal resilience and economies.\n\nSand is essential for constructing buildings, roads, hydroelectric dams and solar panels. It can also play an important environmental role, protecting communities from rising sea levels.\n\nThe South China Sea, the North Sea and the US east coast are among the areas where the most dredging has occurred, the report states.\n• None How the scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong", "The number of cancer cases among the under-50s around the world appears to have risen sharply in the past 30 years, a study suggests.\n\nResearch published in BMJ Oncology found there had been 3.26 million cases in 2019 - 79% more than in 1990.\n\nBut experts cautioned against reading too much into the findings.\n\nThe research did not take into account a 40% rise in the total population, while factors such as better reporting may also have played a role.\n\nThe team, of experts from around the world, including the US, China and the UK, agreed no firm conclusions could be drawn.\n\nBut they were concerned lifestyle factors - including excess weight, diets high in red meat and salt and physical inactivity - could be pushing cancer cases up among 14- to 49-year-olds.\n\nGenetic factors could also be playing a role, they added.\n\nCancers of the digestive system, skin and breast were the most common.\n\nCancer killed more than a million under-50s in 2019, a rise of over 25% - but with the 40% population rise, this could actually indicate a falling death rate.\n\nThe data was taken from the Global Burden of Disease dataset, which covers more than 200 countries.\n\nThe researchers said more work was needed for a \"full understanding\" of the rise in cases but it suggested efforts were needed to improve detection and prevention in younger adults.\n\nProf Dorothy Bennett, a cell-biology expert at the University of London, agreed it was \"not possible\" to draw detailed conclusions.\n\nCancer Research UK said there was some evidence of rising cancer rates among 18- to 49-year-olds in the UK.\n\nBut Dr Claire Knight, of CRUK, added: \"However alarming this might seem, cancer is primarily a disease of older age, with the majority of new cancer cases worldwide being diagnosed in those aged 50 and above.\"", "A trial in January will be the second defamation case between Donald Trump and E Jean Carroll\n\nA federal judge has ruled Donald Trump is liable for defamatory comments he made in 2019 about writer E Jean Carroll.\n\nJudge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Wednesday that Ms Carroll's second civil defamation trial against Mr Trump will be limited to determining damages.\n\nMs Carroll accused Mr Trump of raping her at a department store in the 1990s.\n\nThe former president goes to trial in January against Ms Carroll over comments he made about her allegations.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, lawyers for Mr Trump said they \"remain very confident that the Carroll II verdict will be overturned on appeal, which will render this decision moot\".\n\nMs Carroll first came forward with the sexual assault claims in a New York Magazine article in 2019.\n\nMr Trump then denied the allegations, and Ms Carroll filed her first defamation suit against him that November, claiming he damaged her reputation and caused her emotional harm.\n\nThis case is separate from a civil trial in May, where a New York jury found the former president sexually abused Ms Carroll, though he was found not liable for raping her in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.\n\nThat jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the magazine writer's accusations \"a hoax and a lie\".\n\nMr Trump was ordered to pay Ms Carroll $5m (£4m) as a part of that New York civil lawsuit.\n\nOn Wednesday, in a 25-page decision in the second defamation case, Judge Kaplan argued that the May verdict established that Mr Trump made statements about the assault with \"actual malice\".\n\nThe ruling means this upcoming second defamation case will focus solely on how much Mr Trump should pay Ms Carroll for making the comments.\n\nTypically, it would be up to a jury to decide whether a defendant is liable for damages.\n\nThe trial is scheduled for 15 January, 2024.\n\nLawyers for Ms Carroll said in a statement they \"look forward\" to the trial limited to damages.\n\nMr Trump is appealing the jury's verdict in the May decision against him and has requested a new trial, which is still pending.\n\nHe has denied allegations that he raped Ms Carroll, claiming he had never met the former Elle Magazine columnist and that she made up the story to sell copies of her book.\n\nThe former president is also facing a series of other legal woes, including both state and federal charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and his handling of classified documents.", "The mural is based on a painting by Scottish artist John Byrne\n\nA giant mural of Scottish comedy legend Billy Connolly will be covered up under plans for a new student housing block in Glasgow.\n\nDevelopers say it is not possible to save the 50-foot painting on the end of a building on Osbourne Street.\n\nThe mural, from a painting by artist John Byrne, is one of three installed in 2017 as a 75th birthday tribute.\n\nGlasgow City Council, which is considering the plans, said the mural was only intended to be temporary.\n\nThe Connolly artworks are much-loved by locals and visitors and form part of Glasgow's city centre mural trail.\n\nThe developer, Ambassador Group, wants to build 270 flats on the site which has been empty for a several years.\n\nThe completed accommodation would be 10 storeys high.\n\nBilly Connolly said he was \"flabbergasted\" when he visited his mural in 2017\n\nConcerns were raised about the future of the Connolly mural during a public consultation.\n\nBut Streets UK, speaking on behalf of the developers, said options to retain the mural were found to be unfeasible.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We realised early on in our design planning that retention of the mural would be difficult given its location to the footprint of any new building.\n\n\"However, we also recognised the fondness that people have towards the mural, even although the murals were designed to be temporary and enhance derelict sites.\"\n\nStreets UK said an art strategy to enhance the area was at an \"early stage\" and they would take suggestions for a new mural at another site.\n\nAnother mural of the comic is visible on Dixon Street in the city centre\n\nThe Gallowgate mural features the comic in an outfit featuring motifs from the high points in his career.\n\nThe three Connolly murals were commissioned for his home city as part of a 2017 BBC Scotland documentary celebrating his life.\n\nThe Big Yin visited Glasgow and said he was \"stunned\" to see the art in real life.\n\nThe Osbourne Street mural was created by Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne.\n\n'Dr Connolly, I Presume?' by Jack Vettriano is on Dixon Street and 'Big Yin' by Rachel Maclean is near the Gallowgate.\n\nThe Dixon Street mural is also set to be partially covered after a pub was granted permission to build a single-story extension.\n\nThe Ambassador Group planning application is currently pending consideration.\n\nA Glasgow City Council spokesman said: \"The purpose of these murals has always been to bring temporary life to these sites before they were redeveloped in the future.\n\n\"Other murals - such as the hip-hop puppets on the wall at the corner of George Street and John Street - have gone as city centre sites have been redeveloped.\"", "This latest Russian attack on a civilian area, like so many before it, has no military value.\n\nWhat makes it stand out is the tragically high casualty toll. There have been numerous previous, well-documented missile, drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces on civilian \"targets\" in this war - so many that it is something of a miracle that even more people have not been killed.\n\nSome of these strikes, including those on Ukraine’s infrastructure, are deliberate – a failed attempt to demoralise Ukraine’s population and force them to call on their government to sue for peace on Moscow’s terms.\n\nOther strikes by Russian weapons on civilians have simply been a case of poor or lazy targeting, often by large and indiscriminate weapons like the S300 missile, originally designed to shoot down enemy aircraft, not for flattening apartment blocks in cities.\n\nA third category, an inevitable consequence of this high-intensity war, is when debris from missiles and drones shot down by Ukraine’s air defences fall on residential areas.\n\nIn recent months Ukraine has begun \"bringing the war home to Russia\", aiming its own explosive drones towards targets inside Russia.\n\nSome of these attacks, like the one on Pskov airbase, have a genuine military value, while others on areas of Moscow appear to be done primarily for psychological purposes.\n\nRussian casualties from these attacks have been minimal compared to those suffered by Ukrainians.", "People with disabilities could be given \"more support\" to work from home, under plans announced by the government.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride has outlined a number of benefit reforms to help people find work and reduce government spending.\n\nAny changes to benefit assessments will not affect those at the end of their life or with severe learning disabilities, he told Parliament.\n\nCharities say the changes could force people to work when they are not well.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the work capability assessment - the test aimed at establishing how a disability or illness limits a claimant's ability to work.\n\nThe consultation is expected to run for eight weeks, and the Government hopes the reforms will come into force by 2025 - which will be after the next general election.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Stride said there had been a huge shift in the world of work over the last few years that has \"opened up opportunities\" for disabled people and those with health conditions.\n\nHe continued: \"The work capability assessment doesn't reflect how someone with a disability or health condition might be able to work from home, yet we know many disabled people do just that.\n\n\"Our plans include taking account of the fact that people with mobility problems or who suffer anxiety within the workplace have better access to employment opportunities from the rise in flexible and home working.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said \"work transforms lives\" and the proposed changes would ensure \"no one is held back from reaching their full potential through work\".\n\nHowever, disability charities have warned the new plans could be \"catastrophic\".\n\nJames Taylor, executive director of strategy at disability equality charity Scope, said if people are forced to look for work when they are unwell this could make them even \"more ill\".\n\n\"If they don't meet strict conditions, they'll have their benefits stopped. In the grips of a cost-of-living crisis this could be catastrophic,\" he added.\n\nJeremy Hunt announced plans to completely scrap work capability assessments when he announced his first spring Budget.\n\nThe DWP says these latest proposals are \"designed to help pave the way towards the landscape of support and work incentives that will be offered\" when the assessments are eventually scrapped.\n\nFigures have shown around 2.5 million Britons are missing from the jobs market because of medical conditions.\n\nThe government's has pledged £2 billion worth of investment to help those with long-term illnesses and disabilities get into work.", "Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.\n\nThe Weizmann Institute team say their \"embryo model\", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.\n\nIt even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.\n\nThe ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.\n\nThe first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change - from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.\n\nThis crucial time is a major source of miscarriage and birth defects but poorly understood.\n\n\"It's a black box and that's not a cliche - our knowledge is very limited,\" Prof Jacob Hanna, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, tells me.\n\nEmbryo research is legally, ethically and technically fraught. But there is now a rapidly developing field mimicking natural embryo development.\n\nThis research, published in the journal Nature, is described by the Israeli team as the first \"complete\" embryo model for mimicking all the key structures that emerge in the early embryo.\n\n\"This is really a textbook image of a human day-14 embryo,\" Prof Hanna says, which \"hasn't been done before\".\n\nInstead of a sperm and egg, the starting material was naive stem cells which were reprogrammed to gain the potential to become any type of tissue in the body.\n\nChemicals were then used to coax these stem cells into becoming four types of cell found in the earliest stages of the human embryo:\n\nA total of 120 of these cells were mixed in a precise ratio - and then, the scientists step back and watch.\n\nAbout 1% of the mixture began the journey of spontaneously assembling themselves into a structure that resembles, but is not identical to, a human embryo.\n\n\"I give great credit to the cells - you have to bring the right mix and have the right environment and it just takes off,\" Prof Hanna says. \"That's an amazing phenomenon.\"\n\nThe embryo models were allowed to grow and develop until they were comparable to an embryo 14 days after fertilisation. In many countries, this is the legal cut-off for normal embryo research.\n\nDespite the late-night video call, I can hear the passion as Prof Hanna gives me a 3D tour of the \"exquisitely fine architecture\" of the embryo model.\n\nI can see the trophoblast, which would normally become the placenta, enveloping the embryo. And it includes the cavities - called lacuna - that fill with the mother's blood to transfer nutrients to the baby.\n\nThere is a yolk sac, which has some of the roles of the liver and kidneys, and a bilaminar embryonic disc - one of the key hallmarks of this stage of embryo development.\n\nThe hope is embryo models can help scientists explain how different types of cell emerge, witness the earliest steps in building the body's organs or understand inherited or genetic diseases.\n\nAlready, this study shows other parts of the embryo will not form unless the early placenta cells can surround it.\n\nThere is even talk of improving in vitro fertilisation (IVF) success rates by helping to understand why some embryos fail or using the models to test whether medicines are safe during pregnancy.\n\nProf Robin Lovell Badge, who researches embryo development at the Francis Crick Institute, tells me these embryo models \"do look pretty good\" and \"do look pretty normal\".\n\n\"I think it's good, I thinks it's done very well, it's all making sense and I'm pretty impressed with it,\" he says.\n\nBut the current 99% failure rate would need to be improved, he adds. It would be hard to understand what was going wrong in miscarriage or infertility if the model failed to assemble itself most of the time.\n\nThe work also raises the question of whether embryo development could be mimicked past the 14-day stage.\n\nThis would not be illegal, even in the UK, as embryo models are legally distinct from embryos.\n\n\"Some will welcome this - but others won't like it,\" Prof Lovell-Badge says.\n\nAnd the closer these models come to an actual embryo, the more ethical questions they raise.\n\nThey are not normal human embryos, they're embryo models, but they're very close to them.\n\n\"So should you regulate them in the same way as a normal human embryo or can you be a bit more relaxed about how they're treated?\"\n\nProf Alfonso Martinez Arias, from the department of experimental and health sciences at Pompeu Fabra University, said it was \"a most important piece of research\".\n\n\"The work has, for the first time, achieved a faithful construction of the complete structure [of a human embryo] from stem cells\" in the lab, \"thus opening the door for studies of the events that lead to the formation of the human body plan,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hottest day of the year is expected in the next two days, with parts of the UK already in heatwave conditions.\n\nAreas of West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Devon and Wales passed the threshold on Tuesday, the Met Office said, although Tuesday's hottest temperatures did not pass June's high of 32.2C (90F)\n\nHeat-health alerts have been upgraded to amber for much of England, with only the North East under a yellow one.\n\nIt means people of all ages could be affected, putting the NHS at risk.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Amy Bokota said 13 weather stations had officially recorded a heatwave and she expected \"a few extra\" would be added to that list over the coming days.\n\nShe said 32C was expected on Wednesday before a possible peak of 33C on Thursday.\n\n\"It will then be 32C right the way until Sunday for some places in the south,\" she said.\n\nHeatwave criteria are met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures meeting the heatwave threshold - which varies between 25C and 28C across the UK.\n\nHow are you coping with the hot weather? Get in touch.\n\nHot conditions will be also be felt in Wales, while parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland could see \"unseasonably high temperatures\".\n\nEnglish regions included in the amber warning are: London, the South East, the South West, the East and West Midlands, the East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber.\n\nAll eight were issued with a yellow warning on Monday but this has now been upgraded.\n\nThe North East is the last remaining region to have a yellow alert in place - this means that the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions should take extra care.\n\nIt also means officials do not believe there will be a significant impact on the NHS in the area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Helen Willetts explains exactly how hot it's going to get in the UK this week.\n\nTemperatures reached 30C on Monday in southern England and south-east Wales, according to the Met Office.\n\nThe hot weather comes after what has generally been regarded as cool wet summer for much of the UK.\n\nWhile July in particular was wetter and cooler than average with the maximum temperature failing to regularly reach 20C, the previous month was the UK's hottest June on record.\n\nThe warm conditions are continuing through Tuesday, with highs of 31C expected near London.\n\nParts of southern and western England could also see temperatures stay above 20C overnight into Wednesday, according to the Met.\n\n\"We will see good sunny conditions through the week with cloudless skies, and some high temperatures by the time we get to Wednesday and Thursday, where we could see 31, maybe 32C,\" Met Office spokesman Oli Claydon told the PA news agency.\n\nHe said the high temperatures would be \"quite widely spread\" across the UK, with the hottest conditions mainly being felt in south-east and central England.\n\nMr Claydon warned that Wednesday night could be a particularly warm with temperatures potentially not dropping below 20C, which is what is termed a \"tropical night\".\n\nThere could also be a tropical night on Thursday, he said.\n\nThe Met Office said that tropical storms in the far western Atlantic, as well as deep areas of low pressure, have helped to amplify the jet stream - a fast wind high in the atmosphere - over the Atlantic Ocean. This has led to high pressure \"dominating over the UK\", it said.\n\nThe forecaster added that temperatures could also hit 31C on Friday, although there could be more cloudy weather and chances of rain in the far north-west of Scotland.\n\nConditions could change over the weekend, and Mr Claydon said there was \"no indication at the moment of another strong heatwave after this\".\n\nAverage temperatures are expected to return by the middle of next week.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of climate change.\n\nLast year the UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time. Scientists said that would have been \"virtually impossible without climate change\".\n\nThe Met Office has also explained the reason for some \"picturesque\" sunsets across the UK.\n\nForecasters say it is due to \"Saharan dust\" which began to cover parts of the country yesterday and will continue for the rest of the week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Summer weather: will there be a heatwave?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriya Amichay with one of the swords found in the cave\n\nA cache of four excellently preserved Roman swords have been discovered by Israeli researchers in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea.\n\nThree of the 1,900-year-old weapons, whose iron blades are 60-65cm long (24-26in), were still in wooden scabbards.\n\nThey were found in a near-inaccessible crevice by a team photographing an ancient inscription on a stalactite.\n\nArchaeologists believe the swords were hidden by Judean rebels after they were seized from the Roman army as booty.\n\n\"This is a dramatic and exciting discovery, touching on a specific moment in time,\" Eli Escusido, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said in a statement.\n\nMr Escusido said that the dry desert climate around the Dead Sea enabled the preservation of artefacts that would not survive elsewhere in Israel.\n\n\"This is a unique time capsule, whereby fragments of scrolls, coins from the Jewish Revolt, leather sandals, and now even swords in their scabbards, sharp as if they had only just been hidden away today.\"\n\nThe archaeologists excavate the cave - with an extraordinary view\n\nFifty years ago, a stalactite with an incomplete ink inscription written in ancient Hebrew script was found in a small cave high on a cliff above the Dead Sea, north of the En Gedi oasis in eastern Israel.\n\nArchaeologist Dr Asaf Gayer of Ariel University, geologist Boaz Langford of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and photographer Shai Halevi of the IAA recently went to the cave with the aim of using multispectral photography to decipher parts of the inscription not visible to the naked eye.\n\nWhile on the upper level of the cave, Dr Gayer spotted a well-preserved Roman pilum, or javelin, in a narrow crevice. He also found worked wood in a nearby niche that turned out to be parts of the swords' scabbards.\n\nThe researchers reported the discovery and returned with another team to carry out a survey of all the crevices in the cave, during which the swords were uncovered.\n\nArchaeologists believe the swords were hidden by Judean rebels after they were seized from the Roman army\n\nThe three swords that were still in their wooden scabbards were identified as Roman spatha, or long swords, while the fourth, shorter weapon was identified as a ring-pommel sword.\n\nThey had well-fashioned handles made of wood or metal.\n\nLeather strips and pieces of wood and metal belonging to them were also found.\n\n\"It looked a bit like a pile of books. But - swords!\" said archaeologist Oriya Amichay. \"Sure, we know the story from history. But to see such a find is to look history in the face.\"\n\nThree of the swords were found with their iron blades inside wooden scabbards\n\nArchaeologists say the hiding of the swords and pilum in the cave suggests that the weapons were taken by Judean rebels from Roman soldiers as booty or from the battlefield.\n\nThey were then purposefully hidden for reuse, possibly during the second major Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire in Judea - the Bar Kochba Revolt (132AD-135AD).\n\n\"We are just beginning the research on the cave and the weapon cache discovered in it, aiming to try to find out who owned the swords, and where, when, and by whom they were manufactured,\" said Dr Eitan Klein, a director of the Judean Desert Survey Project.", "Jagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nA cross-party group of MPs are calling on Rishi Sunak to intervene in the case of a British man who is facing the death penalty in India.\n\nMore than 70 MPs signed a letter urging the PM to call on Narendra Modi to \"immediately release\" campaigner Jagtar Singh Johal, when he travels to Delhi for the G20 leaders' summit.\n\nThey say Mr Johal has been \"arbitrarily detained\" for over five years.\n\nThe PM's spokesperson would not confirm or deny if the case would be raised.\n\nMr Johal, who is now 36, comes from Dumbarton in Scotland. He was a blogger and campaigner for Sikh human rights, which are said to have brought him to the attention of the Indian authorities.\n\nHe travelled to India in October 2017 to get married. The campaign group Reprieve says that while he was out shopping with his wife, he was hooded, bundled into a car by men in plainclothes, \"severely tortured\", and made to sign blank pieces of paper.\n\nTory MP David Davis told the BBC that \"the first duty of a state should be to prevent a citizen getting harmed\", and that if a citizen had been harmed and subjected to injustice, \"the government should be raising the most serious protests\".\n\nHe added: \"That does not seem to be happening at the moment and that is a failure of the Foreign Office to do its most fundamental duty.\"\n\nIn their letter, the MPs say that \"upon his arrest, Jagtar's interrogators electrocuted him, and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him alight. To make the torture stop, Jagtar recorded video statements and signed blank pieces of paper.\"\n\nThe UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said he had been targeted \"because of his activism writing public posts calling for accountability for alleged actions committed against Sikhs by the authorities\".\n\nThe MPs' letter says the UN Working Group \"concluded that Jagtar's continued detention...lacks any legal basis\".\n\nAlmost six years on, Mr Johal remains in prison in India. He faces eight charges of conspiracy to murder, linked to political violence in India. His family say court proceedings have started but been adjourned repeatedly.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet Singh Johal, who is a lawyer and Labour councillor in Dumbarton, told the BBC: \"The fear for the family is that false allegations have become false charges, which could become a false conviction and result in the death penalty.\"\n\nHe said both former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Theresa May had discussed the case with India's prime minister, and said \"it would be very difficult for Rishi Sunak not to raise the case... if Rishi Sunak doesn't, the question will be 'why didn't you?'.\n\nGurpreet Singh Johal has criticised the UK government's response to his brother's case\n\n\"Given Rishi Sunak has a good relationship with the Indian prime minister it shouldn't be a hard ask. Almost six years have elapsed, no evidence has been produced against Jagtar. These are just charges alleged against him, and it should be innocent until proven guilty.\"\n\nHe added: \"It should be very easy to call for Jagtar's release. The UK did it, rightfully so for Nazanin [Zagari-Ratcliffe] and Anousheh [Ashouri] in Iran previously.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Sunak would raise the case, the prime minister's official spokesperson said: \"I am not going to pre-empt what they will or won't discuss.\"\n\nIn response to further questions, the spokesman said the government had raised concerns relating to Jagtar with the Indian government \"on more than 100 occasions\".\n\nHe said they included consular access, judicial process and reports of torture.\n\nHe said the family was receiving consular assistance and that Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad had met them recently.\n\nHowever, in a letter sent to Gurpreet Singh Johal in July and seen by the BBC, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he had decided it was best not to press India over the issue.\n\nMr Cleverly wrote: \"I do not consider that calling for Jagtar's release would result in the Indian authorities releasing him. Indeed I fear this could impact the co-operation we depend on... to conduct consular visits, resolve welfare concerns and attend court hearings.\"\n\nThat has angered both Mr Davis and Mr Johal's family. Gurpreet Singh Johal said: \"It's saying basically 'I'm not going to do it and I'd rather have him rot in jail', that's the impression I get.\"\n\nMr Davis said it set \"a terrible precedent\" and \"it encourages more governments to be prickly about complaints\".\n\nGurpreet Singh Johal said he believed the UK's reluctance to speak up about the case now was connected to Mr Sunak's desire to sign a trade deal with India.\n\n\"Their focus appears to be that India are an up-and-coming country and they want this trade deal signed off with them, and they are putting trade over human rights,\" he said.\n\nMr Davis said he was clear a trade deal should come second to legal rights of a British citizen.\n\nHe added: \"You don't have to be Palmerston to understand that the rights of a British citizen are the paramount concern of a British government and we do not accept torture as the price of a trade deal. Full stop.\"", "CCTV, shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, appeared to show the moment of the explosion\n\nPresident Zelensky has condemned a \"deliberate\" attack on Ukraine's \"peaceful city\" of Kostyantynivka.\n\nFifteen people, including a child, were killed in the blast, which took place on a busy market street in the middle of the day.\n\nKostyantynivka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, is near the front line.\n\nVideos on social media show a bright orange explosion at the far end of a street where people were out shopping. Russia is yet to comment on the attack.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky, who has blamed Moscow, said those killed were \"people who did nothing wrong\" - and warned the death toll could increase.\n\nDealing with Russia, he said, meant turning a blind eye to the audacity of evil.\n\nThirty-six people are thought to be injured. A market, pharmacy and shops are all reported to have been hit, resulting in a now-contained fire.\n\nFootage and images circulating online appeared to show the moment of the explosion and its graphic aftermath.\n\nInitial reports were that 17 people were killed, but this was later revised down to 16 and then further revised to 15, which officials said came after the identification of bodies.\n\nIt was one of the worst attacks on Ukrainian civilians since the spring, and took place in a busy street at around 14:00 local time (12:00 BST) as people flocked to market stalls and café terraces.\n\nUkraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a few hours later that the search and rescue operation had been completed.\n\nDiana Khodak, a local shopkeeper, recalled the moment a \"flash\" of light appeared and she told colleagues and customers to \"lie on the floor\".\n\nSpeaking to Reuters news agency, she described seeing soldiers carrying a woman afterwards who \"had an open fracture and her bone was sticking out from her leg\".\n\nMr Zelensky described the attack as \"utter inhumanity\", while his wife Olena Zelenska said it showed \"horrific cruelty\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched by Ukraine's prosecutor-general, whose office said it was in pursuit of \"criminal proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war\".\n\n\"Prosecutors are taking all possible and appropriate measures to record war crimes committed by the Russian Federation,\" a statement added.\n\nOfficials in Russia have not yet commented on the attack. They have previously denied targeting citizens as part of their offensive.\n\nKostyantynivka sits close to the battlefield and has been hit on various occasions this year as a result:\n\nIt is also about 17 miles (27km) from the city of Bakhmut - in the Donetsk region as well - where fighting is known to have been intense for some time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Videos showed the graphic aftermath of the blast\n\nThe city of Donetsk has been controlled by Russia's proxy authorities since 2014, who have repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting it since the war with Russia began last February.\n\nThe attack on Wednesday coincided with a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Ukraine, where he met Mr Zelensky and other officials.\n\nIn the hours before he arrived, sirens wailed across the country and Kyiv's air defence system was busy intercepting missiles aimed at the capital.\n\nMr Blinken used the trip - his fourth to the Ukrainian capital in 18 months - to announce another US aid package for the war-torn country. It totals more than $1bn (£799.6m), he said.", "Jonas and Turner released a joint statement saying their divorce was a \"united decision\"\n\nSinger Joe Jonas and actress Sophie Turner have said their divorce after four years of marriage is \"amicable\".\n\nThe 34-year-old Jonas Brothers singer filed to end the marriage in Florida's Miami-Dade County Court on Tuesday.\n\nIn a joint statement posted online, the pair said: \"After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage.\n\n\"There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision.\"\n\nJonas and Turner added that they \"sincerely hope everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children\".\n\nThe divorce filing said \"the marriage between the parties is irretrievably broken\", according to papers obtained by the Associated Press news agency.\n\nHowever, Jonas had continued to post pictures wearing his wedding ring on his social media accounts.\n\nThe Jonas Brothers are currently on tour and played a show in Austin, Texas on Sunday. Following the gig, Jonas posted a picture on Instagram of himself with his ring clearly visible.\n\nTurner, 27, and Jonas married in a secretive ceremony in Las Vegas on 1 May 2019, after that year's Billboard Music Awards.\n\nThey had a second ceremony a month later at Chateau de Tourreau in the south of France, with their friends and family.\n\nL-R: Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and Nick Jonas performing in Detroit, Michigan last month as part of their current tour\n\nThe first of the couple's two daughters, Willa, was born in 2020. Their second daughter was born last year but they have not publicly released her name.\n\nJonas is seeking joint custody of the girls, according to the divorce documents. The couple had a prenuptial-agreement that Jonas expects will be enforced, according to the filing.\n\nThe pair began dating in late 2016 and announced their engagement in October 2017.\n\nTurner, who is from Northampton in England, is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, and has also appeared in drama series The Staircase and the X-Men film franchise.\n\nAs a solo artist, Jonas released singles such as Just In Love and This is Me, a duet with Demi Lovato.\n\nBut his best known songs are with his brothers Nick and Kevin Jonas. As a group, the Jonas Brothers previously starred in their own Disney Channel series and scored hits with SOS, Burnin' Up, Sucker and Waffle House.\n\nThey recently released Year 3000, a collaboration with Busted, the British band who originally released the song in 2002.", "Lancashire has starred in three series of Happy Valley\n\nBBC crime drama Happy Valley won best returning drama at the National TV awards, as its star Sarah Lancashire was honoured with two prizes.\n\nThe actress won best drama performance and was also given this year's special recognition award, presented by Sir Ian McKellen.\n\nLancashire looked overwhelmed when she picked up the latter, as the audience chanted her name.\n\n\"I have been so very fortunate to spend my working life doing a job I love.\"\n\nShe thanked the \"enablers\" who \"don't get credit\", including her family, agent and \"a very vital component - you, the audience. Without you, all this would grind to a crashing halt\".\n\nLancashire beat her co-star James Norton to the best drama performance prize for her portrayal of no-nonsense police officer Catherine Cawood.\n\nBrenda Blethyn (Vera), India Amarteifio (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) and Judy Parfitt (Call the Midwife) were also nominated.\n\nThe pair now have a record number of NTA wins\n\nGeordie duo Ant and Dec missed out on the Bruce Forsyth entertainment award - they had two shows up for the gong (I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway) but lost out to Gogglebox.\n\nThey did, however, keep up their record winning streak, picking up best presenter for the 22nd year running. The pair said they were the most nervous they had ever been collecting the gong on Tuesday night.\n\n\"We are the luckiest two men on telly,\" Ant said.\n\n\"I can't believe we are still getting away with this... we are as humbled and as grateful tonight as when we won it for the first time,\" Dec added.\n\n\"We'll keep doing it as long as you want us to keep doing it,\" said Ant.\n\nBut it was a different story for troubled ITV show This Morning, which had been on a 12-year winning streak of its own in the daytime, live magazine and topical magazine programme categories.\n\nThe show was plunged into crisis in May when Phillip Schofield quit after admitting he lied about an affair with a colleague.\n\nIt was again nominated for best daytime programme but was beaten by The Repair Shop.\n\nThe National TV awards are nominated and voted for solely by the public so all eyes were on whether the show would pick up the prize for a 13th year running.\n\nTribute was paid to the late Paul O'Grady, who also posthumously won the factual entertainment prize for ITV's Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs. Staff from Battersea Dogs Home - and pup Wiley - collected the award. Wiley woofed all the way through the speech, halting it at some points to the audience's delight.\n\nThe Graham Norton show won the a new award for TV interview, beating Piers Morgan (who received a few boos from the audience), Louis Theroux and Chris and Rosie Ramsey.\n\nDanielle Harold, who played the character of Lola in EastEnders, picked up best serial drama performance. Her character bowed out earlier this year, dying from a brain tumour. Harold was handed the prize by fellow EastEnders star Michelle Collins.\n\nThe BBC One soap also won best serial drama.\n\nIn fact, it was a dominating performance overall for the BBC, which picked up 11 out of a possible 17 prizes on the night.\n\nWord-of-mouth hit The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, won best reality competition show. The cast of the first series accepted the award as Winkleman \"was busy wearing tweed and chasing traitors\" (presumably she's filming the next series).\n\nLewis Capaldi is currently in the US\n\nAnother new category - authored documentary - was won by the Netflix show Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now, in which the pop star opens up on his mental health. The star is currently taking a break from touring to protect his health after struggling through his set at Glastonbury in June.\n\nCapaldi sent a video message to thank the public for voting, and heaped praise on his fellow nominees. He said he would have been at the ceremony but was currently in America.\n\nStrictly Come Dancing picked up the best talent show honour, while ITV's 1% Club, presented by comic Lee Mack, won best quiz/gameshow.\n\nOther winners included Bobby Brazier as best newcomer. Brazier plays Freddie Slater in EastEnders. He joked that \"I still don't have a clue what I'm doing.\"\n\nThe cast of Young Sheldon, who won best comedy, were unable to appear in person due to the ongoing actors' strike in the US. Most of the cast of Wednesday were also unable to be there for the same reason.", "Margaret Betts agreed to join the codebreakers after her brother was killed by a German U-boat\n\nOne of the last surviving female codebreakers who served during World War Two has died at the age of 99.\n\nMargaret Betts worked at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, from the summer of 1943 until 1945.\n\nHer son, Jonathan Betts, said she was headhunted by \"men from the ministry\" in 1942 when she was only 19, having performed well at school.\n\nMs Betts, who helped decipher enemy communications, died on 26 August at a nursing home in Minehead, Somerset.\n\n\"She kept her sharp brain right until the end,\" said Mr Betts.\n\nThe great-grandmother had lived in Ipswich, Suffolk, for most of her life.\n\nMargaret Betts played down her role to family, describing her work as \"very humdrum\"\n\nMr Betts said she agreed to help at Bletchley Park because she had recently lost her brother, when his ship was sunk by a German U-boat.\n\n\"It was absolutely tragic, he had just married a few weeks before, the whole family was in terrible shock and desperate to do something,\" he said.\n\n\"She was just told it would be highly secret work and that eventually she would be told what it was, but meanwhile she was to pack her bags and go to a clearing house.\"\n\nAfter a selection process, she started codebreaking in the summer of 1943 and worked through until Victory over Japan (VJ) Day two years later.\n\n\"Like most of them did, she always played down her role,\" said Mr Betts, who lives outside Salisbury, Wiltshire.\n\n\"She said, 'Yes, I know it was incredibly important, our part in it, and I know it was highly secret, but please don't come away with the idea that we're all Alan Turings, because we're not.\n\n\"'We were there operating the machines, we were obeying orders, we were applying logic to do what we were told to do, and we were doing so efficiently and intelligently, but we didn't design the machines for decoding.\n\n\"'We were the service staff who were operating them.'\"\n\nHe said one of the stories that his mother told was she and the other Navy Wrens would sometimes go out from Bletchley Park into Northampton to go shopping.\n\n\"They would hear gossip, and the gossip was there's something going on down the road in Bletchley Park and nobody knows what it is,\" said Mr Betts.\n\n\"But the strong rumour was it was actually a home for pregnant Wrens who had got pregnant accidentally and had been very naughty, and were having to quickly disappear so they could have their baby and then get back to work.\n\n\"Of course, the Wrens thought this was hilarious.\"\n\nMr Betts added: \"Without their work the war would have lasted longer - some people reckon it would have gone on two years longer if they hadn't been able to break the German and Japanese codes.\n\n\"She contributed a small part to a very important element in winning the war.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos - using no eggs or sperm - provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports.\n\nThe synthetic embryos - only days or weeks old - could help researchers study the earliest stages of human development and explain pregnancy loss.\n\nNobody is currently suggesting growing them into a baby.\n\nBut the rapid progress has outpaced discussions on how they should be dealt with ethically and legally.\n\nProf James Briscoe, from the Francis Crick Institute, said the field needed to \"proceed cautiously, carefully and transparently\" to avoid a \"chilling effect\" on the public.\n\nThe development of human synthetic embryos was announced at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.\n\nSynthetic embryos are also known as \"embryo models\", as they resemble embryos, for the purposes of research, rather than being identical to them.\n\nThe work comes from the laboratories of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.\n\nThe full details have yet to be published and made available for scientific scrutiny, leading many researchers to feel unable to comment on the significance of the reports.\n\nBut the principle is the synthetic embryos are made from a stem cell rather than a fusion of egg and sperm.\n\nStem cells have the capacity to become any cell-type in the body and if coaxed in just the right way can be persuaded to form embryos.\n\nThis is the first time that has been achieved using human material. Although, they are not truly \"synthetic\", as the starting material was cells cultured from a traditional embryo in the laboratory.\n\n\"It's beautiful and created entirely from embryonic stem cells,\" Prof Zernicka-Goetz told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nShe has already developed synthetic mouse embryos with evidence of a developing brain and beating heart.\n\nMeanwhile, scientists in China have implanted synthetic monkey embryos into female monkeys - although, all the pregnancies failed.\n\nSide by side, the natural and synthetic mouse embryos looked very similar after eight days\n\nThe synthetic embryos do not behave in exactly the same way as normal embryos. And it is unclear how their use in research should be governed.\n\nProf Briscoe said: \"On the one hand, models of human embryos made of stem cells might offer an ethical and more readily available alternative to the use of IVF-derived [in-vitro fertilisation] human embryos.\n\n\"On the other hand, the closer stem-cell-derived models of human embryos mirror human embryos, the more important it is to have clear regulations and guidelines for how they are used.\"\n\nMost countries use the 14-day rule in human-embryo research. This allows an embryo created by fertilising a human egg to be grown for 14 days.\n\nHowever, these \"embryo models\" are not legally \"embryos\" and are not governed by the same laws.\n\nDr Ildem Akerman, from the University of Birmingham, said: \"These findings suggest that we would soon develop the technology to grow these cells beyond the 14-day limit, with potentially more insights to gain into human development.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the ability to do something does not justify doing it.\"\n\nLegal and ethical experts in the UK are drawing up a voluntary set of guidelines for how to proceed.\n\nResearchers hope these synthetic embryos will further understanding of the earliest stages of human's lives.\n\nProf Roger Sturmey, from the University of Manchester, said: \"We know remarkably little about this step in human development but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost.\n\n\"So models that can enable us to study this period are urgently needed to help to understand infertility and early pregnancy loss.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nFormer Spain head coach Jorge Vilda says being sacked weeks after winning the Women's World Cup was \"unfair\".\n\nThe Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) dismissed Vilda on Tuesday, with Montse Tome named his successor.\n\nVilda's exit came amid the fallout after the behaviour of RFEF president Luis Rubiales at the World Cup final.\n\n\"In sporting terms, I am going to accept all the criticisms, but on a personal level I think it has been unfair,\" Vilda, 42, told Cadena SER.\n\n\"It has been a special year. Nothing has ever been said directly but indirectly things have been said that do not suit me. Things have been said that are not true.\"\n\nSpain beat England in the World Cup final on 20 August but the win was overshadowed by Rubiales kissing forward Jenni Hermoso, which she has said was not consensual.\n\nMost of Vilda's coaching staff resigned and 81 players refused to play for Spain in the aftermath.\n\nRubiales has refused to resign but has been provisionally suspended by Fifa, football's world governing body, with Pedro Rocha appointed interim president.\n\nIn a statement, the RFEF did not give a specific reason for Vilda's dismissal, saying he had been \"a promoter of the values ​​of respect and sportsmanship in football\".\n\nHowever, the RFEF has been exploring whether it could sack Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - since last week.\n\nThe RFEF called the move \"one of the first renewal measures\" announced by Rocha.\n\nVilda, who had been in charge of the national team since 2015, survived a player revolt in September 2022, when the RFEF said 15 players had submitted identical emails saying they would not play for Vilda unless \"significant\" concerns over their \"emotional state\" and \"health\" were addressed.\n\n'Las 15' - as the players became known - denied claims they had asked for Vilda, who has always had the support of Rubiales, to be sacked, but Spain's World Cup campaign had a backdrop of tension amid reports of concerns over training methods and inadequate game preparation.\n\nOf those 15, just three ended their exile and were in the squad as Spain beat England in the World Cup final in Sydney last month.\n\nVilda, who won 75 of his 108 matches in charge of Spain and has taken the side to second in the Fifa world rankings, added: \"I am as well as can be after being fired after being world champion 10 days ago. I have been fired, I think, unjustly.\n\n\"It was a brief meeting with Pedro Rocha and the vice president of Equality. The explanation given is that there have been 'structural changes'.\n\n\"I have a clear conscience. I have given 100% and I don't understand it, I didn't see my termination as deserved.\"\n\nVilda was spotted applauding Rubiales at the RFEF's extraordinary general assembly last month, during which the under-pressure president repeatedly insisted he would not resign and that he would offer Vilda a new deal.\n\nHowever he has since criticised his behaviour.\n\n\"I will never applaud anything sexist. I didn't know very well why I was going to that Assembly. I thought there was going to be a resignation,\" said Vilda.\n\n\"The president is valuing your work and announcing your renewal, I applauded that. I also applaud Rubiales' management of the women's football, with a budget that has multiplied by four. When 150 people around you applaud it is very difficult to be the only one who doesn't.\"\n\nSpain's national sports tribunal (TAD) has opened a misconduct case against Rubiales after he kissed Hermoso.\n\nVilda claims he did not see the kiss take place because of his position in the line as the Spanish players collected their medals and says he is yet to speak with her.\n\n\"The images surprised me,\" said Vilda.\n\n\"I've known Jenni [Hermoso] for 16 years, I know she's having a hard time.\"\n\nTome 'will do well' with my legacy - Vilda\n\nFormer midfielder Tome - who was part of Vilda's coaching team - is set to lead Spain into a new era after becoming the first woman to hold the position.\n\nShe won four caps for her country during her playing career and her first assignment comes later this month as Spain feature in Women's Nations League qualifying fixtures against Sweden and Switzerland on 22 and 26 September.\n\nVilda said: \"Montse Tome has well deserved this, I have congratulated her. I think she has the ability to do very well. She was chosen by me for the coaching staff.\n\n\"In addition, she has a well-rounded team, the greatest legacy I can leave is our recognisable style of play, the methodology... to be able to play this way. That's where we are at - let her take advantage of it. She is prepared and she is going to do it well.\"\n• None Go here for all the latest from the Women's World Cup\n• None Will Jessie and Tom rekindle the old flame?\n• None Boot Dreams: Now or Never: Roman Kemp and Bruno Fernandes give rejected players a second chance at the game they love", "Jacob Angeli Chansley inside the Capitol during the riot of 6 January 2021\n\nA growing number of Capitol rioters have gone back on their guilty pleas and apologies - including one of the most recognisable faces from 6 January.\n\nStanding in court, Jacob Angeli Chansley, known as Jake Angeli, seemed like a changed man.\n\nShorn of the horned headdress, furs and face paint that helped earn him the nickname the QAnon Shaman, he was pleading guilty to obstructing an official proceeding. The charge stemmed from his part interrupting a joint session of Congress, and carried a maximum prison term of 20 years.\n\n\"I am truly, truly repentant for my actions, because repentance is not just saying you're sorry,\" he said. \"Repentance is apologising and then moving in the exact opposite direction of the sin that you committed.\n\n\"In retrospect, I would do everything differently on January 6th.\"\n\nA judge called his apology \"the most remarkable I've heard in 34 years\" and sentenced him to 41 months in prison - considerably less than the maximum allowed.\n\nNow more than a year-and-a-half later, Angeli is out of jail early, and his remorse is gone.\n\n\"Regrets only weigh down the mind,\" he told the BBC. \"They're like sandbags on a hot air balloon.\"\n\nAngeli - minus his Shaman clothing - speaking to the BBC\n\nHis about-face is such that he is even taking his case back to court to ask his guilty plea to be reversed. And he is far from alone in changing his mind about the events at the Capitol.\n\nSince 6 January 2021, over 1,000 people have been charged over their participation in the riots, and almost half have pleaded guilty. But chatter on online forums and media coverage shows a small but growing number have started to have a change of heart. Emboldened by shifting views of the riots, some have sought to recast their actions, and even benefit from their notoriety.\n\nFacing 30 days in prison and three years of probation, Athanasios Zoyganeles pleaded guilty last year to illegally demonstrating in the Capitol.\n\nBut like Angeli, he has since changed his mind. He told a reporter this month that he didn't do anything wrong and had been persuaded into an admission.\n\nHis lawyer has since asked to delay sentencing.\n\nIn addition to walking back regrets, a number of rioters have tried to capitalise on their involvement in the riots in a number of ways.\n\nDerrick Evans, a former member of the West Virginia state legislature, resigned his post after being arrested. He pleaded guilty, apologised in court, and served three months in prison.\n\nNow he is running for a seat in the US House of Representatives, and he refers to himself and other defendants as \"political prisoners\".\n\nThe term is commonly used across a broad section of the right and far-right of American politics to cast rioters as heroic and patriotic.\n\n\"I think as time continues to go on, I'm going to be proven to be on the correct side of history,\" he told the BBC recently.\n\nChristina Baal-Owens, executive director of Public Wise, a voting rights organisation that has worked to prevent 6 January rioters from being elected to office, said more and more rioters were using their public profiles to boost their political aspirations, especially in the lead-up to the 2024 elections.\n\n\"The far-right and January 6 rioters are trying to flip the narrative and make themselves martyrs,\" she said.\n\nA key moment for many was when Tucker Carlson aired small edited snippets footage of the day, which appeared to show rioters behaving peacefully inside Congress.\n\nThe footage on his now-cancelled Fox News show fuelled the narrative that they were largely peaceful demonstrations, and emboldened some, like Evans, to run for office.\n\n\"We're finally at the point where people such as myself, who went through this January 6 process and have already served our time in prison, are finally able to start speaking out and sharing the truth,\" Evans said.\n\nThe ferocity of feeling in some quarters means that some rioters have been able to raise funds - or social media clout - off their newfound fame.\n\nOn one popular Christian site, GiveSendGo, there are at least 150 campaigns mentioning the Capitol riot that collectively have raised more than $4.1m (£3.2m).\n\nIn some cases, prosecutors are trying to recoup those funds.\n\nAfter he pleaded guilty to entering a restricted building, Daniel Goodwyn, a member of the Proud Boys, appeared on television calling the Capitol riot defendants \"political prisoners\".\n\nHe made pleas for donations, raising more than $25,000. Prosecutors have since sought to fine him the same amount.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the riot\n\nJohn P Gross, a criminal law expert at the University of Wisconsin, said that having a change of heart can carry legal risks.\n\nThe concept of \"trial penalty\" means that in general, defendants who plead guilty receive lighter sentences than those convicted after a trial. Judges also have leeway to impose harsher sentences if they believe defendants aren't truly sorry.\n\n\"A judge can absolutely take lack of remorse into consideration when sentencing,\" he said. \"I would tell a client, under no terms whatsoever should you be saying anything to the media between when you plead and when you are sentenced.\"\n\nBut what happens if someone has already served their time, and wants to take it all back?\n\nIn order to change his guilty plea, Angeli must convince a judge he received ineffective representation from his original lawyer, Albert Watkins. He now says that statements his lawyer made in an attempt to mitigate his crimes weren't true.\n\n\"I never said I was duped by Trump,\" he told the BBC. \"I never denounced Q or the QAnon community… and I am not schizophrenic, bipolar, depressed or delusional.\"\n\nIn an email, Mr Watkins denied that he had said his client had denounced QAnon or was delusional and described Angeli as a \"gentle, young man who, in his own way, is very bright and talented. I wish him nothing but the best.\"\n\nLegally, rioters who try to take back a guilty plea are getting into potentially risky territory, said Mr Gross. It's rare for courts to allow someone to do that, and when they do, they run the risk of facing a new trial - something that federal prosecutors have underlined in their response to Angeli's case.\n\n\"I wouldn't endorse it as a legal strategy,\" Mr Gross said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In 2021, Jake Angeli spoke from jail about his role in the Capitol riots\n\nBecause of his ongoing case, Angeli didn't answer questions about his actions during the riot. But he implied that spending time in solitary confinement - which he called \"a form of soft torture\" - led to his original decision to plead guilty.\n\nAngeli has used his notoriety to boost his profile since exiting prison. He has a podcast, runs online courses and sells merchandise on his website - including selling $44 flags, $33 t-shirts and $17 mugs.\n\nHe is also back to spreading conspiracy theories online, insisting that he is only trying to spread the truth about a variety of government plots.\n\nAnd while he backed away from his statement in court that he would have done everything differently during the Capitol riot, he did express one thought that sounded almost like a regret.\n\n\"I really tried to stop people from going crazy,\" he said. \"I would have tried a lot harder had I known what was going to happen.\n\n\"But who's going listen to the crazy guy in the face paint and the horns telling everybody to calm down?\"", "Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was described the prosecutors as the riot's \"primary organiser\"\n\nThe Proud Boys' former leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.\n\nIt is the longest sentence handed down so far over the attack, which happened as lawmakers were certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.\n\nTarrio, 39, was not in Washington during the riot, but helped organise the far-right group's involvement.\n\nAs he was led from court, he flashed the two-fingered peace or victory sign.\n\nThe Department of Justice's sprawling investigation into the riot has so far seen more than 1,100 people arrested and charged.\n\nThe rioters turned out in support of then-president Donald Trump, who continues to deny that he lost the 2020 election. He has promised to pardon most or all of the rioters if he is re-elected president in 2024.\n\nTarrio was convicted in May of seditious conspiracy, a rarely used charge of planning to overthrow the government, and multiple other counts. He has been in jail since his arrest last year.\n\nIn their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors described Tarrio as a \"naturally charismatic leader\" and \"a savvy propagandist\" who was the \"primary organiser\" of the conspiracy he and his co-defendants were convicted of.\n\nThey also said he condoned and promoted violence from others. \"He was a general rather than a soldier,\" prosecutors wrote.\n\nThey argued he helped rally members of the far-right group to come to Washington DC and, while he was not in the city at the time, prosecutors said he monitored their movements and encouraged them as the attack unfolded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Trump supporters laid siege to the congressional complex, Tarrio posted online that he was \"enjoying the show\".\n\n\"Do what must be done,\" he wrote, urging on the rioters.\n\nUS District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee who presided over the sentencing hearing, concluded that Tarrio began planning an attack on the Capitol in December 2020 and instituted a rigid command structure.\n\n\"Tarrio was the ultimate leader, the ultimate person who organised, who was motivated by revolutionary zeal,\" Judge Kelly said. \"I don't have any indication that he is remorseful for the actual things that he was convicted of.\"\n\nBefore he learned his fate on Tuesday, an emotional Tarrio apologised to police and residents of Washington DC for his role in the riot. \"I am extremely ashamed and disappointed that they were caused grief and suffering,\" he said. \"I will have to live with that shame for the rest of my life.\"\n\nTarrio, who wore an orange jail uniform, added: \"I was my own worst enemy. My hubris convinced me that I was a victim and targeted unfairly.\"\n\nAcknowledging that Mr Trump had lost the November 2020 presidential election, Tarrio said: \"I am not a political zealot. I didn't think it was even possible to change the results of the election.\n\n\"Please show me mercy,\" Tarrio asked the judge. \"I ask you that you not take my 40s from me.\"\n\nTarrio was national chairman of the Proud Boys. Founded in New York City in 2016, members of the far-right group have described themselves as an all-male drinking club.\n\nThey regarded themselves as Mr Trump's foot-soldiers and have often been involved in street clashes with far-left anti-fascist activists.\n\nTarrio's lawyer argued in court on Tuesday that his client was a \"keyboard ninja\" and \"misguided patriot\" who tended to \"talk trash\", but had no intention of overthrowing the government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: When the Proud Boys marched on the Capitol on 6 January 2021\n\nHowever, Judge Kelly noted that Tarrio had on many previous occasions expressed no remorse for his actions.\n\nTarrio was also found guilty in May of obstruction and conspiracy charges, civil disorder and destruction of government property.\n\nProsecutors had called his actions \"a calculated act of terrorism\", meriting a sentence of 33 years in prison. The defence wanted no more than 15 years.\n\nTarrio stood silently while the judge handed down the penalty. As he was led from court, Tarrio waved to his family in the public gallery and raised the two-fingered salute.\n\nHis lawyers said he plans to appeal.\n\nThe siege of the US Capitol stunned the world\n\nTuesday's was the last in a series of sentencing hearings for the ringleaders of the Capitol riot.\n\nUntil now, the longest sentences were the 18-year terms handed down last week to another Proud Boy, Ethan Nordean, and in May to Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia.\n\nThree other Proud Boys received prison sentences last week for their roles in the riot.\n\nFormer US Marines Dominic Pezzola and Zachary Rehl received 10 and 15 years respectively.\n\nThe charges against the rioters have varied - from relatively minor crimes like entering a restricted area, to destruction of government property, assault and conspiracy. Around 200 have pleaded guilty to felony charges.\n\nThe investigation is ongoing and the FBI is still trying to locate 14 rioters captured on video assaulting police officers or members of the media.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Graham Beisly said the test booking system is the worst he's seen in almost four decades of being a driving instructor\n\nA driving instructor says he's being forced to take pupils on a 400-mile round trip to take their driving test.\n\nGraham Beisly has been taking his learners from Reading to Cardigan on Wales' west coast after some have been unable to even get on the waiting list.\n\nMr Beisly said the test booking system is \"unworkable\" and the worst he's seen in almost 40 years as an instructor.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) said it was taking measures to reduce driving test waiting times.\n\n\"I've had a few students who just cannot get a test, they can't even get on the waiting list,\" said Mr Beisly.\n\n\"I've been doing this job for 39 years and it has never, ever been this bad. It's just phenomenal, it's unworkable.\"\n\nMr Beisly, 65, said five of his students from Reading have made the journey to Cardigan in Ceredigion - which can take four hours each way - to take their practical test because he can book them in earlier at quieter test centres.\n\nThe DVSA has said wait times have increased due to an increase in demand, civil service strikes, and students changing their booking behaviour because of the decrease in availability.\n\nIn March, it announced plans in an attempt to tackle the large driving test backlogs.\n\nThese measures include increasing the time learners must wait to rebook a test after failing from 10 to 28 days.\n\nThe average wait from booking a driving test to sitting one is around 20 weeks across the UK, according to the DVSA.\n\nThat compares to just a six week wait before the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe average wait from booking a test to sitting it is 24 weeks in the UK, accoding the the AA\n\nMr Beisly said he believes the current system is causing learners to take tests before they are ready due to the thought of a month-long wait if they have to reschedule.\n\n\"That's then taken up the space available that should be available to somebody who is of test standards,\" he said. \"It just makes the whole system worse.\"\n\nHe said he believes part of the problem is companies buying test slots in bulk, before selling those slots on for \"extortionate profits\".\n\n\"It used to be that one person buys one test, and that's it, then they've allowed companies to buy them up in bulk,\" he claimed.\n\nLouise Dale, a driving instructor from Caerphilly, said her students face waiting until the new year before practical test slots become available.\n\n\"The waits were about six to eight weeks pre-Covid and then it kind of settled down a little bit,\" she said.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden, probably about six months ago, it's gone mad again.\"\n\nLouise Dale said the waits students face to take their tests are \"mad\"\n\nMs Dale, who works in Cardiff, said while she understands the issue is widespread, part of the problem in Wales is students coming from outside Wales to sit their test.\n\n\"It's making it even more difficult for us locals now to get tests for our people,\" she said.\n\nMs Dale said she believes another factor is due to inexperienced drivers taking tests before they are ready.\n\n\"You've got drivers who turn up and, yes they can they can operate the vehicle, but they have no idea what the test is about,\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like a lot of tests are being almost wasted due to people not being prepared.\"\n\nMr Beisly, who is planning to move to Cardigan, added that he will continue taking students for tests in west Wales until the situation improves.\n\n\"You can normally get cancellation within two weeks, maybe one week,\" he said. \"It's completely off the scale compared to Reading.\n\nThe DVSA said they are taking \"all measures we can to reduce driving test waiting times\" which includes recruiting almost 500 new driving examiners.\n\n\"DVSA is committed to tackling the reselling of driving tests at profit, and we have zero tolerance for those who exploit learners,\" said chief executive Loveday Ryder.", "Bruce Guthro had a music career spanning more than 40 years\n\nRunrig lead vocalist Bruce Guthro has died at the age of 62.\n\nThe Canadian singer-songwriter joined the Scottish rock band in 1998 and remained with the group until its final performances in 2018.\n\nRunrig said Guthro died on Tuesday night after a years-long battle with cancer.\n\nFriend and former band-mate, SNP MP Pete Wishart, said he had been an exceptional singer, musician and songwriter.\n\nRunrig said: \"It is with the heaviest of hearts and profound sadness that we inform you of the news that Bruce passed away last night, having finally lost a long battle with cancer that has stretched back many years.\n\n\"Everyone associated with Runrig is heart broken at the loss of a dear friend and such a special musical colleague.\"\n\nRunrig said the band's thoughts and prayers were with his family.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme, Mr Wishart - who played keyboard for the band before becoming an MP - said everybody associated with Runrig was heartbroken.\n\nHe said: \"We've lost a friend, but we will never get to hear this wonderful voice singing voice live again.\"\n\nGuthro, far right, with Runrig\n\nIn a post on social media in July, Guthro said he had been battling health issues for a number of years and had been forced to cancel live performances.\n\nGuthro was from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his award-winning music career of more than 40 years included work as a solo artist.\n\nHe joined Runrig after Donnie Munro left the band.\n\nMr Wishart said the group had almost given up looking for another lead singer when Guthro auditioned.\n\nHe said: \"Bruce came in that day when Scotland were playing Brazil in the 1998 World Cup and we had half an eye on the football and half an eye on Bruce.\n\n\"When Bruce sang we turned around almost with our jaws hitting the ground with the quality of Bruce's voice.\"\n\nGuthro has been described by friends as an exceptional musician\n\nScottish fiddle player Duncan Chisholm said he had known Guthro as a friend for more than 25 years, and described him as incredibly gifted singer.\n\nIn a tribute, Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis said: \"He was such a gifted singer and a powerful performer.\n\n\"It was one of the greatest privileges for me to sing with him onstage and backstage over the years.\"\n\nRunrig's songs, many of them sung in Gaelic, span more than four decades and the band has a large and loyal following across Scotland and the rest of Europe.\n\nThe band enjoyed UK chart success in the 1990s and in 2018 sold out their final performances, the two-day The Last Dance - Farewell Concert in Stirling.", "(L-R): Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Kaveporn Punpare, Nusara Suknamai, Izabela Roza Lechowicz and Eric Swaffer were killed in the crash\n\nThe pilot of the helicopter that crashed outside Leicester City's stadium said \"I've no idea what's going on\" as it spun out of control, killing five people including its chairman.\n\nEric Swaffer, 53, made the comment before the aircraft crashed outside the King Power Stadium on 27 October 2018.\n\nThe final report into the crash concluded he could have done \"very little\" to save those on board.\n\nA lawyer for three of the victims said it \"was an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nThe crash claimed the lives of Leicester City chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two members of his staff - Nusara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare - and pilots and partners Mr Swaffer and Izabela Roza Lechowicz.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)'s final report said a tail rotor bearing seized, which in turn caused the crash.\n\nThe AAIB said the crash was \"inevitable\" after a sequence of mechanical failures.\n\nChief inspector of air accidents at the AAIB, Crispin Orr, said Mr Swaffer did what he could to control the Leonardo AW169 helicopter, but the catastrophic failure in a bearing in the tail rotor resulted in the aircraft making a sharp right turn.\n\nAs the helicopter - which had reached an altitude of about 430ft (131m) - was turning out of control, a shout of \"hey, hey, hey\" came from the rear cabin, where Mr Vichai and his employees were seated, the AAIB said.\n\nIn aircraft voice recordings, Mr Swaffer was heard to say: \"I've no idea what's going on\", shortly before the helicopter crashed into a concrete step.\n\nInspectors said four of the passengers survived the impact of the crash, but a fire that was caused by a \"significant\" fuel leak, proved fatal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. AAIB animation on what caused the Leicester City helicopter crash\n\nFour first responders were treated for injuries caused by the heat of the fire after they attempted to rescue those inside the helicopter.\n\nThe report added two police officers who arrived at the scene one minute after the crash tried to smash the helicopter's windscreen with their batons, but failed.\n\nMr Orr said: \"This was a tragic accident in which five people sadly lost their lives. Our thoughts are with their loved ones, and everyone affected.\"\n\nIt has taken almost five years to complete the 209-page final report, after what the AAIB previously called a \"technically very complex\" investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities from Canada, France, Italy and the US were also involved in the investigation because of where various significant components were manufactured.\n\nThe investigation discovered a worn bearing on the tail rotor had seized after the helicopter took off.\n\nThe shaft that controlled the tail rotor then unscrewed and became detached as a result, which in turn caused the helicopter to spin out of the pilot's control.\n\nThe AAIB report stated the helicopter complied with \"all applicable airworthiness requirements\" and had been maintained correctly before the crash.\n\nTributes were left outside the stadium in the immediate aftermath of the crash\n\nThe wear on the rotor bearing was also found to have built up over a period of time and could not have been predicted, according to the inspectors.\n\nExamination of the bearing was only required once it had been used for 400 hours, but the helicopter had only been flown for 331 hours when the crash occurred.\n\nOne of the \"contributory factors\" was that regulations do not require maintenance checks to review the condition of used bearings against their original design, the AAIB said.\n\nDrone involvement and pilot error were ruled out.\n\nThe AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after this photograph was taken\n\nThe AAIB has made eight safety recommendations to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as a result of its investigation to \"address weaknesses or omissions\" in regulations for certifying large helicopters.\n\nThe crash occurred just over an hour after a Premier League match between Leicester City and West Ham United.\n\nIt sparked an outpouring of grief and tributes across the UK and abroad, with Leicester's players travelling to Thailand for Mr Vichai's funeral.\n\nA statue of Mr Vichai was unveiled at the club in 2022, with the former chairman replaced by his son Khun Aiyawatt \"Top\" Srivaddhanaprabha.\n\nAn inauguration ceremony was held for the statue\n\nThree of the victims - Mr Vichai, Mr Swaffer and Ms Lechowicz - are being represented by law firm Stewarts.\n\nIn a statement released by the firm, Mr Vichai's son Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said: \"My father trusted that he had bought a safe helicopter from a world-renowned manufacturer. Had he known what we know now he would never have risked his life in this machine.\n\n\"The pain this causes me and my family is immeasurable and as a family we continue to struggle every day with our grief at the loss of my father. He was a great inspiration to me personally and we all loved him very much.\"\n\nLitigation has already begun in Italy against helicopter manufacturer Leonardo on behalf of Mr Swaffer and Ms Lechowicz's families, Stewarts said.\n\nMr Swaffer was in an \"aviation love story\" with Ms Lechowicz, a friend said\n\nPeter Neenan, a partner in the company's aviation team, said the crash \"was an accident waiting to happen\".\n\nA Leonardo spokesperson said the company extended its \"sincere sympathies and deepest condolences\" to those affected.\n\n\"The AAIB final report rightly concludes that Leonardo complied with all regulatory requirements in both the design and manufacture of the AW169,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"The final report also recognises that Leonardo's immediate actions after the accident, such as the implementation of additional safety checks, which were later adopted by EASA as mandatory special bulletins, have ensured that the global fleet of AW169s have continued to operate safely.\"\n\nMs Lechowicz's sister Kate said Mr Swaffer and her sister had been excited at the prospect of meeting their nephew - her son - who was born the day after their funeral.\n\n\"Nothing fills the hole they leave; my only consolation is that even now they fly high together,\" she said.\n\nMr Swaffer's mother Deborah Sutton said: \"This, of course, is every mother's worst nightmare and time is not healing. Eric and Izabela were an inseparable couple, devoted to each other and to their flying.\"\n\nLeicester City chief executive Susan Whelan said the club commended \"the extensive and detailed body of work undertaken\" by the AAIB, and hoped it would \"contribute positively to the continued development of future aviation standards and safety\".\n\n\"The tragic events of 27 October, 2018, will forever be etched into the memory of the Leicester City family. It was a night we experienced the devastating loss of our beloved chairman, friends, colleagues, and family members,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet, in our grief, a sense of unity and strength was forged. The extraordinary support and kindness that was extended to those affected, by communities across Leicestershire, football and the wider world will never be forgotten.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins looks back at government spending decisions over their time in power, in their response to the crisis of unsafe concrete in England's schools.", "The boss of Ryanair has slammed a report on the flights chaos seen over the bank holiday as \"rubbish\".\n\nMichael O'Leary claimed the findings \"downplay the impact on the aviation industry\" and said the report was \"full of excuses\".\n\nThe UK's air traffic control system was brought down in a \"one in 15 million\" event, the head of air traffic services, Nats, said on Wednesday.\n\nHundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled as a result on 28 August.\n\nIndustry group Airlines UK argues that carriers incurred huge costs in providing accommodation and putting on more flights for customers who were stuck overseas.\n\nIt is now calling for these costs to be covered.\n\nMr O'Leary told the BBC that the disruption will cost the airline between £15m and £20m in refunds for hotels, food and alternative travel arrangements.\n\nHe said that \"there won't be any issues\" for customers claiming costs, but demanded that Nats, which controls the UK's air traffic services, \"accepts responsibility for its incompetence\".\n\nMarion Geoffroy, managing director at Wizz Air UK, said that it, along with its customers, had \"suffered severe disruption\" because of cancellations and accommodation costs.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said: \"Airlines cannot be the insurer of a last resort.\n\n\"We can't have a situation whereby airlines carry the can every time we see disruption of this magnitude.\"\n\nThe group represents the likes of British Airways, EasyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, Virgin Atlantic and Tui.\n\nEasyJet boss Johan Lundgren also said that \"many questions are still left unanswered\" after Nats published an initial report into what exactly caused the system failure.\n\n\"An incident on this scale should not have happened and must not happen again,\" he added, saying that he was looking forward to a more \"wide-ranging\" review.\n\nIn its initial report published on Wednesday, Nats said that at 08:32 on 28 August, its system received details of a flight which was due to cross UK airspace later that day.\n\nAirlines submit every flight path to the national control centre; these should automatically be shared with Nats controllers, who oversee UK airspace.\n\nThe system detected that two markers along the planned route had the same name - even though they were in different places. As a result, it could not understand the UK portion of the flight plan.\n\nThis triggered the system to automatically stop working for safety reasons, so that no incorrect information was passed to Nats' air traffic controllers. The backup system then did the same thing.\n\nThis unfolded in just 20 seconds.\n\nEngineers struggled to fix the problem, and called in the manufacturer for help.\n\nMartin Rolfe, chief executive of Nats, said that the system did \"what it was designed to do, i.e. fail safely when it receives data that it can't process\".\n\nHe described it as \"a one in 15 million flight plan that we received\", meaning the engineers took a few hours to work out a situation they were not familiar with.\n\nIt was the first time this had happened in the five years the software had been operating, having processed more than 15 million flight plans, he said.\n\nNats said it had taken measures to prevent the situation from happening again.\n\n\"We were in the situation where we had thousands of flights in the air and we received a piece of data which our systems could not process. If that happened today, we would absolutely be able to deal with them,\" Mr Rolfe told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nThe UK's aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has also announced an independent review, expected to report in a few months' time. The watchdog said it could take action if Nats had breached \"statutory and licensing obligations\".\n\nMr Rolfe apologised again to customers whose holidays were affected during an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"We absolutely understand how disruptive the events over the bank holiday were for people.\"\n\nWith planes and crew out of position and most flights already booked up, many people found themselves stuck abroad on what is usually a big day for travel - a bank holiday - facing long waits to get home.\n\nAs last week went on, airlines put on extra flights in an attempt to clear the backlog.\n\nBut questions have remained over how one flight plan could cause such huge disruption. For a time, flight plans had to be processed manually, which meant restrictions were imposed on the number which could be handled.\n\nThe system was back online just before 14:30 BST. It wasn't until just after 18:00 that restrictions on air traffic were fully removed.\n\nBoth Nats and the CAA say safety was never compromised.\n\nThe Nats report also cites Eurocontrol data as showing 5,592 flights operated in UK airspace on 28 August, 2,000 (or 25%) fewer than had been expected. This includes cancelled flights and those which avoided UK airspace.\n\nNats believes there were about 1,500 cancellations on the Monday alone, with all UK airlines affected.\n\n\"Systems of this nature are used throughout the world and this scenario has never been encountered before,\" wrote the CAA after its initial assessment of Nats's report detailing what went wrong.\n\nThe CAA said the event \"is now understood and should it reoccur would be fixed quickly with no effect to the aviation system\".\n\nMr O'Leary is also calling on the Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, to order Nats to reimburse airlines for these costs, saying \"it's the moral thing to do\".\n\nMark Harper MP said that he was pleased to receive confirmation that there were no safety issues.\n\nHe added that the independent review from the aviation watchdog will \"dig deeper into this event and understand whether there are any further steps to be taken to improve the resilience of the air traffic control system\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the air traffic control outage? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, is set to be proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government - meaning it will be illegal to be a member or support the organisation.\n\nA draft order to be laid in Parliament will allow its assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized.\n\nThe home secretary said Wagner was \"violent and destructive... a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia\".\n\nShe said its work in Ukraine and Africa was a \"threat to global security\".\n\nSuella Braverman added: \"Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals.\"\n\n\"They are terrorists, plain and simple - and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law.\"\n\nWagner had played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as operating in Syria and countries in Africa including Libya and Mali.\n\nIts fighters have been accused of a number crimes including killing and torturing Ukrainian citizens.\n\nIn 2020, the US said Wagner soldiers had planted landmines around the Libyan capital, Tripoli.\n\nAnd in July, the UK said the group had carried out \"executions and torture in Mali and the Central African Republic\".\n\nThe group's future was thrown into uncertainty earlier this year when its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against Russia's military leaders.\n\nPrigozhin, who founded the group in 2014, died in a suspicious plane crash along with other Wagner figures on 23 August and was buried in St Petersburg.\n\nThe group's name will now be added alongside that of other proscribed organisations in the UK such as Hamas and Boko Haram.\n\nThe Terrorism Act 2000 gives the home secretary the power to proscribe an organisation if they believe it is concerned in terrorism.\n\nBefore the act, it was only possible to proscribe organisations connected to terrorism in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe proscription order will make it a criminal offence to support the group - including by arranging a meetings aimed at furthering the organisation's activities, expressing support for its aims or displaying its flag or logo.\n\nCommitting a proscription offence could lead to 14 years in prison.\n\nThe government had come under pressure from MPs for some months to proscribe the group.\n\nEarlier this year, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy urged the government to proscribe Wagner saying it was \"responsible for the appalling atrocities in Ukraine and across the world\".\n\nWelcoming the draft order on Tuesday, Mr Lammy said on social media: \"This is long overdue, but it's welcome the government has finally acted. Now the government should press for a Special Tribunal to prosecute Putin for his crime of aggression.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office had imposed sanctions on the group, including freezing the assets of Prigozhin and several top commanders.\n\nHowever, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Conservative MP Alicia Kearns said in July: \"Sanctions are not enough - the UK needs to proscribe the Wagner group for what it is: a terrorist organisation.\"\n\nHer committee also produced a report which said the government had been \"remarkably complacent\" and criticised its \"dismal lack of understanding of Wagner's hold beyond Europe, in particular their grip on African states\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has been seriously weakened by its failed mutiny in June against Russia's generals, as well as the recent death in the plane crash of its top leadership, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner writes.\n\nBut proscribing it in law will make it harder for members to move money around, our correspondent adds. It will also provide a legal basis for Ukrainians and others to sue Wagner for potentially billions of pounds in compensation through the British courts.\n• None Is Wagner still a threat to global security?", "Sara Sharif's father and stepmother have issued a statement on camera, saying that they will co-operate with UK authorities. It is their first public contact since Sara's death.\n\nThe 10-year-old was found dead on 10 August, with a post-mortem revealing she had suffered \"multiple and extensive injuries\".\n\nHer father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, and his brother Faisal Malik flew to Pakistan the day before her body was found.\n\nPolice in Pakistan have been trying to locate them on behalf of detectives in Surrey.", "The technical issues that sent UK air traffic control into meltdown earlier today have been resolved.\n\nBut with tales of delays and cancellations reaching us from the UK, mainland Europe and beyond, the impact of the hours-long outage seem far from over.\n\nWe will, of course, follow closely the fallout in the coming hours as well as hopefully get a greater understanding of what went wrong. In the meantime, you can keep an eye on the latest developments in our story here.\n\nAnd for those of you with whose flights are affected, here's a guide to your rights.\n\nFor now, that's it from us in London. Today's writers were Thomas Mackintosh, Antoinette Radford, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Emily Atkinson and Krystyna Gajda. The editors during the course of the day were Dulcie Lee, James Fitzgerald, Rob Corp and Heather Sharp.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer trade counter claims about who is to blame for schools affected by concrete issues\n\nRishi Sunak has batted away suggestions he was at fault for the concrete crisis in schools, in a Prime Minister's Questions dominated by the issue.\n\nHe faced Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer who likened the government to \"cowboy builders\" seeking to shift blame.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said his government acted \"decisively\" on the unsafe concrete and branded Sir Keir \"Captain Hindsight\".\n\nThe government has published a list of schools in England with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).\n\nA total of 147 education settings are included on the list, which sets out the RAAC mitigation measures schools have been forced to take.\n\nThe long-awaited list was published on Wednesday, after more than 100 schools were ordered to fully or partially shut buildings before the new academic year over RAAC concerns.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) later said the list of schools in England where RAAC is present is only up to date as of 30 August, and the actual number is likely to be higher.\n\nThe government's record on dealing with the crisis was the main focus of PMQs, the first such session since MPs returned from their summer break.\n\nSir Keir read out the names of schools earmarked for repairs in 2010 under a Labour scheme, but which remain on the government's list of RAAC-exposed sites.\n\nHe quoted Gareth Davies, the head of spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO), who accused the government of a \"sticking plaster approach\" to school maintenance.\n\nSir Keir asked, if Mr Sunak was not to blame, \"why does everyone else say it's his fault?\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"make no apology for acting decisively\" since new information about RAAC came to light and insisted the government was doing \"everything it can to fix this quickly\".\n\nHe said the RAAC situation in schools had \"evolved over time\" and argued \"it's something successive governments have dealt with\".\n\nProblems with the material have been known about for many years, but only came to wider attention following the collapse of a primary school's flat roof in 2018.\n\nThe incident prompted warnings from both the Local Government Association and Department for Education. Organisations responsible for school buildings were told to take steps to confirm the safety of their construction.\n\nRAAC was used in various types of building between the 1950s and 1990s, but the material, a cheaper alternative to standard concrete, has a lifespan of around 30 years.\n\nAlthough concerns about the material have been around for a while, the recent announcement about schools has sparked a political wrangle about previous levels of investment for repairs.\n\nSince the announcement, Labour has increasingly sought to put Mr Sunak's record in the spotlight by questioning funding decisions he made when he was chancellor in Boris Johnson's government.\n\nAt PMQs, Sir Keir suggested the crisis was \"the inevitable result of 13 years of cutting corners, botched jobs, sticking-plaster politics\".\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"It's the sort of thing you expect from cowboy builders saying that everyone else is wrong, everyone else is to blame, protesting that they've done an effin' good job even as the ceiling falls in.\n\n\"The difference is that in this case, the cowboys are running the country.\"\n\nHitting back, Mr Sunak said: \"This is exactly the kind of political opportunity that we've come to expect from Captain Hindsight over here.\n\n\"Before today, he's never once raised this issue with me, across this dispatch box.\"\n\nThat point was contested by Sir Keir, who said Labour MPs had asked many parliamentary questions about the issue.\n\nSir Keir said schools now found to have RAAC which would have been replaced under Labour's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, started when the party was in government.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the BSF scheme, scrapped by the coalition government, would have been \"time-consuming and expensive, just like the Labour Party\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJenni Hermoso has filed a legal complaint over the kiss by Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales.\n\nRubiales kissed Hermoso on the lips after Spain's World Cup final win, which she says was not consensual.\n\nRubiales claims the kiss was \"mutual\" and \"consensual\", but has been provisionally suspended by football's world governing body Fifa.\n\nThe complaint means the 46-year-old could face criminal charges.\n\nA statement from the national prosecutor's office said: \"Jennifer Hermoso filed an express complaint for the facts that you all know.\n\n\"The national court's prosecutor's office will file a complaint as soon as possible. The statement took place at the state attorney general's office to protect the privacy of the victim.\"\n\nOn 29 August, Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault.\n\nAt the time, Spain's top criminal court said it was opening its investigation in light of the \"unequivocal nature\" of 33-year-old Hermoso's statements, saying it was necessary \"to determine their legal significance\".\n\n\"Given the public statements made by Jennifer Hermoso, the sexual act she was subjected to by Luis Rubiales was not consensual,\" a statement said.\n\nIt added that legal experts would also contact her \"to offer her the option of legal action, giving her the chance to contact National Court prosecutors within 15 days for information about her rights as a victim of an alleged sexual assault should she wish to file a complaint\".\n\nThe statement added: \"In order to proceed with a case for sexual assault, harassment or sexual abuse, it will be necessary for the injured party or their legal representative to file suit, or the public prosecutors' office.\"\n\nIt is reported Hermoso filed her complaint on Tuesday.\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nRubiales, who prior to the kiss had been seen grabbing his crotch while celebrating Spain's 1-0 win over England, has repeatedly refused to resign from his position.\n\nOn Friday, Spain's national sports tribunal (TAD) opened a misconduct case against him, ruling he had committed a \"serious offence\" by kissing Hermoso.\n\nHowever, the TAD stopped short of the \"very serious offence\" the government had requested which would have led to his suspension.\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, have said they will not play for the team again while Rubiales is in charge.\n\nThey are due to play in Uefa Nations League qualifying later this month, with fixtures against Sweden and Switzerland on 22 and 26 September.\n\nOn Tuesday, Spain's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - was sacked, with Montse Tome named as his successor.\n\nThe Spanish men's team criticised Rubiales on Monday for his \"unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nHowever, Spain and Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal was criticised for then saying he would not judge whether Hermoso was a victim or not until the legal process was completed.\n\nSpeaking in an interview with Spanish radio Onda Cero on Tuesday, he said: \"There are legal bodies that are considering whether Jennifer is really a victim of something that is being investigated.\n\n\"There are people who have to decide whether there is an offender and a victim.\"\n\nAttempting to explain his comments on Wednesday, Carvajal said that \"Rubiales should be supported in the same way as Jenni Hermoso\" in this process.\n\nHe added: \"I can understand that Jenni is going through a bad time, we have to show my solidarity. However, I don't think the president is having a good time either. I am not here to judge anyone.\n\n\"The presumption of innocence is a constitutional right. You cannot victimise or blame anyone.\"\n\nFormer Spain defender Sergio Ramos described Rubiales' behaviour as unacceptable.\n\n\"As the president of the federation and a representative of Spanish soccer, I think he's mistaken,\" he said.\n\n\"I think instead of talking about the whole Rubiales issue which has taken over, we should instead - and I'll take the opportunity now to once again congratulate the women's squad who are world champions and this after we did it in 2010.\n\n\"But in 2023 what everyone should be talking about is that the women's squad are world champions. So, I want to send my sincere congratulations. And I hope soccer has the representatives it deserves.\"\n• None Will Jessie and Tom rekindle the old flame?\n• None Boot Dreams: Now or Never: Roman Kemp and Bruno Fernandes give rejected players a second chance at the game they love", "A member of the British Army accused of planting fake bombs at a military base has appeared in court.\n\nDaniel Abed Khalife, 21, is alleged to have left three cannisters with wires at MOD Stafford on 2 January.\n\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court earlier, which heard he allegedly left the device \"with the intention of inducing in another the belief the item was likely to explode or ignite\".\n\nMr Khalife did not enter a plea during the court appearance.\n\nThe full terror charges also say he \"elicited\" personal information about soldiers from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System which was \"likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism\" in 2021.\n\nBoth offences are alleged to have taken place at MOD Stafford in Staffordshire.\n\nMr Khalife, of Beacon Barracks in Stafford, was remanded in custody until his next court appearance, which has been set for 17 February at the Old Bailey.\n\n\"These matters are very serious,\" chief magistrate Paul Goldspring told Mr Khalife.\n\n\"If you are convicted, you are going to face a prison sentence in years not months. Therefore this court's powers are insufficient.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ann Marie Davies had been returning to Swansea after a family holiday when she was stopped\n\nA woman returning from a family holiday in Portugal said she was detained at an airport for about four hours under counter terrorism legislation.\n\nAnn Marie Davies, 49 from Swansea, said she was asked if she supported banned Kurdish political party, the PKK.\n\nShe has been an advocate for the rights of Kurdish people since teaching English in Turkey 30 years ago.\n\nThe Home Office said it could not comment on individual cases but the Terrorism Act 2000 permitted detention.\n\nMs Davies said she realised there was an issue when her passport failed to swipe digitally at Bristol Airport before four people \"suited and booted... took me aside\" on 25 July.\n\nShe said it was a \"scary\" experience in which she was separated from her 14-year-old daughter and partner and questioned.\n\nHer DNA was taken along with copies of her fingerprints, said Ms Davies, who helped to organise a Kurdish cultural event in Cardiff in 2022.\n\n\"I'm still really unclear about the reasons why I was questioned,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nMs Davies, a mother of three, works as a clinical teaching associate, teaching medical students at the universities in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor on engaging with patients in a personal way.\n\n\"The terrorism laws mean you aren't cautioned. I wasn't sure if it [the interview] was recorded,\" she said.\n\n\"The only reason I think it was a Kurdish thing was that they'd gone through my phone and there was a video of a lovely cultural evening with poetry and dancing.\n\n\"In the Kurdish community it's really important that people get together with family so it was a family event.\n\n\"My family attended. Lots of my friends came along. We had a really joyful evening. That's the video they were worried about... a dancing and poetry event.\"\n\nThe PKK has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish government since 1984, calling for increased human rights and freedoms for the Kurds within the country.\n\nBoth the UK government and Turkish government consider the PKK a terrorist organisation.\n\nMs Davies said friends in the Kurdish community in Cardiff subsequently told her that they were stopped and questioned \"routinely\" when travelling overseas.\n\nReflecting on the incident, she added: \"I still have no understanding of my rights or what happens from here, whether I can go on holiday again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 enables port officers to stop, question and, when necessary, detain and search a person travelling through a UK port to determine whether they are or have been involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.\"", "New Brexit trade rules covering electric vehicles could cost European manufacturers £3.75bn over the next three years, an industry body has said.\n\nThe rules are meant to ensure that EU-produced electric cars are largely made from locally sourced parts.\n\nBut manufacturers on both sides of the Channel say they are not ready.\n\nThe European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) also warned the measures could reduce output from EU factories by 480,000 vehicles.\n\nAnd they said customers would pay the price.\n\nThe main problem lies in so-called \"rules of origin\" which come into force in January. They apply to shipments of cars across the Channel under the terms of the Brexit deal, the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.\n\nThey will effectively ensure that electric vehicles will need to have batteries produced in either the UK or the EU.\n\nCars that do not meet the criteria will face 10% tariffs - or taxes - when transported across the Channel, in either direction.\n\nThe rules were designed to protect the European industry from cheap imports.\n\nBut because battery production in Europe has not ramped up as quickly as expected, carmakers are struggling to meet the new criteria.\n\nIt is a serious problem for European manufacturers. The UK is by far their largest export market, with 1.2 million vehicles arriving at UK ports last year. Likewise more cars built in the UK are transported to the EU than any other region.\n\nSteep tariffs could make electric cars more expensive to produce, and potentially push up prices.\n\nThe ACEA wants the new rules to be delayed for three years, and it is appealing to the European Commission to take action.\n\n\"Driving up consumer prices of European electric vehicles, at the very time when we need to fight for market share in the face of fierce international competition, is not the right move,\" said Renault chief executive Luca de Meo, who is also acting as ACEA's president.\n\n\"We will effectively be handing a chunk of the market to global manufacturers,\" he added.\n\nFor the rules to be pushed back, an agreement would need to be reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe UK's Business Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, said last week she was \"optimistic\" such a deal could be reached.\n\nBut in an interview with the Guardian on Friday, the EU's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton was much less forthcoming.\n\nHe said it would be wrong to re-open the Brexit deal to satisfy the motor industry.\n\n\"If something has been negotiated, it shouldn't be changed,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nThe European Commission said: \"Brexit has changed the trade relationship between the UK and the EU, among other things.\"\n\nIt noted that the Brexit trade deal - the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement - \"is the outcome of a negotiation in which both sides agreed to an overall balance of commitments\".\n\nIt added that the rules of origin aim to develop a \"strong and resilient battery value chain in the EU\".\n\nSigrid de Vries, the secretary general of ACEA, said it was unsurprising that the industry's appeals were meeting resistance.\n\n\"The European Commission doesn't want to change anything, it seems, when it comes to Brexit-related topics. It's politically very sensitive,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We do understand it, and we are not asking to change any of these arrangements in any fundamental way.\"\n\nMeanwhile the chief executive of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mike Hawes, told reporters last week that he thought a deal would be done - but it could be a last-minute affair.\n\n\"We are still optimistic an agreement can be reached. It makes common sense,\" he said.\n\n\"But I can see this going down, like with Brexit, to Christmas Eve, or something like that.\"\n\nTrade officials from the EU and the UK are due to meet this week in London. It is not yet known whether the new rules will be on the agenda.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNewcastle matched their record Premier League win with a scintillating display as they embarrassed winless Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.\n\nAny fears of a European hangover following their Champions League exertions on Tuesday soon vanished as Eddie Howe's side cruised to victory with eight different players getting on the scoresheet.\n\nSean Longstaff put the visitors in front on 21 minutes as he swept in from Anthony Gordon's cutback with the Blades' appeals for a handball and claims the ball went out of play in the build-up dismissed.\n\nPaul Heckingbottom's hosts had started brightly but found themselves three down before half-time after a further two goals in four minutes for Newcastle.\n\nBoth came from Kieran Trippier set-pieces with Dan Burn stooping to nod in a corner at the back post before Sven Botman scored his first Newcastle goal with a well-directed header from a wide free-kick.\n\nCallum Wilson missed a number of presentable opportunities before the break but got his goal 10 minutes into the second half, heading in from close range following another pinpoint cross from Trippier.\n• None Relive Sheffield United v Newcastle and all of Sunday's Premier League action\n• None How did you rate Sheffield United's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Newcastle's display? Send us your views here\n\nWith Newcastle seemingly able to carve through the Blades at will, it was the irrepressible Gordon who added the fifth.\n\nThe former Everton winger cut in from the left and effortlessly curled the ball into the far corner past Wes Foderingham in the Sheffield United goal.\n\nMiguel Almiron slotted in number six and Bruno Guimaraes made it seven with 17 minutes still remaining against an increasingly despondent home side.\n\nThat was plenty of time for substitute Alexander Isak to pounce on another defensive error, turn his man and calmly finish to make it 8-0, the same score by which Newcastle beat Sheffield Wednesday in 1999.\n\nThe result is also Sheffield United's record league defeat.\n\nUnlikely as it seems given the scoreline, Newcastle started relatively slowly and it was the home side that looked the more threatening in the opening exchanges.\n\nThat all changed the moment the first goal went in and Gordon was key to it, twisting smartly on the byeline before finding Longstaff to finish.\n\nGordon was only on the pitch because of an injury to Harvey Barnes but the winger's introduction helped change the game.\n\nWhile the match became something of a procession in the second half, it was the pace and trickery of Gordon down the left that helped Newcastle get into such a position.\n\n\"They can't handle Gordon. He is causing them all sorts of problems,\" former Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison told BBC Radio 5 Live at half-time.\n\n\"They can't deal with him.\"\n\nGordon got his goal as Sheffield United capitulated after the break and Newcastle continued relentlessly on.\n\nAfter an underwhelming start to their league campaign - losing three of their first five games - this was a statement win that will keep spirits high at St James' Park and add to the belief that they can make their mark domestically, as well as in Europe, this season.\n\nNo positives for Blades after record loss\n\n\"I can't stand here and say anything positive,\" Sheffield United captain John Egan said after the match.\n\nThis was the Blades' largest defeat in their league history in their 4,988th game.\n\nThat speaks for itself but the worrying truth for them is that it could have been worse.\n\nHaving been unable to make the most of a couple of early chances - Luke Thomas saw one shot blocked and sliced another wide when in space at the far post - they crumbled after going behind.\n\nThree goals in 14 first-half minutes left Sheffield United looking dazed and the concern is that the half-time break only seemed to make things worse.\n\nNewcastle players were able to find space all over the pitch and the home side were outclassed. That may not be a surprise against a Champions League side but the fact they were completely outfought as well is more of a worry.\n\nDespite four defeats in their first five games, this is the first time Heckingbottom's side have lost by more than a goal and they have to hope this proves to be an aberration.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. Tom Davies tries a through ball, but Chris Basham is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Davies (Sheffield United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Archer.\n• None John Egan (Sheffield United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Sheffield United. John Egan tries a through ball, but Chris Basham is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Sheffield United 0, Newcastle United 8. Alexander Isak (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Tom Davies (Sheffield United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Chris Basham.\n• None Attempt missed. Fabian Schär (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dan Burn (Newcastle United) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Sandro Tonali with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A protester holds a sign saying \"goodbye France\" at a rally in Niamey last month\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has said France will withdraw its ambassador and end all military co-operation with Niger following a coup.\n\n\"France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe added that military co-operation was \"over\" and French troops would leave in \"the months to come\".\n\nThe military junta which seized power in Niger in July welcomed the move.\n\n\"This Sunday we celebrate a new step towards the sovereignty of Niger,\" the junta said, in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.\n\nThere are about 1,500 French soldiers in the landlocked West African country helping to fight Islamist militants. The US also has more than 1,000 troops in Niger but these have not been asked to leave.\n\nThe decision by Paris follows months of animosity and protests against the French presence in its former colony, with regular demonstrations in the capital Niamey.\n\nThe move deals a hammer blow to France's operations against jihadists in the wider Sahel region and Paris' influence there. But Mr Macron said France would \"not be held hostage by the putschists,\" speaking to France's TF1 and France 2 television stations.\n\nMr Macron said he still regarded ousted Niger President Mohamed Bazoum, currently held prisoner by the coup leaders, as the country's \"sole legitimate authority\" and had informed him of his decision. He described the deposed president as a \"hostage\".\n\n\"He was targeted by this coup d'etat because he was carrying out courageous reforms and because there was a largely ethnic settling of scores and a lot of political cowardice,\" he said.\n\nNiger is one of several former French colonies in West and Central Africa where the military has recently seized control - it follows Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Chad. The latest coup was in Gabon in August.\n\nAnti-French vitriol has flourished in the region in recent years, with many local politicians accusing Paris of carrying out neocolonialist policies - a charge denied by France.\n\nThere have also been concerns in the West over the growing role in the Sahel of Russia's Wagner mercenary group. It is accused of human rights abuses and has been helping some new military regimes.\n\nThe regional Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), supported by France, has threatened military intervention in Niger to reinstate Mr Bazoum. But so far it has not acted.\n\nNiger's military leaders told French ambassador Sylvain Itte he had to leave the country after they overthrew Mr Bazoum on 26 July.\n\nHowever, a 48-hour ultimatum for him to leave, issued in August, passed with him still in place as the French government refused to comply, or to recognise the military regime as legitimate.\n\nMr Macron's statement also comes hours after Niger's coup leaders banned \"French aircraft\" from flying over the country.\n\nThe regional air safety organisation, ASECNA, said that Niger's airspace was \"open to all national and international commercial flights except for French aircraft or aircraft chartered by France including those of the airline Air France\".\n\nThe airspace would remain closed for \"all military, operational and other special flights\", unless receiving prior authorisation, the message said.\n\nAir France told AFP simply that it was \"not flying over Niger airspace\".\n\nThe US relocated some of its troop from Niamey to the central city of Agadez for security reasons earlier this month. The US' largest drone base in the region is in Niger and it's been the base for anti-jihadist operations in the Sahel. It also trains Nigerien soldiers.\n\nAlthough the US successfully negotiated with the junta to resume some flights, it is not clear when full counterterrorism and training operations will resume.", "The alligator was captured and killed by police\n\nA 13ft (4m) alligator has been killed, police say, after it was spotted in Florida with the remains of a woman in its jaws.\n\nA witness told local media he saw the alligator in a Largo canal clutching a lower torso in its mouth.\n\nPinellas County Sheriff's Office said the animal was killed and confirmed the remains of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham were found in the waterway.\n\nAn investigation will determine the circumstances behind the woman's death.\n\nPolice said deputies were called at 13:50 local time on Friday after a report of a body in the waterway.\n\nJamarcus Bullard said he was walking to a job interview when he spotted the alligator with what initially looked like a mannequin in its mouth.\n\n\"I noticed it had a body in its mouth - like a lower torso - so once I saw that I ran straight to the fire department,\" he told local broadcaster Fox 13.\n\n\"It was my first time seeing a gator in real life so I was like it's pretty cool, but once I saw what it had I was like 'is that like a mannequin?'\n\n\"It was just clamped onto it, and swam backwards to the bottom of the canal... I just couldn't believe it was real,\" he said in another interview with 10 Tampa Bay.\n\nA fundraising page has been set up for Ms Peckham by her family, who said the woman was living in a homeless camp near the wooded area at the time of her death.\n\nThe waterway in Largo where the alligator was caught\n\nBreauna Dorris, who said she was the victim's daughter, wrote on Facebook: \"It is believed that she may have been walking to or from her campsite near the creek in the dark and the alligator attacked from the water.\n\n\"No one deserves to die like this.\"\n\nAuthorities said the alligator was humanely killed and removed from the waterway, before a police dive team recovered the remains of Ms Peckham.\n\nNews footage shows a huge alligator sprawled beside a road surrounded by police and emergency vehicles.\n\nThe Medical Examiner's Office is yet to determine the cause of death.\n\nNearby residents said they had seen small alligators in the area before, but not of the size of the animal found in this case.\n\nJennifer Dean told 10 Tampa Bay: \"It's crazy. My kids walk by there all the time. So it's really scary. I've seen four or five-feet gators but nothing that big.\"\n\nMr Bullard added: \"I'm going to get me a bike or start catching the bus to work. They have small little gates, but somebody died.\"\n\nAuthorities in Florida are investigating the circumstances of Sabrina Peckham's death", "Kosovo police at the scene with troops from the US and EU states in the background\n\nAt least four people are dead after Kosovan police cleared a monastery held by at least 30 heavily armed men near the border with Serbia.\n\n\"We put this territory under control. It was done after several consecutive battles,\" Xhelal Svecla, Kosovo's minister of internal affairs said.\n\nThe day began with the death of a police officer in Banjska village, before the occupation of the monastery.\n\nBelgrade and Pristina were quick to blame each other for the violence.\n\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic said three of those killed in the shooting were confirmed to be Kosovo Serbs.\n\nSunday's shooting began at about 03:00 (01:00 GMT), after police said they arrived in Banjska where a blockade had been reported.\n\nOfficers were attacked from several positions with \"an arsenal of firearms, including hand grenades and shoulder-fired missiles\", they said in a statement.\n\nA group of about 30 then entered the monastery complex in nearby Leposavic, where pilgrims from the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad were staying.\n\nAt least three of the gunmen were killed in battles through the day as police mounted what Mr Svecla described as a \"clearance operation\".\n\nMr Svecla said police made several arrests during the operation and seized a large amount of weapons and equipment.\n\nHowever it remained unclear if all gunmen had been apprehended during the sweep.\n\nThe attack and ensuing firefight marks one of the gravest escalations in Kosovo for years, and follows months of mounting tension between Pristina and Belgrade.\n\nKosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti blamed \"Serbia-sponsored criminals\" for the incursion, saying they were \"professionals, with military and police background\" who were financed and motivated by Belgrade.\n\nSerbia's President Vucic hit back in a televised statement, blaming Mr Kurti for months of \"provocations\".\n\nWhile describing the death of the Kosovo police officer as \"absolutely reprehensible\", he said that Mr Kurti bore responsibility for the incident.\n\nHe said Mr Kurti was \"the only one to blame, the only one who wants conflicts and war. No other person wants conflicts and war.\n\n\"His only wish is to drag us into a war with Nato and that's the only thing he does all day\".\n\nAn armed man could be seen with a priest inside the monastery in Banjska on Sunday\n\nTensions have run high in Kosovo, after violent clashes followed a disputed local election in May and EU-mediated political talks designed to stabilise the situation have stalled.\n\nKosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia - along with Belgrade's key allies China and Russia - does not recognise it.\n\nMany Serbs consider it the birthplace of their nation. But of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo, 92% are ethnic Albanians and only 6% are ethnic Serbs.\n\nThe EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned what he called the \"hideous attack\" and said those responsible must be brought to justice.\n\nKosovo's foreign minister, Donika Gervalla-Schwarz, criticised Mr Borrell's statement, saying it did not express support for the police nor use the word \"terrorists\" to describe the attackers.\n\nIt comes after the latest EU-mediated talks collapsed last week, with Mr Borrell blaming Mr Kurti for failing to set up the association of Serb-majority municipalities which would give them more autonomy.\n\nUnrest engulfed northern Kosovo in May after Kosovo Albanian mayors were installed in majority-Serb areas, after Serb residents boycotted local polls.\n\nNato deployed an additional 700 troops to Kosovo to deal with unrest in the northern town Zvecan following the elections.\n\nSome 30 Nato peacekeepers and more than 50 Serb protesters were hurt in the ensuing clashes.", "If it's possible for two rival fanbases to be both nervous and confident at the same time, this game epitomises it.\n\nWales and Australia face off in Lyon on Sunday (20:00 BST) knowing that defeat, in all likelihood, means a group stage exit from the Rugby World Cup.\n\nHaving travelled from the other side of the world to be here, Wallabies supporters insist that they \"haven't come this far to bow out early\".\n\nBut Welsh fans in Lyon are equally positive and expect a close contest.\n\nIt has been billed as the most important match of the group.\n\nAs an Australian resident Welshman Bryn Parry - with his father Keith - would love Wales to win\n\nFor Welshman Bryn Parry, who lives in Australia, nothing would please him more than seeing his homeland put one over his country of residence.\n\n\"I have to live with them, and they can be pretty loud-mouthed when it comes to sport!\" he said.\n\n\"At the last World Cup in Japan they were so confident that they'd hammer Wales, but we beat them in a very tight game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Classic Welsh songs filled the streets of Lyon ahead of the Wales-Australia clash\n\n\"I think Sunday will be similar. I'm nervous, but I think Wales will win.\"\n\nJames Tout was born and raised in Australia and has travelled to France with his Welsh grandfather.\n\nHowever, despite walking around the Lyon rugby village in a Wales shirt and Wallabies scarf, he insists there are no split loyalties.\n\n\"Wales all the way,\" he said, dismissing the notion that his friends Down Under are giving him stick for it.\n\n\"They're just jealous that I'm here and they're not.\"\n\nDivided loyalties: Welshman Andy Cross and his Aussie wife Rosie with their son Robert, two\n\nOne couple, however, were cautiously bridging the divide.\n\nWelshman Andy Cross and his Aussie wife Rosie met each other volunteering in Tanzania, and are not yet sure who their two-year-old son Robert will grow up supporting.\n\n\"I'm not confident about the game,\" admitted Rosie.\n\nSam Martin from Sydney acknowledges \"pressure\" on Australian head coach Eddie Jones, following their defeat to Fiji last weekend.\n\nAnd with the former England boss no stranger to pre-match jibes with Wales and Warren Gatland, Aussie fans are expecting a hostile atmosphere.\n\n\"He has that Australian spirit of a larking nature,\" said Sam.\n\n\"If you've been in any of the stadiums so far for the Wallabies' games, the French crowd, let alone the Welsh crowd, tear him to bits, booing every time he's on the screen - it's quite the sight.\n\n\"But all Australian fans hope he's got something to pull out of the bag and get the win for Australia - I think Wales should be worried.\"\n\nHaving travelled 32 hours to get to France, Georgia McKenzie is equally determined to see Australia stay in the competition.\n\n\"We're definitely not here to go home early,\" she said. \"But the atmosphere's been amazing in France so far.\n\n\"We'll bring all that energy and spirit, and hopefully get the win against Wales.\"\n\nNot that the Welsh crowd in Lyon will be lacking energy and spirit either.\n\nThe Aelwyd Hafodwenog choir will perform in the rugby village before the match\n\nLleucu Phillips from Carmarthenshire is part of the Aelwyd Hafodwenog choir who will be performing at the rugby village before the game as part of an Urdd delegation.\n\n\"We were on the bus here for almost 24 hours, so we're now very excited and raring to go,\" she said.\n\n\"We're here to show the best of Wales through singing, dancing and being part of the festival - it's something very special.\"\n\nThe choir have also printed out song sheets of Welsh hymns - including Calon Lan, Cwm Rhondda, and I Bob Un Sy'n Ffyddlon - to encourage those around them in the stadium to join in.\n\n\"Sometimes you might know the tune, but won't know all the words,\" explained Lleucu. \"So now people can join in with us as they wish.\"\n\nKirsty Wathan and Kay Penrose from the Rhondda, who are both in Lyon, are both \"very confident\" of a Wales win\n\nIwan Parry is in France with a group of friends from Llangefni Rugby Club on Anglesey, and was \"certain\" that Wales will make it through the group.\n\n\"I think we'll beat Australia by six points,\" he said. \"This is the most important game of the group to be honest, to see who we face in the quarter-final.\n\n\"I'd like to face England just to say we knocked them out, but I think I'd prefer Argentina so we can reach the semis.\"\n\nSoprano singer Jessica Robinson was among hundreds of Welsh fans who gathered in Lyon city centre on Sunday afternoon to sing together before the match\n\nOn the whole Wales and Australian fans seem confident in their own teams' chances then - so what about the neutrals' view?\n\nGregoire Rebel-Froid has travelled with friends from Belgium to watch the game, which means they can \"enjoy with whoever's having the most fun\".\n\n\"I will support Wales, but I think Australia will win,\" he admits.\n\n\"I think they have to win, so they will have a better incentive to do so.\"", "File photo shows firearms officers during a media demonstration ahead of the G7 Summit in Cornwall, 2021\n\nThe Ministry of Defence is offering soldiers to support armed police in London after dozens of Met officers stood down from firearms duties.\n\nMore than 100 officers have turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons, a source told the BBC. There are more than 2,500 armed officers in the Met.\n\nPolice said the action was being taken after an officer was charged with the murder of unarmed Chris Kaba, 24.\n\nIn an open letter to the home secretary, he said it was right his force was \"held to the highest standards\" - but the current system was undermining his officers and suggested they needed more legal protections.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said some officers were \"worried\" about how the Crown Prosecution Service decision to bring a charge \"impacts on them\".\n\nOne former officer - who left the Met's specialist firearms command a few months ago - told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that the risk to officers and their families \"is just too great\".\n\nSpeaking anonymously, he explained: \"What is obvious to me, they are not acting out of anger or petulance.\n\n\"It's not a co-ordinated protest. These are individuals with partners and families who are incredibly committed to their profession.\n\n\"They're incredibly concerned it's not worth it anymore.\"\n\nHe added that it would be \"a very sad day\" for policing if armed troops were being forced to step in to help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former Met Police firearms officer says putting troops on the street should be ''a wake-up call''\n\nIt comes after the MoD said it received a request - known as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (Maca) - from the Home Office to \"provide routine counter-terrorism contingency support to the Metropolitan Police, should it be needed\".\n\nA MACA is offered to the police or the NHS in emergency situations - the military helped medical staff in the Covid pandemic and covered for striking border staff and paramedics last year.\n\nThe Met said it was a \"contingency option\" that would only be used \"in specific circumstances and where an appropriate policing response was not available\".\n\nMilitary staff would not be used \"in a routine policing capacity\", it added.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital but they were being supported by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nAccording to London Assembly figures, in April there were 2,595 authorised firearm officers in the Met Police.\n\nIt is a figure which has steadily decreased every year since 2018 when there were 2,841 licenced to carry a gun.\n\nAnnouncing the review, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the public \"depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us\".\n\n\"In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures.\"\n\nShe added that officers have her \"full backing\" and that she would do \"everything\" in her power to support them.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister backed the home secretary's review, adding that armed police need \"clarity\".\n\nSpeaking in Hertfordshire, Rishi Sunak said: \"Our firearms officers do an incredibly difficult job. They are making life or death decisions in a split-second to keep us safe and they deserve our gratitude for their bravery.\"\n\nChris Kaba was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met officer into the vehicle he was driving\n\nIn his letter to the home secretary, the Met Police commissioner said that a system where officers are investigated for \"safely pursuing suspects\" should not have been allowed to develop.\n\nSir Mark said he would \"make no comment\" on any active legal matters, but \"the issues raised in this letter go back further\".\n\nHe suggested firearms officers are concerned that they will face years of legal proceedings, \"even if they stick to the tactics and training they have been given\".\n\n\"Officers need sufficient legal protection to enable them to do their job and keep the public safe, and the confidence that it will be applied consistently and without fear or favour,\" Sir Mark wrote.\n\nBut he argued that when officers act improperly, the system \"needs to move swiftly\".\n\nFormer Greater Manchester Police chief constable Sir Peter Fahy said any review would \"not be wide enough\", adding he believed there are issues around morale and how police prevent organised crime.\n\nHe told Today that there were often \"issues about intelligence and information\" when police responded to criminals suspected of having a firearm.\n\n\"It is part of a bigger picture where there is a huge level of discontent among ordinary police officers where there is a huge gulf between policing and the Home Office,\" Sir Peter said.\n\n\"Officers feel a lot of the criticism is unbalanced, that they are underappreciated and that the media and politicians don't understand the reality of day-to-day policing.\"\n\nSolicitor Harriet Wistrich represented the family of Jean Charles De Menezes, who was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in 2005 by police who mistook him for a terror suspect.\n\nShe told Today that the law has been carefully considered and applied to cover everyone - including firearms officers.\n\n\"No one is above the law and neither should these officers be above the law,\" Ms Wistrich argued.\n\n\"Many people have lost their lives at the hands of police and there is virtually never a prosecution.\"\n\nShe suggested extremely careful consideration should be taken when officers are given \"the power to essential take somebody's life\".\n\nThe solicitor added: \"Officers who put themselves forward to perform this role have to know they have to perform it with great care because ultimately a life can be lost.\"\n\nAccording to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these.\n\nIn that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show.\n\nOn 5 September 2022, Mr Kaba was fatally hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into a vehicle in Streatham, south London.\n\nThe construction worker, who was months away from becoming a father when he was shot, died in hospital the following day.\n\nIt later emerged the Audi Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.", "A woman has been arrested after a missing newborn baby and three-year-old girl were found.\n\nThe 31-year-old was held after attending an east London police station, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe boy and girl were located at an address in Harwich, Essex, on Sunday and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nIt comes after a search for Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, who left a family assessment centre in north-west London with her children on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met said it was \"no longer appealing for information about the whereabouts of Jamie-Leigh Kelly\".\n\nThe arrested woman was also taken to hospital for precautionary checks.\n\nPolice said a 63-year-old woman was also arrested at the address in Harwich on suspicion of child abduction, assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.\n\nShe remains in custody at an east London police station.\n\nEarlier, police said two people from Dagenham, east London, have been charged as part of the investigation.\n\nAshley Hawkins, 52, and Jordan Hardy, 30, are due to appear at Southend Magistrates' Court on Monday. They have been charged with two counts of child abduction.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A \"Dumbo\" octopus, with ear-like fins similar to the 1940s Disney cartoon character, has been seen in a broadcast on a EVNautilus live stream, which is exploring the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the north Pacific Ocean.\n\nThe octopus can live at depths of up to 7,000 metres and has been filmed by a remotely operated Ocean Exploration Trust vehicle.", "Chris Kaba was shot by police in September last year\n\nA number of police officers in London have stepped back from firearms duties after a marksman was charged with the murder of a man.\n\nUnarmed Chris Kaba, 24, died after he was shot in south London last year.\n\nThe Met said many firearms officers were \"worried\" about how the charging decision \"impacts on them\". Armed officers from other forces are being deployed as a contingency measure.\n\nThe force said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital but they were being supported from Saturday evening by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nA source suggested that more than 100 officers have handed in what is known as a ticket permitting them to carry firearms.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said firearms officers were concerned that the Crown Prosecution Service bringing a charge against the officer \"signals a shift in the way the decisions they take in the most challenging circumstances will be judged\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"A number of officers have taken the decision to step back from armed duties while they consider their position. That number has increased over the past 48 hours.\n\n\"We are in ongoing discussions with those officers to support them and to fully understand the genuinely held concerns that they have.\"\n\nThe Met added it has a \"significant firearms capability and we continue to have armed officers deployed in communities across London as well as at other sites including Parliament, diplomatic premises, airports etc\".\n\nThe statement comes after Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and senior officers have been meeting with firearms officers following the CPS decision to charge the officer.\n\nSir Mark said on Friday many firearms officers are \"understandably anxious\" and were \"reflecting on the potential price of such weighty responsibilities\".\n\nMr Kaba died on 5 September 2022 from a single gunshot wound to the head after the car he was driving was hemmed in by a police vehicle and an officer opened fire in Streatham Hill.\n\nHe was being followed by an unmarked police car with no lights or sirens and turned into a residential street where he was blocked by a marked police car.\n\nA firearms officer fired one shot through the windscreen and hit Mr Kaba.\n\nHis death prompted a number of protests, particularly among London's black communities.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi that Mr Kaba was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a gun incident the day before.\n\nThe officer charged with the murder has not been named publicly after an application for anonymity was granted in court and is known as NX121. He has been released on bail.", "Rishi Sunak has been accused of a \"very special combination of incompetence and cynicism\" over his major change of direction on climate policies.\n\nFormer Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the BBC that the prime minister was \"destroying\" the UK's green credibility in a desperate bid to appeal to sections of the public.\n\nBut Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK was ahead on reducing carbon.\n\nIt follows a significant shift on net zero announced by Mr Sunak this week.\n\nThe PM pushed back a ban on new petrol-only cars from 2030 to 2035 and announced delays to several other key green policies.\n\nSome sectors of the car industry backed the government's change in direction. But many - including Ford - said it undermined planning.\n\nThe Green Party co-leader said she felt \"a bit sick\" after Mr Sunak's announcement, which has since been welcomed by former US President Donald Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Varoufakis - seen as a leading economic voice on the left - launched a scathing attack on the government's green ambitions.\n\nHe told stand-in host Victoria Derbyshire: \"It takes a very special combination of incompetence and cynicism to manage to unite the car industry and the Greens against you, and Rishi Sunak has demonstrated that.\n\n\"It is very clear that this was the result of the Uxbridge by-election,\" Mr Varoufakis said - referring to the narrow Conservative win in the Uxbridge by-election in July, which some commentators attributed to anger at the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ).\n\nMr Sunak was trying to appeal to \"nativist, rightish, anti-climate policy segments of the population... destroying all the credibility that governments have tried to build up regarding commitments to net zero\", Mr Varoufakis added.\n\nYanis Varoufakis accused Mr Sunak of appealing to 'nativist, rightish, anti-climate policy segments of the population'\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Sunak announced the changes to the government's stance on green policies, including a delay on a ban of new petrol and diesel car sales.\n\nThe PM's speech, moved forward following a leak to the BBC, prompted fierce criticism from environmentalists, industry leaders and the opposition.\n\nBut Mr Sunak, who was also criticised by some in his own party, said he could not impose \"unacceptable costs\" on British families as a result of attempts to reduce emissions.\n\nMr Shapps told Victoria Derbyshire that he \"entirely\" backed the changed deadline on selling petrol and diesel cars, and defended the UK's green record.\n\n\"We have the leading position in the G7 in terms of the amount of carbon that we have reduced,\" he said.\n\nThe defence secretary argued that the UK had exceeded expectations set out in previous carbon budgets, which place restrictions on the amount of greenhouse gases the UK can emit over five years. Work is now being done on the latest version, which will start in 10 years' time.\n\nMr Shapps continued: \"We have already identified - even after these changes in pace, to give families some relief - 90% of the things we need to do by 2037, so I am completely confident we will get there as well.\"\n\nBut panellist Rachel Johnson, a journalist and the sister of former PM Boris Johnson, said: \"The lectern that he (Mr Sunak) stood in front of in Downing Street said something like 'long term decisions for a brighter future'. As I saw it, I thought, no, we are making short term decisions for a darker future... These are populist measures.\n\n\"He is equating green with expensive, which is wrong, green is going to be very good for the economy if they grip it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says \"we have to change how we do politics\" as he speaks about climate change and its impact on families.\n\nIn the USA, former president Trump - who reversed climate measures during his presidency - praised the \"smart\" British PM.\n\nRailing against \"fake climate alarmists that don't have a clue\", he claimed green measures could \"destroy and bankrupt\" the UK.\n\n\"(Mr Sunak) has very substantially rolled back the ridiculous 'climate mandates' that the United States is pushing on everyone, especially itself\", wrote Mr Trump, posting on his social media platform Truth Social.\n\nOn Saturday, the BBC revealed that a taskforce to speed up home insulation and boilers upgrades has been scrapped.\n\nMr Shapps did acknowledge the country had \"found it difficult\" to keep up with the rest of Europe on heat pumps and insulation.\n\nBut, he added: \"We want to allow more time so we are not penalising households.\n\n\"The thing we are not prepared to do is to say to every household within a couple of years... a ban on gas boilers means that perhaps an average home would spend about £8,000 on having to rip out their gas boiler.\n\n\"We think that we can both meet our 2050 commitments and give families a bit of a break and enable them to change their boilers as time comes rather than force this sort of pace which is unrealistic.\"\n\nNet zero means emitting no more greenhouse gases - such as carbon dioxide - than the amount taken out of the atmosphere.", "Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa smashed the women's marathon world record as she won Sunday's race in Berlin.\n\nAssefa, who also won last year's race, crossed the line in a time of two hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds.\n\nThe 26-year-old took more than two minutes off the previous record of 2:14.04 - set by Kenya's Brigid Kosgei in Chicago in 2019.\n\nDouble Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge was the men's winner for a record fifth time in Berlin with a run of 2:02.42.\n\nThe 38-year-old Kenyan set the men's record of 2:01.09 in Berlin last year, when he moved level with Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie on four wins.\n\nAssefa's winning time is the 13th world record to be set in Berlin, where she won last year in 2:15.37 - which at the time was the third fastest women's run in history.\n\n\"I am very happy,\" she said. \"I wanted to break the marathon world record, but I couldn't imagine that it would result in a time under 2:12.\"\n\nA former 800m specialist, Assefa only started racing marathons in April last year.\n\nShe made her intentions clear on her return to Berlin, setting a lightning-quick early pace before reaching the halfway mark in one hour six minutes 20 seconds.\n\nOne of six women to be on world record pace at that stage, Assefa maintained that speed to streak clear and at the 37km mark (23 miles) she was just three seconds per kilometre slower than Kipchoge's time at the same stage on Sunday.\n• None Eliud Kipchoge: The humble home life in rural Kenya behind remarkable athletic success\n\nDespite running the slowest marathon of his career (2:09.23) as he finished a surprise sixth in Boston in April, Kipchoge said after the race in Berlin that he had expected to break the world record he set last year.\n\nDuring the early stages, he was on course for a sub-two hour run and later on was still on track to break his record, but he drifted off the pace for each of those times. He reached halfway in 1:00.21, slightly slower than the halfway split for his world record - 59:51.\n\nHe has run a marathon in under two hours, in Vienna in 2019, but that was not recognised as the official world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers.\n\nKipchoge has won on five of his six appearances in Berlin and in 16 of his 19 races, including the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.\n\nSunday's time was the eighth fastest of all time and Kipchoge, who aims to be the first athlete to win three Olympic marathons next year, has now run five of the top eight times.\n\n\"I was expecting to do the same [break the record], but it did not come, that's how sport is,\" he said. \"Every race is a learning lesson.\n\n\"I'll put all my experience of my 21 marathons into next year in the Olympics in Paris and try to be the first to win for the third time, but I would also be happy with the podium.\"", "Smoke rises from a shipyard in the Russian-held Crimean port of Sevastopol\n\nThis week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.\n\nEstimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014?\n\nCrimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away.\n\n\"The strategy has two main goals,\" says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies.\n\n\"To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.\"\n\nIn other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south.\n\n\"They depend on each other,\" Musiienko says.\n\nLet's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol.\n\nSatellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.\n\nBritain's Ministry of Defence said two Russian ships had been badly damaged in the attack\n\nOn Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a large amphibious landing ship, the Minsk, had \"almost certainly been functionally destroyed\".\n\nNext to it, one of Russia's Kilo class diesel-electric submarines, the Rostov-on-Don - used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles hundreds of miles into Ukraine - had \"likely suffered catastrophic damage\".\n\nPerhaps equally importantly the dry docks - vital for maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet - would likely be out of use \"for many months\", the ministry said.\n\nIt said special forces had played a key role, using boats and an unspecified \"underwater delivery means\" to get ashore, before using \"special technical assets\" to help identify and target the vessels.\n\nBut with the fires barely out in Sevastopol there were more dramatic night-time explosions as Ukraine blew up one of Russia's most modern air defence systems, an S-400, around 40 miles (64km) north at Yevpatoria.\n\nThis was another sophisticated operation that used a combination of drones and Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles to confuse and destroy a key component of Russia's air defences on the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nA significant side note: Russian attempts to use exactly this technique over Kyiv have generally failed, largely thanks to the presence of US Patriot interceptor missiles.\n\nThursday was the second time in less than a month that Ukraine has knocked out an S-400 surface-to-air missile system on the peninsula.\n\nOn 23 August, at Olenivka, on the western tip of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, Ukraine managed to destroy another launcher and a nearby radar station.\n\nRussia was thought to have not more than six S-400 launchers in Crimea. Now it has lost two.\n\nBut these are only some of Ukraine's recent operations.\n\nOthers have knocked out Russian radar positions on offshore gas platforms and, according to Kyiv, used experimental maritime drones to attack a hovercraft missile carrier at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour.\n\nWith its airbases, troop concentrations, training grounds and the Black Sea fleet, Crimea has been a key target since Russia's full-scale invasion last year.\n\n\"In Crimea, they still have a lot of stockpiles, with artillery shells and other types of weapons,\" Musiienko says. \"And this is the main logistic supply line for them.\"\n\nOver the months, Kyiv's operations have grown in sophistication, from a drone attack in August 2022 which destroyed an estimated nine Russian aircraft at the Saky air base, to the combined drone and missile attacks of today.\n\nWith more advanced weapons thought to be in the pipeline, Musiienko expects Ukraine to launch ever more sophisticated operations.\n\n\"When we get ATACMS (tactical ballistic missiles) from the United States, I think we will try to use - in one attack - ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and also drones,\" he says.\n\n\"And that will be a serious problem for Russia's air defence system,\" he adds.\n\n\"We will try to blind them.\"\n\nEach successful attack, he says, makes the next one easier. \"We are clearing the way, and it's becoming more simple.\"\n\nThe latest reports from Washington suggests the Biden administration is close to approving the ATACMS long range missile system after months of Ukrainian lobbying.\n\nDoes any of this mean that Kyiv is getting closer to its goal of liberating Crimea?\n\n\"It's getting closer, but there's still a lot to do,\" says retired Ukrainian navy captain Andriy Ryzhenko.\n\n\"We need to liberate the Sea of Azov coast and cut the land corridor,\" he says, referring to Ukraine's slow, grinding offensive in the south.\n\nAnd then there is the Kerch Bridge.\n\nUkraine has been hitting Moscow's lifeline to Crimea for almost a year, but Russian heavy equipment still moves along its vital railway.\n\nDespite being much better defended now, it remains very much in Kyiv's sights.\n\nThis file picture from July shows damage apparently caused by a Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and Russia\n\n\"When we shut down the Crimean bridge, it will be a logistical problem for them,\" Ryzhenko says, with some understatement.\n\nCutting off Crimea would be catastrophic for Russia and provide a welcome boost to Ukraine's difficult southern offensive.\n\nSo is all this a prelude to a Ukrainian effort to retake the peninsula?\n\nObservers here in Kyiv are trying not to get ahead of themselves.\n\n\"I think this could be a preparation for the liberation of Crimea,\" Musiienko. \"But I understand that it will take time.\n\n\"What we're trying to do right now is clean the way to Crimea.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Ukraine was using every means at its disposal to force Russia to abandon Crimea.\n\n\"It looks like if the Russians do not leave Crimea on their own,\" he said in a radio interview, \"we will have to 'smoke them out'.\"", "Sarah Jones says two-year-old Theo will flow home from Portugal on Wednesday\n\nThe mum of a young boy who ended up in hospital while on holiday in Portugal has said he will now be flown home.\n\nTheo, two, became unwell with a virus attacking his brain on 13 September and is in hospital, but is now due to be flown back to Wales on Wednesday.\n\nHis mother, Sarah Jones, had previously said that trying to arrange transport home with insurers Axa Partners had been \"shambolic\".\n\nAxa Partners said its \"absolute priority\" was the family's return home.\n\nSarah, from Maesteg, Bridgend county, said she has been told Theo will be collected on Wednesday morning to be transferred to Cardiff via air ambulance with a supporting paediatric team.\n\n\"To say we have been overwhelmed is a complete understatement,\" she said on social media.\n\n\"We're praying these plans do not change and we sincerely thank everyone for their continued support and the enormous amount of work behind the scenes from family, friends and even complete strangers.\"\n\nTheo's parents were initially told he had a stomach flu but a scan revealed he had a problem with his cerebellum, a part of the brain.\n\nSarah had previously said she was told by an Axa agent that for her to receive updates that they would need the patient to call in and give permission for her to speak on their behalf.\n\n\"I said 'so, let me just double check what you're saying. You want me to get my two-year-old, who has lost the ability to speak, to just pop a call in and give authorisation for his mother to chat'?,\" said Sarah.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Jones of Maesteg, Bridgend county, is in hospital after falling ill with a virus\n\nShe said the agent then apologised and continued with the call after deciding she had in fact passed security checks.\n\nTheo's family had been told on Friday that repatriation would take place \"within 48 hours\" - although that has now been scheduled for Wednesday instead.\n\nSarah has also been in contact with the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, which said it would take in Theo.\n\nShe said before this latest update the contact with Axa had been \"just shambolic\" as she had not been informed whether the insurers were securing a specialist paediatric team for the flight\n\nTheo was on holiday with his parents and baby sister when he became seriously unwell\n\nBefore Sarah revealed that Theo would be going home, an Axa spokesperson said: \"It is our absolute priority for the Jones family to return to the UK as soon as is logistically possible.\n\n\"We have been in contact with all of our providers and have reviewed all options to secure repatriation via air ambulance with the relevant paediatric team and equipment on board.\n\n\"Our primary concern is to ensure Theo has the best care on his return to the UK. We have been in regular contact with Mrs Jones throughout to keep her informed of the steps we are taking.\"", "Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has told the BBC his party has not changed tack on housebuilding targets in order to win votes from Conservative supporters.\n\nThe party is considering dropping a pledge to build 380,000 new homes a year in England, in favour of a promise of 150,000 new council or social homes.\n\nIt will be debated at the party conference in Bournemouth on Monday.\n\nThe Young Liberals group is pushing for the target to be kept, saying ditching it would send the wrong message.\n\nIn 2021, the Liberal Democrats overturned a 16,000 majority to take the Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham in a by-election.\n\nThe unpopularity of Boris Johnson's government's housebuilding plans and the Lib Dems' ability to capitalise on this were seen as key factors in the result.\n\nAppearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, presented by Victoria Derbyshire, Sir Ed denied opposing new housing in Tory-run areas where parliamentary and council seats were being targeted, saying he was against \"developer-led\" schemes without proper amenities.\n\nJaney Little says the housing crisis needs a local and national focus\n\nYoung Liberal chair Janey Little said: \"We think that having a commitment to an ambitious national housebuilding target... we think that's necessary to signal to young people that the Liberal Democrats are onside, and we understand the scale of the housing crisis.\"\n\nLeaflets have been circulated at the conference, urging members not to vote for the Young Liberals amendment, to keep the 380,000 target. Ms Little said that was a \"shame\".\n\n\"We have a lot of grassroots members on our side. But equally, people are working very hard on the other side of the argument. I really can't tell which way it will go.\"\n\nFrontbencher Layla Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, said she had huge sympathy for young people \"desperate to get on the housing ladder\" and the leadership was \"on the same page\" on this.\n\nThere was \"a discussion\" going on about the best way to deliver more housing, she added.\n\nThe party's housing spokesperson Helen Morgan said the proposal would not do away with targets.\n\nShe told a fringe event in Bournemouth: \"We can not deliver housing at scale unless we build council housing, or social housing - it could include housing associations as well - we have to get that bit right, and then we have to pin councils down so that they do a great of delivering the rest of the housing that that community needs.\n\n\"The point of the proposal we're making is to build those targets from the bottom, and to say what's your current level of need, what's your proper forecasted future need, and that would be independently assessed, and it would be binding on those councils.\"\n\nSir Ed said his party backed a \"community-led approach\" and \"local neighbourhood plans\" where local residents were involved in the whole decision-making process around new housing.\n\n\"Top-down targets lead to developer-led approaches\", resulting in \"the wrong houses being built in the wrong places\", he said.\n\n\"You need to take communities with you. So often, you hear people are objecting not to houses, but objecting to the fact there are not enough houses, not enough GPs, not enough schools.\n\n\"When you take communities with you, it results in more houses being built\" and \"houses people want, in places they want, with the infrastructure they want\", he argued.\n\nBuilding more social housing would pave the way for more affordable housing and also free up more private housing for rent, he added.\n\nElsewhere in his BBC interview, Sir Ed brushed aside suggestions that voters had no idea what his party stood for, saying the Lib Dems were winning by-elections and council seats in Conservative heartlands where people were hearing their message.\n\nSir Ed was energy and climate change secretary in David Cameron's 2010-15 coalition government.\n\nAsked if he would ever go into coalition with the Tories again, he said \"there is no way we could deal with the Conservatives, they've ruined our country\".\n\nBut he refused to be drawn on whether he might consider a coalition with Labour after the next general election, saying he had learned from his predecessors that \"when they have focused on that question, they have been distracted from the task in hand\".\n\nHe declined to rule out the UK rejoining the European Union at some point in the future, but again insisted the issue was \"currently not on the table\".\n\nHis priority was to rebuild relations and trust with other European leaders, and to put Britain back \"at the heart of Europe\", he added.\n\nThe Lib Dem leader was later heckled about Brexit at conference on Sunday afternoon during a Q&A session.\n\nA member of the crowd called out that the Lib Dems should be working to rejoin the EU, and when Sir Ed responded saying: \"We're camp5aigning hard on Europe as you know my friend\", a second member of the audience shouted: \"No you're not.\"\n\nMeanwhile the Lib Dems have become the first party to adopt a pre-manifesto for the next election, with a proposal to give everyone in England the right to see a GP within a week a centrepiece policy.The document, which was approved by party members in a conference vote, sets out an early draft of the party's manifesto.", "The term \"mini budget\" will be forever toxic in British politics.\n\nSo disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.\n\nOver the past year, I have spoken to all the key players, some in public and some in private, about what happened both before and after that day.\n\nThose conversations have revealed important new details about Mr Kwarteng and then-PM Liz Truss' \"growth plan\" - including that its initial impact was far worse than has been publicly known up to this point.\n\nIn the immediate aftermath, top officials were being asked by astounded counterparts how Britain had singlehandedly shifted one of the key indicators of the world economy in the financial markets, known as the Fed Fund futures curve. It was not a proud moment, they tell me.\n\nIn Washington for a key IMF meeting, Mr Kwarteng himself was privately having to reassure US bankers, politicians, and diplomats at the British embassy that the UK \"was committed to fiscal responsibility\" and that the Bank of England was one of the UK's \"finest institutions\".\n\nThat final comment attracted a lone clapper in the room - a board member of a British bank.\n\nThe chancellor went on to draw parallels between himself and Sir Isaac Newton, who held the high-ranking title of Warden of the Royal Mint for roughly 30 years. Bemused guests may not have realised that Sir Isaac himself made drastic attempts to reassert sterling's credibility in the late 17th Century.\n\nAs journalists in the room knew at the time, Mr Kwarteng was summoned back to Downing Street mid-meeting - but as he swept through the Washington DC rain he chafed at comparisons between himself and the crisis-ridden Greek Finance minister Evangelos Venizelos who had been hauled back from the IMF during the country's 2011 crisis.\n\nAs Mr Kwarteng rushed home, PM Liz Truss was being forced to take her own drastic action.\n\nOff the back of the mini-budget, the Bank of England was about to cease its emergency purchases of government bonds - these are a form of debt that the government sells to raise money it needs for public spending. As a result, Ms Truss' team felt she had no choice but to U-turn on a corporation tax cut announced in the mini-budget.\n\nThe Bank's Governor Andrew Bailey tells me that this was not designed to pressure the government - but to ensure financial stability.\n\nBut Ms Truss says there were questions about the bank's governance - they were in a very powerful position over her and did effectively put \"pressure on me and the government to reverse our decisions on taxes\", she says.\n\nMs Truss says the same of another institution, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which is the country's official independent economic forecaster. It was created to help market confidence by ensuring a government's numbers are regularly checked. She says she had not realised the \"sheer level of power an organisation like the OBR has\" before she got to Downing Street.\n\nThe plan by Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng was to bypass the OBR.\n\nIts boss had worked through summer to prepare for an early set of tax changes and Mr Kwarteng had a draft forecast on his desk when he arrived in the job.\n\nBut as I revealed a week before the mini-budget, Downing Street refused to publish it.\n\nThe numbers, marked as \"market sensitive\", forecast the Truss administration borrowing an extra £110bn over five years as gas prices, inflation and interest rates surged.\n\nThe OBR chief executive Richard Hughes told me: \"We were not asked to produce an updated forecast for him. And we were not asked to publish any forecasts alongside that [mini-budget].\"\n\nCurrent Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said this was a fundamental error by Mr Kwarteng. If the OBR had provided a forecast alongside the mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng would have been forced to show how his £45bn in tax cuts would balance with spending cuts or increased borrowing.\n\nInstead, the mini-budget had a solitary table asserting how, theoretically, the gap could be filled if the economy grew faster.\n\nIt was the equivalent of trying to pay a restaurant bill with an Instagram photo of some gold bars.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said the Bank of England's actions were taken to ensure financial stability.\n\nIn the mini-budget, as soon as the government revealed it needed an extra £72bn in funding from the markets - without details of how it calculated the number - the market reacted badly. It simply did not believe the plans.\n\nMassive spending cuts might have bridged the gap - but both Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng lacked both the clout and the numbers to push such plans through the Commons.\n\nIt was made worse by a crisis in a normally sleepy corner of the pensions system that is used to manage the risks of interest rate changes, which are normally predictable and gradual. Interest rates rises are normally good for pensions funds' long term health - but the rise in the effective interest costs for government after the mini-budget was so rapid that these funds had to sell more and more of their government bonds.\n\nThe more they sold, the more the value of the bonds fell.\n\nMs Truss's team say this was the real crisis, that it was a failure of Bank of England regulation, and that the Bank should have warned them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was another problem for the markets. The government risked digging an even deeper credibility hole as it continued to defend itself. Cabinet ministers repeatedly blamed the market gyrations on \"global factors\", effectively sending the message that there was no problem to rectify.\n\nOn two occasions, the Bank of England sent charts to MPs making it crystal clear that the mini-budget was the trigger. Yes, there was a global trend of rising rates, but the surge last September was a UK-specific issue.\n\nSenior bank officials also felt the need to directly correct ministers' public mistakes - for example when ministers played down, or appeared not to understand, the direct impact of rising government interest on fixed-rate mortgages. The Governor of the Bank himself had to explain to senior Cabinet ministers that mortgages were now more likely to be priced off long term borrowing rates rather than the Bank of England base rate.\n\n\"Banks were finding it hard to price on a curve that was moving so much,\" said one official, who advised ministers not to go out in public and blame banks for rising mortgage costs. \"You've got to understand how the pricing works.\"\n\nIt's clear, looking back, that this was not just a financial heart attack - it was a stress test of Britain's entire system of institutions.\n\nAnd beyond changing the public perception of Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss, it changed the entire way British economic policy is directed, how investors act, and how institutions respond to blips.\n\nEconomically, the UK has long enjoyed a privilege in the markets - able to run \"twin deficits\" on both trade and government borrowing. But this reliance on the \"kindness of strangers\" funding was shaken by last year's events.\n\nBig corporations report that there are more questions now from major investors than before the mini-budget. Those burnt by a sharp fall in sterling after the announcement will now insist on factoring in costly currency hedges before investing in major British infrastructure.\n\nPolitically, \"mini-budget\" is now a sort of anti-brand. Its name is a trump card, deployed to argue for financial credibility and a tight hand on the tiller above everything else. The government and the opposition are contorting themselves to meet a five-year debt target and cut back on investments they have previously said the country badly needs.\n\nIf HS2 is cut back, for example, some of that can be attributed to the mini-budget hangover.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has already won an argument to rein in a planned tsunami of green investments if her party wins the general election - and has vowed to strengthen the OBR even more.\n\nShe and others are clearly trying to link the rising mortgage costs to the chaos of last year - even though much of that now arises from the Bank of England's inflation-fighting efforts.\n\nArguably the biggest impact of the mini-budget has been on the UK's big institutions.\n\nThis time a year ago the OBR, the Bank of England, and top Treasury civil servant Sir Tom Scholar were variously side-lined, briefed against, and fired.\n\nThey were the \"bean counters\" pursuing \"abacus economics\", standing in the way of newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss' agenda.\n\nHer experiment - that push-back against the \"economic orthodoxy\" - went to its breaking point. Policy, from the jobs market, to visas, to investment, is now prioritised based on whether it will \"score\" on the OBR's forecast and help the numbers add up.\n\nThe radical economic laboratory experiments are over.", "Footage authenticated by BBC Verify shows the moment a Ukrainian missile strike hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea.\n\nOne serviceman is missing after the missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol, according to Moscow.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France. The BBC has been unable to verify this claim.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important... in 83 seconds\n\nDusty samples from the \"most dangerous known rock in the Solar System\" have been brought to Earth.\n\nThe American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.\n\nThe samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.\n\nNasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside chance of hitting our planet in the next 300 years.\n\nBut more than this, the samples are likely to provide fresh insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago and possibly even how life got started on our world.\n\nThere was jubilation when the Osiris-Rex team caught sight of their capsule on long-range cameras.\n\nComponents such as the heatshield and back cover were removed in the temporary clean room\n\nTouchdown on desert land belonging to the Department of Defense was confirmed at 08:52 local time (14:52 GMT), three minutes ahead of schedule.\n\nThe car-tyre-sized container had come screaming into the atmosphere over the western US at more than 12km/s (27,000mph). A heatshield and parachutes slowed its descent and dropped it gently, perfectly on to restricted ground.\n\n\"This little capsule understood the assignment,\" said Tim Priser, the chief engineer at aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. \"It touched down like a feather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dante Lauretta: \"I was a babbling baby in that helicopter for a while\"\n\nAsked how the operation went to retrieve the capsule from the desert, some of the recovery workers returning in their helicopters told BBC News' science team that it was \"awesome\".\n\n\"I cried like a baby in that helicopter when I heard that the parachute had opened and we were coming in for a soft landing,\" said Osiris-Rex principal investigator Dante Lauretta.\n\n\"It was just an overwhelming moment for me. It's an astounding accomplishment.\"\n\nScientists are eager to get their hands on the precious cargo which pre-landing estimates put at some 250 grams (9oz).\n\nThat might not sound like very much - the weight of an adult hamster, as one scientist described it - but for the types of tests Nasa teams want to do, it is more than ample.\n\n\"We can analyse at a very high resolution very small particles,\" said Eileen Stansbery, the chief scientist at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Texas.\n\n\"We know how to slice and dice a 10 micron-sized particle into a dozen slices and to then map grain by grain at nano scales. So, 250 grams is huge.\"\n\nHelicopters were sent out to retrieve the landed capsule\n\nCleanliness was the watchword out in the desert. When the recovery teams caught up with the capsule on the ground, their motivation was to bring it back to a temporary clean room at the nearby Dugway army base as quickly as possible.\n\nIf, as researchers think, the sample contains carbon compounds that may have been involved in the creation of life then mixing the rocky material with present-day Earth chemistry has to be avoided.\n\n\"The cleanliness and preventing contamination of the spacecraft has been a really stringent requirement on the mission,\" said Mike Morrow, the Osiris-Rex deputy project manager.\n\n\"The best way that we can protect the sample is just to get it from the field into the clean lab that we've set up here in a hangar as quickly as possible and get it under a pure nitrogen gas purge. And then it's safe.\"\n\nThis was achieved just before 13:00 local time, a mere four hours after touchdown.\n\nThe lab team disassembled the capsule, removing its heatshield and back cover but leaving the sample secure inside an inner canister.\n\nThis is being flown on Monday to a dedicated facility at Johnson where the analysis of the samples will begin.\n\nUK scientist Ashley King will be part of a six-person \"Quick Look\" team that will conduct the initial assessment.\n\n\"I'm expecting to see a rocky type material that's very soft, very fragile,\" the Natural History Museum expert said.\n\n\"It'll have clay minerals - silicate minerals that have water locked up in their structure. Lots of carbon, so I think we'll probably see carbonate minerals, and maybe some things we call chondrules and also calcium-aluminium inclusions, which were the very first solid materials to form in our Solar System.\"\n\nA C17 transporter will take the samples to a curation facility in Texas\n\nNasa is planning a press conference on 11 October to give its first take on what has been returned. Small specimens are to be distributed to associated research teams across the globe. They hope to report back on a broad range of studies within two years.\n\n\"One of the most important parts of a sample-return mission is we take 75% of that sample and we're going to lock it away for future generations, for people who haven't even been born yet to work in laboratories that don't exist today, using instrumentation we haven't even thought of yet,\" Nasa's director of planetary science, Lori Glaze, told BBC News.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "María Blanco Rayo's daughter was one of the girls affected\n\nA sleepy town in southern Spain is in shock after it emerged that AI-generated naked images of young local girls had been circulating on social media without their knowledge.\n\nThe pictures were created using photos of the targeted girls fully clothed, many of them taken from their own social media accounts.\n\nThese were then processed by an application that generates an imagined image of the person without clothes on.\n\nSo far more than 20 girls, aged between 11 and 17, have come forward as victims of the app's use in or near Almendralejo, in the south-western province of Badajoz.\n\n\"One day my daughter came out of school and she said 'Mum there are photos circulating of me topless',\" says María Blanco Rayo, the mother of a 14-year-old.\n\n\"I asked her if she had taken any photos of herself nude, and she said, 'No, Mum, these are fake photos of girls that are being created a lot right now and there are other girls in my class that this has happened to as well.'\"\n\nShe says the parents of 28 girls affected have formed a support group in the town.\n\nSpanish authorities have launched an investigation into the images\n\nPolice are now investigating and according to reports, at least 11 local boys have been identified as having involvement in either the creation of the images or their circulation via the WhatsApp and Telegram apps.\n\nInvestigators are also looking into the claim that an attempt was made to extort one of the girls by using a fake image of her.\n\nThe impact the images' circulation has had on the girls affected varies. Ms Blanco Rayo says her daughter is bearing up well, but that some girls \"won't even leave their house\".\n\nAlmendralejo is a picturesque town with a population of just over 30,000 which is known for its production of olives and red wine. But it's not used to the sudden attention this case has brought, making the town national headline news.\n\nThat's in great part because of the efforts of one of the girls' mothers, Miriam Al Adib. She's a gynaecologist who has used her already prominent social media profile to place this issue at the centre of Spanish public debate.\n\n\"I wanted to give the message: it's not your fault,\" Miriam Al Adib says\n\nAlthough many of the AI images are believed to have been created over the summer, the case only came to light in recent days after Dr Adib posted a video reassuring the girls affected and their parents.\n\n\"We didn't know how many children had the images, if they had been uploaded to pornographic sites - we had all those fears,\" she says.\n\n\"When you are the victim of a crime, if you are robbed, for example, you file a complaint and you don't hide because the other person has caused you harm. But with crimes of a sexual nature the victim often feels shame and hides and feels responsible. So I wanted to give that message: it's not your fault.\"\n\nThe suspects in the case are aged between 12 and 14. Spanish law does not specifically cover the generation of images of a sexual nature when it involves adults, although the creation of such material using minors could be deemed child pornography.\n\nAnother possible charge would be for breaching privacy laws. In Spain, minors can only face criminal charges from the age of 14 upwards.\n\nThe case has caused concern even for local people who are not involved.\n\n\"Those of us who have kids are very worried,\" says Gema Lorenzo, a local woman who has a son, aged 16, and a daughter, aged 12.\n\n\"You're worried about two things: if you have a son you worry he might have done something like this; and if you have a daughter, you're even more worried, because it's an act of violence.\"\n\nIf you have a son you worry he might have done something like this; if you have a daughter, you're even more worried, because it's an act of violence.\"\n\nFrancisco Javier Guerra, a local painter and decorator, says the parents of the boys involved are to blame. \"They should have done something before, like take their phones away, or install an application that tells them what their children are doing with their phone.\"\n\nThis is not the first time such a case has become news in Spain. Earlier this year, AI-generated topless images of the singer Rosalía were posted on social media.\n\n\"Women from different parts of the world have written to me explaining that this has happened to them and they don't know what to do,\" says Miriam Al Adib.\n\n\"Right now this is happening across the world. The only difference is that in Almendralejo we have made a fuss about it.\"\n\nThe concern is that apps such as those used in Almendralejo are becoming increasingly commonplace.\n\nJavier Izquierdo, head of children's protection in the national police's cyber-crime unit, told Spanish media that these kinds of crimes are no longer confined \"to the guy who downloads child porn from the Dark Web or from some hidden internet forum\".\n\nHe added: \"That obviously is still going on, but now the new challenges we are facing are the access that minors have at such an early age [to such technology], such as in this case.\"", "Bull-running events like this one in San Sebastian remain very popular in Spain\n\nA man has died and his friend has been injured during a bull-running festival in eastern in Spain, authorities say.\n\nThe man, 61, was gored in his side during the event in the town of Pobla de Farnals in the Valencia region on Saturday. He underwent emergency surgery but died on Sunday.\n\nHis friend, 63, was attacked in both legs by the same bull and is in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nDeaths and injuries during bull-running festivals in Spain are not uncommon.\n\nThere are hundreds of such events - in which bulls are released on city streets with people running ahead of them - across Spain every year.\n\nAnimal rights groups have long complained of the dangers for the public as well as the animals.\n\nThe bull-running season provides a much-needed boost to Valencia's economy.\n\nA 2019 study found that it created more than 3,000 jobs and brought in €300m with almost 10,000 events a year.", "Chris Kaba was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met officer into the vehicle he was driving\n\nSuella Braverman has said armed police must not fear \"ending up in the dock for carrying out their duties\" after a marksman was charged with murder.\n\nThe home secretary ordered a review into armed policing after dozens of officers in London handed in their weapons, saying they were worried about the murder charge.\n\nUnarmed Chris Kaba, 24, died after he was shot in south London last year.\n\nMs Braverman said on Sunday that officers have to make \"split-second decisions\" and risk \"their lives to keep us safe\".\n\nThe Met said many firearms officers were \"worried\" about how the charging decision \"impacts on them\".\n\nOne former armed response officer, Harry Tangye, told the BBC he would surrender his weapon if he was still in the force.\n\n\"It's not worth it,\" he told Radio 4's the World at One programme.\n\nA source suggested that more than 100 officers have handed in what is known as a ticket permitting them to carry firearms.\n\nArmed officers from other forces are being deployed as a contingency measure.\n\nThe force said its own officers still make up the vast majority of armed police in the capital, but they were being supported by a limited number of firearms officers from neighbouring forces.\n\nMs Braverman said people \"depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us\".\n\n\"In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures.\"\n\nShe said that officers have her \"full backing\".\n\n\"I will do everything in my power to support them,\" she added.\n\nMr Kaba died after a police operation in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022.\n\nHe was hit by a gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into the vehicle he was driving and died in hospital the following day, an inquest was told.\n\nThe construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he was shot.\n\nHis death prompted a number of protests, particularly among London's black communities.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met said firearms officers were concerned that the Crown Prosecution Service bringing a charge against the officer \"signals a shift in the way the decisions they take in the most challenging circumstances will be judged\".\n\n\"A number of officers have taken the decision to step back from armed duties while they consider their position. That number has increased over the past 48 hours,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Met added it has a \"significant firearms capability and we continue to have armed officers deployed in communities across London as well as at other sites including Parliament, diplomatic premises, airports etc\".", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nWales became the first team to reach the 2023 World Cup quarter-finals as they celebrated a record win over Australia in Lyon.\n\nGareth Anscombe kicked 23 points and tries from Gareth Davies, Nick Tompkins and Jac Morgan sealed a last-eight place with a game remaining in Pool C.\n\nAustralia managed just two penalties from Ben Donaldson.\n\nEddie Jones' side are on the brink of becoming the first Australia team to suffer pool stage elimination.\n\nThe woeful Wallabies were humbled by Wales, who are celebrating a fourth consecutive World Cup quarter-final qualification under Warren Gatland as head coach.\n\nThis display must rank as one of Wales' finest performances under the New Zealander and the result beats their previous record win against Australia, a 28-3 triumph in 1975.\n\nCaptain Morgan was again outstanding, while number eight Taulupe Faletau and scrum-half Gareth Davies showed their class.\n\nThe only negative for Wales was a worrying injury that forced talismanic fly-half Dan Biggar off in the first half, but his withdrawal allowed Anscombe to excel with six penalties, a conversion and a drop-goal.\n\nA victory over Georgia on 7 October in Nantes will officially ensure Wales finish as group winners but only two match points will be required.\n\nThat would set up a probable quarter-final against Argentina, Japan or Samoa in Marseille the following weekend, with England clear favourites to win Pool D.\n• None As it happened and reaction from Lyon\n\nA few months ago, very few people would have backed Wales to achieve quarter-final qualification so easily and so quickly.\n\nYet the army of Welsh fans that dominated the Lyon streets and OL Stadium this weekend are starting to believe again.\n\nWelsh rugby was in disarray when Gatland returned for a second stint at the helm after replacing Wayne Pivac in December 2022.\n\nThey managed only one win in the 2023 Six Nations, a tournament in which players threatened strike action over contractual issues before that was averted.\n\nGatland regrouped and put his faith in youth following some high-profile retirements including Alun Wyn Jones and Justin Tipuric.\n\nBrutal training camps in Switzerland and Turkey in the summer helped the players form a formidable bond and Gatland predicted his side would shock people by doing something special in France.\n\nThey started with maximum bonus-point wins against Fiji and Portugal and completed the job of getting out of the pool with this devastating display against an average Australia side.\n\nThe Wallabies have not officially been eliminated from the tournament but now need a series of results, including potentially Wales defeating Georgia and Georgia beating Fiji, to have a chance of progressing.\n\nWelsh rugby has been like a soap opera for the last 12 months but all the pre-match drama and turmoil came within the Australia camp, with Jones clinging on to his job after this embarrassment.\n\nJones was booed when he appeared on the big screen throughout the game, with Wales' wonderful showing compounding his misery.\n\nThere was an Australian outcry following a first defeat to Fiji in 69 years in Saint-Etienne last weekend, with former Wallabies wing Drew Mitchell criticising Jones and questioning why he had not taken the experienced Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper to France.\n\nWorld Cup-winning centre Tim Horan called this potentially the biggest game for Australian rugby in the professional era. Australia have qualified for the knockout stages in all nine previous World Cups since the tournament started in 1987.\n\nSince Jones returned to Australian rugby this year to replace Dave Rennie, Australia have lost seven out of eight games, with the only win coming in their World Cup opener against Georgia.\n\nIn the build-up to this fixture, Jones held a combative press conference where he defended his policy of building towards the 2027 World Cup and insisted he had \"no doubt\" Australia would beat Wales.\n\nOn the morning of the match, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Jones had held a secret Zoom interview last month about becoming the Japan coach next year, despite having signed a five-year deal with Australia.\n\nJones denied those reports but Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh was addressing the reports publicly less than four hours before kick-off, so preparation was not ideal.\n\nYou wondered whether Australia would be hampered by the controversies and they were exposed by a textbook move off the training park for the opening Wales try.\n\nCentre Tompkins fed captain Morgan with the flanker producing a superb inside pass to supporting scrum-half Davies, who emulated his World Cup try of four years ago against Australia.\n\nThe Wallabies responded with a series of attacks that resulted in a Donaldson penalty, while his opposite number Biggar suffered what looked like a pectoral injury and was replaced by Anscombe.\n\nAustralia celebrated a scrum penalty as Donaldson, starting at 10 instead of the dropped Carter Gordon, reduced the deficit to one point.\n\nAnscombe hit the post with his first penalty attempt before slotting over a successful kick.\n\nAustralia turned down a kick at goal in front of the posts and lost the line-out which followed, with Morgan launching a huge 50:22 attacking kick to change the momentum. The ensuing pressure set up a penalty with Anscombe slotting over the simple kick.\n\nA superb Josh Adams high-ball catch set up the chance for Anscombe to further extend the lead, while wing Louis Rees-Zammit was denied a try after being held up over the line.\n\nWales started superbly in the second half with Anscombe kicking another penalty before producing a deft chip for Tompkins to chase and score. Anscombe converted and then added a fifth penalty.\n\nAustralia had brought on Pone Fa'amausili at half-time for James Slipper, but the Wales scrum started to dominate and Anscombe's boot continued to punish the Wallabies.\n\nMorgan sealed the win with a try from a driving maul to take Wales to 40 points.\n\nThe smile from Gatland captured on the big screen at the end said everything about an epic evening in Lyon.\n• None All the latest news, views and interviews at the Rugby World Cup", "Their relationships might be close, the handshakes might have been firm, but President Volodymyr Zelensky had to roll his sleeves up during his trip to the US and Canada.\n\nThe latter was the easier end. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to support Ukraine \"for as long as it takes\" against Russia's invasion, and he has cross-party support in that endeavour.\n\nAmerica's pockets are deeper, but its politics are far more complicated.\n\nPresident Zelensky secured another $325m (£265m) military package from the White House, but it wasn't the $24bn biggie he'd been hoping for.\n\nThat proposal is bogged down in Congress in a disagreement over budgets.\n\nThe difficulties do not stop there either.\n\nBesides his counterpart Joe Biden, Ukraine's leader also had meetings with Republican politicians who are struggling to contain the growing scepticism in their party.\n\n\"We are protecting the liberal world, that should resonate with Republicans,\" a government adviser in Kyiv tells me.\n\n\"It was more difficult when the war started, because it was chaos,\" he says.\n\n\"Now we can be more specific with our asks, as we know what our allies have and where they store it. Our president could be defence minister in a number of countries!\"\n\nAlas for Kyiv, he is not, and the political challenges are mounting.\n\n\"Why should Ukraine keep getting a blank cheque? What does a victory look like?\"\n\nThese are both questions the Ukrainian leader has been trying to answer on the world stage.\n\nAnd this is why he now seems to do more negotiating than campaigning - just to keep Western help coming in.\n\nAll in a week when Kyiv fell out with one of its most loyal allies Poland, in a row over Ukrainian grain.\n\nA Polish ban on Ukrainian imports led to President Zelensky indirectly accusing Warsaw of \"helping Russia\".\n\nLet's say that went down very badly in Poland, with President Andrzej Duda describing Ukraine as a \"drowning person who could pull you down with it\".\n\nThe situation has since deescalated.\n\nEven for a seasoned wartime leader, these are difficult diplomatic times.\n\nUpcoming elections in partner countries such as Poland, Slovakia and the US are muddying the picture. Some candidates are prioritising domestic issues at the expense of military support for Ukraine.\n\n\"The need to balance military aid with the satisfaction of voters makes things really complicated,\" explains Serhiy Gerasymchuk from the Ukrainian Prism foreign policy think tank.\n\n\"Ukraine has to weigh up promoting its interests, using all the possible tools, while taking into account the situations in partner countries and the EU. It is a challenge.\"\n\nThese are the sort of democratic cycles Russia's leader Vladimir Putin doesn't need to worry about.\n\nIt is why Kyiv tries to portray this war as a fight not only for its sovereignty, but for democracy itself.\n\n\"The moral side of this war is huge,\" says the adviser.\n\nAfter the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Russia, the US and UK agreed the Budapest Memorandum of 1994.\n\nUkraine surrendered the Soviet nuclear weapons left on its soil to Russia, in exchange for a pledge that its territorial integrity would be respected and defended by the other countries who signed.\n\nNine years of Russian aggression has made that agreement feel like a broken promise here.\n\nKyiv is also trying to play the longer game, by trying to better engage with countries like Brazil and South Africa, who have been apathetic towards Russia's invasion.\n\nIt's a strategy that has not brought immediate results.\n\n\"It is true we are dependent on frontline success,\" says the Ukrainian government adviser.\n\nHe argues the media has oversimplified Ukraine's counteroffensive by focusing too much on the theatre of the front line, where the gains have been marginal, and less on the substantial successes of missile strikes in Crimea and the targeting of Russian warships.\n\nUkraine has always claimed it \"wont be rushed\" in its counter offensive.\n\nWith the politics of this war increasingly connected to the fighting, that's being tested more than ever.", "While the capsule make its way to what's known as the clean room - where it'll be inspected under sterile conditions - let's return to the moment it successfully landed on Earth.\n\nWe're getting some insight into why it landed earlier than expected, at 08:52 local time (15:52 BST) rather than the scheduled 08:55.\n\nThe main parachute deployment was timed to trigger when the capsule had reached a certain deceleration.\n\nThis was planned to happen at about 1,500m (5,000ft) and it actually happened at 6,000m (20,000ft).\n\nThis will be one for the engineers at manufacturer Lockheed Martin to pore over, but for the scientists they'll just be happy to have the capsule and its samples safely back on Earth.", "Police were called to Redcar Road, Blackpool, on Thursday morning\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a women in her 50s was found dead with multiple injuries in Blackpool.\n\nOfficers were called to Redcar Road shortly before 11:00 BST on Thursday following a report of an unexpected death. Lancashire Police named the woman as Alison Dodds.\n\nThe force said her death is being treated as suspicious.\n\nDetectives are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "French rapper MHD has been given a 12-year jail term for the murder of a young man in Paris in 2018.\n\nA court in the capital found the 29-year-old MHD, real name Mohamed Sylla, guilty of involvement in the gang-related killing of Loic K, 23.\n\nThe victim was knocked down by MHD's Mercedes, then beaten and stabbed to death by a crowd of about 12 people.\n\nMHD, who is known for blending trap and West African music to get \"Afro trap\", pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\n\"From the beginning, I have maintained my innocence in this case and I will continue to maintain my innocence,\" he told the packed court in Paris, AFP news agency reports.\n\nHe denied being at the scene of the murder, arguing that the case against him was based on rumours.\n\nHowever, a local resident filmed the incident in the summer of 2018 from his window, and the car was quickly identified as belonging to MHD.\n\nOther witnesses identified him by his haircut and a jumper, AFP reports.\n\nFive of MHD's co-defendants were also given prison terms ranging between 10 and 18 years.\n\nAnother three were acquitted.\n\nIt was not immediately known if those sentenced to jail were planning to appeal.\n\nMHD, who has a huge following on social media, was working as a pizza delivery boy in Paris before turning to music professionally.\n\nFive years ago, he spoke to BBC's What's New? programme about how he came up with the idea of \"Afro trap\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The French 'Afrotrap' rapper going global. Video, 00:01:11The French 'Afrotrap' rapper going global", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Olga Ivshina gets rare access inside Nagorno-Karabakh, under the close watch of a military escort\n\nAzerbaijan's military has paraded heavy weapons captured in Nagorno-Karabakh, amid warnings thousands of civilians are without shelter after the surrender of Armenian separatists.\n\nTanks, guns and RPGs were among the haul shown to the BBC, in the first access given to journalists since separatists agreed to disarm this week.\n\nEthnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter.\n\nOnly one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through.\n\nThe convoy from the International Red Cross was the first to reach the disputed territory since Azerbaijan captured it in a lightning operation five days ago. Russia says it has also delivered aid, but it is not known how much.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades.\n\nOn Saturday, Armenia urged the UN to send a mission to monitor the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that their very existence was now under threat.\n\nAzerbaijan denies the accusation, saying it wants to reintegrate the region's ethnic Armenian residents as equal citizens of the country.\n\nAt least 200 ethnic Armenians died, including 10 civilians, as Azerbaijan's army swept into the enclave earlier this week.\n\nNow, displaced from villages and separated from relatives, several thousand people were sleeping in tents or the open air near the airport in the main city Stepanakert, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, Karabakh officials said.\n\nThe airport is also near a base for Russian peacekeepers, five of whom were killed during the fighting.\n\nOn Saturday Azerbaijan said it was working with Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to disarm ethnic Armenian forces - one of its key demands in return for a ceasefire.\n\nIn the courtyard of a military HQ in Susa, near the regional capital, Azeri military officials proudly laid out weapons given up by separatists.\n\nThe haul included what appeared to be a T-72 tank, several BMP-2 armoured personnel carriers, machine guns, assault rifles, body armour and mines. The BBC estimates that the area filled was equivalent to half a football field.\n\nHelmets, RPGs and APCs taken from Armenian separatists\n\nRussia's defence ministry said six armoured vehicles, more than 800 guns and about 5,000 units of ammunition had been handed over so far.\n\nIt is unclear what will happen to the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan says it wants to reintegrate the region and an Azerbaijani official told the BBC that \"no one is kicking anyone out\".\n\n\"If we didn't care about civilians, women and children, we would have simply entered Khankendi,\" he added.\n\nAnother official said that the military had prepared camps for refugees outside of Karabakh that were \"ready to accept civilians\" - but there is much mistrust on both sides and many ethnic Armenians may not be willing to move.\n\nAzerbaijan has also told the UN that it will treat Karabakh Armenians as \"equal citizens\". But their destiny is in Azeri hands now.\n\nIt says it envisages an amnesty for those Karabakh fighters who hand over their weapons and they can leave for Armenia if they choose.\n\nArmenia has also set up facilities to take in thousands of civilians but Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he did not want them to leave unless they had to.\n\nPeople in Stepanakert have told the BBC that many are likely to choose to leave.\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" journalist Siranush Sargsyan said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nUS Senator Gary Peters, who is leading a congressional delegation to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, said people in Nagorno-Karabakh were \"very fearful\" and called for the creation of an international observer mission.\n\n\"I think the world needs to know exactly what's happening in there,\" he said. \"We've heard from the Azerbaijani government that there's nothing to see, nothing to worry about, but if that's the case then we should allow international observers in to see.\"\n\nThe Red Cross aid convoy delivered wheat and yeast to make bread\n\nAreas where the BBC was allowed to visit appeared empty of civilians. Only police, soldiers and a few construction workers could be seen.\n\nThere were no smiles from Russian peacekeepers that the BBC saw, and the mood was serious. But so far, there has been no major violence since the surrender.", "Do the Lib Dems want to rejoin the EU?\n\nOnto UK-EU relations, Davey is asked whether the Lib Dems still have as strong an anti-Brexit stance as they did in 2019. Davey says the party remains \"very pro-European\", but is realistic about what needs to be done for the UK to be able to work with Europe after the Conservative government has \"soured\" relations between the two nations. When pushed on whether he'd fight for the UK to rejoin the EU, Davey deflects by saying that is \"no longer on the table\". It's going to take time to rebuild the relationship with the EU, he says.", "A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney could take another five years and cost a further £8m to complete, it has been claimed.\n\nThe Orkney Native Wildlife Project began trapping the animals in 2019 and has so far removed more than 5,000.\n\nThe animals are said to pose a major threat to breeding seabirds as well as the native Orkney vole.\n\nProject organisers said the task was always going to be difficult but it was setback by Covid pandemic restrictions.\n\nStoats are common in parts of mainland Scotland but they only started appearing in Orkney in 2010.\n\nOrganisers claim their plans are the biggest invasive predator eradication on an inhabited island, anywhere in the world, with about 7,000 traps laid around the mainland and the coastline of the neighbouring islands.\n\nThe project has already cost about £8m but those behind it claim the same amount will be required to finish the job, with three years of eradication and two years of further monitoring.\n\nStoats have been sighted across Orkney mainland\n\nRSPB Scotland, NatureScot and Orkney Islands Council operate the scheme, which has previously received funding through the National Lottery Heritage Fund and EU Life, as well as the Scottish government's Nature Restoration Fund.\n\nStoats are very skilled hunters which typically feed on small mammals, birds and eggs but can kill prey much larger than themselves.\n\nThey also tend to kill more than they need and hide the rest to eat later.\n\nIn Orkney, hidden caches have been found containing as many as 100 voles.\n\nStoats on Orkney have been seen to kill animals bigger than themselves such as rabbits\n\nOrkney is home to internationally-important populations of wildlife.\n\nIt has 20% of the UK's hen harriers, 11% of its breeding seabirds and vital populations of curlew, lapwing, and oystercatcher.\n\nThe project has worked with more than 900 landowners across the Orkney islands to prevent stoats from colonising more land.\n\nIt said progress was significantly impacted by the Covid pandemic which prevented trapping throughout the 2020 breeding season.\n\nThis allowed the stoat population to rebound to pre-eradication levels undoing the previous progress.\n\nSince trapping restarted, stoats have been found making dens in attics, under kitchen floorboards, in garden rockeries, and in greater density than on the UK mainland.\n\nProject organisers said their unusually-bold behaviour in Orkney is likely to be due to the abundance of food and a scarcity of natural predators.\n\nDetection dogs are being used to locate the stoats\n\nThis meant the project has taken a more active approach to trapping, using Europe's first stoat detection dogs on the frontline earlier than expected.\n\nThe detection dogs are already a familiar sight on the East Mainland and the linked isles, including Burray and South Ronaldsay, but from next year there will be 10 working across the whole of the Orkney mainland.\n\nOrganisers hope that within two years it can transition into the 'mop-up' phase, meaning that the stoat population has reached a critical tipping point in Orkney.\n\nThe eradication is set to be complete in 2027, at which point the two-year monitoring period will kick in.\n\nThe project estimates the cost of finishing the eradication and returning Orkney to being stoat-free will be an average £1.5m a year over five years.\n\nHowever, it said the cost of supressing stoats enough to prevent them from spreading to more islands was estimated at a similar amount per year forever.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden plans to give Ukraine advanced long-range missiles to help Kyiv with its ongoing counter-offensive, US media report.\n\nThey quote US officials familiar with the issue as saying Ukraine will get some ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 190 miles (300km).\n\nThis would enable Kyiv to hit Russian targets deep behind the front line.\n\nAt least two Ukrainian missiles hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Friday.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that the attack in the port of Sevastopol used Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France.\n\nSuch missiles have a range of just over 150 miles.\n\nKyiv has for months been pushing for ATACMS to boost its hard-going counter-offensive\n\nNBC News and the Wall Street Journal quote unnamed US officials as saying Mr Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv would get \"a small number\" of ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles. The two leaders met at the White House on Thursday.\n\nThe WSJ adds that the weapons will be sent in the coming weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Washington Post cited several people familiar with the discussions as saying Ukraine would get ATACMS armed with cluster bomblets rather than single warheads.\n\nNeither the US nor Ukraine have officially confirmed the reports.\n\nAfter the Biden-Zelensky talks Washington announced a new tranche of $325m (£265m) in military aid - including artillery and ammunition - for Ukraine. America's Abrams tanks will be delivered to Kyiv next week.\n\nHowever, both presidents have been evasive on the ATACMS issue.\n\n\"I believe that most of what we were discussing with President Biden yesterday… we will be able to reach an agreement,\" Mr Zelensky said on Friday during a visit to Canada.\n\n\"Yes, [this is] a matter of time. Not everything depends on Ukraine,\" he added.\n\nKyiv has for months been pushing for ATACMS to boost its tough and bloody counter-offensive in the south.\n\nIt says key Russian supply lines, command positions and other logistical hubs deep behind the front line would then be within striking distance, forcing Moscow to move them further away and thus making it harder to resupply troops and weaponry.\n\nRussian positions in the occupied Ukrainian regions in the south - including Crimea - would be particularly vulnerable, Ukraine says.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the Biden administration was initially hesitant to provide Ukraine with modern weaponry.\n\nBut its stance has since shifted dramatically, with Kyiv getting high-precision Himars long-range rocket systems and Patriot air defence missiles.\n\nPresident Biden has been hesitant on ATACMS amid fears that such missiles could bring a direct clash with nuclear-armed Russia closer.", "The HS2 rail line has been given an \"unachievable\" rating by an official watchdog.\n\nIt has been given a \"red\" warning for its first two phases - from London to Birmingham then onto Crewe - by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.\n\nThe project aims to create high-speed rail links between London and central and northern England, but has faced major delays and criticism.\n\nThe government says it remains committed to delivering HS2.\n\nThe red rating came in the IPA's annual report on major projects, which was published on 20 July and gave a snapshot of progress on 244 projects.\n\nThe IPA describes itself as the government's centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects, and reports to the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury.\n\nUnder the IPA's grading system, a red rating implies: \"Successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable.\"\n\nThe rating also means there are \"major issues with project definition, schedule, budget, quality and/or benefits delivery, which at this stage do not appear to be manageable or resolvable\".\n\n\"The project may need re-scoping and/or its overall viability reassessed.\"\n\nThe phase of the project running from Crewe to Manchester was given an \"amber\" grading by the IPA, under which successful delivery of a project \"appears feasible\", but \"significant issues already exist\".\n\nThe London to Birmingham leg of HS2 was due to open in 2026, but is now expected between 2029 and 2033.\n\nAn eastern leg of the line running to Leeds has been scrapped, and instead a shorter high-speed line will link Birmingham and East Midlands Parkway.\n\nIn March, the government announced it was delaying the Birmingham to Crewe leg by two years to cut costs.\n\nAn HS2 spokesperson said construction on the line was now hitting a \"peak\", with \"work intensifying and huge civil engineering structures taking shape along Phase One of the route\".\n\nThe spokesperson added the priority was to ensure that the initial high-speed services - connecting Old Oak Common in west London and Birmingham Curzon Street - were running by the current target of the early 2030s.\n\nManagement issues and unrealistic land valuations have caused costs to spiral.\n\nA budget of £55.7bn for the whole project was set in 2015, but the target cost excluding the eastern leg of Phase 2b from the West Midlands to the East Midlands has soared to between £53bn and £61bn at 2019 prices.\n\nEarlier this month, HS2 Ltd's chief executive Mark Thurston announced his resignation - he will leave his role in September after six and a half years.\n\nHis resignation came as phase one of the project between London and Birmingham is under construction, with major work taking place at more than 350 sites.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced work at London Euston would be paused for two years after costs increased from £2.6bn to £4.8bn.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Transport said: \"We remain committed to delivering HS2 in the most cost-effective way for taxpayers.\n\n\"HS2 will bring transformational benefits for generations to come, improving connections and helping grow the economy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Irish Rugby\n\nIreland remain in pole position to top Pool B after they beat holders South Africa in a low-scoring but riveting World Cup slugfest in Paris.\n\nWith Ireland struggling, Manie Libbok's penalty edged South Africa ahead in the first half before Mack Hansen's try.\n\nCheslin Kolbe hit back for the Boks but after Libbok failed to convert, Johnny Sexton's penalty put Ireland ahead.\n\nIn a nail-biting finish, Ireland's defence absorbed pressure before Jack Crowley's penalty sealed an epic win.\n• None Win over South Africa like 'Grand Slam on steroids'\n\nAt the end of a brutal and relentless Test battle, South Africa pushed for a match-winning try, but after being repelled by a heroic defensive effort from the world's number one side, the Irish contingent in the 78,452 Stade de France crowd greeted a famous win with thunderous acclaim.\n\nIt is Ireland's 16th straight Test win and a major boost to their World Cup hopes having fronted up to a ferocious South African side to put themselves on the cusp of another quarter-final place.\n\nHaving beaten Scotland and Romania, South Africa remain on course to reach the last eight but this was their first defeat in nine World Cup matches and they must now regroup after being bested by one of their biggest rivals in a titanic heavyweight dust-up.\n\nBut the Springboks will rue their missed chances on a night when their unreliable goal-kicking prevented them from turning momentum in their favour.\n\nThis had been widely touted as the most anticipated match of the pool stage, pitting the world's top two sides in a fascinating clash of styles: the speed and ruthlessness of the Irish attack against a mighty, parsimonious South African defence that shipped just three points in their opening two games.\n\nWhile Ireland won 19-16 when the sides met in Dublin last year, it is well known that South Africa are a different beast at rugby's global showpiece.\n\nBoks backs coach Mzwandile Stick had said on the eve of the match that \"World Cups are a different story\", and during a first half in which Ireland made a series of uncharacteristic errors, his words appeared prophetic.\n\nIndeed, while both sides displayed early nerves, it was South Africa who benefited from a creaking Irish line-out, with Libbok's penalty coming at the end of a move sparked by one of several Ronan Kelleher throws that missed its target.\n\nDespite being roared on by raucous Irish support, the Grand Slam winners seemed out of sorts, the Springbok confidence growing with every ferocious hit on a green jersey and Ireland frustration deepening with every failed attempt to break the three-time champions.\n\nWhile the brute of South Africa's defence clearly unnerved their rivals, Ireland weathered the storm before momentum dramatically swung seven minutes before the interval when a brilliant carry from the in-form Bundee Aki, who won his 50th cap.\n\nAki, who earlier landed a crucial tackle on Jesse Kriel, showed pace and power to drive his side up the pitch. This time, Ireland stayed patient and moved the ball smartly before a thunderous roar greeted Hansen touching down - although he came close to the deadball line - after Sexton had come within inches of scoring a superb try of his own.\n\nThe veteran fly-half nailed the conversion to put Ireland 7-3 up with the returning feelgood factor helped by Garry Ringrose's return after passing a head injury assessment (HIA).\n\nDespite finishing the first half on top, Ireland's line-out issues continued after the restart but they were given a let-off when a Faf de Klerk penalty from halfway came back off the post.\n\nThe Springboks piled on the pressure from there and eventually worked the ball wide to Kolbe, who crossed to move the champions 8-7 in front.\n\nBut with Libbok having pushed his conversion attempt wide, Ireland edged back ahead through Sexton's penalty.\n\nChasing the game, South Africa gradually turned to their much talked-about 'Bomb Squad' - the seven forwards named on the bench - and while Ireland's indiscipline offered the Boks a route back into the game, their kicking woes deepened as Libbok and De Klerk failed to land penalties.\n\nIrish nerves were somewhat calmed by Crowley, Sexton's fly-half replacement, kicking them five points clear.\n\nWith the clock ticking down Irish fans roared their team towards victory, and while South Africa found time for one last attempt to snatch the win, those in green turned over a maul as the two nations' first World Cup meeting ended with Irish ecstasy.\n\nHaving underlined their status as the world's best team and serious contenders for the Webb Ellis Cup, Andy Farrell's side face Scotland in a fortnight while South Africa take on Tonga next week in their final pool match.", "The government has refused to guarantee the future of the HS2 rail line between Birmingham and Manchester.\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson instead suggested that ministers would need to balance the interests of \"passengers and taxpayers\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met on Wednesday and discussed the HS2 project.\n\nTheir primary concerns are said to be over spiralling costs and delays to the project.\n\n\"Spades are already in the ground on our HS2 programme and we're focused on delivering it,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nAsked whether Mr Sunak was committed to the line going to Manchester, the spokesman did not confirm whether it would, saying: \"We are committed to HS2, to the project.\"\n\nHowever, No 10 did confirm that ministers were looking at \"rephasing\" the project, hinting at a possible delay.\n\nSpeculation over the scheme's future resurfaced this week after The Independent carried a photograph of a document with details of a \"savings table\" of the costs of each part of the scheme north of Birmingham.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said: \"Why should it be the North of England that pays the price?\n\n\"What we are going to end up with here is in the southern half of the country, a modern, high-speed rail network, and the northern half of the country left with crumbling Victorian infrastructure. That won't level us up, it will do the exact opposite.\"\n\nHS2 has been somewhat symbolic for the government's levelling-up agenda and has been seen in recent years as an important way to help bridge economic regional disparities.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced that work on a new station at London Euston would be pushed back by two years because of rising costs.\n\nAt the same time, the government said the section between Birmingham and Crewe would be delayed by two years, to spread out spending.\n\nCosts around HS2 have increased significantly and are now well above its original budget of £33bn, which was set a decade ago when work on the line began.\n\nIt was originally planned for HS2 to run between London and Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester and Leeds.\n\nBut two years ago, plans for the eastern leg from Birmingham to Leeds were cut back, so the new line would stop at the East Midlands.\n\nA spokesperson for the High Speed Rail Group said scrapping phase two would be a \"disaster\" for the North of England and the Midlands and the \"ultimate U-turn\".\n\nHe added: \"The government needs to kill the speculation and make its intentions clear, and it ought to commit clearly and unambiguously to delivering the project as planned.\n\n\"The 30,000 people delivering HS2 deserve this. Our future generations deserve this. The North and Midlands deserve this.\"\n\nHenri Murison, chief executive from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC's Today programme that scrapping the Manchester leg would be \"political betrayal\" and \"economically illiterate\".\n\n\"This isn't just about changing the way that people might be able to get to London or to Birmingham, this fundamentally rips up the entire basis of the commitments that Rishi Sunak as chancellor made to the north of England,\" he said.\n\n\"What do we say to all those inward investors who have come to Manchester… that the government would promised them that they would build HS2?,\" he added.\n\n\"They came and invested money, we then promised that we would build Northern Powerhouse Rail, they invest more money, and now their private sector investment has been significantly undermined and its long-term benefit because of something the government is doing.\"", "Chinese Coast Guard boats were seen close to the floating barrier on Wednesday\n\nThe Philippines has accused China of installing a \"floating barrier\" to stop fishing boats from entering a disputed area in the South China Sea.\n\nThe Philippines' coast guard said the 300m (1,000ft) obstacle was preventing fishermen from working in a lagoon in the Scarborough Shoal.\n\nChina claims more than 90% of the South China Sea and seized the shoal in 2012.\n\nCommodore Jay Tarriela of the Philippine coast guard said the barrier was discovered by a patrol on Friday.\n\nThree Chinese coast guard boats and a Chinese maritime militia service boat installed the barrier when the Philippine vessel arrived, he said.\n\nThe Chinese boats issued 15 radio challenges and accused the Philippine ship and fishermen of violating international and China's laws, before moving away \"upon realising the presence of media personnel on board the (Filipino) vessel\", he said.\n\nChina's embassy in Manila did not immediately reply to a request for comment, Reuters news agency said.\n\nCmdr Tarriela of the Philippine coast guard said the barrier was \"depriving [fishermen] of their livelihood\".\n\nHe added that Filipino fishermen say China typically installs such barriers when they monitor a large number of fishermen in the area.\n\nHe said his organisation would work with concerned governments but would \"uphold our maritime rights and protect our maritime domains\".\n\nThe South China Sea is a rich fishing ground that is believed to hold vast oil and gas reserves. More than half of the world's fishing vessels operate in this area.\n\nChina's claims - which include sovereignty over land parcels and their adjacent waters - have angered not just the Philippines but also Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.\n\nChina has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols.\n\nThe US says it does not take sides in territorial disputes, but has sent military ships and planes near disputed islands in what it calls \"freedom of navigation\" operations.\n\nBeijing seized the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 and forced fishermen from the Philippines to travel further for smaller catches.\n\nIt later allowed the Philippines to fish nearby when relations improved under former President Rodrigo Duterte.\n\nHowever, tensions have heightened since Ferdinand Marcos Jr became president last year.\n\nPresident Marcos Jr restored security ties with the US and in early 2023 granted American troops wider access to Philippine military bases.\n\nThis angered China as a larger US presence in the Philippines provides Washington with an arc of alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan to the north to Australia in the south.", "This mother and daughter are among thousands of ethnic Armenians caught up in the surrender of Karabakh forces to Azerbaijan\n\nIt took just 24 hours for Azerbaijan's military to force the surrender of an enclave that is home to 120,000 ethnic Armenians.\n\nWhat happens next to the men, women and children in this corner of the South Caucasus is a source of increasing anxiety.\n\nFor all of Azerbaijan's promises, Armenians there fear for their future and whether they will be forced to leave - or worse.\n\nSiranush Sargsyan has just visited several shelters in the regional capital when she fires off a series of voice messages and declares there is \"literally nothing to eat\".\n\n\"I don't know anyone who wants to stay here. I have very close elderly relatives who lost their sons in previous wars and they prefer to die here,\" she said.\n\n\"But for most people, for my generation, it's already their fourth war.\"\n\nOil-rich Azerbaijan is doing its best to reassure the civilian population, promising food, fuel and \"re-integration\".\n\nThey may not be forced to leave, but there is little desire to stay.\n\nCivilians wait in uncertainty for Azerbaijan's takeover of Karabakh's main city\n\nMany civilians fled outlying villages this week as the Azerbaijani army pushed towards her city, which ethnic Armenians call Stepanakert but Azerbaijan knows as Khankendi. \"They know nothing about their relatives. It's a real horror,\" she said.\n\nKarabakh officials have told the BBC that many families have been separated by Azerbaijani army positions and do not know if their relatives are still alive.\n\nTens of thousands of people have lost their lives in wars here since the fall of the Soviet Union - the first in the early 1990s, when Armenia occupied the region.\n\nAt least 200 more ethnic Armenians died this week as the military swept further into an enclave that is viewed internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has begun burying its dead soldiers, thought to number more than 100.\n\nAzerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, says Karabakh Armenians can now \"finally breathe a sigh of relief\". But that seems a long way off for now.\n\nThere is very little trust in Karabakh towards a government in Baku run tightly for 30 years by one family, especially when the president calls the region's leaders \"bloodsucking leeches\".\n\nThe images for now are of ethnic Armenians searching for relatives, sheltering in basements and using makeshift stoves to cook what little food they can find.\n\nAt the end of last year, Azerbaijan imposed an effective blockade on the only route into Armenia.\n\nUntil this week's offensive, Sargsyan, a journalist, devoted her time to documenting the months of shortages of food, medicines and toiletries.\n\nThat route out, known as the Lachin Corridor, will become key in the coming days or weeks if Karabakh's ethnic Armenians decide to leave in big numbers.\n\nWhat was for decades a separatist enclave with its own TV stations, university and language will now be subsumed into the state surrounding it.\n\nAzerbaijan argues that only 50,000 people are affected, but Ms Sargsyan says there are more than that in her city alone and puts the true number at 110,000.\n\nSome 5,000 have sought refuge at a Russian peacekeepers' base at the local airport.\n\nCaucasus specialist Thomas de Waal of Carnegie Europe has become increasingly worried about their fate and believes there is a real and credible threat of ethnic cleansing, whether it happens more or less peacefully or with bloodshed.\n\n\"The big question is about men who are under arms or who have fought against Azerbaijan - which is probably the majority of the Karabakh population.\"\n\nSeveral thousand refugees have sought protection from the Russian peacekeepers\n\nArmenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has already made plans to accommodate 40,000 families. He has accused his neighbour of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, although his assessment for now is that the civilian population is not facing \"direct danger\".\n\nAzerbaijani officials are considering some kind of amnesty, with a promise not to prosecute fighters who lay down their weapons.\n\nBut presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev told the BBC's Azerbaijani service \"this will not cover those who committed crimes in the First Karabakh war\".\n\nAzerbaijan has lists of men it regards as responsible for war crimes in 2020 and earlier.\n\nA 68-year-old man heading to Armenia for surgery was arrested in July during a Red Cross evacuation, on suspicion of war crimes in 1992. His family says they are untrue.\n\nImages shared on social media on Friday showed Karabakhis removing portraits from an outdoor display of those who had died in the 2020 war.\n\nMr de Waal believes two key deterrents can prevent an exodus of ethnic Armenians from turning deadly.\n\nOne is the possible involvement of two international groups - the Red Cross and the contingent of 2,000 Russian peacekeepers, who were deployed in Karabakh after the 2020 war.\n\nSiranush Sargsyan has little faith in the peacekeepers: \"I know the Russians will do nothing. They will pretend they're saving the lives of children but they will do nothing to protect us.\"\n\nThen there is the fact that Azerbaijan cares deeply about its image in the West.\n\nAzerbaijan said a convoy carrying food and hygiene products was sent into Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday\n\nAzerbaijan is adamant there are no such plans to force the local population to leave, highlighting the focus it placed in initial talks with local leaders on Thursday on \"re-integration\" of ethnic Armenians in society.\n\n\"We have never wanted ethnic cleansing,\" says Zaur Ahmadov, Azerbaijan's ambassador to Sweden, who remembers his compatriots being expelled from their homes in the late 1980s and early 1990s.\n\nHundreds of thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis were thrown out of Armenia and there were massacres on both sides.\n\nThe ambassador believes incorporating Karabakh's people into the wider population is perfectly possible, and that their cultural, educational and religious rights can all be ensured.\n\nHe says 30,000 Armenians are already living in his country outside Karabakh, in mixed marriages.\n\n\"Full normalisation will require some time,\" he told the BBC. \"But trucks full of food have already been transported to Khankendi; there will be fuel supplies and restoration of infrastructure such as kindergartens in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is an optimistic view when Azerbaijani forces are positioned on the outskirts of the regional capital and the disarmament of the Karabakh army is not yet done.\n\nAs soon as it is, the Azerbaijanis will move in.\n\nIt is at that point the local population will be entirely dependent on Azerbaijani promises, says Richard Giragosian, the head of the Regional Studies Center think tank in Armenia.\n\n\"The immediate problem for Karabakh Armenians is the lack of security guarantees, not just from Azerbaijan, but from Russia's peacekeepers,\" he says.\n\nUltimately he believes that Karabakh's male population will be allowed to leave because there is too much international attention.\n\nBut he too is highly sceptical that anyone will be persuaded to join Azerbaijani society.\n\n\"They pretend they want to integrate us,\" says Siranush Sargsyan. \"But they want to erase us from this place.\"", "Spain's Carlota Ciganda sensationally holed the putt that saw Europe retain the Solheim Cup as they tied 14-14 with the United States in her homeland.\n\nShe knocked in a two-footer on the 17th to beat Nelly Korda 2&1 in a nerve-shredding finale at Finca Cortesin.\n\nCiganda won all four matches she played in and was immediately hugged by her emotional captain Suzann Pettersen.\n\n\"I think it was meant to be. It came down to Carlota, in Spain, in her own hands,\" said Pettersen.\n\n\"I walked with her down 16 and said, 'Is this how you wanted it? Because it's all in your hands in now.' And she was like, 'I'm up for it'.\"\n\nCiganda added: \"I'm so happy just to do this for Suzann, for Spain. I'm just so proud. I'm so happy to do this for everyone here of the family, the Spanish crowd, this is just amazing.\n\n\"When I saw Suzann on 16, she told me a couple of things, and I was like, 'I'm just going to do this for her, because I love her and she deserves this'.\"\n\nUS skipper Stacy Lewis said it was \"a cool finish\" and \"what a moment for Carlota and women's golf\".\n\nShe added: \"My team played their hearts out. I'm so proud of the way they fought.\n\n\"I told them we didn't lose. It was a tie and there was so much to build off this week.\"\n\nThe teams were locked together at 8-8 heading into Sunday's 12 singles matches with defending champions Europe needing to get to 14 to keep the cup.\n\nThe US required 14½ points to regain the trophy they last won in 2017 and for large parts of Sunday looked like they were going to achieve their aim.\n\nBut a quite thrilling final hour saw Europe fight back, as they have been doing since losing the opening session 4-0 on Friday, to secure the first tied Solheim Cup in its 18th edition.\n\nCaroline Hedwall produced the most stunning turnaround, winning five of the last six holes to claim her match against Ally Ewing from three down after 12. The Swede, one of Pettersen's wildcard picks, repaid her captain in full, holing big putts on 16 and 17, feeding off the energy of the fans, as she secured a point in a match that looked lost.\n\n\"I would like to give extra credit to Caroline Hedwall,\" said Pettersen. \"I feel like she had the crucial point and teed it nicely up for Carlota to bring it home.\"\n\nThat point dragged Europe to 13-12 behind but moments later, both Ciganda and Maja Stark missed putts that shifted the momentum back to the Americans.\n\nCiganda's looked the most costly. She had led by three holes after eight, but world number three Korda picked away at that lead and was all square after 15. Stark, meanwhile, was left one up with two to play against US Open champion Allisen Corpuz.\n\nKorda further ratcheted up the pressure, hitting her second into the par-four 16th to six feet. But Ciganda responded, firing her ball in to two feet. Korda then nervously stabbed her birdie putt wide, while the Spaniard tapped in hers to grasp back the momentum.\n\nMeanwhile, Corpuz generously conceded a two-foot putt on the 17th that gave Stark a 13th European point and set the scene for Ciganda.\n\nAnd the Spaniard delivered. She almost holed her tee shot to the delight of the thousands that had surrounded the par-three 17th. A stunned Korda leaked her effort left and could only chip five feet beyond the hole. The American holed her putt, leaving Ciganda with a putt to win that crucial 14th point.\n\nShe was swamped by her team-mates, the green being trampled by dozens of feet, perhaps forgetting that Emily Pedersen and Lexi Thompson were waiting to play, with their match still in the balance.\n\nThompson, who came into the week under huge scrutiny given her poor form over the year, eventually won 2&1 to end with three points from four matches and the second-best record of the US side behind Megan Khang who won half a point more.\n\nKhang led a fast US start as they won the first hole in each of the top three matches.\n\nBut veteran Swede Anna Nordqvist and Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh responded by both going three up after six holes in their matches to put some blue on the scoreboard.\n\nThe foundations were being laid though by Leona Maguire, who came through a titanic tussle on the front nine with 20-year-old Rose Zhang before accelerating clear. Zhang won three of the first seven holes, but Maguire won the other four to go one clear.\n\nShe then claimed four holes either side of a Zhang triumph as she wrapped up a 4&3 victory that put Europe 9-8 ahead - the first time they had led in the match.\n\n\"Suzann gave me a job to do. We knew it was going to be a tough day but important to get blue on the board early,\" said the Irishwoman.\n\nThe US responded quickly with Khang edging out Linn Grant, who had birdied the 16th but missed hole-winning putts on the final two.\n\nAnd Danielle Kang saw off Charley Hull 4&2, taking control of their match by winning three holes out of four from the sixth to go three up.\n\nNordqvist held on to win her first point, a 2&1 triumph over Jennifer Kupcho, but the leaderboard was looking good for the US at that time.\n\nWorld number two Lilia Vu was another big winner, seeing off Swede Madelene Sagstrom 4&3 to secure her first point, while Angel Yin defeated France's Celine Boutier - the only player to not contribute even a half point - 2&1 in an epic match that ebbed and flowed.\n\nBut both sides ultimately ended half a point short of emerging with the win.\n\nEurope perhaps came closest with Georgia Hall letting slip a two-hole lead with four to play. Some errant putting, including missing twice from six feet on the par-three 17th, allowed Andrea Lee to claim a half point.\n\nAnd Dryburgh's three-hole lead had evaporated by the 16th as Cheyenne Knight battled back to finish all square.\n\nEurope Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald, whose men take on the US in Rome next week, wrote on social media: \"A couple of daggers from Carlota to turn her match around on 16 & 17. What a performance from the European Solheim Cup team and Suzanne Pettersen to retain the Cup. Well done ladies.\"\n• None Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney reveal their most memorable incidents", "Red Bull's Max Verstappen dominated the Japanese Grand Prix to take his 13th victory of the year and help his team clinch the constructors' title.\n\nThe Dutchman fended off the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris at the first two corners and then motored away into a race of his own.\n\nNorris passed Piastri after he had to back off for Verstappen's defence and went on to secure second place.\n\nPiastri followed him home in third for his first podium in his debut season.\n\nThe McLaren drivers had to pass Mercedes' George Russell after the final pit stops as the Briton tried a rare one-stop strategy after an early hectic and feisty battle with team-mate Lewis Hamilton.\n\nRussell's gamble failed to pay off - after the McLarens passed him, both into Turn One, he was then passed by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for fourth with a lovely move around the outside of Turns One and Two.\n\nIn the closing laps, Russell also lost out to Hamilton and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and dropped down to seventh, with Hamilton fifth and Sainz sixth.\n\nIt was all window-dressing compared to the imperious Verstappen, though, who was once again in a league of his own, his driving justifying the quality of one of the greatest racing cars ever built as Red Bull clinched a second constructors' championship in a row and a sixth in all.\n\nVerstappen is now likely to win the drivers' title at the next race in Qatar, quite possibly in Saturday's sprint race.\n\nAs long as Perez does not score six more points than Verstappen in the sprint at Losail, the Dutchman will be champion for a third time.\n• None Ricciardo and Tsunoda remain at Alpha Tauri in 2024\n\nRussell and Hamilton left each other only the finest of margins as they battled through the early stages of the race.\n\nInitially, Russell passed Hamilton at the chicane at the end of the first lap after the race resumed following an early safety car called for on-track debris caused by a first-lap collision at the back of the field.\n\nBut the seven-time champion refused to accept the move, and passed Russell straight back into Turn One on the next lap, his car body-language almost elbowing Russell aside, jinking towards him as they went down the straight, and betraying Hamilton's impatience.\n\nRussell later tried to pass Hamilton around the outside into Spoon Curve after the leading Mercedes made an error and ran wide at the tricky Degner Two corner.\n\nBut Hamilton refused to cede, forcing Russell wide over the kerb as both ran into the run-off area.\n\nThe move triggered a reaction from Russell, asking the team over the radio whether they were racing each other or the other teams.\n\nAnd it led to Russell trying the one-stop strategy in the hope it might pay off.\n\nIn the end, it did not work out. After the McLarens passed him, first Leclerc went through before more tension emerged at Mercedes.\n\nAs Hamilton bore down on his team-mate with Sainz right behind him, Russell asked whether they could work together to use the DRS overtaking aid to defend against Sainz, in the same way as the Spaniard had used Norris behind him in Singapore last weekend to defend against the Mercedes.\n\n\"Does he want to play the team game? After earlier, it's the least he could do,\" Russell said.\n\nHe was told that letting Hamilton by was \"an instruction\" but Russell then asked if Hamilton could give him the DRS to help fend off Sainz.\n\nHamilton had already made a gap, but backed off to help Russell, to no avail as Sainz passed him down the pit straight with two laps to go.\n\nHamilton then complained as Sainz chased him that they had \"wasted all this time for no reason\" but he was able to fend off the Ferrari to the flag.\n\nBehind them, Fernando Alonso rescued his race with a fine drive after complaining his team had \"fed me to the lions\" with a too-early stop off the soft tyres he had chosen for the start, while all ahead went for mediums.\n\nAlonso found himself stuck in a fight with Alpine's Esteban Ocon, which he never enjoys given the Frenchman's always-aggressive defence against his former team-mate after the friction that developed between them at Alpine in 2021 and 2022.\n\nAlonso asked Aston Martin to \"think of something\" and an early second stop for hard tyres worked out, as he comfortably eked out his tyres to beat the two Alpines to the flag.\n\nPierre Gasly was ahead of Ocon in the closing stages but let him by on the team's order so Ocon took ninth at the flag and Gasly the final point.\n\nThe decision was made because Ocon had earlier let Gasly by to chase Alonso, but he failed to catch him. Nevertheless, Gasly was furious afterwards, marking the first flashpoint between two drivers who fell out years ago but who insisted they could work together this year.\n\nIn contrast to Verstappen's sublime clean sweep of a weekend, on which he also netted fastest lap, team-mate Sergio Perez had a poor race.\n\nHe suffered front-wing damage on the first lap, forcing Hamilton wide at the first corner, and his afternoon soon spiralled out of control.\n\nComing into the pits under the safety car, he passed Alonso, earning himself a penalty for overtaking under caution. Passing three cars as he exited the pits before letting them by again was not an influence on this.\n\nThen, trying to make up ground from his first mishap, he made a clumsy overtaking attempt on Kevin Magnussen's Haas at the hairpin and clattered into the Dane, breaking his front wing again.\n\nRed Bull tried to get him back into the race but the car was irretrievably damaged.\n\nHe pulled into the pits to retire, but in almost comedic scenes, after sitting around for many laps, he had to rejoin to serve a penalty for colliding with Magnussen, before finally retiring for good.", "The UK has some of the least energy efficient homes in Europe\n\nA taskforce to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades has been disbanded, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe group - which included the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt and other leading experts - was only launched in March.\n\nBut it appears to be a casualty of Rishi Sunak's decision to scrap energy efficiency regulations for landlords in an overhaul of green policies.\n\nMembers were informed in a letter, seen by the BBC, that it was being wound up.\n\nEnergy efficiency minister Lord Callanan told the group its work would be \"streamlined\" into ongoing government activity\n\nA spokesperson for the Energy Security and Net Zero department said: \"We would like to thank the Energy Efficiency Taskforce for its work in supporting our ambition to reduce total UK energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030.\n\n\"We have invested £6.6bn in energy efficiency upgrades this Parliament and will continue to support families in making their homes more efficient, helping them to cut bills while also achieving net zero in a pragmatic, proportionate and realistic way.\"\n\nBut former Conservative MP Laura Sandys, who sat on the taskforce, said she was \"disappointed\" by the decision to disband it and \"confused\" about the government's intentions on the cost of living.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she said energy efficiency must be the \"first priority to reduce citizens' costs\" and \"improve energy security\".\n\nA source close to the energy taskforce told the BBC: \"The cheapest energy you can have is the stuff you don't use.\n\n\"This taskforce was meant to help that - if government is shelving it because recommendations are too challenging for them, then it runs contrary to what the PM said about helping ordinary people and being honest about difficult choices.\"\n\nLabour's shadow net zero secretary Ed Miliband said: \"Every family is paying the price in higher energy bills due to 13 years of Tory failure on insulating homes.\n\n\"After Rishi Sunak's track record as chancellor with the disastrous Green Homes Grant, this is another short-sighted decision that will cost families money.\"\n\nLabour says it would upgrade 19 million of the UK's most poorly-insulated homes over a decade if it gets into power.\n\nThe Green Homes Grant was a voucher scheme for insulating homes which was axed in 2021 after being criticised as wasteful and inefficient.\n\nThe UK is often described as having some of the oldest and least energy efficient housing in Europe.\n\nIn 2020, BBC research found 12 million UK homes were rated D or below on their Energy Performance Certificates, which means they do not meet long-term energy efficiency targets.\n\nThis year a BBC investigation found six out of 10 recently inspected UK rental homes failed to meet a proposed new standard for energy efficiency.\n\nThe prime minister has now pledged to scrap policies that would force landlords to upgrade energy efficiency in their homes, after pressure from landlords about the costs of doing so, but said the government would \"encourage\" households to carry out the work.\n\nThe old policy was that from 2025, new tenancies would only be possible on properties with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of C or higher - from 2028, this would apply to existing tenancies as well. Both have been scrapped.\n\nThe government's energy efficiency taskforce was first announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at his last Autumn statement.\n\nIt was asked by ministers to come up with a plan to reduce energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030 across domestic and commercial buildings.\n\nThe taskforce was chaired by former NatWest chief executive Alison Rose\n\nWhen it was announced, the government said this would cut bills and help push down inflation and would include \"accelerating household insulation and boiler upgrades.\"\n\nIt was chaired by Alison Rose, who was chief executive of Nat West bank at the time (she was forced out of the bank in July after a row over Nigel Farage's bank account).\n\nThe taskforce's membership included Sir John Armitt; head of leading housebuilder Barratt Developments, David Thomas; and leading experts from the University of Salford, the UK Green Building Council and National Energy Action.\n\nLord Callanan wrote to members of the group on Friday saying co-chair Dame Alison Rose would not be replaced and the group would be dissolved.\n\nHe told them the work their work to date had not been \"wasted\" and that \"draft recommendations will be instrumental in driving forward this important agenda.\"\n\nEnergy analyst Jess Ralston at non-profit group the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit told the BBC: \"This appears to be yet another U-turn that could lead to higher bills just like the prime minister's decision last week to roll back landlord insulation standards that could leave renters paying an additional £8bn on energy bills.\"\n\nShe added: \"gas boiler and petrol car phase-out weren't set to have any impact on cost of living for struggling families for more than a decade\".", "The wedding was held at the Galgorm hotel near Ballymena\n\nAn off-duty police officer has been charged over an incident at a wedding at a hotel in County Antrim.\n\nIt happened at the Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort, near Ballymena, on Thursday.\n\nThe officer, a man aged 30, was charged with drink-driving, disorderly behaviour and four counts of common assault.\n\nHe is expected to appear before Ballymena Magistrates' Court on 19 October.\n\nAn off-duty officer was arrested outside the venue over what police described as an unrelated matter and later released without charge.\n\nIt is understood a misconduct investigation is ongoing by the PSNI's professional standards department.\n\nCorrection 24 September 2023: In an earlier version of this story we stated that another off-duty police officer had been arrested and charged with drink-driving. That was not the case. She was released unconditionally without charge.", "Students joined staff on the picket line at the University of Manchester on Monday, the first of a five-day strike\n\nThousands of students face disruption as staff at more than 40 universities join picket lines across the UK.\n\nIt is part of a long-running dispute by members of the University and College Union (UCU) over pay and conditions.\n\nThe action will be smaller than planned as dozens of branches called off action following constructive talks with their universities.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) says this year's pay deal is the highest offer in 20 years.\n\nBut the union is calling for an above-inflation pay rise and an end to insecure contracts.\n\nUCU members at 36 universities are striking for five days, while staff will strike for one day at a further 11 institutions.\n\nThe union says more than 20,000 staff will be taking part in the strikes which will coincide with Freshers' Week for many first-year students. It says the action is now targeted \"at the very worst employers\".\n\nIt follows strikes at five universities in Scotland last week.\n\nThe strikes this week were originally due to take place at more than 140 universities, according to the UCU.\n\nHowever, many UCU branches withdrew after staff voted to do so following talks with their individual universities.\n\nThe marking boycott, which began in April and meant some students graduated without their final mark, has now ended.\n\nThe UCEA has urged staff who were involved to \"prioritise marking for those remaining students who have still not received the necessary results to graduate in 2023-24\".\n\nIt said most universities hope to have all students' work graded by early October at the latest.\n\nFirst-year student Julian joined the picket line in support of the strike, on Monday, at the University of Manchester\n\nUniversity of Manchester first year Julian, 19, decided to join the picket line rather than attend lectures.\n\nStaff are striking to improve teaching - not just over their working conditions, the computer-science student says.\n\n\"If they are treated fairly, my quality of teaching will improve,\" he adds.\n\nFellow first year Sarah first became aware of the strikes only when she saw the picket line on Monday morning.\n\nAs an international student, her fees are higher - and if her lectures are affected, it would be \"really annoying\", she says.\n\nBut she is not too worried as the strike is just to raise awareness and will not affect her schedule \"too much\", the biomedical-science student adds.\n\nInternational student Sarah, 18, hopes her lectures will be unaffected\n\nBee Hughes, 34, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and UCU branch chair, is on the picket lines asking for better pay and an end to casual contracts, which they were on for eight years.\n\n\"Between contracts you might not have access to the library so you don't even have access to academic texts that you need to do the work and you can't plan,\" they said.\n\n\"Usually you don't even know if you're going to have a contract until the last minute. You can't plan your future.\"\n\nSenior lecturer Bee Hughes was on casual contracts for eight years before finally receiving a permanent position\n\nDr Hughes is now able to save for the first time since gaining a permanent position.\n\n\"Starting a family hasn't even been a consideration. There has been lots of points over the eight years where I was on the brink of giving up,\" they said.\n\n\"We've basically been asked to do more and more for less and less money and it's really unsustainable.\"\n\nThe UCEA, which acts for the employers in the dispute, says its improved pay deal for 2023-24, worth between 5% and 8%, was the highest offer of its kind in nearly 20 years.\n\nUCEA chief executive Raj Jethwa said universities were under \"very difficult financial circumstances so this was at the very edge of what the sector could afford\".\n\nHe said they wanted to work with the unions to make sure the other issues that were vital to employers and staff were dealt with.\n\nMr Jethwa said it was \"positive news\" that some strikes had been called off but any student still affected was \"one too many\".\n\nHe said he hoped an independent review of the sector's finances by both employers and the unions can help to reduce any further industrial action.\n\nHowever, UCU says this year's pay offer was a pay cut in real terms.\n\nSince February 2018, there has been industrial action over two disputes - pensions as well as pay and working conditions.\n\nBut the UCU is confident the pension dispute will be resolved, with benefits restored.\n\nIt has now begun reballoting members to renew its mandate to strike over pay and working conditions, which is due to expire at the beginning of October. If accepted, strike action could continue into 2024.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said \"renewing our mandate and keeping the pressure on is the way we will win this dispute\".\n\nShe said the strike action was \"a reminder to all employers that if you behave egregiously, you will face further disruption\".\n\nSome contributors asked that their surnames be withheld.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles says \"there is no room for racism in any sport\" after a video went viral on social media of a black girl not being given a medal at an Irish gymnastics event ceremony.\n\nThe incident occurred at a Gymstart event in Dublin in March 2022 when a line of children were awarded medals but the black girl did not receive one.\n\nHowever a video of the incident has emerged in recent days and been watched millions of times on social media, drawing criticism.\n\nBiles saw a video of the incident and posted, external it \"broke my heart\".\n\nOn Friday, in response to the video, Gymnastics Ireland issued a statement saying they received a complaint alleging racist behaviour in March 2022 from the parents of the girl.\n\nIt said there was independent mediation leading to a \"resolution agreed by both parties in August 2023\".\n\nAs part of Gymnastics Ireland's investigation into the incident, the official involved \"expressed deep regret for what they described as an honest error\".\n\nGymnastics Ireland said a written apology from the official was issued. It also said the girl did get her medal after the ceremony.\n\nHowever, the Irish Independent on Sunday, quoting the girl's mother anonymously, said she believes Gymnastics Ireland has failed to publicly apologise and she has taken the matter to the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation in Switzerland.\n\nThe Irish Independent also reported that the mother is concerned the family will be a target for racist abuse and wants the video removed by social media companies.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the family believed their daughter was ignored at the ceremony because she was black.\n\n\"We are often the only black family at gymnastics events and this has been very hurtful for us,\" the mother told the newspaper. \"Now eight million people have seen the video. From Pakistan to Ethiopia they can see this was wrong but Gymnastics Ireland still can't accept it and say sorry.\"\n\nBiles said she originally sent a video message to the girl, offering her support, last year.", "The sitters come through various channels - sometimes Grahame asks people in shops\n\nHe resolved to paint an individual portrait of every resident of the city he lives in.\n\nFortunately for him that city is St Davids in Pembrokeshire, the smallest in the UK, with about 1,800 residents.\n\nBut it is still an enormous task.\n\nA decade on from his decision, Grahame is 1,000 portraits in, and the aptly titled City of Portraits project, rather than getting smaller, is increasing as the scope of his ambition broadens.\n\nHe had already assembled about 100 portraits of people he knew a decade ago, when a personal tragedy intervened to give life to the epic journey he is undertaking.\n\nThe portrait of Debbie, completed after her death, was part of Grahame's motivation to start City of Portraits\n\nA good friend and fellow artist who had cancer asked him to paint her, not knowing that the portrait would end up being completed after her death.\n\nGrahame explained: \"I met this lovely girl called Debbie more than 10 years ago.\n\n\"When she realised she had cancer, she said 'oh you have to do a portrait'.\n\n\"She didn't think that was the end. So I did a whole series of drawings and things and the portrait unfortunately became a posthumous one.\n\nGrahame has displayed the portraits as large composite pictures\n\n\"One of her legacies for me was actually to carry on with the portraits as something to really focus on.\n\n\"The whole story starts off with [her]. Although I'd been doing some portraits before, the actual project, the City of Portraits, came into fruition around about the time she died.\"\n\nAt the time Grahame thought the work would take him about five to 10 years.\n\nBut now he says the project, an homage to his adopted home town, will keep going.\n\nThe city takes its name from St Davids Cathedral, where Grahame hopes to project the artworks onto its walls\n\nOriginally from Gosport in Hampshire and partly raised in Northern Ireland he moved to the diminutive city after finishing studying art at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal Academy in London.\n\nHe was \"a little bit lost\" at this point and although he had only been to St Davids once, he thought he would come down for one summer in the 1980s.\n\n\"So I did, and I sort of settled down here. I bought a house and that was the start of my venture in St Davids basically,\" he explained.\n\nGrahame Hurd-Wood began the City of Portraits project in earnest 10 years ago\n\nWhat makes it more remarkable is City of Portraits is a labour of love which is a side project to Grahame's main work.\n\nHe said: \"I'm concentrating on other projects as well, which is based on painting landscapes around here, seascapes, and they are quite big so everything's quite time consuming.\n\n\"When I'm doing the little portraits, it's about the essence of the character.\n\n\"It's about the ephemeral contact with somebody, and each portrait has a little story, whether it be somebody talking about their life, or talking about something which is amusing, but it's a particular account of each character.\n\nHis subjects arrive in different ways. Some is through word of mouth, sometimes are as simple as approaching people at the shops and asking if they would like to sit for a portrait.\n\n\"Invariably people say yes. I've only had one or two who've said no,\" he explained.\n\n\"It accumulates that way.\"\n\nHaving started with just a focus on St Davids, Grahame is now expanding his horizons.\n\n\"The whole project is evolving. I've actually brought in the peninsula around St Davids. It's very much part of the community.\n\nGrahame was asked to paint the under-11s rugby team for the project, with some of their portraits displayed on this board\n\n\"So I'm doing people who are involved in St Davids, who I know, people who say 'well I live in Trefin, I live in Porthgain, do I count?'\"\n\nNow that he has assembled about 1,000 portraits - \"enough to show people I am dedicated\" - he is in discussions with St Davids Cathedral about hosting a dual exhibition of the work there within in the next year.\n\n\"I've been talking to the cathedral having an idea about projecting them on to the tower of the cathedral,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been a lot of very positive response about that as well. I'll probably co-ordinate it with having a show of the portraits either in the cathedral - there's a place where they have exhibitions - or maybe having them in the city council which has a very big exhibition space.\"\n\nHis oldest subject, now 100, was in her 90s when painted, and although Grahame has mostly focused on adults, he also painted the city's under-11s rugby team as part of the project.\n\nPortrait of Klaus, who spoke movingly about his experience of fleeing the Nazis during his sitting\n\nNot everyone talks about themselves while being painted, but one sitter, Klaus, has stayed with him across the years.\n\n\"There was this character who had been a refugee in the war, and he talked about his past, and talked about how he had to leave Germany. It was a very moving story, and it empowered me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think this particular portrait took me eight hours and he talked gently through the whole eight hours.\n\n\"He was probably 83 at the time, and to listen to stories like that it made me think of what other people have been through in the past. It made me feel humble. When I left I was very emotional.\"\n\nAlthough Grahame had already lived in St Davids for a long time, undertaking the project has brought him closer to his adopted home.\n\n\"Each portrait has made me feel part of the community,\" he said.\n\n\"One thing this elderly lady said to me when she came to sit for me. She said, we're really proud of you bach (dear), and that really meant a lot to me.\"\n\nThere is one face still missing from the community, that of Grahame himself. He is hoping to get another artist to paint him as part of it.\n\nHe does not see any end to the project.\n\n\"I'm never going to retire. It's a passion that will hopefully never leave me.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trudeau: We are not looking to 'provoke' India\n\nThis week in New York, as he listened to questions from reporters, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reliable smile began to fade.\n\nUnsurprisingly, nearly all the questions were about India and the shocking allegation made by Mr Trudeau earlier in the week: there was credible evidence the Indian government had participated in the extrajudicial killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, a Sikh activist whom India has accused of terrorism.\n\nDelhi has denied having anything to do with the murder.\n\nSpeaking slowly, carefully, the prime minister stuck closely to his talking points. \"We're not looking to provoke or cause problems,\" he said. \"We're standing up for the rules-based order.\"\n\nBut where, several reporters asked, were Canada's allies? \"So far in time,\" one journalist said to Mr Trudeau, \"you seem to be alone\".\n\nIn the public eye at least, Mr Trudeau has appeared to be left largely on his own as he goes toe to toe with India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, with a population 35 times bigger than Canada's.\n\nIn the days since the prime minister made the explosive announcement, his allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance provided seemingly boilerplate public statements, all stopping far short of full-throated support.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said his country took \"very seriously the things that Canada are saying\". Using nearly identical language, Australia said it was \"deeply concerned\" by the accusations.\n\nBut perhaps the most deafening silence came from Canada's southern neighbour, the United States. The two countries are close allies, but the US did not speak up with outrage on Canada's behalf.\n\nWhen President Joe Biden publicly raised India this week, while speaking at the UN, it was not to condemn, but to praise the country for helping to establish a new economic pathway.\n\nMr Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan later denied that there was a \"wedge\" between the US and its neighbour, saying Canada was being closely consulted. But other public statements were tepid, more nods to \"deep concern\", coupled with affirmations of India's growing importance to the Western world.\n\nThe problem for Canada, experts told the BBC, is that its interests currently pale in comparison to India's massive strategic importance.\n\n\"The United States, the UK, and all these Western and Indo-Pacific allies have built a strategy that largely focuses on India, to be a bulwark and counterweight to China. That's something they can't afford to toss out the window,\" said Xavier Delgado, a researcher at the Wilson Center's Canada Institute.\n\n\"The fact that they haven't come out and rushed to Canada's defence is indicative of the geopolitical reality.\"\n\nSpeaking to Canadian network CTV, US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen confirmed reports that the Five Eyes partners had shared intelligence on the matter. But on a report that those same allies had rebuffed an appeal from Canada to publicly condemn the murder he said only that he was \"not in the habit of commenting on private diplomatic conversations\".\n\nStill, the relative quiet may also be indicative of Canada's shortcomings on the world stage - a dependable Western ally, but not a global power in its own right.\n\n\"This is a moment of weakness,\" said Christopher Sands, director of the Canada Institute.\n\n\"Right now we're seeing a hard power moment. That is not the environment where Canada shines,\" he said. \"The decisive stuff is all force, power and money, which Canada doesn't have.\"\n\nFew outside India took issue with Mr Trudeau's decision to publicly disclose the allegations which, if true, would amount to a political assassination on Canadian soil at the hands of a fellow democracy. But those ethics may not be enough to shift global headwinds.\n\nTrudeau speaks at a press conference during the UN General Assembly\n\nFor Mr Trudeau, that cold geopolitical reality meant an apparently solitary few days while the tensions with India dialled up higher and higher - diplomatic expulsions, travel advisories and, most dramatically, a suspension of all visa services for Canadians seeking to travel to India.\n\nTo add insult to injury, this long week comes at the end of an even longer summer for Canada's Liberal leader.\n\nAs Canadians struggled with inflation and high interest rates, news broke of alleged Chinese interference in Canadian elections, which critics said Mr Trudeau and his cabinet were aware of, but failed to take seriously.\n\nThen it came out that the country's most notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison, inspiring country-wide outrage. Once again, Mr Trudeau's team faced criticism that it had been caught flat-footed.\n\nBy September, Mr Trudeau's approval ratings had dropped to a three-year low, with 63% of Canadians disapproving of their prime minister, who was elected in 2015.\n\n\"He's not been lower than that over an eight-year period,\" said Shachi Kurl, president of Angus Reid Institute, a non-partisan research group. \"There were questions being put to him very squarely, like 'are you going to stick around? Will you resign?'\"\n\nIt's another cold reality for Mr Trudeau, who started in the prime minister's office as a minor national star, with a sweeping majority mandate.\n\n\"He's a celebrity like we've never seen in Canadian politics,\" said Campbell Clark, chief political writer for the Globe and Mail newspaper. \"And after he won the election, his popularity soared.\"\n\nBut after eight years of a highly visible prime minister, Canadians may have had their fill, Mr Clark said, noting it feels like Mr Trudeau's star power has faded, especially in recent months.\n\nPrime Minister Trudeau finished his long week with a friendly visit from President Zelensky\n\nStill, some experts cautioned that while Mr Trudeau may seem to be standing alone on the international stage, this row with India may provide a much-needed bump at home.\n\n\"It got him away from all of these domestic questions,\" Mr Clark said.\n\nAnd it can't have hurt that Mr Trudeau finished his week standing side by side with another ally - and an even bigger celebrity - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. For a day, at least, Mr Trudeau seemed to be in very good company.", "A timelapse video shows a stunning shelf cloud moving across the sky in southern Brazil.\n\nThe dramatic footage was filmed in Caxias do Sul.", "Francis Johnson, 74, from Dorset, was last seen at a campsite in Skye\n\nA body has been found in the search for hillwalker Francis Johnson, who went missing on the Isle of Skye.\n\nThe experienced hillwalker, 74, from Dorset, travelled to the island on 4 September and was last seen at a camping site in Glenbrittle two days later.\n\nFormal identification has yet to take place but police said Mr Johnson's family have been informed.\n\nThe body was found by a member of a local mountain rescue team.\n\nSkye Mountain Rescue said a search had taken place on Friday in challenging weather conditions and a larger team resumed efforts on Saturday morning.\n\nIt said: \"Approximately an hour into our search, a vigilant team member made an observation of unusual objects while scanning the South flank of Sgurr nan Gobhar through binoculars.\n\n\"This particular area comprises broken crags and scree slopes, making the observation unexpected given the distance.\"\n\nThe search was a multi-agency effort with help from Stornoway Coastguard and the Search and Rescue Dog Association Scotland.", "Ukraine says Friday's missile strike on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Crimea was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials.\n\nIn a short statement, the Ukrainian military claimed the strike had caused deaths and injuries but did not provide more details.\n\nOn Friday Moscow said one serviceman was missing after the attack.\n\nThe fleet, based in the port city of Sevastopol, is seen as the best of Russia's navy.\n\nA Ukrainian military source told the BBC that Friday's attack was carried out using Storm Shadow missiles, which are supplied by Britain and France.\n\nThe Ukrainian military statement on Saturday asserted that it had left \"dozens of dead and wounded occupiers, including the top management of the fleet\".\n\nKyiv's intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, claimed that two Russian commanders were badly injured in the missile strike.\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify many of the battlefield claims made by either side.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Western powers were \"de facto fighting against us, using the hands and bodies of Ukrainians\".\n\nHe was speaking to journalists after delivering a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, where he denounced the West as \"a real empire of lies\" unable to negotiate with the rest of the world.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering international condemnation. Moscow had illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.\n\nThe Sevastopol area came under renewed attack on Saturday. The city's Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said debris from a missile shot down by air defences had fallen near a pier.\n\nHe also told residents he was ordering an inspection of bomb shelters following some complaints they were hard to access or in poor condition.\n\n\"We earnestly ask everyone: stop sowing panic and pleasing our enemies with this - panic is their main goal,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKyiv's forces have recently been launching near-daily strikes against Russian forces based in Crimea.\n\nLast week, Ukraine's navy claimed to have knocked out an S-400 air defence missile battery covering the peninsula, degrading Russia's ability to defend against fresh attacks.\n\nA day earlier, a large Russian landing ship and submarine were damaged in an attack which Ukraine said also made use of Storm Shadow missiles.\n\nThe attacks on Crimea are strategically and symbolically important.\n\nAs well as being a platform from which to attack Ukraine, the Black Sea fleet is a major symbol of Russia's centuries-old military presence in the region.\n\nIt was based in Crimea under a leasing deal even before Russia's 2014 annexation of the peninsula.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says the UK must consider the \"balance\" of how it spends its money\n\nThe former transport secretary has said it would be \"crazy\" not to review plans for the HS2 rail link as costs have soared.\n\nGrant Shapps told the BBC that the Ukraine war and a spike in inflation mean any government would need to make \"serious decisions\" on affordability.\n\nThe BBC understands a definitive decision on HS2 could be made as soon as this week.\n\nThe government has so far refused to commit to the current plans.\n\nHS2 is intended to link London, the Midlands and the north of England - the first part, between west London and Birmingham, is in mid-construction.\n\nBut the scheme as a whole has already faced delays, cost increases and cuts - including to the planned eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds.\n\nThe last official estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, added up to about £71bn.\n\nThis was in 2019 prices so it does not account for the spike in costs for materials and wages, for example, in recent months.\n\nThe numbers were given to Parliament in June and include up to £26bn for the whole of Birmingham to Manchester. They also exclude what is left of the eastern leg, and a scrapped Golborne link in Cheshire.\n\nSpeaking to Victoria Derbyshire on the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Shapps said that no decision on the project's future had been taken as of yet.\n\n\"We do have to respond to the budgets,\" he said.\n\n\"We've not only been hit by the coronavirus, but the war in Ukraine... any responsible government has to ask whether that sequencing still stacks up for what the country requires.\"\n\nHe added that when previous commitments had been made, \"no-one knew we'd be in a war in Europe right now with all of the consequences, all of the costs, and all of the inflation.\"And any government that doesn't go back and then look at it is crazy.\"\n\nThe prime minister and the chancellor have been discussing the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the project against the backdrop of spiralling prices.\n\nThe first part of HS2, between west London and Birmingham, is in mid-construction\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said last week that costs were getting \"totally out of control\".\n\nThe June statement to Parliament included figures for how much had been spent on HS2 so far, although they were not completely up to date.\n\nIt said £22.5bn had been spent on the London to Birmingham leg, which is mid-construction, while £2.3bn had been spent on preparing other sections, on measures such as buying up land.\n\nWork has been going on for a while to try and identify cost savings as concerns have mounted.\n\nMany in Westminster believe that almost all of the planned line from Birmingham to Manchester is likely to be axed, potentially ahead of the Conservatives' party conference in the city on 1 October.\n\nFormer prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against \"mutilating\" the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.\n\nIt was under Mr Johnson's government that HS2 was given the green light to start construction in 2020.\n\nCabinet minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday it would be \"irresponsible\" to carry on pumping money in because of cost increases and delays.\n\nHe said there was a \"perfectly legitimate question\" about the \"sequencing\" of the high-speed rail line.\n\nMr Shapps also suggested that HS2 was not the \"be all and end all\" for rail connectivity and said the government had spent £22bn on transport in the north of England since 2010.\n\nHowever, he would not comment on whether or not separate plans for the Northern Powerhouse rail scheme between Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool would still go ahead if the northern section of HS2 is scrapped.\n\nLabour has so far refused to confirm it would fund the HS2 line to Manchester if the Conservatives axe it, despite pressure from local mayors such as Greater Manchester's Andy Burnham.\n\nOn Sunday, Darren Jones, new shadow chief secretary for the Treasury, said the Labour party would \"love to build the HS2\", but said little \"proper\" information had been made available by the government.\n\n\"We're only responding to leaks from the Tory party\", he said, adding that the party could not make infrastructure commitments worth tens of billions of pounds without seeing all the figures.\n\nMore than 80 companies and business leaders also sought clarity over the commitment to HS2 on Saturday.\n\nThe bosses of dozens of businesses and business groups - including Manchester Airports Group, British Land, Virgin Money, and the Northern Powerhouse - all signed a letter to the government urging renewed commitment to HS2, saying that repeated mixed signals are damaging the UK's reputation and the wider supply chain.\n\nIn the letter, they expressed \"deep concern\" over \"the constant uncertainty\" that \"plagues\" the project.\n\nHS2 is meant to create more capacity and speed up journey times.\n\nThe government has previously argued it would have economic benefits too, but critics think it is far too expensive and the money could be better used in other ways.\n\nIn March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said there would be a two-year delay on the Birmingham to Crewe leg. Work on Euston was also paused while an \"affordable\" design was worked on.\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said on Friday that \"our focus remains on delivering\" HS2.", "At 16, you can't legally buy alcohol, place a bet or vote in a general election - but you can consent to sex.\n\nIt has been this way since 1885 in the UK, when the age of consent was raised from 13. For gay and bisexual men, the age of consent was reduced from 18 to 16 in a law change in 2000, after a long campaign for equality.\n\nBut now, people are debating if consent laws should be changed again. This time, discussion has been triggered by allegations made against Russell Brand - in particular, those made by one alleged victim, \"Alice\", who says she had a relationship with Brand when he was in his 30s and she was 16.\n\nAlice told the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches that Brand sexually assaulted her, and that, looking back, she feels she was groomed by him during their relationship. Brand denies her allegations.\n\nDue to the fact she was over the age of sexual consent at the time, Alice says it would have been difficult for anyone to raise concerns about their relationship to the police.\n\nBut Alice believes we should start considering a change to the law in the form of \"staggered ages of consent\", so that people over 18 would not be allowed to have sex with 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\n\"There's a reasonable argument [that] individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 can have relations with people within that same age bracket,\" she told BBC Women's Hour. \"You're allowed to make mistakes as a teenager, they should be with other people your own age.\"\n\nThis view has been echoed by many people on social media, with some commentators floating ideas such as restricting those under 18 to sleeping with those under 21.\n\nBut would a change in the law protect 16 and 17-year-olds from harm? And could it criminalise healthy relationships that happen to have an age gap?\n\nWhile sex involving one or more people under 16 is illegal, police use discretion to decide whether a prosecution is in the public interest. They take into account factors such as the relationship between the people involved, whether the underage person consented to what happened and how close in age the people were.\n\nIf a person is under 13, they cannot be seen as consenting in law - even if they say they consented.\n\nIt is already illegal to take, share or possess indecent images of people under 18 - even if the person is a consenting 16- or 17-year-old.\n\nIt is also against the law for people in a position of trust, such as teachers, to engage in sexual activity with a child in their care, even if that child is over the age of consent.\n\nBut what if special protections were introduced more widely for sexual relationships involving those who are over the age of consent, but still children?\n\n\"My view would be that changing the law doesn't actually achieve a lot,\" says Roger Ingham, director of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton.\n\nHe says one of the arguments for having an age of consent is that it allows people who may feel pressured to have sex under 16 to say, \"it's against the law\".\n\n\"How often that's actually used, how often that stops people having sex that they don't want, we don't know.\"\n\nHe says surveys suggest that by the time they reach 18, the majority of people - about 60 to 70%, he says - have had sex (usually defined as intercourse).\n\nBut if the age of consent were to be raised to 18, for example, he says this would be \"bringing in an awful lot of people into the bracket of being criminalised, even if the practice of the police and the prosecution is not to prosecute under certain conditions\".\n\nHe says teenagers in consensual relationships below the age of consent - for example two 15-year-olds - are often nervous about going to family planning clinics to seek contraception in case they are reported - so one risky consequence of raising the age of consent could be more young people having unprotected sex.\n\nIn reality, sexual health clinics keep underage patients' details confidential, unless they are under 13 and thought to be at risk of harm, in which case other services may be alerted.\n\nBrand denies the allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse\n\nProf Ingham says more comprehensive sex and relationships education could help protect 16 and 17-year-olds, adding there should be \"much more attention paid to issues of consent, not just in sexual situations\".\n\nJayne Butler, chief executive of the charity Rape Crisis, agrees that better sex and relationship education and increased understanding are needed to shift societal attitudes around consent.\n\n\"We don't want to criminalise consensual relationships between 16-year-old peers, but there needs to be recognition of the significant power imbalance between older men and 16 year olds,\" she says.\n\n\"The cultural acceptance of relationships between young, potentially vulnerable people and someone much older needs to be addressed, and this doesn't start or end with just changing the law.\"\n\nProf Ingham says the issue of consent is challenged when someone with power or status, such as a celebrity, takes an interest in a young person.\n\nA \"star-struck\" young person may be willing to have sex at the time but may regret it later, he says.\n\n\"It's a really complicated psychological issue, I'm not sure how you can legislate for it, to be honest.\"\n\nDr Laura Janes, from the Law Society's criminal law committee, also points out that the law in this area is already quite complex.\n\n\"What many people find confusing is we have different ages of consent for different things,\" she says - highlighting that in the UK someone is considered criminally responsible at 10 but can't have sex until 16 or vote in a general election until 18.\n\n\"If you take these three dates of what the law thinks you can do in terms of your development, we have already got a law which is very incoherent and inconsistent,\" she says.\n\nA 16-year-old in the UK is allowed to have sex but not vote in a general election\n\nThe age of consent in England and Wales is broadly similar to other European countries - slightly higher than France's 15 and Germany's 14, but lower than Ireland's 17 and Malta's 18. However, the gap between the age of criminal responsibility and the age of consent in England and Wales is the biggest of all countries, she says.\n\n\"It's important to remember the law is a very blunt instrument and creates black and white lines,\" Dr Janes says.\n\nAnd, crucially, the law changes according to the moral values of society, she says - so you have to take into account the cultural reality. She highlights YouGov research from earlier this year that shows a fifth of people say they had sex before the age of consent.\n\nOn top of this, she says one of the problems with English law is there has been a \"proliferation in the number of laws we have\". And the question is what another law change would achieve, when there are other current laws - for example, against coercive control - which aim to protect young people from the kind of harmful relationships that can happen when one partner is older.\n\n\"There's been a huge number of new offences that have appeared on the statute book and there is a real risk of it becoming overcomplicated,\" she says.\n\nDr Janes says that before any law change is considered, the priority should be making sure young people understand what the current law is - and then ensuring they know they can use it with confidence. \"There needs to be a cultural understanding where people feel sufficiently confident to go to the police,\" she says.\n\nAnd if there are going to be any legal changes, particularly if they involve intimacy and relationships between young people, \"it has to be really clear and it has to be understandable to everyone, including potential victims and potential perpetrators\".\n• None Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go to police?", "Sir Ed Davey's party has been doing well at by-elections\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are \"losing votes to Labour\" because of their reluctance to talk about Brexit, polling guru Sir John Curtice has said.\n\nProf Curtice explained why the Lib Dems were struggling in the opinion polls to a room packed with party activists.\n\nHe said they had lost ground to Labour among voters who would like to rejoin the European Union.\n\nAhead of the Lib Dem conference, leader Sir Ed Davey said rejoining the EU was currently \"off the table\".\n\nBrexit was once the party's defining issue, but at its conference in Bournemouth, the Lib Dems are focusing on other areas, with a raft of \"family friendly\" policies such as more parental leave and flexible child care.\n\nThe party's pre-manifesto, which is due to be approved and voted on at the conference, describes EU membership as a \"long-term objective\" rather than an immediate priority.\n\nThis cautious positioning has not gone down well with the party faithful who believe the Lib Dems should be pushing for a rapid return to the EU.\n\nThe party's messaging on Europe - and whether it is bold enough - was the subject of lively debate at a fringe event on the first day of conference.\n\nAt the event - titled \"Shouldn't we be doing better?\" - Professor Curtice suggested the party would benefit from being bolder on Europe, or other core issues.\n\nFollowing the event, he told the BBC that \"given their current standing in the opinion polls, they still face a formidable challenge at the next general election\".\n\nHe said the Lib Dems had done well in by-elections in Conservative-held seats, most recently by winning in Somerton and Frome.\n\nBut he said despite Conservative woes, the Lib Dems have not \"managed to get above the 12% in the polls that they got in the 2019 general election\".\n\nHe estimated that based on current national opinion polling, the best the party could hope for was about 30 seats in the House of Commons - double the number they have at the moment, but still well short of their pre-coalition strength.\n\nSo where is the party losing ground?\n\nProfessor Curtice said: \"The truth is, while the party has focused on attacking the Conservatives, it has perhaps failed to notice that it's losing votes to Labour.\n\n\"In particular, it's losing the votes of people who want to be inside the EU to Labour.\n\n\"Whereas Labour can argue it has gained ground among both Leave and Remain voters.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats have frankly lost ground among Remain voters and the ground that they have gained amongst Leave voters is not sufficient to compensate for it.\"\n\nProfessor John Curtice said the Lib Dems need to be bolder to win over more voters\n\nIn recent weeks, Labour has shifted its position on Europe, going from an effective vow of silence to talking up closer relations with EU states.\n\nLast week, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited the Netherlands to discuss migration and had a meet-and-greet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.\n\nAnd in terms of policy, Labour has been open about its desire to rewrite the EU-UK trade deal and find ways to improve co-operation with European nations.\n\nIn contrast, the Lib Dems have been relatively shy in articulating their post-Brexit vision for the UK.\n\nAppearing alongside Professor Curtice at the conference event, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran was asked to give her view on the party's approach to Europe.\n\nShe said while the party wanted to rejoin the EU, \"to get even close to that point, we have to do stuff before to repair that relationship\".\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokeswoman said the Lib Dems needed to talk about Brexit \"in a way that doesn't push people away\".\n\nMs Moran - a former Lib Dem leadership contender - she said expected the party's policy on Europe to \"move\" following the conference.\n\n\"We need to work out where we need to put the dial at the moment,\" she said.\n\nElsewhere at the conference, Sir Ed said his party would seek \"root-and-branch\" reform of the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU rather than \"tinkering around the edges\" of the existing deal.\n\nWill that be enough to win over the Europhiles who have strayed to Labour though?\n\nWhen asked if the Lib Dems should be bolder on Europe, Professor Curtice said the party needed to be \"willing to take a risk\".\n\n\"In doing that, it needs to think about the kind of people it's most likely to attract,\" said the professor of politics at Strathclyde University.\n\n\"And the honest truth is, that's more likely to be people who are in favour of being inside the European Union rather than outside.\"", "Aerial pictures showed the aftermath of a fire caused by a charging e-scooter that devastated a family home.\n\nThe blaze in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, on 3 September destroyed almost everything inside the house and was so intense it left a hole in the roof.\n\nEddie MacGregor was on a day out with his family when it happened and he has now warned about the dangers of charging electric bikes and scooters.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of chargers out there can be bought with one click and you assume they're compatible but in fact they have the capacity to turn your scooter into a bomb.\"", "The London Landmarks Skyscraper Challenge took place over the weekend, raising more than £800,000 for a range of charities.\n\nThe event saw some 850 participants abseiling down or zip wiring from the Leadenhall Building - often known as the Cheesegrater - to the Gherkin, high above the streets of the Square Mile.\n\nBBC London's Harry Low decided to give it a go.", "Steven Tyler's band had hits with Dream On, Walk This Way and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing\n\nUS rock band Aerosmith have postponed six of their North America farewell tour shows due to singer Steven Tyler having sustained vocal cords damage.\n\nThe group kicked off their Peace Out tour with several gigs earlier this month and had been been set to perform in Toronto on Tuesday, but that's now been pushed back until February 2024.\n\nThe next gig on their revised schedule is now in Tampa, Florida next month.\n\nIn a statement posted online, frontman Tyler, 74, said he was \"heartbroken\".\n\n\"I'm heartbroken to say I have received strict doctor's orders not to sing for the next 30 days,\" he said.\n\n\"I sustained vocal cord damage during Saturday's show [in Elmont, New York] that led to subsequent bleeding. We'll need to postpone a few dates so that we can come back and give you the performance you deserve.\"\n\nAerosmith had hits in the 1970s, 80s and 90s such as Dream On, Walk This Way and I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.\n\nThe Grammy-winning Boston band, known for their hedonistic, wild lifestyles as much as their riffs, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2001, the same year that they performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.\n\nThey cancelled part of their Las Vegas residency last year after Tyler checked himself into rehab.\n\nTheir final tour had been set to conclude in Montreal on 26 January next year, but it will now run on into the following month, culminating in a rescheduled show in Cleveland, Ohio on 29 February.\n\nShows in Detroit, Chicago, Washington DC and Raleigh, North Carolina have also been affected.\n\nFans can keep hold of their tickets, which will be valid for the new dates, or request a refund.", "Tens of billions of dollars belonging to Iran have been frozen in bank accounts because of US sanctions\n\nThe US has issued a sanctions waiver for banks to transfer $6bn (£4.8bn) of frozen Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar, paving the way for the release of five Americans held by Iran.\n\nSecretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress that the money would provide \"limited benefit\" to Iran as it could only be used for humanitarian trade.\n\nHe also confirmed that five Iranians detained in the US would be freed as part of the prisoner exchange deal.\n\nOne senator accused President Joe Biden of paying a \"ransom to the world's worst state sponsor of terrorism\".\n\nLast month, US officials said four American-Iranian dual nationals had been taken out of Evin prison in Tehran and moved to house arrest.\n\nThree of the prisoners were named by a lawyer as Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, who also has British citizenship. The fourth was not identified, nor was the fifth, who was already under house arrest.\n\nTens of billions of dollars owed to Iran for oil and other exports are believed to have been frozen in bank accounts across the world since 2018, when then-President Donald Trump abandoned an international nuclear deal with Iran and reinstated US sanctions.\n\nThe waiver issued by the US means that certain banks in Europe, Asia and the Middle East will not face punishment for moving the $6bn held in South Korea to Qatar's central bank.\n\n\"Allowing these funds to be transferred from restricted Iranian accounts held in the [Republic of Korea] to accounts in Qatar for humanitarian trade is necessary to facilitate the release of these US citizens,\" Mr Blinken said in a letter to Congress on Monday.\n\nLast month, he stressed that Qatar had agreed to ensure the funds were used by Iran \"strictly for humanitarian purposes and in a strictly controlled way\". He also said Iran would not have direct access to the funds and there would be \"significant oversight\" from the US.\n\nDespite such assurances, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee criticised the Biden administration for moving forward with what he called \"its $6bn hostage deal\".\n\n\"The Americans held by Iran are innocent hostages who must be released immediately and unconditionally,\" Rep Michael McCaul said in a statement.\n\n\"However, I remain deeply concerned that the administration's decision to waive sanctions to facilitate the transfer of $6 billion in funds for Iran, the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, creates a direct incentive for America's adversaries to conduct future hostage-taking.\"\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson insisted that the waiver was only a \"procedural step\" in what remained \"a sensitive and ongoing process\".\n\nIranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani meanwhile expressed optimism that the prisoner swap would take place \"soon\".", "Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been banned for four years following breaches of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme.\n\nAn independent tribunal determined the 31-year-old Romanian had committed \"intentional\" anti-doping violations.\n\nHalep said in a statement she intends to appeal against the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"I am continuing to train and do everything in my power to clear my name of these false allegations,\" she said.\n\nFormer world number one Halep tested positive for the use of roxadustat at last year's US Open.\n\nShe was also found guilty of using an unspecified prohibited substance or method in 2022 after irregularities were found in her biological passport.\n\nThe tribunal accepted Halep's argument she had taken a contaminated supplement, but decided that would not have resulted in the concentration of roxadustat found in her urine sample.\n\nRoxadustat is an anti-anaemia drug which stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body.\n\nThe panel also stated they had no reason to doubt the unanimous \"strong opinion\" reached by three independent experts that \"likely doping\" was the explanation for the irregularities in her biological passport.\n\nHalep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022, which means she will be able to play again on 7 October 2026, by which time she will be 35.\n\nThe findings of the tribunal, however, can be appealed against and Halep indicated that she would challenge the verdict.\n\nShe said: \"The last year has been the hardest match of my life, and unfortunately my fight continues. I have devoted my life to the beautiful game of tennis.\n\n\"I take the rules that govern our sport very seriously and take pride in the fact I have never knowingly or intentionally used any prohibited substance. I refused to accept their decision of a four-year ban.\"\n\nHalep said she \"adjusted\" her nutritional supplements on the recommendation of her team before the hard court season in 2022 and that \"none of the listed ingredients included any prohibited substances\".\n\nHowever, she acknowledged that \"one of them was contaminated with roxadustat\" and she also planned to \"pursue all legal remedies against the supplement company in question\".\n\nHalep added: \"I was tested almost weekly after my initial positive test through early 2023, all of which came back negative.\n\n\"I believe in a clean sport and in almost two decades as a professional tennis player, through hundreds of tournaments and two Grand Slam titles, I have taken 200 blood and urine tests to check for prohibited substances - all of which have been clean.\"\n\nThe Professional Tennis Players' Association called the \"repeated and unexplained delays\" in Halep's case \"both unfair and unacceptable\" and said it was \"fully committed to supporting her in any future appeals\".\n\nHalep, who won the French Open in 2018 and Wimbledon the following year, is the highest-profile tennis player to fail a drugs test since Maria Sharapova in 2016.\n\nShe has won 24 WTA tour singles titles and earned £32.2m ($40.2m) in prize money and was ranked number one in the world in 2017 and 2018.\n\nSimona Halep has been far from silent in a case which, to the frustration of all sides, has taken a year to reach a verdict.\n\nShe said in one social media post that her name had been \"soiled in the worst possible way\" and accused the tennis authorities of \"killing her reputation\".\n\nBut now the verdict has arrived, it is an incredibly damaging one.\n\nA four-year ban is, to all intents and purposes, the most severe penalty she could have received - although a further two years could have been added had the panel considered it an \"aggravated\" offence - and underlines the tribunal's view that Halep had been doping \"intentionally\".\n\nThe Romanian was a popular champion at both the French Open and Wimbledon, and many will be shocked that if her appeal is unsuccessful, she will not be able to play for another three years.\n\nHalep did consider retiring in the early part of 2022 because of a series of injuries which she said left her \"no more power to fight\".\n\nBut she gradually rediscovered her love for the sport, reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon and won the WTA 1000 event in Toronto in the two months before her ban.\n\nHalep's 35th birthday is 10 days before her ban is currently set to expire. Even Serena Williams won only one Grand Slam title after she turned 35 and such an achievement would be nigh on impossible after four years away from the tour.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment trapped US caver Mark Dickey is carried out of Turkish cave\n\nA US citizen trapped in Turkey's third deepest cave for more than a week has been pulled to safety, rescuers say.\n\nMore than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cave on 2 September.\n\nOrganisers say it was one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever mounted.\n\nThe lowest point of the Morca Cave, in a remote part of the south, reaches nearly 1.3km (0.8 miles) below ground.\n\nMr Dickey was brought out of the cave at 00:37 local time (21:37 GMT), the Turkish Caving Federation announced on social media.\n\nCarl Heitmeyer of the New Jersey Initial Response Team, a group Mr Dickey leads, told BBC News that the caver had been rescued and expressed his thanks to all those involved in the operation.\n\nMr Dickey said he questioned whether he would survive the ordeal after his condition worsened. He told reporters the thought that he might die \"literally went through my head\".\n\n\"I kept throwing up blood. Then my consciousness started to get harder to hold on to and I reached a point where I said, 'I'm not going to live',\" he said.\n\nHis parents Debbie and Andy Dickey said the \"international caving community\" had \"made it possible for Mark to leave Morca cave and receive further medical treatment at a hospital facility\".\n\nThey said their son's rescue was \"indescribably relieving\" and filled them with \"incredible joy\".\n\n\"Mark is strong and we believe in his strength, but fully knew that he was in dire need of tremendous and immediate support,\" they said.\n\nMr Dickey had been co-leading a team to map a new passage in the cave when he began to suffer from gastrointestinal bleeding.\n\nHis condition improved after he was given a blood transfusion. He was then strapped to a stretcher and was slowly carried out.\n\nThis involved navigating through tight rock tunnels and explosives had to be used at the narrowest points, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\nA number of rescue workers from several other countries, including Croatia and Hungary, flew to Turkey to assist in the rescue.\n\nMr Dickey's fiancee, Jessica Van Ord, also helped. She had remained in the cave with him while he was unwell but later climbed out.\n\nOn Thursday evening, in a video message from inside the cave, Mr Dickey thanked the people attempting to rescue him.\n\nThe entrance to the Morca Cave\n\n\"I do know that the quick response of the Turkish government to get the medical supplies that I need, in my opinion, saved my life,\" he said. \"I was very close to the edge.\"\n\nRescuers said helping to save Mr Dickey had been a \"very honourable\" experience.\n\n\"We are cavers before everything,\" Ibrahim Olcu, a caver from Istanbul, said.\n\n\"A caver does not have a rescuer other than another caver, we saw that a little. To work in the rescue operation for another caver was very honourable, pleasing. I am experiencing this happiness.\"\n\nZsofia Zador, a Hungarian anaesthesiologist, said it was her first \"big rescue for me as a doctor\".\n\n\"This is quite a difficult cave because there are some small narrow passages and the shafts are quite muddy so it is not the easiest cave to traverse,\" she added.\n\nMr Dickey, who hails from New Jersey, is said to be a hardened caver with over 20 years' experience.\n\nHe has been an instructor with the US National Cave Rescue Commission for 10 years, teaching a variety of cave rescue classes. He is also listed as the body's International Exchange Program Co-ordinator on its website.\n\nHe had been co-leading the expedition to the Morca Cave since the end of August, according to the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, who have also been assisting with the operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Dickey speaking from inside the cave: \"I’m not healed on the inside yet so I’m going to need a lot of help to get out of here\"", "Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the Department of Justice, arrives at court\n\nGoogle has dismissed arguments that it is the world's biggest search engine because of illegal practices, saying to switch to another company takes \"literally four taps\".\n\nA lawyer for the company made the remarks in court in Tuesday in Washington DC, where it is facing trial over whether it is a monopoly.\n\nThe case is a major test of the power of US regulators over the tech giants.\n\nProsecutors said the case was about \"the future of the internet\".\n\nThe trial is expected to last 10 weeks and will feature testimony from Google boss Sundar Pichai as well as executives from Apple.\n\nJudge Amit Mehta, who was appointed to his position on DC district court by former president Barack Obama, will decide the case - the biggest for the industry in 25 years.\n\nThe government's lawsuit focuses on billions of dollars in payments Google has made to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default online search engine.\n\nThe US said Google typically pays more than $10bn a year for that privilege, securing its access to a steady gush of user data that helped maintain its hold on the market.\n\n\"Are there other distribution channels? Other ways of distributing search? Yes.... Are these powerful as defaults? No,\" Department of Justice lawyer Kenneth Dintzer said, addressing the judge. \"The best testimony for that, for the importance of defaults, your Honour, is Google's cheque book.\"\n\nWhen Apple first installed Google as the default search engine in 2002, no payments were involved, prosecutors said.\n\nBut by 2005, worried about its lead eroding, Google proposed to pay the company - later threatening to cancel payments if other firms got similar access, the government said.\n\nThe company also discouraged Apple from expanding its own search products and Samsung, which makes Android phones, from working with a company that used a different kind of search method.\n\n\"This is a monopolist, flexing,\" Mr Dintzer said.\n\nGoogle said it faced intense competition, not just from general search engine firms, such as Microsoft's Bing, but more specialised sites and apps that people use to find restaurants, airline flights and more.\n\n\"There are lots of ways users access the web, other than through default search engines, and people use them all the time,\" the company's lawyer, John Schmidtlein, said.\n\n\"The evidence in this case will show Google competed on the merits to win pre-installation and default status, and that its browser and Android partners judged Google to be the best search engine for its users.\"\n\nMr Schmidtlein said that despite Windows PCs being the number one used desktop and having Bing pre-set as the default search engine, a majority of Windows users still opt to use Google - demonstrating Google's superiority as a search platform.\n\nThe trial is the latest regulatory challenge to face Google, which recently settled another case over its app store brought by US states. The company is also facing a federal lawsuit over its advertising business and has found itself in the crosshairs in Europe, where it has been fined billions in monopoly cases.\n\nThe government has asked for \"structural relief\" if it wins - which could mean the break-up of the company.\n\nThe suit comes as artificial intelligence and new forms of search, such as ChatGPT, are providing a more serious threat to Google's dominance than the company has encountered in years.\n• None US takes on Google in fight against tech giants", "Kevin McCarthy knows that any attempt to impeach Joe Biden as US president is futile.\n\nLike his predecessor as House Speaker, the Democratic party’s Nancy Pelosi, McCarthy is a highly partisan operator.\n\nHe’s relying on three now concluded Republican led subcommittees in Congress to repeat serious allegations against Joe Biden – that he had personal knowledge of his son Hunter's foreign business dealings and that his family and associates benefited to the tune of $20 million through an alleged complex web of payments made to shell companies.\n\nBut there are three reasons why Speaker McCarthy’s decision to direct an impeachment inquiry won’t work.\n\nThe first is the numbers. Here in Washington, there’s extreme scepticism that McCarthy could not have found 218 Republicans to back a formal inquiry. Just 11 days ago, he had insisted that one would not be triggered without a vote. Today’s announcement is quite the U-turn.\n\nEven if the House votes to impeach him it then goes to the upper chamber, or the Senate, which is controlled by the Democrats with a majority of 51 to 49. The president will only be removed if two-thirds of the Senate back the move. That will not happen with this Senate, and it never has in history.\n\nThe second problem for McCarthy is that the three sub-committees which have investigated Biden over the past nine months found no conclusive evidence. It’s unlikely that any new and substantial evidence exists and unlikely therefore that the result would be different.\n\nThe third is that no US President has ever been removed by Congress. Three have been impeached – Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Donald Trump twice - in 2019 and 2021.", "ITV have picked up exclusive UK rights to Hollywood's Oscars after a 20-year deal between rightsholder Disney and Sky ended last month.\n\nITV said it was a \"multi-year\" agreement which kicks off with next year's event on 10 March.\n\nThe channel will be hoping to improve on a general trend of dwindling viewing figures for awards ceremonies.\n\nAs a free-to-air channel, this may be easier than it was for Sky, which is pay-per-view.\n\nSky broadcast the Oscars on its free-to-air channels - Sky Arts and Sky News - for the first time earlier this year.\n\nBut only around 35,000 people tuned in live on the main Sky Cinema channel in 2023, just over half the viewership of 2022, according to Screen Daily.\n\nMost media companies are looking to make savings at the moment against a backdrop of streaming losses, an advertising slump and Hollywood strikes.\n\nSky had owned the rights since 2004. Prior to that, the Comcast-owned company had alternated with the BBC to broadcast the ceremony.\n\nDarren Nartey, senior acquisitions manager for ITV and ITVX commented: \"We are thrilled to be able to exclusively bring the Oscars to film fans all across the UK.\"\n\nAll parties concerned will be hoping the Hollywood writers' and actors' strike will have been resolved long before the 2024 awards, with this year's Emmys forced to push their ceremony back from September to January.", "The head of oil giant BP has resigned as chief executive amid a review of his personal relationships with colleagues.\n\nIn a shock late evening announcement, the firm said Bernard Looney, who had led the company since 2020, was stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nBP said it had recently started an investigation into alleged relationships Mr Looney had with colleagues, the second in two years.\n\nThe firm said he had admitted he was not \"fully transparent\" initially.\n\n\"The company has strong values and the board expects everyone at the company to behave in accordance with those values,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"All leaders in particular are expected to act as role models and to exercise good judgement in a way that earns the trust of others.\"\n\nNick Butler, a former head of strategy at BP, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"shock\" about Mr Looney's exit.\n\n\"BP is a company where the leadership is crucial and Bernard provided a lot of that. We'll have to see if his successor can achieve even more than he did,\" he added.\n\nThe company's shareholders will now be watching for who is appointed as BP's next chief executive, Sophie Lund-Yates from investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown said in a note.\n\n\"A clear path forward needs to be forged sooner rather than later to limit negative sentiment,\" she said.\n\nBorn in Ireland and raised on a farm, Mr Looney had spent his career at BP, which he joined in 1991 as a drilling engineer. He became a member of its executive team in 2010.\n\nHe was previously head of oil and gas production before taking over as chief executive from Bob Dudley.\n\nMr Looney presented a more approachable image as a chief executive, taking to Instagram when he took the helm to post pictures of smiling employees at one of the company's operations in Germany, and said he wanted to use the platform to talk \"openly\" about people's concerns about the oil and gas industry.\n\nHe steered the firm through a tumultuous period, with his tenure coinciding with pandemic lockdowns, when demand for oil and gas dropped sharply. Just months into his chief executive role, he told staff BP planned to cut 10,000 jobs due to the pandemic.\n\nIn 2022, the start of the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring, and prompted the firm to leave Russia after pressure from the UK government.\n\nMr Looney had set out a plan to make the energy giant net zero by 2050 but had more recently come under fire from environmental groups for watering down an initial target.\n\nBP said it had not made any decisions related to severance pay for Mr Looney. He received more than £10m in pay and bonuses last year - more than 170 times as much as an average BP employee - as soaring oil prices pushed the firm's profits to a record high.\n\nChief financial officer Murray Auchincloss will act as chief executive on an interim basis.\n\nMr Auchincloss has been a central part of the management team as the firm continues to work towards net zero although there is no guarantee that he will get the job as a permanent role.\n\nIn a webcast to all BP staff on Wednesday, Mr Auchincloss said: \"While the person in the CEO's chair has changed, the fundamentals have not changed.\"\n\nHe said his \"main focus\" was on the safety of staff.\n\n\"Today, just like every day in BP, we go to work in the field, in our refineries, in offices, at sea, at our retail sites... Thousands of people, all over the world, all of whom deserve to go home safely,\" he added.\n\nMr Auchincloss added that the firm's \"strategy hasn't changed\" and that \"the leadership team we have in BP is also unchanged\", despite Mr Looney's exit.\n\nMr Looney's departure comes as a series of high profile dismissals of executives in the UK has put a spotlight on executive personal behaviour.\n\nTony Danker, boss of the UK's largest business lobby group the CBI, was fired in April over complaints about his behaviour at work.\n\nMeanwhile, Crispin Odey was forced to step down from the hedge fund he founded in June after reports of sexual harassment allegations by 13 women. He has denied the claims.\n\nBP said it had launched a review of Mr Looney's relationships with colleagues following an anonymous tip-off in 2022.\n\nAt the time, the company said Mr Looney disclosed \"a small number of historical relationships with colleagues prior to becoming CEO\" and it found no breach of company conduct.\n\nMr Looney gave assurances then about disclosing the past relationships, as well as his future behaviour.\n\nBut the board said it had received similar allegations \"recently\", prompting another review.\n\n\"Mr Looney has today informed the company that he now accepts that he was not fully transparent in his previous disclosures,\" BP said. \"He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the bodies of victims that have been swept out to sea in tsunami-like flood waters.\n\nAt least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city.\n\nTwo dams and four bridges collapsed in Derna, submerging much of the city after Storm Daniel hit on Sunday.\n\nAbout 10,000 people are reported missing, the Red Crescent says, and the death toll is expected to rise further.\n\nSome aid has started to arrive, including from Egypt, but rescue efforts have been hampered by the political situation in Libya, with the country split between two rival governments.\n\nThe US, Germany, Iran, Italy, Qatar and Turkey are among the countries that have said they have sent or are ready to send aid.\n\nVideo footage recorded after dark on Sunday shows a river of floodwater churning through the city with cars bobbing helplessly in the current.\n\nThere are harrowing stories of people being swept out to sea, while others clung onto rooftops to survive.\n\n\"I was shocked by what I saw, it's like a tsunami,\" Hisham Chkiouat, from Libya's eastern-based government, said.\n\nHe told BBC Newshour that the collapse of one of the dams to the south of Derna had dragged large parts of the city into the sea.\n\n\"A massive neighbourhood has been destroyed - there is a large number of victims, which is increasing each hour.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nKasim Al-Qatani, an aid worker in the town of Bayda, told the BBC's Newsnight programme it was difficult for rescuers to reach Derna as most of the main paths into the city were \"out of service because of huge damage\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched into why the floods were able to cause such devastation, he said, adding that 2.5bn Libyan Dinar (£412m; $515m) would be given to help rebuild Derna and the eastern city of Benghazi.\n\nThe cities of Soussa, Al-Marj and Misrata were also affected by Sunday's storm.\n\nWater engineering experts told the BBC it is likely the upper dam, around 12km (eight miles) from the city, had failed first, sending its water sweeping down the river valley towards the second dam, which lies closer to Derna - where neighbourhoods were inundated.\n\n\"At first we just thought it was heavy rain but at midnight we heard a huge explosion and it was the dam bursting,\" Raja Sassi, who survived along with his wife and small daughter, told Reuters news agency.\n\nLibyan journalist Noura Eljerbi, who is based in Tunisia told the BBC she only found out that around 35 of her relatives who all lived in the same apartment block in Derna were still alive after contacting a local rescue team.\n\n\"The house has been destroyed but my family managed to get out before things got worse. They are safe now,\" she said.\n\nMr Qatani said there was no clean drinking water in Derna, and a lack of medical supplies.\n\nHe added that the only hospital in Derna could no longer take patients because \"there are more than 700 dead bodies waiting in the hospital and it's not that big\".\n\nThe low-lying areas of Derna near the sea have been worst affected\n\nLibya has been in political chaos since long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 - leaving the oil-rich nation effectively split with an interim, internationally recognised government operating from the capital, Tripoli, and another one in the east.\n\nLibyan journalist Abdulkader Assad said the confusion around this was hampering rescue efforts.\n\n\"You have people who are pledging help but the help is not coming,\" he told the BBC. \"There are no rescue teams, there are no trained rescuers in Libya. Everything over the last 12 years was about war.\"\n\nBut despite the split, the government in Tripoli has sent a plane with 14 tonnes of medical supplies, body bags and more than 80 doctors and paramedics.\n\nBrian Lander, the deputy director of emergencies at the UN's World Food Programme, said the organisation had food supplies for 5,000 families.\n\nWhole neighbourhoods in Derna were washed out to sea\n\nDerna, about 250km east of Benghazi along the coast, is surrounded by the nearby hills of the fertile Jabal Akhdar region.\n\nThe city was once where militants from the Islamic State group built a presence in Libya, after Gaddafi's fall. They were driven out some years later by the Libyan National Army (LNA), forces loyal to Gen Khalifa Haftar who is allied to the eastern administration.\n\nThe powerful general said eastern officials are currently assessing damage caused by the floods so roads can be reconstructed and electricity restored to help rescue efforts.\n\nLibya's leading Al-Wasat news website has suggested that failures to properly rebuild and maintain infrastructure in Derna after years of conflict is partly to blame for the high death toll.\n\n\"The security chaos and Libyan authorities' laxity in carrying out close monitoring of safety measures [of the dams] led to the catastrophe,\" it quoted economic expert Mohammed Ahmed as saying.\n\nAre you in Derna, Libya? Are you affected by the flooding? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A republican protester detained on the day of King Charles' Coronation is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police.\n\nGraham Smith, the head of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, held discussions with officers ahead of the demonstration and claims there was no justification for his arrest.\n\nThe case may be seen as a legal test of new powers given to police this year.\n\nThe Met confirmed it was aware of legal action but declined to comment further.\n\nMr Smith has asked the force for an apology while applying for a judicial review on the decision to detain him and five other demonstrators.\n\nThe Met has previously expressed \"regret\" over the arrests.\n\nBut the Republic chief executive also wants officers to admit the arrests were unlawful and is seeking damages and costs.\n\nThe six members of Republic were held on suspicion of going equipped to 'lock on' - a tactic some protesters use to make themselves difficult to move - because they were in possession of luggage straps to secure their placards.\n\nMr Smith, who was held for more than 14 hours, had discussed the planned demonstration for four months with senior Met staff.\n\nHe claims to have been physically prevented from calling the Met's designated liaison officer when he was stopped and arrested on 6 May 2023. Two days later, the group were told no further action would be taken.\n\nMr Smith called the arrests \"an appalling attack on the rights of peaceful protesters\" and on Tuesday told BBC News that he felt it was \"part of a deliberate effort to diminish and disrupt our protest\".\n\n\"I have no doubt senior officers intervened and sought to minimise the impact our protest may have had\", he argued.\n\n\"They certainly had no grounds for arrest or detention, and no grounds for suspecting intent to lock on.\"\n\nOfficers were also strongly criticised for alleged heavy-handedness over other arrests linked to the coronation.\n\nIn legal documents seen by the BBC, Mr Smith argues that officers had \"no reasonable grounds\" to suspect him of committing any offence, particularly because of his \"extensive communication and cooperation\" with police.\n\nThe papers also suggest that the arrest breached parts of the Human Rights Act and the officer who detained Mr Smith \"did not reasonably believe\" it was necessary.\n\nThe group were detained after new legislation came into effect days before the event that created new offences of locking on or going equipped to lock on, under the Public Order Act.\n\nBut Mr Smith told the BBC that the straps for securing placards \"were neither intended nor capable of locking on, and the law requires suspicion of intent\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's response, seen by the BBC, says Mr Smith was \"suspected, on reasonable grounds, of committing an offence\".\n\nIt says Mr Smith's human rights were not infringed upon and that his arrest was believed to be \"necessary\".\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said: \"We can confirm that a Judicial Review Claim has been issued and it would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing proceedings.\"", "Police were called to search for the toddler shortly after 17:00 on Sunday\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a toddler found in a village pond.\n\nThe two-year-old was reported missing from her home on Forge Road, Kingsley, near Bordon, Hampshire, at about 17:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nShe was found a short time later in Kingsley Pond and taken to hospital where she died on Monday, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThe woman, in her 40s, remains in custody for questioning, officers said.\n\nThe two-year-old was found in the large village pond near her home, police said\n\nThe force added that the girl's family were being supported by specialist officers.\n\nA nearby car park had been filled with about a dozen police cars as officers gathered to search for the toddler when she was first went missing.\n\nCordons placed around the pond had been lifted on Monday morning and there was little evidence of the large-scale incident the evening before.\n\nThe large pond, located just under 100m (328ft) from the closest homes on Forge Road, measures about 175m (574ft) long and 72m (236ft) wide.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered devastating flooding in Libya.\n\nThe leader of the east Libyan government, which is not recognised internationally, said deaths exceeded 2,000 and thousands were missing.\n\nJalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist, told the BBC the death toll could reach as many as \"several thousand\" people.\n\nStorm Daniel made landfall on Sunday, prompting authorities to declare a state of extreme emergency.\n\nSeven Libyan army personnel went missing during ongoing rescue efforts.\n\nOfficials in the east imposed a curfew, while schools and shops were ordered to close.\n\nThe eastern cities of Benghazi, Sousse, Derna and Al-Marj were all affected.\n\nAs well as the rising death toll, the Libyan Red Cross said that at least 150 homes had been destroyed.\n\nThe head of the Red Crescent humanitarian network said at least 150 deaths had occurred in Derna alone, according to news agency Reuters.\n\nTwo dams in Derna - home to approximately 100,000 people - reportedly collapsed, submerging much of the area and drowning some residents.\n\nEastern Prime Minister Osama Hamad told a Libyan television channel: \"The missing are in the thousands, and the dead exceed 2,000... entire neighbourhoods in Derna have disappeared, along with their residents ... swept away by water.\"\n\nThe eastern region of Misrata was among those hit by heavy rains\n\nMr Hamad did not give a source for his figures.\n\nAlongside areas in the east, the western city of Misrata was among those hit by the floods.\n\nUnverified videos of the storm have been circulating online, including a clip showing torrents of floodwater sweeping a man away. Other footage shows drivers trapped on their car roofs.\n\nAlongside schools and shops, four major oil ports closed because of the storm.\n\nWhile the Benghazi-based administration has been dealing with matters in the east of the country, the rival, internationally recognised government in the capital, Tripoli, has also been involved.\n\nIts Prime Minister, Abdulhamid Dbeiba, said on Sunday that he had directed all state agencies to \"immediately deal\" with the damage and floods, while the United Nations in Libya said it was following the storm closely and would \"provide urgent relief assistance in support of response efforts at local and national levels\".\n\nLibya has been divided between two rival administrations since 2014, following the killing of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.\n\nBoth governments declared three days of mourning after Storm Daniel swept in.\n\nLast week, it struck Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, killing more than a dozen people.\n\nEgypt was on Monday bracing itself for Storm Daniel and in the evening, the nation's meteorological organisation said rainclouds had multiplied over the northwestern coast.\n\nClimate scientists have warned that global warming means more water evaporating during the summer, leading to more intense storms.\n\nAre you in Derna, Libya? Are you affected by the flooding? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The head of Spotify has denied claims that users can repeatedly listen to their own uploaded 30-second track to rake in monthly royalties.\n\nFinance analysts at JP Morgan had said that Spotify subscribers could make $1,200 (£960) a month by listening to their song on repeat, 24 hours a day.\n\nThe claim suggested Spotify's royalty payment structure could be manipulated.\n\nBut Daniel Ek, the streaming giant's CEO, says that is not how the platform's royalties work.\n\nThe theory was first reported in the Financial Times, and then tweeted about by Julian Klymochko, founder of Accelerate, a Canadian-based investment company.\n\n\"If that were true, my own playlist would just be 'Daniel's 30-second Jam' on repeat!\" Mr Ek tweeted back in response.\n\n\"But seriously, that's not quite how our royalty system works.\n\nConcerns have been raised that artificial streaming - where devices run chosen tracks on loop - is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan executives estimating as much as 10% of all streams are fake, according to the Financial Times.\n\nJust last week, Swedish Newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that criminal gangs were using Spotify's royalty system to launder money made through drug deals.\n\nAccording to Spotify's website, it has two tiers of royalties, and artists are paid out once a month - but how much they get can vary.\n\n\"Contrary to what you might have heard, Spotify does not pay artist royalties according to a per-play or per-stream rate,\" the website says.\n\n\"The royalty payments that artists receive might vary according to differences in how their music is streamed or the agreements they have with labels or distributors.\"\n\nUniversal Music Group and Deezer recently announced they will jointly launch a music streaming model aimed at generating bigger royalties for artists - meaning they will be paid more if users actively choose to listen to their music.\n\nThis could mean Spotify, and other streaming services such as Apple Music, will be forced to adjust their own models.", "This is the moment a bullock was hoisted to safety by its legs after getting trapped in a sinkhole in County Durham.\n\nFarmers at Witton Castle Country Park in Bishop Auckland were on their routine morning visit to the cattle when the animal was spotted in the sinkhole.\n\nNot knowing if he was alive, a digger was used to pull him to safety.\n\nThankfully the young bull managed to get to its feet and is said to now be \"absolutely fine in the field with his pals\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Barry Manners (pictured in 2020) says there have been \"years of cover-up and bare-faced denial\"\n\nBritish Airways passengers and crew taken hostage in Kuwait are set to take legal action against the government and the airline, lawyers say.\n\nBarry Manners, from Kent, was among passengers on a British Airways flight to Malaysia that landed in Kuwait to refuel in 1990 as Iraqi forces invaded.\n\nMcCue Jury and Partners said it is representing victims who want to ensure \"the truth is fully disclosed\".\n\nBA said government records showed it had not been warned about the invasion.\n\nThe government said the blame \"lies entirely with the government of Iraq at the time\".\n\nBritish Airways Flight 149 touched down at Kuwait International Airport in the early hours of August 2 1990 as Iraqi armed forces were invading.\n\nMore than 300 people onboard were detained by Iraqi troops, marking the start of an ordeal lasting almost five months as they were used by Saddam Hussein as \"human shields\" against western attacks.\n\nAfter the crew and passengers had disembarked, the aircraft was destroyed on the runway\n\nThose on board suffered abuse, violence, and even mock executions.\n\nMr Manners, who lives in Botany Bay in Kent, has previously said: \"There were a couple of occasions when I was told I was going to be shot, the guard came out in a rage, kicked me around a bit, put a gun against my head and pulled the trigger a few inches away.\"\n\nDocuments released in November 2021 showed the Foreign Office was warned by the British ambassador in Kuwait that Iraqi forces had crossed the border an hour before the flight landed.\n\nThe information was never passed to BA, which was unable to take action to divert the flight, according to the Foreign Office files released to the National Archives.\n\nThere have been claims that a group of around 10 men who were the first to disembark when the plane landed were special forces troops, but this has always been denied by the UK government.\n\nBut McCue Jury and Partners said \"evidence exists\" that the government and BA \"knew the invasion had already begun\" when they allowed the plane to land because it was being used to insert a team into Kuwait \"for a special military operation\".\n\nThe firm says it intends to bring the claim to the High Court in London in the next few months.\n\nIt said each of the hostages \"may claim an estimated average of £170,000 each in damages\".\n\nFive-year-old Stuart Lockwood was pictured with Saddam Hussein, who was trying to show the world the hostages were being treated well\n\nSome of the hostages suffered post-traumatic stress after being subjected to abuse and witnessing atrocities.\n\nMr Manners said: \"We were not treated as citizens, but as expendable pawns for commercial and political gain.\n\n\"A victory over years of cover-up and bare-faced denial will help restore trust in our political and judicial process.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The responsibility for these events and the mistreatment of those passengers and crew lies entirely with the government of Iraq at the time.\"\n\nA BA spokesman said: \"Our hearts go out to all those caught up in this shocking act of war just over 30 years ago, and who had to endure a truly horrendous experience.\n\n\"UK government records released in 2021 confirmed British Airways was not warned about the invasion.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crumbling concrete that led to the closure of buildings at more than 100 schools has been found in Parliament.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was found in one part of the Palace of Westminster, but poses no \"immediate risk\", a spokesman said.\n\nThe concrete, which can become less stable over time, was found during a \"routine, on-going\" investigation.\n\nAbout 150 schools have seen buildings close or measures implemented due to concerns over unsafe concrete.\n\n\"Where RAAC is found, mitigations will be put in place as necessary,\" a parliamentary spokesperson said.\n\nThe closure of schools has sparked anxiety about the presence of Raac in other publicly owned buildings and infrastructure.\n\nConcerns about the safety of the parliamentary estate are long-standing, amid repeated delays to plans to restore and refurbishment the famous site.\n\nThere have been repeated warnings in recent years about the threat of fire and asbestos across the estate.\n\nEstimations for a full restoration of the palace range from £4bn to £14bn.\n\nUsed in the construction of schools from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, Raac can become \"crumbly\" over time and is prone to collapse.\n\nThe Department for Education's permanent secretary Susan Acland-Hood and chief operating officer Jane Cunliffe appeared before a committee of MPs about the issue on Monday afternoon.\n\nThey repeatedly resisted questions about how many schools were waiting for a survey, as Dame Meg Hillier, the public accounts committee chair, asked whether the number was in the \"tens\" or \"hundreds\".\n\nMs Cunliffe said: \"It is very fast-moving, we are doing tens of surveys every day.\"", "Artwork: K2-18 b orbits a cool dwarf star shown in red just far enough away for its temperature to support life.\n\nNasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.\n\nIt may have detected a molecule called dimethyl sulphide (DMS). On Earth, at least, this is only produced by life.\n\nThe researchers stress that the detection on the planet 120 light years away is \"not robust\" and more data is needed to confirm its presence.\n\nResearchers have also detected methane and CO2 in the planet's atmosphere.\n\nDetection of these gases could mean the planet, named K2-18b, has a water ocean.\n\nProf Nikku Madhusudhan, of the University of Cambridge, who led the research, told BBC News that his entire team were ''shocked'' when they saw the results.\n\n\"On Earth, DMS is only produced by life. The bulk of it in Earth's atmosphere is emitted from phytoplankton in marine environments,\" he said.\n\nBut Prof Madhusudhan described the detection of DMS as tentative and said that more data would be needed to confirm its presence. Those results are expected in a year.\n\n''If confirmed, it would be a huge deal and I feel a responsibility to get this right if we are making such a big claim.''\n\nIt is the first time astronomers have detected the possibility of DMS in a planet orbiting a distant star. But they are treating the results with caution, noting that a claim made in 2020 about the presence of another molecule, called phosphine, that could be produced by living organisms in the clouds of Venus was disputed a year later.\n\nEven so, Dr Robert Massey, who is independent of the research and deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society in London, said he was excited by the results.\n\n''We are slowly moving towards the point where we will be able to answer that big question as to whether we are alone in the Universe or not,\" he said.\n\n''I'm optimistic that we will one day find signs of life. Perhaps it will be this, perhaps in 10 or even 50 years we will have evidence that is so compelling that it is the best explanation.''\n\nJWST is able to analyse the light that passes through the faraway planet's atmosphere. That light contains the chemical signature of molecules in its atmosphere. The details can be deciphered by splitting the light into its constituent frequencies - rather like a prism creating a rainbow spectrum. If parts of the resulting spectrum are missing, it has been absorbed by chemicals in the planet's atmosphere, enabling researchers to discover its composition.\n\nArtwork: The James Webb Space Telescope is capable of analysing tiny flecks of light from the atmospheres of distant planets\n\nThe feat is all the more remarkable because the planet is more than 1.1 million billion km away, so the amount of light reaching the space telescope is tiny.\n\nAs well as DMS, the spectral analysis detected an abundance of the gases methane and carbon dioxide with a good degree of confidence.\n\nThe proportions of CO2 and methane are consistent with there being a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Nasa's Hubble telescope had detected the presence of water vapour previously, which is why the planet, which has been named K2-18b, was one of the first to be investigated by the vastly more powerful JWST, but the possibility of an ocean is a big step forward.\n\nThe ability of a planet to support life depends on its temperature, the presence of carbon and probably liquid water. Observations from JWST seem to suggest that that K2-18b ticks all those boxes. But just because a planet has the potential to support life it doesn't mean that it does, which is why the possible presence of DMS is so tantalising.\n\nWhat makes the planet even more intriguing is that it is not like the Earth-like, so called rocky planets, discovered orbiting distant stars that are candidates for life. K2-18b is nearly nine times the size of Earth.\n\nExoplanets - which are planets orbiting other stars - which have sizes between those of Earth and Neptune, are unlike anything in our solar system. This means that these 'sub-Neptunes' are poorly understood, as is the nature their atmospheres, according to Dr Subhajit Sarkar of Cardiff University, who is another member of the analysis team.\n\n\"Although this kind of planet does not exist in our solar system, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of planet known so far in the galaxy,\" he said.\n\n\"We have obtained the most detailed spectrum of a habitable-zone sub-Neptune to date, and this allowed us to work out the molecules that exist in its atmosphere.\"\n\nFollow Pallab on X, formerly known as Twitter", "Sara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nPolice investigating the death of Sara Sharif have translated their appeal into Urdu to reach Pakistani nationals.\n\nSara's body was found in her home in Woking on 10 August, a day after her family members flew to Pakistan.\n\nDetectives are displaying posters in English and Urdu at the Surrey town's railway station and taxi ranks.\n\nOfficers who are fluent in Urdu are also supporting the investigation team to help translate information given by members of the public.\n\nSurrey Police have also produced a video-format appeal in Urdu.\n\nDetectives said they hope to reach Pakistani nationals living in Woking who do not speak English as their first language.\n\nAn international manhunt has been launched for Sara's father Urfan Sharif, 41, stepmother Beinash Batool, 29, and uncle Faisal Malikand, 28.\n\nSurrey Police have released an appeal in Urdu as part of the investigation into Sara Sharif's death\n\nMr Sharif and Ms Batool made their first public comments over the case in a video which was sent to the BBC this week.\n\nThe pair said they were willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nIn a statement issued on Thursday, Surrey Police said searches were still being carried out at the address in Hammond Road, Horsell, where 10-year-old Sara's body was found, and the family's previous home in Eden Grove Road, Byfleet.\n\nMr Sharif's five other children were also believed to be with the group in Pakistan.\n\nAn inquest into Sara's death has been opened and adjourned, while a post-mortem examination has so far failed to determine the exact cause of her death but said it was \"unlikely to be natural\".\n\nSurrey Police said it was still working with Interpol, the National Crime Agency and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in its bid to locate Sara's family.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nDet Supt Mark Chapman said: \"We are working hard to progress the investigation into Sara's murder and a key part of this is piecing together information about her life from anyone who knew her or her family.\n\n\"Every single piece of information we receive is reviewed by the investigation team and further enquiries carried out if appropriate.\"\n\nSpeaking to a Polish TV station, Sara's mother Olga said the girl was so badly injured she did not recognise her when she saw her body.\n\nPolice in Pakistan recently widened their search, which began around the city of Jhelum in the Punjab.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dozens of crocodiles have escaped from a breeding farm in southern China during flooding caused by Typhoon Haikui, Chinese authorities said.\n\nAround 75 crocodiles made a break for it when a lake in Maoming, Guangdong province overflowed.\n\nWhile some were recaptured, local authorities shot or electrocuted others \"for safety reasons\".\n\nChinese state media report that eight reptiles have been rounded-up so far, leaving dozens at large.\n\nVillagers close by have been told to stay at home.\n\nTyphoon Haikui has been tearing across south Asia for more than a week, affecting China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.\n\nSeven people have been killed and three others are missing in southern China following the typhoon - now downgraded to a tropical storm - which has caused landslides and flooding.\n\nSixty-nine adults and six juvenile crocodiles escaped following the floods, according to Maoming's Emergency Management Bureau.\n\nNo casualties have been reported but officials admitted some of the reptiles are still in deep water. Emergency services have been using sonar equipment to find them.\n\n\"It is currently under control, but the number of crocodiles that escaped is a bit high,\" a staff member at the district's emergency bureau told Dazhong Daily, a state-run newspaper.\n\nMost of the recaptured crocodiles have been shot to death, one firefighter told Chinese media.\n\nThey are said to be Siamese crocodiles, the Washington Post reports. These are freshwater reptiles that can grow to around 3m or nearly 10ft long, according to Crocodiles of the World, a UK zoo.\n\nThe average weight of the adult crocodiles that have been captured is about 75kg, and they measure more than 2m in length, the firefighter said.\n\nMaoming in Guangdong province is home to a number of crocodile farms. They are bred for their skin as well as for meat.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Rebecca Wight is suing The Christie for constructive dismissal\n\nA senior nurse said she was targeted by NHS managers after she raised concerns about a colleague that she alleged had implications for patient safety.\n\nRebecca Wight said she and colleagues repeatedly asked bosses to address alleged failings by a nurse at The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester.\n\n\"I didn't realise [speaking out] would cause such distress and such detriment to my life,\" she told BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe Christie said it was \"grateful\" Ms Wight had raised concerns three times.\n\nMs Wight, who worked at The Christie for nearly a decade, said patients were \"unwell for longer than they should have been\".\n\n\"I think people were left at home when they should have been in hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"They weren't getting the right care because [the nurse she had concerns about] didn't have the right experience.\"\n\nMs Wight is now suing The Christie for constructive dismissal.\n\nIn a statement, The Christie said it was \"clear\" that Ms Wight raised \"some legitimate concerns and that, by raising them, enabled improvements in the service to be made\".\n\n\"On each occasion, the concerns were taken very seriously, fully investigated, acted upon and she was informed of actions taken,\" a representative said.\n\n\"We regularly report potential patient safety matters to our public board and constantly strive to improve our system, including ensuring that those who raise concerns receive timely feedback.\"\n\nThey said investigations by the trust which runs the hospital had shown no patients had been harmed as a result of the nurse's actions.\n\nHowever, the Nursing and Midwifery Council is carrying out a full investigation.\n\nIt would have the power to issue sanctions against the nurse who Ms Wight raised concerns about - including striking her off the register if serious wrongdoing is proven.\n\nThe trust is co-operating fully with that investigation.\n\nMs Wight, who now works at a different NHS site, said she was constantly asked by the trust what she hoped to gain by raising concerns.\n\nShe said she was asked to go into mediation with her colleague, who reported her for alleged bullying.\n\n\"I was under investigation for four months for supposedly bullying somebody when actually all I was trying to do was improve patient care,\" she said.\n\nMs Wight said that investigation concluded that she had not bullied her colleague.\n\nRegulators found \"a minority of staff\" at the Christie \"expressed reservations about raising concerns\"\n\nShe added that her forthcoming employment tribunal looked like \"a battle between me and The Christie\", despite what she had set out to do originally.\n\n\"This was always about just improving and advocating and making sure that patients were safe,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet somehow it's ended up as me versus them.\"\n\nThe Christie was recently downgraded by regulators, who criticised its workplace culture and said staff \"did not always feel supported and valued\".\n\nIn May, the Care Quality Commission said \"very senior executives\" were heavily invested in the \"promotion and protection of the trust's reputation\", which \"impacted negatively on some staff\".\n\n\"A minority of staff expressed reservations about raising concerns and others did not always feel listened to,\" the regulator added.\n\nPatient safety advocate Helene Donnelly said Ms Wight's experience had echoes of her own experience of trying to raise concerns about the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust more than a decade ago.\n\nThe failings at Stafford Hospital are now considered one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NHS, with years of abuse and neglect at the hospital leading to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients.\n\nIn 2009, a report by the Healthcare Commission condemned \"appalling\" standards of care and reported there had been at least 400 more deaths than expected between 2005 and 2008.\n\nMs Donnelly said there had been \"lots of different inquiries... and reviews that focus specifically on listening to your staff\", but \"clearly that wasn't happening\".\n\nShe added it was \"very worrying to think that this is still going on\".\n\nAn NHS England representative said it was \"absolutely vital that concerns raised by staff are acted on\".\n\n\"Every trust is expected to adopt an updated national Freedom To Speak Up policy and we have asked them to urgently ensure staff have easy access to information on how they can raise concerns,\" they said.\n\nThe idea of a national register for NHS managers, with similar powers to those held by the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council in relation to doctors and nurses, was recommended in a 2018 review which looked at how effective the so-called fit and proper person test was at preventing the re-employment of unsuitable staff.\n\nThe review, led by barrister Tom Kark KC, recommended setting up a body with \"the power to bar directors where serious misconduct is proved\", but the recommendation has so far not been accepted by government.\n\nHowever, the idea was raised again following the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby, whose murder trial heard allegations that managers ignored clinicians' concerns about the serial killer.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay later said that in light of that evidence \"and ongoing variation in performance across trusts\", he had asked NHS England to work with the Department of Health to \"revisit\" the recommendation.\n\nSir Robert Francis, who led the Mid-Staffs inquiry, said the time had come \"for that to be considered very seriously\".\n\nHe said if NHS executives did not treat whistle-blowers correctly, it raised an issue about \"whether they are fit and proper people\".\n\nHe added that there should be \"a level playing field between managers and healthcare professionals in relation to regulation\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Venice is grappling with huge numbers of tourists\n\nThe Italian city of Venice has approved the trial of a €5 (£4.30; $5.35) fee for daily visitors, in a bid to control tourism.\n\nAll visitors over the age of 14 will have to pay the charge and book their entry to the city in advance.\n\nCity council member for tourism Simone Venturini says the trial will run during peak tourist periods next year.\n\n\"Venice is among the most visited European cities... [and so] suffers the most from excess tourism,\" he said.\n\nOver-tourism is widely recognised as an urgent issue for Venice.\n\nThe city is just 7.6 sq km (2.7 sq miles) in size, but it hosted almost 13 million tourists in 2019, according to the Italian national statistics institute. Numbers of visitors are expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the coming years.\n\n\"The objective is to invite daily tourists to choose [off-peak] days,\" Mr Venturini said. Tourists who stay overnight in the city will be exempt.\n\n\"We want to test [the fee] and, if needed, improve it. We cannot discuss for [an]other 40 years what's best to do.\"\n\nThe objective is to invite daily tourists to choose other days\n\nEarlier this year Unesco said the city should be added to a list of world heritage sites in danger, as the impact of climate change and mass tourism threaten to cause irreversible changes to it.\n\nIn 2021, large cruise ships were banned from entering the historic centre of Venice via the Giudecca canal after a ship crashed into a harbour. Critics had also argued that the ships were causing pollution and eroding the foundations of the city, which suffers from regular flooding.\n\nIt is not clear, however, if the plan to introduce a daily charge will deter tourists.\n\nKarina, from Germany, said she would have no problem paying the fee. \"We are on holiday, €5 is not too much.\"\n\nBut other visitors agree something should be done.\n\n\"It's definitely crowded,\" said Cal, a student from Ireland. \"We went to the main square and we were planning on going to St Marks, but the line was too long.\n\n\"But I suppose €5 is quite a lot to walk around for a day.\"\n\nThe historic city hosted some 13 million tourists in 2019, before the Covid pandemic\n\nMore and more residents in Venice are choosing to leave, as tourists threaten to overwhelm the historic island city.\n\nValentini Rizzi, a PhD student at Iuav University, has lived in Venice for five years. She struggled to find a place to live, but eventually found a landlord willing to give a long contract to a student. Others, though, have not been so lucky.\n\n\"I know students who had to leave their accommodation in May or June, because their landlord wanted to rent the house to tourists during summer, and they could go back in October. That was their deal,\" she said.\n\nCitizen associations Ocio and Venissa have launched studies to monitor the number of beds for tourists and the number of beds for residents in the city.\n\nAccording to the most recent update, while there are 49,693 beds for tourists, there are 49,308 for residents - meaning that beds for tourists exceed beds for residents.\n\nResidents like Valentina struggle to find accommodation in the city because of the number of tourists\n\nMaria Fiano, a teacher who runs Ocio, said she was surprised by what the data revealed after her organisation began its study in April.\n\n\"In only five months, the number of beds for tourists increased by 1,000 units,\" she explained.\n\nShe said many former government buildings like the Chamber of Commerce have now been converted into hotels.\n\n\"It's a dramatic situation, because it marks the transformation from a city to a non-city, populated by temporary visitors.\"\n\nMs Fiano believes the way to tackle the issue is to limit rental accommodation for tourists. She is not convinced the daily fee will work.\n\n\"I think the measure by the town hall is smoke and mirrors,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Urfan Sharif does not speak during the video, while his partner Beinash Batool reads from a notebook\n\nSara Sharif's father and stepmother claim they are willing to co-operate with UK authorities in a video - their first public comments since her death.\n\nThe 10-year-old's body was found at her home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August.\n\nSurrey Police want to speak to her father Urfan Sharif, his wife Beinash Batool and brother Faisal Malik in relation to a murder investigation.\n\nThey are known to have travelled to Pakistan from the UK on 9 August and police have been unable to locate them.\n\nIn the low-quality footage Mr Sharif does not speak while Ms Batool reads from a notebook.\n\nShe spends only two sentences on Sara, describing her death as an \"incident\".\n\nMs Batool ends the video saying that they are willing to co-operate with the UK authorities to fight their case.\n\nThe BBC was sent the video but has been unable to verify their account. Nor was the BBC able to verify the conditions under which the video was filmed or the location.\n\nIn a statement responding to the video, Surrey Police said \"clearly this is significant\" and it had been working with Interpol, the Foreign Office and the National Crime Agency to work out the next steps.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, progressing these enquiries through the appropriate channels has to be handled carefully and sensitively,\" the force said.\n\n\"Any co-operation from the people we want to speak to will assist the enquiry.\"\n\nAn inquest held last month heard the precise cause of death was \"not yet ascertained\" but was likely to be \"unnatural\".\n\nHer mother Olga Sharif told Polish television she hardly recognised Sara in the mortuary because of her injuries.\n\nThe majority of the 2 minute and 36 second-long video filmed by Mr Sharif and Ms Batool consists of allegations that the Pakistan police are harassing the couple's extended family, illegally detaining them and raiding their homes.\n\nSara Sharif was found dead in her home in Woking on 10 August\n\nMs Batool states that the reason the family are in hiding is because they fear that the Pakistan police will torture and kill them.\n\nIn response Jhelum police chief Mehmood Bajwa told the BBC the allegations of harassment and torture of family members are false.\n\nHe said if the family had any fears from the police they could go to court to seek protection.\n\nThe Pakistan police previously said in court that they have detained some family members for questioning - although they say they were not arrested - and told the BBC that they conducted some raids.\n\nThis week they denied in court that they are currently holding certain family members and have told the BBC that they have not tortured or stolen items from the family.\n\nDetectives launched an international search after Sara's body was discovered by police at an address in Woking, on 10 August.\n\nHer father, his partner and his brother, had travelled to Pakistan the previous day.\n\nSara had been living at the Surrey property with her father, her father's partner, her uncle and five brothers and sisters.\n\nIn the interview on Polish television, Olga Sharif said she had separated from Urfan Sharif in 2015. Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the family court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights.\n\nPolice said Mr Sharif, 41, made a 999 call from Pakistan, leading them to find Sara's body, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nPakistan police say they did not receive a request, via Interpol, to initiate a search for the three until 15 August. Surrey police have not said when they asked Interpol for the search to start.\n\nPakistan police believe the trio landed in Islamabad international airport early on 10 August.\n\nThey believe they travelled to the city of Jhelum and relatives in a small hamlet near Domeli in central Punjab. According to the police investigation the family arrived there, at the home of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law late at night on 12 August before leaving around 05:00 the following day.\n\nFrom there police say they do not know where they went.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Omar: 'I lost my kids, my home, everything I own'\n\nIn the tiny village of Algou, high in the Atlas Mountains, screams came from under the rubble in the terrifying moments after the earthquake.\n\nBut as the hours passed and with no specialist rescue teams appearing to assist the desperate efforts of the villagers, the screams turned to silence.\n\nThree days on, the Spanish firefighters who were the first professional teams to reach the devastated community hoped time had not run out.\n\nAs they briskly picked their way through caved-in streets and collapsed archways their experience told them there was, however, no hope.\n\nThe grim reality was reinforced by the reaction of their dogs. Igor and Teddy had been trained to bark when they found signs of life.\n\n\"There is nothing we can do here,\" said Juan Lopez, a firefighter responding to his second-ever earthquake.\n\nThe first was when his team scrambled to Turkey back in February after the devastating earthquake there. The significant international response helped bring about some incredible moments of the trapped being prised from under the rubble, even days later.\n\n\"Here in Morocco, the houses are built from rocks. In Turkey they were made with steel and are much more strong,\" Mr Lopez said.\n\n\"We won't find anyone here,\" he said, as his colleagues gently shook their heads in agreement.\n\nWe followed the team as they moved on to the next village.\n\nThere is no good place for an earthquake to strike but there are few worse than Ait Hmid. It already teetered on the edge of the mountainside, but what is now left is slumped above the precipice.\n\nIt is hard to comprehend that this mangled mound of bricks and stone was home to 28 people. Only seven survived.\n\nAs we clawed our way up to the top of the pile of rubble, Omar Ait Mahdi looked out vacantly across the valley.\n\nBehind him, 20 men were working with pickaxes, shovels and hands.\n\nOmar's wife was in hospital. He had still not found his two daughters: Hanane,17, and Khadija, 14.\n\nSuddenly there was a burst of activity and an eruption of prayer.\n\nThe girls' bodies had finally been found.\n\nAs blankets and a stretcher were passed up towards the summit of the debris, Omar told us in a quiet voice he wanted to send out a message.\n\n\"I want people to help me. I want the world to help me. I lost my kids, my home, everything I own,\" he said.\n\nThe Moroccan authorities are under pressure to accept help from more countries. So far assistance from only four nations has been taken and others, including France and Germany, have been declined.\n\nHanane and Khadija's uncle Hamid arrived to offer consolation, but he himself dissolved into tears.\n\n\"We need help so badly. And we need it from whomever will give it,\" Hamid said.", "The first Wilko shop closures will begin on Tuesday after the collapsed retail chain failed to find a buyer.\n\nStores including those in Liverpool, Cardiff, Acton and Falmouth are among 24 branches to shut, with a further 28 closing on Thursday.\n\nIt marks the beginning of the end of the Wilko brand on the High Street, with all 400 of the discount chain's shops set to close by October.\n\nAround 12,500 staff are likely to lose their jobs.\n\nWilko fell into administration in August after struggling with losses and fierce competition from other discount chains, such as Poundland and The Range.\n\nDoug Putman, the billionaire owner of music retailer HMV, had been trying to buy at least 100 Wilko shops but the deal fell through as rising costs complicated the deal.\n\nOn Monday, administrators PwC said that \"despite extensive efforts\" it had become clear that \"no significant part of the Wilko operations can be rescued\".\n\nRival B&M has agreed to buy 51 of Wilko's buildings in a £13m deal, but it is understood the stores will not be run under the Wilko brand.\n\nAnd on Tuesday the owner of Poundland agreed to take on the leases of 71 Wilko shops. The company said that Wilko staff would have priority when applying for new jobs at the Poundland shops.\n\nMeanwhile, retailers including Dunelm and Toolstation have urged Wilko employees to apply for roles at their businesses, saying they will be prioritised for vacancies.\n\nOn top of this week's store closures:\n\nIn Barking, one shopper told the BBC that she had popped into the local branch of Wilko for one last time.\n\n\"I've been coming here ever since I was a little girl,\" she said.\n\nNext door to the store, fishmonger Nadeem said he was devastated by the closure. He said the chain helped to drive shoppers to the area and was worried about the impact for his business.\n\nIn Stafford, the Wilko store saw a steady stream of customers on its final day, with some shoppers holding heavily discounted products as they left.\n\nOne customer said that local businesses had been handing out job applications to staff, saying: \"We look after our own.\"\n\nNadine Houghton, national officer at the GMB union, said: \"Wilko was far more than a brand, a retailer or the products it sold, it was the thousands of loyal team members now facing an uncertain future.\"\n\nFounded in 1930, Wilko had become one of Britain's fastest-growing retailers by the 1990s. However, more recently its large store portfolio became unsustainable, with the business owning too many shops in High Street locations at a time when out-of-city retail parks were becoming more popular with consumers.\n\nIndependent retail analyst Maureen Hinton said Wilko's store locations were part of its problems.\n\n\"Accessibility for the kind of products it was selling is very limited - it's very difficult to carry home bulky products from a High Street where you can't have access to cars and parking, which is being deterred in High Streets,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that Wilko did not organise its store portfolio as soon as soon it should have done because it had such high High Street rent costs, which was a particular problem during a time when Wilko's competitors were expanding.\n\nCoupled with a lacklustre online offering, the family-run chain faced the perfect storm, analysts say.\n\nLuke, an ex-manager at a Wilko branch in Nottingham, lost his job six weeks ago and said the loss of footfall after Covid restrictions played a big part in Wilko closures.\n\n\"We are in the 21st Century where you can order online,\" he said.\n\nAnother worker, who wished to remain anonymous, agreed that the Somerset store she worked in never recovered after the second Covid lockdown, but told the BBC that Wilko's bosses were the root of the firm's problems.\n\n\"[There was] mismanagement, greed and total incompetence at the top. It's sad, its utterly sad,\" she said. She added that the store she worked at never recovered after the second lockdown.\n\nLisa Wilkinson, who was Wilko's chairwoman until January and who is the granddaughter of the chain's founder, said \"everybody has thrown everything\" at trying to save the business.\n\nDo you work at one of the stores which will close on Tuesday? Are you affected by Wilko shop closures? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescue workers carry the body of a victim killed in the village of Talat N'Yaaqoub\n\nRescuers in Morocco have been using their bare hands as desperate search efforts continue for survivors of Friday's powerful earthquake.\n\nA total of 2,681 people are known to have died in the tremor - the country's deadliest in 60 years.\n\nMorocco's government is under pressure to accept more international aid, as rescuers battle with exhaustion.\n\nSo far, it has accepted help from only four countries - Spain, the UK, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.\n\nOfficials defended the response, and said it would be too chaotic if teams from around the world suddenly arrived in Morocco.\n\nThe 6.8 magnitude tremor hit the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh, and destroyed many rural and remote villages.\n\nOne of them - Tafeghaghte - has had its population of 200 people nearly halved, and many are still missing.\n\nHeavy lifting equipment is struggling to get through roads blocked by boulders and other debris.\n\nHelicopters have been making round trips to deliver aid to mountainous regions.\n\nAlbert Vasquez, a communications officer for a team of 30 Spanish firefighters, told the AFP news agency that \"it's very difficult to find people alive after three days\" but \"hope is still there\".\n\nIn the village of Moulay Brahim, 26-year-old Said told the BBC that he saw his neighbour's house collapse.\n\n\"A family of six people lived there. The father was outside at the time and is still alive, but his wife and four children were there and died,\" he said, in a state of shock.\n\n\"The daughters were 15, eight and five years old. The last child was a little boy about to turn three,\" he explained.\n\nSaid has not been able to sleep or eat since Friday night.\n\n\"The situation is catastrophic. I don't know how I will recover from this,\" he said.\n\nKhadijah Deaoune looks for her goat among the the rubble of what used to be her home in the small village of Tinmel\n\nTom Godfrey, the team lead for UK rescue charity EMT, said the worst impact was in the south-west, where humanitarian relief was desperately needed.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC en route the village of Amizmiz, he said his team were expecting to treat traumatic injuries initially, with the risk of disease increasing if aid was further delayed.\n\nThe World Health Organization said more than 300,000 people had been affected by the earthquake, the deadliest in Morocco since a 1960 earthquake destroyed Agadir, killing 12,000 to 15,000 people.\n\nThe Tinmel Mosque, a historic site in the mountains, has been severely damaged, and Marrakesh's old city, a World Heritage Site has suffered collapsed buildings.\n\nPressure - and anger - is mounting on Morocco's government to accept the help offered by several nations.\n\nMohamed Ouchen managed to save his family members from the rubble, but his home in Tikekhte, near Adassil was destroyed\n\nThe United States, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan and France - a former colonial power of Morocco - are some of the nations which have offered support.\n\nNeighbouring Algeria, which has a long history of fraught relations with Morocco, has offered specialised rescue workers, medical personnel and sniffer dogs, as well as beds, tents and blankets.\n\nBut the Moroccan government has said it does not want to risk a chaotic situation with dozens of countries and aid organisations arriving to help.\n\n\"A lack of co-ordination in such cases would be counterproductive,\" authorities said.\n\nDr Clare McCaughey, a GP based in Marrakesh, told the BBC that private clinics like hers would not hesitate to \"provide care to any earthquake victims free of charge\".\n\n\"Moroccans are doing what Moroccans do best,\" she said, adding that it has been \"incredible\" to see the outpouring of support from the community.\n\n\"There are huge trucks going up to the mountains, but also people [taking their cars] to the supermarkets and getting them up the hill to the people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Kaien Cruz might have become a professional footballer player.\n\nBut in a dramatic turn of events the South African singer-songwriter instead ditched their boots and fully embraced music – after their sister encouraged them to record a song they'd written while at university on a football scholarship.\n\nLove Me in the Dark – released in 2017 as a dance mix by local DJ Sketchy Bongo – was an overnight success.\n\n\"This song starts going crazy on radio and TV and everyone’s singing it,\" says Cruz, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them.\n\n\"I was blown away because it was like the first song of my own that I had written on guitar - super innocently in my room.\"\n\nLove Me in the Dark topped the South African charts and was nominated for Song of The Year at South African Music Awards. It also caught the ear of Canadian global star Justin Bieber, who handpicked Cruz to open his sold-out Purpose Tour in 2017.\n\nCruz, then 18, had only performed at one show before – for about 500 people. Suddenly, they were in a packed stadium in front of 90,000 screaming concertgoers.\n\nThat experience made Cruz realise that \"music is the path that I should be taking, and I should keep going\".\n\nCruz first picked up a guitar at the age of eight.\n\nNow based in Los Angeles, Cruz believes that their upbringing in South Africa amid many diverse cultures, languages, food and people now allows them to weave between music genres and playing styles, such as R&B, stripped-down acoustic and Afropop.\n\n\"It really depends on whatever comes out that day or whatever mood I'm in. I think the through-line for me is music is therapy,\" they said.\n\nCruz mostly writes about love and relationships – but they think that \"most of their audience is not fully aware of my queerness\" because that is \"not at the forefront of the music that I make\".\n\nTheir latest single, I Lay, is Afro-Latin, upbeat and energetic. It follows on from the heartfelt Black Ice, also released this year. They are working on their first full length project, which is 12 tracks.\n\n\"I just love every single song and I feel like this is really going to give people a good understanding of who I am and what I can do musically,\" Cruz says.\n\nWhen Cruz is not making music, they’re still keen to kick a ball around with friends on a beach.\n\nYou can hear Kaien Cruz on This Is Africa on BBC World Service radio over the weekend, and online at BBCWorldservice.com/thisisafrica", "Brazilian fugitive Danelo Cavalcante was captured after two weeks on the run.\n\nOn 31 August, he escaped Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania by climbing a wall and for several days authorities thought he was inside a perimeter near the prison.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison after murdering his former girlfriend. Authorities say he committed a similar crime in his homeland, Brazil.", "Possessing laughing gas has moved a step closer to being made illegal, after MPs voted overwhelmingly to have it categorised as a class C drug.\n\nUnder the law change, unlawful possession of nitrous oxide will carry a sentence of up to two years in prison or a large fine.\n\nIt is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs among young people.\n\nCritics have warned the government against arresting \"your way out of a public health issue\".\n\nMPs passed the bill by 404 votes to 36, and it will now go to the House of Lords, where opposition is unexpected.\n\nThe use of nitrous oxide for medical reasons - such as during childbirth - as well as commercial purposes will still be allowed.\n\nThe substance - which is sold in metal canisters - can cause headaches and make some users anxious or paranoid, while over-use can make people faint or lose consciousness.\n\nIntensive, frequent use can also lead to vitamin B12 deficiency which can cause neurological damage, according to a government report quoting several scientific studies.\n\nIf the law change is passed, nitrous oxide would be controlled as a class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, alongside diazepam, GHB and GBL.\n\nThose found in unlawful possession of the drug could face up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine, with up to 14 years for supply or production.\n\nPolicing minister Chris Philp said neurological units had seen \"extremely worrying\" numbers of people who were paralysed or suffered serious consequences from using the drug.\n\nSpeaking for Labour, Alex Norris said the change in the law was relatively minor and his party would not stand in the way of it.\n\nThe Scottish National Party voted against the ban, with spokesperson Alison Thewliss describing drug use as a public health issue.\n\n\"You cannot arrest your way out of a public health issue,\" she said.\n\nHealth experts have also previously warned against a ban, saying it could stop users seeking medical help.\n\nConservative MP Dan Poulter, an NHS doctor, opposed the law change, saying that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs said they \"did not believe that the medical harms of nitrous oxide posed anything near the significance of many other street drugs or indeed if we look at the harms of alcohol\".\n\nHe added that a ban would achieve little except disrupting businesses that supply the gas for legitimate purposes.\n\nMr Philp said exemptions from the ban would be \"extremely broad\" to ensure the government does not \"unintentionally stymie\" its legitimate use for medical research or commercial purposes.", "Michael Kemp caught nine bugs at the start of the latest infestation\n\nA pensioner is at his \"wits' end\" after being driven to sleep in his car due to a bed bug infestation in his flat owned by a retirement housing company.\n\nMichael Kemp, 83, from Northampton, said he had experienced the bugs before but this latest episode had forced him to leave his home overnight.\n\nA visit by a pest controller has failed to solve the problem at the property.\n\nHousing association EMH, which owns the complex, has apologised for the distress caused to residents.\n\nMr Kemp said the problem began in Murray House, a retirement housing complex in the Abington area of the town, in July.\n\n\"I woke up in the middle of the night itching and I knew immediately from my previous experience.\n\n\"I caught them with Sellotape, I caught nine [but] there were others that got away.\"\n\nMichael Kemp has been catching the bed bugs with sticky tape\n\nHe said the complex warden told him that other flats were infested and bugs had been in the building for at least 10 years.\n\nMr Kemp said he reported the problem immediately but nothing was done: \"I was told it was my responsibility; I won't accept that,\" he added.\n\nThe building was treated by a pest controller and Mr Kemp was told it was safe to sleep in the flat but the bugs struck again.\n\n\"That night, within quarter of an hour of getting into bed, I was bitten again. I caught over 25 bed bugs,\" he said.\n\nHe is now sleeping in his car which, while he is not sleeping very well, he finds preferable to getting bitten.\n\nMichael Kemp says the bed bugs have forced him to sleep in his car\n\nMr Kemp said he was at his \"wits' end\" and he had been told a pest controller would have to make two more visits over the next fortnight to clear the bugs.\n\nChristine Ashton, from EMH, told the BBC: \"We will be applying a further chemical treatment programme to eradicate the bed bugs over the next few weeks, and are committed to continuing visits over the next 12 months to ensure the issue does not arise again.\n\n\"Bed bugs can be difficult to eradicate and we have also provided advice and guidance to our residents on what they have do alongside the treatment to make it work effectively.\n\n\"We are sorry about the distress caused to residents as result of this issue.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The work and pensions secretary has refused to commit to raising the state pension to match official overall earnings figures.\n\nUnder the government's triple lock pledge, next year's pensions are meant to rise by the highest of 2.5%, prices, or average wages.\n\nData released earlier suggested this was likely to be 8.5%, the average wage figure for the summer months.\n\nBut Mel Stride said he could not commit to using it for the calculation.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The World At One, he added the government remained \"committed\" to the triple lock promise.\n\nBut he said he was \"not going to get into the mechanics\" of the official process to work out the increase, which begins later this autumn.\n\nThe 8.5% earnings figure is likely to be the highest of the three benchmarks this year. It would make the new flat-rate state pension £221.20 a week, or £169.50 a week for the full, old basic state pension.\n\nHowever, it is understood officials are looking at using a lower figure for earnings, by stripping out the effect of bonuses to public sector workers. Such a move could bring the figure used closer to 7.8%, the overall rate excluding bonuses.\n\nTraditionally, the figure for May to July, including bonuses, is used for calculating pensions rises under the triple lock for the following April.\n\nThis year's average, however, has been boosted by one-off awards to settle public sector pay disputes.\n\nIn his Radio 4 interview, Mr Stride said there \"clearly is a difference\" in the effect of bonuses on the figure - but the final decision would be made as part of the legal review this autumn.\n\nHe also admitted the triple lock, which has featured in both main parties' election manifestos, is unsustainable in the \"very, very long term\".\n\n\"But of course what I'm dealing with is now - and where we stand at the moment - is we remain committed to the triple lock,\" he added.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner refused to promise the triple lock would feature in her party's manifesto ahead of the next general election, expected next year.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast: \"We will have to see where we are when we get to a general election and we see the finances\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has also refused to say whether it will be in the next Conservative election manifesto. Mr Stride has previously said it \"almost certainly\" would be.\n\nBoth parties have committed to maintaining the triple lock at every election since the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government first made the pledge in 2010.\n\nRising inflation over the past year has made the promise more expensive for the government to maintain, whilst the UK's ageing population has raised questions over its long-term viability.\n\nThe government's pointed refusal to commit to match the overall earnings figure and instead toy with a figure that discounts some one-off payments would save hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nBut critics could accuse ministers of breaking the spirit of the triple lock.\n\nIn the near term, neither the Tories nor Labour are committing to maintaining the triple lock after the election. If the Conservatives keep it, it is expected Labour will do so; but if the Tories tweak it, Labour may follow suit.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank, has estimated that maintaining the triple lock could cost between an extra £5bn and £45bn per year, on top of inflation, by 2050.\n\nWriting in the Times, former Tory leader William Hague urged the two main parties to give themselves the \"space\" to change stance on the triple lock, calling it \"unsustainable\" in the long term.\n\nHe said neither party could afford to \"commit electoral suicide\" by promising to scrap it alone, but \"sometimes in politics, you have to help each other a bit\".\n\n\"Everyone on a runaway train has a common interest in letting someone fix the brakes,\" he added.", "The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas has been affected\n\nCustomers have reported problems with slot machines and online room booking systems following a cyber-attack on casino and hotel giant MGM Resorts.\n\nCertain systems were shut down due to a \"cyber-security issue\", the firm said.\n\nBut it added that its facilities remained \"operational\".\n\nOne customer at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas said she had walked into the wrong room because the hotel's digital keys were malfunctioning, and said staff had to distribute physical keys.\n\nStaff offered her a complimentary stay as compensation, she told the BBC.\n\nShe also posted a video on TikTok of slot machines and gambling games at the resort switched off.\n\nOther people have taken to social media to complain about cancelled reservations, not being able to check in, make card payments or log in to their MGM accounts. One customer said he'd had to leave the MGM Grand in order to find cash to buy food.\n\nIn a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, MGM Resorts said it had begun an investigation \"with assistance from leading external cybersecurity experts\".\n\n\"We also notified law enforcement and took prompt action to protect our systems and data, including shutting down certain systems,\" the statement said.\n\nThe company said its investigation was ongoing with the \"nature and scope\" of the cyber-attack still to be determined.\n\nIn a subsequent statement it said: \"Our resorts including dining, entertainment and gaming are still operational.\n\n\"Our guests continue to be able to access their hotel rooms and our Front Desk is ready to assist our guests as needed,\" it added.\n\nThe company's main website is down. A message on its homepage says the site is \"currently unavailable\" and directs customers to contact the company via the phone, or through third-party websites.\n\nSimilar messages are displayed on websites for the firm's resorts. It owns hotels and casinos across the US, including some of the best-known locations in Las Vegas.\n\nThis is the second time in recent years that MGM Resorts has confirmed a cyber-security incident.\n\nIn 2019, one of the company's cloud services was breached, and hackers stole more than 10 million customer records. People's names, addresses and passport numbers were taken.\n\nIt is not yet known whether similar data has been stolen as a result of this latest cyber-attack.", "Karen Andrews visits the US as Australia's minister for home affairs in 2021\n\nA prominent Australian politician says she has been subjected to ongoing harassment inside the nation's parliament.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Karen Andrews alleges an unnamed male colleague used to \"breathe on\" her neck and make crude remarks in the lower house.\n\nAustralia's parliament has been marred by reports of widespread sexual misconduct.\n\nIn February, both houses agreed to new codes of conduct for MPs and staffers.\n\n\"I'd just be sitting there minding my own business and I would have the back of my neck breathed on and if I asked a question, it would be: 'That was a great question, thrusting and probing,'\" Ms Andrews told the ABC.\n\n\"But do you know what the issue is? Well, there would be people that would say: 'Can't you take a joke?'... and sometimes I do call it out, but sometimes I just go: 'I can't be in every fight.'\"\n\nMs Andrews was one of the most senior women in Scott Morrison's former coalition government, serving as both the minister for industry and the minster for home affairs.\n\nShe has repeatedly spoken out about the harsh treatment of women in federal politics and earlier this year she announced she would retire at the next election - which will take place by 2025.\n\nA former mechanical engineer, Ms Andrews spent her pre-political career in male-dominated industries, but says it was only in parliament that she faced gender-based discrimination.\n\n\"I went to politics and it was the first time I've ever felt I had to fight for things simply because I was a woman,\" she told the ABC.\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Andrews's then Liberal party colleague Senator David Van faced three allegations of sexual harassment - including two from fellow MPs Lidia Thorpe and Amanda Stoker.\n\nMr Van strongly denied the complaints and remains in parliament, despite being dismissed from the party.\n\nThe accusations sparked renewed debate about the safety of women working in government - an issue that has plagued Australia in recent years.\n\nIn 2021, former Liberal party staffer Brittany Higgins went public with allegations that she had been raped metres from the prime minister's office by a co-worker after hours in 2019.\n\nThe allegation prompted an independent workplace review by the former sex discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins, which found that one in three people working in parliamentary offices had experienced sexual harassment.\n\nThe report also detailed widespread bullying and incidents of actual or attempted sexual assault.", "A rescue team carries the body of an earthquake victim\n\nIn the village of Ouirgane in the Atlas Mountains, residents gather on piles of debris around the home of a mother and daughter buried underneath.\n\nLike many mountain communities, Ouirgane suffered major losses in the earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night.\n\nBuildings have been destroyed and most residents are now either sleeping in tents or have left.\n\nPolice and rescue workers tell us more than 30 people died here. The cemetery is dotted with new graves covered in branches.\n\nFor now, everyone is focused on the two missing women: Fatima and Hajar.\n\nThey lived on the ground floor of a three-storey building in the centre of the village.\n\nIt now tilts to one side and is surrounded by piles of rubble, and small traces of lives now destroyed: a teapot, a child's Disney rucksack, a floral scarf.\n\nCrowds gather around the building and pray for good news, as rescue workers use a sniffer dog to search for signs of life.\n\nResidents tell us they will not leave until Fatima and Hajar are found, dead or alive.\n\n\"In our culture, we eat from the same plate. We share food and we share plates. We're a family,\" one man says, as a crowd around him nod in agreement.\n\n\"They're our sisters,\" says another.\n\nAmong the crowd is Fatima's sister-in-law Khadija, who lived in the top two floors of the building. She was in Marrakesh when the earthquake struck.\n\nShe tells us that Fatima's husband was pulled from the debris but later died, while her young son is in hospital after spending hours trapped in the rubble.\n\nShe says Fatima and Hajar, 40 and 17, had the \"same nature\", describing them as \"peaceful\" people.\n\n\"Fatima never argued with anyone, or had problems with anyone,\" she tells me. \"Hajar would keep to herself. She was shy. She was studying and was among the top students.\"\n\nBut hopes of finding them alive are slim, and fade throughout the day.\n\nIn the late afternoon, a body is found.\n\nRescue workers move slowly and carefully as they take the body out of the rubble and onto an orange stretcher, covering it with blankets.\n\nThey lift the stretcher and carry it through the streets towards a clearing in front of the local cemetery. The crowds follow solemnly behind.\n\nAfter the body is washed, the stretcher is placed on the ground, and the men file in rows behind it. And then they pray.\n\nAfter the burial, the crowds file back to the building, waiting for news on Fatima.\n\nNo one we speak to now has any hope of finding her alive, but they say it is important that her body is recovered.\n\n\"Everyone underground here has been brought out - alive or dead. Fatima is the only one left,\" one man says.\n\n\"I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't drink until we take Fatima from underground.\"\n\n\"The whole village needs to get her body out. It needs to happen today, not tomorrow,\" another man says as he walks back from the cemetery.\n\nFatima's neighbour Said echoes this. \"We can't do anything until we get her body out. Please God, let it be today.\"\n\nAmong the crowds is rescue worker Mohamed Khoutari, who is taking a short break after days of searching through the rubble.\n\n\"When we started we thought maybe they would be alive but with time we have realised it's not possible,\" he tells me. \"There are no signs of life - no movement, no sound.\"\n\nBut he says the workers must put the same effort into retrieving bodies as finding survivors.\n\n\"I cannot move from here until we find Fatima,\" he says.\n\nAs night falls, blankets are passed up to the search teams, and in low murmurs among the crowd, word spreads that Fatima's body has been found.\n\nShe is moved onto a stretcher as the Muslim call to prayer rings out through the mountains. Khadija sobs, and is supported by family members.\n\nResidents again follow the stretcher through the streets towards the cemetery.\n\nWhen the burial is over, they return to makeshift tents, and those who have travelled from outside to help get in their cars and drive away.\n\nBut questions linger over how Ouirgane and other stricken communities can move forward.\n\n\"I never imagined that I would see my neighbours pulled from the ground like this,\" Said says.\n\n\"The problem now is the future of this region. What will the future of our village and the people here be?\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Labour's deputy leader has refused to promise to raise the state pension in line with the \"triple lock\" if her party wins power.\n\nAngela Rayner said it could not commit to the policy, under which pensions rise by the highest of prices, average earnings or 2.5%, until an election.\n\nShe added it would need to inspect the country's finances before deciding.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak has also refused to say whether it will be in the next Conservative election manifesto.\n\nHe has confirmed, however, it remains current government policy, signalling that it will be used to decide the next increase, due in April next year.\n\nNew earnings figures published on Tuesday suggest it could be 8.5% - although Downing Street is yet to commit to a specific figure.\n\nIt is understood officials are looking at using a lower figure, by stripping out the effect of bonuses to public sector workers.\n\nBoth Labour and the Tories have committed to maintaining the triple lock at every election since the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government first made the pledge in 2010.\n\nBut rising inflation over the past year has made the promise more expensive for the government to maintain, whilst the UK's ageing population has raised questions over its long-term viability.\n\nAsked whether Labour would recommit to the policy ahead of the next election, expected next year, Ms Rayner replied: \"We will have to see where we are when we get to a general election and we see the finances.\n\n\"We will not make unfunded spending commitments, because Liz Truss did that and she crashed the economy,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said the party wanted the government to stick to its commitment to maintain the triple lock. They added it was \"usual practice\" for Labour to see the public finances before making manifesto commitments.\n\nIn June, a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told reporters people could expect to see the party continue its support for the triple lock if it enters government.\n\nThe same month, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said a commitment to maintain the triple lock would \"almost certainly\" be in the next Tory manifesto.\n\nFor some time now, Labour's position on the triple lock has been that it won't call for it to be scrapped - but if the government decides to ditch it, then Labour would not commit to restoring it.\n\nThat's because this would then clash with the one thing that is a cast-iron commitment from the opposition: not making unfunded spending commitments.\n\nBut this formulation hasn't been tested in the glare of publicity, and amid a debate in Conservative ranks about the triple lock's future.\n\nAnd it is proving tricky.\n\nIf Angela Rayner had said \"we'll keep it if the Tories do\" - essentially the party's position - it would look like Labour was following and not leading.\n\nSo she said Labour would have to look at the books before committing - but that it looks like the party is watering down its 2019 manifesto commitment to pensioners.\n\nSo the Conservative-supporting papers that would denounce unfunded spending commitments will now also happily denounce Labour for putting a question mark over the future income of pensioners.\n\nAnd even the most loyal trade union leaders - never mind the Labour leadership's critics - at the TUC conference are calling for an unequivocal promise to keep it.\n\nUnder the annual pensions-setting process, the government normally decides in the autumn on the increase that will apply from the following April.\n\nBeing committed to the triple lock therefore requires the government to make an unknown spending commitment, since it ties the cost of pensions to future inflation data it cannot forecast precisely.\n\nThe figure used to measure rising prices - the CPI figure for September - is unlikely to be higher than the 8.5% figure for average earnings announced on Tuesday.\n\nIt means the cost of pensions next year could be around £2bn higher than estimated at the March Budget, when it was estimated that pensions would have to rise by just over 6%.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank, has estimated that maintaining the triple lock could cost an extra £5bn and £45bn per year, on top of inflation, by 2050.\n\nWriting in the Times, former Tory leader William Hague urged the two main parties to give themselves the \"space\" to change stance on the triple lock, calling it \"unsustainable\" in the long term.\n\nHe said neither party could afford to \"commit electoral suicide\" by promising to scrap it alone, but \"sometimes in politics, you have to help each other a bit\".\n\n\"Everyone on a runaway train has a common interest in letting someone fix the brakes,\" he added.", "Now that we've heard the opening arguments from both sides, we're going to wrap up this live page.\n\nIt's unclear how long this trial will take, but some guess it could last as long as 10 weeks.\n\nSo, who could we expect to be called upon in court?\n\nEarlier this month, Cue, Giannandrea and Perica lost a challenge to stop them being called as witnesses in the trial. We know that Pichai is in Washington this week for a global AI forum at the Senate.\n\nRest assured we'll be keeping an eye on this case, and will bring you more coverage as it goes on.\n\nFor now, thanks for joining us, and enjoy the rest of your day.", "A judge in Pakistan has ruled Sara Sharif's siblings, who travelled from the UK with her father, should be sent to a government childcare facility.\n\nThe five children were found at the home of their grandfather in Jhelum, north-eastern Pakistan.\n\nSara, 10, was found dead at her family home in Woking, Surrey, on 10 August - a day after three adults, including her father, left the UK.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik left the UK with five children aged between one and 13.\n\nSurrey Police said they would like to speak to the three adults in relation to Sara's death, and were \"absolutely committed to conducting a thorough investigation\".\n\nPakistan police have so far been unable to locate them.\n\nOn Tuesday, a court ruled Sara's five siblings should be sent to a Pakistan government childcare facility temporarily.\n\nThe ruling did not state how long the children may be kept in the government facility for. It also does not determine where the children will ultimately be sent.\n\nThe children arrived at court in a police car with blacked out windows. The younger ones were carried in by family members, as they were surrounded by armed police and local media.\n\nThey appeared in the first court for around 40 minutes before a judge concluded it did not have jurisdiction to make the decision.\n\nThe siblings were then moved to another court, where the BBC was allowed to join.\n\nWhile the judge asked questions of their grandfather and his lawyer, they sat on chairs at the side, legs dangling. The eldest child comforted the youngest, pacing the court while bouncing them.\n\nAt one point the children's family brought in refreshments - cartons of juice and packets of biscuits.\n\nAll five were sent to a waiting police car before the verdict was announced.\n\nSara's grandfather Muhammad Sharif, who is Urfan Sharif's father, made no comment as he left court. He had made a request to the court for the children to stay with him.\n\nPolice took the children from Mr Sharif's house, in Jhelum, on Monday, before returning them, on the condition he would bring them to court the next day.\n\nHe had earlier told BBC News the children had been staying at his home since their arrival on 10 August.\n\n\"I told Urfan and Beinash that they can go wherever they want to, but I will not let the children go with you. Until today, no one had asked me about the children.\n\n\"They kept asking me about Urfan, Faisal and Beinash, no one asked me about the children.\"\n\nMr Sharif has repeatedly denied being in touch with his son or knowing where he is.\n\nBBC News also spoke to sisters of Urfan Sharif, who said the children were very upset when they were taken from their grandfather's home.\n\n\"The children were crying, the police were dragging them away,\" Farzana Malik said.\n\nSara's father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik are wanted by police\n\nEyewitnesses told the BBC that police officers raided the property just before 16:30 local time (12:30 BST) on Monday. Officers stopped traffic and prevented anyone from filming on their phones, neighbours said.\n\nMr Sharif accused the police of breaking CCTV cameras and the gates of his home.\n\nPolice confirmed they had taken the children, but Sara's father, Urfan Sharif, stepmother, Beinash Batool, and uncle, Faisal Malik, were not with them. The police said the children did not resist leaving.\n\nFlowers and pictures of Sarah outside the family home in Woking, Surrey\n\nSurrey Police said \"the safety and welfare of these five children has always been a priority for us\", adding that they were working with relevant authorities \"to determine the next steps\".\n\nSurrey County Council said its \"overriding priority\" is the welfare of the children. BBC News understands the council was working through the night to get information to the court in Pakistan.\n\nTim Oliver, leader of Surrey County Council, said they were working with authorities \"to best ensure the immediate and longer term safety and wellbeing of the children\".\n\nSara's body was found after her father made an emergency call from Pakistan, shortly after landing in Islamabad.\n\nThe BBC also visited the family home in Woking, Surrey, on Tuesday where, more than a month after Sara's body was found, there was still a police presence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Kim Jong Un is greeted with a brass band and red carpet as part of an official Russian welcome\n\nTalks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a possible arms deal are set to begin soon.\n\nMr Kim travelled for two days in an armoured train to the Vostochny space centre in Russia's far east, in what was a highly scrutinised journey.\n\nThe two sanctioned regimes are expected to strike a deal that exchanges weapons for humanitarian aid.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Kim and Mr Putin is being closely watched by the US and its allies, although Pyongyang and Moscow deny that their talks are about military cooperation.\n\nThe White House said it had new information that negotiations between Russia and North Korea were on a weapons deal were \"actively advancing\".\n\nNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had tried to \"convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition\" to Russia during a recent visit to North Korea.\n\nNorth Korea also wants food aid and possibly technology to help its banned nuclear and missiles programme, analysts say.\n\nBut the Kremlin said on Tuesday that the \"fully fledged visit\" would cover \"bilateral relations, the situation in the region and in the global arena\".\n\nMr Kim said his visit shows shows the \"strategic importance\" of ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, North Korean state media reported.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia would always act in its national interest.\n\n\"The interests of our two countries are important to us, and not warnings from Washington,\" he was quoted as saying by Russian media.\n\nThe highly anticipated visit was expected to take place in Vladivostok where Mr Putin was hosting an economic forum - but Mr Kim's train trundled past the city and headed north towards the space centre.\n\nThe Vostochny space centre is Russia's most advanced space centre and is said to be a pet project for Mr Putin.\n\nNorth Korea may seek co-operation from Russia on its space programme. Late last month, it failed a for second time to place a spy satellite in orbit after a rocket failure.\n\nOn his way to the space centre, Mr Kim made a brief stop at the border station of Khasan on Tuesday morning where he was greeted by a Russian delegation as a brass band played.\n\nMr Kim's train is rumoured to include at least 20 heavy bulletproof carriages. The extra weight means the train is very slow - it can only travel at around 37mph (59 km/h).\n\nThe North Korean leader's last trip abroad was to Vladivostok in 2019 for a summit with Mr Putin after the collapse of nuclear disarmament talks with the then-US president, Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why might North Korea and Russia want to be friends?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland continued their modern-day superiority in the 150-year rivalry with Scotland by beating their in-form hosts in a friendly at a raucous Hampden.\n\nThe Scots last triumphed in this fixture in 1999, but hopes of a 42nd win appeared ominously faint as Phil Foden's opener silenced the national stadium before the terrific Jude Bellingham was gifted a second three minutes later.\n\nA shaken Scotland eventually awoke the home crowd as Harry Maguire's lazy leg sent Andy Robertson's cross screeching beyond Aaron Ramsdale.\n\nHowever, England's classy play and intricate movement would pay once more as Harry Kane slotted home the visitors' third after a mesmeric Bellingham assist.\n• None LIVE: All the reaction as England beat Scotland\n\nThe first official meeting between these two took place on 30 November 1872 at the West of Scotland Cricket Club.\n\nSix miles and 150 years on, this great rivalry captured the imagination of a Scottish public with a yearning for victory founded in genuine optimism.\n\nTop of their European Championship qualifying group with five wins from five and facing an England team held by Ukraine on Saturday, head coach Steve Clarke spoke pre-match about the desire to see how much his team had narrowed the gap.\n\nIn the end, a fluid and ruthless first half from Gareth Southgate's team offered a sobering reply. The visitors were slick, composed and in control and deserved the lead when it eventually arrived.\n\nKyle Walker lashed the ball towards the Scotland goal from inside the area, only for Foden's quick thinking and feet helping the ball divert beyond Angus Gunn.\n\nScotland barely had a chance to gather themselves before it was two. An uncharacteristic lack of composure from Robertson saw an attempted clearance prodded towards Bellingham on the penalty spot to scud home.\n\nThe introduction of Ryan Christie after the break breathed life into a flat Scotland, and the lifeline via the unfortunate Maguire ignited a fire inside Clarke's side as England rocked.\n\nBut Bellingham's class would show once more. With nine minutes to go, the Real Madrid man danced by two trailing dark blue jerseys, slipped the ball to his captain, and Bayern Munich's leading man made no mistake.\n\nEngland offer answers while Scots' wait goes on - analysis\n\nYou can't always read too much into friendlies, but there were a few questions answered in Glasgow.\n\nWhile far from any sort of crisis, England's disjointed performance at the weekend raised more than a few eyebrows. Against Scotland, the zip to their play was a joy at times as they carved their hosts open in the first half.\n\nKane's willingness to drop deep to offer an out was often key, as was the blistering attacking prowess of Bellingham and Rashford. The link-up play was a joy to watch, unless you were wearing a dark blue jersey.\n\nFor Scotland, this is the kind of test they will surely face next summer in Germany. Their spot at the Euros is one positive result away, and previous wins in Norway and at home to Spain have fuelled a belief they can mix it with Europe's best.\n\nYet trying to conjure the dynamism which has thrust them forward in recent months didn't really happen, with the second-half performance perhaps coming a bit too late.\n\nA Scotland on the up will have other nights, but this one belonged to Bellingham and England.\n• None England earned their 600th victory in all competitions, the first European nation to reach this milestone in international football.\n• None This was just Scotland's second defeat in their past 20 home games in all competitions (W14 D4), ending a run of six straight victories.\n• None Bellingham (Real Madrid) and Kane (Bayern Munich) are the first to score for England against Scotland while playing for clubs outside of England, after Kevin Keegan in May 1979 (Hamburg) and Paul Gascoigne at Euro 1996 (Rangers).\n• None Bellingham became the first England player to both score and assist a goal in a match against Scotland since Keegan in May 1979.\n• None With his assist for Foden's opener, Walker has now been involved in a goal in each of his past three England appearances (assist v North Macedonia, goal v Ukraine).\n• None There were just 167 seconds between England's opening two goals, with those strikes the only two shots on target for either side in the opening 45 minutes.\n• None Maguire became just the second substitute to score an own goal for England, after Eric Dier against Australia in May 2016. It was the first own goal England have conceded against Scotland since May 1974 (Colin Todd).\n\nScotland have the opportunity to rubber stamp their Euro 2024 place in the forthcoming international break, with their next game in Spain on 12 October (19:45 BST). England host Australia in a friendly a day later (19:45).\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Porteous (Scotland) header from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Goal! Scotland 1, England 3. Harry Kane (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jude Bellingham. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales is due to appear in court on Friday over kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso.\n\nHermoso filed a legal complaint last week over Rubiales kissing her on the lips following her country's Women's World Cup final win on 20 August.\n\nRubiales has been summoned by a high court judge to respond to accusations of sexual assault and coercion.\n\nHe will appear before a magistrate in Madrid at 12:00 local time (11:00 BST).\n\nHermoso, 33, said the kiss was not consensual, while Rubiales has claimed it was \"mutual\" and \"consensual\" and again defended his actions in an interview with Piers Morgan, which was aired on Tuesday on Talk TV.\n• None Rubiales resigns as president of Spanish FA over Hermoso kiss\n\nRubiales quit as Spanish FA president on Sunday as a result of the controversy, and has also resigned from his position as vice-president of Uefa's executive committee.\n\nHermoso's complaint was one of sexual assault but last week prosecutor Marta Durantez Gil added an allegation of coercion after the forward alleged that some of her relatives had been pressured by Rubiales and his \"professional entourage\" to say she \"justified and approved what happened\".\n\nOn Monday, Judge Francisco de Jorge of the National Court accepted the complaint and assigned a magistrate to investigate the case.\n\nAfter completing an investigation, the magistrate will then either make a recommendation for the case to go to trial or be dismissed.\n\nJorge also requested video footage of the incident from Spain's public broadcaster RTVE, plus videos of the team's celebrations published online by Spanish newspapers El Pais, AS and La Vanguardia, be submitted as evidence.\n\nThe fallout from the kiss has engulfed Spanish football in recent weeks and overshadowed Spain's World Cup win, with Rubiales ignoring repeated calls to resign before eventually quitting on Sunday.\n\nThe charge of sexual assault can carry a punishment ranging from a fine to four years in prison under Spanish law.\n\n\"I have faith in the truth and I will do everything in my power so that it prevails,\" Rubiales wrote in an open letter on Sunday.\n\nPachuca player Hermoso released a long statement on social media on 25 August saying the kiss was not \"consensual\".\n\n\"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours. I felt vulnerable and a victim of an impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part,\" she continued.\n\n\"Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nSome 81 Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, said they would not play for the national team again while Rubiales was in his position.\n\nWorld Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda - considered a close ally of Rubiales - was sacked on 5 September, with Montse Tome named as his successor.\n\nTome is scheduled to name her squad on Friday for her first game in charge, which is against Sweden on 22 September.\n\nRubiales has previously apologised for the kiss but said there was \"no harm, no sexual content, no aggression, nothing like that\".\n\nHowever, he refused to directly apologise to Hermoso when asked if he would do so by Morgan.\n\n\"What happened is bad for everyone,\" said Rubiales.\n\n\"We had Jenni lifting me. We had the fleeting kiss, two tenths of a second, but what was created from that is crazy.\n\n\"So what's left for me is to defend my dignity. So it's not about that [the apology] Piers, it's about humility.\"\n\nAsked again if he wished to apologise, Rubiales continued: \"So what we had is a spontaneous act, a mutual act, an act that both consented to, which was driven by the emotion of the moment, the happiness, so I maintain that that is the truth of what happened.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Earlier today Kim Jong Un disembarked his train in Russia and was greeted in the Primorsky region Image caption: Earlier today Kim Jong Un disembarked his train in Russia and was greeted in the Primorsky region\n\nAs Kim Jong Un's train makes its way across eastern Russia, we're pausing this page.\n\nBut we will be back as soon as we know he's about to meet Putin and will bring you the latest updates here.\n\nThis page was written in London by me, Ali Abbas Ahmadi and Jacqueline Howard with Rob Corp and Paul Gribben.", "Arthur Brand said he and the police had agreed not to reveal the man who returned the painting for his own safety\n\nA Van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in March 2020 is back in safe hands after a three-and-a-half-year quest to recover it.\n\nDutch art detective Arthur Brand said he had been handed the 139-year-old painting in a pillow and an Ikea bag by a man who came to his front door.\n\n\"I did this in complete co-ordination with Dutch police and we knew this guy wasn't involved in the theft,\" he said.\n\nIn 2021, a career criminal was jailed for eight years over the incident.\n\nBut by then the painting, worth several million euros, had already changed hands.\n\nThe Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was initially stolen from the Dutch town of Laren, to the south-east of Amsterdam. The thief smashed through two glass doors at the Singer museum with a sledgehammer, at the start of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIt had been on loan from a museum in the north-eastern city of Groningen which has hailed the work's recovery as \"wonderful news\".\n\nThe French-born thief, 59-year-old Nils M, who lived a short distance away from Laren, was convicted of stealing the work as well as a Frans Hals painting a few months later from a museum in Leerdam, near Utrecht. His DNA was found at both crime scenes.\n\nAccording to communications intercepted by police, the Van Gogh painting from 1884, also known as Spring Garden, had been acquired by a crime group intending to use it in exchange for shorter jail terms.\n\nMr Brand, who has collaborated with Dutch police on the hunt for the work, told the BBC that they knew it would pass from one group to another in the criminal underworld, as nobody would want to touch it.\n\nHe was sent \"proof of life\" pictures of the Van Gogh as early as June 2020.\n\nEventually, he was approached by a man in Amsterdam who offered to return it in exchange for complete confidentiality, partly because it had become a headache to keep holding on to the painting.\n\n\"I was at a birthday party and he was waiting under a tree and he explained to me why he wanted to do this,\" Mr Brand told the BBC.\n\nThe painting was then handed over to him at his home on Monday afternoon, while the director of the Groninger museum was waiting on the street corner in a bar to authenticate the work.\n\nIt was protected by a pillow which was covered with blood, he added, as the man had cut a finger while retrieving it.\n\nA spokesman for the Dutch police arts crime unit has confirmed that the recovered painting is authentic and Andreas Blühm, the head of the Groninger museum, has spoken of his delight at its safe return.\n\n\"There are scratches... but it's painted on paper and glued on panel so it's stable. We can restore it and it should be fine,\" he told the BBC's Newshour programme.\n\nThe Spring Garden is currently in the hands of the Van Gogh museum whose experts will help restore it, and it could take weeks or months before it goes back on display.\n\nThe director said he would not lend it out any more as he was too traumatised.", "Police vehicles and privately-owned cars were damaged in the incident\n\nA man has been charged after a military-style truck was allegedly driven at police vehicles.\n\nGeoff Marshall, 41, of Station Road, Norton Fitzwarren, will appear in court on Tuesday.\n\nHe has been charged with one count of dangerous driving, 12 of criminal damage and one of battery, said Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nThe force said four police vehicles and five owned by members of the public were damaged in the incident on Sunday.\n\nMr Marshall will appear at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nAn Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: \"The charges relate to an incident which happened yesterday afternoon when officers received reports of a man causing damage to a property, before subsequently driving a military-style lorry into police and public vehicles.\n\n\"The community can expect to see a continued police presence in the area while inquiries are carried out. We would like to thank members of the public for their patience and understanding.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People gathered outside the Supreme Court late on Monday to show support for the judges\n\nAfter months of protests against the hardline Israeli government's highly controversial judicial overhaul, an historic showdown is taking place.\n\nAll 15 Supreme Court judges are convening for the first time to hear petitions against a legal amendment that limits their own powers.\n\nThousands of Israelis gathered for a rally outside the court in Jerusalem on Monday night in support of the judges.\n\nCritics argue the move will weaken judicial independence and democracy.\n\n\"We want to make sure [the judges are] not intimidated by all the threats that this government makes,\" said Yaron, a father-of-two from the coastal city of Netanya. \"This is about democracy.\"\n\nFor Orly, who came from Modiin with her friend, it was more emotional. She felt the fundamental character of Israel was at stake.\n\n\"Our mother and father were in the Holocaust. We fought for this country,\" she said. \"We cannot let the government do whatever it wants. We don't have anywhere else to go.\"\n\nIn July, the nationalist-religious governing coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through an important change as part of its radical judicial overhaul.\n\nIt cancelled the ability of all courts to block government actions and appointments using the legal standard that they were \"unreasonable\".\n\nSupporters of the judicial overhaul say it will rebalance the branches of power\n\nHowever, supporters of the overhaul argued that the move strengthened democracy by preventing the court from overturning the actions of an elected government.\n\nThe Supreme Court - which could take weeks or months to deliberate - is under pressure to strike down the law.\n\nIf it does so, though, members of Mr Netanyahu's government are threatening to ignore its decision. That could lead to a constitutional crisis over who has the greater authority.\n\nAt a far-right protest last week, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned the chief justice not to dare overturn the \"reasonableness\" legislation which affects a basic law in Israel - part of a set of laws that have a key role in the absence of a national constitution.\n\n\"Invalidating a Basic Law is a deviation from all your authority and will be the end of Israeli democracy,\" Mr Smotrich declared. \"I urge you from here, not to make a decision that will tear the people of Israel apart.\"\n\nIn a grim reminder of the social divisions that have opened up, a young demonstrator in the crowd told the BBC: \"I see that there will be blood in the street. If the left is aggressive, the right will be more aggressive.\"\n\nActivist Yiftah Golov says he will not be reporting for voluntary duty with Israel's military\n\nMr Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges which he denies, has been vague when asked whether he would stick to a ruling that would quash the new law.\n\nThe launch of his coalition's judicial campaign at the start of the year has brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis onto the streets. It has also led to expressions of concern from international allies and dented the economy, amounting to Israel's worst domestic crisis in years.\n\nThe military has been badly affected with a large number of reservists saying they would not report for voluntary duty. Defence officials warn that Israel's readiness to fight wars could be impaired.\n\n\"It is probably the most powerful, unimaginable thing we have ever imagined that we need to do,\" said Yiftah Golov, an activist with a reservist group called Brothers in Arms. \"In order to defend my country, I'm signing right now that I won't show up for volunteering.\"\n\nOther hearings in coming weeks will also put Israel's top judges in the uncomfortable position of ruling on their own fate.\n\nIt's not a Netflix series, it's our life and it's our security\n\nA former intelligence division chief for Israel's spy agency Mossad suggests the Netanyahu government is playing with fire, and that it could face a serious pushback.\n\n\"I believe based on, let us say hunches and hints from inside, that Mossad, [the internal Shin Bet security force] Shabak, police and chief of staff when there is a dilemma, they will say we obey the Supreme Court,\" Haim Tomer explained. \"It's not a Netflix series, it's our life and it's our security.\"\n\nSo far, attempts to reach a compromise deal between Mr Netanyahu and his political opponents have failed. However, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog has continued to try to bring the two sides together.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister said he was working to \"exhaust every possibility\" to reach a broad agreement and there were positive remarks from the leader of one opposition party.\n\nHowever, Mr Netanyahu's other political rivals reacted with scepticism and there were tough stands from some in his own coalition with one far-right minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, insisting he would not \"surrender\".", "Rishi Sunak has said he \"will not accept\" Chinese interference in the UK's democracy, after it emerged a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for China.\n\nIn a statement to MPs, the PM said he told Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the recent G20 summit that any attempted spying \"will never be tolerated\".\n\nThe Met Police confirmed on Saturday that two men were arrested under the Official Secrets Act in March.\n\nThe man said in a statement he felt \"forced to respond\" to accusations in the media.\n\nChina has rejected the allegations of spying, with foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning calling it \"malicious slander\".\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has warned MPs against identifying the man - who is not being named by the BBC - using parliamentary privilege.\n\nDuring a statement to the House of Commons on the G20 summit in India, Mr Sunak told MPs: \"I have been emphatically clear in our engagement with China that we will not accept any interference in our democracy and parliamentary system.\n\n\"We will defend our democracy and our security.\n\n\"So I was emphatic with Premier Li that actions which seek to undermine British democracy are completely unacceptable and will never be tolerated.\"\n\nUnder questioning from Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Sunak said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly had also raised China's attempts to interfere with UK democracy on his recent visit to China.\n\nSir Keir said \"incidents like this show the constant threats that we face\".\n\nIn a separate statement, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said the government were \"reviewing\" increasing checks on figures working for the Chinese government in the UK.\n\nSeveral MPs called for China to be classed in the \"enhanced tier\" of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, introduced earlier this year.\n\nAdding countries to this creates additional reporting requirements for China-linked organisations.\n\nSenior Tory backbenchers, including former prime minster Liz Truss and ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, have called for the government to officially designate China as a threat to the UK - a move so far resisted by ministers.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Dowden said there was a \"strong case to be made\" for this, but the government was \"currently reviewing\" which countries to add to the registration scheme.\n\nHe added that ministers were \"clear eyed\" about the challenges posed by China, but added it was not realistic to \"completely disengage\" with the country.\n\nNews of the arrests was first reported in the Sunday Times, which claimed the researcher had links to several Conservative MPs, including Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns.\n\nMr Tugendhat is said to have had only limited contact with the man, and no dealings with him as a minister.\n\nThe arrest of the researcher has renewed a debate among MPs about whether the UK should take a stricter approach to China.\n\nChina is the UK's fourth largest trading partner, and British ministers regularly highlight the need to work with the country on big international issues such as tackling climate change.\n\nBut relations have soured in recent years over a series of issues, including threats to civil liberties in the former British colony of Hong Kong and China's support for Russia during the war in Ukraine.", "The state pension is likely to rise by 8.5% in April after data crucial to the so-called triple lock was published.\n\nThe policy means the increase in the state pension is the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5%.\n\nThose earnings - which are total pay, including bonuses - were recorded at 8.5%, and the inflation figure is unlikely to be higher.\n\nThat means the state pension is likely to rise by 8.5%, which would be a weekly increase of £13.30.\n\nIt means there is set to be an annual increase of £691.60 on the basic state pension - taking the total for the year to £8,814.\n\nFor those receiving the new flat-rate state pension, going to those who reached state pension age after April 2016, the rise is set to be £17.35 a week, or £902.20 a year - taking the total for the year to £11,502.\n\nThis is set to be the second significant increase in the state pension in two years, after a 10.1% increase in April of this year.\n\nHowever, it is understood that the earnings figure which is normally used, which is total pay including bonuses, could be substituted for one slightly lower than 8.5%.\n\nThe latest earnings figures have been affected by one-off public sector bonus payments.\n\nDowning Street said it remained \"committed to the triple lock\". When asked if that meant it was guaranteeing an 8.5% state pension rise, the prime minister's official spokesman said they could not get ahead of the \"formal process\". Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride gave the same answer to the BBC.\n\nThe triple lock is designed to ensure pensioners, especially if they rely solely on the state pension, are able to afford rising prices, or keep pace with the increases in the working population's wages.\n\nOlder people's charity Independent Age said 20% of single pensioners and 13% of all pensioners relied solely on the state pension and benefits.\n\n\"For the millions of older people living in financial hardship, [the triple lock] is vital in protecting the value of their often dangerously low income, helping them cope with the elevated cost of living and getting them through another scary winter,\" said John Palmer, from the charity.\n\nHowever, there have been questions over whether the cost of funding the policy is too high, and whether the government could better spend the money elsewhere. Mr Stride said it was \"not sustainable\" in the \"very long term\".\n\nWhen it was first created in the June 2010 Budget, the triple lock was costed at £450m a year. Now it costs the government several billion a year and, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, it could cost hundreds of billions a year in the future.\n\nThe debate over fairness in the shorter term may be heightened as benefits are not likely to rise quite as much, as these are generally pegged to the rate of inflation which is expected to be slightly lower.\n\nNeither the Conservatives nor Labour have committed to maintaining the triple lock in their next manifesto.\n\nShadow deputy prime minister Angela Rayner repeatedly refused to say whether a Labour government would keep it, when asked on BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We will have to see where we are when we get to a general election and see the finances. We will not make unfunded spending commitments,\" she said.\n\nThese two significant increases are likely to drag hundreds of thousands more pensioners into paying income tax, the thresholds of which have not risen as fast.\n\nSir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister and now partner at consultants LCP, estimated that the number of taxpaying pensioners would rise by around 650,000 to 9.15 million. He described that as a stealth tax on many pensioners.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic think tank, said that the triple lock policy carried a danger that people would overestimate what would be provided under the state pension in the future.\n\nIt said the policy created some uncertainty as people might assume the policy will continue indefinitely, and that was impossible to predict.\n\nMeanwhile Becky O'Connor, director of public affairs at pension platform PensionBee, said: \"A state pension pay rise for pensioners next year will make the triple lock promise more costly than ever and call into question whether this mechanism of guaranteeing increases can continue.\n\n\"Any knee-jerk, poorly considered reaction by the government to deal with the rising state pension bill now risks harming pensioners for decades to come. Without increases in line with earnings or inflation, they would be at risk of real income falls in future.\"", "Wage growth has caught up with rising prices for the first time in nearly two years, even as unemployment goes up.\n\nRegular pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 7.8% in May to July compared with a year earlier - matching the pace of inflation over the same period.\n\nNot everyone's pay will be rising by that amount. The figure is an average across the economy.\n\nThere are also signs the jobs market is beginning to weaken, with fewer job vacancies and rising unemployment.\n\nOverall, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) present a mixed picture with a lot of moving parts.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said earnings continued to increase at record rates, while inflation - the measure of how fast prices of goods and services are rising - has come down from its highs.\n\n\"This means people's real pay is no longer falling,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the headline unemployment rate in the May-to-July period was up to 4.3% for the first time in nearly two years, with the number out of work just below 1.5 million. The rate is low by historic standards, but has jumped from 3.8% in the previous three-month period.\n\nMr Morgan told the BBC's Today programme that the increase in unemployment was driven by men, and by those out of work for up to six months.\n\n\"It seems that people who are re-entering the jobs market after telling us they are unavailable for work or they've lost their job, are taking longer to find work compared to what we saw earlier in the year,\" he said.\n\nAt the same time, the number of job vacancies has dropped below one million. Interest rate rises are having an impact on slowing the jobs market. While that has not yet filtered through to lower wage claims, it should do eventually.\n\nThe Bank of England policymakers who want to raise rates further will focus on record earnings rises, in cash terms. However, it is important to note that zero growth for real earnings, using the Consumer Prices Index measure, is still far from normal for a measure which, before the 2008 financial crisis, grew by 2% in a typical year.\n\nThose Bank policymakers who think we have perhaps had enough rate rises for now, will focus on rising joblessness and fewer vacancies. All eyes will now be on the inflation data next week, before the latest interest rate decision by the Bank of England next Thursday.\n\nReacting to the latest figures, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: \"It's heartening to see the number of employees on payroll is still close to record highs and that our unemployment rate remains below many of our international peers.\"\n\nHe said wage growth \"remains high\", but added: \"For real wages to grow sustainably we must stick to our plan to halve inflation.\"\n\nSharon Graham, Unite's general secretary, said the data was \"firm proof that collective bargaining with employers reaps rewards for working people\".\n\n\"The stark reality is though, millions of workers will still be looking at their payslips and wondering how they're going to afford rising rents, mortgage payments and bills. The battle to push up pay is far from over and we will continue to fight hard, because, as we've seen today - it works.\"\n\nJon Boys, senior labour market economist for the CIPD human resources body, said there were signs in alternative data from HMRC that pay growth \"may have peaked in June\".\n\n\"It's clear that the labour market has cooled from the red-hot heat of the post-pandemic period and this cooling will act against a potential rate rise by the Bank of England,\" he said.\n\nThe most politically important number to emerge today, however is 8.5% - the total growth in earnings in cash terms, and the figure that is normally used to determine the rise in the state pension next April thanks to the triple lock.\n\nHowever, nobody in government has confirmed that the 8.5% increase will go ahead and it is understood that some thought is being given as to whether to use a lower measure to calculate the increase.\n\nThe latest earnings figures have been affected by one-off public sector bonus payments, therefore boosting the overall figure.\n\nThe triple lock was temporarily suspended after the Covid pandemic distorted average wage figures, but it has since been restored.\n\nJoanne Martin said a pay rise has made work and home life less stressful\n\nJoanne Martin works at LED designer and manufacturer Marl International in Ulverston, Cumbria where some staff have had pay rises of up to 20%.\n\n\"It's been a really good uplift,\" she said. \"I think sometimes taking the stress away from home, having that extra little bit of money definitely makes it less stressful.\n\n\"It makes you less stressed at work as well, because you're not worrying too much all the time. So it's definitely been a positive impact.\"\n\nHas your pay risen this year? Are you struggling to find a job? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Shannon Doherty and baby Rían who is now doing well back at home\n\nA woman whose baby became critically ill with a Group B Streptococcus infection has called for testing for all pregnant women in Northern Ireland.\n\nShannon Doherty's son Rían became ill when he was six weeks old. Blood tests confirmed he had late onset Strep B.\n\nThe baby survived but may have long-term health damage.\n\nIn Northern Ireland routine testing for the infection in pregnancy is not currently recommended, the Department of Health has said.\n\nThe department said there was \"insufficient evidence to support it\".\n\nGroup B Strep (GBS) is one of the most common causes of life-threatening infections in new-born babies and it is fatal in a small number of cases.\n\nMs Doherty, from Londonderry, said that she had been diagnosed with the infection during her pregnancy, and both she and the baby received antibiotics during labour.\n\nShe said she called an ambulance for her son in July after she became concerned around the colouring of his skin and his breathing.\n\nBaby Rían Doherty wakes up smiling every morning, according to his mother\n\nHis condition quickly deteriorated and he was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital.\n\nMedics carried out a lumbar puncture procedure on the baby to try to determine the cause of his illness.\n\n\"That procedure really took it out of him. I was fearing the worst,\" Shannon told the BBC's North West Today programme.\n\n\"He was, thankfully, started really early on antibiotics; otherwise, he wouldn't have made it through.\"\n\nIn 2019, Northern Ireland's political parties jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.\n\nMost strains of the new born infection can be prevented by testing during pregnancy and providing intravenous antibiotics to women in labour.\n\nHowever, the UK does not routinely test for GBS, unlike the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.\n\nExperts worry that routine testing would see antibiotics given to many more women.\n\nMs Doherty took to social media to highlight her family's experience as she said she wanted to create awareness around Group B Strep.\n\nShe said the family now faced a waiting game as Rían grows to get a full sense of the impact the infection has possibly had on him, as it caused bacterial meningitis and sepsis.\n\n\"I watched my son go from a healthy wee baby, to his life turned upside down,\" she said.\n\n\"His future, being able to walk, talk and play football is not guaranteed to us.\n\n\"I wouldn't have known I had Group B Strep with Rían only I was tested when I had a kidney infection. That's not right. It should be mandatory,\" she said.\n\nShe said she wanted to raise awareness of the problems such an infection can cause.\n\n\"My son is a smiler. He wakes up every morning with a wee smile on his face and that's what motivates me to keep going.\n\n\"He's overcome a lot and that smile means the world to me.\n\n\"My message to parents is: 'Don't be afraid to talk openly about Group B Strep.'\n\n\"People are nervous to ask me about it, what it is and what it means for the future.\n\n\"I believe that the infection and what it can do is just not highlighted enough within the NHS\".\n\nThe Department for Health said that its position with regard to routine testing is kept \"under regular review\".\n\n\"If you are concerned about GBS, discuss it with your doctor or midwife,\" it added.", "Russia has been using the platforms as military facilities since capturing them in 2015 (file image)\n\nUkraine says it has successfully retaken control of four gas drilling platforms in the northern Black Sea, close to the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nVideo of the operation, which Ukraine says took place last month, shows special forces removing Russian military equipment.\n\nRussia seized control of the so-called Boyko Towers in 2015, shortly after it illegally annexed Crimea.\n\nThere has been a battle for control of these strategic waters since last year.\n\nA video and statement released by Ukraine's military intelligence, entitled Battle for the Sea, offer a rare glimpse into this sphere of the conflict.\n\nIn the video, which the BBC cannot verify, rigid inflatable boats are seen speeding across the Black Sea, carrying teams of Ukrainian special forces.\n\nAt one point, the boats pass close to Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, which was captured by Russia on the first day of its full-scale invasion last year and recaptured four months later.\n\nTroops are then seen clambering onto one of the platforms and removing Russian supplies, as well as vital radar equipment.\n\n\"On the drilling platforms, the Russians set up warehouses with ammunition and fuel for helicopters,\" the video commentary says.\n\n\"They also placed radar stations on the towers with the help of which they monitored the situation in the entire Black Sea.\"\n\nThe radar in question, a Neva-B, was acting as a repeater, expanding Russia's field of vision in the vital waters between Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nAt one point, the video appears to show frantic efforts by Ukrainian troops to defend themselves against a Russian Su-30 fighter jet, circling overhead.\n\nThere are celebrations as a shoulder-held anti-aircraft missile is launched, causing the jet to retreat.\n\nThere's no obvious evidence of any further combat, but a spokesman for military intelligence said Russian troops on one of the platforms had been killed.\n\nAccording to military intelligence, the operation was full of drama, including a 14-hour search for a soldier (\"special agent Konan\"), who fell overboard but was finally rescued after being spotted by a drone.\n\nUkraine's account of the operation cannot be independently verified, but on 27 August, Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) tweeted that there had been \"skirmishes\" around the gas platforms.\n\n\"Last week, a Russian combat jet shot at a Ukrainian military small boat operating near a platform in the north-west of the sea,\" the MoD noted, in a possible reference to the operation.\n\nIt's all part of a largely unseen battle for control of the northern Black Sea, which both sides see as vital.\n\nThe platforms commanded valuable hydrocarbon resources, the MoD said, and could be used as \"forward deployment bases, helicopter landing sites and to position long-range missile systems.\"\n\nIn recent days, Russia has more than once claimed to have intercepted small boats carrying Ukrainian troops off the west coast of the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nLast year, control of Snake Island and the Boyko platforms - named after Ukraine's former minister of energy - was all seen as part of Russia's threat to Ukraine's Black Sea ports.\n\nNow it's Russia that appears to have most to worry about, as Ukrainian drones and commandos launch raids on the northwest corner of Crimea, damaging a radar base on the Tarkhankut Peninsula and even planting a Ukrainian flag during an operation to mark Independence Day, on 24 August.\n\nSerhiy Kuzan, of the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, called the Boyko towers mission \"a daring long-distance operation.\"\n\n\"We beat the Russians because we were the first to reach the towers and remove the Russian eyes and ears,\" he said, \"before the Russians sent their aircraft to protect their equipment.\"\n\nKyiv has made no secret of its intention to reclaim the Crimean Peninsula.\n\n\"Russia also lost the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea,\" the video commentary says, \"which makes Ukraine many nautical miles closer to the return of Crimea.\"\n\nIt may be a distant prospect for now, but reducing Russia's ability to see what's going on in the northern Black Sea is seen as vital for gradually weakening Moscow's grip.", "Melissa Kerr died during cosmetic surgery at a Turkish hospital in 2019\n\nA woman who died during an operation for a buttock enlargement in Turkey was not given enough information to make a safe decision about the procedure, a coroner has concluded.\n\nMelissa Kerr, 31, from Gorleston, Norfolk, died at the private Medicana Haznedar Hospital in Istanbul, in 2019.\n\nCoroner Jaqueline Lake said she would be writing a report for the health secretary to try and prevent further deaths from this \"risky\" procedure.\n\nThe hospital has been asked to comment.\n\nMs Kerr had gone abroad to have what is commonly referred to as a Brazilian butt-lift or BBL, the Norwich inquest heard.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Kerr's family said they were devastated.\n\n\"We hope in the future individuals give proper consideration before travelling to Turkey for cosmetic tourism,\" they said in a prepared statement.\n\nThe Norwich inquest was told Ms Kerr, a psychological well-being practitioner at mental health charity Mind, was \"self-conscious\" about her appearance.\n\nThe inquest was told Brazilian butt-lift operations carried the highest risk of all cosmetic surgery procedures.\n\nThe UK has an agreed moratorium on carrying out such operations due to the dangers involved, expert witness and plastic surgeon Simon Withey said in a report for the inquest.\n\nMr Withey said if the risk of the procedure had been explained to Ms Kerr before she had financially committed to the procedure she would not \"in all probability\" have gone through with it.\n\nOn 19 November 2019, a day after arriving in Turkey and paying £3,200 in cash, she underwent a \"limited\" pre-operation assessment before surgery.\n\nThe operation was carried out by Dr Yakup Duman, an aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon who was also said to be a visiting doctor, the inquest heard.\n\nFat was harvested using a liposuction process from her jowls, thighs and abdomen and inserted into her posterior.\n\nIt was during the re-injection of the fat, deep into her buttock muscle tissue, that Ms Kerr suffered a fatal clot that had travelled to her lungs.\n\nThe inquest was told that if material was injected too deep into muscle tissue there was a risk of it travelling to other areas of the body.\n\nMs Kerr had been in theatre for more than three hours when efforts were made to resuscitate her, documents from the Turkish hospital said. She died a short time afterwards.\n\nA prevention of future deaths report is to be sent to the health secretary to try and warn others about travelling to Turkey for plastic surgery following Melissa Kerr's death\n\nMs Kerr had no known health conditions according to her UK GP and she had undergone a breast augmentation 10 years previously, without any issues.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, the coroner said Ms Kerr died after cosmetic surgery.\n\nShe recorded her cause of death as a pulmonary thromboembolism and fat thromboembolism; a blocked blood vessel in the lung.\n\nReferring to her report for the secretary of state, Ms Lake said she was \"concerned patients are not being made aware of the risks or the mortality rate associated with such surgery\".\n\nShe added, while the UK government had no control over what happens in other countries,\"the danger to citizens who continue to travel abroad for such procedures continues... and I'm of the view future deaths can be prevented by way of better information\".\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dame Sharon White has called for a royal commission into Britain's High Streets\n\nShoplifting has become an \"epidemic\" in the past year, the boss of John Lewis, Dame Sharon White, has told the BBC.\n\nShe told the Today programme the retailer had seen offences double over the past 12 months.\n\nDame Sharon said it was also \"not right\" that shop workers were \"having to put up with abuse and attacks\".\n\nA group of retailers, including John Lewis, has agreed to fund a police operation, called \"Project Pegasus\", to crack down on shoplifting.\n\nTen retailers will spend about £600,000 on the project, which will use CCTV pictures and data provided by the shops to get a better understanding of shoplifters' operations.\n\nData on shoplifting incidents from various retailers will be collected and looked at by analysts and intelligence officers.\n\nDame Sharon, chairwoman of the John Lewis Partnership - which also owns Waitrose, said that some areas had become \"shells of their former selves\" due to violent attacks and repeated offenders \"causing havoc\" in shops.\n\nDuring the interview, she said that reported incidents have not always been responded to by the police.\n\nChief Constable Amanda Blakeman from the National Police Chiefs' Council said that it was \"doing everything possible to tackle offenders\".\n\nShe added that police forces take any incidents of violence \"incredibly seriously, and will prioritise our response where there is a risk to individuals\".\n\nAccording to figures from retail trade body the British Retail Consortium (BRC), retail thefts across the sector in England and Wales rose by 26% in 2022.\n\nIts crime survey suggested that nearly 850 incidents were taking place every day, with staff facing physical assault and being threatened with weapons on some occasions.\n\nData, analysed by the BBC, also shows that shoplifting offences have returned to pre-pandemic levels as the cost of living rises.\n\nOther retailers, such as the Co-op, Tesco and Iceland, have said they are spending heavily on anti-crime measures.\n\nSteak and cheese are being fitted with security tags and coffee replaced with dummy jars in Co-op stores, whose boss has warned that some areas are becoming \"no-go areas\" due to a rise in \"horrific incidents of brazen and violent theft\".\n\nTesco is also offering all of its staff body cameras due to the risk in physical assaults and theft, while the managing director of Iceland, Richard Walker, wrote in a social media post on Monday that the chain was spending \"more than ever\" on security as \"serious incidents\" have never been higher.\n\nThe BRC has previously told the BBC that these high level of theft cost retailers almost £1bn in the 2021 financial year, \"money that would be better used to reduce prices and invest in a better customer experience\".\n\nMichelle Whitehead works in a small convenience shop in Wolverhampton and told the BBC's World at One programme that shoplifters were stealing from the store \"two or three times a day\".\n\nOften, she says she sees people \"swipe a whole shelf of stuff\", including fresh meat, milk or baby food, into a rucksack or large reusable bag.\n\nShe did not believe that many incidents were due to people going hungry, but rather \"organised crime rings\" who might be selling food on.\n\nDame Sharon said the UK needs a comprehensive plan to stop organised gangs, and called for Scottish legislation that makes the abuse of a retail worker an offence to be brought in nationwide.\n\nAs part of the efforts to improve relations with police, Waitrose and John Lewis are also offering free hot drinks to on-duty officers.\n\nIn John Lewis, police officers will be able to use staff cafeterias for breaks and buy discounted food there too, in the hope that their presence will deter criminals.\n\nDame Sharon is also calling for a royal commission - essentially an independent inquiry - into the future of British High Streets.\n\nRetailers have highlighted increased competition from online shopping, and high levels of business rates - which apply to commercial properties, as issues holding back physical stores in city centre locations.\n\nShe said there needed to be a \"holistic view\" of these problems, with input from government, academics and the industry, rather than individually investigating issues such as tax, crime, planning, housing, and environmental policy.\n\nDame Sharon has also been seeking ways to boost growth at the John Lewis Partnership, following concerns about its performance.\n\nJohn Lewis is set to unveil its half-year financial results on Thursday. Earlier this year, the group reported a £78m loss before exceptional items for the latest financial year.", "Labour is preparing to vote against the government's plans to scrap water pollution rules to encourage housebuilding.\n\nThe House of Lords is set to vote on removing the EU-era \"nutrient neutrality\" rules on Wednesday evening.\n\nMinisters believe that up to 100,000 new homes could be built by 2030 if the rules are changed.\n\nBut the proposal has been condemned by environmental groups, who say it will mean worse water pollution.\n\nWriting in the Times, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said her party would table its own proposals through an amendment to the Levelling Up Bill.\n\nIf it is not approved, Labour will vote against the government's own amendment on the issue, she wrote, potentially putting the policy at risk of defeat.\n\nNatural England rules currently mean 62 local authorities cannot allow new developments unless builders can prove their projects are \"nutrient neutral\" in protected areas.\n\nThe government has announced plans to scrap these rules through an amendment, or change, to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, currently going through the House of Lords.\n\nIt is one of the first major decisions made by Ms Rayner in her new role as shadow levelling up secretary - a role which also has responsibility for housing.\n\nThere had been some reports that under her predecessor, Lisa Nandy, Labour was considering backing the government on the issue although these were never officially confirmed.\n\nIn the Times piece, Ms Rayner and shadow environment secretary Steve Reed said \"there are far better ways to build the new homes we desperately need than green-lighting water pollution\".\n\nThey suggested developers could be allowed to start building homes before nutrient neutrality plans had been put in place. But the developers would then be required to introduce measures to counteract any environmental harm before the homes were occupied.\n\nThis would allow developers to start building homes currently \"stuck in the planning pipeline\" while allowing extra time for new ways to reduce pollution to become available, they said.\n\nLevelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove said: \"Today, Labour claimed to be the party of homeownership - yet tomorrow, they plan to vote against new laws that would unlock 100,000 new homes and enhance the environment.\n\n\"Sir Keir Starmer is attempting to end the dream of home ownership for thousands of families and young people with his political game-playing. Labour are the party of the blockers, not the builders.\"", "Scotland football fans have been gathering ahead of the friendly against England which marks the 150th anniversary of the sides' first meeting.\n\nThat game on 30 November 1872 ended up a 0-0 draw at Hamilton Crescent in the Partick area of Glasgow.\n\nSince then, they have faced off in 115 official fixtures. The 116th will be the anniversary match at Hampden Park in Glasgow.\n\nScotland men’s national side are on the brink of reaching Euro 2024 after winning all five qualifiers so far - and have risen 20 places to 30th in the world rankings under manager Steve Clarke.\n\nWe spoke to Tartan Army fans gathered at The Shed in Glasgow ahead of the match.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McCarthy: 'President Biden did lie to the American people'\n\nThe US House of Representatives will open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, its most senior Republican has said.\n\nKevin McCarthy said the inquiry would focus on \"allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption\" by Mr Biden.\n\nRepublicans have been investigating the president since they took control of the House in January.\n\nThe hearings have found no concrete evidence of misconduct by Mr Biden.\n\nThey have, however, shed more light on business dealings by the president's son Hunter Biden - which Republicans say are questionable - and on Mr Biden's knowledge of his son's activities.\n\nIn a brief statement at the US Capitol, Mr McCarthy said there were \"serious and credible\" allegations involving the president's conduct.\n\n\"Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption,\" he said.\n\nThe White House was quick to condemn Mr McCarthy's decision.\n\n\"House Republicans have been investigating the President for nine months, and they've turned up no evidence of wrongdoing,\" White House spokesperson Ian Sams wrote in a social media post.\n\nHunter Biden is currently under federal investigation for possible tax crimes related to his foreign business interests.\n\nMr McCarthy, a California lawmaker, also alleged that the president's family has received special treatment from Biden administration officials investigating allegations of misconduct.\n\nThe White House has denied any involvement in the Hunter Biden case, and said that President Biden has no ties to his son's business operations.\n\nThis inquiry will give congressional investigators greater legal authority to investigate the president, including by issuing subpoenas for documents and testimony that can be more easily enforced in court.\n\nThe US constitution states a president can be impeached for \"treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanours\", a process which can end in them being removed from office.\n\nHowever, any effort to remove President Biden would be unlikely to succeed.\n\nThe House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a narrow 222-212 majority, would need to vote in favour. It would then need to proceed to a Senate trial and vote.\n\nDemocrats have a majority in the Senate, and would almost certainly shoot down the proceedings if it gets that far.\n\nMr Trump, the only US president to have been impeached twice, was acquitted both times by his fellow Republicans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nMr McCarthy, who as Speaker leads Republicans in the House, has been lobbied for weeks by right-wing members to open an impeachment inquiry.\n\nCongressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, called the announcement \"a baby step following weeks of pressure from House conservatives to do more\". He had previously threatened to force a vote to remove Mr McCarthy from his leadership position if the Speaker did not start an impeachment investigation.\n\nMr McCarthy's hold on power in the House has been tenuous ever since he won the top job in January after 15 rounds of voting in the chamber - a modern record.\n\nHe is currently trying to shepherd a series of spending bills through the House. These measures must be approved by Congress by the end of September to avoid a partial shutdown of the US government.\n\nMr McCarthy's move to back impeachment could be viewed as an attempt to curry the favour of right-wing House Republicans ahead of the budget battles.\n\nSuch a strategy comes with risks, however. Centrist Republicans in competitive districts have expressed unease with an aggressive impeachment push, worried that it will alienate the independent and moderate voters who carried them to victory.Mr McCarthy has a 10-seat majority in the chamber, so if even a handful of these Republicans have cold feet on impeachment, it could ensure its failure.\n\nSome vulnerable House Republicans told reporters on Tuesday that they are focused on the ongoing congressional investigations into Mr Biden, rather than an impeachment inquiry.\n\nDemocratic Senator Chris Coons said in an interview with the BBC, said that \"Speaker McCarthy shows that he's being held hostage by the most extreme elements of his Republican majority.\"\n\nAlready Democrats are pointing out that Mr McCarthy sharply criticised Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in 2019, when she announced an impeachment inquiry into Mr Trump without holding a formal vote.\n\nWhile Mr McCarthy has only said he is approving an impeachment inquiry at this point, pressure will build for a formal authorising vote in the House to set the rules for impeachment hearings.\n\nSuch a vote would put those centrists on the record - and provide fodder for Democratic attacks during the November 2024 general election.\n\nThat is a next-year problem for Mr McCarthy, however. For the moment, he is trying to keep unruly conservative members of Congress from openly rebelling - and forcing a vote on whether to remove him from his job.\n\nImpeachment - or at least a movement toward it - could buy him the political breathing room to survive the coming months.", "At the height of the Celtic Tiger economic boom, Seán Quinn was Ireland's richest man\n\nFormer billionaire businessman Seán Quinn has said his family had doubts if he had been involved in abducting and torturing an ex-colleague.\n\nQuinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney was kidnapped in September 2019 and seriously assaulted.\n\nHe was found 22 miles away on a road in County Cavan and taken to hospital.\n\nThree men were jailed for the attack but the judge said the highest sentence would be reserved for the unnamed \"paymaster\" who funded the crime.\n\nMr Quinn has said that he believes the judge was referring to him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seán Quinn: Even my family doubted me over Lunney attack involvement\n\nHe was once Ireland's richest man, but was stripped of his business empire after a disastrous bet on shares in Anglo Irish Bank.\n\nMr Quinn has written a book in response to what he describes as the \"continuous character assassination\" and the \"disgraceful insinuations\" that he had some involvement in Mr Lunney's abduction.\n\nHe told BBC News NI those who don't believe him \"can believe whatever they like\" but there was no \"scintilla of evidence\" that he had any \"hand, act or part in it\".\n\nHowever, he said some of his own family questioned him.\n\n\"After Kevin Lunney was abducted… the air got very contaminated and even some of my own family - my brother and sisters and some of my kids - were saying, 'Daddy were you involved?',\" Mr Quinn said.\n\n\"They had some doubts that maybe I had something to do with it and some doubts that maybe I was responsible for the illegal loans; maybe I was responsible for some of the sabotage. So there was doubts by many people at that.\"\n\nKevin Lunney was tied up, had one leg broken and was slashed on the face and chest with a knife\n\nIf you want to know why Seán Quinn remains so popular in the border communities of Fermanagh and Cavan you just need to look at the thousands of jobs he created in what would otherwise be an economic backwater.\n\nHe says at the height of his success his businesses were paying €1m (£0.86m) a day in wages.\n\nThe self-made billionaire built a small family quarry in County Fermanagh into a huge empire.\n\nIts various arms included manufacturing, power generation, financial services, property development and a string of hotels including the four-star Slieve Russell resort in County Cavan.\n\nHis huge wealth made him the UK's 12th-richest man in 2007 and he lived a life of luxury.\n\nBut in December 2011 he walked into a Belfast courtroom and declared himself bankrupt, owing more than £2bn to Anglo Irish Bank.\n\nWhen the bank took control of his businesses, it ousted all the senior Quinn family members and senior executives on day one in a process called \"de-Quinning\" by locals.\n\nHe has consistently condemned the attacks on those now running his former businesses.\n\nThere have been books, documentaries, and hundreds of newspaper articles written about the rise and fall of his business empire but Mr Quinn says his book tells his side of the story for the first time.\n\nThe Slieve Russell Hotel and golf course was part of the Quinn hotel empire\n\nThe publicity for the book says Seán Quinn admits his own mistakes but he told BBC News NI he does not see himself as the master of his own downfall.\n\n\"I bought the shares in the bank because I thought they were cheap, so I was wrong. I'm not denying that I was the man that recommended buying the shares in the bank - no question about that - but I wasn't involved in illegal share dealing,\" he said.\n\n\"The 600-odd million pounds we lost on them was crazy, maybe madness on my part for buying so many shares, fine. But it wasn't a problem for the Quinn Group - I mean, it was only a year and a half's profit.\n\n\"The problem was, I blamed nobody for the first few years; I just took it on the chest.\n\n\"But then as the blame game - one thing after another, finishing up with Kevin Lunney's abduction - it went on and on and on. I was turning out to be the biggest criminal in the history of the state.\"\n\nMr Lunney was abducted outside his County Fermanagh home before being beaten and left at the side of a road in the Republic of Ireland\n\nMr Quinn admits the book may add to the tension in the community but he feels that \"the truth needs to come out\".\n\n\"I think that burying everything under the sand is not ideal,\" he added.\n\n\"I think the truth needs to come out and I'm telling the truth about what happened and why it happened.\"\n\nIn the book, Mr Quinn writes that he never felt like the richest man in Ireland - so how does he feel now?\n\n\"I feel close to the poorest. But the first third of my life I was poor, the middle third of my life I was rich and the last third of my life, give or take, it looks like I will be poor - but I'm resilient.\"\n\nFor a man who enjoys playing a weekly game of cards, he muses \"whatever cards you're dealt you play them and I'm happy to play whatever cards are dealt\".\n\n\"I never felt when I was seen as the richest man in Ireland - I never felt like that. When I'm poor now, I don't feel the poorest man in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the factories and the building and the thousands of people that helped me to achieve that deserve great credit.\n\n\"I believe I was captain of that team. I think it would be there in history.\n\n\"I think the people that destroyed it - history won't be kind to them and, really, that's what it's all about.\n\n\"Money's not important to me. Money never, ever was important to me. But achievement was - I love people to achieve something.\"\n\nMr Quinn said he would like to be remembered as \"a good citizen and a good businessman, and an honest man\".\n\n\"Money's no good to me in the grave but my reputation is and that's why I wrote the book and, as I said, I can fade into the shadows now when I've done that.\"\n\nHe believes the final chapter has been written but it is unlikely that the Seán Quinn story is finished.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mother of Martha Mills talks about daughter's last days\n\nThe mother of Martha Mills, whose preventable death in hospital has led to calls for extra patients' rights, has said she is to meet the health secretary to discuss \"Martha's Rule\".\n\nIf introduced, it would give families a statutory right to get a second opinion if they have concerns about care.\n\nMerope Mills said patients needed more clarity and to feel empowered.\n\nHer daughter, Martha, died two years ago after failures in treating her sepsis at King's College Hospital.\n\nShe had entered hospital with an injury to her pancreas after falling off her bike. The injury was serious but should never have been fatal. Within days she had died of sepsis.\n\nIn an interview to be broadcast on Radio 4's Today programme shortly, Mrs Mills said she had raised concerns but doctors told her the extensive bleeding was \"a normal side-effect of the infection, that her clotting abilities were slightly off\".\n\nThe King's College Hospital Trust said it remained \"deeply sorry that we failed Martha when she needed us most\" and her parents should have been listened to.\n\nAn inquest said she could have survived had her care been better.\n\nMerope Mills, an editor at the Guardian, has quest Merope Mills (left) is calling for additional patient rights following her daughter Martha's preventable death while being treated in an NHS hospital\n\nMrs Mills said: \"What I'm asking is for doctors to trust us [patients and relatives], like we have trusted them for so many years.\"\n\nShe wants hospitals around the country to bring in \"Martha's rule\" which would give parents, carers and patients the right to call for an urgent second clinical opinion from other experts at the same hospital if they have concerns about their current care.\n\nOn Monday, NHS England medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said change was needed, but he argued different hospitals might need different approaches.\n\n\"Patient and relative voice is paramount,\" the medical director said.\n\n\"Over the last six months or so we at NHS England have been working with a number of hospital across England to work out what sort of methodologies, what sort of processes, will ensure that that voice is heard when it needs to be heard,\" Prof Powis explained.\n\nIn response to his remarks, Mrs Mills said she was \"delighted that they've confirmed they will mandate change across the NHS\".\n\nBut she was concerned about the implementation of different methodologies and approaches, as Mrs Mills told the BBC \"clarity is much better than complexity\" for patients.\n\n\"When someone is dying in front of your eyes... you don't want to be filling out a questionnaire about whether you're being listened to,\" Mrs Mills added.\n\nMartha Mills was enjoying her summer holidays before she had an accident\n\nMerope Mills first shared her ordeal leading up to her daughter's tragic death with the BBC's Today programme last week.\n\nSince then, she said she had felt there was \"political will behind the idea\" of Martha's rule and it was fostering cross-party support.\n\nShe described the response from the public as \"much bigger... [than] my husband and I anticipated\" and said she has heard from many other families \"who feel their voices weren't heard in hospital, and who have also lost someone as a result\".\n\nStephen Barclay, the health secretary, has agreed to meet her on Wednesday after she reached out to him, she said.\n\nLast week, he said he would explore the plea of bereaved parents who want to see Martha's rule in place and had asked his department to look at whether it could improve patient safety and prevent more deaths like Martha's .\n\nMrs Mills said she would also meet Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting.\n\nHe pledged in a BBC interview last week to examine a \"Monday-to-Friday culture\" in the NHS following Martha's preventable death during a bank holiday weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Martha Mills' mother, Merope, shares her struggle with her loss", "The UK's environment watchdog suspects the government and water regulators have broken the law over how they regulate sewage releases.\n\nIt follows continued high levels of sewage releases in England which topped 825 times a day last year.\n\nCampaigners and opposition MPs have called the regulators \"complicit\" in allowing the pollution.\n\nThe government said it did not agree with the Office for Environmental Protection's \"initial interpretations\".\n\nLast week a BBC investigation found potentially hundreds of illegal dry sewage spills in England.\n\nIn response to the announcement the government said: \"The volume of sewage discharged is completely unacceptable. That is why we are the first government in history to take such comprehensive action to tackle it.\"\n\nBut campaigners hit back at the government's record on sewage pollution.\n\nWildFish, a environmental charity, who brought one of the original complaints to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said: \"Let's be quite clear here. Those three public bodies are complicit in allowing the pollution. That must now end.\"\n\nCharles Watson, chairman of River Action, a water quality charity, said: \"It's no surprise to us that the first enforcement action the Office for Environmental Protection is pursuing against the government over sewage pollution. Our rivers are in crisis.\"\n\nIn 2022, water companies in England released sewage for 1.75 million hours.\n\nDuckweed and algae can bloom with excess nutrients from sewage\n\nReleasing sewage into waterways can lead to a build-up of algae which starves local wildlife of oxygen and can produce toxins that are fatal to pets and dangerous to people.\n\nFollowing complaints to the OEP over sewage in June 2022 it announced it was investigating whether England's regulators, Ofwat and the Environment Agency, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), were correctly enforcing the law on water companies.\n\nOne of the key elements of the OEP investigation is whether the Environment Agency (EA) has set the correct rules for allowing sewage releases.\n\nSewage sometimes needs to be released when it is raining to prevent a build up of wastewater in the system and sewage flowing back into people's homes.\n\nThe EA currently allows sewage to be discharged on any day when it has rained and only investigates if there has been sewage released on a 'dry day'.\n\nBut campaigners have long argued that the EA should be looking at any sewage discharges that happen outside of heavy rain not just rain-free days.\n\nThis is because in 2012 - following a case brought by retired Sunderland engineer Robert Latimer - the EU courts ruled that sewage should only be discharged during exceptional circumstances such as unusually heavy rainfall because of the potential environmental impact - this was adopted into UK law.\n\nThe OEP announcement on Tuesday was an \"information notice\" - a requirement for the regulators to set out whether they agree with the OEP's view that they have not complied with environmental law and if they agree what action they will take. They have two months to do this.\n\nThe OEP will assess this information and likely publish a final decision later this year.\n\nIt is not clear what position the government and regulators will take, but a Defra spokesperson told the BBC: \"While we do not agree with the OEP's initial interpretations, which cover points of law spanning over two decades, we will continue to work constructively with the OEP on this issue.\"\n\nIf it is found the law was breached the OEP said it \"would be serious\" and the first time that the OEP has made such a decision.\n\nThe organisation will make recommendations to MPs to take action against the regulators or will apply to the High Court for urgent judicial review.\n\nIn practice this means that the Environment Agency or one of the regulators will have to change the way it enforces the law for sewage companies.\n\nAn Environment Agency spokesperson told the BBC: \"We welcome this investigation from the Office for Environmental Protection and we share their ambition to drive improvements in water quality.\"\n\nOfwat echoed this and told the BBC: \"We welcome the OEP's considerations, particularly on the clarity of responsibilities for the protection of the environment and we will work with them as their investigation moves forward.\"\n\nThe OEP investigation was started in part due to the tireless action against sewage by Bob Latimer - a retired engineer from Sunderland who brought the 2012 case.\n\nMr Latimer has been campaigning to prevent regular sewage releases near his family's fishmongers for two decades. He has long argued that the environmental law has not been properly implemented by allowing sewage to be released outside of heavy rain. Despite winning his case in 2012 he says he continues to see regular discharge when there is not heavy rain, he now hopes the OEP investigation will stop that.", "Much of Libya's eastern port of Derna, which has about 100,000 residents, is underwater after two dams and four bridges collapsed.\n\nEyewitness footage shows a torrent of water flowing past a mosque in the city, causing massive destruction.", "Carly Ashton cannot get an NHS prescription or afford one privately for her daughter Esme, who has a rare form of epilepsy\n\nA high-profile government climbdown that legalised a type of cannabis medicine on the NHS five years ago misled patients, campaigners say.\n\nIt was thought the law change would mean the unlicensed drug, which treats a range of conditions, could be freely prescribed by specialist doctors.\n\nBut fewer than five NHS patients have been given the medicine, leaving others to either pay privately or miss out.\n\nThe government says safety needs to be proven before a wider rollout.\n\nLegalisation of whole-cannabis medicine was hailed as a breakthrough for patients - giving either NHS or private specialist doctors the option to prescribe it if they believed their patients would benefit.\n\nMedical whole cannabis uses the entire cannabis plant - which includes the compound THC, the part which can make people feel high.\n\nBut patients are being turned away, say campaigners, because doctors often do not know about the medicine, which is not on NHS trusts' approved lists. Some specialists who do know about it say there is insufficient evidence of the drug's safety and benefits to support prescribing.\n\nThe drug would need to undergo medical trials before it could be officially licensed - but these are costly and complicated because of the many chemical compounds within the cannabis plant. Campaigners say trials of medicines containing whole plant cannabis, particularly with the aim of helping children, would be unethical as some patients would have to come off essential medication to take a placebo.\n\nFive years after medical cannabis was legalised, why is it so hard to get a prescription?\n\nThe BBC has been told that when specialist doctors do want to prescribe the unlicensed products, there is no simple way to get funding.\n\nThey have to ask NHS England to make an exception to pay for individual cases, but they are almost always turned down. It is known that fewer than five have been approved.\n\nLicensed cannabis drugs do exist for specific conditions - but they do not use the whole plant. For example one called Epidiolex contains another cannabis compound - CBD. It can be prescribed for epilepsy but does not benefit patients across the spectrum of epilepsy disorders.\n\nHannah Deacon, pictured with son Alfie, spearheaded the campaign for legislation change\n\nThe first patient to receive an NHS prescription for medical cannabis was 11-year-old Alfie Dingley, who has severe epilepsy.\n\nHis mother, Hannah Deacon, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, successfully spearheaded the high-profile campaign which led to the 2018 legislation change.\n\nBefore then, Alfie travelled to the Netherlands where whole-plant cannabis oil is legal under prescription for medical purposes.\n\nFollowing Hannah's campaign, Alfie's GP was granted a licence to prescribe it under direction by a specialist doctor, in a process called a shared care agreement.\n\nAlfie's mother believes the treatment has been life-changing - he has not had a seizure for three years. He gets 13 bottles of Bedrolite on an NHS prescription each month. The cost would otherwise be £225 per bottle.\n\nHannah says back in 2018, she felt like she had changed history, opening up the treatment to people with a wide range of debilitating conditions including chronic pain, insomnia and neurological conditions like Tourettes.\n\nBut now, she feels she only got the drug on the NHS because she made a huge fuss in the media.\n\n\"I think they changed the law to take the wind out of my sails because the campaign was very effective,\" she says.\n\nDr David McCormick says ministers \"shifted the heat\" to practitioners like him\n\nSenior paediatric consultant Dr David McCormick, from King's College Hospital in London, says it was \"disingenuous\" of the government to suggest in 2018 that NHS prescribing was ready to take place.\n\nMinisters \"shifted the heat\" to practitioners like him, he says.\n\n\"Parents were clamouring at our door, or phoning all the time, as they believed we were able to prescribe and that was not the case.\n\n\"The message went out, 'doctors can now prescribe cannabis products' and that put us in a difficult position, because in truth we need to apply for that to be approved by NHS England.\"\n\nPre-2018, the only way patients could get hold of cannabis products and use them medicinally was to buy them illegally in the UK, or to travel abroad to get them. Now, if the NHS will not pay, they can legally pay for private prescriptions from specialist clinics.\n\nThere are now 31 private prescribing centres across the UK. These clinics issued more than 140,000 prescriptions between November 2018 and 2022.\n\nIt is estimated that the medical cannabis market will be worth £1bn in 2024.\n\nJasper's parents say the effectiveness of whole-cannabis oil is \"just jaw-dropping\"\n\nOne private patient is 13-year-old Jasper Salisbury-Jones, from Brixton in south London, who - like Alfie Dingley - has a rare form of epilepsy.\n\n\"By the time he was 11, he was having about 800 seizures a day, which sounds ridiculous but that was where we got to,\" says Jasper's mum, Alice Jones. \"The doctors did say we were out of options, so the expectation was that eventually a seizure would kill him.\"\n\nJasper had tried nine different other medicines, had brain surgery, and an electrical implant was put in his chest - but nothing would stop his fits.\n\nThen he tried medical cannabis oil and his mother says his seizures, which once dominated his life, now only occur every few days.\n\n\"It's just jaw-dropping,\" Alice says. \"For this medication to do this is incredible.\"\n\nJasper has been unable to get medical cannabis on the NHS. His parents now pay a private clinic £1,600 for a six-week supply. That cost is likely to increase as Jasper gets older and bigger.\n\nThe couple are using their savings to pay for the medication and Alice no longer pays into her private pension. While they say it is financially very difficult, she knows they are lucky.\n\n\"We're not choosing between this and another medication or a form of treatment, we're choosing between this and watching my son slowly slip into mental disability and then probably paralysis and death,\" she explains.\n\nEsme is being treated with 15 different drugs and spends much of her time sedated\n\nBut one parent who cannot get an NHS prescription - or afford to pay for one privately - is Carly Ashton, an ex-social worker from Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nHer two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Esme has an extremely rare form of epilepsy that affects fewer than 700 children worldwide. Esme has been treated with 15 different drugs and currently spends much of her life sedated.\n\nCarly has been warned that if her condition is not brought under control, Esme could die suddenly from a seizure.\n\n\"Ultimately they could become more violent, they could cause broken bones, multiple hospital admissions, it could cause her to die in her sleep,\" she explains.\n\nShe finds the situation very unfair, knowing there are children with the same condition who say they are benefitting from taking a form of medical whole cannabis.\n\n\"They are almost seizure-free or [entirely] seizure-free. It's given their life back. Esme's being denied that opportunity,\" she says.\n\nAlfie takes the medicine in the form of an oil\n\nHannah Deacon says she is heartbroken that legislation she fought for has not led to the hoped-for change.\n\n\"I find it shocking that the government has literally just washed their hands of this problem,\" she says.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said in a statement: \"Licensed cannabis-based medicines can be funded by the NHS where there is clear evidence of their quality, safety and effectiveness.\n\n\"It is important to carefully review evidence on unlicensed cannabis-based treatments to ensure they are proved safe and effective before they can be considered for roll out on the NHS more widely.\"\n\nThe government also adds that if a funding request for this medicine is not approved by an independent panel of experts, it cannot intervene in that decision.\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"While there is limited evidence on the safety of these unlicensed products, we continue to encourage manufacturers of these products to engage with the UK medicines regulator, which would provide doctors with the confidence to use the products in the same way they use other licensed medicines.\"\n\nIn Scotland, health boards would make the decision on whether to fund a specialist's request for a prescription.\n\nNHS Wales said: \"Where an NHS healthcare professional wishes to prescribe these products arrangements are in place for the NHS to consider, and where appropriate, meet their cost.\"\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) guidelines state it recommended research into the use of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines for severe treatment-resistant epilepsy.\n\nThe body, which is responsible for deciding which drugs and treatments should be available to patients on the NHS, said there was insufficient evidence of the medicines' safety and effectiveness to recommend it for the whole population of people with the condition.\n\nBut it added that this should not be interpreted by doctors as meaning they were prevented from considering the medicines where clinically appropriate. It says they can be prescribed on advice of a specialist, in consultation with the patient.\n• None Plea for more families to get cannabis treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 45-year-old man has been interviewed under caution by the Met Police after a video was circulated of a woman being restrained by a male shopkeeper.\n\nHundreds of people gathered to protest outside Peckham Hair and Cosmetics, in Rye Lane, on Tuesday where the woman had been accused of theft.\n\nChants of \"you touch one, you touch all\" were heard and signs held saying \"keep your hands off black women\".\n\nThe shopkeeper told the BBC the footage had been viewed \"out of context\".\n\nHe said the footage on social media was \"cropped\" and did not show the whole incident in full. The shop remains closed and shuttered.\n\nA 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault on Tuesday and later released on bail.\n\nPeople in Peckham were asked to remain calm after the video was circulated on social media.\n\nThe footage, which has been viewed more than a million times, appears to show a black woman inside the shop being grabbed by a much larger Asian man on Monday.\n\nThe woman struggled and hit the man with a shopping basket, which broke.\n\nThe man then held her by her arms and neck.\n\nHundreds were gathered outside the shop on Rye Lane on Tuesday\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after Monday's incident but before Tuesday afternoon's protest, the shopkeeper said the woman had become aggressive when she was refused a refund on products she had previously bought at the store.\n\n\"We do not give refunds, we exchange items or give a credit note. So she grabbed some stuff [three packs of hair with a total value of £24] from the shelf and tried to leave. She was leaving and I was stopping her.\n\n\"I was stopping her. She slapped me in the face and grabbed a shopping basket and hit me on the head. I don't know when my hand goes around her neck. I was keeping her neutralised. I did not hit her.\n\n\"The video was cropped. People are acting at the half truth\".\n\nThe shopkeeper said the footage had been viewed \"out of context\"\n\nEdilenny Dotel, who filmed the viral video while she was shopping in the store, said she had begun filming because she felt what was happening was \"not fair\".\n\n\"I felt horrible when I saw that in front of me,\" she told BBC London.\n\n\"[The man] saw me recording the video and I'm saying that I'm gonna call the police a few times.\n\n\"I'm a young girl. I was like 'imagine if that happened to me. I'm not gonna be okay with that. I would like to someone to share that on social media'.\"\n\nThe incident drew hundreds of participants at the organised protest on Tuesday. People stood chanting in the street, occasionally sitting in the road and temporarily halting buses and traffic.\n\nThe shop was closed up and there were about 15 police officers standing nearby.\n\nSome protesters kicked the shuttered storefront while others actively worked to calm feelings down.\n\nThe recurring sentiment from those gathered was that it was not the first time tensions had risen between the black community and some local shops.\n\nRye Lane Traders Association said it worked with the local community to make the area a \"safe and pleasant place to visit and shop\".\n\nIt said it could not comment further \"at this time\" because of the \"ongoing police matter\".\n\nProtester Marlon Kameka said the video highlighted wider issues with the treatment of black women\n\nMarlon Kameka, a 40-year-old artist and youth worker who attended the protest, told BBC London: \"There's a hierarchy in this country and, unfortunately, black women are always at the bottom of the hierarchy.\n\n\"I'm fed up with being on the street because I've seen a video of a black woman being abused by a man.\n\n\"The sad fact is, whenever I open social media, I should be prepared to see some kind of abuses being inflicted on a black person.\n\n\"I'm here not to speak up for myself, but to speak up for the black women and the black children who are coming up after us. We can't be scared to raise our voice because of what might happen.\"\n\nProtester Simone Goodys said she felt shocked and angry when she saw the video\n\nSimone Goodys, who joined the protest, said that she was shocked and angry when she saw the viral video.\n\n\"It made me feel scared, and I was shocked as well because I come in this shop all the time,\" she said.\n\n\"This shop is targeted at black women. They sell all stuff for black women. We're the ones who come here and buy their stuff, but they don't respect us.\n\n\"They have no right to treat people like that.\"\n\nAfter the protest, hand-written messages covered the shop's metal shutters.\n\nOne sign read \"protect black women\", while others contained strongly worded and offensive messages.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police and the London mayor have both said they understand why Londoners might be concerned about the footage, but urged people to remain calm.\n\nDet Ch Supt Seb Adjei-Addoh, local policing commander for Southwark, said: \"I would like to thank local people for their patience as we work to establish the full circumstances around the allegations made.\n\n\"We continue to examine various clips of footage that depict small sections of the wider incident and are working to establish what offences were committed and by whom.\n\n\"My officers will be patrolling Rye Lane today to provide reassurance to the community.\"\n\nHe added: \"I know that this incident will cause concern and I urge anyone who is worried to speak with their local policing team or with officers on patrol.\"\n\nHarriet Harman, Labour MP for Camberwell and Peckham, said she had asked for an \"urgent report\" from police.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Footage of woman being restrained by shopkeeper. Video, 00:00:30Footage of woman being restrained by shopkeeper", "Rowan Davies said she is planning on returning to work in six months to mitigate how much she loses from her pension\n\nWomen's private pension funds are 35% lower than men's, according to the UK government's official estimates.\n\nPrivate pensions consist of workplace schemes or personal pensions set up by individuals using independent companies.\n\nTaking time off or going part-time means paying less into pensions during your working life.\n\nA charity said employers should do more to support women with caring responsibilities.\n\nRowan Davies, 34, from Cardiff, is currently on maternity leave while caring for her five-month-old son Mabon.\n\nShe said she was \"very aware\" of the pensions issue, and so she is planning to return to work in six months.\n\n\"Finances and the household income is a big factor in many conversations me and my husband have about now and the future,\" she said.\n\nMrs Davies said her own mother was able to retire early, \"so she's always driven home the importance of having an occupational pension\".\n\n\"There's lots of information out there\", she added. \"But I feel like a lot of it is information you've got to go and find, as opposed to being presented to you at a good time.\"\n\nGretchen Betts, managing director of Magenta Financial Planning, said it was often a big life event that made people think about how they were going afford life in retirement.\n\n\"Especially in the case of divorce or bereavement where maybe, stereotypically, the man has taken the lead in financial decisions, it really highlights a gap around literacy for a lot of women,\" she said.\n\nA pension is a way of building up savings to live from in retirement\n\nMs Betts said the earlier people think about saving for the future the better, but it was \"never too late\".\n\nShe said a good rule of thumb was trying to save 10% of income for retirement, but noted it was not always possible.\n\nJudith Jeeves, 63, said it was the loss of her family that made her think about how to fund early retirement.\n\n\"My brother died at 56 and my mum and husband died within two years,\" said Mrs Jeeves, from Shwt, Bridgend county.\n\n\"It started before Covid came in, but Covid consolidated it and I thought you know what, there's more to life than work.\n\n\"That might sound a bit privileged of me but I want to be able to do things while I'm fit and healthy.\"\n\nJudith Jeeves said once her husband Mervyn died she realised she had to take over financial matters\n\nMrs Jeeves said her husband Mervyn had taken the lead on financial matters during their marriage.\n\n\"So once my husband died I thought 'well I'm on my own now, I've got to sort all this out' and it was very overwhelming for me.\"\n\nThe equality charity Chwarae Teg said employers could \"support women by having really flexible working practices\".\n\n\"They can have better shared paternity leave as well, carer's leave, and a culture that's really supportive of women and the issues that they have,\" said the charity's Bethan Airey.\n\nWhile the private pensions gender gap remains extremely wide, the gap between men and women in the state pension has narrowed substantially and is forecast to equalise in the early 2040s.\n\nBut a recent report by pensions consultants Lane Clark and Peacock forecasts the inequality in private pensions will narrow only slightly in the next two decades.\n\nThe UK government said the introduction of automatic enrolment into workplace pensions, which means employees join occupational pension schemes unless they choose to opt out, \"has transformed the UK pensions landscape and brought millions of women into pension saving for the very first time\".\n\nIt added: \"We recently published the first official measure of the Gender Pensions Gap, which will help track the collective efforts of government, industry and employers to close it, and ensure women can look forward to the retirements they've worked so hard for.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police has apologised and agreed to pay a settlement to a man who suffered a brain injury after being hit on the head by a police baton during a protest 13 years ago.\n\nAlfie Meadows was injured during a demonstration against student tuition fees in London on 9 December 2010.\n\nHe was charged with violent disorder and faced numerous trials before being unanimously acquitted in March 2013.\n\nIn Friday's statement, the Met said Mr Meadows was \"protesting peacefully\".\n\nIt said it had apologised to him in June and settled a civil action following a claim he made in August 2020. But the force added that the officer who struck Mr Meadows has not been identified and \"held to account for their actions\".\n\nThe amount of the settlement has not been disclosed but could run to six figures, according to the PA news agency.\n\nAlfie Meadows needed more than 100 staples in his head and was left with a large scar\n\n\"It felt like a process that was never going to end,\" Mr Meadows told Channel 4 News. \"It felt like I was on trial the whole time, that I was being punished for the crime of surviving this police assault.\"\n\n\"I've just been so aware of how I've been treated and how the police have been failed to be held to account,\" he said, adding that the incident and trials that followed had a \"serious impact\" on his life and mental health.\n\n\"All of the years I've lost fighting for truth and accountability and coming up against denial, blame and attempts to criminalise me,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, a Met Police spokesman said Mr Meadows suffered \"very serious injuries\" during the 2010 demonstration, which coincided with a vote on the proposed tuition fees increase in Parliament.\n\n\"Although the situation in Parliament Square was chaotic and threatening, we acknowledge that Mr Meadows was protesting peacefully and the use of force against him was unjustified,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesperson added that between 2010 and 2019 a number of investigations had taken place, but \"none were able to identify the officer in question\".\n\n\"We sincerely regret, despite extensive CCTV and witness inquiries, the officer who struck Mr Meadows did not come forward, could not be identified and has not been held to account for their actions.\n\n\"We have apologised to Mr Meadows for this.\"\n\nHe added that since 2010 the force has introduced body-worn cameras and improved self-defence training for officers in an effort to help prevent such an incident ever occurring again.\n\nThis article has been updated to correct the year in which Mr Meadows was acquitted.", "The US had offered a $5m-reward for information leading to the capture of Ovidio Guzmán\n\nA son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán has been extradited to the US on drug trafficking charges, the US Attorney General has said.\n\nOvidio Guzmán is suspected of leading, along with his brother, the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel his father founded.\n\nOvidio is also accused of having ordered the murder of a singer who had refused to perform at his wedding.\n\nHe was arrested in January in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa and has been in custody ever since.\n\n\"This action is the most recent step in the Justice Department's effort to attack every aspect of the cartel's operations,\" US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement regarding the extradition.\n\n\"The fight against the cartels has involved incredible courage by United States law enforcement and Mexican law enforcement and military servicemembers, many of whom have given their lives in the pursuit of justice.\"\n\nMr Garland also thanked the Mexican government for its assistance in getting Ovidio to the US.\n\nThere was no immediate reaction to the extradition by the Mexican authorities.\n\nIt comes days after the 33-year-old's father's wife, Emma Coronel, was released from jail in the US after being sentenced in November 2021 on drug trafficking charges.\n\nHer husband is serving a life sentence at a supermax jail in Colorado for leading the Sinaloa cartel.\n\nOvidio Guzmán is one of four children El Chapo had during his relationship with Griselda López in the 1980s and 90s. The oldest of them, Edgar, was killed in a cartel shootout in 2008.\n\nEl Chapo also has other children from his previous marriage and from his subsequent relationship with Coronel.\n\nGuzmán, also known as \"El Ratón\" (The Mouse), was arrested outside the city of Culiacán following a six-month surveillance operation.\n\nTwenty-nine people died in the firefight which ensued and members of his cartel burned buses and cars to block access roads to prevent police reinforcements from reaching the city.\n\nOvidio was flown to Mexico City in a helicopter for fear that if he was transported by road his hitmen would try to attack the convoy.\n\nIn June 2020, the security forces briefly detained him but were ordered by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to release him \"so as not to put the population at risk\" as Sinaloa gunmen torched buses and engaged in gun battles with police and soldiers.\n\nHe had been in hiding for the following 18 months before his re-arrest in January 2023.\n\nThe Sinaloa cartel is a transnational criminal organisation that is estimated by US law enforcement officials to have smuggled more than 1,000 tonnes of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin into the US.\n\nThe cartel's hitmen kidnapped, tortured and killed members of rival gangs to consolidate its power.\n\nMembers have also bribed police officers and high-ranking politicians in Mexico and across Central America to turn a blind eye to drug shipments or even tip the cartel off about impending raids.", "BBC correspondent Anna Foster is on the ground in the Libyan port city of Derna, where thousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel.\n\nShe describes the scene of the disaster, where rescuers, ambulance crews and forensic teams are working fast after whole neighbourhoods were washed away.\n\nFigures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 and thousands of people are still missing.", "The child's body was placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa, according to Italian media\n\nThe body of a newborn baby has been recovered from a boat carrying migrants during a rescue operation off the Italian island of Lampedusa.\n\nThe mother is thought to have given birth during the journey from North Africa, the Ansa news agency says, and the death is being investigated.\n\nMore than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Lampedusa over the past three days.\n\nEuropean Commission head Ursula von der Leyen is due to visit the island on Sunday after Italy asked for EU help.\n\nItalian newspaper Corriere Del Mezzogiorno reports the mother was helped by companions on the small boat after she started having contractions.\n\nThe child's body was later placed in a white coffin and taken to a cemetery in Lampedusa's Imbriacola district, it adds.\n\nEarlier this week a five-month-old baby boy drowned during a rescue operation off the same island, after a boat carrying migrants across the sea from north Africa capsized.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the country was being placed under \"unsustainable pressure\" as a result of the migrant influx.\n\nMs Meloni is pushing for a European Union naval blockade to prevent boats from crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italian shores.\n\nThe Italian Red Cross has said it is currently dealing with about 2,500 people at a reception centre designed for 400 arrivals.\n\nVolunteers and staff have been providing thousands of meals all week and helping transfer new arrivals to Sicily and elsewhere.\n\nNearly 126,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, which is about double the number for the same period in 2022.\n\nMs Meloni said she was calling on Ms von der Leyen \"to personally realize the gravity of the situation we face\" and to \"immediately accelerate\" the implementation of an agreement with Tunisia.\n\nThe North African country has become the main departure point for African migrants attempting to reach Europe.\n\nThe EU deal, which was signed in July, is backed up by €110m ($118m; £90m) of EU cash to stop smuggling, strengthen borders and return migrants.\n\nThe surge in arrivals led to protests by Lampedusa's residents on Saturday who demonstrated against plans to build a new tent camp to host the migrants.\n\n\"I have two children at home. In the past years, I did not care about this issue. But now I have an instinct of protection for my children because I don't know what will happen to Lampedusa in the future,\" one of the protesters told the Reuters news agency.\n\n\"Lampedusa says stop! We don't want tent camps. This message is for Europe and for the Italian government. Lampedusa residents are tired,\" another protester said.\n\nLampedusa residents took took to the island's streets on Saturday to protest against the migrant arrivals", "Nathaniel Shani's family said they were \"heartbroken\" to have lost such a \"polite\" and \"loving boy\"\n\nA 14-year-old boy who was killed in a stabbing in Manchester was \"very kind\" and \"caring\", his family have said.\n\nNathaniel Shani was found shortly after 18:00 BST on Friday in Tavistock Square, Harpurhey, and died later in hospital.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.\n\nNathaniel's family said he was \"always thinking of others\" and added that \"our hearts are left broken\" by his death.\n\nPaying tribute in a statement, the family added: \"Nathaniel was a best friend to many, he never failed to make people laugh.\n\n\"He was polite and the most loving person. He would always put other people first without a thought. He was an amazing brother and son to his parents and siblings.\"\n\nNathaniel was said to be an \"amazing brother\"\n\nTributes and flowers have been left at the taped-off crime scene where the teenager was stabbed.\n\nWitnesses claimed there was a fight before screams could be heard.\n\nResident Syeda Qayyum told the BBC: \"There was a big fight with kids fighting with each other.\n\n\"One kid was screaming 'call an ambulance, call an ambulance' and there was blood on the corner. It's so bad.\"\n\nHarpurhey councillor Pat Karney said the community \"was heartbroken\".\n\nHe said: \"We can only imagine the pain that this family have woken up to. To lose a child in these circumstances is horrifying.\"\n\nSyeda Qayyum said she saw a big fight before the boy was stabbed\n\nGreater Manchester Police has imposed a Section 60 order - which gives them greater stop and search powers - until Saturday evening.\n\nDet Supt Phil Key said: \"I would like to share my deepest condolences with the family at this unbelievably difficult time.\"\n\nHe sought to reassure the public that the Section 60 order was only used \"when proportionate and necessary\", adding that it was aimed at minimising violent behaviour and preventing \"any further serious incidents\".\n\nAnyone who saw the attack has been urged to contact the police.\n\nA police cordon has been set up around the scene of the stabbing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Finally in the studio - Trevor Noah receives a standing ovation as he bursts in\n\nWe all know that nightmarish feeling in the pit of our stomachs as we realise we're running late! On Friday, that played out live on air for Trevor Noah.\n\nThe South African comic was due to appear on the 947 radio station in Johannesburg for a morning chat.\n\nBut bad traffic, a confused taxi driver and angry locals left the former Daily Show host late for his interview.\n\n\"There's a bicycle fighting with a taxi driver,\" he yelled frantically down a crackly phone line to the show's hosts.\n\n\"That's not in your traffic report,\" the flustered star added, before announcing that he was \"gonna get in with some guy,\" eliciting screams of concern from the presenting team.\n\nThe 39-year-old, who quit the Daily Show in 2022 after an acclaimed seven-year run at the helm, finally burst into the studio shortly after.\n\n\"Can I just say, whoever is in this traffic, I feel you. We are together,\" he laughed while explaining the ordeal.\n\n\"The driver I'm with doesn't know where we're going,\" he recalled. \"So I jump out of the car, said I'm gonna run.\"\n\n\"While I'm running people are in the street - listening to your show - [are] hooting and shouting 'Trevor it's the other way! You're going the wrong way, Trevor!'\n\n\"Then one guy decides to stop. He doesn't just point, he stops the car. He says 'Trevor, get in.'\n\n\"Then he took me to the wrong building!\" Noah roared in exasperation.\n\nHe was finally spotted by a staff member, who took him to the studio, where Noah was greeted to cheers and applause.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by 947 This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nNoah was born in Johannesburg and made his name in the South African comedy circuit, before being named as late-night legend Jon Stewart's replacement as host of the Daily Show in 2015.\n\nHe left in 2022, saying he was \"filled with gratitude for the journey\" but that there was \"another part of my life that I want to carry on exploring\".\n\nThe programme has yet to appoint a new host, instead running with a rotating presenter, with stars including Sarah Silverman and Al Franken sitting in the chair.\n\nLast month Noah returned to South Africa, where he has started a run of 12 stand-up specials across the country.\n\nHe has also inked a high-profile deal with streaming giant Spotify to host a weekly podcast slated to premiere later this year.\n\nSpotify said the as yet unnamed series will combine Noah's \"signature humour and razor-sharp wit with his global perspective to deliver a unique take on the hottest and most captivating topics of the moment.\"", "Zulu regiments accompanied the hearse on its way to Ulundi\n\nMourners gathered for the funeral of veteran South African politician and Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.\n\nHe was granted a state funeral in honour of his contribution to the fight against white-minority rule.\n\nAs a mark of respect, the national power firm also agreed Ulundi would not be subject to the national rolling electricity cuts during the events.\n\nBut his death at the age of 95 has opened up a debate about his legacy.\n\nBorn into the Zulu royal family, he remained their traditional prime minister until his death. However, it was his role in politics that has split opinions.\n\nHe founded the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) after becoming disillusioned with the African National Congress (ANC) in 1975 at the height of apartheid. He opposed the ANC's stance on armed action and sanctions, arguing that they harmed black South Africans.\n\nMangosuthu Buthelezi's supporters see him as a man of peace\n\nFor this, his supporters believe he deserves all the accolades being showered on him - and the hundreds of people who lined the streets on Friday leading to the Kwa-Phindangene Palace in Ulundi, along with praise-singing Zulu regiments clad in traditional attire, see him as a man of peace.\n\nProf Kealeboga Maphunye, head of African politics at the University of South Africa, acknowledges Buthelezi was \"a respected traditional leader who made a contribution in history in ensuring that the dignity of black people, particularly Zulus, was not trampled on by the apartheid regime\".\n\nYet it was what happened during the transition to multi-party democracy in the early 1990s, when an estimated 20,000 people died in violence between the ANC and IFP, that has drawn criticism and opened up old wounds.\n\n\"We cannot forget that Buthelezi's supporters were involved in acts that undermined his legacy,\" Prof Maphunye told the BBC.\n\nThe City Press newspaper editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya was more forthright in his front-page editorial, a day after Buthelezi's death, calling him a \"murderous apartheid collaborator who was behind hit squads linked to his organisation\".\n\nMakhanya went on to describe positive tributes about him as \"the culmination of the greatest whitewashing of history that South Africa has seen\".\n\nThokoza township in the east of Johannesburg is one of many areas that experienced political violence by those determined to derail the road to the country's first democratic elections in 1994.\n\nButhelezi is seen as a \"respected traditional leader\" by some but others says his legacy was overshadowed by political violence\n\nA monument to the 600 people who died there now stands on Khumalo Street, once the dividing line between two warring communities.\n\nOn Thursday people gathered at the memorial determined that their relatives who died would not be forgotten at this time.\n\n\"I lost my uncle during the violent clashes. He was bludgeoned to death,\" a man, who asked not to be named, told the BBC.\n\nHe had called on Buthelezi to \"humble\" himself and apologise for the atrocities that were committed in his name. \"But instead of apologising, he denied involvement till his death,\" he said.\n\nThe IFP has dismissed these criticisms, saying neither Buthelezi nor his party can be blamed for planning the violence. After Nelson Mandela won the country's first democratic elections, he and Buthelezi buried the hatchet and the IFP leader went on to serve two terms as home affairs minister in the ANC government.\n\nButhelezi's son, Prince Zuzifa, said: \"The IFP shares our pain in seeing long-discredited propaganda revived by a few individuals who have no sense of humanity but we will not be drawn into their spiral of hatred… history will vindicate our father.\"\n\nSome mourners in Ulundi are wearing wraps with Mangosuthu Buthelezi's image\n\nEvents to commemorate the Zulu leader began on Wednesday in Ulundi with a memorial service organised by the IFP and addressed by dignitaries and politicians of all parties.\n\nBut this too has become overshadowed by accusations that some are using the commemorations to play politics ahead of elections next year, with politicians accused of being prepared to revise history with votes in mind.\n\nThis criticism has particularly been levelled at the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the country's second-largest opposition party launched 10 years ago.\n\nIts head of political education, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, took to the stage to praise the IFP founder: \"Never be shaken by the negativity of ill-informed, ignorant people.\n\n\"Never be shaken by opportunists, hypocrites who want to educate us about our own history and the leadership that stabilised this country into a politically peaceful environment,\" he told the crowd of mourners.\n\nFor the IFP the funeral is also a good opportunity to canvas for votes and for other parties to woo a possible coalition partner in KwaZulu-Natal province, homeland to the country's largest ethnic group.\n\nButhelezi retired from active politics five years ago, but recently won praise for the overseeing the peaceful installation of the recently crowned Zulu monarch Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, amid a battle for the throne among his brothers.\n\nAlthough it was reported that he and the king were at loggerheads recently over the running and management of the Ingonyama Trust, a body with the role of managing communal land in KwaZulu Natal province.\n\nButhelezi regarded the trust as one of his great successes - and its creation did pave the way for the IFP to participate in the 1994 elections - although it has come in for criticism, with some seeing it as unconstitutional, as it leaves millions of people in rural areas under rule of the king.\n\nBut for historian Mphumeleli Ngidi, Buthelezi's nearly 70 years of service show an unfailing dedication to preserving Zulu customs and rituals at a critical juncture in South Africa's history - and for this alone there is no doubt he will be revered.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn official in eastern Libya has denied allegations that many of those killed in devastating floods last weekend were told to stay in their homes.\n\nOthman Abdul Jalil, a spokesperson for the Benghazi-based government, told the BBC that soldiers warned people in the city of Derna to flee.\n\nHe denied that people were told not to evacuate, but conceded some may have felt the threat was exaggerated.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC teams in Derna say aid agencies are yet to arrive at the city.\n\nWhile reporters witnessed a hive of activity in the centre of Derna - with rescuers, ambulance crews and forensic teams working to identify the dead - there was little sign of major international aid agencies.\n\nA spokesperson for one organisation said that trying to coordinate aid operations in the country was \"a nightmare\".\n\n\"Libya one week ago was already complicated,\" said Tomasso Della Longa from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).\n\nMaking the situation even more complicated is the fact that the floods have destroyed crucial infrastructure, like roads and telecommunications systems.\n\nDeath tolls that have been provided vary from around 6,000 up to 11,000. With many more thousands still missing, Derna's mayor has warned that the total could reach 20,000.\n\nThe BBC has been told that some victims' bodies have washed ashore more than 100km (60 miles) from Derna, after they were swept out to sea.\n\nA spokesperson for the United Nations' humanitarian office, Jens Laerke, told the BBC that there were still survivors and dead bodies under the rubble, and that it would be some time before they knew the true number of casualties.\n\n\"We are trying to not to have a second disaster there. It is critical to prevent a health crisis, to provide shelter, clean water and food,\" he said.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have so far been buried in mass graves, according to a UN report.\n\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked disaster workers to stop doing this, because a hasty burial in mass graves can lead to long-lasting mental distress for grieving family members.\n\nThousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel on Sunday, washing whole neighbourhoods into the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nSurvivors have described terrifying escapes and people being swept away in front of their eyes.\n\nEntire neighbourhoods were washed into the Mediterranean Sea\n\nThe country's fragmented political situation is said to be complicating the recovery. Libya is split between two rival governments - with the UN-backed administration based in the capital Tripoli and the rival Egyptian-supported one based in Benghazi.\n\nThere have been widespread allegations that the two dams that collapsed were not well-maintained, and there are growing calls for an urgent inquiry into how the flooding became so catastrophic.\n\nThere are also conflicting reports as to whether - and when - people were told to flee their homes. Residents have told the BBC that they received mixed messages from the two rival governments on whether they should stay or leave.\n\nGuma El-Gamaty, a Libyan academic and head of the Taghyeer Party, said on Thursday that people in the flood zone should have been evacuated, but \"on the contrary they were told to stay put and stay inside their houses and not go out\".\n\nBut Derna's mayor told Arab news channel Al-Hadath that he \"personally ordered evacuating the city three or four days before the disaster.\" The BBC has not been able to verify Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi's claims.\n\nAs the weather got worse, police and military were telling people to leave their homes for higher ground, survivors have told the BBC.\n\nBut it seemed many people did not take the threat seriously.\n\n\"A lot of them did but unfortunately, people sometimes, they said, 'well you know, this is exaggerating, this might not be the case',\" an official from Libya's unofficial, eastern administration told the BBC's Newshour programme.\n\nThere are also allegations that officials took to Libyan television on Sunday night, and ordered people to stay in their homes because of the bad weather. But the same official, Othman Abdul Jalil, denied this.\n\nIt is too early to attribute with certainty the severity of this storm to rising global temperatures. However, climate change is thought to be increasing the frequency of the world's strongest storms.\n\nProf Liz Stephens, an expert in climate risks and resilience at the UK's University of Reading, said scientists were confident that climate change was super-charging the rainfall associated with such storms.\n\nOn Friday, a top UN official, Martin Griffiths, said the disaster was \"a massive reminder\" of climate change and the challenge it posed.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation", "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted of corruption charges following an impeachment process which divided Republicans governing the US state.\n\nMr Paxton - a Donald Trump ally - can resume his work in elected office after being suspended in May.\n\n\"The truth could not be buried by mudslinging politicians or their powerful benefactors,\" Mr Paxton said.\n\nHe was cleared of 16 counts in a vote in the state Senate.\n\nIn May, more than 60 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives crossed party lines to impeach the state's top lawyer on counts of corruption, obstruction of justice, bribery and abuse of public trust.\n\nBut in the state's Senate - also dominated by the party - only two Republicans voted to remove him from office on any of the counts.\n\nThe charges related to favours he allegedly granted a Texas real estate developer, the use of public funds to punish whistleblowers on his staff and cover up their allegations, and benefits he directed to a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.\n\nThe attorney general has always denied any wrongdoing and called the impeachment a \"politically-motivated sham\".\n\nMr Paxton is one of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters in Texas, supporting the former president's unsuccessful attempts to challenge his 2020 election defeat.\n\nThe impeachment divided the Republican Party between a pro-Trump faction and more traditional conservatives.\n\nShortly after the attorney general was impeached, Mr Trump posted \"free Ken Paxton\" on his social media site Truth Social and called the effort \"election interference\" by \"radical left Democrats\", criminals and insufficiently loyal Republicans.\n\nMore than 100 witnesses were scheduled to testify, including some close associates of Mr Paxton who accused him of wrongdoing.\n\nHe still faces state charges for securities fraud, in a case that goes back to shortly after he won office eight years ago. The FBI has probed the same allegations.\n• None Why Republicans are impeaching a Trump ally in Texas", "Smoke rises from a shipyard in the Russian-held Crimean port of Sevastopol\n\nThis week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles.\n\nEstimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014?\n\nCrimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away.\n\n\"The strategy has two main goals,\" says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies.\n\n\"To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol.\"\n\nIn other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south.\n\n\"They depend on each other,\" Musiienko says.\n\nLet's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea.\n\nOn Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol.\n\nSatellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.\n\nBritain's Ministry of Defence said two Russian ships had been badly damaged in the attack\n\nOn Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said a large amphibious landing ship, the Minsk, had \"almost certainly been functionally destroyed\".\n\nNext to it, one of Russia's Kilo class diesel-electric submarines, the Rostov-on-Don - used to launch Kalibr cruise missiles hundreds of miles into Ukraine - had \"likely suffered catastrophic damage\".\n\nPerhaps equally importantly the dry docks - vital for maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet - would likely be out of use \"for many months\", the ministry said.\n\nIt said special forces had played a key role, using boats and an unspecified \"underwater delivery means\" to get ashore, before using \"special technical assets\" to help identify and target the vessels.\n\nBut with the fires barely out in Sevastopol there were more dramatic night-time explosions as Ukraine blew up one of Russia's most modern air defence systems, an S-400, around 40 miles (64km) north at Yevpatoria.\n\nThis was another sophisticated operation that used a combination of drones and Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles to confuse and destroy a key component of Russia's air defences on the Crimean Peninsula.\n\nA significant side note: Russian attempts to use exactly this technique over Kyiv have generally failed, largely thanks to the presence of US Patriot interceptor missiles.\n\nThursday was the second time in less than a month that Ukraine has knocked out an S-400 surface-to-air missile system on the peninsula.\n\nOn 23 August, at Olenivka, on the western tip of the Tarkhankut Peninsula, Ukraine managed to destroy another launcher and a nearby radar station.\n\nRussia was thought to have not more than six S-400 launchers in Crimea. Now it has lost two.\n\nBut these are only some of Ukraine's recent operations.\n\nOthers have knocked out Russian radar positions on offshore gas platforms and, according to Kyiv, used experimental maritime drones to attack a hovercraft missile carrier at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour.\n\nWith its airbases, troop concentrations, training grounds and the Black Sea fleet, Crimea has been a key target since Russia's full-scale invasion last year.\n\n\"In Crimea, they still have a lot of stockpiles, with artillery shells and other types of weapons,\" Musiienko says. \"And this is the main logistic supply line for them.\"\n\nOver the months, Kyiv's operations have grown in sophistication, from a drone attack in August 2022 which destroyed an estimated nine Russian aircraft at the Saky air base, to the combined drone and missile attacks of today.\n\nWith more advanced weapons thought to be in the pipeline, Musiienko expects Ukraine to launch ever more sophisticated operations.\n\n\"When we get ATACMS (tactical ballistic missiles) from the United States, I think we will try to use - in one attack - ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and also drones,\" he says.\n\n\"And that will be a serious problem for Russia's air defence system,\" he adds.\n\n\"We will try to blind them.\"\n\nEach successful attack, he says, makes the next one easier. \"We are clearing the way, and it's becoming more simple.\"\n\nThe latest reports from Washington suggests the Biden administration is close to approving the ATACMS long range missile system after months of Ukrainian lobbying.\n\nDoes any of this mean that Kyiv is getting closer to its goal of liberating Crimea?\n\n\"It's getting closer, but there's still a lot to do,\" says retired Ukrainian navy captain Andriy Ryzhenko.\n\n\"We need to liberate the Sea of Azov coast and cut the land corridor,\" he says, referring to Ukraine's slow, grinding offensive in the south.\n\nAnd then there is the Kerch Bridge.\n\nUkraine has been hitting Moscow's lifeline to Crimea for almost a year, but Russian heavy equipment still moves along its vital railway.\n\nDespite being much better defended now, it remains very much in Kyiv's sights.\n\nThis file picture from July shows damage apparently caused by a Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, which links Crimea and Russia\n\n\"When we shut down the Crimean bridge, it will be a logistical problem for them,\" Ryzhenko says, with some understatement.\n\nCutting off Crimea would be catastrophic for Russia and provide a welcome boost to Ukraine's difficult southern offensive.\n\nSo is all this a prelude to a Ukrainian effort to retake the peninsula?\n\nObservers here in Kyiv are trying not to get ahead of themselves.\n\n\"I think this could be a preparation for the liberation of Crimea,\" Musiienko. \"But I understand that it will take time.\n\n\"What we're trying to do right now is clean the way to Crimea.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Secretary of National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Ukraine was using every means at its disposal to force Russia to abandon Crimea.\n\n\"It looks like if the Russians do not leave Crimea on their own,\" he said in a radio interview, \"we will have to 'smoke them out'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Anna Foster walks along a \"wasteland\" that used to be a riverbed\n\nThe journey to the Libyan city of Derna takes twice as long now.\n\nDriving along the road from Benghazi, fields turn into rust-red lakes. As you get closer, the traffic begins to slow. Telegraph poles pulled from the ground by the floodwaters now lie haphazardly. Cars creep around holes in the highway, on hastily dug detours carved out by diggers.\n\nOne of the closest bridges to Derna has been washed away completely. Locals stand near the ragged tarmac precipice, peering over and taking photos.\n\nNot far beyond, soldiers hand out face masks to every car - for the driver, and each passenger. Everyone driving in the other direction is wearing them, and you soon realise why.\n\nThe smell of death in parts of the city feels almost impossible to describe. It fills your nostrils, part the scent of sewage, part something that's harder to identify.\n\nAt times it is so strong it turns the stomach - especially as you stand overlooking the port where recovery teams tell me bodies are still washing up.\n\nNot just people but buildings, possessions and livelihoods have been washed away in the eastern Libyan city of Derna\n\nThat morning they found three. Carried in on the tide, they get trapped in the mounds of debris slowly rotting in the seawater.\n\nBroken wood, whole cars lifted and dropped on top of scattered sea defences, tyres, fridges - everything mingles and swirls together in the stagnant water.\n\nThe pictures and videos which have come out of Derna have been graphic and shocking.\n\nBut watching them does prepare you for the scale of the damage the floods have done to this place. The line of the river now gapes like an open wound, perhaps a hundred metres across in places. On these mounds of mud, nothing at all remains. It's a barren wasteland.\n\nThe destructive power of the water has been extraordinary.\n\nCars lie around like toys tipped casually on their sides or resting upside-down. One has been pushed fully inside the terrace surrounding the distinctive Al Sahaba Mosque. Another is completely off the ground, embedded in the side of a building.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have so far been buried in mass graves, according to a UN report\n\nWalls made of thick concrete blocks have toppled. Sturdy trees have been plucked from the ground, their roots curling into the air. Everything else, though, is gone.\n\nThis wasn't just thousands of people washed away - it was their homes, their possessions, their lives. Humanity has been cleansed from this part of Derna.\n\nFor the survivors, life here has changed forever. There's huge grief and palpable anger.\n\nWith many more thousands still missing, Derna's mayor has warned that the total could reach 20,000\n\nFaris Ghassar lost five members of his family in the raging waters.\n\n\"We were told to stay inside our homes,\" he cries. \"Why? They should have told us there was a storm, told us the dam was old and crumbling.\n\n\"Some of these destroyed buildings were a hundred years old. It's all politics. There's a government in the west, a government in the east. It's a big problem.\"\n\nOne of the dead was Faris's 10-month-old daughter. He reaches for his phone to show me their pictures. First alive, and then their bodies, carefully wrapped in blankets, their faces showing their ordeal.\n\nAt the same time as we talk, a convoy of ministers is touring the disaster zone. They're from the eastern government, one of Libya's two opposing authorities. Their fighting has decimated the country's infrastructure.\n\nFaris claims this has proved fatal for his family.\n\nFaris Gassar, who lost his baby daughter and four other family members, asks why they were told to stay at home\n\nI asked eastern Prime Minister Osama Hamad how this could happen when the dams were supposed to keep people safe?\n\n\"It was a very strong cyclone,\" he told me. \"Too strong for the dams. This is nature, and this is Allah.\"\n\nOn the streets, there are rumours of a full evacuation of Derna.\n\nThose left behind in the city are battling against the elements, with clean water and medical care in short supply. Almost a week after the deadly storm, the challenges facing its survivors are only growing.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation", "Ian Price suffered multiple injuries in the attack by two suspected American bully XLs\n\nA man who was killed by two dogs has been described as a \"pillar of the community\" by a close friend.\n\nIan Price, 52, died in hospital after being attacked by two suspected American bully XLs in Stonnall, near Walsall, Staffordshire, on Thursday.\n\nHis friend Rob Ellwood, said he loved walking his own dogs and Aston Villa.\n\nA 30-year-old man, from the Lichfield area, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter has now been released on conditional bail.\n\nIn a tribute Mr Ellwood described the father-of-two as a \"very early riser\" and a keen golfer.\n\n\"His early morning walks around Stonnall were a huge part of his relaxation routine, where he would walk his two dogs along the many country footpaths surrounding our village, then later posting his rural adventures on Facebook whilst many of us were still in bed.\"\n\n\"It is of no surprise to all who knew Ian that his first love was his family\", adding he was a devoted husband and father-of two, son and brother,\" Mr Ellwood said.\n\n\"He would often talk of their achievements and how incredibly proud he was of them,\" Mr Ellwood said.\n\nA JustGiving page has been set up for Mr Price's family.\n\nOn it, Mr Ellwood said the victim's family had \"thanked everybody for your support and help during this horrific time\".\n\nIan Price was an Aston Villa fan and a keen golfer\n\nMr Ellwood's friend was also an Aston Villa fan and \"enjoyed both the beautiful game and also the banter that ensued\".\n\n\"A pillar of the community, Ian will be sadly missed by all who knew him.\n\n\"He would have done anything for anyone, he was a patriot, a gentleman, a tradesman and a scholar.\"\n\nMr Ellwood said the Stonnall community were welcome to come to an open church service on Saturday until 15:00 BST to lay flowers and pay their respects.\n\nIan Price, 52, died after suffering multiple injuries in the attack by two suspected American bully XLs\n\nThe UK's chief veterinary officer said on Saturday there would not be a cull of American bully XLs as a result of new laws being introduced.\n\nStaffordshire Police said the arrested man had been interviewed a number of times and had been released pending further inquiries.\n\nThe force added: \"Our investigation continues at pace as we try to understand more about events leading up to this horrendous attack.\"\n\nOn Friday, the force said officers had spoken to the dog owner on two previous occasions after being called to incidents in the area.\n\nThe BBC understands these dogs were owned by the man who was arrested by detectives\n\nHe had initially been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of dogs dangerously out of control, causing injury.\n\nPolice previously said it was understood the dogs were bully XLs, but further tests were being carried out to determine their breeds.\n\nOne of the dogs died after being restrained and the other died after an injection was given by a vet, police said.\n\nThe attack happened in Main Street at about 15:15 BST on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the public tried to help Mr Price and attempted to get the dogs off him.\n\nMeanwhile, children at nearby St Peter's Primary Academy were stopped from leaving school for several hours for safety reasons.\n\nOne of the dogs was captured outside, while the other was contained in the owner's flat.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Burke, who formerly served in the Parachute Regiment, travelled to Ukraine in 2022\n\nA body has been found in the search for a missing former paratrooper who was fighting in Ukraine, police have said.\n\nDaniel Burke, of Wythenshawe, Manchester, was reported missing by his family on 16 August after he had travelled to the front line in 2022.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the Ukrainian authorities had recovered his body.\n\nHis family said the 36-year-old was found in Zaporizhzhia, which lies about 44km (27 miles) from the front line.\n\nMother Diane Sniath told the BBC that \"this is the moment I have been dreading\".\n\nMr Burke spent time in prison after going to Syria to fight with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group\n\nGMP said it was working with Mr Burke's family and the Ukrainian authorities \"to support the identification of Daniel and bring him back\" home.\n\nThe BBC last spoke to Mr Burke on 6 August, when he expressed intentions to join a Ukrainian army unit to fight against Russian forces.\n\nHe previously served in the Parachute Regiment between 2007 and 2009.\n\nIn 2019 he spent eight months in prison accused of terror offences after going to Syria to fight with Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group. All the charges against him were dropped in 2020.\n\nOther Britons have recently lost their lives in Ukraine, including Samuel Newey, who was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the eastern part of the country.\n\nFormer Scots Guard Jordan Chadwick, 32, was found dead with his hands tied behind his back in June.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Too boring? Too serious? Too left wing? Too right wing? Too much of a mystery still?\n\nFor a long time, Keir Starmer's Labour has been miles ahead in the opinion polls. And even before that, for a very long time, he has faced calls to be more explicit about his priorities.\n\nWhen he ran to become leader, promising \"moral socialism\", I wondered what his priorities were as he did his first interview as part of his campaign to take on the job.\n\nEven then, he carefully refused to say if his politics were closer to Jeremy Corbyn's or Tony Blair's.\n\nThis week though, and this weekend at a left wing love-in in Canada with like minded leaders, Keir Starmer is very deliberately picking a subject and sticking to it, talking about border security and immigration.\n\nThis episode illustrates exactly the opportunity and dilemma the Labour leadership faces.\n\nSay too much? The plans can be shredded (or nabbed!) by opponents, or cause grumbles closer to home.\n\nSay as little as humanly possible, and face accusations that you stand for nothing, and have no ideas of your own.\n\nYvette Cooper and Keir Starmer aiming to show they mean business on migration\n\nAfter attacks on the border security plans presented alongside Keir Starmer's carefully-choreographed trip to Europol, in the Netherlands, is Labour damned if they dare put policy out there, and damned if they don't?\n\nThe plans, which you can read more about here, were met with what could have almost been a pre-scripted response.\n\nThere were squeals from the right immediately, with highly debatable claims that the Labour would automatically open the door to an extra 100,000 migrants a year.\n\nThat estimate assumed that a Labour government would sign up to an EU-wide quota deal that is not yet in operation.\n\nLabour says they would never sign up to the continent-wide scheme, even though they do want closer cooperation.\n\nSome Conservatives reckon Starmer has made a \"strategic mistake\" by focusing on these plans, opening himself to accusations of cosying up to the EU on immigration.\n\nBut one shadow minister played down the attack, saying the \"Tories are struggling and so it means they are going to make stuff up\".\n\nOn the other side, there was some obvious discomfort too at the message the leadership has been pushing.\n\nUnion leaders and charity bosses branded it as \"pandering\", \"knee-jerk\" language just to grab \"headlines in the Sun\".\n\nCertainly, promises to \"smash the gangs\", or treat human traffickers like \"terrorists\" are not designed to tickle the bellies of the Labour membership - those who'll be leafing through all 116 pages of the party's policy document, which will be argued over and voted on at conference in a few weeks.\n\nSo if Starmer's had screams from the right and squeals from the left, then surely something's gone wrong?\n\nNot so fast. It's politics! Not normal life.\n\nIt's a weird old business. You pick an issue, provoke a row. The row isn't a damaging thing, as long as it stays as a controllable spat, not an overwhelming bunfight.\n\nThe row is, in fact, the point.\n\nGet your rivals on the inside and the outside to argue, the argument kicks off, then get the public to notice you are taking a stand on issues they care about, and bingo.\n\nThe impression is created, whether it's genuine or not, that the party understands voters' worries and will actually do something about it.\n\nAs one Labour source suggests, \"in opposition you have to be prepared to have the row, that's the only way you get heard\".\n\nThey say, \"whether we are trying to claim the mantle of the economy, or the party to fix small boats - we have to show we can make progress on it\".\n\nThat doesn't happen by shying away from a tricky subject, or only sticking to Labour crowd pleasers.\n\nCredibility by caring about the right things and offering solutions is the aim. A shadow cabinet minister says the proposals are about being \"practical\", the political responses this week were predictable, and the priority is to \"look like they are serious\" about fixing the country's ills.\n\nMore than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats in the last five years\n\nLabour HQ seems neither surprised nor perturbed by the rumpus their proposals this week caused.\n\nMore images and coverage of Keir Starmer to come on his adventure to Canada and Paris - tick.\n\nBut there are, of course, still risks all around.\n\nThere is a sense among some voters that Labour still just attacks on issues where things are going wrong for the Conservatives, like immigration, rather than pursuing strong areas of their own.\n\nOne pollster says in almost every focus group they host, someone says of Starmer, \"he just criticises\" - the \"risk is [the] public just think Keir is a moaner or a clever lawyer\".\n\nThere is a danger, they say, \"of Labour not having their agenda\", so even if they win, \"if things improve people don't stick with them, or potentially worse they have zero honeymoon when they get in, and no enthusiasm\".\n\nThere is also a risk of stirring up too much unhappiness on the left, so that the party ends up preoccupied with internal fights again.\n\nIt is not true to say that this is the first time Labour has talked about immigration, or that the party has always avoided the topic.\n\nEd Miliband's 2015 campaign mug did not go down well with activists\n\nRemember Gordon Brown's clamour for \"British jobs for British workers\" or Ed Miliband's awkward somersaults over the issue, accompanied by his bizarre branded mug which promised controls on immigration?\n\nBut Keir Starmer's trying to show something else - not just that he will talk about the issue, but that the party is comfortable taking on the concern and has credible solutions.\n\nThere are dangers for any opposition in saying too little or too much.\n\nThe thing Labour is most afraid of is not winning or losing any specific argument, but failing to win the country, and losing again.", "The dog attack happened at Palins Holiday Park in north Wales\n\nA man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he and four others were bitten by a dog.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it happened during a \"disturbance\" at Palins Holiday Park, Kinmel Bay, Conwy county, on Friday at about 22:00 BST.\n\nTwo men, aged 58 and 28, have been arrested and the dog has been seized.\n\nDet Sgt Jon Rich said the dog is not believed to be a bully XL and the force was in the process of confirming its exact breed.\n\nThe condition of the man in hospital is not known. Police said the four other people suffered minor injuries.\n\nHoliday park staff and security responded \"as swiftly as possible\", the park says\n\nPalins Holiday Park said there were two local men and a dog involved, who were not customers of the park, in an \"incident\" in its car park.\n\nIt added staff and security responded \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Surveillance footage shows the moment cars were swept away by flooding in the Maghar neighbourhood of the Libyan city of Derna.\n\nLarge parts of the city were devastated when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel.\n\nFigures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 - with thousands still missing. The city's mayor says the total could reach 20,000.\n\nThe footage, verified by the BBC and dated to the early hours of 11 September, shows how rapidly the disaster unfolded.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nA tearful Andy Murray dedicated a Davis Cup win to his grandmother Ellen after revealing he missed her funeral because it was the same day as his match.\n\nOvercome with emotion, Murray said: \"I'm sorry to my family I'm not able to be there. Gran, this one is for you.\n\n\"I spoke to my dad about it and he said 'she'd want you to play'. He said 'make sure you win' - so I did.\"\n\nAfter clinching a hard-fought win over 21-year-old Riedi, Murray told the crowd about the emotional strain he was playing under.\n\nGreat Britain captain Leon Smith said he did not know about the situation, adding Murray playing in \"very, very difficult\" circumstances demonstrated the player's strength of character.\n\n\"I'm sure it was tough for him to miss. What he went out and did was quite incredible, as well as being vitally important for the team,\" said Smith.\n\nFollowing a moving on-court interview, Murray sat on his chair with his head under his towel, before receiving another consoling round of applause from fans at Manchester's AO Arena.\n\nIt came after the three-time Grand Slam champion showed his quality and experience to come through a tough test against Riedi, who was making his Davis Cup debut.\n\n\"It's incredible to get through that one - it easily could have gone the other way,\" said Murray, who helped Britain win the Davis Cup in 2015.\n\n\"It was ridiculous the shots he was pulling off, some amazing returning.\"\n\nWith Britain aiming for a place in November's eight-team knockout stage, Murray put his nation on the path to victory in the opening singles match of the group-stage tie on Friday.\n\nBritish number one Cameron Norrie missed the chance to secure the win when he lost 7-5 6-4 to three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka later.\n\nHowever, Dan Evans and Neal Skupski secured a second straight GB win by beating Swiss pair Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Stricker 6-3 6-3.\n\nFour nations - Britain, Australia, France and Switzerland - are playing in the group-stage event in Manchester.\n\nThey all play each other once in a round-robin format, with the top two countries going through to the knockout stage - known as the 'Final Eight' - in Malaga in November.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Why did the US and UK invade Iraq 20 years ago? Gordon Corera speaks to those at the heart of the decision-making\n• None Dreams can't be built with suspicious minds: Doctor Foster sees her charmed life explode when she suspects her husband of an affair", "Marks & Spencer is swapping plastic carrier bags for paper ones in all stores, in an expansion of a trial that began in 10 branches in January.\n\nIt follows other High Street stores in swapping plastic bags to paper in a bid to cut plastics use.\n\nSupermarkets Morrisons, Waitrose and Aldi all use paper bags for customers, though some stores offer plastic bags as an option.\n\nMarks & Spencer has more than 1,000 stores nationwide.\n\nThe retailer said it had worked with the University of Sheffield to develop a bag that is made using renewable energy, since paper is more energy-intensive to produce than plastic.\n\nPaper bags also weigh more than plastic; this means transportation requires more energy, adding to their carbon footprint, according to research.\n\nIn a blog post, Marks & Spencer corporate affairs director Victoria McKenzie-Gould said the company hoped that the move would help to avoid \"to the mountain of plastic bags\" that can build up in cupboards at home.\n\nThe new bags also fold easily into a backpack, according to Ms McKenzie-Gould.\n\nShe added: \"For the vast majority who already reuse their own bags, which remains the most sustainable option, not a lot will change. But on the odd occasion when we all need to reach for one more bag, we're pleased to be offering a more sustainable option for customers.\"\n\nMorrisons was the first supermarket to scrap plastic bags in 2021.\n\nEnvironmental groups have raised some concerns over how many uses a paper bag can actually survive.\n\nPaper bags are not as durable as bags for life, being more likely to split or tear, especially if they get wet, although Marks & Spencer said their bags can carry over 15kg and be reused over 100 times.\n\nPaper decomposes much more quickly than plastic, making it is less likely to be a source of litter or risk to wildlife.\n\nPaper is also more widely recyclable, while plastic bags can take between 400 and 1,000 years to decompose.", "Jaswant Singh Chail was pictured after his arrest on Christmas Day 2021\n\nA man who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow, planning to kill the Queen, has apologised to the Royal Family.\n\nHe admitted a charge under the Treason Act, making threats to kill and possessing an offensive weapon.\n\nHe apologised to the royals and the King for taking \"such horrific and worrying times to their front door\", the Old Bailey heard.\n\nA judge is deciding whether the former supermarket worker, from North Baddesley, Hampshire, is jailed, given a hospital order, or should face a \"hybrid\" order.\n\nChail's barrister Nadia Chbat told the court: \"He has expressed distress and sadness about the impact his actions had on the Royal Family, particularly while Her Majesty was in her latter years.\n\n\"He has expressed relief no-one was actually hurt. It is important to him there was a surrender.\"\n\nChail's crossbow was found to be comparable to a powerful air rifle, with the potential to cause fatal injury\n\nShe said that before his mental health declined, Chail was a kind, gentle and sometimes funny person, according to his family and friends.\n\nMs Chbat said the break-in \"utterly shocked and devastated this family unit and the defendant has sincere regret for how this has impacted on his family\".\n\n\"And that deep regret will be with him for the rest of his life because of the severity of the offending that took place.\"\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan KC said Chail's crimes were so serious they should attract the highest possible sentence.\n\nShe said: \"This is not simply somebody carrying a crossbow - it was loaded and ready to be fired.\"\n\nThe maximum sentence for treason is seven years in prison, but the prosecutor said had Chail raised his weapon at his target, he could have been charged with the more serious offence of high treason, which carries a life sentence.\n\nMr Justice Hilliard said: \"It might be said that if it's a prime minister, any other significant figure or politician, it is top of the range.\"\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor at the time due to the pandemic\n\nChail appeared in court by video link from the high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.\n\nHis sentencing hearing previously heard how he broke into the grounds while the late monarch was staying at the castle during the pandemic.\n\nThe trial heard he had exchanged 5,000 sexually charged messages with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot before arriving at Windsor Castle.\n\nHe also had described himself as a \"Sith\" and \"Darth Jones\" in reference to characters from the Star Wars franchise.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The prosecutor leading the federal election meddling case against Donald Trump has asked a judge to place him under a gag order, limiting how he is able to publicly comment on the case.\n\nSpecial Counsel Jack Smith's filing says the \"narrowly tailored\" order would prevent harassment of witnesses.\n\nMr Trump hit back online, accusing Smith's team of misconduct, writing: \"they won't allow me to SPEAK?\"\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.\n\nThe request was unsealed by District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan and was filed a week earlier. It was among a slew of older court documents from the case that were released on Friday.\n\nProsecutors say their proposed order - which they never refer to as a \"gag order\" - is \"a narrow, well defined restriction\" that is necessary to prevent disinformation, threats and \"prejudicing\" the case.\n\nIf approved, it would ban Mr Trump from making statements \"regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses\" and \"statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating\".\n\nIt does not place any restrictions on Mr Trump from quoting from public record court documents or proclaiming his innocence.\n\nAny restriction placed on the former president's first amendment right to freedom of speech, particularly as he runs for president in 2024, would kick off a major constitutional challenge in court.\n\nLast week, lawyers for Mr Trump wrote to Judge Chutkan, calling her biased against Mr Trump and asking her to step aside from the case.\n\nIt is unclear when she may issue a ruling on either motion.\n\nOn Truth Social, Mr Trump's social media platform, he wrote on Friday: \"So, I'm campaigning for President against an incompetent person who has WEAPONIZED the DOJ & FBI to go after his Political Opponent, & I am not allowed to COMMENT?\n\n\"They Leak, Lie, & Sue, & they won't allow me to SPEAK?\"\n\nShortly afterwards, speaking at a dinner for the group Concerned Women for America in Washington DC , he said prosecutors wanted to take away his right to speak freely and openly.\n\n\"These people are sick and they want to silence me because I will never let them silence you.\n\n\"But in the end they're not after me, they're after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way,\" Mr Trump told the group of around 300 socially conservative evangelical Christian women.\n\nCWA president Penny Nance led the group in prayer with former President Trump after his speech\n\nThe filing refers to specific statements and online posts by Mr Trump as well as people, including Judge Chutkan, who have allegedly faced intimidation after Mr Trump criticised them.\n\nIn one comment referenced by prosecutors, Mr Trump called her \"a fraud dressed up as a judge\" and \"a radical Obama hack\". They argue that a woman who was arrested for calling the judge and making racist death threat came as a result of Mr Trump's criticisms.\n\nThe filing also cites attacks by Mr Trump on a Georgia election worker and his former cybersecurity aide which have allegedly resulted in harassment by his supporters.\n\nOn Friday it was also revealed that Twitter had secretly delivered direct messages from Mr Trump's account to Mr Smith's team.\n\nTwitter had fought the ruling, but was ultimately forced to hand over 32 direct messages. No information about the messages was released, including whether they were sent or received by Mr Trump, or were undelivered drafts.\n\nMr Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, faces mounting legal troubles.\n\nHe has been criminally indicted four times, including in this federal investigation into efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What are Concerned Women for America concerned about?", "The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago.\n\nNesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh - but Adaseel, the mountain village that was home to her school and pupils, was closer to the epicentre.\n\nThe Arabic- and French-language teacher returned to Adaseel where she went searching for the children.\n\nShe discovered that all 32 - ranging from six to 12 years old - had died.\n\n\"I went to the village and started asking about my kids: 'Where is Somaya? Where is Youssef? Where is this girl? Where is that boy?' The answer came hours later: 'They are all dead.'\n\n\"I imagined holding my class's attendance sheet and putting a line through one student's name after another, until I had scratched off 32 names; they are all now dead,\" she told the BBC.\n\nMs ElFadel describes her lost students - seen here before the earthquake - as \"angels\"\n\nThey were among the almost-3,000 people killed by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Morocco, which struck on the evening of 8 September.\n\nThe hardest-hit areas were those south of Marrakesh, where many mountain villages were completely destroyed. Adaseel was one of those places.\n\nMs ElFadel recalled how she heard about what happened to six-year-old Khadija.\n\nRescuers found the body of the child lying next to her brother Mohamed and her two sisters, Mena and Hanan. They had all been in their bed - probably asleep - during the quake, and they all went to Ms ElFadel's school.\n\n\"Khadija was my favourite. She was very nice, smart, active and loved to sing. She used to come to my house, and I loved studying and talking to her.\"\n\nThe language teacher described her students as \"angels\", and respectful children who were eager to learn. Despite struggling with poverty and a crushing cost-of-living crisis, the children and their families thought of going to school as \"the most important thing in the world\".\n\n\"Our last class was on Friday night, exactly five hours before the quake hit,\" Ms ElFadel said.\n\n\"We were learning Morocco's national anthem, and planned to sing it in front of the whole school on Monday morning.\"\n\nThe school where Ms ElFadel worked was badly damaged by the earthquake\n\nDespite her calm voice, Ms ElFadel has been suffering with trauma. She still cannot process what happened to her students and to her school.\n\n\"I don't sleep; I'm still in shock,\" she said.\n\n\"People consider me one of the lucky ones, but I don't know how I can continue living my life.\"\n\nMs ElFadel loved teaching Arabic and French to children in a village populated by Amazigh - who mainly speak their own language, Tamazight.\n\n\"Arabic and French were very hard to learn, but the kids were very bright, and they were almost fluent in both languages,\" she recalled.\n\nShe plans to continue her career in teaching, and hopes authorities will rebuild Adaseel's school - which collapsed during the earthquake.\n\nA total of 530 educational institutions have been damaged to varying degrees, including some of which have completely collapsed or suffered severe structural damage, according to official statements.\n\nThe Moroccan government has temporarily halted classes in the hardest-hit areas.\n\n\"Maybe one day when they rebuild the school and classes are back in session, we can commemorate those 32 kids and tell their story,\" Ms ElFadel said.", "Gabby Logan is known for fronting BBC football, athletics, rugby and other sports coverage\n\nTV host Gabby Logan and her husband will receive \"substantial\" damages after the Mail Online falsely reported they had been paid to promote a tax avoidance scheme to celebrity friends.\n\nLogan and her partner Kenny, an ex-rugby player, threatened to sue the Mail's publisher Associated Newspapers after the story appeared in February.\n\nThe company later retracted the story.\n\nThe couple have also received damages from an accountant who was quoted in it and former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie.\n\nJonathan Coad, a solicitor for the Logans, told the PA news agency the total \"amounts to six figures\".\n\nThe original story claimed the couple had received £500,000 commission for promoting the tax avoidance scheme.\n\nAnd Gwilym Jones, the director of a litigation investment company, was quoted claiming the couple had tried to disguise the commission as loans to avoid paying tax on it.\n\n\"These allegations were wholly untrue, as the Mail Online has now acknowledged,\" papers filed at the High Court on Friday said.\n\nThe legal documents also said Mr Jones' claim \"caused serious harm and distress to... Gabby and Kenny Logan\".\n\nMr Jones \"repeatedly refused to retract the false and seriously defamatory allegations\", but \"eventually accepted\" a settlement offer and paid damages after the Logans launched legal action, the filing said.\n\nAfter the story was published, Mr Mackenzie posted a tweet calling the couple's alleged behaviour \"shocking\". He has now deleted the tweet and also paid damages.\n\nThe court papers said: \"Although Kenny was a brand ambassador for a company that sold financial products which included tax avoidance schemes and earned commission for making introductions, neither Gabby nor Kenny Logan ever promoted tax avoidance schemes, either to their celebrity friends or to anyone else.\n\n\"Still less did they admit to so doing. Neither did they receive commission of £500,000 for this alleged activity.\"\n\nThe case comes nine years after Gabby Logan admitted being part of a tax avoidance scheme, but said she had invested in \"good faith\" believing it was \"a way of funding new acts in the music industry\" and vowed to repay any tax she owed.", "Charlotte Towner says Coco is \"60kg of love\"\n\nOwners of American bully XLs have spoken of their \"heartbreak\" at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to ban the breed.\n\nThe announcement on Friday follows a spate of attacks, including one which killed 52-year-old Ian Price.\n\nMr Sunak described bully XLs as a \"danger to communities, particularly our children\".\n\nAnd campaign groups such as Bully Watch and Protect Our Pets called the breed \"a clear and present threat to public health\".\n\nHowever, some animal charities including the RSPCA argue breed-specific bans are not effective, and a number of owners have told the BBC they believe their dogs are not inherently more violent.\n\nThey believe more should instead be done about irresponsible ownership.\n\nCharlotte Towner, who owns a two-year-old American bully XL called Coco, says her dog is good company, even for her young child.\n\nMs Towner thinks the dogs mainly get bad publicity because of how they look and argues a ban would not \"eradicate the problem\" of attacks.\n\n\"I mean, don't get me wrong, my girl's weighing in at 60kg. But she's 60kg of love,\" she told BBC Newsbeat, arguing questions needed to be raised about owners, rather than animals.\n\n\"I just think, don't judge a book by its cover. Before you decide to make the ban, perhaps come and meet other dogs like Coco that are getting the bad name when they really don't deserve it.\"\n\nMs Towner, who lives in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, says Coco is well behaved around her 18-month-old daughter.\n\n\"She knows not to be playful, she knows not to bounce around and all she ever does is just give her kisses.\n\n\"Coco is the best-behaved dog I've ever owned and I've owned a fair few. I've owned poodles, Labradors, even owned a Rottweiler\", she says.\n\n\"I just think banning the breed isn't going to solve the problem, you need to look at the owners and look at how they're raising their dogs, and more punishment should be done.\"\n\nThe 26-year-old from Tamworth said: \"It's devastating for me and other bully owners out there that haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nHe said his \"tame and calm\" 18-month-old dog Bane has the temperament of a Labrador.\n\n\"They're so much kinder and gentle than what they're portrayed to be\", he added.\n\nMr Higgs said he could \"completely understand\" the reaction to the news of increased dog attacks but it was \"easy to tarnish all dogs with the same brush\".\n\n\"I think we should be looking more at the owner\".\n\nAnother American bully XL owner, Jordan Shelley, said licences and training programmes should be introduced for all breeds.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: \"I would love to see mandatory training courses, I think that would be fantastic. People really need that education and then you have the ability to license and take away those licenses from people when they aren't abiding by the regulations.\"\n\nHe said by then \"stopping those people from owning the dogs in the first place, we will reduce the number of dog bites [and] fatalities\".\n\nSerena Norton, from West London, is against the proposed ban and told the BBC her four bully XL dogs were all \"very loving and well behaved\".\n\n\"They are quite docile and all they want to do is play,\" she explained.\n\nBut she added that training and socialisation was a must with the dogs, especially when they were young.\n\n\"I believe that these dogs are a product of their upbringing and reflect their owners,\" she said.\n\nNot all American bully XL owners are positive about the experience, and one charity told the BBC it had been contacted by people needing urgent help with their animals.\n\nIra Moss, manager of All Dogs Matter, told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that the charity had received an increasing number of calls from owners in the past months, telling them their dogs were becoming too big and they did not know how to manage them.\n\nShe said the breed was \"powerful\" and required experience to manage.\n\nMs Moss also said she was surprised it had taken so long for the government to do something about bully XLs, and she would like to see a ban on the way advertisers were allowed to market the breed online.\n\n\"Anyone can go along and pick one of these dogs, take it home, with no experience,\" she said.\n\nEmma Whitfield, who has campaigned for a ban after her son Jack Lis was killed by an American bully XL in Wales two years ago, also told the BBC that while she did not doubt there were \"good examples of the breed\", she believed there were too many injuries and fatalities attributed to American bully XL dogs, which \"you don't see from other breeds\".\n\n\"The bad breeders and the bad owners have done this, this is on them,\" she said.", "Actor Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness are to separate after 27 years of marriage, US media have reported.\n\nAccording to celebrity magazine People, the Australian couple said they had been \"blessed to share almost three decades together\".\n\n\"Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth,\" the statement said.\n\nJackman and Furness met on the set of TV show Correlli in 1995.\n\nFurness was an established actress when they met while Jackman was fresh out of drama school.\n\nThey married in April 1996 and later adopted two children who are now 23 and 18.\n\nAccording to the statement in People, the couple said their \"family has been and always will be our highest priority\".\n\n\"We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family navigates this transition in all of our lives.\"\n\nThe couple sign off by saying \"this is the sole statement either of us will make\".\n\nJackman, who is best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men films and spin-offs, as well as roles in The Greatest Showman and Les Miserables, has posted frequently on social media about his relationship with Furness.\n\nOn their last wedding anniversary, in April, he said: \"I love you Deb. Today is our 27th wedding anniversary. 27 YEARS!!\n\n\"I love you so much. Together we have created a beautiful family. And life. Your laughter, your spirit, generosity, humour, cheekiness, courage and loyalty is an incredible gift to me.\n\n\"I love you with all my heart.\"\n\nHe also posted on their silver wedding anniversary in 2021, saying their marriage was as \"natural as breathing\".\n\nThe couple were photographed together in July at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, where they were seen watching Carlos Alcaraz play Novak Djokovic\n\nIn April, Jackman told fans via social media that he had been given the all-clear following tests for skin cancer.\n\nThe actor had his first skin cancer removed in 2013 and has since had at least six procedures.", "The main sources of methane are oil and gas production, farming and waste\n\nA major UK leak of the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane has been spotted from space for the first time.\n\nThe leak - seen by satellite - occurred over a three-month period at a gas main operated by Wales and West Utilities. The amount leaked could have powered 7,500 homes for a year.\n\nSatellite detection shows the potential of picking up methane gas leaks quickly so they can be stopped sooner.\n\nMethane has 28 times the heating potential of CO2.\n\nIt is responsible for about 30% of the rise in global temperatures.\n\nThe leak from a pipeline in Cheltenham, revealed exclusively to the BBC, was discovered in March.\n\nIt was detected by University of Leeds with the help of specialist satellites.\n\nEmily Dowd, a PhD researcher at the university's School of Earth and Environment and the National Centre for Earth Observation, had been using satellite imagery to assess methane leaks from landfill sites.\n\nBut she noticed on the images the distinct marker of a methane leak some miles away, coming from a gas pipeline owned by Wales and West Utilities.\n\nIdentifying and tackling methane emissions is a crucial objective of the UK and other countries seeking to tackle climate change.\n\nUpon discovering the leak Ms Dowd worked with GHGSat - whose satellites provided the original images - to take further surveys from space, while a team from Royal Holloway University of London made on-the-ground mobile measurements.\n\nMs Dowd said: \"Finding this leak brings a question of how many there are out there and maybe we need to be looking a bit harder to find them and take advantage of the technology we have.\"\n\nWales and West Utilities said they became aware of the leak after a member of public reported the smell of gas. They said they were in the process of obtaining the necessary permissions for replacing the gas mains when the leak was picked up by satellite.\n\nThe cause of the leak is unclear but methane leaks in gas pipelines are not uncommon with ageing infrastructure.\n\nHowever, the satellite detection process has shown the potential of picking up methane leaks quickly.\n\nOptical gas imaging cameras used on the ground have previously identified methane leaks in the UK\n\nThe main sources of methane are the oil and gas industry, farming and landfill sites. UK methane emissions have fallen significantly since 1990 but in recent years progress has slowed.\n\nCurrently, methane leaks are detected through routine on-the-ground surveys - a very challenging prospect when there are thousands of miles of pipes and sites. And the UK's methane emissions are only an estimate gleaned from economic activity data.\n\nJean-Francois Gauthier, senior vice-president for strategy at GHGSat, told the BBC: \"It's important to highlight that satellites are just one piece of the puzzle. But satellites have a very unique value... that they can come back [and collect more images] very frequently and they can do so without the need to deploy people on the ground so they can do so effectively and also affordably.\"\n\nThe company has nine satellites in their constellation, which orbit at 500km overhead, and are some of the highest resolution devices able to see gases at 25m resolution.\n\nThe company has recently signed a £5.5m partnership with the UK - funded by the UK Space Agency - to provide satellite data on methane emissions to UK organisations such as Ordnance Survey.\n\nThe UK Space Agency's CEO, Dr Paul Bate, said: \"Satellites are getting smaller and more powerful, giving us an ideal vantage point from which to monitor global greenhouse gas emissions and inform decision-making on the path to Net Zero.\"\n\nThere are still limitations with the satellites that will need to be developed.\n\nProf Grant Allen, lecturer in atmospheric science at the University of Manchester, told the BBC: \"There is still some work to do to fully validate the precise magnitude of such emissions estimated by satellites like GHGSat, but the capability is already proving super useful for identifying where big (preventable) sources may be.\"", "Russell Brand performed at a scheduled gig at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on Saturday evening\n\nComedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse during a seven-year period at the height of his fame.\n\nThe allegations were made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nFour women are alleging sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013.\n\nBrand has denied the allegations and said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nDuring the years covered by the allegations, Brand had various high-profile jobs at different times, including at BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4, and as an actor in Hollywood films.\n\nOther claims made as part of the investigation relate to Brand's allegedly controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.\n\nThe investigation is published in the Sunday Times, while the Dispatches documentary, Russell Brand - In Plain Sight, aired on Channel 4 on Saturday.\n\nWithin hours of the allegations being published, Brand performed a scheduled comedy gig at the 2,000-capacity Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in north-west London, as part of his Bipolarisation tour.\n\nDuring the set, which lasted about an hour, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly. He told the audience there were things he wanted to talk about but could not.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nDuring his set, Brand alluded to the accusations but did not address them directly\n\nSeveral women have made allegations against Brand as part of the investigation:\n\nOn Friday, Brand released a video in which he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were about to be made against him.\n\nThe actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing \"a litany\" of \"aggressive attacks\".\n\nBrand posted a video on YouTube denying the allegations, adding his relationships were \"always consensual\"\n\nIn the video, posted on YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter, Brand said: \"Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\n\n\"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I've written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.\n\n\"Now during that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, always consensual.\"\n\nBrand said he believed he was the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\" and he was going to look into the matter because it was \"very, very serious\".\n\nWhile not referring to the comedian by name, the Metropolitan Police said it was \"aware of media reporting of a series of allegations of sexual assault\" but had not received any reports.\n\n\"If anyone believes they have been the victim of a sexual assault, no matter how long ago it happened, we would encourage them to contact police.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times said all the women felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters. The newspaper said several felt compelled to do so given Brand's newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer.\n\nMost of the women, who the Times said do not know each other, have chosen to remain anonymous.\n\nThe Sunday Times said it gave Brand eight days within which to reply to detailed allegations, and when given further opportunity to respond, Brand published his response video on his YouTube channel.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career in stand-up comedy before moving into broadcasting and acting\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she first came into contact with Brand told the Sunday Times: \"Russell engaged in the behaviours of a groomer, looking back, but I didn't even know what that was then, or what that looked like.\"\n\nAnother woman alleged to the newspaper that she repeatedly told Brand to get off her during one sexual assault, and that when he eventually relented he \"flipped\" and was \"super angry\".\n\nA different woman claimed that Brand pushed her up against the wall and raped her, without a condom. She alleged Brand tried to stop her leaving until she told him she was going to the bathroom.\n\n\"I ran out and I jumped in my car - thank God I didn't park in his driveway - and booked it out of there,\" she said.\n\nBrand has hosted a number of radio and TV programmes for networks including Channel 4, MTV, Radio X and the BBC.\n\nHe started his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 2000s but got his big break a few years later as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4.\n\nAfter his profile surged, Brand was cast in Hollywood films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him To The Greek and Arthur.\n\nThe woman who said she was 16 when she met Brand told the Times she took her allegations to his literary agent Angharad Wood, the co-founder of Tavistock Wood, owned by Curtis Brown, in 2020.\n\nTavistock Wood told the BBC: \"Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him. Tavistock Wood has terminated all professional ties to Brand.\"\n\nA Channel 4 spokesman told BBC News: \"Channel 4 is appalled to learn of these deeply troubling allegations, including behaviour alleged to have taken place on programmes made for Channel 4 between 2004 and 2007.\n\n\"We are determined to understand the full nature of what went on. We have carried out extensive document searches and have found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4.\n\n\"We will continue to review this in light of any further information we receive, including the accounts of those affected individuals. We will be asking the production company who produced the programmes for Channel 4 to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us.\"\n\nIt said that in recent years there had been extensive change in Channel 4's management and it was committed to ensuring the TV industry is safe and inclusive.\n\nThe relationship with the 16-year-old is alleged to have taken place at a time when Brand was working as a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music.\n\nIt is alleged Brand would undress in the studio while working on the show. Dispatches also said Brand made a series of sexual remarks on air about a newsreader, which he later implied he had been told by BBC production staff to apologise for.\n\nThe Times added sources had told the newspaper that a complaint was made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Russell Brand worked for a number of different organisations, of which the BBC was one. As is well known, Russell Brand left the BBC after a serious editorial breach in 2008 - as did the then-controller of Radio 2.\n\n\"The circumstances of the breach were reviewed in detail at the time. We hope that demonstrates that the BBC takes issues seriously and is prepared to act.\n\n\"Indeed, the BBC has, over successive years, evolved its approach to how it manages talent and how it deals with complaints or issues raised.\n\n\"We have clear expectations around conduct at work. These are set out in employment contracts, the BBC Values, the BBC code of conduct and the anti-bullying and harassment policy.\n\n\"We will always listen to people if they come forward with any concerns, on any issue related to any individual working at the BBC, past or present.\"", "Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is an iconic Ukrainian tourist site that dates back to the 11th century\n\nMajor historical sites in two Ukrainian cities are in danger of destruction due to the war with Russia, the UN's heritage body Unesco has said.\n\nThey include the iconic Saint Sophia Cathedral in the capital, Kyiv, and the medieval buildings of the city's Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery site.\n\nThe historic centre in the city of Lviv has also been placed on Unesco's List of World Heritage in Danger.\n\nIt said the conditions to fully protect the sites could not be met.\n\n\"Faced with the risk of direct attack, these sites are also vulnerable to the shockwaves caused by the bombing of the two cities,\" the group said its World Heritage Committee had concluded.\n\nIt added that the inclusion of the sites on the list was a reminder to UN member states about their responsibility to contribute to their protection and would \"open the door\" to further financial and technical aid.\n\nRussia has assured the UN that its armed forces are taking \"necessary precautions\" to prevent damage, though this is disputed by Ukraine.\n\nThe latest additions to the danger list come after the Ukrainian port city of Odesa was added in January - nearly a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOdesa has come under heavy bombardment by Russia in recent months following the collapse of a deal allowing Ukraine to export its grain to the world through the Black Sea.\n\nHistorical buildings have had to be boarded up in Lviv to protect them from bombing\n\nRussia's bombing of Ukraine has sometimes drawn criticism from Unesco. In July, the organisation condemned the bombing on a building just outside Lviv's historic old town.\n\nThe city was founded in the Middle Ages and has maintained much of its architectural and cultural heritage as an administrative, religious and commercial centre from the 13th to the 20th centuries. It was added to the World Heritage List in 1998.\n\nThe Saint Sophia Cathedral, meanwhile, was built in the 11th century and was designed to rival the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Turkey, which was then part of Constantinople. It is one of the few surviving buildings from that age.\n\nKyiv-Pechersk Lavra, otherwise known as Kyiv's Monastery of the Caves, was founded at around the same time as the cathedral.\n\nIt is the oldest monastic complex of the Rus people, who lived in eastern Europe during the Middle Ages, and became a prominent spiritual and cultural centre.\n\nThere are currently more than 50 properties on Unesco's danger list. Other sites at risk include the Old City of Jerusalem, Vienna's historic centre and the tropical rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.", "Wales fans following the team at the Rugby World Cup treated Nice to a rendition of the hymn Calon Lan ahead of the match against Portugal.\n\nThe singers performed for a crowd of onlookers in cafes and pubs near the Stade de Nice.\n\nCalon Lan, which was written in the 1890s by Daniel James, means \"pure heart\" in Welsh.\n\nWales made it two wins from two, although faced spirited opposition from Portugal, who were making their first World Cup appearance since 2007.", "Port Talbot's steelworkers site is the biggest in Britain\n\nWelsh ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks next week about the future of the Port Talbot site.\n\nThe UK government and Tata has agreed a £1.2bn deal to secure its future and 5,000 out of 8,000 jobs in the UK, of which 4,000 are based at the plant.\n\nTata Steel boss T.V. Narendran said its factory was losing up to £1.5m a day.\n\nLocals like Olivia Martin, whose father and partner work at Tata, told the BBC any job cuts could \"have a massive impact\" on people's lives.\n\n\"It keeps a lot of roofs above people's heads,\" said Ms Martin from Cwmafan.\n\nThe company's plans involve switching from using blast furnaces powered by fossil fuels to electric arc furnaces which can be powered by using renewable energy.\n\nAnd instead of producing virgin steel, the plant would produce recycled steel.\n\nThe UK government has said the deal \"has the potential to safeguard over 5,000 jobs across the UK\".\n\nCommunity union official Barbara Evans said local businesses were reliant on the Tata site and would be concerned about their future as well as Tata employees.\n\n\"What we would really like is a clear decision on what the investment is going to include for us,\" she said.\n\n\"The steel industry is a one-in-four employer, meaning for every job in the steel industry you are looking at four jobs associated with it in the local community.\n\n\"It is not just Port Talbot but the wider south Wales area. I don't live locally but I have worked here for nearly 30 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kemi Badenoch says the deal will save jobs which would otherwise have been lost.\n\nRetired Port Talbot steel worker Andrew O'Connor said any uncertainty over steel jobs had previously created a \"really unhealthy and horrible atmosphere to be working in, in such a dangerous environment\".\n\nIn a café in town, customer Ken Down said the steelworks had long been an integral part of local life and job losses would \"devastate this town\".\n\n\"This town has for many years focused totally on the steelworks as the main source of income,\" he said.\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt, who also represents the Welsh Local Government Association on finance, said \"clarity and support are urgently needed for the workers at this incredibly worrying time\".\n\n\"Any job losses on this scale would be body blow to thousands of families, and the wider shockwaves would be keenly felt in the economy and communities,\" he added.\n\nIan Price, boss of business leaders' group CBI Wales, said: \"It's crucial that policymakers and local businesses now step in to provide support and equip those Tata workers facing possible redundancy with the tools they need to make a swift return to the job market.\n\n\"Their expertise is vital amid a growing skills gap facing so many industries.\"\n\nThe Welsh government's Climate Change Minister Julie James said: \"The investment is a good thing, although we would argue they should have done it a considerable time ago. The investment of course is welcome in the steelworks, but it's a drop in the ocean for what they need for the proper decarbonisation of the steelworks.\"\n\nShe added the announcement was made without anything to reassure the workforce and the surrounding community.\n\nEconomy Minister Vaughan Gething said he would meet Tata again next week to continue talks, after meeting with union officials on Friday.\n\n\"The Welsh government will continue to work closely with the trade unions and the company to do everything we can to minimise job losses,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives economy spokesman Paul Davies said: \"Without UK government investment, there would be a bigger risk to jobs and steel production in an area dependent on the industry.\n\n\"With negotiations still ongoing, the prime minister is securing the future of steel production in Port Talbot, which will be more focussed on reducing carbon emissions and protecting the environment.\"", "Benedict Selvaratnam at his store in Croydon, south London\n\nA convenience store owner says he witnesses up to nine shoplifting incidents a day, with criminals who are \"more brazen and aggressive\".\n\nBenedict Selvaratnam says it is because shoplifters know they are not a police priority.\n\nHis situation is being echoed in small shops across the UK, according to the Federation of Independent Retailers.\n\nThe group, which represents 10,000 shopkeepers, is calling for government help to tackle the problem.\n\nIt says the situation is worsening day by day.\n\nMr Selvaratnam, from south London, says his staff face both verbal and physical abuse.\n\nHe has run his family business, Freshfields Market in Croydon, for eight years and says he has seen a significant rise in shoplifting in the past year.\n\n\"We're getting it from mums who are putting products in prams, we're getting it from pensioners, children and teenagers coming in on bicycles.\n\n\"We've seen a big increase in organised gangs stealing to order, whether it's coffee, honey or meats.\"\n\nIn the past week, one of Mr Selvaratnam's employees was taken to hospital after being hit in the head with an iron nail. Another staff member was attacked with a stick of sugar cane.\n\nSome female staff members have left the store over safety fears.\n\nOne woman, who doesn't want to be named, says she has been threatened when challenging shoplifters. She says they tell her, \"I know what time you close the shop, so let's deal with this outside.\"\n\nThe woman now says she's scared to come to work. \"I used to close [the shop] most of the time, but I'm not doing it much now because of those threats when I go outside.\"\n\nA glass screen has been put up recently to protect cashiers from abuse, and 34 CCTV cameras have been installed inside the store with another 12 outside.\n\nBut that's not enough to deter criminals, says Mr Selvaratnam.\n\n\"We need more police presence, especially in the evenings.\"\n\nHe adds that incidents often go unreported because \"the few times we have called the police, they haven't come\".\n\nMr Selvaratnam thinks the situation is getting worse because the shoplifters know police won't attend. \"[It] emboldens these criminals to continue doing what they are doing and others to follow,\" he says.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police told the BBC it was not \"realistic\" for the force to respond to every case of shoplifting because of demand, but that officers would be dispatched \"where appropriate\".\n\nThe Met added it was collaborating with shops across London to improve reporting of shoplifting.\n\nMuntazir Dipoti, President of the Federation of Independent Retailers, says the situation is urgent.\n\n\"I know of members who fear for their lives inside the shops, and others who are making the decision to close up.\"\n\nHis organisation is calling on the government to provide independent shops with a £1,500 one-off grant to improve security measures.\n\n\"The big supermarkets have introduced body cameras, headsets and expensive equipment, but there's no way most independent retailers can afford that,\" he says.\n\nDame Sharon White, the boss of John Lewis, has told the BBC that shoplifting has become an \"epidemic\" in the past year..\n\nFigures earlier this year from trade body, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), show retail thefts in England and Wales rose by 26% in 2022.\n\nIts crime survey suggests incidents of violence towards shop staff have also been rising, with staff being threatened with weapons and physically assaulted in some cases.\n\nThe BRC previously told the BBC that high levels of theft cost retailers almost £1bn in the 2021 financial year.\n\nA group of 10 larger retailers, including John Lewis, have agreed to fund a police operation called Project Pegasus, which aims to clamp down on shoplifting.\n\nThey will spend £600,000 on the project, which will use CCTV images and data from shops to create a target list of the most prolific offenders. This will then form a national shoplifting database.\n\nPolicing Minister Chris Philp told the BBC that the scheme will \"help all retailers, not just the big ones\" in identifying criminal gangs.\n\nRetailers including Tesco, Co-op and Iceland have said they are spending heavily on anti-theft measures, including increasing the number of items with security tags and fitting staff with body cameras.\n\nWaitrose and John Lewis are offering free hot drinks to on-duty officers, aiming to deter criminals by increasing police presence in stores.\n\nHowever, this is not an option for Benedict Selvaratnam's store in Croydon.\n\n\"We can't afford to offer the police free drinks or food to encourage them to be in the shop,\" he says.\n\nHe says he has considered selling up, but that the offers have not been high enough to cover the investment he has made.\n\n\"It's like we have to accept that this is the price of running a small business,\" he says.\n\n\"Until things improve, we just have to stay here and try to deal with this ourselves.\"", "'Everything that would suggest human life has been washed away'\n\nIt is astonishing when you stand in Derna and see how the centre of the city has been simply carved away; there is nothing left. Where the river ran down to the sea, there are just banks of earth and mud. People are talking about this torrent of water having the force of an atomic bomb. Yesterday I was looking at cars that had been picked up and thrown inside buildings. Trees have been uprooted, and everything here suggests that human life has been washed away. And you must consider that this is happening in a country which has been wracked by conflict for more than a decade, so the normal civil contingencies are not in place. Things like tents, medical care and clean water need to be brought into the country. This is very difficult when you have these two parallel administrations controlling Libya. And then even when you manage to get that aid into Benghazi, it is a 6-7 hour drive to Derna. I’ve seen local Libyans with pickup trucks doing what they could. But the normal large-scale, well-rehearsed humanitarian operation from the international community that you would normally see a week after a disaster like this is not in place.", "A witness told the BBC that there had been a \"big fight\" before the boy was stabbed in Tavistock Square, Harpurhey\n\nA 14-year-old boy has died in a stabbing in Manchester.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a stabbing in Tavistock Square, Harpurhey, a few miles north of the city centre, shortly after 18:00 BST on Friday.\n\nThe teenager was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.\n\nLocal resident Syeda Qayyum told the BBC: \"There was a big fight with kids fighting with each other.\n\n\"One kid was screaming: 'Call an ambulance, call an ambulance' and there was blood on the corner.\n\nSyeda Qayyum said she saw a big fight before the boy was stabbed\n\nHarpurhey councillor Pat Karney said the community \"was heartbroken\".\n\nHe said: \"We can only imagine the pain that this family have woken up to.\n\n\"To lose a child in these circumstances is horrifying.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police have imposed a Section 60 order - which gives them greater stop and search powers - until Saturday evening.\n\nDet Supt Phil Key said: \"I would like to share my deepest condolences with the family at this unbelievably difficult time.\"\n\nThe boy's family had been informed, he said.\n\nA police cordon has been set up around the scene of the stabbing\n\nDet Supt Key sought to reassure the public that the Section 60 order was only used \"when proportionate and necessary\", adding that it was aimed at minimising violent behaviour and preventing \"any further serious incidents\".\n\nAnyone who saw the attack has been urged to contact the police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The failure of two dams sent a torrent of water through Derna, washing entire streets into the sea\n\nThe first sign that something was wrong was the sound of the dogs barking.\n\nIt was 2.30am and dark outside. When Husam Abdelgawi, a 31-year-old accountant in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, got up and went sleepily downstairs to check on them, he felt water under his feet.\n\nHusam opened the front door of the house he shared with his younger brother, Ibrahim. More water flooded in, pulling the door off of its hinges.\n\nThe brothers ran to the back door, where they were met by a \"ghastly, unimaginable scene, worse than death itself to witness\", Husam said, in a phone interview from the city of Al-Qubbah.\n\n\"The bodies of women and children were floating past us. Cars and entire houses were caught up in the current. Some of the bodies were swept by the water into our house.\"\n\nThe water swept Husam and Ibrahim up too, carrying them farther and faster than they imagined possible. Within seconds, they were 150m apart.\n\nIbrahim, 28, managed to grab on to floating power cables still tethered to their poles and grapple himself back towards where Husam was stuck. The brothers used the cables like ropes to pull themselves towards a nearby building and through a third-floor window, and from there they made it to a fifth-floor rooftop where they could wait out the flood.\n\n\"The area where we were was a higher part of the city,\" Husam said. \"In the lower parts, I don't think anyone on the fifth or sixth floors has survived. I think they are all dead. May God have mercy on their souls.\"\n\nPeople look at missing notices in the aftermath of the floods in Derna\n\nEstimates of the number of dead vary. Libya's ambassador to the UN says about 6,000 people are confirmed to have died with thousands more missing. A Red Crescent official in Libya said about 10,000 people were believed killed. Derna's mayor has warned that 20,000 people may have lost their lives.\n\nThe flood was triggered by the failure of two dams outside Derna, unleashing a torrent of water through the city's centre.\n\n\"Derna was divided in two halves by the water and everything in between is gone,\" said Rahma Ben Khayal, an 18-year-old student who made it to safety on a rooftop in the city. \"The people in between are all dead,\" she said.\n\nThe torrent that washed away entire streets had begun a day earlier, as light rain.\n\nIt was not frightening at first, said Amna Al Ameen Absais, a 23-year-old medical student born and raised in Derna, who is guardian to her three younger siblings following the death of both parents from illness.\n\nAs the raindrops drummed outside, the four siblings sat in their first floor apartment in the Beach Towers, a seven-story building next to the waterfront, playing games and scrolling on their phones. They dressed her younger brother in a life vest and laughed.\n\nAmna managed to escape with her three younger siblings\n\nBut as Sunday night wore on, the rain got heavier. Sirens sounded. The siblings couldn't sleep.\n\n\"It really began about 2.30am,\" Amna said, in a phone interview from the nearby city of Tobruk. \"The noise was getting much louder. My brother said he could see water covering the street.\"\n\nAs the water rose, the neighbours began to migrate upstairs. Amna grabbed the cat and four passports and they went up from their first floor apartment to a third floor apartment. \"People were looking outside into the dark, praying,\" she said. Then the water reached the third floor. \"Everyone started screaming. We moved up again, to the fifth floor and finally up to the seventh floor.\"\n\nPanic had set in. \"I lost the cat,\" Amna said. \"I lost my little brother for a minute but then I found him. I realised we could not even stay on the seventh floor, we had to go to the rooftop.\"\n\nFrom there, they could see neighbours on the roof of a three-storey building opposite, including a family with whom they were friends. The neighbours were waving their phone torches. Moments later, their entire building collapsed into the water in the dark.\n\n\"It felt like an earthquake,\" Amna said. \"That family still hasn't been found. Their son is looking for them. We told him that we saw their building collapse in front of our eyes.\"\n\nThe remains of Amna's building, Beach Towers, after it partially collapsed in the flood.\n\nSome of Amna's own family are missing, too. Her uncle, his wife and their three sons lived in a nearby building that collapsed. \"Our last call was about 9pm, he was calling to make sure we were OK,\" she said. \"We haven't heard from him since.\"\n\nEventually, Amna was able to escape the building with all three siblings, after the floodwaters lowered. Her street had disappeared completely. \"It was like the earth had split open,\" she said. \"Only a cavity left where the street used to be.\"\n\nA neighbour she knew slipped and disappeared into the water in front of them, her husband and son unable to save her, Amna said. She heard that her best friend, Aisha, had not made it.\n\nAmna and her siblings walked for hours to higher ground, passing bodies on the way. The death toll from the catastrophe looks set to rise significantly. Husam Abdelgawi, the accountant, said he had already counted at least 30 friends among the dead, and more than 200 acquaintances. \"It is a miracle that I survived,\" he said.\n\nThe damage to Derna itself is catastrophic. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed.\n\nMohamed al-Menfi from Libya's internationally-recognised government in the western city of Tripoli said he had asked the country's attorney general to investigate - anyone whose actions or failure to act were responsible for the dams' collapse should be held accountable, he said.\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization said most loss of life could have been prevented if Libya had a functioning weather agency - \"They could have issued warnings. The emergency management authorities would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people. And we could have avoided most of the human casualties,\" said WMO head Petteri Taalashe.\n\nMany survivors are waiting desperately for news of loved ones. Others are mourning, for the dead and for Derna.\n\n\"I don't think I can ever go back,\" Amna said. \"Those streets were my whole life. We knew every corner of the city. Now it's gone.\"", "Lucy Letby refused to appear in court for her sentencing last month\n\nNurse Lucy Letby is to appeal against all her convictions for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six.\n\nHer legal team has lodged an application for permission to appeal according to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.\n\nAmong her crimes, Letby injected babies with air and poisoned two with insulin at the Countess of Chester Hospital.\n\nThe 33-year-old was sentenced to a whole-life term in August.\n\nSumming up at the end of her trial, judge Mr Justice Goss told the jury it was a case in which the prosecution \"substantially, but not wholly\" relied on circumstantial evidence.\n\nNews of her planned appeal comes after it was revealed a further court hearing will take place on 25 September where the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether to pursue a retrial for six outstanding counts of attempted murder.\n\nLucy Letby pictured during her first interview in police custody in 2018\n\nThe jury was unable to reach verdicts on those counts at the end of Letby's trial.\n\nLetby, who became the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern British history, refused to appear in the dock for her sentencing hearing on 21 August.\n\nThe judge proceeded without her and said he was addressing her as if she were in the dock.\n\nShe was given repeated whole-life terms - one for each offence - becoming only the fourth woman in UK history to receive such a sentence.\n\nWhole-life orders are the most severe punishment available and are reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment police arrest Lucy Letby at her home\n\nJudge Goss said the \"cruelty and calculation\" of Letby's actions between June 2015 and June 2016 were \"truly horrific\".\n\n\"You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of nurturing and caring for babies and in gross breach of the trust that all citizens place in those who work in the medical and caring professions,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.\n\n\"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing.\n\n\"You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors.\"\n\nThe jury was shown a note, found at her home, which read: \"I am evil I did this\"\n\nHe said Letby, originally from Hereford, would be provided with copies of his remarks and the personal statements of the parents.\n\nThe mother of one baby boy killed by Letby said she was \"horrified that someone so evil exists\".\n\nA candlelit vigil to remember the victims was held at Chester Cathedral on Sunday evening.\n\nThe Department of Health has said an independent inquiry will be held into Letby's case, and will examine \"the circumstances surrounding the deaths and incidents, including how concerns raised by clinicians were dealt with\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Flaring and venting methane gas is a routine part of oil extraction.\n\nThe UK government is allowing the fossil fuel industry to waste large amounts of gas, according to a leading environmental think-tank.\n\nGreen Alliance says oil and gas companies are wasting enough methane to power more than 700,000 UK homes.\n\nIt says high energy prices mean more of the gas should be captured and used.\n\nA spokesperson for UK oil and gas companies rejected that, saying it was not profitable to capture all of it.\n\nScientists say that methane is, alongside carbon dioxide, one of the main contributors to global warming.\n\n\"It's a scandal,\" Dustin Benton of Green Alliance told BBC News. \"The government should force these companies to capture the methane they're currently wasting.\"\n\nUK methane emissions have fallen significantly since 1990 but in recent years progress has slowed.\n\n\"The big attraction for reducing methane is you get a big bang for your buck very quickly in terms of tackling climate change,\" Professor Dave Reay from the University of Edinburgh told BBC News.\n\n\"If we cut emissions very quickly we'll see that impact in terms of reduced warming in the atmosphere very quickly.\"\n\nMost UK methane emissions now come from farming and waste disposal. While reducing methane leakage from those sources is complex, cutting down on it in the oil and gas production that accounts for 11% of emissions is considered low-hanging fruit.\n\nThe vast bulk of the UK oil and gas industry is located offshore in the North Sea. Methane is brought to the surface as a routine part of production. Part of it is flared (burnt); vented (released) or leaks out of pipes.\n\nThe North Sea Transition Authority regulates the UK's oil and gas industry and has published a series of guidelines on methane emissions. They include the goal of \"zero routine flaring and venting\" by 2030 and states that \"flaring and venting and associated emissions should be at the lowest possible levels in the circumstances.\" But critics say there's not enough monitoring or enforcement.\n\nIn October 2021 the International Energy Agency (IEA) calculated that 45% of global methane emissions could be stopped at no net cost to the oil and gas companies.\n\nNow, stopping emissions should even be profitable, says Green Alliance; Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent gas prices soaring, meaning it should now be cost-effective for almost all the wasted gas to be captured and used.\n\n\"We estimate that around 750,000 homes could be heated this winter if we stopped flaring and instead piped that gas into peoples homes,\" said Mr Benton.\n\n\"In terms of leakage it's a bit more unclear but we think its between 100,000 and 150,000 homes that is just being lost into the atmosphere.\"\n\nBoth the fossil fuel industry and the government says it's not that simple and point at steady reductions in methane emissions in recent years as proof of progress.\n\n\"The volumes that are being vented and flared are not large in the context of UK greenhouse gas emissions,\" says Charles McAllister from UK Onshore Oil and Gas.\n\n\"Some of these facilities are quite old. To repurpose them to capture what the Environment Agency would call \"de minimis\" (lacking importance) volumes of methane is not economically viable.\"\n\nA spokesperson from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government is \"working diligently with regulators to drive down methane emissions from oil and gas operations in the North Sea.\"\n\nThe Clean Air Task Force use an optical gas imaging camera to spot methane emissions\n\nA small fraction of the UK's methane emissions come from onshore drilling and fossil fuel infrastructure.\n\nThe BBC accompanied the Clean Air Task Force, an international environmental organisation, on a hunt for the gas in rural Hampshire.\n\nFrom a public footpath, Theo Humann pointed what looked like a chunky camcorder through a metal fence at a small oil well.\n\nIt's an optical gas imaging camera, which measures heat differences and infrared energy.\n\nOn Mr Humann's screen the methane showed up as a distinctively coloured disturbance emerging from a tall pipe.\n\nThe camera shows up gas emissions that are not visible with the naked eye\n\n\"This is an old well so probably not connected to a gas grid or a processing facility. So the easiest option for the site operator is just release it,\" said Mr Humann.\n\n\"The technology exists to capture the gas that's being vented and emitted from the various equipment that we see on this site,\" Clean Air Task Force campaign manager James Turrito said outside the gate to the oil well. \"This is absolutely avoidable.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nMuch-changed Wales struggled to a bonus-point World Cup victory over impressive Portugal in Nice.\n\nPortugal excelled in the first half, but were trailing 14-3 at the break after Wales tries by Louis Rees-Zammit and captain Dewi Lake.\n\nFlanker Jac Morgan, a late inclusion for the injured Tommy Reffell, scored before Portugal flanker Nicolas Martins crashed over.\n\nTaulupe Faletau secured the bonus point with a late fourth try.\n\nPortugal finished the Pool C match with 14 men after wing Vincent Pinto was shown a late red card for a reckless high boot on Josh Adams.\n\nWhile Wales were incredibly underwhelming, Portugal deserve the plaudits for their adventurous attacking approach.\n\nWales had defeated Portugal 102-11 on the only other occasion they faced each other in 1994. There was never going to be a repeat of that.\n\nThere were eight places between the two sides in World Rugby's rankings going into the game, but you would not have thought that after witnessing the contest on the French Riviera.\n\nPortugal, who had semi-professional players in their ranks and are coached by former France wing Patrice Lagisquet, had come through qualification to start only a second World Cup campaign after appearing in the 2007 tournament.\n\nWarren Gatland initially made 13 changes to his Wales starting side, with only number eight Faletau and wing Rees-Zammit remaining from last week's thrilling victory over Fiji.\n\nThat became 12 alterations when Wales had to cope with disruption after flanker Reffell pulled out late in the warm-up with squad co-captain Morgan replacing him in the starting side.\n\nWales defence coach Mike Forshaw had warned his side about what had happened to a much-changed France side who struggled against Uruguay on Thursday evening before winning 27-12 and similar events transpired.\n\nIt was a chance for Wales players to push their case for selection against Australia in Lyon on 24 September.\n\nNot many would have improved their cases based on this performance, which was littered with mistakes and plagued by a malfunctioning line-out. Late inclusion Morgan managed to impress with a man-of-the-match display.\n\nWith Pool C still possibly being decided on points difference, Wales will be interested spectators when Fiji face Australia in Saint-Etienne on Sunday.\n\nThere was experience and youth in Wales' new-look side, but not much evidence of any familiarity on show.\n\nFly-half Gareth Anscombe, 32, was playing his first World Cup game for eight years after missing the 2019 competition because of a serious knee injury.\n\nFull-back Leigh Halfpenny, who became the oldest Wales back to start a World Cup game, and flanker Dan Lydiate were playing in a third global tournament.\n\nIn contrast, Exeter locks Christ Tshiunza, 21 and Dafydd Jenkins, 20, formed Wales' youngest starting second-row partnership, while Lake, 24, led the side on his World Cup debut.\n\nScrum-half Tomos Williams led his side out because he was winning his 50th cap, against opponents keen to make their mark, but opposite number Samuel Marques missed with his opening attempt.\n\nDespite an encouraging Portugal start, it Wales scored first with an impressive finish from Rees-Zammit, who collected his own delicate grubber to collect his second World Cup try.\n\nThe wing cheekily marked the try by emulating the celebration of Portugal football legend Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nPortugal continued to entertain with their expansive approach as fleet-footed full-back Nuno Sousa Gedes almost set up a try for flanker Martins who was only denied by a brilliant Faletau covering tackle.\n\nWales were reduced to 14 men after centre Johnny Williams was shown a yellow card for the professional foul of playing the ball on the floor.\n\nPortugal were troubling Wales with their attack-at-all-costs attitude and a brilliant Marques kick set up an attacking opportunity that was repelled by brilliant Halfpenny defence.\n\nGatland has often called Halfpenny the best defensive full-back in the world and that moment backed up this claim.\n\nPortugal's dominant kicking continued to pay dividends and Marques deservedly scored his side's first points with a penalty.\n\nWilliams returned to the field and almost scored before losing possession just short of the Portugal line. Lake ensured Wales scored just before-half time as he powered over for a try that gave them a 14-3 half-time lead that flattered his side.\n\nWales' scrummaging superiority was evident both sides of half-time, but they lost three consecutive line-outs in the Portugal 22 early in the second half.\n\nMarques missed a penalty attempt before Gatland changed more than half his forwards as he looked for inspiration.\n\nWales started playing a more structured game and it paid dividends when Morgan burrowed over from close range.\n\nPortugal regrouped and rewarded their passionate vocal supporters when Martin crashed over from a well-worked line-out move.\n\nReplacement scrum-half Gareth Davies thought he had scored the bonus-point try after impressive build-up work from Rees-Zammit, but the score was disallowed for obstruction.\n\nPortugal wing Vincent Pinto was shown a late yellow card for a high foot that connected with the face of Wales replacement wing Adams.\n\nThat decision was referred to the bunker system and determined to be a red card.\n\nFaletau took advantage by powering over with the final play of the game to ensure Wales took maximum points.\n\nWales head coach Warren Gatland: \"It wasn't pretty but we got the job done.\n\n\"A few of the boys looked a bit rusty having not played together, but we'll take the win and move on.\n\n\"People had an opportunity today and we'll review that to see who performed well.\n\n\"Our line-out didn't function as well as we would have liked and we were a bit lateral at times. When we were direct and won the contact we looked comfortable.\n\n\"In fairness to Portugal, they put us under pressure they moved the ball well and I was impressed with them.\"\n\nPortugal head coach Patrice Lagisquet: \"There has been two mistakes and then they can score two tries. We were too shy in the first half, we were not playing enough collectively.\n\n\"We've shown in the second half we can play better rugby but I'm a bit disappointed with the red card because for me it was totally accidental.\n\n\"I'm a bit disappointed about these few things but what I appreciate is the behaviour of the players, they were really committed, fighting a lot, I'm proud of their attitude.\n\n\"We take experience from game. For this young team, these young players, we have to be more confident in the way we can play.\"\n• None A foodies guide to the Rugby World Cup in France", "Ian Price, 52, died after suffering multiple injuries in the attack by two suspected American bully XLs\n\nA man who died after suffering multiple injuries in an attack by two suspected American bully XLs has been named as Ian Price.\n\nHe was left in a critical condition after being attacked by the dogs in Stonnall, near Walsall, Staffordshire.\n\nThe 52-year-old was taken to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital but was later confirmed dead.\n\nA man, 30, from Lichfield has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, said Staffordshire Police.\n\nOfficers had spoken to the dog owner on two previous occasions after being called to incidents in the area, the force said.\n\nIt has been given a further 10 hours to question the suspect.\n\nHe had initially been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of dogs dangerously out of control, causing injury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says it is clear the American XL bully dogs are \"a danger to communities\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to ban American bully XL dogs, describing them as a \"danger to communities\".\n\nPolice said it was understood the dogs were bully XLs, but further tests were being carried out to determine their breed.\n\nOne of the dogs died after being restrained and the other died after an injection was given by a vet, police said.\n\nThe BBC understands these dogs were owned by the man who was arrested by detectives\n\nThe attack happened in Main Street at about 15:15 BST on Thursday.\n\nMembers of the public tried to help Mr Price and attempted to get the dogs off him.\n\nMeanwhile, children at nearby St Peter's Primary Academy were stopped from leaving for several hours for safety reasons.\n\nOne of the dogs was captured outside, while the other was contained in the owner's flat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man dies after attack by 'American XL bully dogs' in Staffordshire\n\nOne resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said in March a woman and her dog was seen being chased into a shop by the same two dogs that had killed Mr Price.\n\n\"It was carnage - the two dogs were after her dog,\" they said.\n\n\"I think they had taken a few nips at him. The woman was hysterical but she was unhurt.\"\n\nThe resident said police had been called to the incident, which also saw customers jumping over the shop's counter for protection, and the dogs' owner had been given a caution.\n\nOfficers had attended the incident on 30 March, confirmed Staffordshire Police, who said the shop was damaged after people in the area \"went inside\".\n\n\"No complaints were made in relation to the incident and no offences were identified,\" it said.\n\nOfficers had also spoken to the dog's owner on 14 January, it added.\n\nThe dog's owner was \"co-operative and engaged positively with officers\", the force said.\n\n\"Both dogs were in the address at the time and appeared to be calm. They did not show any signs of aggression towards officers.\"\n\nThey had reviewed video of the fatal incident and previous reports and concluded that the material did not meet the criteria for a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nPolice are keen to speak to people with information about the attack that killed Ian Price\n\nSupt Tracy Meir, of Staffordshire Police, said the victim's family was being supported.\n\n\"Detectives continue to investigate and we have taken statements, viewed CCTV and carried out house-to-house inquiries in the local area, but are keen to speak to anyone with information,\" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said American bully XL dogs would be banned by the end of the year, after work was done to define the breed.\n\nHe said he shared \"the nation's horror\" regarding videos of recent dog attacks, including Thursday's incident that \"tragically led to a fatality\".\n\nA recent dog attack on an 11-year-old girl in Birmingham sparked the debate about banning certain dog breeds.\n\nThe girl and two men were set upon by an American bully XL outside shops in Bordesley Green on 9 September.\n\nAna Paun, 11, said she had started to run after seeing a dog staring at her when it grabbed her hand and started moving her about.\n\nFollowing Mr Sunak's pledge to ban the breed, the girl's mother told the BBC: \"We are happy about this news.\n\n\"But we would be more happy if owners were forced to look after their dogs better.\"\n\nHowever, the Dog Control Coalition, a group including RSPCA, Battersea Dogs Home and the Royal Kennel Club, said banning specific breeds was not the solution - pointing to \"irresponsible breeding, rearing and ownership\".\n\nBBC Verify reported that 10 people died because of dog bite injuries in England and Wales last year.\n\nLast year, there were nearly 22,000 cases of out-of-control dogs causing injury. In 2018, there were just over 16,000, a BBC investigation found.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Methane leaks have been systemically mapped from space\n\nHuge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites.\n\nPlugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time to curb climate change.\n\nThe new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles - the leaks are thought to be mostly unintended.\n\nLast year, about 100 countries promised to cut methane emissions by 2030.\n\n\"We knew about individual gas blow-outs before, but this work shows the true methane footprint of oil and gas operations around the planet,\" explains Riley Duren, an author of the paper and CEO of Carbon Mapper which tracks methane emissions.\n\nMethane usually leaks from oil and gas facilities during maintenance operations, while fixing a valve or pipeline, for example, or from compressor stations - facilities that maintain the flow and pressure of natural gas.\n\nIt is also produced by landfill, agriculture and in coal production. This research focused on detecting oil and gas leaks that can be plugged if companies invest in prevention.\n\nScientists believe that cutting methane emissions is an \"easy win\" in tackling climate change, because it's a very potent gas usually released by humans in leaks that can be stopped relatively easily.\n\nAn IPCC study last year suggested that 30-50% of the current rise in temperatures is down to methane.\n\nThe lead scientist in the research, Thomas Lauvaux at LSCE CEA-Saclay in France, told BBC News that calculating greenhouse gas emissions usually relies on countries or companies self-reporting.\n\nBut collecting data from the atmosphere \"offers a more rigorous approach to emissions accounting, more independent and more transparent\", he explains.\n\nThe three countries with the largest plumes identified in the latest research were Turkmenistan, Russia and the US.\n\nPlumes seen from space can stretch hundreds of miles - including here in the US\n\nBut the satellites did not measure leaks in areas with thick cloud cover or at high altitude, including most of Canada and China. They also only measured plumes from land facilities.\n\nThe data was collected in 2019-20 by the Tropomi instrument on the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. It identified the largest of leaks among what are known as ultra-emitters, accounting for about 12% of all methane leaks by oil and gas companies.\n\n\"I was shocked but not surprised by the widespread nature of these ultra-emitters. They are the tip of the iceberg,\" professor of geosciences Paul Palmer, at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC News.\n\nAs more satellites are deployed in the next five years, some will detect methane at much higher resolution, meaning that individual oil and gas facilities can be identified.\n\n\"Soon enough, with upcoming sensors, it will be more difficult for the oil and gas industry to claim ignorance about leaks, unintended or otherwise,\" Prof Palmer explains.\n\nBy plugging these leaks, countries could save billions - including $6bn for Turkmenistan, $4bn for Russia and $1.6bn for the US, the research suggests.\n\nIn terms of benefits for the environment, the scientists estimate that stopping the leaks would prevent between 0.005C and 0.002C of warming.\n\nThat is equivalent to removing all emissions from Australia since 2005 from the atmosphere, or the emissions from 20 million cars for a year, they suggest.\n\n\"Capping these very large leaks might seem like it would play only a negligible role, but the societal implications are significant,\" explains Prof Palmer.\n\n\"Every molecule counts as we try to minimise future warming.\"\n\nIn November, more than 100 governments at the climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow signed up to the Global Methane Pledge. It aims to limit methane emissions by 30% compared with 2020 levels.\n\nThe ultra-emitter research is published in the research journal Science.", "Russell Brand - who has been accused of sexual assault by four women, a claim that he has denied on his many social media platforms - is a comedian and broadcaster who helped shape pop culture in the late noughties.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who was born in Essex, surged to fame as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, and went on to star in Hollywood films, marry and divorce one of the world's most famous pop stars and cause one of the biggest scandals in the BBC's history.\n\nOver the years, he developed a cult following for his views on politics and society, and more recently has dabbled in the world of conspiracy theories in videos posted on YouTube and Rumble.\n\nBut Brand started his career in entertainment as a stand-up comedian, performing at the Hackney Empire in 2000 and later the Edinburgh Fringe.\n\nMuch of his content drew on personal experience - Brand has always been open about his use of illegal drugs and addiction to sex. He would later write about both in his autobiography My Booky Wook, and his experiences helped shape his political activism.\n\nIn the early part of his career, Brand hosted radio programmes on XFM and later BBC 6 Music, and went on tour with his stand-up shows, which saw him build a following on the comedy circuit.\n\nOnce of his earliest controversies came in 2001, when he was dismissed from his job as an MTV presenter for turning up to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden on 12 September - the day after the terror attacks on New York's twin towers.\n\nBrand's distinctive look in the late 2000s reflected a gothic aesthetic popular at the time\n\nBrand later admitted he was on crack and heroin at the time. But although stunts such as this attracted publicity, Brand was still not yet the household name he would become.\n\nThe turning point in Brand's career came in mid-2000s, when he hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth, the E4 companion show to the hugely popular reality series Big Brother.\n\nThe comic was in his element hosting the spin-off show, previously titled Big Brother's Eforum. Its format saw him bounce around the bright yellow studio interacting with special guests and members of the public, who would give opinions on the latest goings on in the Big Brother house.\n\nIt was an environment in which he thrived - his distinctive blend of charisma and humour on a fast-paced show putting him firmly on the radar. He was unique in the television landscape; the sheer force of his personality - and volume of his speaking voice - impossible to ignore.\n\nHis aesthetic - skinny jeans, dark clothing, big hair - reflected pop culture at the time. His gothic look was often compared with Amy Winehouse, the troubled singer who would die from alcohol poisoning in 2011.\n\nBrand, pictured in 2014, started his career as a stand-up comedian before he became a TV presenter\n\nFrom the beginning, Brand's personality was not for everyone, and for every viewer who loved him, there was another who couldn't stand him. But his divisiveness only increased his cultural cachet.\n\nBig Brother's Big Mouth ultimately provided the springboard he was looking for - Brand went from being just one comic in a sea of thousands at Edinburgh to being the most sought-after presenter in the UK.\n\nIn the years that followed, he was courted for so many presenting gigs that it was hard to keep up. Brand hosted the NME, MTV and Brit awards ceremonies, was gifted his own debate series by E4, and fronted the UK leg of charity concert Live Earth.\n\nHe was also moved from BBC Radio 6 Music to the more mainstream Radio 2, to host a two-hour programme on Saturday evenings.\n\nBut phonecalls he made to the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs on the show in 2008 prompted a huge scandal - which came to be known as Sachsgate.\n\nBrand and Jonathan Ross left messages for Andrew Sachs which were later ruled to be \"grossly offensive\"\n\nSachs had been due to be interviewed by Brand on that night's pre-recorded show to promote a new TV series.\n\nBut when he failed to appear, Brand and Jonathan Ross, who was also a guest on that show, left an offensive voicemail message for the actor, in which Ross made clear that Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter.\n\nDuring the rest of the show, the pair made attempts to rectify the situation to comic effect, by leaving a series of further explicit voicemails which also mentioned the actor's granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.\n\nMore than 40,000 people complained after the broadcast was reported in the newspapers. The BBC Trust ruled the phonecalls were \"grossly offensive\" and the corporation was fined £150,000 by Ofcom.\n\nBrand left the station, Ross was suspended from the BBC for 12 weeks, and Radio 2's controller Lesley Douglas resigned.\n\nBrand was married to singer Katy Perry (pictured in 2011) for two years\n\nBut despite losing work with the BBC, Brand's profile continued to rise.\n\nBy now, he was developing his career as an actor and being cast in major films, including St Trinian's, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Rock of Ages and a remake of Arthur co-starring Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nIn summer 2009, Brand met Katy Perry, one of the world's most successful pop stars, when she filmed a cameo for his film Get Him to the Greek.\n\nThe pair became engaged and were married the following year at a Hindu ceremony in India, but divorced two years later.\n\nMeanwhile, Brand was becoming just as well known for his political views as his work.\n\nHe guest edited an issue of the left-leaning current affairs magazine the New Statesman, appeared on Question Time opposite then-Ukip leader Nigel Farage, and was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.\n\nBrand told Paxman he did not vote in general elections \"out of weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations\", and encouraged viewers to abstain from voting too.\n\nIn 2012, Brand appeared at a Home Affairs select committee to discuss drug and alcohol addiction, although the jokes he cracked during the session attracted just as much publicity. One MP had to tell him the session was \"not a variety show\".\n\nHowever, he repeatedly declined to enter the political fray himself by running for parliament.\n\nInstead, arguing for alternative systems of government became one of his core principles. He complained about the limited choices for voters - although did briefly endorse Ed Miliband ahead of the 2015 general election.\n\nBrand has consistently attracted controversy, often at awards ceremonies - which provided the kind of live, anything-can-happen chaos in which Brand was most at home.\n\nAfter Bob Geldof insulted him at the NME Awards in 2006, Brand retaliated by saying the musician and campaigner was only an expert on famine because he had \"been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years\".\n\nTwo years later, while hosting the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, Brand told the American audience that then-US president George W Bush \"wouldn't be trusted with scissors\" in the UK.\n\nAnd in 2013, he was ejected from the GQ Awards after he criticised the event's sponsor Hugo Boss for its history making uniforms for the Nazis.\n\nBrand returned to radio in 2017 with a new weekend show on Radio X, formerly XFM. However, the show lasted less than a year.\n\nBrand addressed demonstrators protesting against austerity in London in 2015\n\nAfter the success of his first autobiography, Brand went on to publish a second - Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal - as well as further books about politics and his recovery from addiction.\n\nRecent years have seen him take a new direction - particularly since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Brand grew his following on YouTube as he discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the disease.\n\nStepping away from the directors and production teams of his TV and movie career, Brand's videos generally show him speaking directly to the camera in a single take, using his notable range of verbal dexterity to challenge the mainstream reporting of a range of subjects - and has also established himself as a wellness guru.\n\nHe now commands a following of four million on Instagram, 2.2 million on TikTok and 6.59 million on YouTube, for his near daily polemics on a range of subjects - with video titles including Do These Emails Prove Biden Is Corrupt And Lying?, What REALLY Started The Hawaii Fires? and THIS is How Gender Norms Are Affecting Men.\n\nWhen one of his Covid videos was removed for breaking rules around misinformation, he launched a daily live show on a new platform, Rumble, titled Stay Free with Russell Brand.", "Kirsty and Taisha said when they met their connection was instant\n\nAfter a global search, a woman found out the bone marrow donor who \"saved her life\" lived just 15 miles away.\n\nOut of more than 40 million donors worldwide, Taisha Taylor, of Newbridge, Caerphilly county, found Kirsty Burnett was a near-perfect match.\n\nThanks to Kirsty's donation, Taisha was cured of a rare and life-threatening condition.\n\nAs part of World Marrow Donor Day, the pair are now urging people to sign up for the Welsh bone marrow register.\n\nTaisha, 20, was born with a rare inherited immunodeficiency disorder called chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), leaving her body vulnerable to chronic inflammation and meaning simple infections could become life-threatening.\n\nHer complications included mobility issues, arthritis, lupus and chronic fatigue - meaning she often needed a wheelchair.\n\nAs a teenager, she loved caring for animals and dancing but had to give both up and even avoid sunlight as her condition worsened.\n\n\"When I'd wake up I'd have to go straight on the floor otherwise I couldn't walk, I'd have to stretch my back and everything because I was in so much pain,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd take endless tablets throughout the day and I pretty much sleepwalked through my entire life really.\"\n\nTaisha (left) and Kirsty (right) now meet up regularly after the transplant\n\nAfter a number of failed treatments, Taisha's last hope of recovery was by getting a bone marrow transplant.\n\nWithin months, she was told she had a match.\n\nKirsty, from Newport, had joined the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry during a blood donation session when she was 17.\n\nShe'd forgotten about signing up, until she heard she was a match for someone somewhere in the UK and decided to go ahead.\n\nThanks to Kirsty's donation, Taisha became one of the first women in the world to be cured of the condition.\n\nBoth women said they wanted to know the other, but donors and patients are anonymised to protect them.\n\nTwo years after the procedure, Kirsty and Taisha both gave consent to be put in contact.\n\nKirsty and Taisha got matching tattoos following the transplant\n\n\"I wanted to know her ASAP, mainly to say not just thank you, but I guess I thought it was gonna be that bond there as well,\" said Tasha.\n\nFollowing a series of letters, Taisha and Kirsty swapped numbers - and realised they were living just 20 minutes apart.\n\nThey met for the first time in December 2021 and said their connection was instant.\n\n\"We just hugged basically. I think all we could keep saying when we sat down was 'wow this is crazy',\" said Taisha.\n\n\"We sat down with food, I don't think we ate, we were just talking for hours\".\n\nDuring their first meeting, the pair even realised that Kirsty works with Taisha's sister's fiancé.\n\nTaisha told Kirsty: \"Anything I do is thanks to you\"\n\nThe two women now meet up regularly, and even have matching tattoos.\n\nBoth decided to share their story to encourage other people to sign up to the bone marrow registry.\n\n\"You never know when you might need that or someone you love might need that, and you hope someone else would do it for them,\" said Kirsty.\n\n\"It's definitely the proudest thing I've ever done in my life and Taisha's amazing.\"\n\nTaisha said Kirsty had \"saved her life\", adding: \"She's the biggest part of my life, quite literally.\"\n\n\"Anything I do is thanks to you,\" she told Kirsty.\n\nChristopher Harvey, head of the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry, said: \"To put it simply, we need more young people to join our registry.\n\n\"Right now, three in 10 patients will not find the matched donor they desperately need, and that statistic rises to seven in 10 if you are from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background.\"", "The stables are home to the historic royal carriages\n\nA man has been arrested in the Royal Mews area next to Buckingham Palace following reports a person was seen climbing a wall into the area.\n\nA 25-year-old man was detained outside the stables at about 01:25 BST and held under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act on suspicion of trespassing.\n\nThe stables, home to the historic royal carriages, were not entered by an intruder, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe man was taken to a London police station for questioning.\n\nThe force added \"at no point\" did the intruder \"enter Buckingham Palace or the Palace Gardens\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ashton Kutcher has come under intense criticism for a letter supporting Danny Masterson\n\nAshton Kutcher has resigned from the charity he set up to tackle child sexual abuse, following outrage over a letter of support to a judge after Danny Masterson's rape conviction.\n\nIn his resignation to the charity, Thorn, Kutcher said his support letter was an \"error in judgement\".\n\nMasterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the rapes of two women.\n\nA similar letter was sent by Kutcher's wife, actress Mila Kunis.\n\nThe letters and subsequent apology from Kutcher and Kunis - both of whom starred in That 70s Show alongside Masterson - were widely criticised by victims and advocacy groups.\n\nIn a resignation letter directed to the board of Thorn and posted online, Kutcher said his decision to step down from the board is \"rooted in the recognition of recent events\".\n\n\"After my wife and I spent several days of listening, personal reflection, learning and conversations with survivors and the employees and leadership at Thorn, I have determined the responsible thing for me to do is resign as chairman of the board, effective immediately,\" Kutcher said in the resignation letter.\n\n\"I cannot allow my error in judgment to distract from our efforts and the children we serve,\" he added.\n\nEstablished by Kutcher and ex-wife Demi Moore in 2012, Thorn focuses on combatting sexual exploitation of children.\n\nMuch of the group's focus is on the Internet and the role it plays in the spread of child sexual abuse material and sexual slavery. To date, the group claims to have identified 27,000 child victims and removed more than two million potentially sexual abuse files from the internet.\n\nIn his resignation message, Kutcher said his letter of support for Masterson - in which he described him as someone who treated people with \"decency\" and \"generosity\" - was \"yet another painful instance of questioning victims who are brave enough to share their experiences\".\n\n\"This is precisely what we have all worked to reverse over the last decade,\" he added.", "This is the moment two seal pups tangled up in a fishing net were rescued on a South African beach.\n\nMembers of the public at West Coast National Park cut through the nets, which allowed the seals to go back into the sea.\n\nA private guide and filmmaker captured the moment on camera, sharing the rescue on social media.\n\n\"It was a very tangible reminder of how important it is to educate ourselves, clean up our beaches and work to ensure plastics and things like this are not in our oceans,\" James Suter wrote of the incident in a post accompanying the video on Instagram.\n\nA third seal was also rescued off camera, his post said.", "Diane Abbott has branded a Labour Party investigation into her comments about racism \"fraudulent\".\n\nShe was suspended as a Labour MP in April after suggesting Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism \"all their lives\".\n\nMs Abbott later apologised and withdrew her remarks.\n\nThe party said it had introduced an independent complaints process to investigate cases and would not give a running commentary.\n\nMs Abbott said she had been told by Labour whips - who are in charge of party discipline - there would be an investigation but she claimed this was now in the hands of Labour Party HQ and that no proper process had been undertaken in the four months since her suspension.\n\nIf the whip remains suspended at the next election, she cannot stand as a Labour candidate. Ms Abbott is claiming this is the outcome the party leadership has been seeking.\n\nThe MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington said the HQ would report to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, \"who almost immediately pronounced my guilt publicly\".\n\n\"This completely undermines any idea that there is fairness or any natural justice. It is procedurally improper,\" she wrote in a statement posted on X.\n\nShe added that the \"Labour apparatus\" had installed its own, hand-picked personnel in her constituency, clearing the way to replace her as the candidate prior to the next election.\n\nSenior Labour figures had suggested privately that one solution to the stand-off would be to restore the whip in return for an undertaking by Ms Abbott to stand down at the next election.\n\nHer statement suggests that no such deal was struck, though Labour sources insist that, despite her criticisms, they have not ruled out restoring the whip and the investigation was continuing.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"The Labour Party rightly expects the highest standards of behaviour from its elected representatives, and has introduced an independent complaints process to investigate cases.\n\n\"We do not give a running commentary on ongoing investigations.\"\n\nMs Abbott, who is on the left of the party and a staunch supporter of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, claimed \"others have committed far more grave offences, and belated or grudging apologies have been wrung from them\".\n\n\"Yet they have been immediately excused as supporters of the leadership,\" she said.\n\nMs Abbott added: \"Taken together, the procedural impropriety, Starmer's pronouncement of my guilt, the four-month delay in the investigation, the repeated refusal to try to reach any accommodation, all point in the direction that the verdict has already been reached. The crushing of democracy in my local Labour Party is the latest confirmation.\n\n\"I am the longest serving black MP. Yet there is widespread sentiment that as a black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader says his party acted \"swiftly\" after Diane Abbott's letter to the Observer newspaper\n\nMs Abbott currently sits as an independent MP and is not allowed to represent Labour in the House of Commons.\n\nHer suspension came after she wrote in a letter to the Observer newspaper that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people \"undoubtedly experience prejudice\", which she said is \"similar to racism\".\n\nThe letter added: \"It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice.\n\n\"But they are not all their lives subject to racism.\"\n\nIn her apology, Ms Abbott said \"errors\" arose in an initial draft that was sent, adding: \"But there is no excuse, and I wish to apologise for any anguish caused.\"\n\nAsked about Ms Abbott's comments the following day, Sir Keir condemned them and said they were antisemitic.\n\nMr Corbyn said the treatment of Ms Abbott was \"a disgrace\".\n\nHe wrote on X: \"The latest stitch-up represents yet another flagrant attack on local democracy.\"\n\nMomentum, the left-wing campaign group set up to support Mr Corbyn, said: \"If there is any semblance of democracy and due process in Starmer's Labour, a fair and proper process should rapidly be concluded and the whip restored.\"\n\nMs Abbott, who has been an MP since 1987 and was the first black woman elected to Parliament, served as shadow home secretary in Mr Corbyn's cabinet between 2016 to 2020.\n\nSir Keir promised tough action to \"root out\" the antisemitism which had dogged the party under Mr Corbyn's leadership, when he took over in 2020.", "Allegations about Brand were made as part of a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches\n\nChannel 4 CEO Alex Mahon has said the allegations made against Russell Brand are \"horrendous\" and that the industry needs to confront bad behaviour.\n\nThe star has been accused of rape and sexual assaults, which he denies.\n\nMs Mahon added that as \"a woman in our industry\" she found the claims \"disgusting and saddening\".\n\nHer comments come a day after the BBC's director general announced a review of complaints against Brand during his time working for the corporation.\n\nOn Wednesday, Brand was dropped as the headline act for an Australian wellness festival taking place in February. It follows the postponement of his forthcoming UK tour dates.\n\nThe allegations were made at the weekend in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nOne of the women, known only as Alice, later told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that there were requests for girls and women to be \"taken off\" Channel 4 shows that he worked on \"so that he didn't assault them\".\n\nBrand, who hosted Channel 4 Big Brother spin-off shows for several years in the mid-noughties, has denied all claims of misconduct, saying he's a subject of \"a coordinated attack\" involving \"very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\"\n\nThe comedian, actor and presenter said his relationships have been \"always consensual\".\n\nSpeaking at the RTS Cambridge Convention on Wednesday, Ms Mahon confirmed the allegations would be \"followed up further\" and that Channel 4, along with the BBC, [production company] Banijay and other suppliers \"are busy investigating\".\n\nShe said the network has \"invited anyone who knows about this behaviour to come to us\", anonymously if needs be.\n\n\"They're not empty words or gestures from all of us,\" she said, adding: \"We will seek to find out who knew, who was told what and what was or wasn't referred up.\"\n\nAlex Mahon, pictured at the RTS convention on Wednesday, said the claims made about Brand were \"disgusting and saddening\"\n\nDispatches also broadcast clips of Brand on air in 2007 offering to send his female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile naked, and discussing his sexual fantasies about an \"erotic\" Radio 2 newsreader.\n\nIt was also claimed that Brand arranged for a work taxi to bring then 16-year-old schoolgirl Alice to his flat.\n\nMs Mahon said she was reminded by watching the documentary that \"terrible behaviour towards women was historically tolerated in our industry\".\n\n\"And the clips we've seen as well provide a rather shocking jolt, when one realises what appeared on-air and not that long ago,\" she noted.\n\n\"The behaviour is less prevalent now but it's still a problem, and it's something that we must all confront.\n\n\"There is still more change that needs to come, and Channel Four along with those others are at the forefront of that change.\"\n\nShe was speaking ahead of an RTS session entitled Too Much To Watch, exploring the modern viewing habits of the UK public.\n\nSpeaking later in the day, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said: \"Those allegations [against Russell Brand] are deeply shocking.\n\n\"It's right that organisations involved in his employment conduct transparent investigations into whether complaints were made or concerns were made and what action, if any, was taken.\"\n\nShe added: \"This is an industry that young people grew up dreaming of working in. It is incumbent on all of us to make sure that this industry is synonymous with talent, opportunity and inclusivity, and not the scandals of MeToo.\"\n\nBrand has not commented publicly since taking to his social media platforms ahead of the documentary to deny the claims. YouTube has since suspended his advertising income on its site.", "The star used to present Channel 4's Big Breakfast and TFI Friday, as well as the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast shows\n\nDJ Chris Evans has told listeners he is now clear of skin cancer, eight weeks after he was first diagnosed.\n\nThe Virgin Radio UK presenter, 57, revealed last month that doctors had caught it quickly meaning it was \"as treatable as cancer can possibly be\".\n\nIn an on-air update on Wednesday, Evans said he had undergone surgery last week, and that surgeons had since given him the all-clear.\n\nHe added he had barely slept since receiving an update from his surgeon.\n\n\"I never thought for a second you could lose a night's sleep because of an email like this,\" he said on the show.\n\nReading the email out loud, co-presenter Vassos Alexander quoted the surgeon as saying: \"I have forwarded the pathology report. It is excellent news.\n\n\"There is no residual disease. You have the all-clear.\"\n\nEvans explained he had the surgery last Thursday, following a phone conversation with his dermatologist, who told him that the freckle - originally found on his leg by his masseur - \"had moved, metastasised, was malignant\" and would need to be \"removed\".\n\n\"And so, at quarter-to-four last Thursday, I had cancer and at quarter-to-five, I didn't,\" he beamed. \"And I just found that out last night.\n\n\"And that's because time is your biggest weapon against it, if you have an abundance of it, and its biggest weapon against you if you have a lack of it.\"\n\nHe went on to urge listeners with cancer symptoms to get themselves checked. \"If you're worried about anything, just bear in mind the fact that eight weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer and now I don't have it at all,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's why you just need to attend to things. And it's really tough, because for years I was the guy who wouldn't go anywhere near that. But you know, times have changed, thank God.\"\n\nIt comes eight years after the former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 broadcaster was given the all-clear following a previous prostate cancer scare.", "Prince William has visited a project to restore oysters to waters around New York\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned against \"doom and gloom\" in discussions about tackling climate change.\n\nHe was speaking in New York as the finalists were announced for his flagship environmental project, the Earthshot Prize.\n\nThe prince said a dose of realism was important, but it was also necessary to give people a sense of hope.\n\nBill Gates, UN climate envoy Mike Bloomberg and former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern were among the guests.\n\n\"I think if we remark on how pessimistic and doom and gloom everything is, even though there is a healthy dose of that needed... it doesn't provoke the reaction from us humans that we would like,\" Prince William told the event in New York.\n\n\"An important part of the prize's design and development is not just to provide the solutions, but it's to make people believe there is hope.\"\n\nHe added that he was \"impatient\" to see a more rapid scaling up of new approaches to reducing environmental harm.\n\nPrince William's New York visit this week has seen him stepping up on a global stage, including a meeting with UN secretary general Antonio Guterres.\n\nBut there have been comments on social media expressing cynicism about VIPs and celebrities flying so many miles to talk about decarbonisation and tackling climate change.\n\nThe Earthshot event has been held alongside New York's Climate Week and the United Nations has been staging its annual general assembly, including a keynote speech from US President Joe Biden.\n\nThe prince has used the week as a platform for his annual competition, which is dedicated to finding innovative ways to promote sustainability and tackle climate change.\n\nThe heir to the throne also held meetings with leaders of countries vulnerable to climate change, including the president of Ecuador.\n\nA shortlist of 15 Earthshot finalists was announced, with nominees coming from countries including Peru, India, Sierra Leone and Poland.\n\nOne project, from the UK, aims to produce tyres for electric cars which will reduce harmful tyre pollution. And a finalist from the US aims to improve the treatment of industrial wastewater.\n\nFive winning entries will receive £1m each at a ceremony in Singapore in November.\n\nFormer Microsoft boss and philanthropist Bill Gates spoke at the Earthshot event of his optimism about technological advances, saying that \"innovation is delivering very well\" in reducing environmental harm.\n\nOthers in attendance included Baroness Scotland, secretary general of the Commonwealth, and Maros Sefcovic of the European Commission.\n\nThe prize was inspired by US President John F Kennedy's \"Moonshot\" programme, which resulted in the US Apollo lunar launches and the first man setting foot on the Moon in 1969.\n\nThe late president's daughter Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Australia, was also among the guests in New York.\n\nWhen he arrived in the US earlier this week, Prince William said of tackling the environmental crisis: \"The challenge may feel huge, but as John F Kennedy taught us, we rise to the challenge not because it is easy, but because it is hard. And vital.\"", "Elon Musk's brain-computer interface (BCI) start-up Neuralink has begun recruiting people for its first human trial.\n\nThe company's goal is to connect human brains to computers and it wants to test its technology on people with paralysis.\n\nA robot will help implant a BCI that will let them control a computer cursor, or type, using thoughts alone.\n\nBut rival companies have already implanted BCI devices in humans.\n\nNeuralink won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its first human clinical trial, in May, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval.\n\nThe FDA approval represented \"an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people\", Neuralink said at the time\n\nThe company had sought approval to implant its devices in 10 people, former and current employees told news agency Reuters.\n\nThe number finally agreed upon is not known.\n\nAt the start of the six-year study, a robot would be used to surgically place 64 flexible threads, thinner than a human hair, on to a part of the brain that controlled \"movement intention\", the company said.\n\nThese allow Neuralink's experimental N1 implant - powered by a battery that can be charged wirelessly - to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes how the person intends to move.\n\nThe company says people may qualify for the trial if they have quadriplegia due to injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a disease in which the nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain degenerate.\n\nWhile Mr Musk's involvement raises the profile of Neuralink, he faces rivals, some with a track record dating back nearly two decades. Utah-based Blackrock Neurotech implanted its first of many BCIs in 2004.\n\nPrecision Neuroscience, formed by a Neuralink co-founder, also aims to help people with paralysis. And its implant resembles a very thin piece of tape that sits on the surface of the brain and can be implanted via a \"cranial micro-slit\", which it says is a much simpler procedure.\n\nMeanwhile, existing devices are generating results. In two separate recent US scientific studies, implants were used to monitor brain activity when a person tried to speak, which could then be decoded to help them communicate.\n\nDr Adrien Rapeaux, a research associate in the Neural Interfaces Lab at Imperial College London told the BBC that \"Neuralink no doubt has an advantage in terms of implantation\" as their procedure was robotically assisted.\n\nBut Dr Rapeaux who is also a co-founder of a neural implant start-up Mintneuro, said it wasn't clear how their method for converting brain signals into useful actions would do better than that used by Blackrock Neurotech for example, and whether it is able to stay accurate and reliable over time, \"a known issue in the field\".\n• None Why is Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink in the news?", "Many teenage girls say they experience sexual harassment in their day-to-day lives and do not feel safe on the street alone.\n\nIn a survey of 2,000 young people aged 13-18, more than a quarter of girls (27%) said they had experienced sexual harassment in some form.\n\nSome 44% also said they do not feel safe while walking alone on the street.\n\nThe survey also asked teens about body image, anxiety, and vaping, and reveals concerns about online safety.\n\nPolling company Survation conducted the survey for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitesize, in which 1,000 teenage boys and 1,000 girls were asked about their experiences.\n\nThe results suggest teenagers are concerned about the amount of pornography they see on social media. Almost a third who were surveyed had watched videos of controversial influencer Andrew Tate - and many said they had liked them. Hundreds of teenagers also said they feel anxious some or all of the time.\n\nSince starting secondary school, 13-year-old Bobbie says she feels much less safe making her way home from school.\n\n\"It can be quite scary sometimes,\" Bobbie tells BBC Radio 5 Live. \"Getting shouted at, people saying: 'You look good babes.' Sometimes it's people grabbing my arm in the street - I was once chased by people two or three times my age.\"\n\nPrincess, 14, says she has back-up routes worked out for her walk home from school - should she need to use them - and that she is \"constantly checking\" who is behind her.\n\nOthers say they have to be mindful of what clothes they are wearing when they go out.\n\n\"The way you look has a huge difference on what happens outside,\" says 15-year-old Sonia. \"If I'm in a dress or wearing a crop-top and tight clothing, I'm not going to have a peaceful day.\"\n\nEighteen-year-old Rofeda worries that if she ignores or stands up to sexual harassment she might even be putting herself in danger.\n\n\"You don't want it to escalate to things you can't handle,\" agrees Kayla, 18.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live is talking to teenagers about the challenges they face in 2023\n\nWhile 44% of girls said they do not feel safe on the street, almost a quarter of teenage boys (24%) also said they felt this way.\n\n\"If there's a group of boys looking at me and I'm on my own and it's dark, I fear for my safety,\" says 15-year-old Ashley. \"I worry about getting jumped - you see so many videos on social media about people being attacked and it makes you feel threatened.\"\n\nMore needs to be done to help educate people about why it is not OK to sexually harass others, according to Rosie, 16, from women's safety campaign, Our Streets Now.\n\n\"Telling them that it's a crime - it's not a compliment, it's not a flattering thing,\" she says, \"this isn't something that should be yelled across the street for someone minding their own business.\"\n\nTeens also gave insights into the impact of online influencers.\n\nIzzy says you can learn a lot from social media, but it causes people to compare themselves to what they see online\n\nMore than a third of 1,000 responses from teenage boys reveal they have watched videos of Andrew Tate, the survey suggests.\n\nTate and his brother have been freed from house arrest in Romania pending trial on rape and human trafficking charges. They deny the charges.\n\n\"The idea he's putting into people's heads [is] that women can stay at home, cook and clean, and boys can go out and make money, provide for the family,\" he says.\n\nDespite the negative publicity that the self-proclaimed misogynist has attracted, Emily, 15, says Tate is still making an impact on teenage boys and \"if anything, it's getting worse\".\n\nOf the 629 teenage boys and girls who said they had watched videos of Tate, 38% said they liked them.\n\nMeanwhile, 58% of teenage girls polled said they follow influencers online, of which more than a third said influencers make them feel they need to change the way they look.\n\nIzzy, 15, says that although she recognises a lot of content can be \"fake\", it can still \"cause people to compare themselves\". For Francesca, 15, pressure to \"look like you're living a better life\" on social media \"can have a really negative impact\".\n\nMore than a quarter of teenagers polled said they feel anxious all or most of the time, with exams, going to school and peer pressure being the top three reasons.\n\nFrancesca says it can be draining to see influencers posting about their \"dream lives\" every time she goes online\n\nAnd more than half of male and female responses said they feel anxious when they don't have their phones with them - a third said comparing themselves to others on social media makes them anxious.\n\nTeenager Kayla says it is tough not to be on there, because everyone else is.\n\n\"I've tried to not go on social media,\" she says, \"but it's difficult because you feel like you're missing out on something.\"\n\nTaking breaks from their phones for a couple of hours did help, some teens told the BBC. \"Once I started having a life outside of my phone, with my friends, I feel like that changed a lot,\" says Emily, aged 15.\n\nEmily says that taking breaks from her mobile phone has helped ease feelings of anxiety\n\nA fifth of the 980 teenage girls who responded to the survey said they had received unwanted nude images or videos from a peer. While nearly three quarters of both male and female respondents said social media companies should do more to stop pornography being viewed accidentally online.\n\nA government spokesperson said that \"technology firms will be required to enforce their age limits and protect children from being exposed to harmful material online\" through the Online Safety Bill which is due to become law this year.\n\nA third of teenagers surveyed said they had vaped at least once. Of the 641 responses who said they had, just over a quarter said they think they were addicted.\n\nSeventy per cent of those who have vaped said they would be less likely to if the flavours were less appealing. Calls for bans on cheaper disposable vapes have been growing as more young people take up the habit, but exotic flavours with names like \"unicorn\" and \"gummy bear\" and brightly coloured e-cigarette packaging seem to be designed to directly appeal to younger people.\n\nOfficials in Westminster are actively looking for ways to reduce the numbers of people buying and using vapes.\n\n\"[Vapes] have dreadful, medical ramifications,\" Science Secretary Michelle Donelan says, \"especially for bodies that are still developing.\"\n\nResponding to the survey, the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, says urgent work needs to be done to protect children from online pornography and other harmful content, and that many of the findings echo things that children have also told her.\n\n\"In particular, it is clear that the online world and social media is having a very real impact on teenagers' mental health, their wellbeing, and their safety,\" Dame Rachel says.\n\nA government spokesperson said all children deserve to grow up in a safe environment, and that schools should take immediate action against misogyny or harassment.\n\n\"We are considering what updated or additional guidance schools might need to support them in teaching about this issue as part of the ongoing, urgent review of the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance.\"\n\nBeing a teenager can be tough and it's a period of lots of change, but it is not all doom and gloom.\n\nIn our survey, 66% of young people said they feel positive about the future, and the same number said family is the most important thing in their life right now.\n\nDespite the cost-of-living crisis impacting young people, Fran says, \"I still think we can have a good future.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, there are details of organisations who may be able to offer help and support on the BBC Action Line website.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Those visiting the exhibition squeeze through two nude performance models in order to enter it\n\nVisitors to a new Royal Academy exhibition must squeeze between two nude models to enter it.\n\nThe unusual installation is part of a career retrospective of Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović.\n\nThere is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable squeezing through the nude performers.\n\nThe exhibition has otherwise received mixed reviews from critics - the Guardian called it \"vital\" but the Times said it was \"remorseless\".\n\nEntering between the two naked performers forces those with tickets into a \"confrontation between nakedness, and the gender, the sexuality, the desire\", the Royal Academy's head of exhibitions Andrea Tarsia has said.\n\nThe unusual piece was first staged in 1977 by Abramović and her then German partner, Ulay. The pair stood close together in a doorway, compelling visitors to pass between them.\n\nThe Telegraph's critic Alastair Sooke said he was \"too preoccupied with not stamping on their toes\" to be able to sense whether there was a frisson as he passed during the new installation in London.\n\n\"You don't have to go through the naked gates. There's a bypass, but it's cheating,\" added the Times' Laura Freeman. \"I squeezed through, sucking in my stomach, trying not to tread on anyone's toes or brush against anything.\"\n\nMarina Abramović is the first woman to have a solo retrospective show in the Royal Academy's main space\n\nThe retrospective takes in Abramović's half-century career. She is the first female artist to have a solo exhibition in the Royal Academy's principal galleries in its 255-year history.\n\nThe Evening Standard's Ben Luke awarded it four stars, writing: \"For once, this is not hype. I can't imagine a better display, especially given that much of it exists as documentation of performances.\n\n\"The staging of this material on film and in photographs is exemplary, and it's aided by four live pieces from different moments in Abramović's career, reperformed by Marina-approved artists.\"\n\nHe added: \"I struggled to picture how the vast galleries of the RA could be filled by an artist whose practice has inevitably been largely ephemeral, when they have swallowed and diminished more conventional artists. But there is no sense of padding. The pacing is great: it's spare where it needs to be, busy and noisy at the right moments.\"\n\nBut there was less enthusiasm from the Telegraph's Sooke. In a two star review, he said: \"The issue is the work. Is there a more egregious case of an artist, over the decades, losing their way?\n\n\"Those performances from the 1970s and 80s - many of them collaborations with her then-partner, the German artist Ulay - still seem radical and courageous, with something urgent to say about, for instance, the complex relations between men and women, or the gendered roles that society forces us to play.\"\n\nThe exhibition runs at the Royal Academy until 1 January\n\n\"Ritualised cleansing, in the form of scrubbing bones, is one of her motifs,\" noted the Telegraph\n\nSooke added: \"Over time, though, as Abramović became less concerned with corporeal endurance, and more interested in trialling her mind, she started to believe the hype.\n\n\"The result? Narcissistic art, devoid of risk, with none of the rigorous, visceral, blood-spattered toughness of old. Ritualised cleansing, in the form of scrubbing bones, is one of her motifs - but, ultimately, Abramović has ended up sanitising herself.\"\n\nFreeman of the Times was similarly lukewarm, awarding two stars and saying there were \"two principal problems with this stylishly presented but unsatisfactory retrospective\".\n\n\"First: you thought performance art was bad? Old videos of past performance art are worse. Second: Abramović, who has made her career and artistic reputation teasing, testing and breaching the limits of her own endurance, may be hard as nails, but she is 76 and an honorary Royal Academician, so her part is played by acolytes.\n\n\"I'd like to say they were as fearless as the original but the three young women I saw performing Imponderabilia, Nude with Skeleton and Luminosity seemed self-conscious and under strain. Seventies body hair is out, bikini waxes are in. That alone would suggest anxiety more than abandon.\"\n\nNude With Skeleton is among the featured works in the retrospective\n\nMarina Abramović, pictured at the exhibition this week, is a Serbian conceptual artist and performer\n\nBut the Guardian's Adrian Searle was more positive, calling Abramović's show \"terrifying and vital\" in his four-star review.\n\n\"We see her knitting, smoking, holding a candle and walking with infinite slowness, carrying a bowl of milk,\" he said. \"Here she is lying naked under a skeleton in a kind of video sarcophagus, on top of which a naked live performer repeats the pose.\n\n\"Other performers re-enact early works as we go from room to room. There are so many Marinas here, but only one Abramović, in all her multiple guises.\n\nAbramović is \"redoubtable, indefatigable, brave and extreme\", he wrote.\n\n\"I speak as one who has been moved by her endurance and spirit and laughed at her mordant wit, and also as one who has enjoyed a couple of her workshops and run away from another,\" he added. \"But who cares about the mumbo-jumbo when the best of her art is so strong?\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United were given a taste of what could have been as Harry Kane helped Bayern Munich to victory over Erik ten Hag's struggling side in a high-scoring and eventful Champions League opener.\n\nIt was no secret that the Red Devils would have liked to have signed Kane from Tottenham in the summer, but instead England's captain and record goalscorer opted for a career in Germany that has begun in stellar fashion.\n\nAt the Allianz Arena on Wednesday, the 30-year-old claimed both an assist and scored from the penalty spot - after a VAR check to rule Christian Eriksen had handled in the box - to take his tally of goals this season to five in five games in all competitions.\n\nIt was a timely strike from Kane too as it came just after Rasmus Hojland had scored his first United goal to make it 2-1 early in the second half and give his side some hope of a result.\n\nBefore that, goalkeeper Andre Onana had undone a disciplined start from the visitors with a shocking error to allow Leroy Sane's drive to slip under him and find the net in the 28th minute.\n• None Man Utd lost to Bayern because of me - Onana\n\nFour minutes later, Serge Gnabry struck low and accurately inside the far corner to make it 2-0.\n\nIt is to the visitors' credit that they came out swinging to try and make a contest of it but their current fragility and lack of options from the bench as a result of numerous injuries undermined their ability to compete.\n\nCasemiro showed dogged determination to smuggle a second in for United to give them a glimmer of hope but Mathys Tel snuffed that out by hammering a Bayern fourth high into the net in added time.\n\nUnited were not finished, with Casemiro heading home Bruno Fernandes' free-kick from close range with almost the last kick of the game, but it was too late.\n\nAn opening-game loss at the six-time champions of Europe will not define the campaign, especially with FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray - who drew 2-2 earlier on Wednesday in Istanbul - both more beatable in the group, but they are now in dire need of a response to restore some focus and faith.\n• None Follow reaction to Bayern Munich v Manchester United and the rest of Wednesday's Champions League games\n• None How did you rate United's performance? Have your say here\n• None Go straight to all the best Man Utd content\n\nSome fight but too much fragility from United\n\nAfter a 2022-23 campaign of progress, United are again sailing in choppy waters.\n\nLast season, Ten Hag looked to have steadied one of European football's biggest ships following the failure of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tenure and the ill-advised interim experiment with Ralf Rangnick.\n\nHaving led them to a first piece of major silverware in six seasons and back into the Champions League, optimism was high at the club ahead of this campaign.\n\nBut three defeats from the first five league games - their worst league start in a decade - has seen this rapidly evaporate and now they must digest a humbling start to their European campaign.\n\nIt could have been different. They could, and probably should, have led inside five minutes as Alphonso Davies' timely tackle stopped Facundo Pellistri tapping in but set up Christian Eriksen to fire an effort from close range straight at Sven Ulreich.\n\nSimilarly, at the start of the second half, had they been able to test Bayern's resolve for longer at 2-1 rather than conceding again inside five minutes they may have taken something.\n\nAnd then at the end they showed fight to forge Casemiro's double only for that to be made moot by their soft concession of a fourth.\n\nThis is a United side undone by early-season results, injuries and costly moments of ineptitude.\n\nOnana's error was a shocker and one a side with such fragile confidence can ill afford. It was followed by a period where players seemed happier to hide than rally in the face of adversity.\n\nBefore Wednesday's game, Ten Hag bemoaned that he had yet to field his strongest XI during his tenure and maybe it is only fair to judge him and his side this season when they are closer to that?\n\nBut this is still a United side with talent in it and one that needs to not only win at Burnley on Saturday but do so convincingly.\n\nKane plays his part as Bayern set the early pace\n\nBayern were not at their best. They have not been so for much of this season. They were also without suspended manager Thomas Tuchel as assistant Zsolt Low took charge on the touchline.\n\nBut they are a winning machine and with Kane in attack, supplemented by Sane, Gnabry and Musiala, they will be a test for any defence on the continent, let alone one as currently shaky as United's.\n\nIt was not Kane's best game, with him floating in and out of it, but he did what was required. His neat set-up enabled the opener and he made no mistake with a typically ruthless penalty.\n\nThey should have scored more, hitting the post twice after the break, and allowed United footholds in the game, but their ability to move rapidly up through the gears remains highly impressive.\n\nThat is 35 games unbeaten now for the German champions in the group stage of this competition and 15 straight home wins. It gives them early control of Group A.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 4, Manchester United 3. Casemiro (Manchester United) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 4, Manchester United 2. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Joshua Kimmich with a through ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mathys Tel (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mathys Tel following a fast break.\n• None Goal! FC Bayern München 3, Manchester United 2. Casemiro (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt missed. Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Eric Choupo-Moting (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané.\n• None Attempt saved. Kingsley Coman (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Leroy Sané. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Hunter Biden is important to Republicans\n\nA judge has denied a request by President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, to appear remotely via video to face federal gun charges.\n\nHe will be arraigned in person at a Delaware federal court on 3 October on three criminal counts, of possessing a gun while he was an illegal drug user and lying to buy it.\n\nHunter Biden's lawyers have said he will plead not guilty.\n\nIf convicted, the 53-year-old could face up to 25 years in prison.\n\nIn a two-page court filing on Tuesday, Mr Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell had asked for his client to enter his not guilty plea via video conference as it would \"minimize an unnecessary burden on government resources and the disruption\" from a Secret Service detail accompanying him.\n\nThis was not a case of the president's son \"seeking any special treatment\", he wrote.\n\nBut Magistrate Judge Christopher Burke denied the request in a court order on Wednesday, noting that government prosecutors had already opposed it.\n\nAppearing in person would \"emphasize the integrity and solemnity of a federal criminal proceeding\", he said.\n\nJudge Burke added that the criminal charges against Mr Biden \"are new and were not addressed at his prior hearing\" in relation to a plea agreement.\n\nThe charges on which Mr Biden was indicted last week stem from October 2018, when he bought a handgun in Delaware in a period when he was struggling with a crack cocaine addiction.\n\nBut Mr Biden allegedly lied on the federal firearm application form, stating that he was not using illegal drugs at the time, for which he now faces two felony counts punishable by up to 10 years each.\n\nA third count relates to his possession of the firearm while being a drug user, and carries a maximum prison sentence of up to five years.\n\nHunter and Joe Biden at an event in 2016\n\nThe weapon was found in Mr Biden's vehicle by his late brother's widow, Hallie, who tossed it into a rubbish bin behind a shop, reportedly out of fear he might use the gun to hurt himself.\n\nThe pistol was returned to the store days later by a man who discovered it while rummaging through the bin for recyclable items. By then, the missing weapon had drawn separate investigations from Delaware police and the Secret Service.\n\nIn June, a plea deal reached between prosecutors and Mr Biden's legal team on gun and tax charges collapsed after another judge raised objections, noting the agreement was \"unusual\".\n\nUnder the terms of that deal, Mr Biden would have been forced to admit to illegal possession of a firearm and agree to drug treatment and monitoring to avoid a felony charge and potential imprisonment.\n\nHe would also have pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts for failing to pay his taxes on time in 2017 and 2018.\n\nLegal analysts have said, however, that the basis of the new gun charges against Mr Biden may be subject to a constitutional challenge.\n\nMr Biden has no prior criminal record. He had the weapon for fewer than two weeks and never used it. Few people matching that profile face such charges, let alone prison time, they note.\n\nCharges against Mr Biden over his alleged tax violations were formally dismissed in August.\n\nProsecutors have indicated they will refile the charges in California or Washington DC rather than in Delaware.\n\nHunter Biden has become a political lightning rod, despite not holding a position in the White House or on his father's re-election campaign.\n\nThe House of Representatives Oversight Committee will next week hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing into the president over his son's business dealings.\n\nThe White House says the Republican-led inquiry is politically motivated and predicated on baseless claims.", "TikTok is driving online frenzies that encourage anti-social behaviour in the real world, a BBC Three investigation reveals.\n\nEx-employees say the issue is not being tackled for fear of slowing the growth of the social media app's business.\n\nThese frenzies - where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to some topics - are evidenced by interviews with former staffers, app users and BBC analysis of wider social media data. They have then led to disruption and disorder in everyday life.\n\nThe BBC's investigation found that TikTok's algorithm and design means people are seeing videos which they wouldn't normally be recommended - which, in turn, incentivise them to do unusual things in their own videos on the platform.\n\nTikTok has previously distanced itself from outbreaks of disorder, such as the threatened looting of London's Oxford Street last month, which politicians blamed on the billion-user app.\n\nHowever, the BBC has identified four episodes in recent months where disproportionate engagement on TikTok was connected to harmful behaviour:\n\nEx-staffers at TikTok liken these frenzies to \"wildfires\" and describe them as \"dangerous\", especially as the app's audience can be young and impressionable.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that its \"algorithm brings together communities while prioritising safety\". It said it recommends different types of content to interrupt repetitive patterns, removes \"harmful misinformation\" and reduces the reach of videos with unverified information.\n\nI had never heard of Moscow, Idaho, before November last year. My TikTok feed became flooded with details of the murder of four students in their bedrooms while two surviving housemates slept - before the case was widely covered by the media.\n\nSpeculative theories around who committed the murders gripped TikTok, without any evidence to back them up. TikTok users were uniquely obsessed. Videos I found about the case racked up two billion views from November 2022 to August this year, compared to just 80,000 on YouTube.\n\nFormer employees say this is a product of TikTok's design. Users mostly view content through their For You page, a feed of short videos which are selected by an algorithm to appeal to each individual.\n\nVideos about the killing of four students in Idaho drew over two billion views on TikTok and were seen all over the world\n\nWhen you post a video on TikTok, it will appear on the feeds of other users who TikTok thinks could be interested in it, rather than just being promoted to your friends and followers as on some other social networks.\n\nDepending on how users engage with that video, the algorithm might decide to push it to millions more at a speed and scale seemingly greater than on the other social media platforms. Former employees also say that, while most social media users tend to just consume content, TikTok users are much more likely to make and post their own videos.\n\nParticipation is one of TikTok's \"number one priorities\", according to an internal document from 2021 revealed by Chris Stokel-Walker in his book TikTok Boom. He told the BBC the company wants users \"actively invested\" in the app.\n\nThat element of participation can be terrifying for people like Jack Showalter, dubbed \"hoodie guy\" by some TikTokkers and falsely accused of involvement in the Idaho killings. His sister condemned the threats and harassment his family received. \"There were so many victims created through internet sleuth videos,\" she said.\n\nOne TikTokker, Olivia, did not just become gripped by a drama thousands of miles from her home in Florida - she flew for more than six hours and filmed at the scene for a week. At least one of her videos reached 20 million views.\n\n\"I felt this need to go out there and dig for answers and see if I can help out in any way,\" Olivia told me.\n\nWhen the Idaho murders took over TikTok, Olivia flew six hours to film at the scene for a week\n\nAn experienced content creator who has posted videos on several true crime cases, she also acknowledges that the TikTok content \"does much better\" when she travels to the scene.\n\nOlivia did not explicitly level false accusations at people. But she said that unlike traditional news media, she can post controversial claims without confirmation. \"I have the power to do that,\" she said.\n\nOlivia said the high levels of engagement on TikTok around subjects like the Idaho murders encourages users to create videos. \"One video on TikTok could get millions of plays versus if I post the same video on Instagram, it'll get like 200 views. And it's just the algorithm of Tik Tok.\"\n\nIn December, Bryan Kohberger - a man not previously named by any of the online sleuths - was arrested and later charged with murder.\n\nWhile Olivia was an experienced social video creator, frenzies can also draw in people who seem never to have posted content like this before - and reward them with huge numbers of views.\n\nWhen 45-year-old Nicola Bulley went missing in the small village of St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire, Heather was one of the people caught up by the way the mystery took over TikTok.\n\nIntense social media interest in the disappearance of Nicola Bulley interfered with the search, police said\n\n\"When you see it video after video after video of the same content on the same topic, it's very easy to just think, well, I can join in. I'm just another person,\" Heather told me.\n\nShe posted a video which falsely implied Nicola's best friend, Emma White, had posed as the missing woman, and says it received 3.6 million views within 72 hours.\n\nWithin the first three weeks of her disappearance, I found videos using the hashtag of Nicola Bulley's name had 270 million views on TikTok, compared to far lower numbers I found across the other major social media sites.\n\nMainstream media was also blamed for its wall-to-wall coverage of the case, but on TikTok more explicit misinformation spread more quickly.\n\nThe BBC has seen emails Heather received from TikTok encouraging her to keep posting once her speculation had gone viral and applauding her posts as a hit.\n\nShe said the feeling of \"empowerment\" and \"entitlement\" from this attention can change people's behaviour.\n\nHeather says she regrets getting caught up in the frenzy on TikTok surrounding Nicola Bulley's disappearance\n\nNow she said she regrets her part in the frenzy and has deleted her videos.\n\nHeather never headed to the scene of the disappearance, but many other TikTokkers did. The police criticised the way people were interfering with the case to film social media videos, eventually issuing a dispersal order, which allows officers to remove people from the area to prevent anti-social behaviour.\n\nNicola Bulley's body was found on 17 February in the river not far from where she disappeared. An inquest determined her death was due to accidental drowning.\n\nA spokesperson for TikTok told the BBC that users \"naturally\" took more of an interest in stories at \"moments of national conversation, which are intensified by 24-hour news reporting\". They also pointed out that the BBC has posted on TikTok about many stories like this.\n\nEvents in British schools and on the streets of France have shown how TikTok can help disturbances escalate and spread from place to place.\n\nIn February 2023, a protest about Rainford High School in Merseyside checking the length of girls' skirts was posted on TikTok. Within three days, students at over 60 schools had held and filmed their own version of the protest. After a week, students at over 100 schools had got involved.\n\nIn some cases, they also got out of hand: windows were smashed, trees were set on fire and teachers were assaulted.\n\nSeveral TikTok videos showed protests at UK schools where police were called\n\n\"I feel like what TikTok is enabling people to do now is to take one thing that's viral in one school and transport it to like the whole region and make it a competition about who can up the other schools and make it more extreme,\" said Jasmine, a former TikTok moderator.\n\nAccording to TikTok, most of the videos showed pupils engaging in peaceful demonstrations - but teachers and students I spoke to were concerned about the cumulative effect of all the videos.\n\nDuring the school protests, I decided to see what type of content TikTok's algorithm might recommend to an undercover account pretending to belong to a 15-year-old boy with typical interests, such as football.\n\nAfter being recommended videos about football and gaming, the fourth video I was shown was from a 25-year-old influencer called Adrian Markovac. As well as promoting self-improvement, some of his videos encourage rebellion against school rules on uniform, homework and asking to go to the toilet, as well as calling teachers offensive names.\n\nComments under his videos included some teenagers in the UK saying they had been suspended or excluded from school after following Mr Markovac's advice.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Markovac said he encourages young people to \"rebel against ridiculous rules\", but he said he could not be held responsible for the poor decisions of a minority of viewers.\n\nA few months after the school protests, riots spread across Paris and the rest of France after the death of 17-year-old Nahel M, who was shot by a police officer, who was later charged with homicide. The French president Emmanuel Macron levelled the blame for the disorder at TikTok and Snapchat.\n\nPeople in the town of Viry-Châtillon near Paris were among those who filmed rioting and vandalism\n\nBut was there another TikTok frenzy at play? Or was the French President just deflecting responsibility?\n\nThe sense of injustice over Nahel's death meant riots began without the influence of social media.\n\nBut the attention I found it received on TikTok was much higher compared to other platforms. I found public videos on Snapchat using Nahel's name with 167,700 views (that doesn't include some which may have been circulated in private chats). On TikTok, public videos using the hashtag racked up 850 million views.\n\nIn one town, Viry-Châtillon, on the outskirts of Paris, videos showed a bus on fire and a ransacked newsagents. Jean-Marie Vilain, the mayor, said demonstrations were rare in the town.\n\nBut what was \"incredible and dramatic\" in his view was that the riots spread to \"the provinces, in cities, in small towns where nothing is happening, where everything is fine\" - as far afield as Provence and Guadeloupe.\n\nJean-Marie Vilain, mayor of Viry-Châtillon, says TikTok helped the riots to escalate and spread to unexpected places\n\n\"Unfortunately, once the riots started, TikTok became a tool to show, here, this is what I'm capable of doing. Can you do better?\" Mr Vilain told me. His claim is backed up by videos I found on TikTok, which became more extreme as the riots went on.\n\nFrom speaking to protestors, Mr Vilain also said seeing acts of destruction widely shared on TikTok \"became the norm\" for some people. TikTok users sharing this content who I messaged said the same.\n\nWhat connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, anti-social behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence that they are all examples of TikTok \"frenzies\".\n\nSeveral former TikTok employees in the US and UK told the BBC that limiting these frenzies of harmful content was not a priority for the social media company, because it could slow down the app's meteoric growth.\n\nOne of them, who I'm calling Lucas, worked in data strategy and analysis at the company. He said TikTok was not equipped to become more than just an app for dance crazes.\n\n\"It grew so fast that they couldn't possibly keep up with or predict every single way the app was going to go,\" he said.\n\n\"But in terms of dangerous content, at least I never heard of them trying to proactively prevent them from getting big. And in general, they don't want to, they don't want to stand in the way of entertainment growing quickly on their platform.\"\n\nTikTok told the BBC it has more than 40,000 \"safety professionals\" using technology to moderate content, with the \"vast majority\" of videos with harmful misinformation never receiving a single view.\n\n\"Prioritising safety is not only the right thing to do, it makes business sense,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe company also said it collaborates with academics, law enforcement agencies and other experts to improve its processes.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public in recent months\n\nIran's parliament has passed a controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code.\n\nThose dressed \"inappropriately\" face up to 10 years in jail under the bill, for which a three-year \"trial\" was agreed.\n\nIt still needs to be approved by the Guardian Council to become law.\n\nThe move comes a year after protests erupted over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, who was held by morality police for an allegedly improper hijab.\n\nWomen burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the nationwide demonstrations against the clerical establishment, during which hundreds of people were reportedly killed in a crackdown by security forces.\n\nA growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether as the unrest has subsided, despite the return of the morality police to the streets and the installation of surveillance cameras.\n\nUnder Iranian law, which is based on the country's interpretation of Sharia, women and girls above the age of puberty must cover their hair with a hijab and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.\n\nCurrently, those not complying risk a prison term of between 10 days and two months or a fine of between 5,000 and 500,000 rials ($0.10-$10.14 at the black market exchange rate).\n\nOn Wednesday, members of parliament voted by 152 to 34 to pass the \"Hijab and Chastity Bill\", which says people who are caught dressed \"inappropriately\" in public places will be subject to a \"fourth degree\" punishment.\n\nAccording to the penal code, that means a prison sentence of between five and 10 years and a fine of between 180m and 360m rials ($3,651-$7,302).\n\nThe bill also proposes fines for those \"promoting nudity\" or \"making fun of the hijab\" in the media and on social networks, and for owners of vehicles in which a female driver or passenger is not wearing the hijab or appropriate clothing, according to AFP news agency.\n\nAny person who promotes violating the dress code \"in an organised manner\" or \"in co-operation with foreign or hostile governments, media, groups or organisations\" could also be imprisoned for between five and 10 years, it says.\n\nThe bill will now be sent for approval by the Guardian Council, a conservative body of clerics and jurists. They have the power to veto the bill if they consider it inconsistent with the constitution and Sharia.\n\nEarlier this month, eight independent UN human rights experts warned the bill \"could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission\".\n\n\"The draft law imposes severe punishments on women and girls for non-compliance which may lead to its violent enforcement,\" the experts said.\n\n\"The bill also violates fundamental rights, including the right to take part in cultural life, the prohibition of gender discrimination, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to peaceful protest, and the right to access social, educational, and health services, and freedom of movement.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The parents of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried are being sued for money they allegedly received improperly from the crypto firm ahead of its collapse.\n\nIn a filing, managers at the bankrupt firm accuse the couple of holding millions of \"fraudulently transferred\" dollars and of turning a blind eye to misconduct at the company.\n\nThe action was filed on behalf of those owed money after the firm's failure.\n\nThe fall of the company led to the arrest of Mr Bankman-Fried last year.\n\nUS prosecutors have accused the former billionaire, once dubbed the \"King of Crypto\", of illegally transferring millions from the exchange to plug losses at his trading firm, make political donations and buy property.\n\nHe has denied the charges and is in jail awaiting trial next month.\n\nAttorneys for his parents said the claims against them were \"completely false\" and designed to hurt their son's chances at trial.\n\nThe legal action, filed as part of a wider bankruptcy suit, says Mr Bankman-Fried's parents - then both professors at Stanford University - exploited their \"access and influence within the FTX enterprise to enrich themselves, directly and indirectly, by millions of dollars\".\n\nThey received a $10m (£8m) gift in cash from funds that belonged to Alameda, an FTX partner company, while FTX also gave them a $16.4m property in the Bahamas, according to the filing.\n\nFTX was once one of the biggest cryptocurrency trading firms in the world, holding assets worth an estimated $15bn in 2021. It filed for bankruptcy last year, after a sudden rush by customers to withdraw funds revealed a huge gap in the company's finances reportedly worth up to $8bn.\n\nManagers for the bankrupt firm say it was used by Mr Bankman-Fried and other \"insiders\" as a \"piggy bank\" and his parents \"helped perpetuate or benefited from this fraudulent largesse\".\n\nThe filing claims his father, Allan Joseph Bankman, an expert on US tax law, served as an adviser to FTX and \"played a key role in perpetuating this culture of misrepresentations and gross mismanagement and helped cover up allegations that would have exposed the fraud\".\n\nHe also helped to quash an internal complaint alleging price manipulation made in 2019, it adds.\n\nMr Bankman was allegedly treated to stays at hotels charging $1,200 a night, while the lawsuit cites messages in which he complains about receiving a $200,000 salary, claiming it is supposed to be $1m.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Bankman-Fried's mother, Barbara Fried, helped direct her son's political donations, encouraging him to obscure their source, according to the filing.\n\nManagers for FTX are seeking to recover money from the couple.\n\nThe downfall of Mr Bankman-Fried, one of the most high-profile players in the industry, sent shudders through the sector and helped to galvanise regulatory scrutiny.", "A civilian bunker set up in a paddy field in a Meitei dominated area\n\nThe four men kneeling in the makeshift bunker face out over a lush green paddy field, their guns resting on a wall of cement sacks. Bamboo poles prop up the corrugated tin roof.\n\nWearing homemade bullet-proof vests, they train their weapons - mostly old single and double-barrelled shotguns - on a rival bunker less than a mile away. A belt of cartridges hangs from one of the poles.\n\nThe men are all civilian members of a \"village defence force\" - among them a driver, a labourer, a farmer, and Tomba (whose name we have changed to protect his identity). Tomba ran a mobile phone repair shop before deadly ethnic conflict erupted in May in India's north-east Manipur state.\n\nWarning: This article contains details of violence that readers may find upsetting\n\nThe segregation of communities in this corner of the world's fastest-growing major economy feels like a heavily-militarised border separating countries at war.\n\n\"We have to protect ourselves because we don't think anyone else will. I feel scared but I have to hide it,\" Tomba said.\n\nHe and the other three in the bunker belong to the majority Meitei community, who largely follow Hinduism.\n\nPaddy fields south of the city of Imphal are deserted following the outbreak of violence\n\nA sense of fear is all pervasive in Manipur since shocking violence between their community and minority Kuki groups broke out, marked by brutal killings and sexual crimes against women. More than 200 people have been killed, roughly two-thirds of them Kukis, a collective name for the Kuki, Zomi, Chin, Hmar and Mizo tribes who are mostly Christians.\n\nOn 4 May, two Kuki-Zomi women were paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men. The younger woman was allegedly gangraped, her father and 19-year-old brother beaten to death.\n\nWe met her mother. The family can't be identified according to Indian laws on rape.\n\n\"To see how my daughter was treated, after my husband and son were killed, it made me want to die. My husband was a church elder. He was soft spoken and kind. His arms were slashed with knives. My son was in the 12th grade, a gentle boy who never fought with anyone. He was brutally beaten with rods,\" she sobbed as she spoke.\n\n\"He was killed because he ran after them [the mob] to try to save his sister. My daughter has not recovered. They were killed in front of her.\n\n\"She has trouble eating and sleeping. I can never be at peace after what was done to my family.\"\n\nDespite a police complaint being registered in May, no investigation into the incident took place until a video of it surfaced on social media in July. That's when the conflict in Manipur caught the attention of many in India and around the world.\n\nIt's also when Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence on Manipur.\n\nMore than 200 people have been killed in the conflict, roughly two-thirds of them Kukis\n\nAccounts of how the violence started differ. The Meitei community lives mostly in the state's more prosperous Imphal valley, which makes up roughly 10% of Manipur's area.\n\nThe rest of the state - relatively underdeveloped hill areas - are home to minority groups, among them the Kukis who have been given tribal status. It's a constitutional safeguard aimed at protecting the land, culture, language and identity of India's historically disadvantaged communities.\n\nIt's also why Meiteis are not allowed to buy land in the hills. Kukis can buy land anywhere in the state.\n\nOn 3 May, Kuki tribes held rallies protesting against a move to grant tribal status to the Meiteis.\n\nKukis accuse hardline Meitei groups of carrying out orchestrated attacks against minority families living in Imphal and surrounding areas. Meiteis say it was people who participated in the Kuki march who turned violent first.\n\nSecurity forces have used barricades to guard roads to some villages in Manipur\n\nThe BBC cannot independently verify what happened, but in the first few days of the violence, those killed were overwhelmingly from the Kuki minority.\n\nHundreds of homes belonging to people from both communities were set on fire or destroyed, churches and temples burnt. Some 60,000 people across both communities are estimated to be displaced, most still living in schools, sports complexes and other shelters, unable to return home.\n\nFour months on, the Meiteis and Kukis are completely physically segregated, forbidden to enter areas the other dominates.\n\nWhen travelling the 60km (37 miles) from Meitei-dominated Imphal to Kuki-dominated Churachandpur in the south, we had to cross seven police and army checkpoints.\n\nOn both sides, we also had to show our press badges and answer multiple questions at checkpoints run by dozens of civilian women. We couldn't have entered without their approval - an indicator of the lack of government control.\n\nWhen we met Tomba at the Meitei bunker, we were struck by how openly he and others were carrying weapons, seemingly unafraid of being caught by the police or security forces. In both Meitei and Kuki areas near the de facto borders we frequently saw civilians walking freely with weapons, sometimes even in the presence of police and security forces. The BBC also saw minors holding guns.\n\n\"I was trained to use a gun two months ago by former military personnel in my village,\" Tomba, who's in his thirties, told us. \"The villagers collected these guns and gave them to us.\"\n\nHe says they are on guard round the clock. \"It's mandatory that one man from each family does a shift at a duty post, and one woman is stationed at checkposts.\n\n\"In our experience the police don't get deployed in time. And we don't trust security forces run by the national government. They are deployed on the Kuki side, so how come the Kukis manage to still come across to our villages?\"\n\nAn explosion which sounded like that of a mortar shell went off as we left the bunker. It's hard to tell which side it was fired from.\n\nAbout two-thirds of those killed in the conflict so far are Kukis\n\nTomba's answer exposes another layer of this complex conflict. The Manipur police report to the state government, run by Chief Minister N Biren Singh. People from the Kuki community have told us they don't trust Mr Singh or the Manipur police.\n\nAlso stationed in Manipur are troops from Assam Rifles, a counter-insurgency force that reports to the Indian national government. People from the Meitei community have told us they believe Assam Rifles are siding with the Kukis.\n\nThousands of weapons were looted from police armouries in Meitei-dominated areas.\n\nThe Manipur Police and Assam Rifles didn't reply to BBC questions about whether they have sided with either community and why all armed civilians were not being apprehended and checked for licences.\n\nThe police directed us to their account on X, formerly known as Twitter, where they have been posting photos of weapons they have recovered and seized. At least six police officers are reported to have been killed in Manipur since the violence began.\n\nAssam Rifles sent us a pre-recorded video address by their director general who said they are seizing weapons and performing their duty in an unbiased manner.\n\nLess than a mile from Tomba's position, in a similar but opposing bunker, sits Khakham (not his real name), holding a double-barrelled shotgun. From the Kuki-Zomi tribes, he is a labourer and subsistence farmer.\n\n\"We are not here with evil intentions. We do not want violence. We are compelled to take up arms to defend ourselves against the Meiteis,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been instances where the police have allowed them to slip through. They can't be fully trusted,\" he claimed.\n\nKhakham's account of how he got his gun and training was similar to Tomba's.\n\nThe language of war is in use on both sides. The area between the two bunkers is referred to as the \"front line\", \"buffer zone\" or \"no man's land\".\n\n\"We can never live together with the Meiteis again. It's impossible,\" Khakham said.\n\nIt is easy to understand how the enmity has become so bitter and deep so quickly, when you hear the details of the violence.\n\nAbraham and his father Khuma have not yet buried David because they want his case investigated\n\nDavid Tuolor, a 33-year-old Kuki-Hmar man, was part of the Langza \"village defence force\". David's family says he was captured from his village and killed by Meitei mobs on 2 July.\n\nIn a video that surfaced online soon after his death, his battered, severed head, is seen stuck on a fence.\n\n\"It was so painful seeing that. I have trouble sleeping,\" Abraham, David's younger brother, told us. \"I don't even keep his photos on my phone, because when I see them, it keeps coming back. It hurts and I start to think of disturbing things.\"\n\nAbraham says David was tortured and hacked to death, and his remains burnt. They have found only a few bones that they believe belong to him.\n\nFive days after David's death on 7 July, 29-year-old Ngaleiba Sagolsem, a Meitei man, went missing from near a Kuki-dominated area in northern Manipur.\n\nOne day later a video surfaced of him, kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind his back, his face bloodied, crying as he's beaten by a group of men. Two months later another video emerged showing him in the same position, then being shot in the head and pushed into a ditch.\n\nSilbiya worries about providing for her sons, four-year-old Ningthouba and seven-month-old Ningthouremba\n\nNgaleiba's family believes he was killed by Kuki men.\n\nHe had met and fallen in love with his wife Silbiya 10 years ago while they were still at school.\n\n\"He was a simple man, loved by everyone. He had a childlike quality and loved playing with our children. Our life was filled with joy and contentment,\" said Silbiya, tears rolling down her cheeks.\n\nTheir two boys are four years and seven months old.\n\n\"My elder son keeps asking where his father is. Since we haven't received his body, I sometimes think he'll return. I open the door and look for him. I call his phone,\" she wept.\n\nLinthoingambi's father says she has so many talents - she sewed, she painted and she loved reading\n\nIn Imphal city, another family is living in despair, desperate for news of their daughter. On 6 July, 17-year-old Meitei girl Linthoingambi Hijam went missing with her male friend Hemanjit Singh near a Kuki-dominated area.\n\nTheir phones were switched off. With the help of people from his community, her father Kulajit Hijam claims they found the boy's phone was turned on a few days later with a Sim card registered in the name of a Kuki woman.\n\n\"No one is helping us find out what happened to my daughter. I feel powerless,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that if she's able to talk to the people who have her, she'll convince them to let her go. I feel like she is going to surprise me by returning.\"\n\nLingthoingambi made this piece of embroidery as a Father's Day present for Kulajit last year\n\nWith no dialogue being facilitated between the two sides so far, and police unable to visit Kuki areas, for people like Kulajit, there is no place to turn to for answers.\n\nLand rights only partly explain the tensions. Meiteis have more political influence in the state, with most of its chief ministers belonging to the community.\n\nAnother point of tension is an influx of people from tribes ethnically similar to Kukis from war-torn Myanmar, which shares a long border with Manipur. Illegal opium poppy cultivation in the hills has also been a source of friction.\n\nPeople from the Meitei and Kuki communities have told us they are unhappy with the Manipur state government - the Kukis accuse it of supporting violence against them, while the Meiteis allege it did nothing to stop the violence from spreading.\n\nManipur Chief Minister Biren Singh's office didn't respond to the BBC's request for an interview or our questions sent via email.\n\n\"I felt disheartened that Prime Minister Modi only spoke after the video of Kuki women. It made me unhappy. Isn't Manipur a part of India? Then why are we being neglected?\" Tomba asks, sitting in the Meitei bunker.\n\nThe Manipur government is also run by Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). And so, many in the state believe that if the national government wants, it can resolve the crisis quickly.\n\n\"We haven't heard anything from them [India's government] for months. We feel they do not care about the lives or suffering of so many innocent Indian citizens. We are clearly not a priority,\" Khakham said, adding that Kukis are demanding a separate administration in the state.\n\nPrime Minister Modi has said: \"Peace is slowly returning to Manipur.\"\n\nBut there have been at least five instances of violence in the past three weeks alone, the latest this Sunday when an Indian army soldier on leave was abducted from his home in Imphal and killed.\n\nWith thousands of armed, angry and scared civilians, the situation remains extremely volatile.\n\nUpdate 27 September: Manipur's authorities have announced they are investigating the murders of Linthoingambi Hijam and Hemanjit Singh after photos of their dead bodies were shared on social media.", "\"Halving inflation this year\" is one of the prime minister's top five priorities.\n\nIt's currently stuck at 8.7%.\n\nWhen Rishi Sunak is asked how he'll meet his goal, he points to raising interest rates.\n\nSomething the Bank of England, not the government, controls.\n\nThe truth is there are some short-term levers government could pull.\n\nThe problem is they - as well as interest rates - all involve unpalatable political choices.\n\nThe Bank of England and government's argument for hiking interest rates - which some economists dispute - is that it makes borrowing more expensive.\n\nThat means people and businesses have less disposable income, less ability and incentive to spend, which pushes down the demand for goods and services.\n\nIf there's less demand for something, or more of it, the price usually goes down.\n\nThe downside of raising interest rates is it inflicts financial pain on anyone with loans, mortgages or credit card debt.\n\nIt means government debt, which is paid off by our taxes, also becomes a lot more expensive.\n\nRaising interest rates also doesn't impact everybody equally - and so the impact on inflation is staggered.\n\nONS data shows more households own their home outright (37%) than with a mortgage or loan (26%).\n\nSo that 37% won't have less cash to spend.\n\nAny of the 26% who are on a fixed rate mortgage that isn't up for renewal won't be hit just yet either.\n\nThe rest of the population privately rent, or are in social rent, so could well end up spending less due to rising rents.\n\nAnother question around rising interest rates is what it means for Rishi Sunak's second priority: growing the economy?\n\nThe strategy to get inflation down relies on stopping people from spending as much.\n\nWhat does that mean for businesses? If people spend less in businesses, what does that mean for jobs? If people end up out of work, what does that mean for the government's welfare bill? And, therefore, for that third priority of the prime minister's: reducing national debt.\n\nThe increased cost of borrowing from high interest rates can also disincentivise investment in business, which can also lead to lower economic growth.\n\nThe tricky balancing act between inflation and recession is getting worse.\n\nSo what is in the government's power?\n\nOne quick lever the government can pull is taxes.\n\nRaising taxes is another way to stop groups of people from spending more.\n\nBut that's an unpalatable political choice too.\n\nMr Sunak has previously made it clear, and pledged in the past, that he wants to cut - not raise - taxes before the next election.\n\nSome Tory MPs have been repeatedly calling for tax cuts.\n\nWhile we do hear ministers talk about making \"efficiencies\", departments talking about making cuts is - again - an unpalatable narrative ahead of an election.\n\nMr Sunak has said, for now, that he wants to make sure government is \"responsible\" with borrowing.\n\nAnother quick lever would be price controls - the government setting limits on price increases.\n\nMr Sunak says ministers are \"looking at\" supermarkets to make sure they are behaving responsibly, for example.\n\nBut Number 10 have been clear they are not introducing price caps and any such schemes would be at retailers' discretion.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has suggested workers shouldn't ask for excessive pay rises.\n\nThe government has also been very reluctant to hike public sector wages, especially if funded by more borrowing.\n\nBoth argue giving people more money in their pockets could fuel inflation: if people's wages keep up with rising prices, they can buy the same things, so demand (and prices) remain similar.\n\nIn blunter terms - their strategy of reducing inflation by reducing demand means people need to be able to afford less.\n\nThis argument has led to strikes in multiple sectors, with unions arguing this is unfair for workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sunak makes five pledges on the NHS, economy and migrants\n\nThis is also a tricky balancing act here for the economy.\n\nIf people can afford less: what does that mean for growing the economy? And jobs?\n\nPotentially putting people out of work has a government price tag too.\n\nSo what about pushing supply up, rather than demand down, to lower prices?\n\nSupply-side reforms are, in simple terms, decisions that could make industries more productive to increase the supply of goods and services - and grow the economy too.\n\nFree-market examples include things like cutting business taxes, regulation, red tape, or even certain worker protections or welfare benefits. Or increasing migration for certain sectors.\n\nState-intervention examples could be building more houses, investing in infrastructure, or investing in homegrown energy supplies like nuclear power or renewables.\n\nClearly, any of these involve political choices too.\n\nBut they also take time to come into effect.\n\nThe government - and Labour - have ruled out direct support to help people with mortgages, saying this would fuel inflation - and instead point to existing benefits for the most vulnerable.\n\nMinisters are continuing to point to interest rates as the solution, though most are reluctant to admit that involves a lot of pain for it to work.\n\nIt's important to remember when the government says it can't do something that what they're usually referring to is a choice.\n\nEach choice comes with its own shade of political thorniness, and potentially means trading the prime minister's priorities off against each other.", "Carbon capture sites will take CO2 produce by industries such as steel\n\nThe government has unveiled a new net zero plan which has been met with intense criticism from experts and environmental groups.\n\nThe document was drawn up after the High Court ruled the government's existing plans were not sufficient to meet its climate targets.\n\nA central plank of the strategy is to store CO2 under the North Sea.\n\nBut scientists say even this plan will not move the UK closer towards meeting its legally-binding carbon commitments.\n\nMinisters say it also aims to lower people's energy bills, although this will not be achieved in the short term.\n\nThe government was forced to publish this \"Powering up Britain\" strategy after the High Court judged last July that its current plan was not detailed enough to show how the UK would meet its goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\nAcademics and green groups are unconvinced it will make enough difference.\n\nDr Chris Jones, an expert in climate change at the University of Manchester, said: \"This latest government energy strategy is a weak response to the UK's zero carbon energy needs.\n\n\"The regressive measures on fossil fuels won't make any real impact on our bills and energy security, but they are enough to downgrade the UK's role as a leader in tackling climate change.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth - who were part of the team who brought the legal case against the last plan - said they may have to go back to the High Court.\n\n\"With these policies looking dangerously lacklustre and lacking on climate action, we are poised to act if ministers have fallen short once again,\" said Mike Childs, head of policy at campaign group Friends of the Earth.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said people should be \"really proud of the UK's track record\" on decarbonisation amid criticism of his government's net zero plan.\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters on a visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Oxfordshire, Mr Sunak said the UK had \"decarbonised faster than any other major economy, our carbon emissions have been reduced by over 40%\".\n\nOne of the key parts of the new strategy is announcing the UK's first carbon capture sites in Teesside. These sites take carbon dioxide (CO2) produced during the burning of fossil fuels like gas, and store them in deep caverns under the North Sea.\n\nIt is hoped this could remove up to 50% of the emissions from the country's industry.\n\nAlthough carbon capture has been recommended by the UK's independent climate advisers the UKCCC as a way to remove CO2 already in the atmosphere, academics are concerned it could allow the UK to keep using oil and gas rather than focusing on renewable energy.\n\n\"What does not make sense is to carry on with further development of new fossil fuel reserves on the assumption CCS will be available to mop up all the additional emissions,\" said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at LSE.\n\nSome campaigners are also frustrated that it appears there is no significant increase in funding for home insulation. It is one of the most effective ways to bring down energy consumption for heating and therefore emissions - heating in homes currently accounts for 14% of UK emissions.\n\nLast year the UKCCC - the government's independent advisers on climate change - said there was a \"shocking gap\" in policy for better insulated homes, and were expecting the government to respond to those concerns in this report.\n\nDr Paul Balcombe, senior lecturer in chemical engineering and renewable energy at Queen Mary University of London, said: \"The most sustainable way to be low carbon and increase security is to reduce our energy demand: the stated intention of insulating 300,000 out of [more than] 20 million homes is clearly insufficient when we have such a poorly insulated housing stock.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband said: \"The government's 'green day' turns out to be a weak and feeble groundhog day of re-announcements, reheated policy, and no new investment.\"\n\nAnd Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: \"The greenest thing about this is the recycling of already announced ideas.\"\n\nThere are dozens of measures in the plan, which runs to 1,000 pages, covering energy efficiency in domestic properties to large infrastructure projects.\n\nMinisters have promised to extend a scheme offering households £5,000 to replace their gas boilers with heat pumps by three years.\n\nA Lords inquiry recently described the heat pump scheme as \"seriously failing\", after initial figures showed low take-up of the grant by households. But it is hoped that a new marketing campaign will help dispel some of the worries around their installation.\n\nKeeping energy bills low for consumers is also a key ambition of this strategy.\n\nEnergy Security Secretary Grant Shapps said the proposals, published on Thursday, would change the way people are billed which would cut electricity prices in the long term.\n\nThe government has said it recognises one of the main ways to bring down bills is by increasing renewable energy but also by \"decoupling\" electricity from gas prices.\n\nAt the moment the UK still needs natural gas to meet its demand, so its generators, which charge the highest prices, set the electricity cost.\n\nHow the government achieves this is not yet clear - it said it would make no announcements at this time but were looking at different measures. It has proposed to move the existing \"green levies\" on electricity prices over to gas prices so as not to penalise households for using electricity, which is greener.\n\nWithout proper insulation homes lose heat, increasing bills and emissions, as protesters argue\n\nThere were further announcements made to MPs on Thursday including plans to expand investment opportunities in home heating and offshore wind energy, but there was no change to the restriction on planning for onshore wind.\n\nLiberal Democrat environment spokesperson Wera Hobhouse told the BBC: \"We are lagging behind in actually investing properly in renewables and decarbonising our whole energy system. Again, there's no law change of the de facto ban on onshore wind, which is the cheapest form of energy.\"\n\nEnergy companies welcomed the new investment but said it was a missed opportunity to address some of the issues with connecting new renewables to the power grid.\n\nLucy Yu, CEO of the Centre for Net Zero, a think tank owned by Octopus Energy, told the BBC: \"Speeding up the planning process for new renewable energy developments is welcome, but it has to be accompanied by reforms that make it easier, faster and cheaper to get a grid connection.\"", "Azerbaijan's defence ministry said it had destroyed a number of ethnic-Armenian targets in Karabakh\n\nAzerbaijan has said its military measures in Nagorno-Karabakh are continuing for a second day, having launched what it calls \"anti-terror\" operations in the enclave.\n\nIt says it will not stop until Karabakh's ethnic Armenians surrender.\n\nTensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway region, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.\n\nAzerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday morning, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said military equipment belonging to the Armenian armed forces had been \"neutralised\", including military vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft missile installations.\n\nNagorno-Karabakh authorities say 27 people have been killed, including two civilians, and many more wounded since the offensive began.\n\nBaku has said it is prepared for talks, but insists \"illegal Armenian military formations must raise the white flag\" and dissolve their \"illegal regime\".\n\nCasualty numbers increased among civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh as the Azerbaijani offensive went into a second day\n\nAzerbaijan and Armenia first went to war in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Then in 2020 Azerbaijan recaptured areas in and around Nagorno-Karabakh before a truce was agreed and monitored by Russian peacekeepers.\n\nEthnic Armenians in Karabakh appealed on Tuesday for a ceasefire and for talks to start. But it was clear from the Azerbaijani ultimatum that Baku's aim was to complete its conquest of the mountainous enclave.\n\nHundreds of Armenian protesters, frustrated by their country's response, clashed with police outside parliament in Yerevan, condemning their leader as a traitor and calling on him to resign.\n\nBoth Russia's foreign ministry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, to cease military action immediately.\n\nAzerbaijan said talks could start in the town of Yevlakh, some 100km (60km) north of the Karabakh regional capital of Khankendi, called Stepanakert by ethnic Armenians.\n\nBuildings and vehicles were damaged by shelling in the Karabakh regional capital\n\nSince the end of 2020, 2,000 Russians have monitored the fragile truce but Moscow's attention has been diverted by its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nAn estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the mountainous enclave. Russia said its soldiers had moved almost 500 civilians from the most at-risk areas, while separatists said they had helped move a total of 7,000.\n\nFor the past nine months, Azerbaijan has imposed an effective blockade on the only route into the enclave from Armenia, known as the Lachin Corridor.\n\nAzerbaijan said it had launched its operation in response to the deaths of six people, including four police officers, in two landmine explosions on Tuesday morning.\n\nAir raid sirens then rang out and the sound of artillery and gunfire could be heard in Karabakh's main city. Residential buildings were damaged and journalist Siranush Sargsyan described seeing a building next door being hit.\n\nDefence officials in the breakaway region said the Azerbaijani military had \"violated the ceasefire along the entire line of contact with missile-artillery strikes\". Other Karabakh representatives spoke of a \"large-scale military offensive\" although later reports said that the intensity of fire had decreased.\n\nThe Azerbaijan defence ministry insisted it was not targeting civilians or civilian buildings, and that \"only legitimate military targets are being incapacitated by the use of high-precision weapons\".\n\nIt accused Armenian forces of \"systematic shelling\" of its army positions and said it had responded by launching \"local, anti-terrorist activities... to disarm and secure the withdrawal of formations of Armenia's armed forces from our territories\".\n\nAzerbaijani officials posted images of what they said was the aftermath of a deadly landmine blast\n\nIn a brief televised address, Armenia's prime minister rejected claims that his military was involved.\n\nRussia's foreign ministry said it had been warned of the Azerbaijani offensive only minutes in advance and urged both countries to respect a ceasefire signed after the war in 2020. The EU's regional special representative, Toivo Klaar, said there was \"urgent need for immediate ceasefire\".\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to fighting on Wednesday morning and for \"stricter observance of the 2020 ceasefire and principles of international humanitarian law\".\n\nSouth Caucasus commentator Laurence Broers said on Tuesday the Armenian population in Karabakh had been weakened by the blockade and the Azerbaijan operation had been launched \"seemingly to retake Armenian-populated Karabakh in its entirety\".\n\nArmenia is a member of the Russian-led CSTO military alliance but relations with Moscow have soured.\n\nNikol Pashinyan said recently that Russia was \"spontaneously leaving the region\" and 175 Armenian soldiers have been taking part in military drills with US forces this week. Azerbaijan meanwhile has strong support from its ally Turkey.\n\nHikmet Hajiyev, special adviser to Azerbaijan's president, called on the separatist ethnic-Armenian administration to \"dissolve itself\".\n\n\"Azerbaijan has always said we are ready to provide rights and security of Karabakh Armenians under the constitution,\" he told BBC News.\n\nAzerbaijan had denied building up troop numbers in the region and there had been hopes that tensions might subside.\n\nOn Monday, it allowed aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross into Karabakh on two roads, one via the Lachin Corridor from Armenia and the other on Azerbaijan's Aghdam road.", "The NHS is having to pay millions of pounds to plug holes in front-line staffing left by striking doctors.\n\nIn one case, a consultant in Plymouth was paid more than £3,000 to cover a 12.5-hour junior-doctor night shift.\n\nPaying for cover is costing hospitals three times more than they save in the wages deducted from striking junior doctors, hospitals are reporting.\n\nThe finding comes as junior doctors in England walk out again, joining consultants already on strike.\n\nIt is the first time junior and senior doctors have been on strike at the same time - action that looks set to cause significant disruption.\n\nDuring the first three junior doctor's strikes, University Hospitals Plymouth paid nearly £1.8m for cover - £1.59m to consultants - while less than £430,000 was saved in wage deductions.\n\nAnd it is a similar story in other trusts that responded to a BBC News Freedom of Information request.\n\nDuring the first four walkouts, Hull University Hospitals NHS Trust, where three-quarters of junior doctors have been joining picket lines, paid nearly £1.7m to consultants and other senior doctors providing cover - three times the amount saved.\n\nIt had to pay the premium rates the British Medical Association (BMA) was urging members to charge, a trust spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are required to provide essential services, such as cancer care and emergency care, for the population of the Humber and North Yorkshire region, whatever the obstacles,\" she said.\n\n\"To achieve this during the doctors' strikes is especially challenging given the conditions of strike action set out by the BMA.\"\n\nThe premium rates are set out in the BMA's rate card, which the union recommends doctors use when asked to do non-contractual work. And this includes covering for junior doctors even in their own department.\n\nFor consultants, the rates range from £161 an hour for day shifts, about three times what they would normally be paid under the terms of their contract, to up to £269 for night shifts.\n\nBut it is up to trusts to decide whether to pay theses rates - and data provided by the NHS shows not all are.\n\nMatthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, which represents hospitals, said his members had tried to resist but many had had to give in to keep vital services running.\n\n\"For a long time, many trusts have been reluctant or refused to pay this much higher rate - but as the strikes have rumbled on, we're hearing of more instances where trusts have had to in order to maintain safe cover,\" he said.\n\nAnd hospitals were likely to become even more desperate now junior doctors and consultants were striking at the same time.\n\n\"We believe that trusts will be left with little option but to pay over the odds to keep patients safe,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\nPlanning, preparing and dealing with the aftermath of strikes was now taking up a third of senior managers' time, Mr Taylor added.\n\nCancelling treatments also incurs costs, as hospitals' income is linked to the number of patients seen.\n\nThe four-day junior doctors' strike in April had led to more than 200,000 cancelled appointments and cost the NHS more than £300m, NHS England estimated.\n\nAnd NHS Providers, which represents health managers, says the likely total cost of the junior doctors' walkouts, which totalled 19 days before this week, will be above £1bn.\n\nDeputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said: \"Trusts really are bearing the financial brunt of month after month of industrial action.\"\n\nAnd the premium rates being demanded reflected \"just how strained industrial relations\" had become.\n\n\"We need government and unions to sit down and talk to stop strikes becoming business as usual,\" Ms Cordery added.\n\nThe BMA say the rates reflect the \"market value\".\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The rate card has been developed to address the fact that for too long trusts have been continually leaning on consultants to work many extra hours in excess of their normal contracts, not just during strike days but in the face of rota gaps and chronic workforce shortages.\n\n\"Crucially, the principle is to ensure that NHS trusts adopt a fairer and more consistent approach with rates based on those already being offered in parts of the country to reflect the market value of doctors' work.\"\n\nThe union also pointed out the estimated £1bn cost would have been enough to fund for this year the 35% pay rise junior doctors are after.\n\nAre you a consultant or a doctor on strike? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russia said it had evacuated 2,000 ethnic Armenians from villages near the fighting\n\nAzerbaijan's president has declared that his country's sovereignty has been restored over Nagorno-Karabakh after a 24-hour military offensive against ethnic-Armenian forces.\n\nIlham Aliyev praised the heroism of Azerbaijan's army hours after Karabakh forces agreed to surrender.\n\nSome 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the South Caucasus enclave, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.\n\nAzerbaijan now intends to bring the breakaway region under full control.\n\nIts military launched an \"anti-terror\" operation on Tuesday, demanding that Karabakh's forces raise a white flag and dissolve their \"illegal regime\". With no means of support from neighbouring Armenia, and after an effective nine-month blockade, the ethnic Armenians soon gave in.\n\nArmenian officials reported that at least 32 people were killed, including seven civilians, and another 200 wounded. However according to a separatist Armenian human rights official, at least 200 people were killed and more than 400 wounded. The BBC has not been able to verify any of the figures.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, Armenian officials accused Azerbaijan of opening fire on troops near the town of Sotk on the border between the two countries after the ceasefire had been agreed, but Azerbaijan immediately denied the claims.\n\nEarlier in the day, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for his handling of the crisis.\n\nAzerbaijan's army said it had captured more than 90 positions from the ethnic Armenians before both sides announced that a complete cessation of hostilities had been agreed through Russian peacekeepers, starting at 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the terms of the truce, outlined by Azerbaijan and Russia, which has peacekeepers on the ground, local Karabakh forces must commit to being completely disbanded as well as disarmed.\n\nThere is also a commitment to Armenian forces pulling out, even though its government denies having any military presence there.\n\nTalks between officials from Baku and Karabakh's Armenian representatives on \"issues of re-integration\" got under way in the town of Yevlakh on Thursday morning.\n\nPresident Aliyev said Azerbaijanis had nothing against the population, only their \"criminal junta\".\n\nYevlakh is some 100km (60 miles) north of Karabakh's regional capital, Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians.\n\nWomen and children are among the 32 dead and 200 wounded in Karabakh, local authorities say\n\nMarut Vanyan, a journalist in Karabakh, said many families had spent Tuesday night in basements: \"I didn't sleep and I didn't eat. It's calm now but it's a strange feeling. Right now, what we need to do is stop this bloodshed and understand what to do next.\"\n\nRussia said its peacekeepers had evacuated 5,000 people from dangerous areas since the offensive had begun, the country's Interfax news agency reported.\n\nAs the ceasefire was announced, Karabakh officials appealed to residents to remain in shelters and not to leave for the local airport, adjacent to a Russian peacekeeping base. However, a crowd of civilians had soon gathered close to the airport and as darkness fell hours later it was unclear what support they would have.\n\nCaucasus specialist Thomas de Waal of Carnegie Europe said the terms of the ceasefire and the coming talks were very much on Azerbaijan's terms and left ethnic Armenians looking unprotected.\n\n\"This looks like the end of a 35-year-old project, some would say a century-old project, of the Armenians of Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We're probably, unfortunately, seeing a project whereby the Azerbaijanis offer so little to the Karabakh Armenians that most if not all of them will leave.\"\n\nArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made clear his government was not involved in the ceasefire text and demanded that Russian peacekeepers take full responsibility for the safety of the local population. On Tuesday he accused Azerbaijan of \"ethnic cleansing\" in Karabakh.\n\nAzerbaijan's presidential envoy Elchin Amirbekov told the BBC that Russian peacekeepers had helped facilitate the ceasefire: \"I think they have to be counted on for the implementation part.\"\n\nSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia and its neighbour have fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous, landlocked region in the south-west of Azerbaijan.\n\nThe six-week war in 2020 led to several thousand deaths but enabled Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, to recapture territory surrounding and inside the enclave, leaving the ethnic Armenians isolated.\n\nFor the past nine months, Azerbaijan has conducted an effective blockade of the only road into Karabakh from Armenia, known as the Lachin Corridor. Ethnic Armenians in the enclave complained of shortages of food, medicines and toiletries and Armenia was unable to help.\n\nAlthough some aid was allowed through in recent days, the Karabakh Armenians were very much weakened by the shortages by the time of the Azerbaijani offensive, with little hope of external support.\n\nSome 2,000 Russian peacekeepers were supposed to monitor the 2020 ceasefire but Moscow's interest in Armenia has waned during its war in Ukraine, even though Armenia is part of Russia's CSTO military alliance.\n\nLast May, the Armenian prime minister was quoted as saying his country would be ready to recognise Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan in return for the security of the ethnic Armenian population.\n\n\"The 86,600 sq km of Azerbaijan's territory includes Nagorno-Karabakh,\" Mr Pashinyan was quoted as saying, referring to Azerbaijan as a whole.\n\nRussia has also been annoyed by Mr Pashinyan's apparent pivot to the West.\n\nEarlier this month his wife Anna Hakobyan shook hands with Ukraine's president at a conference in Kyiv, and this week, dozens of Armenian and US soldiers took part in military exercises together.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied Armenian allegations that it did not do enough to help its ally.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said only last week that Russia had no problems with Armenia's prime minister, but added: \"If Armenia itself recognised that Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, what should we do?\"\n\nHundreds of protesters in Yerevan called for the prime minister to resign on Tuesday because of his handling of the crisis and he warned of unidentified forces calling for a coup.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere was an abundance of ceremony and security as the King and Queen's state visit to France got under way in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe Arc de Triomphe, with a flypast trailing the colours of the French flag, was the first backdrop for this diplomatic theatre, with President Emmanuel Macron pulling out all the stops for his royal visitors.\n\nAnd there was Mick Jagger shouting \"bon soir\" as he rolled into the Palace of Versailles for a state banquet, representing rock royalty.\n\nQueen Camilla took her place on the Versailles red carpet in a blue Dior cape, while the King and President Macron did that pretending to talk thing, while they lined up for the cameras.\n\nFormer Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger seemed surprised to be one of the final guests, looking rather lost on the red carpet like a goalkeeper stranded in the wrong penalty box.\n\nBut there's a serious purpose below this minutely-choreographed pageantry and celebrity. A state visit is a strange mix of PR and politics.\n\nThis was about visibly reinforcing a key alliance between Britain and France and over the next few days there will be a checklist of areas of common interest - trade, the environment, culture and defence.\n\nThe British royals were guests of honour at a dinner hosted by President Macron in the Palace of Versailles' Hall of Mirrors\n\nThis was all toasted at a banquet - blue lobster to start - where even the cheeses had to be balanced with one British, Stilchelton, and one French, Comte.\n\nThe King's speech for the banquet toast was delivered in French and English, which is always a diplomatic crowd pleaser. And he remembered hearing how his mother had danced in Paris in 1948 as a young newly-wed in her twenties.\n\nThe then Princess Elizabeth had been serenaded by Edith Piaf. She would have been pregnant with Charles by then and he said: \"I suspect it may have left an indelible impression on me, even six months before I was born. La Vie en Rose is one of my favourite songs to this day.\"\n\nThe background to all of this politesse, as the French newspapers made clear, was about nurturing a relationship that might have been strained by Brexit.\n\nBut a survey of what the French and British public feel about each other, published to coincide with the state visit, suggested that we actually quite like each other.\n\nThere were 72% of people in Britain and 76% in France who thought that although the countries might sometimes \"squabble\", in the end the countries were \"natural friends and close allies\", in this survey of over 2,000 people by Portland Communications.\n\nRock royalty Mick Jagger was in attendance at the black tie dinner\n\nThere were big differences though in attitudes towards the monarchy. Only about a quarter of French people would prefer a constitutional monarchy like Britain and about a quarter of people in Britain would support a republic like France.\n\nThe French public thought that policing was better in the UK than their own, but only 10% preferred British cooking.\n\nIn another insight, the survey found by a big margin that people in Britain believed that King Charles would have voted to remain in the EU in the Brexit referendum.\n\nBut if the question from the current state visit had been how did the French public respond to the King and Queen - it would be impossible to say.\n\nBecause such state visits are also dominated by a huge road-blocking security operation. In Paris it wasn't liberte, egalite, fraternite but securite, securite, securite.\n\nThere was little chance so far for the French crowds to see the King and Queen. At the Arc de Triomphe there were soldiers, police and a big media contingent, but the ordinary Parisians were kept far away behind security barriers.\n\nIt is the King's second state visit as monarch\n\nIt was the same in Versailles, with a secure distance between the diners at the banquet and the ordinary people that the Sun King Louis XIV would have appreciated.\n\nThis was the first of a three-day visit, with the King set to give a speech to the Senate and travel to eco-projects in Bordeaux.\n\nSo expect more photo opportunities as the heads of state of the two countries show each other a taste of the entente cordiale.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Climate activists demonstrated outside Paliament over the use of fossil fuels on 16 September\n\nGovernments hate it when they lose control of what they plan to say and when.\n\nAnd that is precisely what happened last night when we revealed that Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government's key green commitments.\n\nDowning Street's choreography, their grid of planned announcements, shredded by a leak.\n\nUsually after a leak, folk in government will say they don't comment on leaks. Not this time.\n\nIt wasn't just a comment, but a statement from the prime minister, effectively acknowledging what we had reported.\n\nHe was, he said, committed to delivering net zero - i.e. no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - but it must be done in a \"better, more proportionate way\" that was \"honest about costs and trade offs\".\n\nIn other words, the current approach isn't proportionate in his view, and others have not been honest about the realities of attempting to deliver such promises.\n\nLet us be clear about what we found out, and what we did not.\n\nWhat we found out is what the prime minister is considering. We now wait to find out later this week, possibly on Friday, what he will actually announce.\n\nAs infuriating as the leak is to them, the row it has provoked is one they will have anticipated - within the Conservative Party, around Parliament, and beyond.\n\nThe Conservative MP Chris Skidmore, who led a government review into net zero, said it was potentially the greatest mistake of Rishi Sunak's premiership so far.\n\nFellow MP Karl McCartney told BBC Newsnight \"the wets in the Conservative Party are wetting themselves\", adding plenty of Tory MPs are very pleased.\n\nA \"dose of realism\" was needed, he said.\n\nLabour said our revelations illustrated \"farce\" within government - but the party, pointedly, has not committed to restoring any targets Mr Sunak may choose to dilute or ditch.\n\nThey too wrestle with being seen to get the balance right, as do trades unions.\n\nGary Smith of the GMB told Sky News the other day: \"The climate emergency is real. It poses an existential threat to the planet.\n\n\"We don't want to have dirty air in our cities but we have to listen to the legitimate concerns of ordinary people, many of whom are struggling to get by.\"\n\nThe dilemma captured in three sentences.\n\nAnd in industry, I'm told some investors are spooked; baffled at what the government may or may not choose to do.\n\nWithin Downing Street, there has been a growing frustration that the real Rishi Sunak - as those around him see him politically - has been shielded from view, by circumstance.\n\nThe instinctive low-tax Conservative, sceptical of big state intervention and spending, who was also the front man of the furlough scheme in the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister who believes he has a distinctive, and (he hopes) appealing prospectus, reduced so far to merely steadying the ship of state after years of turbulence.\n\nBut the machine around Mr Sunak has been changing, becoming more political, more muscular. And this is evidence of that.\n\nThis isn't tinkering, but at least consideration of a wholesale dilution, if not outright junking, of key elements of previous Conservative prime ministers' medium-term approaches to this issue.\n\nAnd a turbocharging of the politics of climate policy.\n\nSome close observers of the government approach on energy, industry and green commitments wonder if the original plan was a speech full of incentives rather than rules. Help rather than targets.\n\nWe shall see. That, for now, has been knocked off course by a leak No10 never sought to deny the accuracy of.\n\nWe have tried to give you an insight into what was being considered privately, at the top of government.\n\nMake no mistake, this will grab attention, provoke argument, seize the agenda - just what a prime minister in a hole in the polls feels the need to do.\n\nWould your family like to be greener but find it unaffordable? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Prices will rise faster in the UK than any other advanced economy this year, a forecast suggests.\n\nThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said UK inflation would average 7.2% in 2023.\n\nThe think tank said this would be the highest rate in the G7 group, which includes the US, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Italy.\n\nThe government said it was confident it was \"on the right track to halve inflation\" by the end of 2023.\n\nIt added that the OECD's forecast \"illustrates yet again why we need to stick to the plan that we have set out\".\n\nThe OECD, a globally recognised think tank, raised its forecast for UK inflation by 0.3 percentage points from its previous estimate for 2023.\n\nAt 7.2% it will be higher than in Germany and Italy, which are forecast to have rates of 6.1%, France (5.8%), the US (3.8%), Canada (3.6%) and Japan (3.1%).\n\nThe think tank predicts UK inflation will fall to 2.9% in 2024.\n\nThe UK's latest inflation data for August will be released on Wednesday and is predicted to rise from 6.8% to 7%, after falling steadily in recent months.\n\nClare Lombardelli, chief economist at the OECD, said the UK had \"seen slightly higher inflation than previously expected\" and that the Bank of England was \"taking the right action in raising rates\" to tackle it.\n\nThe Bank of England has put up rates 14 times since December 2021 and is expected to increase them again on Thursday, from 5.25% to 5.5%.\n\nThe economic theory behind this is that it makes it more expensive for people to borrow money, meaning they will have less excess cash to spend, households will buy fewer things and price rises will ease.\n\nBut it's a balancing act as raising rates too aggressively could cause a recession.\n\nThe OECD's economists also reduced their economic growth forecast for the UK for next year, due to pressure on households and businesses from higher interest rates.\n\nThe think tank added that economic activity had \"already weakened\" in the UK due to the \"lagged effect on incomes from the large energy price shock in 2022\".\n\nIt predicts growth of 0.3% in 2023, the second-weakest among the G7, and growth of 0.8% next year.\n\nDarren Jones, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury said the OECD's economic forecasts \"show that the Tories are delivering more of the same\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added that the government was \"making significant progress\" to slow prices but was \"not complacent\".\n\nHe added that the OECD's predictions on economic growth did not take into account recent revisions elsewhere suggesting Britain's economy had recovered quicker than others from the Covid pandemic.\n\nForecasts aim to give a guide to what is most likely to happen in the future, but can be incorrect and do change. They are used by businesses to help plan investments, and by governments to guide policy decisions.", "Suella Braverman said Meta must develop safeguards alongside their end-to-end encryption plans\n\nFacebook's owner Meta has hit back at a government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.\n\nProtecting messages with end-to-end-encryption would mean that they could only be read by sender and recipient.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said encryption could not come at the cost of children's safety, amid fears it can be used to conceal child abuse.\n\nMeta argues that encryption protects users from invasion of privacy.\n\n\"We don't think people want us reading their private messages\", the firm said.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of Brits already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals\", it added.\n\nMs Braverman set out her concerns to Meta in a letter co-signed by technology experts, law enforcement, survivors and leading child safety charities in July.\n\nBut on Wednesday she said: \"Meta has failed to provide assurances that they will keep their platforms safe from sickening abusers. They must develop appropriate safeguards to sit alongside their plans for end-to-end encryption.\"\n\nThis is something Meta disputes. The BBC understands that the tech firm maintains it supplied that information in July. Much of that information has now been published online.\n\nMeta said that it had spent the last five years developing robust safety measures to prevent, detect and combat abuse while maintaining online security.\n\n\"As we roll out end-to-end encryption, we expect to continue providing more reports to law enforcement than our peers due to our industry leading work on keeping people safe\", it said.\n\nBut the plans mean hundreds of child abusers could escape punishment, according to the home secretary.\n\nThe National Crime Agency's (NCA) director of general threats, James Babbage, said if the platform introduces end-to-end encryption it will \"massively reduce our collective ability\" to protect children.\n\n\"We are not asking for new or additional law enforcement access, we simply ask that Meta retains the ability to keep working with us to identify and help prevent abuse,\" he said.\n\nThe new campaign was trailed in a speech by security minister Tom Tugendhat in May.\n\nAt the time he blamed Mark Zuckerberg for the plan - criticising what he called the \"extraordinary moral choice\" to expand encryption.\n\nMeta - the American company of which Mr Zuckerberg is chief executive - has announced it will add end-to-end encryption, also known as E2EE, to all Facebook messenger chats, by default, by the end of the year.\n\nThe company already owns encrypted messaging app WhatsApp. Other platforms such as Signal and Apple's iMessage also use encryption. All these platforms have criticised measures in the recently passed Online Safety Bill that might undermine the privacy of encrypted messages.\n\nMeta writes: \"When E2EE is default, we will also use a variety of tools, including artificial intelligence, subject to applicable law, to proactively detect accounts engaged in malicious patterns of behaviour instead of scanning private messages\".\n\nIt also sets out measures the firm takes to protect children, such as restricting people over 19 from messaging teens who don't follow them.\n\nBut speaking to BBC Breakfast on Wednesday the Home Secretary said Facebook Messenger and Instagram direct messages were the platforms of choice for online paedophiles: \"We are arresting in this country about 800 perpetrators a month, we are safeguarding about 1200 children a month from this evil crime.\n\nShe said there was an increasing trend of paedophiles \"seeking out children online, grooming them gaining their trust and duping them into performing sexual acts, indecent acts, pornographic acts online.\"\n\nChallenged as to why, given the powers in the online safety bill, it was necessary to ask Meta to stop the roll out of e2ee Ms Braverman said: \"We now have wide ranging powers contained in this new legislation that enables us via Ofcom the regulator to direct companies to take necessary steps in particular circumstances.\n\n\"But I'd far rather work constructively with these social media companies. They play a valuable part in our lives\"\n\nAs part of its campaign against the move, the Home Office has joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to provide a guide for parents to \"advise them how best to keep their children safe if Meta does implement end-to-end encryption\".\n\nIt has also supported the production of a film against Meta's plans, which includes testimony from a survivor of child sexual exploitation online.\n\nThe IWF says its data shows prevalence of the most severe forms of online child sexual abuse have more than doubled since 2020.\n\nPowers in the Online Safety Bill which was passed on Tuesday enable the regulator Ofcom to compel companies to deploy approved technology that would enable them to identify child sexual abuse material in encrypted messages.\n\nGovernment experts say there is technology available which would allow end-to-end encryption to take place, whilst still alerting authorities to child sexual exploitation.\n\nHowever many other experts argue this is \"magical thinking\", and that allowing scanning for child abuse content would necessarily involve weakening the privacy of encrypted messages.\n\nCiaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, has previously told the BBC that scanning for child abuse content in encrypted messaging apps would involve processes that could undermine privacy for all users.\n\n\"Essentially it's building a door that doesn't currently exist, not into the encrypted messaging app but into devices, which could be used or misused by people who aren't interested in protecting children for more nefarious purposes\", he said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "One of the detonations witnessed by veterans in 1962\n\nVeterans of the UK's nuclear weapons tests are attempting to relaunch a battle for compensation a decade after being legally blocked from suing the government.\n\nCampaigners say newly discovered documents suggest nuclear chiefs may have known the men suffered radioactive damage.\n\nMore than 22,000 personnel worked on detonations in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nCampaigners believe personnel suffered cancers and had children with birth defects because of radiation.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has repeatedly said large studies have found no link between the tests and ill health - and that it is not hiding documents from the veterans.\n\nIn 2012, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that more than 1,000 veterans could not sue the Ministry of Defence because they had run out of time to bring their case.\n\nBut recently found documents suggest the military have long held documents detailing blood and urine tests from personnel.\n\nOne of the documents seen by the campaign shows concerns about a pilot's blood after he had been flying scientific instruments through mushroom clouds.\n\nThe men and their families now plan to take the Ministry of Defence to court because they believe there could be thousands more such records.\n\nEric Barton is one of the \"Labrats\" campaign group and says he's determined to press on\n\nIf the records exist and prove military chiefs suspected radiation damage, that could lead to a last attempt at getting compensation.\n\nEric Barton, 82, of the \"Labrats\" campaign group, said British personnel had been treated like guinea pigs.\n\nHe suffered cancer and received compensation from the American military because he had witnessed six test denotations of its bombs. But friends who witnessed British bombs have not received any money at all.\n\n\"The British government has for years said, 'you prove it',\" said Mr Barton.\n\n\"Well, we are now finding documents that are proving it - that the MOD has been covering everything up for years and years and years.\n\n\"People deserve compensation [from the British],\" he says. \"I know it's taken years and years and years - but a fight is a fight. Keep going. You don't give up in the first round. You don't give up in second round. You keep going.\"\n\nA spokesman for the government said it was grateful to all the personnel who had taken part in the nuclear testing programme - and a new medal would recognise their service.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it could not comment on the potential legal action - but insisted there were no missing records to be found.\n\n\"No information is withheld from veterans,\" said the spokesman.\n\n\"Any medical records taken either before, during or after participation in the UK nuclear weapon tests are held in individual military medical records in the government's archives, which can be accessed on request.\"\n\nSteve Purse - who is an actor - is unable to walk far without crutches. His father served in the RAF at the 1962 tests in Australia\n\nThat's not accepted by the veterans and their families.\n\nSteve Purse's father David served in the RAF at the 1962 tests in Australia. Years later, Mr Purse, from Prestatyn in Denbighshire, North Wales, was born with a complicated series of disabilities and conditions. He says this must have been linked to radiation damage passed down to him.\n\nWhen he asked the Ministry of Defence for records of blood tests taken from his father, officials confirmed that it held information - but could not release it under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\n\"We've got documentary evidence that blood and urine samples were taken from my father when he served in Maralinga in South Australia,\" he said.\n\n\"We know he was exposed to radiation.\n\n\"We need as much information to help resolve some of these questions.\"\n\nMatthew Jury, one of the veterans' lawyers, said Parliament had been told in 2018 that no blood records could be found - but it was now clear from the documents recovered so far that tests had been ordered, taken and analysed.\n\n\"When the veterans request their files, the data is suspiciously absent. If the tests weren't taken it was negligent. If they were and showed damage, then it's a cover-up. And if they showed no damage, then withholding them causes trauma.\"\n\nThe campaigners - who are holding an annual reunion this week - say they and their lawyers want to track down as many surviving veterans as possible around the world to join a group attempt to force disclosure of documents at the High Court.\n\nThey are also appealing to retired personnel from across the Commonwealth to join them, as well as members of indigenous communities in Australia or Kiribati.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak has delayed a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in a major change to the government's approach to achieving net zero by 2050.\n\nThe prime minister announced exemptions and delays to several key green policies, alongside a 50% increase in cash incentives to replace gas boilers.\n\nThe government could not impose \"unacceptable costs\" linked to reducing emissions on British families, he said.\n\nIt's prompted fierce criticism from the opposition and some industry bosses.\n\nMr Sunak also faced attacks from his own party, but many Conservative MPs came out in favour of the new direction, alongside some in the car industry.\n\nThe changes come as Mr Sunak seeks to create dividing lines with opposition parties ahead of a general election, expected next year.\n\nFraming the changes as \"pragmatic and proportionate\", the prime minister has unpicked several of Boris Johnson's key policies, many of them launched when Mr Sunak was serving as chancellor.\n\nIn a speech from Downing Street on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said moving too fast on green policies \"risks losing the consent of the British people\".\n\nAmong the key changes announced were:\n\nMr Sunak ran the changes past a hastily organised cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning, after proposals were revealed by the BBC.\n\nResponding to the statement, Labour unequivocally committed itself to keeping the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.\n\nShadow environment secretary Steve Reed said without the ban the UK would miss its target to hit net zero - this is the point at which a country is no longer adding to the overall amount of harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nMr Reed said the prime minster had \"sold out the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st Century\" for Britain \"to lead the world in transition to well-paid secured new jobs of the green economy\".\n\nScottish First Minister Humza Yousaf told the BBC the move was \"utterly unforgiveable\" and \"very firmly takes the UK out of the global consensus\".\n\nSpeaking from a UN summit on climate action, which Mr Sunak had declined to attend, Mr Yousaf said: \"The same day the whole world is gathered to talk about what more we can do, we have a UK prime minister rolling back on [the UK's] commitments.\"\n\nThe BBC's Chris Mason says Mr Sunak and his advisers will hope that beyond the criticism, many voters might quietly conclude he is onto something and being reasonable.\n\nMr Sunak's proposals are dividing his party, Parliament, and many in the country, but the PM will be looking at Labour's lead in the opinion polls and concluding he has no choice but to gamble.\n\nAnd the political choices outlined in his speech preview more announcements later this autumn, as Mr Sunak promised he would set out \"a series of long term decisions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak's shift on green policies - what he said then and now\n\nBillions of pounds has already been invested across multiple industries, including car makers and energy firms, in preparation of the previous deadlines.\n\nKorean carmaker Kia, which has plans to launch nine new electric vehicles over the next few years, said the announcement was disappointing as it \"alters complex supply chain negotiations and product planning, whilst potentially contributing to consumer and industry confusion\".\n\nThe chief executive of energy company E.On, Chris Norbury, said it was a \"misstep on many levels\", adding that it was a \"false argument\" to suggest green policies can only come at a cost.\n\n\"We risk condemning people to many more years of living in cold and draughty homes that are expensive to heat, in cities clogged with dirty air from fossil fuels, missing out on the economic regeneration this ambition brings,\" Mr Norbury said.\n\nJaguar Land Rover, which announced hundreds of new jobs in the West Midlands a few days ago, welcomed the change, calling it \"pragmatic\" and adding that it brings the UK in line with other nations.\n\n\"Pragmatic\" was also how Toyota described the changes.\n\nElsewhere, Mr Sunak also suggested he would be \"scrapping\" a range of proposals which had been \"thrown up\" by the debate, including hiking up air fares to discourage foreign holidays and taxes on meat consumption. Neither of these had been government policy.\n\nMr Sunak argued that without transparency and \"honest debate\" on the impact of green policies there would be a \"backlash\" against net zero.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey accused Mr Sunak of being \"selfish\" and said the changes \"epitomise his weakness\".\n\n\"The prime minister's legacy will be the hobbling of our country's future economy as he ran scared from the right wing of his own party,\" he said.\n\nThe UK was now \"at the back of the queue as the rest of the world races to embrace the industries of tomorrow\", Sir Ed added.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from the UN's Climate Action Summit, Sir Alok Sharma, a former Conservative minister who chaired the COP26 climate summit, said the response from international colleagues at the event had been one of \"consternation\".\n\n\"My concern is whether people now look to us and say, 'Well, if the UK is starting to row back on some of these policies, maybe we should do the same',\" he said.\n\nAlso speaking from the summit, former US vice president and climate campaigner Al Gore said the announcement marked a \"turn back in the wrong direction\".\n\n\"At times in the past, the UK has been one of the impressive leaders on climate. And so for those who have come to expect that from the UK, it's a particular disappointment,\" he told the BBC.\n\nChris Stark, chief executive of the UK's independent Climate Change Committee, said the changes would make it harder for the government to meet legally binding climate goals.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, Mr Stark added that the committee had already advised the government in June that it \"didn't look like we were on track\" to meet 2030 emissions targets, before these changes were announced.\n\nHowever, the shift in policy has gained support from some within Mr Sunak's party.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg backed the changes, telling the BBC: \"The problem with net zero and having regulations coming in so quickly was that it was a scheme of the elite on the backs of the least well off.\"\n\nMr Sunak is instead \"going with the grain of the nation and moving for 'intelligent net zero' by 2050 but not putting in costly bans in the next few years.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The 24-year-old construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he died\n\nA police officer is to be charged with the murder of Chris Kaba, who was shot in south London last year.\n\nMr Kaba, 24, died after a police operation in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022.\n\nThe Met Police officer, who has not been named, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday where he will be formally charged.\n\nThe police watchdog said the officer and Mr Kaba's family had been notified of the decision on Wednesday morning.\n\nMr Kaba, who was unarmed, was being followed by several police vehicles in Streatham Hill before he turned into Kirkstall Gardens, where he was blocked by a marked car.\n\nHe was struck by a single gunshot fired by a Met Police officer into the vehicle he was driving just before 23:00 BST and died in hospital in the early hours of the following morning, an inquest was told.\n\nThe construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he was shot.\n\nHis death prompted a number of protests, particularly among London's black communities.\n\nIn a joint statement, Mr Kaba's family said they welcomed the charging decision, \"which could not have come too soon\".\n\n\"Chris was so very loved by our family and all his friends. He had a bright future ahead of him, but his life was cut short.\n\n\"Our family and our wider community must see justice for Chris,\" they added.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has had the file of evidence since March following a referral from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe police watchdog previously said no \"non-police issue firearm\" had been found following a detailed search of the car and surrounding area after the shooting.\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS special crime division, said the CPS had conducted a \"thorough review of the evidence\".\n\nThe officer is currently suspended from duty and the Met said it would consider misconduct matters after criminal proceedings have concluded.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police Federation said being a firearms officer in London was \"one of the world's toughest jobs\", and that decision would \"leave serving Metropolitan Police colleagues concerned as they go about their incredibly difficult and dangerous work\".\n\n\"Officers who volunteer for the role know the responsibility and accountability that come with it,\" they said.\n\nThe spokesperson added that the federation continues to support the officer in question.\n\nMet Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helen Millichap described the charging decision as a \"significant and serious development\" in the case.\n\nShe added that the Met \"fully supported the IOPC investigation\" and \"our thoughts are with everyone affected by this case\".\n\n\"We must now allow the court process to run its course so it would not be appropriate for me to say more at this stage,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fuel inflation is bucking the trend - it’s up.\n\nAnd that’s slowing down the improvements we’re seeing in inflation overall.\n\nBut petrol and diesel prices are down since last August. How can that be?\n\nIt’s because the year-on-year changes in fuel prices that determine the inflation number have slowed down significantly.\n\nFrom July 2022 to July 2023, petrol fell by about a quarter (from a peak of £1.89 per litre to £1.43). You can see that in the blue dots below.\n\nBut August to August, they didn’t fall nearly as much (from £1.75 to £1.48) - the fall for the red dots is smaller.\n\nAnd since the fall is less impressive, fuel inflation is looking worse.\n\nPart of the reason for shallower year-on-year fall is a rise in petrol and diesel prices this August.\n\nBut it’s mainly because the huge fall from last July’s peak price is no longer being counted.\n\nSo it’s fair to describe some of this as a “blip” - as long as fuel prices settle down.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We're not going to save the country by bankrupting the British people', says Braverman\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has defended the prime minister's approach to green policies as \"pragmatic\" after it appears he is set to weaken some green commitments.\n\nThe plans could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035.\n\nThe news sparked anger among opposition MPs, the car industry and some Tories.\n\nLabour are set to commit to reinstating a 2030 ban if elected, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe prime minister is currently hosting a conference call with his cabinet to discuss his plans.\n\nHe will deliver a speech at Downing Street on the subject at around 16:30 BST.\n\nMs Braverman said the government could not tackle climate change by \"bankrupting the British people\".\n\nAs part of climate obligations, the UK has said it will reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 - meaning the country aims to take out of the atmosphere as many greenhouse gas emissions - such as carbon dioxide - as it puts in.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Ms Braverman said the government remained \"absolutely committed\" to the 2050 target but that it should be delivered in a \"sustainable way that doesn't impose undue and disproportionate costs\".\n\nIn addition to postponing the petrol and diesel car ban from 2030 to 2035, other potential policy shifts could include:\n\nMr Sunak is also likely to rule out what he sees as burdensome recycling schemes.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, some in the energy industry had been meeting government figures, but they only learnt of the new proposals from news reports after leaving the meeting.\n\nConservative MP Sir Alok Sharma - who led the international climate conference in Glasgow in 2022 - expressed concern about the changes, saying: \"Frankly the last thing the business community wants is chopping and changing of policies.\n\n\"This also says something about a political party's approach to its values - do we want to leave the world in a better place for future generations?\"\n\nSir Alok questioned whether the shift would be popular with voters, but Downing Street is hoping it will provide a clear dividing line between Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nLabour has promised to invest £28bn a year in green industries until 2030 - although earlier this year it slightly watered down this pledge - saying the investment would be ramped up over time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Clarke says what has been trailed is “a significant change in our policy” for a government he served in.\n\nDarren Jones, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said retreating from green commitments would damage the economy.\n\nAppearing on BBC Breakfast, he would not say whether Labour would reinstate green targets if they are removed by Rishi Sunak.\n\nThere were concerns in the party that reinstating the target in such quick succession would only cause further confusion for businesses.\n\nBut it is understood that after private conversations with the car industry Labour now believe the sector wants to stick with the 2030 target anyway.\n\nDelaying the ban of petrol and diesel cars would represent a significant shift in government policy.\n\nIn July, senior minister Michael Gove said the 2030 target was staying in place and earlier this week, transport minister Mark Harper said decarbonising cars and vans represented the \"greatest opportunity to reach net zero by 2050\".\n\nSome in the car industry have reacted angrily to the news, with Ford's UK chair Lisa Brankin said: \"Our business needs three things from the UK government, ambition, commitment, and consistency... a relaxation of 2030 would undermine all three.\"\n\nMike Hawes, head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said the potential delay to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars was \"a bit of a concern\".\n\n\"The view of the industry is we are on track for ending fossil fuels vehicles - it is not for turning back and the UK should be leading it both as an industry and a market.\"\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore, the former chairman of the UK government's net zero review, said the prime minister risked making \"the greatest mistake of his premiership\" and warned that diluting green policies could see the UK missing out on \"growth, jobs and future prosperity\".\n\nFormer minister, Tory MP Simon Clarke said the possible move felt \"like an unnecessary misstep and a misreading of where the British people are on the issue\".\n\nHowever, others in the party have welcomed the move. Craig Mackinlay, who leads the net zero scrutiny group, said the current deadlines were \"clearly unachievable\".\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Karl McCartney also argued for the 2030 target to be pushed back telling the BBC: \"The costs to normal drivers will be too high, the electric charging infrastructure will not be in place, and the technology is too reliant on China.\"\n\nThe New Conservatives group - made up of recently elected MPs - have praised the PM for taking a \"common sense\" approach.\n\nAccording to surveys by YouGov, over the past few years around 15-25% of Conservative voters have considered the environment to be the most important issue facing the country.\n\nMs Braverman also took the opportunity to criticise environmental activists for taking a \"militant, aggressive approach\" to their campaigning.\n\nHer comments came in response to a Channel 4 documentary presented by naturalist Chris Packham entitled Is It Time To Break The Law?\n\nMr Packham told ITV: \"I will use my imagination, my creativity to come up with peaceful, democratic means to protest. But what the documentary says is that if we are not listened to, there will be those who will have to have their voice heard and they will make a louder noise.\"", "King Charles opens his speech in French by saying how honoured and flattered he is to have been invited into this \"hallowed chamber\".\n\nHe explains the vitality of the partnership forged between the UK and France, saying they will always be \"allies and best friends\".\n\nCharles then reflects on the tributes that were paid to the Queen across France last year - and dips back into English at times.\n\nSwitching back to French he highlights the words the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate wrote at the time of her death, that \"she was the embodiment of British democracy with true dignity\".\n\nHe says those words were important for he and his family - and thanks France for the great kindness they gave at a time of such sorrow.\n\nCharles also says, in English, that just as his grandmother and mother portrayed, France has been \"an essential part of the fabric\" of his own life - and \"this is my thirty-fifth official visit to France\".\n\n\"In the rich and complex tapestry of the relationship between France and the United Kingdom, my mother’s golden thread will forever shine brightly,\" he says. \"Let it inspire us all.\"", "Prosper and Helen Kaba do not want to wait any longer for answers\n\nParents of a man shot dead by police in south London said they needed to hear if the officer involved will face criminal charges \"without delay\".\n\nChris Kaba, 24, died the day after he was hit by a single gunshot in Streatham Hill on 5 September 2022.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has had the file of evidence since March.\n\n\"We need a decision,\" his mother Helen said. \"Not in one week, not in one month, we need it as soon as possible,\" his father Prosper added.\n\n\"If he [the officer] was a civilian, he would have been in jail the next day,\" Mr Kaba said.\n\n\"He killed Chris, he killed the family as well. There is no life for us.\n\n\"Everyone is missing his smile, everyone is missing his laugh, everyone is missing his jokes.\"\n\n\"I feel so empty, I need answers,\" Mrs Kaba added. \"I need them [the CPS] to tell me why and how.\"\n\nThe case file was put together by the police watchdog. The Met Police said it \"continues to fully support the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation\".\n\nChris Kaba, who was shot by police in September 2022, had been due to become a father\n\nMr Kaba was killed after the car he was driving was followed by an unmarked police car with no lights or sirens.\n\nHe then turned into Kirkstall Gardens, a narrow residential street, where he was blocked by a marked police car, the two vehicles collided and a marksman fired one shot through the windscreen, hitting Mr Kaba in the head.\n\nIt later emerged that the Audi the 24-year-old was driving, which did not belong to him, had been linked by police to a firearms incident the previous day.\n\nThe construction worker was months away from becoming a father when he died.\n\nDeborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest that supports bereaved families, said: \"It is simply unacceptable we do not yet have a charging decision.\n\n\"This exacerbates the family's trauma and grieving process.\"\n\nLawyer Daniel Machover, of Hickman and Rose which represents the family, said: \"I am appalled that, after the IOPC took almost seven months to complete its investigation, the CPS has failed to complete its task within a further five months.\n\n\"In what other comparable suspected homicide case involving firearms discharged by a civilian does the CPS consider it appropriate to take so long to make a charging decision?\"\n\nThe CPS said it did not provide timescales for charging decisions and prosecutors were \"carefully considering the file of evidence\".\n\nA CPS spokeswoman said: \"As always, we will make that decision independently, based on the evidence and in line with our legal test.\"\n\nChris Kaba had a bright future, according to his mum\n\nAccording to Inquest, since 1990 there have been 1,869 deaths in or following police custody or contact in England and Wales.\n\nThere has only been one conviction of a police officer in that time - West Mercia Police constable Benjamin Monk who was jailed in 2021 for the manslaughter of former footballer Dalian Atkinson.\n\nThe Met Police said \"it wouldn't be right for us to comment further about the circumstances that led to Mr Kaba's death\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Speculation is not helpful. Any fatal police shooting is subject to enormous scrutiny; this is entirely right, so families and the wider public can be reassured officers are investigated and held to account.\n\n\"Our officers expect and understand this.\"\n\nUpdate 13 September 2023: This article has been updated to add that Inquest has also recorded deaths following police contact.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Gymnastics has been accused by a campaign group of a \"serious institutional betrayal\" by not including more people on a list of banned coaches and members.\n\nA list, external of 62 people was published on Wednesday as part of the governing body's 'Reform 25', external plan.\n\nThose on the list, which will be continually updated, have been given a time-limited ban or expelled from British Gymnastics because of a criminal conviction or safeguarding, conduct or disciplinary reasons.\n\n\"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and wellbeing of all those involved in our sport,\" said Geraldine Costello, British Gymnastics director of welfare and safe sport, after the list's publication.\n\n\"While anyone banned or expelled had already been removed from the environment, we believe publishing this list is in the best interest of the sport and the wider public.\n\n\"It is one part of a much bigger programme of reform that we are continuing to put in place with the input of gymnasts, coaches, clubs and parents so that we can ensure we deliver an uplifting gymnastics experience for everyone involved in our sport.\"\n\nHowever, Gymnasts For Change said other coaches \"meet the criteria\" and should have been included on the list.\n\n\"The publication of British Gymnastics' expulsions list is an indictment against a failed organisation struggling to tackle the immense task of reforming its coaching cultures,\" it said.\n\n\"Today's failed act by British Gymnastics represents a serious institutional betrayal for many complainants and their families across the UK who have fought hard over the past three years to report abuse in gymnastics.\"\n\nDescribing the list as an \"empty promise\", Gymnasts For Change said: \"As it stands, this list allows many coaches known to Gymnasts For Change, who hold sanctions and who meet the criteria for inclusion in the list, to not be named and instead remain in the sport, leaving the 'coach-led culture of fear' described by the Whyte Review to continue with business as usual.\"\n\nIn June British Gymnastics was criticised for its \"inept and dysfunctional\" system a year after the publication of the damning Whyte Review, which detailed \"systemic\" issues of physical and emotional abuse within the sport.\n\nThe list, which was not suggested as part of the Whyte Review's recommendations, shows bans and expulsions dating back to 1994.\n\nIt includes two Olympians - Brian Phelps and Stan Wild - but contains only three people sanctioned since June 2022, when the Whyte Review was published.\n\nThose subject to a temporary suspension because of ongoing investigations have not been included on the list.\n\nBritish Gymnastics declined to comment on Gymnasts For Change's statement.\n\nThe Gymnast Parent Alliance said it was \"profoundly disappointed\" by the list, with several coaches \"conspicuously absent\".\n\nIn a 306-page report, the Whyte Review outlined incidents of athletes being made to train on broken bones, punished for needing the toilet and sat on by coaches. More than 90 clubs and more than 100 coaches were mentioned by gymnasts in the course of Anne Whyte KC's investigation.\n\nGymnasts were subjected to excessive weight management, which left some with eating disorders described as the \"tyranny of the scales\" by Whyte.\n\nThe report anonymised the hundreds of athlete submissions it received and did not identify any coaches.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Sport, Whyte commended British Gymnastics for publishing the list, but said she was \"surprised\" by the lack of detail provided.She added the publication of the list was a \"step in the right direction\" but she suspects \"it doesn't go far enough\".Referring to the 10 people expelled since the Whyte Review was commissioned in 2020, Whyte said: \"People might be surprised that in three years so few complaints, particularly of a safeguarding nature, given the systemic findings of my review, have been upheld.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.", "Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government's key green commitments in a major policy shift.\n\nIt could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.\n\nResponding to the reported plans, he said the government was committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but in a \"more proportionate way\".\n\nThe aim of net zero is for the UK to take out of the atmosphere as many greenhouse gas emissions - such as carbon dioxide - as it puts in.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"For too many years politicians in governments of all stripes have not been honest about costs and trade-offs. Instead they have taken the easy way out, saying we can have it all.\n\n\"This realism doesn't mean losing our ambition or abandoning our commitments. Far from it.\n\n\"I am proud that Britain is leading the world on climate change.\"\n\nHe said the UK was committed to international climate agreements it had already made.\n\n\"No leak will stop me beginning the process of telling the country how and why we need to change,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak added that he would give a speech later this week \"to set out an important long-term decision we need to make so our country becomes the place I know we all want it to be for our children\".\n\nIf he presses ahead with the plan it would represent a significant shift in the Conservative Party's approach to net zero policy, as well as establishing a clear dividing line with the Labour Party.\n\nAccording to multiple sources briefed on Downing Street's thinking, Mr Sunak would use the speech to hail the UK as a world leader on net zero.\n\nBut he would also argue that Britain has over-delivered on confronting climate change and that other countries need to do more to pull their weight.\n\nSome specifics of the speech are still thought to be under discussion, but as it stands it could include as many as seven core policy changes or commitments, documents seen by the BBC suggest.\n\nFirst, the government would push the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars - currently set to come into force in 2030 - back to 2035. The 2030 date has been government policy since 2020.\n\nSecond, the government would significantly weaken the plan to phase out the installation of gas boilers by 2035, saying that they only want 80% to be phased out by that year.\n\nThird, homeowners and landlords would be told that there will be no new energy efficiency regulations on homes. Ministers had been considering imposing fines on landlords who fail to upgrade their properties to a certain level of energy efficiency.\n\nFourth, the 2026 ban on off-grid oil boilers will be delayed to 2035, with only an 80% phase out target at that date.\n\nIn addition, Britons will be told that there will be no new taxes to discourage flying, no government policies to change people's diets and no measures to encourage carpooling.\n\nMr Sunak is also likely to rule out what he sees as burdensome recycling schemes.\n\nThe government had reportedly been considering a recycling strategy in which households would have had \"seven bins\" - with six separate recycling bins plus one for general waste.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said it was \"an absolute farce\", with \"late night policy statements from the Downing Street bunker, as ever driven by the absolute chaos within the Conservative Party, with a weak Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\".\n\nHe declined to say whether Labour would restore any targets that are ultimately scrapped.\n\n\"We are making clear that we are absolutely rejecting this completely futile, short-term and facile way of doing politics,\" he said. \"This is not a serious way to make long-term decisions that require vast amounts of investments, where lots of jobs are at risk.\"\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore, the former chairman of the UK government's net zero review, said diluting green policies would \"cost the UK jobs, inward investment, and future economic growth that could have been ours by committing to the industries of the future\".\n\n\"Rishi Sunak still has time to think again and not make the greatest mistake of his premiership, condemning the UK to missing out on what can be the opportunity of the decade to deliver growth, jobs and future prosperity,\" he said.\n\nConservative peer Lord Zac Goldsmith, who resigned as a minister earlier this year with a scathing attack on Mr Sunak's \"apathy\" over climate change, said the prime minister was \"dismantling\" the UK's credibility on environmental issues.\n\n\"His short stint as PM will be remembered as the moment the UK turned its back on the world and on future generations. A moment of shame,\" he said.\n\nGreen Party MP, Caroline Lucas called any rollback on net zero \"economically illiterate, historically inaccurate and environmentally bone-headed\".\n\nBut Tory MP Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the net zero scrutiny group, said he was \"pleased to see some pragmatism\" from Mr Sunak.\n\nMoving back dates for net zero targets \"will take pie in the sky 'greenwash' measures out of clearly unachievable deadlines\".\n\nFormer Conservative minister David Jones said modifying green policies was \"inevitable and sensible\", adding that pressing on with the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars would \"seriously damage the British motor industry\".\n\nOn Thursday, the King will be on a State Visit to France, where he will host what is known as a Climate Mobilisation Forum.\n\nThe event convenes specialists in climate finance, and aims to help developing economies make adjustments to cut emissions.\n\nThe King will be accompanied by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.\n\nHow will you be affected by the issues in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents in the US whose children purchased items in the popular game Fortnite without their permission will be able to claim a refund from today.\n\nThe US regulator accused the game of tricking players into making unintended purchases and breaching privacy.\n\nFortnite developer Epic Games agreed to pay $245m (£198m) in refunds in 2022.\n\nThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now begun the process of contacting 37 million people to alert them to the compensation.\n\nFortnite is one of the most popular video games in the world, with more than 400 million players. It is a free-to-play video game - meaning while there's no upfront cost, it makes its money through players making in-game purchases.\n\nThe FTC said Epic Games duped players with \"deceptive interfaces\" that could trigger purchases while the game loaded, and accused it of having default settings that breached people's privacy.\n\nIn total, it agreed to a settlement of $520m with Epic Games over the concerns.\n\nThis includes a $275m fine relating to how Fortnite collects data on its users, including those aged under 13, without informing parents.\n\nIt is the largest fine ever levied by the FTC for breaking a rule.\n\nThe rest of the settlement will be paid out as refunds.\n\nThough there is no similar agreement in the UK, Epic Games' vice president of marketing, Matthew Weissinger, previously told the UK government it would refund parents in the UK whose children made purchases without their knowledge.\n\nThe BBC has approached Epic Games and UK regulators to ask if there are any plans for refund payments to apply to customers in the UK.\n\nUnder the US settlement, refunds will be made for in-game purchases such as outfits and loot boxes, as well as Fortnite's virtual currency V-Bucks.\n\nThose who have been contacted by the FTC will have until January 2024 to submit their request.\n\nThis includes claims from anyone in the US who believes they were charged in the game for items they didn't want between January 2017 and September 2022.\n\nBut it also specifically includes people who say their child made a purchase using their credit card without their knowledge - though this must have taken place between the more limited period of January 2017 and November 2018.\n\nFinally, compensation can be requested by people who can show their Fortnite account was made inaccessible after they made a complaint with their credit card company about wrongful charges.\n\nWhen the settlement was first announced, Epic Games said it had made several changes to Fornite to tackle the problem of unintended in-game purchases.\n\nThe developers have introduced an array of parental controls, a spending limit for players aged under 13, and default high privacy settings for children.\n\n\"The laws have not changed, but their application has evolved and long-standing industry practices are no longer enough,\" Epic said at the time.\n\n\"We accepted this agreement because we want Epic to be at the forefront of consumer protection and provide the best experience for our players.\"\n\nThe firm has since clarified that the FTC is handling the distribution of compensation, and concerned players must contact the regulator directly via its website.", "Heated skirting boards and mirrors feature in the Energy House 2 at Salford University\n\nThe way we heat our homes is changing.\n\nAs the world moves away from fossil fuels, we will be saying goodbye to our gas fires and boilers - and instead electrifying the heating systems in our homes.\n\nExtinguishing the fires in our homes is a big change, human beings evolved around the comfort of a campfire.\n\nSo, what will this mean for you - and the systems that deliver the energy we depend upon?\n\nIn just 12 years' time you probably won't be able to buy a gas boiler any more.\n\nThe government's ambition is to ban sales of new ones from 2035.\n\nHeating our homes accounts for as much as 16% of the UK's planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions.\n\nThe front-runner in the race to replace our boilers is undoubtedly the heat pump.\n\nThere is a very simple reason why - they are extraordinarily efficient.\n\nHeat pumps collect energy from an external source - it could be the air, ground or water - and then concentrate it.\n\nThey cost more than gas boilers, but for every unit of energy you put in, you can get about three units of heat out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnfortunately, it is not quite as simple as that.\n\nThat means to get the heat into your home, it is a good idea to have bigger radiators.\n\nAnd you will keep more of the heat in if your home is well-insulated and has double glazing. But doing that additional work can massively add to your costs.\n\nTypically, it costs £10,000 to buy and install an air source heat pump - the type best suited to most UK homes.\n\nAnd there is another issue.\n\nUnit for unit, electricity typically costs three times as much as gas.\n\nThat means even though your new heat pump is three times as efficient as your gas boiler it costs about the same to run.\n\nInvestigating the controversial plans to change how we heat our homes and produce electricity. Is it possible and what will it take?\n\nGrants are available to household to help with the cost of installing heat pumps - but it depends where you live and what type of pump you are buying.\n\nThe biggest grant available in England and Wales is £6,000 - in rural Scotland it's £9,000 - for a ground source heat pump. That's because it typically costs more to install a ground pump than an air one.\n\nNorthern Ireland has schemes which may help some people on lower incomes install heat pumps.\n\nCritics say this support is not enough and that people need more help if the government is going to get anywhere near its target of 600,000 new heat pump installations every year by 2028.\n\nAt the moment it is way below that.\n\nThere were just 60,000 heat pumps installed in the UK last year, making it one of the slowest adopters of this new technology in Europe.\n\nAt current rates of installation, it will take more than 400 years before every British home has a heat pump.\n\nSo far fewer than 12,000 grants have been cashed - perhaps because it only covers the cost of the pump itself, and not the installation.\n\nAnd even if households are able to pay, there is another barrier to hitting the government's heat pump targets.\n\nThe UK only has 4,000 trained heat-pump installers - it is estimated we will need 33,000 by 2028.\n\nThere are not nearly enough trained heat pump installers in the UK\n\nThere are other electric heating systems - immersion boilers, electric fires, fan heaters and infra-red radiators, for example - but none of these is as efficient as heat pumps.\n\nAn alternative could be hydrogen-powered boilers.\n\nThey are just like your existing gas boiler - so no need for a new set of radiators - except that they burn hydrogen instead of natural gas.\n\nBut using hydrogen has its problems - for a start, where would it all come from?\n\nMost of the readily available hydrogen is locked up in the water of our oceans.\n\nThe cleanest and greenest way to produce it would be to use electricity, through a process called electrolysis - but most of the time it would be more efficient just to use that electricity to heat our homes with heat pumps.\n\nWe could produce hydrogen from the natural gas we currently use, but we would then have to find a way to stop all the carbon dioxide (CO2) the process produces from going into the atmosphere.\n\nThe CO2 could be captured and pumped underground - but that is expensive and has never been done at scale before.\n\nAlthough burning hydrogen is clean, the process of producing it from gas creates CO2\n\nWhat is more, hydrogen boilers have not proved popular with the public.\n\nA trial scheme in Ellesmere Port has just been cancelled after residents refused to have new boilers installed in their homes.\n\nWhatever choices we make about how we heat our homes in future one thing is certain, we are going to need a lot more electricity.\n\nAnd it all needs to be green.\n\nRight now, at peak times, the National Grid requires 60GW of electricity.\n\nBy 2050, some estimates suggest it will need to double to at least 120GW.\n\nAt the moment about 40% of our electricity is generated by burning gas - so that's going to have to be phased out.\n\nThe way we heat - and insulate - our homes needs to change to meet greenhouse gas targets\n\nIn 27 years, we need to roughly quadruple the amount of green energy we produce as a country.\n\nSo, to get to net zero in time, the government has set an ambitious target - decarbonise the entire electricity supply by 2035.\n\nThe UK has been making great progress with offshore wind, but building wind turbines at sea is expensive.\n\nThe cheapest renewable power is from onshore wind and solar.\n\nMany experts say the UK will need thousands of much cheaper wind turbines on land.\n\nOnshore wind turbines are one of the cheapest ways to generate energy\n\nThat will require changes to the planning rules which currently make it very difficult to get approval - opponents say they blight the landscape and there are worries about the impact they have on birds and animals.\n\nAnd the government says we need more nuclear power too, even though it is expensive and takes years to build.\n\nMost of our existing nuclear plants are due to be shut down in the next few years but there are two big new plants in the offing.\n\nHinkley Point C in Somerset is massively over budget and is now expected to start operating in 2027.\n\nA second new plant has been proposed in Suffolk, next to Sizewell B, but it has been stuck in planning.\n\nAnd to get these new sources of electricity into your home the electricity grid needs a massive and expensive upgrade too.\n\nBut we can do it, says Emma Pinchbeck, the CEO of Energy UK which represents the power generating industry and the National Grid.\n\n\"In my job, what's changed over the last five years has been this is no longer about money. It's about wires in the ground or enough people to build the kit,\" she says.\n\nWe have got the technology to reach net zero, the question is whether we can put it in place fast enough to meet our 2050 target and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nUpdate 20 October 2023: This article has been amended to clarify there are three types of heat pumps and to explain what household grants were available at the time of publication on 1 August. The government has announced changes to some grants since this article was first published.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate Forbes has spoken about her postnatal depression.\n\nKate Forbes, the former SNP leadership candidate, has spoken of the \"extreme terror\" she experienced while suffering postnatal depression.\n\nThe 33-year-old MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch was diagnosed with the illness after the birth of her daughter, Naomi, in August 2022.\n\nShe told the Press and Journal that the first weeks with a newborn were the most difficult of her life.\n\nIt came after an 18-hour labour which ended with a delivery by forceps.\n\nMs Forbes later told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live that the delivery was traumatic but \"I've still to hear of a non-traumatic labour experience for any woman\".\n\n\"When I came home I guess I expected to be full of maternal joy and happiness and instead found myself suffering from total insomnia,\" she added.\n\n\"For about a week after the birth, I'm not sure I slept at all.\n\n\"And I experienced quite extreme terror during the day and also at night, feeling like something was going to happen to the baby, feeling like somebody was going to cause harm to her, and being wracked with guilt and anxiety.\n\n\"I hadn't had that much experience of mental health issues throughout my life so this sense of intense sadness, feeling extremely vulnerable and being wracked by terror was completely new.\"\n\nKate Forbes and her daughter Naomi, who is now one.\n\nThe former finance secretary said that she told a midwife about her emotions after a week and the NHS \"kicked into action to ensure I was surrounded by care\".\n\nBut she said: \"There's very little you can do to support a woman in that position because of course there's very few drugs that you can provide because they're breastfeeding, you can't provide help for sleep because you need a new mother to be awake and alert for their baby\".\n\nInformation about drugs that can be taken while breastfeeding is available from the Breastfeeding Network.\n\nMs Forbes said her recovery began by accepting that she had postnatal depression after being told by medics.\n\nShe was able to talk things through with family including her \"very supportive\" husband, Ali MacLennan, and she also had counselling.\n\nKate Forbes with her husband Ali and daughter Naomi shortly after the birth\n\nThe first time mother said she wanted to share her experience to reduce stigma and call for more resources for midwives across the country.\n\n\"At the time I was very keen to speak out because my experiences were so profound and I was so taken aback by how little discussion there is publicly on the experiences that new mothers go through,\" she said.\n\n\"My midwives were legends amongst women - exceptional care - but I realise many of them were providing care based on their own experiences and perhaps could have done with access to more resources. And I'm really keen that there is that consistent level of care across Scotland.\"\n\nShe added: \"And also we need to see more of a general investment in research and development in understanding the issues that new mothers face. It surprised me that women have been giving birth since time began that here we are in 2023 and women are still battling with some of these issues that can degenerate so quickly.\n\nIt is a type of depression which affects one in 10 women within a year of giving birth, according to the NHS.\n\nMany women experience the \"baby blues\" after having a baby - feeling down, tearful or anxious - but this should not last more than two weeks.\n\nSymptoms include a persistent feeling of sadness or low mood, problems sleeping at night, difficult bonding with their baby, and withdrawing from other people.\n\nMidwives and GPs can help people who may be suffering with the illness. Treatment includes antidepressants, psychological therapy and self-help advice.\n\nFor more advice on postnatal depression go to NHS Inform.\n\nMs Forbes succeeded Derek Mackay as finance secretary in Nicola Sturgeon's government in 2020 after he resigned over social media messages to a 16-year-old boy.\n\nShe cut short her maternity leave to join the leadership race when Ms Sturgeon stood down as first minister and SNP leader.\n\nNarrowly defeated by Humza Yousaf, she turned down a move to the rural affairs brief and remains on the backbenches.", "The tug 'Foremost 22' took part in the evacuation, helping tow the damaged HMS Sharpshooter from Dunkirk to Dover\n\nResearchers have launched a mission to find wrecks of ships lost during the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk during World War Two.\n\nMore than 305 vessels were sunk during Operation Dynamo - in which 338,226 surrounded troops were evacuated from Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940.\n\nSome 1,000 ships, including pleasure craft and fishing vessels, took part in the rescue - a key moment of the war.\n\nThe project will search for 31 wrecks believed to be in French waters.\n\nIt is a partnership between France's marine heritage agency Department of Underwater Archaeological Research and Historic England and builds on research by Claire Destanque, of Aix-Marseille University, which revealed new information about the location and condition of the wrecks.\n\nDivers from Dunkirk and the surrounding area have already located 37 shipwrecks in the area and the new project will use high-tech survey equipment to document the sites that are already known.\n\nBritish soldiers are assisted by the Royal Navy on their return to England after being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk\n\nDr Antony Firth, Historic England's head of marine heritage strategy, says some of the vessels would have been heavily loaded with troops, and would have sunk \"within minutes\" with very heavy loss of life.\n\n\"Undoubtedly a lot of people were wrapped up in Dunkirk. Most of them survived, got back to the UK and carried on their seafaring histories, and that's obviously very good.\n\n\"For some people, their family stories had a catastrophic element at Dunkirk, and that, I know for certain, still resonates with people today.\"\n\nBy using sound technology, Dr Firth believes the shipwreck surveys will be able to build a detailed picture of the condition of the wrecks, and what happened to them - such as if they were hit by a torpedo or a mine.\n\nThe evacuation saw vessels being attacked from land, sea and air as well as colliding with each other.\n\nThe initial results of the study will be shared with the public at an event in October.\n\nSinger Harry Styles starred in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film Dunkirk, based on the events of Operation Dynamo\n\nOperation Dynamo marked a significant moment in the course of World War Two, as the Allies averted near disaster after much of their combined forces were surrounded by German troops.\n\nWinston Churchill, who had been British prime minister for just 16 days when the evacuation began, called it a \"miracle of deliverance\" in his famed \"We Shall Fight on the Beaches\" speech in 1940, although he considered a defeat a \"colossal military disaster\".\n\nDuring the nine-day evacuation, military, transport, fishing and service vessels, as well as pleasure craft, were used to carry soldiers, with ships flying British, French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish flags.\n\nA handful of civilians also took part, sailing out into the Channel voluntarily, while many privately own vessels - known as the Little Ships - were requisitioned by the military.\n\nThe dramatic events have been recreated on screen over the years including in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film Dunkirk.", "Rishi Sunak has insisted he cares about reaching net zero but that the 2050 target needs to be achieved in \"a proportionate and pragmatic way\".\n\nThe prime minister has faced criticism from environmental groups and some of his own MPs that he is not committed to tackling climate change.\n\nMr Sunak told LBC he wanted to leave the environment in \"a better state than we found it in\" for his two daughters.\n\nBut he added that the UK would still need fossil fuels in the future.\n\nAsked if he was confident he could win over his environmentally conscious daughters, Mr Sunak said they were not \"eco-zealots\" and like most people, were \"open to sensible, practical arguments\".\n\nHe has previously described his daughters as \"passionate environmentalists\", who have often asked him what he is doing about climate change.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from some Conservative MPs to review the government's green policies, after the party's surprise win in the Uxbridge by-election, when it capitalised on anger over London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (Ulez).\n\nHowever, he has said the government is committed to reaching net zero by 2050 - which means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are increasing global temperatures.\n\nOther leading climate campaigners in the Conservative Party have criticised Mr Sunak's commitment to environmental issues.\n\nLord Goldsmith recently resigned from the government, accusing the prime minister of \"apathy\" over climate change.\n\nThe prime minister has also attracted criticism for the number of domestic flights he has taken to travel for government business across the UK.\n\nEarlier this week he defended flying to Scotland, to announce support for a carbon capture project, as \"an efficient use of time for the person running the country\".\n\n\"If your approach to climate change is to say that no one should go on holiday, no one should go on a plane, I think you are completely and utterly wrong,\" he told BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nIn his interview with LBC he also revealed he was taking his family on a summer holiday to California this week, including a visit to Disneyland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is due to head on a family holiday this Thursday\n\nMr Sunak has announced the government is granting 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences, as well as supporting a carbon capture project in the north east of Scotland.\n\nThe decision was criticised by environmental campaigners, who said it would \"send a wrecking ball through the UK's climate commitments\".\n\nConservative MP Chris Skidmore said the move was \"the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time\" and \"on the wrong side of history\".\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said: \"I 100% believe that what I'm doing is right,\" adding that even after meeting the 2050 target the UK would still need fossil fuels.\n\nHe argued it was \"sensible\" to use \"the energy we have here at home\", as this would be better for jobs and avoid the environmental cost of shipping energy from abroad, as well as reducing the UK's reliance on other countries.\n\nMeanwhile, Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps is meeting oil and gas bosses in Downing Street to talk about the government's decision to invest in home-grown energy sources, including renewables and North Sea oil and gas.\n\nMr Sunak is also facing pressure over measures to move towards electric cars.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kemi Badenoch is understood to have raised concerns about rules due to come into effect next year that require car manufacturers to sell a certain proportion of electric models.\n\nFrom January, 22% of vehicles sold have to be zero emission, or car makers could be hit with fines.\n\nSome manufacturers have been calling for a softening of the rules, and as first reported by the Politico website, Ms Badenoch has passed on their concerns to her cabinet colleagues.\n\nBut Labour said the sector was \"crying out for certainty\" and Ms Badenoch's reported comments were a \"threat to investment\".\n\nMinisters have insisted the government remains committed to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, despite calls from some Tory MPs for a delay.", "Jon Venables has been given two new identities since being jailed for the murder of James Bulger\n\nOne of the killers of toddler James Bulger has been granted a parole hearing, the Parole Board has confirmed.\n\nJon Venables served eight years for the two-year-old's murder in 1993 and was freed on licence, along with Robert Thompson, and given lifelong anonymity.\n\nBut in 2017 Venables was jailed again for having child abuse images on his computer.\n\nA parole hearing will take place in November.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.\n\n\"A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims.\"\n\nJames Bulger was tortured and killed by Venables and Thompson, who were both aged 10 at the time, after they took him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside.\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nIn 2010, while living under a new name, Venables was jailed after child abuse images were found on his laptop. He was released after serving three years and given a second new identity.\n\nHowever, in 2017 he was sent back to prison for 40 months after more abuse images were discovered on his computer.\n\nVenables had an application to be freed rejected in 2020 following an assessment of his case.\n\nThe Parole Board earlier said an oral hearing was listed for a parole review.\n\nThe spokesman said members would \"read and digest hundreds of pages of reports\" in the lead up to the hearing.\n\n\"Evidence from witnesses including probation officers, psychiatrists and psychologists, officials supervising the offender in prison as well as victim personal statements are then given at the hearing,\" he said.\n\nThe prisoner and witnesses would then be questioned at length, he said, adding: \"Protecting the public is our number one priority.\"\n\nThe hearing is scheduled for 14 and 15 November, and a decision on whether prisoners can be released is usually made within 14 days.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Northern Ireland secretary has formally directed Stormont departments to launch public consultations on proposed options for raising money.\n\nThey will include consultations on introducing water charges, drug prescription charges and increasing university tuition fees.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris said he also plans to review the level of the regional rate.\n\nThe rate forms part of the calculation of annual rates bills.\n\nThe proposals first emerged in August as part of 40 revenue-raising measures compiled by civil servants.\n\nThey drew criticism from political parties, with Sinn Féin accusing the secretary of state of using the proposals to apply pressure on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to return to power sharing.\n\nHowever, on Wednesday, Mr Heaton-Harris said generating revenue is \"not merely an option but a critical necessity\" to improve the sustainability of Stormont's public finances.\n\nHe said it would be for a restored devolved government to \"consider responses to these consultations and use this to make the necessary decisions\".\n\nMr Heaton-Harris added that the consultations will allow departments to \"identify ways to improve the sustainability of public services and public finances, paving the way for long-awaited improvement and transformation of these services that we all rely on and want to protect\".\n\n\"I am keen that the public and all interested parties have an opportunity to consider the range of options being examined and to feed in their views.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris set a budget for Stormont earlier this year in the absence of local ministers, leaving civil servants faced with making substantial cuts.\n\nUnder current legislation the secretary of state does not have the power to unilaterally implement revenue-raising measures, but he has not ruled out taking that power at some stage.\n\nStormont's power-sharing executive collapsed last year after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew in protest against post-Brexit trade barriers between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\nThe Windsor Framework was struck by the UK government and European Union earlier this year in an effort to address concerns with previous arrangements under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nBut DUP has said the deal does not go far enough. The party has been in talks with the UK government to seek further legal assurances of Northern Ireland's place within the UK internal market.", "The escalating row over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader has the potential to derail years of close relations between Canada and India - two key strategic partners on security and trade.\n\nThe BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins examines how things reached this point and why the case is putting the relationship between Justin Trudeau and Narendra Modi on ice.", "Prof Larry Barham uncovering prehistoric wooden objects on the banks of the river\n\nThe discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists' understanding of ancient human life.\n\nResearchers found evidence the wood had been used to build a structure almost half a million years ago.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest stone-age people built what may have been shelters.\n\n\"This find has changed how I think about our early ancestors,\" archaeologist Prof Larry Barham said.\n\nThe University of Liverpool scientist leads the Deep Roots of Humanity research project, which excavated and analysed the ancient timber.\n\nThe discovery could transform the current belief ancient humans led simple, nomadic lives.\n\n\"They made something new, and large, from wood,\" Prof Barham said.\n\n\"They used their intelligence, imagination and skills to create something they'd never seen before, something that had never previously existed.\"\n\nThe researchers also uncovered ancient wooden tools, including digging sticks. But what excited them most were two pieces of wood found at right angles to each other.\n\n\"One is lying over the other and both pieces of wood have notches cut into them,\" said Geoff Duller, professor of geography at the University of Aberystwyth and a member of the team.\n\n\"You can clearly see those notches have been cut by stone tools.\n\n\"It makes the two logs fit together to become structural objects.\"\n\nThe large logs were at right angles to each other, with notches cut into them with stone tools\n\nFurther analysis confirmed the logs were about 476,000 years old.\n\nTeam member Perrice Nkombwe, director of the Moto Moto Museum in Zambia, said: \"I was amazed to know that woodworking was such a deep-rooted tradition.\n\n\"It dawned on me that we had uncovered something extraordinary.\"\n\nUntil now, evidence for the human use of wood has been limited to making fire and crafting tools such as digging sticks and spears.\n\nOne of the oldest wooden discoveries was a 400,000-year-old spear in prehistoric sands at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, in 1911.\n\nUnless it is preserved in very specific conditions, wood simply rots away.\n\nBut in the meandering riverbanks above the Kalambo Falls, close to the Zambia-Tanzania border, it was waterlogged and essentially pickled for millennia.\n\nThe team measured the age of layers of earth in which it was buried, using luminescence dating.\n\nGrains of rock absorb natural radioactivity from the environment over time - essentially charging up like tiny batteries, as Prof Duller put it.\n\nAnd that radioactivity can be released and measured by heating up the grains and analysing the light emitted.\n\nScientists created models to show how overlapping logs could have been used\n\nThe size of the two logs, the smaller of which is about 1.5m (5ft), suggests whoever fitted them together was building something substantial.\n\nUnlikely to have been a hut or permanent dwelling, it could have formed part of a platform for a shelter, the team says.\n\n\"It might be some sort of structure to sit beside the river and fish,\" Prof Duller said:.\n\n\"But it's hard to tell what sort of [complete] structure it might have been.\"\n\nThe ancient wood was preserved in riverbed sediments\n\nIt is also unclear what species of ancient human - or hominid - built it.\n\nNo bones have been found at this site so far.\n\nAnd the timber is much older than the earliest modern human - or Homo sapiens - fossils, which are about 315,000 years old.\n\n\"We don't know - it could have been Homo sapiens and we just haven't discovered fossils from that age yet,\" Prof Duller said.\n\n\"But it could be a different species - [perhaps] Homo erectus or Homo naledi - there were a number of hominid species around at that time in southern Africa.\"\n\nTransported to the UK for analysis and preservation, the wooden artefacts are being stored in tanks that mimic the waterlogging that preserved them so beautifully for the last half-million years. But they will soon return to Zambia to be displayed.\n\n\"With this discovery, we hope to enrich our collection and use the finds to inform the interpretation of the woodworking tradition in Zambia,\" Ms Nkombwe said.\n\nContinuing the work at the Kalambo Falls site, she added, \"has the potential to deepen our knowledge of ancient woodworking techniques, craftsmanship, and human interactions with the environment\".", "One of the pictures showed a signpost marking 19 miles to London landmark Tower Bridge\n\nScenic pictures of Richmond upon Thames in London have been displayed in a branch of Greggs in the North Yorkshire market town of Richmond.\n\nIn an apparent mix-up, the images showed a signpost to London landmarks Tower Bridge and Kew Gardens.\n\nThe black-and-white framed photographs have now been removed from the bakery, located more than 240 miles (386km) from the branch in south-west London.\n\nGreggs has been approached by the BBC for a comment.\n\nAnother of the photographs showed boats on the River Thames\n\nShoppers in the North Yorkshire town, which is the constituency of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, seemed amused by the confusion with its southern counterpart, which lies in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames.\n\nClose to the bakery in Market Place, one local resident told BBC Look North: \"They have made a big boo-boo haven't they?\n\n\"It's somebody in head office, isn't it, who thinks they know more than the locals?\"\n\nAnother resident said: \"I think there are enough photos of Richmond itself to warrant supporting the North Yorkshire town, as opposed to that lot down south.\"\n\nPhotographer and Richmond resident Mark Denton has offered to supply Greggs with photos of the correct town.\n\nHe said: \"I've got thousands of pictures of Richmond that I've taken over the years so they're welcome to feature some of mine.\"\n\nThe Greggs in Richmond, North Yorkshire, is more than 240 miles (386km) from its branch in south-west London\n\nThe 52-year-old quipped he would offer his photos in return for a free slice of pizza.\n\n\"I'm happy to give them the photos for free although if they did want to pay me I'd accept one piece of the pepperoni pizza, as I'm a fan.\"\n\nSeemingly, the mix-up is not a one-off, according to Mark Smith, who recalls a similar problem he encountered while carrying out work at a business premises.\n\nHe said: \"When I did some work there a year ago, a contractor who was meant to be at my site also got Richmond on Thames and Richmond confused.\n\n\"He ended up in Richmond, London, then had to get a train up to North Yorkshire. This meant he was five hours later than planned.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Shauna Lowry encourages pregnant women to ask for a GBS test\n\nBelfast-born television presenter Shauna Lowry has backed calls for mandatory testing of all pregnant women in Northern Ireland for the Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, routine testing for the infection in pregnancy is not currently recommended, the Department of Health has said.\n\nThe department said there was \"insufficient evidence to support it\".\n\nGBS is one of the most common causes of life-threatening infections in babies.\n\nMs Lowry, best known for her work on BBC programmes Animal Hospital and Countryfile said she was prompted to speak out about her own experience with GBS following Derry woman Shannon Doherty's call for widespread testing.\n\nShauna Lowry said she was diagnosed with Group B Strep during her first pregnancy in 2007.\n\n\"They just handed me an information sheet about Strep B and what it could do to my unborn child,\" Lowry told the BBC's North West Today programme.\n\n\"That in itself was extremely scary.\n\nLowry spoke out after reading the story of Shannon Doherty, whose baby Rían is now doing well back at home\n\n\"I had never heard of Strep B and this sheet said there was a potentially fatal risk to my baby.\n\n\"I was horrified,\" she said.\n\nLowry says medics monitored her pregnancy closely following her diagnosis and, after receiving the appropriate antibiotics, her baby girl was born safely.\n\nBut her first-hand experience has left her feeling very strongly that there should be UK-wide mandatory testing for GBS.\n\nMost strains of the new-born infection can be prevented by testing during pregnancy and providing intravenous antibiotics to women in labour.\n\nHowever, the UK does not routinely test for GBS, unlike the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.\n\n\"It's just a simple test that women need to ask for,\" said Lowry.\n\n\"I read Shannon's story and I just thought over 15 years after my daughter's birth, there's still no mandatory testing in the UK.\n\n\"So many countries do it as routine, so why can't we?\n\n\"It's just wrong and it really upsets me,\" she said.\n\nAccording to the UK charity Group B Strep Support, two babies each day in the UK develop a GBS infection.\n\nMost recover fully, but the charity said that one baby each week dies from a GBS-related infection and one baby each week recovers but with a life-changing disability.\n\nIn 2019, Northern Ireland's political parties jointly called for Group B Strep screening for all pregnant women.\n\nLowry said there now needs to be action.\n\n\"There really needs to be political movement on this. There is a total lack of awareness.\n\n\"GBS is just not publicised - if you know you have it, at least it highlights it could be a problem.\n\n\"In my experience the NHS were brilliant once they did know.\n\n\"GBS needs to be talked about and women need to ask for a test.\"\n\nThe Department for Health said its position with regard to routine testing was kept \"under regular review\".\n\n\"If you are concerned about GBS, discuss it with your doctor or midwife,\" it added.", "A bride and groom got a stunning backdrop for their wedding photographs when their celebrations were interrupted by the Northern Lights.\n\nRebecca MacDonald and Chris Oram were rushed outside to get pictures taken in front of the aurora borealis.\n\nWedding photographer Michael Carver had wanted to capture a picture of newly weds with the Northern Lights for the last 10 years.\n\n\"But the stars had never aligned until Monday night,\" he said.\n\nRebecca, from Inverness, and Chris, from Cambridge, said the end result was \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\nThe couple's celebrations took place at Bogbain Farm, on the outskirts of Inverness.\n\nMichael had been leaving when he noticed a text from his partner telling him that the Northern Lights were visible.\n\nThe Inverness-based photographer could see the aurora faintly in the sky, but more clearly on his mobile phone.\n\nSpotting a wedding guest outside, he asked them to rush back into the venue to find the couple so he could set up his camera equipment.\n\nMichael said: \"The groom was found quite quickly, but the bride was nowhere to be found at first and then I think she was dragged from the dance floor.\"\n\nRebecca told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that after dinner one of her friends had said there was a red alert for the Northern Lights.\n\nThe aurora is a natural phenomenon linked to activity on the Sun\n\nThe aurora is a form of space weather, and displays are linked to activity on the sun. They are not always visible, and displays can be obscured by cloud.\n\nIts colours, which at times can be green, pink and purple, are not usually clearly visible to the naked eye, but can be picked up by cameras.\n\nMichael, who has a background in photographing landscapes and the aurora, said Rebecca and Chris were initially a bit bewildered by the interruption to their celebrations.\n\nRebecca said she had heard guests screaming her name and had wondered what all the excitement was.\n\nJoining Chris outside, they could see the faint glow of the aurora.\n\nRebecca said: \"Michael had us up on a rock at one point.\n\n\"He took his first photo and got the green and then we moved position and he got the change to the pink. It was absolutely fantastic.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None The aurora hunters who chase the Northern Lights", "King Charles III raised a toast to his hosts Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron at a star-studded banquet in Versailles.\n\nFamous guests including Hugh Grant, Arsene Wenger and Didier Drogba joined the dinner - which was part of a three-day state visit to France.\n\nRead more on this story here.", "Chris Kaba, who was due to become a father, was shot through a car windscreen by a Met Police officer\n\nThe police watchdog has referred the case of an unarmed black man shot dead by an officer to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nFather-to-be Chris Kaba, 24, was shot by a Met Police officer through the windscreen of a car in Streatham Hill, south London, on 5 September last year.\n\nThe family told the BBC that it welcomed the decision but wanted the officer to face criminal charges.\n\nThe Met Police marksman who fired the fatal shot was suspended.\n\nIn a joint statement, the family said: \"Our family, alongside the community who have supported us over the past seven months, have been consistent in our call for accountability.\n\n\"This step forward is necessary and welcome. We urge the CPS to do their bit and provide their advice to the The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) urgently.\"\n\nIOPC director Amanda Rowe said the referral does not necessarily mean that criminal charges would follow.\n\nShe added: \"During the investigation, the officer was advised they were under criminal investigation for murder and following the conclusion of our investigation we have referred a file of evidence to the CPS to determine whether to charge the officer.\n\n\"It is now for the CPS to decide, applying the tests in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, whether or not to prosecute the officer.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: \"Chris had his whole life ahead of him and his death has had a huge impact on Londoners, and in particular black Londoners, with anger, pain and fear felt across communities, along with a desire for change and justice.\n\n\"It was vital that the IOPC fully investigated all the evidence before making a decision, and now that they have referred this case to the CPS, I hope it will be considered as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's director general said there's \"no room for complacency\" in the TV industry as he announced a review of complaints against Russell Brand during his time working for the broadcaster.\n\nBrand hosted programmes on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2 between 2006 and 2008, as well as being a guest on other shows.\n\nThe corporation has already removed some programmes featuring the comedian and actor from its streaming services.\n\nIt comes after he was accused of rape and sexual assaults, which he denies.\n\nBrand has said his relationships were \"always consensual\" and that he is the subject of a \"co-ordinated attack\".\n\nOn Tuesday, director general Tim Davie told staff the BBC's internal review would \"look at any complaints made about Russell Brand's conduct during his time, what was known at the time, what was done\", and promised \"full transparency\".\n\nHe said: \"The objective is to be totally transparent - just share what we have and be really supportive in terms of how we do it.\"\n\nHe added that he wanted the review to be completed in \"weeks not months\", and \"we do want to get to the facts\".\n\nChannel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, has also announced an internal investigation.\n\nAlthough the alleged assaults are not said to have taken place on BBC or Channel 4 premises, the allegations have led to questions over whether broadcasters were aware of, and acted on, any complaints.\n\nThe assault allegations were made at the weekend in a joint investigation between Channel 4's Dispatches, the Times and the Sunday Times.\n\nThey quoted sources claiming a complaint was made to BBC management about an \"alarming display of aggression and disrespect\" from Brand while he was hosting his show.\n\nOne of Brand's accusers, a woman known as Alice, said a car provided by the BBC for Brand collected her and took her to his house, when he was in his 30s and she was a 16-year-old schoolgirl.\n\nShe now wants to know \"why more wasn't done at the time\" to protect young women.\n\nMr Davie confirmed the review would look into \"the position regarding any cars used by the BBC at that time\".\n\nDispatches also broadcast clips of Brand on air in 2007 offering to send his female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile naked, and discussing his sexual fantasies about an \"erotic\" Radio 2 newsreader. He was also said to have exposed himself while urinating in a bottle in front of colleagues and guests.\n\nMr Davie said the BBC had changed since then. \"When I listened back, frankly, to some of those broadcasts I go, that is just completely unacceptable,\" he said. \"What led to that being on air?\"\n\nHe said the TV industry had experienced \"significant issues\" with \"a deep power imbalance\" between presenters and other staff.\n\n\"There is no room for complacency,\" he continued. \"I do feel we're in a different place, I'm proud of our culture, but to say that doesn't mean there aren't dangers. We should all be looking after each other, we should be very vigilant, we should keep improving our processes.\"\n\nThe comedian resigned from the BBC in 2008 after a prank call on the show with comedian Jonathan Ross to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.\n\nHe did return as a guest, and the corporation has removed some programmes that \"now falls below public expectations\" from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.\n\nAn episode of QI and a Joe Wicks podcast, both of which featured appearances by Brand, are believed to have been removed, although other programmes, such as his 2013 appearance on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, are still online.\n\n\"The BBC does not ban or remove content when it is a matter of public record, unless we have justification for doing so,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nChannel 4 has removed all programmes featuring the comedian.\n\nThe chair of the House of Commons media committee has written to the two broadcasters about their investigations.\n\n\"The allegations have been widely described by reporters in the press and on social media as an 'open secret' and quite often these secrets are shared between friends and colleagues just to keep each other safe,\" Dame Caroline Dinenage said.\n\n\"But my concern is when people in power are aware of rumours or stories yet don't act, then a culture is allowed to permeate.\"\n\nIn a letter to Dame Caroline, Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon said she was \"appalled\" by the allegations. She said the company had \"carried out extensive document searches\" but had \"found no evidence to suggest the alleged incidents were brought to the attention of Channel 4 management at the time\".\n\nShe added: \"We will continue to look at this issue and will forensically examine any further information, including the accounts of those affected.\"\n\nShe said she had also asked Banijay, the company that now owns the producer of programmes he hosted like Big Brother's Big Mouth to \"urgently and comprehensively investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us\".\n\nDame Caroline also wrote to GB News about presenter Beverly Turner's support for Brand in a tweet over the weekend and her defence of it while presenting coverage of the allegations on Monday.\n\nWhile Turner was challenged on her comments by co-presenter Andrew Pierce, the MP said the committee was \"concerned that having a presenter so clearly supporting an individual who is the subject of intense media coverage, including seeking their appearance on the show, undermines any perception of due impartiality in the broadcasting\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, YouTube announced it had suspended Brand's channels from making money from adverts for \"violating\" its \"creator responsibility policy\", while podcast platform Acast said adverts were turned off \"immediately\" for Brand's Under The Skin podcast following the allegations.\n\nDame Caroline has written to TikTok to ask whether Brand will still receive ad revenue from its platform, and what procedures are in place to ensure creators cannot undermine the welfare of victims.", "Michael Gove has announced he will appoint commissioners to take over Birmingham City Council\n\nEmergency measures to help run Birmingham City Council during its financial crisis have been announced by the government.\n\nCommissioners will oversee the effectively bankrupt authority, with powers to make decisions directly.\n\nLevelling Up secretary Michael Gove told the Commons bosses at the Labour-run council had \"harmed the city\".\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street suggested the authority could sell its stake in Birmingham Airport.\n\nThe \"asset rich\" council could also raise funds by disposing of some of the 40% of the land in the city that it owns, he added.\n\nMr Gove said a local inquiry into the financial crisis would be launched.\n\nThe authority is facing the prospect of a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.\n\nIt has also warned the bill is increasing by £5m to £14m each month.\n\nThe government was prepared to extend additional financial support to the city, Mr Gove said, but he warned of \"tough decisions\" ahead, with a hike in council tax and a sale of assets each a possibility.\n\n\"Poor leadership, weak governance, woeful mismanagement of employee relations and ineffective service delivery have harmed the city,\" Mr Gove told Parliament.\n\n\"I do not take these decisions lightly, but it is imperative in order to protect the interests of the residents and taxpayers of Birmingham, and to provide ongoing assurance to the whole local government sector.\"\n\nAndy Street, mayor of the West Midlands, said the situation in Birmingham was an \"avoidable tragedy\"\n\nThe commissioners, he confirmed, would have the means to make decisions directly, if needed, and the inquiry would consider \"the more fundamental questions\" of how the city got into its position.\n\nThe council had to prepare, and agree, an improvement plan within six months but had only five working days to make representations, Mr Gove announced.\n\nResponding in the Commons, Angela Rayner, shadow Levelling Up secretary, said a \"crisis\" in local government had been caused by \"the Conservatives' wrecking ball\".\n\n\"With every swing, another local council is pushed to the brink and another local community falls over the edge,\" she said.\n\n\"And this isn't a one-off. So can I ask [Mr Gove] what work his department is doing to support local authorities that are warning of financial distress now?\"\n\nThe leader of Birmingham's administration, John Cotton, said the authority would now work with the government to get the council back on \"a sound financial footing\".\n\nHe had been concerned there was a lack of senior capacity at the council \"to deal with the issues that we faced\", he posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nThe council is also facing a projected deficit of £87m in this year's budget.\n\nAs a result of the inability to balance the books, it earlier this month announced all new spending would cease, although services it has a statutory duty to provide - including education, social care and waste collections - will continue.\n\nTwo months before the issuing of that Section 114 notice, which formally outlined the constraints, the council said it had taken the decision to stop spending on all \"non-essential\" services. What those are have yet to be announced.\n\nMr Gove has appointed Max Caller as the lead commissioner, a previous adviser to the city who has since said hosting the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham was a \"mistake\".\n\nA former chief executive of the London boroughs of Hackney and Barnet, Mr Caller was the lead commissioner into the recent intervention at Slough Borough Council, and was previously lead inspector for best value inspections at Liverpool and Northamptonshire councils.\n\nThe Commonwealth Games was hailed as the start of a so-called \"golden decade\" for the city\n\nMr Street said the council's situation was an \"avoidable tragedy\" but added he fully supported the government's intervention.\n\n\"What is mission critical now is for the commissioners to work with the council to protect services for residents and businesses across the city,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Both should work in tandem to address the equal pay bill as quickly and effectively as possible to get the council back on a secure financial footing.\"\n\nHe said the review must be \"rigorous in identifying and then resolving the underlying cultural and process failings in the council once and for all\".\n\nWhile he suggested selling off assets to pay its huge bills, Mr Street warned against selling cultural assets such as the city museum and art gallery or Aston Hall.\n\nAn extraordinary general meeting of the full council is due to be held next Monday to discuss a financial recovery plan.\n\nIn a report released ahead of it, chief executive Deborah Cadman said work to address problems \"must be urgent, will involve hard choices about what we deliver and how we operate and will result in a smaller organisation\".\n\nThe council has already paid out more than £1bn in compensation to underpaid workers.\n\nThe settling of claims in 2012 followed a court ruling that found hundreds of mostly female employees, working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering positions, missed out on bonuses given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners.\n\nIn June, it emerged there was a further £760m equal pay liability - a sum equivalent to the entire annual spending on services and no means to meet the bill.\n\nFinancial support from the government could take the form of permission to borrow money to service debt, or sell assets, such as buildings and land, to raise cash to deal with its financial liabilities.\n\nCouncil tax could be raised in the city, Mr Gove said\n\nProf Tony Travers, visiting professor in the London School of Economics' Department of Government, told the BBC selling off assets \"would not provide money immediately to relieve 'annual' budget pressures\".\n\nBut he said the government had in the past allowed Birmingham to \"capitalise\" spending earmarked for equal pay, meaning the council could use the money from asset sales to cover such liabilities.\n\nCouncillor Robert Alden, leader of the Conservative opposition in Birmingham, said residents deserved better and called for more transparency from the authority over equal pay claims.\n\nThe Labour administration had \"failed to get a grip\" of the issue, he said, adding that they had not listened to the opposition, officers, auditors or trade unions.\n\n\"They have put their heads in the sand instead of facing up to the mess they've made,\" he said.\n\nThe Secretary of State's rebuke of Birmingham City Council's leadership was stinging.\n\nHe criticised the culture at the top of the authority and said in an era of senior leaders coming and going, \"the one constant has been a failure to deliver for residents\".\n\nJust a year ago, the city was basking in the glow of hosting the Commonwealth Games - a tournament which the council said would herald a \"golden decade\" for Birmingham.\n\nNow, some residents have been walking the streets wondering which of the city's crown jewels will have to be sold off to balance its books.\n\nAmong other measures to address the financial woes, an increase in council tax has been suggested in a report released ahead of Monday's council meeting.\n\nBut that will fall on people who are already dealing with a cost of living crisis.\n\nAnd although the council leader has said the authority will \"continue to be on the side of our residents\" there are worries that those who are struggling the most will be hardest hit by the cuts that are on the way.\n\nThe GMB union called on the authority to compensate women affected by inequalities in pay.\n\n\"The quickest, cheapest and fairest way to get a grip of the crisis in Birmingham is to work with GMB to end the discrimination and [to] compensate the women,\" said Rhea Wolfson, the union's head of industrial relations.\n\nMeanwhile, Unite warned it would fight any attempt to cut jobs of its members at the council ahead of the commissioners' takeover.\n\nGeneral secretary Sharon Graham said: \"No-one should be under any illusion, Unite will never sit back and allow our Birmingham city council members' jobs to be sacrificed to pay for others' failures.\n\n\"If there is any attempt to cut the jobs, pay or conditions of our members, Unite will fight those proposals using every resource available to the union.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The couple wed in 2011 and have a child together\n\nUS actress Bijou Phillips has reportedly filed for divorce from Danny Masterson less than two weeks after the That '70s Show star was jailed for two rapes.\n\nMs Phillips, 43, cited \"irreconcilable differences\" between the pair after 12 years of marriage, according to documents seen by US media.\n\nShe was in court earlier this month when Masterson, 47, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.\n\nThe couple have a child together.\n\nAttorneys for Ms Phillips and Masterson did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the BBC on Tuesday.\n\nBut Peter Lauzon, Ms Phillips' lawyer, confirmed the divorce filing in a statement to US media, saying: \"Her priority remains with [their child].\"\n\nMr Lauzon's statement added that Masterson \"was always present for Phillips during her most difficult times\" and \"is a wonderful father\".\n\n\"She hopes that everyone will respect her family's privacy in these difficult times,\" he wrote.\n\nThe divorce petition reportedly filed on Monday in Santa Barbara Superior Court requests full legal and physical custody of their child, as well as spousal support.\n\nIt also seeks to \"terminate the court's ability to grant support\" to Masterson and asks that their assets be divided up as separate property.\n\nThe two were engaged in 2009 and wed in Ireland in 2011.\n\nMs Phillips, a former teenage model and singer-turned-actress, stood by her husband throughout his lengthy trials on three rape counts stemming from 2003.\n\nJurors deadlocked on each count against Masterson last year, leading to a mistrial.\n\nBut another jury in May convicted him on two of three counts. Two women testified he had put drugs in their drinks and violently assaulted them.\n\nIn a letter to the judge before his 7 September sentencing, Ms Phillips described Masterson as \"a life-saving partner to me\", adding that she was \"heartbroken that he is not home with us\".\n\nAfter the sentence was handed down, she was seen weeping in court and her husband blew a kiss in her direction as he was led from court.\n\nThe divorce adds to the continuing fallout from the Masterson conviction.\n\nHis former co-stars, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, were forced to apologise after a backlash to their own pre-sentencing letters to the judge in support of leniency.\n\nMr Kutcher has also stepped down from Thorn, a charity he set up to tackle child sexual abuse.", "Ken Livingstone was a major figure in London's politics for decades\n\nFormer London mayor Ken Livingstone has Alzheimer's disease, his family has announced.\n\nThe 78-year-old is being \"well cared for by his family and friends\" as he lives a \"private life\" in retirement, they told the PA news agency.\n\nMr Livingstone became the first directly elected mayor of London in 2000, a role he held for eight years.\n\nHe resigned from the Labour Party in 2018 over accusations of antisemitism, which he had denied.\n\nHis family said: \"In response to media inquiries, the Livingstone family today announce that Ken Livingstone, ex-MP for Brent and former mayor of London, has been diagnosed with and is living with Alzheimer's disease.\n\n\"Although a previously prominent public figure, Ken is now retired and lives a private life.\n\n\"Ken is being well cared for by his family and friends and we ask you for your understanding and to respect his privacy and that of his family.\"\n\nAlzheimer's is a physical illness that damages the brain. The Alzheimer's Society says it is the most common cause of dementia in the UK.\n\nMr Livingstone was a prominent figure in London politics from the 1970s.\n\nIn his heyday, \"Red Ken\" was a thorn in the side both of Margaret Thatcher's Tories and, later, New Labour under Tony Blair.\n\nMr Livingstone, pictured here with Neil Kinnock, has been a prominent figure on the left of the Labour Party\n\nIn defiance of the Labour Party, Mr Livingstone stood as an independent to become the directly elected mayor of London when the powerful post was first created.\n\nIn his second term, which he won as the official Labour candidate, he earned praise for the way he stood up for the capital after the July 2005 suicide bombings and helped the city win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.\n\nMr Livingstone lost control of City Hall in 2008 when he was defeated by Boris Johnson and a failed bid to return to office in 2012 marked the end of his electoral ambitions.\n\nHe became embroiled in a string of allegations about antisemitism, over which he quit the Labour Party in 2018.\n\nIt came after a long-running row over his claims that Adolf Hitler had backed Zionism in the 1930s, which had originally seen him suspended from the party in 2016.\n\nMr Livingstone did not accept that he was guilty of antisemitism or that he had brought Labour into disrepute.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Evil cannot be trusted,\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the UN General Assembly, as he urged the world to unite to end Russian aggression against his country.\n\nIn a passionate speech in New York, Mr Zelensky said a nuclear-armed Moscow must be stopped from \"pushing the world to the final war\".\n\nHe also accused Russia of weaponising everything from food to energy.\n\nIn a speech which focused heavily on the danger Russia poses to the world, he argued that other common challenges such as climate change can only be properly addressed after Moscow had been pushed back.\n\n\"While Russia is pushing the world to the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after the Russian aggression no-one in the world will dare to attack any nation,\" Mr Zelensky said to world leaders attending the annual General Assembly.\n\nHe also said Russia simply had \"no right to hold nuclear weapons\".\n\n\"Weaponisation must be restrained, war crimes must be punished, deported people must come back home, and the occupier must return to their own land.\n\n\"We must be united to make it, and we will do it!\" Mr Zelensky said.\n\nHe also accused Moscow of carrying out \"genocide\" by abducting Ukrainian children.\n\nIn March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the alleged unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied Ukraine's accusations - but a number international experts and organisations point to a growing evidence that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Leaders show different approaches on Ukraine at Unga\n\nThe Ukrainian president went on to warn against \"shady deals\" to try to end the war - the biggest in Europe since World War Two - on unfair terms.\n\nBut his key point was to warn the international community that the outcome of the war would affect everyone.\n\nRussia's goal, he said, was to turn Ukraine into \"a weapon against you, against the rules-based international order\".\n\nThe peace formula that he had been outlining for months was, he said, not just for Ukraine, but also the rest of the world.\n\nSo the pitch was clear and aimed squarely at countries - many of them in the so-called \"Global South\" including Brazil and India - which have thus far stayed on the sidelines.\n\nPresident Zelensky accused Russia of weaponising everything from food to energy\n\nA number of nations have even strengthened their economic ties with the Kremlin.\n\nWestern powers have been rushing around the UN trying to address those countries' wider concerns about development issues and climate change.\n\nEarlier in the day, the Ukrainian leader applauded Joe Biden's speech, in which his US counterpart warned of grave consequences if Russia's aggression was not stopped.\n\n\"Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalise Ukraine without consequence. If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMeanwhile, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi - whose country has provided combat drones to Russia and is seen as Moscow's key ally - accused Washington of escalating the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"The United States of America has fanned the flames of violence in Ukraine in order to weaken the European countries. This is a long-term plan, unfortunately,\" he told the gathering in New York.", "Behind his mild-mannered demeanour, this was an excoriating demolition of the Conservative governments that came before his, some of which Rishi Sunak was a member of.\n\nBoris Johnson didn’t get a mention, but boy his ideas and instincts were shredded - painted as shallow and un-thought through.\n\nRishi Sunak framed this as a blunt, direct and pragmatic clearing-up job that also illustrated his political creed - willing to embrace controversy to deliver what he believes is a hard-headed necessity.\n\nThe blizzard of criticism - an unlikely alliance taking in Ford and the National Trust among many others - he sought to walk towards rather than cower from. This was a storm of political choice for him after all - the beginning of a wider political strategy.\n\nFurther speeches will follow this autumn on wider themes. Expect more leaning in from the prime minister into a more aggressive approach.\n\nOn today's green themes, he and his advisers hope, beyond those with megaphones and PR departments condemning him today, many might quietly conclude he is on to something and being reasonable.\n\nIt's a gamble, without question - dividing his party, Parliament, and many in the country. But prime ministers miles behind their opponents with an election on the horizon have no choice but to gamble.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMost of the Spain team have agreed to end their boycott, says secretary of state for sports Victor Francos.\n\nThe agreement was reached at 05:00 local time on Wednesday after more than seven hours of meetings.\n\nFrancos said the Spanish football federation (RFEF) had committed to \"immediate and profound changes\".\n\nTwo of the 23 players named in the squad for this month's Nations League games - Mapi Leon and Patri Guijarro - have left the squad.\n\nThe rest of the players began the boycott after then RFEF president Luis Rubiales kissed forward Jenni Hermoso following Spain's triumph over England in the Women's World Cup final on 20 August.\n\nThe kiss, which Hermoso said was not consensual, led to Rubiales' resignation, while Spain manager Jorge Vilda was sacked.\n\nSpain are due to play Sweden on Friday and Switzerland on Tuesday.\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n• None The Sports Desk podcast: Is Spain's football crisis really over?\n\nFrancos, the head of the Spanish government's national sports agency (CSD), said: \"It is good news to be able to say that the team will play the next two games with guarantees.\"\n\nHe said a decision was reached following \"friendly\" talks in Valencia involving the players, RFEF officials, CSD and women's players' union Futpro.\n\n\"A joint commission will be created between RFEF, CSD and players to follow up on the agreements, which will be signed tomorrow,\" Francos said.\n\n\"The players have expressed their concern about the need for profound changes in the RFEF, which has committed to making these changes immediately.\"\n\nFrancos said Leon and Guijarro would not face sanctions and their decision was \"absolutely respectable\". The players could have faced fines or a ban from the Spain side for not turning up for international duty.\n\nLeon and Guijarro were among 15 players to boycott the national team before the World Cup in protest at the methods of then coach Vilda. They were not involved at this summer's tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\"It's a reality that the situation for me and for Patri is different to the rest of our team-mates,\" Leon said.\n\n\"We already knew this was not the right way to return, and we are not in the right state.\n\n\"We are content because the truth is that changes are being made, and in this we are giving full support to our team-mates.\"\n\nGuijarro said: \"They are working on the changes and of course we are with our team-mates, but it's true that it's a different situation.\n\n\"It's quite difficult and quite hard. Mentally we are not right to be here.\"\n\nOn Monday new head coach Montse Tome selected 15 players who were part of the World Cup squad in her squad for the Nations League games.\n\nAfter it was announced, the players published a statement saying the boycott remained in place and that they had been \"put in a position in which we never wanted to be in\".\n\nThey said they intended to explore the potential legal implications of being called up against their wishes.\n\nTome omitted Hermoso from the squad \"to protect her\".\n\nHermoso said selecting players who are boycotting the team showed \"nothing has changed\" at RFEF.\n\nThe CSD said a commission would be established to monitor the agreed changes, which will focus on equality policies, advances in equal pay and improving the infrastructure of women's sport.\n\nThe RFEF later confirmed the men's and women's Spanish national teams would merge under a single logo and branding known as Seleccion Espanola de Futbol, which translates to 'Spanish national team'.\n\n\"Beyond a symbolic step, we want it to imply a change in concept and the recognition that football is football, practised by whoever practises it,\" RFEF management commission president Pedro Rocha said.\n\n\"We believe that making it clear that the two teams are equal also allows us to move towards a more egalitarian concept of football.\"\n\nFutpro president Amanda Gutierrez said: \"The players see it as a rapprochement of positions. The vast majority have decided to stay for the sake of this agreement.\n\n\"It is the beginning of a long road ahead of us.\"\n\nThe Spain players travelled to the training camp in Valencia on Tuesday.\n\nAsked by reporters at Barcelona airport how she felt about the situation, midfielder and two-time Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas said: \"Well, bad.\"\n\nRubiales has been banned from going within 200 metres of Hermoso after she filed a legal complaint.\n\nAppearing in court for the first time on Friday, Rubiales denied sexually assaulting Hermoso.", "A powerful tornado has ripped through the city of Suqian in eastern China, leaving a trail of destruction.\n\nFootage of the aftermath shows power lines on fire and cars overturned.\n\nHundreds of people were temporarily relocated because of the tornado, and at least five people are known to have died, state media reported on Tuesday.\n\nLocal media also reported weather warnings for heavy rain and strong winds in the region.\n\nChina saw has seen both extreme heat and devastating floods this summer.\n\nThe impact of climate change on the frequency of storms is still unclear, but we know that increased sea surface temperatures warm the air above and make more energy available to drive hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons.\n\nAs a result, they are likely to be more intense with more extreme rainfall.", "Ihor Kolomoisky arrived at court in a blue FC Dnipro tracksuit jacket on Saturday\n\nOne of Ukraine's most powerful oligarchs is to be held in custody for two months on suspicion of fraud and money laundering.\n\nIhor Kolomoisky is alleged to have transferred $14m (£11.1m) abroad over seven years, using banks he controlled.\n\nHis lawyers say he will not post bail and will appeal against the court order.\n\nIt marks the latest move in Ukraine's anti-corruption drive, which has targeted several high-profile figures.\n\nLocal TV footage showed Mr Kolomoisky being led away from a district court in Kyiv dressed in a blue FC Dnipro tracksuit jacket on Saturday. His defence team say he is now being held at Ukraine's security service (SBU) headquarters in the city.\n\n\"It was established that during 2013-2020, Ihor Kolomoisky legalized more than half a billion hryvnias ($14m) by withdrawing them abroad and using the infrastructure of banks under [his] control,\" the agency said in a statement.\n\nIn his regular evening video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to allude to the case and said there would be no return to \"business as usual for those who plundered Ukraine and put themselves above the law\".\n\n\"Each of us feels that this will be a Ukraine with different rules,\" he said.\n\nMr Zelensky cited the fight against corruption as one of his main priorities when he came to power in 2019.\n\nSince Russia's invasion in February 2022, his administration has been eager to highlight Ukraine's crackdown on corruption - seen as one of the key tests the country would have to pass to join Western institutions like the European Union.\n\nSaturday's court ruling against Mr Kolomoisky is not the first move against him.\n\nThe tycoon's home in the south-eastern city of Dnipro was raided in February this year as part of a separate investigation into embezzlement and tax evasion at the country's two largest oil companies partially owned by him.\n\nIn 2021, the US placed him under sanctions for alleged \"significant corruption\" during his time as governor of the wider Dnipropetrovsk region. He has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr Kolomoisky is a wealthy businessman involved in Ukrainian media, oil and banking. His TV channel gave Mr Zelensky his break with the comedy series Servant of the People, before he backed the former actor's bid for the presidency.\n\nThe president faced accusations of acting as Mr Kolomoisky's puppet during the election campaign, including from rival and former president Petro Poroshenko.\n\nBut the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly denied that Mr Kolomoisky has had any influence over the government.", "Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump's personal lawyer, in a police booking mugshot released by Fulton County Sheriff's Office\n\nDonald Trump's long-time confidant Rudy Giuliani and six other alleged co-conspirators have pleaded not guilty to state charges in Georgia.\n\nMr Giuliani is charged with 13 crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.\n\nThey join Mr Trump and several other co-defendants in entering not guilty pleas, waiving their right to appear in person for a hearing next week.\n\nAll 19 have been allowed to go free pending trial after paying bail.\n\nOn Thursday, the judge overseeing Mr Trump's case announced that the trial would be streamed on YouTube.\n\nA date for the trial has not yet been set, but it could be next year, in the middle of the former president's run for re-election.\n\nThe next court date is an arraignment on Wednesday, a short hearing at which charges are read.\n\nMr Trump and the other alleged co-conspirators briefly travelled to Atlanta last week to turn themselves in at Fulton County Jail and have their mugshots taken.\n\nAll 19 defendants in the case - including Donald Trump - are charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, commonly known as the Rico act.\n\nThey have denied any wrongdoing.\n\nAcross the US and at the federal level, Rico laws are used to help prosecutors connect underlings who broke the law with those who gave orders or organised the crime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter surrendering to authorities in Georgia last week, Mr Giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, stood outside the jail and called the prosecution \"a travesty\".\n\n\"I am very, very honoured to be involved in this case, because this case is a fight for our way of life,\" he said.\n\nOther suspects who have entered not guilty pleas include Ken Chesebro, the alleged architect of the fake electors scheme who has petitioned the court for a speedy trial, and lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.\n\nUpdate 11 September 2023: The video in this article has been updated to reflect the nature of the charges against Mr Trump and other defendants.", "The Public Health Agency made the precautionary measure after a new Covid variant emerged\n\nThe bringing forward of this year's flu and Covid vaccination programmes in Northern Ireland will cause chaos, a GP representative has said.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) said it made the decision as a precautionary measure following the identification of a new Covid variant.\n\nThe programme has been brought forward to 18 September.\n\nDr Alan Stout said most GPs were informed about the decision by social media.\n\nThe vaccines are available to over 65s, frontline care workers and some others groups.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says there is limited information available about the new variant BA.2.86, but it has a high number of mutations and has appeared in several countries.\n\nIt is not classified as a variant of concern but health officials believe speeding up the vaccination programme will protect those at greatest risk of becoming severely ill.\n\nDr Joanne McClean from the PHA said that there was no evidence that the new variant was more transmissible or would cause more severe illness.\n\nTwo cases of the new variant have been identified in the UK and Dr McClean said it was \"inevitable\" that it would eventually be detected in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said the move was a precaution, adding \"we would rather be safe than sorry\".\n\n\"We always said that new variants emerged that looked a bit different that we would react to that and that's what we are doing\", she said.\n\nDr McClean said there had been a rise in cases over the summer but this was much lower compared to previous waves and has since declined.\n\nShe said the PHA currently did not have plans to roll out a wider vaccination programme with the focus being on protecting the most vulnerable groups.\n\nDr Alan Stout, the chair of the British Medical Association's GP committee in Northern Ireland, said he first learned the decision may be made after discussions with colleagues about proposed changes to the programme in England.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the decision would cause chaos for GP surgeries which are already under pressure\n\nHowever, Dr Stout said that after he raised the issue with the Department of Health, it said it was not aware of any potential changes.\n\n\"This isn't about the decision or the rationale,\" he explained. \"It's about the communication. GPs as we all know deliver the vast majority of these vaccines every year,\" he said.\n\nDr Stout said GPs had in fact still not been \"officially\" told about the decision.\n\n\"We don't have the CMO (chief medical officer) letter which officially starts the programme, we haven't been told what vaccine we are going to use, we haven't got any information on supply of vaccine or delivery dates or quotas.\n\n\"We were working towards a start date of early October and a lot of practices have actually been ahead of the curve and will have booked their clinics.\"\n\nDr Stout said this move would cause \"chaos\" for GP practices, which are already under pressure, for a number of weeks with \"phone lines going mad\".", "The RSV Nuyina set off from Hobart in Tasmania last week\n\nAustralia has launched an urgent operation to rescue a researcher with a \"developing medical condition\" from the remote Casey outpost in Antarctica.\n\nThe icebreaker RSV Nuyina left from Tasmania last week, the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) said.\n\nIt is travelling thousands of miles to reach the station after an air rescue was ruled out due to harsh conditions.\n\nThe AAP said the researcher, an Australian, needs specialist treatment but did not name the condition.\n\nThe programme added that it had taken weeks to prepare the Nuyina for the mission, including equipping it with helicopters.\n\nCasey research station is a journey of 2,139 miles (3,443km) from Hobart in Tasmania and one of three permanent Antarctic stations run by the AAP.\n\nThe Nuyina, which cost A$528m ($342m; £271m) to build, has a top speed of 16 knots, or around 18 miles an hour, meaning a journey of several days.\n\nIt is understood that an evacuation by air was not possible - the nearby Wilkins aerodrome near Casey has an ice runway and is often unusable during the harsh winter.\n\nAccording to reports the runway would need weeks of preparation to use, and therefore it is far quicker to send the icebreaker.\n\nMedical facilities are limited on the research station, and only about 20 people live there during winter when conditions are at their worst.\n\nA spokesman for the AAP told the BBC that the \"wellbeing of our people is our highest priority\".\n\n\"The expeditioner's family is being kept fully informed of the situation,\" it added. \"All other personnel on stations are accounted for and safe.\"\n\nCasey Research Station is manned by around 20 people in winter\n\nAustralia requires all researchers sent to Antarctica to undergo lengthy medical examinations before deployment.\n\nEvacuations from one of the most inhospitable areas of the planet are often complex, expensive, fraught with danger and can require assistance from international partners.\n\nIn December 2020, Australia needed help from the US and China to evacuate an expeditioner.\n\nEarlier the same year, an Australian Airbus A319 was sent to McMurdo station to evacuate an unwell American.", "Buildings in Dundee's Ninewells Hospital are identified in the report\n\nMore than 250 NHS buildings in Scotland could contain a potentially dangerous type of concrete that can collapse without warning.\n\nNHS Scotland issued a Safety Action Notice in February and completed a \"desktop survey\" of its estate in June.\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was used to build roofs, walls and floors from the 1960s to the 1990s.\n\nNHS Scotland has warned the material is potentially vulnerable to \"catastrophic failure without warning\".\n\nBut a Scottish government spokesperson said there was \"no evidence to suggest that these buildings are not safe.\"\n\nNHS Scotland's review identified 254 buildings that \"have two or more characteristics which are consistent with the presence of RAAC\".\n\nFollowing the desktop survey, health officials began on-site investigations to determine whether RAAC is actually present. These are expected to take between six and eight months to complete.\n\nThe sites identified in the initial survey range from main ward hospital blocks to disused public toilets.\n\nMajor sites such as Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock and the more recently constructed Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow are named in the report as having buildings which could contain RAAC.\n\nAny repairs are expected to come at a considerable cost.\n\nNHS Grampian had the most buildings which could potentially contain RAAC, with 53 identified by the health board, followed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with 44 and NHS Lothian with 35.\n\nNHS Highland identified 25 potentially affected buildings, while NHS Fife had 22. NHS Forth Valley reported eight and NHS Borders seven.\n\nThe lightweight concrete was widely used from the 1960s to the 1990s\n\nThe lightweight concrete was used in roofs, floors and walls between the 1950s and 1990s as a cheaper alternative to the standard building material.\n\nIt was widely used in public buildings and has been found in Scottish hospitals, schools and police stations.\n\nRAAC has air bubbles inside of it and has a limited lifespan.\n\nNHS Scotland warned in its Safety Action Notice that RAAC planks are considered to be \"relatively weak and prone to degradation over time\".\n\nIt added: \"The limited visible exposure of panels to assess their condition may result in catastrophic failure without warning.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said NHS Boards were required to regularly assess the condition of their property.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"The programme of activity planned for RAAC is in line with these requirements.\n\n\"Due to our absolute commitment to ensuring facilities are sound we have commissioned this exercise to better understand the position.\"\n\nThe alarm was first raised about the potential dangers of RAAC, also known as Siporex, in 2018 after the roof of a primary school in Kent suddenly gave way.\n\nA leaked email sent to Downing Street from senior officials at the Department for Education in December said many school buildings now posed a \"risk to life\" as a result of the presence of crumbling concrete.\n\nPupils at two Edinburgh primary schools will be moved into temporary classrooms when the new term begins next month after RAAC was found in the roofs.\n\nChildren at Trinity and Cramond primaries will be taught in portable classroom units.\n\nFour classes at Trinity Primary will move into makeshift classrooms being erected in the nearby Trinity Academy playground.\n\nAnd at Cramond, two blocks each with two separate rooms and toilets will be sited on the netball pitch.\n\nThe makeshift units were previously used at Liberton Primary School after a fire caused significant damage to the building in 2020.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has not said when the remedial work will begin, but it has asked engineers to progress initial designs for the roof replacements.\n\nEarlier this year, the council said 15 buildings it owned\"may\" contain the concrete mix and surveys are ongoing to determine if any others are at risk.\n\nJoan Griffiths, education, children and families convener for Edinburgh Council, said: \"The safety of all our young people and staff in our schools is paramount and the measures we have taken reinforce this position.\n\n\"As soon as this was confirmed we immediately put in place alternative learning and teaching arrangements at these schools for the small number of classes affected.\"\n\nOther local authorities, including West Lothian Council, have already set out plans to spend millions replacing RAAC panels in schools.", "The poster was placed in the Chapel Road area of Dungiven\n\nPolice have said information on a poster put up in Dungiven linking three people to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is incorrect.\n\nThe details were publicly displayed in Chapel Road on Thursday evening.\n\nAss Ch Con Chris Todd said it was a \"clear attempt to intimidate police officers, staff and their families\".\n\nLast month, the names of 10,000 officers and civilian staff were mistakenly released in a Freedom of Information request.\n\nAss Ch Con Chris Todd said he recognised the impact on the individuals and their families following Thursday's incident and that police have been in contact with them.\n\nThe senior officer said an investigation was under way and additional security and patrols had been implemented across Northern Ireland as part of the police response.\n\nHe added that \"police can confirm that the information contained on the poster is incorrect\".\n\nOne woman in her 50s from a small, rural village in County Derry spoke to BBC News NI.\n\nShe said she shared the same name as one of those on the poster but neither she, nor anyone in her family, had any connection with the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey says he has spoken with two of the people named\n\nSinn Féin councillor Sean McGlinchey said the incident is \"very sinister\" and the poster was quickly removed early on Friday morning.\n\n\"As a party we have bought in to try and make policing work,\" he said.\n\n\"We have a system on the Policing Board of accountability and that's the way forward - there is no other way we are going to change society or make policing work.\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell described the timing of the incident as \"exceptionally sinister and serious\".\n\n\"Coming into the week with the chief constable, the whole issue with the Policing Board and morale at an all-time low in the police, now someone has decided - at the weekend of that week - to put this up,\" he said.\n\nDUP MP Gregory Campbell says some of the information which was posted was not accurate\n\n\"My information is that some of the information contained on this banner, or whatever it was, isn't even accurate.\n\n\"It's designed to create tension and cause a division and we have to make sure that it doesn't succeed in doing that.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Cara Hunter said \"given the sensitive nature of policing here, it's imperative that officers feel as safe as possible in their homes and in their communities\".\n\n\"It's disgraceful that anyone would try to exploit this to intimidate or to put officers in real danger,\" she said.\n\n\"Those who seek to intimidate or threaten police have no support from the local community here and any attempt to use information about police officers in this way should be fully condemned and rejected.\"\n\nPolice appealed to anyone with any information relating to this incident to contact them on 101. They said they were particularly keen to hear from anyone who was travelling through Dungiven on Thursday night and who may have dash cam footage.", "The government could ban unlicensed providers of cosmetic treatments in England, in what industry bodies say would be the biggest shake-up in a generation.\n\nUnder the plans, anyone carrying out Botox, breast or butt lift injections would have to be trained and licensed, with their premises also inspected.\n\nThe proposals have been have been opened up for public consultation.\n\nBut some say enforcing the regulations could be a challenge.\n\nThere has been an explosion in cosmetic procedures in recent years, with much of it being fuelled by sales on social media and in beauty shops on the High Street.\n\nAt present, healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses and dentists carrying out non-surgical cosmetic procedures have to be trained and insured to do them as part of the requirements laid down by their regulatory bodies.\n\nBut there is no set training for beauty therapists and other non-professionals.\n\nIn early 2022, the government said it wanted to introduce a licensing scheme for Botox and fillers to protect patients, with details to be firmed up after a public consultation.\n\nMaria Caulfield, the minister for women's health strategy, said there had been \"too many stories of people who've had bad experiences\" from getting a cosmetic procedure from someone who is inexperienced or underqualified.\n\nNearly 3,000 were sent last year to registered practitioner service Save Face, out of a total of 900,000 non-surgical cosmetic procedures carried out in the UK.\n\nMs Caulfield said it was the government's role \"to ensure consistent standards for consumers and a level playing field for businesses and practitioners\".\n\nFormer Love Island contestant Faye Winter said Botox procedures which had gone \"terribly wrong\" left her in physical pain and impacted her mental health.\n\nThe TV personality told BBC Radio 4's PM programme how on one occasion she had Botox injected into the wrong muscles, leaving her eyebrows paralysed.\n\nShe continued: \"I didn't want to leave my house, I was crying...when I look back I really wish there was someone there who said 'you don't need that, are you sure you want to do that? - not 'okay, well I'll take your money'.\"\n\nEx-Love Island star Faye Winter said botched Botox impacted her physical and mental health\n\nThe proposed new licensing scheme will make it a criminal offence for anyone to carry out non-surgical cosmetic treatments without a licence.\n\nThe BBC understands that injections for vitamins, weight loss and hay fever will be included on that list of treatments.\n\nThose administering them will have to be trained, qualified and experienced, have the correct insurance cover and operate from clean and hygienic premises which are also licensed.\n\nThe scheme will be administered by local authorities across England.\n\nProf David Sines, chairman of the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners charity, said: \"This will dramatically improve consumer safety and reduce the risk of injury and harm arising from 'botched' and improperly performed cosmetic treatments.\"\n\nAshton Collins, director of Save Face, said the licensing scheme was still in its \"very early stages\" and the main focus had to be public safety.\n\nShe is concerned that online sellers of cheap beauty treatments who \"operate in the shadows\" will remain unlicensed.\n\nShe also said too many people assume the person injecting is trained and do not ask to see their qualifications, or request the face-to-face consultation with a healthcare professional to which they are entitled.\n\nSo-called \"Brazilian butt lifts\" and breast enlargement injections are thought to be the most high-risk unregulated procedures on offer in the UK.\n\nIt became illegal to give Botox-style injections or fillers for cosmetic reasons to under-18s in England last year. It is also illegal to advertise the treatments to children.\n\nPeople and businesses can share their views in a consultation on the licensing scheme until 28 October on the government website.", "Anthony Kiedis, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a standout client for Greg\n\nWhat do Dermot Kennedy and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis have in common?\n\nThere's the stardom and the chart hits, of course, but also an unlikely style connection - they've both shared a barber, Londonderry's Greg McNeil.\n\nGreg and his team travels around the island, working with famous faces at gigs and music festivals.\n\nIt's exciting work, said the owner of Bareknuckle Barbershop on Derry's Spencer Road.\n\n\"It takes you away from your normal nine to five of just cutting hair,\" Greg told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe started out on his own in 2015 after completing an apprenticeship and it wasn't long before opportunity came knocking.\n\nHe was invited to work at Electric Picnic music festival after another barber noticed his work at a showcase.\n\n\"Three or four weeks before [Electric Picnic] he got in touch to say they had another big festival if you want to come down,\" he continued.\n\n\"As soon as we walked in we saw everyone - Dua Lipa, Stormzy, all these people - and then the nerves set in.\n\n\"It's went from doing one or two festivals to doing a multitude of gigs.\n\nThe Bareknuckle Barbershop team were excited to meet Dermot Kennedy at Marley Park this year\n\n\"This year has just been crazy. We started on the 4 June and got home on the 6 July, with maybe two days off in between.\n\n\"The promoters said they didn't want to stress us too much with opportunities but we said we'd take every opportunity they've got going.\"\n\nOne of the questions most often put to Greg is whether he feels nervous cutting the hair of some of the biggest stars of today.\n\n\"Maybe at the start you do, then you start to realise they are just people as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no point in building them up because you'll only panic and you won't deliver.\n\n\"You don't really get time to think. They come over and they want a cut so you just do it.\"\n\nIt's not just musicians who've got a cut from Greg - Iain Sterling, the voice of ITV's Love Island, has also sat in his barber chair\n\nHis team are now recognised as familiar faces among the backstage crews at festivals and concerts.\n\n\"The majority of these artists have been going for the length of the time we've been doing this, some people a lot longer,\" he said.\n\n\"We're at the stage where they see us and say 'there's those guys' and they're straight over.\"\n\nWhen it comes to career highlights, one client sticks out above the rest.\n\n\"Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers - I think he's the biggest we'll ever do,\" he said.\n\nJack Hetherington, who works with Greg, said the opportunities were \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"Some of the people I've met this summer are massive stars. I've seen some of the biggest gigs in the world.\n\n\"I was lucky enough to see The Weeknd's last live performance as The Weeknd before he changed his name to Abel. That has probably been the highlight of it all.\"\n\nDespite the experience on the job so far, Jack said he still gets nervous.\n\n\"My heart is in my throat the whole time,\" he added, but he's confident he'll get more comfortable with time - no matter who is sitting in the chair looking for a haircut.", "The highest storm alert is in force in Hong Kong as Typhoon Saola is approaching.\n\nIt could be the strongest storm to hit the region in decades, with the Hong Kong Observatory is warning of winds with mean speeds of 118 km/h.\n\nTens of millions of people in Hong Kong and adjacent areas of mainland China have taken shelter. Emergency shelters have been opening in the city of Shenzhen.", "King Charles, Queen Camilla and Princess Anne have joined thousands of Highland games spectators at the annual Braemar Gathering.\n\nThe King attended for the first time since his coronation, wearing a kilt in the new King Charles III tartan.\n\nBefore her death, Queen Elizabeth II was a regular at the event while staying at the nearby Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire.\n\nEvents include Highland dance and heavyweights such as the hammer throw.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla arrived to cheering crowds before taking their seats in the Royal pavilion.\n\nPeter Fraser, president of the Braemar Royal Highland Society, said: \"A new king, it's very special. It's great that the Royal Family has carried on this tradition. All the Royal family take a great interest in the games, there's no question about that.\n\n\"One of the everlasting memories I have of the whole Royal Family watching the sack race with the little kiddies - and whatever happened everyone was bursting with laughter.\"\n\nThe King arrived at Balmoral Castle last month for his first summer residence in Scotland since the death of Queen Elizabeth.\n\nHe is expected to be there on the first anniversary of the Queen's death on 8 September.\n\nThe Scottish Tartans Authority said the design of the King's kilt was based on the Balmoral tartan sett which dates from 1850.\n\nThe new tartan has been registered with the Scottish register of tartans, which is administered by the National Records of Scotland.\n\nAll images are subject to copyright.", "Gen Nguema was carried triumphally through the streets of the capital, Libreville, by his troops\n\nGabon's new military leader has pledged to return the country to democracy, but has refused to provide a timelines for fresh elections.\n\nGen Brice Oligui Nguema said the country's state institutions would be made more democratic and their suspension was only \"temporary\".\n\nBut Gabon's opposition coalition says the military shows no signs of handing power back to a civilian government.\n\nThe deposed president, Ali Bongo, was placed under house arrest this week.\n\nArmy officers appeared on state TV in the early hours of Wednesday to say they had seized control, ending the Bongo family's 55-year hold on power in the central African state.\n\nThey said they had annulled the results of Saturday's presidential election, in which Mr Bongo was declared the winner but which the opposition said was fraudulent.\n\nIn a televised address on Friday evening, Gen Nguema said the military would move \"quickly but surely\" to avoid elections that \"repeat the same mistakes\" by keeping the same people in power.\n\n\"Going as quickly as possible does not mean organising ad hoc elections, where we will end up with the same errors,\" he said.\n\nGabon's main opposition group, Alternance 2023, which says it is the rightful winner of Saturday's election, urged the international community on Friday to encourage a return to civilian rule.\n\n\"We were happy that Ali Bongo was overthrown but ... we hope that the international community will stand up in favour of the Republic and the democratic order in Gabon by asking the military to give back the power to the civilians,\" Alexandra Pangha, a spokesperson for Alternance 2023 leader Albert Ondo Ossa, told the BBC.\n\nShe added that the plan for Gen Nguema to be sworn in as transitional president on Monday was \"absurd\".\n\nThe coup in Gabon is the eighth in west and central Africa since 2020, following Niger, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Chad.\n\nIt has been condemned by the UN, the African Union and France - its former colonial power which had close ties to the Bongo family.\n\nMr Bongo, who had been in power since 2009, appeared in a video at his home this week calling on his \"friends all over the world\" to \"make noise\" on his behalf.\n\nBut his removal has also been celebrated by many in Gabon who have grown resentful of his, and his family's, regime.\n\nCrowds in the capital, Libreville, and elsewhere were seen celebrating the army's declaration earlier this week.", "Adama Sarr at home in Senegal. \"In the beginning we all had hope,\" he said.\n\nAdama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea.\n\nThe brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast of West Africa, in a traditional Senegalese fishing canoe known as a pirogue. They were two of 39 passengers in total - all malnourished, many close to death.\n\nWhen a fishing vessel appeared in the distance one day, Adama, 21, was so weak he could only stare, he said. Moussa, 17, slipped into the water to swim.\n\nHe would almost certainly have drowned, had the fishing crew not spotted him in the water and plucked him to safety.\n\nWhen they drew alongside the pirogue, they found Adama and the rest of the survivors and seven bodies. The pirogue had set out from Senegal five weeks earlier, with 101 souls on board.\n\nPirogues lined up on the beach in Fass Boye. Large pirogues are used for migration voyages\n\nThe survivors had drifted hundreds of miles on one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world - the North Atlantic sea passage from Senegal to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago about 1,000 miles away.\n\nThey had left on 10 July, from the coastal village of Fass Boye. Adama and Moussa came from a long line of fishermen in the village. The boys learned to fish together and worked a pirogue together.\n\nBut like many young people in Senegal, they felt the pull of Europe. \"Everyone wants to go on the boats,\" Adama said. \"It's the thing you're supposed to do.\"\n\nHe was sitting in the shaded courtyard of a family home, safely back in Senegal but noticeably thinner than before. The journey had begun at dusk, he said. He and Moussa, along with two cousins, Pape and Amsoutou, aged 40 and 20, joined the pirogue a little way off the coast as it set off into the night.\n\nUnlike the Mediterranean, there are no patrols on the North Atlantic route - no-one proactively searching for lost or distressed boats. It is easy to founder without being seen. If you miss the Canaries, or Cape Verde, you can drift into the Atlantic and disappear.\n\nFor the first three days, Adama and Moussa's pirogue, powered by an outboard motor, battled against strong headwinds. But on the fourth day, the wind died down and the boat began to progress, Adama said. The passengers believed they had only a few more days at sea.\n\nWhen the sixth day passed with no sight of land, an argument erupted over whether to push on or turn back.\n\n\"The captain ruled that we should push on, because we had enough food and water and the wind was quiet,\" Adama said.\n\nThe passengers grew confident again and began to eat lots of food, he said, and they used drinking water to wash their hands for prayers.\n\nIt was around day six that the food and water began to run out. There were four children on board, and some older people gave the last of their food to the young. Some hoarded even after people began to die.\n\nAdama couldn't remember the exact date of the first death, but it was shortly after the first week passed, he said - a fishing captain, used to being on the water but not young. It was six more days until the next person died. Then the deaths came every day.\n\n\"At first, we said a prayer for each dead person and laid their body onto the ocean,\" Adama said. \"Then later we just threw the bodies into the water because we didn't even have the energy to pray. We just needed to get rid of the corpses.\"\n\nAdama's mother, Sokhna. \"The young are leaving because of poverty and family pressure,\" she said.\n\nBack in Fass Boye, news was spreading through the village that the boat had not arrived. \"We all knew it should be five or six days by boat to Spain,\" Adama's mother, Sokhna, said. \"When a week had passed with no news I stopped eating. I became sick from stress.\"\n\nNearly everyone on the pirogue was from Fass Boye or nearby, and everyone in the village seemed to know someone aboard. The families began to do anything they could, alerting local authorities and migration NGOs. The founder of one NGO even tweeted a warning that the boat was missing, two weeks after its departure, but the warning went unheeded and the boat drifted for three more weeks.\n\nOn the pirogue, the four men from the family stuck together, but they were growing weaker and weaker. The eldest cousin, Pape, died first, Adama said. \"Before he passed, he said, 'If death must happen, I wish that I die and you three survive'.\"\n\nThen Adama's younger cousin, Amsoutou, disappeared. One morning they woke up and Amsoutou was simply gone.\n\nAdama and Moussa hung on, sipping seawater and baking under the sun. Each night they looked for lights from the Canary Islands but the lights never appeared.\n\nNobody in Fass Boye seemed to blame the migrants for taking the risk. More than a third of the country lives in poverty, according to the World Bank. The young see few opportunities at home. \"Macky Sall sold the ocean,\" said Assane Niang, a 23-year-old fishing captain, referring to the Senegalese president. Fishermen in Fass Boye say the government has granted too many licences to foreign trawlers, which overfish their waters and deplete the catch.\n\nNiang was sitting on the beach in the shade of a pirogue, knitting generator covers he can sell to help make ends meet. \"If we had other alternatives we would stay, but we cannot sit here and do nothing,\" he said. \"We are trying to support our families.\"\n\nThere is social pressure on the young to try to leave on the boats, and there can be stigma attached to those who fail or never try.\n\nSo much so that the sea route to Spain has earned its own grim slang in Senegal's Wolof language: \"Barcelona or death.\"\n\nThe wooden pirogues the smugglers use are not suitable for the voyage. They are often poorly constructed. They lack navigation technology and are liable to run out of petrol and be pushed off course. And yet the number of migrants using the route to reach Spain has been rising every year.\n\nYoung fishermen in Fass Boye say poverty is driving them to risk all on the water.\n\nAccording to the International Organisation for Migration, about 68,000 people have successfully reached the Canary Islands by boat from West Africa since January 2020 and about 2,700 have been recorded dead or disappeared. But the number of casualties is likely significantly higher, because fatal accidents are more likely to go unrecorded on this route.\n\n\"We call them invisible shipwrecks,\" said Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the IOM. \"A boat washes ashore with nobody aboard, or a body washes ashore not linked to a known capsized boat.\"\n\nPart of the problem was that people leaving Fass Boye, particularly fishermen, were too confident in their chances, said Abdou Karim, a lifelong fisherman and the father of Pape Sarr, who died on the boat.\n\n\"The fisherman think that, if they get into trouble, they will be able to swim,\" he said. \"But there is a limit. You cannot swim forever. The ocean will not hold you.\"\n\nAnd yet, young fishermen in Fass Boye said they were still willing to take the risk.\n\n\"I am thinking about going on a boat right now,\" said Niang, the fisherman on the beach. \"The tragedies will not stop us from trying.\"\n\nAbout a month into Adama and Moussa's voyage, a large ship appeared on the horizon and more than 20 people decided to to take their chances in the water, Adama said. But he knew it was too far.\n\nMany of the remaining survivors were barely able to move, he said. Then on 14 August, exactly five weeks after they had departed, they caught sight of the Spanish fishing boat that would rescue them.\n\nThe Spanish crew helped them aboard and put the seven bodies into plastic sheets. Adama and Moussa lay together on the deck of the fishing vessel.\n\nThey had survived the pirogue. But Moussa was too weak. He was the last of the 63 people who died on the voyage.\n\n\"He died right there on the deck,\" Adama said. \"In front of my eyes.\"\n\nAssane Niang, a 23-year-old fisherman, on the beach next to a traditional fishing pirogue.\n\nThe survivors were taken to Cape Verde and spent six days receiving medical treatment, before the majority were flown back to Dakar. Those who could walk were given prescriptions and sent back to Fass Boye.\n\nWhen news had broken of the number of deaths, there was a brief spasm of violent protest in the village that brought the police to town. Some relatives were arrested, including a member of Adama and Moussa's family.\n\nThe survivors were harassed in their homes by curious residents and relatives of the dead, families said. So one day after they arrived home, they were all sent back out of Fass Boye to recuperate elsewhere. Adama and his mother Sokhna went to stay with close relatives nearby. They were spending their days resting, praying, and avoiding asking Adama about his ordeal.\n\nThe family had lost three sons and got one back. Fass Boye had seen 101 set out on the water and 37 come home.\n\n\"It changes a place,\" said Abdou Karim, Pape's father, silently counting prayer beads in one hand.\n\n\"Even one soul is a lot,\" he said. \"And this is more than 60. It is a lot for one place.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Sira Thierij. Mady Camara contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "The men were arrested as part of the investigation into the data leak\n\nTwo men have been released after being arrested by detectives investigating a major data breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nThe data was accidentally shared in August and included the surname and initials of 10,000 PSNI employees.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 22, were arrested under the Terrorism Act after a search in Portadown, County Armagh, on Saturday.\n\nPolice said they had now been released on bail.\n\nIn total four arrests have been made in relation to the data breach.\n\nOn 16 August, a 39-year-old was arrested on suspicion of collection of information likely to be useful to terrorists. He was later released on bail.\n\nA 50-year-old man was arrested on 18 August and was subsequently charged with terrorism offences.\n\nHe appeared in court on 21 August and was remanded in custody for four weeks.\n\nDt Ch Insp Avine Kelly said the PSNI was working to establish who possessed information related to the data breach.\n\n\"We will take action to ensure that any criminality identified is dealt with robustly to keep communities, and our officers and staff who serve them, safe.\"\n\nOn 8 August, employees' details were mistakenly published online after being released by the PSNI in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request.\n\nThey were taken down from a website at the PSNI's direction a short time later.\n\nPolice have confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, amongst others.\n\nThe Policing Board has said an independent-led review will be carried out into the breach.\n\nIt was one of three separate PSNI data breach incidents being examined by police.\n\nOn 6 July, in an unrelated incident, a police-issue laptop and radio, as well as a document containing the names of more than 200 staff, were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.\n\nIn another incident, on Thursday 17 August, a PSNI laptop and a police officer's notebook fell from the roof of a moving car on the M2 in Belfast.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham boss Marco Silva condemned the match officials for allowing Manchester City's second goal in their 5-1 loss on Saturday as Erling Haaland admitted he would also have been \"fuming\" at the decision.\n\nReferee Michael Oliver and VAR Tony Harrington decided that an offside Manuel Akanji had not interfered with play when Nathan Ake's header bounced past him and into the net to put City back ahead just before half-time in what had been a closely-fought Premier League contest.\n\nFulham subsided in the second period at Etihad Stadium but Silva evidently felt the turning point was Ake's goal.\n\n\"Everyone that plays football and has some knowledge of the game would be 100% sure [the VAR] has to disallow the goal,\" he said.\n\n\"The more times you see that, the more you know it has to be disallowed.\n\n\"The player pulled away from the line of the ball and into the direction of goal. It is a clear offside. It is impossible for the VAR not to see it.\"\n\nFulham keeper Bernd Leno led the on-pitch protests and TV replays indicated he didn't start to move to make a save until the ball passed Akanji.\n\n\"It was offside,\" admitted Haaland in an interview with beIN SPORTS after full-time. \"I feel bad for them - I would be fuming after this as well. It must be a horrible feeling.\"\n\nThe only minor consolation for Silva was that he avoided a fourth yellow card in four games, even though he spent a sustained period unloading his views on fourth official Michael Salisbury as the opening half drew to a close.\n• None Listen to the latest The Far Post podcast\n\nCity's second goal is not the only problem Silva has to contend with this weekend. He also has to work out the best way to reintegrate star man Palhinha into his squad.\n\nThe Portuguese thought he was going to complete a dream move to Bayern Munich on Friday.\n\nThe 28-year-old travelled to Germany, completed his medical, posed for pictures in the famous Bayern shirt and gave an in-house interview, only to be told Fulham's inability to secure a replacement meant the deal had to be scrapped.\n\n\"It was a tough day for him, one of the toughest days of his life,\" said Silva.\n\n\"He loves to be with us but that was a big chance to go to one of the biggest clubs in the world. Nobody can tell what he is feeling right now.\n\n\"He is going to need all the support from our fans and his team-mates.\"\n• None Our coverage of Fulham is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Fulham - go straight to all the best content", "Ukraine's forces have made \"notable progress\" in their push against heavily fortified Russian positions in the south, the US government says.\n\nWhite House security spokesman John Kirby said those gains were made in the past 72 hours south of Zaporizhzhia.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNN that Kyiv's forces were advancing, but \"it's a tough fight\".\n\nRussia claims to have taken strategic heights near the city of Kupiansk in north-eastern Ukraine.\n\nNone of the claims have been independently verified.\n\nMr Kirby said Kyiv itself had admitted that the push in the south - aimed at splitting the Russian land corridor to Crimea - was going slower than had been hoped.\n\n\"They have achieved some success against that second line of Russian defences,\" he said.\n\nEarlier in the week, Ukraine's military said it had captured the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nIn the north-east, Russia has massed forces to recapture territory that Ukraine liberated east of Kharkiv.\n\nIn the south, Russia is believed to have built up an elaborate system of trenches and tunnels, defended by minefields, as well as artillery positions and so-called \"dragon's teeth\" anti-tank concrete barriers.\n\nKyiv launched its counter-offensive after securing more advanced weapons from its allies in the West and preparing assault battalions.\n\nBut progress has been slow and Kyiv continues to urge Nato countries to deliver tanks, de-mining equipment and warplanes - notably US-made F-16 fighter jets.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Kuleba voiced irritation with those who criticised the pace of Ukraine's counter-offensive.\n\n\"I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves,\" he said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Spain.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian forces had seized the Crimea peninsula and much of Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014.\n\nIn recent weeks, Ukraine has launched its own attacks on mainland Russia. Russian officials said three Ukrainian drones targeting the bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland had been destroyed in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nPresident Putin told pupils on Friday, at the start of the school year, that Russia's triumph in World War Two proved that their nation was invincible.\n\n\"I understood why we won the Great Patriotic War,\" he said in a lecture designed to strengthen patriotism in schools. \"It is impossible to defeat this kind of nation with this kind of attitude. We were absolutely invincible. And we are the same now.\"\n\nThe Kremlin's so-called \"important conversations\" were introduced in schools after the Russian full-scale invasion began.\n\nRussia's military also announced on Friday that it had put a new strategic nuclear missile system, called Sarmat, \"on combat duty\".\n\nThe long-range missiles have multiple warheads. Their deployment has not been independently confirmed.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Mohamed Al Fayed, who has died aged 94, rose from the streets of Alexandria to owning one of the most famous department stores in the world.\n\nBut behind the success story lay a complex man whose machinations shook the British establishment to its very core.\n\nAllegations of impropriety brought about the downfall of three Conservative politicians.\n\nAnd he continued to insist that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was murder - a claim dismissed by both French and British investigators and an inquest jury.\n\nHe was born plain Mohamed Fayed in Alexandria, Egypt, but his birth date has been the subject of conjecture.\n\nIn his self-approved entry in Who's Who it is listed as January 1933 without a precise date - but when he took part in a Department of Trade inquiry it was officially recorded as 27 January 1929.\n\nHe began his business life hawking bottles of fizzy drink on the streets but gained a lucky break in the mid-1950s when he met and married the sister of the Saudi millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.\n\nKhashoggi gave his new brother-in-law a job which granted him access to influential circles in London and the Gulf.\n\nBy the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.\n\nHe had founded his own shipping company in Egypt and become the financial adviser to the Sultan of Brunei.\n\nHe moved to the UK in 1974 adding the \"Al\" to his name, a decision that saw him dubbed \"the phoney pharaoh\" by the satirical magazine Private Eye.\n\nIn 1979, together with his brother Ali, he bought the Ritz Hotel in Paris. Six years later, he defeated the Lonrho group in the battle to buy Harrods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at the life of high-profile Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed\n\nIt sparked a feud with Lonrho's chairman, Tiny Rowland. The Department of Trade and Industry's report on the row, in 1990, concluded that the Fayeds had lied about their background and their wealth.\n\nThe feud with Rowland ended in 1993 with a reconciliation in Harrods food hall but it probably contributed to Al Fayed being refused British citizenship. He viewed the decision as an affront to his dignity.\n\n\"Why won't they give me a passport?\" he railed at the time. \"I own Harrods and employ thousands of people in this country.\"\n\nA colourful figure, he often clowned around for customers at Harrods\n\nDisappointed over the passport affair, Al Fayed told the press that he had paid two Conservative ministers, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, cash to ask questions related to his interests, in the House of Commons.\n\nBoth left the government. Hamilton, who strenuously denied the allegation, lost a subsequent libel case against Fayed.\n\nJonathan Aitken, then a Cabinet minister, resigned after Fayed revealed that he'd been staying for free at the Ritz in Paris at the same time as a group of Saudi arms dealers.\n\nAitken would eventually serve time in prison for lying about the affair in court and Al Fayed's vendetta against the Conservative party inflicted lasting damage.\n\nAmong his other business dealings were the ownership of Fulham Football Club and a 50,000-acre estate in Scotland which he developed into a tourist attraction.\n\nFor years Al Fayed had courted the Royal Family, sponsoring events like the Windsor Horse Show.\n\nWhen it emerged that his son, Dodi, had become a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, it seemed he might be moving closer to, if not acceptance by, the British establishment.\n\nThe coroner dismissed his evidence at Princess Diana's inquest as being completely without substance\n\nBut everything changed in 1997 when his son and the princess were killed in a car crash in Paris while being driven and guarded by Al Fayed's employees.\n\nEvidence that the car's driver had been drinking heavily embarrassed Al Fayed, but he shifted the blame.\n\n\"The paparazzi are the main cause. If anyone wanted to hurt my son or Diana they had plenty of opportunities,\" he said.\n\nAt the crash inquiry he verbally abused the princess's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, saying: \"I don't give a damn about her. She is a snob.\"\n\nIn the years after the accident, Al Fayed continued to blame what he called \"the establishment\" for the deaths of Dodi and Diana.\n\nIn February 2008, he gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths claiming the couple had been murdered on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.\n\nHis remarks were widely condemned and, in summing up, the coroner said that \"the conspiracy theory advanced by Mohamed Fayed has been minutely examined and shown to be without any substance\".\n\nFulham FC was just one of many business interests\n\nIn 2010, after months of denying Harrods was for sale, he sold the business to Qatar Holdings for £1.5bn. Nearly half of the purchase price was used to clear the company's debts.\n\nIn an interview with the London Evening Standard, Al Fayed claimed he had sold Harrods because he was frustrated with pension fund trustees blocking his efforts to extract a dividend.\n\n\"I'm here every day, I can't take my profit because I have to take a permission [sic] of those bloody idiots.\"\n\nStill bitter over the death of his son, Al Fayed bankrolled a 2011 documentary entitled Unlawful Killing, which reiterated his conspiracy theories about the Paris crash.\n\nAlthough it was shown at the Cannes film festival, legal issues prevented it going on general release.\n\nAl Fayed never forgave his adopted country for refusing the citizenship he craved so much.\n\nThe political scandals and the accusations over the deaths of Dodi and Diana, were seen by many as his revenge against an establishment which had never accepted him as one of its own.", "Officials say normal activities have resumed in the six facilities\n\nInmates in six Ecuadorian prisons have released 50 guards and seven police officers they had taken hostage, the prison service (SNAI) has said.\n\nThe 57 freed hostages are \"undergoing medical evaluation\" but appear to be in good health, according to SNAI.\n\nOfficials say the kidnappings were coordinated by criminal gangs angry at attempts to curb their power.\n\nTwo car bombs which went off near police buildings in the capital, Quito, have also been blamed on the gangs.\n\nThe authorities believe at least one of the incidents could be retaliation for a police search for weapons at one of the country's biggest jails.\n\nHundreds of police officers and soldiers carried out the search at Cotopaxi jail in Latacunga, about 55 miles (88km) south of Quito, as part of efforts to prevent further violence at the prison on Wednesday.\n\nNormal activities have now been resumed in the six facilities, including a young offenders unit which was badly damaged by an arson attack. Officials have not offered any details as to how or why the officers were released.\n\n\"The measures we have taken, especially in the prison system, have generated violent reactions from criminal organisations that seek to intimidate the state,\" President Guillermo Lasso said on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night.\n\nEcuador is facing growing violence linked to drug-trafficking gangs, which has put a huge strain on the under-resourced and overcrowded prison system.\n\nHundreds of inmates have been killed in deadly fights in Ecuador's overcrowded jails in recent years.\n\nSuch is the influence of narco-politics in Ecuador, its prisons are places of power - it's where those involved in drugs offences get locked away.\n\nBut they're also the control centres of many of the cartels and gangs now - so when inmates don't like what the authorities are doing, they make that known through violence and riots.\n\nThe country is less than two months away from the run-off round of presidential elections - a campaign that has been marred by violence and the assassination of a candidate.\n\nPresidential front-runner Luisa Gonzalez said on Friday that she will wear a bulletproof vest while campaigning and will also accept the government's offer of military protection.\n\nMeanwhile, criminal gangs on Friday detonated explosive devices on a bridge in the coastal province of El Oro.\n• None Dozens of prison guards taken hostage in Ecuador", "Gboyega Odubanjo was last seen at Shambala Festival in Kelmarsh, about 10 miles west of Kettering\n\nThe family of an award-winning poet who went missing at a festival before a body was later discovered have raised over £40,000 for a fund in his memory.\n\nGboyega Odubanjo, 27, from Bromley, south London, was last seen at Shambala Festival in Northamptonshire last Saturday. A body was found on Thursday.\n\nPolice said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation for low-income black writers is set to be launched by his family with the money.\n\nThe fundraiser, organised by Rose Odubanjo, described him as a \"beloved son, brother and friend\" whose life was \"so suddenly cut short\".\n\nMr Odubanjo was last spotted at 04:00 BST the day before he was due to perform at Shambala in Kelmarsh, west of Kettering. He did not arrive for his set on the Sunday.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police carried out a \"methodical\" search of open land and nearby water following his disappearance.\n\nPolice said the case was \"fast-paced and complex\", with many lines of inquiry still being considered.\n\nA body was discovered in the Kelmarsh area the following Thursday and Mr Odubanjo's family was informed. Formal identification was due to take place.\n\nMeanwhile, tributes have been paid throughout the week to the award-winning performer, who was described as a \"shining light\" and an \"incomparable\" poet.\n\nBefore the discovery of a body, his godmother, Antonia Onigbode, said he was an \"exceptionally gifted person\" with \"a bright future ahead of him\", adding his disappearance was \"out of character\".\n\nMr Odubanjo was one of poetry's \"shining lights\", said independent poetry publisher Bad Betty Press\n\nMr Odubanjo's pamphlet, Aunty Uncle Poems, was a winner of the Poetry Business New Poets prize in 2020. He had also been the recipient of an Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors and a Michael Marks pamphlet award.\n\nHe had been studying for a PhD in creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire and had previously attended the University of East Anglia.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A court heard Mukhtar Lail (left) hired Trefor Jones to kill his former partner, Tracy Devonshire, after she verbally abused him in the street\n\nA dog saved its sleeping owner by growling at a man who had been hired to kill her by a former partner, a court has heard.\n\nTracy Devonshire was woken by Princess, a Staffordshire bull terrier, who had seen Trefor Jones standing over her at her flat in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.\n\nMs Devonshire's ex-partner Mukhtar Lail had offered Jones £15,000 to kill her by injecting her with heroin.\n\nLail was jailed for life and Jones for eight years.\n\nSt Albans Crown Court heard Jones had been offered the money by Lail - a convicted drug dealer - to kill Ms Devonshire after she verbally abused him in the street in late 2021.\n\nProsecutor Nathan Rasiah KC said the plan was to give Ms Devonshire a fatal dose of heroin \"to make it look like an accidental overdose\".\n\nHertfordshire Police said Lail provided Jones with \"detailed instructions on how to render the victim unconscious should she resist\".\n\nLail gave Jones heroin and cocaine before the latter arrived at her flat in West Mill Lane.\n\nMs Devonshire, the court heard, did not take any heroin having been clean from the drug for two years.\n\nHowever, the court was told the pair instead took cocaine before Ms Devonshire, who was also on sedatives, fell asleep on the sofa.\n\nMs Devonshire was woken by a growling Princess and found Jones standing over her.\n\nJones said: \"I wanted to give your dog a kiss.\"\n\nLail and Jones were sentenced at St Albans Crown Court\n\nThe court heard Ms Devonshire called her brother and sister who, secretly at first, recorded a conversation with Jones in which he told them of the plot. When Jones left, the police were called.\n\nLail had also tried to persuade Ms Devonshire not to go to court by sending two men to her flat on 3 February 2022.\n\nOne of the two men - who arrived in surgical masks - claimed to be from the council and was there to give her a Covid test.\n\nBobby Dhunna was one of the men, and offered the victim money on Lail's behalf to drop the case, jurors heard.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, the victim said: \"I had to leave the place I'd called home all my life.\n\n\"I do not go out anymore and, if I must, I do not like to walk anywhere in case someone else comes to hurt me. I just pray that no-one else is following me.\n\n\"Sometimes I'm so scared it physically hurts and I cry all the time.\"\n\nJudge Richard Foster told Lail: \"It seems because of some chance meeting in a shopping centre in Christmas 2021, you met your former partner and decided to get her out of your life by getting her killed.\"\n\nA jury had found Lail, of Meadowsweet Way, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, and Jones, of Edgbaston House, Sedgley Close, Southsea, guilty of conspiracy to murder between 27 December 2021 and 14 January last year.\n\nLail, who was ordered to serve a minimum term of eight years, was also convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.\n\nDhunna, 40, of Clarion Close, Offley, pleaded guilty to two charges of perverting the course of justice and possession of cannabis. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jimmy Buffett had suffered ill-health in recent months, forcing him to cancel some of his shows (file image)\n\nUS singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his 1970's hit Margaritaville, has died aged 76.\n\n\"Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1 surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,\" said a statement on his website.\n\n\"He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.\"\n\nA statement on the singer's official website said he had been diagnosed with skin cancer four years ago.\n\nBuffett was born in the US state of Mississippi but was raised in neighbouring Alabama before moving to Nashville, Tennessee. He worked for the music and entertainment magazine Billboard, with the dream of making it as a country singer.\n\nHe later moved to Florida, where he helped to create the tropical rock genre, which would later become more mainstream thanks to artists such as Jack Johnson.\n\nBuffett made his musical breakthrough with his 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, which included the song Margaritaville, which enjoyed 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.\n\nHis other hits include Fins, Come Monday and Son of a Son of a Sailor.\n\nBuffett was nominated for two Grammy awards and was a prolific artist - releasing more than 20 albums. Earlier this year he revealed that he had recorded a new work.\n\nHis songs were also turned into a musical, Escape to Margaritaville, which made its Broadway debut in 2018.\n\nBuffett's music and the \"beach bum\" lifestyle he promoted earned him a devoted following of millions of fans who refer to themselves as Parrotheads.\n\n\"RIP to the troubadour of my youth,\" wrote one Parrothead on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\n\"So many great memories at Jimmy's shows. This is a hard one,\" said another.\n\nTributes have also been made by some of his fellow musicians, including Elton John, who said Buffett was \"a unique and treasured entertainer\" who had \"gone way too soon\".\n\nBeach Boys' Brian Wilson tweeted a picture of one of Buffett's album covers with the message: \"love and mercy, Jimmy Buffett\".\n\n\"Rest in power @jimmybuffett I'm glad we had time to vibe,\" wrote the rapper LL Cool J.\n\n\"You were and always will be a Truly inspiring human.\"\n\nUp until recently, Buffett still performed regularly with his Coral Reefer Band but had to cancel shows after being hospitalised in May.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, he promised to make it up to fans once he was \"in shape\".\n\n\"I think playing is as therapeutic for me as it is for fans to listen and sing along,\" he said.\n\nA statement on the singer's official website said Buffett had been diagnosed with a rare type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma.\n\n\"He continued to perform during treatment, playing his last show, a surprise appearance in Rhode Island, in early July,\" it added.\n\nNo official cause of death has been given.\n\nAs well as a musician, Buffett was a best-selling author and entrepreneur who opened up a string of popular resorts, clubs. restaurants, merchandise shops and retirement communities based on the Margaritaville brand.\n\nHis net worth was estimated by Forbes to be $1bn (£794m), according to figures released this month.\n\nBuffett is survived by his wife Jane and their three children.", "Reports that the UK government is in advanced funding talks with Tata Steel to help safeguard the future of its Port Talbot plant have been welcomed by the area's MP.\n\nBut Stephen Kinnock said any new deal needed the support of Tata's workforce.\n\nSky News reported the deal would secure £1bn for the site but could mean up to 3,000 UK job losses in coming years.\n\nIt said the draft plans included Westminster committing around £500m of funding.\n\nTata Steel's parent company would agree £700m of capital expenditure, Sky News said, which would help pay for a switch away from polluting coal-fired blast furnaces.\n\nThe company would reportedly commit to building electric arc furnaces, which offer greener, less labour-intensive ways of producing steel than traditional blast furnaces.\n\nAberavon MP Mr Kinnock said on X, formerly known as Twitter: \"All investment [is] welcome, but electric arc furnaces aren't [the] only route to steel decarbonisation.\n\n\"Hydrogen etc must also be in mix, so all types of steel can keep being made, and future of every steel plant safeguarded.\"\n\nMr Kinnock added that unions \"must be fully involved and workforce must support the plan\".\n\nThe company's blast furnaces produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which drives global warming\n\nIndustry sources close to the negotiations said that as many as 3,000 of the company's staff based in the UK could lose their jobs in future as a result.\n\nThe steel firm said in a statement: \"Tata Steel is continuing to discuss with the UK government a framework for continuity and decarbonisation of steel making in the UK amidst very challenging underlying business conditions given that several of its heavy end assets are approaching end of life.\n\n\"Given the financially constrained position of our UK business, any significant change is only possible with government investment and support, as also seen in other steel-making countries in Europe where governments are actively supporting companies in de-carbonisation initiatives.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement on Sunday, Peter Hughes from Unite the union said meetings would take place later this week between Tata, the unions and the UK government.\n\n\"We want green jobs but we don't want green jobs at a detriment to jobs and Unite will fight the job losses,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\nHe added that the UK was exporting scrap which could be used to make steel in Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\n\"When you look at investment with electric arc furnaces - you need more than one. There are two blast furnaces in Port Talbot at the moment with the coke ovens and the rest of the heavy end.\n\n\"If you're really serious about having a steel future - we need at least two, maybe three, electric arc furnaces in Port Talbot to protect the livelihoods and then be able to provide steel for the rest of the UK and make sure the UK government, whether it be this government or a potential Labour government next time - that they do buy and make sure that steel is procured in the UK, made in the UK.\n\n\"The last thing we want to do is see our steel industry all full of exports.\"\n\nUnite said meetings between Tata, the unions and the UK government would take place later this week\n\nCommunity, the steelworkers' union, said: \"We remain in discussions with the company and the unions have not agreed any decarbonisation strategy for Port Talbot.\n\n\"We continue to support a solution that will maintain blast furnace production and safeguard the future for all the UK plants. We are ready to use all means at our disposal to protect jobs and our vital strategic industry.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was working closely with the company, and that it had repeatedly called on the UK government to urgently bring forward a package of support to secure steel-making at Port Talbot.\n\n\"Our focus continues to be to explore all avenues to secure a successful, low carbon future for Welsh steel. This goal is entirely possible, but it requires action and grip from the UK government,\" it said.", "Gilbert Matthews, left, said the deaths of two friends sparked the idea for a skate trip\n\nSix friends with barely any experience of skateboarding are planning to roll the length of Wales.\n\nSo far training has resulted in a broken wrist, aching Achilles tendons and bad hips.\n\nBut the Wrexham group soldiered on and are setting off on the 278 mile (447 km) charity journey from Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan to Anglesey.\n\nThe group, who call themselves The Unskateables, came up with the idea after two friends died of brain cancer.\n\nJosh Land, 22, Kyle Harvey, 29, Gavin Rogers, 42, Gilbert Matthews, 45, and Craig Salisbury and Mark Roberts, both 47, hope to finish by Sunday.\n\n\"No-one's got any experience, no-one owned a longboard, so it's going to be quite a challenge really,\" said Gilbert.\n\nWayne Phillips, 41, died in July 2021, and James Rush, 38, in August 2022.\n\nGilbert said: \"They were just amazing people - trailblazers in health and wellbeing, fitness.\n\nFriends Wayne Philips, left, and James Rush died from brain cancer in 2021 and 2022\n\n\"They both had really beautiful smiles, had that ability to listen to people.\n\n\"Really brave when they fought the cancer, right until the really sad end.\"\n\nThe group came up with the idea on a surf trip to Morocco.\n\nThey are using the trip to raise money for the Nightingale House Hospice in Wrexham, which cared for both men. More than £9,000 has been donated.\n\nThey will skate in pairs in two-hour stints with a safety bike behind them.\n\nThey will cross Bannau Brycheiniog - also known as the Brecon Beacons - cruise the coastline, and go through Eryri or Snowdonia, before arriving at Cemaes Bay on Anglesey.\n\nDespite the patchy summer they are not worried by the weather - although luckily the forecast for the weekend is for more sun and higher temperatures.\n\n\"We are all Welsh lads, we are all used to the wind and the rain,\" Gilbert said.\n\n\"It will just add a little bit more fun to it really. There's also a pretty full moon at the moment, so that will help us with the night times and then Saturday and Sunday.\n\n\"I think we'll be putting our sunblock on, rather than our rain jackets.\"\n\nGilbert is expecting the trip to be an emotional experience.\n\nWayne Phillips' four-year-old daughter, Maggie, is expected to be at the starting line to see them off, and James Rush's daughter Jess, three, is set to welcome them at the other end.\n\n\"It will be a real relief when we get going, and Wayne and James will certainly be part of that sort of emotion,\" Gilbert said.\n\n\"They'll motivate us the whole way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nMason Greenwood has not played for Manchester United since January 2022 Last month, United said Greenwood, 21, would leave the club by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation. It came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February. \"The move enables Greenwood to begin to rebuild his career away from Manchester United,\" the Premier League club said. \"The club will continue to offer its support to Mason and his family during this period of transition.\" Greenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, has scored 35 goals in 129 games for United since his debut in 2019 aged 17. He has not played for United since being arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online. Greenwood was then charged in October 2022 with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Following his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game. After the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\". United then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues. In announcing the result of their investigation, United said: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United. \"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford, and we will now work with Mason to achieve that outcome. \"Based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged. That said, as Mason publicly acknowledges today, he has made mistakes which he is taking responsibility for.\" In a statement, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\" An announcement of the investigation's results was expected before United's opening Premier League game of the season against Wolves on 14 August, but the decision was delayed amid fierce debate about Greenwood's potential reintegration at Old Trafford. A group of female United supporters protested against his potential return outside Old Trafford before the Wolves game, and said they wanted the club to \"demonstrate a zero-tolerance approach\" towards violence against women. The club said they wanted to consult with their women's team, some of whom were part of England's World Cup squad playing in Australia, before announcing a decision about Greenwood's future. In an open letter to fans, chief executive Richard Arnold said: \"While we were unable to access certain evidence for reasons we respect, the evidence we did collate led us to conclude that Mason did not commit the acts he was charged with.\" He added that Greenwood's potential reintegration was \"one of the outcomes we considered and planned for\" but that \"several outcomes have been contemplated and planned for\" and his view \"evolved\". United's handling of the investigation was criticised by former player Gary Neville and TV presenter Rachel Riley.\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily live text and radio commentaries across the BBC Sport website, app, BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra\n\nBritain's Jack Draper reached the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time at the US Open but Dan Evans lost a thriller to top seed Carlos Alcaraz.\n\nDraper, 21, continued to brush off a pre-tournament injury with a 6-4 6-2 3-6 6-3 win over American Michael Mmoh.\n\nEvans, 33, went toe-to-toe with defending champion Alcaraz before going down 6-2 6-3 4-6 6-3 in New York.\n\nBritish number ones Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter lost later on Saturday to leave only Draper left in the singles.\n\nNorrie, seeded 16th, was beaten 6-3 6-4 6-3 by young Italian Matteo Arnaldi, who set up a fourth-round meeting against Alcaraz.\n\nLike Draper, Boulter was also bidding to record her best run at a major but lost 6-4 6-3 against American world number 59 Peyton Stearns.\n\nDraper, who has dropped only one set this week, will play Russian eighth seed Andrey Rublev in the next round.\n\n\"It was a long match for me to come through after a tough year. I'm so happy,\" he said after beating wildcard Mmoh.\n\nCounting a booming serve and fizzing forehand as his key strengths, left-handed Draper's talent has never been in doubt.\n\nHe reached a career-high ranking of 38th in the world at the start of this year after being one of the fastest climbers on the ATP Tour in the previous six months.\n\nMoving up from outside the world's top 250 was a result of a string impressive wins, including notable victories against top-10 players Stefanos Tsitsipas and Felix Auger-Aliassime.\n\nBut Draper's progress has been hampered by a series of physical problems, leading to what he described as a \"mentally challenging\" year.\n\nA small muscle tear in his shoulder at the French Open was the latest in a long line of injuries, ruling him out of Wimbledon and stopping him playing competitively until last month.\n\nA similar problem picked up at the recent Winston-Salem Open led to fears he could miss the US Open.\n\nHowever, Draper has been determined to put the issue to the back of his mind and against 89th-ranked Mmoh showed he is becoming increasingly resolute.\n\n\"To come here this week and play the way I have, to compete the way I have and for my body to hold up, has been been pretty special,\" said Draper, who won a four-set match for the first time in his career.\n\n\"I was proud of the way I played. I don't think I played my best tennis necessarily but I guess that's what tennis is about - trying to get over the line when you're not quite at your best.\"\n\nEvans has had a strange season after struggling for victories either side of winning the biggest title of his career in Washington last month.\n\nFacing Alcaraz is one of the most daunting prospects in the men's game and Evans knew he would have to bring his best level to stand any chance of causing an upset against the two-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nTo his credit, Evans tried to take on the 20-year-old Spaniard and the approach created an entertaining contest full of wonderful technique, incredible rallies and exciting points.\n\nHowever, the British number two ultimately paid the price for a slow start.\n\nQuickly going a double break down did the damage in the first set and, after moving 2-0 ahead in the second, a poor service game ending with two double faults started a run where he lost five of the next six games.\n\nThe chances of Evans turning things around at that point looked slim, but he continued to retain belief in his gameplan and broke for 4-3 on his way to pulling a set back.\n\nIt was a sign of the Briton's level that Alcaraz began to get annoyed, with the Spaniard flinging his racquet into his bag at the end of the set.\n\nBut his brilliance dictated which way a tight fourth swung, with Alcaraz somehow landing an outrageous running forehand down the line in the only break point of the set.\n\nEvans received a standing ovation as he left Arthur Ashe Stadium, saying his overriding emotions after the gallant defeat were a mixture of \"frustration\" and \"annoyance\".\n\n\"My goal was to hang around and pick up the pieces, really. If I had a chance to come forward, I would, but I knew I'd be running. I did a decent job,\" he said.\n\n\"It's still tough, but my tennis is in a good spot and that's important.\"\n\nNorrie and Boulter out of sorts\n\nAlcaraz goes on to play 22-year-old Arnaldi after the US Open debutant swatted aside an out-of-sorts Norrie.\n\nThe British men's number one, seeded 16th, came into the tournament after a run of poor form and, after breezing through the first two rounds, saw his level dip again.\n\n\"I think I was actually playing well, I started well in the tournament, I was hitting the ball really well all week,\" said 28-year-old Norrie.\n\n\"I just didn't have the shot tolerance to hang with them. He was really crafty and won a lot of tough points. Credit to him.\"\n\nBoulter, 27, was unable to replicate her previous performances at Flushing Meadows and struggled on serve throughout as the hard-hitting Stearns converted three of 12 break points.\n\nStearns has a heavy forehand which Boulter described as \"one of the best\" on tour, with the American fittingly sealing victory in one hour and 37 minutes with a thunderous winner.\n\n\"It was tough losing but ultimately I have to be happy with where I'm at, I'm at a career-high ranking,\" said Boulter, who has climbed to world number 61 after a productive season.\n\n\"It doesn't stop me wanting more though. Ultimately this is my moment to push on.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Could an office window help generate power? Enterprising people are finding surprising ways of harnessing energy from the sun\n• None The Killers at the BBC:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf in independence call to right Brexit 'catastrophe'\n\nThe first minister has told a pro-independence rally that the Yes movement can help correct the \"damages\" of Brexit.\n\nHumza Yousaf addressed a crowd outside the Scottish Parliament following a Believe in Scotland march from Edinburgh Castle.\n\nHe said Scotland could get \"back on the right track\" by re-joining the EU.\n\nOpposition parties accused Mr Yousaf of being obsessed with independence and out of touch with public opinion.\n\nThe first minister described Brexit as a \"national tragedy\".\n\nThe first minister joined the march with Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater\n\nHe told crowds: \"We believe in independence because this unequal union has caused so much suffering and so much harm.\n\n\"The people of this country are not suffering from a cost-of-living crisis. They're suffering from a cost-of-the-union crisis.\n\n\"I don't believe for a minute Sir Keir Starmer when he tells me that the Labour party offer real change. Keeping us chained to a Brexit that is damaging the economy is not real change.\"\n\nAhead of his speech, Mr Yousaf told BBC Scotland News: \"The people of Scotland are suffering with a Westminster-made cost-of-living crisis. It doesn't have to be this way.\n\n\"We can have the power in our own hands to make sure that we don't just reduce poverty, but we eradicate it.\n\n\"We can do that as well as regaining and reclaiming our rightful place in the heart of the European Union, because we know Brexit has been an utter catastrophe for Scotland.\"\n\nThe UK government said the public was more interested in the economy and the recovery of the NHS than independence.\n\nA spokesman said: \"People in Scotland want both their governments to be concentrating on the issues that matter most to them, like growing our economy, halving inflation and improving public services.\n\n\"We want to work constructively with the Scottish government to tackle our shared challenges because that is what families and businesses in Scotland expect.\n\n\"This is not the time to be talking about distracting constitutional change.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives' constitution spokesman Donald Cameron said Mr Yousaf \"needs to realise he is the first minister for Scotland, not the SNP\".\n\nHe added: \"His appearance at the independence rally shows his top priority is to push for another divisive referendum.\n\n\"People across Scotland will be infuriated that the first minister attended this march and believes separating our country is more important than helping households through the global cost of living crisis and fixing our broken NHS and crumbling schools.\"", "Kingsdown School in Southend-on-Sea said it was having \"very difficult\" conversations with parents\n\nAbout 50 school buildings in Essex have been fitted with dangerous concrete, with several told to delay the start of term, a council said.\n\nKevin Bentley, the leader at Essex County Council, said he had requested an \"urgent meeting\" with the secretary of state over the sudden news.\n\nMore than 100 schools in England were told on Thursday to shut before term started, with Essex thought to be the area most affected.\n\nOne parent said it was a \"shambles\".\n\nKevin Bentley said the council would help arrange temporary buildings for affected schools\n\nMr Bentley, Conservative, told BBC Essex: \"We are now working with teachers and also experts in our department to make sure children's education is disrupted as little as possible, and the focus on their safety and the teachers' safety is paramount.\"\n\nHe said 14 of the 50 buildings in Essex were local authority maintained schools.\n\nThe Essex County Council-governed area does not include Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea, where more schools are affected.\n\nMr Bentley added: \"It would have been better, of course, to have known about this at the beginning of the summer, not with a few days to go.\"\n\nHayley, in Hatfield Peverel, praised her school's communication, despite the news\n\nHayley, a parent at St Andrew's Junior School in Hatfield Peverel, told the BBC she wanted to \"cry, shout and scream\" when she received a letter informing her the site would not reopen next week.\n\n\"To turn around to my son and say you're not starting school next week has been a bit heart-breaking,\" said Hayley, who worked full-time and said finding emergency childcare was \"a bit of a mission\".\n\nRhys, aged seven, said he felt \"a bit sad\" and had been looking forward to seeing his best friend.\n\nRhys said he was a \"bit sad\" not to be returning to school straight away\n\nJanet Emberson looks after her two grandchildren when they are not otherwise in school\n\nJanet Emberson, 72, has two grandchildren at the school and expected to pick up more childcare while they completed online learning at home.\n\n\"It [the school closure] should have been done years ago and it shouldn't have got to this situation,\" she said.\n\nSt Andrew's Junior School in Hatfield Peverel was told to close suddenly on Thursday\n\nReinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was used in public buildings between the 1960s and 1980s and has an expected lifespan of 30 years.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it had been aware of problems with RAAC since 1994 and advised schools in 2018 to implement \"adequate contingencies\".\n\nDuncan Campbell said he was aware of the survey being conducted at his children's school in July\n\nDuncan Campbell has two children at White Hall Academy in Clacton-on-Sea and was told the site would be closed for at least two extra days next week.\n\n\"The school have been fantastic but the DfE have let them down,\" said Mr Campbell.\n\n\"It sounds like the whole thing is going to get worse before it gets better.\"\n\nPhil, a parent at a school in Chelmsford that has been ordered to close, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"After all the children went through during the pandemic, it's just more upheaval at the start of a new year.\n\n\"It just seems to be a bit of a shambles to be honest.\"\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin said he had \"no idea the problem was so widespread and so concentrated in Essex\"\n\nSir Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex, said eight schools had been affected in his constituency, with a further two still subject to surveys.\n\n\"I was quite staggered. I had no idea the problem was so widespread and so concentrated in Essex,\" he said.\n\nChildren at Mistley Norman Church of England primary, which is in Sir Bernard's constituency, have been taught at another school site since April because of the RAAC.\n\nKingsdown School, a special school in Southend-on-Sea for children aged from three to 14, was also told to close its main building.\n\nHead teacher Louise Robinson said her team was having \"very difficult conversations\" with parents and hoped a solution could be found, so it could \"at least partially\" reopen.\n\nSouthend-on-Sea City Council said it was working with the school and the DfE to develop contingency plans.\n\nThurrock Council said four schools were affected in its borough and that it was working with the DfE and the academy trusts to \"minimise any disruption\".\n\nThe DfE said \"any space or area with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without mitigations in place\".\n\nIs your child's school affected? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buildings must be surveyed individually to identify RAAC - expert\n\nThe only way to identify the scale of the risk of RAAC is for buildings to be looked at and surveyed individually, an expert has said. Prof Chris Goodier, concrete expert at Loughborough University, tells BBC Breakfast that while there was \"no issue with the concept\" of using RAAC, there were several factors that increase the likelihood of collapse. \"The perfect storm is that it wasn't manufactured properly, it wasn't installed properly and it wasn't maintained. \"What we need to do is find out where all [the RAAC] is,\" he says. But identifying it is not simple since there is no national register that sets out the materials used to construct public sector buildings, Goodier adds. \"Every building from the 60s and 70s that was constructed when it was popular, which is of a building type that might have it in, needs to be looked at.\"", "Social media companies have failed to stop \"large-scale\" Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.\n\nThe EU Commission's report said the \"reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts\" had grown further in 2023.\n\nRussian disinformation has increased on X, formerly Twitter, since Elon Musk bought the company, the report added.\n\nThe BBC has approached Twitter, Meta, TikTok and YouTube for comment, but has not received a response.\n\nThe study, published on Wednesday, looks at attempts to deal with Kremlin-backed disinformation and suggests the rise has been \"driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter's safety standards\".\n\nThe BBC has previously reported that accounts belonging to official Kremlin social media accounts have propagated false information about the war in Ukraine.\n\n\"In absolute numbers, pro-Kremlin accounts continue to reach the largest audiences on Meta's platforms. Meanwhile, the audience size for Kremlin-backed accounts more than tripled on Telegram,\" the report found.\n\nThe study also concluded that no platform consistently applied its terms of services in several eastern European languages.\n\nEarlier this month tougher rules under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) were introduced for the world's biggest online platforms.\n\nAll large social media companies must comply with the DSA's stricter rules that demand a more aggressive approach to policing content - including disinformation and hate speech - from \"very large\" platforms with at least 45 million monthly active users.\n\nThe study concluded that if the DSA had been operational before last month, social media companies would have breached their legal duties - resulting in possible fines.\n\n\"Over the course of 2022, the audience and reach of Kremlin-aligned social media accounts increased substantially all over Europe,\" the study found.\n\nThe report also refers to a tweet from 9 April in which Elon Musk confirmed his platform would no longer \"limit\" Kremlin-run accounts.\n\n\"It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength,\" Mr Musk tweeted at the time.\n\nTwitter had \"limited\" accounts in April last year - which means the accounts will no longer be recommended in timelines, notifications or elsewhere on the site. That was under a previous management team.\n\nHowever the company had resisted banning many Kremlin-run profiles - leading to criticism at the time that Vladimir Putin had not been banned from the site, when former President Donald Trump had.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBurning Man festival-goers have been told to conserve their food and water after heavy rain turned the campsite into a mud bath.\n\nThe weather has been so bad that access in and out of the event in the US state of Nevada has been \"halted\", organisers said in a statement.\n\nUS media reported that more than 70,000 people were stuck there on Saturday.\n\nHeld in Black Rock Desert, the annual festival is one of America's most well-known cultural events.\n\nFootage on social media shows attendees struggling to walk on muddy paths.\n\nOrganisers have said \"no driving is permitted until the playa surface dries up, with the exception of emergency services\".\n\n\"Participants are encouraged to conserve food, water, and fuel, and shelter in a warm, safe space,\" they added in a statement.\n\nBefore the festival officially started on 27 August it was hit by the remnants of Hurricane Hilary, prompting organisers to close the gates to early arrivals.\n\nNow, after a night of continuous rain, this massive festival is mired in mud - the day before people were due to start heading home.\n\nGiven the possibility of more rain tonight, it could be several days before the ground becomes dry enough for vehicles here to leave.\n\nThe event usually features giant interactive art installations and a huge wooden man that is burnt at the end of the event.\n\nBut one man at the festival told the BBC most events have been called off as they largely take place in the playa - where there is currently no way to get in and out.\n\nAnother festival-goer told the BBC that the usual groups of \"weekend warriors\" - people who only plan to attend at weekends - were not there this year.\n\nAnatoly - who did not want to give his surname - is at the festival with his daughter for the second year in a row.\n\nHe said that they had come prepared for dust storms in the usually hot and dusty desert, but had instead been greeted with heavy rain.\n\n\"Everyone is fine, but there is an aspect of uncertainty,\" Anatoly said, as \"some people's tents got flooded\" and \"signal [across the camp] is the problem, we can't really communicate with anyone\".\n\nThe pair said portable toilets were out of use, as they cannot be emptied due to weather conditions.\n\nThey said they were letting tent owners use the family's campervan toilets.\n\nNonetheless, many here are trying to make the best of it, dancing in the mud to techno music.\n\nOne festival-goer who spoke to the BBC, Shervin Natan, said that despite the muddy conditions, \"the party's still going, it's business as usual.\"\n\n\"There are worse conditions than this, everyone is helping each other out, that's what Burning Man is all about,\" he added.\n\nThey are used to dust storms here - the motto of Burning Man is \"radical self reliance\" - but that motto is being put to the test in a way that few of the regular attendees at this event can remember.\n\nAmar Singh Duggal said the terrain at this year's edition of Burning Man was a \"clay pot\"\n\nBurning Man was founded in June 1986 when Larry Harvey and his friend Jerry Goodell burned a wooden man on Baker Beach in San Francisco to mark the summer solstice.\n\nIt was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.\n\nFestival-goers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals.\n\nSome groups spend the entire year planning their camp, artwork and theme. But this year there had been worries about the weather and tickets were changing hands on the secondary market at below market rate.\n\nAdditional reporting by James Clayton in San Francisco and Azadeh Moshiri.\n\nAre you attending the Burning Man festival? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rhod says he hopes to go on tour again next year\n\nRhod Gilbert has revealed plans to go on tour again next year after undergoing cancer treatment.\n\nThe 54-year-old stand-up comedian announced last July that he had stage four head and neck cancer.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales he was very grateful to the NHS and Velindre Cancer Centre for \"getting me back on my feet\".\n\n\"My new attitude is that life's too short, you've got to crack on and do these things,\" he said.\n\nGilbert's previous tour, Book of John, took four years to complete due to the pandemic and his health.\n\nSpeaking to Eleri Sion on BBC Radio Wales on Friday, he said that he also felt well enough to lead a trek to Mount Toubkal, in Morocco, next month.\n\nThe trek will raise funds for Velindre Cancer Centre, where Gilbert received his cancer treatment and where he has also been a patron for the past 10 years.\n\nEarlier this year, he described the planned Morocco trek as his big recovery goal.\n\n\"The last one was Cuba in 2022 and this is the next one so I'm very, very grateful to the NHS and to Velindre for getting me back on my feet and hopefully I'll be well enough,\" he said on Friday.\n\n\"I've only got about a month - I've got a bit of training to do,\" he added.\n\nGilbert previously said that it was during the 2022 Cuba fundraising trek that he first noticed a lump in his neck.\n\nSo far, the comic has helped to raise over £1.8m for Velindre on the previous treks he has led.\n\nGilbert will be trekking in the Atlas Mountains next month\n\n\"Everybody on those walks put in a massive effort with the fundraising so collectively we've all raised [that money],\" he said.\n\n\"I've been in Velindre when they've been rubbing my feet, while I'm having chemotherapy, having reflexology and all those little extras that aren't necessarily NHS. That's where the money goes.\n\n\"So I've seen first-hand what a difference that money makes.\n\n\"I'm very proud of my association with Velindre - I didn't realise that it would go this way but I'm very proud of it nonetheless.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nGetafe manager Jose Bordalas says the Spanish club are going to help England forward Mason Greenwood \"recover his best level\" after his season-long loan move from Manchester United.\n\nLast month, United said Greenwood, 21, would leave by mutual agreement after a six-month internal investigation.\n\nIt came after charges against the player, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped in February.\n\nGreenwood was not in Getafe's squad in Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Real Madrid.\n\nSpeaking after the La Liga game at the Bernabeu, Bordalas said: \"It is too delicate a situation to trivialise this issue.\n\n\"Everybody knows what happened, the appropriate measures were taken.\n\n\"Obviously we can only talk about football, about other issues, I think, that the people and the relevant systems did what they had to do, and everybody knows how it ended - without a condemnatory sentence.\n\n\"He's a footballer of the highest level, who comes to Getafe with enormous hope. We are going to help him to recover his best level.\"\n\nUnited said the move to Spain \"enables Greenwood to begin to rebuild his career away from Manchester United\".\n\nThe United academy graduate was arrested in January 2022 following allegations surrounding material which was published online.\n\nIn a statement last month, Greenwood accepted he had \"made mistakes\" and took his \"share of responsibility\", but added: \"I did not do the things I was accused of.\"\n\nUnited's statement in August said: \"based on the evidence available to us, we have concluded that the material posted online did not provide a full picture and that Mason did not commit the offences in respect of which he was originally charged.\"\n\nGreenwood, whose contract at Old Trafford runs until 2025, has scored 35 goals in 129 games for the club since his debut in 2019 aged 17.\n\nHe has not played for United since his arrest and in October 2022 was charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Nike ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads on its Fifa 22 game.\n\nAfter the charges were dropped in February 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service said key witnesses had withdrawn and new material had come to light, meaning there was \"no longer a realistic prospect of conviction\".\n\nUnited then started their own internal investigation in to the player, who was previously named one of the most valuable players in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nIn announcing the result of their investigation, United said: \"All those involved, including Mason, recognise the difficulties with him recommencing his career at Manchester United.\n\n\"It has therefore been mutually agreed that it would be most appropriate for him to do so away from Old Trafford.\"", "Sweden's king hands out awards at the Stockholm ceremony in 2022\n\nThe Nobel Foundation has reversed a much-criticised decision to invite Russia, Belarus and Iran to this year's awards ceremony in Stockholm.\n\n\"We recognise the strong reaction in Sweden,\" the foundation said.\n\nRussia and its ally Belarus were not invited last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while Iran was left out over its human rights record.\n\nUkraine had criticised this year's decision and hailed Saturday's U-turn as \"a victory for humanism\".\n\nThe awards ceremony is held in Stockholm on 10 December - the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the man who established the fund.\n\nThere, the king of Sweden honours laureates in fields including medicine, physics, literature, and economics. The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held on the same day in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.\n\nIn its announcement on Saturday, the Nobel Foundation defended its earlier decision, saying \"it is important and right to reach out as widely as possible with the values and messages that the Nobel Prize stands for - for example, through last year's clear political message with the peace prize awarded to human rights fighters from Russia and Belarus as well as to Ukrainians who work with documenting Russian war crimes\".\n\nBut it acknowledged that the reaction had \"overshadowed this message\".\n\n\"We, therefore, choose to repeat last year's exception to regular practice - that is, to not invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. As before, all ambassadors will be invited to the ceremony in Oslo,\" the foundation said.\n\nSaturday's announcement does not address another part of the earlier message that has caused additional concern in Sweden.\n\nIt centres on the invitation to \"all parties that have parliamentary representation in Sweden through democratic elections\".\n\nThis includes the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats - a party founded by Nazi sympathisers, who had been shunned by the mainstream for decades.\n\nIt won around a fifth of votes in last year's general election.\n\nIts leader, Jimmie Akesson, has said he will not attend after being invited for the first time.\n\n\"Unfortunately I'm busy that day,\" he wrote on Facebook on Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look at the life of high-profile Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al Fayed\n\nMohamed Al Fayed, the former Harrods boss whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died aged 94.\n\nBorn in Egypt, he built a business empire in the Middle East before moving to the UK in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, he never realised his ambition to gain a passport for his adopted country.\n\nHe spent his later years questioning the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Dodi and Diana.\n\nMr Al Fayed had remained largely out of the public limelight in the past decade, living in his Surrey mansion with his wife Heini.\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, his family said: \"Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and their grandfather, Mohamed, has passed away peacefully of old age on Wednesday August 30, 2023.\n\n\"He enjoyed a long and fulfilled retirement surrounded by his loved ones.\"\n\nMichael Cole, a former BBC Royal correspondent who later worked for Mr Al Fayed as director for public affairs at Harrods, described him as \"an extraordinary character\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Al Fayed was a \"fascinating and a larger than life\" character and someone who was \"full of humanity\".\n\nAfter the sale of Harrods to Qatar in 2010 Mr Al Fayed stayed on as honorary chairman for six months\n\nFulham Football Club, which Mr Al Fayed owned for many years, said that it was \"incredibly saddened to learn\" of his death.\n\n\"We owe Mohamed a debt of gratitude for what he did for our club, and our thoughts now are with his family and friends at this sombre time,\" it said in a statement.\n\nHis successor at the club, Shahid Khan, expressed his condolences in a tribute on the club's website.\n\n\"The story of Fulham cannot be told without a chapter on the positive impact of Mr Al Fayed as chairman,\" he said.\n\n\"His legacy will be remembered for our promotion to the Premier League, a Europa League Final, and moments of magic by players and teams alike.\"\n\nJournalist Piers Morgan described Al Fayed as an \"extraordinary tour de force of a man who never got over the death of his beloved son Dodi in the crash that also killed Diana\", adding that he was a \"flawed, complex character\" but that he liked him.\n\nMr Al Fayed rose from selling fizzy drinks on the streets of his native Alexandria in Egypt to become a big name in business with all the right contacts.\n\nHis break came after he met his first wife, Samira Khashoggi, the sister of Saudi millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi - who employed him in his Saudi Arabian import business.\n\nThe role helped him forge new connections in Egypt, and although the marriage lasted little more than two years, Mr Al Fayed went on to launch his own shipping business.\n\nIn 1966, he became an adviser to one of the world's richest men, the Sultan of Brunei.\n\nHe moved to Britain in 1974 and five years later bought the Ritz hotel in Paris with his brother Ali for £20m.\n\nThey went on to take over Harrods in 1985 for £615m, following a vicious bidding war with mining conglomerate the Lonrho group.\n\nUnder his ownership, Fulham FC rose from the third tier to the Premier League.\n\nHe gave generously to charities including Great Ormond Street Hospital and, as a father of five, showed a particular interest in helping underprivileged or unwell children.\n\nHe set up the Al Fayed Charitable Foundation in 1987 to better the lives of impoverished, traumatised and very sick youngsters.\n\nIt was from his Ritz hotel in Paris that his son Dodi, a film producer, and his then-partner Diana, Princess of Wales, departed, before the car crash which killed them both in 1997.\n\nMr Al Fayed never recovered from the shock of the crash, becoming obsessed with the speculation surrounding the deaths.\n\nHis evidence at the inquest in February 2008 included claims that the deaths were on the orders of Prince Philip and with the connivance of MI6.\n\nThey were deemed a \"conspiracy theory\" by the coroner and rejected by the jury.\n\nMr Al Fayed, with his wife Heini, at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997\n\nMr Al Fayed twice failed in his attempt to secure British citizenship.\n\nOn the second occasion in 1995, angered by the rejection, he told the press that he had paid two Conservative ministers, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith, to ask questions in the House of Commons about his interests.\n\nThey both left the government, and Mr Hamilton, who denied the allegation, also lost a libel case against Mr Al Fayed.\n\nA third politician, Jonathan Aitken, who was then a cabinet minister, also resigned after Mr Al Fayed revealed that he stayed for free at the Ritz in Paris at the same time as a group of Saudi arms dealers.\n\nIn 2010, Mr Al Fayed sold Harrods to the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar. Nearly half of the purchase price was used to clear the company's debts.\n\nRoyal historian Prof Kate Williams said Mr Al Fayed was a man on a mission after his son's death, but said he would also be remembered as a man who reshaped the iconic Harrods department store.\n\n\"It was his dream and his baby,\" she said.\n\nShe added that Mr Al Fayed was a great benefactor for charities and hospitals - which is how he met Princess Diana.\n\n\"He was a very significant force in British life,\" Prof Williams told BBC Breakfast, adding that he was a figure who would not be forgotten.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo members of the far-right Proud Boys group have been jailed for leading the US Capitol riot.\n\nDominic Pezzola, 46, who was convicted of assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nEthan Nordean, 32, who led the group's march on Congress on 6 January 2021, was sentenced to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge.\n\nThe former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced next week.\n\nBefore being sentenced, Nordean told the court: \"I would like to apologise for my lack of leadership that day\" and called the riot \"a complete and utter tragedy\".\n\n\"To anyone who I directly or even indirectly wronged, I'm sorry,\" he said.\n\nBut US District Judge Timothy Kelly told him that the events of the day broke a long political tradition.\n\n\"If we don't have a peaceful transfer of power in this country, we don't have anything,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nNordean, of Washington state, went by the nickname \"Rufio Panman\" and was well-known within the Proud Boys for his frequent brawls with antifa activists in the Pacific Northwest.\n\nHis sentence is one of the longest ones yet handed to Capitol riot defendants. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, was also given 18 years in prison earlier this year.\n\nThe other defendant sentenced on Friday, Pezzola, a 46-year-old former US Marine, fought with officers during the riot and smashed a window with a police riot shield.\n\nA selfie video taken on the day of the riot shows Pezzola smoking what he described as a \"victory cigar\" in the Capitol building.\n\nWhile he was convicted on the assault and obstruction charges, he was acquitted of seditious conspiracy - a charge applied to defendants for plotting to overthrow the government or use force \"to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States\".\n\nAn emotional Pezzola expressed some remorse for his actions during his sentencing hearing. His wife, daughter and mother all addressed the judge, with his mother describing him as having been a \"wonderful child\" that \"never gave me any trouble\".\n\nPezzola's wife said that her daughters have become victims of harassment and bullying at school.\n\nBut once the prison term had been handed down and the judge had left the room, Pezzola raised a fist and shouted: \"Trump won!\"\n\nThe Proud Boys - which started as an all-male, hard-drinking, self-described \"Western chauvinist\" fraternity seven years ago - saw themselves as Donald Trump's foot-soldiers and were among the first to march on the Capitol on the day of the riot.\n\nTrump supporters, including a group of around 200 Proud Boys, overran police lines and stormed the building in a bid to prevent Congress from ratifying Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nPezzola and Nordean went to trial alongside Tarrio and US military veterans Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl.\n\nOn Thursday, Biggs and Rehl were sentenced to 17 and 15 years in prison respectively. Prosecutors have requested a 33-year sentence for Tarrio.\n\nDominic Pezzola seen smashing a window with a police shield in a photo submitted as evidence by prosecutors\n\nOn Friday, Judge Timothy Kelly told Pezzola he had \"played a significant role\" in the Capitol riot, even if he was not in a leadership role in the Proud Boys.\n\n\"It was a national disgrace, what happened,\" Judge Kelly said.\n\nDuring the trial, a combative Pezzola had repeatedly downplayed his actions during the riot, arguing the crowd were \"trespassing protesters\" rather than an \"invading force\".\n\nHe also told jurors that his actions that day were explained by his reverting to military training when he saw police use non-lethal munitions to try to disperse the crowd.\n\nJoe Biggs (right) with Enrique Tarrio at a rally in 2019\n\n\"In the military and Marine Corps, you don't ever turn around and run away,\" Pezzola said.\n\n\"You're conditioned not to think about the flight response. You're conditioned to run toward the danger.\"\n\nProsecutors had asked for a 20 years in prison for Pezzola and 27 years for Nordean.\n\nMore than 1,100 have been arrested on riot-related charges, resulting in 630 guilty pleas and over 110 convictions.", "Jared Evitts' call to HMRC left him with an unwanted surprise on his phone bill\n\nAfter googling HM Revenue & Customs' contact number, BBC journalist Jared Evitts made a phone call which he later found out had cost him £119.\n\nI typed \"HMRC phone number\" into Google, which seemed like the logical way to find their contact details.\n\nAfter finding what I thought was the correct number, I spent 30 minutes on hold, and then had a quick chat on the phone.\n\nIn all honesty, it was a rather unremarkable call that did not cross my mind again - until my phone bill came through a few weeks later.\n\nIt turns out, the 39 minute call to the tax office had cost me £119.05, and I had absolutely no idea why.\n\nHad I made a call from abroad? Had I been scammed? Was there a mistake?\n\nAfter some research, I found the answer. I had unknowingly phoned through a call connection service operated by a company called Bounce Tech Ltd, which has been approached for comment.\n\nThis meant I had got through to the organisation I wanted to reach, but was charged for the call at a premium rate.\n\nRegulated by the Phone-paid Services Authority (PSA), call connection services are not illegal, but charge high rates for calls to organisations that may otherwise be free or low cost.\n\nThe PSA said the price of the service must be clear, and consumers must be made aware they are not calling their desired recipient directly.\n\nTwo other women who used Bounce Tech's call connection service, Lesley Carthy and Emma Oliver, said they were also unaware they were using a third party.\n\nLesley Carthy has received a full refund after unknowingly calling HMRC through Bounce Tech\n\nLesley Carthy, from Warrington, Cheshire, googled HMRC's contact number to try to contact them in June. She was charged £184.68 by Bounce Tech for a 51 minute phone call.\n\n\"I saw this number online, I dialled it and obviously you're in a queue. Nothing was told to me about a call charge,\" she said.\n\n\"Then 50 minutes went by, it got answered and then the next thing, I got my phone bill.\n\n\"Phoning HMRC, you think you wouldn't be calling on a premium number. I just can't believe it, nobody can believe it.\"\n\nEmma Oliver, from Amble in Northumberland, was also charged £112.24 for a 29-minute phone call at the end of June.\n\nEmma Oliver made the call through Bounce Tech after her father's death\n\n\"It was the week my dad had died, so I was actually off work and was making lots of phone calls to various companies regarding his death and pensions and payments,\" said the 52-year-old.\n\n\"I don't even know who Bounce Tech are, I wouldn't personally ring them. I just think I just assumed you were ringing the company you were trying to ring, I had no idea.\"\n\nAccording to the PSA, while pricing information is available from Bounce Tech, it is easy to overlook due the speed at which it is played on the phone, and because of its lack of prominence on their website - particularly on a mobile device.\n\nLesley Carthy said she had been refunded in full by Bounce Tech for the call and Emma said she had also been refunded £104.82 by them.\n\nAfter contacting the PSA about Bounce Tech Ltd, the regulator confirmed it had opened an investigation into the company.\n\nThe PSA said Bounce Tech operate premium rate numbers costing £3.60 per minute plus the phone company's access charge, and connect customers to organisations including HMRC and O2.\n\nIn July, the PSA issued a warning letter to Bounce Tech, explaining the company's pricing information was not clear enough, was misleading, and customers had experienced undue delay while using the service.\n\nIt was also \"concerned that the message on the phone call did not clearly state the cost for continuing the call and being connected\".\n\nIn addition, it said the language used may \"have the potential to mislead consumers into believing they are calling the company they are looking for directly\".\n\nBounce Tech Ltd has agreed to the action plan to resolve the issues identified by the PSA.\n\nThe action plan includes an agreement to improve the prominence of pricing, ensure consumers are aware they are not contacting the end organisation directly and ensure the required information is clearly audible at the start of the phone call.\n\nBounce Tech Ltd has also agreed to refund complainants who have been charged by them via their phone bill.\n\nA HMRC spokesperson said: \"Most customers prefer to deal with us online and we strongly encourage them to do so but if they need to call us, they shouldn't use costly call connection services advertised online.\"\n\nIt encouraged customers to contact HMRC directly on its 0300 helpline numbers that are \"free or charged at the national landline rate\".\n\nThe PSA said it had \"very strict rules\" for connection services, and enforcement action is taken if providers break these rules.\n\nIt also said it would cap all call costs at £40 from 18 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA clock tower which stood in Stirling for 117 years has been controversially demolished by the local council over safety fears.\n\nThe Christie Clock was found to be unstable when it was inspected by structural engineers last week.\n\nStirling Council said it had attempted to steady the pillar but \"due to the urgent nature of concerns\" it had to be removed on Friday evening.\n\nThe clock was saved and officials said restoration work will now be looked at.\n\nHowever, local people have criticised the council for removing the tower during the night and with no warning.\n\nThe council said efforts had been made to save the pillar and clock head\n\nOne angry resident told BBC Scotland News: \"They made a half-baked attempt to take it down and then under cover of darkness they brought in a demolition machine and demolished it in an act of crass vandalism.\n\n\"No attempt to shore it up, take it down carefully - these mindless idiots did this to Stirling's heritage.\n\n\"What was done here was disgusting.\"\n\nThe clock tower was erected in 1906 in memory of George Christie, who was Provost of the Royal Burgh of Stirling from 1870 to 1879.\n\nStirling Council said it was aware of concerns raised by residents, but defended its actions which it said were supported by structural engineers and stonemasons.\n\nA spokesman said: \"At all times, we worked with conservation officers and had all historic records in place before any work progressed.\n\n\"Contractors tried valiantly for five hours to remove the crown of this well-loved landmark but, unfortunately, due to the lack of stability within the clock structure, the pillar also had to be removed from site.\n\n\"Sections of the clock have been removed intact and all stonework associated with the clock tower has been removed from site and stored to allow further investigation and work.\"\n\nHe added: \"Repair work on the base will commence over the next two weeks and we will shortly begin a review of a restoration project on the pillar, crown and clock.\"", "Pro-war blogger Alexander Kots charged £440-£680 per post on his Telegram channel\n\nRussia's pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found.\n\nAlongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion.\n\nKnown in Russia as \"Z-Bloggers\" because of their support for a war often symbolised by the letter Z, they are often embedded with the Russian army and post footage from the front line where they call on young Russians to enlist.\n\nSince the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, pro-war influencers have gained millions of followers on Telegram, the social media platform many Russians turned to after President Vladimir Putin banned Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.\n\nThat explosion in users has led to a surge in Telegram's advertising market.\n\nWar influencers have taken advantage of this. They sell ad spaces for companies looking to reach their young audiences.\n\nTo find out how much they charge, members of the BBC's Global Disinformation Team posed as hotel owners interested in posting ads on their channels.\n\nWe reached out to some of the most prominent players.\n\nOne of them was Alexander Kots, a veteran correspondent for a pro-government newspaper who became a war influencer, with more than 600,000 followers on his personal Telegram channel.\n\nSemyon Pegov, known as WarGonzo, was another. Perhaps the most well-known Z blogger, he has more than 1.3 million followers.\n\nWar blogger Semyon Pegov (L) was among a number of Putin influencers invited to meet the Russian leader in June\n\nAlexander Kots said it would cost 48,000-70,000 roubles (£440-£680) per post on his channel, depending on how long the ad was kept at the top of his Telegram feed. WarGonzo quoted us the equivalent of £1,550 per post.\n\nTop war influencers post at least one ad per day, so their potential income dwarfs Russia's average monthly wage of 66,000 roubles (£550).\n\nAn advertising agent working with Wagner-linked channels quoted us the equivalent of £260 per ad in Grey Zone, a Telegram channel with exclusive access to Wagner and over 600,000 followers.\n\nZ-bloggers such as Alexander Kots post ads for anything from Telegram\n\nTo advertise on the channel of Alexander Simonov, a correspondent for the Ria Fan website founded by late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, the agent quoted £180 per post.\n\nAnother Ria Fan reporter, Alexander Yaremchuk, has fewer followers so his rates are lower, at £86 per post.\n\nWhile some of the Z-bloggers have significant experience of war reporting for state-run media, others like Maryana Naumova have no professional training.\n\nA former powerlifter, she took a reporting course on a Wagner mercenary base and now presents her own show on national TV.\n\nMaryana Naumova sent this image to the BBC but refused to speak to us\n\nThe BBC tried to interview prominent war-bloggers, but Alexander Kots was the only one of them who agreed to talk.\n\nSpeaking from the occupied Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, he described himself as a reporter in an information war. Nevertheless he understood Russia's propaganda depended, in part, on people like him.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence often listens to us, and we have a direct channel to privately communicate information to them. It's all behind the scenes, and I do that,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC's Global Disinformation Team tells the story of social media influencers making money from war propaganda.\n\nThe growing market for the Z-bloggers' material is sustained by a steady stream of exclusive videos. The footage brings them a diverse following, from domestic pro-war audiences to Western and Ukrainian analysts trying to understand what is really going on in the Russian trenches.\n\nTop bloggers shared this video, but the BBC analysis suggests it is staged\n\nHowever, some of the videos posted by the pro-war bloggers are fake.\n\nLast March, prominent influencers including Alexander Kots posted a dashcam video that purported to show two Ukrainian soldiers stopping a car with a woman and a small child.\n\nThe gunmen in the video call the woman \"a pig\" for speaking Russian and threaten her. Z-bloggers said the video was a perfect example of how Ukraine treated civilians.\n\nBut we have geolocated this video to Makiivka, a town near Donetsk. This area of Ukraine has been occupied by pro-Russian proxy forces since 2014. It is impossible that a uniformed Ukrainian soldier could have operated in this occupied territory.\n\nAdded to that, the use of dashcams is illegal in Ukraine. The ban was imposed after the full-scale Russian invasion to keep troop movements secret.\n\nAnd the cross on the vehicle is different from the one used by Ukraine's armed forces. All these elements suggest the video was staged.\n\nIt is one of many fakes spread by Z-bloggers to encourage young Russians to support the war, and there is evidence they are succeeding.\n\nPutin has given pro-war influencers medals and official positions\n\nIn one video a mobilised Russian man says he went to a recruitment centre after watching a number of videos from Vladlen Tatarsky, one of the most vocal bloggers. Tatarsky was killed in April 2023 at a meeting with his fans.\n\nAnother Russian man who volunteered to fight in Ukraine told a blogger he did so after watching a lot of WarGonzo reports. \"I follow all the military news and analysis on Telegram,\" he said, referring to the Z-bloggers.\n\nAsked to respond to the rise of pro-Putin war bloggers on the platform, Telegram said it was the \"last platform through which Russians can access independent media outlets like Meduza, uncensored international news like the BBC or [President] Zelensky's speeches\".\n\nA spokesman said while all parties were \"treated equally\", Telegram respected international sanctions and blocked Russian state media \"where laws forbid it\".\n\nOver the course of the war, President Putin has shown his appreciation of the Z-bloggers' efforts.\n\nHe appointed Alexander Kots to the presidential human rights council and made Semyon Pegov and several other bloggers members of a working group on mobilisation.\n\nIn June, he invited pro-war influencers and state media reporters to the Kremlin for a two-hour long conversation.\n\n\"The fight in the information space is a battlefield. A crucial battlefield,\" he told them. \"And I really count on your help.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nAnother record-breaking transfer window closed on Friday after a busy summer in which Premier League clubs spent £2.36bn on new players.\n\nThe combined outlay of the 20 clubs during the window smashes the previous spending record of £1.92bn set last summer by £440m, according to financial services firm Deloitte.\n\nPremier League clubs spent £255m on deadline day alone, which is more than double the £120m spent on the final day of last summer's window.\n\nThat means the 2023-24 season already has the second-highest transfer spend ever after last season's £2.73bn - with the January window still to come.\n• None Premier League transfers accounted for 48% of total spending across the 'big five' European leagues - La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1\n• None Premier League clubs received £550m in transfer fees from overseas clubs, more than double the previous record of £210m in the summer of 2022\n• None With the exception of Spain's La Liga, gross transfer spend increased in all of Europe's 'big five' leagues\n• None Only two of Europe's 'big five' leagues spent more on transfers than they received - the Premier League and Ligue 1\n• None There were 13 Premier League transfers valued at £50m-plus, which is more than the previous two summer transfer windows combined.\n\nTim Bridge, lead partner in Deloitte's Sports Business Group, said: \"A second successive summer of record spending by Premier League clubs suggests that year-on-year revenue growth could return following the pandemic.\n\n\"Nearly three-quarters of Premier League clubs (14) spent more this summer than the last, reflecting the increased intensity of competition.\n\n\"There continues to be pressure on clubs to acquire top talent to satisfy their on-pitch objectives, whether that's qualifying for European competition or simply maintaining their position in the Premier League.\"\n• None All the deadline-day deals in one place\n• None Six questions to emerge from record transfer window\n\nWhat deals were done on deadline day?\n\nIn the biggest Premier League deal of deadline day, Manchester City signed Portugal midfielder Matheus Nunes from Wolves for £55m, while the Treble winners sold Cole Palmer to Chelsea for £40m.\n\nManchester United brought in goalkeeper Altay Bayindir from Fenerbahce for £4.5m, midfielder Sofyan Amrabat on loan from Fiorentina, full back Sergio Reguilon on loan from Tottenham and free agent Jonny Evans on a one-year deal.\n\nNottingham Forest were the busiest club, signing seven players including midfielder Ibrahim Sangare from PSV, winger Callum Hudson-Odoi from Chelsea and midfielder Nicolas Dominguez from Bologna.\n\nWhat were the big transfers of the summer?\n\nThere were two transfers that hit the £100m mark this summer. Chelsea signed midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton for a £100m fee that could rise to a British club record of £115m, while Arsenal bought England midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham for £100m plus £5m in add-ons.\n\nAlong with deadline day signing Nunes, Manchester City bought defender Josko Gvardiol for £77m from RB Leipzig, winger Jeremy Doku from Rennes for £55.4m and midfielder Mateo Kovacic, who arrived for £25m from Chelsea.\n\nManchester United signed Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund for £72m, while fellow Champions League side Newcastle United brought in Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali for £55m and Leicester forward Harvey Barnes for £38m.\n\nAs well as Rice, last year's Premier League runners-up Arsenal added Kai Havertz from Chelsea for £65m and Ajax defender Jurrien Timber for £34m.\n\nLiverpool strengthened their midfield with moves for Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig for £60m, Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton for £35m and Wataru Endo from Stuttgart for £16.2m.\n\nBest deals from around Europe\n\nTwo of the biggest transfers in Europe this summer involved England players.\n\nThree Lions captain Harry Kane joined Bayern Munich from Tottenham for £86.4m, while midfielder Jude Bellingham moved to Real Madrid from Borussia Dortmund for £88.5m.\n\nBarcelona signed Ilkay Gundogan on a free transfer after the midfielder left Manchester City, before sealing deadline-day loan moves for City defender Joao Cancelo and Spain forward Joao Felix from Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe most expensive deal of deadline day was Paris St-Germain's capture of France striker Randal Kolo Muani from Eintracht Frankfurt for £64.2m plus £12.8m in add-ons.\n\nThis was Chelsea's third transfer window under new owner Todd Boehly and their spending showed no signs of slowing down.\n\nThe London club spent more than £380m on 10 players in this transfer window, more than any other side in Europe. The highest summer spend by any club in the world before now had been Real Madrid's £292m spree in 2019.\n\nChelsea's outlay on players across three transfer windows since Boehly took charge is now close to £1bn.\n\nTheir spending this summer has been partially offset by significant player sales, with nine players leaving on permanent deals, including Havertz to Arsenal and Mason Mount to Manchester United for an initial £55m.\n• None How can Chelsea keep spending and stay within financial rules?\n\nThe Saudi Pro League spent heavily on an array of global stars, including Neymar and Karim Benzema, as the Saudi authorities pushed to make the league one of the most competitive in the world.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund recently took over four of the country's top teams - Al-Ittihad, Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal and Al-Ahli - while the other 14 top-flight clubs have some big-name players too.\n\nAccording to Deloitte, Saudi Pro League clubs have so far spent £690.55m (805m Euros), with £245m of that on Premier League players.\n\nIt makes the league the fourth-highest spending in the world this summer, behind the Premier League, Ligue 1 and Serie A.\n\nAnd there could yet be more big-money moves too, with the Saudi transfer window not closing until 7 September - and Al-Ittihad having had a £150m bid for Mohamed Salah rejected by Liverpool.\n\n\"The emergence of more active participants in the global transfer market has the potential to accelerate clubs' efforts to establish financially sustainable business models,\" said Calum Ross, assistant director in Deloitte's Sports Business Group.\n\n\"In this summer's transfer window, clubs who have sold players to those from emerging international leagues have then gone on to spend receipts with a large number of other clubs, both within and outside of the Premier League.\n\n\"This distribution of the new flow of funds into the market will be key to ensuring the financial benefits of a more active global market are enjoyed across the board, serving to reduce rather than widen any existing gaps.\"\n\nSome of the notable departures from the Premier League for Saudi Arabia include Newcastle winger Allan Saint-Maximin and Manchester City's Riyad Mahrez joining Al-Ahli, Wolves captain Ruben Neves moving to Al-Hilal, Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte joining Al-Nassr and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson moving to Al-Ettifaq.\n\nThe ones that got away\n\nDespite millions of pounds being spent, there were still some deals that did not materialise.\n\nPSG gave Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal permission to talk to Kylian Mbappe after making a world-record £259m bid, but the striker opted to stay at the French champions - while Al-Ittihad's £150m offer for Salah was turned down.\n\nJoao Palhinha had agreed terms with Bayern Munich and even flew to Germany to have a medical on deadline day, but Fulham were unable to strike a deal with the Bundesliga champions and the move collapsed.\n• None How do you feel about your Premier League club's transfer business? Use our mood indicators to tell us what you think\n• None Follow your Premier League club and get news, analysis and fan views sent direct to you\n• None Could an office window help generate power? Enterprising people are finding surprising ways of harnessing energy from the sun\n• None The Killers at the BBC:", "The crash scene was cordoned off by police on Friday\n\nA 73-year-old man has died after being hit by a bus in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, during the evening rush hour.\n\nThe pedestrian was struck at the junction of Orchard Drive and Fenwick Road at about 17:00 on Friday. He died at the scene.\n\nThe 24-year-old bus driver was not injured.\n\nA police spokesman said inquiries were ongoing and urged any witnesses to get in touch.\n\nSgt Adnan Alam said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the man who died at this very difficult time.\n\n\"This is a busy road and we would appeal to anyone who witnessed the crash, who has not yet spoken to officers to please contact us. I am also keen to speak to any drivers who have dashcam footage that may assist.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The remains were found near a zig-zag path linking the clifftop to the beach\n\nTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after human remains were discovered off a cliff-side path in Bournemouth.\n\nThe partial remains were found by a member of the public near Manor Steps Zig Zag, off Boscombe Overcliff Drive on 26 August.\n\nDorset Police said the victim was a 49-year-old man from Bournemouth. His family has been informed.\n\nA 38-year-old-woman and a 48-year-old man from Bournemouth are being held.\n\nA cordon around Manor Steps Zig Zag was lifted ahead of Bournemouth Air Festival\n\nDet Insp Neil Third, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: \"Foremost, our thoughts are with the victim's family. We will continue to do all we can to establish the circumstances of the death.\n\n\"Now that we have been able to identify the victim following scientific analysis, I am in a position to be more specific about my appeal.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who saw suspicious activity around Manor Steps Zig Zag between 31 July and 26 August to upload information or images to the major incident public portal.\n\n\"A number of cordons have been put in place across the Boscombe area and I would like to thank the public for their assistance while officers conduct their detailed enquiries,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bill Richardson, top US diplomat, dies aged 75 after decades brokering deals for Americans held unjustly abroad\n\nFormer US ambassador to the UN Bill Richardson has died aged 75, his foundation has announced.\n\nServing under President Bill Clinton, he won admiration for his commitment to securing the release of US citizens detained around the world.\n\nHe continued that work out of politics, last year travelling to Moscow to discuss the release of detained basketball star Britney Griner.\n\n\"Bill worked tirelessly for the causes of freedom, fairness, and opportunity,\" Mr Clinton said in a statement on Saturday night.\n\n\"Whether in an official or unofficial capacity, he was a masterful and persistent negotiator who helped make our world more secure and won the release of many individuals held unjustly abroad.\"\n\nBorn in Pasadena, California, in 1947 to a Spanish-born mother and a Nicaraguan-born father, Mr Richardson grew up in Mexico City before attending boarding school in Massachusetts.\n\nAfter graduating from Tufts University in 1970, he earned a master's degree in 1971. Soon after he embarked on a career in politics which would see him hold major national and state-wide offices.\n\nIn 1983 he was elected to the US House, representing New Mexico's Third District.\n\nOver the next five decades in politics he developed a specialisation in diplomatic negotiations, skills which would see President Clinton tap him as his envoy to the UN in 1997.\n\nThe next year he became Mr Clinton's energy secretary, serving through to the end of the administration.\n\nIn 2002, he became the only Hispanic leader of a US state when he won the New Mexico governorship. His enduring popularity in the state saw him re-elected to a second term in 2006 by a record margin of 68% to 32%.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Clinton said his term as governor entrenched Mr Richardson's status as a \"trailblazer\", adding that his \"career helped pave the path for other Latino Americans to serve at the highest levels of American government\".\n\nMr Richardson's work saw him nominated for the Nobel Peace prize several times\n\nHis success in office sparked a renewed interest in national politics, and in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election he launched a long-shot bid for the Democratic Party's nomination.\n\nDespite playing a key role in Mr Clinton's cabinet, his public endorsement of Barack Obama after his withdrawal - instead of Hilary Clinton - was viewed as a betrayal by many Clinton supporters.\n\nMr Obama later nominated him as secretary of commerce, but he withdrew because of a pending investigation into allegations of improper business dealings - a probe that was later dropped.\n\nSoon after leaving governorship in 2011 he launched his non-profit foundation, the Richardson Centre for Global Engagement, where he renewed his work seeking the release of detained Americans.\n\nHe was involved in efforts to release US basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian prison in December after she was convicted of a drug offence.\n\nHe also met with Russian government officials in the months prior to the release of US Marine Trevor Reed in a prisoner swap.\n\nAnd in 2021, he helped broker a deal for the release of American journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison.\n\nPreviously, he helped secure the release of US nationals detained in North Korea and he also held talks with Pyongyang diplomats in efforts to calm tensions between the two Koreas.\n\nHis work dealing with autocratic regimes once saw him jokingly refer to himself as the \"the informal under secretary for thugs\". But his work saw him nominated for the Nobel Peace prize several times.\n\nThe Richardson Centre hailed him as a \"champion for those held unjustly abroad\".\n\n\"He lived his entire life in the service of others - including both his time in government and his subsequent career helping to free people held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad,\" the foundation said in a statement.\n\n\"There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden led tributes to Mr Richardson, who he called \"a patriot and true original\".\n\n\"Few have served our nation in as many capacities or with as much relentlessness, creativity, and good cheer,\" Mr Biden said. \"His most lasting legacy will be the work Bill did to free Americans held in some of the most dangerous places on Earth.\"\n\n\"He will be deeply missed,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nDemocratic Senator Bob Menendez hailed Mr Richardson as \"a quintessential public servant in every sense of the word\".\n\n\"He was dedicated to improving the lives of those around him - whether it was the people of New Mexico as our nation's only Hispanic governor during his two terms or many Americans unjustly detained by despotic regimes around the world.\"\n\nReacting to news of the top diplomat's death, New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich said: \"Richardson's legacy will have a lasting impact.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Former US North Korea emissary Governor Bill Richardson on US-North Korea nuclear talks\n• None North Korea talks 'not just' about nukes. Video, 00:02:43North Korea talks 'not just' about nukes", "A meteor has been filmed streaking across the night sky in Turkey.\n\nThe green shafts of light were caught on camera as it passed over the city of Erzurum and Gumushane Province in the east of the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nSpanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself \"to prove the truth\".\n\nRubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain's Women's World Cup final win in Sydney, Australia on 20 August.\n\nHermoso said the kiss during the medal ceremony was not consensual.\n\nRubiales has repeatedly refused to resign despite being suspended by world football's governing body Fifa.\n\nIn his first public comments since 25 August, when he refused to step down at an extraordinary general assembly called by the federation (RFEF), Rubiales acknowledged he had \"made mistakes\" but repeated his belief that the kiss was consensual.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to defend myself to prove the truth.\"\n\nThe TAD ruled Rubiales committed a \"serious offence\" by kissing Hermoso, but stopped short of the \"very serious offence\" charge the government had requested which would have led to his suspension.\n\nIn response, sports minister Miquel Iceta called for Rubiales' temporary suspension until the case has been resolved.\n\n\"The Sports Council and the government believe the RFEF president's actions should be classified as a very serious abuse of authority which damages the image of Spanish football,\" he said.\n\nRubiales, who also grabbed his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby, continued: \"On 20 August, I made some obvious mistakes, for which I sincerely, from the heart, regret.\n\n\"I've learned that no matter how great the joy and how deep the emotion, even when you win a World Cup, sports leaders should be held to exemplary behaviour, and mine was not so.\n\n\"I still have confidence in the independence of the bodies where this matter should be resolved, despite the political pressure and the interest-driven brutality of certain media outlets.\n\n\"Although information about this matter is being subjected to numerous manipulations, lies, and censorship, the truth has only one path, and that's why I repeat, I trust that justice will be served.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to send a message to all the good people in our country and beyond our borders, including those women who have really been attacked and who have my full support and understanding: this is not about gender, it is about truth.\"\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nWhat else has happened?\n\nOn Monday, Spanish prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault, while the RFEF's regional leaders called for his resignation.\n\nRubiales' mother locked herself in a church on the same day and went on an \"indefinite\" hunger strike in protest against the treatment of her son. She was taken to hospital on Wednesday and discharged the next day.\n\nAlso on Friday, the head of Spain's Olympic Committee said Rubiales' actions were \"inappropriate and unacceptable\" but an \"isolated incident\" that did not represent Spanish sport as a whole.\n\nAlejandro Blanco, who described Rubiales as a personal friend, added that he advised the 46-year-old in a phone call after the World Cup final to apologise, highlight the success for Spanish women's football and offer his resignation.\n\n\"I believe that [resigning] would have been a coherent gesture, one that the whole of society would understand and the best gesture that could be made to show repentance,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the head coach of Spain's men's team hasasked for \"forgiveness\" after applauding last Friday's speech in which Rubiales said he would not resign.\n\nLuis de la Fuente said it was an \"inexcusable human error\" but added he would not step down from his job.\n\nThe RFEF is also exploring its options over whether it can sack Women's World Cup-winning head coach Jorge Vilda.\n\nVilda remains in his post despite most of his coaching staff resigning in protest against Rubiales' refusal to quit. Eighty-one Spain players, including all 23 World Cup winners, have also said they would not play for the team again while Rubiales remained in position.\n\nA video has emerged appearing to show Hermoso and her team-mates laughing and discussing the kiss on the team bus following the game.\n\nHermoso appears to be viewing a meme of ex-Spain men's goalkeeper Iker Casillas kissing his then partner Sara Carbonero, a television presenter, during an interview following his country's 2010 World Cup victory.\n\nShe later says \"he comes over and hugs me like this\" when talking about Rubiales.\n\nIn her statement denying the kiss was consensual, Hermoso said: \"I feel the need to report this incident because I believe no person, in any work, sports or social setting should be a victim of these types of non-consensual behaviours.\n\n\"I felt vulnerable and a victim of impulsive-driven, sexist, out-of-place act, without any consent on my part. Quite simply, I was not respected.\"\n\nShe added that she was put \"under continuous pressure\" to help with a \"statement that could justify\" Rubiales' actions - and so were her family, friends and team-mates.", "Mahek Bukhari on Instagram, and in police custody\n\nMahek Bukhari was a burgeoning TikTok star, with a mother who enthusiastically supported her influencer daughter. But an ill-fated affair saw both their lives unravel into deceit, blackmail, and ultimately murder.\n\nMahek, from Stoke-on-Trent, had set her sights on a social media career after dropping out of university.\n\nIt was starting to pay off. She had nearly 129,000 followers and was earning an income through brand promotions - with parties and product launch events up and down the country.\n\nShe also boasted about an \"elite relationship\" with her mother, Ansreen, who often joined in her videos.\n\nBut when Ansreen met 21-year-old Saqib Hussain, it sparked a chain of events that ended in tragedy, and ultimately saw both mother and daughter convicted of double murder.\n\nBoth have now been sentenced to life in prison, with Mahek ordered to serve at least 31 years and eight months, and Ansreen given a minimum term of 26 years and nine months.\n\nAnsreen and Saqib first began chatting online in 2019, through video app Azar.\n\nThey exchanged numbers and were soon talking every day. The relationship was on and off, but lasted about three years.\n\nDet Insp Mark Parish, from Leicestershire Police, said Ansreen was \"flattered\" by the interest Saqib showed in her.\n\nAnsreen and Saqib first met on a video chat app\n\nHe said they met numerous times - in hotels, restaurants and shisha lounges.\n\nBut in 2021, the relationship started to turn sour. Ansreen tried to break it off, and Saqib was upset.\n\nStruggling to deal with her rejection, he pleaded with her to reconsider. Things escalated, until Saqib threatened to send explicit material of his ex-lover to her husband.\n\nAt the end of that year, Ansreen cracked and told her daughter everything. But instead of going to police about the blackmail, Mahek decided to take matters into her own hands.\n\n\"Knowing the family of Saqib and having been with them throughout, I know they would have dealt with Saqib and stopped him from doing what he was doing,\" Det Insp Parish said.\n\n\"If [the Bukahris] would have spoken to the police, this would not have happened. It would not have got to this stage.\"\n\nIn a bid to help her mother, Mahek turned to her friend - car mechanic Rekan Karwan.\n\nThe pair plotted to lure Saqib to a meeting by offering to hand over £3,000. This was the amount of money he'd complained he spent on Ansreen while they were lovers.\n\nRekan enlisted the help of his best friend - Raees Jamal - as well as Raees' cousin Ameer Jamal, and other friends Sanaf Gulummustafa, Natasha Akhtar and Mohammed Patel.\n\nRekan and Raess were the drivers during the chase, while the others were passengers\n\nIn the early hours of 11 February 2022, the group arrived at a Tesco supermarket in Leicester, and waited for Saqib. The plan was to ambush him.\n\nIn Banbury - Saqib's home town - he was trying to arrange a lift to get to Leicester.\n\nHe asked a few friends. One of them, Hashim Ijazuddin, offered to drive him.\n\n\"Hashim doesn't know anything that's going on, he's a friend of Saqib's and he just agreed to drive Saqib to Leicester on the night in question - totally innocently,\" Det Insp Parish said.\n\n\"He knew none of the defendants, knew nothing about what's going on and in some respects is probably the only person who is at the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What CCTV evidence showed us in the TikTok murder case\n\nSaqib and Hashim arrived at the Tesco car park at 01:17 GMT. They slowed down and waited for a few seconds, but sensed something was wrong.\n\nThey quickly left the scene, but their Skoda was followed by two cars - a blue Seat Leon, driven by Raees, and an Audi TT with Rekan behind the wheel.\n\nMahek and Ansreen's trial heard they were passengers in the Audi.\n\nAt this point, police knew from phone records that Mahek called Saqib.\n\n\"It gets quite heated,\" Det Insp Parish said. \"But we never know what is said.\n\nOne minute after this conversation, Saqib called 999.\n\nHe told the operator he was a passenger in a car that was being followed. He said the car behind was trying to ram him off the road.\n\nThe frantic call lasted about five minutes as Saqib and Hashim continued down the dual carriageway, going through a red light in an effort to lose their pursuers.\n\nThe two men were chased to their deaths on the A46\n\n\"One of the first things he talks about is being blocked in, and sure enough, the footage from a car dealership clearly shows the car being blocked in with a vehicle in front trying to brake and stop the car,\" Det Insp Parish said.\n\n\"You can hear [on the call] Saqib say to Hashim 'send it, send it', which is an indication to Hashim for them to just go and get out of here - we don't like what's happening.\n\n\"At that point, you can clearly imagine the fear and worry that's going through their minds - the fact they've gone through a red light and they're still being followed.\"\n\nThe families of Saqib and Hashim have asked for the 999 call played in court not to be broadcast.\n\nThe final moments are extremely distressing. Towards the end, the line goes silent for 10 seconds before the operator asks if Saqib is still there.\n\n\"The call becomes emotional, quite upsetting and you can hear that they're right behind them, and then screams and quiet,\" Det Insp Parish said.\n\nJust after 01:30, a recovery driver was travelling along the A46 when he saw a car on fire next to a tree. After realising no-one had called the police, he blocked off the road with his truck.\n\nThe first police officers arrived about 10 minutes later, closely followed by firefighters.\n\nAfter the fire was put out, one of the police officers saw the bodies of two people in the car.\n\nFurther up the road, the Audi and Seat drivers pulled over. Mahek took over as driver of the Audi, and Natasha the Seat.\n\nThen they headed back to Leicester to lay low. On their way back, they drove past the burning wreckage.\n\nOnce they arrived in the city, they pulled up in Sutton Place, a quiet cul-de-sac away from prying eyes. The group got out of the cars and began walking the streets.\n\nThe story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.\n\nThey were spotted at various points at about 02:00, picked up on CCTV as they moved around the area in the cold February darkness.\n\nOfficers who later secured the footage could not be sure what they were doing, but one theory is that they were preparing a cover story.\n\nThey then either walked home or were dropped off. Natasha - who was the registered owner of the Seat - began her journey back to her home in Birmingham, while the Bukharis headed north to Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nMahek, Ansreen and Rekan walking the streets of Leicester after the murders\n\nMeanwhile, Leicestershire Police knew something the group did not.\n\nSaqib's 999 call had been passed on to detectives and they had begun scouring automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras.\n\nThey put out an alert, and two officers in the West Midlands spotted Natasha's Seat.\n\nThey began to follow her, and later boxed her in at a petrol station. Before this happened, she called Raees in a panic.\n\nShe was then arrested and taken into custody.\n\nPolice in the home of Mahek and Ansreem the morning after the murders\n\nShortly after 08:00, Mahek and Ansreem were woken at home by the sound of police speaking to Mahek's brother and father.\n\nAt this point Mahek noticed she had a raft of missed calls from Raees, who knew police had found Natasha.\n\nWhile officers from Staffordshire Police continued to speak to the male members of the house, Mahek called Raees back.\n\nShe then sent a text to her mother in the next room, explaining what she would say to officers.\n\nDressed in a pink, fluffy oversized hoodie, Mahek lied to police, saying that on the night of the crash, they had been on their way to Nottingham for a social media event.\n\nThe pair were later arrested and taken to a police station in Leicester.\n\nWhile being interviewed in custody, Mahek continued to lie about what she had been doing that night.\n\nBut when police played Saqib's 999 call, she appeared taken aback.\n\nInstead of conceding defeat, she broke down in tears and said Saqib \"lies so much\" and had \"manipulated\" events.\n\nThe Bukharis and six others are later charged with murder.\n\nOne of those, Mohammed Patel - who was later cleared of all charges - went on to tell police the full story, and revealed what happened during the chase.\n\nImportantly, he told officers that Rekan and Raees had a phone conversation during the chase about ramming Saqib off the road.\n\nOn the afternoon of Friday 4 August 2023, after a long 18 months of waiting, both the Hussain and Ijazzudin families prepared to find out the fate of those accused of their loved ones' murders.\n\nThe jury had deliberated for more than 28 hours.\n\nEarlier that day, Mahek was seen by reporters outside Leicester Crown Court laughing and waving at them from a precinct balcony.\n\nMahek claimed in court she only wanted Saqib to stop so they could talk\n\nHer confident demeanour was soon gone. She burst into tears as the jury found both mother and daughter guilty of two counts of murder.\n\nRekan Karwan and Raees Jamal, the drivers of the two cars, were also found guilty of both murders.\n\nNatasha Akhtar, Sanaf Gulammustafa and Ameer Jamal were each convicted of two counts of manslaughter.\n\nAfter the verdict, Saqib's cousin Adil Bahar spoke to the BBC, explaining the pain the families had gone through to reach this point.\n\nHe said he \"misses him every day\".\n\n\"As we sat in the seats in court and the judge said the jury has come to a verdict, at that point my heart just felt [like it was] breaking down.\n\n\"I'd do anything to have him back.\"\n\nHashim's brother Zaheer said his younger sibling was his \"best friend\"\n\nSpeaking at a football tournament organised in Hashim's memory, both of his older brothers paid heartfelt tributes.\n\nMuhammed Zaheer said: \"In a short space of his life, he touched so many hearts up and down the country and all over the world.\n\n\"I could tell you stories about him from dawn until dusk... there's too many.\n\n\"We would always have each other's back... he was my best friend. Having a best friend as a brother is something very special.\"\n\nMohammed Zain also paid tribute and said he was reminded of his brother almost everywhere.\n\n\"The only real TikTok influencer, world-life influencer was Hashim. You can see all the people [at the tournament], you can see all their messages about him,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody wants to be his brother. You know, even if you look online, everybody will say, that's my brother.\n\n\"He was one in a million.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk", "Harrow Crown Court was closed indefinitely last week after RAAC was found there during improvements\n\nA wide range of public buildings have been constructed using a cheap version of concrete that could now be at risk of collapse, experts say.\n\nThe discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or RAAC, has forced the full or partial closure of more than 100 schools in England.\n\nMany hospitals, courts and public buildings were built with the material.\n\nProf Chris Goodier, of Loughborough University, said the \"scale of problem is much bigger than schools\".\n\n\"It also covers much of the building stock in the country,\" he said. \"This also includes health, defence, justice, local government, national government, and also a lot of the private sector.\"\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb on Friday said that the government was rebuilding seven hospitals due to large use of RAAC and would be surveying buildings across the public sectors.\n\nLast week Harrow Crown Court in north-west London was closed indefinitely after the material was found. Five other court buildings are affected, according to government sources.\n\nMeanwhile, three buildings in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have also been identified as raising concerns.\n\nMatt Byatt, president of the Institution of Structural Engineers, said buildings built with RAAC were \"beyond their serviceable life\" and the issue was flagged several years ago, including to government.\n\n\"You can't wait for people to get hurt before making these kinds of decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"You can have a sudden and catastrophic failure of units.\"\n\nHe said the \"bubbly breezeblock\" type material acts like a \"sponge\" soaking up moisture when wet, and that the extra weight combined with the fact RAAC roof planks dip over times made them prone to sudden collapse.\n\nThe Labour party has called for an \"urgent audit\" to find the buildings at risk across the public sector estate, while the Liberal Democrats said the public and NHS staff need \"urgent clarity\" .\n\nJulian Hartley, who runs NHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS hospitals, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that hospitals currently affected by RAAC use props to reinforce structures.\n\nThe RAAC planks are thought to be present in 26 hospitals, and the government has said seven of the worst affected will be replaced by 2030.\n\nIn Scotland, more than 250 NHS buildings could have been built using RAAC.\n\nHealth officials in the identified buildings are currently working on an investigation to find out whether it is present. It is expected to take up to eight months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThe government said on Friday night it had yet to draw up a definitive list of its own buildings affected by crumbling concrete.\n\nThis is one of the objectives of a working group set up earlier this year.\n\nBut the warnings had been there for years, said Prof Goodier, and are a part of an already complex national picture.\n\n\"We have a very old building stock in this country right back to the Victorian era and industrial revolution,\" he said.\n\nMost of it isn't properly maintained because it's a hassle its hard work and it costs a lot of money.\"\n\n\"RAAC is one of many materials that hasn't been looked properly over the decade,\" he said.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says RAAC is now beyond its lifespan and may \"collapse with little or no notice\".\n\nThe problem now for ministers across government is that more inspections will lead to the discover of more deteriorating concrete.\n\nThat will trigger several stages of assessment by engineers and buildings may have to close temporarily as a precaution, even if they don't pose a major risk.\n\nThe concrete crisis has echoes of the cladding scandal following the Grenfell Tower Fire in which the scale of the potential fire risks led to thousands living in flats covered with dangerous materials or paying for additional fire wardens.\n\nDespite warnings over decades within the industry and Whitehall, the government did not ban flammable cladding until after the loss of 72 lives.", "A Moroccan man has described how the Algerian coastguard opened fire on him and three other tourists who had strayed into Algerian waters.\n\nMohamed Kissi was the only survivor to make it back. His brother and a friend were killed and another friend is said to be in Algerian custody.\n\n\"They charged, then began to shoot behind us,\" Mr Kissi told French television network BFM.\n\nMorocco has opened an investigation and there has been no comment from Algeria.\n\nThe two nations have a long history of tension, tied to Morocco's claims to the disputed territory of Western Sahara.\n\nThe border between them was closed in 1994, with Algiers severing diplomatic ties two years ago. It accused Morocco of hostile acts - an allegation rejected by Rabat.\n\nThe party of four on two jet skis had set off from the Moroccan resort of Saidia on Tuesday when they were shot.\n\nMr Kissi described how they had got lost as night fell and realised they had strayed into Algerian territory when they saw boats of the Algerian coastguard approach.\n\n\"They charged into us,\" he said. His brother, Bilal, signalled for them to turn back.\n\n\"They started shooting behind us,\" Mr Kissi said.\n\nThe shooting sparked anger in Morocco after a fisherman posted footage of a lifeless body floating in the sea. It was that of Bilal Kissi, who lived in France. He was buried on Thursday.\n\nAbdelali Mechouar has been named as the second man killed. His body is still in Algeria, according to Moroccan news site Le360.\n\nSmail Snabe - who also has French nationality - reportedly appeared before a prosecutor in Algeria on Wednesday but no details were given.\n\nAlgeria and Morocco share a border nearly 2,000km (1,242 miles) long which has been a source of tension since independence from French colonial rule.\n\nIt was closed in 1994 for security reasons after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh.\n\nWhat is the dispute about? The two countries have border disputes which date back to the era of French colonisation - and even fought a war in 1963.\n\nAnd since then? Relations have never recovered. Algeria backs the Polisario Front, which is fighting for Western Sahara's independence from Morocco.\n\nWhat are the effects? The long border through the Sahara Desert remains tightly closed - there is no direct legal trade between the two neighbours.", "Part of Parks Primary School in Leicester has been taped off as it contains RAAC\n\nParents have described their shock at being told their children's schools need to close due to the risk of dangerous concrete collapses.\n\nMore than 100 schools have been told to shut areas affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) without safety measures in place.\n\nIt follows the collapse last week of a beam previously thought to be safe.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools have had to fully close, but it could be as many as 24.\n\nParents hit out at the timing of the government's announcement, with some saying the short notice left them scrambling to arrange childcare.\n\n\"This is an absolute disgrace,\" said Wendy Kirwood, who was told several corridors, a library and sports hall at her son's school in Workington, Cumbria, were affected.\n\nMartina Eliasova's daughter was due to start Year Two at Katherines Primary Academy in Harlow next week, but the start of term has been postponed to 11 September.\n\n\"It'll be difficult because she's only six,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't have family here. I can't say 'mum, can you help my daughter?' I have to either take holiday, or just have her home and somehow battle through.\"\n\nMartina Eliasova's daughter was due to return to school next week\n\nThe government says parents at 156 schools in England confirmed to have RAAC should have been contacted. Parents who have heard nothing are unaffected, pending further building checks.\n\nOf the total, 52 were deemed a critical risk, and safety measures have already been put in place.\n\nAsked whether buildings at those 52 schools \"could have potentially collapsed\", schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC: \"Yes, and that's why we took action.\"\n\nThe rest were deemed to be \"non-critical\", and were told to develop contingency plans.\n\nBut on Thursday, those schools were told to close buildings and rooms with RAAC unless they had safety measures in place.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of schools identified with RAAC could rise as more surveys are carried out.\n\nThe government has not said when a list of affected buildings will be published - drawing criticism from the Labour Party, which wants an audit of all public properties - but the BBC has been compiling its own.\n\nMr Gibb told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the guidance changed because \"a beam that had no sign... that it was a critical risk and was thought to be safe collapsed\".\n\nThe incident took place last week, but it is not clear where.\n\nWriting in The Times, Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the public accounts committee, said on a recent visit to a hospital, the building was so fragile due to RAAC that obese patients were only permitted to walk about on the ground floor.\n\nShe said the concrete issue was the \"tip of the iceberg\" for a \"failing school estate\".\n\nAnne Longfield, former Children's Commissioner for England, told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme she was \"flabbergasted\" by the sudden closure of schools, but said it is \"something we can't take any chances on\".\n\nMs Longfield, who chairs the Commission on Young Lives, said the return to home learning was a \"too swift default\", and it was a \"deeply painful reminder\" for families who have already faced much disruption.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) has not given a timeline for replacing the RAAC, which was widely used until the mid-90s.\n\nThere are more than 20,000 schools in England.\n\nIn Scotland, 35 council-run schools have been found to contain the material. All were under assessment.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would survey schools and colleges, while Northern Ireland's Department of Education said schools were being checked as a matter of urgency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nMany children whose classrooms are out of action face being housed in temporary alternatives, other schools or will need to return to online lessons.\n\nSome have already experienced months out of school in recent years due to the pandemic, as well as disruption because of teacher strikes.\n\nPascal Dowling, whose child's school in Somerset has been affected, said she wanted the government to \"bear responsibility for yet another catastrophic failure\".\n\n\"Our children have already had two years of their education turned upside down by Covid countermeasures and now face a winter trying to catch up in hastily constructed sheds,\" she said.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson urged ministers to \"come clean with parents and set out the full scale of the challenge that we're facing\".\n\nOn Thursday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the plan would \"minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTeachers' unions have criticised the DfE for making the call so close to pupils returning to school.\n\nThe DfE said it would fund the cost of remedial works, such as temporary classrooms.\n\nHowever, schools would have to bid through the department's capital funding process for permanent replacements for lost classrooms or buildings.\n\nThe risk of injury or death from a school building collapse was said to be \"very likely and critical\" by the National Audit Office (NAO) watchdog in June.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nIt is still manufactured in hundreds of factories around the world, and is still used as a building material in numerous countries, according to Chris Goodier, professor of construction engineering and materials at Loughborough University.\n\n\"It does seem as though the UK is at the forefront of being aware of this problem,\" he said, adding that there was little information globally available on its durability.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it had been warning about the risk of RAAC since 2018.\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.\n\nIt said it has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018, in case affected buildings needed to be evacuated.\n\nAside from schools, numerous public buildings have been identified as being at risk because of RAAC, including courts, hospitals and police stations.\n\nIs your child's school affected? Share information in confidence by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Head teacher Caroline Evans and her staff sit in a temporary staffroom in the corridor of Parks Primary School in Leicester\n\nHeadteachers in England are in a race this weekend to find ways to reopen their schools after being told to shut buildings made with unsafe concrete.\n\nMany from the 104 affected schools are busy rejigging timetables, seeking alternative classrooms and trying to rent temporary toilets.\n\nFrustrated parents are being emailed last-minute plans for home learning and moving children to other schools.\n\nThe government said affected parents should have been informed by now.\n\nIt said it would publish a full list of schools with buildings known to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), but wanted to wait for headteachers to make initial contact.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) told 104 schools and colleges in England to partially or fully shut buildings at risk and introduce safety measures, just days before the start of a new academic year.\n\nIn Scotland, RAAC has been detected in 35 schools but First Minister Humza Yousaf said he has no plans to close any schools at this stage.\n\nThe building closures across England are set to have far-reaching consequences for children and their teachers.\n\nSarah Skinner, who is in charge of three schools in Suffolk and Essex built using the concrete that has been likened to an Aero bar, told the BBC the late notice was \"incredibly challenging\".\n\nThe CEO of Penrose Learning Trust said one school has 12 classrooms out of use, another has 16 classrooms, a gym and toilet closed, and a third has 10 classrooms shut.\n\n\"It just seems very late in the day, and that's what's created the problem to now be finding temporary accommodation, temporary toilets, marquees on fields, our kitchens are out action. There are a lot of things beyond finding a classroom we have to consider,\" she told BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"We've been on the phone all day to temporary classroom companies... we have a very little playground [in one school] so actually getting 10 classrooms in there is going to be a challenge, and then there's the logistics of getting electricity run to it safely.\"\n\nA headteacher at a special needs school in Essex has been calling parents individually to break the news.\n\nLouise Robinson, of Kingsdown School, said: \"Instead of preparing to welcome our students back to class, we're having to call parents to have very difficult conversations about the fact the school is closed next week.\n\n\"We're hoping that a solution can be found that allows us to open the school, at least partially, but that entirely relies on ensuring the safety of our pupils and staff, and approval by DfE.\"\n\nAt one primary school, children will have to be served their school dinners in their classrooms, rather than the dining hall, and at a west London secondary school, students will need to bring in packed lunches while its canteen is out of action.\n\nThe DfE said it was grateful to headteachers working at pace to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum and that it expected \"rarer cases where remote learning is required\" to be \"for a matter of days not weeks\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan would inform Parliament next week \"of the plan to keep parents and the public updated on the issue\", it added.\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday newspaper, Ms Keegan said the government had \"no choice\" but to close schools, and that it was not a decision it had taken lightly.\n\n\"I want to reassure families that this is not a return to the dark days of school lockdowns,\" she said.\n\nLabour will try to force the government to publish a full list of schools which are impacted when the Commons returns from its summer recess on Monday.\n\nThe government has said it will release a full list \"in due course\" but has not provided a timetable. BBC News has been compiling its own list.\n\nThe closure of schools at late notice will come as a headache to many parents who will have to take leave from work or arrange childcare for younger school children.\n\nOne parent told BBC Essex she could have cried when she was told her child's school would be shut until at least mid-September as temporary classrooms were needed.\n\n\"Literally I work Monday to Friday, so to try and find childcare has been a bit of a mission,\" Hayley, who did not give her surname, said.\n\n\"To turn around and say 'Reece, you're not starting school this week' has been quite heart-breaking.\"\n\nShe described the timing of the school closures as \"rubbish\" considering the issues around RAAC had been previously known.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How RAAC concrete can crumble under pressure\n\nThere were warnings on Saturday this could be just the tip of the iceberg, with concerns about the state of other public buildings like hospitals and courts.\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the Common's Public Accounts Committee, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that seven hospitals were \"totally built\" with aerated concrete and around £1bn was being spent making them safe.\n\nThe Labour MP also said she had visited one hospital where heavy patients had to be treated on the ground floor because of the risk of roof failure.\n\nShe described the costs of working around the problem using props to support existing structures and surveying RAAC-affected areas as \"eye-watering\" and harder to absorb for small schools already facing tight budgets.\n\nTeachers' union NASUWT wants ministers to publish the list of affected buildings.\n\n\"It could be years before all the schools are rectified. They may be able to put up props, conduct surveys and so on, but those are interim measures,\" said national negotiating official Wayne Bates.\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994 and has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018.\n\nHowever, after a beam, which had been thought to be safe, collapsed last week, the matter of the safety of these buildings was given further attention by the government.\n\nOn Thursday, the DfE said any space or area in schools, colleges or nurseries with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without \"mitigations\" in place.\n\nEvery case of suspected RAAC that has been reported to the DfE has been allocated a surveyor and will be visited \"imminently\", the BBC has been told.\n\nSchools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also being assessed for the material.\n\nRAAC is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls.\n\nIt is less durable than standard concrete and has a limited lifespan of about 30 years.\n\nIf your child attends, or you're a teacher at an affected school, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Suella Braverman called out what she says is an \"unacceptable rise\" in police taking a side on controversial issues - such as referring to rapists as \"she\" or her\"\n\nThe home secretary has launched a review into police impartiality as she accused officers of \"being involved in political matters\".\n\nSuella Braverman has instructed an investigation into what she calls an \"unacceptable rise\" in police taking a side on controversial issues.\n\nShe cited officers taking the knee or dancing with protesters at parades.\n\nLabour criticised the home secretary for commissioning a report \"into her own political obsession\".\n\nAnd the Police Federation's deputy chair Tiffany Lynch warned policing is \"too important to be kicked around like a political football\".\n\nMs Braverman wants the reports findings by March, the Home Office said.\n\nThe policing model in England and Wales means that the police should, at all times, adopt a position of political neutrality.\n\nIn her letter to policing leaders, Ms Braverman said police should focus on tackling crime, rather than being involved in political matters.\n\nShe wants policing leaders to ensure forces' time is always spent on the public's priorities.\n\nMs Braverman said: \"The British people expect their police to focus on cutting crime and protecting communities - political activism does not keep people safe, solve crimes or support victims, but can damage public confidence.\n\n\"The review I've commissioned will explore whether the police getting involved in politically contentious matters is having a detrimental impact on policing.\"\n\nMs Braverman highlighted cases where she believes public confidence has been damaged by police engaging in contentious issues.\n\nThese include policing gender-critical views on social media, conduct at political marches and officers taking the knee, the Home Office said.\n\nHis Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has been commissioned by the Home Secretary to look at whether operational policing in England and Wales is being influenced.\n\nThe HMICFRS review has been asked to cover the quality and neutrality of training and communications with the public on issues - including social media.\n\nBut, Labour said the home secretary was wasting her time.\n\nA party spokesperson told the BBC: \"Instead of setting out serious practical policies to tackle Tory failures, all the home secretary is doing is commissioning reports into her own political obsessions - and while she's doing this, more criminals are being let off and more victims are being let down.\"\n\nThe Police Federation's Ms Lynch added: \"Our members want to go out there and serve communities in the best way possible, but need help when the Government constantly changes the goal posts.\n\n\"One minute they want police officers to be more involved, the next, they want them to act like robots.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) declined to comment, but it is understood the body views this as a political matter.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael added: \"For the Home Secretary to use the police as a weapon in her culture war while criticising them for being political is a new low - even by her standards.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "SAG-AFTRA members have been on strike since 13 July against major TV and film companies. They have a separate contract with video game companies.\n\nThe union representing actors in the US is looking to authorise a second strike against major video game companies.\n\nTalks between SAG-AFTRA and companies like Activision and Electronic Arts have reached a \"stalemate\", the union said on Friday, particularly on wage increases and artificial intelligence.\n\nHollywood actors have been on strike since 13 July against major TV and film companies.\n\nA spokesperson for the game firms said both sides were seeking a fair deal.\n\nVoting on the second strike will be held between 5 and 25 September.\n\nIn its Friday announcement, the union said it had been asking video game companies for an 11% increase in rates paid to video game performers.\n\nThey are also asking for protections from AI - which they say poses a threat to the future of artists' work and careers - as well as better working conditions.\n\n\"Once again artificial intelligence is putting our members in jeopardy of reducing their opportunity to work,\" the union's president, American actress Fran Drescher, said.\n\n\"And once again, SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members,\" she said.\n\nThe union, which represents 160,000 people in the entertainment industry, has a separate contract with major video game companies that was due to expire in November. It was extended by a year, however, to allow talks to continue.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the 10 video game firms involved in the talks, said that all sides were seeking a \"fair contract\" that reflects the work done by performers.\n\n\"We are negotiating in good faith and hope to reach a mutually beneficial deal as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nA successful strike vote will mean that the union could initiate job action if talks falter after negotiations resume on 26 September.\n\nThe issues raised against video game companies are similar to those behind the SAG-AFTRA strike against film and TV companies.\n\nThat strike has been ongoing for more than 50 days after weeks of failed negotiations, and has caused major worldwide disruptions to film and television productions.\n\nScreenwriters also walked away from the job in May over concerns about pay, working conditions, and the industry's use of AI.\n\nSAG-AFTRA last went on strike against video game companies in 2016. That strike lasted 11 months.", "More than 100 schools in England are scrambling to make arrangements after being told to shut buildings with a type of concrete prone to collapse.\n\nThe government gave the order just days before the start of the autumn term.\n\nSome pupils have already been told they will be learning remotely, in temporary classrooms or at different schools.\n\nThe government has not said when a list of affected schools will be published, drawing criticism from the Labour Party.\n\nShadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, who said Labour had not seen the full list, urged ministers to \"come clean with parents and set out the full scale of the challenge that we're facing\".\n\nOn Thursday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said affected schools would contact parents directly, adding: \"If you don't hear, don't worry\".\n\nSchools found with buildings containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) have been told they must introduce safety measures, which could include propping up ceilings.\n\nA \"minority\" will need to \"either fully or partially relocate\" to alternative accommodation while those measures are installed, the Department for Education (DfE) has said.\n\nBut the DfE has not given a timeline for replacing the material, which was used until the mid-90s.\n\nMs Keegan said the government was taking a \"cautious approach\", and that \"over the summer a couple of cases have given us cause for concern\".\n\nAt Willowbrook Mead Primary in Leicester, where arrangements have been made for children from different year groups to attend two different schools, while older pupils will have to use online learning, the head teacher said in a letter to parents: \"I appreciate that the timing is far from ideal.\"\n\nIt is one of many schools affected after the DfE announced on Thursday that any space or area in schools, colleges or nurseries, with confirmed RAAC should no longer be open without \"mitigations\" being put in place.\n\nThis came after the government was made aware of a number of incidents where RAAC failed without warning, not just in school buildings, but elsewhere too.\n\nMs Keegan said her department's plan would \"minimise the impact on pupil learning and provide schools with the right funding and support they need to put mitigations in place to deal with RAAC\".\n\nBut teachers' unions have criticised the DfE for making the call so close to pupils returning to school.\n\n\"It is absolutely disgraceful, and a sign of gross government incompetence, that a few days before the start of term, 104 schools are finding out that some or all of their buildings are unsafe and cannot be used,\" National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Education secretary tells parents not to worry and shares more details about how schools were identified\n\nThe risk of injury or death from a school building collapse was said to be \"very likely and critical\" by the watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) in June, after it highlighted concerns for school buildings that still contained RAAC.\n\nThis is a lightweight \"bubbly\" form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of around 30 years.\n\nWhile the vast majority of schools and colleges will be unaffected by this announcement, the NAO report identified 572 schools where this concrete might be present.\n\nThere are 156 settings in England with confirmed RAAC, according to DfE data. Of those, 52 already had safety mitigations in place, and 104 were being contacted this week about getting them in place.\n\nThe DfE said it sent a questionnaire to schools in 2022, asking if they had any confirmed or suspected cases of RAAC in their buildings. If schools provided a positive response, this was then confirmed by DfE-commissioned engineers.\n\nSchools that are concerned but have not yet filled out the survey are encouraged to do so at this website, the DfE said.\n\nThe Education Hub, a blog run by the DfE, said based on responses, schools with suspected RAAC would be brought forward for surveying. It said it hopes all schools suspected to contain RAAC will be surveyed within weeks.\n\nTwo primary schools in Bradford - Crossflatts and Eldwick - are among those affected, with parts closed to pupils after the concrete was identified, the council said.\n\nShazad Ismail's son, Yahya, is about to go into Year 5 at Crossflatts. Part of one building has been closed and temporary classrooms are now being built.\n\nNine-year-old Yahya is a pupil at an affected school\n\n\"The head teacher sent a letter... it's going to widely affect a lot of children.\"\n\nOther schools that BBC News has gathered evidence on, which suggests they are also affected, are:\n\nThere are more than 20,000 schools in England.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it had been warning about the risk of RAAC since 2018.\n\n\"Leaving this announcement until near the end of the summer holidays, rather than at the beginning, has left schools and councils with very little time to make urgent rearrangements and minimise disruption to classroom learning,\" said Cllr Kevin Bentley, its senior vice-chairman.\n\nJulie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, which represents mostly head teachers, said the government had \"failed to invest sufficiently in the school estate\" and called the announcement a \"scramble\".\n\nShe said it was \"clearly vital\", but \"the actions these schools will need to take will be hugely disruptive, and this will obviously be worrying for pupils, families and staff\".\n\n\"The government should have put in place a programme to identify and remediate this risk at a much earlier stage,\" she added.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Munira Wilson said \"pupil safety is paramount but for this to come out just days before term starts is totally unacceptable\".\n\nThe government says it has been aware of RAAC in public sector buildings, including schools, since 1994.\n\nIt said it has advised schools to have \"adequate contingencies\" in place since 2018, in case affected buildings needed to be evacuated.\n\nThe Welsh government has said it will survey the country's schools and colleges to check if any are made with RAAC.\n\nNumerous public buildings have been identified as being at risk because of RAAC, including schools, hospitals and police stations.\n\nAre you a teacher at an affected school? Is your child's school impacted? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ruby Franke (right) and Jodi Nan Hildebrandt (left) appeared in YouTube videos together\n\nA Utah woman who ran a popular parenting advice YouTube channel is facing child abuse charges after her malnourished son escaped from home, officials said.\n\nRuby Franke and her business partner Jodi Nan Hildebrandt were arrested in Ivins, Utah this week.\n\nOfficials also found Ms Franke's 10-year-old daughter in a malnourished condition at her partner's house.\n\nBoth women were charged with six counts of child abuse on Friday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Ms Franke and Ms Hildebrandt for comment.\n\nPolice say Ms Franke's 12-year-old son climbed out of the window and ran to a neighbour's house to ask for food and water.\n\n\"The calling party [the neighbour] stated the juvenile appeared to be emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around the extremities,\" according to a statement from the Santa-Clara Ivins Public Safety Department.\n\n\"Upon arrival, law enforcement observed the wounds and the malnourishment of [the boy] to be severe,\" the department said.\n\nThe boy had to be taken to the hospital \"due to his deep lacerations from being tied up with rope and from his malnourishment\".\n\nMs Franke's 10-year-old daughter was also taken to the hospital.\n\nOfficials later obtained a search warrant in connection with the incident, and in total, four children were taken into the care of family and child services, according to the statement.\n\nOn Friday, Washington County officials in Utah formally charged Ms Franke and Ms Hildebrandt.\n\nThe charges stem from the alleged abuse of two children in three different ways: physical abuse, malnutrition and severe emotional harm.\n\nEach count carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $10,000 (£7,940), Washington County officials said.\n\nMs Franke, 41, became YouTube famous in 2015 for her channel called 8 Passengers that discussed parenting of her six children.\n\nThe channel gained over 2 million subscribers before it was deactivated earlier this year.\n\nThe vlogger has faced a backlash in the past for her strict parenting measures described on the channel, including her son claiming he slept on a bean bag for several months as punishment and Ms Franke describing withholding meals as another disciplinary measure.\n\nThe bean bag incident led some viewers to call local child protective services, though Ms Franke claimed to Insider the incident had been taken out of context.\n\nShe has also appeared in YouTube videos posted by Ms Hildebrandt - a counsellor and life coach - on her site, ConneXions Classroom.\n\nIn one such video posted on 10 May 2022, Ms Franke described herself as Ms Hildebrandt's \"side-kick\" and questioned why so many children were suffering from depression.\n\n\"I never expected my second-grader to come home and say so-and-so has anxiety and so-and-so has depression,\" she said. \"Something is off. This isn't right.\"\n\nIn a second video - entitled \"guiding children to truth\" - Ms Hildebrandt called on mothers \"to understand that principles are necessary\" for children to have a \"calm and peaceful\" life.\n\nAccording to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, Ms Hildebrandt was put on probation for 18 months and nearly lost her licence to be a pornography-addiction therapist after publicly discussing a patient without his permission.\n\nMs Franke's eldest daughter Shari Franke shared a post on Instagram after her mother's arrest, saying that she and her family \"are so glad justice is being served\", US media reported.\n\n\"We've been trying to tell the police and CPS for years about this, and so glad they finally decided to step up,\" she reportedly said.\n\nMs Franke has requested an attorney and did not speak to officers, according to the Associated Press. That attorney had not publicly been identified on Thursday.", "Adama Sarr at home in Senegal. \"In the beginning we all had hope,\" he said.\n\nAdama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea.\n\nThe brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast of West Africa, in a traditional Senegalese fishing canoe known as a pirogue. They were two of 39 passengers in total - all malnourished, many close to death.\n\nWhen a fishing vessel appeared in the distance one day, Adama, 21, was so weak he could only stare, he said. Moussa, 17, slipped into the water to swim.\n\nHe would almost certainly have drowned, had the fishing crew not spotted him in the water and plucked him to safety.\n\nWhen they drew alongside the pirogue, they found Adama and the rest of the survivors and seven bodies. The pirogue had set out from Senegal five weeks earlier, with 101 souls on board.\n\nPirogues lined up on the beach in Fass Boye. Large pirogues are used for migration voyages\n\nThe survivors had drifted hundreds of miles on one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world - the North Atlantic sea passage from Senegal to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago about 1,000 miles away.\n\nThey had left on 10 July, from the coastal village of Fass Boye. Adama and Moussa came from a long line of fishermen in the village. The boys learned to fish together and worked a pirogue together.\n\nBut like many young people in Senegal, they felt the pull of Europe. \"Everyone wants to go on the boats,\" Adama said. \"It's the thing you're supposed to do.\"\n\nHe was sitting in the shaded courtyard of a family home, safely back in Senegal but noticeably thinner than before. The journey had begun at dusk, he said. He and Moussa, along with two cousins, Pape and Amsoutou, aged 40 and 20, joined the pirogue a little way off the coast as it set off into the night.\n\nUnlike the Mediterranean, there are no patrols on the North Atlantic route - no-one proactively searching for lost or distressed boats. It is easy to founder without being seen. If you miss the Canaries, or Cape Verde, you can drift into the Atlantic and disappear.\n\nFor the first three days, Adama and Moussa's pirogue, powered by an outboard motor, battled against strong headwinds. But on the fourth day, the wind died down and the boat began to progress, Adama said. The passengers believed they had only a few more days at sea.\n\nWhen the sixth day passed with no sight of land, an argument erupted over whether to push on or turn back.\n\n\"The captain ruled that we should push on, because we had enough food and water and the wind was quiet,\" Adama said.\n\nThe passengers grew confident again and began to eat lots of food, he said, and they used drinking water to wash their hands for prayers.\n\nIt was around day six that the food and water began to run out. There were four children on board, and some older people gave the last of their food to the young. Some hoarded even after people began to die.\n\nAdama couldn't remember the exact date of the first death, but it was shortly after the first week passed, he said - a fishing captain, used to being on the water but not young. It was six more days until the next person died. Then the deaths came every day.\n\n\"At first, we said a prayer for each dead person and laid their body onto the ocean,\" Adama said. \"Then later we just threw the bodies into the water because we didn't even have the energy to pray. We just needed to get rid of the corpses.\"\n\nAdama's mother, Sokhna. \"The young are leaving because of poverty and family pressure,\" she said.\n\nBack in Fass Boye, news was spreading through the village that the boat had not arrived. \"We all knew it should be five or six days by boat to Spain,\" Adama's mother, Sokhna, said. \"When a week had passed with no news I stopped eating. I became sick from stress.\"\n\nNearly everyone on the pirogue was from Fass Boye or nearby, and everyone in the village seemed to know someone aboard. The families began to do anything they could, alerting local authorities and migration NGOs. The founder of one NGO even tweeted a warning that the boat was missing, two weeks after its departure, but the warning went unheeded and the boat drifted for three more weeks.\n\nOn the pirogue, the four men from the family stuck together, but they were growing weaker and weaker. The eldest cousin, Pape, died first, Adama said. \"Before he passed, he said, 'If death must happen, I wish that I die and you three survive'.\"\n\nThen Adama's younger cousin, Amsoutou, disappeared. One morning they woke up and Amsoutou was simply gone.\n\nAdama and Moussa hung on, sipping seawater and baking under the sun. Each night they looked for lights from the Canary Islands but the lights never appeared.\n\nNobody in Fass Boye seemed to blame the migrants for taking the risk. More than a third of the country lives in poverty, according to the World Bank. The young see few opportunities at home. \"Macky Sall sold the ocean,\" said Assane Niang, a 23-year-old fishing captain, referring to the Senegalese president. Fishermen in Fass Boye say the government has granted too many licences to foreign trawlers, which overfish their waters and deplete the catch.\n\nNiang was sitting on the beach in the shade of a pirogue, knitting generator covers he can sell to help make ends meet. \"If we had other alternatives we would stay, but we cannot sit here and do nothing,\" he said. \"We are trying to support our families.\"\n\nThere is social pressure on the young to try to leave on the boats, and there can be stigma attached to those who fail or never try.\n\nSo much so that the sea route to Spain has earned its own grim slang in Senegal's Wolof language: \"Barcelona or death.\"\n\nThe wooden pirogues the smugglers use are not suitable for the voyage. They are often poorly constructed. They lack navigation technology and are liable to run out of petrol and be pushed off course. And yet the number of migrants using the route to reach Spain has been rising every year.\n\nYoung fishermen in Fass Boye say poverty is driving them to risk all on the water.\n\nAccording to the International Organisation for Migration, about 68,000 people have successfully reached the Canary Islands by boat from West Africa since January 2020 and about 2,700 have been recorded dead or disappeared. But the number of casualties is likely significantly higher, because fatal accidents are more likely to go unrecorded on this route.\n\n\"We call them invisible shipwrecks,\" said Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the IOM. \"A boat washes ashore with nobody aboard, or a body washes ashore not linked to a known capsized boat.\"\n\nPart of the problem was that people leaving Fass Boye, particularly fishermen, were too confident in their chances, said Abdou Karim, a lifelong fisherman and the father of Pape Sarr, who died on the boat.\n\n\"The fisherman think that, if they get into trouble, they will be able to swim,\" he said. \"But there is a limit. You cannot swim forever. The ocean will not hold you.\"\n\nAnd yet, young fishermen in Fass Boye said they were still willing to take the risk.\n\n\"I am thinking about going on a boat right now,\" said Niang, the fisherman on the beach. \"The tragedies will not stop us from trying.\"\n\nAbout a month into Adama and Moussa's voyage, a large ship appeared on the horizon and more than 20 people decided to to take their chances in the water, Adama said. But he knew it was too far.\n\nMany of the remaining survivors were barely able to move, he said. Then on 14 August, exactly five weeks after they had departed, they caught sight of the Spanish fishing boat that would rescue them.\n\nThe Spanish crew helped them aboard and put the seven bodies into plastic sheets. Adama and Moussa lay together on the deck of the fishing vessel.\n\nThey had survived the pirogue. But Moussa was too weak. He was the last of the 63 people who died on the voyage.\n\n\"He died right there on the deck,\" Adama said. \"In front of my eyes.\"\n\nAssane Niang, a 23-year-old fisherman, on the beach next to a traditional fishing pirogue.\n\nThe survivors were taken to Cape Verde and spent six days receiving medical treatment, before the majority were flown back to Dakar. Those who could walk were given prescriptions and sent back to Fass Boye.\n\nWhen news had broken of the number of deaths, there was a brief spasm of violent protest in the village that brought the police to town. Some relatives were arrested, including a member of Adama and Moussa's family.\n\nThe survivors were harassed in their homes by curious residents and relatives of the dead, families said. So one day after they arrived home, they were all sent back out of Fass Boye to recuperate elsewhere. Adama and his mother Sokhna went to stay with close relatives nearby. They were spending their days resting, praying, and avoiding asking Adama about his ordeal.\n\nThe family had lost three sons and got one back. Fass Boye had seen 101 set out on the water and 37 come home.\n\n\"It changes a place,\" said Abdou Karim, Pape's father, silently counting prayer beads in one hand.\n\n\"Even one soul is a lot,\" he said. \"And this is more than 60. It is a lot for one place.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Sira Thierij. Mady Camara contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter.", "Exactly 12 months ago, Rishi Sunak was preparing to be a good loser.\n\nEven though he'd been thumped by Liz Truss over the summer in the Conservative Party leadership contest, the day before the result was confirmed, he was in our studio still calmly trying to make his case.\n\nIt was her almost immediate implosion that rapidly gave him the chance to move into No 10.\n\nMr Sunak achieved his first task, to bring calm after a few crazy weeks. But after nearly a year in his second job, to restore the Tory party's standing with the public, is miles out of reach. One survey this week even recorded his worst-ever personal ratings.\n\nSo as the new political season starts, I've been asking ministers and senior Conservatives what the chances are that the prime minister can avoid being more than a good loser when it comes to the general election next year.\n\nThose lucky enough to have got their posteriors on the leather seats of ministerial cars all know the situation is bad. \"The numbers don't lie,\" a senior minister tells me. Another cabinet minister says \"there is no point pretending we are not under pressure and it is going to get worse\".\n\nAnother member of the government suggests the chances of turning the situation round are miniscule: \"The path was always narrow, now it is looking vanishingly narrow.\"\n\nBut politics and the public mood can shift with extraordinary speed. Another member of the cabinet reckons it is just far too early to call time and they \"have not given up all hope\".\n\nAnother minister believes that while voters are cross with them \"they want us to be seen to be on their side\", with plenty of minds to be made up.\n\nBut the Conservatives have been in the doldrums for a long time. Ministers know they are soaking up a sense that many of the public are profoundly fed up.\n\nOne of the cabinet ministers I spoke to admits: \"The public is bored with us and frustrated that things have been announced that haven't been delivered.\"\n\nThe sight of queues at airports, more rail and doctors' strikes, and this week children not being able to go back to school because of the risk of buildings collapsing all contribute to a tangible sense among many voters that lots about our country just does not really work.\n\nAs schools and parents scramble to work out what is going on, a Labour source jokes \"if we were to design a 'the Tories are rubbish' story we couldn't do it this well\". And the backdrop to all of this is that inflation has made it harder and harder for millions to make ends meet.\n\nDowning Street's many attempts to change the mood have not succeeded so far. No 10 \"has played a lot of the cards\", one member of the government lamented, \"and 'literally nothing is moving the dial\".\n\nThe government's planned \"small boats week\" designed to show off efforts to get the problem under control had a farcical twist with migrants being moved on and off the Bibby Stockholm barge which was brought in to house them.\n\nA quick internet search showed the recent announcement on banning zombie knives has been promised by several Conservative home secretaries in a row, going back to Theresa May in 2016.\n\nA mini-shuffle of ministers this week will hardly have been noticed by most voters. The prime minister's much publicised five pledges from January that he asked to be judged on are proving tough to meet. Failing the test you very publicly set is not a comfortable place for any politician to be.\n\nWhat do they have left in the locker? A change of gear is on the cards, with one minster saying \"we were always going to try to be more eye-catching and adventurous\" after Mr Sunak had established himself in office. \"If you are trailing by a big margin it is logical to take some risk,\" says another.\n\nSome tweaks to the operation in Downing Street have been made in the last week (you can read about them here) which is both an admission that all is not well and a sign of an appetite to sharpen up the political operation.\n\nCan the man on the left put the man on the right \"in difficult positions\"?\n\nThere are big set-piece events on the way. First the Tory party conference, then the King's Speech - the moment when the government announces the new laws it wants to bring in.\n\nThese are both big chances for the prime minister to grab the headlines. One cabinet minister says: \"That will be his last big chance to show the country he really is the best person to lead for the next few years.\"\n\nThere are whispers that crime and welfare will be big themes Mr Sunak wants to pursue. Expect too more focus on attacking their political rivals by picking issues where the two parties clash. \"We want to put Labour in difficult positions,\" one senior source says.\n\nWhatever cunning wheezes No 10 conjures up, the hole the Conservatives need to climb out of is very deep.\n\nThat's not just because of the chaos of last year which angered so many of the public. Not just because any party that has been in power for this long is vulnerable to voters just feeling they have had enough.\n\nBut it is also harder to run persuasive campaigns when the contrasts with your rivals are less pronounced. One minister worries the \"big dividing lines\" just are not there.\n\nThe Conservatives will not benefit next time from the collapse of the Lib Dems like they did in 2015, nor will they have the clarity of the Brexit divide which led to their whopping victory in 2019.\n\nRishi Sunak does not want to be the prime minister who steadied the ship but could not stop it from slowly sinking. His moves in the next few months could make all the difference as to whether he can keep it afloat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice in Ohio have released bodycam footage showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant black woman.\n\nTa'Kiya Young, 21, died on 24 August when she was shot while in her car outside a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township, a suburb of Columbus.\n\nFootage shows officers attempting to question her for alleged shoplifting.\n\nOne officer standing in front of her car is seen in the video released on Friday firing directly towards her as she appears to drive in his direction.\n\nThe video shows the two officers speaking with Ms Young for about one minute before the shot is fired.\n\nOne officer is seen standing at her door and repeatedly telling her to \"get out of the car\".\n\n\"For what?\" she responds twice, adding: \"I'm not going to do that.\"\n\nOne officer seen in front of the car has his left hand on the bonnet, his gun drawn in the other hand.\n\n\"Are you going to shoot me?\" she says moments before a single shot is fired and the officer quickly moves out of the car's path.\n\nOfficers are then seen breaking her window after the car rolls into the brick wall near the entrance of the store.\n\nOfficers say they attempted to perform medical aid, but neither the mother of two nor her unborn child survived the shooting.\n\n\"This was a tragedy. Ms Young's family is understandably very upset and grieving,\" Blendon Police Chief John Belford said in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"While none of us can fully understand the depths of their pain, all of us can remember them in our prayers and give them the time and space to deal with this heart-breaking turn of events.\"\n\nBoth officers, who have not been identified, were in the car park for an unrelated call. They were both placed on administrative leave after the shooting.\n\nThe officer that stood at the car window has been returned to duty but the one that fired the shot remains on leave.\n\nThe video was viewed by Ms Young's family before it was released on Friday.\n\nIn a statement, the family said the shooting \"is clearly a criminal act\" and was \"avoidable\".\n\nThe Blendon Township police department have asked the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation to look into the shooting.\n\nMs Young was the mother of two boys, aged six and three. 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